- SYNOPSIS. — meeting of the Market Bquare church Gall Sargent listens to a discussion about the sale of the church tenements to Edward E. Allison, local traction king, and when asked her opin- fon of the church by Rev. Smith Boyd, says It is apparently a lucrative business enterprise. Allison takes Gall riding in his motor car. Al a vestry CHAPTER I|1—Continued, Gall, too, was disturbed. While she had laughed to cover the embarrass ment of her mishap, she had been quite collected eneugh to thank All son for his ready aid; the thrill of that tensed arm, and new vein of puzzled conjecture. him back to the consideration of his leading joy in life, business; and the ing in quite a unique weakness, for him; he was bragging! Not exactly flat-footed; but, with tolerably strong fnsinuation, he that the consolidation of the immense | traction interests of New York about as trem: an undertaking as she could comprehend, and that, hav ing attained felt entitled to things, to 'ndous so dizzy a summit, he turn himself t enjoy life and gavety to rest, 0 ig frivolity, laurels Gail was amused, when men of stror dropped into this weakness did ubt emendous it + only his sed her, an not resist the nettle him. To his sugge could lead a he was entitled to rest rels had *Why?" He dropped into a si that the thump ible and she was contrite © tad; pricked him deeper than she kn She had not understood how gigantic the man's ambitions had been, nor how vain he was of his really marvel! Ous progress After all, why should he pause when he had such power in him? She did well to speak slight ingly of any achievement made by a man of such proved ability. New am bitions sprang up in him The next time he talked business with her he would have something startli nN way. as it were, upon his to interest She admire lish- which girls. reciate and his ment; ami ap; no de ccomty d to save her she could wicked little impulse to on that he now merry because lan. inswered his qh ) 1 she merely lence so dense 1lmost sh ew, however CHAPTER IIL The Change in the Rector’s Eyes. The grand privilege of Mrs. Jim Cargent's happy life was to worry all | she liked Just now, as she sat on the seven chairs and the four benches of the mahogany panelled library, amid a wealth of serious-minded sculpture end painting and rare old prints, she was bathed in a new ecstasy of painful enjoyment Gail! It was six-thirty now had not yet returned from Lucile's Mrs. Helen Davies, dressed for din. ner with as much care as if she had been about to attend one of the unat tainable Mrs Waverly-Gaites' annu. als, came sweeping down the marble stairs with the calm aplomb of one whom nothing can disturb and. lorg nette in hand. turned into the library “I'm so glad you came down, breathed Mrs Sargent, with a sigh of relief. “I'm so worried! Gail hasn't come home from Lucile's!” Mrs. statue of Minerva presenting wisdom She was worried about and Gall of her gown to the most graceful ad vantage moved over contentedly to her favor ite contrast with Minerva. “Gail would attract anyone,” re turned Mrs. Sargent complacently, and then a little crease came in her brow. “] wonder where she met him." “At the vestry meeting, Lucile sald.” “Oh,” and Mrs. Sargent's brow cleared instantly. “Jim introduced them. 1 wonder where Jim is?" The door opened, and Jim Sargent came in, wiping the snow from his he distributed his customary hearty greetings to the family. “Where's Gail?” ‘Out driving with Edward E. son,” answered both ladies. “Still?” inquired Jim Sargent, then he laughed. “She's a clever girl Smart as a whip! {a riot in the vestry.” “Was Willis Cunningham there? quired Mrs. Davies interestedly “Took me in a corner after the ing and told me that Gail bore markable resemblance to the Madonna, and might he call” The telephone bell rang gent, who could not train walt for a servant to sift answered it immedi: his characteristic labled “Hello!” ‘Oh buoy int he wanted to know. Alli meet. a re and Sar- himself to the mes wtely, explosive first-sy!- it's Jim,” and | have gou, Uncle “Mr olee Rev. Smith Boyd Came Out With His Most Active Vestryman. found the most enchanting roadhouse in the world, and we're going to take It's all right, Isn't it? “Certainly.” he replied, equally buoy- ant. “Enjoy yourself, Chubsy.,” and he hung up the receiver “What is it?” asked Mrs a tone distinctly chill monition something pleased “Gall won't be home,” he announced carelessly, starting for the stairs. “She's dining with Allison at roadhouse.” “Unchaperoned'” vies. “She's all Jim, Davies, in She had a pre that Jim Sargent had done foolish He seemed so gasped Mrs. Da right, Helen,” starting upstairs remarked “Allison's a coming frony Lucile’s” with a smile of proper pride. She was cile; but she preferred to live with her sister. “I have a brilliant idea, Grace I'll telephone,” exert herself in the least, from her picturesque high -backed Flemish chair, and sat at the library table. and drew the phone to her, and secured her daughter's number “Hello, Lucile,” she called, most friendly of tones send Gail home, before your Grace develops wrinkles’ Mrs answer, a sparkle in her black eyes “Where 18 she?” interrupted argent, holding her thumb. “Out driving,” reported sister Helen. in the the house party, Lucile?” and she dis | vussed that important subject until Mrg Sargent’s thumb ached. “With whom is Gail driving, and where?” asked sister Grace, anxious for detail Mrs Helen Davies touched all of her fingertips together in front of her on the library table, and beamed on Grace, “Don’t worry about Gail,” she smi} ingly advised “She is driving with Edward E Allison. He Is the richest bachelor in New York. though not so cially prominent. No one has ever been able to interest him. [1 predict for Gail a brilllant future,” and she jut what will Helen. “That sort of un- Jim, you'll have to get back that num- ber!" “Sorry,” regretted Jim. “Can't do it Against the telephone rules,” and he down in the ing to be done! it was not until they expressed their worry again. At Arly Fosland came in with the exuber “It's great sleighing tonight,” Lucile’'s husband, i “Hello, “Gall heme?” “Not yet,” responded Mrs. Sargent, in whose brow the creases were be- coming fixed “It's hardly time)” and went back into the study. “I'm terribly veéxed"™ cile, stopping behind Ted's chair, and idly tickling the back of his neck. “I thought it would be such a brilliant scheme to give a winter week-end folks,” he nodded. one at her country place” “Before or after?” demanded Mrs, Davies, with whom this was a point of the utmost importance. “A week after,” answered “but her invitations are out What can we ours notable?” Lucile, do to make the entire party, with the excep who was listening their wits and Mrs. Helen Da vies took a keener interest in it than of them. The invitation list was most important of all, for it long and arduous way to the heaven of t. and it took gunera lish journey. The Grace and herself, had oN . 3 Murdock Senior ing, the doorbell, set WAS a socially ele tions to accom} the furdock girls, reat-grandfather. made his md after Murdock Junior married, but in to give the girls a thorough polish in no g ney was time ing 18 launched greats had mar dear, Was as father, at ¢ 3 * i ” ive academ) I'b married an exclus tielen had great-grandiathe ried Jim Sargent jim was a and had plenty and £004 ace's man with a gre it Grace a raliroader as Gr had been Jim ym he he was who had ay jer, had family Sargent OC fed Jim's broth but often seven & molh name is Nevertheless, when Gall came the maternal things being favorab her an invita annual’ BO over marry, all other ancestry, fle, might Mrs Reaching her circle of speculation Davies came back to her and loked at the Hbrary Ten, and the girl tion to Mrs Helen with a shock. Rev Boyd study with his most active and joined the circle He was a pleasant party, for clergy. he in Rome fashion Smith out of the vestryman, of walling ones addition to the in spite of belonging to the was able to conduct himself in a quite ptable Roman Pleasant as he was, they wished he would go home. because it not to worry in his company; and by this time Lucile her golf was beginning to watch the clock with some anxiety Only Mrs. Sar. gent felt no restraint. An automobile honked at the door as if it were stop ping. and she half arose; then the same honk sounded half way down the block, and she sal down again. “I'm so worried about Gail!’ stated, holding her thumb. “We all are,” supplemented Mrs. Da- vies, quickly. “She has been dining with a party of friends, and the streets are so slippery.” “1 should judge Mr. Allison to be a very capable driver,” sald Rev. Smith and the ladies glared at Jim. “I envy them their drive on a night like this. [| wonder if there will be good came acce wae convenient she “Fine,” judged Jim Sargent, looking out of the window toward the adjoin: ing rectory. “That first snow was wet Now there's a good inch there A little and another freeze, and a little should be three by morning thaw, ed to make a bobsled” “I'll help you,” offered Rev. Smith particularly fine eyes. “1 used to have started down the hill with less than fifteen.” “1 never rode on one,” complained “1 think I'm due for a bobsled party.” “You're told her invited,” Lucile promptly “Uncle Jim, you and Doctor mer and saw.” “I'll start right to work,” offered the “If the snow holds, we'll go over into the Jersey bills, and slide,” promised “The only way to have any speed in an auto is to go sidewise.” “We're to get up a skidding match, $0 | can bet on our chauffeur,” laughed Lucile, fiuffing her blonde ringlets be fore the big mirror in the hall “We slid a complete circle coming down through the park, and never lost a rev. olution!” “I've been thinking it must be bad driving,” fretted Mrs Sargent “Gall should be home by now!” “Allison's a safe driver,” Ted. who happy Jim Sargent came to the door of the study, in which he was closeted with Rev Smith Boyd. Jim was prac tically the young rector's business guardian, comforted liked to see everybody “1 seem to anticipate a pleasant eve: ning.” considered Ted Teasdale, whose athletics were confined entirely to dancing. “We'll ride downhill on the sleds, and uphill in the machines” “That's barred,” immediately pro tested Jim “The boys have to pull the girls uphill. Isn't that right, Boyd?" “It was correct form when | was a boy,” returned the rector, with a laugh. He held his muscular hands out before him as if he could still feel the cut of the rope In his palms. He squared his big shoulders. and breathed deeply, in memory of those health-giving days. There was a flush In his cheeks, and from the comfortable nest which she had not quitted all evening, decided that it was a shame that he had been cramped into the ministry “There's Gall!” cried Mrs. Bargent, jumping to her feet ‘and running into the hall, before the butler could come in answer to the bell 8he opened the door and was immediately kissed, then Gall came back into the library with. out stopping to remove her furs She was followed by Allison, and she car ried something inside her coat. Her cheeks were rosy from the crisp air { and the snow sparkled on her brown hair like tiny diamonds. “We've been buying a dog! she | Breathlessly explained, and, opening | her coat, she produced an animaled teddy bear, with two black eyes and go one black pointed nose from a puff ball of pure white, get it on the floor, uncertainly in three directions | finally curled down between Smith Boyd's feet. | “A collie!” and Rev. Smith Boyd | picked up the warm infant for an ad miring inspection. “It's a beautiful puppy.” “Isn't it a dear!” exclaimed Gall | taking it away from him, and favoring him with a smile. Bhe whisked the and lev and left it in that lady's lap, while she thi w off her furs. “Where hour?” inquired Mrs Davies, glancing i at the clock, which stood now at the accusing hour of a quarter of eleven “We woke up the ker ghed Gall, turning with glance to Allison, troduced ceremoniously to the ladies by Uncle Jim “We had a perfectly glorious evening! We dined at leaf Inn, entirely surrounded by bh lights, we drove five miles 1% and bought fre Flakes #0 fast that Mr Allis nel a spa who was being men,” rkling in Hose ectic then iniry home had to hold me in’ to find yd “ized on her in proval. They £0 came most laughing, the eyes Smith Be were no longer CHAPTER IV. Too Many Men conscience ! i rector.” as she walked h Boyd tall pe of the Vv. Smit The thin ro “Eplgrams are ust than true,” he fi a twinkle in his his mind to but he {oc assume rect shifted YOUng sed to his other | ally more clever responded, It sharply reflected the nsideration fore toboggan party for exer ally with had been defend that ft in that charge, was unwise peach worth serious co ver, he had ox 1¢ his healthful pi Then you're gul an epigra retorted Gall, who was ann Rev Boyd without qu ing why. ‘You can’t believe are compelled, as a minister “That,” returned is a malter of in nded himself for ‘ proceeded to ins ung person a lovable girl, ir. spite of things he found in her disapprove “The eye through which the camel posed not to be able to reality, & narrow city gate Needle's Eye” Gall looked at him with that little smile at the corners of her red lips eyelids down, curved lashes her cheeks. and beneath the lashes a sparkle brighter than the moonlight on the snow crystals in the adjoining fleld “It seems to me there was some thing about wealth in that metaphor” she observed, her round eyes flashing open as she smiled up at him “If it yalcal ine! ity of m,’ with Khow all . 10 say vod Smith ite you tev. Smith coldly He tience, terpret comm he truct She was the many of which to of the needle was sup was, in called the { this mista Ken yo pass, on “Why Are You So Bitter Agalowt the Church? was so difficult even in those days for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, how can a rich church hope to enter the spirit of the gospel?” Rev. Smith Boyd hastily, and almost roughly, drew her aside, as a long. low bobsled. accompanied by appropriate screams, came streaking down the hill, and passed them. They both turned and followed its progress down the parrowing white road, to where it curved away In a silver line far at the bottom of a hill. Hille and val leys, and fences and trees, and even a distant stream were covered with the fleecy mantle of winter, while high overhead in a sky of blue, hung a round, white moon, which flooded the countryside with mellow light, ano strewed upon earth's fresh robe a wealth of countless sparkling gems “This is a wonderful sermon,’ mused Gail; then she turned to the rector Bhe softened toward him, as she saw that he, too, had partaken of the awe and majesty of this scene He stood straight and tall, his splendidly poised head thrown back, and his gaze resting far off where the hills cut against the sky in treeclad scallops “It is an inspiration,” he told her, with a tone in his vibrant voice which | she had not heard before; and for that { brief instant these two, between whom there had seemed some Instinctive antagonism, were nearer in sympathy than either had thought it possible to be. Then Rey. Smith Boyd hap pened to remember something “The morality or immorality of riches de pends upon its use” he sonorously | again, dragging his sled behind bim | following the noisy, loitering crowd { with the number two bobsled “Mar | ket Square church, which is the | suppose you meant in your compar! gon with the rich man, intends to de vote all the Providence of God.” “And t glorification of the aire vestry,” she added, { with Rev. Smith Boyd, though she not know why Again Rev out of the re { unneces | permit a thick i by on hi slid has blessed it, to the he billion did { Smith Boyd ad, almost ung in advance of man to glide le on & handsled majestically onward, with happy forgetfulness of the dignity belonging to the president of the Towando Val ley railroad and a vestryma: Mar ket church “That be ibered her ntly, and drew sarily need, He 8 stomach Bquare sed Gall to lots of me woking mn our sight it pai nan « 1 resig: plexity iy. & cha framed of speech self be $ } #1 movement, na : isiGe i to her incised secineq different hy are you » bitter against troubled bad sal church” and his tone was not s0 much about what she but about Ser (TO BE CO “identic” Altogether Proper and Orthodox. the Eng the th gov novel readers of tes To not a Heh and American “no identic.” which was used by be ernments, must have seemed a and rather unpleasing substitute or shortening of, the familiar “identl cal” The word has long been used i ever, in diplomatic and documents, no doubt the influence exerted by once the common language of inter national exchanges, and still familiar to more diplomats than any other one ! tongue. The French say and write { “ldentique * and of that “identic’ { is a natural translation The shorter form, however, | valid clecim for preference, in that it says exactly what “identical” says, and does it without the plecnasm or redundancy which marks so many of our words ending in “ical” Why we persist in lengthening such sufficiently long words as “philosophic” and “geo graphic” with a wholly needless “al” | it would be hard to explain—almost as hard as to explain the frequent ap pearance of such absurdities as “dis | embark,” “disassociate,” “coincident { ally” and “superimpose.” i One should not be too fussy about | such things, however, for in language | whatever is, Is right, and enough us age makes any usage ran few how because of Tribute to Trees. The trees formed the fitst temples of the gods, and even at the present day the country people. preserving in all their simplicity their ancient rites consecrate the finest of their trees to gome divinity Indeed, we feel our selves inspired to adoration not less | by the sacred groves. and thelr very | stillness, than by the statues of the gods, resplendent as they are with gold and ivory. Each kind of tree re | mains immutably consecrated to some | divinity; the beech to Jupiter. the | laure! to Apollo, the olive to Minerva the myrtle to Venus and the poplar to Hercules In more recent times Ht was the trees that, by their julces more soothing even than corm. first mollified the natural asperity of man ~ Pliny. Out to Kill. Bacon—The quantity of cattle In this country has decreased in recent years, while the poultry flock has grown larger. Egbert ~ Which would seem to prove that the poorahot gunner is more dan gerous than the automobile driver The Worshipers. 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