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At a vestry meeting
Square church Gall Sargent
jmith Poyd (hat Market Bquare
Bs apparently a Iucrative business enters
prise. Allison takes Gall riding in his
motor car. She finds cold disapproval in
the oyes of Rev. Smith Boye Allison
starts a campalgn for consolidation and
rontrol of the entire transportation sys-
item of the world. Gall becomes popular,
Allison gains control of transcontinental
traffic and arranges to absorb the Ved-
fer court tenement property of Market
Square church. Gall tells Boyd that the
rathedral Market Bquare church proposes
to build will be out of profits wrung from
rqualor. At a meeting of the seven finan.
inl magnates of the country, Allison or-
fanizes the International! Fransportation
sompany. Rev, Bmith Boyd undertakes
all's spiritual instruction and Gall un-
ronaciously gives Allison a hint that solves
the Vedder court problem for him On
an inspection trip in Allison's new sub-
way the tunnel caves In and imprisons
the party, who are rescued by the exer.
tons of Allison and Boyd. The newspaper
accounts of the subway accident
Galt In the spotlight and drive her to her
2ome In the West. Her friends plot to
‘eax her back.
of the Market
tells Rev,
church
CHAPTER XIV.
The Message From New York.
It was good to be home! Gall won-
dered that she could ever have peen
coutent away from the loving shelter
of her many, many friends. She had
grown world weary in all the ralse
gayety of New York! She was dis-
illusioned! She was blase. She was
tired of frivolity; and she immedi
ately planned or enthusiastically
agreed to take part in a series of gay-
with an already broken constitution.
The house was full of them, morn
ing, noon and night; young girls,
date and jolly, and all of them excit-
»dly glad that Gall was among them
again; and young men, in all the
grees from social butierflies to
ling business pluggers. equally
Good, comfortable home
who were delicious!
iy, black-haired Ari;
a tremendous beauty, and stood slight
ly in awe of her. The half cynical
Arly, viewing them eritically,
them one note of interes
4 certain general clean-l
jomeness, and. being a seeker
the unusual, and vastly rec
she deliberately cultivated them:
wring the boys,
the other girls h
zirls she herself ex
active, H
She
qe
de-
plod
glad
folks
nice to the
and voted her
found in
ting novelty
iearted whole.
after
apg
but
not 0 much i
make ate her
ns de
becan she
complimented t}
wich each
told them
nore cle
nd better |
he New York
and
she
ver than
makeup:
them the
Iv
so adroit .
gt their
IVE i
might
m to be ac
In those firat f
the happles all cr
of the
ind so well gowne
wwhkwardness with her, whieh re
any
have felt
Bd
gense of iscomfort Gail
. which
nlished w days
ail was
fn anite
ers had carried
lespicable
atures,
local
1
save
beginning
At
however with the
ne,
muty
second
al runway of their
suites, the conversation
something like this
“Let's gee, this is the
n't it” thus Arly.
“Yes; Tuesday.” concentratedly
lecting a chocolate, the
bore a New York name
“Mrs. Matson's ice skating ball is
tonight.” A sidelong glance at the
busy Gall. “She always has such orig
nal affairs”
“Doesn't she!” Gall draws her san-
daled feet up under her and stretches
down her pink negligee, so that she
fooks like a stiff statue in tinted
ivory.
“And such interesting people. That
new artist is certain to be there
What's his name? Oh, yes, Viodow.
[ could adore him.”
“You're a mere verbal adorer.”
faughs Gail, studying anxiously over
the problem of whether she wants
another plece of chocolate or not. Al
llson had sent such good ones. “Vie
dow eats garlic.”
“Fhats why 1 adore him, from a
distance. Of course all the nice regu
tar fellows will be there—Dick, Rod-
ley and Ted, and Houston, and-— Oh,
oh! 1 forgot to write Gerald,” and with
a swift passing kiss somewhere be
tween Gail's ear and her chin, she hur
ries into her own dressing room. with
a backward glance to make sure that
would
seventeenth,
so.
box of which
ayes, down into her chocolate box, and
geoing there amid the confections, the
faughing, swirling skaters in Mrs.
Matson's glistening ballroom. There
were some who would not be at that
ball-—Allison, and Rev. Smith Boyd,
and-—Arlene has plenty of time to
write her formally dutiful letter with.
out disturbance.
Gall has letters, too, as the days
wear on. She scarcely has time for
them amid all the impromptu gayeties,
but she does find a chance to read
them; some of them twice. If she'd
I
That was the tenor
if she'd omly come
back! Bless thelr hearts, she loved
them; and yes, she longed for them,
even here in the happy, sheltering en-
vironment of her own dear home and
friends! There were gtill other let
ters; a confidently friendly one from
Allison, who sent her regularly candy
ied flowers on alternate days; a
substantial one from Houston Van
Ploon; a thoughtful one from Willis
Cunningham; a florid one from Dick
Rodley; nice little notes, calculated to
relleve her embarrassmeat, from all
her “slaves” except the missing count,
{and a discussion from the Rev. Bmith
| Boyd. That was one of those which
| she read more thag once: for it was
quite worth it.
There was an {mprompiu party at
Gall's house, a jolly affair, indeed. All
‘her old steadfast friends, you know,
| who were quite sufficient to fill her
life; and this was the night of the
gay little Mrs. Babbitt's affair In New
York. How much better than those
great, glittering social pageants was a
simple, wholesome little ball like this
with all her dear girl chums, in their
pretty little Paris model frocks, and
all the boys, In their shiny white
fronts. No one had changed, and she
quite felt, except for the presence of
Arly, that she had fallen back into her
old familiar life. Why, it seemed as
if she had been home for ages and
ages!
At the end of the Sargent ballroom
where QGail's sedate but bospitable
mother always sat until the “Home,
Sweet Home” dance was ended, were
game dear, familiar palms, which
Marty, the florist, always sent to ev.
only come back.
of all her letters;
*
the
eryvybody’'s house
collection
a leaf gon
others
e¢, but it was sprouting two
endously gay affair Every
was delighted, and sald so: and
laughed and danced and strolled
Trem
body
they
and
and
nice
ate ices,
knew, justifiably, that they were
clever and happy young
and Arly Fosland, with
number of young men wondering
id her husband
ly and
anyone looked
and
wople;
was, danced
miled
at her
conacientionsly,
conasci
Ciafl also
and hav
t a perfectly bappy At
about this hour thers would be some
i ear four hundred peopl:
and the drawing rooms and
nservatory of Mra Babbitt's
was whirling ooar the haleony
with a tall young fri who
ied, when there was an exclama
group of girls at the win
Vivian Jennings turned She
girl with port of eyes which
weep, can find the only four
clover in a 48-foot field.
“Gail!” a! cried, almost dancing
I! Do come and see itl”
Gail did not desert her partoer:
rely started over (0 the window
with one hand trailing behind her as
an indication to follow, and immed!
ely, without looking around, she
evening.
ne
cafed
16
(inl
1 3
Bar
“Arly! Where's Ary?”
What she saw was this A rich
brown limousine, in which the dome
up to the stepe. Iuside,
rich brown cushions aad
and pausing to light
among the
hangings,
a leisurely ciga-
handsome
man in the world! Hoe was black
haired and black-mustached and black
lustrous, melt.
ing black eyes, while on his oval
check was the ruddy bloom of health,
Every girl in the window sighed, as,
with a movement whieh was grace in
of the brilliantly lighted limousine,
and came slowly up the steps, tall,
slender, magnificent, in his shining
silk hat and his flowing Inverness,
and his white tie, and his plaited shirt
front
last detail, except for the
touches of originality, down to his
patent leather tips! With a wave of
careless ease he flung back his Inver
ness over one shoulder, and rang the
bell!
“Dick!” cried a voice just behind
Gail's ear. Gail had not known that
anyone was leaning heavily on her
shoulders but now she and Arly, with
one accord, turned and raced for the
vestibule!
“You handsome thing!” cried Arly,
as he stepped into the hall and held
out a hand to each of them. “I've a
notion to kiss you!”
“All right,” he beamed down on her,
sparing another beam for Gail. No,
Gall had not exaggerated in memory
the magic of his melting eyes. It
could not be exaggerated!
“There aren't any words to tell you
how welcome you are!” sald Gail as
the butler disappeared with his hat
and Invernoas
“What on earth brought you here to
bless us?’ demanded Arly,
“I came to propose to Gail” an
nounced Dick esimly, and took her
wonderfully magnetic gaze, 80 that she
was about to proceed with his project /
right on the spol.
“Walt wth after “the dancer she
laughingly requested, drawing back a
step and blushing furiously.
“We're wasting time,”
Arly., “Hurry oun in, Dick.
to exhibit you."
“l don't mind,” consented Dick
cheerfully, and stepped through the
doorway, where he made a decided
sensation,
Eleven girls dreamed of his melting
eyes that night; and the town boys
lost thelr monopoly, Viewing Gail's
victorious scramble with Arly for
Dick's exclusive possession, their
friends unanimously reduced them to
the ranks.
After the dance, Dick made good his
threat with Gall, and formally pro-
posed, urging his enterprise in coming
after her as one of his claims to con-
sideration; but Gail, laughing, and lk-
ing him tremendously, told him he was
too handsome to be married, and sent
him back home with a fresh gardenia
in his buttonhole. That night Arly
and Gall sat long and silently on the
comfortable couch in front of Arly's
fireplace, the one in fluffy blue furtive
ly studying the one in fluffy pink from
under her black eyelashes. The one
in pink was gazing into the fire with
far-secing brown eyes, and was brald-
ing and unbraiding, with slender white
fingers, a flowing strand of her brown
hair,
“Gail,” ventured the one in blue,
“Yes.” This abstr: tedly.
“Aren't you a little bit bomesick? 1
am”
“So am I!” answered Gall,
den animation.
“let's go back!" excitedly,
“When?” and Gall jumped up
protested
We want
with sud-
CHAPTER XV.
The Rector Knows
Rev, Smith Boyd came
breakfast with a more or less hollow
look in his face, and his mother, in
spscting him keenly, poured his coffee
immediately. There was the trace of
a twinkle In her eyes, which were
pevertheless extremely solicltous
“How is your head?” she
Rev. Smith Boyd dutifully
his mind from elsewhere,
{ that proposition justly “All ri
| thank you,” he decided, and he
{into exactly such a state of mel
choly, trifling with grapefruit
Mrs. Boyd hed tent
cused her on
{ scopically.
“Miss Sargent is coming
| night: on the six-ten train®
| There was a clatter in
| Boyd's service He
down
inquired
withdrew
ght,
fell
an-
an
She fo
micro
his
to
keen
eyes him
hack
Smith
been
Rey
plate. had
inside Sat the Most Wickedly Hand.
some Man in the World.
awkward with his
it.
“That is delightinl news”
turned with frank enthusiasm
was depressing to his mother,
Mra. Boyd had nothing more to sav,
She watched her son Tod start vigor
ously at his grapefruit, with a vi
vacity which seemed to indicate that
he might finish with the rind
drew his eggs energetically
ipoon,
which
ished his breakfast.
looked at his watch.
“i have an extremely busy day be
fore me,” he told her briskly, and feel
ing to see if he bad supplied himself
with handkerchiefs, he kissed his
mother, and was gone without another
word about Gail! She could have
shaken him in her disappointment.
What was the matter with Tod?
Rev. Bmith Boyd sang as he went
out of the door, not a tune or any set
musical form, but a mere unconscious
testing of his voice. It was quite un-
usual for him to sing on the way to
Vedder court. for he devoted his time
to this portion of his duties because
he was a Christian. He had sympa.
thy, more than enough, and he both
understood and pitied the people of
Vedder court, but, in spite of all his
intense interest in the deplorable con:
dition of humanity's weak and help
less, he was compelled to confess to
himself that he loathed dirt,
Vedder court was particularly per.
feet in ils specialty this morning The
oily binck sediment on its pavements
was streaked with Iridescence, and
grime seemed to be shedding from ev.
ery point of the drunken old buildings,
They even seemed to leer down at
Rev. Emith Boyd, as if his being the
only clean thing in the street were an
ifmpertinence, which they would soon
rectify
A half intoxicated woman, her front
| toeth missing and her colorless hair
Suddenly he
—— and her ¢ Ehaakbones gleam
ing with the high red of debauchery,
leered up at him as he passed. A curly-
headed youngster, who would have
been angellcally beautiful if he had
been washed and his native blood
pumped from him, threw mud at Rev,
Bmith Boyd, out of a mere artistic de-
sire to reduce him to harmony with
his surroundings. A mouthing old
woman, with hands clawed like a par
rot's, begged him for alms, and he was
ashamed of himself that he gave fit
to her with such shrinking. The Mas
ter could not have been like this. A
burly “panhandler” stopped him with
an artificial whine. A crippl
lng his ugly deformity for the benefit
and example of the unborn, took from
him a dole and a
For anges that had been the
for such offenses as Vedder
They were here, they must be
excuse
of pauperizing charity could remove
them from the scheme of things. In
80 far, Market Square church felt jus
tiled in its landlordship, that
nursed squalor and bred more
somehow, the rector of
respectable iastitution
satisfied, and he bad added a new ex-
peuse to the profit and loss account
in the ledger of this particular house
of God. He had hired a crew of forty
muscular men, with horses and carts,
and had caused them to be deputized
and had given them
which
may have accounted for the especially
germ-laden feel of the atmosphere this
morning. Down in the next block,
where the squad was systematically
were the sounds of count
less individual battles, and loud
mouthings of the fundamental prin
A government which
would force soap and
was not quite
at
presumably free
of tyranny; and it had be a particu
Inr wisdom, on the part of the rough
hewn faced man who had hired this
crew, to select none
n
which
there
erate m
everything
a
wad erased one
tén carts
th
nglon
ts of
in the
curb on b
such a
the
piled
sides
were ass
Einen
undegirable that the rector felt
better, as if he |
at least of the
trace
mark
long black score against
recently, he had
impulse to clean
meow
an urgent
He
and
the
the
largest
rickety
turned in at one of
most uninviting
stairesn He skipped
ticed tread, the bry
made a mental nots
up, with the property commi
i
battle
nt
with
kon third ste
ken third step,
more
ys & prac
and
to ono lake
tee,
of minor repair He
at the thirg
dark door,
told him
yolce came |
a broken rox kere
held stiffly in front
heavy the
bulges,
which the
tn
cked
tulant voles
uiant
with
the
opped on ot
eke
$10
or
for day
“How are yi
asked
and bottomiess «
the rector
hair
anythin
“No sd
making wenk I'll never
know a well day again. The good Lord
has seen fit to afflict me I ain't
ing anything, but it ain't fair
Rey Boyd could not
slight contraction of his
£ touch him
better,”
her voice
ronti the wy
Smith resist a
brows. Mrs
introduced the Lord
with
it was his duty to wrestle
soul, If she insisted. He
averse to imparting religious in-
being a practical man,
he could not enjoy wasting his breath
“There are
and
was
he granted
aboat your condition?”
“He don't offer no hope,”
the woman, with gratification
knee joint will be stiff till the end of
If I had anything to blame
I ain't
but if I'm too sick,
morning.”
“Can that stuff!” growled the man
on the bed. "You been prayin' once
a day ever since 1 got you, and noth-
in's ever happened.”
“I've brought you a job,” returned
Rev. Bmith Boyd promptly. “I have
still ten places to fill on the sanitary
squad which is cleaning up Vedder
court.”
The man on the bed sat perfectly
still
“1 can't do 1.” he regretted. “i
don’t say anything about the pay, but
I'm a stationary engineer.” He was
interested enough In his course of
solid reasoning to lay a stubby finger
in his soiled palm. "If | take this two
weeks’ job It'll stop me from lookin’
for work. and | might miss a perma
nent situation.”
“Then you won't accept it.” ard the
rector rose, with extremely cold eyes.
“I'd like to accommodate you, but |
cant afford it” and the man remained
perfectly still, an «rt which he had
brought to great perfection. “All we
I say my prayers every night,
I do it In the
Rev. Smith Boyd firmly,
fered you an opportunity to earn
money. and you won't accept it. That
ends my responsibility.”
“You'd better take it, Frank” ad!
vised the woman, losing a little of the
weakness of her volee,
“You ‘tend to your own business!”
adviged Mr. Rogers in return. “You're
supposed to run the house, and 'mn
Boyd, if you'll lend me two dollars till
a week from Saturday"
“Il told you no,” and the
ed to leave the room.
There was a knock at the door. A
thick-armed mun with a short, wide
face walked In, a pall in ons hand and
a scrubbing brush in the other. On
rector start.
Rolls and Bulges
the back of his
Lright bi
lice” on
ad was pushed
“Sanitary
braid
vith
shed
1 cap
it, in tan
Roge ars stood up
» dig
“L100
warning s
NTINUE!
cholder
cea a
i
But It is Easily Possible for One to
Boil and Freeze Water at the
Same Time.
n
from above
the
the
steam congeal
fact the wale placed a vessel
and the air i austed
surface of the water,
pumping continues
will boll violently, the
ing on the eides of the exhaust vessel
if the pumping is continued for a suf
and the outaide is cooled
below the freezing point, the water will
continue to boi i bubble until it is
As moK
ess of
1 an
utilized in the estimation
Ordinarily
pressure is
The fact is
of the height of mountains
at sea level, where the
at degrees Falirenheit. Now, if
it is noticed that at a certain place it
boils a few degrees lower, the height
212
by the comparison with a table made
out for this purpose.
In general, for every degree the boil
ing takes place under 212, a height of
about 500 feet is counted. This prin.
ciple does not, of course, apply to wa
ter alone, but is characteristic of all
liquids.
Suggested a Settlement.
Mr. Golden bad a new office boy. A
few days alter his arrival some money
was missed from the cash drawer
Calling the new boy into the private
office. Mr. Golden said severely:
“There is ten dollars gone from my
cash drawer, Albert. Now you and |
are the only people who have keys to
that drawer.”
“Well,” replied the boy cheerfully,
“g'pose we each pay five dollars and
gay no more about it "Settlement
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