} aS { Red Hill was hemmed in open flelds and the far reaches misty space, as though it were in hid- ways of ap age of hurry. lang, level crest it bore but three cen- ters of life and a symbol—Maple Rouse, the Firs and Elm house, half hidden from the road by their distine- tive trees but as alive as the warm eyes of a veiled woman: and the <hureh, The church was but a sywmbol—a ere shell. Within, it preseuted the appearance of a lumber room in dis- use, a playground for rats and a ha ven for dust. Boat without all was as it had ever been, the old was still beloved. fresh, for its white ing steeple, towering into denied neglect and robbed ment of its sting. In the shadow of its walls lay an graveyard whose overgrown soi long been undisturbed. Along single road which cut the crest of hill from north to of houses that once had sheltered t! scattered congregation. But the were hard to find, for they, too, overgrown by juniper, clematis crowding thicket of mountain a On these evidences of death eroachment the old church turn its back as if by right of its walls and unbroken still linked to life. Through its su paned windows it to gnze tentadly wandon- had the the south wer SOE steonle 1 teepi it sSeCmedq across the road at houses, widel 3 hat faced it In a diminishing The three houses sunrise; the chu y separa 1 cline, On a day iu early was summoned to I? In the ore the hi total eclipse of bung izin. On donning pale green iouse, foo, were but verdure, Fart! sre had bee n settling For the “Couldn't o et ‘em bol des n. and when 1rn door ther eir buckets, Nary Land. *And his face nan. “Most tir ves to gpeak of, but y me Misa N struck him cook ? ance n--"member, ead like a fir truth Mr. no in summoned In for all 18 with step he approached the house, Maple house brood. J. Y. Ws J. Y. was the Their daughter. Nance hor hables repre but Alan Wayue Clematis McAlpin, were an fonline as children of the house. Alan was the only child of J. Y.'s dead brother. Clematis was also of Wavne Lisad, but so Intricately removed that her exact reintion to the rest of the tribe was wever figured out twice to the Olid Captain Wayne, retired from the regular army degree te his haste, it was sheltered a mixed yne, seconded by Mrs, head of Sterling the family. and line, and sited the direct the orphans, on equal same conclusion, vas an uncle in a different every generation of Warne fle the only man Red Hill who dared cali for a whisky and soda when he wanted It wns on HOME By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN Copyright by The Century Company [ESAS E PEEP NNT When Alan reached the house Mrs. | and there are mighty few people that J. Y. was In her garden across the | know [t. The Hill's battles have never | road, surveying winter's ruin, and | entered the field of gossip. Seven { Nanoe with her children had borne | years before you were born my fa- | the captain off to the farm to see that | ther—your grandfather—turned oft-repeated wonder and always wel- jout. It was from this réom. i come forerunner of plenty, the quite § I had started the name of Wayne new calf. the road to shame and that | { i! ! fle sald {| Clematis McAl and long | With it. He gave me ! i | | ! On could go five hundred doj- limbed, just at the awkward age when | lars. I took it and we ank low either boy or piet, | With the name, but in the end | nobody Knew. brought it back, and today | “in the | high on beth sides of the swamp or crying over the “ldylls of | BOL & happy man, as you the King” in the Certainly | th You not in the bouse. J. ¥. Way ne back In the end, I Stern and rugged of wr grandfather he sat in the library alone a: walted for Alan, He heard a dists door open nnd slam, Sle through the lonely boa ame and stood before him, was a man, Without being t «1 tall. His shoulders till you noticed the slimness o His neck too th mw the strog set of his stall in a had the peri rtion it loo frall apd | As he stood before hia uncle : grew dull. They were slightly wt in } and with jullr ti lines of Lin woman misses being had disappeared. Where | She might be bird’s-nesting water, I'm brought never see, though 1 barn loft. | she was SAW i had seen to that. | face, have fron whatever : Red Hill does nor to it is the ete mend | sereen money vou wer whatever you do, pens, remember Pagal Alan ig mg to n 1 r » loo} yoe no mother of us 1 oan wen or Ansings ar to the iil of refuge or harb ne to the H He laid n half turned nped back agn looked word; Le the the eri the « o he re dull once nu 5 folt i 1 . : > ataad ned t ak on a perceptibie ; SHR ANU Rew hall return the He spoke for amd a few then f@ Jou the the center Al i BOW whol its “I've Tried to Win You.” was at! Manle hot hold a . white the hit with Inft such a | that we can the cradde by wr for your | You're the fret | ol hie oollege | what they ex- wand to ad, bad, for proud more than 1 ‘layne ne You t You bh ge behind to . . shane brazenly trees. They crawled closer to th gon jooked ance ive rn winter The Firs, with last yoar's folias Alan turned from little hand Ciemati c AID tween por } lansing n old for her and Nanee's children too young. There were Elton children about her age, but for years they had been abroad. Consequentiy Clem had grown to fifteen in a sort of lone loess not uneommon with single chil dren who can just remember the good times the ha'f-generation before them used to have by reason of their num- bers. This in certain w ment while it left her subdued and shy even when among her familiares. But she was shy without fear nod her shy hess itself had na fowerlike swealness that wade a bold appeal. “lant It wonderfl, Alan? ghe said, “Yeaterday it was cold and it and the Hill was black { Firs, Today all the trees are fuzzy “you | with green and it's warm. Yesterday | was #0 lonely and today you are here.” Alan loaked down at the child with glowing eyes. “And, do you you ife back to aCe 3 ar der of real. many BUOCOS Clem’s irew y had happen «i De Alan, Nance, Gerry fends bad been too wera yne that ever m never naked for, and 1 don't x ’ AVE Hen pelied you know. It must h old sechool is the enlepnt., and ae . £ the fedd | OF -1 wont’ talk of money, for you on Money For the first time Alan spoke. “What mean, sir? With the words slight form straightened, his eyes binzed, there quivering of the thin and his features came out clear and stroug. J. Y. dropped his eves, “l may have been wrong, Alan” he aaid slowly, “but I've been vonr banker without telling yon Your father didin’t leave much. It saw you through junior year.” Alan placed his on the desk between them: and leaned forward. “How much have 1 spent since thet | in the last three years?” J. Y. kept his know, more or Alan, We talk about that. | wae tryiog to hold you ut today 1 give it up. [I've got one more thing to tell you, though, | do his you ————— waa a slight nostril loneliness had given AFS 0 procs ious dey alop- hande cc A———————— A — eyes down leas, won't i know, this sommer ye Pl ER ! A Story of | Today and of All Days ee ee ee ee Gerry Lansing and Mrs, i sing are coming. since that day ti married, Do you think it's ail right for i ber Mrs. Gerry like ever; congidersy] (rerry I've never en her were Alan “Yea, | think could call ‘Perhaps I men half-wl Said, "You Mustn't sture Her short madiy tried to stride ho aware She n her and fake Her mustn't. Do von! away? Clem stifled her sobs and 1 ap wer ook e at him with sudden gravity in hor “Goodby, Alan elfish face 8he threw bn re He stooped and kissed her. To the Wayne himself surprise of friends Alan and found pave ap debauch employment by the that saw his dismissal Maple house had ripened into sum. mer. He was (ull of preparation for his departure for Africa when a sumn- mons from old Captain Wayne reactied him, With equal horror of putting up at hotels upon or relatives’ houres, the captain arrl al in town had gone straight to bis club and forthwith be the sensation of the club's Old members felt young they caught sight of him, as though bis come win- wilien restored. Passing pamins big shortcropped hair, star- ing ey flaring collar, string tie and and re marked, “Gee, look at de old spoit In Oh black flowing broadeloth de winder!” Alan beard the remark as he entered bh and smiled ir nr the i ordered a for unted iptain usit arivk for himself Lin He 1DDpEarance i is easily seen. 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