A Story of of All Today and Day s SYNOPSIS. w—S— Alan Wayne Is sent away from rf home, by his uncle, J. Y., 2s = failurs Clem runs after him in a of short ekirts to bid him good-by, Hed FIN moral | tangio CHAPTER li—Continued, “It doesn’t amount to ment. Just a job as assistant to Wal | *n, the sngineer the contractors sending out. We're gong to put a bridge somewhere in J “That's it { knew it.” hr the cap- | tain. “Golng away. Want any no The question came like solid sho! eut of a four-pounder. Alan colored and smiled, all at the s time, “No, thamxs, sir” got all I peed.” The captain bitched his chalr ward, placed his hands ou his leaned forward and glared out avenue, “The Lansings,” he like a boy reciting a piece, “are for drink, the Waynes for Don't you ever let I about drink. Nowad call ws nonalcoholic was just plain strong b I say. don't worry about drink. a safety valve in ever let. “But an appoint- are | up | Africe ney started, | he replied on Lhe | began, | devils women. Worry you the ¥ tia iin for e wine. women, Alap!” The captain slued around his bulging e look out for them. As your grandfather used ouly perishable go and kisses." And kisses aren't alway They say God made to little apples an But when be mad helped.” The captai dropped from his drew out his watch thing did, pleasing after in his chair. over his face. Alan got up to say good-by The eaptain too, 1 i the hand Alan held out. “One anid “Don't forget Wayne to back bad.” There was a ture in bis eve as he off. Back in his room Alan found je awaiting him. He read the them up-—-all but it Clem. She wrote: great- | to say, "To womer ole you as ton.” rthou A compl he he fie l acent ool ght. arose, nd clasps he wre thing." there's alw a Wayne for gos suspicion of 1 hurried bis guest | tters | one, was from | Dear Alan: Nance very far away. I am raining nere very much in the all bridges are under wa invented a new game, It is called "ste boat.” 1 play it on old Dubt down into the valley and | through the water around He puffs just like a stean he grts he smokes all too fa I hope you will co soon says you SrTY It boa out That evening Clem was thrown into a transport by receiving her fi gram, It read. “You must n play steamboat again, it is gerous, | Alan.’ She tucked it In her bosom | and rushed over to the Firs to show it to Gerry. (erry rat feln at dan the A 0 was | and Allx were spending summer nt the Firs, where Mrs. | sing. Gerry's widowed mother, still nominally the hostess. They had been married two years, but stlli «poke of Alix as Gerry's and in so doing stamped her with her own seal. To strangers they carried the =ir of a couple about to be mar- ried at the rational close of a long en- gn eut. No children or thougzlit of children bad come to turn the ehiannel of life for Alix. On Gerry marriage sat as an added habit, [It was begin. ning to as though he and Alix drifted together not because they were carried by the same currents but be cause they were tied. Where duller minds dubbed Gerry the Ox, Alan had nnmed him the Hock, and Alan right. Gerry had a dignity beyond mere nik. He had all the powers of resistance, none of articulation. Where a pin. prick would start an ox it took nn up- heaval to move Gerry. An upheaval was on the way, but Gerry did not know it. It was vet afar off. To the Lansings marriage had al- ways been one of the regular fune tions of a regulated [ife—pnrt of the general scheme of things, Gerry was slowly realizing that bis marriage with Alix war far from a mere function, hind Httle to do with a regular life and was foreign to what he had always consid. ered e general scheme of things. Alix developed, quite naturally, futo a social butterfly. Gerry did not pleture her as chain lightning plas ing on a rock, as Alnn would have done, but he did, In a vague way, feel that bita of his Impassive self were being chipped away. Red [ill bored Alix and she showed it. The first summer after the mar ringe they had spent abroad. Now Alix' thoughts and talk turned con. stantly toward Europe. She even sug gested a tying trip for the fail, but people | bride, sem lonk wonld have Was Gerry refused to be dragged so far ‘rom golf and his club. He stuck dog- gedly to Red Hi till the leaves began to turn, and then consented to weve back to town. On their last night at the Firs Mrs. Lansing, who was complacently Aunt to Waynes and Eltons, enter- the rise srt, to Alix’ “Port aR arouad, arrival of desuss Nance said, Aunt Jane” Lansings, Waynes and Eltons were inkers In town, but K was a as Alix knew, that en Red dropped it—all but the old It was as though, amid the of thelr childbws, they be illdren and just as a Freoch- will not [ight a ette in the presence of his father, they would not take a drink for sake on Red [iH So Alix looked on interestediy as the id but started the port the round her hamis ined toward WHE VOry r the color er bare neck. Its wave tem 1nd med fo ustering tendrils of her hair were gr bright with tremalons, gald, “today ie, lition, they iptain, nk's and had go ariel ang v ler set glasses it up, When ne Nance ith edge, lo a Wavae t he stood aghe they looked a pies a] eyes ave and Her Im 5 were to Alan,” sl 's birthday.” down, They all ralsed thelr £ ne He wine. band on Gerry's arm. wit a thin ise, Gerry, ples eld down h Mlematis tHe finger, | 1k, gravely carried { I wine to her lips we tip of As Judge Healey, gray haired but ked oue Lis keen | on Gerry Lansing standiug | street ore an art dead Gerry's eyes were fas that be had loag n nook in the own hoose, Ww up the ave glance fell t! £ dow, CTORS bef er's ure iad in mind for a certni brary of the t It was the second annive wedding, and though ft late in the afternoon chosen his gift for turned from the pictu long and a shrug to a palatial street. For many years judge Healey nad been foster-father to led Hil Wn gen- | ey With ke read in Gerry's mind befere the and acting on impulse the judge crossed the street and bought it le the fige was still in the pie. ture sh rry came out of the jew- eler's and started briskly for heme. He had purchased a pendant of brik liants, extravagant for his but weary of bia was already ry bad mot | Alix. He | wilh a last | and passed ou Jeweler's farther wp the ws look par almost woma was picture niy intuition wp Gr purse He waited until the dinner hour and then slipped his gift into Alis® hand as they walked down the stinirs to- gether, “1 beneath the hall light “1 can’t walt, dear, | simply can't” She snapped open the case. “Oh!” she gasped. “Ilow dear! How perfectly dear! You old sweetheart™ She threw her ar around his neck and kissed him twice, Then she few J away to the drawing room in search Ansing and the judge. the guests to the little anniversary | dinner. Gerry straightened his tie and followed, | Alix" tongue was rippling-—her whole | body was rippling—with excitement and pleasure, She dangled her teens ure before their eyes She alg it | against her warm neck and ru to a mirror. The light iu her eyes matcien | the Heht in the stones, The judge | fook the Jewel and laid it In the pn.m of his strong hand, It looked in dan- ger of being crushed. “A beautiful thing, Gerry.” he maid, “and well cho fen, Rome poet Jeweler dreamed that twining design and set the stones while the dew was still on the grass.” After dinner the fonr gathered In the library, but they were Lurdly seat. ed when Alls sprang up. ler ghince had followed Gerry's startled gaze. He was staring at the coveted picture he had been looking at in the galiery that afternoon. It hung in the niche In which his thoughts bad pinced It. Alix took her stand before It. She glanced Inquiringly at the others, Mrs, Lansing nodded at the judge. Alix turned back to the picture and gravity stole Into her face. Then she faced the Judge with a smile. "We live,” she =aid, “in a Philistine age, don’t we? But I've never et any Philistinism drive pictures from thelr right piace in the heart. Pleturen in art galieries—" she shrugged ber pret- She stop ms ty shoulders—*1 have not been trained up to them. To we, they are mount: ed butterflies In a museum, cut flow- ers crowded at the tlorist’'s. But this picture and that nook-—they bave waited for each other. You the picture nestling down for a loug rest and it seems a small thing aud then it catches your eye and holds it and you see that it is a little door that opens on a wide world. It has slipped into the rooms and become a part of life" A strange stillness followed on Alix’ words. To the judge and to Gerry it was as though the picture had opened a window to ber mind. Then she closed the window. “Come, Gerry." she sald, turning. “Make your bow to the judge and bark.” Gerry was excited, not show It. BO though he did “You have dressed my thoughts In words I can't equal,” he sald and strolled out on to the little veranda at the back of the house, [He wanted to be alone for a momen followed a dark day. Por the first time in a long wnile Alix had revealed her self. He did not begrudge the judge bis triumph. He knew instinctively that coming from him instead of from the judge the picture would not have struck that intimate spark. The next day Gerry gave his consent to Alix’ plan for .a flying trip abroad, but with a reservation. The reserva tion was that she should join some party and leave him behind, Judge Healey heard of this arracges ment only when it was on point of being put into e net he the fTect. In to wave good-by to Allx over the rail, with her hich red lips nnd big exelted oy yes making Alls ME a bkuge armful of presented a picture not easily fo {en The ought my boy. “Oh, is all “She' over roses, jodge to turn be ed to Gerry. not going withont y " right.” said 8 well ch party, you know.’ ut during the follo judge saw it {4 all Gerry had leas ar ws tl for and more and iiskys nt andias The ju ge feit a sort of reli vay Alan Wayne falrs and gave think about. When A Date cal Gerry Haht iperoned, its a wed riehit me mare roppesd | ueiim ed the judge knew going to hear som “Lacky to find “It isn't I'd have "phon by. wy Ale pulled Me exactly was just ineas or ed. iH, what 1a 1t > gz his visit asked the judge, or a (res That boy, Alan Wayne re, isn't he?” the “Ita this sort of protege of you ‘Ses—in a way yea" sald HOE “What slowly, 0: Alan done pow “It's like thia™ months oo contract ng assietar ton no sooner he fol sick and then point. Mr moted bh "nv iM MeDale » We sent Mr WN it to Walton Wal ol on the ground than He pat Wayne ia charge he died. Now this Wayne seems to have pro Imaelf to Walton's ray iis hore in # hnt his waul He won't tw accounts for week 3 3 came lay i fo e—{ 3 “What Has Alan Done Now! know If you wee any reason why we sbousio t have that wouey back, to vay the least.” ‘ The Judge's face cleared, “Didn't he tell you why be drew Waltou's pay?” “Not a word, Said he'd explain ac counts when be got bere but that sort of thing takes a lot of expininiug."” “Well,” sald the judge, “I can tell you. Walton's pay went to his whlow through we. I've been doing some puzzilng on this cuse already. Now will you tell we Low Alan got the money without drawing on you?" “Oh, there wax plenty of money ly: ing around. The Job cost ten per cent less than Walton's estimate, If he'd come back we'd have hauled him over the coals for the blunder. There was the nsual reserve for work in Inne consible regions and then the people we did the job for paid ten days horus for finishing that much ahead of contract time.” The Judge mused. “Was the job satisfactory to the people out there?” he asked, “Yes, it was” matd MeDale bluntly. “Most satisfactory, Dut there was a funny “thing there too. They wrote that while they did not approve of Mr. Wayne's time-saving methods, the finished work had their absolute ac ceptance.” The judge wae silent “You want my advice?” “Yes, not for our own sake Wayne's.” “Well” sald the judge, “I'm going to give it to you for your sake. When you stumble across a boy than ean cut ten per cent off the working and estimates of an old hand lke you bind him to you with a long con tract at any salary he w And just one thing more: when Alan Wayne steals a cent from you or fifty thousand dollars you come to me and I'll pay it.” McDale's puffed a moment, w but for tite ants eyes narrowed and he nervously at bis clgar your head is on right » the right place, to see that widow busines glue ug up for a hard when it comes to payin 2 out have to and we are. [It but he was hing Walton's work just if he'd alive Even a Beotchman can see t! needn't worry A that for Ofty thous: good « MeDale & MceDale™ in w don't law, alt was done 0s been man uough ind # 13% ‘ ¢ mens ol Alan bud turns NW ACY 3 turned * ox 1 3 ¥ Alan Wayne, a in « ith teasing that he wns w {2 rather ro oever was tha lites fo whet of wives” “Have you a They both koew v embark i] dangerous g but Alix played often No preity woman European don for practice through the Enmpean ber daintily shod hie full +f life The tight of bh ™ Aare sats mture things—sateilites ne na vacancy T° sald Alan i ¥ we ing an a fee it her degree without Orr and bers mit She threw out ashe wal felt battle danced merrily made no other reply. “1 met tots of people we both know.” at last, ked was Hike skipping in her eyes news that | bad taken to the ways of a wild beast ™ “Oh, that was the Honorable Percy. [ only caught a few words, [le was telling about a man known Ten Percent Warne and the only thine he'd ever seen tle shirtalveve policy work with natives, When | learned it Africa. 1 luked up with at once and screamed and he turned fo me awl enld, ‘You know Mr. Warne? Dat Inet then Lady Merle signaled the ree nnd enme ont somebody else snaflled Collingeford Le fore 1 got a chance.” “Oh, Colllngeforl” sald Alan. “1 remember.” [le frowned and was si lent, “Alan.” sald “let me warn you, dency in you bLut any further than me tell you that a thoughtim wan is a most awful bore. When I canght sight of you 1 thought, ‘What a delightful little party. Lut if you're going to Lie pensive there are others" Alan glanced at her. "Alix," he said, mimicking her tone, *1 see in yon the makings of an altogether charming woman. I'm not speaking of the palustaking veneer] suppose yon need that in your walk of life-tuit what's under it. There may be others, ng you say. [Pretty women have taken to wearing men for bangles. Mat don't you make a mistake. I'm not a ban. gle, I've just come from the anelothed world of real things, To me a man is Just a man and, what's more, a woman is Just a woman" “How un-American,” sald Alx. “It's more than that” sald Alan, “It's pre-American.” Alix was thoughtful in her turn, Alan caught her by the arm and turned ber toward the west. A yaw! was just fiw Wis you trent. when the men Alix after a mament, I wre a Dew ten before It goos a tendency let ' crossing the mask of the Qisappearing enn, Alix feit a thrill at his touch. “It's a sweet little pleture, isn't 117” she sald, “But you mustn't touch me, Alan It enn't be good for us.” “Ho you feel it 100,” said Alan, took his hand from her arm, During the voyage they were much gether, not in dark corners bnt wag ing their battle In the open-—two swim- mers that fought ench other, forge to fig out to sen, and ht the tide that was bearing them Alan was not a philander- an unreqil To surrender ted Xi on But Allx the goal. As had nobody had ever really However, it did not apprec that who to was Its own played it, won anything. long to had au getting feel game ghe niways take ber Alnn const ale antly making her ite in it WAS under her guard and = that the jump of one’ thing: were alarming in i henrt on that dives like Le throat or the intoxicat vith hot, racing blood nd words, If} would have tongue he carried men was Io ad ! hid Over wor we h ben been the game Allx her that sense of | aw sat side away gave | oman | y 1 by their knees “3 "OAS under cover on Lie or closed «did hirough ot |W ISE ym, From This will After the “Ba erto Neglec Time On, nkers™ Hith Look ord a ngers that ele ape of ( soek er by Un big : fishing feet m the New Eun coat el loston, MN lead ew Portsmouth and other dm Ceorges have mea men who become dis nd the vaya! program has been 'n 2 man got sick he and take his chances g ovt of reach of physi gavs the New York Press, edt iy in a single season man ts and lives are lost, men injured 1 fish on the it for gor | fog abled, ¢ that whi stay COV 0! re tp 8iCK 3 . Dei ans, boa guard eutter Androscoggin fishermen that may sick or disabled, and the Unnt States public health bureau has fitted out the boat with hospital appli ances and Ottings A very thoughtiul and attentive looker after the welfare and safety of Americans is Uncle Sam becoming in many dilerent ways and directions. Burglar Had Paid His Some time ago Brown aad Smith, "1 envy you. You come in contact with all kinds of men. You actually know and talk to burglars and other criminals All | know about them is what | read or imag ine shout them. Now. the next time you meet a good burgiar | want you to send hia to me to me and tell him | vill pay his car fare and expenses. | want to talk to him and see how criminals differ from other men.” Smith promised to send along the next good specimen of a burglar that came his way and forgot all about the matter until some vv eeks later he received this letter from Brown “Your friend came. but {| hada not expected him professionally of you will teil him to bring back the family plate and Mrs Hrowns jewels you and | will resume social relations. the coast at the disposal of Visit, ta Good Came to Play on a Train, Here is an interesting game to piay when we are traveling by train. While the train stops at a station, all the players look about and take as much notice of things as possible. Then, « few minutes alter the train has (eft the station, we take terns at naming objecta which we saw there. 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