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. UI
course, at first this is easy, and we
can go round and round again, each
plaver naming one object whieh no oth
er plaver has mentioned. Hut as the
game gues on 11 becomes harder ang
harder to recall sometning seen shich
hasnt already been named The ons
who is last able to mention an object
wins the game. Hesides being gow
sport, It trains in observation,
i
®|it iwiaaile,
a
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