OChHe By Booth Tarkington Copyright, 19m by the Bell Syndicate, Ine. PART {11—Continued. — Fe “Go on,” Aunt Harrlet urged, “What did Noble do?” “Why, his mother said he just went up to his room and changed his shoes and tie—" “I thought so,” pered, hurriedly, “Crazy.” “And then,” Mr. “he left the house, he'd gone down to the office; but was uneasy, and telephoned his ther. Noble hadn't He dit come, all afternoon, and he didn't back to the and they phoned around to every place he could go, that they know of—and they couldn't find him or hear anything about him,” Mr, Atwater coughed, paused. “But what,” whis- Aunt F but anny solemnly, Atwater continued, and she supposed she fa- In't £0 tele- come, house ; and Aunt Harriet cried “what do they think's become of him?" “Old man Dill they were all pretty anxious,” Mr. Atwater, “They're afraid has—disap- peared.” Aunt Far Then, in turned to look and would have he been able As that perturbi word gradually lying connection ing. Ording would have anxiety, y were said said Noble amed. perfect accord, at Herbert, retired iny sere ng evening hed the members Dill irily, this sO commann! was the term usual own circle— be as nearly n ble to consider there was apart; ie pdrlative when Julia Atwater. ardent group tained con Worst,” Of caused him and. more earlier vouth. one he wi er, the in such Howey son seldom vi even then for the comedian, but 1 incredulous disd As warmth no ithe that under might hi few ive telepl heard those more than that Herbs ~thus he is to pro- the of to the lit airchild, and lained Henry had felt that their parents would not always be with them, and as their parents wished them to be had resolved to be polite he related exploit, Of the that n. He He leseription began uhsequent tty F how and they Proceeding, her journalistic matter the was ant hand he told perfect and truth-—and immediately refuted, confuted demonstrated to be a false witness by Aunt Fanny, Aunt Carrie, and Cousin Virginia, who had all heard him ve- hemently declare, no longer than the preceding that he and his in absolute ago Sunday, prevent Florence from ever again set ting foot within the newspaper build ing. In addition, ered with definitions so variant, all sought to phrase but the one subject; his conduct in seeking to drag Florence through the mire, when she was absent and could not herself, Poor Florence later in the evening, he was told, verely ; and though her cause was thus championed against the slander it curiosity In regard to Florence, like a cloud upbn her reputation. There were several important things for her to explain; among them, {* upon herself to see that Noble re- ved a copy of the Oriole, and also x" sudden departure from home and rather odd protraction of ahsence therefrom. It was not thought she was In good company. Uncle Joseph had telephoned from a suburb that they were dining at a farmhouse and would thence descend to the general region of the movies, That word of any sort had come from Uncle Joseph was In a measure reassuring, but the air of perturbation and gloom was not noticeably re- moved. The general impression might be summed up In the words of his sister iu ER —— —— “Nobody knows what that man'll do, when he decides to!" Aunt Carrie sald nervously, “Letting the poor child stay up so Iate! She ought to be in bed this minute, even if it Is Saturday night, Or else she ought to be here to listen to her own bad little trying to put his terrible re sponsibility on her shoulders.” One item of her description of him self the badgered Herbert could not bear in silence, although he had just declared that since the truth was so ill-respected among his persecutors he would mouth no until the next He passed over “bad” but furiously stated his height in feet, inches and fractions of Aunt Fanny shook mourning. “That may gently, “But you must can't bring to family.” Herbert just at her ‘¢ more profound strained cousin open his more day. inches, head In Herbert,” try to young Mr. her be, she said realize it Dill Again h ad no indi poor back his looked He than ferent that upon whic her nm betweer 10 touch: f be mi of « VAS COnce to SSing fainmities, rned with ation Noble ill to the the p shit Dills 't his own hle misfortunes—b He ut not Noble and otherwise regarded Noble's di yked av . ng Mr. DIR!" could only tall ing to him “Yes, she said, © impressi like that, cely to ped he never harm soul 1” “T'm vr, opl © fire poor he agreed, 1 i I do sure never Herbert's | gently. “Not won even n | ler he is} ¢ es sll r—— pp Bq little ; they set their pessi- had unanimously in groove axpectation 80 romantically ut if the truth of could have been as they sat thus together at what was developing vir- tually into his wake, with Hefbert as participant, they would mistic a his whereabouts amazement. Noble was last place (they would have when calmer) where anybody world could have madly looking for him! They would have been right about it. No one could ave expected to find Noble tonight inside the old, four-square hrick house of Mr. H. 1. Atwater, Senlor, chief of the Atwaters and father of the dis turbing Julia. This was an old man of rigidly limited sympathies: and his opinion of Noble Dill had become al- most notorious ; here was no hosom of refuge for a lorn Noble needing sol- ace, nor was his house for any moment hospitable with Julian out of it. More- over, Mr. H, 1. Atwater, Senlor, was not at present in the house: he had closed and locked it yesterday, giving the servants a week's vacation and telling them not to return till he sent for them; and had then gome out of town to look over a hominy mill he thought of buying. And yet, as the wake went on, there was a light In the honee, and under that light sat Noble DAL Returning home, after Florence had in the very sald, in the dreamed of placed the shattering news within his hand, Noble had changed his shoes and his tie. He was but a mechan- ism; he had no motive, put on were no better than took off ; he the fresh tle was no loveller than the one he had worn even the lucidity to be a as evidence of grief, No: his was, If viewed, “crazy,” as Fanny called it. Agitation took form; that all, Love e of dress are closely allied; and In happler times when Noble eame from work Julia in the ey ged his clothes faint tracery repay those purple one, action Aunt first 80 had this was and would see ening he usually chan No doubt there here, is some too Indistinet to contemplation When he left the house rapidly down-town, end of this but as he was he and toward he approachin no one wnlked the one-mile journey ran; then rallway station, him He was entered the and ten leket eccentric, went a hench sat upward tn and went ton t for a “What ad?” the south the time TAs He great True foo nection no was at the sta earest expression of his cond to horrow felling is neces mbol ; of shock dispersis vhile a per increased swallow nothing he was ception He at grow- ry wae slowly beginning intervals, and the intervals were ing shorter (TO BE CONTINUED.) But Devices for Showing the Direction of the Wind Have Been in Use for Centuries. The the weather vane Is unknown the most ancient of which there Is any that mentioned by Vitruvius, the Tower of the Winds, of which he speaks, still stands in Athens, This bullding was erected about a century before the Christian era. He writes: “Those who have pald most atten tion to the winds make them eight In number, and particularly Andronicus Cyrrhestes, who built at Athens an octagonal tower of marble and cut on each face the figure of the several winds, each looking to the quarter from which that wind blows, “On the tower he placed a marble column, on which was a Triton of bronze holding a rod in his right hand, And he contrived it that the figure moved round with the wind so that it constantly stood opposite it, and the rod, which was above the figure, showed In what direction the wind blew.” Effigles of many creatures have gone duty as vanes, Man himself has not escaped. The female form divine even has not been spared this indignity. Such a sentiment as Is expressed In the sentence, “Woman fickle as the wind,” may have been In the mind of Theodosius the Great when he erected at Constantinople, in the Fourth century, the vane called the “Lady of the Winds.” origin of One of record is Don’t think that target practice will enable you te shoot folly as it fies, HE Christmas shops carolling * of 1 becomes a spring song, almost overnight. In the inter- vad between Christmas and New Year's, windows are filled with summery clothes and fabrics, and the housewife makes her annual excursion in the pur- sult of stuffs frocks and Aprons and house hold cotton course, for house children's clothes which gannot take thoughts pl is summer House tractingly long since “linens.” of She are winter seri- 14 house, ously, with tralling the aprons to spring; in ant dis- this season, from frocks pretty turned are having unal- of thelr own, utility black sateen for aprons that slip over warmer dresses, and they are in pres. ent demand. Unbleached cotton with applique of plain to the stock of utility aprons. For aprons trimmed with grey borders and pockets are a pleasure to thelr wearers and everyone else, make them comfortable, Thrice welcome are the newly ar. blouses. mont - in at rived ly cheerful least, and the refined In style. attributes that spring They color, are 10 say sume time Above all are dist they they inctly ure have novel, These combing new style-features Incinde the materials placed on tion of two different in one the row louse, an emphasis t euff (a more or less nar- band) the ingenious em- decorative slashes, espec- fnlly in sleeves. Many-colored broideries, of various kinds, put a re- in the gners that desl; is inexhaustible, For peasan wrist ployment of em source hands of fancy blouses the materials used Housefrock, in Gay Colors, under arm sleeve. This blouse is made of crepe satin and has an unusual pat- tern In embroidery adorning the front and sleeves and defining the neck line, The blouse at the right is one many tiebacks., It i= made of black crepe de chine and lace, the lace, ar ranged in panels at the back and front, is caught in at the waist line In front but falls free at the back. | { LAND OF WEALTH Potentialities of Western Canada Abundantly Proved. 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