OChHe ORI OLE Booth Tarkington Copyright, 190 by the Bell Syndicate, Ine. PART Ill—Continued. | “You needn't bother Julia. I'll look after it.” “How ?" “I could came," he about that till It you sit the porch said. “I'd tell 'em wanted 'em to leave it.” He paused painfully. “I could wait out the porch with It, to see that it was safe, until you came back tomorrow morn- ing.” She looked full at him, and he plain- tively endured the examination. “Noble!” She had undoubtedly Aa moment's shame that any creature should come to such a pass for her sake. “What lovely she sald; and sat upon a stool hefore the crackling fire. “Do sit down, Noble unless your dinner will be waiting for you at on on " nonsense | a home? “No,” he murmured. walt for me. Don’t you look after your trunk?” “Not by sitting up all night with It on the porch,” she sald. “I'm going to stay here myself. 'm not Out: I don’t want any family tonight.” “I thought you said you were hun- gry.” “] am; pantry. I “wr ‘hey want me to to see but there's enough in the i . " looked. of em.” he suggested, “and they your father's away and think the house is empty, lights and have to know they're liable to notice in—and then you'd ‘ope I em. come see room from the street, and I lamp at the other end of the hall. 1 The “] put out.” “You did?” “1 can't see any of she sald resolutely. “Besides, I ‘em to-night.” fcab before I do anything else. “What I meant in the taxicab? echoed. “Oh, Julia, Julia!” She frowned, turning her head, at Noble, he something,” she observed “No, I don’t. I don't feel reproach ful, Julia. I know but I don't feel reproachful. She “Don’t Well there's something perhaps ¥ feel, and that's hungry. Will you stay to dinner it? “What? “You can have you want to?—and sta) if and room She came him fron later; a ing-room, Noble” ing for or genuinely don’t what " smiled faintly. with me—i dinn J you back 2 Riv mFERs Julia's Eyes Grew Dangerous—" The Little Fiends!” bled eggs, cold lamb, salad and cof fee were quite as “much of a dinner” as Noble wanted, To him everything on the table was hallowed, yet shred. ded through and through with an ex cruciating melancholy. “Now we'll talk!” sald Julia, when she had brought him back to the fire again, and they were seated before it “Don’t you want to smoke?’ He shook his head dismally, having no heart for what she proposed. “Well, then,” she sald briskly, but a little rue- fully, “let's get to the bottom of things. Just what did you mean you had ‘in black and white’ In your pocket?” Slowly Noble drew forth the his toric copy of the North End Daily Or. fole ; and with face averted, placed it fn her extended hand. “What in the world!” she exclaimed, unfolding it; and then as its title and statement of ownership came into view, “Oh, yes! 1 see! Aunt Carrie wrote me that Uncle Joseph had given Herbert a printing press. I suppose Herbert's the editor?” “And that Rooter boy,” Noble sald sadly. “I think maybe your little niece, Florence, has something to do with It, too." “Something to do with 1t? She usually has all to do with anything she rets hold of! But what's it got to do with me?” “You'll rately. She began to read, laughing at some of the items as she went along; then see!” he prophesied accu- journal before her in a trans “Oh !" she cried. “That's—that's Noble explained, “Oh, oh!" what—] meant," “The really, | but it's | time these outrages were stopped ! “Isn't it frightful?” of Nobl he sald “Nobody Julia !” this!” toward Julia's eyes grew dangerous. little flends!” eried. ‘Oh, th 1s a long-suffering family, she is She jumped up. she demanded “Yes, fervor. than I “1 the 1, with ¢ 2 dismal that | knows bet do, she cried, extending | ith a mean this dread- Mr. Cr " though, mean Oriole him w ine | ful “But “That's what hurts me, Julia!” “Noble ’ “Julia !" story poor it's 1 “Do you dare to say you belleved | n>» He sprang up. “Not one Crum been isn't true?” word it! I told only twenty-six. of you He's | than is out college more ur years, and ¢ LD pped back into his thought sou you there word of tr— “But Noble him, you're—engaged—to gulped, Julia!” She “You're engaged appeared not to hear him. it can ived “To think of Uncle Joseph put- the Pi be down.” sald. thing into hands of | children ! YOU Are eng those awful “ 1 sharply. ys after he-—af don't deny me might renlly thought of » up living h what it ere at home, with all amily and everything—and friends friends like you, Noble, I hadn't thought what it would mean to me to all up And hesides, was something very important. At the time I wrote that letter mentioning poor Mr. Crum to the family, Noble, 1 hadn't-—1 hadn't—" She paused, In some distress, “I hadn't" “You hadn't what?’ he cried. “I hadn't met his mother!” Noble leaped to his feet. meant this there | “Julia! “I am not,” she answered decisively. If I ever was, in the slightest, I cer- tainly am not now.” Poor Noble was transfigured. He struggled; making balf-formed ges- tures, speaking half-made words, “Julia—Julia--" He choked: “Julia, promise me something? Julla—prom- ise to promise me something.” “I will,” she sald quickly, “What do you want me to do?” “Give me your word,” he sald, still radiantly struggling. “Give me your word-—your word and sacred promise, Julla~-you'll never be engaged to any- body at all!” At six minutes after four o'clock of the second afternoon following Julia's return, Noble Dill closed his own gate behind him as he set forth upon the four-minute walk that would bring him to Julia's, He wore a bit of indoor geranium in the buttonhole of his new light overcont Passing the foot of an alley which debouched upon the street, he was aware of a commotion, of missiles hurled and voices clashed, — could see but one person; a thirteen or fourteen who looked through a crack in a board fence, steadfastly keeping an eye-to this aper- ture, and as continuously calling through It, holding his bead to level for this purpose, but at the same time dancing—anpd dancing tauntingly, it was conveyed—with the other parts of his body. now plercing, dulcet with the lesque; and If, was unburdening was a powerful one, and gorged. sppeared to be In a torment of menting, by the pounding of t fence “Oh, dolling! polsonously Henery dray hoy of one far of bur- and agala overkindness it ns seemed, and his success of bricks, and rocks he other side of the size, upon he walled, Amorous, “Oh, dolling t Oo's de mos’ booful eyes bid Henery! aot in a nasty world, J Screamed ment. The Taunter Oh, has [ 4 hooful eyes, dolling Pr ¥? I has! I has we walk our ways! a prisor eyes hut he ha down street peared fac } and ¢ at 8 looked out Noble went 1 to large that do was th he to as he Master prison with at do Torhin's low was not like the wit The face at the win “he fa : Charlotte Corday's, nor was in fow barred, though the prisoner knew solace in wondering If she did not sug- For all pur hours, and that famous picture during certainly a gest poses, except school room term days wns cell ; the Florence been face had finally questions awaiting would have been better used less imagination ol ged to her: and it for her had she in answering them Yet she was not wholly depressed of Noble Dill of the yard whence she had ventured for a better view of Noble, thereby risking a heavier sentence. Noble passed from her sight, but nevertheless continued his progress down Julia's street. Life stretched before him, serene, Ineffably fragrant, unending. He saw It as a flower.strewn sequence of calls on Julia, walks with Julia, talks with Julia by the library fire. Old Mr, Atwater was to be away four days longer, and Julia, that great-hearted bride-not-to-be had given him her promise and sacred word, Blushing, indeed divinely, she had promised him, upon her sarred word, never, 80 long as she lived, to be en gaged to anybody at all, (THE END.) figure fence Author and Reader, An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best, and at the same time teaches the modesty of authorship.-~A. Bronson Alcott a" So AS One hundred lakes in the Tyrolese Alps have subsided and disappeared Casting a glance that way, Noble within the last century, * Models From Paris to Replace Foundation Is Brussels Net and Some- times a Net With Fine Thread but Coarse Mesh. That lace shawls in exquisite color. Ing are likely to replace the now popu- lar silk ones for summer wear evident from models brought over from Paris. The foundation for these shawls {8s Brussels net, and sometimes a net with a fine thread but mesh that reminds one of This Is black with color embroldery, Course vellings. em- Pals One model Is a large square, broidered with a wide border of ley design and The net is while the blues, yellows, especially the are repeated in the silk six Inches coloring. WHI of rose silks fringe about long. the haif type the shaped it is grace A net Several of shawls ton this than fire moon becnuse, rat ai i} Square sald, es more or oblong. comes In black with the black slik fringe The shawl 18 bral border White led In a ning *, ROG wooder used to Gauze teresting colorings bines, g » «1 {ene are designed BLOUSED WAIST; FULL SKIRT The smartness of the bloused waist end full skirt are shown by this model. The lar and cuffs are of coat col gray wolf, Demand is Heavy for New Idea in Decoration for Gowns; Wonder. ful Effects Obtained. and has have heard Their been confined utilitarian Now, observes a fashion writer, makers are exploiting them as trimming. Wonderful effects can be obtained through buttons, and when the at- tention of the fashionably dressed is toward them a great demand is created which gives designers in this field an incentive to work effects, doubt, In seen rooent little of years we buttons, use to purposes, No the recent enameled buttons of the new girdles are made either painted beautiful many the ornament gowns, Entire buttons that are enameled, For suits velours de or laine, The New Sleeve, sponsored by the same French signer who was responsible for the very wide, straight sleeve of the pres. ent season, The newest leg of appears on the under arm rather than on the shoulder. The sleeve by this name, first brought out ever so many years ago, was voluminous on the up- per or shoulder part, with a normal line underneath, the whole tapering to the wrist, | GIVE LIFE TO PLAIN FROCK { All.over open embroidered net com. bined with val lace makes this collar and cuff pet a dressy feature of an otherwisz plain frock. These One Dresden with its delica painted I ivory iny flo parrow ribbot sticks, Worse | NEW SATIN EVENING WRAPS Softest and Most Clinging Materials Are Used This Season for Dress Occasions. Some of the ¢ Wraps | season are made of the | most clinging materials | stance, was of dark blue crep vening ned In cape effect ir of pure Capes of Full Length jumber of black, full sport . show. ng 3 skirt 1 colored chosen cape, materiale. Maroon or chestnut brown | is exceedingly Of is the often is enlivened hit of the form of embroldery or narrow trimming bands of a contrast. ing bright colored material. Dark blue, griy and belge are close to brown. Waistlines of are long and sleeves are wide. Monkey fur still plays its part—and an portant part it is, too | for suits as well as tL FR popu course, there sober black sult, but this by a color in seconds suit coats other garments A —————————— HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES In making fish toes dry. cakes have pota- a jar and fill with water, Use baking powder can perforated at top for chopping potatoes for hash, To remove fat from hot soup, pour it through a cloth that has been rinsed in | cold water. and the fat will in the cloth, Use paper for cleaning bottoms of cooking kettles with cleanser and soap. This saves time, soap, water and the labor of washing cloth, Keep a plece of sandpaper near the kitchen sink. You will find it very handy to clean pots and pans. But do not use it on aluminum utensils, The steel wool should be used for this ware, To clean white felt hates and make them look lke new, take the soft inner part of a stale loaf of white bread and rub all over the hat. It does the work perfectly and takes very little time, a——— Wonderful Development of Can- ada in Forty Years. Four Decades Ago Little Considered, Today One of the Greatest Gran. aries and Dairying Centers. The sale recent announcement thar of first of Cana- ‘acific land was sold forty year. and read that the carioad shipped Winnipeg changes that then are matters yet of interest, the section when you wheat forty have taken since of reminiscence, but What forty years ago quantity, barren be. at- of the greatest Then there stock In aged in are 6.008317 farm animals » prairies, of which BX1.800 a In h cows: and dairying to graln first of wis years the place Ago, unknown but little tempted, is Eranaries Was an cause production was today the Ore world. farm live in scarcely any West. at all. Dairving was not eng is only ance of one bie ex- second in the 9) per three pro- world, cent of prairie vince Vi more than half. The ! n is today second larges yroducer of oa Ww re. bus ah TOW? the produced the ith WY T1045) per Cent was g the Rocky largest x) yielded Forty rich it ay a rot hered for- tunes furt 1 north- ward They 18 Y eon civilization step ] jerness Ewell i ¥ al cities and towns or bleaching buffalo bot marked ee | rails of forty freight ton Car- roaring Carts within hriving tarnving or merchand ads where the old which can that can carr) stakes and tition with of the world. Advertisem Ratio of a Prophet Jonah onfen “For willing to "For That Cough! Good Advice for Men or Women Big Laurel, Va.—*‘I had a bad cough, had nearly run into con- sumption, and I also had feminine trouble. 1 took four bottles of Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for the cough and two of the 'Fa- vorite Prescription’ for the trouble peculiar to women, and was entirely cured. It has bean more than a yoar since and there has been no sign of the diseases reappearing. [ find Dr. Plerce’s medicines are just what they are claimed to be. [ am thankful for what they have done for me and I wish others may be benefited by their use.”’—Mrs. Try phena BE. Addington, When you have a bad cough ob tain Dr. Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery from jour nearest drug- gist and be relieved. If you are a woman suffering with chronic weakness peculiar to jour sex you can be benefited by Favorite Prescription. Tablets er considered the "yy ie myseis Have you RHEUMATISM Lum o or Gout? Toa ED HA CL rm the Symes
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