> vv .. right BAe *t he “What's yorr name 18 Jeremiah Hopkins, the “Can I do something for as she finished telling about She flung out boll “Sure, sure you can, squatters need you awful bad.” Her voice broke. Robert t 7 money gave pou er, h e could equ wg J to did try talk sense 4 4 In SPL of the curved essary.” “Then I see us Polly. “We got a mt I think or { 7 Fle E00 Miller White. established the magazine. the “Storm Country.” of the garden spots of the world. romance! “Polly Hovkins. My daddy Polly Hopkins Pp rs’ city. queried Robert. he squatte much much she nee . “You can You're bigger'n he is! The k a long breath. of course he e. He As far as and surpass Marcus MacKenzie. Mr. MacKenzie's head,” he re- 1.3. 2 ’ would, (00 ] smile lurked there 1" « ‘but if won't be nec folks bein’ happy again,” sighed y take care of here.” It Of course The “Storm CHAPTER I Four miles from Oscar along the Lehigh way lead Bennett and even farmer, that led Cayuga, could see, Bennett's the face of West farm straggling brought lent C to grour of Marcas M Of course MacKens to Oscar would the men and for a woudd allow Fierce facas of to whenever chance came period the law But wl hatred flamed | 1¢ haggard the held tenacity that do? and they squatter rights with the their women, of hushands were Bennett the breaking up the No leeches until back to them. would with job of given have done wives and mothers if the City had heen his hang to a hut in it away Silent would woman One mor car the door her i's com faded from th she uninvited, and The smile Mechanically door and a chair e girl's fgce. turned, closed the herself in at her mented placed the pail side “So you've come begging, Paollyop,” went on the farmer, wiping his lips on the sleeve of his gingham shirt, “Well, you might as well turn tall and run home again, for you're not go- Ing to get anything more from me, 1 don’t want a poacher's brat around here.” The girl's bare wet feet drew tense- ly backward under the chair; but she remained discreetly silent. Oscar al ways abused her and ealled her names, but that was because she was a squat- ter. After a while, he'd change his mind, and then she would take home what she came for. She noted with a quick breath that Oscar's eyes softened during the time he was silent. That boded well for her errand: but Ben- nett’s mind was not on milk or any of those suffering for the want of it. He had just discovered that Polly Hopkins was beautiful even if she were barefooted and ragged. Her straight young shoulders were covered with wet curls that seemed to have heavy farm | Beni “What returned. “U do me?” might out a wife as to have one hat good does pon my soul, I well be with won't live with I'm her hushand lente plenty me or let I'm Hopkins.” did no 'd made it It was only ti gaze she did to Ev Oscar d went girl that i it were but yesterday Hy {wo vears Ww ago them under protest to l the hills, Eve mt fo¥ some time the three must marriage, learned a great years! What girl her fifteenth One of the things she had found out was that Oscar was a dread. ful person, more dreadful than most of the squatter men, Of course the men folks of her people did beat their women, now and then. That was their right without any question, The blood colored even her ears as she remem- bere” how Oscar hectored his wife for the money it was so hard for Evelyn to get. Another thing she had come to understand was that, if Oscar had not been afrald of the powerful Rob- ertson family, he would have forced Evelyn into his home long before this, It had been a hard two years’ task to keep him quiet, “Mebbe you are gettin® sick, Oscar,” interposed. “I don't know mebbe ; but you know what that old Miss Robertson would do to you an’ her girl If you told, You'd get Eve, mebbe, but you sure wouldn't get any more money." The man's face darkened, “That's just the rub,” he conceded, “but at that Eve ain't playing square with me. The Robertsons have money to burn, and she deals it out to me In small little dollars. I tell you I'm sick of the whole thing.” many IS in two does not after she's passed birthday ? she Polly noted the glitter in Bennett's ingry eyes and felt again the quiver of fear, “She gives you all she gets her fin gers on,” she came back at him in de fense of the absent Evelyn. “Lots of times she's got along on about nothin’ to send you cash, an’ didn't 1 runnin’ up here with It as soon as she give it to me? Now her on that Eve ain't on herself, an’ she watches ‘er like a hawk chicken, She told that only yesterday.” The squatter girl anxious to be gone, “Osear, you have just a bit of ain't nothin’ through She picked up the pall, and with a the snatched it out come ma's gettin’ spendin’ her money does a Hie rose to her feet ’ lettin’ milk me,” might be me wee You losin’ growl man of her hand. “Women're a dd “Well, Of nuisance,” he wait here” He went out the room, and Polly breath, It day to get wins the long harder every When standing she the silence she took Bennett with fo returned, hand In was her door go, on \ az su. 7 nob, ready “Looka here, Pollyop,” he began ab Polly opened the to hi your paying yourself?” as door, ler for milk He said it with extreme deliberation, head my ar, the Polly threw up her and “I run ‘tis, Os¢ here eved legs most off retorted, Robertsons’ ; You don’t had a dollar, I penny it fillin’ you as she and never I don't know have no money, that, an’ addy ins much, I'd spend an’ het every Daddy an' Granny Hope To n anxious sii an how the went forwa “1 didn't lennet denly he bac} 1 ang were sw idn"t Ask You for Money.” gt time 1 got sight y wor.” Khe up at him like a cornered “1 said I'd tell Eve, mt! I'l put old next your coppin’ 1 marryin’ n ani I'l do more Rob kid woman ertson to " ‘or. relaxed. and hig hand dropped away from her rough laugh left his lips She looked sO lovely, her eyes blazing, her curls tumbled in confusion on her shoulders, O=car's fingers arm ans a that he would have taken his pay for the milk without her permission If had not threwn at him a threat feared she would carry out. “Men's kisses are what you'll get, my pretty lass” he predicted grimly, “and If 1 was finished with Eve, by God, I'd set about getting my share. I won't always be married to my lady Robertson, mind you, Pollyop.” The blood had left his face. He was quite white and stern, and by this time Polly was on the porch. “"Taln't so easy to get unmarried as ‘tis to get married,” she told him. “An' me! I'm just Daddy Hopkins’ brat, an’ I don't want any kisses but his'n, I'd let Jerry's tongue go twist for milk before I'd pay for it with with" Oscar sprang at her. She was so tantalizingly beautiful, so alluring even in her grotesque attire that for the moment he forgot he had reason to fear her, “T'l kize you, anyway.” he snarled, but Polly, fleet-footed and afraid, shot from the porch and reached the lane, the milk dashing against the cover of the pail, The man halted, looking after her With a shrug of his shoulders he she he turned back into the house. For the moment he paused in the kitchen: he could hear his old mother pottering overhead in his She wus doing the work his wife ought to ! What a fool he had been to marry Robertson! Instead of the he was tied hand and foot wit He gir nhout bedroom. do Evelyn fortune had expected, he hout money er wom of tl radiant had just left an thought ter squat Two dawned He in who him aro womanhood had not upon Polly Hopking, but undertoned an oath and went out yenrs today the barn, Polly Hopkins fast as her legs the lane ns The { ghe | ran down could carry her, the bucket, and ached the railroad before sl had decided milk safe In had tracks wis scarcely 1 not to |i demand Hopkins, Ber HO more egos mention Oscar's viclous her If wold upon Daddy he | {0 { told she do some harm and he and Jerry sh to Evely there was no what the gh i ® The tang squatter girl was he eremiah Hopkins, the | of the Silent City. the leader of | the rows of In Lehigh lakeside nett, there would and milk for Granny ¢ spoke telling dnughter of vor all those who lived that ran and in its along the i dowi Valley trucks on Jere minh enme with was a who tot the shame town's as the Su tic gurroundings Pollyop stood 8 gauze search Daddy Hopkins h Wee Je a little wit knew bread, smi "Wood's as almost her withered lids, “Hell ain't wet” dry an hot, iry she muttered, “It's i mean,’ IE nearer 1 and she fire warm shivered. drawir i the “"Tain't like this Inkesit Granny Hope had been in the Hop kins’ shack since the first winter snow Her own hut on a little point In it she had lived alone ever since her hus. band had gone down in the Blg Blow, fn storm that was a tradition in the settlement, and which only the oldest inhabitants of the Silent City could remember, stom “Old Marc had a beautiful f angel with him.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Fourth Estate, The expression “the fourth estate™ referring to newspaper workers, is credited to Edmund Burke, who is | quoted in Thomas Carlyle's fifth lec. ture on “Heroes and Hero Worship” as saying. “There are three estates in parliament, but in the reporters’ gal lery yonder there gits a fourth estate, more dmportant far than they all” This was in 1830. In this country where class distinctions are not made politically little ever is heard of the three estates-—the nobility, the clergy and the people—but the term “fourth estate” Is comparatively comion, ¢ Paris Sets Style for Spring and Summer of 1922. Color Chosen for Backgrounds of Printed Designs Applied to Silks or Embroiaered Figures. All nuthorities to make white dur are agreed that an excellent showing Ing the spring 1022. a ment the tended and summer seasons of an international move At there Is that spring racing meets in France, at by the well-dressed Een of tions attired in the Intest crea. in direction, several of won tion of Parisian dressmakers, white most Dry Goods the finished the noticeable dressed, Economist, And Ing were seekers left for meets and plea leading that was prominent inethe expensive robes of Parisian women, Accordingly, we see white chosen rounds of printed desig embroidered fig fashion to (1 silks. or in oruate up white grounds, This was As ershadows all and \ black CX Pe todd every colors both for dress Natu popular into striking con inence B® the prom evidenced by adoption colors of bl each of the prima 1e, red h black. with out and yellow But black, the for coy for a stri} Kin tion colors PASTEL SHADES ARE REVIVED Faded and China Blues and Coral and Jet Beads for Trimming Are Featured. After ar ve during whi srimary 1 101 of bine, therefrom Low colors t red and vellow and derivations held the colors are center of the to be have stage, pastel to favor, from the Dry 30 w office, We are color re stored according cables is Economist's Paris French ching faded told that no less a of vivid law and instead which ls against all Brilliant colors, evidence, pastel blues for both day and evening wear, and it Is now common knowledge that Madeleine & Madeleine have adopted a dull greenish blue for all their spring models, Jenny has adopted forget-me-not blue and raspberry reds for taffetas and for erepe de chines. And from other Wrench sources comes reliable ing ground. Ample evidence that Paris is not plone In adopting pastel colors is presented in the action of leading dresemakers In New York, who have taken up military blues, that is, gray blues, for eape suite, and, In addition, favor pastel colors for capes and dresses made of broadeloth, That the adoption of pastel colors is not confined to dressmakers is seen in the taking up of such soft shades DRESS SUIT LIKE MOTHER'S Ls RRA This is a dress that will gladden little girl. It is of jade green duvetyn over a slip of pearl gray crepe*de chine. The tightiy-but. toned cuffs and the high collar are sure to make the little miss feel grown up. Combination Affords One of the Simplest and Most Convenient Forms of Attire, Poppy Red. especial! he wi Stith nter a Combine Plaid and Rough Weaves Fabrice and color combir tions are all important in th children’s clothes both dresses ar A and of CoRt cont plain wih cap The and long around the fig ure, with ends swinging either at side or back The whole outfit was ples turesque for a cold, snowy day. wraps outfit has na straight line gh of scarf was weave material, and searf a bright tartan plaid, ringed at the enough to tie entirely ends, was Blouses for Spring. Fine batistes and organdies are i chiefly offered in lingerie styles and these blouses tuck in at the waist For these waists one hears of Ameri. can demands for the flat Peter Pan lecollar, but most of the blouses have {the standard roll collar. Pin tucking {plays an important part, as does ifagoting: and there continues to he {use of color for tiny Insets and collar and cuff borders Early Spring Style. The three-plece costume promises to be an early spring favorite, a number of these styles having been developed for Southern resort wear. One re. featured a frock with a low waistline, topped by a equare-cut S0inch long cont, which was fastened at the neck only. The material need was dahlia colored duvetyn, with touches of embroidery In black at the trimming, | cently seen i
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