ca A EC AAS THE “ANGEL” dilapi- City, a Ithaca, lives SYNOPSIS. Occupying a dated shack in the Silent squatter settlement near New York, Polly Hopkins with her father, small Jerry, and an old woman, Granny Hope. On an adjacent farm, Oscar Bennett, prosperous farmer, is a neighbor He is secretly married to Evelyn Robertson, supposedly wealthy girl of the neighborhood. Marcus Mac- Kenzie, who owns the ground the squatters occupy, is their deter- mined enemy. Polly overhears a conversation between MacKenzie and a stranger, in which the former avows his intention of driving the squatters from his land. The stran- ger sympathizes with the squatters, and earns Polly's gratitude. Evelyn Robertson discovers from her moth- er that they are not rich, but prac- tically living on the bounty of Robert Percival, Evelyn's cousin Polly learns from Evelyn that the sympathetic stranger is Robert Percival. Evelyn charges Polly with a message to Bennett, telling him- she can give him no more money. She already bitterly regrets her marriage to the ignorant farm- er. Polly conveys her message and Oscar makes threats. He Insists Evelyn meet him that night Polly has her father and Larry Bishop, a squatter, take an oath to do Mac- Kenzie no injury. Evelyn unsuccess- fully tries to get money from her mother with which to buy off Ben. nett and induce him to leave the country, giving her her freedom She and MacKenzie avbw their love. CHAPTER V—Continued. ere ‘fess up Oscar ran but I reckon 1 little finger than Eve's whole body. Maybe some after I get all her cash " Polly coughed down a persisted in coming up In her throat “I wanted to morning, Poll,” a funny thing, more for your to you on. “It's care lump that Ra Copyright by } { and Polly stipped one arm walst, “You want to be free from me, eh? That's it, Is it?” he sneered. “Some other guy looming up to love, I s'pose, Well, I don't mind who gets my leav- ings if you make it worth my while. But If ” Evelyn's pale, beseeching face lifted to his. She could not quit him with- out his promise that she should have her freedom. Neither must he think that she could get him a large sum of money. “1 can’t get another dollar, peated hoarsely. “I simply can't, And —and I must be free.” A frown drew the man's heavy brows together until they touched, and he lifted his fist to strike; but Polly Hopkins, by one swift movement, thrust Evelyn from under the upraised arm and crowded in between them. Because Evelyn was his wife, he had the right to beat her if pleased, Polly thought, but he would not dare to strike Polly. “If you've got to swat some one, O08 car,” gritted her teeth, “swat me!” The beautiful white face came close DOL veers ' she re. man’s she between to Bennett's, and the challenge in the squatter girl's flashing eyes stirred a feeling within him that he never had Oscar had had for Evelyn Robertson. believed that a woman him meant to love him, car,” she gulped, “an’ I believe in he in’ honest. So, before your of my mind, If I owned you from your for a doormat in front of shanty! He shot a look of amazement, confident smile faded from and his lips sagged at the Then he to his feet. “I been thinking about you all day.” he broke forth. “You've thing—looks, and want you, Pollyop and I'm going kiss you this time, so help me God!" He took a step teward her and Polly nbled up. Just at that Evelyn Robertson entered. nett turned The his corners arose got every- action moment swiftly, and Polly, Polly Hopkins. If he could master her as he had Eve, she would come to nim willingly when he was ready for her, / Working on that principle, he struck in contact . she staggered cry was The squatter girl out.» As the huge fist came Her low followed by Evelyn's scream. hefore, her,” cried fearful Summon her “You've killed Oscar Bennett, Evelyn; that the would SOme squatter, clamor itive turned swiftly “Both of you keep mum about this, Rep? With that he Evelyn stood tore open her hand on her heart until running windstorm, Evelyn One arm ide; and the pain in her footsteps was the Then led Polly hung at ah oil gaoui terrific. On nearing the shack, Polly as the wind foamed the lake to fury tle hut, silent the and a long, tense minute, Then Qscar sn umphant, insulting smile “So you thought it best “i a while you'll come to know I what 1 say.” Eve tried to speak Polly squeezed her arm encot “You're a mean duffer, thrust in. “Your woman's you, that's ali. Try see how she likes it.” “She's got a good right to be d-—4 scared,” grunted Bennett. “Now out with it, Eve. What's the rumpus? You haven't sent me a cent for a month.” With shaking fingers Evelyn pushed back her wind-blown hair. “I couldn't get any money, Oscar” she walled. “My allowance Is all gone, I gave every cent of it to you. You know very well mother won't give me any more.” She had one card left to play, and she hoped it would take the trick. “I might as well tell you,” she con- tinued, the steel In her eyes wiping away the blue. “Mother hasn't any money. All I thought we had belongs to Cousin Bob.” She ceased speaking and waited an instant to note how her news struck her husband. He flung up a clenched fist, “The devil take you, Eve!” he cried. “Don’t try to put anything over on me like that. You're the biggest lar In Tompkins county.” That he partly believed her showed in his manner. “I'd never "a’ married you If I'd a known that two years ago.” Oscar as serted hoarsely. “You can be dead certaln of that, my lady. You were pretty careful to keep your money troubles to yourself, Sit down. both of you! You're shivering like two cats” Impulsively Evelyn went toward him. “Oh, Oscar, listen, listen to me,” she sald, trying to steady her voles. “1 want to be free. I can't, 1 can't live this way any longer” A coarse oath fell lips. “You don’t need to,” he shouted. “You got a home to come to-—my home, You can do the work my old mother’s doing. It's your job, not hers, You're my wife, by ginger, and as 1 sald to Pollyop here, you live with me, or you pay up. I don't give a tinker's dn which you do.” His volce grew deep as he finished, and an evil, taunting smile drew up his lips. Evelyn shuddered and swayed, man two led at Evelyr. a trl to mind me — le =" 3 my lady,” he laughed. guess after mean but could not agingly. Oscar,” she seared of bein’ better, an’ from Bennett's “Mebbe h You'd be quiet a while best scoot home, huh?” from Evelyn's ocket said what. Ha “Scoot home,” interrupted “uy goin’ in." Pollyop stole into the shanty in had Hope and Daddy Hop bed, torment she ins had gone to and she could hear room. She was glad of that, for if he were to learn how she had been hurt, his rage would know no bounds, She lighted a candle and looked about dazedly. The billy goat was snuggled against the and Nannle Lamb poked her head up and blinked at the light. Polly put down the candle and slipped the dress from her shoulder, How dreadfully it hurt her! Oh, how she wanted something to make her misery less! But squatters did not have money to spend on drug- store remedies, From an old can she poured a little coal oil on a rag and bathed the in- Jured flesh. Then she took up the lamb and dropped Into a chalr by the table. In sheer exhaustion her head sank down upon it. After a while she straightened up, threw back her curls, and ralsed the lamb’s face to hers, a wry smile flitting across her lips, “It's goin’ to be a hard job lovin’ Oscar and’ Old Mare like Jesus loved wicked folk, Nannyop,” she sald under her breath, “but mebbe now I been face to face with a angel, I can do It." Again her head fell forward; but almost instantly she arose, and with the lamb in her right arm like a baby, moved to the side of the bed, Then she snuggled the lamb under the blankets and put Granny Hope's Bible beneath her pillow. Carefully she slipped off her clothes and put on a coarse nightrobe, Then, having snuffed the eandle, she crawled in beside the lamb. wood-box : CHAPTER VI. Twice had the golden sun sunk In a welter of splendid colors behind West hill, and twice had the warmth of his rising scittered the mists from the lakeside since the encounter in the hut, and Polly Hopkins was making ready for her dally walk through the Silent City. It was her custom to go among the squatters and give them courage, to tell them that they had a right to their homes, to food, and warmth, How her girl's heart ached for their dumb misery! Surely the squatters had suf fered In the past year! Many a boy had been taken from his home and sent to France, and many a mother had crept about the settlement with grief-worn face, waiting for news from over the sea. Pollyop understood what war meant, The squatters were always at war! Granny Hope had explained to her that, whenever people fought and were cruel another, that was war. Hadn't she warred but two nights ago with Oscar Bennett? She had not seen hirh since, and the pain and humiliation he had dealt her had been lightened by Granny Hope's assurances that love was the leveler of hate. So Polly, having quantities of love and sympathy to spare, sent {t broadcast in {)8- to one over the hopeless ones promptly put car Bennett's cruelty out of her mind. the settlement and remember sometimes the milk had given her missed In To offset that deprivation, from him and the ugly quarrels she had had to settle almost dally him and Evelyn, This moming, in Ithaca, her m shoulder perched not even how much be grudgingly shack. Oscar was the between was with her started t for a Wee on on at Pollyop loves walk, Jerry ; diet her side, In stately dign A lly , and tied to one of her by 1 mnt rope gamboled Ni ‘Through dered, } t to here and see the sunny side of things of shacks was the MacKenzie had iatters from and In stood yond the row erected PORT RY trespa front keep the } his sq woodland Hop on aught her attention beautiful ture that ¢ It was a woman, her eye with tears, and she looked of exquisite © gird arms was a withered, sick, little n wide-eyed squatter and Pollyop knew that somewhere os eyes stung with tears Then She Went Closer to the Fence and Spelled Out the Words Under the Picture: “The Greatest Mother in the World” closer to the fence and spelled out the words under the picture: “The Great. est Mother in the World" Ah! So she was, this protector of the hurt and the sick! The Red Cross poster carried its wondrous message to the very bottom of the squatter girl's heart, A soundq, close at hand, caused her to turn swiftly, A man on horseback had drawn up on the side of the road. The blood came In swift leaps to Polly's face. There was the “beaut ful angel” looking down upon her! What could she do but stare back at him? In another instant he had dis- mounted and was coming toward her, Jerry slid from her shoulders to the ground. Pollyop's hand clasped his; but she did not speak. What had hap- pened to her “angel?’ He looked dif. ferent; more like the other men occasionally saw on horseback, was it! drab uniform! To add to her confu- sion Robert Percival was amiling at her in the most friendly way. Then he glanced up at the picture, his fine face saddening. “The Greatest Mother in the World, little girl,” he sald, and he smiled again, “The Greatest Mother in the World" repeated Pollyop, In awed tones, “Does that mean she's mother to the squatter kids what was hurt In the war, mister?” “Yes,” he replied after a short pause, “Yes, It means that, and more. She's mother to every burt boy and brings comfort to needs help” “Golly, she's she?" breathed “She's beautiful too. Squatter mammies has too many kids to stay handsome like her,” She made a backward motion with her thumb toward the fence and searched his face gravely, A choking sensation in throat made him cough, statement was like a Ing in which a few broad lines tell the whole story. He felt his Interest in her increase. She was the quaintest, every one on earth that gome mother, ain't Polly soberly. tobert's The girl's charcoal ever seen. inhabitant clothes she Yes, of the Wore, knew she was Stlent Clty by and the thin, bow. legged child, to say nothing of the whiskered goat and wend with her, “What's your name?" “Just he woolly lamb he Inqu Pollyop,” was the Hopkins 3 miah Hopkins, the tlement, Surely! Robert remembered very ing of Hopkins remembered too the MacKenzie he invitation and over a hu were hefore his eves her written |t bare feet, tl that w had her, } whet her recital ished her at her eg put could helj He would ve power, he HAPPY again awful I here, care of Robert made a that encompassed the grou “You have, evidently “An' 1 got more “1 got Hope-——an * he laughed home.” interjected Daddy Hopkins an’ this brat is my this I's e got a .- lamb's Nannfop. hull Oh, sure, lot to love in this her hand toward the fence “She's got a bunch to love, too, sald softly “Ain't she?” He walked to her side and plated with making her silent appeal to them for the wounded boy in her arms, “Of course she has” answered Per cival reverently., “She's the Greatest Mother in the World, Polly Hopkins, and-—and—" his gaze dropped upon her, and he continued, “and you're the littlest mother in the world” A glad smile widened the girl's lips, All the fear that had been as a ton weight upon her had fallen away. She wanted to pay him the highest compli- ment she knew, When he had mount- #d, she told him gently: “Some day you'll be the biggest an’ most heautifulest daddy in the world. Goodby." picture on she contem- “Then Percival stepped in. Two well.planted thumps laid Bennett like a log on the ground.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) A Sporting Judge. “Thirty days in the workhouse, That ought to cure you of speeding.” “It certainly will, your honor. Would you Ike to use my ear while I'm in durance vile?” “No, thanks, I've seen you riding in that old bus of yours. 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