ro ZS gt COPYRIGHT Ld facie &" BROS, * v, —— Miss Apperthwaite was at home the following Saturday. 1 found her the library with “Les Miserables” her knee when I came down from room a little before lunch time; she looked up and gave me a that made me feel sorry for any she had ceased to smile upon. “I wanted to tell you,” 1 sald, a little awkwardness but plenty truth, ful fool.” “But that's something,” encouragingly—"a¥t least of wisdom.” “IT mean about Mr. mystery I was absurd enough to find in *Simpledoria.” I want to tell you “Oh, I know,” she said; and though she laughed with an effect carelessness, that look which I had thought “far away” returned to her eves as she spoke. There was a cer- tain inscrutability about Miss Apper thwaite sometimes, it should be on my smile one the read. “I've heard all about it. Beasley's been appointed trustee something for poor Hamilton son, vents all sorts of characters. darky from over there told about Bill Hammersley and doria. So, you see, 1 understand.” “I'm giad you do,” I said. A little hardness might have thought it bitterness apparent in her expression. glad at our cook Simple- one even “And I'm there's somebody that }| with a little everything 1 in imagina heard,” 1 ent fit to say last, “From returned, 8s. “it ch has i" r glans fell from ot quickly enaqugh nn, half-startled look of 1 thnk of no other way press "wy 1 eaped into It; rose, for t bell was ringir “Ith } shing the death of Jean VYaliean know in ‘Les Miser. i sald, as we moved to the y always afraid I'll not to, tipn i" have summoning suflie be diffic -Mr. Beasley would more or the this, conceal mine to at you wy «he doow, “I'm Al try oves red.” Cry over that. because it makes my And, in truth, there rumor of tears shout if had shed them were was a ner eyes-~ but mgh in. aftern not as she more she going to—the noticed it when I chime . That reached the Despatch commissioned to obtai eal information David Beaslsy cepted with e ing the onn, office, I was n certain politi- from the Honorable an assignment I fnEerness, commiseration It brought me reporter's room. thing out of him!” they were true prop “You won't ge they said. hets, ft any- And nts in his office; a reflective, lighted cigar In the corner of mouth; his chair tilted back and his feet on a windowsill, He upon my statement of the brought me, and without position, gave me a look of slow but wholly friendly scrutiny 0 shoulder, and bade me sit began at once to put the questions 1 was told to ask (he seemed to believe) answered by slowly stroking two long fingers of his right hand, while he smiled in genial contempla- tion of a tarred roof beyond the win- dow. Now and then’ he would give me a mild and drawling word or two, not britHantly illumin®ive, it may be re. marked, “Well--about that—" he be. gan once, and then came immediately to a full stop. “Yes? 1 said, poised, “About that— I guess" “Xes, Mr. Beasley? 1 encouraged Aim, for he seemed to have dried up \ permanently. “Well, sir—I guess— Hadn't you better see some one else about that?” This with the air of a man who would be but too fluent and coplous upon any subject In the world except the one particular point, I never met anybody else who looked so pleasantly communicative and man- nged to say so little, In fact, he didn’t say anything at all; and I guessed that this faculty was not without fits value in his political career, disastrous as it had proved to his private happi- ness. His habit of silence, moreover, was not cultivated: you could see _ that “the secret of it" was that he was born quiet, My notebook remained noteless and finally, at gome odd evasion of his, accomplished by a monosyllable, od laughed outright—and he did, too! un shifting his Ove satisfactorily and ruminatively hopefully, my pencil Ip TARKINGTON _ 2 He Joined heartily, calness cachinnations with me and with a twinkling quizzl- that gave me - the idea that he might be thinking (rather | apdtogetjeally) to himself: “Yes, sir, that old Beasley min certainly a mighty funny eritter!™ When 1 and left the ith me t he catory and surrej somehow is few intermittently went away, a moments him still impression had titious tha some such depre- thought, that, Mrs. Apper- out of his He ognition and | “Well! Up | as if that were aston Two or three days after as 1} from leasiey came gate, bound in the direction. gave me a look of gay rec offered his hand, in this neighborhood [” down-town thwalite's, sane saying, of considerable ishment, | that 1 walked fi neighbor, rether, 1 except genial surprise I mentioned was and we on t don't think he spoke “Well, -sir I" i again, for a | or two of ething I said, 1 and “You don't tell he SON and, me” now then, which Dowden, Beasley and | All Slid Down the Banisters on One of the "Ham. | ilton Swift, Junior, Days. had a most els of exclaim- ing: but he listened visibly to my own talk, and Ianughed at everythit that | for funny. I never knew a greater responsiveness: he seemed | tobe with you every Instant; and how made you feel it was the true mys of Beasley, this sileng man who never except (as my Wjuent way ig anybody who gave one | talked, cousin It happened that 1 thus met him, as | we were both starting down town, and walked with him, several days in succession: in a word, it became a Then, one afternoon, as 1 turned to leave him at the Despatch on at his house the next day before | started.” I did; me If I would come after that, So {00. A fortnight elapsed Hamilton Swift, Junior: for he, poor little fother of dream-children, could be no spectator of track events upon the lawn, but lay in his bed upstairs, However, he grew better at last, and my presentation took place, We had just finished our cigars in Beasley's airy, old-fashioned “sitting room,” and were rising to go, when there came the faint creaking of small wheels from the hall. Beasley turned to me with the apologetic and mono- syllabic chuekle that was distinetly hig alone, “I've got a little chap here" he sald; then went to the door. “Bob!” The old darky appeared in the door- way pushing a little wagon like a re- elining-chair on wheels, and’ in It sat Hamilton Swift, Junior, My first impression of him was that he was all eyes: I couldn't look at any- thing else for a time, and was hardly conscious of the rest of that wea zened, peaked little face and the under. sized wisp of a body with its pathetle adjuncts of metal and leather, 1 think they were the brightest eyes 1 ever saw=-a8 keen and Intelligent as na wicked old woman's, withal as trust ful and cheery as the eyes of a setter for a cigar and he asked again the day this became a habit before 1 met “Hooray!” Thus the Honorable Mr. waving a handkerchief thrice Beasley, | around | And the child, In volce of his, replied: " that cricket's “Br-r-ra-vo! This was the form of salutation fa- miliarly In use between them, ley followed it by Inquiring, with us today?” . “I'm Mister Swift’ chirped the little fellow, “Mister Swift, if you please, Cousin David : Beasley executed a formal “There is a gentleman here who'd like to meet you." And he presented me with grave phrases commer tory of my general character, address ing the child as “Mister Swift"; whereupon Mister Swift me a ghostly litle hand and professed him self glad to meet me, “And besides me" Jeasley, “there's Bill Hammersley and Mr, Corley Linbridge.” A faint perplexity manifested upon Beasley's face at this a sha which cleared at once when 'I asked If I might not be permitted to meet these remarking that I had heard from Dowden of Bill Hammers ley, though until now a stranger fame of Mr. Corley Linbri Beasley performed the with Intentional hoy's great ons. “Who's | Beasley,” some ida gave he added’ personages, to ceremony elegy: ept 1NCe, eVes sw ousin’s fa« I bo once his « wed and to my my “And Simpledo “You'll : wloris ‘Above all things.” side we hands " “Watch him!” a commanding hands!” elt beside an he , shake Mister finger, Swift lifted “Simpledoria the wa ary big paw At this again shook hands with me to gon and shook Afister Swift allowed me his lumi- regard, a approval. this beautiful inlity of perceive, in solemn con In inf fon into the cor wise was my old house inmates a familiar 6f Dav and his ward, with the privilege an its mpleted ; HCRINe id Beasley as 1 pleased ; friendly come ways gay and me for the sometimes for lunch it : sometimes there instead of down and that an ¢ now then when d or assig afternoon to inquire Whereupon Hh &} nown the chin ed to be we were day? racter i1 i received for the oe wnunced himself everything grown-up asion, “Mister he indeed, aim as Swift," was to very For- observed : and decorous Nees were Corley Ld pe rsonage © if Eres shridge (an e lderly at digr and dis ity in the Hammersley. . If, however, declared himself to be “Hamilton Swift, Junior,” which was his happlest Bill Hammersley and doria were in the and there were games and Beasley and I all slid down the ban- {asters on one of Hamilton Swift, Junior, at which really pictur- almost cried oftener Included ascendant, contests, the days, old running from leughter—and lob wife, who came kitchen, did ery.) pellation for himself fiton ;" but this “Just little Ham- was only when one side with suffering. When he told ns he was “Just little Hamilton” we were very qulet, Once, for ten days, his Invisibles all went away on a visit: Hamilton Swift, Junior, had become interested bears, While this Insted, all of Beas ley's trousers were, as Dowden sald, “a sight.” For that matter, Dowden himself was quite hoarse In court from growling so’ much. The bears were dismissed abruptly: Bill Ham- mersley and Mr. Corley Linbridge and Simpledoria came trooping back, and with them they brought that wonderful family, the Hunchbergs, (TO BE CONTINUED.) Summer Vacations in Africa. At the equator, in Africa there are only two seasons—the wet and the dry. The former Is the summer seas son, and lasts eight months, The ther- mometer averages from 110 degrees to 1268 degrees Fahrenheit. The other four months are the cold and dry sea- son, when the thermometer rarely goes above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, During the rains the natives live In houses made principally of bamboo and roofed with leaves, but as soon as the rains stop, which ls some time around the first. of June, they take on a holiday mood, desert their towns, and set out; household furnishings are transported on the heads of the women and chil pup. . { i dren. for Formal Wear. | | Material | Afternoon in Black and Evening Garments and White; Made Up in Original Ways. velvet is one of the accepted for afterncon and dresses. While it is always good dur | Ing every winter this year it is better than ever, lections shown by the smart dress there Is a preponderance of velvet, made up In many orig: ways. There Is not a great of trimming added, for the trimming is honored to the extent of holding | the floor by Itself. But handled In such a way self It manages take the both foundation material and tion, And many of the made from it are positively beautiful in thelr expression. Particularly lovely in black velvet, Biack i materials season, makers | black inal is to place decora too, are dinner gowns they which have a semi is mos better for they for formal tractive than appearance and are even dresses denl more and 1wceful » fabric more with good wit} ST 8 Heavy Oxford gray is used to de. velop this smart wrap. Black and white cire braid, finished with an embroid. ery of red and white trims collar, cape and cuffs, Silk surfaced treiaine in white, edged with the same embroid- | ery motif done in red and black, is used for the lining. Peltry Affords One of | the Most Inter. esting of Decorative Develop ments of the Season, —_——e The fur trimmings are perhaps the | velopments of the season, asserts a | fashion authority in the New York | Times, On all of the new frocks, we find bits of fur making their appear | ance in the most unexpected direc { tions. There are little fur belts; there are big and little fur ornaments. There are fur buttous and fur edges, and all of them are managed in the most original manner. But they es tablish the fact that-a little trimming of fur is almost a necessity on the modern gown, There is something stimulating about the newer uses of fur, for they are rather more beautiful than they are rich and sumptuous. Of course, these scattered trimmings of fur have noth: ing to do with the warmth of the occa: gion, but they give that wintry charac ter to the frock and the look that is unmistakably of a season when the dresses at least make some attempt to keep the cold air away from the body. There is a good deal of com- plaint among some male members of the population because the dresses that Indies wear make no attempt to protect them from the cold, but these new trimmings are at least a sop to those who are suffering from any fooks warm why then it does not much matter whether it ceally lives up to that standard ar not. Suffice it to say that there are plenty of warm cover ——————— A RHA, ARAB AEE white des Martial et Jacket of is embroidered with and gray and sliver around the edges There Is a fringe finish snd the being the The w and the reason of iis tinetly velvet signed In Armand has a the white that threads of black in a lacy pattern of the little cont, of white to make a costume Puris bs little loose succeeds in effective of sleeves are fac mannge« contrast, most its sort, ide BOW to create i pictn resque appear: SE CY SR This jeune fille frock in mouse.col. ored satin canton has a long, full cir. cular skirt and a flare around the fitted bodic NECKWEAR NOW IN LIMELIGHT Berthas els and Guimpes or to Suit the Ta A Wearers. ttes of Capes to Match Gown, FO nany of the new evening or bro- A elaborately dresses velvet caded the gown. roDper worked In a wide hem thickly padded which design. wor colored pad- copy cloth The same cable is of the ding. Appears on wth is similar to a cape which cop- ARE LIKED for dresses which are a in that respect, and that, the thinner dresses carry with very much better and more MANY USES FOR THE POCKETS Convenience Found Almost Necessary in Garments; Likewise About the Home, Some of our dresses are over-pocket- ed, while others are pocketiess, though there is nothing to prevent us from having as many pockets as we wish, How many pockets have you in your house? Probably none, Of course you can—and should have three or four in the inside of your wardrobe door for slippers and other oddments, and more pockets in the in- side of your screen for books and ps- pers and bits of needlework-—but there's another notion about pockets. You know how you have all sorts of things that you need in a hurry in those small drawers In your dressing table. If you were to tack little cre tonne pockets all round the inside of those top drawers you could put pins and vells and ribbons and ruler combs in them, and be able to snatch them In a moment of hurry--always supposing you can remember in which pocket you put them, of course! Next to shelves, pockets are the most important things in the house, and, what's more, they are decorative if you make them from printed linens or cretonnes, Lingering Cough Endangers Health Bear's Emulsion Brings Quick Rellef and Guards Agalnm Serious Results If you have a cough slight cough-—the best thing to do is to tuke Bear's Emulsion immediately and stop it before It becomes serious. 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