An Experience
Meeting
Ey MARTHA WILLIAMS
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Noel Gray came up the drive chant-
Ing loud and clear:
“Huntsman, hurtsman, blow your horn!
Fox has got your goose and gone."
With the last word he swept his hat
in a wide flourish.
Black-eyed Susan upon the portico
#hook her head at him, saying: “It Is
sinful to so pervert facts In natural
history. You know as well as I that
In this case it Is the goose that has
got the fox and gone,” dimpling wick-
edly as she spoke. Besides the dimples
and the black eyes she had red lips,
a rose-flushed brown skin that defied
wind and weather, leaf-brown hair fine
as floes silk, and a figure the perfec-
tion of round slender litheness. Natu-
rally young fellows up and down
Caney Fork pined to be seen in her
company, also to eat the fat and drink
the sweet abundantly provided in the
home that was her background. Noel
was very much at home there—rather
more so than at his legal residence,
where a thrifty stepmother the
good things Susanna’s folk, the Deans,
preferred to eat or give away
But child of the house that he felt
himself, he never forgot his manners
Thus he was first favorite with Aunt
Milly, Susanna's great-aunt and fairy
godmother. The girl was so vivid, so
whimsically charming, she harmonized
colors and situations that in the face
of pallid personalities swore at each
other. Witness the soft erimson sash
with which she had girdled her dull
hlue gown: witness also the pair who
kept her company.
gold
Curate Ayres wns
of and Judge
in law
for
sound his voice,
Jameson,
polities. whose
own
case-hardened and
substitute religion
was enlightened
“Can
sefishness
she explain, judge? The
asked, meek
and goose problem?’ Noel
ly,
where
profile.
ask.” Noel
atts
seating
hims=elf upon the
he had a view of Susanna in
“1
errontiv
greatly
went
it would trouble
on:
me to have
Mack-eyed Susan appear to be one
Explosive laughter sounded. Thro
“Young
your
rumbled :
insults
judge
even own
In
your
limited
tion is
Nelson
I mean
the pincki
question
intelligence,
superfluous, Patently
first water
and
is a goose of the
the first welght ripe for
ng. Brother Stacy, with
whom she has eloped much
is a fox—all but
got the drop on him,
again
his will, the cunning
She 80 to speak
by le I1¥ his
)
ner of inv
roLbery seem
reine
irning
nt Tr $
estments it
experimenta
y je § eo}
makes hig
by
choose hetu
sincere con-
he had to
¢ and matrin
marriage
case plain
piety
trast een
fail for HL 4
becar
ment at
pikes
-knowing
give Caney
berth.”
“y Noel “Any
body want to do a war dance on me?
No? Then I'll try to live it down—"
ony
drew up settle
mate the ng a
And I had just told the tale
well Stacy outfit will
Fork henceforth a wide
the
gee,” commented,
—thanksgiving for deliverance”
her
sight—"
"Oh, oh—really—Jjudge—you're quite
wrong.” Ayers gasped, his face rival
ing a cluster of young beets.
Noel made a feint of amazement.
saying: “Why, judge, I didn't dream
the wind blew that way. Thought you
were due to be the happy man-—that's
why I sang as [I did.”
“Shut up, you
roared. his
that all but
court,
Black-eyed Susan clapped her hands
softly, say th sprightly
“As we
suppose turn mad
speak truth on ourselves?
go first, In right and
Cross your heart—why did
here this morning?”
“To get ahead of that pulpit.-pretty
who haunts you all day,” the ndge
hoomed, “1 didn't agree to teil the
whole truth, but the chance is too good
£0 loge. I'm not afraid of him; he's
merely an irritating exerescence, You
give him time you had better spend
thinking of me. For I mean to marry
sou, matter who objects Even
Aunt Milly: she can give her money
to the heathen and be hanged to them.
But I've waited ten years for you to
grow up, young woman. I'll walt ten
more if T have to, but you'll have the
devil's own time making me do It.”
‘Open confession Is good for the
soul!” Black-eyed Susan commented,
airily, turning a beautiful back to her
elderly suitor and asking, honeyedly:
“Ready for the question, Mr. Ayers?
You got here next the judge. Please
tell us why?
“1-1 couldn't! Not--not before all
these people!” Ayers faltered, making
a dash for the steps and fairly leaping
down them. As he vanished Noel
drew a long breath, saying: “At least
I haven't got cold feet, whatever else 1
lack. Fire away, Susan; but you know
wihout telling why I'm here.”
“1 don’t!” stoutly from Black-eyed
Susan. The judge growled and ground
his teeth. “Girls like you ought to
be drowned when they're babies,” he
muttered.
“But would you like the job of plek-
ing them out?” Susan asked demurely,
“Bables, you know, all look so much
alike.”
“They don't!” the judge thundered,
*I'll bet a hat you were a charmer at
eye on him till Stacy
™ the
puppy h
countenance n
put the curate's
Judge
red
of
brick
out
ner
HAR
wi raalice;
have
we all
of honors
you
age
Cotte
no
days—saw you then—just before I left
for prep school-"
“And stralghtway forgot me until
you came back here to dazzle us with
your fame and fortune,” the black-eyed
one half chanted. “You see, I don't
believe that walt-ten-years story. In
fact, all I believe about you is that
you're a magnificent lover, but able to
love really nothing but yourself.”
The judge's eyes shot sparks—he
was deadly angry--so angry his pas-
slon demanded an object. Lurching up
ward, he caught Noel's throat In a
strangling grip, saying hoarsely:
“Come out of this—away from here,
my fine young cock; your comb needs
cutting. Let's get about it elsewhere.”
“Let go! I'll kill you if you don't!”
came sharp and clear across the sunny
morning. But Noel did not speak the
words; he had no breath.
It was Susanna's volce—Susanna's
hands groping to loosen the madman's
grip, the while she taunted: “You
coward! You bad loser! For very
shame—you should let a better man
have his say!"
The judge fell back, almost stagger-
ing, muttering, as he sank into his
chair: “I must be crazy. Shoot
feel better—"
“Now talking
sanna interrupted,
ing to Noel, her
shoulder.
you're foolish,”
face close to
him
greater kindness
but |
done
and
why
has
kindness,
me? ] knew
didn’t know something else,
for love. I found you
body who
great
to he came,
when
So In the depth and delight
happiness we will more
you—love you as much as you will let
us, and forget everything but love.”
The Judge his head bowed
of
sat,
lantly might that of an old
horse at sound of the rally.
ns
saying solemnly: “I have plumbed the
l¢ ens «
with the lowest of my fellows.
lemption of yon
eforth strive to help others
That of St. Paul's Cathedral in Lon.
don Is Only Rung on Extremely
Special Occasions.
Paul’
any
St.
of
The great bell of
on the
royal
from
tolled death
the family in the line
any
of
English
ral
the roy family who could under
circumstance
though It may be doubt-
the bell would toll for a
not in the direct line of
This rule does not apply
, of the
or
throne.
of St.
which
any conceivable succeed
whether
roval iofant
ed
SUC eX8ion.
to the consort of the sovereig:
heir apparent, or of a
on steps
booming of
prince
the
the great bell
Paul's first intimation
the citizens of London received of the
the prince consort, which oc-
11 night of
of
Outside
the
Lie
of
was the
o'clock on the
whom the bell Is tolled are the arch-
London, the dean of St. Paul's and
the lord mayor of London dying in his
The bell tolled is not
Great Paul, but the old great bell on
which the hours are struck. On the
occurrence of a death in the royal fam-
ily the home secretary at com-
municates with the lord mayor, desir
once
St. Paul's
great bell
at
with a request that
be tolled, The bell is then
intervals of a minute
Come Easy, Go Easy.
Whenever a rich West
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the expert
town get
Weekly
many sensational hands, big
gathered in and big
backed self-confidence
Up a game, says
small
sturdy
pots
by
peck.
was a party that took courage and con-
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ing when settlement was made the
good provider from West Virginia had
lost $30,000 and one Richmond poker
player had cashed in $16,000, which
may be the reason the price of coal
is so high.
Arsenic in Nature,
It has long been known that traces of
arsenic are to be found not only in
human and animal organisms but in
certain plants such as the cabbage,
turnip and potato and in wheat. Jadin
and Astrue, members of tie French
Academy of Sciences, found also that
arsenle is to be encountered in rice,
peas, beans, lettuce, celery, asparagus,
parsnips, and in most vegetables used
as food by man, as well as in apples,
pears, pincapples, oranges and nuts.
Since plants undoubtedly get the ele
ments from the soll arsenic must oc-
cur far more widely In nature than
was at one time supposed.
Strange Experience.
While in a training camp we used
to put all new recruits through a reg.
ular initiation. One of the boys wore
a wig and when we bounced him up
on a blanket It fell off. Because he
kept it on, even: whem bathing,
ashamed to let anyone know Ke had a
wig, It chafed his scalp, making it red.
We all were speechless and scared
stiff, thinking we had scalped him.
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in.
who
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W puso b
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The more one indulges In knitted gar
intrinsic merit from every standpoint
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through the medium of knitted stitch.
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0 the
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