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“BIG JACK!"
#YNOPSIS.—On the banks of
the Wabash stand Texle Colin
and Jack Warhope, young and
very much in love. Texle is the
only daughter of old Pap Simon,
rich man and money-lender. Jack
{s the orphan bound boy of Pap
Simon, who had foreclosed a
mortgage on the Warhope estate.
At first Texie and Jack talk sadly
of Ken Colin, the girl's missing
brother. Then Jack says that in
ten days his servitude will be
over, that he will ride out into
the big world to seek his fortune
Both know what that will mean
to them. Texle and Jack talk of
the red lock of “Red Colin” in-
herited by Ken. And Jack says
he's coming back as soon as he
finds gold in California. Then
arrives the new preacher, Rev,
Caled Hopkins.
CHAPTER I(I—Continued,
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“Mercy! but you're a hard man t'
herd. Don't y'u know you're goin’
home with us t' supper?”
“First 1 hear'd of it,” the woodsman
drawled, shifting his shoulder against
the post.
The girl glanced at the preacher
standing at the edge of the road,
jerked her head ever so slightly toward
him—a motion so elusive that it weuld
have escaped anybody else but Jack
Warhope—and lowered her voice to a
whisper:
She
teft
turned away. The
the porch post, and the man fol
lowed.
hand for the letters.
over, grunted, thrust them unopened
into the pocket of his faded coat; mut-
tered a word, drew them forth again,
grimace, knocked
together,
half petulant
bunch of letters
up the road,
The venerable widow, like the rest
of the village, must have been on the
lookout for the new preacher, for she
was at the door to meet him as he
came up the walk with the others. The
old banker presented him.
“So glad to have you come, Brother
Hopkins. It has been so dreadfully
lonesome since— I"
The mild old eyes floated full
tears. The preacher seemed not
notice,
“1 saw your husband's obituary in
one of the church papers.”
to
a black-bordered handkerchief;
preacher, in his hesitating, Jerky way,
went on.
“1 immediately wrote
offering to come on a-—ah-
cation trip and serve the congregation
until the vacancy could be filled, 1
was the more attracted to the thought
of coming because my health had
given way under the dual strain of
the
Mr.
sort of va-
to (‘olin
I had heard much about Buckeye and
the Flatwoods from a—ab-—classmate
of mine while a student in the college
ifn which 1 now have the honor to hold
a professorship.”
The banker frowned thoughtfully;
Texle glanced at Jack.
thick in the corners of the room. The
old man, becoming aware of them,
widow,
“Well, Sister Mason, If you
mind, I'll jist show Brother Hopkins
the study, and then you better g' "long
over with us t' supper.”
With the flpe courtesy of one trained
to the parsonage, she ‘excused herself;
the old banker went on:
“1 b'lieve you said he was t' have
the use of the study®”
The Widow Mason was only too well
nsed to the crisp curt ways of Simon
Colin. She turned to the young
preacher,
“Brother Hopkins, 1 don’t want you
to feel that you are to have merely
the study. My home Is your home.
Pleuse feel free to use all of it or any
part of it.”
The young preacher bowed very low,
and turned to the banker, who led the
way up the stairs with as much au-
thority as If he owned the place
which, In reality, he did,
The study, with its writing desk and
leather ensy chair, with its shelves
and shelves of books, showed that its
lute owner had been a man of studi.
ous habits and apparently scholarly at-
tainments.
An immense apple-tree grew by the
east window, thrusting Its stout
branches so close as almost to brush
the panes. Through Its opening blos-
soms and half sprung leaves enough
uf the day remained to entch a view
of the old banker's two or three acres
of park-like orchard that lay between
the parsonage and the red-roofed cot-
tage. .
The young preacher stood st the
window and gazed out over the or
chard, aromatic with promise, green
with its thick mat of bine-grass, white
under the trees where the blossoms
snowed down,
The banker slapped him on the
shoulder. He must have been deeply
absorbed In the spell of the place, with
its quiet and repose, for he started and
Jaughed nervously.
“1 must have been dreaming.”
the window,
By" DAVID ANDERSON
Author of “The Blue Moon™
Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
“Not &' bad, Is it?
“It is very beautiful.” .
“1 Towed y'u'd like it.” The old man
rubbed his long bony hands together
in a sort of grim satisfaction. “My
daughter fools away hours and hours
in that seat yonder under the big
maple by the spring. I low ther’ ain't
a bird comes by she cayn't mock.”
The preacher looked at him curl
ously, half steruly.
“I ean well belleve you” he sald.
“A girl like your daughter, with her
quite obvious gifts and possibilities,
and so much a part of this wonderful
profusion of wild nature about her,
would naturally seek some such diver.
sion to keep her life from starving
in this out-of-the-way place.”
The money-lender pondered these
words and seemed on the point of re
senting them: but only jerked his
thumb toward the window again,
“Took a right smart pile t' fix it
up like that, Money wasted, [ tell er.
We'll go across that way t' the house,
if v'u like
“It would please me greatly”
The momentary sternness had left
the eves belilnd the spectacles, the
jerky precise voice bad resumed Its
effusive drawl.
When they came down, Texie and |
Jack had already gone out into the |
Mrs. Mason was standing in |
the door, talking to them,
The gray-haired gentlewoman turned |
to the preacher,
“Brother Hopkins, won't you please |
run over for a few minutes after sup
“Brother Hopkins, Won't You Please
Run Over for a Few Minutes After
Supper?”
1 have so longed to talk with a
since" i
“It is a minister's duty to go where |
his people call him.” he said, in a volce |
pitched to reach the ears of the others,
as it might have seemed. “I shall be
very pleased to come.”
He bowed himself out and joined
the half impatient banker on the door-
per?
“Come on” the old man called to
the others down the walk, “we're goin’
peross the orchid. Brother Hopkins
Towe he'd like to”
There was no gate between the
banker's park-like orchard and the
parsonage yard. The fence had. to be
climbed, When they reached It the
preacher offered hfs hand to the girl,
who, to the amazement of the woods
man, toek it and allowed him to lift
her down--a concession that meant
much in the Flatwoods,
At the bridge over Eagle run-.
merely a huge foot log broad-axed flat
along the top—the girl allowed the
preacher to assist her again, and the
woodsman was treated to his second
surprise. He had seen her, hundreds
of times, skip across that log as sure
footed as a squirrel, ,
The path beyond led past the big
maple with the rustic seat beneath the
shelter of Its far-flung branches. At its
roots a spring gushed up, lapping the
white pebbles of the tiny gutter it had
Worn for itself on its way to Eagle run.
“Whispering spring,” sald Texle sim-
ply, raising her eyes to the preacher.
“Jack named it that. He can think
of 8 many names f'r things. He's a
poet, 1 guess.”
The woodsman fidgeted. The preach
er glanced toward him, but made no
comment,
“My bosther, Ken, use t’ tell me the
fairies come down out of the cliffs at
night t' dance around Whispering
spring, and 1 b'lieved him—I Wlleved
everything he told me them days—and
1 use’ t’ watch f'r the fairies.”
ike looked up at the preacher; then
back into the spring,
“Do you blleve In fairies?” She
asked the question as If she hoped he
did believe In them.
He glanced down at the reflected
co In the water. “Yes; there's a
peeping into the spring right
”
The old banker grunted; the weods-
man turned to the face behind the
huge spectacles. It was the first thing
i
t .
the preacher had sald that caught his
interest.
The girl was so entirely an un-
spolled ‘creature of the woods that she
let the preacher see how much the neat
compliment pleased her. With the
color tingling over her face, &he
sprang over the gnarled roots of the
great piaple and ran a few steps up
the path to the edge of the yard,
paused and then hurried on. The
preacher looked after her in his peer.
ing way, while the woodsman strode
up the path and overtook her at the
kitchen door.
“I'll run over and do the chores, and
then come back,” he sald,
He walked on a little way and then
came slowly back. The girl, just going
into the kitchen, seemed to know that
be had turned-—seemed to know that
he would turn back. With her hand
on the door casement she waited for
him to speak.
The man glanced out over the
chard: up the side of the cliffs; along
the timber line that bearded them;
came back the eyes. The inquisl-
tiveness had lessened; the rogulshness
deepened
“You
tered,
With an
darted in
or-
fo
let ‘Im Hft yu!” he mut
odd, hard little laugh she
at the kitchen door,
CHAPTER Ill
Three Candies,
back along the orchard path to
hiouse came the drone of the banker's
broken oceasionally by
preacher's precise, jerky sentences,
Warhope listened for a moment
money-lender was talking about
a quarter-section that had fore
closed on the day before. The woods
man had heard many an hour of that
talk. With & shrug of his shoulders
he pushed the gate open and walked
around to the kitchen door.
With a step that the had
made light as a falling leaf he slipped
in and stood motionless, The portly,
pudgy form of Mrs Curry, the house
keeper, was bent over the cook
volce,
he
woods
busy with the supper,
The flit of a shadow and the clink
of dishes in the adjoining dining room
told the grinning Intruder that Texle
the table. For such an
would be three candles instend of one
The clink of the dishes ceased and
the girl appeared in the doorway be
tween the two rooms. Seeing Jack, she
paused, tried to look but
falled,
“Now look at that!™
Mrs, straightened,
claimed :
“Big Jack!
up on a body.”
“Put ‘im t' work, Mis" Curry
don't "low no loafers, do we?”
The housekeeper in reply was Inter
rupted by a misbehaving skillet and
she turned back to the stove,
Supper was on the table. The wopds
man took his place with the others.
The banker dropped his hands in his
lap, nodding toward the preacner, and
bowed his head.
The traditions of the Flatwoods
called for a lofig and sonorous grace
a sort of sermonette—when the preach-
er was a guest, but the new minister
seemed never to have heard of any
such tradition. The grace he sald was
go short, so direct and concise, yet so
beautiful In thought and diction that
the banker looked at him in pleased
surprise,
Supper over. there fell a moment of
silence-«the delicious breath of repose
that almost always follows the evening
men! in quiet country homes.
money-lender sat marking on the table.
cloth with his fork, as if mapping out
the boundary lines of other quarter.
sections that he hoped to have the
chance to foreclose in a short time
The girl seized the favorable mo-
ment, and leaning forward, said:
“Now, Mr. Hopkins, tell us about.
my brother~Ken. I've be'n wishin’
all evening t' ask y'u.™
Her father stopped marking on the
tablecloth and sat very still; the
housekeeper crossed her knife and
severe,
Curry and ex
Mercy, how you can slip
We
Moorish domination ; the woodsman let
his thoughts revel In the faultiess pro.
the subdued eagerness of one who
dreaded the answer,
napkin,
He fumbled his
—
-
“Pp, 8.Mr. Colin is dead. He
died before he could quite fin.
ish signing his name.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
World's Coldest Place,
The Province of Werchojanesk, In
Oriental Siberia, Is the coldest Infiablit-
ed place In the world. The daily mean
temperature throughout the year Is
2.72 degrees below nero,
Often Done,
“Why don't you get a new hotel mm
Plunkville? “It Is esster to chaoge
the name of the old vnw. ~Loulsviue
London Favors Fur
and Rich Velvets
Peltry and Heavy Fabrics
Used in Interesting
Combination.
the fall models have
thelr skirts ull plalted together In
front with clussieal folds extending
fan-shape to the hem, and the other
half have every possible scrap of full-
ness strained right sway from the
front and bunched up at the back into
what hans a startling resemblance to ao
bustle, or at any rate a very full
double-looped bow with long diagonally
slashed ends which reach to the bot
fom of the skirt or trail on the floor.
ix last, of course, writes a London
fushion correspopdent, applied only to
evening dresses,
But the bunchy back effect Is seen
on heavy cloth street dresses made to
be worn upder short, flaring, wide-
sleeve coats of heavy embroidered or
srocaded velours or fur.
Fur is on everything, a foot
band around the bottom of a velvet or
brocade cloak, cut as stralght and slim
us n dress, with a similiar
stralght band of exactly the same width
One-half of
wide
chemise
| ward under the chin
Lining for the new “liquid” metal
fabric evening cloaks Is ermine or rab.
bit, showing In the immensely wide
turned-back cape collar, the outside of
which Is upholstered In a*double bolster
| effect with tiny Jeweled buttons fixing
the padding at Intervals.
Fur is used on all the new sults, as
| a straight close fitting earate band of
Russian sable around the neck of
| irtle rosewood brown velours made
with a straight hunting Jacket and
skirt finely plaited across the front
wreadth, but perfectly plain in the back.
No other fur appears on this sult; the
Sa
:
Black Satin Frock, Draped in Back
With Bustle Sash of Black Woire
Taffeta
sleeves are close fitting and widen
slightiy at the wrist, but are fitted
with storm wristlets, just as hunting
conte are. These are made of heavily
embroidered chamols materinl and are
the only touch of color,
Fur in broad bands and in tiny rolls
trims evening gowns of metai lace,
puilleted crepe de chine and satin, A
bertha of fluffy sliver fur, extending
half way to the elbows, Is used on a
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| Arranging Things to
Make Home Attractive
Heaven's first law may be met if
the placing of the furniture of a room
hy keeping in mind the simple princl
| ple that there must be a doipinant
| note in this just as there Is 'n music
! All phases of interior decoration are
| controlled by this principle. Without
its application there is the worst kind
of disorder, although we may become
| s0 careless with ourselves and so
| hardened In our sensibilities that we
are totally unaware of the jargen we
speak every day In our homes
The piano or the fireplace ie nsnally
the dominant note In the furnishing
of the living-room. If you have both
inh. a rectangular room the fireplace
takes precedence over the plano. If
there Ig hn alcove In your room the
| piano may easily be given the promi.
nence It deserves. With fireplace and
| plano both In the room it is generally
| best to place the plano opposite the
| fireplace If possible. This makes a
| good balance. In any event both
i should not be on one side of the room
| unless It Is the inward <lde. Even
| there It 1s not usually quite satisfac
nry.
The table should be against the wall,
it looks well arranged In a group with
a picture and a chair, The pleture
should he of a character that will
took well with flowers. This alan re
quires that it be Blaced high enough
to nvold being hidden In part by any
decorntion that may he placad on the
inhle, By all means have a conch
that le comfortable both to sit on and
to lle on
‘he bend receives ge t Hght dur
ng the day and after sunset for
one to read without injury to his
| Black Satin Plaited,’
| With Chiffon Bertha
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dress It is the
| only trimming, and the material
ranged In long, straight
the shallow neckline
caught st the low waistline by
Egyptian scarf of pearl, silver and dis-
| silver tissue dinner
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This circular model is
| than was first expected,
is so slight that on first sight the gown
! appears to be straight cut. It is only
i at the edge of the flounce that the
more used
centuanted hy rolls of fur
velvet hands
Youth Is Emphasized
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Just because their years are few
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{ dn the first place there is the mat
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nne
{ Each easy chalr should also be
| placed with reference to good light,
| mostly In relation to artificial light,
since sufficiznt evening light is not so
apt to be so widespread as is daylight,
Although reading-chalrs may in many
eases be well arranged in relation to
wall lights, and to the perfect satis
faction of the reader, nothing Is quite
so good as a floor or table lamp. The
light from such sources !s not only
usually better, but it may be moved
to sult one’s convenlence, and in addi.
fon is very artistic, and therefore
ves a very pleasing effect in a room.
The easy chair and floor-lamp group
fs still further increased in convenl.
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Frequently an “end” table is the best.
Winter and the Large Mat
There have heen few models of large
except formal velvet ones
This season's large hats are most often
of trimming.
The New Circular Frill,
It would be Interesting to know the
feminine reaction te the strange cin
enlar frill appearing around the hot.
tom of the new skirt, At any rote, it
has been eagerly poonced upon by the
most extravagant dresses on the
screen,
Rainy-Day Clothes,
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