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THE RED LOCK
SYNOPSIS. —On the banks of
the Wabash stand Texie Colin
and Jack Warhope, young and
very much in love. Texlie is the
only daughter of old Pap Simon,
rich man and money-lender. Jack
is 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 ted Colin” in-
herited by Ken And Jack says
he's coming back as as he
finds gold In California. Then
arrives the new preacher, Rev
Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon intro-
duces the villagers to the new
preacher, who was a college mate
of Ken.
soon
CHAPTER Iil—Continued.
wn
“Really, Miss there
little to tell. Your brother was
Colin, is very
the
ah—most
lem that I tried
could have been one of the most
lant scholars the tution
turned out. He literally dru up ev-
ervthing the college had to
that without apparent effort
desert drinks dew
ship: his drawing; his
English—very remarkable. 1
roommate and classmate, and
never saw him apply himself
ously study. I don't think
ever to solve,
bril-
1st
give,
the
was his
seri
he
to
learning came too to him.
can, you know,"
He stopped, as if he had no more
say: stared at his napkin and fo
it with careful precision.
“The president's letter
that—7"
The girl
question,
what
easy
said that-
seemed unable to finish
but the preacher
she wanted to know
umbled napkin, m
ked around the table It
moment,
his folded
embarr ng
“With all
family”
ass
due respect to
at Mrs. Curry a
thougt
of it
you,
he glanced
mn—"and fr
rather not
should not do only that
duty as your minister to
the truth—Kenwood Colin was a very
severe trial to the college authorities.
His talent for learning was
only by his talent for mischief
wild as he was known to be,
thought that he would
forged his father's name
deeply in debt
forgeries were
less detected,
“Then came his sensationm]
of a gambler over a card game, and his
the woodsn iends,
would
and
my
on ke
speak
80,
equaled
nobody
ever
He
before his very
even suspected
¥ .
great underworld of the city.
that, nothing more seems to have
heard of him.”
There was a moment's silence,
girl leaned forward;
her eyes wide.
“Pore Ken—!" ghe sald softly.
couldn't he'p bein’ what 'e was.
was the—red lock.”
eves up from his plate and stared at
the girl curiously.
“Red lock
“Didn't you know 'e had it?
The preacher looked his bewlilder-
ment,
“Then please, please, don't mention
that you know it! Please, don’t ever!
I ‘lowed you knowed, bein’ his room.
mate, or 1 wouldn't 'a’ told. He was
that ‘shamed 'e had it, and
kep' it combed under so's it
show,”
The banker had been staring
tablecloth. He lifted his face,
“The ‘curse of Colin'"” he com-
mented thoughtfully, “He was a sea
pirate in the days of Queen Elizabeth,
‘Red Colin,’ they called x Looks
like his blood would 'a’ run out b’ this
time, hut it hain’t. Every three °r four
generations It shows up, gener'ly one
child in a family with a lock o' hair
as red as fire. Nobody would think a
lock o' hair and a drop o' blood could
set a child back hundreds o' genera-
tions t° what ol’ ‘Red Colin’ must 'a’
be'n, but it does,
“The minute I saw that red lock on
Ken, I knowed 'e was doomed. [Ive
lieked ‘Im and reasoned with ‘Im and
prayed over ‘lm—but I knowed all the
time It wouldn't do no good. That's
the main reason I sent ‘Im off t' the
kind of a college 1 did—~where ther’
ain't nobody much but preachers a-
runnin’ It. He didn’t like t' go t' that
kind, but I hoped bein’ throwed
amongst men like that might head off
what I knowed was In "im."
dide’t
nt the
chair; dropped his hands In his lap.
“Permit me to say,” he observed in
his jerky fashion, “that was as grave
a mistake as you could y bave
made.”
. "“Mebbe 80,” the old man answered.
_—
at
“But the devil 'imselt couldn't 'a
coped with that boy.”
The old man beat the tines of his
fork on the table; gazed absently at a
candle, reached over and snuffed it"
“Ain't It strange,” he went on, “how
the past fangs the present—the past
New there's Texle, cradied
in the same arms and nursed at the
breast, and she's as different
woods.”
The preacher put his napkin by.
followed the old
still un-
opened letters from his pocket, laid it
table and began to sort them.
wacher looked around the room
that
bunch
In the silence
took the of
The pre
“If you will please excuse me, you
promised to run over to
for a few minutes, and
Mrs. Mason probably retires early.”
The others rose and gathered about
him in polite protest, but the preacher
insisted. Mrs. Curry picked
candle and led the way into the sitting-
room, while Texle brought his tall bat
from a rack the corner
g through
4
ir
in
about, peerin the
door to the into
the
open rigs
his
at
pt; past the fire
where banker kept
hedroom the left
man sle
where the old
if
the
parior, as
by
woods home,
impressed — possibly
His eyes, searching the walls, came
iast to’ the portrait of a woman,
framed In gilt and Lung above the
fl rep lace,
‘he girl
“My ine
years ago she left us;
followed his gaze,
thers she sald softly.
the very
:
Ken went off t' college
“She had a the
as
serene
he turn
guild
At the Spring the Preacher Suddenly
Grasped the Girl's Hand in His
Own.
banker crossed the floos,
key from the mantel
door leading from
parior.
pleked up a
the the
porch to
“1 "lowed I'd better show y'u where
y'ur room is b'fore y'u go, so's y'u'll
how t' git in If we're In bed |
come back. We Flatwoods
folks turn in purty early.”
He took the candle that Mrs. Curry
was carrying and led the preacher In
across the parlor to the spare bedroom
opening from jt on the east, where the
two satchels and umbrella had already
been carried.
“1 “low this*might be ealled a preach.
er's room, purt’ nigh. Ain't nothin' 4
but preachers slep’ in it hardly sence
it was built.”
The old man chuckled as he led the
way back te the porch, closed the par-
lor door, locked it and handed the key
to the preacher. The latter stopped a
moment on the step and fumbled his
tall hat.
“Miss—Colin, won't you please ae
company me as far as your—ah-
Whispering spring and show me how
to get a drink?”
The darkness hid the flush of color
that played up into the girl's face.
She glanced at the woodsman; turned
to the preacher and followed him
down the steps,
The big woodsman stood looking
after them, stirred by an unfamiliar
emotion to see Texle walk away Into
the durk with another man.
At the spring the preacher suddenly
grasped the girl's band In both his own
and held it with the same fervid enger.
ness ae had shown that evening In
front of the post office. Bhe suffered
remain slightly longer
then she gently
her hand to
than it had before,
withdrew Jt.
“Miss—Texle—you will grent me the
privilege of calling you by rour first
name, will you not?”
She did not answer,
“Your—hrother, my-—rootnimnate, wns
very enthusiastic about hig pretty sis
ter. But even he did not do you jus-
tice. You are"
He stepped abruptly, stared past her
into the night, as If gropingger words
to clothe a thought unusual with Lim.
The look of a tired student came
slowly back to his face, and his shoul-
ders dropped as if weary with bearing
the burdens of others, Mumbling a far.
ther word or two, he turned from her,
crossed the foot-log with mincing step,
and passed on through the orchard
toward the parsonage.
The girl walked back np the path
and sat down on the porch step.
the woodsman,
moments,
and looked down at her.
busy with her thoughts.
was so deep that the clink of the
dishes, as Mrs, Curry put them away,
and the crinkle of the old banker's
fetters,
head of the dining-room table,
to them out on the porch.
The man roused himself from the
spell of the silence; stepped off the
porch and sat down by the girl's side
“What d' yn think of hi she
asked,
It was characteristic
man that
other question
“What 4’ you?
The girl laughed-—a
laugh like the lilt of the happy
at the bridge
“Oh, I think he's
There came a groan from the dining
room, and the sonnd of a
They sprang up and dashed Int
house, just as Mrs. Curry ran In from
the kitchen The money-lender lay
in one hand an
other empty
n?
woods
by an
of the
he should answer
contented little
water
heavy fall
open letter, in the an
ony elope
The girl darted across the room and
above the shrunken figure
“Jack—! Jack— I"
“Texie don’t he flustered, [It's
Just another one 0’ them faintin’
He'll be all right In 8 minute”
no,
spells
He raised the old man in his
arms and laid him
side of the room.
Mrs. Curry had hurried back to the
kitchen for cold water and cloths apd
was urging Jack to run for the
when the old banker opened
great
on a sofa at the
tor!" =
“Who
er one o
hard
etor?
he panted for
wanks a d It's
tl them fainty spells,
there
held
t
yo
up the lette The girl
then, with
urmed it
it carelessly:
nd thus |
read
word
Somewhere in New
“May
“Simon Colin,
“Buckeye, Ind
“Sir:
“1 caught a fell
and called him
the draw, and
ow with a ecard
He
bere | am.
iast till the |
doubtin’ her,
square with
I'm not She's
played
dry, and
me i
inside of
little old synagogue down the
the Flatwoods buat
test one there
You've one hi of a father
me, [I've heard you pray by
yard, and I've heard cussin’ that was
more rel] You starved mother's
life out, and you're starvin' the life
out of Sis, but you didn't starve my
life out, d—na you. I've got a drop of
ol' Red Colin In me-——him that brought
all this cussed red lock mess into the
family. I've had my fling—and that's
more than you can say, with all your
money that you've wrung out of better
men
“I reckon I've got but a few minutes
to Hive. U'd give half of them to sce
Sis. But If you'd come in right now,
I'd try to get up and kick you out,
I'm dyin as ol’ Red Colin
my boots on I'm expecting
him and you both—in h-|--
“KEN CO"
“PP. 8 Mr. Colin Is dead. He died
before he could quite finish signing his
name. You can see the biot where the
pen fell. 1 am respecting his wishes
and sending this letter without any
street address, or other marks, where.
by you i ghe trace him. His confi-
dence | shall never betray. I will only
say that he shall have decent burial,
“THE GIRL.”
re
in
whi
she'd be the
except Sis,
heen
to the
glous,
with
to meet
died
“But ain't he some looker
Barrin’ that Killin® rig he's hob.
bled up in?™
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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in Sports Clothes
— ——————_—
F'weeds, Twills, Corduroys,
Homespuns, New Weaves
Are Used.
Some of the most charming things
10w offered by the couturieres und
shops are designed for sports, for
week-end entertaining und general
ountry wear, Frocks and wraps,
aotes a fashion authority In the New
York Times, are made with both util
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1e88 of sports clothes has influenced
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than any other are shown, and they
of
of
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Warm woolen material, heavily em.
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Broad bands
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Among the colors that have been in
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finfls a marked favor orded
tain shades of blue, not
are found in the art
broideries of China
by brilliancy, are
great skill and are vastly
ing than one would suspect, for in
modern designing even the smallest
tit of color Is employed with telling
effort,
Sapphire blue comes in for a great
deal of attention, especially in frocks
designed for evening wear. Almost
without exception they are fashioned
on slender, graceful lines, with a note
of contrast introduced in silver em-
brofderies or motifs of crystal beads
nnd brilliants
Ag nn exception to the general
scheme of blue and crystal, one frock
is of sapphire blue velvet, but its sole
decoration consists of appliques of
chiffon In shades of mauve and orchid,
Accompanying this is a cape of vel
vot In the same tone lined with cloth
of silver shot with mauve.
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varying it with bats and
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