GINGER
ELLA
v
by Ethel Hueston
Illustrations by
Irwin Myers
Copyright, by Bobbs Merrill Co
WNU Service
CHAPTER XI
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A fresh wave of wrath painted Gin.
ger's (ce with rose. She flashed from
the secretion of her corner by the
stairway just in time to see the can
grocer press a fervent and unmistak-
able kiss upon the delicate lips of
Miriam, the sensible twin. Mirlam
seemed cot in the least surprised, but
rather pleased. Marjory, too, seemed
to take the outrage with Indecent
calmness, while Eddy Jackson wore a
smile no less than diabolie.
“Just for that, Eddy Jackson, you
owe me ninety dimes,” she announced
sternly. “Nine whole dollars 1 spent
on this comedy of yours.”
And she marched straight to the
kitchen.
Only Eddy Jackson heard her, For
Miriam, the last shred of her sensi
bility thrown to the winds, was cling.
ing to Alexander's hands, and trying
to draw Marjory by sheer force into
the warmth of his nearness. Eddy fol
lowed Ginger to the kitchen,
“Aw, have a heart,” he
“He told me to do it.”
Ginger stared at a pan on the stove,
where thick heavy bubbles rose and
fell.
“You see the gravy is burning.” she
said, and offered not a hand to save
it. “Let it burn. [I bepe it does burn
I hope the gravy burns him, and the
alligator pear chokes him, and the
fried chicken gives him pernicious
anemia.”
Eddy aughed. “Listen, wild one,
and [ll tell the deep end bloody mys
tery of that young mans’ life. No
body knows it. Marjory doesn't know
ft. Miriam herself doesn’t know It
But | know it and I'll tell you He
really is a romantic fLgure—most ro
mantic—"
“Canned beans, canned corn, canned
tomato soup, canned peaches—it makes
me sick--canned sweet potatoes—"
she recounted drearily.
Eddy Jackson briskly stirred
gravy as he t ed. Eddy
of cream gravy.
pleaded.
the
“He's no grocer. His family owns
that chain gang set, waatever you call
it, the Orange and Black, all over the
country. Alex will be some high
mucky-muck-manager one of these
days. They sent him on this trip west
to familiarize himself with the busi
ness, and the localities—this new Idea
of know your stuff from the ground
ap.”
Ginger took the spoon away from
him. After all, it was her gravy.
“Eddy. why didn’t you tell me?”
“He told me not tn, Nobody knew
ft. Not even the chain bunch here in
town.”
“But you should have told me!”
“If anybody asks me not to tell
something that is none of my business
—and nobody else's—1 won't tell it,”
sald Eddy firmly.
“Just like father,” mourned Ginger.
Suddenly a fresh amaze swept over
her. ‘But Eddy. just see what a mess
you've made of It. Why, he's never
80 much as looked at Marjory.”
“l should say not. He's nuts over
Miriam.”
“Bot Miriam--Miriam hasn't got a
thing-—-but brains.”
“She's got Alexander Murdock.”
“Does Miriam think he Is a real
grocer?”
. “Yes. She told me she would marry
him If he was a shoe shiner.”
“Marry him. Did he ask ber?”
“Sure. That's what he came back
for. Brought her the engagement
ring.”
Ginger's eyes glittered. “Put an
other chair at the table, will you?
And get we a knife ane fork from that
drawer. There won't be any walting
on at this party. You can carry the
plates back and forth yourself”
80 Ginger accepted Alexander Mur
dock as a prospective brother-in-law,
and one to be received with a certain
amount of gratitude After all, he
could give them a reduction on the
canned groceries She shook hands
with him. exclaimed joyously over the
brilliant solitaire whith adorned Mi
rinmi's slender finger. and admitted
that the denouement was well worth
the ninety dimes expended.
“Why dimes?” demunded Eddy curl
ously.
“Oh, that's the way | get it—1 mean.
save it,” Ginger amended quickly.
She regurded her twin sisters reflec
tively, one after the other. Miriam
was well enough of course, the stin
deep kind. nothing surprising, nothing
startling abouf her. Miriam was the
type that one gets used to. But Mar.
jory's brilliancy was a fresh revela
tion, an entirely new amazement,
every day.
“Beauty's queer, Isn't it?” she puz
gled. Then she studied her own
piquant features in the mirror, and for
the first time, not without some hope,
“Look me over, will you? Does any-
body see any signs of it on me?”
CHAPTER XII
The new Methodist church of Red
Thrush, Iowa, was an established fact,
Mr. Tolliver, his eyes carefully shield-
ed behind the padded glasses, had
preached the tender sermon which
served both to dedicate the new
church, and to bid farewell to his
parishioners, for the general confer
ence was to convene the week follow.
ing. He had accepted the mandate of
the church, and planned to live in re
tirement until some work of different
nature could be found for him, or, as
he sald, until the Lord chose to bless
the means used for his restoration.
He coatinued In close correspondence
with new surgeons, the hest and the
most expensive the Middle West af.
forded.
On this day, the twins had gone to
college. Eddy Jackson came In his
car and took them and their new bags
to the train, after which with Ginger
he drove slowly back to the parson.
age which would be ber home for a
brief fortnight longer. Ginger did not
know just what was to become of her
and her father, but Ginger didn't care,
They were always taken care of, would
always be. And there was the rich
munificence of the home for the blind
at their command, although of this her
father still knew nothing. They would
remain with Miss Jenkins in the par-
sonage until after the conference, and
then go for what they called a visit
to Helen and Horace for a while, un
til they could decide upon the best
plan for the future.
The one Interest of Ginger herself
was to remaln In Red Thrush as long
as possible, Her address as treasurer
NG Fd
She Fizshed From the Secretion of
Her Corner
in Time to See the Can
Press a Fervent and Unmistakable
Kiss Upon the Delicate Lips of
Miriam.
of the parsonage home was too hroad
ly disseminated now to
changed, and all of her arguments
were based on that great fact.
All the enthusinsm, and the non
chalance, and the farewells, were over.
Ginger and Eddy sat alone in the liv
ing room of the old parsonage, rather
still, a little depressed with their
aloneness. In the small den on the
left, beyond the curve of the stalrcase
they could hear Hiram's low wvolce,
talking to her father, while they sorted
and packed old manuscripts. ready for
removal from the house that had been
their home for four years. Aliss Jen
kins bad gone to her room, to weep
over the departure of the wins. Gin
ger had seen her go, with relief. Miss
Jenkins’ weeping depressed her to the
deepest extreme,
“Well, it's all over now,” she sald
dally. “Helen's married, the twins are
gone, and father and | are fired.”
“Oh, nonsense. Helen is well off
and very happy. The twins will be
home for Christmas, and your father
will get a better church than [Red
Thrush.”
“Eddy~—" Her volce sank to a
whisper. “Do you think he will ever
see again? Do you think even the
most expensive doctor In the world
can cure him?"
“Why, of cuurse he will see again
Didn't all the dociors say the same
thing, that it was just nervous and
mental reaction, and In time"
“It's a long time, though.
tong.”
“You're so Impatient, Ginger.
that's because you're young”
A juick loud knock at the door
be lightly
Very
But
Most men possess a huge contempt
for the detective ability of the police
and nurse a confident belief that if
ft were put up to them they would
solve any mystery In jig time,
On Long Island tives n man who
not only belleves that Sherlock
Holmes was a slouch compared to
him, but who gets In some active
practice. If a crime Is committed in
his locality he makes a beeline for
the police station and siarts In to
‘help” the department. The police
do not relish his Interference, but
they've got to humor him because of
his Influence.
But this man proved to be too good
a detective. One day he called at the
station to see (f there was anything
doing and was told of a motor car
sturtied her to her feel with ua nervous
gasp, but she quickly recomposed her.
self, and went in upswer. The post
man stood there, and with him another
man, behind them another, both stran-
gers — inspectors, possibly, Ginger
thought, come 10 check up for statis
tical purposes. She smiled at the
postman,
“Mall?” she asked.
The postman showed embarrass
ment. “Well, yes,” he said awkwardly,
“You are E. Tolliver, aren't you?”
“Why, of course { am, You know
I am. Ellen. Have ycu no letters for
me?"
Suddenly she was aware that the
man in the rear carried a large mall
pouch, He stepped ahead of the
others and entered the room. The
postman and his companion followed
silently. Ginger followed, also, Eddy
Jackson stood up. The man In the
dark sult opened the pouch, and lifted
it high, pouring out a little stream of
letters upon the rable,
Then, for the first
man spoke,
“Do you clalm this mail?”
“Why, of course, I'm the only E.
Tolliver there Is. E. stands for
Ellen.”
“Walt a minute, wair a minute,
now. You claim this mall, do you?
You acknowledge that it is meant for
you? You admit this wit-
nesses?”
“Be
time, the third
before
careful, Ginger,” Interposed
“Don't say
yourself.”
“You keep out of this, young man.
Well, miss, then you—"
“Why, of course |
Ginger quickly.
it's for me, \Vhy, I've had a lot
like it." She smiled disarmingly
the postman, “You know,"
significantly.
“Well,
third
“She
anything. Don't commit
claim It,”
just
at
she added
hear that,” said
snarling low
the
You all
man, in a
claims It.
after.”
Ginger turned surprised, wide, Inno-
She did not
She's
one
cent eyes upon his face.
speak,
“Well, come across now, miss
the Where is tl
home-—parsonage home for the hiind,
don’t gns of
it." His voice was low and ugly.
us
or 3
&OOUGS,
.
you call it? 1 gee any
Ginger smiled nervously. -
but you see, this really is it. Father's
blind, you know, and this is our home,
And the well, this is
parsonage. Everybody in town knows
that.”
“Yeh, I know all about It,
pretty slick game, 1 call it. Dut [
guess we've got the dope on you, right
enough. Getting money under false
pretenses--that’'s what the
your home for the blind £ the
mails to defraud, that's what the low
BOYS. Penitentiary business, miss,
that's what you're un sgainst.”
“No, oh, no. It is
true. It is home for
one blind
“1
vereri py or
Wikkill
parsonage,
jaw calls
Uslr
true—it really
nd.
the bit
a i :
fo that, Oh,
kid We're on
expe ted
pe
to
$d
i
sou all right
— Shot
rx 19
up :
an al 3 he
to the shocked old postman,
to interpose a
word on behalf. “You ap,
and keep out of this” He turned to
Ginger, and caught ber arm in a rough
grasp. “tome along, now, and no
more monkey business ®
Eddy
shouted
who had endeavored
her shut
slow
great
arm
was a slow young man,
to wrath, but the sight of the
red hand on Ginger's slender
goaded him to action.
“You take your hand: off that girl [™
he shouted, springing across the room
with a blind violence that sent two
chairs spinning away from ain.
“Hush. oh, hush™ begged
“Eddy, don't! I'm not hurt
don’t let father hear youl
hush I”
the whole nest.” beliowed the officer
furiously. “We'll
while we're at iL"
Jackson, hush!
Father's eyes--
Eddy 1”
The
“Eddy, make him
A shock will
officer, pulling
ber half to the floor, und Eddy, driven
entirely reckless at the sight, leaped
upon him,
But Mr. Tolliver In the small ad.
joining room had heard the unusual
uproar 'n his quiet home, heard it
first with surprise, then with rising
indignation. With ene bound he en-
tered the living room, and instinctive.
ly, as in a crisis one who has been
accustomed to clear vision for many
years is bound to do, he tore the pro-
tecting bandages from his eyes and
dashed them upon the floor,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Lost Interest in Cas
accident in which a woman, after
driving through a store window, had
backed up and driven away. The
Long Islander immediately went to
work on the case. He solved it, all
right, but he did not report his suc-
cess to the station
For he discovered that It was his
wife who was the guilty culprit—and
that the police had known it all the
time when he went out to solve the
mystery.~New York Son,
Maybe It lan't
Three heavenly bodies have been
discovered moving away from the
earth at the rate of 4.000 miles a sec
ond, confirming the suspicion that the
world isn't as attractive ns It used
to be.~~Bulte (Mont) Standard,
‘Knitted Sweaters
Again in Fashion
Needles Once More Clicking
Away Fashioning Various
Comfy Garmen'®s.
If the knitting craze keeps up, the
old-fashioned sewing-bee may be re.
vived, observes a fashion writer in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Femininity has taken to the knitting
needle with veritable whim and vigor,
turning out a most
ment of hand-knitted sweaters, scarfs
and berets that grandmother
would h admired. Backstage, in
the cioruses, they're knitting; behind
intriguing assort-
even
uve
shop galeszirls
knitting: and
undoubtedly losing
counters are surrep
titiously i
are
knitting,
It all
swenters
1
delightful
some
games out 10
with the
those
began vogue
und tan
feathery
i for sportswear,
| like, It was
wis a fine art which proves
and useful of course, it was the
| In war time, but now the practic
{| strictly a matter of self-adornment,
discovered tlu
in have enough colorful
swenters powadays
one
vel sports creation,
his was a new sports ensemble In
¢ front and down the outsie
» short jacket
becomes vig
able to open the sleeve
arm fre m.,
f the Norwegian
f
Underneat!
ostume,
Skating Costume~Velvet Skirt
Two Woolly Sweaters.
whore
ense.nhie, however, Is
3
knitted idea is t
carried out in
ries” of sweaters worn one on tof
the other!
The
hand-ki
'
The first,
in all,
thin
the
are four
very,
next
sweaters
itted, wool
worn
very
to skin, Is
with a long eapuchon cap attached
well down below the wrists,
this =a sweater, out
slightly lower neck front,
half an inch at the sleeves:
over this a sweater, «till
yellow
in the
shorter
Over
in
blue lower
open front
an inch shorter.
The “tout ensemble” is that of a nar
row rainbow. The and socks
are hand-knitted In wools to match.
A charming new skating costume
has a wide velvet skirt and two woolly
warmth Yellow
shoeg complete the
with a
sleeves,
“plastron”
again, half
gloves
socks and black
ensemble.
New Princess Negligees
Are Cut Surplice Style
Many of the new princess negligees
and house robes are cut In surplice
style with collarless-bound necklines.
These seem quite trying after the va-
riously trimmed necks seen in pajama
conts and negligees of every feminine
air. A handsome coat for the boudoir
fs one in rich black velvet, strikingly
plain with but a flaring line at the
hem and open sleeves. A self-bow is
placed at either side to emphasize the
nipped-in waistline. There are equal
iy as lovely robes In this style de
signed from transparent velvet in such
goft shades as turquoise and pale
blue, pink, green and salmon.
Simple Trimming Marks
Millinery This Season
The new hats are so simply trimmed
that we are quite likely to overlook
the importance of the trimming. But
its very simplicity makes the trim-
ming important.
Some of the felt hats are trimmed
with pert little quills and feathers,
suggestive of the trimming of Peter
Pan's hat. Many are trimmed with
bands of velvet, often combined with
trimming strips of felt matching the
hat-the velvet In a darker or lighter
shade, The bows formed of these
bands of velvet and felt are fint, not
very big, and exceedingly smart.
Sampiied the Editors
THE PARENTS’ MAGAZINE
The mother's health, for some rea-
gon, Is supposed to tuke care of itself,
It is only the occasional mother who
matches Johnnie's yearly physical ex-
amination with one for herself or who
takes herself to the dentist along with
Susan. Her teeth as well as Sammie’s
require a daliy ration of milk and
vegetables, Sunlight and play are
just as valuable for her for the
children. Yet it is all easy for
mother to neglect herself In her eager
to gure that her family
have everything that they need
as
too
ness make
t to start training the baby's
Brush the
wetting it
the
over
It is be
hair when he is very small,
soft hair the
just enough
longer hair
the finger.
never
Wrong way,
hold It and
on top the head
Then, the child
miss opportunity
{io curi
of
fas ETOWS
to
ap
too
and les.
an
natural wave
the har
whatever
Do not let
for its weight pulls
to curl.
conx along
pears, Crow
long, aown
sens the tendency
Eh Lal i J
for Sout
w far m
hern Resorts
milliners have progressed
m the days when felt was the only
in collections
ay be seen ti
southern wear. There
of fabric, Pp
aws having the lead. Such IWS
ns may treated like tucked,
plaited and go on, have won the espe
of the world,
and while models are remarkable for
a greater width of brim, there are
endless berets and such types intend-
for resort vogue.
Spring colors begin to clarify. Such
g are shown for the winter re.
diversity
sir
he felts,
cial admiration style
ed
fones «
sort sepgon-—a preclude to spring—in-
blues, some of which have a pur-
Others border on a light
navy. while others aglin linen
blues of course high
lighted, bath in yellowish and bluish
ple tonality.
are
Greens are
cast, and pinks seem to be especially
liked for Palm Beach.
Check trimming is liked on house
dresses this season. Here is shown a
charming little frock worn by a pop
ular movie actress,
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ild not
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