Copyright, by Bobbs Merrill Co, by Ethel Hueston Illustrations by Irwin Myers WNU 8ervice CHAPTER XII—Continued we] De “Sir,” he cried, “what do you mean by such conduct in my house? Eddy, come away from him, | will attend to this myself. Ellen, come here to me. Bui Cinger had forgotten the dis. grace that yawned at her feet, had forgotten the home for the blind, the threatening jail. She looked at her father, and she saw only his face, saw his eyes, dark-circled, brilliant, "bu clear and steady in thelr gaze. “Father,” she whispered, and her whisper was a song. She crept toward him timidly, as one half atrald, ber hands outstretched, a sob in her throat —*0Oh, father—you-—see—me l” Startled, instinctively, as one who has shielded a bruised thing for muny weeks will naturally do, he dashed his hands shelteringly across his eyes ut he removed them at once, and stared back at the girl's glad white face, “Why, so 1 do,” he muttered. i do.” Ginger flung her arms about him “Oh, darling, how wonderfu: of you,” she cried “How stubborn of you! You always go just by contraries. don't you? They said a shock would blind you forever, and instead it has made yon well. Oh, darling, let them take me to jail, 1 don’t care a bit, It 1s worth ft!” The postman, ment, wus torn pastor and shame “Yes, in depths of self abase between joy for his for his own share in this humiliating scene, hut Ginger und her father were momentarily transported far ahove the mere mun dane annoyances of common life The inspector, studying them all, war puz zled. - It might be a ruse—but it did not seem to he a ruse “See tere. there's there? You are E. Tolliver, aren't you? You do claim to be the treasurer of the pursonunge home for the blind? “Yes. | cluim it all. | admit every thing. and I'm glad of it. But there isnt any blind, any more. Go on take me to jail I never thouzht of using the muils to defraud, hecause really. it wasn't a froud. Father was blind.’ “You she hus no mistake, Is she doesn't realize what done.” arg Eddy stoutly “Ellen.” her father's volee wns low and sh ked “do you mean ‘o tell me that you--solicited money for a home for the blind" See, ued Ginger flushed crimson, and swiftly paled. but she did out flinch. “Yes 1 dish. father By a chain letter And it went like wildfire, Ten ecenis apiece Thums why 1 paid everything in dimes Eddy.” “But. ing" “th. father. no. the Bible that the are to gel whut they need? know ’ my child. it is—almos: steal Doesn't «ff say In servants of God And you we did need 11! “Bur Ellen—it sus plain begy “Well, all ehureh work Is tions ure hegeing. And i8 It any worse to take if you can get it, from publicnns sinners, than from stewnrids trustees? a full " interrupted ing.” Collec mane y und and “There's at mail m1 the inspector “A bushel of dimes!” she ejaculated “And it's got to go buck where it came from Every cens of IL but even the mspector's severity had re faxed somewhat. ‘Now | guess we can fix this up. it you sir, will go bail for bh that she Jdeesp't start any wore funny business, “I'm afraio you'll have to Zo down with us sir There's a deal of red tape to go through with, And the money to send back" “1 will come ul once. 1-1 am so surprised so shocked,” staminered the confused father. “1 cunt tell you how sorry | am I gever dreamed that-— Ellen, If you had told me, If you had asked met “th, father, 1—only wanted to help you I= Wait a minute” She ran quickly up the stairs, ang io the bullway above they could hear her uervously quick movements, as she balanced the ladder against the wall, ang pushed open the trapdoor to the attic “Il can’t inagine how she came to do such a thing,” apologized the troubled father anxiousiy., “But she meant all right. She wus 80 cvger to take care of me" “Oh, she’s just a Kid,” assented the tuspector, “We ail know what kids are.” Ulnger's feet were pounding down the stairs again, and they awaited ber coming In silence. She crossed the roo und stood before the inspector, slim and slight, but with straight shoulders, ns one willing to bear the burden of her wrongdoing. “Here!” Into the bands of the as tonished Inspector she pressed an old doll’'s trunk, and it was heavy, “It's the rest of the dimes,” she explained “1 don’t know where they came from, I burned the ttle white angels] mean the letters. And | spent lots of the dimes, tou, for ever so many things, dresses. and stockings, and even food These are all that are left,” “Well, now,” sald the inspector awkwardly, “1 don’t rightly know what to do with this—but I reckon I'd bet bushel ot the feast . olive ter take it along. We have a car.” “1 will go with you,” offered Hiram Buckworih, “You'd better wear dark glasses, father,” cautioned Ginger. “You mustn't see too much too soon. And, officer, if anybody bas to go to jail, don't you take him. You come and get me.” “Oh, nobody'll We'll fix this up. ise to be a good little girl—" Gioger nodded her head nervously. Her eyes glistened with tears that she held 'n check. In a short while they were all gone and she was alone again with Eddy. The house was very still. She stood in the center of the room and stared Will you come, sir? have to go to jail And you will prom: “Oh, Eddy—Wasn'te|—Dumb?™ blackly into space, siared nnd stared Suddenly a great storm wel her breast. The pain of B scorched her throat, tortured her eyes. She threw herself among the cushions In a cor ner of the couch, and sohbed as though her heart would break. led in CHAPTER XIII A shamed and huddled heap, Gin ger lay in the corner of the big couch weeping stormily, her slim shoulders shaken with her scbs, wnlle Edds stood awkwardly before her. sadly watching After a while, unnoticed he sank down beside her, and walted for the passion of ber emotion to spend itself. and at ast, unobtrusive iy, he put his arm about her, by gentle pressure druwing ber from the shabby silken cushions to his shoulder “wnt cry. Ginger. It Fhey'll fix it up all right, and oo ohe will ever know. Your father will just assure your good cvonduact in that's all. "Don’t ery.’ Ginger nol to be comforted Her beautiful drenm wus dead-—nay had been ruthlessly murdered, choked by coarse hands, crushed by a heavy heel All that she had hoped for planned for, worked for, had come to naught, “It was so beautiful,” she sobbed ‘It was just besutiful while It lasted And now it is only ridiculous ® “th. no, Ginger Nothing can be ridiculous that is dove in love,” he sald wisely She squirmed ancomfortably. “Oh iI did it in love,” she admitted, “but I was pretty stuck on myself for doing it, fust the same. | wns awfully hipped on myself—1 thought | was pretty smart all right.” “Well, it wns smart-—in a wny,” he said carefully. “Of course, It was wrong, too—in a way. [It really was false pretenses—and using the mails to defraud. and all that, ut youn didn’t know it was wrong” ut Ginger wns not willing to be lifted ever so little from the depths of her self-abasement. isnt! so bad hinve 1o future wus the “Well, I wasn't at all sure it right,” she confessed ruefully. *“1 al | sald such kind things In their letters and 1 knew they were being fooled But I told myself that such a good man as father, and a minister and all, had a right to be taken care of And 1 tried to tell father about I but—always | didn’t. | told myself | wanted to surprise him Inter on—bu I think | knew he wouldn't let “The trouble with Ginger, Is sour mathematics,” gold gently, She me.” you, he ver) razed at him a moment In speechless wonder, “Math—" “Yes. You know that a whole Ile Is wrong-—-but you figure thar a halt a lie is no lie at all. P've—er—noticed that ahout you several times” Ginger smiled tremulously nat and a fresh rain of tears swept face, “1 know 11,” she confessed abjectly “1 know it. But it Is so much easier to get what you want that way—" “Oh, Ginger!” How Ginger wept! The past was a wreckage of delleate dreams, present a wave of disillusionment, future swept hare by the relentless winds of certain privation. “Oh, Eddy, 1 can’t stand ply ean'ti™ Slowly, very gently, head upon his shoulder, lifted fnce to his, and. for the first time kissed the trembling. tear-wet lips Ginger's hand gripped his He held her close in his arms his lips gently across her wet pressed them upon the that clustered nat her slender little fizure tense in his arms, her hand his shoulder After a long still ment she drew awny from him ly, and looked at him troubled eyes. whose tears seemed lost in wonder. Eddy did not flinch fore that wide-eyed questioning that her the it—1 sim he turned her hor shanlder moved cheek curls The grew suddenly damp temple clung to mao slow mistily, with hie onze Firmly he patted away the last of her tears, and then, saimaost hefore her very eves, toward her, kissed her again not protest When she lay limpiy in arm close to his face, and st one spelibound—ihat old. familiar face ly very new and strange-heautiful—to her “like me, he Ginger's answer was a startled jerky hob of her head, A half-amile qui. ered to her lips, te he quickly han ished by the strange wide wonder, “Why?" he insisted, Hike your father? Her hand tightened lis grip on shoulder. Her cheek his “You-—ysou're npot-—just my fa ther,” she whispered ‘Ginger, you durling—yon tittle darling" No ward of protest from Ginger His hands ea her fis lips hit the curve of her slender throat “1 know you hate iv be pawed —" “Oh. Eddy.” interrupted indig nantly. “you don’t paw. You're oot that Kind.“ Her small hand found Mtself upon his cheek, her slim fingers tauched it. stroked it, with a caressiveness as old as the world. “1 know I'm not mt figure" Ginger drew away from him. was cold indignation in her scorp for herself, ber young girlish folly. She saw, as (ur the first time, the tender warmth of his gray eves the tine firm lines of his Kind lips the strong assurance jo the poise of his head-all the clean bonest alice ness of the old familiar face And her heart cried out to him, remember. ing his thousands sympathies through so muny exigencies, his unfailing bo mor, his untiring interest. And Gin ger, humbled afresh before this sweet new revelation of the old, old friend, cried om reproachfully: “Oh, Eddy —wasn't —|-—dumh 7?" {THE END} defiant he he releg his her ared as which seemed sudder Ginger?” asked gently, “Because I'm his pressed like dear reased song she all a romantic There eyes, A reader In the United States sends me a cutting from an American news paper telling how the late Dr. Charles James, chemist and minernlogist owned 14 hives of bees, and how after his denth one swarm disappeared and was found buzzing about the flowers on his grave more than two miles nway, "eter Simple writes, io the Lon: don Post, Apparently, we are told, the bees had not been informed of his death in accordance with the ancient cus tom, which Is still religiously ful filled In country places. f am afraid | can not enlighten gy correspondent, who passes on to me the query of the journal In gues tion: “Who first thought of telling the bees of the death of thelr mas ter?” As far as history carries us hack we have some record of the keeping #* of bees, and the custom of telling the bees Is very likely almost as old as beekeeping. It has oll the up pearance of a rite which originated in very early times, and the fact that it still survives is a touching proof that we still cling, In some things nt least, to the wisdom—or folly—of our ancestors, Longest Lived Animal A glant tortoise that wus an In timate of the great Napoleon is still living on the Island of St Helena, enys T. G. Boulenger, director of the London zoo, in Animal Mysteries. Tor. tolses attain a greater age than any other animal. Several of these crea. tures, weighing over 600 pounds each, owned by Lord Rothschild, the banker, were close on three centuries old when scientific claims put an end to thelr protracted existence, i Light Tweed Suit Liked for Travel Plaits Being Crowded Out by Circular Skirt and Tuck-i -in Blouse. This season the “shops have very few tweeds mported and wool crepe out fits from the midseason collections, although there is the plethora of summery frocks, advises a fashion correspondent in the New York World The classic tallleur 18, 0. course, to be among the travel Ing costumes at any season of the year the lght tweed follows In popularity. The costumes is the usuni smartest suit itinction of the latest fact that out nimost ular skirt and by ence of tuck -in slouses of the suit tone, One of Clu trates this tendency. and ye composed of tern of the notable di plaits ure entirely by the Wool being crowded the clr prevail in the game color us but in a lighter intal’'s suits illus A Iwo-piece How tweed has a the nates guilt skirt pat of brown strips in which fabric alter give n zigzag The the Jncket are also sewn on in con.rust to the hody of the there is a simple scarf coliar. The blouse Is of yellow and tucks in. Women who ‘ind the bulky the effect, reverse on coat and { repe sult und blouse to pack under first stages of a smart ensembles dress and un One of these, from navy blue jersey, The a simple allair with a high waist, circular skirt and coliar of fine white linen finished off by two small bows at the front. The coat is a full combination a fur trip may consisting lined cardigan, 'atou, uses dress Is {00 cont on find of a some woolen Tweed With Flared Godets. length affair of the same fabric and comes uniined. A very attractive sleeveless little ensemble frock of vers with a match It appears in Star colors for the South the hig thin tweed ing cardigan the Hed and accents green, one of ins of a self belt with tortolse-shell thie hips, The skit Is very and comes down to a good three inches be th waist by mes Huckies over circular The one-plece woolen frock appears light tweed or In a shade of woolen crepe, with navy blue Lucile Paras solid giving it =» rakish, a symmetrical charming effect The coats proper for traveling be yond the possibility ot a snowfall are of heavy tweed, and the canny shopper will forget all about the social climbing performed by this Inst fall. Although ome of the suits show a formal handling of the smartest of the sep arate conts are cut on very straight sports lines and show a minimum of trimming. One very interesting coat appears in a moitied blue and gray pattern and is lesa fitted than those designed for town wear in the North, It has a scarf collar, rather wider than the classic Schiaparelli type, which appears oa the right side only. This may be thrown across the front of the neck in the familiar manner or may follow the back of the neckline and lie flat on the feft side of the front, Another engaging coat appears In a very light tweed in whicu the com- bination of brown and yellow appears again. This has a commodious cape collar with a fabric bow set at the back of the neck. Black Net and Chiffon for Sunday Night Frock The Sunday night frock is afford ing many a woman an attractive rea. son for looking forward to a social en: gagement on that evening with unpre. cedented anticipation. Perhaps the secret of the success of this type of dress Is that it deftly compromises between the formal evening gown and the afternoon dress. Black net and chiffon are special favorites on such occasions, Long, tight sleeves of these diaphanous fabrics are alluring sheer The skirts follow the draped and flow: ing movements of the afternoon frocks, : Sampled the Editors of THE ARENTS: MAGAZINE you nng children about eating proper foods? Or do you serve the proper kind of food, making meal time a pleasant occasion and allowing “plecing”? Do you complain be- children are not prompt? Or do yon give them watches or clocks and drill them in keeping appoint- ments? Do Ho cause Mothers they wear rying and by working how that wor- hurrying than The point, however, is to keep themselves from worry- how to the attl- tude, and how to cultivate mental poise, the nind, know perfectly well themselves out by even more ing, keep objective For a well-rounded life, mother needs health, peasee of interests out The glross early ‘teens are and strain, and the venture of the son's effort to find himself, If earlier chMMhood has passed without pare ntal control and guldin craving for exc itemer is one phase fication In ways trously. The stay. nnd here to The younger generation accepts alter of and will not be denied the thrills and convenlences that it represents. If the o gen: eration cannot accept it in game it, they will find the airplane Is here itasam course, ider the ves forced msel to do 80 az a matter of sheer neces sity. Those should enlds much wr of the use only their wels and wash eir hands fre Thel wid wed separately in boiling water ntracted %eives 08 who have 4 separate them ble from o They ther memt should own to utensils she quenti r eating family ca g clay. good pre A whole WM 1 modelin Buy it, five-pound cuns, give every. and ther wiel a time witl ferably, in One 8 generous amoun that each one mo xt of father or ports nother or even the rize for the ‘rizes an telephor ousewife's 1 at a critical Its irr 8 minor telephone compan wile nortahle phones wer tl oung y not be immersed in the to thrive ince or th, as ft I= too delicate under constant wetting tw it Is dampened seve. order to curl it is sufficient, especially if a day in ice n week nl times Two-Tone Tweed Makes When shades of unable to decide between two a rich green tweed, did It vou to choose both? ever occu to Kome rier must have es in Just nned a wise cout a dilemma such a n he pla an emin One shade « caped ner wis its way to shop window, mixed tweed was darker, yet brig The body of the the lig the darker flap pockets if the green hier ack. thier shade tone and than the other had utilized couldn't resist color for swagger collat on the coat. The skirt slightly flared, but not longer six inches below the knee, taken as a commentary on the popular length of gporis costumes, et suit but than Lovely Afternoon Frock One of the recant popular creations from the French capital is a charming afternoon frock of beige flat crepe with a ruffle around the skirt just be. low the belt. The collar and cuffs are trimmed with lace. i esperale Wive $ have bees known to boil their husbands’ pipesinlye. Thiskillsthelingering authority of over-strong tobacco, but good-bye pipe! Well,it’s time those husbands discovered Sir Walter Raleigh’s favorite smok- ing mixture. It’s a blend of choice tobaccosmellowed to a surpassing mildness and flavor, and wrapped in gold foil to keep it fresh. And fragrant? Wives positively love it. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, Lewis wille, Kentucky LB SiR WALTER RALEIGH Smoking Tobacco Me rie rs ' Permanent Loans INQUIRIES INVITED ED DENNISON & ASSOCIATES 673 Broadway, Dept. ED New York City, N. ¥Y. 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