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CHAPTER VIIl—Continued
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It was dull in Chicago that summer,
slamma was still in Europe, and Ernes-
Ane felt that she could not confide in
Lillian about Will, There were times
«hen she was frightened about her
>wn health. She felt faint in the heat.
She could not eat at all. She had not
felt this way before Peter was born,
sut then she had been strong and well,
She couldn't understand this—her feet
were swollen until she could not wear
mer shoes. Mrs, Schluss and Mrs.
Pryor expressed their anxiety. Only
Will, in his own troubles,
was unaware of her frailty. She pre-
sented to Mr. Poole and to Will a
superb calm, and a facetiousness that
was easier for her than tragedy.
Will found some work for an ad-
vertising agency, which he brought
home to do, He might have taken
one of the jobs papa had offered him
from time to time, but papa was In
Europe and Lorihg in charge of his
affairs.
Ernestine could not forgive Will for
olaying baseball in the with
John Pryor and a half a dozen other
half-grown boys, when he back
from his fruit § jaunts after work.
“He doesn't " thought, and
care,
fonged to wo 1 him, to strike through
engrossed
streets
came
$
sie
his carelessness. She grew almost
-“Perhaps he'll have reason to
t life's a
morbi
waken—t inderstand tha job
for a man.
Will
{ast of
in August
clean and spruce,
of adventure In his eye,
“I'll find work today, or stay
till I do,” he told Ernestine and kissed
her on both cheeks,
Peter clung® to him
“Poter loves WII t
t¢hought, pressing a
against her heart.
took five dollars,
their cash, one morni
and went
and
%
out, looking
the
with
» sry Ls or 3 +
ahe went to her trunk got out the
bankbook she had that day
TWO Years ago, when she had come out
here and found WII dead.
Here was a secret source of supply
of her looked at her |
balance. It enough
and the new baby, if
bed ward, as
for her,
This
would have
ned
own. She ank
Was
herself
into a two Doctor
had planned
money, Will
for himself and Peter,
£0 and
in
jut she
had it.
to
She decide
get the money and have cash
house If anything
would not let Will
the happened
know she
She put small bankbook on the
«lining room t: ut the
3
and tidy house, washing dis
the
ible and went ab«
clean
the 1 "1 in
setting order,
There was a long letter from
ma the mail,
«did not finish it,
to go and lie down on her bed, sel
I ch p
¥
cr
ring * pas ced §
morning TNest
in
reading for she
with 8 ain that she could scarcely
u
forbear
herself
out. She felt within
at all, no buoyancy,
no spark of life, She was dull, leaden,
submerged, She felt she ought to
make some effort to resist this spiritual
inertia but she was too lll. She won
dered If her child would be born
thought goaded her Into
and gathered from
k Peter's little baby garments,
washed and mended and
Tai She made the things she
might need for the baby into a bun-
«ie and put it In her dresser drawer,
She would get her money. She would
arrange her own affalrs—with
When the call
ing
i
no light
too
This
She
[00n,
action,
her tru
long
1
rose
since
away.
COm~
petence, she
would be ready.
But she must rest first. She made
herself a pot of fresh tea, asked Mrs.
to look after Peter, and at
in the early afternoon she
started off on the long walk to the
street car,
She rode Interminably, withdrawing
her spirit from the concussion of the
heat waves that came up from the
stone pavement into the street car.
Walking in a mist she reached the
bank and went Inside. She opened
her purse, but found among its con.
tents no bankboeok., Like a pleture
in a dream she could see the leather
square of it on the dining room table
in the little house. She had left it
at home.
If she had been in normal condition
she would have realized that it wes
quite possible for her to establish her
identity at the bank. She had made
The teller would
have remembered her. But as she
stood in disappointment, the world
grew black before her eyes, and for
a straining moment, fully conscious
but blind, she stood in silent terror.
The blindness passed, and she picked
up her purse and went out of the
bank, turned, half Instinctively,
toward Mrs. Bennett's. A strange
girl was at the door, a colored girl
who rolled her eyes at Ernestine,
“Mis’ Bennett's out, ma'am,
you walt?
Ernestine left without a word, and
went back to the boulevard. The
came,
Schluss
fength
win
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blindness was coming
down on her again. She felt that she
was going to faint. She could not hold
on any longer—there was nothing with
which to cling—she no longer cared.
The great bulk of the bus was mov-
ing down toward her—gigantie, menac-
ing. She felt that it would crush her,
and moved back a little on the
walk, her horrified eyes fixed upon the
monster which seemed to swell and
grow, and then, strangely, to rise from
the pavement and to turn slowly and
«racefully about in the alr. She knew
it was delirium, she knew that the bus
could not act that way, ut her
knowledge could not pierce her fear of
confusion, And then the bus funged
at her—the blindness came down again,
and Ernestine, alone and very ill, fell
down upon the pavement of the boule.
vard with a soft and plaintive moan.
darkness, the
side
CHAPTER IX
Loring Finds Ernestine
It was nine o'clock when Lillian
reached Chicago from Langley lake in
obedience to Loring’s frantie telephone
turned the car Erie
Loring had instructed her,
before Mrs. Dennett's
call, She into
street, as
and stopped
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“We Don't Know. We Can't Find Her”
ands falling from the wheel
weariness,
went up the stairs quickly, her
heart full of repressed terror for Ernes-
not
might happened to her. It
wasn't time surely for her baby. Lor
ing had been brief and unsatisfactory
over long-distance,
loor,
of the car with nervous
She
could
tine, She imagine what
have
The door was opened by a colored
maid who stared in silence,
“Is Mrs. Bennett in? I'm Mrs, Todd's
They told me to come here
The girl gave a squawk and threw
her hand up over her mouth and rolled
her eyes at Lillian,
“Can you tell me where Mrs, Todd
is?" asked Lillian sharply.
“Lawd, Miss, Wisht 1 cud. Nobody
knows. But you better c-min and talk
to Miz’ Bennett. She kin tell you the
fac's.”
Trembling seized
followed the girl In silence
Jennett's «itting room, and in
ment found herself confronted by a
plump little woman whose face was
gray and ravaged. Lillian looked at
her with pleading eyes, afraid to trust
her voice. Her throat was dry and
sister,
but
to
she
Mrs,
a mo-
Lillian,
closed,
“Please-—~where
happened 7”
“We don't
her.”
“Tell me-—please.”
“She's not been well—you knew of
course that she was expecting an-
other confinement?”
Lillian nodded, realizing
was ignorant of the date.
is she? What has
know, We can't find
that she
“Well, since WIIl's been out of work,
she's not been well”
“Will out of work? 1 didn’t
that,” Her heart was shaken with
remorse, Will out of work, and Ernes-
tine ill, and she had known nothing
of it—playing bridge and golf and
swimming at the lake,
“But where did she go? Who
with her last? What happened?”
Mrs. Bennett tried to be coherent.
“She left her little boy with a neigh-
bor and went out alone, early in the
afternoon,
to the bank, for Will found her
bankbook lying on the table, We ean't
find out whether she was at the bank
or not, No one noticed her, and she
did not withdraw any money. But she
came here about four. I was out and
she left, but the maid sald she looked
as though she were going to drop then,
That's the last that's been seen of her,
Will got home about three, and he be-
gan to worry because Krnestine had
not told him she was going out, and
it was so hot, and she's not been well,
He decided to come over here to the
bank, and ‘When he found that she
hadn't been there, he went to your
mother's, Ernestine wasn't there,
Then Will came here, and Mr. Hamil-
ton met him here, I phoned to Mra,
Schluss for them, but Ernestine wasn't
at home yet,
“Wherever she was she would have
come home to Peter, as Will argued,
and I agreed with him. Will was
nearly distracted—the men quarreled
bitterly, and Mr. Hamilton
Ruby Pastano and the papers, and or-
ganized a search—of course, people in
the city off and are
don’t get home on time.
now i's nearly ten and we haven't
heard anything of her. Mr. Hamilton
has notified the police. They'll fing
her—unless—"
“What do yon mean? cried Lillian
sharply. Her hands were shaking so
that she could scarcely hold her purse
and gloves,
WY oll
was
20
called up
go delayed and
But, YOu see,
t O31
on,
Mr. Hamil
he's got th {de that she may
Ernestine to he
loor was flung
there, His eves
He
dy knew
ar or fever,
v exclaim
drove,” she told
i I've been so worried
“You had cau
grimly. “When
is going home with us
s¢ to worry,” he sald
we find Ernestine she
Don't
BOme.
to siay.
She's got to have
FOU agree? g
body to take care of her.”
“Of course, Loring
“T've news of a sort,” he said slowly,
“1 don’t know
A woman
this
qd they stared at him,
what it's worth. There
the County
from this neighborhood,
She was a young woman, and she was
It might have been
I've sent Will out there,
by to see If you were
{0 his wife—"and to wait hore
was
taken to
hospital
afternoon-
to be confined.
Ernestine,
and 1
here”
for a phone call”
wee
A 0
came
and the
sound leaped through them all. Mrs,
Bennett picked up the receiver with a
trembling hand, while they all watched
her In straining silence,
“You this is Mr« Bennett,
Oh, Oh, thank
here, I'll
telephone shrilled,
Yes
did,
Her
you.
tell
he
gister is
them.”
She turned from the phone,
“It's the hospital
identified Ernestine,
with her. Oh, Mr.
found her
“Get your hat,” said Loring. “And
come with us. Never mind your keys,
Lillian, "We'll take the taxi”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
office,
and he's
Hamilton-—you
"oe
Slogans are advocated as an ald te
a healthy mental outlook by James D.
Weinland, who considers thelr effect
and lists a number in an article In
Hygela Magazine,
A good slogan can brighten our
whole horizen, fill us with courage nnd
be an emotiona! stimulus. It directs
and holds the attention to a bracing
thought. For instance, when a man is
down In the dumps it is comforting to
think that “the men who try to do
gomething and fall are Infinitely bet.
ter than those who try to do nothing
and succeed,” or that “there are more
chances and opportunities In life than
we know.”
There are slogans hidden away In
the world's literature that fit almost
any mood er desire, says Mr. Wein-
land. Proverbs are rich in them.
Poems are jeweled with them. cach
person must select the ones that mean
most to him, Used at the right time
the words can penetrate like a sharp
dart into a mood and dissipate it,
They net Hke a bugle eal} marshaling
the forces of our resolution and order-
ing them into action,
nian
Boxwood of Slow Growth
Boxwood Is sometimes called the
living antique, Truly it is, as the pro.
portions of the plant determine Its
age, and a reproduction is not possible
unless one chooses to wait a hundred
years and have one grow,
Blouse Provides
Desirable Change
' Regarded as One of Most
Welcome Additions to
the Wardrobe.
Blouses the
Him
account
to
be
are heaven's gift
limited wardrobe, whether it
ited by a shrunken checking
asserts a fashion
up the feminine us all
eyo,
With suits as important as they are
have a wide variety of blouses.
Even if you are lucky
prob-
can't find room for more than
one when you pack up for a week-end
trip or a short vacation. But a few
thin trifles of blouses can be lald on
top after the suitcase is apparently
full to the brim,
Blouses come In every graduation
of formality, from the ultra-grand to
the plain sports type. There are those
of chiffon and of crepe to accompany
the town suit, There are fine handker-
chief linen blouses, and ones ba-
tiste and organdie to be worn with
the simpler silk suits or skirts, with
feather-weight tweeds, or with the
of
Satin Blouse Ties
Side.
Rcse-Beige Crepe
at the
ine
true sport outfit,
Especially good touches
on new blouses gre embroidery
smartest
fine pleating--another
that
pleating tuci
than nothi
that makes a blouse look so well-bred ;
on the batiste of
Straw
wind of fashion
favor; pin
probably
one
back Into
which there's
and val lace, to remind you that wom.
en's rights to captivate are being
Bows,
Cun
granted everywhere this year,
too, pop out here and there, very
ning and demure,
In general, the bows and other dec
notes tend in
of the blouses, This is
doubtless, the dominance of
buttoned or tied jackets, or those that,
though not fastened, bring (Meir edges
close together, as against the cardigan
type,
orative to be focused
the center
due, {Oo
Sheer Brown and Soe
Summer Color Accents
Sheer brown, delightful for summer,
is often more delightful for a well
toned color accent. This accent may
be.
Turquoise. We have seen a brown
silk suit accessoried with a turquoise
blouse and turquoise suede slip-ons
Very chic!
Coral, We have seen coral jewelry
accenting sheer brown with excelient
effect.
lose Opaline. With the right shade
of brown, rose opaline is lovely, We
can fancy a sheer chiffon evening
frock with some pink In its brown
background print being charmingly
complemented with rose opaline ac
cessories,
White. If white costumes are chic
with brown accessories, then the con.
verse should be true. In a new order
of ensembling, white accessories are
smart with dark costumwes-—nand white
may accent sheer brown, though the
combination requires tactful handling.
Eggshell. An eggshell lingerie touch
may enhance a sheer brown frocks
feminine character,
Nasturtium. Shares of the nastur.
tium, including yellows, are happy com-
plements to brown, when they are in.
dvidually becoming to the wearer,—
Exchange,
Smart Hats Agree With
Frocks in Texture, Trim
It's smart to wear a dead-white hat
with a dead-white costume. And if the
hat if of dead-white panama or baku,
it Is easy to see how one could wear
bails of navy, brown or pastel col
ors, according to one's preference.
Smart hats agree with frocks In tex.
ture and in trim, and in detail they
are often something akin—as in the
ease of a baku with a softly fringed
brim-to be worn with a fringe-fin.
ished frock or blouse,
led by the Editors of
THE PARENTS’ MAGAZINE
those who, whatever their
and however numerous thelr excesses
many,
ple. We must see them as they are,
what they see as they see it,
we must listen,
ers, have a genius for listening,
numbered youthful tragedies have
been averted because an understand-
ing woman has heard her son tell his
story, Having Information, we shall
generally find ourselves justified in
the faith that, given good example, de-
cent home environment, a reasonable
amount
the Invitation to do something worth
while in the world, youth will vindi-
Cate our faith.
A self-confidence sufficient to
is essential to achievement, and a
great many successful men have found
of themselves as occupying a certain
position, achieving certain things,
which they have held In their minds
over a long period of years,
The Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace is helping county apd
city libraries by presenting to them
books on international-mindedness for
both young and old.
The child
’
constituents
will thrive
and vita
and liver, Vegetabl
but «
the food
ning of the vege
on
“8s Ob ay he
should
selection, as some
uths
ure
strong ns ns to
they
iis
fir
sitdoor tube
1
a connection shot d
if not on
using an especially long
outlet, if
none on t! yorch, This grill
} he
for a second help
MISRIDIe on yeranaa,
cord
thore is
will
from
tit hos
forms
infan paralysis cases it
mus-
con.
in
fo restore
part of
power,
to
their mo
affected
tile and
ath has a
place also in the treatment of all
health, since it is a
proc-
the
cles a
tracting The su
de-
pressed states of
vital
means of stimulating the
PRROR
Crepe Luminaura, One of
New Colors for Autumn
Showing a smart afternoon dress of
crepe luminaura in one of the new
dark bright colors for fall wear, It
was displayed at a recent New York
fashion show,
Straw:-Fabric Blouses
Blouses of straw are a novelty. The
straw fabric corresponds to that which
milliners use for turbans and berets
requiring supple, light material. Split
straw Is woven into a colton mesh
backing whiclr prevents the straw from
scratching. Most of the straw fabric
blouses are sleeveless,
(©, 1920, Western Newspaper Union
Give us to awake with smiles,
give us to labor smilingly., As the
sun lightens the world, so let our
} ness make bright this
* habitation,
—Flevenson.
loving
house of
FOR A BRIDE'S LUNCHEON
the
the
either before
nuptials, there is
which the
can afford
will be
trouble. For the
beginning the fol
i lowing cocktail will
a be most dainty:
2 er 3 Cupid's Cocktail,
Boil together
one-third of a cupful of sugar with
one cupful of water, or better—canned
fruit juice—for two minutes, then add
four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and
cool. Chill one eupful each of seeded
white grapes, red cherries, diced pears,
and pineapple. Mix all the chilled In-
gredients together and serve in glass
cups placed on pink hearts on serving
plates,
Chicken Crouquettes, — Make
cupful of thick white sauce
stock with milk or
Take two cupfuls of minced chicken
one-half teaspoonful each of
oceasion or
nothing
hostess
which
much
For
after
too
one
using
chicken cream.
’
ol gait, cej-
ery salt and onion salt and one-fourth
teaspoonful of paprika. Mix all the
ingredients, cool, then form into small
croquettes, cone or cylinder shaped.
Roll in which two
tablespoonfuls of water has been add-
ed, then In crumbs and set away to
chill. Fry in hot fat and serve with
mushroom sauce,
Heart Cakes.—Make
in a sl}
beaten egg to
baking |
}
iii
, kes Pp
over hot
be tinted to
nsistency
NOW IS THE TIME
have at
a few of the
lectable recipes
which have waited
for then While
the fresh berries
pl
are plentifu
comes into the
pres
pare them for the
winter when fel.
lies, Jams and pre-
serves of all kinds are so much en.
Joyed.
Spiced Rhubarb. —Put into the pre-
serving kettle six cupfuls of rhubarb
peeled and cut into small pieces, one
cupful of seeded raising, one cupful of
apple vinegar, four cupfuls of sugar,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon and one-
half teaspoonful of clove. Bring slow.
ly to the boiling point and let simmer
until of the consistency of marmalade.
Put into glasses and seal with paraffin,
If the vinegar is very strong dilute
water,
Pepper Hash. —Take twelve each of
red and green peppers, chop fine after
seeds and white fiber,
medium-sized onions and
let stand
Drain the vegetables
tie and add a tablespoonful of salt, a
of
Cook slowly until done, as for
Put Into bottles
and seal,
English Gooseberry Pie.—Line the
side only of a deep pie dish with rich
paste. Fill with one quart of ripe
gooseberries which have been stemmed
and cleaned, pour boiling water over
the berries and drain and cool. Add
one and one-half tablespoonfuls of but.
ter and one-third cupful of currant
Jelly, Moisten the edge of the ple
with cold water and spread a top
crust with a few perforations in the
Flute the rim and bake forty
minutes, Serve turned upside down
on a platter. Serve with hard sauce.
Baked Peaches. —Select large ripe
peaches for baking. Peel, cut into
halves and remove stones from the
peaches, In the cavity place a seed
ed raisin, one teaspoonful of sugar,
one-half teaspoonful of butter and a
sprinkle of wace. Bake slowly In a
moderate oven until the peaches are
soft, Serve on rounds of sponge cake
with sweetened cream,
Tea Punch.~I'repare tea, using four
teaspoonfuls of tea to a quart of boll.
ing water.’ Let stand five minutes,
strain, add two cupfuls of sugar.
hill, add one-half cupful each of or
ange and lemon juice, two cupfuls of
ice water and a pint of ginger ale
Serve with maraschino cherries,
Nernie Magmic