AN Choose Margarzt Weymouth Jackson Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co, 3 * WNU Service . ARAAAAAWAAAE CHAPTER XV Pe Some Day Dut the day was not over for Ernes- tine. She left Will at the bank. His coat pocket was stuffed with the packet of bills the teller had given them, and her bank balance was re- duced to three figures. But that didn’t matter, Not g bit. She was a million times richer- than she had been the day before. The bankbook figures would fatten again. She wished she had her car, but, lacking it, she went across to Sheridan road, took a bus north, rode almost to Devon, left the bus and went to Lil tian’'s. Nobody answered the bell, but the door was unlocked, so Ernestine walked In. The house was silent, but she was Instantly aware of the fact that some one was in it. She called, but no one answered. She went through into the kitchen. The maid's bedroom was off the kitchen and the door stood open. Ernestine went In there and saw that the room wore an unoccupied look. She opened the closet door. The hooks were empty. The mald had left, or had been dis. missed, She was still under the domination of her deep self, and, as she had been governed in Will's office an hour or so earlier by forces she did not under stand, so now she went quickly up the stairs, through the silent house and into the big front bedroom where Lil- lian and Loring slept. The cover showed the Impress of a body, the pil- low had been drawn out from under the spread. She looked swiftly about and was not at all surprised to see Loring standing against the wall, be. tind her, one hand behind his back. His coat collar was turned up across the back, his hair was in dis- order, he was unshaved, and one cheek was a deep Imprint where his sleeve, or his pillow, had creased his flesh, Ernestine went to him her hand, “Give it to me,” she sald sternly, as she might have addressed Peter, Loring stared at her sulkily for a moment, his haggard eyes taking on a belated vitality. Then, silently, but with a shrug and a grimace, he drew from behind him a small nickel-plated revolver and put it In her band. Ernes- tine crossed the room, opened the win- «dow and flung it far away into the water of the lake that breathed against the sandy beach. She turned back to Loring, closed the window and dusted her hands, “That's that,” she said, with a gleam in her eyes. “What did you think that was going to do for you?” He dragged himself away from the wall and sank down Into a chalse fongue. With a kind of groan Loring hid his face in his hands and sat there like a broken man, “l didn't know till this afternoon.” he said. “But the grand jury—" “That's all right, Loring" Ernestine, “That's fixed.” “Fixed? he said hoarsely, and fooked up at her, his expression a little wild. “You don’t understand. They've got me seven ways." “Not now,” she said, thinking how strange It was that he could never know about Pastano, and about the twenty thousand dollars. “Will fixed It,” she sald gently, “You know, he has friends who told him. Will fixed it for yon, Loring. He could—there are men downtown who would do anything for Will, He knows the ropes” Loring's head fell forward again. “I'm a failure,” he muttered. “A complete fallure—and now Will pulls me out of the rubbish heap. I've been here in the house all afternoon, trying to screw myself up to do one decent thing—to get myself out of the way before all this falls on the rest of you, and I couldn't even do this.” “Of course you couldn't. You're too perfectly healthy. You've been a fool perhaps—Ilike the rest of us, but you aren't crazy, and only insane people are capable of welf-destruction. Look, Loring, yon can start again. Why, men sometimes have to start” again when they're old. Lots of men fail once-—or twice-—and then succeed. You can start back and rebuild your father's old business. What if you have to let the house and the ear go --it's a small price for a new start. P'astano will let you alone, as long as you stay off of his preserves, Lillian's got her money. Will and I are going to start new.” He looked up at her—eager to be comforted as a child Is eager to be comforted—eanger to believe her, com- ing back, slowly and painfully, from the dark places of fright and mad ness, “But Lilllan"~he sald, protesting, arguing, as mortal man always argues, on the wrong side—"Lillian's going to have a baby--that was what sickened ACTIONS and held out sald me on all that old business—I'd been sick of it, anyhow, and when I knew I might have a son-—I had to get clear. I told her to go to New York, last week, but she wouldn't. She's stuck to me, Ernestine. I never believed she would, I thought she was a fair- weather wife, I've always thought it, But she's been wonderful, She let her mald go, and she's been doing her own housework, She sold her car and brought me the money. She wrote to her father to let her have her trust fund outright, Now she's going out looking for a flat. That's all right— but when I thought of prison—und Lil- lian’s baby coming in all that trouble, it seemed that the best thing I could do would be to get out. If I were gone, she'd go home to her mother, and perhaps no one would know, I'm all caved In about Lillian, about the way she's taken it" “Why, Loring” sald Ernestine, and laughed shakily, “Lillian adores you always did. She loves you. When you've just found out how much she cares, you contemplate leaving her. What a way to figure, If that's not like a man!" They talked a little. Ernestine sat down on the dressing table, flung her hat upon Lilllan's bed and talked to him. She told him of the new plans she and Will had made, Gradually he relaxed, came back to normal. He reached up and turned his coat collar down and put up a hand and smoothed his hair. After a little he got up and shook his big body. “I believe I'll go and shave,” he sald. “I'm & fright. You won't tell Lillian or Will about this afternoon?” “Why should I tell them? It would just scare them both. Have you had iunch “No, I don’t think so; no, I didn't.” “Neither did I. I'll go downstairs and fix some coffee and sandwiches while you're shaving." From the kitchen she could hear him moving about; then she heard the front door open and the click of the latch. She went to the hall, and Ll. lian saw her. Lillian came back to the kitchen. “You didn't answer the phone, so I came over—Lorrie’'s upstairs. He said he hadn't eaten"”"—she made a gesture to the preparations on the table. Lillian nodded absently. “Ernestine,” she sald softly, quickly, “I'm going to have a baoy." Ernestine Kissed her. “I'm awfully glad™ “Did you know about all of Loring’s trouble?” “Will told me some—Loring's told me the rest—but the worst Is over for him now." “Poor kid," sald Lillian. against the door a moment and smiled at her younger sister, It seemed to Ernestine that since she had last seen i She leaned er, the hard surface had dissolved from Lillian. “Isn't it funny? Now everything is different. I used to wonder how you could go ahead when things were =o hard. jut it's not so the thick of it, as it seems from the side. lines, Just to know the baby's coming makes all this mess of Loring's seem so unimportant—I don't care what ar- rangements we make. Oh, Ernestine, there have been times when I thought Loring loved you more than he did me, but these last few days he's been s0 sweet to me—so worried about me. He's humbled—it makes my heart ache. 1 can’t tell you how I feel ™ “lI guess 1 know,” Ernestine an- swered. “It's this business of mar. riage—hut go on up to him, darling, and get him to eat something. All this will straighten itself out” Lillian went up the stairs. Standing in the hall, looking after her, Ernes. tine realized that these sorrows were blessings—these were the things that bound a man and a woman together. his would break for ever Loring's old fixed idea about herself, and Lil. lian's bellef that she had married for her own advantage. This would leave them close together, warm, heart to heart. She turned the gas low under the coffee-pot, spread a napkin over the sandwiches she had fixed and slipped quietly out of the house. Perhaps Will was at home, and she would eat with him. As she walked she began to plan all the new life. Her practical, efi. cient mind set itself with vigor upon the new problems. The removal to the lake—the need of a studig there for Will, the possibility of adjusting their life to changeable Income. But Will was so active—he would doubt. less have all the work he could do, within a year or two, Some day he would be famous, and he would find the world willing to pay for beauty as well as wit, She walked more quickly—eager to be home, the young blood singing in her heart, Some day (THE END.) ! i bad in Writer Would Go Limit in State Abbreviations The abbreviation used for Ohio is “0.” Apparently Oklahoma and Ore. gon do not object. But there are six states whose names begin with letters which are not the first letters of the names of any of the other states, These states are: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Utah, Why not use D, F, G, L, P and U for the abbreviations In those cases? Also, West Virginia is the only "West" state, Bo why not simply use “W, Vv.” instead of the usual “WW, Va"? The only reason for abbreviations In the first place is the desire to save time and space. Then why not save all the time and space possible, or else use the full name? Why fuss with “Pa” and “Penn.” and “Penna” when “P.” would fill the bIll?—Worcester Telo- gram, IR SR Sweet Clover Is Not Dangerous External Bleeding Is First Indication of Presence of Disease. (By J. W. LUMB, Extension Veterinar- lan, Kansas State Agricultural College.) There is apparently small danger of sweet clover disease occurring from pasturing cattle on sweet clover, At least no fatalities have occurred in Young cattle pastured on this plant for experimental purposes. The specific cause of the disease Is not known, The agent, whatever It might be, causes a destruction of the normal condition of the blood that leads to the escape of blood from the vessels, Symptoms of Disease. Symptoms of sweet disease are first noticed when the animal be gins to show signs of external bleed- ing. It may take place from one or both nostrils and at first be barely noticeable. Swellings may be noticed Just under the skin on any part of the body on one or more of the young cattle, A stiff gait or lameness may appear, The appetite is usually good. The animal retains its normal flesh as | compared with the rest of herd. | The temperature is normal in the first stage of the disease and becomes { subnormal as the | and bleeding Into the body tissues and cavities takes place. The pulse and | respiration remain about normal un- til the disease is well advanced. clover the disease progresses With sweet clover disease, the anl- mals virtually bleed to death the blood having lost its clotting pow- er and escaping into the tissues under the skin Into the body cavities, or ex- ternally, through the natural openings. Best Treatment. Drug treatment usually results In | failure, Veterinarians usually can save all animals sick cept those which are found in a dying state. The treatment used by veterl- {| narians and found to be practical is the transfusion of fresh whole blood from normal animals which have not | been fed sweet clover hay. A variety of preventive | teay be used, One is to use rabbits in due to with this discase ex- measures | testing the hay to see If the molds and | spoilage present are | ducing kind. If it Is necessary to feed | damaged sweet hay, It i be fed In extremely or at very short intervals | or more weeks, Ani | been fed sweet clover hay { be operated on in any | days or longer after having been taken pif this feed. the disease pro- clover ghoul 301 way for 20 | Plan to Keep Rodents Out of All Buildings Attention to buildings where winter { supplies of feeds will be can | prevent much damage of and rats, according to G. C. Oderkirk, Pur- due university. All bulldings should be while they are empty to see If there are cracks or holes which permit the rats or mice hiding places. Sheet tin can be used to good advantage to make bins and cribs rat proof. Corn cribs need probably most at- tention, ralsing the floor a foot or so above the ground and cleaning thor oughly under it. Concrete floors are desirable but where impractical, sheet fron can be used to keep out the rats and mice. Openings around water pipes offer easy access to the house and a little tin and cement can eliminate them. Screen on basement windows does much to keep out rodents, Storing of old lumber, boxes and such material should always be at least a foot or more off the ground. Honey contains a small amount of protein, which most sweets do not. » * - stored mice inspected The white pine weevil has been in the eastern United States as long as the tree If attacks, - - . Forest trees have just as many In. gect and fungus enemies as orchard trees and fleld plants, . Honey, due to its hygroscopic qual- ities, keeps cake and honey cookery moist for a long time. » - . Cattle should be protected from flies by the application of some one of the oily solutions made for that purpose, . * . Toe maintain the alfalfa stand and keep It strong and free fromm grass and weeds allow it te approach full bloom before cutting, * * » Alfalfa should not be pastured the first year, and only lightly the second year, if the long life of the stand Is the main consideration, - » - The use of unadapted alfalfa seed Jeopardizes the chances of getting ad- equate returns from the money spent in seeding an alfalfa crop. . - » When culling hens, coloring, con- formation, progress of the molt and other factors should be considered to make culling more accurate, . "0. It cost, on the average, 13.7 cents a can to cool milk with ice on 22 New York farms, On 101 farins with elec: tric coolers the cost was 11.4 cents a wn. Building Good Fruit and Vegetable Store To Have Products Keep Well Special Room Needed. Before the day of concrete cellars and furnaces most any dirt-floored basement was a good fruit and vege table storage. Now to have products keep well a special storage room should be built in the corner of the basement, says Prof. Robert M. Adams of the Cornell Agricultural college at Ithaca, N. Y. A corner room can be made cheap est because it needs but two addi tional walls, These should be double, of boards or of wallboard nailed on each side of two-by-fours, leaving an alr space, A dirt floor is to be ferred but if concrete it should be wet down often to keep the air moist, A window is best in the north wall, Vegetables fall Into four classes as to their temperature and moisture re- quirements, First, those that like cool molst storage, These are beets, car- rots, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, sal- sify, winter radishes and celery. Others want cool conditions but not enough moisture to collect on the product ; and potatoes come here, One crop Is In a group by itself requiring cool but dry storage that Is onions. Three products dry but warmer conditions: pumpkins, squashes and tatoes, Apples keep best with molst alr and low temperature so they can be stored pre- cabbage these are sweet pos ment floor. room, preferably with a dirt Plan to Save Labor in Filling Average Silo The small crew plan Is essentially Inbor saving In filling =ilo. Only two men Are necessary to fill. Wi vator two loads may be cut and put on the racks without hard labor of pitching the hand Tho loads the silo and run through the cutter as KR tnkes only a minute to start the tractor which furnishes the helt power, or to turn which starts an electric the bundles by fire then drawn to the switch motor, Experiments at some of colleges and practical experience have proved that tramping for keeping the is not necessary and in many eliminated, sliage has been it necessary cases this job Neither is to have a at the feed table of the modern ensil- age cutter Another plan which is often used Is to have one man running hinder, it ix not the when equipped with an ele. under. man has cutter with a low-geared or slung rack. When the first enough corn cut ahead he hiteh onto a second rack and start hanling also. Ten to fifteen loads of fodder may can and the regular be easily ensiled in a day work done the same as any season's job, Best Time to Cut Soy Beans to Use for Soil Soy beans grown as a green manure erop should be plowed under at the blossom stage to Insure the maximum soil Improvement, the United States Department of Agriculture has found. Soy beans blossom in from 30 te 0) days after planting, depending on the variety, time of planting, and soll and climatic conditions. Most of the nitrogen has been gathered In the plant by blossom time. About the maximum amount of organic matter has been produced and the plant is still tender and juicy enough to de. cay within 35 to 45 days. If allowed to grow longer, the plant becomes woody and decays slowly. The crop should be covered by about three inches of soil, so the plants will have sufficient soil moisture even in droughts to decay. If coyered with less soll, decay may be retarded by lack of moisture; If deeper, alr will be ex- cluded and decay retarded. Poison for Rodents Is Particularly Favored Where rabbits, particularly jack rab bits, are very troublesome they may be trapped, while mice may be killed by poisoning. For making a poison biat, many orchardists have had good success with the use of squash or pumpkin seeds, chopped or cut into pleces and soaked in a solution of strychnine. The chopped seeds are placed in tin cans, drain tiles or other small containers underneath the trees where the mice can get at them. This keeps the bait away from birds, poul- try, or farm animals, as well as pro- tecting it from the weather. If squash or pumpkin seeds are not available, wheat or other grain kernels may be used for making the bait, Cause Bees to Cluster Apparently noise does not cause swarming bees to cluster. As a rule, all swarms cluster soon after issuing from the hive and before leaving for a new home, although there are some exceptions. The custom of beating pans and ringing bells when a swarm issues is an old one that has been handed down through centuries. It is sald that the original purpose was to notify neighbors so that if the swarm should leave the premises, the one making the nolse would have a legal right to the bees. Later the custom was followed on the theory that mak ing a noise would cause the bees to cluster, Daring Aviation Feat of Twenty Years Ago Hanging like a huge kite 8,000 feet fihove the Chieago municipal airport, a cabin monoplane, with Howard Stark, airmail pilot, at the stick, re- cently remained stationary for al- most an hcur, A mile-a-minute gale was blowing at that altitude, and by throttling down his motor Stark kept the speed of his plane equal to that of the wind so that i hovered over one spot, The feat so-called “suicide flight” in 1910 of the daring French airman, Hubert Latham, At an air meet at Blackpool England, Latham took up his small plane In an 80-mile gale, The frail craft reared and plunged, carried by the force of the wind, In what early alr enthusiasts still remember as the most thrilling Night they ever wit- nessed, Latham, who had been told | “indigestion” have only an acid by doctors that he had only a few | condition which could be corrected months to live and who took up fly-| in five or ten minutes. 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