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By LUROY SCOTT
Author of "No. It WttihinBlm flguare." "ilaru neocn,"
etc.
trlntctl by f.iclat Arrangement with
HouBliloii. MiminJo.
roiijfljhl, IDIflby iVroy tkotl
A Meeting In (lie Night
TlTHAT could (Slim vv,anl with her oul
l' there upon the-drive' Undoubtedly
to wreak upoti her, In the dork, alone
ttio retaliation which ho had so straugo
lj' Vlthhcld n few minutes suie lu the
library. And what form would HllruS
retaliation tnl.i7- slim n.i. ,..ir,,t
it , the polished, tho cyulcnl nud (us sho
uv BiuveriuRiy rciuiiuucrcd) tin; Httlft
1? relcntlcstV
Hut whatever ungucssublo thing ho
Bright do to her, Jennie knew sho dated
not dlsobej that summons. Hhe ill ess-
-. uini, minting Mire inui me House
., ugolu tmict, she slipped donu-stalrs
- iirni uui upon tne drive. Tho sky lind
clouded over; the night had grown ho
(lark that It wus like a blink bandage
i tipou tho ejen. .She would huve bien
J lost hud the not known the grounds.
j Sho tTOMUcd to the grassy border of the
'l!C'.ml beneath the gnat elms wlilili
t couw not ee, luit wliiih slic Knew
died Interlneliinlv uhnvn her. uln
ere tit tdleullv tnunr.l tin. tiim.n Mil...
huif nppointcd. w
She had reached It and lun) stood
there several moments, striving to mute
her breath, before she dislntcircd from
tho general gloom tho faint outlines
of a long, low object. Slim's ear he
judged It to be. As she started toward
it. her feet scraping from the blue
stono of the drive, a hushed voice spoke
out J
"Jennie?"
"Ye," she whispered.
"Como to the front of the ear. I'm
alone, In the driver's scat. There you
are. Now give mo your hand.
.Tcnnlc regarded with fear the dim
Bhouldcrs and head, "What for?"
"Give mo jour hand."
Tbo voice waa plensant, velvety. Hut
SHm's tone, no more than bis smile,
was never nwindlcntlnn of his purpose.
Yet sho dared not refuse.
Ills hand closed upon hers and he
drew her to the running board of the
car. "I simply couldn't go away, Jen-ale,-"
said the pleasant voice, "with
out congratulating jou on the clever
gamo you put across."
She was afrnid of him, but she could
aot stuml the suspense. "Come to the
point. Slim." sin; snld sharply. "What
are jou going to do to me? To con
gratulate mo was not what you got inc
out here for."
"Perhaps not." There came a s,oft
laugh. "Let's put it another wav.
thous let's say 1 couldn't leave until
Tvc, una congratulatcti each other ou
the clever game we both put across."
"Wo both put across?" she ex
claimed.
"Of course. You'ic smart, Jennie
but jou surply don't think you could
put anv thing of that sort over ou me
unless I rcnllv -wanted you to."
"Win- why " Sho was too
taken .abnek to speak.
lie laughed at her dumfoundment:
though low, it was a laugh of very real
and cMiltaut nmuscmcut.
"Ton don't unite get it, do vnu. Jen
and you don't believe me? Well, for
a starter, just listen to this: When I
went out on tho lawn with Gloria this
evening i was certain ton would fol
low. And when I pulled that flash
and turned It on the bushes it was to
make cc tain thut vou were nmoug
those present and had an orchestra
-chair, -where you wouldn't miss n line
-ot the dialogue. Of course, I told Glo
ria there was nobody."
lie chuckled with sclf-doliitht. "Hut
Stooncd loW" behind 11 IiiikIi T linil nnnn
JMJss' Jennie Miller Mnlottc holding n
ii' pair of silver- slipper. "
'Slim Jackson I" she breathed.
"Now. waf T sitting In the game nil
the white with a big stack of chips, or
wasn't I?" he demanded with Jils
chuckle.
Ever thing was whirling to her; she
had us ot but a faint glimmering of
What must have been the truth.
"If you Knew if jou were in it--Whv
didn't -vou tell me when I first
spoke about Gloria?"
Again same his soft chuckle of self
delight. "I thought of that, Jennie.
But I decided I couldn't trust you. I
jtfi -was niraiu jou inignt nave got some
new-iangicu notion tnnt vtouiu mnKe
jou balk nt the idea that came to me.
I saw that the only sure way to get
you tg net and to put the thing ucross
wis to make you think jou were dis
covering Romethini and that it was all
on ,the level never to let you sus
pect, until the thing was done, that it
va a)l it little frame-up."
a A, frame-up t breathed Jennie.
ft 'lit was and it wasn't." answered
jf Blim's amused voice. "I'd done that
(j ilort1 of thing with Gloria bcfoie. I
A 4lict' rlM if npntn tni Trnn,. rtt.nor.iul
rl-'"&,t .w - ., . .,... .(-...(.(
'I benefit, making sure that you would
i he suspicious and -would watch and
heing dead sure just how you would
net. And It worked almost exactly as
I figured!"
"Hut but why did you dcJ It?"
lie pressed the hand ho stilt held.
"Tor jour sake, my child. I saw that
what jou said was true: that if you
could break off matters between Uloria
and Kenneth it would bo it big boost
for you with Mrs. Harrison. And 1
wanted jou to have that big boost.
Honest r
''And -was that yqur only reason?"
she demanded sharply.
"Isn't that enough for little old
Slim Jackson? The higher an old
friend goes the better it Is for me
Isn't that so?" He laughed ome more.
"Oh, I'm not going to lie to jou, Jen
nle. I hud otl r rcrsontu hut I'm not
going to tell jou not now. Same as
with tonight's little affair, 1 think It's
wisest not to tell jou what s doing
until after U'k done. Vcs. I hall other
tcasons big" reasons nu you 11 know
when the time comes."
She wns still bewildered. "Hut
Kenneth thinks jou have betrayed him.
Yon have throwu.nwny his friendship.
"Kenneth feel sole ut me now. Hut
u little later he'.ll care less for Gloria
and will be glad he escaped her and
it'll get to, him that I did what I did
with the Allot idea of saving him
itml he'll like. :ne better than ever.
Wu lust watch that'M the way Its
going to work out!"
"And Gloria?"
"We needn't waste any good worry
on Gloria. Tonight'll never be talked
about, aild It'll not hurt her any. That
girl simply can't help making men
make love to her and that same goes
for a lot ot these young society dames.
They don't care a lot for any one man
but each one wants n bunch of men
making love to her. They like it it
Hatters 'cm they're manf-crazy and
each man's a sort of souvenir. I guess
I ought to know! ' As for
GloriS, tonight'll not hurt mo n bit
with her. She just thinks we were
both caught together. Gloria and I 11
be just as good f riends as ever-
Jennie was so dazed with this sud
den behind-the-scenes view of whnt
sho had considered to be wholly her
own righteous plan, so bewildered with
Sllm's jocular and cynical self-appreciation,
that she stood thcro beside the
car utterly without words.
"And I say, Jen," the light voice
went on, "that letter was a swell for
gerv. You certainly arc still all right
with the pen! That littfe knack will
totno in useful some day you see! He
laughed softly once more. That s alt
I wanted to sec jou about. Jen I Just
wanted jou to know that I was sitting
in this game with you. And, Jennie
remember mv saying four years ago
down nt the Tckln, that we were going
to put n lot of things across together
jou and I? As yet you don t sec how
big this stunt tonight renlly Is and is
going to be. And tonight s stunt is
only the beginning for us two, .Tcnnlt
only a nnro sinner i uwu im-n., u..
and good-by."
Almost noiselessly his low car moved
forward into the cngulHng blackness.
She stood motionless for a space, his
chuckle of cjnical delight and sclf
Milisf action still sounding In her ears.
Then she crept back into tho house and
into her bed. All the exulting triumph
which had swelled within her only a
brief half-hour before, when Mrs. Har
rison had taken her bo warmly Into
her arms and had so praised bcr with
words from u spontaneous heart that
was all gone. The glory had departed
from her achievement; nud huddled In
her bed slid felt humiliated and very
small and very sick
Also that night, for the first time
in her life, she felt afrnid of Slim
Jackson.
When she came down tho next morn
ing Gloria had already departed, and
no mention was mado of her name. Ken
neth had also gone, and when Mr. Har
rison came home that evening he brought
word that Kenneth had left for the
West, to be gone an indefinite time.
The explanation made at tho table was
that his purpose was to examine some
mining properties in -which Harrison
& Co. thought of acquiring f.n inter
est; but every one knew that Kenneth
had gone for quite .another reason.
Mrs. Harrison's gratitude and her
fiank affection, spoken most warmly
that morning and thereafter, expressed
in some way every time they met, Jen
nie inwardly shrank from as she also
did from the spontaneous outbursts ov
Sue. A Bcnse ot guilt rested heavily
upon her: slm felt that she deserved
none of this. Somehow Slim seemed,
ns if by those adroit hands of, his, to
have snatched away all the genuine
ness, the sincerity, that had been in
the act which they were over declar
ing had saved tnera nit irom misfor
tune. . And yet Jennie dared refuse
or avoid none 6f their gratitude and
none of their affection. To have re
fused would have created surprise,
would huve required explanation and
explanation might lead somehow to ex
posure. There was nothing for it but
to accept the situation.
(CONTINUED 'TOMOnitOW)
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Cost ot Living Problem for the test of the Family -: fly Fontaine Fox
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
IIU DADDY
"THE CHRISTMAS TREASURE" f
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(Thn iniiitrr riihhiln inLn Prnnit.
lJihly and Jtitlye Owl to the Under
ground t try tcicio jJaddv Mole guarus
tiurtta treasure, uaaay moid turns
judge and leniences tho children to
flap there and icatch over the gild.
The tabbtts run away.)
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HAT'S the use of a chest of gold
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i 11. jvu vuu i. iiu mijuiuiK niui it
(lut look at it?" asked Billy Belgium,
gaping disgustedly nt the buried treas
ure -which Daddy Mole had sentenced
them to guard while lib Blept.
l ''I'd rather havo tt piece of mlnco nle
fright now,1' answered Peggy, who wns
beginning to grow hungrv.
'"That's what I say," hooted Judge
Owl. "I never did have any use for
acold and silver; and see what n fix il
lias gotten us into."
Billy, who had no Idea of stuylng
shut up underground If there was any
way to get out, felt of the -nulls care
fully seeking the mysterious stono door
which had shut them in and then -vanished.
Tho walls, wero all of smooth
dirt, with here and there a large stone,
but not one of tho stones looked like
door, and uot one would stir, no mut
ter bow hard ho pushed nt it. Mvcn
the little closets in which the moles had
eono to sleep were no longer visible,
incept for the chest of gold thn cellar
was' bare, and they wero the only per
sons In it.
"Whoo! Wlioul I call this a pesky
jnean trick of those soung rabbits to
coax us here and then run away,"
liooted Judge Owl. "This is their re
venge because I was in my younger days
Jt rabbit-eating owl."
' Peggy didu't believe this of tho young
Rabbits. Johnnv Habbit, Pinky Kabbit
8nd Bunny Babbit had all seemed so
grateful for being saved from tho dogs,
bt couldn't think them guilty of so
banc it plot.
; Billy didn't think It of them, cither.
''Nqnsense,'1 he nuswercd Jud(,e Owl.
"They scooted when thev had n chance
to penal, and we would have done the
antiy tt we hud had any idea of what
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Jl.tiT going N(0, happc;,,"
Peggr, Middoly granpfd BlIIv by
ears had heard an unusual sound. la
the silence, the sound grow louder. It
was like a muffled scraping and scuf
fling, "What can it be?" whispered
Peggy.
"Some one digging," answered Billy.
"Can it be a miner?" asked Peggy.
Billy held up a finger to hush her, and
listened intently. With tho scraping
and scuffling, thcro wail now tho sound
of snuffling nnd snorting.
"It is not a man-miner," whispered
Billy. "It's some kind of an nnfmul
iniuer." "Maybe it's n rat coming to eat us
up." hooted Judge Owl,
It did sound like u rat, and as bits of
earth began to drop into the cellar,
showing that the digger was near, Billy
jumped in front of Peggy to protect
her.
Scrape, snuffle, snuffle, shout) The
miner was just outsldo the w ult. Plunk I
Out dropped it bit of earth and n pair
of furiously digging paws flushed
through. The paws drew back and
bristling whlskcra took their place as
tho animal-miner peeked into the cellar.
Then the furious digging began again,
aud in another instant Futuer Babbit
popped out of the hole. Itigbt behind
him was Mother Babbit, und right be
hlud bcr were Johnny Kabbit, Pinky
Kubblt and Bunny Babbit. Peggy had
been right and Judge Owl had been
wrong tho young rabbits had not do
sorted fhem. They bad just gone for
help.
"My, that was hard work," snorted
Father BabblU "Now, if you queer
toy-folks will tako all the gold you
want, wo -will hasten to our cabbage
breakfast,"
But Peggy hud changed bcr mind
about taking tho buried gold,
"This gold doesn't belong to us," she
said, "ft isn't like the free gold that
miners tiud: some ono baa burled Ir.
Jiere."
"Of course, soma one buried ithere,"
snorted Futhcr Babbit. "He did it on
it midnight dreary, nnd X, watched hltn
from behind a tree as ho did it. It's a
story of darkness and robbers. Would
jou like to hear it?"
In t tomorYow's chapter Father
RaTtbtt tell He teoret of ilia hurled
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The young lady across the way
says she didn't expect the world to
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