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By NELLIE L. McCLVNG
Autltor of "The Next ot Kin," "Three Timet and Out," etc.
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C9T 18 STAUTS THE STOr.x
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- MOTHBttWBLIi did not want
MS- to go to Mlliford that night.
L of tho harvesters' excursions wna
ni-wes probably in-then-tbere
"'She a wild time. Besides, the two
IS bUBUhworriedher. If Tom had
tti spend it. No, Tom was safer
b, i don't think he', so very bad"
.he sad. '"WVll get tho doctor in the
tSt K he isn't any better. Npw you
J to bed, Pearl, and don't worry your-
Hut Pearl am not ww """,
!.- Mrs. Motherwell and Tom had
. .- i,.lr own rooms, she built
'n.i.- biiphcn fire, and heated n frying
L full of salt, with which she filled
flWr of her own stockings and brought
them to Arthur. She remembered that
Lr mother had done that when. her
f.thcr was sick, and that it had cased
his pain. She drew a pall of fresh water
from tho well, and brought a basinful
L Mm. and bathed his burning face
and hands. Arthur received hor atten
tldns gratefully.
Pearl knew what she would lo. She
would run over and tell Jim. nnd Jim
ftould go for the doctor. Jim would not
Dc in bed yet, she know, and even if
he were, uc wuum ui ........ B.UB UH.
Jim would go to town any time she
wanted anything. One time when she
had 'Bald ait just wished she knew
whether Camilla had her uew Buit made
yet, .lira jumped right up and said he'd
co and sec.
Mrs. Motherwell had goue to her room
very much concerned with her own
troubles. Why should Tom fall into
cll ways? she nsked herself a boy
who had been as economically brought
up ns he was. Other people's boys had
gone wrong, but she had always thought
that the parents were to blame some
nny. Then she thought of Arthur; per
haps he should have tho doctor. She
hail been slow to believe that Polly was
ically Rick and bad had caubc for re
jret. She would bend for the doctor in
tbo morning. Dut what was Pearl do
ing to long in the kitchen? She could
hear her moving around Pearl must
jo to her bed, or sho would not be able
to get up in the morning.
Pearl was just going out of the
kitchen with her nat and cont on when
.Mrs. Motherwell came in.
"Where uro you going, Pearl?" she
asked.
"To git some one to go for the doc
tor." Pearl answered stoutlv.
"Is lie worse?" Mrs. Motherwell
ashed quickly.
"lie can't git worse," Pearl replied
srimly. "If he git worso he'll be dead."
Mrs. Motherwell called Tom at once,
nail told him to bring tho doctor as
soon as ho could.
"Where's my overcoat mother?" Tom
callcil from tho hall.
"Take your father's," eho said, "he
is going to get a now one while he is
in Winnipeg, that one's too small for
lilui now. I put yours outside to air.
It had a queer smell on it I thought,
and now hurry. Tom. Bring Doctor
Ilarner. I think he's the best for a
tirioits case. Doctor Clay is too young.
"Anyway, tho old mau knows far
more than ho does, if you enn only get
Mm eober."
Pearl's heart sank.
"Arthur's ns good as dead," she said,
as she went to the granary, crying soft
lv to herself. "Doctor Clay is the only
man who could save him, and tbcv
won't have him."
The mm had gono down nnd heavy
"I'mkIs filled tho sky. Not n star was
to be seen,, nnd tho night wus growing
darker and darker.
A sound of wheels came from ucrois
"ip creek, coming rapidly down the
roan, 'ilie old dog harked viciously.
V horse driven nt full snerd tlmhivl
thiongh the yard; IVurl ran shouting
after, for even in thf gathering dark
!" she recognized tho ono person In
nil thf world who rould save Arthur.
Hut the wind and tho barking of the
Iop drowned her voice, nnd the sounu
of tlic doctor's wheel grew fuiutcr in
in"1 distance.
Only for a moment was I'enrl dls
nidjed. ,
"I'll catch him coming back," she
-nul, "if I have to tie binding twino
DREAMLAND
THE GREEN FAIRIES
lly DADDY
(Knnrtte writes in Peggy qiking
hrr to "come and sen the fairies play
icilh me." liillu noes icith I'eO'JV.)
CHAPTER II
Tho Magnifying Glass
TTOPPITY-HOP had left his airplane
-"LIurs at homo nnd so had Johnny
Hull. On that account they had to
1'pend upon their own legs to carry
Peggy and Billy to tho plnco where
Nanette was waiting for them. Their
I'cs were fresh, however, nn it was still
very early in the morning, nnd they
raied along so nimbly that it didn't
take them long to come to a little cot
tBO beside n luho. Close to this cottage
as n garden, and in this garden was
n nuio girl on her knees, studying tno
ground with n magnifying glass.
The little girl was plump and sturdy
noking. Her face was shaded by a
nrge sun bonnet, but they could sen
that her skin was colored a healthy
tan. Her legs were bare and her arms
"re brown. .Altogether sho was n
"rv fine-appearlng farmer-girl.
Iloppity-IIop looked buck at Peggy
w'jh a grlu.
'Ask the Httlo farmer girl where wo
'n find Nanette." ho snickered.
I 'gsy did as Hopplty-Hop advised.
I lease, little farmer girl, can you
'fil ur where we can find Nanette?"
ie nsknd.
The Httlo farmer girl looked up from
iyr magnifying gloss nnd stared at
W, and nt Billy who had come rid
,DS up on Johnny BuII'h back. Then,
II ?hl lrrd, tho little girl smiled,
nfu sho giggled, nnd Anally sho laugh
'd out loud.
"Why, I am Nanette," sho answer
" Peggy and Billy gawd at her In
'fprle. She didn't look at all llko
'he pale Nanette they knew. Billy
""JI'Kht some mistake had been made,
. mean Nanette, the sick girl who
J ..in.,,n "ttic," ho explained. Again
V. ' l tie farmer girl smiled nud giggled
nd laughed.
,. J am Nanette, the sick girl who
Uvcd in an attic," she finally managed
,?n"n' between 'giggles nud laughs.
p.i1t..you know mo rn,ry Hilly and
When tbo Httlo farmer girl called
Altera "Fairy Billy" and "Fairy
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ncross the road to tangle up Pleurisy's
long legs. lid's on his way to uowan s,
I know. Ab Cowan has quinsy. Never
mind, Thursa, wo'll get him. I hope
now that tho old doctor is too full to
come oh, no, I don't, cither. I just
hope he's away and Doctor Clay will
have it done before ho gets here,''
"When Tom arrived in Mlliford he
found a great many peqplo thronging
the strccU. One of the Ontario's har
vesters' excursions had arrived a few
hours before,, nnd the "Huron and
Bruce" boys were already making
themselves seen and heard.
Tom went at once to Doctor Darner's
offlco and found that tho doctor was
in nn hour. Not at all displeased at
having soma time to spend, Tom went
back to the gaily lighted front street.
The crowds of men who went in and
out of the hotels seemed to promise some
excitement.
Inside of the Grand Pacific a gramo
phone querulously sang "Any lings,
Any Donea, Any Bottles Today" to a
delighted company of listeners.
When Tom entered ho was received
with the greatest cordiality by tho bar
tender and others.
"Here is life nnd good-fellowship,"
Tom thought to himself, "hero's the
place to have a good time."
"Is your father back yet, Tom?"
tho bartender asked ns ho served a line
of customers.
"He'll come up Monday night, I ex
pect," Tom answered, rather proud of
the attention ho was receiving.
Tho bartender pushed a box of cigars
toward him.
"Have a cigar, Tom," ho said.
"No, thank you," Tom answered,
"not any." Tom could not smoke, but
he drew a plug of chewing tobacco from
his pocket and took a chew, to show
that his sympathies were that way,
"I guess perhaps some of you men
met Mr. Motherwell in Winnipeg. He's
in there hiring men for this locality,"
tno Dartenaer saiu amiably.
"That's the name of the cent that
hired me," said one.
"Me too."
"And me," camo from others. "I'd
no mieniion ot connn' here," n man
from I'alsley said. "I was goln' to
Sourls, until that gent got a bolt of
me, and I thought if be wuz n sample
of the men ye raise here, I'd hike this
way."
"He's lookin' for a treat," the bar
tender laughed. "He's sized you up,
Tom. as a pretty good fellow."
"No, I ain't after no treat," the
Paisley man declared. "That's straight,
what I told you."
Tom unconsciously put his hand in
his cont pocket nnd felt the money his
father had put there. He drew.lt out
wondering. The quick eyes of the bar
tender Haw it at once.
"Tom's getting out his wad, bovs,"
ho laughed. "Nothln' mean about Tom,
you bet Tom's goln' to do somcthin'."
In tho confusion that followed Tom
heard himself baying: ,
"All right boys, come along and name
your drinks."
Tom had a very indistinct memory
pf what followed. He remembered hav
ing a bnmlful of silver, and of trying
to put it In his pocket.
Once when tho hnvn ti'ri nrnndlnc. In
front of tho bar at his invitation he
noticed n miserable, hungry-looking
man, who drank greedily.
. It was Skinner. Then some ono took
h'ni by tho arm nnd said something
about bis having enough, nnd Tom felt
himself being led across a floor that
rose nnd fell strangely, to n black lounge
that tried to slide away from him and
then came back suddenly nnd hit him.
The wind raged und howled with in
creasing vlojcuro around tho granary
where Arthur lay tossing upon his hard
bed. It seized the door und rattled it in
wnnton playfulness, as If to deceive the
sick man with the hope that n friend's
hand was on the latch, und then raced
blustering and screaming down to the
meadows below. Tho fanning mill anu
piles of grain bags made fantastic shad
ows ou the wall In the lantern's dim
light, and seemed to his distorted fanc
like dark nnd terrible specters waiting
to spring upon him.
Pearl knelt down besido him, tenderly
bathing hs burning face.
"Why do jou do all this for me,
Pearl?" ho asked slowly, his volco com
ing thick and painfully.
She changed the cloth on his head be
fore replying.
"Oh, I keep thinkin' it might bo
Teddy or Jimmy or maybe wee Danny,'
who replied gently, "and besides, there's
Tiiursu."
The joung mau opened his eyes uud
smiled bravely.
"Yes, thcie's Thursa," he said
simply.
Pearl kept the tire burning in the
kitchen tho doctor might need hot
water. ' Hho remembered that ho had
needed sheets, too. uud curuolle acid.
when he had operated on her father the
winter before.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW )
ADVENTURES
Peggy." they knew nt once she was
Nanette, even though she had becomo
en strong they necr would have recog
nized her for tho poor. Httlo mltc they
hod found iu the rlty attic.
"That's a good joke on you," laughed
Nanette, nnd Hopplty-Hop snickered.
"Tho fresh air of tho country and all
tho nice, ereamy milk I get to dfluk
hove cured mo. My father nnd mother
nri henlthier and happier, too, nnd we
nro very gjnd we moved from our attic
in tho city."
Peggy and Billy were very glad to
hear this news.
"Did you get my note?" asked
Nanette of Peggy.
"Yes," replied Peggy. "Where arc
the fairies, blithe uud gay, that dance
around you nil the day?"
"Look through this glass and you
shall sec all the fairies that play with
me," answered Nanette, as if she were
speaking poetry at school. She again
bent over tho magnifying glass, which
sho held closo to the ground. Now tho
magnifying glass was only ordinary
size, hut Peggy and Billy bad been
made as tiny as elves by blowing into
liopplty-Hop's left car. Because of
this the magnifying glubs seemed to
them as largo us the mouth of a well.
When they leaned over tho edge, they
were astonished to find themselves
looking into what seemed to be fairy
land, with a lot ot green fairies smiling
up at them and throwing them klsies,
"Why, what pretty creatures! Who
aro they?," cried Peggy.
"They arc tho growing fairies,"
answered Nanette, "Look out or you
will tumblo on ton of them." .
Nauetto spoko just too late. Peggy
in her surprise ut the sight sho beheld
In tho glass, leaned over too far. Kite
lost her balance and went tumbling
Into the magnifying glass. And then
sho got auothcr surprise, for the glns
didn't M'l'in to be u glawi ut all, but
just a circle of water through which
sho plunged head over heels.
Billy grabbed at her foot, but he
couldn't stop her. Instead Billy
tumbled Into tho glass after ucr.
(Tomorrow will be told tehat hap
pens in the land lencath the magnify'
ing glass,)
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