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The Honeymoon House
By HAZEL DALE
By Hazel J>alo
Jarvis' reception of the whole mat
ter somewhat soothed Janet's pride.
She decided, on the way home from
the magazine office, to tell him the
entire story; and he did not laugh—
just nodded his head sagely.
"Why do you do that boy?" Janet
queried. "You act as if you know
something that X don't know any
thing about."
"Oh, no," Jarvis said quickly. "I
have simply jumped to a conclusion
that has not occurred to you; that's
all."
"About Mr. Lowry?"
"Surely. Don't you see what it all
means?"
Janet shook her head slowly. She
had been too harshly treated to get
over the humiliation of the thing,
and her wrath and injured pride
were still uppermost.
"Well, in my estimation, Lowry is
deep. You see, Janet, you are not
like the ordinary girl, and he is too
clever not to know it. Therefore he
knows that he must play his cards
carefully so as not to frighten you
away."
"Why, Jarvis More! You don't
mean that he has done this on pur
pose?"
Jarvis did not answer, just grin
ned meaningly.
This possibility did a great deal to
cheer Janet's spirits. It opened up a
new avenue of thought, and the
more Janet thoilght about it the
more plausible s" n med the next ex
planation, There was no reason in
the world why Mr. Lowry should act
the way he did unless he was trying
to put her off the track of his real
intentions. '■Surely the day she had
lunched with him he had been more
than interested, he had been deferen
tial; then why should he suddenly
treat her like a green office boy?
No one had ever treated her that
way; even her beginning with the
Chronicle had never- subjected her
to unpleasant treatment when she
hadn't been known at all.
Janet thought at first that she
would never got over the humiliation
of the thing. It rankled in her mind,
no matter what measures she took
to forget it. but a few days makes
a great difference in a matter of
this kind, and Janet was too voung
and too happy to remember an un
pleasant circumstance forever, par
ticularly when she was not at all
inclined to be morbid.
Her work with the paper w*nt on
smoothly enough, but after all it was
not so very confining, and Janet was
ambitious to do more. She looked
over the stories that Mr. Lowry had
given back to her, and for the life
of her could not see where they could
he altered. The marks made by
Mr. Lowry's secretary on the one
manuscript .Tanet looked over care
fully, but she did not make any
change. Somehow, her own way
seemed better. It was not at all that
Janet was conceited about her ability
and could not see faults in her work:
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it was that she honestly had done her
best with the stories as she could
not change them unless some one
who knew better than she did con
vinced her of the fact that they
were not good.
If Mr. Lowry had told her lilm
i self that the stories could be Im
proved and told her why, Janet
would have cheerfully changed the
text; but the fact that his secretary
had marked corrections with a blue
pencil meant nothing to Janet. She
did not intend to submit the story
anyway, no matter how much she
i wanted to sell it. Hadn't Mr. Lowry
gone out of his way to ask her for
it? She hadn't tried m any way to
j get him to accept her work.
One day, about a week later, when
the incident had faded into the back
of Janet s mind, and she only re
membered it with an occasional
sharp twinge of memory, she sat
in the studio working. Jarvis was
busy, too, and it was raining heavily
outside. They had drawn back the
draperies and the studio was Hooded
with light from the skylight, it look
ed very cosy and homelike, and
Janet looked up occasionally to
notice everything with a little sigh
of contentment.
Into this quiet and peace came
the harsh jangle of the telephone
bell. Janet, who was nearest it, hur
ried to answer, and a strange voice
spoke to her across the wire. Jt was a
woman's voice and it said briskly:
"Hello, is this Mrs. Moore? This
is Mr. Lowr/s secretary, Miss Fiske.
Mr. Lowry would like to know when
you will have that story ready."
Janet had just a moment to gather
together her scattered wits, then she
said sweetly: \
"Did you make the corrections on
my story. Miss Fiske?"
"Yes 1 did at Mr. Lowry's sugges
tion."
"Well I should be very glad if you
would tell Mr. Lowry that so far I
cannot see where those corrections
make the story any better. If he
would like to talk it over with me
perhaps 1 could be convinced."
"Just a minute," came the voice
over the telephone, and then, "Mr.
Lowry will see you any time you can
arrange to come in, Mrs. More."
Janet hung up the receiver and
Hew across to Jarvis. "Was I all right,
boy? You see I decided that what
1 wanted was to sell the story, and
if 1 can do that, I'll forget about
the rest."
"You're rather young and entirely
too inexpensive to talk that way to
an editor," Jarvis chuckled, "and you
haven't a reputation either. He
wouldn't stand for it at all if he
didn't think you attractive.
"That may be true," sai<t Janet,
promptly, "and I took advantage of
just that fact. Do you suppose that
any editor, no matter how busy
and important, would have been so
rude to me? No, Jarvis, not even if
my work had been impossible, and I
don't thing it is quite that."
To Be Continued
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He Spain WOITICS,
They parted that, evening under
the shadow of Music mountain,
agreed to meet in Calabasas just as
soon as Nan could get away. She
hoped, she told him, to bring good
news. De Spain arranged his busi-j
ness to wait at Calabasas for her,
arid was there, after two days, doing
little but waiting and listening to
McAlpin's stories about the tire and
surmises as to strange men that
lurked in and about the place. But
De Spain, knowing Jeffries was mak
ing an independent investigation into
the affair, gave no heed to McAlpin's
suspicions.
To get away from tlie barn boss,
De Spain took refu-ge in riding. The
season was drawing on toward win
ter, and rain clouds drifting at in
tervals down from ilic mountains
made the saddle a less dependable
escape from ihe monotony of Cala
basas. Several days passed with no
sfght of Nan and no word from her.
De Spain, as the hours and days went
by, scanned the horizon with in
creasing solicitude. When he woke
on the , sixth morning, he was re
solved ro send a scout into the gap
to learn what he could of the situa
tion. The long silence, De Spain
knew, portended nothing good. He
sent to the stable for Bull Page.
The shambling barnman, sum
moned gruffly by McAlpln, hesi
tated as he appeared at the office
door and seemed to regard the situ
ation with suspicion. He looked at
|De Spain tentatively, as if ready
either for the discharge with which
he was daily threatened or for a
renewal of his earlier, friendly rela
tions with the man who had been
queer enough to make a place for
him. De Spain set Bull down be
fore him in the stuffy little office.
"Bull," he began with apparent
frankness, "I want to know how you
like your job."
Wiping his mouth guardedly with
liis hand to play for time and as an
introduction to a carefully worded
reply. Bull parried. "Mr. De Spain,
I want to ask yoy just one question."
"Go ahead. Bull."
Bull plunged promptly Into the
suspicion uppermost in his mind.
"Has that slat-eyed, flat-headed, sun
sapped sneak of a Scotchman been
complalninK of my work? That, Mr.
De Spain," emphasized Bull, lean
ing forward, '.'is what I want to
know first—ls it a fafr*question?"
"Rull," returned De Spain with
correspondlne and ceremonial em
phasis, "it is a fair question be
tween man and man. 1 admit it: it
is a fair question. And 1 answer,
no, Bull. McAlpin has had nothlns
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on the face of the desert to do with
my sending for you. And I add this
because I know you want to hear
it; he says he couldn't complain of
your work, because yon never do
any."
"That man," persisted Bull, re
enforced by the hearty tone and not
clearly catching the drift of the very
last words, "drinks more liquor than
1 do."
"He must be some tank. Bull." ■
"And 1 don't hide it, Mr. De
Spain."
"You'd have to crawl under Music!
mountain to do that. What I want
to know is, do you like your job?"
On this point it was impossible to
get an expression from Bull. He felt
convinced that De Spain was press-1
ing for an answer only as a prelimi
nary to his discharge. "No matter,"
interposed the latter, cutting Bull's
rambllngs short, "drop it, Bull, 1
want you to do something for me,
and I'll pay for it."
Bull, with a palsied smile and a
deep, quavering note of gratitude,
put up his shaky hand. "Say what.
That's all. I've been "aid."
"You know you're a sot, Bull."
Bull nodded. "Ik now it."
"A disgrace to the Maker whose
image you were made in."
Bull started, but seemed, on re
flection. to consider this a point on
which he need not commit himself.
"Still, I believe there's a man in
you yet. Something, at any rate, you
couldn't completely kill with whis
key, Bull—what?"
Bull lifted his weak and watery
eyes. His whisky-seamed face light
ened into the ghost of a smile. "What
I'm going to ask you to do," continu
ed De Spain, "is a man's job.
can get into the gap without trouble.
You are the only man I can put my
hand on just now that can. I want
you to ride over this morning and
hang out around Duke Morgan's
place till you can get a chance to see
Miss Nan —"
At the mention of her name Bull
shook his head a moment In affirma
tive approval. "She's a queen!"- he
exclaimed with admiring but pun
gent expletives. "A queer*!"
"I think so. Bull. But she Is in
troublesome circumstances. You
know, Nan and I
Bull winked In many ways.
"And hy Uncle Duke is making us
trouble, Bull. I want you to find her,
speak with her, and bring word to
me as to what the situation is. That
doesn't mean you're to get drunk
over there —in fact, I don't think
anybody over there would give you a
drink—"
"Don't believe they wnuld."
"And you are to ride back here
with whut you can find out just as
quick, p.fter you get into the clear,
as a horse will bring you.'
Bull passed his hand over his
mouth with a show of resolution. It
indicated that he was pulling him
self together. Within half an hour
he.was on his way to the gap.
For lie Spain hours never dragged
as did the hours between Bull's
starting and the setting ol' the sun
that night without his return. And
the sun set behind Music mountain
In a drift of heavy clouds that
brought rain. All evening it fell
steadily. At eleven o'clock De Spain
had given up hope of seeing his em
issary before morning and was sit
ting alone before the stove In the
office when he heard the sound of
hoofs. In another moment Bull Page
stood at the door.
He was a sorry sight. Soaked to
the skin by the steady downpour;
rain dripping intermittently from his
frayed hat, his ragged board and
tattered coat; shaking with the cold
as if gripped by an ague. Bull, pick
ing his staggering steps to the lire,
and sinking in a heap into a chair,
symbolized the Uttermost tribute of
manhood to the ravages of whisky.
He was not drunk. He had not even
been drinking; but his vitality was
gone. Ho tried to speak. It was Im
possible. His tongue would not
frame words, not his throat utter
them. He could only look helplessly
at He Spain as De Spain hustily made
him stand up on his shaking knees,
threw a big blanket around him, sat
him down, kicked open the stove
drafts and called to McAlpin for
more whisky to steady the wreck of
it crouching over the fire.
McAlpin, after considerable and
reluctant search, produced a bottle,
and unwilling, for more reasons than
one, to trust It to Bull's uncertain
possession, brought a dipper. Bull
held the dipper while De Spain pour
ed. McAlpin, behind the stove, hop
ped lirst on one foot and then on the
other as De Spain recklessly continu
ed to pour. When the liquor half
filled the cup, McAlpin put out un
mistakable distress signals, but Bull
watching the brown stream, his
eyes galvanized at the sight, held fast
to the handle and made no sign to
stop. "BulU" thundered the barn
boss with an emphatic word. "TMut
is Elpaso's bottle. What are you
dreaming of, man? Mr. De Spain,
"you'll kill him. Don't ye see he can't
tell ye to
Bull, with the last flickering spark
of vitality still left within him, look
ed steadily up and winked at De
Spain. McAlpin, outraged, stamped
out of the room. Steadying the dip
per in both hands. Bull with an ef
fort passed one hand at the final mo
ment preliminarily over his mouth,
and, raising the bowl, emptied it.
The poison electrified him into ut
terance. "I seen her," he declared,
holding his chin well down and In,
and speaking in a pardonably proud
throat.
"Good, Bull!"
"They've got things tied up for
fair over there." He spoke slowly
and brokenly. "I never got inside the
house till after supper. Toward night
I helped Pardaloe put up the stock.
He let me into the kitchen after my
coaxing for a cup of coffee—he's an
ornery, cold-blooded guy, that Parda
loe. Old Dukeand Saswon think the
sun rises and sets on the top of his
head —funny, ain't it?"
De Spain made no comment.
"Whilst X was drinking my coffee—"
"Who gave it to you?"
"Old Bunny, the Mex. Pardaloe
goes out to the bunkhouse; 1 sits
down to my supper, alone, with
Bunny at the stove. All of a sudden
who/comes a-trlppln' in from the
'front of the house but Nan. 1 jumps
up as strong as I could, but I was
too cold and stiff to jump up real
strong. She seen me. but didn't pay
no attention. I dropped my spoon on
the floor. It didn't do no good, neith
er, so I pushed a hot plate of ham
and gravy off the table. It hit the
dog 'n' he jumped up like kingdom
come. Old Bunny sails into me, Nan
a-watchin', and while Mex was pick
in' up and cleanin' up, I sneaks over
to the stove and winks at Nan. Say,
you oughter see her look mad at me.
She was hot, but I kept a winkin,'
and I says to her kind of huskylike;
'Got any letters for Calabasas to
night ' Say, she looked at me as if
she'd bore holes into me, but I stood
right up and glared back at the little
girl. 'Come from there this morn
in',' says I, 'going back to-night
Someone'waiting there for news.'
(To He Continued.)
MEN WHO HAVE SEEN
FOKEICSN SEKVICE TO MEET
Members of Captain Howard I* Cal
der Post, No. 31, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the Ladies' Auxiliary will
meet to-morrow evening to discuss
the action of Secretary of War Baker
affecting men who have seen foreign
service.
ELECT OFFICERS
Edward March yesterday was elect
ed secretary and treasurer of the Pax
tang Cemetery Association, to succeed
Bellett Lawson. George March, of
Morristown, was named president.
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BEFORE AND AFTER
fTlie Boy Scout movement has ob
tained the endorsement of the most
prominent men of the country, chief
among these endorsements is one by
Eugene V. Debs, sufficient proof that
the Socialists who are opposed to
anything that savors of military or
ganization do not consider them a
militaristic body. ,
Mr. Debs, makes the following
statement: "Of course I need not ex
plain that if the Boy Scout organiza
tion in any manner fostered mili
tarism I should not have the slight
est use for it. But it does nothing of
the kind. On the contrary its litera
ture contains the strongest articles
aguinst militarism, war and blood-
Shed, and some of the noblest pleas I
for human brotherhood and peace I
that } have ever read."
Mr. Buddy this liTßrnlng related
some of the things that he had per
sonally seen happen during a Boy
scout campaign und the improve
ment that the community and sur
rounding country owed to the Hoy
Scout campaign.
J)o a Good Turn
Filled with enthusiasm, as he
would say, "to the very brim," Mr.
Buddy is well qualified to describe
the benefits and the objects of the
movement that he has made a life
work. Mr. Buddy said:
"Do a good turn daily," is part
of the duty of a Boy Scout, but back
of that the organization stands for
even bigger things, the inspiration of
service, service to the community,
service to the State, service to the
country, to the end that boys may
grow into tine citizenship. The Scout
oath and law exacts a promise to
ward God and country; to help
others: to keep physically strong,
mentally awake and morally straight
to be worthy of trust, to he loyal, t<v
be helpful, to bo friendly, to be
courteous, to be kind, to be obedient
to constituted authority, to be cheer-I
ful, to be thrifty, to be brave, to be
clean in body, thought and speech,
to be reverent.
Tlie Scout's Religion
The Hoy Scouts of America main
tain that no boy can grow into the
best kind of man without recognizing
his obligation to God. The first part
of the scout's oath or pledge is "On
my honor I will do my best to do my
duty to God and my country." The
recognition of God as the creating
and ruling power of the universe and
the grateful acknowledgment of His
guidance is held to be necessary in
directing the growing boy toward the
best type of American citizenship.
The Boy Scout movement, how
ever, is nonsectarian in its attitude
toward religion. Its policy is that the
religious organization or institution
with which the Boy Spout is connect
ed shiill give the needed attention to
his spiritual life. If he is a Catholic,
the Catholic Church should be the
agency for his religious training. If
ho bo a Hebrew boy, then the syna
gogue will teach hint the faflPTi of his
fathers. If he bo a Protestant, the
church of which he is an adherent (
is the proper organization to give j
him an understanding of the things
that pertain to his allegiance to God.
A National Asset
Dean Russell of the teachers' col
lege. Columbia University, pronounc
es the Boy Scout movement, "one
of the most valuable educational
agencies of the generation." Presi
dent Wilson has given It his cordial
commendation, and Theodore Roose
velt considers it "distinctly an asset
to our country for the development
of efficiency, virility and good citi
zenship."
These testimonials are well within
the bounds of moderation, for the
swift growth of the organization, the
enthusiasm of the boys within it and
of the "big brothers" who ure help
ing to direct it, and Its admirable
blending of high ideals with phy
sical betterment and manual effic
iency must excite the admiration of
every one who will pausd to view
its achievements.
Eighteen thousand men are serv
ing as scoutmasters and assistant
scoutmasters, and 28,000 additional
men are serving as members of
troop committees, local councils and
special officers. Two hundred thou
sand hoys are registered as members
in good standing, and 000.000 others
have had the benefit of previous
training.
What is meant by the term scout
training? It means that these boys
are taught the obligation of duty, of
Clean living, of honorable principles.
They are taught reverence of re
ligion, respect for tho_aged, tender
ness for all harmless animal life.
They are taught to hate a lie and
detest cheating. In a word, they are
taught chivalry.
In the physical realm they are
taught camping, cooking, agrlcul- /
turc, archery, personal health, public
health, physical development, swim
ming, life saving, signaling, first aid
measures, map-making,- etc.
Reasons For Civic Support
"The boy of to-day Is the man of
to-morrow." The truth of this state
ment brings us face to face with the
problem of best meeting the needs
of boys to the end of developing
them into the highest type of citizen
ship. Effective citizens are intellli
gent citizens, well informed as to the
resources, opportunities and needs
of their city. State and country. This
is one of the most interesting and
wonderful results being achieved by
the Boy Scouts of America move
ment.
Perhaps no one subject has receiv
ed more attention at the hands of
writers and social workers than has
what we are pleased to call the "boy
problem." After all, there is really
no boy problem. It is a problem of
environment, and this is greatly ac
centuated in modern times when
conditions which obtain in the great
cities are so essentially artificial.
Scout Regulations
One of the elements of success in
the scout movement has been the
regulation which prevented large pa
trols or troops. When a scout regis
ters he becomes a member of a
I group of boys called a patrol, not
more than eight boys are taken Into
a patrol. A troop Is formed of two,
three, or four patrols. Experienced
men seem to agree that three is the
best number. Each troop is looked
after by a troop committee. The
troop committee co-operatws with
the local council and thwlocal coun
cil co-operates with the national
council.
The patrol is led by the patrol
leader and his assistant. The troop
is led by the scoutmaster and his as
sistant. The patrol leader and as
sistant are chosen by the scouts of a
patrol, after conference with the
1 scoutmaster. The scoutmasters ap
pointed on the recommendation of
the troop committee. This in brief is
the scout organization.
It was planned with the view of
Insuring proper supervision of the
work and of keeping the local coun
cil and the national council directly
in touch with both the Scout and
the scoutmaster. As soon as any Im
portant addition is made to the scout
program, or as soon as some
is discovered of doing things better
than tlicy have been done before,
this information must immediately
reach every branch of the organiza
tion. Some of the best men In the
country are every day volunteering
valuable suggestions to local councils
and to the national council, and it Is
very necessary that these latest de
talls of scouting should reach the ,
scout and scoutmaster with the least
possible delay.
West Shore Principals
Called to Defense Meeting
Camp Hill, Pa., May 1. West *
Shore high school principals yester
day afternoon received telegrams
from Prof. J. Kelso Green, superin
tendent of the public schools In
Cumberland county, requesting their
presence at a meeting of the Public
Safetv Committee of Cumberland
County. The exact purpose of the
meeting has not been announced, but
It is believed plans will be formulated
to place the schoolboys on farms at
garden work.
The telegram Is as follows: "The
Committee of Public Safety of Cum
berland County desires to have a
meeting with high school principals
Tuesday. May 8, at 7 o'clock In Lewis
Sadler's office in Carlisle. An exceed
ingly important meeting. Do not fail
to bo nrcsent."