BIG TIMBER By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR 1 Copyright, 1916, fcy UMta. J (Continued.) "Sufferin' Jerusalem!" Barlow repeated, turning to Stella. "Did you see that, Mrs. Jack? They got him." Stella nodded. She, too, had seen Monohan seated on the after deck, his head sunk on his hreast, irons on his wrists. A glimpse, no mora. "That'll help some," Barlow grunted. "Quick wbrk. But they come blame near cuttin' lis down, beltin' along at ten knots when you can't see forty feet ahead." An empty beach greeted them at Tumbling creek. Reluctantly Stella bade Barlow turn back. It would soon be dark, and Barlow said he j would bo taking chances of piling, on the shore before he could see it, 01 getting lost in the profound black that would shut down on the water > with daylight's end. But by luck Barlow made his way. | blundering fairly into the landing at the foot of the path tb t |.-d to] the bungalow as if the cruiser knew the way to her old berth. And as. he reached the float the front win- i dows on the hillock broke out yel- j low, pale blurs in the smoky light, j "Well, say,"—Barlow pointed—"l ] bet a nickel Jack's home. See? No- j body but him would be in the house." "I'll go up," Stella said. "All right. I guess you know the path better'n I do," Barlow said. | "I'll take the Bug around into tile | fony." Stella ran up the path. She halted halfway up the steps and | leaned against the rail to catch her breath; then she went on. Iter step was noiseless, for tucked in behind [ a cushion aboard the Waterbug she, had fcund an old pair of her own shoes, rubber soled, and she put them on to ease the ache in her feet | born of thirty-six hours' incasement 1 In leather. She gained the door | without a sound. It was wide open, j and in the middle of the big room Jack Fyfe stood with hands thrust ' deep in his pockets, staring absently ' at the floor. She took a step or two inside, j Fyfe did not hear her; he did not look up. "Jack!" He gave ever so slight a start; glanced up, stood with head thrown back a little. But he did not move ' or answer, and Stella, looking at him, seeing the flame that glowed t in his eyes, could not speak. Some thing seemed to choke her, some- i thing that was a strange compound ! of relie fand bewilderment and a j slow wonder _ at herself —at the! q-ueer, unstea'dy pounding of her! heart. "How did you get way up here?"! he asked at last. 'Linda wired last night thatj Charlie wa shurt. I got a machine to the Springs. Then Barlow came | down this afternoon looking for you. i He said you'd been missing for two j days. So I —I" She broke off. Fyfe was walk- i ing toward her with that peculiar' lightfooted ste pof his, a queer, I tense look on his face. When Tired and Nervous If the end of the day finds you weary or irri table,with aching headand frayed nerves,you need something to tone and strengthen the system. 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"There, lady," he said, with a swift change of tone, "I didn't mean to slash at you. I suppose you mean all right, but just now, with every thing gone to the devil ,to look up and see you here—l've really got an ugly tcoer, Stella, and it's pretty near the surface these days. I don't want to be pitied and sympathized with. I want to fight. I want to hurt somebody." "Hurt me then!" she cried. He shook his head sadly. "I couldn't do that," he said. "No, T can't imagine myself ever doing that." "Why?" she asked, knowing why, but wishful to hear in words what his eyes shouted. "Because I love you," he said. "You know well enough why." She lifted her one free hand to his shoulder. Her face turned up to his. A warm wave of blood dyed the white neck, shot up into her cheeks. Her eyes were suddenly aglow, lips tremulous. "Kiss me, then," she whispered. "That's what I came for. Kiss me, Jack." If she had doubted, if she had ever in the last few hours looked with misgiving upon what she felt herself impelled to do, the pressure of Jack Fyfe's lips on hers left no room for anything but an amazing thrill of pure gladness. She was happy in his arms, content to rest there, to feel his heart beating against hers, to be quit of all the uncertainties, all the useless regrets. By a roundabout way she had come to her own, and it thrilled*her to her linger tips. She could not quite comprehend it or herself. But she was glad, weeping with- gladness, straining her man to her kissing his face, murmuring incoherent words against his breast. (To be Continued) AY. M. A. MEETING Shiremanstown, Pa., Oct. 25.—Mrs. William Bentz will entertain the Women's Missionary Society of the Ujiited Brethren Church at her lesi dence in Green street, Thursday af ternoon, at 3 o'clock. Life's Problems Are Discussed Why a chicken crosses the road— and one refers here solely to the barnyard fowl—remains a perpetual riddle. But how a chicken crosses the road is known to all who ever traveled a country turnpike. The chicken may be peacefully pecking in the ditch at one side or ma> be indulging In a dust bath In the center of the roadway; it makes little difference. She pays not the slightest heed to the approaching juggernaut motorcar or horse drawn vehicle, as the case may be until it is fairly upon her. Then, at the last minute, with a sudden squawk of alarm, she lifts her head and scuttles for safety. But never does she choose the rational or convenient way to get there. The longest way around is always the shortest way home for her. Invariably she dashes to that side of the road which is farthest away fiom her, and invariably she escapes being crushed under the revolving wheels, If she escapes at all, by the skin of her teeth; and, as a -meta phor, the skin of a hen's teeth rep resents about the narrowest margin possible. The chicken is an adoring wife and a devoted mother and has many other excellent qualities, whether broiled, roasted, fricajssed, fried, or en casserole; but it has never been noted for its wisdom. In its mental composition brains are largely sub verted to mere temperament and emotion. Women are generally regarded as the sex which furnishes the great est fiuinber of human prototypes of the chicken and which most largely shares its peculiar characteristics. But this may be for the same reason that the "flivver" is said to figure in more accidents than any other make of automobile. There are sim ply more "flivvers." and there are more women in evidence usually in the places where people do congre gate. Individual for individual, there are quite as many chicken-brained men as chicken-brained women; and chicken-brained men exceed the chicken-hearted women by a large majority. Men quail before the lordly waiter. They hesitate to exchange things at a shop, no matter how much displeased they are with their bargains. They haven't the courage to say to the saleswomen: '"Show me something cheaper, please." They allow themselves to be browbeaten and overruled by some little slip of a domestic tyrant weighing less than ninety pounds. They are slaves to convention and accepted form. Wom an Is the original stormy rebel. She never fails to uphold her rights and privileges. From the time of Eve, she has disdained all signs reading | "Verboten!" And here perhaps is another rea son why she is accused of "chicken itis." Man's cowardice often serves to conceal his lack of a balance wheel. Me sits tight and refuses to take a chance. But Intrepid Isabelle, plunging recklessly ahead, inevit ably advertises her deficiency. Daily Dot Puzzle 22. 29 • . • *2o ..9 •" ; .7 3i f • ' .16 A 6 4. . 15* s 32 j 14 • <~(_j 8 • JO , V 33 l 1 • J? 37 42 45 f * 40. .44 Draw from one to two and o on to the end. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH She may have all the time in the world at her disposal, yet it is ten to one that if she comes to a street crossing she will never wait for a break in the line of traffic, but .will dash half way to the center of the street and then will chassez forward and back as if she were dancing an old-fashioned quadrille, until the drivers are utterly demoralized and the air is blue with profanity. Or she Is writing for a trolley, let us say. The first to come along is an an open of the cross-seai type. A thoughtful woman would run her eye along it and pick out a vacant place. But Isabelle, the chicken-brained, leaps blindly at it and crowds herself Into a space al ready over-filled. If there are rear seats reserved for smokers, she in variably goes after them, although the entire front of the car may be empty. Her counterpart is Freddie the fumador, who is defiance of known rules and printed instructions car ries has cigar—always a cheap and evil-smelling one—into nonsmoking cars or the seats where it is pro hibited. Again I have noticed —and this is true of both Freddie and Isabelle— that in getting on subway and sub urban trains they shove and elbow and rush and push as If It were the most tumultuous moment of a scrimmage on the gridiron. Another of their favorite man euvers is, when leaving a car at an unfamiliar station, to stop short just outside the doorway in order to get their bearings, quite regardless of the number of people behind them who are anxious to get out, and whom they could easily accommo date by merely stepping a little to one side. Freddie, however, is easily dealt with. All one has to do is to lean forward, smile sweetly and say "Would you mind transferring your cigar to your other hand? The smoke affects me unpleasantly, as I'm not wearing my gasmask to-day," or "Will you kindly let me pass? I am on my way 'over the top.' " And Freddie, nine cases out of ten. will step aside like a Chesterfield, or hurl hlf deadly hand-grenade out of the window. I But Isabelle! I cannot cope with Isabelle. 1 would rather face the "Flying Circus" of the Huns than Isabelle about to let tly the swing door of a department store. It was Dui.yesterday that I was standing before a counter looking at seme bracelets. They also inter ested Isabelle. Insvead of decently waiting until the saleswoman was at liberty to attend to her she leaned over my shoulder breathing heavily in my ear and fired questions and criticisms at the very courteous girl who was showing the articles until finally in the effort to seiz® one of them for closer inspection she caught her foot around my ankle and nearly threw me down. And she had not the grace even to murmur, "sorry!" But why preach on? The traffic companies and the civic officials may plaster the public ways with signs and warnings and instructions and fill cars with bits of loving advice and information; none of It ever seems to impunge on the conscious ness of the Freddies and Isabelles. They go their heedless, chicken brained way acting noiely on im pulse. Most of the offenses against pub lic manners are due to the chicken qualities in human beings. Very few persons are purposely uncivil, jOn the contrary most of us are in clined td bo kindly, sympathetic and I helpful. It is wonderful to what an extent utter strangers will put them selves out to assist one who is in trouble. Suppose you have lost your way, or are uncertain how to reach your destination; the busiest person will stop and even go a block out of his way to set you right. Let some frolicsome breeze snatch off your hat, or a pet dog escape from its leash; a dozen persons will drop their or dinary avocations and join in the chase. But the very same people who will run to pick you when you fall, or chase your pet "chow" a half dozen blocks, may be little better than savages in a crowd, shoving and pushing their way through, heedless of the injury they inflict. They simply do not stop to think. They go after their object or pur pose pell-mell, without regard either to circumstances or the rights of others. Their Intentions are usually good enough, but so are the chicken's. And hell is paved with good inten tions. 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