THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO. PA. 0k& The Hollow of Her Hand HENRy HOWIAND 8YNOP8I3. Challls Wrandall la found murdered In a road hnuae nar New York. Mrs. Wran dall la aunnnoneu from the city ami Iden tlflra Wie body. A younK woman who ac companied wrandall to the Inn ami sub sequently dlaappnarpd, la auapected. Mra. Wrandall atari bark for New York In an auto during a blinding- snow storm. On the way she moeta a younx woman In the road who proves to tin the woman who killed Wrandall. Feeling lhat the girl had dona her a service In ridding her of the man wh though ahe loved him rVeply, had caused her gat Morrow. Mia. Wrandall determines to shield her and takea her to her own home. Mrs. Wrandall hear 'he ktory of Hetty ' tleton'a life, except tTiiat portion that re lates to Wrandall. Thla and the story or 'the tragedy aha forbids the Klrl ev;r o tell. She offers Helty a home, frliindahlp and security from peril on account or tne tragedy. Siiru Wrandall and Helty re turn to New York after an "b'"'' year In Kurope. Tsll Wrandall, brother of Cliallla. becomes areutly Inter-el ed In Hettv. Para sees In Lealle'a I '."' "ll,,l?,M1 poaslblllty for revenge on Hie Y riinu. ua and reparation for Hie wronga she suf fered at the hands ol Oiallla W randall by murrving hla murderess Into the family. Lealle, In company with hla friend Draii don F.ooth, an artlnt. vlalia Kara at her country place. I-ealle con (""; " that he la madW In love with Helty. Hara arrangea wltn Mooin to pa in e Bootn naa a naumina Tlettv V, Umm m..mn TlnltV tM'fore, through a portfolio of pictures hy an un- Vnown KmilNh artist lie n Look ln an un one of be the the Hetty. He speiks to her about It. Hetty ' - i. '...j. I,- . i, I, lore of Hetty (llynn, an English rctress Kf1 " her very much. Mud. to hla chagrin I-alle la refused by Hetty. Booth and Hettv ronfeaa Ihelr Irve for each other, hut the lntt'.r deolui.a that alie can never marry as there Is an Insurmountable bar rier In the wav. iieuv mnm '""", tht .ha loves IVinth. Sara declares that Hetty must marry l.ralle. who moat mode to pay his lin tlier'a debt to .1.1 ii.iitv iviitn utirninta to tell real atorv of the tragedy and 6ara threat ens to s'trnmtle h-r If she Buys a word. Hara, Insults lleltv by revenllng that all this time alio baa believed lleltv to have finned In her relatlona with fhallta W ran rtall. Later shi renlU.a that Helty la In nocent. Leslie iiKaln pnipoaea to Hetty and la reacted. llettv pteparca to have Bara. derlarlnn that after what haa hap pened ahe can reinnln no longer. Hetty ftarla for Kurop.. At sea she receives a mesi'iige from Hooth that he liaa atarleii on a faaler steamer ami will be walling for her on the oilier side. Hooth meets her ntid nccompauba her to London, in an ntlempt to cHriine from blni Hetty ftarla for l'nrlf. but find Hooth on the fame boat. Slie persUM In tier refusal to tell him the ferret which keeps them apart. 8h" declare that Sara alone can ti ll him. Hooth leaves for America de termined to get the story from Sara. CHAPTER XVI. Continued. The weeks slipped by. He was with he r almoHt dally. Other' people came to her house, some for rather protract ed visits, others In quest ot pillage at the nightly bridge table, but he was seldom missing. There were times when be thought he detected a ten dency to waver, but each cunning at tempt on his part to encourage the impulse Invariably brought a certain mocking light Into her eyes and he veered off In defeat. Something kept telling him, however, that the hour was bound to come when she would falter In her reholutlon; when frank ness would meet frankness, and the the veil be lifted. There were no letters from Hetty, no word of any description. If Sara knew anything of the girl's movements ehe did not take Uooth Into her conn denco. LcbIIo Wrandall went abroad In Au gust, ostensibly to attend the aviation meets In Franco and England. His mother and sister sailed In September, but not before the entire colony of which they were a part had begun to discuss Sara and Uooth with a relish that was obviously distasteful ,to the W rand all s. Where there Is smoke there Is Are, aid all the gossips, and forthwith pro ceeded to carry fuggots. A week or so before sailing, Mrs. Redmond Wrandall had Uooth In for dinner. I think she said en famillo. At any rate, Sara was not asked, which Is proof enough that she was bent on making It a family affair. After dinner. Booth sut in the creened upper balcony with Vivian He liked her. She was a keen-witted plain-spoken young woman, with few false Ideals and no subtlety. She was less snobbish than arrogant. Of all the Wrandalls, she was the least self centered. Leslie never quite under stood her for the paradoxical reason that she thoroughly understood him "You know. Brandon," she' said 'i$s0 jM VA m t Good Heavens, Vlvl" He Cried, Un comfortably. after a long silence between them "they've been setting my cap for you for a long, long time." She blew thin stream of cigarette smoke toward the moon. He started. It was a bolt from clear sky. "The deuce!" "Yes," she went on In the most cas ual tone, "mother's hajl her heart set on It for months. You were supposed to be mine at first sight, I believe Please don't look so uneasy. I'm not going to propose to you." She laughe her little Ironic laugh. . "So that Is the way things Btood eh?" he said, still a littlo amazed by her candor. "Yoe. And what Is more to the point, I am quite sure I should have aald yes If you had asked me. Sounds odd, doesn't It? Rather amusing, too being ablo to dlscuBS It 10 unreserv) corr7Cffr.i?2 "Good heavens, Vlv!" he cried un comfortably. "I I had no idea you cared" "Cared!" she cried, as he paused. "I don't care two pin for you In that way. Hut I would have married you, Just the same, because you are worth marrying. I'd very much rather have you for a husband than any man I .know, but as for loving you I I'ooh! I'd love you In Just the way mother loves father, and I wouldn't have been a bit more trouble to you than Bho Is to him." "Gad, you don't mind what you say!" "Falling to nab you, Brandy, I dare say I'll have to come down to a duke r, who kuows? maybe a mere prince. It Isn't very enterprising, Is It? And certainly It Isn't a gay prospect. Real ly, I had hoped you would have me. I flatter myself, I suppose, but, hon estly now, we would have made a rather nice looking couple, wouldn't we?" "You flatter me," he said. "But," she resumed, calmly exhal ing, "you very foolishly fell In love 1th some one else, and It wasn't necessary for me to pretend that I was In love with you which I should have done, believe me, If you had given me the chance. You fell lu love, first with Hetty Caftleton." "First?" he cried, frowning. "And now you are heels over head In love with my beautiful sister-in-law. Which all goes to prove that I would have made just the kind of wife you need, considering your tendency to fluctuate. But how dreadful It would have been for a sentimental, loving Irl like Hetty!" He sat bolt upright and stared hard at her. "See here, Vlv, what tho dickens are ou driving at? I'm not In love with Sara not In the least and " He checked himself sharply. "What an ass I am! You're guying me." "In any event, I am right ubout Het ty," bhe said, leaning forward, her man ner quite serious. "If it will ease you mind," he said tiflly, "I plead guilty with all my eart." She favored him with a slight frown of annoyance. And you deny the fluctuating charge?" "Most positively. I ran afford to be honest with you, Vlv. You are a corker. I love Hetty Castleton with all my soul." She leaned back In her chair. "Then why don't you dignify your soul by be ing honest with her?" "What do you mean?" For a half-minute 6he was silent. Are you and I of the same stripe, after all? Would you marry Sara without loving her, as I would have done by you? It doesn't eum like you, Brandon." "Good heaven, I'm not going to marry hara: lie uiurted out. lte never entered my head." "Perhaps It has entered hers." "Nonsense! She isn't going to marry anybody. And she knows how I feel toward Hetty. If it came to the point where I decided to marry with out love, 'pon my soul, Vlv, 1 believe I'd pick you out as the victim." "Wonderful combination!" she said with a frank laugh. "The quintes sence of 'no love lost.' But to resume! Do you know that people are saying you are to be married before tho win ter la over?" "Let 'em, say It," he said gruflly. "Oh, well,' she said, dispatching it all with a gesture, "If that's the way you feel about It, there's no more to be Raid." He was ashamed. "I beg your par don, I shouldn't have said that. ."You see," she went on, reverting to the original topic, "people who know Sara are likely to credit her with mo tives you appear to be totally Ignorant of. She set her heart on my brother Challls, when she was a great deal younger than she Is now, and she got him. If age and experience count for anything, how capable she must be by this time." Ho was too wise to venture an opln Ion. "I assure you she has no designs on me. "Perhaps not. But I fancy that even you could not escape as St. Anthony did. She is most alluring. "You don't like her." "Obviously. And yet I don't dislike her. She has the virtue of consist ency, if one may use tho expression. She loved my brother. Leslie says she should have hated him. We have tried to like her. I think I have come nearer to It than any ot the others, not excepting Leslie, who has always been her champion. 1 suppose you know thut he was your rival at one time." "Ho mentioned It," said Booth drily "I should have been very much dis appointed lu her If she had accepted him," "Indeed?" "I sometimes wonder If Sara spiked Leslie's guns for him." "I can tell you something you don't know, Vivian," said he. "Sara wa rather keen about making a match there." Vivian's smile was slow but trlum pliant. "That Is just what I thought. There you are! Doesn't that explain Sara?" "In a measure, yes. But. you see It developed that Hetty cared for Bonie one else, and that put a stop to every thing." "Am I to take It that you are the some one else?" "Yes," ho said soberly. "Then, may I ask why she went away flo suddenly?" "You may ask, but I can't answer.' "Do you waut my opinion? Sh went away because Sara, falling I her plan to mnrry her oft to Leslie, decided that It would be fatal to a cer tain projuct of her own If she re mained oa the field of action. Do I make myself clear" Georgfe Barr MCutcheon a CffT.192 CY GORcF&AM MCUTCW i COTrVCfT, M2 GY PODDED tr COrtPMY Lsd "Oh, you are away off in your con clusions, Vlv." "Time will toll," was here cabalistic rejoinder. Her father appeared on the lawn below and called up to them. "You are wanted at the telephone, Brandon. I've Just been talking to Sara." "Did she call you up, father?" linked Vivian, leaning over the rail. "Yes. About nothing In particular, however." She turned upon Booth with a mock ing smile. He felt the color rush to his face, and was angry with himself. Ho went to the telephone. Almost her first words were these: "What has 7vlan been telllnn you about me, Brandon?" He actually gaBped. "Good heavens, Sara!" He heard her low laugh. "So she has been saying things, haa she?" she asked. "I thought so. I've had It In my bones tonight." He was at a loss for words. It was positively uncanny. As he stood there, Mm M Her trying to think of a trivial remark, her laugh camo to liiin again over the wire, followed by a drawling "good night," nd then the soughing ot the wind ver tho "open" wire. The next day he called her up on the telephone quite early. He knew er habits. She would be abroad In her gardens by eight o'clock. He re membered well that Lesllo, In com menting on her absurdly early hours, had once Bald that her "early bird" habit was hereditary: she got it from Sebastian. 'What put It Into your head, Sara, that Vivian was saying anything un pleasant about you last night?" "Magic," she replied succinctly. "Rubbish!" "I have a magic tapestry that trans ports me, hither and thither, and by night I always carry Aladdin's lamp. So, you Bee, I see and hear everything" "Be sensible." "Very well. I will be sensible. If you intend to be Influenced by what Vivian or her mother Bald to you last night, I think you'd be wise to avoid me from this time on." Prepared though he was, he blinked his eyes and said something she didn't quite catch. She went on: "Moreover, In addition to my attainments In the black art. I am quite as clever as Mr. Sherlock Holmes in some respects. I really do some splendid deducing. In the first Eyes Were Rather Moody, Her Vole Lifeless. place, you were asked there and 1 1 was not. Why? Because I was to be discussed. You see " "Marvelous!" he Interrupted loudly. "You were to be told that I have cruel designs upon you." "Go on, please." "And all that sort of thing," she said sweeplngly, and be could almost ece the Inclusive gesture with her free hand. He laughed but still marveled at the shrewdness of ber perceptions. "I'll come over this afternoon and show you wherein you are wrong," be began, but she interrupted him with a laugh. "I am starting for the city befora noon, by motor, to be gone at least a fortnight." "What! This Is the first I've beard of It" Again she laughed. "To be perfect ly frank with you, I hadn't beard of It myself until just now. I think I hall go down to the Homestead with the CarrollB." "Hot 8prlngs?" "Virginia," she added explicitly. "I say, Sara, what does all this 'mean? You " "And if you should follow me there, Vivian's estlmute of us will not be so far out of the way as we'd like to make It." J rue to her word, she was gone when he drove over later on In tho day. Somehow, he experienced a queer feeling of relief. Not that be was oppressed by the rather vivacious opinions of Vivian and her Ilk, but because something told him that Sara was wavering In her determination to withhold the secret from him and fled for perfectly obvious reasons. Ho had two commissions among the rich summer colonists. One, a full length portrait of young Beardsley In shooting togs, was nearly finished. The other was to be a half length of Mrs. Ravcnscroft. who wanted one Just liko Hetty Castleton's, except for tho eyes, which she admitted would hnve to bo different. Nothing was said of the seventeen ycare' difference In their ages. Vivian had put off posing until Lent. Tho Wrandalls departed for Scot land, and other friends of his began to desert the country for the city. The fortnight passed and another week besides. Mrs. Raveuscroft decided to go to L'uropo when the picture was half-finished. "You can finish It when I come back In December, Mr. Booth," ehe said. "I'll have several new gowns to choose from, too." "I shall be busy all winter, Mrs. Ra venscroft,' ho said coldly. "How annoying," she paid cnlmly, and that was the end of It all. She had mado tho unpleasant discovery that It wasn't going to bo In the least like Helty Castleton's, so why bother about it? Booth waited until Sara came out to superintend the closing of her house for tho winter. He railed at South look on tho day of her arrival. He was struck at once by the curldus rhango In ber appearance and manner. There was something bleak and deso- lute In the vividly brilliant faco: the tired, wistful, harassed look of one who has begun to quail and yet fights on. "Will you go out with me tomorrow, Brandon, for an all-day trip In the car?" she nuked, as they stood to gether before the open fireplace oo this lute November afternoon. Her eyes were moody, her volte rather lifeless. "Certainly," he said, watching her closely. Waa the break about to come? "I will atop for you at nine." After a short pause, she looked up and said: I suppose you would like to know where I am taking you." "It doesn't matter, Bara." "I want you to go with me to Bur ton' inn." "Burton's inn." "That Is tho place where my hus band was killed," she said, quite steadily. Ho started. "Oh! But do you think It best, Sara, to open old wounds by" I have thought It all out, Brandon. I want to go there Just once. 1 want to go Into that room again." f HA') T W Vn HAT ( ATT PA" 'A E5ii WOULD MARK ALL CRIMINALS Woman's Suggestion to Mayor of New York Is to Have Them All Ap propriately Tattooed, Among the holpful letters dally re ceived by Mayor Mitchel came one the other day signed ".Mine, Mercury." the Now York Sun states. She wrote that since all other forms of punishment hod failed she would suggest lhat each criminal be tattooed with a suitable mark across his forehead or on the checks. 'A pickpocket," she sold, "should have a long fingered red hand grasp ing a purse tattooed on the cheek. A Black 1 lander' should have a black heart pierced with a red dagger, a gunman should be marked with a red band grasping a gun, grafters with a hand grasping the long green, thugs marked with a blue hand grasp ing a blackjack, burglara marked with a doorlock and pick. "Please give this system a trial," she asked. "It Is humane and will not require any extra expense. See how many gunmen, pickpockets, murderers and thieves the police can tattoo In the next 12 months, and you will real ize the old axiom of 'catching before hanging.' "This system would lower the cost of living, reduce the coet of maintain ing prisons and make all the poor and rrlminulB self supporting, taxpuylng citizens. "The revolution that I suggest In the system of handling crime and crltu Inals will rotate the wheels of crime backward Into oblivion In time." The mayor received Mine. Mercury's suggestions to Into to Incorporate them In tho Goethale police bills, Preserving the Verities. Star Actor "I must iiiBlst, Mr. Snger, on having real food In tho ban quel sceno." Manager "Very well, then; If you insist on that you will be supplied with real poison la the death ceua" FOUND STONE AGE CEMETERY Recent Discovery In Italian Province Will Arous Keen Interest Among Archeologlets. A burial place of the Stone Age baa Just been found by Prof. Dull Osso of Ancona, In the Valle Vlbrata (prov ince of Abruz.l), Italy. The bodies are not burled, but are all laid In small cabins containing front two to eight each, and are ranged on either sldo of these little huts on low platforms sloping toward the renter. With a single exception the bodies nil rest on one side, with the knees drawn up, and It is assumed that tho dead were placed In this position to glvo them the attitude of prayer In their death chamber, for It has been established that tho custom of praying on one. a knees was already In exist ence In tho Stone Age In P.gypt. In one of the cabins, almost In the center of the group, there are no bodies, but a big circular hearth, around which It Is assumed, from the fragments of broken earthenware pots around It, the funeral banquets were held. Tbe objects found In the cabins with the bodies have remarkable Import ance from the archeological point of view, as they prove the existence of a degree of civilization, especially as regards vases and such utensils, nevor hitherto observed In the Neolithic age. CHAPTER XVII. Ingenious Calculating Machine. A Hungarian citizen bus Invented an Instrument' which shows instantly the amount of Interest duo on any given sum for any period at any given rate of Interest. Tho Instru ment, made In tho slzo and shape of a watch, Is of very slmplo construc tion and Inexpensive. All that Is nec essary to operate It is to place the hands in the proper position on the dial and the exact amount of interest In each case it Indicated on the UUI Once More at Burton's Inn. Again Sara Wrandall found herself In that never-to-be-forgotten room at Burton's Inn. On that grim night In March she had entered without fear or trembling because she knew what was there. Now she quaked with a mighty chill of terror, for she knew not what was there lu the quiet, now sequestered room. Burton had told them on their arrival after a long drive across country that patrons of the Inn invariably asked which room was thut had been tho scene of the tragedy, and, on finding out, re fused point-blank to occupy It. In consequeuca ho uau heen obliged to transform It Into a sort of store and burgage room. Sara stood In the middle of the murky room, for tho shutters had long been closed to the light of day, and looked alniut her In owe at tho hetero geneous mass of boxes, trunks, bun dles nnd rubbish, scattered over the floor without care or system. She had closed tho door behind her and was quite alono. Light sneaked in through the cracks In the shutters, but so meageiiy that It only served to In crease the gloom. A dismantled bed stead stood heaped up In the corner. She did not have to bo told what bed It wus. Tho mattress was there too, rolled up and tied with a thick garden rope. She knew there were dull, u;ly btood etalns upon It. Why the thrifty Burton had persevered In keeping this useless article of furniture, she could only surmise. Perhaps It wus held as an Inducement to the morbidly curious, who always seek out the grue some and gloat even as they shudder. For a long time she stood Immov able JuBt Inside the door, recalling the horrid picture of another day. She tried to Imagine the sceno that had been enacted there with gentlo, lov ablo Hetty Glynn and her whilom husband as the principal characters. The girl hud told the whole story of that ugly night. Sara tried to see It as it actually had transpired. For months this present enterprise had been in ber mind: the desire to see the place again, to go there with old impressions which she could leave be hind when ready to emerge in a now frame of mind. It was truo that she meant to shake off the shackles of a horrid dream, to purge herself of the lust vestige of bitterness, to cleanse her mind of certain thoughts and memories. Downstairs Booth waited for her. Ho heord tho story of the tragedy from the Innkeeper, who crossly maintained that his business had been ruined. Booth was vaguely Impressed, he knew not why, by Burton's description of tho missing woman. "I'd say she was about the size of Mrs. Wrandall her,- self, and much the same flgger," he said, as he had said a thousand times before. "My wife noticed It the min ute she saw Mrs. Wrandall. Same height and everything." A bell rang sharply and Burton glanced over his shoulder at the Indi cator on the wull behind the dusk. He gave a great start and his Jaw Bagged "Great Scott!" ho gasped. A curi ous grayneos stole over bis face. "It's It's tho bell lu that very room. My soul, what can " "Mrs. Wrandall Is up there, lsu't she?" demanded Booth. "It ain't rung since the night he pushed tho button for Oh, gee! You're right. She Is up there. My what a scare It gave me." Ho wiped his brow. Turning to a boy, he com manded him to answer tho bell. The boy went slowly, and as he went he removed his haiule from his pockets. He came back an Instant later, more swiftly than he went, with the word lhat "the lady up there" wanted Mr. Booth to come upstairs. . She was waiting for hltn In the open doorway. A shaft of bright sunlight from a window tit the end of the hall fell upon her. Her face was colorless, haggard. He paused for an Instant to contrast her as she Btood there In the pitiless light with the vivid creature he had put upon canvas so recently. She beckoned to him and turned back Into the room. He followed. "This Is the room, Brandon, where my husband met the death he de served," ehe said quietly. "Deserved? Good heavens, Sara, aro you " "I want you to look about you and try to picture how this place looked ou the night of the murder. You have a vivid Imagination. None ot this rubbish was here. Just a bed, a table and two chairs. There was a carpet on the floor. There were two people here, a man and a woman. The wom an had trusted the man. Sho trusted him until the hour in which be died. Then she found him out. Sho had come to this placo, believing it was to be her wedding night. Sho found no minister here. The man luughed at her and scoffed. Then she knew. In horror, shamo, desperation she tried to break away from him. He wne strong. She was a good woman; virtuous, honoi alio wouiuu. Shu saved berauU." He was staring at ber with dilated eyes. Slowly the truth was being borne In upon blm. "The woman was Hetty?" came hoarsely from hla stiffening lips. "My God, Sara!" Bhe came close to blm and spoke In a half-whisper. "Now you know the secret. Is it safe with you?" He opened his lips to speak, but no words came forth. Paralysis seemed to bave gripped not only his throat but his senses. He reeled. She grasped hie arm in a tense, fierce way, and whispered: "Be careful! No one must hear what we are saying." She shot a glance down the deserted ball. "No one Is near. I made sure of that. Don't speak! Think first think well, Brandon Booth. It Is what you have been seeking for mouths the truth. You share tbe secret with us now. Again I ask. Is It safe with you?" "My God!" he muttered again, and passed bis band over his eyes. Ilia brow was wet. He looked at hla fin gers dumbly as If expecting to find them covered with blood. "Is it safe with you?" for tho third time. "Safe? Safe?" be whispered, follow ing her example without knowing that he did so. "I I can't believe you. Sara. It enn't be truo." "It Is true." "You havo known all this time?" "From that night when I stood whore we aro standing now." 'And and she?"' "I had never seen her until that night. I saved ber." Ho dropped suddenly upon the trunk that stood behind him, and burled his faco In his hands. For a long time she stood over him. her Interest divid ed between him and tho hall, wherein luy their present peril. "Come," she said at last. "Pull your self together. We must leave this place, if you are not careful they will suspect something downstairs." He looked up with haggard eyes, studying her face with curious Inlent-uess. "What manner of woman are you, Sara?" bo questioned, blowly, won- durlngly. "I have Just discovered that I am very much like other women, after all," she said. "For awhile I thought I was different, that I was stronger than my sex. But I am Just as weak. Just as much to be pitied. Just as much to be scorned as any one of my sisters. I have spoiled a great act by stooping to do a meun one. God will bear witness that my thoughts were noble at the outset; my heart was soft. But come! There Is much more to tell that cannot be told here. You shall know everything." They went downstairs and out into the crisp autumn air. She gave direc tions to her chauffeur. They were to traverse for some distance- the same road she had taken on that Ill-fated night a year and a' half before. In course of time the motor approached a well-remembered railway crossing. "Slow down, Cole," sho said. "This is a mean pluce a very meun place." Turning to Booth, who had been sit ting grim and Bilent beside her for miles, she said, lowering her voice: "I remember that crossing yonder. There is a sharp curve beyond. This Is lot place. Midway between the two crossings, I should say. Pleaao re member this part of tho road, Bran don, when I come to the telling of that night's ride to town. Try to pic ture this spot this smooth, straight road as It might be on a dark, freezing night In the very thick of a screaming blizzard, with all the world abed save two women." ' In his mind he began to draw the picture, and to place tho two women in tho center of It, without knowing the circumstances. There was some thing fascinating In the study he was making, something gruesome and full of sinister possibilities for the hand of a virile painter. Ho wondered how near his imagination wus to placing j - m? DIFFICULT PART He Dropped Suddenly Upon the Trunk, the central figures In the picture as they actually appeared on that secret night At sunset they went together to the little pavilion at the end of the pier which extended far out Into the Bocnd Here they were safe from the ears of eavesdroppers. The boatB had been stowed away for tho winter. The wind thnt blew through the open pa vilion, now shorn of all Its comforts and luxuries, was cold, raw and repel ling. No one would disturb them here. With her faco set toward the sinking east, sho leaned against one of the thick posts, and In a dull, emotionless voice, laid bare the whole story of that dreadful night and tho .days that fol lowed. She spared no nr-lalla, aha spared not herrelf In the narration. TO HZ CONTUiUUO t's easy to be truthful when it I'-s-,t pay to He And It's eaay to bo patient wli-n )ot enpmy la atronif; It's eaay to bo trustej when y r nli.j Is high, But It'll hard to keep your fri. n-U Ii line when things uro k iIim nn?. It's enay to bn hopeful wli -n t!i- wij nhenrt Is fatr And It's enny t bo cheerful whn f. Korel thlntta come, your w.iy. It's easy to alrut proudly wl.- n you tar- good clothes to we ir. But It's lmnl to keep t'i t t ! i m! ; a lie or two will piy. It'a ensy tn he happy when yo-i I .up m i-ause to fret; It's c-nxy to shun docMa wl.en ; nn neither nclie nor e.)ij!,. It's ensy to be pl ie, when y "I'm kj. Itllf out nf debt. But It's luird to aides!';) trviM-' !s your aulnry'a cut off. It's ensy to tell others to r,-t up !u: you aro glad And It's eaay to bo fe.-ir!en !i.-n , haven't any foes, But It's hard to keep from fe.-llaj t!. tha world Is "rotten Im-I " When you've been nil m.i nt.d ktmwth! every one who knows you kn.wi He Knew How. "How," asked the youiK tinn 1 had Just bought the villas rapriM desired to win prominence as an edi tor, "can I get the public to becow Interested In my Journal? I know tM principal thing is to make a good pi per, but If nobody takes it. Iiow :.i nny one find out thut it Is k ;ol? Siw thing must bo dono to attract aten tlon to cause the people to into stand that we are on earth." "That'll bo easy." said tU trantt; printer, who had stopped over to u slst In putting the patient cm its ft "Just print an item sayin.; tli.it at tain preacher in this town will R't In'-' trouble if lie doesn't c paying i1 tent Ions to a certain married member of his flock and cease nuK-li. I'll b1 the nnDor containing that Item ! t,.. nCr tho nruaa 10 in antes DNi'i there's a copy of it In every house t this town." Getting a Man's Measure. "I wonder bow I can tlml "' er he really and truly loves me?" "That's easy. Treat him as F- would treat a dog that you ili'ln't ci for, and if ho keeps on waiitlaR lai things to mnke you happy it Mime sure sign that he really loves you. 'rtnt what If I should treat hlni way and ho should quit doing tWM' to make me happy? H' ini""'1 be able to take an Interest In again." "Well, you'll know then that be' brute and wholly unworthy of y OLD AGE AND ITS CAUSE! "They Mf 0,i ae U not cueJ bv Hi.! W time, hut Is ..,.!. of t I' n'e crol' in many afraid, a S rasM, 'r It Is . . . . i, ., i !. mis- resuit or straining to bors envious." Always Under Suspicion. I never tVe a Klnsa of wine, I don't Indulitn In aniokliK. The hlKhbair; None of H ln My friends, I am not Jokli f- I do not know thff tna'n of I don't Indulge In hrmely: I wish to also make It clear That I abstain from candy. But If I ever Inuifh out lo".l Uecnuao of what I'm think'. , Knur out of five men In tin- '' Conclude that I'vo I n Jim Too Much of a "iak. ., "I have a chance to nturry " mnn who has lots of money. "Why don't you?" "He hasn't any bad comes of a long-lived family- She Was Misinformed. "I hear," said Mrs. Old;'"",-! they are to have a hyBlnlc "Are they?" replied Mrs- Jo' "I s'posed it was to be at Wa The Average Ma" Ta, what's au average man "One who has a that he has qualities which superior to anybody else. I Ruts wero mauo 101 r Ruts wero mauo m i yot possess the courage thai ty those who try untrodden Foolish Prcdlfl'11')'' Some people use their ttey had dozens of thtiu i" waste. ly, Isn't HI
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