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HIE GIRL IN THE PICTURE
w“ it... Today that would have ruined me. when
' Tau," of French by God's luck I met Harry in Louis-
,m; 1min In???” ville.’ (I'd heard the old women call
. '1”li II 8! her father Harry. so I had that
. \ luxurious Eng- much to 80 on.)
,‘ . in} \Vhfll‘. he I!
v . . n which has sl- "'Al.‘ he says.
trouble?’
. in:- lower part. of
“ 'I suppose it was in my face. I
was broke down an' I told him. He
got it all in his head. en' then he
patted me on the shoulder. “Old
man." he said. “a little money ain't
~ M dcccncy was goin" to do you any good. I'll git
.3... that . dissi. you ntty thousand dollars an’ you
Hz. go out to the racecourse this after-
lu attempllnz to noon nn' pick a winner."
‘what's the
- moment of suc-
v senses that he
The great crimi-
. Land thelt in Eng-
wvnt to America
« '- met the hunt“-
.. mri. Although n
‘ . iivr money. .
., wimnidge. told him ’ 'I tried to turn it down. I didn't
Vij- "i "gait £39220ng {:2 want to lose his money; I didn't
if? [Mum m snve se- know one horse from another. But
1.. she has foolishly he just laughed and kept patting
' "“"L Th“ "'mmn' me on the back. "A beginner tor
~ ll be so urit , , ,
p, 1 4“ “.2314...“ flung luck.' he says. ‘thres you nerve.
,. in him to turn over Al?" Won, I picked mm big Der-
“ cum colt that nobody had ever
. . on “ill: the Story
< IiAI'TI‘ZR III.
:vwn sun lay on the ter-
thn gray stone house.
, iiw Nit creature. doziti to
loikw‘l from his chair.
I'll‘v'Kll‘l'y that had cov-
' .ilsiiviwnrnnre from the
' iv was on extraordinary
v' i l wished to get it. in de~
mw-ly (‘lw’lh
\ in fiction." l (l‘kt‘d. "this es:
honrd of. n fivetocne shot. an' be
rompcd in!‘
"I was alimpin' along
the sea.-
”r
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rw,
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A
of queer hesitation.
answered."
seemed to relax,
had been a vital tension in the mere
memory of the thing.
he continued.
when it was getting a little dark. I
limped over to the church. I had
the lsst copy of the Finsnm Reg-
ister in my hand.
door.
was dark. but I didn't need on:
light for the business I come on.
this job’- up to you. I'm ssoln' to
open this magazine here in the dark
and the first thing that's advertised
It the top of the page on the right-
hsnd side is the thing I'm exoln' to
tell her to put the coin on—Rosdy.’
I says. ‘go to it!’ and I. folded back
the page and went over to the hotel."
It was some sort of Canadian gold-
mine. so fishy that the letters had
scales
self.
ness.’ an’ I cut it out. put it. into an
envelope with the draft. and left it‘
at the desk for her." ,
He paused. >
"The next morning I slid out.
Eight months later the plague
struck me. I crippled into England.
asked her to hide me while I died.
and she put me here.”
suppose it turned her out I for-
tune?" ‘
stunt into his voice.
"that the Governor-General of Ceno-
dn summoned all the victims to meet
with him for a conference in Mon-
treal."
sound of a. motor entering the gates
at some distance through the pork.
“'I'll tell you that tonight.‘
The
I
huge cresturs
ss though that
"Thst clesned up my end of it."
“snd after dinner
I stopped in the
The church was closed and it
"'Governor.‘ I says, ‘the rest of
Again he paused.
“I got a jolt when I saw the page.
on ‘em. But I says to my-
‘That's the Governor's busi-
"And the gold stock." I said. "I
The energy came bsck for en in-
"It was so rotten." he replied.
At this moment I caught the
:1. .. no to \Voslridge?”
" mk-‘d nt me in a sort of won-
t
he
r0.
ore wasn‘t any of it true?"
said. "I made ll. up."
word." hr: nnsWered.
The huge paralytic also heard it.
and his attention was no longer to
ward me. It was on the great coach-
coiored limousine drawing up at the
end or the avenue of ancient beech-
trees.
flit. B.
n't you understand?
This was a iiitln came that me
-d Cm] Almighty was sottln‘ up on
o sxdo."
You know nothing of the girl‘s
stepped down into the avenue. car-
peted now with the yellow Autumn
leaves.
impossible
charm. her beauty. were the wonder
of England.
in it flash of the eye. I recalled the
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I looked with him.
A girl helped out by footmen
Even at the distance it was
to mistake her: her
And on the instant. as
painted picture hanging in a great
house in Berkeley Square. the plo—
ture from which this creature's mu-
t‘ix ‘4?” The thing seemed incred-
3. \ mo.
7' it‘s right." he replied. “not a.
» rxrcpt that her father. a
tag. in the South. was dead. and
w ill coin was beginning to
ml nucthin'ann' of course the "BUT WHAT SHOULD I DO
111"" ‘-‘ 0" ”“5 WWW“ 9“”0“ WITH rim mow-3w" sin: sin)
-: v. ,i \ blind pool: nobody in on ‘ ' ‘ H '
t‘. w-l Almighty." pnth. aproddln' the gravel with my
i. _ 1 not forbcur a. comment. cane an' atnlkln' to my “.1." same
"1' "ms. 10 “fl-V8 helped 3'0“ in as if I was afraid the recollection
lbr' 'it-' would get away with me it I wasn't
Tm . : creature turned heavily cnrcful. The girl didn't say nothln'
{o'nr' ‘ and I went on.
“W "2 little \Vestridg‘c?" There "'Ilmy wouldn't touch the win-
on ‘2‘ w irony in his voice. "1 nins: he picked out his fli’ty thou-
‘V- ”' d any “MP W handle him. sand and put me out of the room.’
“I" ‘i “i A Ti C 3W“- Th° big "I limped on. talking to my feet.
will“ ""3 ahead." "'And it saved me two ways. for
”7" n ”19 Kiri?" ”“3 query the thing I was egoin' to do would
'"l' ‘ ‘ 9 have ruined mo.‘ ,
"N :10 ”DUN-l. "that W35 my “My voice got down pretty near
it {v You listen. I'm comln' in a whisper.
1'- '“I never saw Harry after that.’
"ii «and out for a chance to get 1 says. ‘untll last, night:
luau by herself. an' about four “She stopped quick, an' I went
"6." I got lt. There had been I on a step or two,
in . i cleared a. little and she “'My father?’ she said.
um; far .1. walk, She took the path
1'” ‘ the sol. tOWard Cromweli‘s
Hat" r and I foliowod her. Sho-
l‘J' , i back where the path ends at
. iii» harbor. nnd just before a big
i in: that hadn't been opened that
mun. I. met her.
'1 stopped in the path?
Missie,‘ I said. 'could I spmk to
yr . a minutv')’
“‘1’es.’ I says. not looking up.
'Ilnrry, just as he looked that morn-
ing in Icuisvlile—oonly he was
troubled.’ '
“Then I turned on her like I was
mnkin' a clean breast of it. I had
the tears startln’ and the right
choke-up. an' it wasn't all Jury dope.
I didn't want that hcnvcnly angel
fouled over by little W'estrldge. It
fl.
"There was no sham business bailed the heart out of me.
‘xmlt her. She was clean and " ‘Now. Missio.’ I said. 'you‘ve got
l plight and afraid oi“ nothin', like to help me even this thing up. I
vngnl of God,
i‘vrtfllniy.‘ she said.
is don't know nothin‘ about your af-
fairs—I don't want to know. But
you've got to take that same bunch
of money and chance it on some-
"VII-'1! is
in’g mun moved his loose built
a “ ~ vhrlir. thing.’
now something: about stories." "She shook her head, and I had a
:o -. . "I've had in make ’em up bad hour. All along that sea-path,
tilated photograph had been taken.
ancient chair. with no ornament but
a bit 0! jade ‘on s cord about her
excited flutter.
didn't throw me down.
the picture of a young girl. in an
neck.
"It's the young fineness of IIur-
linghnm." I said.
The big creature beside me was
struggling to rise. his voice in an
be sold. "God Almighty
When she
went up to that conference in Mon-
treal. He had young Hurlinghsm
on, the spot—line. strslght. clean
youngster as ever was born. It wss
love her at sight: sn' now"-—-he
made a. great gesture as though to
include something without 1 visible
llmit—“she's' got all these places in
England. an' all that Standard Oil
money that belonged to his mother's
people."
The girl, radiant as a. vision. was
advancing on the carpet of golden
beech-leaves. and I hastened to put
a final query. the thing I had come
here to find out. I had given up the
idea of an arrest. The man wss
dying.
"What did you do with. the regis-
tered bonds that you got when you
cracked the vault of the British Em-
bassy in “'ashington the night be-
fore you went to Bar Harbor? They
had Lord Dovedale's name on them.
and they could not be negotiated."
The whole sagging body of the un-
steady creature strained toward the
advancing vision as toward an idol.
ills voice reached me. stuttering u
with fatigue.
”That's the stqu I put up with
Westridge for the loan—go and take
it away from him!"
"Sure."
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A startling story of mystery snd
horror. “The Thing on the Harsh.”
r a war would believe 'em. an' I with the fog dodging in and out, I
1“" '- 5’ best as I iimnr‘d (lions: by kept right at her;1 never lost a step.
3" I was old and rich: money was
“ i 'ri’t always been rir‘h.' I says. nothin’ to me.
inu- 40le an' out in the nightles. “'But what should 1 do with the
u. ' was ngoin' to do somethin' money?’ she said. finally. in a sort
will begin in our next issue.
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. brief note to it. man friend st home.
received a. letter from him.
mammoth.
Fruit Carrot Pudding
By BERTHA E. SHAPLEIGH
Of Columbia University
Cream 1 cup suet, add 2 2-3 cups
stale bread crumbs and 1 cup grated
-;-.-_w carrot. Beat the yolks of 4
cggs until very light, and add gradu-
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cups brown sugar. Combine mixtures
and add grated rind of 1 lemon and 1
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raisins. seeded and cut in pieces. and
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i‘ion add whites 4 eggs besten until
Stiff. Turn into a. buttered mold
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Cox-er and steam 3 1-2 hours.
Marriage 8 La fiode
An American marries a. wife. A.
li’cnchman takes not only his wife for
iJet‘mr dl' worse, but her entire kith
and kin. -
An American mother says. "We
hare lost our daughter." A French
woman says. "We have gained s. son."
French parents. speaking of their
dztughter and r husband, call them
"our children.‘ A Frenchmen. speak.
lug of his mother-in-law. says “My
mother," or “Mama."
Good Manners.
'Away on s. visit, it is quite proper
for a. young woman to send s. card or
Ir. is the man Who has gone any.»
whom she does not write until shohas
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Mix 1 cup'
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Drawings by Leslie Elton
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The little hoops immediately Dullmli inbth‘elr Arms. heads and legs. again
of the hoops won and the quolts game was over.
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"Now we‘will take you on a journey through iioopland." said the lollv
little hoop. First of all they came in Honorable Hcczo. Hoop's homo Heron's
children had just had a bath and were hanging out to drv. . I ..
made of hoops of various sizes and onwytliing was round. -
and were sent sailing through the air. If a hoop lapded too far away from the
stake. it would get up and come back. Jack thought this real funny. Finally
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"You have heard of the cxprcssio n jumping through a hoop.' haven't
on
questioned one ‘4' the hoops.
“Yes. I guess I have."
"V\'oll." said the hoop. "this is where it came from.
through to get into this house." So Jack jumped through.
replied Jack.
You see you have to jump
(Continued)
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Paddy the Beaver and Mrs. Paddy
wnsted no time. Before their 0nd
should freeze over they must are
enough food in their-100d pile to
lost them until spring. So they took
only time enough for needed sleep.
They worked both ni lit and day.
They cut only the smn lot trees. In
the first place these were easier to
cut, and in the second place there
was no waste to them. The butt: of
the trunks was tender and good est-
in . which was more than could be
am of the bark of big trees.
It. made Peter actually tired to
watch such stesdy labor. How an
one could work and work and wor-
as those Beavers did was more than
l’eter could understand. It. was still
harder to understand how Paddy and
Mrs. Paddy could get any pleasure
from such hard work as they seemed
to. You see Peter quiteoveriooked
the fact that all winter long they
would have nothing to do but rest.
eat and sleep, whereas he would have
to spend much of his time in hunt—
‘ ing for food and worrying for fcsr
.he would not get enough.
Peter had spent much time watch-
ing the Beavers cut down the trees
and trim oi? the branches. It was
very interesting. but it was almost
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Peter Rabbit Has 3 Shock
By ThorntoncW. Burgess
Who in his work his pleasure finds
The drudgery of it never minds. .
--Psddy the noses";
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“That's funny," muttered flier to
himself
look at s thi and not see it. I
suppose I mus have been thinfing
of other things sod just didn't not!“
it.”
Then Peter turned his hesd so tbs.
he could look down the tub
as
the
Btu
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dam and down
swim away with them. One moon—
in
Brook to watch for the return at
Paddy. When he glanced ov st thst
moonlit place on the other I do sgsin
his heart gsre‘ a little jump. It
seemed to him thst thst log wssn't
where he had last seen it. It seemed.
to him that it was a little nearer the
interesting to watch them drag
branches and logs over the new
into the Laughing
ok on the other side. and there
t night Peter had watched Poddy
drag n log over the dam and dlsap-
car down the Laughing Brook with
t. Mrs. Paddy was busy- cutting on-
othcr tree. l‘ttcr sat down in the
Black Shadow just back of the dam
to wait for Paddy to come back. He
knew it would take Paddy some little
time to take that log down to the
food pile in the old‘ pond and return.
no he made himself comfortable and
idly looked about him. Across on the
Laughing Brook than it list! been
before.
“Of course it csn‘t be.” thou 8
Peter. “it is just my imsgln 1:.
Just the same I on ’t get our the
feeling that that ad log is nearer
than it was when 1 last looked st it.”
Peter sat and stand snd stared
at that log. For the time being be
quite forgot Paddy the Beaver. Sud-
was
lisp
other
side of the Laughing Brook
:1 big patch of moonlight. Peter
pened to look over at it. In the
denly Peter received s shock! You.
sir. he received s shock! Thst I
moved! He was sure of it. It no
middle of it lay what looked like a
short. rather thick log.
"That’s funny." muttered Peter to
himcslf. “Yes. sir. tlint's funny. I
don’t remember seeing that log over;
there before. Of course. it; must?
l‘flvt‘ been ‘here and I just didn't see,
forward just a wee bit. Peter's eyes
almost popped out of his hesd. sad
it seemed as if his heart w’ss right
up in his throat.
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