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Ard Scood Pier, ih is i t Hough Mifflin Co . CHAPTER 1I1.--(Cont'd.) Corcoran turned his back and walk- 'ed away. The next moment he was 'dancing with a young woman con- spicuous for her unnaturally yellow hair, vermilion cheeks, and generally meretricious effect. YT didn't want him to get mad," Nera confided plaintively to Jerry. "I ou see why he had to go and get + ma Rid "I don't see why you care if he did." "Oh, I don't care very much. For, after all, he'll soon be all right again." A Jerry thought it curious and trying! that she should derive satisfaction' from that prospect. He suggested | fal arrangement with Thos Alles "Yes, but you liked it?" "Well,"--she emtated 1 sort of liked it--a little." And now that need for courage was all past, it was with a.wild and joy- ous confidence that Jerry seized her in his arms. : "T almost feel sorry fori Corcoran," Jerry cried triumphantly. nd how I hated him a few moments ago!" "I wonder if I'm being mean to him." 2" Serrss in some alarm, assured her that she was not. "I think maybe I am. It was just because he liked me, body so that he kissed me. The same rea- son that you did." "Yes, but you didn't like it from --1 suppose 5 co! gouldn't talk; sent to come wi : and confide to his mother the ha) neve. No, she was on that point; no one should even suspect it until she announced it to her own i family. For you couldn't trust any- with a secret like that; if you | did, it would be sure to And though it disappoin his mother was not to be enlightened round. that if she was ready to go home, he him and you did from me," said Jerry! 4 share in his happiness, he was was. "Well, I suppose so." She seemed jealously. "So don't be thinking of im any more, Nora darling." "I won't be thinking of him the {still too happy to argue about ; the was still happy enough just to an, he was perfectly well able to take| We who havb walked among the dead, | himself. _ ! To Jerry all this was perplexing-- him that | th they weren't real y engaged yet, were If. we return, will England be - Jubt England still to you and me? The place where we must earn our as for pin, And watched the smile of agony, And seen the price of Liberty, ° Which we have taken carelessly From other hafids. \ Nay, we shall dread, / to Such a distine- If we return, now more than half reluctant. 4 ailti "Te : walk and talk in whispers, and over| tion was too fine for him to p, es-| Dread lest we hold blood-guiltily oi 8 ot 3 very good crowd for Jou way I do of you, Jerry." | and over agnin ii Di Spare could see, | pecially as he was Dereies Te en-| The things that men have died to getically 3 o - a polo. | That qualification pleased him bet-'to kiss her and feel her sweet, warm dearments that he had always sup- free. Sink. WAS or hen Chan an haan promise of Kseesonia lion NB Sd wheal waa Oo: SHI blood tha hs ee A " ) , . ull renunciation could have done; his nd she must have li it 3 | we 2 e. b n shed me Oh, Jerzy, Tm glad you Te taking goaring spirits had to find expression that was the exhilarating and excit. quite definite, He concluded that s > hi Ho Book vik as Tews #1 > SCIENCE 5 po The [ittic speech, the slender, gentle, | 17 Slother rapturous hug and kiss. _|ing thought that he finally bore home had different ideas from men about If 'we ret ' cope clinging RS Roe nde Jerr Fem el "Oh, Nora! I didn't dare hope--I' with him; for it. was late, quite late, | things, that was all; and sg, when he we return, h a" thump excited! "I'm eo he Was afraid you with your talent and! when she bade him good-night at her | caught himself, as he sometimes did, ER, TPT ) d said, and sto; 4 there & bhing. in alk" ; door. questioning or criticizing in his own| A good scraple is made of oat- A Ao BST articulate PP p Larobbing, n- "1 haven't any talent--that's all mind Nopi's soursé, he hastily Stected meal and inexpensive beef. 'sumtier 3, i RTE pit ¢ is] J ve 3 ; e, e 4 * - "I didn't like it in there. I didne, dads 8nd mother Fol ed any- ove er ge, Vagu TINE | «Think all you speak, but speak not | | Summer School - Navigation School like Charley Corcoran as well in marryin; all you think. Thoughts are your July and August December to April own; your words are so no more."-- 19 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar CHAPTER Iv. excuse. Jerry felt that it was very hard to} (To be contintied.) as he"was and not let ' I PSF SI .T \ there." ; brocy they count on your "How about me?" "Oh, you, I liked you just as well, She glanced at him and seemed to cling a little closer. "Yes, It was so good to see you." He turned with her from the main street into gone that was more quiet, less brightly lighted. | "Why, Jerry, where are you going? This isn't the way home." "Don't you want to walk for a lit-| tle while? I'll take you home after I've talked with you." She did not reply, and he knew then that she was ready for what he had to say. It made the saying of it easier. "Nora, I love you. I want to marry you, Nora I'll work for you and love you as long as I live." The words flowed from him in a tremulous undertone, the more appeal- ing, the more convincing, perhaps, for their quivering, breathless eagerness. She did not withdraw her hand from his arm; she murmured, "Oh, Jerry!" "Oh, Nora, don't you love me?" She was not Jisposed to answer that question. Still she did not withdraw her hand; intent upon exacting all the perquisites of a young: woman in her situation, she said: -- "Why do you love me, Jerry?" Why shouldn't he? hen she wag the prettiest, the smartest, the best? Didn't the sound of her voice hang in his ears and make its own soft music there all day long while the hammers were pounding and the blasts were be- ing blown off? Wasn't she just a darling through and through? Wasn't she, though?---and suddenly aware that the street was as deserted as it was dark, and that she had not with- drawn her hand, Jerry seized her in his arms with a wild and joyous cour- age, and kissed her, kissed her, kissed her. he stopped him at last with a gentle reproof:-- "Why, Jerry, I didn't say you could do that." "Yes, but you didn't mind it, really? You--you liked it a little?" "Why, I don't know. It was such a strange thing for you to do, Jerry." | /ball of snow. Of which I have no doubtatall =~ =. "But you have oft' heard tell. ! I mean the one Ww! people say Was located down in--welii t matter 'bout that snow =! Aad ® Kaow PEACE and 4 i | something more than a mill-hand. This will 'be an awful blow to them-- but you don't care--not too much, do you, Nora?" "I could never have married some swell, the kind they wanted me to." The calm crudity of the statement grated a little on Jerry, even in the extremity of his adoration. "How was I to get the chance? It wasn't as if I could ever be a great artist and have society men always at my feet." "But even if you could, you wouldn't want fo--not now, would you, Nora?" She laughed and pushed him away: "You mustn't be expecting me to be too crazy about you all at once." "Yes, but I do. I want you to marry me all at once." "Oh, my goodness, no Such a time as I'd have with the family! I don't dare." "Waiting wot make it any easier." "Maybe it will. When they see that nothing else is likely to happen. Besides, I couldn't tell them now, Jerry. Dad's paid for a full term for me at the Conservatory, and I've got to go ahead just as if I meant it. I wouldn't dare not to." - "Anyway we can give them fair warning what to expect." "Indeed we'll not, Jerry dear. It's be as happy people know about it. There was no satisfaction in having people see you were happy unless you told them why. Besides, the world began to go wrong in various ways. In the first place, Maxwell was elected. to Con- gress; even in his radiant condition Jerry took this incident deeply to heart. To him a Congressman seemed of necessity a man who tow- ered above other men in character and intellect and virtue; he had believed that the men who sat in public questions, high-minded and sincere. That his district should choose as it representative a shallow charlatan chagrined him, made him feel humiliated; the district was guilty of profaning and polluting the Capitol. It was no mere person- al resentment in Jerry that cried out at the news of the honor conferred on Maxwell; it was the inborn sense of 'respect for law and lawmarkers, and of reverence for the institutions of liberty. Then there was the renewal of re- lations between Nora and Charley Corcoran--a renewal indicating to any casual observer that Corcoran was again a suitor, and that Nora was Mrs. Brown Makes a Clean Sweep. "What are you doing, Mrs, Brown; are you moving, or what?" Mrs. Sim- mons had stopped at the little front gate, her curiosity attracted by the sight of all the belongings of the Brown family scattered about the yard in the bright spring sunshine. "Do you remember the lecture we heard on home-making last winter ? wrote down the little text and it has haunted me ever since: 'Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.' Most people might suppose that I was just doing an extra house cleaning, but I am( really having it out with my own character. I say to something, "Are you useful?' and then I say to myself, 'Have you enough strength of mind to get rid of it?' " "I had to be feeling pretty firm be- fore I could do it, but you know as well as I do that there is no sense in keeping a lot of stuff no one ever uses," Mrs. Brown continued. "I dust that chair, and we all stumble cheerful, and it looks larger, for some reason. Come in and see it." The empty room certainly offered an| inviting beginning. "Take off your hat, Mrs. Simmons, and let us see what we can do with the furniture. Don't you think this blue Scotch rug is pretty with the tan wall? I am so glad I got it, instead of that red Axminster Jones tried to sell 'me. The floor looks pretty bad, doesn't it? I'd likesto have a hard- wood border outside the rug now, so 1 covering and will have it fitted all around the edges, coming well under the rug, which lies in the centre. I chose a good wood color to look well with the blue rug and harmonize with the paper." They went back into the yard and Mrs. Brown stopped before a shabby, comfortable old sofa. 'Are you use- (ful? Yes. Are you beautiful? | No-o, except that there is something | beautiful in being so 'comfy.' I know |--a fresh-looking slip cover will fix you. If I can fit covers to the whole over it but no one ever sits in it. The | family T guess I can do it for a piece old what-not is just a catch-all and is only in the way when we, want to get | near the window." going critically from one article to another. the drawers can be painted and will make a convenient place for my sew- ing things, but that rickety old stand is of no earthly use." Mrs. Brown was "Now this little table with "But why did you bring everything out _here?" asked Mrs. Simmons. t was easier to begin with a clean slate. Goodness knows, I'm tired of dusting all 'the little gimcracks, and I'm tired of seeing all the confusion. I Seventeen silly things off the took 1 l-piece. I am going to put back Ramey and an old pair of candle- mene of pa they ically rded. sticks that look lovely, now that are polished. It rests me just to think about it. Then I've Saker, down all the mussy o lep su ings wg 5g on the wall. The hardest thing for me to know is what pictures I ought to keep, but I am sure the plain wall is better than the trash that was stuck around." "Have you had the sitting-room papered, Mrs. Brown?" ' "Yes, with one of those lovely, al- most plain papers the lecturer showed ou us, I've had it put right up to the ceiling, without any border. can't imagine what a relief it is to be| ce: rid of that ugly, dark, 'big-figured j of furniture. I'm just crazy to show what I can do with slip covers and fresh paint!" The two women carried the sofa in- ide. "Now that old what-not is out of the way we can have the sofa be- fore the big window, with my little sewing-table at this end. Next win- ter we'll have it face the fireplace, with its back against the big table, so it will be convenient to the lamp and magazines." lenged in turn. Many were found wanting. Those that were saved were Some were set aside for renewal by means of paint, but others 'were "What are you sine 1 do with " said Mrs. Simmons. To her elimination looked almost wasteful. Salvation Avy. +A lot of the stuff we don't n be useful for some one." d Finally the two women sat down to survey the result. "I'd never know ted Mrs. Simmons. - "But doesn't it rtable and restful?" the The room is so; much more England Ploughs by Tractor. . Government tractors rapidly are|= turning the soil for the planting of the coming summer crops. 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