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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i UNDER THE STARS By S. E. Riser. . '. (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) t ' For ,three hours Helen Sibley fihad been waiting- at Northport 'Junction. Luckily- the evening t was pleasant, so that she was not r compelled to sit in the .stuffy, din- gy little station. There was ju.s"! one pretty thing" about North port Junction, and that "was 8bo Was Thinking of Tom Harlow. Helen. If the train for which she was waiting ever came and ever departed again, Northport Junc " tion would resume its habit of be ting about as unlovely a spot as one might find within the temper ate "zone, ,x While Helen remained the place would possess one attraction that would have lent distinction tQ a far more important and a far mqre splendid center of activity than the Junction was ever likely to become. The operator in the bay win dow that jutted out into the point of land between the branching tracks evidently had an eye Tor beauty as well an ear for Morse. As Helen walked up and down the platform iie watched her and became thoughtful. He wonder ed why it was that nature be stowed her gifts sa lavishly upon some girls arid treated others so shabbily. The beauty that Helen possessed might have made a dozen plain girls fair if it-had been distributed among e them. Such was -the 6perator's reasoning.- The operator at Northport Junction was a philosopher. But Helen was not thinking of philosophy, and if she had noticed that the operator was eagerly watching her the fact neither added to her pleasure nor caused her annoyance. For some reason she was thinking of Tom Harlow. Perhaps it was because of the loneliness of her surroundings. It was nearly a year since she had refused to listen when Tom has said that he could "explain every thing in good ' time," and for months she had thought that she was never goingto have any in terest in him again.' ' Thinking of Tom naturally caused her to think of Mrs. Dan forth, the pretty, young grass widow who had come between