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save your life much as I oh, you " THE HIGH SIGN By Alvah Jordan Garth (Copyright, 1916, W. G. Chapman.) "It isn't fair I won't! You shan't!" " 'Tis done it was a square for feit and I won!" Smack! Slap! With lightninglike rapidity two echoing sounds intruded on the still garden air. One was caused by a kiss boyish, forceful, triumphant and boisterous. The other was the result of a swift, sweeping blow from the nut-brown hand of Eugenia Ray. Walter Ross fairly staggered under the stinging contact He had not be lieved that one set of soft, dainty fin gers could administer such a bewil deringly stunning retort. His cheek flamed and smarted. He was a mere youth and his anger .flashed forth. His eyes scintillated. Oh, if she were a boy! "I'm sorry I'm sorry!" tumult ously gasped Eugenie, ashamed of temper, pitiful as she noted the red line across the cheek of the manly young fellow with whom she had had 50 many jolly, friendly times. "You'll be sorrier!" declared Wal ter, almost furiously, "ftot that care for the kiss oh, dear, no! It was the game, and fair and square you owed the penalty. Do you sup pose the other girls flared, up and acted like bruisers.' The implication turned Eugenie flaring red. She clutched her tiny fists akid stamped her shapely foot "You ran after me fast enough to care for something. she cried, "Whether you value the kiss or not, it's vour last IH forgive it this Ume." "You'll go further than that," in sisted Walter. "You'll kiss the spot you struck so cruelly before we are friends again. "I!" exclaimed Eugenia, almost shrilly. "I? Oh, never! If you were the last man in the world if it would insolent, great rougn lyrani: i i ue- spise you! And, a girlish volcano 01 irrepres sible emotion, Eugenie Ray, bursting into tears, dashed from the spot Two davs later Walter returned to college. He did not forget his bright, volatile friend, but he never let ner know that when they met a year lat er. He was a young gentleman quite and she in long dresses, iney were courteous, even friendly, but many a time that stirring garden episode re curred to the mind of Walter, and A Cavalcade of Desperate-Looking Men. from behind lowered lashes Eugenie studied this handsome, self-possessed young man and wondered why she felt that there was a vague barrier between them. Then there was another year dur ing which they did not meet. Judge Ray wondered why his daughter ex hibited no marked preference for any especial one of her numerous suit-, ors. Walter kept away from the fern.-