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FULTON CO. TRIItrXE, WAX SEOS, TirrRSPAY, APRIL c, ILJl J " rr if "JLi t II praflinif i m y aging audHskis 3 l have planned a racatlon trip to s; & 1 1 ?5fV Ir'fJ'.TT"! SGd&M I l Alaska this summer. According F- f - IVf FALf V L - ItV $V ll 7 1 I to tentative plans made long In oW 1 ' $ V Z V v J M WMtl I LT-, advance they will leave Washing- f ' t ' TJ fefW- 'T ' 1 7 lliXU rn : Vjf iff r - I i;rH'IM?IH"MMHllH!tlHmHHIi;HI'IIIH?iM'imHli';i: and By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen NonU rollllllltllllilllUlilillliUliilltllll lillllilillillililllllillitllliiilli 111 JlilJillliilliillllitllililii jlillJllliilllii!llliiiiiiilllllllliUUlllliltl; HE President and Mrs. Harding have planned a vacation trip to ' Alaska this summer. According to tentative plans made long in advance they will leave Washing ton In June and will not return until about the middle of Septem ber. It's quite a Journey, you know, from Washington to Alaska and back and there are reasons why the President wants a month j or more to look around in the Land of the Midnight Sun. . According to the original plans, the presidential party will go by special train to the Pacific coast, probubly aHghtlng at San Francisco. Seattle will be a port of call. Thence the route will be through the Inner Passage and on to Alaska. Presumably Juneau, the territorial capital, will be visited. Ac cess to the government railroad, now practically completed, can be had either at Seward, its south ern terminus, or at Anchorage, on Cook Inlet. The road runs from Seward straight north to Fair banks, about 460 miles. Mayflower, the presiden tial yacht, Is likely to be sent through the Panama canal to be of service somewhere along the- coast. A wonderful vacation trip, worth, the while even of the President of the United States of America ! And the President is known to be a lover of the beautiful and majestic In nature and a loyal friend of our national parks and of such scenic enter prises as th National Park-to-Park highway. In cidentally an effort is being made to get the Presi dent to visit on this trip one or more of the nation al parks and the proposed "President's Forest," on the North Rim of the Grand canyon. In Alaska "The Frozen North" we used to call it the President will have a chance to see various things that are far out of the ordinary. There Isn't space here to catalogue them, but here are a few that any man would be glad to see: At Ketchikan a stream plunges through the cen ter of the town. And In the stream Is a salmon-run where millions of salmon are to be seen making Incredible leaps to ascend the rapids. Juneau Is the Alaskan capital. There the Presi dent can take an automobile and drive 11 miles right to the edge of Mendenhall glacier. It'll be summer weather. He can pick flowers by the way. He'll see vegetable gardens, strawberry beds " and wheat fields surrounded by giant forests and overtopped by peaks white with everlasting snow. -t'Sf course the President will strike somewhere the Tukon one Of the great rivers of the world and grandly scenic for the greater part of Its 2,300 ' miles. f The President is likely to run across a big herd of reindeer anywhere from Point Barrow to the Alaskan peninsula. There are now about 225,000 f these "Camels of the Frozen North." One of these days we are likely to be eating reindeer meat Instead of beef; several thousand carcasses are to be shipped In from Nome this year. The seal rookeries on the Prlbilof islands should be worth seeing ; there were 552,718 of these curi ous animals according to the seal census of 1920, and they are Increasing, although Uncle Sam takes more than 25,000 skins a year. ' It is to be hoped that the President visits the new Katmal National monument "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes." Katmal volcano on the Alaskan peniusula blew Its head off during three days In June of 1912, covering all Alaska with a . thick "coating of dust. The explosion left a crater 3,500 feet deep and eight miles around, with a lake at the bottom. Close by Is a valley several miles Ions, from which are shooting up thousands of steam Jets, some of them a thousand feet high. It -is a sample of earth in the making, Some day these steam Jets may cool off enough to become , geysers, like those of the Yellowstone. In the ' meantime, cooking is easy In Katmal! If the President travels on the government rnll- ' ' road to the gap In tne steel he will have a glorious y view of Mount McKlnley, one of the great moun-. tains of the world and the central feature of the 2.200 square miles of Mount McKlnley National park. It risen 20,300 feet above sea level and Is most impressive. It Is a wonderful preserve of Alaskan wild ame caribou, bighorn moose, deer and bear which live and breed there in Immense numbers. At present this park Is Inaccessible, but the government railroad will touch the new east boundary line established by a recent act of con gress. Then there will be a rush of tourists very few of whom will reach Mount McKlnley's glacier covered summit. So Alaska has the makings of a mighty Interest, ing vacation trip for the President and his party. But don't get the Idea that the President's trip Is wholly and solely a vacation pleasure trip. For the truth is that it is a combination of pleasure and business; If It breaks flfty-flfty, the pleasure angle Is In luck. For Alaska Is one of the admin istration's "problems." And the President Is re ported to think the Alaskan problem important enough to warrant Awt-hand information. Secretary Albert B. Fall of the Interior depart ment, according to the tentative plans, is to ac company the President. Under the circumstances that Is to be expected. The Alaskan problem is one of many ramifica tions. The basic fact aronnd which the various phases of the problem revolve is put in a nutshell by the question, "What's the matter with Alaska?" "Too much government by too many bureaus too far away," Is one of the many answers to the question. Though Alaska has a governor (Scott C. Bone) and a legislature and a territorial dele gate to congress (Dan A. Sutherland), It Is real ly governed by Washington bureaus and apparent ly almost every executive department has a hand in that government. You see, nearly all of Alaska's natural resources Are directly or indirectly controlled by the federal government. About 99 per cent of the land is still in government ownership. Coal and oil develop ment is under ' government leases. ' Water power and fisheries and timber are under federal control. .And the activities of the many bureaus of the several departments dovetail, overlap and conflict in a bewildering tangle. Owing to the divided au thority and the limitations of statutes and ap propriations, there would be mlxup, even were co-operation the watchword of all concerned. As the -result Alaska has not been doing well., The population has fallen off. The commerce has decreased. The country Is not being developed. The fisheries are not prospering. The postoffice department can hardly be said to function. Ocean transportation is Inadequate and costly. With oil and coal of her own Alaska is importing both. Various plans have been proposed for Alaska's relief. A number of bills has been introduced in congress. One bill would put the administration Into the hands of an Alaskan development board. Another would give the President authority to re organize all federal activities. The Interior department has many activities in the governingof Alaska. It is Secretary Fall's Idea that the way to dCelop Alaska Is to vest ab solute authority In the'President and to concen trate In the Interior department all functions per taining to the development and use of natural re sources and to construction work. Of course this idea Is not at all pleasing to many officials of bureaus In other departments. Then there Is another proposition which compli cates the political phases of the situation: Th proposed reorganization of all the executive depart ments. This reorganization would regroup the various bureau activities and bring about a whole sale transfer of bureaus among the departments. One contemplated transfer under this reorganiza tion is that of the forest service in charge of the national forest from the Agricultural department to the Interior department. The "Agricultural department is fighting this proposed transfer. Its Btake In Alaska is the Tongass and Chugach National forests, containing 20,000,000 acres. The latest authoritative facts as to the Alaskan situation are contained in the report of Secretary Fall of the Interior department for the fiscal year "NO, NO, NO!" SynopslH. Harriet Field, twenty eight yen.rs old. and beautiful, is the social secretary of the flirta tious Mrs. Isabel Carter, at "Crownlands." Richard Carter's home, and governess of seventeen-year-old Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four years old and Impression able, fancies himself In love with his mother's attractive secretary. Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" Is with young Anthony Pope, and the youth Is taking It very seriously. Presiding over the teaeups this summer afternoon, Harriet Is pro foundly disturbed by the arrival of a visitor. Royal Blondin. Next day. at a tea- party In the city. Blondin makes himself agreeable to Nina, and leaves a deep impres sion on the unsophisticated glrL Harriet's agitation over the appear ance of Blondin at "Crownlands" is explained by the fact that he had been a disturbing element In her life ten years before and she fears him. The man Is an avowed adventurer, living on the gullibility of the Idle rich. He frankly an nounces to Harriet his intention of marrying Nina, and urges her to aid him. She Is In a sense fn his power, and after pleading with him to abandon his scheme agrees to follow a policy of neutrality. Knowing the tender feeling she has Inspired In Ward Carter, Harriet Is tempted to marry him for the position and wealth he can give her, though realizing she does not love him. Blondin ha Ingratiated himself with Madame Carter, Rich ard's mother, and she Is whole heartedly in favor of his marriage with Nina. Ward urges Harriet to marry him. She procrastinates. Mrs. Carter elope- with Pope. Blon din threatens Harriet. She prays to do what Is right. Blondin and -Harriet agree to keep silent about their past relations. Richard Car ter proposes a marriage, entirely businesslike, to take place as soon as he Is divorced. Harriet says "No."' and goes to visit her sister. ending June 30, 1921. He goes Into detail and says generally, among other things: "The report of the governor for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, emphasizes, as the paramount need of Alaska, liberalized laws and more flex ible rules and regulations thereunder, with a con centration of authority and responsibility and an administration co-ordinated and brought closer home. Capital and people are required to develop the resources of the territory and until It is made easier for these two necessary factors to obtain a foothold the territory will not progress. The difficulties of administration are great owing to distances and inadequate transportation and mail facilities. Under the present long-range system of government individual Initiative has been halted and the pioneer spirit maimed. To promote effi ciency by minimizing relays, the governor earnest ly recommends that the administration be cen tralized at Juneau, the territorial capital, to the fullest extent possible, while governmental super vision Is maintained at Washington. To further this end, after he proposed consolidation of bureaus under one departmental ead, he suggests that each essential bureau station a representative at Juneau, empowered to act upon all matters not affecting public policy. Obstructions met by cap ital seeking investment and by people in quest of homesteads have been lessened somewhat In re cent years, but by no means removed ; both capital and people, it is urged, are entitled to a fairer chance than they have ever had In the past. "In conclusion, the governor submits the follow ing recommendations: "A eo-ordlnated and simplified system of gov ernment, with bureaus having Jurisdiction In Alas ka consolidated under one departmental head at Washington. The stationing at Juneau of an authorized agent ot each essential bureau exercising administra tive functions In Alaska with power to act upon matters not affecting federal policy. "A centralization of executive and admlnistra; tlve business in Alaska to the fullest extent con sistent with continued governmental supervision. An appropriation of $300,000 to supplement the fund of $155,000 now available for the purpose of constructing an administrative and executive build ing at Juneau on ground wned by the government and to provide quarters therein for the territorial legislature and the Alaska historical library and museum. "Liberal mining and land laws framed to meet distinctive and divergent conditions In Alaska and regulations under such laws that will ted to stim ulate enterprise and encourage settlement. "A colonization plan to be worked out In con junction with the operation of the government rail road to bring under cultivation the vast area of ag ricultural land in the interior. "Improved transportation facilities and more equitable freight rates, through private enterprise, if obtainable, and under governmental regulation and control; or, as an alternative, through the operation of vessels of the United States shipping board and the establishment of a mosquito fleet to meet local needs. "More liberal mail subsidies to enable the post office department to function In Alaska and thus aid In the solution of transportation problems. "Continued conservation and safeguarding of the fisheries of Alaska. "Uninterrupted construction of roads and trails throughout the territory and necessary appropria tions to carry forward the comprehensive plans of the Alaska road commissi6n, working In co-operation with the territorial road commission ; and the transfer of the work In the territory of the bureau of public roads to the Alaska road comr mission as a further step toward co-ordinationy efficiency and economy. "Allotment of a fair percentage, at least one- half, of the net revenues derived from the Pribilof islands, which are In Alaskan waters, to the gen eral, fund of the territory. "More specific recommendations are not made because of the conviction thnt a co-ordinated sys tem of government will facilitate the solution of many important territorial problems and the ad justment of collateral questions and issues." GIVEN MORE THAN HER SHARE . Old Montenegrin Legend Explains the Fact That So Much of Her Land I Worthless. JloniPiiesro. neiir the Adriatic const, J largely composed of jagged, tum b'ln?, barren- mountain mages. They ore desolate masses of ash-gray or very durk-gray rock on which there are no trees, no patches of earth and apparently no growing thing whatever. Montenegrin iegend has It that Stu-day Inning Post E things in It were distributed by the ears ,Is mot,ef nnt" .,... ..tl,..,i ,.c fli enough to escape from he I little country, completely covering it. j This Is Montenegro's pet legend, writes Kenneth L. Roberts, in the Everv Monte- ed Into his he Is old devil. He distributed the rocks, flying i l '-. ,i over the earth id dropping them from I nctunry In the mountains ne gets . ... 1 the vnrn from lnnlceeners. tnirhojtt pn- a great sack, wnen lie mw out wun i ,- , ,. Ills last load there were still a num ber of countries that were unroc-ked ; j hut just as he got over Montenegro the j bottom of the sack burst open and the A hahy whale was killed on a sand entire load of rocks fell down on that l bar in New York harbor recently. gineers. relief worl-ers.. waiters, ban dits and school children. Colors That Stimulate. It Is worth while to know that some colors are stimulants nnd some are anodvnes, and to proceed accordingly In matters of decoration and clothing. It is probably well to follow nature, and to make green and blue the only bright colors that are used In larse musses. If red is used it should be merely a touch here and there. Such a touch of red is undoubtedly pleas- ! ing. nnd probably healthful so mug as it is not larse enough to force itself upon the eye. , origina, Pet, W ATTERSON PLAYED WITH PATH Lowell was as shrewd as usual when he asserted that "if a poet resolve to ( be original. It will end commonly In Reminiscence Proves That "Marse Henry cany uave tviaence oi his being peculiar." Ana even Tr.e youngest of poets ought to be able to Belze the difference between originality and pecullority. It was not by straining for peculiarity that Milton made himself one of th More Than Ordinary Talent. Among his childhood companions was Adelina Pattl. Once when he was twelve years old, and Adelina nine. most original of English poets, but hj j they played together pt a ' charity on "Home, Sweet Home." The audi ence was enthusiastic ond the two children came out again. This time he improvised an accompaniment to "The Old Folks at Home," which Adelina sang, and the applause nearly raised the roof. Years later when Christine Nilsson was at the heinht of iinitntinn nf that one of concert" n Washlnfclon. She sang ; her success at tne 'I nearer i.yrique, in riwiiiwawira hom he most admlrea. I "The Last Rose of 'Summer" and he Paris. AVntrerson told her the time .... , c .i i I r.l.,,FA.-l hap hrntl.or-ln-ln vvs vi ing concerts. She was Indignant at the suggestion, but he said to her: "Nev ertheless, let me teach you a sure en core." He played her Stephen Fos ter's Immortal ditty. She was delighted with It, and as he remarks in his memoirs. "The sequel was that It served her an even better turn than it had served Adelina Pattl." New York World. Milwaukee Sentinel. ulayed her brother-in-law's variations would come when she would be giv- Kentucky has 65 women managers and superintendents or manufacturing establishments. CHAPTER X. . : 9-- There was trouble at Linda's house ; trouble so terrible that Harriet's unex pected arrival caused no comment, caused no jnore tlfan a weary flicker of Linda's heavy eyes. Pip. the adored first-born son, lay dangerously ill, and the whole household moved on tiptoe, heartsick with,, dread. It was diph theria, very bad, Fred stated lifelessly. Linda hardly left tie room ; they were afraid for her, too. "If anything hap pened." "If" anything happened !" Harriet thought she had heard the phrase a hundred times before the dreadful night came. She had taken Linda's place for an hour, but before it was up the mother came back, and they kept their vigil together. Fred answered the strange, untimely ringing of the doorbell, brought In packages, conferred In the halls with the doctors. Midnight came, two o'clock, four o'clock. ., 'Suddenly there was panic. Har riet, by chance in the hall, saw Linda and Fred and the doctors together, heard Linda's quick, anguished "Yes V and Fred's "Anything !" Her heart pounded; the nurse ran upstairs. Har riet fell upon her knees with a sob bing whisper, "No no no!" and Lin da clung to her husband with a cry torn from the deeps of her heart, "Oh, Pip my own boy!" Dawn came slowly and reluctantly at seven ; the village lay bleak and closed under a sky of unbroken gray. Here and there smoke streamed up ward from a chimney, or a window- pane showed an oblong of pale light. Harriet put out the light that was becoming unnecessary. But her heart was - singing for joy, and the house was brimful of an Inner light and cheer that no winter bleakness could touch. The girl had been crying until she was almost blind, but it was a cry ing mixed with laughter and prayers of utter thankfulness. She met Linda at the door, a weary Linda, ghastly as11 to face, grayer as to straggling hair, but with such-radi ance in her eyes that Harriet, clasped In her arms, began to cry again. Oh, Harriet If I can ever thank God enough !" Pip's mother said, be ginning on her breakfast with one long sigh. -"Oh, my dear ! He's sleeping like a baby, God bless him, and dear old Fred is sleeping, too. Oh, Harriet, to go about the house, as I just have. covering Nammy and the girls, and feeling that we're all going' to be happy together again. In a few .days my dear. I don't know what I've done to be so blessed! My boy, who has never given anyone a moment's care or trouble since he was born my dar ling,, who looked up at me yesterday with nis beautiful eyes The floodgates were loosed, and Linda laughed and cried, while she enjoyed her breakfast with the appe tite of a normal woman released from cruel strain, whose whole brood lies rifely sleeping under her roof. Nam- my's light Illness. Pip's wet feet, Lin da's unwillingness to believe that It was anything but a cold, every hour of the four awful days of danger, she reviewed them all. And oh, the good ness of people, the solicitude of nurse and doctor, the generosity of God ! i It was the afternoon of theaiext day when Harriet could first speak of her own affairs. Linda listened, over her mending, nodded, pursed her lips, or raised her eyebrows. If Linda might ever have been worldly minded, she had had her les son now, and the viewpoint she gave Harriet was the lofty one of a wom an who has faced a supreme sacrifice without shrinking and with unwaver ing faith. "You did right, dear." she assured her sister. "You could not stay there, under the circumstances. Whatever their code is, yours is different, yours i has not been vitiated by luxury and idleness. As for Mr. Carter's talk marriage, that, of course, is simply an Insult !" "No, I don't think it was that," Har riet said, feeling herself revolt inward ly at this plain speaking. "I don't see what else It could be, Linda pursued, serenely. "A married man you would be no better than his well, It's not a nice word but his mistress!" "Not at ail," Harriet said, trying hard to hide the irritation that rose rebellious within her, "he is legally free, or will be soon, nnd so am I!" "I am speaking of God's law, not man's." Linda said, gently but awfully, and Harriet was silent. "Fred says hat such men regard these matters far too lightly," Linda finished. Fred's. name, thus introduced, always had the effect of angering Harriet. She had shared the family exaltation over Pip's recovery, and hud thought more than once In that fearful night of his illness that even poverty, gray hairs and the agony of parenthood, shared with the man she loved, would have been ec stasy to her. But In the slow days and weeks that followed, her spirit became exhausted with the struggle that never ended within her. Her bridges were burned behind her; it was all over. Whatever her emotions had been in leaving Crownlands, the Carters' feelings had been quite obvi ous and simple. Old Madame Carter had wished her well ; Ward had writ ten from college that he thought It was "rotten," and that she had been corker to get Dad to raise his al lowance for him ; Nina had felt her own wings the stronger for the change; and Richard had Interrupted his little speech of regret to answer the telephone, and had given her a check that placed. It seemed to Har riet, the obligation permanently with her. The utter desolation of spirit with which she had left them was evi dently unshared ; the only word she had had from that old life had been from Mary Putnam, and even this cor dial note jarred Harriet with its frank revelation of the change In her posi "I can't keep this up !" she told her self, playing games with little conva lescent Pip, walking over frozen roads with the girls, reading under the eve ning lamp. "I can't keep this up! Twenty-seven, and a governess, and in love with a married man who does not know I am alive!" summarized Harriet, bitterly. "I will simply have to forget it, and begin again, that's all!" , And she meditated upon David, the excellent, steady, deVoted David, who was Fred's' brother and a dentist In Brooklyn, and who -gave the children wonderful holidays at Asbury Park. It would make Linda and Fred very happy to have her change toward him: they were a little hurt and si lent about David. He always went with them to the crowded beach where they spent July and August, had had a cur this year, Linda told her sister, and had been "so popular." David was there, Christmas day, and there was a fire and a tree, happy chil dren everywhere, rosy little "neighbors coming in to see the toys, snowy wef garments- spread on the- porch after church. David took Harriet walking Harriet, His Arm Was About Her Now, His Voice Close to Her Ear, "Don't Let Those Years With Rich People Spoil You for the .Real Thing, Dear." in . the fresh cold air, a Harriet so beautiful in her furry hat and long coat, with her brilliant cheeks and her blue eyes shining under a blown film of golden hair, that Linda, p he basted the turkey in the hot kitctteii, couldn't help a little prayer that that would all come out "right." 'But, Davy dear!" Harriet and David had stopped short in the exqui site, silent woods, "There is a feel ing a something that makes marriage right! And I haven't it, that's all!" 'How do you know yon haven't?" he said, smiling. "Harriet, if once you said yeu would, it would come. Harriet, his arm was about her now, his voice close to her ear, "don't let those years with rich people spoil you for the real thing, dear!" She looked up at him, with some thing wistful In her blue eyes. In stantly she saw leap to his face the look lie had hidden so many years; she heard a new ring In his voice. "Ah you darling! You will? You'll let me tell them?" "No, no, no!" Half-angry, half sorry, she put away his embrace. "I'll Davy, I hate to spoil your Christ mas day I don't know what to say! I'll think about it!" She turned to go home. Her heart was lead within her. "I suppose there's no help for It." she thought, in a panic. "Linda'U see it'll all be out rn five seconds '" But Linda met them at the door, full of an announcement. "Harriet, Mr. Carter is here!" "Mr. who?" Back came the tide with a great rush, nothing else mattered. For a moment Harriet was turned to stone. Then In a dream of radiance and de light she went into the little parlor, and Richard Carter stood up to greet her, and there was nobody else In the world. Linda had introduced herself; David was introduced. Harriet glanced about helplessly; he had not come here to say "Merry Christinas," surely. "I suggested that Hansen take .the little people for a five-minutes' drive," he explained, "and then I shall have to hurry back. I wanted to speak to you on a matter of business. Miss Field. I wonder--since you're well wrapped if we might walk to the cor ner and meet them; I'll only steal you from your family for five minutes." "Certainly !" Harriet's heart was singing. She was hardly conscious of what he snid; it was enough that hp had sought her out, thnt she was to have one more word with him I came here to discuss my own plans. Miss Field," he said at the gate. but a hint from your sister has made me fear that perhaps I am too late. She tells me that you may be making plans of your own." "David?" Harriet said, resentfully. I have no plans with David!" she said, simply. "I didn't know," Richard answered I came to ask you to come back. Things are in an absolute mess with us. We have not had a serene moment since you left us three weeks ago." To go back back "to Crownlands! Harriet's spirit soared. She knew she must go back ! She had only despaired of their ever needing her again. Every fiber of her being strained toward the old life. "Linda, my sister, thinks It Would be unwise," she began. The mah in terrupted her. , There has been a new turn of events. Miss Field. I had some Infor mation lust night which may make a difference," he said, gravely. "I re ceived a wire from Pope, in France. My wife Isabelle died on an operat ing table yesterday afternoon, in Paris." Harriet, stupefied, could only look at him fixedly for a long minute. ' Her lips parted, but she did not speak. Died?" she whispered sharply. The man nodded without speaking. "But but what was It?" Harriet said. For answer he gave' tier the crum pled cable, with the bare statement of fact. She read it dazedly,- looked at his somber face, and read it again. I can't believe it !" she said. Well, now," Richard began present ly In a different tone, ''we are, as I said, Miss Field, in a mess. I haven't told the children this; they have a lot of young people there over Christmas. My mother .and Nina are planning some entertainment for New Year's night, and I suppose this will end all that; I should suppose that Nina and her brother must have a period of mourning. I uiu deeply involved in a big project In Brazil, committee meet ings ail through January I can't swing It, that's all. Now, when we last talked of the subject together." Richard pursued In a businesslike way, "you objected to the suggestion of a murriage, because my wife was then still alive. Am I correct?" "Yes, that's correct!" Harriet said. voicelessly. She felt herself beginning to tremble.. "My purpose In coming today was to suggest that. If that was your sole objection," the man continued, pains takingly, "you might feel the situation changed now. I need you. We ail do. If it is my mother who makes It im possible, or some other thing that I cannot change why, I must get along as best I can. But ray proposition Is that you and I are quietly married tomorrow; you come back tomorrow night and announce It whenever you see fit. I may seem a little matter-of-fact about this. Miss Field, but I am hoping you understand. I am making you an unsentimental business 'offer. I need you In my life and I offer you certain advantages which It would be silly and schooiboyisli for me to deny I possess. I have a certain standing in the community which even Mrs. Carter's madness has not seemed to impair seriously. The boy and the girl both love you, and" you have my warmest friendship. Your position In my household will be as free and in dependent as was Isabelle's. I do not know whether you will consider this a fair return for what I ask, for after all you are giving your services for life to the Carter household "Now. this Is of course entirely sub ject to what pleases you In the mat ter," he broke oft, to say, emphatically, "I merely throw It out as a sugges tion. It would please me very much. I would draw a long breath of relief to have it settled. Mrs. Tabor is there stays there; takes the head of my table. I spent last night at the club ; I had cabled Pope and expected an answer, but my mother telephoned me at three o'clock this morning to say that Ward and some of his friends had . gone out ice-skating. Ward's been dropped from his university. can't- have that sort of thing, you know !" ' "When did you want me?" Harriet brought her beautiful eyes back from some far vista. "I thought that If you could meet me at my office tomorrow I would have all the arrangements made, Nina Is to be at the Hawkes'; I send the car for her at three. I thought that you and she could go home to gether to Crownlands. I'll have to be in town that night." HHome to Crownlands!" Suddenly Harriet's Hp quivered and her eyes brimmed with tears. "I'll be very glad to go back," she said In a low voice. "Good!" he said. "I needn't tell you how I feel about It ; It helps "me out tremendously. Now, about tomor row, how would you like that to be?" "Well." she laughed desperately throuch her tears. "We're Church of England!" She laughed asain when he took oA his notebook and wrote the words down. ."Once It's done," he said, reassur ingly, "you'll see my mother and all the rest of them come Into line! It puts you In a definite position, and although I may seem to be rushing and confusing vou now, there is a more peaceful time to come we'll hope!' he added grimly. "Here's Hansen now. Lovely children," he added, of the voung Davenports and some inti mates who were tumbling out of the car, "k'vely mother." "You'll not speak of this yet?" Har riet said, suddenly thinking of David and Linda. "My sister might think it lacked deliberation so close upon Mrs. Carter's death. I'.d rather have a little time,, get things straightened out" "Oh, certainly certainly!" She could see he was relieved, was In deed In cheerful spirits, as he gave his furred hand to the chlldrens mlt tened ones. They thanked him shrilly and Hansen smiled warmly upon Har riet as he touched his cap. Then they were gone. Linda, watching from the window, thought that the chauffeur's obvious respect for Harriet was rather impressive. She came to the porch, and Richard" waved his farewell to them en masse. "lie's very nice," said Linda. "Poor I'IMII'Hiiim; j ,ellow, ne' probuhiy would have had all entirely omerein inurui iroue, ir his life had been different!" Harriet inwardly writhed, but she did not stir in the sisterly embrace of LltAla's n rin. At three o'clock the next afternoon Nina Carter, leaving the Hawkes' man sion in New York city, with a great many laughing fare-wellsdescended to her father's waiting car and discov ered, sitting therein, an extremely handsome young woman, furred and trimly veiled, and deep in pleasant conversation with Hansen. "Miss Harriet!" Nina ejaculated In a tone that betrayed a vague resent ment as well as a definite surprise. "Nina, dear!" Harriet accepted Nina's kiss warmly. "Are yon glad to see me?" And as Nina! stumbled In and established herself, Harriet continued easily: "Your father and I had a talk, my dear, and he sug gested that I come back for a while. So Hansen picked me up at the office and here I am ! He tried to telephone you, I know, but you were out. And now," said Harriet, glancing at her wrist watch, "I think we will go right home, please. Hansen!" Nina haa been her own 'mistress for several delicious weeks, and to have uny sort of restriction again was very unpalatable to her. She sulked5 u 13 the way home and Madame Carter,, meeting them at Crownlands, gazed! rathej; stonily at the newcomer, grant ing her only the briefest greeting. But,, oh, how homelike and welcoming the beautiful place, mantled In snow, looked to Harriet's eyes. The snap ping fires, the warmth and fragrance of the big rooms and the very obvious welcome of the maids-, all were en chanting to her. Her first duty was to make a brief tour below stairs, af ter which she went up to- her own room. When they returned from Hunting ton in the fall, she and Nina, at Rich ard's suggestion, had taken Isabelle's handsome rooms, turning both into bedrooms and sharing the dressing rooms and bath that joined them. It was here that Harriet found Nina awaiting her, still with her hat on and loitering . with - obvious discomfi ture. , Miss Harriet!" Nina said with a rush. "You are so sweet about things lik.e this, I wonder if you will mind taking the yellow guest room it's i really much larger and leaving this room? You see, when I have friend! " Harriet, at the dressing table, had raised her hands to remove her hnt. Like any general, she realized the crisis of the apparently unimportant moment and met it by Instinct. But yoa have an extra bed, besides the couchrv,ln your room, Nina 1" Nina cleared her throat, threw back her head, regarded Harriet between half-closed eyelids in a manner Harriet realized was new, and drawled: I know. But if you would be bo very kind ?" Do you know, I'm afraid I shan t be so very kind!" Harriet said, briskly. You're one of my duties here, you know, little girl, and I think Daddy would prerer to have me near yon! Now, If you like to ask him, perhaps he'll not agree with me ; in which case I shall move immediately! But mean while" ' Nina's face was scarlet ; she left the room abruptly. A moment or two later Harriet- sauntered Into the adjoining room, and found her again. The young- m er girl was assuming a ruffled and be- ribboned negligee, and tossing ner wraps and street dress about careless ly. Harriet noted this with disapprov ing eyes, but said nothing. There was an immense picture of Mrs. Tabor on the dressing table, and she found in that a sudden solution of the strange change in Nina. ' "'With Ladybird's unending devo tion, to Ninette,'" read Harriet, from the Inky scrawl across the picture. Do you call her Ladybird, Nina? xou and she have formed a pretty strong friendship, haven't you?" "Oh, something more than that!" Nina drawled in her- new manner. "She's the best sort 1" Does she have my room when she Is here?" Harriet presently suggested, sympathetically. "Now, my dear," she added, as Nina's quick self-copsclous and hostile look gave consent "Mrs. Tabor is too thoroughly acquainted with convention to blame you if your father keeps you under a governess' eye for a little while longer. You're the most precious thing your father has, Nina, and as I used to remind you years ago, you don't begin to have the restrictions that the European prin cesses have to bear!" This view of the case was always pleasing to Nina's vanity; she was quite clever enough to see that a friend protected and confined, watched and valued, would lose no prestige with the charming "Ladybird." She pouted;. and Harriet saw that for the moment the battle was hers. Darling gown !" said Harriet of the picture. "Oh, she has tne most wonaerrur clothes I" It was the old Nina's voice; "Has she been here very much?" Harriet said, after a moment. "Oh. lots ! She loves to be here, and' I can't think why," Nina said, "be cause people are all crazy to get her, and she cotld go to the most wonderful dinners and things. But she really Is Just like a girl, herself ; sometimes w burst right out laughing, because we think exactly the same about things f And she Just loves picnics, and to let her hair down and she's so funny t You'll Just love , lier when yoa know her" Nina, Harriet reflected, had' had a thorough dose of pofson. It would take, like many diseases, more poison to cure her, a counter dose. Going to twr room to change to one of the new gowns, Harriet had a moment of contempt for the new-found Intimate, who could so unscrupulously play upon the girl's hungry soul. But; with this situation it was possible to cope; there was defi nite comfort In the fact thnt Nina hud not mentioned Royal Blondin. Brave In the new gown, whose lus terless black velvet made even more brilliant her matchless skin, Harriet went to find Ward. She met instead, one of his house-guests. Corey Eaton, a man some years older than Ward a big. rawboned. unscrupulous youth, with a wild and indiscriminate laugh. "It Un't exactly wht I ex pected marriage to be!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Bulgarians Learn to Work. One week of manual and agricultur al labor Is In future to be included in the year's work of every Bulgarian school, for boys and girls alike. Induces Blunt Remarks. 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