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ÎDBl.TJDETStlGË OF T]HE PAJF.rONiGIL ETHEL HUESTQN Mf'A'M BS.-; Jg* x A ILLUSTRATED by W.C .TANNEÏL A? m 1 «/il (Copyright, tiy th* Bobb*-Merr!ll Company.) (Copyright, tiy th* CHAPTER XI—Continued. to It on I and you er? It did look horrible, from above as well as below. Hut Jerry, when he felt the first light twinge a# Connie lifted the roi«, foresaw what was coming and was ready for It. As he went down, he grabbed a firm bold on the branch on which he bad stood, then he drop ped to the next, nml held again. On the lowest limb he really clung for fifteen seconds, and took in his bear ings. Connie hml dropped the rope when the twins screamed, so he had nothing more to fear from her. IIo saw Prudence, white, with wild eyes, both arms stretched out toward him. "O. K., Prue," he called, and then ho dropped. He landed on his feet, a lit tle jolted, but none the worse for bis fall. He ran at once to Prudence. "I'm all right," he cried, really alarmed by the white horror in her fuc«. "Pru dence I Prudence I" Then her arm* dropped, and with a brave but feeble smile, she swayed a Utile. Jerry took her In hi* arms. "Sweetheart 1" he whispered. ''Little sweetheart t Do— do you love me *0 much, dearest?" Prudence raised her hands to hi* face, and looked Intensely Into his eye*, all the sweet loving soul of her shining In her own. And Jerry kissed her. of I to The twins scrambled down from the maple, speechless and cold with terror, and saw Prudence and Jerry! Then they saw Connie, staring at them with interest and amusement. "I think we'd better go to bed, all three of us," declared Lark sturdily. And they set off heroically around tho bouse. But at the corner Carol turned. "Take my advice and go Into the woodshed," she called, "for all the Av ery* are looking out of their windows." Prudence did not hear, but he drew her swiftly to the darkest corner of the side porch—and history repeated It self once morel At twelve, Jerry went upidntrs to bed. his lips tingling with the fervent tenderness of her parting kiss. He stood at his window, looking soberly • >ut Into the moonlit parsonage yard. "She Is an nugel, a pure, sweet, unself ish little angel," he whispered, und bis voice was broken, and tils eyes were wet, "and she Is going to he my wife I Oh. God, teach me how to he good to her, nml help me make her as happy as she deserve»." At two o'clock, thinking again the soft shy words she had whispered to him, he dropped lightly asleep and dreamed of her. With the first pale streaks of daylight stealing Into his room he awoke. It was after four o'clock. A little later—Just a few min utes luter— he heard a light tap on his door. It came again, and he bounded out of bed. "Prudence! Is anything wrong?" "Hush, Jerry, not so loud!" And what a strauge und weary voice. "Como donustulrs, will you? I want to tell you something. I'll wait at the foot of the stairs. He quiet—do not wako father und the girls. Will you be down soon?" "In two minutes 1" Ami In two minutes he was down, agonizingly anxious, knowing that something was wrong. Prudence was waiting for him, and ns he reached the bottom step she clutched his bauds desperately. "Jerry," she whispered. "I—forgive tne—I honestly— Ob, I didn't think what I was saying last night. You were so denr, nud I was so happy, and for a while I really believed we could belong to each other. But 1 can't, you know. I've promised papa and the girls n dozen times that 1 would never marry. Don't yon see how it U? 1 must take it back." Jerry smiled a little, It must be ad blitted. This was so like his consci entious little Prudence! "Dearest," he said gently. "You love me. Your father would never allow you to sacrifice yourself like that. The girls would not hear of It. They want you to be happy. And you cuu't be happy without rue, cun you?" Suddenly she crushed close to him. "Oh, Jerry," she sobbed, "1 will never be happy aguin, I know. But—it Is right for me to stay here aud be the mother In the parsonage. It Is wicked of me to want you more than all of them. Don't you see It Is? They haven't any mother. They haven't anyone but me. Of course, they would not allow It, but they will not know anything about it. I must do tt my seif. And father especially must never know. I want you to go away this morning before breakfast and —never come again." She clung to him as she said this, but her voice did not falter. "Aud you must not write to me any more. For, oh, Jerry, if I see you again I can never let you go, I know it. Will you do this fc- me?" "You are nervous and excited," he Bald tenderly. "Let's wait until after breakfast. Then we'll talk it all over with your father, and it shall be as he Bays. Won't that be better?" "Oh, no. For father will say what I Is to ever he thinks will make me happy. He must not know a thing about it. Prom ise, Jerry, that you will never tell him one word." "I promise, of course, Prudence. I will let you tell 1dm." Hut she shook her head. "He will never know. Oh, Jerry 1 I can't bear to think of never seeing you again, and never getting letters from you, and It seems to kill tne Inside, just the thought of It." "Hit here In my lsp. Put your head on my shoulder, like that. Let me rub your face a little. You're feverish. You are sick. Go to bed, won't you, sweet heart? We can settle this later on." "You must go right away, or I can not let you go at all 1*' "Do you mean you want me to get my things and go right nowî" "Yes." She burled her face In his shoulder, "lf—lf you stay In your room until breukfast time I will lock you In. so you cannot leave roe again. I know it. 1 am crazy today." "Don't you think you owe me some thing, as well as your father und sis ters? Didn't God bring us together, and muke us love each other? Don't you think he In* anded us for each oth er? Do you wish you had never met me?" "Jerry 1" "Then, sweetheart, be reasonable. Your father loved your mother, and married her. That Is God's plan for all of us. You have Jtteen a wonderfully brave and sweet daughter and sister, I know. Hut surely Fulry is old enough to take your place now." "Fairy's going to be a professor, and —the girls do not mind her very well. And she Isn't as much comfort to fa ther as l am. It's Just because 1 am most like mother, you see. Hut uny how, 1 promised. I can't leave them." he he »? ESC. h ; * * i > * « "Whenever You Send, I Will Come." "Your father expects you to marry, nud to marry me. 1 told hliu about It myself, long ago. And he was perfect ly willing. He didn't say u word ugulnst tt." "Of course he wouldn't. That's Just like father. Hut still, 1 promised. And What would the girls say If I should go buck on them? They have trusted me, always. If 1 fall them, will they ever trust unybody else? If you love me, Jerry, please go, und stay away." Hut her arm tightened about hi* neck. "I'll wait here until you get your things, nud we can—say goodby. And don't forget your promise." "Oh. very well, I'rudence," he an swered, half Irritably, "If you Insist ou ordering me away from the house like this, 1 eau only go. But—" "Let's not talk any more about It, Jerry. Please. I'll wait until you come down." When he enme down a little later, with hts suitcase, his face was white and strained. She put her arms around his neck. "Jerry," she whispered. "I want to tell you that I love you so much that—I could go away with you, and never see any of them any more, or papa, or the parsonage, and still feel rich, If I Just had you ! You—everything in me seems to be all yours. I—love you." Her tremulous lips were pressed against his. "Oh, sweetheart, this Is folly, all folly. But I can't make you see it. It is wrong, it is wickedly wrong, but—" "But I am all they have, Jerry, and— I promised." "Whenever you want me. Prudence, just send. TU never change. I'll al ways be just the same. God intended you for me, I know, and—I'll be wait ing." "Jerry ! Jerry ! Jerry !" she whispered passionately, sobbing, quivering In his arms. It was he who drew away. "Good-by, sweetheart," he said quiet ly, great pity In his heart for the girl who in her desire to do right was doing 'Good-by, sweet such horrible wrong, heart. Remember, I will be waiting. Whenever you send, I will come." He stepped outside, and closed the door. Prudence stood motionless, her hands clenched, until she could no longer hear his footsteps. Then she dropped on the floor, and lay there, face downward, until she heard Fairy moving In her room upstairs. Then she went Into the kitchen and built the fire for breakfast. CHAPTER XII. 8he Come* to Grief. Fairy was one of those buoyant, warm-blooded girls to whom sleep is indeed tho great restorer. Now she stood In the kitchen door, tall, cheeks glowing, eyes sparkling, and smiled at her sister's solemn back. "You are the tittle mousey, Prue," she said, In her full rich voice. "I didn't hear you come to bed last night, and I didn't hear you getting out this morning. Why, what Is the matter?" For Prudence had turned her face to ward her sister, and It was so white and go unnatural that Fairy was shocked. "Prudencet You are sick! Go to bed and let me get breukfast. Here, get out of this, and I will—" "There's nothing the matter with me, I had a headache, and did not sleep, but I mu all right now. Are the girls up yet?" Fairy eyed her suspiciously. "Jerry Is out unusually early, too, Isn't he? Uls door is open." "Jerry has gone, Fulry." Prudence** back was presented to view once more, Bnd Prudence was stirring the oatmeal with vicious energy. "He left early this morning—I suppose he is half-way to Des Moines by now." "Oh!" Fairy's voice was noncom mittal. "When Is he coming back?" "He isn't coming back. Please hurry, Fairy, and cull the others. The oatmeal Is ready." Fairy went soberly up the stairs,, ostensibly to call her sisters. "Girls," she began, carefully closing the door of their room behind her. a a . ...... ,. .... . Kissing! In tlie back yard. What are you talking about?' Carol explained, and Fairy looked still more thoughtful and perturbed. Bhe opened the door, and called out to them In a loud and breezy voice: "Hurry, girls, for breakfast is ready, and there's uo time to waste in a par sonage ou Sunday morning." Then she added in a whisper, "And don't you mention Jerry, ami don't ask Prudence what makes her so pule, or you'll cutch it!" 'Jerry has gone, and Isn't coining back And for goodness' sake, any more, don't keep asking questions about It Just eat your breakfust us usual, aud bave a little tact." "A lovers' quarrel," suggested Lark, her eyes glittered greedily. "Nothing of the sort. And don't keep staring at Prue, either. And do not keep tulking about Jerry all the time. You mind me, or I will tell pupa." "Thut's funny," said Carol thought fully. "We saw them kissing each other like mad In the back yard last night— and this morning he has gone to return uo more. They are crazy." Then she went to her father's door. "Bronkfust Is ready, p pa," she culled clearly. She turned the knob softly, and peeped ln. "Muy I come in a min ute?" Standing close beside him, she told him all she knew of what had hap pened. "1'rudence Is ghastly, father, just ghastly. And she can't talk about It yet, so be careful what you say, will you?" And It was due to Fairy's kindly ad monitions that the parsonage fumily took the departure of Jerry so calmly. That was the beginning of Prudence's bitter winter, when the brightest sun shine was cheerless and dreary, and when even the laughter of her sisters smote harshly upon her ears. She tried to he ns always, but In her eyes the wounded look lingered, and her face grew so pale and thlu that her father and Fulry, anxiously watching, were filled with grave concern, tnulned almost constantly In the par sonuge, reading very little, sitting most of her leisure time staring out the win dows. It, JShe re Fnlry hml tried to win her confi dence, and had failed. "You are n nrling. Fairy, but I real ly do not want to talk ubout It. Oh. no, indeed. It Is all my own fault. 1 told btm to go, nud uot come again. No, you are wrong, Fairy, I do uot re gret it. I do not want him to coiue any more." Mr. Starr, too, had tried. "Prudence," he said gently, "you kuow very often men do things that to women seem wrong and wicked. And maybe they are 1 Hut men and women are differ ent by nature, my dear, and we must remember that, I have satisfied myself that Jerry is good, and clean, and man ly. I do not think you should let any foolishness of his In the past come be tween you now." all It al (TO BE CONTINUED.) Rare Branches. The thing next in beauty to a tree In full leaf Is a tree bare; Its every exquisiteness of shape revealed, and its hold on the sky seeming speakably assured ; and, more than the beautiful of shape and the outlin ing on the sky, is the grace of proph ecy and promise which every slender twig bears and reveals in Its tiny gray buds.—Helen Hunt Jackson. so un his girl "Baby Talk" Rebuked. "Jack, look at the nice bow-wow," Bald a mother to her three-year-old son, out for a walk. Jack looked as directed, then up at his mother, and said solemnly, "I call that a dog." PRESIDENT APPEALS TO LOYAL CITIZENS AMERICANS URGED TO STAND TO GETHER FOR COMMON GOOD IN WAR WITH GERMANY. Special Appeal Made to Farmer* and Industrial Force* of the Country to Give Freely of 8ervlce for Benefit of Country. Washington.—In a personal appeal addressed to his fellow countrymen, President Wilson, on April 12, called upon every American citizen to Join together to make the nation a unit tor the preservation of its ideals and for triumph of democracy in the world war. Putting the navy on a war footing and raising a great army are the simplest parts of the great task ahead, the president declares, and he urges all the people with particular em phasis on his words to the farmers to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and demonstrate efficiency. The president declared that "It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in shipyards. In the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and moip effi cient than ever and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular re quirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will toe serving the coun try and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battle field or in the trenches. The indus trial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a great national, a great. International service army— a notable and honorable host engaged in the service of the nation and the world, the efficient friends and saviors of free men everywhere. Thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to military service will, of right and of necessity, he ex cused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sustaining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will he as much part of the great patriotic force® of the nation as the men under fire. "I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing this word to the farmers of the country add to all who work on the (Arms: The supreme need of our q, W q nation and of tho nations with dance of supplies, and especially of which we are co-aperating is an abun foodstuffs. The Importance of an ade quate food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fall. The world's food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergen cy, but for some time after peace shall have come, both our own people and a large proportion of the people of [ Europe must rely upon the harvests in America. Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most effectual co-operation in the sale and distribution of their food products? The time Is short. It Is of the most imperative importance that everything possible he done and done immediate ly to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men and old alike and upon the able-bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty—to turn in hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no labor is lacking in this great matter. "I particularly appeal to the farm ers of the south to plant abundant foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can show their patriotism in no better or more convincing way than toy resist ing the great temptation of the pres ent price of cotton and helping, help ing upon a great scale, to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty. "To the men who run the railways of the country. Whether they he man agers or operative employees, let me say that the railways are the arteries of the nation's life and that upon them rests the immense responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind, no inef flcency or slackened power. To tho merchant let me suggest the motto: 'Small profits and quick service,' and to the shipbuilder the thought that the life of the war depends upon him. The food and the war supplies must toe carried across the seas no matter how The places of those that go down must he supplied and supplied at once. To the miner let me say that he stands 1 where the farmer does; the work of the world watts on him. If he slack ens or fails, armies and Statesmen are helpless. He also is enlisted in the great service army." Turks Intern U. S. Gunboat. Amsterdam.—The American guard ship Scorpion has been Interned at Constantinople by the Turkish gov ernment, according to a news dispatch from the Turkish capital, quoting the Turkish newspaper Subah. Food for Soldiers' Wife*. Washington.—An investigation to arrive at a uniform system for caring for dependent families of men enlist ing in the army or navy will be un iertaVen bv 'he chamber of commorcc -.f the T 'n>ed States. as W. L. DOUGLAS "THE 8HOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE" $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 $7 & $8 A £g R w S£% N Save Money by Wearing W. L» Douglas shoes. Jor sale by over9000 shoe dealers. 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Sole manufacturer, G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J., U. S. A., Australia and Toronto, Canada.—Adv. . j ! ! Died of Premature Old Âge ! j How manv times we hear of compara .._, _ _ ____._ „„„„ tively young persons passing away when A Cascaret to-night will make you feel great by morning. They work while you sleep—never gripe, sicken or cause any inconvenience, and cost only 10 cents a box from your store. Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now and then and never have Headache, Biliousness, Coated Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk. "I'm so sorry I missed that oppor tunity to kiss you." "Oh, don't feel bad about It—there will be others." GREEN'S AUGUST Used Ail Over the Civilized World for More Than 50 Years. Stomach troubles seem to be almost universal the last few years; I mean Indigestion In many forms. Internal nervousness, caused by Incompatible food fermentation, coming up of food, sour stomach, headache, apparent pal pitation of the heart, habitual consti pation, Intestinal Indigestion, caused by a torpid liver, and a general break down with low spirits and depressed feeling. Green's August Flower was introduced In this and foreign coun tries fifty years ago with wonderful success In relieving the above com Sure Thing. "How are we going to pilot the ship of state?" "I suppose by a tug of war." , ,,, , __ they should have lived to be 70 or 80 years of age. This fatal work is usually attri buted to the kidneys, as, when the kidneys degenerate, it causes' auto-intoxication. The more injurious the poisons passing thru the kidneys the quicker will those noble organs be degenerated, and the sooner they decay. j ^ ^ lus w ' ses *' policy, to prevent premature old age and promote long life, to lighten the work of the kidneys. Tina can be done by drinking plenty of pure water all day long, and occasionally tak ing a little Anuric before meals. This can be obtained at almost any drug store. You will find Anuric more potent than lithia for it dissolves uric acid as water does sugar. Contradictory Behavior. "Cholly seems to be falling off in bis former correct Btyle of dressing." "Yes, I noticed he was laying down on his getup."« "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother realizes, after giving her children "California Syrup of Figs" that this Is their ideal laxative, because they love Its pleasant taste and It thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels with out griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless laxative," and In a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bow els, and you have a well, playful child again. When its little system Is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remem ber, a good "inside cleaning" should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs'' handy; they kn çyf a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at tne store for a 50 cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-upa printed <5n the bottle. Adv. fruit ! Office Repartee. Woman Editor—Where did you get your black eye—been fighting again? Muscular Reporter—Oh, no; I don't get black eyes when I fight. The other fellow gets them. Woman Editor—Well, I thought per haps you had been fighting with my husband. 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It was first put into ready-to-use form by Dr. Pierce nearly 50 years ago Almost every drug store in this country setts these vegetable pellets in vials Cor 25c— simplv ask for Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They have Dr. B. V. Pierce sta;np.