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Miss—Mrs.
By CORONA REMINGTON
(©. 1920, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)^
“Carefully, dear, and don't put ycuir
tongue out when you write.”.. :
The young woman eat on the grass
beside the little boy and gnided the
unsteady hand. „ _ : - ’ .. . :~
“That’s it I” she said a moment
later. “You’ve done It beautifully.
Nov?, If you want to play a little you
may.”
With a squeal ,of delight the boy
threw his arms* aronnd ' her * neck
then ran away to chase the dancing
butterflies. ' - r'-!"
“May X Join the party, Mrs. Frank
lin?” said a pleasant voice beside, her
as the owner dropped carelessly on
the ground at her feet. c '
“What would you do if I iverl to
say ‘no’?” she laughed.
“Too late now—besides, I knew you
wouldn’t.”
“Talk about the vanity of women!
How about the conceit of men?” she
teased.
“That nephew of yours is one more
kid,” he said, changing the subject
“I think he’s wonderful,” she put
in, her eyes following the little fig
ure in front of them. “And he’s learn
ing to write as'a surprise for his moth
er. Do you think hq can do anything
in three months?”
“Sure he con If he ■ doesn’t blow
himself up or set the hotel oq fire
first” ; %&, Ht ■"
She smiled as she handed the sheet
of paper to Arthur Mantell.
“That’s not bad when you know he’s
only been at It a month and we .have
two whole months left.”
“Fine, I should say,” the man de
clared as Billy came running toward
them. ......
“But Auntie says I put the .tum
mies to my ‘d’s’ on the wrong side,”
he said woefully as he pointed a
" pudgy forefinger at, the recalcitrant
. ‘d’s.’ . •* ,5 CO
“Never mind, you’jT soon' get that
. straight,” the man soothed a? Billy
trotted oft again. . ,
;■ “He’s SO much stronger since ’■ we
w came over here,” .Mrs. Franklin re
marked irrelevantly. , “By ^lie end of
the summer he’ll be a, real little man
again.”. - <> , " * ..
“But I don’t see how your husband
can ever exist without you for three
whole months;” the man said sin
cerely.
- .Mrs. Franklin blushed and" turned
her head away.
“Oh, X know I’ve done something
■ wrong,” he declared apologetically.
“Do forgive me.”
“N-no, - you haven’t,” the girl re
plied hesitatingly. " \ •’
“If you’ll look at me I’ll be con
vlnced. I can always tell In your
eyes when you are hurt or happy or
■. £ead.” . f-V,
Slowly, she raised her' head and
looked ' unwaveringly at :■ him.- “Now
-■ .—see?” she smiled.
“T-e-s,” he answered rather lafhe
Ijr, his heart thumping. •
1 J5 After a while she excused herself
' • and took Billy back to .the hotel for
his nap. Mahtell’s eyes followed the
’ two as. they walked across the lawn.
V *1 don’t believe she’s so very much
older than Billy,” he said to himself,
• “but, Bord! why are all the nice wom
en married? I know she was meant
for me, and even If there is some
thing wrong with her husband I’ll bet
she loves him.- She’s just the thtck
and-thln, for-better-or-for-worse kind,
and who wants to marry a girl that’s
. already given her heart to some other !
- chapr .
xie iubb uugruy auu siroue towaru
the hotel. '
„ “Never mind, tomorrow’ll be Mon
day and I can work. It's not quite'
so bad when you don’t havp to hang ]
. around all day and think how,won
derful she’d be in a little home ail
V; our own. Til keep out' of..her way
the Whole week. No use burping your
ft# fingers for nothing.” .
But Mantell’s resolution was 'as
i j wish-washy and weak-backed as most
resolutions and he broke It the next
• evening, „ >'i 11 "
“Mrs.' ‘ Franklin,h . he said and
shifted boyishly from' one foot to the
■ other. , > ’• < • ■ >- . ;
She could not help smiling and won
" dering at his embarrassment as she
tried to help him out. .
IHi “just say it right out,” she
coaxed. “I know it’s not so bad.”
"Well, well\ would It be any harm
for a chap to ask you and Billy to
go to the movies tonight y* : ' *
“I don’t think it would be a bit of
, harm,” she laughed, “and I. hope the
'chap' will do It because I kuow Billy
and I wokld enjoy it.”
“Great! he exclaimed, throwing his
hat In the air. ‘Xet’s go,”
, ‘TToufre nothing but a boy,” she told
« him her eyes sparkling.
‘Tm twenty-nine years old the
fourth of August, possess one Mas
ter’s degree In architecture, an office,
a second-hand typewriter and coni
tracts for five different buildings,” he
told her in Injured .tones. y 'T .
“That’s quite a wonderful record,
she admitted graciously, “and I take t
It all back. Now I’ll run and find
Billy and my hat and we'll go.’-t
That was the beginning of a - hi-;
larious round' of movies, canoe rides
and tennis sets, and all the time
Mantell. knew that he was getting in
deeper and deeper and Sirs. Frank
lin 'was ' wondering what the people
at the hotel were thinking of her,
but she really didn’t care so very
much. It wasn’t any barm going';
out,with him and Billy and often Mrs
Mantell took Billy. on a little jaunt
without her. He was evidently very
fond of the child. > ; . .j.
In this way the days slipped by
*nd the boy grew rosier and fatter"
and more, skillful with his pencil tiff
til, at last, the time >came for theni;'
to return to their home city. " - ■
The night before they left, Mrs.
Franklin put her ljttle charge to bed;"
then slipped downstairs' and out'.pn
to the lawn to take a last look at the
place that had grown so dear to her;
In the half light she saw a familiar
figure coming toward her-and was de
lighted to recognize Arthur Mantell.
‘Tm so glad to have this chance, to
tell you two, things,” she said.
“Would to heaven I had the chance
to tell you one!” he almost groaned.1
“Ton mustn’t talk so tragically,”,she
reproved gently. “There’s no neces
sity for it. Now, what I wanted to
tell you,” she went on, “was, first, how
much your kindness has meant to -Bil
ly and pie this summer, and, second—
but tills is a dreadful secret and; ydU"
must promise not to give it away.”1
I promise,” .he Said, listlessly.
“Well, I—I’m not Mrs. Franklin at'
all. I never was married,” she con
fessed. ' .
“What!” he gasped, Jumping up in
front of her.
“No,” she answered breathlessly,
catching his excitement, r
“Well, well! Oh, heavens! How do
you propose, anyway?” he stammered.
“I never did it,” said the girl de
murely,
An hour later he confided solemnly :
“You nearly killed me-this summer,
Alice. Why did you lead me such a
dance?” ” y,. ’
“That’s easily explained. You see,
Billy’s mother has two other children,
,so she had to stay home and care for
them and her husband, but the doctor
insisted that Billy have a summer of
this wonderful air. . I was the only
one to take him -and, unmarried, I
could never- have stayed here without
a.chaperon, so I decided to~be—mar
ried!” .
“So you shall,” he said in raptured
tones. “I’ll get the license and the
preacher now If you'll let me.”
“The setting Is ideal,” she replied
dreamily, “the moon ’and the stars
and those big wonderful trees, but!I
guess we’d better wait a while, dear.”
New Mexico's Big Turtles.
Fossil turtles, some* of them" not
less than three million and others,
seven million years old, have recently
been found In San .Tuan county, north
ern New Mexico. Remains of extinct
turtles are rather common, but most
of them'consist of many small pieces.,
badly crushed and flattened or other
wise damaged. The remarkable feat
'll j of many of those lately discovered
In New Mexico is that the bony'box
like shell is almost as perfect as when
it was occupied by the body of the
living animal during the tertiary and'
cretaceous periods. No less than 50
specimens were perfect 'enough to be
Identified and described by specialists
of the United States geological sur
vey. Sixteen of them are new to sci
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new names.*1 ' S 'X
India’* Cave-Temples. ,-. ,r- ,
Cave-temples of Ellora are a series
of remarkable rock-cot temples, IS
miles northwest of Aurungabad, India,
and excavated about 800 A. D„ al
though Hindoo legends give the date
of the excavation as 7,000 years ago.
There are 84 temples of large dimen
sions, some of which are cave-temples
proper, cut out in the Interior of the
solid rock, and have an exterior as
well as an interior architecture. The
most famous of the latter Is'called the
Kallas, its interior being 103 feet long.
56 feet wide and 17 feet high, and
stands In the center of a vast quad
rangular court, embellished with obe
lisks, colonnades and sphinxes.
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Thimbles.
We are told that the art of making
thimbles was brought to England by
John Lofting, a mechanic from Hol
land, who set up a workshop at Isling
ton, near London, and practiced the
manufacture In various metnls nnd
forms with profit nnd success in 1005.
But according to some authorities the
thimble is mentioned earlier than 1650.
All tlilmhles except the tailor's, which
Is open at the top, are or should be
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are made of gold, sliver, hprn, Ivdr.v
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