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NEWS AND CITIZEN, FEBRUARY 25, 19H
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A Will
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Mary Roberts
Kmehart
Author of "The Circular
Staircase" "7'he Man tn
Lower Ten, " When a Man
Marries," etc
Illustrated bj
Edgar Bert Smith
"I nevrr have a cold!" sho retorted.
"Why, Minnie, is that you?"
"Quick," I panted. "Thoburn and
Mr, vou Inwald earning basket lan
tern warn the shelter-house!
"Great Scott!" Mr. Pierce said.
"Here, you girls crawl over the fence;
you'll be hidden there. I'll run back
and warn them."
The lantern was swinging again. Mr,
"lnoDiirn s. grumbling came to us
through the enow.
"I can't climb the fence!" Miss Pat
ty said pitifully. But Mr. Pierce had
gone.
I reached my basket through the
"bars and climbed the fence in a hurry.
Miss Patty had got almost to the top
and was standing there on one snow-
icovared rail, staring across at me
through the darkness.
"I can't, Minnie," she whirpered
uopeiiMiy. i never could climb a
ifence, and in this skirt"
"Quick!" I said in a low tone. The
'
'They Had Stopped In the Shelter of
the Fence Corner.
lantern was very close. "Put your leg
over."
Sho (111, and sat-there loo'.iing down
at me !i'.:e a scared baby.
"New the oh"r."
i "I I can't!" she whispered. "If I
put them both over I'll fall."
"Hurry!!"
With a little grunt she put flie oth
er foot over, sat a minute with agony
In her face and her arms out, then she
Blid off with a squeal and brought up
In a sitting position inside the fence
corner. I dropped beeide her.
"What was that noise?" said Tho
Iburn, almost upon us. "Something's
Bioving inside that fence corner."
"It's them deers," Mike's voice this
time. We could make out the three
figures. "Darned nuisance, them deers
Ss. They'd have been shot long ago
If the springhouse girl hadn't object
ed. She thinks she's the whole cheese
around here."
"Set it dewn again," Mr. von In
wald panted. We heard the rattle of
Ibottles as they put down the basket,
land the next instant Thoburn's fat
!hand was resting on the rail of the
fence over our heads. I could feel
iMiss Patty trembling beside me.
But he didn't look over. He stood
there resting, breathing hard, and
swearing at the weather, while Mike
waited, in surly silence, and the von
Inwald cureed in German.
After my heart had been beating in
my ears for about three years the fat
hand moved, and I heard the rattle of
glass again and Thoburn's groans as
he bent over his half of the load.
"Come on," he said, and the others
(grunted and started on.
When they had disappeared In the
now we got out of our cramped posi
tion and prepared to scurry home. I
iclimbed the fence and looked after
them. "Humph!" I said, "I guess that
Ibaskfet Isn't for the hungry poor. I'd
,glve a good bit to know " Then I
itnrntd and looked for Miss Patty. She
'was' flat on the snow, crawling be
tween laetwo "ower TaTis o? The Tence.
"Have j'ou no shame?" I demanded.
She looked up at me with her head
land half her long sealskin coat
(through the fence.
! "None," she said pitifully. "Minnie,
I'm stuck perfectly tight!"
"You ought to be left as you are," I
eaid, Jerking at her, "for neople to
leome" Jerk "tomorrow to look at"
jerk. She came through at that, and
" . . . i . ii .1 1 : 1. I
we lay togemer in iu hiuw uuu
burst a rib laughing.
You'll never be a princess, Miss
(Patty," I declared. "You're too lowly
Iminded."
' Sho sat up suddenly and stralght
jened her sealskin cap on her head.
"I wish," she said unpleasantly. "I
kish you wouldn't always drag In dis
faer&pable things, Minnie!"
And she was sulky all the way to
fthe house. v
MSfS Summers came to my room
,that night as I was putting my hot-wa
ter bottle to bed, in a baby-blue silk
wrr.pner with a band of fur around
rthe low neck Miss Summers, of
r-
course, noFlhe hot-water boffle".
"Well!" she said, sitting down on
the foot of the bed and staring at me.
"Well, young woman, for a person who
has never been farther away than Fin
leyville you do pretty well!"
"Do what?" I asked, with the covers
up to my chin.
"Do what," Miss Innocence!" she said
mockingly. "You're the only red-haired
woman I ever saw who didn't look as
sophisticated as the devil. I'll tell you
one thing, though." She reached down
into the pocket of her dressing-gown
and brought up a cigarette and a
match. "You never had me fooled for
a minute!" She looked at me over the
match.
I lay and stared back.
"And another thing," she said. "I
never had any real intention of marry
ing Dicky Carter and raising a baby
sanatorium. I wouldn't have the face
to ask Arabella to live here."
"I'm glad you feel that way, Miss
Summers," I said. "I've gone through
a lot; I'm an old woman in the last
two weeks. My hair's falling from its
having to stand up on end half the
time."
She leaned over and put her cigar
ette on the back of m celluloid mir
ror, and then suddenly she threw back
her head and laughed.
"Minnie!" he said, between fits,
"Minnie! As long as I live I'll .never
forget that wretched boy's face! And
the sand boxes! And the blankets
over the windows! And the tarpaulin
over the rafters! And Mr. Van Al
styne sitting on the lawnmower! I'd
rather have had my minute in tnat
doorway than. fifty thousand dollars!"
"If you had had to carry out all
those things " I began, but she
checked me.
"Listen!" she said. "Somebody with
brains has got to take you young peo
ple in hand. You're not able to look
after yourselves. I'm fond of Alan
Pierce, for one thing, and I don't care
to see a sanatorium thamight have
been the child of my solicitude kid
naped and reared as a summer hotel
by Papa Thoburn. A good fat man is
very, very good, Minnie, but when he
is bad he is horrid."
"It's too late," I objected feebly.
"He can't get it now."
"Can't he!" She got up and yawned,
sretching. "Well, I'll lay you ten to
one that if we don't get busy he'll have
the house empty in thirty-six hours,
and a bill of sale on it in as many
days." Then she told me what she
knew of Thoburn's scheme, and It
turned me cold,
Doctor Barnes came to me at the
news stand the next morning before
gymnasium.
"Well," he said, "you look as busy
as a dog with fleas. Have you heard
the glad tidings?"
"What?" I asked without much spir
it. "I've heard considerable tidings
lately, and not much of It has cheered
o up any."
He leaned over and ran his fingers
up through his hair.
'"You know, Miss Minnie," ho said,
"somebody ought kindly to kill our
friend Thoburn, or hell come to a bad
end."
"Shall I do it, or will you?" I said
filling up the chewing gum jar. (Mr.
Pierce had taken away the candy
case.)
Doctor Barnes glanced around to
see if there was anyone near, and
leaned farther over.
"The cupboard isn't empty now!" he
said. "Not for nothing did I spend
part of the night in the Dicky-bird's
nest! What do you think is in the
cupboard?"
"I know about it," I said shortly.
"Liquor in a case labeled 'Books
breakable.' "
"Almost a goal. But not only liquors,
my little friend. Champagne cades of
it caviar, canned grouse with truf
fles, lobster, cheese, fine cigars, every
thing you could think of, erotic, ex
otic and narcotic. An orgy in cans
and bottles, a bacchanalian revel; a
cupboard full of Indigestion, joy, for
getfulness and katzenjammer. Oh, my
suffering palate, to have to leave it all
without one sniff, one sip, one nibble!"
He's wasting his money," I said.
"They're all crazy about the simple
life."
He looked around and, seeing no one
In the lobby, reached over and took
one of my hands.
"Strange," he said, looking at It
"No webs, and yet It's been an amphi
bious little creature most of its life.
My dear girl, our friend Thoburn is a
rascal, but he is also a student of
mankind and a philosopher. Gee," he
said, "think of a woman fighting her
way alone through the world with a bit
of a fist like that!"
I jerked my hand away.
"It's like this, my dear," he said.
"Human nature's a curious thing. It's
human nature, for instance, for roe to
be crazy about you, when you're as
hands-offish as a curly jorcupine. And
It is liuman nature, 'of The same token,
to like to be bullied, especially about
bealth, and to respect and admire the
fellow who does the bullying. That's
why we were crazy about Roosevelt,
and that's why Pierce Is trailing his
kingly robes over them while they lie
on their faces and' eat dirt and
stewed fruit",
Ha reached for my hand again, but I
put it behind me.
"But alas," he said, "there is another
side to the human nature, and our
friend Thoburn has not kept a sum
mer hotel for nothing. It is notorious
ly weak, especially as to stomach. You
may feed 'em prunes and whole-wheat
bread and apple sauce, and after a
while they'll forget the fat days, and
remember only the lean and hnngry
ones. But let some student of human
nature at the proper moment introduce
Just one fat day, one feast one
revel "
"Talk English," I said sharply.
"Don't break in on my flights of
fancy," he objected. "If you want
the truth, Thoburn is going to have a
party a 7oroT3iIen Teas!. 'He's "gblng
to rouse again the sleeping dogs of ap
petite, and send them ravening back
to the Plaza, to Sherry's and Del's
and the little Italian restaurants on
Sixth avenue. He's going to take
them upon a high mountain and show
them the wines and delicatessen of
the earth, and then ask them if they're
going to be bullied, Into eating boiled
beef and cabbage."
"Then I don't care how soon he
does it," I said despondently., "I'd
rather die quickly than by inches."
"Die!" he said. "Not a bit of it.
Remember, our friend Pierce is also a
student of human nature. He's think
ing it out now in the cold plunge, and
I miss my guess if Thoburn's sky
rocket hasn't got a stick that'll come
back and hit him on the head."
He had been playing with one of the
chewing gum jars, and when he had
gli 1
"Last Call to the Dining Car, Minnie."
gone I shoved it back Into its place.
It was by the merest chance that I
glanced at it, and I saw that he had
slipped a small white box inside. On
the lid was written "For a good girl,"
and inside lay the red puffs from Mrs.
Yost's window down in Finleyville.
Just under them was an envelope. I
could scarcely see to open it
"Dearest Minaie," the note inside
said, "I had them matched to my
thatch, and I think they'll match
yours. And since, in the words of the
great Herbert Spencer, things that
match the same thing match each oth
er I What do you say? Barnes."
"P. S. I love you. I feel like a
damn fool saying it, but heaven knows
it's true."
P. P. S. Still love you. It's easier
the second time."
"N. B. I love you got the habit
now and can't stop writing it. B."
Well, I had to keep calm and attend
to business, but I was seething inside
like a Seidlitz powder. Every few
minutes I'd reread the letter under the
edge of the stand, and the more I read
It the more excited I got When a
woman's gone past thirty before she
gets her first love letter, she isn't
sure whether to thank providence or
the man, "But she's pretty sure to make
a fool of herself.
Thoburn came to the news stand on
his way out with the ice-cutting gang
to the pond.
"Last call to the dining car, Minnie,"
he said. " 'Will you won't you will
you won't you will you join the
dance?' "
"I haven't any reason for changing
my plans," I retorted. "I promised the
old doctor to- stick by the place, and
I'm sticking."
"As the man said when he sat down
on the fly paper. You're going by your
heart, Minnie, and not by your head,
and in this toss, heads win,"
But with my new puffs on the back of
my head, and my letter in my pocket
I wasn't easy to discourage. Thoburn
shouldered his pick and, headed by
Doctor Barnes, the ice-cutters started
out in single file. As they passed Doc
tor Barnes glanced at ine, and my
heart almost stopped.
"Do they is it a match?" he asked,
with his eyes on mine.
I couldn't speak, but I nodded "yes,"
and all that afternoon I could see the
wonderful smile that lit up his face
as he went out.
Miss Cobb stopped at the news stand
on her way to the gymnasium. She
was a homely woman at any time, and
in her bloomers she looked like a
soup-bone. She padded over to the
counter in her gym shoes, and for
once she'd forgotten her legs.
"May I speak to you, Minnie?" she
asked.
"You mostly do," I said. "There
isn't a new rule about speaking, la
there?" '
"This is Important, Minnie," she
said, rolling her eyes around as she
always did when she was excited. "I'm
in such a state of ex I see you bought
the puffs! Perhaps you will lend them
to me If we arrange for a country
dance."
"I'm not lending them," I said firm
ly. It would have been like lending
an engagement ring, to my mind.
Miss Cobb was not offended. She went
at once to what had brought her, and
bent over the counter.
"Minnie, you love Miss Jennings
almost like a daughter,ion't you?"
"Like a sister, Miss Cobb," I said.
"I'm not feeble yet"
"Well, you wouldn't want to see her
deceived."
"I wouldnU. have It" I answered.
"Then what do you call this?" Sh
put a email package on the counter,
and stared at me over it "There's
treachery here, black treachery." Sh
pointed one long thin forefinger at the
bundle.
"What Is it? A bomb?" I asked.
stepping back. More than once it had
Tor years we have been stating in the newspapers of the
country that a great many women have escaped serious op
erations by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and it is true.
We are permitted to publish in this announcement
extracts frorn the letters of five women. All have been
recently received unsolicited. Cculd any evidence be
more convincing?
1. IIodgdon, Me. " I had pains in both sides and such a soreness
I could scarcely straighten up at times. My back ached andl
was so nervous I could not sleep, and I thought I never would be
any better until I submitted to an operation but 1 commenced taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and soon felt like a new
woman." Mrs. IIayward Sowers, IIodgdon, Me.
2 Charlotte, N. C "I was in bad health for .two years, with
pains in both sides and was very nervous. I had a growth
which the doctor said was a tumor, and I never would get well unless
I had an operation. A friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, and I gladly say that I am now enjoying
fine health." Mrs. Kosa Sims, 16 Winona St., Charlotte, N. C.
3 Hanover, Pa. ''The doctor advised a severe operation, Unit my
husband got me Lydia E. Pinkhani's Vegetable Compound and I
experienced great relief in a short time. Now I feel like a new person
and can do a hard day's work and not mind it." Mrs. Ada Wilt,
19G Stock St., Hanover, Pa.
4 Decatur, III. "I was sick in bed and three of the best physi-
cians said I would have to be taken to the hospital for an oper
ation as I had something growing in my left side. I refused to sub
mit to the operation and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
poundand it worked a miracle in my case, and I tell other women
what it has done for me." Mrs. Laura A Griswold, 2300 Blk. East
William Street, Decatur, I1L
5 Cleveland, Onio. "I was very irregular and for several years
my side pained me so that I expected to have to undergo an op
eration, uoctors said tney knew ot notning tnat
would help me. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound and I became regular and free
from pain. I am thankful for such a good medi
cine and will always give it the highest praise."
Mrs. U 11. Urutith, 7305 Madison Av., Cleveland, O.
f"- Write to LYDIA E.PIJTKHAM MEDICIUECO.
ir-J (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for advice.
Your letter will be opened, read and answered
by a woman and held in strict confidence.
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Meet these requirements. The OLOVB
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Made in the usual Tarieties there
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loi vne ulove Drana.
You can get all style and size
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but only one grade the BE3T.
Sold by GEO. B. FOSS, Hyde Park.Yt. of
was out. goodness Isnowa where, i
Blanche Moody and I went through
her room. We did not find my precious
missives from Mr. Jones, but we did
find these, Minnie, tied around with a
pink stocking. Minnie, I have felt it
all along. Mr. Oskar von, Inwald Is the
prince himself."
"No!"
"Yes. And more than that, ha la
making desperate love to Mies Sum
mers. Three of those letters were
written In one day! Why. even Mr.
Jonos "
"The wretch!" I cried. I was sud
denly savage. Miss Cobb was reach
ing out for the bundle. I snatched it
from her.
"Give me those letters Instantly,"
she cried shrilly. But I marched from
behmd the counter and over to the
fireplace.
"Xever," I eaid, and put the package
on the log. Wben they were safely
blaring, 1 turned and looked at Miss
Cobb.
"I'd put my hand right beside those
letters to save Miss Patty a heart
ache," I said, "and you know it."
"You're :. fooL" She was raging.
"You'll let her marry him and have
the heartaches afterward."
"She won't marry binV I snapped,
and walked away with my chin up.
leaving her staring.
But I wasn't so sure as I pretendeJ
to be. Mr. von Inwald and Mr. Jen
nings had been closeted together most
of the morning, and Mr. von Inwald
was whistling as he started out for the
military walk. It seemed as if the
very thing that had given Mr. Pierce
his chance to make goed had im
proved Mr. Jennings' disposition
enough t remove the last barrior to
Mies Jennings' wedding with some
body else.
CHAPTER XIV.
Even if we hadn't known, we'd hare
puessed there was something in the
air. There was an air of subdued ex
citement during the rest hour in the
springhouse, and a good bit of whis
pering and laughing, in groups which
would break up with faces as long as
the moral law the moment they saw
my eye on them.
They were planning a mutiny, as
you may ear, and I guess no sailors)
occurred to me that having royalty' ?" Vhip. w.evre afr,!
around sometime, meant lynamite. j ctf.p,a,n Vflst thH J
Miss Cobb showed her teeth. JLl J1'" ?,6aPPT&I 1 6 fln
"Yes, a bomb." she said. Minnie.' i? lU T V Vr'
last night, when the Summer, woman haTln bum-ed other people all their
Rves, liked the novelty ol "oelng "buHTed
themselves. And now they were get
ting a new thrill by having a revolt
They were terribly worked up:
Miss Patty stayed after the others
bad gone, sitting In front of the empty
fireplace in the same chair Mr. Fierce
usually took, and keeping her back to
me. When I'd finished folding the
steamer rugs and putting them away, I
went around and stood in front of her.
"Your eyes are red." I remarked.
"I've got a cold." She was very
haughty.
"Your nose Isn't red," I insisted.
"And, anyhow, you Bay you never
bave a cold."
"I w4h you would let me alone, Min
nie." She turned hsr back to me. "I
dare say I may have' a cold if I wish."
"Do you know what they are saying
here?" I demanded. "Do you Jtnow
' that Miss Cobb has found out In some
way or other who Mr. von Inwald isT
And that the four o'clock gossip edi
tion say. your father has given his
consent and that you can go and buy a
diadem or whatever you are going to
wear, right off?"
"Well," she said, in a choked voice,
with her back to me, "what of it?
Didn't you and Mr. Pierce both do
your best to bring it about?"
"Our what?" I couldn't believe my
ears.
"You aiade father well. He's so
p-pleasant he'll do anything except
leave this awful place!" '
"Well, of all the ungrateful peo
ple " I began, and then Mr. Pierce
came la. Me had a curious way of
stopping when he saw her, as if .he
just took the wind out of his sails, so
to speak, and then of whipping off bis
hat, if anything with sail, can wear a
hat, and going up to her w ith bis heart
in hi. eye.. He always went straight
to her and stopped suddenly about two
feet awy, trying to think of some
thing ordinary to say. Because the
extraer.inary thing he wanted to say
was always en the end of hi. tongue.
But Ui. day he didn't light up when
he .aw her. He went through all the
other motions, but bis mouth was set
In a straight line, and when he came
close, to' her and looked down hi. eyes
were bard. If. been my experience of
men tha the younger they are the
harder they take thing, and the more
uncompromising they are. 1
I wa. looking for you," he .aid to
her. The bishorrha. Just told me.
There are no obstacle, now."
"None," she .aid, looking up at him
with wretchedness in her eyes, if he
had only seen. "I am very happy."
"She was Just saying," I said bitter
ly, "how grateful she was to both of
"I don't understand."
"It is not hard to understand," she
said, smiling. I wanted to slap her.
"Father was unreasonable because he
was ill. You have made him well. I
can never thank you enough." 1
But she rather overdid the joy part
of it, and he leaned over and looked in
her face.
"I think I'm stupid," he said. "I
I know I'm unhappy. But isn't that what
i I was to do to make them well If I
could?"
"How could anybody know " she
began angrily, and then stopped. "You
have done even more," ehe said
sweetly. "You'vo turned them into
cherubims and serajrhims. Butter
would't melt in their mouths."
He smiled..
"My amiability must be the reason
you dislike me!" he suggested. They
had both forgotten me.
"Do I dislike you?" she asked, rais
ing her eyebrows. "I never really
thought about it, but I'm sure I don't"
She didn't look at him, she looked at
me. She knew I knew she lied.
His smile faded.
"Well," he said, "speaking of dislik
ing amiability, you don't hate your
self, I'm sure."
"You are wrong," she retorted, "I
loathe myself." And she walked to
the window. He took a step or two
after her.
"Why do it at all?" he asked in a
low tone. "You don't love him and
can't. And if it ism't love" He re
membered me suddenly and stopped.
"Please go on," she said sweetly
from the window. "Do not mind Min
nie. She Is my conscience anyhow.
She is always scolding me; you might
both scold in chorus."
"I wouldn't presume to scold."
"Then give me a little advice and
look superior and righteous. I'm ac
customed to that also."
"As long as you are in this mood, I
can't give you anything but a very
good day," he said angrily, and went
toward the door. But when he had al
most reached it he turned.
"I will say this," he said, "you have
known for three days that Mr. Tho
burn was going to have a supper to
night, and you didn't let us know. You
must have known his purpose."
I guess I was as surprised as she
was. I'd never suspected she knew.
She looked at him over her shoul
der. "Why shouldn't he have" a sup
per?" she demanded angrily. "I'm
starving we're all starving for decent
food. I'm kept here against my will.
Why shouldn't I have one respect
able meal? You with your wretched
stewed fruits and whole-wheat breads!
Ugh!"
"I Stood in Front of Her."
"I'm sorry. Thoburn's idea, of course.
Is to make the guests discontented, so
they will leave."
"Oh!" she said. She hadn't thought
of that, and she flushed. "At least,"
she said, "you must give me credit for
not trytng to spoil Dick and Dolly',
chance here."
"We are going to allow the party to
go on," he said, stiff and uncompromis
ing. It would have been better if he'd
accepted her bit of apology.
"How kind of you! I dare say ha
would have it, anyhow." She was sar
castic again.
(TO Be Continued.)
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The cleverest thing in the world ia
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