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Show mm& 51elfermq m pmmklzxS S&w miller ?4 feOlV 1 WHITE ' A Now Romanco of iho Storm Coutvtr 11 j o 0 "YOU, YOU HUZZYI" Synopsis. Lonely and friendless. Tonnlbel Devon, living on a canal boat with a brutal father and ft worn-out, discouraged mother, wanders wan-ders Into a Salvation army hall at Ithaca, N. Y. There she meets a young Salvation army captain, Philip MacCauley. Uriah Devon, Tony's father, announces he has arranged for Tony to marry Reginald Regi-nald Brown, a worthless companion. compan-ion. Mrs. Devon objects, and Uriah beats her. Their quarrel reveals that there Is a secret between them In which Tony Is the central figure. Tony refuses to marry Reginald and escapes a beating by Jumping into the lake. She finds a baby's picture with offer of reward for its delivery to a Doctor Pendlehf.ven. With the Pendlehavena, a family of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, a r.ousln, her daughter and son, Katherine Curtis and Reginald Brown. Katherine Kath-erine is In love with Philip MacCauley. Mac-Cauley. Tonnibel returns the picture pic-ture to Doctor John, and learns it belongs to his brother. Dr. Paul Pendlehaven. It Is a portrait of Doctor Paul's daughter, stolen In Infancy. Doctor John goes with Tony to the canal boat. Mrs. Devon is deeply agitated and makes Tony swear she will never tell of Devon's Dev-on's brutality. The 'older Devons disappear and Tony Is taken into the Pendlehaven liouse as a companion com-panion to Doctor Paul. Philip fights with Reginald on the boat and saves Tony. Uriah appears, orders Philip off and locks up Tony. Philip again rescues her. They exchange ex-change love vows. Doctor Paul improves im-proves -and the Curtises are furious furi-ous over her presence. Philip and Tony unexpectedly meet in the Pendlehaven Pen-dlehaven home. 0 0 CHAPTER X Continued. 9 She went extremely pale and put out her Xand to grasp something for support sup-port as If she were going to fall. She saw him rise up slowly, an expression of amazement and relief going across his face. She smiled, but what a weary little smile it was and how full of pleading, as If she were silently begging beg-ging him to forgive her for some deed she'd dune. John Pendlehaven gazed at the two young people, and then he too got to his feet. "Philip," he said nbruptly, "this Is Tonnibel Devon. She's Paul's companion. com-panion. We have " Philip Interrupted the speaker by his sudden bound around the table. "Tony Devon, little Tony," he cried. "I thought, oh, I thought you were dead. I thought I'd lost you forever." A noise fell from Katherine's lips, and Mrs. Curtis stumbled to her feet. "So you know her too, Philip," she snarled with a hasty glance at her pallid daughter. "I thought we'd kept her well out of your way. So you've played the sneak while eating bread and butter In my house, miss," she blurted at Tony. "Well, it's what one might have expected of you- you huzzy." "Mother I" gasped Katherine, as Tonnibel Ton-nibel snatched her hands from Philip. "Kathie, you needn't 'mother' me!" cried Mrs. Curtis, blind with rage. "Either she goes away or I do. I won't stay In the house with a common sneak a common " "Sarah, sit down," thundered John Pendlehaven. "Don't Kpeak another such word or " . Tony was at the doctor's side before be-fore he could finish nls threat. "I didn't sneak," she said, looking up at him "Oh, please please believe me." "That she didn't," cried Philip, coming com-ing to her side. "Cousin John, I've known Tony Devon ages, and I didn't even know she was in this house." He turned his flashing eyes upon Mrs. Curtis, Cur-tis, who was weeping hysterically. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Cousin Saritli," lie went on, "to ue such language to a perfectly nice little girl. Why, you've just about broken her heart." His voice had sunk to a passionate whisper. His eyes misted In a youthful struggle to control his joy, and and at the sight of him, Katherine lost her wits entirely. "Who and what have we been har-Dorlng har-Dorlng In this bouse, Cousin John?" he shrieked in a high thin voice, struggling strug-gling to her feet. "A gutter rat, a little lit-tle snake, a loose girl " Each word, brought oui with greater rchi'menee and passion t!i;in the one before, struik the lis'fni'rs dumb. In tdiame-faccd misery. Tunnihel sanl; to the floor, drnptmig her head into her hands. "Oil. no, I'm not that." she wailed. "My mummy never lived in the gutter; she never did. I was poor, awful poor " "Poor!" exclaimed Katlierine. "You're worse than poor. I suppose you've wheedled Philip the same way yon have Cousin Paul." "Kntberttie. I comm:ir;ci you to be silent." sliouteil Pendlehaven. "Tr you nay another won:, I shall ask you to leave niy house." "W ell, I ni'vrr '." siTrnnic! Mrs. Cnr-'Is. Cnr-'Is. 1 'And .'U I.". S:i:nh." ;hr::sr !n :he doctor. "We don't know the truth of tlds thing, but I know very well that Tony Devon is not a bad girl." "That she Is not," interjected Philip. "Now I'll tell you all about it." As John Pendlehaven raised her to her feet, Tonnibel lifted her head and fixed her tearful eyes on Captain MacCauley. Mac-Cauley. "You promised you'd never tell anybody," any-body," she murmured. Her mind was with the dead Edith Devon, and the words of her own serious reverent oath given In the presence o'. her wild-eyed wild-eyed mother would not allow her to consent that Philip should lift the stigma heaped upon her by the Curtis women. "So I did," admitted Philip, soberly, "but you see now this has happened. Y'ou must release me from that promise." prom-ise." "I can't," sighed Tony. Then turned turn-ed her face to Pendlehaven. "You'll trust us," she pleaded, waving wav-ing her hand toward Philip. "Please trust him and me." "Ha !" shrieked Mrs. Curtis. "Trust you " "Shut up. Cousin Sarah," snapped Philip at the angry woman. Then he addressed himself to the doctor. "1 did promise her I wouldn't tell how we met. And I won't ! In fact it isn't any one's business. Is it, Cousin John?" "Not that I can see," came In rather drawling answer. "I'll repeat what I said before," Philip took up hastily. "I didn't know she lived here." "We're ready to believe that nit," cried Katherine. Captain MacCauley stared at her. Was this frowning angry girl the smiling, smil-ing, yielding Katherine he had known or thought he had known? "Y'ou can believe It or not, Kathie," he told her savagely. "It makes no In Shame-Faced Misery Tonnibel Sank to the Floor. difference to me. But It's true, Just the same." "Wait here for me, Philip," said the doctor, In a low tone. "I'll be back in a moment. Then he took Tony by the hand and they went out together. For several tense moments a silence too dreadful to describe settled down upon the dining room. Katherine twisted her fork sulkily and Mrs. Curtis Cur-tis still sniffed in her handkerchief. Philip looked from one to the other, wishing with all his heart he could say something that would clear the atmosphere. "I'm sorry, Cousin Sarah," he said abruptly, trying to smile. "It certainly was awkward, wasn't it?" "Awkward?" repeated Mrs. Curtis, wrinkling her face. "Awkward Isn't the word. Philip. It was disgusting." The gorge rose again in his throat. "Tonnibel Devon is the best girl 1 know." he asserted. "Poor little thing, I pity her with all my heart." "Pity Is akin to love, my dear Philip." Phil-ip." sneered Mrs. Curtis. "Molher," cried Katherine. "Philip wouldn't so far forget himself and his friends and position as to loe well if you can't keep your tongue still, go upstairs." Tills was a shock for Philip. Thai any irl could speak to her own mother in such a way was beyond his. comprehension. com-prehension. The door opened just then and Dr. John walked In. "She came down to t el I me that Paid wanted me anil forgot It," he said in a low tone. "The poor child is quite overcome." Mrs. Curtis tossed her head and rose from t lie table, and Katherine, rising also, followed her mother out of the room. There was very little said between t lie young man and his older friend after .the ladies had taken their departure, de-parture, but when Captain MacCauley was ready to h ave. he looktd anxiously at his ciiiitpinion. "Cousin John, he murmured. "lea j won't iet any one " : "Indeed not," Interrupted the doc- tor, anticipating the lad's plea. "Tony Eevon is here to stay, Phil." "Could I- could I see her, Cousin John, just a minute?" the boy faltered. "Not tonight, old fellow," replied the doctor, kindly. "Tomorrow, perhaps.' And Philip had 10 bo content. That evening Katherine spent with her molher In hopeless misery. "lie acted just as If he loved her." she wailed at one time iu their conversation. conver-sation. "I'd give anything to tiud out how long he's known Iter." "So would I," said Mrs. Curtis. "Katherine, we've got to get Iter awaj by some means. She's bewitched John she's brought Paul up from his gravs and there's no tolling, she may usurp your place in their wills." "And now site's hoodwinked Phliip," gulped Katherine. "Can't you think of some plan? Can't we claim she steals' or something like that?" "John wouldn't believe It, especially now that Reggie is coming home," was the answer. "His letter today said he'd be here very soon. Everything that happens in this house out of the ordinary is blamed on my poor boy." And she began again to cry. "Great Heavens, mother, don't do that," screamed Katherine. "Can't you see weeping doesn't do any good? Y'ou make me so nervous I could fly. We've got to make some plan to get her out of here. While you're sniveling snivel-ing all the time, you can't think." Mrs. Curtis rose and walked to her bedroom door. "My children have no sympathy for me at all," she shot back. "But you say I can't think while I cry? Well, watch me! I'll bet you five dollars Tony Devon is out of this house before another week Is over." The next morning when Reggie Brown came home, he went directly to his mother. Cf course, as usual, she wept at the sight of him and began be-gan to upbraid him for his thoughtlessness. thought-lessness. Why hadn't he let her know where he was? Why had he been gone so long? Reggie laughed insolently. "Do I ever let you know where I go, mater?" he demanded, dropping into an easy chair. "No, I don't, and I won't! I've come for five hundred dollars I have -to have. Now cough it up." "I ha veil' t that much money In the world," sobbed Mrs. Cnrtis. "Then wheedle It out of Cousin John," he commanded. "I've simply got to have It !" Paying no heed to his gruff command, com-mand, Mrs. Curtis rocked to and fro In excess of agony. . "If Paul had died," she wept, "we'd have had a lot of money " A "How do you know?" was Reggie's quick query. 'Because I know how his will's made," explained his mother, "and unless Ids Caroline is found, your Cousin John and I get all his money." Reginald's eyes blazed into a flame of interest. Money was the only thing that attracted him. "Why doesn't he die, then?" he asked, ask-ed, dropping back sullenly. "He's old enough and sick enough, isn't he?" "Because he's getting well," replied his mother. "That girl" "What girl?" Reggie's voice as:ked the question In monotone. "Some huzzy John picked up not long ago," was the reply. "She's brought Paul to life, and Johu is wild about her, and now " "Where Is she?" Interjected Reginald. "With your Cousin Paul. And, Reggie, Reg-gie, I'd give five hundred to get her out of the house." The boy rose and stood gazing down at the tips of his highly polished boots. "I'd give more than that," he replied solemnly, "to know Cousin Paul was In his grave." "Tnen rid us of the girl, and he'll soon keel over," said the mother. But Reginald wasn't Interested In Cousin Paul's new companion. He wanted money and that was all, now that Tony Devon was dead. "How about the five hundred for me?" he questioned, looking at her keenly. "I've said I hadn't It, my son," said she. "Now run away and don't bother me any more." Refrgle did leave the room, but not the house. His mind was filled with many plans to get hold of the cash he needed. There were two things bad to be done. Whoever the girl with Cousin Paul was. she had to go. It was enough that bis mother didn't want her in the house. Reggie could abuse his own women folks; lie could make litem cry all he wanted to, but that aty one, and a stranger too, could force ills mother into a spell of hysterics, hys-terics, he wouldn't tolerate. Then t lie other thing to which he had made up his mind almost brought bis hair on end when he contemplated it. The world had to be relieved of Cousin Paul. A little drop of something Peggie rose to his feet and walked nervously up and down the rt nui. "l'wot'.ld be easy etionh to net hold of. for Dr. Jolm always had plenty of drugs on hand. ( "I'd like to Will her." (TO Br. I.'O.STINL'KU.) |