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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH f he Masto of Chaoi BachcIIer jgy Irvins knTnfnli Continued CHAPTER IX , fought that I wouia Jperstition to the test and t. - 5 ar" late. " I t mnT convince vou Keep it and see what aever cease t0 shu n lL l S it manr one t0 fu if the pui see man I love as I can love When I thlnt or mm 1 -- her . mnfhpr and friend." at her pretty foot down looked uu U there was a note m S r asked: he Patr you not seen And I fear that fLrt al- her had! Ucei now I may never - War la crueL The are all in favor of Harry to that" even more urcyij u Jeal- ,oo and I am frightfully sue as ibe said .pes am I j, touching ner uiur. htir ium cannot Deueve in love. L-l- c juu turned upon mm wuu gut a tcuj is nation in her eyes, saying; I am thinking of jot love when ind laying plans ior nis imppi- night? My husband Brltisn peer u ne wui. my her Influence and at has promised Is i friend of the king. . s. . day and U be a a t ti ne yoo are an American: Itlalmed, . . . W .lf That would not siop- my uunmug can- war This Hi welfare. 6tupid And I hope that before for ever. last he expected here?" Tea and I want you to "Is know him." that he will be like all ne answerea wun a aoppose tier men," I like any otner man. I must win him or life has failed." No doubt he has taken you across 'o, he is not itands alone. bridge." referred to a famous bridge t crossed a creek on the Bowery :ch frequented by young people. to crossing It boys and girls had had the habit of saluting each kissing He h let but he !fo, has smacked me more said Nancy with a smile. She arose and brought a beautiful- bound and Illustrated volume of caccio and opened it as she sat se beside him. ffoat a play girl you are!" he ghed. "There could be no picture once," io you." prefer to look at me?" she M her face lighted with joy. I do. Still It's like looking at red and one may drink too freely Do you i one's eyes." scene was Interrupted by a at the door. Colin arose and Ined It. The butler stood before Hie a saying : messenger is In the hall. sir. to Cabot. He says that his f'ness Is urgent, sir." Pin went out to the front door, e he found Colonel Tilehman. an of the Commander in Chief, who 'A Colonel f 'i: General Washington wishes you immediatelv at his office" Pe young man returned to Nancy I am summoned to head- iters. Please give my thanks and pliments to your charming aunt." ""si you go?" t once. It is urgent." that little old woman I" the report ' Calmed, as she stnmnprl hpr Impatiently. "Does she know ft : am ' here?" sure "Hi that no one at general barters knows of your being 3 followed him lv ' WashIon ut to the door, say-Don- 't tell th "i iitaoc. Jrci our secrets. You will to me soon. Will you in erest. Her shrewd intuitions had told her that something was amiss. Familiar with all the gossip of the adies in Cambridge, she had learned that Nancy was a niece of the bar- and led him aside. -Dear boy ! I was she said. You know that weuneasy," women have a nose for danger. I took it on to send for you. I am too myself super-tltlous- d canoe. one of oack ey M may send mo ot.tott not to wishing , commit or. hlm- - Pf I shall try to find you.' fasin she offered N her kvbii v. "1C Claimed In eastward, ,s "e had hon it reminded him of i Officers who JP. 1 her lips. He parted . . ... uurKness is rea r ana they u: .u- i had served in at its worst in war- nad heard Samuel Lang- - i tne spring tide of law- that swont n, i. n.. at tt'o j j al.wars .e n(1 I, Uoly lrera Ij Of rpRtrnlnt Intn wreckage and Places br()ok . S t. hIi8elf on the im UUW I carriers tile 1)ell rnnt u- - u UUIOI1KHO. would keep away i' ' man's purpose must not ;tt . her L ia .,dcw and the morning me.. U was thought at, gave one some tomPerampnt like that :nt, dfKS but thls vular ""l ror him- - School, anri h let tL Te had boen fighting ,!art of youth could f be Wite securo. . Aftm. oil MH m!.truth ,n whflt Amos for a. r , .- "My dear second mother, you are always right and I thank you. Pardon me if I say no more." "It is now half after ten. Go you directly to bed. Tomorrow will be a busy day." As soon as Colin had finished his breakfast in the morning, Billy came Into the office and said that Mrs Bowlby had called to see him. He found her in a parlor. They sat down together. She and her husband had come with General Schuyler by boat from Albany. She said to him: "The ride down gave me a chance to be with my husband. But that is not my only reason for coming. I have something to tell you." "Well, If you have something to tell me, I am sure that it will be worth hearing." She told him of the letter signed "Nancy" which came on the riderless horse and of her reason for It She had a vivid memory reading of its contents and quoted it almost word for word. "I saw or thought that I could see the motive behind the letter and it worried me. I have been sorry that I did not burn it" She had seen the frown gathering on his brow and the changing color of his face. "So it went on," he whispered. "Yes, it went on the next day. She may have read it by now." "Could you get a letter Into Canada for me?" "If necessary, 1 will take It myself." "When do you go north r "The ship sails tomorrow morning at seven." "Good! I will give you the letter and some money tonight at eight 0 clock." In his letter he told the whole truth of his meeting with Nancy, of the dinner, the wine and the diversions that followed them In the celebration at Cambridge. He spoke of Nancy's letter and of how his knowledge of Its contents had come to him through Mrs. Bowlby. "I am human," he wrote, "and the girl is a most bewitching creature. I cannot claim to be a saint. I am of the common clay, and you will have to take me on that level if at all, but 1 am no comrade of Anacreon. Always I have thought myself unworthy of you but I swear that I love you. My soul and body are for no other in this world. As to Nancy's motive, we can only guess and your guess may be as wrong as mine. Even extreme provocation cannot make me forget the restraint with which a gentleman should speak of a lady. Let us credit her with Intentions looking to your welfare. It Is a world of change and perhaps your heart has changed. If not, wait for me and be sure that I am waiting for you. I love you. I have made a sacred promise and I will not lay my honor in the dust." General Washington, out of his own pocket, had lately paid Colon his salary three months overdue. That night he put the letter in Mrs. Bowlby's note. hand with a "I shall go with It myself," said Mrs. Bowlby. "I want to see that girl. I may find her in Montreal or Quebec." Within a week, on a May day, the woman set out from her inn for tho near lake with a pack on her Amazonian shoulders. A man carred her light CHAPTER X The Birth of a Giant. Trobably because of certain of the events above recorded, young Colonel Cabot was immediately sent to Philaand delphia with messages to congress Mrs. from Adams Mrs. to a letter There he was the guest Washington. John Adams. At a Mrs. and Mr. of dinner In their house he spoke with rare discretion, knowledge and eloof the Comquence of the character mander in Chief and the condition of with the armv. It was his familiarity which the spirit of the men In line convinced Mr. Adams that the young Philaman could render a service in in the congress leader This delphia. advised the Chief by post of his purcolonel. pose and detained the Washingto the Lady Colin wrote ton : "I have sat at table with the Jolly his Doctor Franklin and drunk out of rumthat famous rolling punch keg Is bles around his board. The keg stimulating have that like his jokes admirable Mr. punch In them. The of Virginia reLee Richard Henryn..fntieiMl to find w ""! marked mat ne of such extravagance In the home Poor Richard. iimenri pusler to It. to Is It practice economy than Is not as the doctor. 'Moreover It A me ns It once was. to Important " iM ph.. we when time has come of generosity and .. m-o- ii it ! praise the virtue of letting go. practice the art are consider- "Often I see men who 'ay- - decently drunk at dinner parties. "ucijjiiia f all . t. thp think that Frantlii. i. would like to sit humbly at his feet for -"u i get the feeling w&i ne is somehow connected with tue great inexhaustible source of wis- - with her a corner of the hall great in the company of two She was looking for the staff wives. youLg man. T .t 1IJX. "b'T rrt "n. uom. One evpnin i nim on the porch while Mrs. Lee's e dancing. Looking "rau at the stars our talk had become up serious. askel nim if he believed in angels. "Why- notr he- "omu. 't-au elephant down to an one sees a gradual diminution oyster of faculties and powers so small in each step as to be There is no gap perceptiDie. but the gradation is complete In ascending from a man to the Infinite One there must be also a long gradation of beings of whom we can have no comprehension.' "Late one afternoon Mr. Adams and I went to call on an elderly prominent citizen. We found him on his front porch with friends. He wore white-linepurple coat with wide d Colin Read the Declaration of la dependence. cuffs and gold buttons and cambric wrist ruffles. There was a great silver tankard on a table surrounded by glasses. The dear old gentleman was much engaged with the pouring. Often he would say: "'Oh, my friend, what Is the top of the glass for?' "The servants are mostly Dutch and Africans dressed In homespun stuff. When their terms expire the ladies have to do their own work until other servants can be en In many streets there are gaged. wells in every dooryard. "The best people ride in coaches with heraldic designs emblazoned on their sides. In one of them I was taken for a drive through the near country where there are many large and beautiful houses on well tilled farms. We saw Cliveden. Stenton, Belmont mansion. Buck Hill. "As an American, I feel a certain pride In this handsome city of thirty thousand people. It is a big city yet every man seems to know every other man and his dog. Its library, Its hospital, its workhouse, its Are house and wagon tank and Volunteer company are monuments to the wisdom and public spirit of Doctor Franklin and other good citizens. Christ church is an Imposing structure. All the pious folk despise the Southwark theater where we went to see a performance of Romeo and Juliet by admirable local talent. It gave me melancholy thoughts of my own romance. May It have a So thinking of Pat better ending. and of you, my dear lady, who have a tender Interest in our welfare, and lastly of my beloved General, I sign this hurried letter "With affection, "Colin Cabot." In a day of the debate on the resolution for Independence Colin sat beMr. Patrick side Doctor Franklin. Henry, soon to go to Virginia as its governor, was present. He was dressed coat. A black wig in a His aquiline curled over his ears. nose supported a pair of spectacles. He sat silent and demure. His rather head slanted very gradsquare-lookinually to quite a prominence in the rear. "Will you kindly tell me what Is In his background?" Colin said to Franklin. "Many kinds of failure," the doctor "An Idler In his youth. answered. Loved fishing and hunting better than study. A bit wild. Worked In a country store. Married at eighteen. Failed twice In business. Tended bar for a while to earn a living. Took A hopeless to the flute and violin. bankrupt he began to study law. In r he found himpractice at twenty-foumaster A persuader. He can self. and aphorisms that are fling forge The spirit of Amer-Icthunderbolts. like peach-blosso- g e Is In him." Richard Henry Lee with his head, perfectly molded features, erect figure and courtly manners, was the most attractive man In that large to make a group who were helping new nation. He was a delight to eye and ear when he arose to speak. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, fastidious In his dress, sat quietly reading a book, while a prosy man from the far South was making an unnecessary display of his opinions. Jefferson was a tall bony He had the face of a scholar man abnormally long with large arms and wrists and hands. He was then thirty was n little three vears old. There In the wavy, red white of sparkle hair that crowned his head Adams the doctor said: John Of man. sometimes a "Always an honest row and then his but man. jrrrat mounts to madness." "What do you think of Simeon Potts?" Colin asked. Caesar-Ia- n dish-brow- His mind reminds tne of a horse's the good doctor answered, "Often troubled with intellectual iu He Is like the holes In that curious duel of yours loaded with black sand. Nothing to do here but wear out the seat of his trousers. He and others have been caught speculating on the necessities of the army." The young man sat through much of the noisy contention that followed the resolution of Richard Henry Lee. At last he saw the snlrit of America, de. fying the gallows and the firing squads, and lifting iu voice io a courageous declaration of human rights. It was a quiet scene ending in a deep solemn silence. Yet Colin knew that the right hand of God was ahaking the world. The Colonies had broken their moorings. A new nation was born. A sense of the greatness of that moment spread through the halt Then, suddenly, a mighty tumult of voices! The bell In the tower was ringing. Other bells were shouting the news. For more than a hundred years of peace and prayer and plenty the soul of a people had been meditating. In this deep had been the throb bing fetus of an aspiration. These thoughts were in the mind of Colin Cabot as he witnessed the wild enthusiasm in the hall. He came out of the hall with Mr. Adams, who said to him: "Now we are committed and the gates of bell cannot prevail against ns." Immediately Colin set out for New York to take the good news to the Chief. He rode as rapidly as his mare could carry him and was less than two days on the road. General Washington read the report from Mr. Adams with deep Interest. Solemnly but calmly he listened to Colin's account of the proceeding In congress. He said with a smile: "My boy, this news Is welcome and I am much pleased that Mr. and Mrs, Adams have a good opinion of you. We have now to resolve to conquer or die relying on the goodness of our cause and the Supreme Being." At one time And another Colin had observed a like note of faith In the talk and conduct of the General. He was always at sermon and prayers and once In an anxious time at Cambridge when Colin went to find the Commander In Chief with an important dispatch he discovered the General kneeling in prayer at his bedside. Once the young man had heard him say that If the cause was not worthy of the help of Providence It ought not to succeed. Colin thought of the great downpour of rain in Boston which had prevented the charge of Howe's formidable force until the defenses of Washington were finished. Here was an evidence of Intervention but to the young man it was not convincing. Mr. Laugdon had taught him that the earth and its fullness was only an adjunct a setting of the unseen, Inner world whose main currents were watched by the great eye of God and directed by His mighty hand. Could 11 be true? Alone at night in the secret sessions of his thought he had felt a faint conviction of this in the devotion of the mistreated army. Still the posture of his mind may be described as skeptical but open. Mrs. Washington gave him a hearty welcome and Invited him to her apartment. Like a mother she fondly embraced and kissed him saying: "Dear boy. I am proud of you. Nancy came to see me. She is very humble. I think better of her. Poor child She made me her mother confessor. If I had been Abigail Adams, I can im agine what would have been said to her." Here she took up her knitting and laughed as she adjusted her needles. Purl-ta"I am not such a strait-laceI pitied the girl. Men and wom en are as they are and none of us are any too perfect Have you had no word .from Pat?" "None." "Well, she Is very far away and I suppose It's Impossible for letters to come through." The Lady went on with a sigh. "We don't know what may happen." There was a moment of solemn silence In which it occurred to Colin that Nancy was, Indeed, on a better footing with her Ladyship. She pulled her yarn and started on a new layer of stitches. "Tell me about Mrs. Adams' par ties." He gave her a vivid account of the guests, the servants, the silver and the tablecloths and shortly went to bis tasks. He was at work in the office at headquarters until the ninth of July, when the army assembled for review and cannon were fired and Colin read the Declaration of Independence to the troops and told of the day of its birth in Philadelphia. Then a shouting and a roaring of cannon that shook the skies! More than fifteen thousand men Joined hi an outcry, like the breaking In of many waters, while caps flew upward and tears were streaming from their eyes. In the enthusiasm of these men and In their faces was a prophecy of things lying deep In future years. Mrs. Washington and Nancy stood near Colin Cabot, their handkerchiefs at their eyes. The Lady came to his side and pressed his hand. 'It was well done, my boy. Poor Nancy cannot speak. She wishes me to say that hereafter no one will ever doubt that she Is an American." In a handsome uniform of buff and blue and white, a wide red sash noped over one shoulder and diagonal-spanning his waistcoat, the great Captain of the army stood calm and motionless a living statue, looking down at the troops. Like Jeremian of old he stood as on Iron pillar. neiiy. taken to task and the dues are sot wrong which led to the discovery. 8ilent Clue. Or when there is pasting to be done, and the top is not replaced oa the tube or the cover on the pasta jar. elnes are not wanting to point with insistent accuracy to some one, not the owner of the tube or Jar, having been nslng said paste. When the cracker Jar lid Is sot pnt on straight mother does not have to look inside and find the lowered contents, to know somebody has had aa especial treat But it isn't always children who leave trails of their activities in their wake. Older people share with them the stmt traits of leaving trails which afs plify detection of activities. Careless trails are untidy and make extra work for the Bomemaker. Extra Work Made by Untidy Hands Matters Worthy of Thought in the Home. Io these days when detective stories are popular, many readers, young and old alike, believe that they have instinct, or at least qualities, which would lead them to discover clues leading to the solution of thefts and crimes, should they have a chance to exercise them. They seldom think of things the other way around, with n appreciation of bow easy It would be for anyone to track them down. They are constantly leaving trails of what they do in e. 11. Ball Syndicate WNU Sarvtoa, the simple and innocent activities of their days. Yet they wonder how It is that mother, father, some one In the family, or on with whom they are boon companions discover what they have been doing or "what they are op Smw to." It may be with no wish to conpVEN hea she fatoa that UUBfttUy, ceal their actions that things are iahed akin waa hurtin ber popularity tbm eauM not spoken of earlier, but opportunbod mukmf that helped until a mead hiaud ity may not have arisen or the toouKipation" and ad "right time" for which they were naed Hit Tabids N. ture'e Ramedy). Thty looking, has not come. Then, when toned and. etreoctheaea ? fV they do speak of the thing, It is the tlirt alunutatrv tract can are who for nd her aritea of poiaoB amazed, they they oa waatca thorotaEhl. aata see the Information Is cot totally a raUr. Soon akin biutchea van. iahed. Dale cheeka dowed mm. surprise to the hearer. ' Try this aafe, dependable, Leading Signs. laxative and corrcotira "How does mother always know tonight. In on- aiiamHnna. when I have been at ber work bas.sac. ket, even for a needle and thread?" Is the query of surprise, often voiced -. How Indeed I by some daughters. iinnza The needle Is left on table or bureau wherever the sewing stopped. In her Flatter Them, Girls rounds of straightening rooms one A man likes to be called handsome such needle is generally discovered. On putting it away, the needlecase even if be knows be isn't. Is found to be lying open and the end of the thread on the spool not fastened off. These are not characteristic ways of the mothers. They are of the daughters, who thus leave clues about, praiseworthy as the work itself probably Is. Who has been writing at father's desk? Not that It would In itself be disliked, but the stopper to the Ink bottle Is off, and that Is annoying. 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