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Show EMERY Comv lmRES. I The Clinging Vine By S. B. HACKLEV by th McClur. IS.w- aper Syndicate) Tou were so late I bad begun to be uneasy, sweetheart. You'll have to stay at the office an hour yet? Well, tCopyrigat. Teams wanted to work on county road in Spring Canyon it can't be helped. you can. dear." Come as soon as Commonplace words, but the voice, at ;once full and clear and gentle as the touch of a butterfly's winy, thrilled Buell Sargent, the inadvertent listener in the parlor opening off the reception hall of the Delbert house. The woman at the phone softly reasceuded the stairs. Buell sighed. "Must have been talking to her husband. A woman with a vole like thats sure to be married!" All the way from the cattle ranch In Idaho middle-agePenelope Wittardw. widowed by law of one husband, and on the eager lookout for another and more wonhy one, had wondered why her twin brother, Buell, was so silent. , She would have laughed iu unhelief had anyone told her Buell's silence arose from the fact that he also had matrimony in his head that he had visions of a tender, gentle sort ef creature who would pet him w hen he came in at evening a woman who, unlike his strong-mindeindependent sister, would look to him for guidance in everything. "I've got Just a few in my house," Mrs. Delbert had told him ; "Carey a young law student, and a young married couple, the Ketters; Mrs. Ibsen, a nurse, and Esther and Gayle Ferrin, sisters, who cook their meals iu my kitchen." That evening when Mrs. Delbert Introduced Buell to the Ketters he rejoiced secretly. Mrs. Itetter's voice Apply to A. E. 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' "Sue's" afraic" of Penelope, the timid little --thing: Well Penelope shaVt scare me on from marrying her if she'll let me and I'll protect her and think for hei the rest of her life, the little 'cling tug vine' of a woman!' One evening when the young law student Mrs. Delbert and Buell came la the hall after a play they'd attended together, they found Esther sitting there. The young lawyer spoke of the coming suffrage election. Buell didn't believe In votes for women ; Carey did, and argued vehemently. Mrs. Delbert sided with Buell. Esther listened for a long time In silence. Then with kindling eyes and glowing cheeks she spoke. Her words came In a rush; swept Buell's arguments asde like straws. Only the sense that he was regarding her in angry disapproval checked her. In the darkness of her room she flung herself down. "O Buell Buell !" she breathed. "I can't act 1 couldn't keep silence. I thought some time you'd tell me you loved me, but you won't uow you won't now I" Buell spent a sleepless night. He couldn't understand how a woman like that could say, when he'd Insisted that a woman was represent ed by her "1 would not vote as my husband if 1 did not think as he did !" He wanted his wife to think his thoughts. Would she love hlra if she didn't? The spring dragged to Buell lingered on more In the hall at evening and was so cross that Penelope told him she would be glad when May first came and they returned to Idaho. On the last evening of the stay of the brother and sister, Penelope and Mrs. Delbert, tired of waiting for Buell, who had gone uptown, set out for the theater together, asking Esther to tell him when he came in they'd left his ticket ou the hull table. At ten o'clock, when he had not A few come, Esther grew uneasy. blocks away ou a dark street were some heuped-uplies of lumber, a fine hiding place for robbers, and Buell often came home that way. Taking a little flashlight, she went to Brllle street. In a few minutes she was picking her way behind the lumber. Then in the glare of her light she saw his white face. He lay quite still In the rubbish, his pockets turned Inside out. She repressed the scream that rose to her lips, and knelt by him to lift his head in her lap. He opened his eyes. "Somebody struck me," he murmured dazedly, "I thought I was done for." Then he recognized her. "Esther Esther! You ought .not to be here!" He rose, swaying dizzily. She put her arm around him and helped him to the house. A little later he lay on the couch In his sister's sitting room in a changed Esther had bathed frame of mind. and bandagfd his head, and with the touch of her fingers he'd concluded "It does not matter whether a woman thinks entirely as you do or not, Just so she loves you." "You'll marry me and go home with me, Esther, won't you?" he asked her when she was through. "I w hy Buell !" the full voice trembled. "I can't be the clinging vine you like !" He sat up, holding to her, and smiling whimsically, laid his hend on hus-bau- mid-Apri- l. d: " Lei ttoulder. HOME BIISSIONARY LIST J "I'm the 'clinging vine' tonight, Esther." Then be added humbly: "Please FOR TERM EXDIXO AUG. SI. IMS forgive this stubborn foot, sweetheart." Esther didn't answer but she kissed A. J. Broderlck and Q. Ed Anderson Ferron. July 27. hint very tenderly, and he was Clawson, August l. Isaac Allred and J.' B. Broderlck .Clawson. July 27. August 81. NOT THAT KIND OF AILMENT H. A.Ferron, Nelson and Peter R. Petersen Emery. July 27. j SI. CaUe Dale, Mary Frances Had Mother Unneces- H. P. Rasrausaen August and N. Crawford 27. sarily Alarmed Concerning That vllle. July Orange Note From Teacher. August II. Mln, U. VV. A. C. Oardnsr and Orange Lawrence, July 27. The kindergarten teacher of a cer Molen. August. tain school sends home note) to the Peter Nlelson and M. J. Blackburn-Vic- tor. July 27. thijdren's mothers whenever she finds i August 21. that any of her children are ill or L. TV.Orangerille, and Johnson Oliver Wakefield nearly so. Keceutly she discovered j Castlp.' Dale. July 27. Elmo. August 21. "cooties" In some of their hair. She and M. L. Snow warned all of the children of the pet. C. Mortensen Elmo. July 27. of mothers to the notes then sent and, Victori August 21. James Peterson and 8. N. Alger. the afflicted ones. Huntington, July 27. Mary Frances came home all exclte-uieu-t August 81. over the event. She was disap- Carl Emery,and Peter C. Borreson Berg pointed because she had not been one Molen, July 27. of the honored ones. And mother, Huntington, August 21. Jensen and E. P. Rasmussen much amused, told all the neighbors J. Y. Cleveland. 27. of her little daughter's grief. A few J. F. KllUan andJuly W. S. Peacock veranda on the Mohrland. July 27. days later she was August 21. talking to the women who lived on S. H.Cleveland, Cox and Charles R. Curtis saw when home her side of each they Jt.ohrland, July 18. Mary Frances rushing up the street Orson Mllps and A. L. Fullmer Lawrence, July IS. from school. She was waving a note Elmo. August 17. and shouting jubilantly: "Oh. mother, J. Milton Olsen and K. A. Beal I've got them In my head, tMi. Teacher Molen, July 18. Clawson, August 17. wrote you a note." d mother Mary J. P .Brockbank and J, Mendenhall Horrified, Elmo, July IS. Frances Into the house and away from Victor, August 17. the Interested neighbors. She found t H. H. Ovlatt Jr. and W. J. At wood-Vi- ctor, July 13. fine comb and was ready to begin Lawrence, August 17. the searching process when she hap- J. H. Behunln and F. A. Klllpack Clawson, July IS. pened to see the note again. Rather , Molen, August 17. curious as to how the teacheis? would word such a delicate epistle, she began to read It. And this Is whut he read: "Mary Frances has a slightly think that you had Job Work Delivered decayed tooth. 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In feature she was not unlike the Hebe who had just gone out, but she was older by ten years. He flushed a little when she turned and asked him if he had seen Mrs. Delbert. Buell felt a tingling In his veins. She spoke in the voice that for twenty-fou- r hours had held him. He forgot the young blonde, nnd made futile efforts to prolong the conversation. "Esther Ferrin U very good," Mrs. Delbert remarked at the next morning's meal ; "too good, I think sometimes. She embroiders nnd keeps herself and Gayle, her sister. She markets and cooks and does their lauudry, and never asks Gayle to spend a penny. But Gayle Is to be married in June nnd has to bisy her trousseau, and Esther Is bashful and hasn't admirers or marrying notions." No admirers! Here was one, thought Buell. After that, when at dusk Esther slipped out of the kitchen to watch from the hall window seat for her sister, to her embarrassment she generally found the big Idaho man ensconced in the hall. 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