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Show TIIE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH a step Bounded softly upon the "What an odd conversation to have with anyone when you've only Her father, perhaps, she thought met him twice?" she laughed. and she moved, very cautiously, "Time hasn't anything to do with along the window seat, to peep it Do you?" round the curtain. A hand apShe looked at him. "Well, d'you know, I haven't peared, and the curtain was flung aside. Her startled eyes, quickly thought I've been too busy being Interested to think whether I lifted, saw the dark, unsmiling face of the necklace-adventur- e like you or not" man. And once again her eyes were "Are you interested in Oliver caught and held by the look tn Ames, too?" "What?" The word came from those sullen, stormy eyes that met hers. her so startled that It was almost a cry. "You !" she cried out He repeated the question, and be"Yes." he answered. "And you!" She laughed, ever so slightly; a fore she realized it she was anlittle tremulously. swering breathlessly. "I . . . I'm hiding," she said, "Oh, I don't know. . . . Yes, klddishly, a nervous quiver in the of course. . . . Only It seems to me It's awfully ditlicult to know words. "Yes," he said again, his voice exactly what you . . . what you very deep against the distant sound feel, for a person when you've of revelry from beyond the room. known him all your life and been "And I'm finding you." awfully fond of him, always. . . ." "So he's asking you to know?" "I . . . didn't know you were In the game," she said. She nodded. "And to tell him? Tonight? Be"It's obvious that I am, though, fore he goes?" Isn't it?" he replied. "Yes." "Yes I suppose It Is. . . ." "So that Is why you must; why She scrambled off the seat and stood before him, 'looking like a you want . . . No: why you little girl as she shook out her promised to dance with him again?" "What sort of magic are you fleecy flounces. . . . "But I'd no Idea of seeing you here. . . . working, that you should . . . know all this?" she cried unstead- Who . . . who are you?" "Let's Introduce ourselves" he said. "My name Is Lee. James car- peted floor. llXYJtK1-- 1 1 irsT--- - Gresham's Girl MERREL COPYRIGHT W.N.U. SERVICt WHAT WENT BEFORE By chance James Lee meets Lucy Gresham, daughter of Sir John Gresham, ship builder. Lee seeks revenge for being unjustly accused of robbing the Gresham firm and being sent to prison. He blames Oliver Ames, Lucy's cousin, and Gresham's manager. Lee has inherited wealth and changed his name from Warrington, in compliance with the terms of the will. He secures an Invitation to Lucy's birthday party. CHAPTER . II Continued 2 v In his eyes she was the sweetest, and the most beautiful girl In the whole world She could do nothing wrong; he spoilt her so consistent-Jhat it says all that need be said fqr her Innate soundness of nature that she was almost entirely unspoilt by it. lie had married late in ife, having reached fifty before meeting his IdeaL He had Idolized his wife, and when she died, when Lucy was only five, was so frantic with grief that his friends all feared he would not He long survive her. pulled through, however, but was greatly had been Something changed. knocked completely out of life, for him. He could no longer give to the business of Gresham's the Interest be always had given, i'ear by year he had left it more and more In Ames' hands, until five years ago, he had definitely retired from active service. Lucy, growing up in the living Image of her mother, absorbed most of his Interest in life. It had been an understood thing for years that some day Lucy was going to marry Ames. Every one Jooked upon It as settled, except for such details as precisely when and exactly where. Lucy had known '''Ames all her life. She had been brought up so much with him that she looked upon him almost more v.Ra-brother than as a cousin. And although she had always known - that some day she was going to marry him, yet it was none the less a surprise, and something of a shock, to her, when nearly three ago, he had asked her to ljnweeks w make the some day a definite day. He loved her tremendously, and, it seemed to him, that loving her was the chief reason of his existence; the thing he had been born for. He felt that he had waited long enough. But Lucy had been curiously unready when he had asked her to name a definite day ; she had not known what to say, and didn't know why she should be so unsure. . . . She could find no reason for being suddenly so flustered, when he asked her when she would marry him. Perhaps It was just because, instead of asking would she marry him, he had asked when Or perwould she marry him. haps it had been because he had, by some unlucky chance, hit on the evening of that very day, when she had had that queer, fleeting advenman who ture with the stormy-eyehad nearly run her down with his big blue car. . . . It had Just seemed to her that to say definitely: "Yes, I will marry you on such nid such a day. . . ." was a ter-irrevocable thing to say. . . . ,W,V Tnjiy to form the words In her mind had made her catch a quick breath, almost of fear. She explained It to herself that she did not want to , marry anyone yet That she was Utterly happy at home with her """"idored and adoring father; that life and youth were so lovely and so sweet, that she didn't want to do anything to change the happy course they were running. . . . But Oliver nad been insistent and she had realized suddenly that his love for her was a much bigger emotion than she had ever known. So, with an unaccountable feeling of being driven, she had compro mised by promising to give him fl Infinite answer on this evening of CJmV nineteenth birthday. She had thought that she must surely have decided by then. . . . But she had awnkened this morning, with all her doubts still upon her. That was why this evening was something so much more than a birthday party, to her; and that was why It kept her In a quiver of restless excitement. In the ballroom she began a lively chatter, simply because she was afraid of silence between them. "There are going to be heaps of people here tonight; some I don't ven know. Mrs. Theodore Dale asked If she might bring a party; so did the Melvllles and Lady Cordelia Upton; she wants to bring among others Perry St. Abb and the man he's secretary to. He's the latest thing In millionaires, you know. One Jnnies Lee. Doesn't It sound 5 lessly. "It's such a . . . Oh, such a very big thing to decide." "I've loved you so long, Lucy. Waited for you so long. And I've waited so faithfully, dear. . . . There's been no woman in my heart but you. . . . You've got my heart in these little hands of yours, and got it forever." She caught her breath. It seemed awful that it should be hers to make him happy or to make him suffer, just with the speaking of a word. From sheer pity the word that would make him happy was on the very tip of her tongue, all ready to be spoken, when the sound of her father's voice calling to her made her start away from him, Jerking her hand out of his. "There's dad. He wants us. . . ." she said breathlesly "I suppose people are beginning to arrive, . . . How awful of me to neglect my duties so !" She laughed a little tremulously, and ran to the door, but he came after her, caught her hand and pulled her round. "Before I go, Lucy. . . . Give me my answer before I have to ... go. . . . Remember, won't you?" ... he urged her. Oh! of "Of course. course, I'll remember!" And she was on her way to the hall, her full skirts swinging round her. The big house seemed alive with an uncountable crowd of young people all bent on carrying the occasion through on one unbroken ripple of gayety. But Ames scarcely knew how to live the evening through even though his time was all too short. Lucy was so much In demand. He watched her all the time; saw her glance at this man; smile upon that; laugh with another; and did not know that behind all her brilliant gayety she was And thinking; trying to decide. she had a feeling that the jolly evening with all Its light and sound and gayety, was rushing her toward some difficult crisis. It was during an Interval in the dancing that Ames saw her captured and cornered by three determined young men, who each put forth excellent reasons why he should have the next dance with her. "But I can't dance with all three," Lucy was laughingly protesting, when a tall youth in a tight costume of green and white stripes, suddenly constituted himself master of revels, and from the cleared center of the ballroom floor made this proclamation : "Oyez! Oyez! Know all ye by these presents and all that sort ot jolly old bunk. Boiled down, what I mean Is this: that if the girls ... up at him quickly. Perry St. Abb's chief. . . . The latest thing In millionaires. She held out a quick, girlish hand. "I'm so glad you were able to come. . . . I've heard so much of I'm you from Lady Cordelia. Lucy Gresham, you know." He took her hand in a rather mighty clasp that seemed to swallow It all up, and said slowly: "How d'you do, Lucy Gresham?" She laughed up at him, her hand still in his, and: "How do you do James Lee?" she answered merrily. But he didn't share her merriment. His queer dark eyes looked down at her, unlit by any least hint of amusement, until It made her quite nervous, and she twisted away from him, the bright color coming up into her face. "Have you only just arrived?" she went on hurriedly. "I entered the ballroom with Lady Cordelia and St. Abb, precisely as the young man in green stripes was proclaiming the rules of the game," he told her. "I can't dance, but this next dance in obviously mine, If you will sit it out with me? I came In here to find you. I stood quite near you in yie ballroom while the game was being arranged. How many dances are you going to give me?" She wasn't quite prepared for that; she equivocated. "But you say you don't dance?" She was destined to find out then that equivocation didn't work with James Lee. He said : "Do you think you'll find it dull work sitting out a dance or two with me?" and his sullen gray eyes She colored. were challenging. "No," she said slowly, but quite truthfully. "No, I shouldn't think I'd find it dull. . . . Only . . . there are . . . other men I must give some dances to. . . . There's Mr. Greenstrlpes ; I promised him. And a Romeo and a Nero; I promised them ; and there's. . . ." She caught a sudden, quick breath, and halted. "Yes," he prompted. "Oh, just my cousin, Oliver Ames. He's going away tonight He has to leave at eleven; I must . . . I mean . . . I want to dance with him. . . ." She broke off, conscious that she was rattling on too, that Conscious, nervously. those queer eyes of his never left "I Am Particularly Happy Tonight," He Said Slowly. "You must; or you want to? Which?" he asked abruptly. She looked up at him ; looked here; In your father's house" ; he let each word fall keen as a knife. "And I have met you again." So this anyway." who haven't fixed up the next dance'll pop off and hide, we'll give 'em three minutes, and then come and find them. . . . How's that for a brain wave?" A chorus answered him. "Fine!" "Get on with it!" "Scatter, you girls!" And amid chatter and laughter, the girls scattered, Lucy with them. Most of them did not bother to make their hiding places very obscure, but Lucy left them and turned toward the back of the house, pushed through a green baize door Into the main corridor on the other side of the staircase and slipped Into the library. There was no one in the room. A single light. Blinded In deep crimson, cast a somber glow over her lacy the sake of avoiding silence than flounces, as she tiptoed across the mom, climbed Into a deep window anything. He came a step nearer and seat and pulled a heavy curtain In front of her. She was glad of the caught her hand In his. "Lucy . . . you haven't forgot- pence and quiet this refuge gave to think. , . ten, have you? Do you remember her. . . . She wanted Must think. . . . Must deride. . . . what you promised?'' cnmo to of course I The pounds of the Jollity "Of course her faintly. I will, OlivYaV . . And I Five minutes had not gone by er. . . . Only . . . leave It a Utile when she heard the door open, and longer. . . ." Bhe answered breath. ... He pushed up a deep chair for her. "Don't you want to go and watch the dancing?" she asked. "Why should I?" he answered. And she had no good reasons to offer. So they remained In the liShe, sitting In the deep brary. chair; he, standing, leaning back against the mantel, looking, most of the time, down at her. She was recovering now, from the surprise of finding that this guest of hers was that man who had shared that tiny adventure with her, and 'began to feel that ever since the day of that adventure she had really been waiting to meet him again. She hadn't known it, but It seemed so to her now. Because, disconcerting as he was, there was a sort of feeling of utter Tightness In being with him. He kept her guessing as no man ever hnd before; made her shy; sometimes; yet happy, In a new and bewildering way that she didn't In the least understand. He asked suddenly: "You say that Lady Cordelia has told you a lot about me. What exactly has leather-covere- He Came a Step Nearer and Caught Her Hand. "Did you have any thrilling experiences in the Alps last summer, Mr. Brown?" "Oh, yes, Miss Jones. On one occasion I was forced to act as the chauffeur of a snowslide." CONSCIENCE DEFINED d she told you?" Before the other could answer, : "Oh, do they teach thnt, too? That's the kind of trouble Daddy had In his head last winter." Indianapolis News. small sister piped up Writing Fluid bring Inspiration?" "I don't think so. The best poems come from the Ink bottle." wine Those books are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. Colton. 35 F2T L y 'I 1 ' 1 I L. "JT -- 'I Sunday School Teacher What Is conscience, Eddie? Eddie An Inward monitor. S. S. T. And what is a monitor, Willie? Willie An iron-cla- d boat Mentality at Its Beit , It is generally agreed by psychologists that the threshold of highest mentality is reached at about 11 :00 a. m.. One1 authority says that tests made In various colleges prove that the mind Is less active when fatigued. because ... . . . because scanned his face eyes. just a little . . . said uncertainly. "No!" she corrected herself quickly. "Not cruel; just a whole lot Villain (shouting) Back to the mines! Manager No! Be more up to data Say, "Back to the hangars" and show you know something about an airship. LIVING LONG AGO hurt" He caught in a breath so sharpthat she heard it, and saw that a rich color flooded up into his face. She had been all wonian, In that little judgment of him, and he had thought her only a child. "I am particularly happy tonight," he said slowly. "One of my biggest ambitions has been fulDlled. . . "Yes?" 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She rose abruptly, almost as if sudden panic had seized her and she were going to run away; but stood before him Irresolutely. "I must go and dance," she said, a little breathlessly. "Will you come and meet daddy?" There was a curious tone in his voice as he answered. "I shall be delighted to meet . . . your father." And he squared his big shoulders slightly as he followed her out of the room. They found Sir John by the ballroom door, benignly watching the revels, and she gave James Lee Into his care, wholly unaware of the emotions that rose within him as he shook hands with the man who had gone yachting when he had lain beneath the shadow of disgrace. "Isn't It the very strangest thing, daddy," she said. "Mr. Lee Is the very man who picked up my beads for me the other day. . . . And, daddy, give him the very nicest cigar you can find to console him for being completely surrounded by dancers and not being able to dance." She broke off abruptly on seeing Ames coming toward her. "Yes, Oliver, I'm just coming; this very minute . . ." she added, on a Bee' Development changed note. At sound of that name, James '"Tisn't fair to ask that," she countered. Lee swung round toward Sir John. "Tisn't fair to say things behind lie was not ready to risk being a man's back that you wouldn't say recognized by Oliver Ames. If anyto his face," he retorted. one had been noticing acutely. It "Oh, she said she liked you very would have been seen that his big much, and that Mr. St. Abb was hands were clenched at his sides, very keen on you. And that you and that a curious stillness held came from Canada or Australia-s- he him for a moment as If he were wasn't sure which And . . ." turned to stone. But quite sudLucv broke oft then. denly he looked back at Lucy, "Yes?" speaking to her over his broad fun-lit She raised eyes to his; shoulder Just as she was leaving to since he had asked it, he should be Join Ames. "How lo-will you be?" he told. "She said you weren't, exactly asked. "Oh I don't quite know. I'll . . ." wild or woolly, but still you weren't really tame; and that you were very she began. strong and silent and never en"If you are more than twenty joyed anything. . . . She said minutes I shall come and fetch she thought I'd like you ln you," he said clearly, and followed liiriiscl.v." his host to the smoking room. do ".nd you?" TO BE CONTl.NtlSD.) RUNNING PROPOSALS A fession. Medicine If Sun Should "Strike" It Is estimated that it requires only about 499 seconds for the light from the sun to reach the earth. Thus, If (he sun should suddenly cease to exist, light would come to the earth for only 490 seconds Uncle Eben "Suspicion," said Uncle Eben. "mighty often consists In realizin' whut you'd be tempted to do If you had de other feller's chance." Washington Star. 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