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Show THE LEI1I SUN, LEIII, UTAH - THE STORY Returning to London, practically practi-cally penniless, after an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful business trip. Sir George Sandtson takes dinner with his widowed stepmother, his old nurse, "Ag-gy." He did not approve ap-prove of her marriage to his fa-father, fa-father, but her explanation satisfies sat-isfies him. CHAPTER I Continued 'Oh, not that from you, Sir Geor-dle, Geor-dle, she cried, and then stretched out a timid, pudgy, capable hand toward him. "Could we not be friends, we twoT There's a heap 1 would like to speak to you about, and Indeed there's nothing I wouldn't do for yes. Ton were my own wee laddie when ! took care of you." Sir George looked at ber with an mbsrrassed air. "You make it hard for me. Lady " "Aggy to you," declared Lady. Sandtson Sandt-son promptly. "You called me that when I was your nurse girl, and I'm still wanting to look after you.' - "Aggy,' he began, after a moment's hesitation. The maid came In with the cloth and began to set the table.' and Sir George watched somberly. What was It In life that caughf one and drew one toward the very people one hoped to avoid? He bad come, only because of the duty he owed his father's widow, to see her once and be done with her forever and he found he had forgotten bow much he liked Aggy, It was preposterous, but It was true, This was the woman he had cursed ' many a day, , many a night and he was dining with her I Lady Sandison hesitated a moment when the maid left the room, and then went resolutely to where she had caused the extra blankets and sheets to be stored, and came back with a bottle of wine. Be stopped her as she was about to pour rut a glass for him. 4 "No, Aggy. "none for me, Tm too hungry., and . the old man's horrible example is still before my mind's eye. I've been leaving that stuff alone." "The Lord be praised!" said Aggy, and poured herself a generous glass. "There's no need of wasting His mercies, mer-cies, however. I can take It or leave it, and it has no effect. But to see you so discriminating Is like an answer to prayer." Sir George smiled and began his soup, he hoped not too ravenously. He had not dared take wine on so empty a stomach. : - "This good sense you are showing will fit in well with a plan I have." continued Aggy as she took her soup spoon in hand. "How are you off?"- "Do you mean as to money?" Lady Sandison nodded. "I do so." "I'm broke," Sir George told her. without emotion! "The Yucatan oil i Bfnpn.o wflc ii Tnimrf i rnuie uui fF alive and without debt, but that's all. l I have," he hesitated, then laughed, finrl mntlnnul "I havo pvnrtlv Seven- ond-six between me and the cold world.". "Michty I" exclaimed Lady Sandison. The maid brought in the fish and served it, during a profound silence. Whi n she had taken her wjiy to the elevator with the soup plates, Lady Sandison spoke: "The estate Is in an awful-bad way." Sir George nodded. "I suppose so." "What he did with his money's past finding out." Then she looked at the young man thoughtfully. "I've had a long talk with that lawyer body. Mr. Gillespie, and he approves of what 1 I note uvuc a , c uri iiiv uvwj-. bir ueorge starea. '.'Subject to your approval, of course, for it's yours, but I wasn't going to let a chance like this slip by. Some American folk that had more money than I could count In a month of Sabbaths. Sab-baths. They wanted Sandisbrae and war.ted It that bad that they came up to my price. They are highly recommended. recom-mended. .1 could pay the servants off with the first month's rent, and get them jobs with the new folk, and the rent for the rest of the season put In bank would settle up the debts, If you agree." "It sounds quite reasonable," said Sir George, and there was silence I again as the maid took- tne nsn piaies and Drought In the meat course. It was roast beef with potatoes and cabbage but It .was the food of the gods to hungry Sir George, who fell upon it. Lady Sandison, not having his appetite, ap-petite, ate a little more slowly and between bites studied her stepson. "Seven and six Is all yon haver Sir George, his mouth full, nodded. "Wherell you sleep?" asked the practical Aggy. "I haven't decided yet," Sir George looked at her with a smile. "But at that I'm not 'daunted' as yon used to say, Asgy. Ml walk to Ilavllant's club and ask " "B'g off and sway," interrupted The handsome Jiarjaret Tutnhll Illvshaiiom fy Irwin Myers Lady Sandison. "His mother told me that, over the telephone, this very day. He was out at Mont Denys for the week-end. I doubt she sent him there when she heard you were coming back." Sir George looked somewhat discomposed. dis-composed. "Why did you" "I didn't," said Lady Sandison, flushing flush-ing a little. She called me. It seems she'd heard that I was here and you were expected, and she telephoned me and asked when you were coming." "She has heard of the collapse of the oil business, I suppose?" "I expect. She seemed to know everything but the date of your arrival, ar-rival, and I told her that myself and said that If Lord Archibald wanted to see you he'd just have to wait, as yon had things concerning the estate to settle before you were off to America." Sir George leaned back In his chair and surveyed this extraordinary woman. "America 1 Why on earth should I go to America? Where did yon get that Idea?" ... V "It popped into my head," said Aggy. "Lady Havllant was bo fearfully fear-fully condescending like, and so feared that you would look up Lord Archie for a loan, that I jist minded myself that the Sandlsons were one of the She Laid Her Other Hand on Top-of His A Rare Caress From This Most Reserved Person. oldest baronetcies In the kingdom and the Havilants but bare two hundred years! So I wasp't letting her try to patronize Sir Steenie's widow or his son. I told her exactly what popped into my head. Glad am I that I did, for it kept burling round and round there till It turned Into as good a plan as any j I could think of. So If you you nothing pressing to do the night, Sir Geordie ? He looked at her and smiled. "You go too fast for me, Aggy. I have to look for a place to sleep." "Then that's settled," Lady Sandison declared, but the look she gave him implored him not to refuse her, "If you'll remember that I'm your stepmother step-mother and take a shakedown here at my flat. You're that tall and I'm such a shorty that 1 think you'll have to take the bedroom, and I'll take the sitting room couch." To refuse, with those blue eyes, generally so hard, fixed anxiously on him was beyond Sir George. He tried to. He protested, but finally found himself saying: "I II accept your hospitality hos-pitality gladly. Lady Sandison." "Aggy." . ' " "Aggy, but rm to have the couch." Lady Sandison for the first time that evening actually smiled "I doubt it," she said. "I doubt you can double up that small, but we'll leave that until the time comes. At present, while the lass is clearing, we'll, have the coffee and cigarettes in' the sitting room, and I'll tell you this America plan." Grumbler Throws Away May w'e be spared from the grumbler grum-bler . . . And yet If we would change bis grumble InCo pleasure, we must exert a little patience of our own. Getting impatient and disdainful disdain-ful and short-tempered with him Is likely to make him worse. And, after all. It isn't very hard to help these rather trying people along the road of life. The grumbling folk don't have a very easy time. Of course, they can be a positive nuisance to you. But Just think what a real nuisance they are to themselves. To have always a Epirit of grumbling in one's mind must be a load, the weight of which Pilgrim could never have Imagined. In many ways the grumbler's burden is worse than Pilgrim's. You see, there was always a chance of his getting get-ting iii o! It He had got Into some "Yes, agreed Sir George, but he set j his handsome jaw. Aggy was quit all right and a splendid manager. She had always been that, but she was not going to manage him Into going to America. Aggy saw the set jaw and began calmly: "YouH have mind when you were a wee bit laddie, I was used to tell you stories of my brother, Robert, In America?" Sir George, absorbed In lighting his cigarette, nodded. "He's still there, and he's a big man In his way." "What Is his way? "Some kind of contracting business. Putting up weirs and grand public buildings, bridges and they awful skyscrapers sky-scrapers that crowd streets over there." ' Sir George nodded to signify his comprehension. "He's by way of being something awful well off." Sir George's eyes opened. Aggy nodded solemnly. "Hlra and me's been at outs for many a long year on account of a real lmpldent letter he sent me some time before I married your father. He doesn't know I'm married. I refused to go out to America and be pampered the way he said he would pamper me. Rob let fly some awful words about d n obstinate ob-stinate females,' so I jist didn't answer an-swer his letter. When he- sent some lawyer bodies after me I Jist told them to take his money and bis messages back to him, I would go my own gait You see," she added, as Sir George looked at her Inquiringly, "I was badly needed at Sandisbrae then. It would have been demoralized, but for me. Your father was rarely himself, ami things were not' as they had been In my lady's time. You were away la France." Sir George nodded. He did not want to remember those times. "I couldn't see my way to leaving the place, especially as your father was making np to Jock's lass, as I told you. And she with little sense In her wee, putty head I So I Judged that it would be better for yon if I stayed and let your father compromise himself with me. At least that's the way I let him think," she said, with a nod at Sir George. "I daresay there was a lot of gossip about us, but none of it was trne. However, It was my chance to set things right and 1 took It Jist when Sir Steenie knew he couldn't be left I says to him: This Is no place for an unmarried respectable woman. Then d t marry me, Aggy,' he said, 'as I have asked you more than once. Thank you. Sir Steenie,' I says, 'We'll take the night train to Gles'ga and get the license, and I'll warrant you a peaceful life and no more extrava gances.' 'Plenty of whisky and peace to drink it in, Aggy, my dear, is my notion of pleasure,' he said." She paused and sighed, "I did better for him than most and I saved some thing for you; Sir Geordie." Sir George's head was bowed on his hands. "Oh, Aggy, I'm ashamed that I thought of you as I did." Aggy"s firm lip trembled for a moment mo-ment "You might have remembered me better than that Sir Geordie," was on the tip of her tongue, but she held it back and said: "Bless me What does a lad remember about hig old nurse? And It looked bad. But that's by and gone, If only" and here her composure was shaken for a moment "if only you believe me now." Sir George leaned forward and took her fat, pudgy hand, which still bore traces of hard work, and patted it "Would I be here, Aggy, If I didn't believe you?" - She laid her other hand on top of his a rare caress from this most reserved person. "That's my laddie," she said. "Sir Geordie, I have often thought if yoa'd come back that first year but then, how could you? , It was probably better bet-ter as It was, and now we'll take stock of what's left us." "Very little, I'm afraid. The lawyer told me that I had nothing but Sandisbrae left" "Did he so? There was a little something left over, that your father didn't spend. I let Sir Steenie think he gambled It away one night he wasn't himself, while as a matter of fact I had it hid np the stair, in the tower." "But that" Sir George began. "It's yours. It's no much, but ltH help." "It's yours," he declared hastily. "It's all the widow's portion you have, Aggy. I'll never touch a penny of It" Two obstinate Scots stared at each other. It was Aggy, Lady Sandison, who spoke first "You were ever a set laddie. There's no change in yon." "There will be no change in me. Agnes, Lady Sandison, must take her lawful share." (TO BE CO.VTLVUED.) Chance of Happiness bad habits, but grumbling was not one of them. Once yon start grumbling, the worst part of your mind will seize upon It practice upon it develop It until you are in the nasty, almost unbreakable meshes of It Soon It will choke every bit of happiness out of you. Resist grumbling always. Its power cannot grow if you do that London Tit Bits. First Investment Trust The first American investment trust of Important size was organized In 192L Never Shalt Varnish Never shake varnish, enamel or lacquer in the can. This causes bubbles, bub-bles, which are difflcalt to brush out IMPROVED HOUSES MEET. MUCH FAVOR Not Necessary to Build Ex pensive Building for Hens. There Is nothing that will have a greater Influence on the poultryman's success or failure than the way in which he houses his birds, declares 0. C. Ufford, extension poultryman for the Colorado Agricultural college. The shed-type poultry house built deep is the safest and most satisfac tory for Colorado conditions because It is economical, warm, dry and comfortable com-fortable when properly built, Mr. UC ford says in a recent well Illustrated bulletin, "An Improved Poultry House for Colorado Flocks," copies of which may be obtained by writing to the college. It Is not necessary to build an expensive ex-pensive laying house, the bulletin states. The cost need not exceed $2 per hen when the best materials are used, and it Is possible to put up a satisfactory building in some localities locali-ties at a much lower cost Poultry houses should be constructed construct-ed to make use of the abundance of sunshine, especially during the winter months when it is most needed. A concrete floor built at least six inches above the highest point of ground nearby to eliminate moisture is recommended. rec-ommended. The shed-type of laying house Is the most comfortable and economical when built 20, 22 or 24 feet deep, with not over a 9-foot front wall and a rear wall 5 feet high, it is stated. Windows Win-dows along the back under the dropping drop-ping boards. Openings 3"4 to 4 feet square placed across the front of the house will provide pro-vide ample sunshine when and where it is most needed. 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