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Show Tuesday, starch lTlSu? the , opposite was like a .nice had been shortest, though few in the curb in passing some clump npou pavement friendly puppy. So why shouldn't the long "parade ooked as if tbev of people it was to him as if Ariel 'walking home from chnrch Joe changed color 1 say-snow? And your - eye- had anything Wf y And' he enchantedly alone were -- of : The un heads sound of families workingtheir way throughbrows! When you Jook like that short, and many AHellf voice him woods. to the in to their in the derbrush himself. vou brought were 'Ouldever replies nobody crisp "forget ' She is lovelier than ever isnv Joe. of theTr He kept trying to realize that theologies. irqu;ne Ariel she? He rose from the log, and the offspring. The men imparted this lady of wonder was Yes, indeed, mongrel leaped upon him up- largely a g Kim lo the itinerant Tabor, but he could not. lie he answered BOOTH the TARKINGTON, connect them wearing could not By shabby blankly. roariously, thinking" they were to coneours, Author of Cherry." Monlur, Beiucalr," Etc. Would you still risk als and having Ariel, whom he had treated as go home, be Jkc to food. hot, long blaok 8,e this Th with . ladies' treats wilted re th another, one began, smiling, hut, io'!:is. the lady aughed again. boy apparently BY fc ISOS. HARPER BROTHERS COPYR.ICHT, Dont let him rol1 my paraso.. lieving this gloom somewhat by young woman of the world. He thinking better of it, changed her ' aS And I must warn jou now: Nj the lighter tints of their gar- had always been embarrassed question: What is the name of on never tread ver, my skirt! ments, the spick and span little himself and ashamed of her when your dog, Mr. Louden? y0lI member at all? CHAPTER XI. Ilis eyes downcast; his face Im very irritable about such girls relieving it; greatly by their anything she did made him re havent told me. Oh, hes just a yellow white dresses and' their faces, the member that, after all, she was a There was a silence, for if the burning hotly, he- could only things! dog, IT had taken tl.ice or four un- latter he of evaded unskillfully. girl, as on the day he ran away bright wilh the hopedazzled young man could have shake his head. certain backward fteps from her. Sunday ice cream, while the boys when she kissed a lock of hihair "Young manl she said sharp. she continued, Yes, spoken at all he could have found before sat She with radiant in solace from him, With some that the bandage. escaping experiencing nothing to say; and, perhaps, the thought no one would be there, he loveliest creature the a that his ears even recollection where out were laughter, Well, he admitted reluct', had finally for not I to written what they say lady would not trust her own him had ever but between himcould did at seem seen, red. not scratch least I call him Speck for It prob- antly, voice just then. Ilis eyes had fal- train I should take, but when I grew person there vision this and . self if he had to, yet Oppressed able' that it would ever happen short. , charming len again. He was too dazed and, stepped down from the platform next heard And he necessities instant decorous the the of The what for in truth, too panic stricken now you were standing there, though again. by long? I Want to know his real name. to look at her, though if he had you didnt see me at first not day, marched along, furtively limself calling her Miss Tabor. At this she seemed amused. been quite sure that she was part until I had called your name and Its mighty inappropriate, beplanning behind imperturbably cause secretive countenances me You various have to we re' fond of each other, called of a wonderful dream he might ran to you. You said, 'Ive come ought means forthe laterdispersal of that yearsago,-sh- e said for said Joe, but when I pickedhinT' have dared. She was seated be-- to meet you but you said it odious an all knew me. side himand had handed him her queerly, I thought. And then up he was so yellow and so thin monotony. you I did know her you, I and so creeping and so scared Usually the conversation of parasol in a little way which you called a carriage for me. But this long string of the homeward mean. he answered. I used to that I christened him Respectaseemed to imply that of course he you seemed so strange. You bound was not too frivolous or know nearly everything you were bility. had reached for it, bo that it was couldnt tell how you knew that to be seen how used she was to I was coming, and and then I worldly. Nay ; it properly. In- going to. saybefore you said it. They were now opposite the - have all tiny things done far her, I' understood you werent yourPike mansion, and, to his surclined to discussion of the se- - It seems' strange now mon. it prise, she turned, indicating the Yes, she interrupted, though this was not then of his self. You were very quiet, hut I does a was serious seem It and tremulous observing. He did per- knew I knew! So I made you way by a touch upon his sleeve, seemly strange now. Sunday parade, the propriety of Somehow,? he went on, I and crossed the street toward the ceive, however, that he was to get into the carriage and -whose behavior was today almost doubt if now Id know. furl the dainty thing. He pressed and gate, which Mamie and Eugene the catch and let down the top She faltered to a stop, and Somehow, she echoed, with had entered. Mamie, after" exdisintegrated when the lady of e to" fine the shame as break with itself walked or that if street brought bridge timidly, changing a word with Eugene fearing gravity, I doubt it too. tear it, end as it closed, held him courage. He turned and fac in the shadow of a lace lavender Although he had so dim a per- upon the steps, was already hurnear his face, he caught a very ed her She had lifted her hand Loucarried parasol by Joseph ception of the staring and whis- rying into the house. den. The congregation of the pering which greeted and followfaint, sweet, spicy emanation kerchief to her eyes, but at his Ariel paused at the gate as if from it like wild roses and cinna- movement she dropped it, and it church across the square that to ed them. Ariel, of course, was waiting for Joe to open it. mon. was not so much the delicate love which Joes stepaunt had been thoroughly aware of it, Dont you know? she cried. though ' He did late was just debouching, al- the only sign she gave was the Im staying here. Judge Pike not know her, but his liness of her face that he saw has charge of all my property. most in mass, upon Main street slight blush, which You told me where you lived, the timidity and a strange little choke then as the tears upon 'her cheeks. very soon discried. He was the administrator or I in his throat, the sudden fright when these two went by. It is appeared. That Ah, poor boy! she people turned which had seized him, were not knew! I knew! not the to truth say that all to look at her may have been not something. Then, seeing him quite swept, through the warm, scentYou you took me home? caused by embarrassment, ne ed June air, a veil of snow like except the children came to a altogether a novelty. A girl who chopfallen and aghast, she went You told me where you liv- a driven on: Of course you dont know, had no thought that she was one dead halt, but it is not very far had learned to fog, and half obscured appear un'in Ycu he had known, but could not for ed, she answered. I took dont know anything . about Yes, in the heart of it a young girl from it. The air was thick with scious of the. continental urn.' You havent evenjusked. the moment recall. There was you home., subdued exclamations whisand the following gaze of the boulestood knee deep in a drift piled he I of dont understand, the awkwardness of nothing' vards the frank glasses of the Youregoing tT live here? against an old picket gate, her perings. he I dont un- black that. No; he was overpowered stammered huskily. gasped. costanza in Rome, was not ill Here is jio mystery. Joe was. waterproof and shabby Will you come to see me? by the miracle of this meeting. derstand. kirt flapping in the blizzard like probably the only person of res- equipped to face Main street, Cashe She leaned toward him slight- torn And yet, white with marveling, Will you come laughed. sails, one of her bands out pectable derivation in Canaan naan, even as it was today. this he felt it to be so much more ly. looking at him with great afternoon? hI retched toward Under the sycamores before him, her start- who had not knpwn for weeks He grew-whitYou know I touchingly a greater happiness led eyes fixed on his. that Ariel Tabor was on her way they started they had not talked You didnt know me last than he had ever known that at he said. cant, And, oh, how like you, said home. And the news that she a great deal. There had been first it was inexpressibly sad. You came here ' once. You Do you know night, she said. the how like no- had arrived the night before had ong silences, almost all ber quesand lady; you risked a good deal then just to me now? , At last he heard her voice body else in the world, Joe, to been widely disseminated on the tions concerning the period of his see Mamie dance For answer he could only stare by a window. again, shaking & little, as she way to church, entering church runaway absence. . She appeared have a yellow dog! Dont dare a little for an old you at dum founded. lie lifted her, aid: in church (even so!) and coming :o know' and to understand evAriel Tabor! friend? I am glad you remembered. an unsteady hand toward her His lips formed the words out of church. An account . of erything winch had happened All right, he gulped. Ill but the manner of Remembered whatj. lie fal-- " :tppa!ingl, her boue in the Avenue Henri since his return to the town. He without sound. try. the lady as she saw the truth untered. had not, in his tifrn, reached the it about time? she said. Martin and of her portrait in Isnt Mr. Bantry had come down to derwent an Then you dont? she eried. the Salon a mysterious business, point where he would begin to April change. She Are in ladies the habit strange the gate and was holding it open, drew back lightly. lie was faAnd yet you came. of descending from trains to take to many and not lacking in gran- question her. He was too breath- his eyes fixed upon Ariel, within vored with the most delicious low Came here, do yOu mean? deur for that had occupied two less in fyis consciousness of the home? them you a An impression glow. rising had ever heard, and by Yes now, at noon. laugh columns in the Tocsin on a day marvelous present hour. She had came to Joe a white afterward Once, upon that his morning some months before when Joe had told him of the death of Ah-- , he half whispered, un- some magic whisk which she acRoger had the sensational looked orig stepbrother ago, , progress very found himeslf inimically head- Tabor, the year before. able to speak aloud. Poor Was it complished here was no sign of handsome. of a certain youth up Main street about (ears man! she said gently. lined on the first page and had er, He livRe you who said who said: had stirred Canaan. But that Possibly you remember me, ed to see how the the member Across across feUows readother paper without Miss Tabor? said Eugene in a Ah, Im glad youre the same day was as nothing to this. Mr. dropped further. Ariels name had did it at last, and everybody likAcross Main street bridge at Joe! she raid. You never Bantry had left temporary para- ing and impressive voice, lifting been in the mouth of Canaan for ed him. He was very happy over deep noon! she finished for him would or could pretend very well. lysis in his his hat. We were neighbors, I wake, but in the Case a long time unfortunately for there. Yes. Im glad youre the same, and of the two young people who gently. in old days. the believe, Joe. however, not in the mouth a little while shfe ,had Ater He took a deep breath in the Im glad Ioe changed, though passed slowly She gave him her hand in a along the street to- of that Canaan which held con- said. that it was wonder of it. close fashion somewhat Where was it you hat isnt why you have forgotten day it was growing which petrification,, mannerly, favupon lunch time; she must be said that? he asked slowly. me. Youve forgotten me because seemingly threatened in several verse with him. oring him with a bright; negligent .Joe had not known her." The goigg back. Was it last night? smile. you never thought of me. Per- instances (most notably that of Oh, 'quite, she answerwomen recognized her .Then then goodby, he re- ed, turning again to Joe as she enDont you even know that haps 1 should no have known Mr. Arp) to become infallibly permanent. at first glance, even those who plied f i ruefully. if yon had changed a g'en; you came to meet me? -tered the gate. . Then I shall The lower portion of the street, had her. And the quite forgotten Why? !e il. as I hve I came to to meet you! lined with three and four story women you? told their men; hence the Im afraid you dont under- expect She gave a little pitying cry, He Ill baning hack from buildings of brick and stme. try, said Joe. Ill try. like demeanor of the stand. It wouldnt do for you to He very near a sob, seeing his utter h- r stumbled rather grim and hot facades unaway. Respectame. procession, for few towns hold it be seen with . bewilderment. Perhaps, bility and he together All. she .ni der the midday sun, affording interfering more unseemly to stand and stare though, you do understand. It was like the strangest That mnv .Pk t' of with the of comfort shade to the church comers, at alarmingly passersby, especially on the Wasnt that why you asked me Mr. dream in. the world, she said. head you always h ul like a who were working homeward in Sabbath. Flitcroft, who had stopped in But Ariel Tabor re- to meet you out here beyond the You were at the station when I like a well, von know I mus processional little the middle of the pavement to groups and turned and walking with with bridge? came last night Yotx dont re- - have told you a thousand times stare j none glassily at Ariel. . Eugene clumps, walking fast, Joe Louden .In answer she looked at him accompanied the latter into .the thomrh none with the appearance Ariel flushed a little when she full and straight for three sec- house, and Joe, looking. back, unof great leisure, since neither rate the perceived extent of their then onds, threw back her head derstood. Mamiehad sent his of progress would have been conspicuousnoss, hut it was "not andclosed'hereyei "tight with esteemed befitting "71.eday7 Th the blush stepbrother to bring Ariel in Grippe or Influenza, whichever you like that Joe remembered laughter. Wtihout a word she andto Towth of Canaan, :teady, though had keep him from following. to call it,. is one of the most weakening reddened the tanned skin of took the from This parasol him, haafternoon! The thought opennever startling, left almost old, for her brownness had gone ed it herself, diseases known. placed the smooth took away his breath, and he beall of the churches downtown, long ago. though it had not left white coral handle of it in his came and Main street the principal her paler. , which is Cod merely pink- and white. This hand and lightly took his arm. rvenue of communication, bewas a delicate rosiness Liver Oil and Hypophosphites in easily dirising from There was no further demur on tween them and the residence her (To be continued) cheeks to her r strength-buildeis as the gested form, the greatest the temples, of the man. So today he intermitHe section. part young earliest dawn rises. If there had did not know where known to medical science. she was gotent procession stretched along CROUP. been many words left in Joe he the new cement sidewalks from . ing. He did noask. Is a violent inflammation of the would have called it a divine It is so easily digested that it sinks into Once Ariel smiled politely, not muoous membrane of little below the square to upper the wind blush. It fascinated him, and if at Mr. the system, making new blood Aand new fat, Main street, where maples lined and inclined her pipe, which sometimes extends to Louden; anything could have deepened head twice, and strengthening nerves and muscles. the result that the larnyx and bronchial tubes; tiy borough faro end the manwjth the glamour about her it would after thinking for a and is one of the most dangerous sions of the affluent stood among have been this blush. He dief not time of how Use after gracefully she did it diseases of children. It almost pleasant lawns and shrubberies. understand it, but when he saw and how Influenza. the top of her hat aljrrays comes on in the- pretty night. It was late, forthis had been a it he stumbled. - was, became conscious gradually BaGive of small doses frequent communion Sunday and those far Those who gaped and stared of a . Invaluable for Coughs and Colds, in her action meaning that llards Ilorehound Syrup and apin advance, who had werefor him only blurs in the she had bowed to some one across O reached .the pretty end already ALL DRUOOI8T9I 60cu AND ft. 00. ply Ballards Snow Liniment exshady background. Truly, he saw men the street. He lifted his hat, ternally to the throat. 25c, 50c part of the street, were members as trees walking, and when it about four minutes disand late, and $1.00. Sold by Riter Bros. of the churchei where services became necessary to step out to covered Mamie Pike and Eugene b Drag Oo. j THE GOP'GttGT-s-f it that D been-attendin- o GAM: g -- ' 9(t - - - -- j up-th- d. sf-r- e. e. 1 : 1 w-'- ( - lit-M- e , 1 -- Scoffs Emulsion - . the-latter- Scotts Emulsion , |