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Show .. Page Six I Thurs day, Septem ber 29, 1927 The Midvale Journ al "I wish you all good luck," he j taxi i)l sight and drove to the vilsaid when they reached the house lage druggist's for the key to the of the friend she was living with. Congdon house. "Just go in and take your time 'fl'he camp will 1be a great success -I'm sure of that. This has been to it," said the man. "Lights and ~ the happiest evening I've spe;nt water haven't been turned off and mu.wtn.taona b.Y --.r.~ if you take the house your folks " since ~ Je:y Lee ".Since you began taking every- can step right in. If you do;n't :find thing so hard! Please quit look- it convenien t to 'stop here again, ing on your life as a burdeD; try ju8t leave the key under the door mat." to get 1t0me fun out of it!" "I guess you'll find the place all "Don't fonget me i)l the rush of things! And particular ly don't for- shipl!lhape," 8aid the driver, as they get that note of instructio n•. I'm eet off. "Folks eame up early but eountiDg on that! It I don~t get didn't stay long. Left ill a hurry. it I will be terribly disappoin ted." Family troubles, I reckon! I do;n't She surveyed him gravely, the;n know nothin', mind ye, but there's don't I preaeh! had a position as gym;naaium teach praetice what 'vou anBWered lightly, "Oh, ve..-.r well I talk she had trouble with her husChapter I band." -, er in Miss Gordons sehool. This mean to be impertine; nt, but really, You shall have it, sir!" .MRS. HOWtA.llD FE•.t,.,THERThe confidences of thE ehauft'eur Chap&er Two " summer she's to run a girls' camp S'OONE spent much time thinking up in Michigan ·and she can't help Archie didn't know that the note only mildly interested Archie. It "Oh, I'm perfectly capable of dotrou- wat unseasona bly warm a,nd the air up things for her brother, Archi- making a splendid success of it." ing anything I've suggested . I caused Isabel a great deal of When he found himself sitti;ng mean to dig for hurled treasure ble. She must write a note that was lifeless and humid. .bald Bennett, to slo, and as Archie "Thiz¥~ it will rain?" he asked this was the ideal bachelor brother, he beside her later at Mrs. Feather- this summer, realizing the dream of would not require an answer; a lifetime. Talk about romance be- ahe felt to be imperativ ely demand- the driver. accepted her eommissio ns in the stone~table she said to him: "Yep," he replied with a glance "I .passed you on the street the ing dead! My grandfath er was a M by the circumsta nce. She thot most amiable spirit and his sera ;nice fellow at ~he sea. "There's going to be a vice~ were unfailingl y satisfacto ry. other day and made frantic efforts planter in Mississipp i before ;he , Arckibald Bennett 1 no lively kick-up before mornin' ". "The age;nt who's been looking to attract your attention .but you Civil War. I;n about 1860 he sar, and she was sorry for him, but They reached the house and Arshe up a summer house for us says this were in a trance and failed to see trouble ahead, and as he was op- more and no less sorry than posed to secession he turned every would have been for any one else chie discharge d the driver. In a is an unusual opportuni ty, as there my signals." big "I was taki)lg my walk," he stam thing he had into gold, bought sev- who failed to find the world a pleas moment he was sta;nding in a are a few places to let at Bailey eral tracts of land in Michigan and ant place to live i)l. Somethin g living-roo m that exhaled an atmosHarbor and this one is unexpect- mered. "My walk!" she repeated. "You New York and secretly planted his a little cryptic, yet something that phere of comfort and good taste. edly on the market. Howard's sim •F ully satisfied with his investi:ply swamped with work-an d we'd . speak as though you had a monop- money. My father i;nherited the would discourag e further confidengatiom, Archie picked up a book, all appreciate it if you could run oly f' that form of exercise. I land, and that's where I'm opening · ces without wounding him-this would solve the problem. Finally, became absorbed and read until he must say you didn't ap})€ar to be my camp." up there for us." "And the gold hasn't been found? she hit upon these lines and copied was roused by a clap of thunder The many preoccupa tions of his enjoying yourself. Your aspect that seemed to shake the world . them in her best hand: ob rother-in- law, who -~el~ a se~t i,n was wholly funereal and your de- asked Archie, deeply interested . "Not a coin so far! You see He either fears his fate too much, Hurrying to the window he found .Congress and took his JOb serious- meanor that of a man with a certhat the storm had already broke,n, Or his deserts are small, ly, were well known to Archie, and tain number of miles wished on grandfath er made his will i.n war time and only divided the land, be-l That dares ,not put it 'to the touch and that it would be impossibl e for as Archie had nothing on earth to him. him to catch the five-eleven. To gain or lose it all. "Four a day,'' Archie confessed , ing afraid to mention the buried do, it was emiently fitting that he After reading the lines aloud sev- ~ He turned on the lights and sat should assume some of Feather- with a,n air of resignatio n; "two in tTeasure in a document that would they down to think. The roof and walls stone's domestic burde,ns. Archie the morning and two before dinner. becQme a public record when he eral times she de ided that would serve her purpose admirably rang un'der the down pour and he had planned to leave for the Cana- By the doctor's orders," he added died." "This is most exciting. It's only and dispatched it to Mr. Bennett decided that after all to spe:nd the dian Rockies two days later, but with the wistful smile that usually night in an abandoned house would he obligingly agreed to take a look evoked sympathe tic murmurs in the u.n fortunate that it's not pirate gold 'immediat ely. The note reached Archie just as be a lark. to give zest to your enterprise ." at the Bailey Harpor house that feminine 'auditors. The storm showed no sig-n of a"Oh, the pirate in the story is a he was leaving his sister's ho"':Me. "Oh, the doctors!" remarked the had been placed so provident ially bating and as nightfall deepened girl as though she had no great within reach of his sister. the gloom he set about making him "The owner belongs to that old opinion of doctors. in ge,neral or of self comfortab le. Feeli.ng twinges New Engla,nd Congdon family," Mr. Bennett's medical advisors in of hunger, he explored the. kitchen Mrs. Featherst one explained ; "they particular . He was used to a great ! pantry. The Congdons had left a date from the beginning of time, deal of sympathy and he was conwell-stock ed larder and, finding baand some of them are a trifle eccen- vinced that Miss Perry was an utcon, eggs and bread, he decided that . terly unsympat hetic person. tric." the cooking of supper would be a In the hall Archie "What would you call a good "If you're renting a house from jolly incide:nt of the adventure . In that family it's just as well to look walk?" he asked a little tartly. arranging the table he found a telturned on all the "Oh, te.n, twenty, thirty! I've into it carefully. All right, May, egram under a plate at what he gaining lights and I'll inspect the premises for you." done fifteen and gone to a dance at assumed to be Mrs. Congdon's place Archie was already · me:ntally the end of the tramp." His curiosity overcame his scrupthe landin_g fired at "But you haven't my handicap, " planning the details of his trip with les and he read the message: his customary exactness . He trav- he .p rotested defensivel y. <~You figure the retreating New York, ,Sept. 10, 192 7. · t erest of can't be very gay about walking · the m eled constant1y m Mrs. Alice B. Congdon, as it lurched toward his health and knew train sched- when you're warped that excessive Bailey Harbor, .Maine. fatigue may have disastrous conules by heart. Your letter has your character the front door. Archie's conditio;n was always a sequences !" istic touch of cruelty. We may as She was not wholly without feelgrateful topic of conversat ion and well part now a:nd be done with it. now Mrs. Featherst one, in her most ing for her face grew grave for a But the children you cannot have. sisterly tone, broached the subject moment and she met his eyes Remembe r that I relinquish none .. searching ly, with something of the 1 of his health. of my rights on this point. I de"I haven't much faith in this idea profession al scrutiny to which he~ mand that you surrender . Edith at of your going to the Rockies; you had long bee.n accustome d. once a:nd I will communic ate with "Eyes clear, color very good; know you tried the Alps five years you later ::tbout the custorly of ago a,nd the altitude nearly killed voice a trifle weak and suggestin g ' I 1Harold until such time as he is old I timidity and feeble initiative. In- 1 • you." enough to come to me. Archie smiled vyanly. "I seem trospectiv e; a little self-co.nscious, Putney Congdon. doomed to sit on the sidelines and and unimport ant nervous symptoms The cautious hint of the taxi in watch the game," he agreed gloom- indicated by the rolling of bread cousin of mine, who inherited t'9e He had hoped for a long letter land up near the St. Lawrence and the vein of the ,girl's chaffing hu- driver that domestic difficultie s crumbs." ily. "I've paid doctors large fees for has dug all over it without results. mor, a:nd the size of the missive were responsibl e for the breaking To look at him no one would beup of the Congdon household found .. lieve that he had a nerve in his tall telling me the same things," · he My father gave the Michigan seen- was a distinct disappoin tment. HE! opened it guardedly , and his here a pai.nful corrobora tion. frame. Once a friend carried him said. "I wish you would ,write ery to me, but this cousin of mi;ne After speculatin g on the affair verse. off to a farm where an autocratic those items down for me. I'm in has been digging on my land, most face fell as he pondered the mwarrant ably! He5s rather a dash- It was a neat, well-bred slap at for a few moments he went ahead athletic trainer rejuve:nat ed tired earnest about that." him as a man without initiative or with the preparatio n of his supper. <~Your case int€rests me a,nd I'll ing young person!" business men, and Archie survived When it came time for Isabel to courage. At the dinner table she He wished Isabel could see him ~ the heroic treatment and reappear- consider this matter of advising say good-nigh t to her hostess, Be,n- had expressed much the same thot and know t~at for once the routi,ne ed bronzNl and hardened and feel- you." d "I shall expect the document to- nett was hovering near to offer his that was conde;nsed in the verse, of his life had been interrupte ing betteJ." than he ever had felt i.n but the quotation, unrelieved by her only to :find himself resourcefu l and servic'=!s in calling her car. his life. Dut after a winter S}J€nt morrow afternoon !'' "Nothing like that for me! But smile, carried a sting. Perhaps the easy master of his fate. "You're a tremendo usly formal in an office and leisure to think of He made a point of washing the that himself as an invalid, he renewed person, Mr. Benl!ett. iWhat you - - " she hesitated and said with this was the way Isabel Perry of dishes and putting them carefully his acquainta:nce with the waiting really need is a good hard jar. Ev- mock gravity, "if you're not afraid of him, as a loser in the game to, ery morni;ng you know exactly of the night air or the excessive life; but he experienc ed a pleasant awa~. These matters atte;nded rooms of specialists . he roamed over the house which ''There will be a few people in what you're going to do every hour fatigue, you might take me home. tingle in the blood when he reflectthe now had a new interest for him for dinner tonight," remarked !Mrs. j of the day. It's the routine that That will add a mile to your pre- ed that this may have been wrong readi,ng and very different since the Congdon family. skeleton Featherst one as he· rose to go; kills. Suppose you fere to hold up scription but you can ride back!" She spoke of her pla:ns for the from the sense she meant to convey had come out of its closet and ''very simple, you know; and How- a bank messenge r m Wall Street danced around the dinner table. I.n ard just telephone d that he can't and sktp with a satchelful of ne- summer with charming candor as His spirits soared as he decided that the last line was intended to a drawer of the desk was an autopossibly come, so if you can ar- gotiable securities and then, after they sat off at a brisk pace. Isabel was enthusias tic a1bout thr, be read unbrokenl y and that it con- matic pistol and a box of cartridges range it, Archie--i t will be a real then, after the :pa})€rs were through • raggi)lg the police for their ineffi- summer camp; if it succeeded she stituted a challenge flu,ng at him ['his Archie thrust into his pocket help to me." of thinking it not a ,b ad idea to be "All right, May. I was goi;ng to ciency you would drive up to the meant to conduct an outdoor school with a toss of her head, a flash prepared for invasion. have dinner with Weld and Coburn, bank in a taxi, walk Jn and return for girls, moving it from Michigan her brown eyes. The;n he switched off the lights Archie was lulled to sleep by the the money, saying you had found it to Florida with the ehanging seabut if you really want me-" encouragi ng thought t,llat what she in the lower rooms and establishe d ' "Oh, that's perfectly fine of you, in the old family .pew at Trinity sons. There was no questio;n of her\ had done was to give him a com- himself in the guest chamber: He ·Archie! And Isabel Perry will be wl:!en you we;nt in to say your praythe was half asleep when he was rous- ._ here; you know she's the dearest ers! Here would be an opportuni ty making a success of it, he said, mission to redeem himself by P.d 1b y footsteps on the verandah s. girl, and I always thought you real to break the force of habit and awa marveling at her vitality, her ex- strange and moving adventure uberance, the confidence with which 1 At two o'cleck he reached Bailey below. ly did like her. Her father lost all ken your self-confidence." 1Havbor. He stepped into the only (To Be Continued ) "Am I to understan d that you! she viewed the future. his money before he died and she's EEPI Mered ith Nicholson I - ~: l 1 I l , |