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Show THE mTLLETTN HOWoSEW - THE O RUPERT HUGHES tT- Ruth Wycth Spears By RUPERT WMI SERVKI the pane with all the power of her brandished SYNOPSIS lungs: On board the with bin immediate destination. Dr. David J ebb ia bound for America. Accompany lnf him ia Cynthia Thatcher, hia temporary ward. On the tram they meet Big BiU Galnea, former elaaamate and fraternity brother of Da vld'a. He tella Gainea of hia mission, and of hia on unconquerable vice an overwhelming deilre far liquor. Jcbb feela the urge coming to him again, and wanta to aafeguard the child, whoso father la dead and whoso mother waits for bar In America. Oa-te- Kord-Esprc- "I had a Ickel po-ne- Hith name wath Dapple Gway; I len tim to a e To wide a mile away. la-de- She tipped him, she lathed him. She dwove him froo the mire; I would not lend my pony now-woPaw aw dat w hl-ah- l" At about the twentieth repetition of the little epic the pony stuck fast in the mire, for the train Joggled up to a abort atop. Outside the window Upon the leaden alienee came the waa a email station. Some trifling fluty ripple of childish voice: accident or a train dispatcher! sig"HellolM nal had caused the delay. The crew And en exquisite face peering did not descend or open the doors. cascade of curia wag The guards had no explanations to through thrust Into the fog of amoke: vouchsafe, though timepieces were "Nunkle Dave, are you dere?" whipped out of pockets ia all the Jebb leaped to hia feet and caught compartments and passengers were the child to him in alarm. worrying lest the halt compromise "How did you get here, swee- their chancel of making the boat to CHAPTER I Continued theart?" just come long de hall, Nunkle Dave." "She calls me Nunkle Dave," he explained. "Ifa shorter than Mr. Jebb. Cynthia, this is an old friend of your Nunkle Dave's. Miss Cynthia Thatcher, may I present to you Mr. William Galnea? There's a good deal of him, but lfa all wool and a yard wide.1 "And It washes." said Galnea. He knew better than to patronize the young. He said, without condescension but with perfect gravity, aa he put out hia hand: 'Tm delighted to meet you, Miss Thatcher. Won't you come and alt on my lap?" 1 She looked fair round America. Jebb waa most nervous of aO. He raised the window and poked hia head out There waa no cat to question. He went into the corridor to ask the guards. Hia only answer waa a blunt "Weiss nichts" accompanied by a convincing look of stupidity. Jebb went back to hia Beat and played a devil' t tattoo on the leather. "X hope to the Lord, nothing hap pen! to hold ui here long, Billy," he wailed, almost childishly. "I'll not feel easy till Tm safe on shipboard. at him in dismay. HJa tone waa capon-line- d like a globe. She murmured: 'Tm lighted to meet you, Mltha Galnth, but you got no lap to thet on." Then she took command. "If you move ober, I like to look out de rlnda." Galnea hunched hia bulk aside, far enough for the little queen to establish herself at the pane. "What did your Nunkle Dave aay your name waa?" "My name Thin thy ThaiheL" Gainea threw up hia handa In horror. "Thinthy Suitcase!" The child shrieked with Joy at the big man's stupidity. She corrected him aa if he were an overgrown Infant "Thinthy Thashel" waa the name and no other. That'a a beautiful name," laid Gainea meekly; "the beautifullest name for the beautifullest girl I ever saw." She threw a look of confused vanity at Jebb, then flattened her tiny snub of a nose against the pane. Jebb threw hia victim aa moat unbecomingly, and watched the ratthe as train agly look. sights quickening Into a tled village. X Behind her back the men fell to Of course I've got you now, but be on board, ril take the to want talking about her: ship's doctor into my confidence and Cynthia Thatcher! That'a a great have him lock me up somewhere." name for a child," said Gaines; Hit all too experienced excitement "she'll be an old woman before the waa interrupted by the frenzy of the learns to pronounce it" little girL She had discovered that But Jebb waa gazing at her very the atatlon had a refreshment room. solemnly. and the refreshment room had a "Poor little tike! Her history be window where fruits and candies gins with a rush. She's only five. were appealingly displayed. and she haa already creased the "Oh, aee de awnjes!" the cried. ocean, bidden her mother a long "Thinthy wanta awnjei. Nunkle good-blost her father forever, mutt go get awnjes for poor ickie been left alone among strangers in Thinthy." a land whose language she doesn't Jebb answered: "Nunkle Dave understand. And now the ia sent would love to, aweetheart but the back across the ocean In charge of train might start" a a man like me. We've become The argument carried little weight great chums already. She likes me, in the pretence of the orangea. and I I love her. run fatht buy quick-co- me "I've never had a child of my "Nunkle. back. Thinthy won't let to have. own. Billy. I never expect old train go!" But I've helped dozens of children naughty But Jebb shook hia head and reInto the world, and I've had hundreds of them brought to me peated hia reasons. The child grew maimed and twitted and defective frantic Jebb waa dismal "X know Jut t how you feel, honey,' and wounded and tick. They've been afraid of me, and I've had to hurt taid Jebb, "but I'm afraid to risk them. And sometimes I couldn't it" Gainea, whose heart waa aa toft help them at all. and I've had to see them slip away from me like little and big aa hia bulk, smote hia fat knees with hia fat hands, and rote: drowning, frightened things. 'TO get you the orangea, Misa "This is the first child, Billy, ever put in my keeping that was sound Thinthy SatheL" and well and beautiful and not meant Jebb checked him uneasily. "Nonfor my horrible knives. sense, Billy, the doetn't need them. She oughtn't to have them. She' "I waa to happy to have her. scorned the idea of a nurte. Of "Nontente yourself. 1 can't aee a course my training haa taught me lady perish like Mist Tantalua with more about children than all the orangea Just out of her reach." nuraet on earth. And we aet out like "But the train may start" two children on a Junket I wat her 'Til bet my hat we'll be here for Nunkle Dave and the waa my little a week. This la Just the tort of Cynthy. a "And then that tot lurched into me place where a train alwaya stays few --damn him! no! poor dog! per long while Anyway, It's Just a hana he's like me a decent fellow atepe." He had squeezed through the door nine-tentof the time, and heart' waa brushing both tides of the and couldn't he broken with an affliction before Jebb could restrain corridor can a dwarf than more help any car wat vettibuled, but The him. hit rattlesnake help hia tize, ot .a how to manipulate the knew Galnea me. finished It's But he't poison. within. from door deThe only a tough world. Billy. The anxious Jebb taw him appear cent thing fate haa done for me ia on the platform outside, glance forme show to you." He reached out and their handa ward and aft. and satisfy himself of mi-- t in no terret clutch but in the the train's intention to remain. Then he skipped, at the fat tkip, firm, frank grip of the univertal brotherhood. It was some time be to the refreshment counter. The woman in chtrge wat out of tight fore their clasp relaxed. Mt iinwhile Mist Thatcher waa try' She wit not easily summoned. She ing to drown the racket of the wheels did not understand Gnines' German. rfxtar a ar'g which she shouted into He picked out three oranges and y, hi no email money. The woman went Her motivea for leisurelineii might be suspected. Gainea auspected them. He kept calling her and dancing Impatiently. Eying the engine alwaya he did not notice that a guard passing through the train and finding the vestibule door open, growled, and slammed it from within. the train started. Suddenly Gainea left the change to the woman, dashed to the door, found it closed without handle or foothold. Like a melon on a stream, hia disgusted face waa twept past the window and past the ataring, horrified face of Jebb. Jebb thrust his head out and watched the smooth long aide of the train glide with speed patt the bewildered Galnea, who searched and clutched in vain, and waa left ataring, the costly golden apples dropping from hia handa and bouncing uselessly about the platform. A man knelt and railed hia head. "He'B fainted, thafs all. Haa any body got any brandy?" Aa Cynthia was withdrawn from the acene, a Frenchman produced a flask: "Je n'al paa de brandee, mon sieur, mala voice du cognac." "Meme chose, monseer," said the American, aa he pried Jebb'a set teeth apart and poured a liberal po tion into hit clenched throat A shiver quaked through Jebb'a whole length; he strangled, gulped, opened hia eyes, looked about feebly. "What's the matter?" "You smashed your thumb, old boy, and keeled over. Monseer here had some brandy handy and forced It on you." "No, no!" gasped Jebb helplessly, "not brandy!" "Yes, and good, too, by the sniff of It You look a little green, old man. Have tome more." "No!" cried Jebb at he pushed it X away. "You better." said the Yankee, holding it under his nostrils. "Yes." said Jebb, with a deep CHAPTER D breath. He seized the flask greedily and took a generous draught He In the hurrying crisis of his af- offered it back, but as the French faire, the loss of his protector stam- man put out hia hand, Jebb recon His sidered and aet the bottle to hia lips peded Jebb'B usual Borrow for Gaines' mishap wat noth- I gain. "En aervez-vous!- " ing to hit sorrow for himself and the taid the child. Frenchman Ironically. He dashed into the corridor, Jebb took him literally and helped shouting to the guard to signal the himtelf liberally. train to atop. The guard waa alow "You mutt have a copper-line- d to be found and alower to under-atan- throat" id the Yankee, "to awig and once understanding, waa it straight!" of stopaghast at the Jebb gave a further demonstraping one of the Kaiser's trains sim- tion of hia prowess. He sat up en ply to pick up a pattenger. Be- the floor of the car and, winking tides, had not the passenger all the conceitedly at hia fellow-countr- y by the government ordained rules men, drank hia good health. disobeyed and from the When the flask wss again In his without permission descendthe Frenchman turned it uphanda, ed? side down with a rueful counteJebb would have stopped the train nance. Only a drop or two leaked himself, at whatever risk of fine and from With angry irony he aaid: it bell-roimprisonment but there waa no voua remercie." "J'en failed to to pull, and he had "Huh?" said Jebb. note the device installed Hia wrath The Yankee interpreted with a and hia anxiety and the necessity of putting them into German, choked laugh aa he got Jebb to hia feet "Monseer says he's much obliged him. He waa frantic with fear, not for himself, but for the child, whose ior the flask." destinies were once more entirely Jebb threw his victim an ugly in hia untrustworthy handa. look, drove his fist deep Into his Cynthia had come out into the cor pocket and with a sneer offered a ridor and waa ataring at him in handful of money to the Frenchman. such bewilderment that she forgot "I pay for what I drink. How to bemoan her orangea. Jebb'afaee much?" waa pltifuL He waa in the ultra' without The Gaul understood lonely and fearsome plight of one translation. He struck Jebb'a hand who cannot trust bit own aouL aside, and the money Jingled on the As he stood, alternately wringing floor. Jebb waa for trouncing him his handa and pleading with the then and there, but the Yankee rewooden-heade- d guard, the train. strained him, pacified him, and guidleaping forward toward full headway ed him along the corridor to hia own to make up the lost time, took a compartment Jebb awayed a good deal, but it sharp curve at high speed, and lurched round it hurtling the child may have been the train. Ho violently along the corridor. Jebb dropped into hia teat dazed. But it put out one arm to catch her. He may have been the dizzlneas of hit put hia other hand against the near- - suffering. eft support to steady himself, Just The Yankee brought to him the aa the whipcord snap of the cart scared little girl and the coin, which aent a heavy door eliding shut he had gathered up in the corridor Its whole impact fell on Jebb'B with the instinct that leads people thumb. He managed to pull the to pick up other people'a runaway door back enough to release his hata for them. hand. He waa used to the sight of Jebb thanked him for the little other people's wounds, but the vision girl but waved the money away of his own lacerated flesh, and the magnificently. "What'a a little silver to me?" be peculiarly exquisite anguish of a mashed thumb, aent a queasy thrill taid a trifle thickly. to hit stomach. His knees turned to The American laughed and, laying sand. He fainted and went toppling the money on the teat vanished to and bumping to the floor, where the hia own compartment With complete disregard of aU hia careening train rolled him like a loose barrel. asepticism, Jebb wrapped hia handkerchief about his Cynthia screamed. Passengers appeared at aU the bleeding thumb. It waa shrieking doors and Jammed the corridor. and throbbing, but an unleashed deA woman wrapped her arma about mon within him wat shrieking and the distracted child, who waa Bob throbbing too. He waa sick, sick, too grievously tormented to bind his bing: -Nunkle Davie'a dead! Nunkle own wound properly. Davie'B dead!" (TO BE CONTINUED) self-contr- d; lese-majes- te pe "By all means, Miss Thatcher." And them with one hand plunged into hit while the other pocket He had He found a bllL for the change. HUGHES Cleveland Twins Edit Paper for Sick Mother CLEVELAND. The House News, published almost weekly by young Neal Smith, haa perhaps the greatest reader Interest of any paper in the country and the smallest circulation. It haa an unfailing circulation of one. The staff of the House Newt consists of Editor Neal Smith and hia dark-eye- d star reporter Virginia twin. who alto it hit The Newa may not fare ao well financially aa papera go, but it it successful, nevertheless. It It a labor of love, written exclusively for the mother of the devoted twins, who it in poor health. The little paper la printed in pencil by Neal, who doet'the art work. Th' big atory thlt week," taid the little boy, working hard to get out the edition, "1b about Nellie she lives on the next street who fell off the porch and scratched her face. We're bannering It!" Most of the time the paper It four pages one sheet of writing paper doubled In two, but sometimes, when there Is a big story, It is eight When Mrs. Wallie Warfleld and King Edward VIII were front-pag- e news the world over the two children were Just as busy at metropolitan editors. "We were in favor of the marriage," Virginia taid earnestly. "So we put down Just what we thought and you can tee what happened. They did get married!" Another good newa week waa the one preceding the marriage of their elder sitter. They ran atoriea about what the bride would wear, what they thought of the bridegroom, and the prospects for good weather for the event When the wedding took place. they couldn't think of anything to aay about it "Evryone waa there, anyhow," Editor Neal aaid. "No use wrltln' what ev'ryone knowa about" In a recent Isiue there waa a squib about a fire on the next street Virginia covered the fire, ran over and got an eyewitness story and then dashed breathlessly bark Juit in time to make the edition. When they see en illustration In a newspaper they like, the two transfer It to their paper by rubbing it with wax, laying the print on their paper and rubbing hard. Neal does a weekly comic-stri- p which he calls "Herky Boy." end which Is one of his favorite features "It makes mommy laugh." hi aaid, "even when the'i lonely." Let's make an heirloom quilt. THE oldest x of quilt designs is the crazypatch, yet there is something amazingly modern in its angular lines. A variety of embroidery stitches join the pieces, of plain and figured silks. Several colors of silk embroidery thread are generally used. When a number of patches have been basted in place, sew them down to the foundation with the embroidery stitches and then remove the bastings. The backing is tied to the front with silk embroidery thread as comforters are tied. Little or no padding may be used and a plain band around the edge is effective. ASK ME AJNU1 rliLll NOTE: Mrs. Spears has prepared patterns and directions for making three of her favorite Early American Quilt Blocks which she will mail upon receipt of name and address and 10 cents coin to cover cost. Her Sewing Booklet No. 2 contains illustrations for 42 embroidery stitches suitable for patch work quilts; also pattern with directions for making the framed picture embroidery sketched on the wall in illustration above. Also numerous gift items: mittens, neck ties; bags; table decorations; and 5 ways to repair fabrics. To get this book, send 10 cents in coin to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, N. Y. . A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects I a form of motorboat or an airplane that can land on water. 9. Lima, Peru. It ia the Univer 1. Why is Arizona known as the of San Marcos, founded in sity state? 1551. 2. What is a bon mot? 3. What is a boar; a bore; a 10. Tired and weary mean the same fatigue. Sleepy inclined boor? 4. How many squares in one to sleep. month of the calendar? 5. Whose signature is most prominent on the Declaration of The Questions plane 3-- C Independence? 6. When water runs down a drain, does it revolve clockwise or not? 7. What domestic beast of burden cannot reproduce its own kind? 8. What is the difference between an aquaplane and a hydroplane? 8. Where is the oldest university in the Western hemisphere? 10. What is the difference between tired, weary, and sleepy? THROAT Does year threat feat prickly whan Ton mallow daa to a cold? Baa. fit bom LwIm'i apadal far-- i ula. Contains cooliaa aaaothol that halpi bring quick nlief. Don? nflar another aoeond. Oat Laden! for that "aaad-pap- or throatl" LUDEN'S 5 Manrhnl Cough Drape 9 The Answers I Developed Gentility To have the feeling of gentility, 1. It is outstanding in the pro- it is not necessary to have been' j duction of copper, cotton and born gentle. Lamb. cattle. 2. A witty repartee. 3. A male swine; an uninteresting person; a peasant or rustic, respectively. 4. There are usually 35 squares in one month of the calendar. 5. The signature of John Hancock is the most prominent on the Declaration of Independence. 6. Usually clockwise. 7. The mule. 8. Aquaplane a plank on which a boat, Hydro-- to ride, attached to Hany Back, If p.lmnj Mt.Baa Liiil.QW Repeating Sneeess Nothing succeeds like success. Dumas. I Kindness Done You have done a kindness, another has received it. Why be as the foolish and hanker after something more the credit for the kindness or the recompense? 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