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Show Al'IST iS"i ! 1 lEJi13 ! i.lir.n hlH a!1 , , CHAPTtft LXIX. Itart mn My THp and Wtr4 Mary Thom aa an te tama Train. That ancient rollg ehorua, "Mary had a llttllFnh little latnb little ianift:' whirligig! through my mind all night. I wan 'glud to gt up In tha morning to gel rid of It, dollghied to pack my bag and to at art out on what I thought a H Xflvvntur. oerjoed to feol that I could he of oervU in the raune af tha alllea. To get a munition hip aafely away from an Atlantic port, to conceal the tlmo of IIr auiling and It- course from rmldertf waa torn rertpoimlblllt v. I thought. And I felt almost mi important aa one of tha m! flier hoya I smw at the depot. Wwiling in the line at tha gate of tha tretti h-d I m Minr Thonuta. Hhe had told in that h waa going to New York. Hr trip had Mm thing to do with Rrsmer I felt aura, but I had no reason to su-ipert that It related to the txirlmer 'ht miral company. . Well, I would hav- to make It my bualneaa to discover her bmlnesa. But how? only my heathen god of chance oould tell. Mary wore a conrentlonal blue aenre traveling suit and plain hat much like mv own. Hut 1 wondered why aha always al-ways will spoil tho smart effnet of her Jothes by aome horribly conspicuous ao-tVisctry. ao-tVisctry. This time ahe sported a marvelous mar-velous knitting bag a beautiful bend-Mi thing worth the price of a Liberty bond After our kits bad been asttled In our reitpet'tlv pull man eectiona I Joined the 'quen of smites." "What a wonder!" T exclaimed aa I picked up the bag and examined Its Intricate In-tricate design. "tfrgeous. tnt It?" wald M ary. "I love 1ti,M We chattered an. before and after ' our dlnnsr. hot we avoided serioua aub-I aub-I ects. Itke Jim Jr. I showed Mary the check daddy had given me and It explained ex-plained my errand In New York, to her complete satisfaction. Aa we eat of post is each other while the porter made our bertha, I hummed aome short college aongs carelessly as I turned the pages of my book. After mennderlng almleaaly through a half dosen Sr hoot elaanloa, I started out on, "Mary had a little lamb little lame little Is-s-mb " then with a emtio I kicked straight into her eyes, saying: "'anion me! It's o impolite to hum In public' The girt was a aight. "he waa whtta and rigid with alarm. My hasty glance repealed the truth to me; ahe carried th lorlmer message also!" But I turned wit nuh-kty with a amita and a hasty 'ood night, my dear. My berth's reedy. Ttntte you aleep aa wall aa I aipoct to do?" On my own little ahelf with the green rep curtains closely buttoned, I raced the altuatlon. Her we are. two young girls, bound eaM on the same train, carrying the seme message. But one of us waa taking tak-ing tt to forward the coming of democracy democ-racy while the other waa working in tho Interests of th devil. I had to admit that perhaps Mary did not know that her errand waa treasonable treason-able -but at least ahe realised that she poesessed a secst of tremendouo import-anc import-anc to somebody. Now the question was, would ahe or I yet through with Jhe business flrstf (To be oontlnued.) (CopyrtghU 11. by the Newspaper En-, . terprtse Association. ) |