Show S I THE TRESPASSER By EMILY FONTAINE Copyright 1915 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate He doesn't even realize that hes he's trespassing Lauretto Laurette said laughingly laughing laughing- ly lr bending forward bending forward in the to get a better view of the camp down downIn own In the ravine he cos cody cosy and nice down there dad Janeway stood up to get a line on the camps camp's situation The stranger was a good picker He had taken up his quarters Just above the trout pool under some som huge hemlocks with a I break In the hill on the tho far side aide to give him a fair view I r passed him yesterday coming from the went on Lau- Lau rette Hes tall and looks entirely guileless dad not a bit as if he had done it on purpose to annoy anybody Are you goh going g to send Philips down clown downto to warn him off Have to before arrives He couldn't put up with anything of that sort Ive I've promised him absolute absolute absolute lute seclusion And privacy Nobody's even eve to know now that hes he's here hero It must be horrible being so celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- that you cant can't even even take a VacatiOn vacation va va- catl cation n In comfort or let anybody else I dread to have him come at all No need my dear Very nice sort of ot chap You'd never think hed he'd b been en governor to look at him Gad Ive I've seen seen him get up myself In th the the- l J I 1 r r. r S senate when they put him over in Washington and he looked like a aboy aboy aboy boy beside the rest there but he could hand It to them Just the s same me That night a telegram came to the big cou country try house calling Colonel Janeway back to Boston Laurette and her mother watched him leave with misgivings Mrs Janeway felt felther felther felther her responsibility heavily b but t Laurette Laurette Lau Lau- rette was amused Mother dear he cant can't be very formidable Well Weli Well We'll Just be bo very charming charming charming charm charm- ing to him and leave him to himself till dad gets back The following morning she took her own little French roadster and went for a spin up up Mount the somber cone that lifted itself behind Meadowdale and its valhey valley valley val val- ley hey beauties It was a new car and It misbehaved Perhaps her hands were unaccustomed to the new levers levera perhaps the the- sudden sight in the road of the stranger unnerved her but her sight seemed blurred as the car sped downhill toward the ravine on the return trip She saw the figure ot 01 a aman aman aman man and pressed the tha wrong lever Instead of the brake the car car clipped into high speed and before she knew it she had struck him The car swerved but she had her foot on the tho brake now and stopped short He lay face downward at the side of the road the road the trespasser She Shenew knew new him even before she knelt be beside beside be- be side elde him and lifted lined his head to her knee afraid to look upon its deathlike calm cairn But he opened his eyes and looked up at herThe herThe herThe her The Irresponsible sex he mur mur- You may lay me rae down if you please Its It's the shoulder and collarbone Under his orders she went for help to the nearest house in the machine Somehow It seemed quite natural for her to take his orders She never questioned him but when she re returned returned returned re- re turned with two of her fathers father's men from the lower farm they took her orders He Ho was taken straight up to the great house and p put t to bed and a t i y fo S surgeon was called over the long distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance wire Mrs Mra Janeway hovered around nervously S My dear my dear what will your father say she said And the senator senator senator sen sen- ator expected any time Well tell the senator the truth and hell he'll help keep him amused answered answered answered an an- Laurette blithely Really mother hes he's very nice The doctor tells me he is a college man Did he also tell you why he has chosen to camp out on on n your fathers father's land without permission Now mother darling dont don't be In Inhospitable inhospitable inhospitable in- in hospitable Laurette coaxed and won Mrs Janeway had been a Carlton Carlton Carlton Carl- Carl ton of Georgia She would gladly have entertained Lucifer rather than have been thought inhospitable So the stranger stayed well cared for for tor three days and on the fourth Colonel Janeway returned with Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator The senator was worn out and thoroughly glad to have escaped pursuit as he put it H He was sure of a perfect rest for at least leasta a week Laurette told the stranger when she carried up his afternoon papers to him He seemed to live on the papers and had told them his name flame was was Bob Edwards He was sitting sitting sitting sit sit- ting up leaning on his good elbow when she came in and his face was eager ager Has he come 1 he asked S My father tather Yes Yes he Just got In with the senator Oh Lord he dropped back weakly weak weak- ly hy and looked up at her with implorIng imploring ing eyes I r hate to be beaten in a a. thing like this If you had known enough to press the right brake It wouldn't have happened Will you tell the senator Ive I've got to see sec him You have Please please he begged If you dont don't Ill I'll get up and go to him and probably get a beautiful fever and die on your hands Id I'd love to die here Laurette Why didn't you make a perfect deal of ot It and killme kill killme me rae outright I think youre you're horribly ungrateful Laurette tried to be grieved and rather aloof It was hard when ones one's hand is held prisoner pressed close to another's lips You were a trespasser trespasser trespasser tres tres- passer in the first place place And the last Im I'm a a. trespasser now Probably as as' as soon as your father and the senator hear why I came they'll call an ambulance and hasten me off or to the nearest hospital Listen Listen Lis Lis- ten d dear do do ar-do do you mind awfully much If I call you dear Just once or twice I 1 I came Caine deliberately and camped de deliberately de- de to get a personal interview with wih Senator He dodged every newspaper man on the way up from Washington and even I lost his trail after we left Boston Thought he was coming straight on and he sidetracked to some relative in Keene me Will you bring him up here to see Laurette's brown eyes shone with mischief It was Just the sort of ot lark fh she L loved Vet Indeed Indeed- she would bring the senator up to see her invalid And when he came and Edwards lay back on the pillows boyish and white and pleaded for what at he had come come for r she added her own argument until cil on the h and senator Ko T n sat fr down handed hanala over his own pencil pen pen- by the bed willingly Two weeks later they walked to together together to- to gether down past the ravine slowly reluctantly silently Just it at the end of i the final day Colonel Janeway liked him and had Insisted on his remaining until he was on his his his' feet again Both he and the tho senator had taken it as a a. a good a-good good Joke the theT whole affair but Laurette had hid changed She Shi was as shy and kept ePt out of or his way I J L i f Never would she go up to the sick sickroom sickroom i room room after he could sit up But now he lie had asked her to tal take e one last stroll They paused at a log bridge over a brook and looked down the gr green en forest aisles Did you know Im I'm going to work for your father father city city editor on his Washington paper he asked Laurette nodded Ill Til see see you there this fall Again the nod You know youre you're oure liable for damages damages damages dam dam- ages he added reflectively The collarbone is all right and the shoulders shoulder's shoulders shoulder's shoulders shoulder's ders der's better Well Wen then H Heart art said Bob Heart Smashed Cant Can't be fixed She smiled at him teasingly movIng moving moving ing out of ot reach Bob set his teeth He Ie had told the colonel and the colonel had given him the Washington position and wished him luck You laid your cheek against my hand one day In the beginning when you thought I was asleep and likely die dIe die- to Oh Ohr I didn't You did I 1 was wide awake Would you rather accept me now or wait walt until fall I will ask you again in Washington Every week Ill I'll ask you and never believe you when you say no How can I remembering I 1 think you ran over me on purpose marking me ma for your own Shaw says woman is the pursuer Oh dear dearheart dearheart dearheart heart dont don't let me mo tease you Ills His arms reached for her eagerly always believe I meant to torun torun torun run you down Laurette declared I hope you did he answered fer ter- Ler- Ler vently S When Wh-en making chipped beef and cream put the beef beet into a hot buttered pan and stir it constantly until the beef looks dry and rather crisp then dredge it with flour stir until they the four fO is distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis evenly In the cream and allow It to come to a boll This served with fried mush makes an excellent excellent ex- ex breakfast dish |