Show aa al ll j ili hilll H am MH I 1 le IT WAS EPISODE THREE POW by H LOUIS M ti efy I imp 0 1024 mcclura newspaper syndicate when angus patterson bereft of hta fils wife left for south america to look up a mining proposition ho he did not know that ho he would never neer see ills his little littie daughter jonn jean again in fact so BO cure was ho he that he would return within the year lint flint ho he placed tier her in a n school and paid tier her board boa rd and tuition in advance toe for exactly twelve months montha from dato date teach tier mann cre lie ho bluntly told tho t he head of tile the school cynthia lilo kraeling Kr alling some day shelt a big establishment at the time lie ile supposed it would be ills own kissing tile weeping jenn jean lie fie comforted tier her with assurances that lie would soon be home again and in the meanwhile exhorted tier her to study hard bo be a good git girl and write regularly to aunt julle julie tier her dead mothers mo thero sister deter whose husband captained a string of barges operating between buffalo and now york then angus took ills his departure to invest aves t what little fortune tie ho had in a losing venture and shortly after to dlo die of jungle fever far fai in tile the interior of brazil money or no money cynthia kroll krall ing would gladly havo have kept jenn jean on at school but there came a day do ewhen when she bhe abandoned teaching to marry mn ryo and the problem of disposing of jean J can had to ho be faced opportunely there nr ar rived one morning a pleasant faced woman who announced herself as jeans aunt julle julie and begged for a visit fromherz from her sisters child so with a little pang as she looked into the ho girls starry eyes she sold goodby good by and like jeans father bode bade her be a good girl sho she promised promise not to forget her and if the timet time ever came when she eho needed tier her to prove jeans beans friend so ended the first phase of jean jean pattersons PAtter sons life 4 when wh en helen cabot bought a mahogany speed boat for her son dick and turned him loose in it for the summer she did not foresee tile the consequences the poor boy la Is worn out with studying she elie told her husband and before going into your office in tile fall needs ii n goo good rest out of doors lie ile has had set his heart on a certain boat let him have it so the speed devil was purchased and with ri couple of friends dick set ret off up the hudson for a destination de that was vague but distant oll stant georgian Geor glan bay tit at the f u very nearest A day later inter they locked into tile lie erlo erle with several barges among them one which stood blood out above lie others because of its 18 well weil kept condition freshly laundered curtain at every window pota PON of brilliant ger gerarid aril ams 8 nt at the door and tj aleek cat blinking lazily tn in tho the sunshiny whatever details dick absorbed als orbed nt at first flefil glance however lio were nero potI insely eclipsed by tile the young girl who sat eat sewing in a low chair tier her slender nables ankles gracefully cr crossed oed the swish of the lie incoming water accustomed although slie site was 0 to o it for tin nn instant startled tier her and sit stio looked up streight into dic dicks aiji 9 eyes as hu he atoo d on the old towpath tow manip in elating ropes for the smoother passage of the he speed devil 1 ir I am going to warry marry flint giff I 1 he declared lec lared to its his scandalized coinman co col inpan lipin long watch me meanwhile w we liaeff long about here with the barges until I 1 can an ninko ninke an opportunity to meet lie her r 11 dick met tier runt aunt and undo uncle and little by bittle he won their confidence ind and jeans affections on the tie adny hint flint sho she promised to tn marry him within the year he wrote to tits his parents she Is the most beautiful girl in tile the world I 1 lie he ended tits its letter helen went to pieces over the communication mun muni cation leation linsig Ine I 1 she aid our dick loslie chiw bead over n pretty barge girl I 1 then she her wits together to combat tile the situation 11 1 know the thing to ilo do she declared ill invite tier her here and give a tinner dinner for tier her it cannot connot fall to show him how utterly unfitted she Is to nt fit into ahe he environment to which he fie would bring her as ills his wife so hopefully she arnt down nt lier ber spinet deala and wrote two cleverly worded notes one to her beloved son ron and one to the dreadful girl who had find ensnared him A week later inter jesin jein patterson with it a very fluttering heart stood in tile the doorway of tile the cabot drawing room well she knew that she was on trial and that flint her future was waa nt at stake and bitterly she ahe dreaded the he ordeal unfortunately dicks mother pursued her reflections little things would give the br oeding away those indefinable trifles so minute yet so ro essential As for jean herself she suddenly pud denly to have hare returned to tu tile lie nt of the alot olot private r school ell ool of tier her girlhood of which she had made no nn mention to the Cil cabets bots and unconsciously ly little tricks of gesture and ippich speech lenand learn crt it it that lint time returned to if help her ber over the difficult moment of introductions 3 tilt she could not but feel an outcast here where every oue knew new everyone eve else suddenly 8 idol enly a woman who chao entered I t d 1 but U t a moment before be foren a tall d fled woman with distinguished w white flair and friendly oyes canle canie quickly 11 U I 1 kly forward for ward helen ll elen site elie said who Is this girl then turning to jean la is it possible con it he be that you ire are little jean Patter sont star pupil nt at MY school dick you lucky boy I 1 dick she lie explained to the bewildered wil dered jean la is my illy bus husbands bands nephew what a 0 lovely sur then she turned to tier her law W US ita n finiak world abts after r ill all icv it bile sold and AMI dirk dick wilo who know flint ills hla cause was won whispered tenderly to jelin jean if you had told inc darling you knew aunt cynthia I 1 1 I know began jenn then she alia felt helens arm propelling tier her gently forward to more newcomers jenn I 1 want you to meet and jean went happily after tilt nil whether dicks mother loved tier her for herself alone or because slie site had been BO 80 to vouched couched for by tier her old school mistress what difference did it make |