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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEHI. UTAH wy" . ' aa as IlADY BLANCHE FARMl .I I 1 7 It H8 Hi, 4. fe. Hi A Romance of the Commonplace By FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES Copyright by Frances Parkinson Keys WNtJ Servles i - . - - :l 5 CHAPTER V BEGINNING THE STORY DH MONDAY morning It was atill raining raining much too txr lufal, at i.. it k to attempt the unknown roads rel Burlington. There was, Blanche t, 1:1, to be one of Hamstead s Intel In-tel rient dances In the town hall evening. It was stupid for her uJ 'ng along with Paul and Mary, ,B when they were on good Jiil and anyone could see that Ml was having one of his Hriies. (Paul's "grouches" cor- uiided to his mother's "nerves.") a1 none of the boys In the vll- j C ecmeu 10 reaiiae niai dub nag Id ciough to be asked to go to i by herself now. . , . ill, thank the Lord for that," Philip piously. "I'll stay, of I" fhe afternoon It cleared, and It to Violet, hesitating a llt-d llt-d asked If he might Invite e to go for a little ride with fv, of course," she said, de- Jly. "Take one of the roads West Hamstead. They're iretty and quiet. I know our erinont air Is going to do you fjjf good. Tou look better al- I'jfthan when you came." I feel better," said Philip. Iks awfully for letting me Blanche. I'll take good care f." route which Violet had sug-was sug-was one which could easily ered In two. hours, with the i linilv hnrsp hnt nn nnp sppmprl t'iik it worth a comment when jCd i aDJ Blanche' leav'nS the xm a nine ueiure uiree, reuy e late for a sis o'clock sup- aallp :l)ey had come to a little lake ds. l.!-r pond. Blanche called it found an old water logged row- lying neglected beside It. bailed out the water In it tin can, found providentially at hand. They then rowed the lake for a time, and climbed a hill back of It. 4 they sat and admired the In had been laughing, off and t t .. .. - d part me afternoon, from sheer I to! nd when Blanche told one of jllsst 'iftle stories, with perfect art- t s, he laughed more than Mntnf Soldi6 :h frfcF tnrl" n we needn't, of course,' 3 Blanche, "if it wasn't for 1nce." lyes, the dance! Will you every other one?" 4mk fliof'n w.nt-,- j mi iiiaio lauicr uiuiiy, per- itp- Von't you?" asked Blanche, p'ik a little. no, not at all I I wouldn't PjOf asking for less. It Isn't ere in itlODiiS ; S anJIy id rj) ne. I If nds ajut self. 111! ?d CF .hey r UB1 perns so absolutely peaceful he said. "Let's not hurry stft A - Fad V you're laughing at me any man, Philip wondered. r ftiiinrl n trli-1 aV linnnntlnJ l B 3d' "J I aeiiclous? It was difficult ) to refrain from taking her s arms then and there; and somehow he managed to limself against doing this, he oui xor the little hand that vithC- 'v burn4 I tAri tt pas I jjDL A . il Diurr fori S 111 1 IT 'Waf!lIV Home Wa p"-n.- ated With Maflic htly on the extremely nar : rip of wood that separated m D1anche, and locked his Cngers with her soft es. Nothing that he had -perienced In his life had ed In him such a feeling of "' yh&t tremendous what 'ed-luck had been with he decided to take that m so glad TOT! flproa w(tk . tuc uans- he said, at last. relurtantly. . nl ! dWn't "sreel Philip, how )1aA''J . She had "Iready begun to call him Mr Starr. He 'Z7 known before what W -J u"me Pt,i"P , The ; fTe home was permeated e jniKf- y :f Just? :ilicH r Motorinf through Vermont, near the village oi Hamttud, Philip Starr, young architect, archi-tect, make the acquaintance of Blanch Manning, eaventeen, with whom be U immediately immedi-ately enamored. From her he learn something of her family from Revolutionary time. Starr being long distance from hi destination, Blanche euggeata, there being no hotel, that he become, for the night, a guest of her cousin, Mary Manning. Mary receives him with true Vermont hospitality, and he make the acquaintance of her cousin Paul, her fiance. Mary, Starr finds, Is acquainted with Gale Hamlin, Boston architect, in whose office Philip is employed. He informs her of hie desire to win Blanche for hi wife. She tells him of an old family superstition concerning the Manning "Blanches." Paul Manning, pampered in hi horn lire, I inclined to ha dissipated, and doee not realize Mary's true worth. Mary's reproaches for his undue "conviviality" are badly received by Paul, and the girl begins to have misgivings as to the wisdom el the alliance. with magic. Without knowing when or how be had begun to do so, Philip found that he was holding both Blanche's hands; he felt her golden bead sinking gently on his shoulder and rest there quiescent The deepening dusk, enfolding them, seemed pregnant with the promise of still closer companionship, or more ardent embraces. But the prelude to these was perfect and complete In Itself. Neither the return to the farm, nor the family supper, nor the departure de-parture for the party to which Blanche had looked forward to eagerly, dispelled Philip's Illusion of enchantment Of course he got his dances. Many of the alternate ones he danced with Mary. All on the Lady Blanche farm were sorry when Philip said good by bright and early Tuesday morn Ing. Blanche, to whom he had sug gested a short walk through the orchard, or-chard, lifted brimming eyes to bis. He stooped and kissed the tears away from her lashes. Then he laid his cheek against hers. "This Isn't really good-by, you know," j he whispered; and added softly, "sweetheart." Violet's farewell was likewise accompanied ac-companied by tears, as well as by little pats and cooing sounds. Mary packed a delicious lunch, and laid a neatly folded road map with Philip's Phil-ip's route clearly marked in red pencil, on top of his suitcase. The day after his departure, the station agent called up Violet to tell her that there was a big box addressed ad-dressed to her, and marked perishable, perish-able, express paid, waiting there. And, when it was promptly brought home by Setb and opened with some excitement, it was found to contain four five-pound boxes of candy, all exactly alike, but elaborately elabo-rately tied up with different colored ribbons. And under each bow of ribbon was slipped a card which read, "With kindest regards, and many thanks for my wonderful visit, from Philip Starr." As Jane Manning had never had a suitor, this was the first box of candy that had ever been siven her. She tried to conceal her pleased surprise sur-prise as long as she was with the others. Then she carried the box home, very carefully, and put It on her bedside table near her Bible. It did not occur to her to open it She drew up her rocker, and sat for a long time looking at It "No one but him would ever have remembered me," she said aloud, "at all let alone sendln' me candy, at my age, and all tied up with red ribbon I . . . That nice boy!" she ended abruptly, and blew her nose hard. The excitement aroused by the boxes of candy and the pleasant "bread-and-butter" letters which followed In their wake had hardly subsided when something even more thrilling happened. A beautiful limousine, lim-ousine, beside which Philip's little runabout could no more have stood comparison than could Cinderella's pumpkin with the fairy coach tnto which It was turned, driven by a slim young chauffeur, very smart In a uniform to match the car's upholstery, uphol-stery, drew up In front of Seth Manning's door, and a tall, dlstin gulshed-looklng man of early middle age got out and asked for Mary. It was, unfortunately, Moses who answered the rap at the knocker. His mouth was full of stolen sweets he had eaten up almost the entire en-tire contents of Mary's box of candy and be had no eye for style. He was not impressed by the appearance appear-ance of the strange man. Moreover, bis own appearance could hardly have warranted the hope that he might create a favorable Impression himself. The day being warm, and Mary likewise occupied, be bad sur reptltiously removed most of his clothing In fact everything except a pair of ankle ties, which had no connection with modesty and were retained simply because the hemp carpet In the front hall was rough -Hello." he said. "Er hello," sa'd the stranger, his face twitching slightly. "Does Miss Mary Manning live here?" "Mary? Tea. She's out In the back garden killing potato bugs . that way," said Moses, with a wave of the hand. Indicating the direc tlon which the stranger should take. "Thank yon rery much." said the man, his mouth still twitching, walking off in the direction Indl rated. Mary, hearing footsteps, straight ened op quickly from the task over which she was bent, and turned! a deep crimson. "JUr. Hamlin 1" she exclaimed, In great confusion. "Oh, you must excuse ex-cuse me I When did you come?" "Just now, from Boston," he said, laughing and shaking hands. "1 understand un-derstand you are more cordial to guests from that locality than you once gave me to understand yon were likely to be. I. have had the pleasure of er meeting one of your small brothers, and he told me I should probably find you here. Aren't you glad to see me?" "Moses I Oh, what dreadful thing was be doing this time? Jes, of course 1 am, but " her flush growing grow-ing deeper every minute, "This time I came because Philip Starr asked me to. Naturally, I didn't tell him bow glad I was of an excuse. Be thinks I'm doing it entirely en-tirely out of friendship to him only, it's great luck, for me, that he happened to fall in love with your cousin. It'll get Hannah and mc Into touch with you again Philip Is a young man of unusual thoroughness, promptness and decision, de-cision, as you may have gathered in your glimpse of him qualities which unfortunately, are not often found in one who Is also an artist and an Idealist, Moreover, he possesses pos-sesses a very fine sense of honor. He seems to be In a tremendous hurry, but didn't think It right to press his suit until he had been more thoroughly Introduced. 1 was instructed that as soon as this formality, for-mality, through me, had been accomplished, ac-complished, I was to telegraph him at Burlington, and he would return here unless, of course. It seemed absolutely hopeless for him to do so." "Is there any reason why It should be hopeless?" "None In the world." "Then "ome over and meet Cousin Violet" "All right," replied Gale Hamlin with twinkling eyes. "But remember remem-ber that afterwards I'm coming back here to see you 1" Two days later, Philip stood In the white-paneled north parlor of Violet Manning's house, waiting for Blanche to con down to him. The room was unlighted and It was beginning be-ginning to grow dark. The door opened and Blanche came In. Philip took a step towards her, and held out his arms. She walked straight Into them. "Lady Blanche yon little white flower Oh, my darling 1" was all he said, and covered her lifted face with his kisses. CHAPTER VI PHILIP STARR would never have dreamed of considering his comfortable com-fortable income a fortune But It loomed large In the eyes of Lady Blanche farm, and soon In those of all the countryside, for In the gen eral rejoicing at the good luck which had befallen Blanche, It was augmented consciously or uncon sciously by many persons. Violet herself was largely responsible for this. She went about among her neighbors scattering her. good news as she went. "Of ' course, Blanche Is very young, and It breaks my heart to think of parting with her," she said, sighing and wiping away a few tears. "But I couldn't bring myself to stand In the way of the true bap piness of one of my children for selfish reasons. That's never been my way. Of course Blanche Is too Innocent about worldly things and too much in love to think of the material side at all, but we older ones know that can't he overlooked altogether. Philip can do every thing for her. Yes. her ring Is lovely. love-ly. Isn't It? Too seldom see such pure white diamonds. And he's glv Ing ber a pendant, too a diamond star I Wasnt that a pretty thought and so clever! Philip Is clever, unusually so. He says the name she's going to have. Blanche Starr. Is a poem lust In Itself. t No. Philip won't hear of a long engagement so I'm going to take Blanche to Boston Bos-ton right away, to buy her trons seau. and see caterers tnd station e.g and so on. I guess l can show bis fashionable friends that 1 know how things shnnld be done, even If I do live In the country ! They're going to California on their wed ding trip -of course Philip would have taken Blanche to Europe If this tiresome war hadn't been go Ing on. Blanche Is going to keep a maid, and have a motor, right from the beginning. Of course, all Philip's friends and he has thousands of them will entertain her and give her a beautiful time. Philip Is charming, and that's so rare In a man! He is so thoughtful and pleasant pleas-ant always. I simply adore him myself. my-self. .... There was not a single flaw In the crystaL Violet could purr on for hours. In fact Hamstead grew a little tired of so much perfection and so much purring. Nevertheless, In spite of some expressions ex-pressions of disparagement, Mrs. El liott and all Hamstead with her, flocked to see the trousseau, and then the presents, and, In early August, Au-gust, to the wedding.' During the two months and a half that had elapsed since bis first appearance there, Philip had spent every Sun day and holiday at Lady Blanche farm, and, as Mrs. Elliott said, had been so "pleasant-spoken" that he WW "Lady Blanche You Little Whitt Flower." had become , cordially liked In the village; and, in turn, he bad come to bare a very warm and real affection af-fection for many of his new friends and relatives. Only twice had his dream of perfect happiness been shaken; and he tried to dismiss both of these episodes from bis mind as trivial. Left alone for a time one rainy morning, he had decided to explore the little, abandoned law office. He had been thinking what fun It would be to restore It, and put It In order for Blanche and himself to occupy when they came to Hamstead to visit It contained a cellar and two large, semicircular rooms, one above the other, and a small one- with a little attic over It In the rear. He sat Id one of the dilapidated chairs, pulled up a shaky table, and drew plans and sketches. Under his swift pencil, the tiny place rapidly became transformed. There was the living room, bright with white paint and a landscape paper, and shining brasses, with Lady Blanche's portrait over the mantel, her desk In one corner, her harpsichord In another, and her gatelegged mahogany ma-hogany table In the center of the room; there was the chamber, with her four-poster bed one of her hand-woven linen sheets serving for a counterpane her bureau with Its crystal lusters for Blanche, her lowboy low-boy for his own dressing table, her long gilt-framed mirror, and the sampler she had stitched, on the flowered walls instead of pictures. He spent a 'long time over his pleasant task. Then, finding that Blanche, who had promised to Join htm there, was still nowhere In sight, he picked up some of the musty books lying on the table, and began to look through them. They were mostly law books, with a few Interesting marginal notes that the second Moses Manning had made; but Philip knew little or nothing about law, and did not understand un-derstand them. The third volume that he opened, less bulky than the others, proved to be a county history, his-tory, written by a local clergyman early In the Nineteenth century. The Connecticut valley had been settled by men of no slight caliber, and their subsequent Revolutionary record rec-ord wag noteworthy. Philip read on with Increasing Interest which grew greater still when be reached that portion of the history devoted mainly main-ly to the Manning family. Here were Moses Manning's fine war serv Ice the trip to France and here. too. was the Countess Blanche I The story of the great chests that came over the sea. And, at last, came the date of the twins" birth, and, a I few pages farther on. that of Lady Blanche's death. But between these dates was something that Philip had not yet heard. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Real Heat No furnace ever can make the bouse as hot for a man at his wife ! ran when he's done something that simply burns her up. Cincinnati Enquirer American Heroines By LOUISE M. COMSTOCK Mercy Harbison VEIt two hundred women, most of them wives and mothers, followed fol-lowed the army that Gen. Arthur St Clair led out of the East In 1791 to quell Indian uprisings In the Ohio-Indiana Ohio-Indiana territory. And the most tragic aspect of St Clair's famous defeat at the hands of Blue Jacket. Little Turtle and Simon Gtrty was the mghtful death of over fifty of them at the scene of battle and the sufferings many of them were forced to endure afterwards. There was Mercy Harbison, whose husband survived the battle, but was Immediately ordered out again to spy upon the redmen in the wilderness. wilder-ness. Early one morning, when he had been summoned to the nearby blockhouse, Mercy awoke to find a painted redskin pulling her out e bed and her cabin filled with Indians. In-dians. Hoping to distract the In dians' attention and make escape possible for herself and three chll dren, she began to talk of the fort of the forty able-bodied men stationed sta-tioned there, all excellent marks men. Her account saved the fort rather than herself, for the Indians, alarmed, merely hastened theli work of pillage and set out with their prisoners. The second child, who whimpered and hung back, they slaughtered before be-fore the cabin ; the eldest who was hurt when one of the horses fell on the second day's march they also murdered, and flaunted his scalp before be-fore the agonized mother's eyes. Finally, exhausted with the long march through the woods with her baby In her arms, Mercy refused to carry further a large powder horn which had been assigned ber, hop Ing the savages would kill her outright out-right and put an end to her sufferings. suffer-ings. Instead, the Indian who claimed ber as his particular prize, approved her action and protected her against the rest. At length, left In charge of two Indians, who took turns keeping watch for pursuers, pursu-ers, she made her escape while one ot her guards slept WItb her baby In a sling, one end of which she belO In her hand, the other In her teeth, she wandered for three days through the forest When she finally reached a settlement on the Alleghany river, where she was nursed back to health and later returned to ber bus-band, bus-band, she was tn such a condition that lifelong friends, from whom she had been parted only six days, did not recognize her! Mary Slocum IT WAS a dream that brought out the quality of daring in Mary Slocum Slo-cum and won ber lasting fame as the heroine of the Battle of Moore's creek. kX the outset of the Revolution ary war the British were landing troops at Wilmington, hoping to enlist en-list the aid of loyalists settled In I the southern states and Invade North Carolina. A band of sup porters of King George Immediately assembled in the highlands and com menced a march to the sea to Join the British expedition. Patriots, rallying from the sections above Greenboro and below New Bern, un der the leadership of James Moore, Richard Caswell and Alexander UI llngton, planned to bait their march at the narrow bridge over Moore's creek. Among the patriots was Lieut Ezeklel Slocum of Wayne county. The night preceding the battle bis wife, Mary, had a dream, "1 saw distinctly," she wrote afterwards, "a body wrapped In my husband's guard cloak, bloody, dead ; and others dead and wounded on the ground about him. I saw them plainly and distinctly. I uttered a cry and sprang to my feet on the floor ; and so strong was the Impression on my mind, that I rushed In the direction the vision had appeared, and came up against the side of the house." Mary's only thought was that she must get to ber husband. She ran out to the stable and saddled a mare, leaped to her back and tore down the dark road, quite unaware of the dangers she risked. About nine o'clock, when both she and her horse were nearly exhausted, she heard the ominous thunder of cannoa Then, only a hundred yards from Moore's creek bridge, she came upon a group of wounded men lying under un-der some trees, and among them lay one wrapped in ber husband's cloak I The wounded man, it seems, was not Ezekfe) Slocum after all, but Frank Cogwell, a neighbor of theirs and a man noted for bis way with women. Mary set to work, washing wash-ing his wounds, binding them up with heart leaves, and administer Ing also to the other wounded- Pres ently her husband did appear, "as bloody as a butcher," she said later, end duly astonished to find bis wife there, holding Cogwell tenderly In her arms. He had Just come from the furious charge that had routed the loyalists and prevented the British Brit-ish Invasion of North Carolina. And when, the battle done. Richard Caswell Cas-well came up and asked her bow she came there, Mary Slocum answered, an-swered, "Oh. I thought yon would Deed nurses as well as soldiers F C Western Newspaper Union. I Instant Response to Call of Human Need Welldlggers felt queer as they dug down in excavating a new well near Vancouver, Wash. They ascended to the top. J. A. Winston, a professional well-digger, well-digger, later had himself lowered Into the well. Soon he shouted for those at the Burface to draw him up. 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