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Show I " ' LEIH FREE 1 MULBERRY SQUARE o LIDA- LARRIMORE - CtpVTWM KwnMmlU Oa, O' CHAPTER III To the household of Doctor Ballard, la Uuiberrjr Squirt, youthful Or. Hush He Kennedy, cornea aa an assistant. meet Janle, nineteea-year-ol- d laughter of Doctor Ballard. Her older ieter. Celia, a patted beauty, la away from home. Hugh rerarda Jante aa email girl, to be treated aa a chum. He eee a photograph of Cella, and ta Impressed by ber lovellneea. aaHa conha tinue to regard Janl aa, It, a "good little fellow," but he ha a far different feeling; for him. Celt return home. She accept Hugh open admiration a her due, Jut on more In her train of admlrera. Tom McAllister la another, and Carter Shelby I a third. Following; a vllt by fhelby to the Ballard home. Cellaun-I ilMy depressed. Hurt and Cella expectedly announce their nsaa;ement. . Janle. heartbroken, return to eollee--faShe I aummoned home when her ther la seriously hurt In an auto accident. Hugh bitterly blame hlmelf, feeling; reapomlbla, for allowing the elderly phyalclan to drive at night, hi eyealrht not fitting him for th task Kennedy had been at a theater with Cella, aha Inciting oa bl going. There was a Christmas tree, after all. In the living room of the old brick houses Mrs. Quiiien trimmed It for surprise asgiied by Uncle Charlie. It was starred all over with tiny bulbs and the wax angel bung at the top just as It had bung always. The angel and Janie were twins. Uncle Charlie had brought tt from Germany for Janle's first Christ mas tree. Christmas day whs a happy time; snow and sunshine outside; hupe In Ide, and misty smiles and a letting down after the strain. Mothw came home to stay. Hugh whistled In the bathroom again. Ifachei cried Into the turkey stuffing, which didn't hurt it at all Stoney almost roasted tiietn out so faithfully did he tend the furnace. Cella wore an uplifted expression. Janle smiled her wide gay smile. "Father Is better," thej told each other at Intervals during the day. , There were presents. Janie was awakened by a rough pluk tongue ecstatically licking her cheek. The tongue was part of a small Scotch terrier, ugly and perky and lovable. Ills eyes were aa bright as shoe buttouA One ear stood erect and the other flopped, which gave him a saucy expression. He wore a Scotch plaid collar, banded and buckled with brass. There was a card attached: "For a good Utile egg "From Hugh." "You darling I" Janle whispered and hugged the small Scotch dog very hard. "I love him, Hugh," she said at breakfast and smiled her wide gay smile. "His name Is 'Kiltie'." Hugh looked happy this morning. "You can change Part Two CHAPTER II Continued - Tliry were quiet after that. Janle had no words to express the singing In her heart Father understood. IIU hand was stroking ber hair. She could feel his Angers, gentle, caressing, but very weak. Janle felt a boy rt of happiness. The chimes were rinsing for Christmas "Look here, young lady." Doctor Alden opened the door. "Somebody else wants a chance." V "Good night, Father," she kissed his cheek. "Good night, baby." He smiled. A happy Christmas." "It will be, Father . . . Goodnight" She couldn't go back Into Mother's room. She wanted to be alone. The corridor was dim and quiet The sill of the window was wide and deep, Jante curled herself up In a ball with her cheek against the pane. The sky was sprinkled with frosty tars. The windows of the Catholic church made splashes of color across the snow. The bells were chiming for Life was lovely. The Christmas. World was a beautiful place. "Thank you, God," she whispered from the depths of a grateful heart. ... She took Kiltie to see Mia. Together they laughed at the ear which perked, and the ear which One day Father was flopped down. strong enough to throw a ball across the room and to pull it from the teiuiWous grasp of Kiltie's sharp white teeth. His arms were strong, Janie noticed. But he never moved his K'atht-r- . SYNOPSIS It If you like." "It's a lovely name." She was eating breakfast with the small black dog In her lap. "You mustn't Jane," Mother said. "You'll teach him very bad manners." "It's Christmas and Father Is better." She made a song of It The laughing notes, which had for so long been hushed, sprinkled themselves through the air. Mother smiled and forgot to worry about "Kiltie's" learning bad manners. "Yes, Father Is better," she said. Rachel, coming In with a pile of golden-browwaffles, looked with glum disapproval at the button eyes and jaunty ear perked up above the edge of the table. "Is we all gwine to be pestered wld another dawg?" she Inquired of the family at large. "Do you call that varmint of Celia's a dog?" It was lovely to have Hugh teasing again and smiling his crinkly smile. "Aunt Rose likes "Tweedles." " Cella was admiring the shine of a jeweled bracelet "I think 111 give him to her." "I'ralse Gawd I" Rachel exclaimed and slapped down the plate of waffles, in the living room, Hugh thanked Janie for his handkerchiefs. "Did you really make them?" he asked. "Every single stitch." "They're grand. Nobody ever sewed things for me before." "The initials are wobbly." Janle's expression was apologetic. "Those curly K's' are very hard to manage." "I think they're beautiful." He selected the handkerchief with the most uneven Initials and tucked It Into the breast pocket of his coaf "I shall wear one every day of my life right here tucked In with your smile." He swung her up from the floor and lightly kissed her brow where the chestnut hair grew down In a peak. For a moment the wax angel on the tree seemed to be swimming In a misty blur of green. Then Janle was admiring Celia's gifts and feeling better again. "I never saw anything so lovely." Celia's fingers were caressing petal-tinte- d trifles of lace and ribbon and silk. "It looks like a box of sweet-peas,- " Janle said admiringly. She read the message on a thick creamy card: "For Hugh's pretty Cella "From Hugh's sister lnlse." Hugh's pretty Cella I It hurt for a moment Then she could bear It Perhaps, after a while, tt would hurt hardly at all. "Hugh sent her my picture," Cella was saying. "We were to visit her for New Year's. I suppose it's out of the question now." "Entirely out of the question." Hugh was standing with his arm around Cella. But out of his breast pocket poked the edge of a, handkerchief marked with uneven Initials. It was comforting, for some peculiar reason that Janle could not understand. "I wanted to go," Cella sighed. A fretful shadow, slipped across her face. It was gone In a moment Jante saw It Hugh could not have seen It at alt. Me was looking at Celia's hair, honey-colore- d and 'silky, caught In a knot at the nape of her neck. Christmas day was a happy time. The days which followed were pleasant too. Janle was permitted to stay, each afternoon, a little longer with legs. Ik they hurt you, Father?" she asked. "Not much." "You never move them." "They deserve a vacation," he said lightly. "They've been very faithful for more than fifty years." He threw the ball for Kiltie, then, and in a moment Janie was laughing with him at the frisking small black Father was certainly better. dog. Tbey talked about the fishing trip to Canada next June. "You'll have to walk, Janle. Not even horses can get through those forest trails." "1 can walk." She thought of walking with Father beside her, Father brown and healthy in his flannel shirt and corduroy trousers. She was sure that she wouldn't mind the walking at all. "Polish up on your French." "Why?- - "The Indian guides speak French." "Je vous alnie." Her accent was very bad. "Look here I" Father pretended to be alarmed. "Are you going to make love to Indian guides?" "That was for you." She laid her cheek against his. "Je vous aime." Father returned the compliment His accent was even worse But they weren't concerned with accents. Father was getting better. Every afternoon when she left he said: "Tell batter. soon." Then, learned home Rachel to stir up some waffle I'm coming home pretty at the end of the week, they that Father would not come Doctor Alden told them. asr " " He "V ; n Ill They stood on the hospital steps, Cella and Janle and Hugh, with a radiance about them. Cella wore an uplifted expression. Hugh's eyes had lost their haunted look. Janle like a candle lighted for Christmas eve. The windows of the Catholic church made splashes of color on the snow. "Let's go in," Janle suggested. She (lanced up at them quickly to see If they were smiling. They weren't smiling. They walked acro8s the street to the church, up the narrow able, Cella and Janle and Hugh, with a radiance about them. They entered a pew at the front and knelt facing the attar. Above them the chimes were ringing for Christmas. Hugh thought of Doctor Ballard's words, "It s all right my boy. I unHe thought of how he derstand." would try to deserve the Doctor's confidence. Nothing mattered so much as that What was Cella thinking as she knelt there beside him, her face lifted to the flickering candie flames? Would he ever be permitted to share her thoughts! She eluded him, somehow. Her loveliness was a Was he too clumsy to capture It? She nestled close against him. He breathed the fragrance of her hair. There was a hammering In his ears. He loved her, he loved her so much . . . Cella was thinking of Father. She was glad, so glad he was better. That proved that it wasn't her fault She was the blue-robe-d saint In a niche Dear the altar. The gaudy colors were softened by the candle light The alnt In her gilded niche reminded her of a painting she once had seen. When Hugh took her Rbroad she would see the paintings of Botticelli. She felt Hugh's eyes fixed upon her. Was he thinking that she looked like saint In the golden the niche T She moved a little closer to him. She felt that he was trembling. Bow terribly he loved her. More than he loved him. Her lips curved In a remote ethereal smile. She wore her "Saint Cecelia" expression. Janie was filled with a happiness too high and too holy for thought Her hazel eyes lifted to the candles on the altiir were brighter than the jets of golden flame. Her grave little face was entirely unconscious of the exalted expression It wore. The happiness was a pain. It hurt her even to breathe. Her heart grew larger and She had to share it with larger. somebody. She glanced shyly up at HuRh, wanting to share with hira this Hugh was aching happy emoti'on. looking at Col la with ail of his heart In his eyes. Janie eyes returned o the altar The Jets of flame had enndles. changed. They were crosses, golden crosses, staggering through a mist of radiance In a blurred uneven line. blue-robe- d i sweet HuS&." u-jou're violets. eres were like The silver harp strings were quivering. world Janie looked at Hugh with a of tenderness in her eyes. But Hugh as looking at Celia with the firelight thining across her hair. There was a family conference that and evening. Aunt Lucy was present BradUncle Frank. Aunt Khoda, Uncle Rose. Great-uncl- e ford and Great-aun- t Charlie was not Invited. But Great uncle Charlie came, too. Tbey were all ery much distressed. The ladles wept and the gentlemen cleared their throats. for "Hugh has offered to arrange the expense8-- " Mother said anxiously. "But it seems to me it's a family matter. I don't think John" Uncle Bradford looked uneasy and talked about the stock market Aunt Rose regretted that, after all, her income was Inadequate. Aunt Lucy looted at Uncle Frank. "Let me take care of it Helen," he said. Already he was reaching for d checkbook and pen. "That's very kind of you, Frank." "It's nothing, nothing." He patted Mother's shoulder. "Glad to help. Always glad to help." Uncle Frank's ruddy features were wreathed In satyears ago, isfaction. For, twenty-fiv- e his money had been a source of discomfort now It was proving Its worth. "Well, here's to mules and the Civil war!" Uncle Charlie raised an Invis- ible glass. Uncle Charlie." "Simple gratitude, my dear." The old man's waggish smile was softened and subdued. "I might have been obliged to sell my last three bottles of sherry wine." So the arrangements were made. Father was to be taken to New York as soon as he was strong enough to en"You , w - - lri . j PRESS.JEiairrAH mustn't dure the trip. He had been told. Janle knew as soon as she saw him when she went to the hospital with Hugh on New Year's eve. His face was whiter than tt had been. There was a look of, patience In his eyes which was very hard to bear. But he smiled at them and ran his fingers through Kiltie's coat "I'm going away," he said. "Yes, Father." Tears spilled down over Janle's cheeks. Hugh turned and stared out the window. ' ifeSF , "Tm not going back to college. "Why not?" Cella asked absently. -- You'd h lonely here after Mother able has gone." It was pleasant to be to love Cella again. She had been an dear and unaffected ever since Father was hurt "I couldn't bear It" she added, "to be so far away. Id rather stay here with you. KT I L Jb!4ik;4 ;,.vSf r "Funnv little brown girl ceiia a,a not look at Janle. She was using trembled lipstick lightly. Her hand a little. There were lights tn "Sportsman s Aunt Lucy met them at the HaiL" tVfa.' If we (heald try t nit tu aae we'a ina tt hard A aa caa't raiw quit mr, ia hia ewa back yera. Ke bub can auke the Ihinti a, ia thia sew ace ef cpeea Bat lnterauBBtaia Mea Btadic door. Carter Shelby, tall and graceful and dark, had left the group around the mem fireplace, was walking to meet across the hall.' He 'It's nice to see you again. was smiling down at Celia, holding both of her hands. "Thank you, Carter." Ce,lla lifted a wan lovely face. "We've had an un' happy time." "And this Is Janle." "Good evening, Mr. Shelby." Janle be- greeted him stiffly. She hated It her of him both cause Celia had given hands. Hugh was at home In the office and Celia was letting this Carter Shelby hold both of her pretty hands. But she mustn't spy on Cella. It wasn't exactly fair. A maid took their wraps. They Joined the group around the fire. There were Introductions. Tom pushed for ward a chair for Celia. Janie sat on a cushion and hugged ber knees In her arms. Carter Shelby devoted himself to MurleL The rose of her velvet frock made a faint color In her cheeks. Her eyes, when she glanced at Carter, were warm and faintly amused. 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Dolly presently turned the radio knobs. Music crashed Into the quiet of the hall Carter Shelby drew Celia up from her chair. Janle Father smiled with that look of un- slipped Into the vacant place beside Muriel. Tom Joined them. bearable patience. "You can fight for me, children," he aren't said. "Legs Important," said. he n A I" "Father little cry. "Too lazy." Muriel flicked the ash "There's a good chance. Doctor Bal lard." Hugh's knuckles showed white from her cigarette. Tom laughed. He bent his curly through the tan. dark head. aren't re "Legs important," Father -Gamble for It,"' he said. 'Who"I can use Janle's and peated. ever pulls out the longer hair wins." Stoney's and" "Couldn't think of It" Muriel "And mine," Hugh offered brokenly. smiled. "Your hair Is your greatest "I wish I could give them to you." "They'd run the rest of me ragged." beauty." The sacrilege was prevented. Uncle It was like Father to make It easy for Frank called from the library door. them. Legs aren't Important! Never "Can I speak to you, Tom?" to walk again . . . "Certainly, Mr. Grove." Tom turned "It Isn't so bad." Father smiled at them both. "If we can wake them up, away from the fire, strode briskly all well and good." He touched his across the hall. "Remember when Tom used to mow useless legs. "If we can't well. I won't have to run for trains or buy the grass?" Janie asked, settling her-senew shoes or " comfortably on the long uphol"I'll stay here as long as you need stered settee. "He was the Sir Galahad of my me." Hugh's hand was clasped In youthful dreams," Muriel said with a Fathers. sigh. "I think he's splendid. I shall "Thank you, my boy. I never ques ' always be fond of Tom." tioned that" "Does he know you like him?" Janie "I'll stay," Hugh repeated huskily. "I ll ao the best I can." presently asked. Some men were stupid about such things. There, for II instance, was Hugh. "He should," Muriel said "Do you think we should. Annf "I've told him dozens of times."frankly, Lucy?" Janle was talking at the tele- "What does he say?" pnone tn the hall. "He calls me a forward brat or "What Is it?" Celia asked, pausing something equally tender." Muriel on me stairs. smiled at Janle, "I get discouraged Janie covered the mouthpiece with at times." ner nana. They watched the dancers moving "Muriel has some guests from Wash about through the dimly lighted hall. Ington. Aunt Lucy wants us to come Celia and Carter were handsome to cut tor the evening. It Isn't reallv The others suffered bv con. gether. party. Tom will be there and Dolly trast Celia's small blond head glinted Bruce and the Washington people and Carter's against dinner carter sneiny " coat He bent a little toward W Janle saw Celia's expression rhano-They danced slowly, rhvthmipnllv Her hand on the banister trembled of shadowy corners, through pools of and was still. buaaea ngnt into the shadows again "I don't see why we shouldn't" she "Does Celia love Hugh?" Muriel sud said casually. denly asked. "But Hugh has office hours even on TO BK CONTINUED. ly In -- CATERPILLAR" and Idaat TRACTORS eTral rood laed "Ctterpillir" en which desirable dealt cu be Biade. See enr nlemea ta Tramonton or Salt Lake City. We hare Tractor Landes Tractor 23 d & Equipment West South Temple Bait Lake City, Utah Co. Bt. heart-broke- TRAINING t sat beside the living room Ore and told them as kindly as he could that Father might never walk again. It was something about the spine. Janie, curled up In a corner of the davenport told herself that he couldn't be talking about Father. But he was. He was telling them that Father might have to live tn a rolling chair. There was a chance, he said. If Father might be removed to a private hospital in New York. He mentioned the name of a specialist He talked of an operation. Mother rocked back and forth. Cella sobbed hysterically. Janle looked up at Hugh. He was standing beside the window. His face against the dull blue drape was white and drawn. "Could Doctor Ballard be removed?" Hugh asked evenly. His hands were knotted Into fists. The vein in his forehead was throbbing. Doctor Alden thought that would be possible. In a week or two Father would be strong enough to endure the trip. He would make the necessary Mrs. Ballard would arrangements. want to go? Mother was uncertain. "Oh, Mother," Janie cried. "He would be so lonely alone." "Of course. Mother," Cella said. "We can manage here at home." "Good girls!" 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