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Show - The Hosiorable Urscie Lancy HUESTON O labha MwriU CHAPTER By ETHEL Ol XlV-Conti- nued 16 ' When the door had closed on Hil- da, Olympia turned off the lights and for ten full minutes a deep and serene silence held the room. But Aunt Olympia was uneasy. The Senator, poor dumb cluck, could lie there catching anything and never even recognize his symptoms. Unable to endure her uneasiness, she turned on the lights and gave him a straight look. He was lying bland, eyes wide open with a broad smile on his pink, seraphic face. "Can I get you something?" he said, politely. "No," said Olympia. "What are you smiling about? Do you feel hysnear-sighte- d terical?" "Oh, no," said the Senator gently. And then added, with modest diffidence, "Ollie, did you notice the terrific wallop I gave Jim Allen? He went down like a ton of brick. I never realized my own strength." "Yes, I noticed it," said Olympia, sadly, turning off the light. "You know, Ollie," he went on, with shy boastfulness, "all my life I've dreamed of some Lochinvar who would knock out a state chairman. But naturally I never expected to do it myself. You know, .Ollie, I know history pretty well, and as far as I know I'm absolutely unique. I never heard of a United States Senator retiring over the prostrate form of his state chair- man." "It's too bad it couldn't have been Opposition chairman," said .Olympia, dully, for she was bruised the in spirit. "That wouldn't be the same, Ollie," he said contentedly. "Not at all the same." CHAPTER XV Hilda went to the girls' room. They had the lights turned on again and were sitting up in bed, talking nervously, in broken sentences, interrupting each other. Limpy, being sad and lonely, had got in Helen's bed for company. Hilda hadn't the faintest idea what had transpired and was too proud to ask, but she was apt at picking up shreds and piecing them together. And any dunce could see that something had gone wrong. She glowered at the girls. "I should report this to your aunt," she said, carefully closing the door behind her to keep Aunt Olympia from hearing. "Oh, don't, Hilda," said Helen. ,4'She's had a ghastly time! She will go all to pieces if she doesn't get a little rest." "If you got fever, I got to report It," she said firmly, staring suspiciously at the three faces, now flushed scarlet. ' "We haven't any fever. We're Just warmed up from the lemonade and the bottles," Helen assured her. "We got warm too suddenly after being cold and wet all evening," Adele explained. "I should have been took along," said Hilda. "I knew she couldn't be trusted to keep anybody dry." "Oh, she couldn't help it! She had so much on her mind, you knowl She had our clothes all packed up ready for us but she forgot to put them in the sound truck. That's i hot-wat- er I all." , ' Hilda pondered this frowningly. There came the unmistakable crunch of motors pulling up to the garage. It was Dave Cooper, Cecil Dodd, the stenographers and the dejected Ben Baldy, arriving with the sound truck and the trailer. Almost immediately came a peal at the bell. "I got to go get out my rat poison," said Hilda. "Lay down, now, and let me turn off these lights. Mis' Slopshire was firm about them lights." EXPERT 'DIGHBALLER' l She turned off the lights and fore she was halfway downstairs Adele had turned them on again and the girls were sitting erect, talking in whispers. Hilda pieced a good deal together when she admitted Dave, Cecil and the two stenographers. Before Dave could demand audience with the Senator, Cecil Dodd ordered her to show him Limpy. Hilda gave him an icy glare. "It's not the habit of this house to .admit publicity to their young ladies," she said. "Are they all right? Is she all right? Did she catch cold? Is she still crying?" "They were half or maybe not quite half asleep when I saw 'em, which was just now," said Hilda. "We've got to see the Senator," said Dave briskly. "Will he come down or shall we go up there?" "It'll be neither," said Hilda, squaring her angular shoulders. "I got my orders and I'm keeping them. Nobody. Nothing. Not anything. Nothing for six months but coffee." Dave and Cecil went into an argument and their anger, their uneasiness, their explosive bursts of profanity, soothed Hilda to her normal state of irritation. "If you're going to sleep here," she said, "I'll show you to your rooms and lock you in. That's my orders. I don't think they meant the rat poison for you but I'm taking no chances " VNUWrfca "How did they take it, Hilda?" asked Dave. "They took it hard," said Hilda. "I never saw 'em take things hard- turned out the lights and left the room. Limpy, who had been most passionate, was asleep almost immeer." diately. Adele closed her eyes but, "Is Limpy still crying?" asked being saddest, did not sleep at all. At Helen got up softly, Cecil Dodd. "If she is, it's in her sleep and slipped down the hall to the Senacontinues in the same place," said tor's study, closed the door behind her and spent half an hour at the Hilda. d "Will you take a message up to telephone. Coming out, she halfway downstairs and listened. the Senator?" "I'll take nothing up but coffee From the closed door of the library and that not till I'm rung for. I'll she could hear the faint click of typewriters, still at work. Hilda was show you your rooms " sitting bolt upright in "And lock the door. Yeah, I know. sound asleep, chair. kitchen a Well, we're not going to bed. Make Helen went back to the room us some coffee, will you? . . . It's and switched on the lights. She to let better them probably just closed the windows, lowered the sleep it out, Cece, and we'll get blinds. busy. We'll use this room, Hilda; "Girls!" she said in a soft, brisk no, the library's better; we'll need the 'phone. Get out your typewrit- voice. "Wake up! I want you! ers, boys. I'll do my 'phoning first. Adele, wake up! Limpy!" Adele sat up at once, looking more Bring us some coffee, Hilda, and fix more forlorn than ever. up some sandwiches, will you?" "And a shot of whisky," added Limpy, mumbling protest, finally turned over and opened one eye. Cecil Dodd. first words brought her upHelen's Hilda assented to all that but before she left the room she gave one right, wide awake. "Girls! Get up! Help me! I'm golast warning. "If I catch anybody sneaking up toward my young la- ing home!" "Going home!" dies, I got my orders and I brain "This is our home!" 'em," she said. She went upstairs at once and as "We have no home!" she had expected found the girls up "There's nobody to go home to!" in bed again. "This is not my home. Iowa's "The publicity's come and are go- my home and that's where I'm going to work all night with coffee and ing." Helen was quite calm, very whisky. Would you feel more sleepy businesslike. She no longer looked if you saw them?" tired. "I am not going to stay here and face those horrible reporters "Oh, no, Hilda!" "Oh, please Hilda! Don't let us tomorrow. I just can't do it. They've see them!" been making speeches all summer "Can't they go someplace else and work?" moaned Adele. "Do they have to work here?" "It's usual," said Hilda. "Until they get fired. Have they been fired?" she asked hopefully. "No, worse luck, they haven't." "Oh, let them work if they want to," said Helen reasonably. "They won't bother us. Just keep them away from us, Hilda!" Limpy was in abysmal depths of contrition for her childish outburst. "I can't imagine what made me do it!" she moaned again and again. "I never dreamed of doing such a thing! Why, oh, why didn't you stop me? If only Aunt Olympia had been there to give me her look! It's because I was out of sight, that's what drove me to it! If I could have caught somebody's eye, I'd never have said a word. If he's defeated it will be all my fault, and I'd do anything in the world for Unci Lancy for he's a swell guy, just as I said." "I thought yoo did fine, Limpy," said Adele consolingly. "I was proud of you. I couldn't think of a thing to say myself. I could only shout 'Me, too.' " "Are tfiey aU right?" Hilda entered with the tray. e. "Since everybody's eating, I about exercising the sacred Well, Tin going to exercise brought some along up with me." "Oh, we can't eat, Hilda!" said mine. I may get there in time to save Brick before it's too late." Helen. "Food would choke us," said Limpy bounded out of bed. "When do we start?" she asked. Adele. Helen laughed "You're not start"We're heartbroken, Hilda," said Limpy, more confidentially. "I don't ing at all. You're staying here; both suppose we'll ever eat again as long of you." as we live." "Aw, Helen!" "Now don't try to pull that on me, "And the sooner we die the betyou little fox. I'm not as ter," added Adele. as Uncle Lancy I "I put salted nuts on, too," said know what Fm doing. My mind! is Hilda. "There's a fresh box." "Well, I might just nibble a pecan made up. Adele has to stay here or two," said Limpy, weakening and until she patches things up with Len. And you have to stay, Limpy, reaching for the box. to comfort Uncle Lancy and Aunt "They're good sandwiches, if I do Olympia. After all, Limpy, they with lettuce and ham and it, say like you even better than the U. S. the all cheese way you like Senate. I'm together going alone and. I'm it; and butter on both sides. I only going to fly. There's a plana takand one ham butter them side gave off at six o'clock and I'm going downstairs," said Hilda. "You sleep ing to catch it. I've already 'phoned for easier on a full stomach." a cab to stand outside the "We haven't had anything to eat and wait for me. It will cost hedge about since that fried chicken you sent up, fifty dollars. Have you any monresaid Adele, suddenly Hilda," "It seems weeks, ey?" membering. The girls ran for their purses doesn't it?" and dumped the contents oq Hel"Poor Uncle Lancy," murmured en's bed. Limpy, fishing for pecans. "He was "It isn't enough; but the company so fond of the Senate." will take a check for my fare. Do "It's a good thing, in my opinion," you mind if I draw on the insurance said Hilda darkly, having gathered money?" that the Senator was doomed. "Now "Helen, don't be silly!" he can settle down private where he "Whose money is it, anyhow?" "I'll keep account of all I spend. belongs and get rid of his digestion." Tomorrow but not early, girls; let The girls were young. When Hilda them rest as long as they can had gone they nibbled the sand- tomorrow, you just breeze in and tell them the speeches made such wiches, tentatively, out of politeness at first, and then with relish. an impression on me that I flew By two o'clock they had become out to vote. You'd better do the philosophical about the whole thing. tajking, Limpy, .they like you best. "It was their idea, making us And Adele can back you up. ' I'll campaign," said Adele. "If we take only a traveling bag" "You will not! You'll take all boomeranged on them, they can't blame us." your pretty clothes and look like a "And it was certainly they who million dollars!" wished that "Iowa's going to expect to see Len Hardesty, on us," added Limpy. something, after your year in Wash"We'd never have dreamed of meetington!" costume to "Take your wind-uing such a worm in Iowa." will be a this in! That'll be something to vote lesson good "Maybe for Brick," Helen decided. "If he take a picture of!" ever finds out about it," she added The girls, too excited yet to feel And then, "Of course I the sadness of it, fell to packing hopefully. shall tell him the whole thing myHelen's suitcases and helping her self as soon as I see him. I wish I dress. And at five o'clock when could tell him now. Maybe he would Limpy on the lookout reported that withdraw before it is too late." a cab had stopped near the gate When Hilda came to take the tray behind the high ledge, Helen kissed they were showing signs of drowsy them fondly, took a suitcase in each hand and slipped quietly down the resignation. "We're going to sleep now. Will stairs. The girls cried a little, for you raise the window and put out this was their first separation. "The the lights, Hilda?" beginning of our united end," Limpy Hilda raised the window a scant said, tearfully. half-inc- h, three-thirt- shut-uppin- : SALESMEN IT'S HOT! Big repeater with plenty , didie ar.d repeat comnussjoni. No ment Sells to every tpe retail and service stJtion. Sj1-- kit irt.r u " ', s .'"rr. iBtiersal.SiiiUiversey.Uepi.C-H.d,,- ; - KNITTING YARNS alm asleep. 73 fashions ree style Kmi pies. Tremendous savings. frier Mil Grand bt.. Dept A. P. A.. Ntw CHAPTER XVI f y tip-toe- wan-eye- Adele and Limpy hung out the window in the foggy Jan of. tr.e gray morning and watched lie.en walking down the flagstone patn. she carrying her bags. Atto the gate, and them, turned and waveJ 1 threw a k:ss. Then she went reso-their from lutely on and disappeared view. The girls waited in the winuntil they hands, their dow, waving heard the motor hum away. Then they went to ted together, their arms around each other, crying fell laughing a little, too and final!- d, g fran-chis- ... weak-mind- snake-in-the-gras- s, p ed Wakening about seven-thirt- y NURSERIES they rang at once and Hilda appeared understand you're some with a promptness almost miracuGeorge lous. Adele and Limpy were still centerfielder. 1 inherit dat from Freddy-Su- re. together in one bed, propped up on 1 He's an expoit wit highpillows, looking no longer wan, but me dad even ex- balls, too cheerful and bright-eyed- , cited. Hilda, who had brought coffee for three, made no comment on WHERE HELP FAILED Helen's absence. She seemed aldour most cheerful that morning, a cheerfulness under close control. "She thought Helen was in the bath," Adele said when she had gone. "That's a good thing. We don't want her spilling the beans till the time comes." inter- Regularly at vals after that, Hilda appeared to ask if they wanted anything or felt thirty-minut- e a chill. Usually she brought some-- ; thing for them on a small tray, fruit, hot biscuits, or cold milk. Oc- - i casionally she brought a message. "Mr. Hardesty says tell you he feels the same and more so," she told Adele. Friend-W- ell, vou seem pretty Tears came to Adele's eyes and well fixed now. helps to run Mary to her vain in harden she tried the house. Arthur helps to run your heart. Johnny runs the automobile "Mr. Dodd is awake from a sleep office, and at on the davenport and they're Brown Yes, the lawn mower's work again and two boys answerthe only thine I can't get somebody if he the and says you in the family to run. telephone ing somefeel nervous he'll challenge body." "I don't feel at all nervous," said Limpy. "But if I see anybody I'm going to be very nervous, so keep everybody off." Another time: "There's a lot of more cameramen would like your pictures." "You tell them to mosey right along and mind their own business," said Limpy. "You tell them the campaign's over and we're never going to have any more pictures taken as long as we live, so help us," said Adele. "They got reporters down there I ain't never even seen before," continued Hilda. "They say will you please answer a few questions?" "Tell them no, we will not answer anybody anything!" "We don't have to see any more reporters," said Adele. "Aunt Olympia said so! You tell them we're in bed and we're going to stay in bed and we've got campaign cramps." "You just let us know when Uncle Lancy and Aunt Olympia have had their coffee and got calmed down and leave rt to us! This is the holy Sabbath' and we're spending it in bed." Aunt Olympia too had slept, but brokenly. Wnenever she wakened she repressed the wish to look in on the girls repressed it for the Senator's sake, for Lord knew he needed rest. After all, the girls were young;: their very youth would bring them- back on the rebound from this frightful catastrophe. But it was a bitter pill for the Senator and would require not only plenty of aspirin, whisky and quinine, but rest as well. So Aunt Olympia lay rigidly in her bed and waited for him to awaken. 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Also slip covers, draw curtains; and numerous household articles. Write Mrs. Spears for a copy,, enclosing 10 cents to cover cost. Address: 32-pa- CONVINCING PROOF, TOO MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS 0 iM T-.r- r. Wine (turning from paper) Here's an unfortunate man refused admittance to the poorhouse because he had an automobile. Hubby (heading same way) When I suppose the Door fellow tua offering it as a proof of his poverty. FEW WORDS Wilkie. Drawer 1 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents tor Book 1. Name Address Tabby's Titles Recently there was published a phonetic translation of sounds in different languages, and the cat's miaou was one sound which each of these languages interpreted in the same way. It is strange that the word "cat" is so similar in various languages. In Scandinavia the animal is called "katt," in France "chat," in Germany "katze," in Holland "cat," in Italy "gatto," in Spain, "gato," in Russia "kats," and in Poland "kat." And the Romans had a word for it "catus." "You'd think we'd done enough she mused wretchedly, "listening to all those poor sermons so many years and making a governor out of him! And contributing, too! Always contributing! First to the collection plate and then to the campaign fund! There's noi justice! If only I hadn't ordered that Victory Cake!"She started to vent her feelings in an impatient flounce but,, rememHer is Amazing Relief of Conditions Dm to Sluggish Bowels bering how lightly the Senator slept, restrained herself. TlnWhTmfvf,, "actroaalike,thinkjustall latativr. rr. try tliia The girts would leave after this, an vagatabl raiatlva. .taMaaaaMalaaay of course. She couldn't blame them. uiuiuu&u. rciresnioa;. invigorating, pendable relief from alck headaches, bilioua apdl tired feeling wrata associated with constipation. They wouldn't hold her and the Senator responsible for the outrage, but "Money talks." Withmrf KISK rt 2Sc box of NR from your 8 limited druggist. Make thatest-tb- tn still, they couldn't help feeling they though- .vccabuly. If not delighted, return the box to ns. We will uuu mo parcnase had had enough. Aunt Olympia had "How's that?" That'a price. fair, had enough, too. She told herself U that she would be tickled pink to anythin have it over and done with except that it griped her to see Del play WNU W 40 FIGURED ON A GOOD MEAL second fiddle to a louse. When she felt that she would blow Immortal Thoughts Good thoughts, even if they are up in spontaneous combustion if she forgotten, do not perish. Publius lay still another minute, she turned over on her side, very carefully. Syrus. making no sound, and took a look at the Senator. To her unbounded indignation he was lying awake, his eyes wide open, looking at her. "Well, for pity's sake, if you're awake why don't you say so?" she demanded, flouncing vigorously a n times or more. WHEN kidneys function badly and' suffer a nagging backache, "I was keeping quiet not to waken with diixiness, burning, scanty Of too you," he said gently. "You must freauent urination and getting up at be tired out. Can't you turn over light; when you feel tired, nervoui, and catch forty more winks or so?" ell upset ... use Doah'i Pills. "Aunt Olympia popped out of bed Doatr's are especially for poorly and started for her bathroom. The working kidneys. Millions of boxes are used every Senator went to his. And the splash year. They are recommended the country over. Ask of running water, the vigorous sloshWillie (in from school)-Da- ddv neighbor! ing of toothbrushes, testified that their night's rest, such as it was, myDagd0lHelemt0,eai my was over. Usurer, tt would make a good (TO BE COSTIMED) meal. for him," - 0UT0FS0RTS? -- '"t bu;T.VGeo-byr'h"ar- d 16-- half-doze- rail |