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Show SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK O CLARK M'MEEKIN FAR: While voyag-fro- m THE STORY THUS England to America, Lark Shin-,- f goes down. She U cart epoa uisUnd. and Gilt Withe, bound servant, Is made a prisoner at Ktcaef her. She U found by her iteiBn. bnt esrapet and vid North, who U dis-iL- tt eetBeart. at a gipsy to get a Une on Dr. jeart CHAPTER XVII las' night." Cup- pleased to oblige. "He mad at Miss Mara 'case you gone. She mad at him, too, an' tell him heap Then he 0' ugliness 'bouten you. Ev'ybody mad. I road at you. took m' foot in m' hand an' lit outen dar." Lark said, "Cupsie, I can't keep you. I can't pay you. I'm looking for work, myself. I'm sorry I made trouble with Miss Mara and Mr. . - better' right out to the dairy shed," Minnie cut in blandly, "an' go to skimmin' cream. You was pretty You good in the dairy, Cupsie. ' know where things is at." While Taffy was finishing getting breakfast, Minnie showed Lark and Gait her place, with pride, with "Go chadlike boastings. darkies an I the Barnes' as tenants when I can ketch 'em. I got 'bout thirty acres, but they needs a farmin' man to see to right." She glanced at Gait, and he nodI've walked ded. "I'm your man. your place, early. You've got rich land, Minnie, but you'll need a lot of stump burning and straightening "I got me a few works around." "Go right to bad a purring for Lark, too. it." Minnie's voice sound. Like t "I got ideas racing Red Ras-ka- ll H I don't have two bits,.' replied the man. "But I'd sure like to get across the river." "If you ain't got two bits," comforted the ferryman, "you would be no better off over there than you are here." Number Tee Bee! Nit If there were 60 cups on a shelf and one fell down, how many would there be? Wit-5- five tea cups! Lark said, "Minnie, you've been so --more than kind but I'm going to take Red Raskall to Squire Terraine. After that- -" . '"Don't cross a bridge till you come to it,' " Minnie said. "We'll eat now an' plan later." "Barnes had a sight of gossip on him when he come to milk this dawn." Placidly she forked an unfinished chicken leg off Lark's plate. "Seems old Jarrod Terraine bet his whole plantation on a horse race last week, an' lost. Lost to Plascutt "You been fidgiting, Lark." Dawes' gray imported nag, Thunder Boy. Remember 'Thunder Boy? couldn't find me, maybe I've been He swum to shore from the Temp, unfair to him. Maybe. I ought to you know. go. . . . "Before you take Red Raskall to "Take your two nags," Minnie Greatways you ought to be told the "an' pick up a bit o' suggested, Terraines ain't there. They left, kit racin' money. Right good races up an' caboodle, for a place they got in to the Fair." Kentucky, a thousand miles off, on "I'm liable to stay a month, once the Wilderness Trace. Ain't that a I get there," Minnie said placidly. sight? Left last night." "I'll follow 'em to Richmond an' Lark said, "Minnie, you knew that Charlottesville. You been maybe last night! Didn't you?" Lark. You just take yourfidgetin', "I knowed they lost the hoss race, self one good Fair day, an' come last week. How'd I know old Plasback here an' run my house while cutt was puttin' 'em out so quick? m gone. That'll be a favor. You How'd I know the Terraines was won't feel extraorgo when Manny takin' foot for Kentucky right after Barnes drunk an' takes off, an' gets the weddin'?" Midget's gone, an' you got the gate "Lord," Minnie said cheerfully, an' the house to tend, with Taffy's "don't try to talk sense to a fool! fits an' Cupsie's lip to put up with. All right, honey, you two take an' I'm offerin' you a job. You goin' light out after the Terraines. They to take it?" ain't got more'n about twelve hours' "I'd do anything you ask, Minstart on you. You're bound to ketch Lark said. "Gladly!" nie," 'em in a couple weeks up in the Minnie was ready for her month's wilds of the Kentucky mountains. Fair career in remarkably short orJarrod Terraine's got ' no reward der. She lectured Cupsie and Taffy money to give you. He's got no. right and the field hands in direct and to Red Raskall. But you take an' simple terms. She threatened Mangive him the hoss, an' all you got to ny Barnes with a ducking in the fret about is gettin back to civilizatriver if he went to sleep and missed ion with your scalp still tight on too many tolls. She threw a few your head. I give up. . . . No, I clothes into a canvas sack, put on don't! Now you listen!" her Fair costume, a red and white "You got the horse, hauled him that billowed and clung,, by creation omen quicksand, brought him to turns, as she took her place in the shore, risked your life an' limb to chariot Midget brought to the door. Set him to here too "Greatest Show Ever Conceived Greatways, got te to help Jarrod, and through no by the Human Mind to Please, Inault o' yours. If some fella was struct, and Horrifye. See to dive into the old Temp tomorrow, 'Minnie and her black Bantam Body fetch your precious lost gold and can whip guard, weight 55 lb.,Wild P'eces outen that d Cats, and Minnie's Weight in reckie it's in, whose would the Yet Sleepe in the Palm of Her gold be? Yours or hisn? Ask Gait." Hand." Gait said, "It would be Lark. "Dan made that," Minnie said his, Jhat s the way on the coast proudly. "It kind of takes the eye anybody would figure. Like I figured about now, don't it?" tnose gold pieces we found. But you Lark said it certainly did. She ved Red Raskall. I'm not going was dressed in the black riding hab" Persuade you, either way.". it pinned to fit by the eager Cupsie. Lord, listen at him!" Minnie Gait brought Red Raskall and Dosta snorted. 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A crocheted draw ber. string permits the cover to be Due to an unusually large" demand and tied at the back of the fixture. current war condiUons, slightly more tint I- ITTLE four-inc- ' - - Frilled-Sleev- j e ' is required In filling orders for a few of lnstruc the most popular pattern numbers. tioni for the Bathroom Seat Cover (PatSend your order to: tern No. A846) tend 18 cents in coin, your name, addresa and the pattern number. SEWINO CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK W New Montgomery 8L Saa Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 cents tor Pattern To obtain complete crocheting Ginko was pleased to see Lark and Gait. "I told you, Colombo, that some day I would ask a favor of yea." He grinned at Lark. "The mayor wishes our band to leave Norfolk, why, God knows. You can get us permission to stay and make money by asking your great and powerful friend,. David North, to speak to this stupid mayor." Lark's pulse began to quicken. She said, "Very well. I will see him, Ginko. I should like, too, to return this mare to Mother Egypt." Ginko shook his head. "She feels the black mare bewitched her daughter. She is a fool but she throws her knife well, no?" Lark walked slowly toward the Cargoe Riske cubicle under the rusty magnolia. She could see several men inside. One of them was standing up, coming toward her, into the sunshine. . . . David. He was beside her, taking her two hands, his face thin and tired and eager. He said, "Lark where under heaven have you been?" She told him the things that had happened. He frowned when she e mentioned living at Minnie's house. He said, "You could have told me, Lark. You could have stayed at Mara Hastings' till I came. I don't feel that Minnie is a suitable friend for a young and tender female. I Lark, I am deeply troubled about you." Lark said, "I've been with more unsuitable people than Minnie. After the Vurneys and and Dr. Matson, she's wonderful. . . . And I couldn't have stayed at Mistress Hastings', David. I am sorry." "I will come to you, Lark," David said firmly, "as soon as I am free to. My case against Matson will have to be settled, of course. It is of great importance. But I do not want to neglect you, Lark. You are sweet and brave, if a little impulsive. But do not think I have forgotten you, because I have not. I have worried greatly about you. If you would only come back to Mara's" "David," Lark said. "David I keep you're so different. . . in that your dr?ss, gipsy seeing you hair wild, your life in danger, and now now David, I hardly know you. I don't know you at all." floor-flushe- ANOTHER J Ned Is Bill still mopping decks in the navy? Ted Yes, he's the 6ame old , A No 1 I General Quiz , Name Address. r! 1. Was the sun god or the war god the first to be worshipped? Walkie Talkie Mac I'm afraid my wife is getting a double chin. Jack Too much work for one, I Ant Apartments What detective inaugurated the federal secret service? Anls must have been unusually 3. Did London bridge ever fall industrious to have built a down? , ant hill near Darwin, Austra4. What is the shortest distance suppose. between the United States ' and lia, White ants build such "apartment buildings" of wood, fiber and Short and Sweet Russia? The 5. Hipparchus and Ptolemy of earth, held together by a glutinous speaker certainly Harry they secrete. The made a hit. the ancient world were its greatest cement which full of tunnels through hills are about? What talk did he Jerry what? 6. Can a rabbit run faster uphill which the ants travel. Harry About one minute. than downhill? Out Cold 7. What country put platinum Jimmy Why did you fall down? coins in circulation between 1828 REALLY Bil'v didn't hit you. and 1845? 8. How old was Noah when the Johnny No, but I read his because they're really medicated thoughts. ark was completed? Whal a Racket? The Antweru Mom Baby isn't dumb at all. Dad No, I'll say he's got plenty 1. The sun god. Early man was on the bawl! peaceful. COUGH LQZEHGES 2. Allan Pinkerton inaugurated Fair Warning Soothe your throat all the way the federal secret service. Stranger Why are you spraying down fax below the gargle line. 3. Yes, in 1091. A storm carried Each F & F Lotenge gives your your dog's teeth with disinfectant? it away. Housewife Well, you can never throat a 15 minute soothing, com4. Five miles. Between Little forting treatment. Used by millions tell whom he might have bitten. Diomede island (U. S.) and Big for coughs, throat irritations or hoarseness resulting from colds or Diomede island (Russian) in BerVacant Space Alaska between smoking. Valy luf box. ing strait, midway The doctor said there's Dumb and Siberia. something the matter with my head. 5. Astronomers. Dora You don't mean to say you 6. Yes, because his hind legs are paid a doctor to tell you that! ... $ 2. mfp toll-gat- longer. 7. Russia. 8. He was 600 Perfectly Lazy Rastus Yassuh, dere's one thing Ah laks 'bout dat fellow. Yo kin always tell jus' what he's gwan to years old. do. Sambo An what's dat? Rastus Nuttin'I I IN NUMBERS STRENGTH W VSi V.V mm fedf "Tb Grains He said David looked worried. know course "Of me, you patiently, Lark. I joined the gipsies because I had to, to catch Matson." "To make money for your company . . . But, David" "It was my job to catch him," David said reasonably. "Of course I was troubled over you, Lark. I Fit flAtt red-gol- d 5. - I ik' 'hix-rap- e, ( 11 W eggs aren't old? Grocer You can see for yourself, they haven't a wrinkle! must reward Gait suitably for bringing you safely to Norfolk. But if I d leg hadn't got my evidence when I back and reined him in to did-" trot. began to re- suit Dosta's easy "Of course," Lark said. "You had to town, stopgain the feeling 0f strength and b'ub-They made the trip to get it. . . . But, I don't believe hLfeShe no longer woke in ping a time or so for rest and food would offer Gait anything, if I I a in little hampers, "fJS ht. cold, drenched with per-- n from Minnie's were you, David. It might" imaKining she was back over three hours. It was past noon Someone called David from the woodland the Tempore, a into on the island, when they turned cubicle. He excused himself. Riske waea in her miserable loft room where handbills and pennants pro- He would see Lark Inter, he said. Vurney's Inn. Her sense of ob-- claimed, "The Virginia Circle Fair, Lark walked to the track, the weather-beMuon increased with her energy With Racing, Trading, Auctioneer- aten stands. Gait was entering she spoke to Fruits and Prize Tobacco. Come Red Raskall in a race. A tug of Minnie about it. ing, n.it was certainly happy. He had one, Come All!" excitement caught at Lark, a sudden dvI fenarkable things with Min-Midget, on his high, precarious wish to ride the horse in the race, gave a loud U bSSI ?lrea,dy' manain her box of Minnie's chariot, dash into the wind, to gallop, ' galto and flapped the lines, She touched Gait's hand. She ,elp' P,aRn"g next year's erm. lop. the lTZn rea,dyin the land. Minnie was brought the ponies in between paid, "Could we" with a flourish. L pleased with Gait and said his "Two pound entry," Gait said. "1 Minnie E.n IT? "That there's my tent!" it. . . . Lark, I want you to day. .Her affec- over the chariot, point- paid Red Raskall. Will you?" tipped but all out and pIaln Poken nnft two to the ride Lark i a very ing it out "1 take you TO BE CONTINUED) to some nd between recognized known make you track an them, but she eate-tre- r I '1! Guaranteed Test Are you sure these Ras-kall- 's leather-trousere- 84 6 Housewife Egypt." her- -" 77 5 9! Nit No, fP55ii at the Fair. Fair opens up in Norfolk, end o' the month. Me an got to boss 'em." During the last warm "ays of October, Lark Many years ago, a man arrived on the banks of the Kentucky river, and asked to be ferried across to Versailles. "It'll cost you two bits," said the at Tyrone, ferryman. red-brow- sie was But you'd NO PLACE FOR BUSTED root-lessnes- lordships arrive to Norfolk where Lark David. Bh U told by HpKtt to meet whoso homo she at stops, utn Bastings, it David North It not In town. Lark announces that b shocked whea Mara soon psrM North is her fiance. They Mara's homo. North. W.N.U.SCR.VICI no feel of belonging here, no faint- - gent friends who'll spot you for a coi bense 01 permanence. race or two. But keep your eye on Lark had tried not to show her your hoss-fleson account these own feelings, her keen boxs is like to sell 'em off when disappointment that David North had never your backs is turned!" so much as tried to find her Minnie shouted greetings to the as far as she knew her Schwassel-bo- x convicunhappy man, a gaunt sharp-face- d tion that she had no fellow, sitting on a wagon right to Red Raskall, her tangible tree mending the costumes of his s, feeling of of tension let down too Punch and Judy players. She veiled quickly, of an almost painful iner- at two cronies who were stirring a tia. pot or Bubble and Squeak. She Minnie encouraged her to made a lewd remark or so to the out get occasionally, to ride, to gather nuts snake charmer, and greeted the aucwith Gait, to fish from the little tioneer with a mighty hug and kiss. pier on the river. She never mentioned near an enPeople were the argument they'd had over the campment of gathered gipsies in the creek ran ownership of the horse. vine, below the bumble-pupp- y game. Once Lark wrote a letter to Squire Lark glanced toward them and Terraine, but she had her doubts pulled up Dosta. A boy's figure, in that the address Minnie obligingly soft white silk blouse and velvet found for her was. trunks, stood silhouetted against a right. white-pin- e One bright anMinnie upright board. As she morning nounced that she was going to the looked, Lark saw a silver flash in Fair on the Norfolk outskirts. "You the air, heard a faint ping and a dull an' Gait can go," she told Lark. soft reverberation. A knife had gone See a few sights an' a lot o' peothrough the air and had struck the ple." pine board, burying its tip deep in David, Lark thought. She means the wood a quarter inch from the 1 11 have a arm. chance to see David. boy's statue-lik-e The crowd watched, breathless, And then she thought, maybe David and Minnie called to Midget to pull up, for God's good love, because this was something! Fast as flying birds, the bright-blade- d knives came, outlining the boy, making the soft silk of his blouse shiver and flutter, pinning a lock of his black hair to the board, piercing the wood so near his pulsing throat that a long sigh went up from the crowd. Lark said. "It's Chal, Gait." Gait nodded. When the performance was over they rode to the woman was group. A white-haire- d putting away the knives. She was Chal's mother and Dosta's. She nodded briefly when Lark spoke to her, thanked her for her help that dreadful night. Then she went into her red tent, fastening the flap behind her. Chal and Ginko were going through the crowd with tambourines, begging money, boasting of the breath-takin- g skill ef "Mother h, !uton ind bit shady dealings. Lark and of Dr. Matson, Gall fall into the handi escape at night, and after weeka of "He come home Crocheted Bathroom Accessory Dainty Frock for the Little Girl If you were walking Jimmy along a dark road near the cemetery at night, how would you protect yourself? Johnny I'd whistle, "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." 8uu Wore War Conditions Customer I want to buy a pair of shoes. Clerk Sorry but we don't carry shoes in stock. Customer What kind of a drugstore is this anyhow? WeU kit MtfSft Crest Ftotft" Kellogg's Corn Flakes bring you nearly all whole the protective food elements of the grain declared essential to human nutrition. US. War Bonl MUSCULAR ACHES Trained Jones I hear Brown got a job as tiff Joints Tired Muscles Sprains Strains bus conductor. What did he know about that kind of work? 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