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Show THE HERALD, FRIDAY,' MARCH 80. 1923. tledlscoaraged tie society o &ink and Tha& and withdrew to her favorite ve cant pnrpaeee if gtdltatlon. Throwing liereelf eowa in tbe abade ef a weeping wlllovr, abe proceeded to translate Mr outburst ef assurance ta-t-o wherewithal. puuis tor coan f "By JSafoesr aa said to keflpetf. 1 nuw money n a.ramp. tus pro geedime-bank raea stunt tint M tweea me and Christmas, and I'm going ta get there Srst" Miss fenfleld leaned ow and pommeled the ground with her flat. Tat gontatryoa hear T rm gonial .' 4 Having fegUbared ner determination both verbally and physically, aha (alt lt lr The Custard Florain aW-ever- dlstrtbuttar baadbma, Lettle watched him climb steps, slip a dodger under oa aoor. nra down again, climb ether ' - Her gaae ceased te steps. - follow the b' We want a tree and presents and became fixed, dreamy. Her body was "evWhlng," explained Crink. -aha mm By George - "Oh, my dears I" The words were motionless. mured. " Tin getting a Idea. I can -rMrs. Penwith dlstresaTLThen beavy "most sea t" . fleld pulled herself together and beIt developed that thia particular idea came expansively optlmlBtlc. Tit iell was not to,be captured In toe spacsTBTf " what been I I thought1 you planning ten seconds, u kettle sUyed by with that we'd have, a fine day, and rm incredtbWTjatlence. nnilly the mental gotngto make ua a grand bread -Uncle Jerry brought us a whole vUionlng waa cUrHled She spranf tot with excitement sack of stale bread last night ; he got It to a bakery cheap, and rm tickled hope, and dashed off several blocks, to r ' p fl Mtfl. of it In the oven, and It'll keep for ffiit I a a a. ;yj r -- l.bother - ? . a--lot "noly Jlmlnettyl" cried the child, edge of a lumber yard. Here she T&Hh a flare of anger. "Can't. you talk tmtil coHecte ana I bad inaged a nuai -wjefca'ilrMTe-bread puddmg-an- d sense? rirtelltnjO'ou straight " oer 01 long, ngni pieces of. wood. codfish seallopsnd n I "Jack." called Mr. Abbott, "put this she bound an whkl old together with !"tt wouli-mak- eBtufflng,Jrimt in wire and kid out." borne. dragged t Crink eagerly,, The afternoon and all of the follow "Oh! Oh!" screamed little. "Don't "In soma families It would, Crink, were in the Lettle tag day you dnre " In a blinding gust of spent by but we don't have nothing to stuff-ex- cept most secluded corner of the Penfleld rnge at thetiireatened Indignity; she ourselves. But Twit Christ, .clpBphPd-.hpr flata nnd pounded thg back yard, and no king In hie .castle mas I thoujhtweldjlaxajaeaand Crink "Mr.- - Abbott, Feel Like Seeing Mits frail xild d(sk till the papers, rustled ieTrTttbrTes "a&5 teach' Filibuster a WM ever more unapproachable, and the Inkwell rocked against Its Panflaldr new trick and pop soma corn. Ton and Toad were left tn do doubt re metal bottler. A. wrathful red had her desire Isolation. for The garding see, we'd nave an awful busy day, beloved FB Caesar was fended "off audible to all Its occupants. Therefore oc chuck full pleasure. just at The desk was accu chest Jumpejl up and down In agony. -- Tbaxf scrambled to his feet and apGer-- rately posted on the Interview to date. 'TMi't ynu dare! Just. have a heart. affectionate nature. his Bonnie proached ber with reiteration. "We aldlne limped about the yard without Nevertheless, his assistant turned to Listen till I Oh, let me alone. All of ua wants . want a tree. Peuie. .'exciting even the fleeting compassion ward him, seemingly by a pivotal Don't you dare; don't. yon ". one." -- J --- - movement of his elspw on the counter. Of -out -iytrhiklnK, protesting, lusning "Bless your sweet heart n"- Mr. Mrs. Penfleld, glancing from with her lesin, angry arms. Miss d inquired Penfleld caught him into her arms and "Mr. Abbott feel like -- seelmriliss was helriK forcibly ejected from kissed him; then set htm down again. window occasionally at the small fig Penfleldr ure busily working with hatchet and the office of thje Wideawake Adver"Now, children, HI tell you how-t- ls Mr. Abbott faced abdut appraised tising agency. The boy Jack, with "bout a tree. This year we got a heap nails, sticks and old wire, was moved Lettle without, any indication of joy, unconcealed relish, had grasped the of things, to buy. Ain't one of you to pity over the disappointment .which l xhUd evt. and shrugged a bored shoulder. It by a thin elbow and was guiding got a decent shoe, and Crtnk's got to IndlAer- - her to the door. Not without dim come "Let he her said in, w" .ave a newauitrtirteTafflTnold .Mt:be?ng that she as risk-- 1 ently; culty, however!- He was.jihle to conhis head in school Yes, I know you'd set en success and one Lettle went on trol the, general direction, but not And venture. Ing everything go without, but yon got to remember Mr. Abbott smiled lazily at the small without picturesque zlgzagglngs. Lethow could sha make anything out that Christmas la only one day, and life yet creature who had settled into the chair tle', alternating shouts of entreaty and was executing a series of Is three hundred and sixty-fiv- e of 'em of her' little old scraps that anybody at the side of his desk. He was evicontortions ahout the fulcrum of Jjex a year. Besides, we'll have the best would" buy? The tears, gathered In the sert own elbow which would have glvea Mrs. Penfleld "a eye as ahe Imaged the dently Inclined time" ousness of the impending interview. Crink took a turn. "I think. Penzle, probable crumbling of Lettie'a hopes. "What's eating you, kid?-- ' 4e a-j anggestlnns dancer re Every little while there would be a ' 'mebbo I could rustle a tree." 7 quired search of innovations. a of the steps through yard, "My dear, It ain't theree; it's the spanking Lettle shot him a glance of scornful "l'ou don't t know boys," screamed flash of black: curls through the door, tningstogoon.it And it lakes a good a furious come to .talk business," "I You don't Lettle. reproof; on "Leggo. deru you the gong. temper beating wftlie to save for extras." . know buys. They'd rather work a "Take that will your Lettle would the announoed coldly. WltB spring, Lettle stepped np to "WelL talk it then. What'a the trick than eat hey " the front line. "Get away, babies I" cry, addressing a spirit within herself, hitchr 111 "Shut up, often wild you Indian," advised addreased before, aha commanded, with a scornful wave Thus enconcagad- ,- Lettle jumped the boy called Jack. of ber arm. "This is where we jet beat you. Ton make me tired ell "ShuT u77Tolireelf,'T retorted Lettle. met Now how do straight from the shore into the. mid down to business. Now, Penzle, dar- tune trying ta-gdle of the pond.' "I gotta 'scheme a Tou don't know boyst Ton don't you how feejr much would It cast to get a ling, The temper gong bad long , since grand scheme that'll save yon heaps ufTfnow" She stopped, abruptly con tree and ev'rything you know the ceased to be a thing of wood. Lettle's money. Heaps and heaps I" she added, scions that she was addressing, a whole shooting match?" . ' waving her lean arms to Indicate a closed door and a sidewalk empty of Mrs. Penfleld considered. rTon imagination had endowed it with a sum life except for a pattering Airedale, undeown fraction approaching dazzling proportions. the - tneaii' a treg-afiof her nature, trimmings and prea-,ent-a sirable "Ton don't say I What's the obviously not Interested In advertis" fraction, and aba scolded end ltwithVa fury scheme?" ing. "Yes, and presents for ev'rybody In threatened and pounded -n "Well to Lettle the with anger, Stifling squirmed of that because; wu fte sharper The Custard Cup," supplemented LetexciteLettle chair her in of down the edge by (lashed expansive failure, , . ; tle. "Ev'rythlng swelt-- a big party I" of ment fWelL I been watching your street. Into a vacant lot where there Mrs. Penfleld the traced frequency If do on It "Why, Lettle, you was. to was a sprawling live-oa- k walk tree. With a big scale like that and have ev'ry- these demonstrations to undue exer- boys, how they ail time" walk, and And small brown lists she began beating hike down hlkVvp tion. so work don't steps bard," "Lettle, desr, thlng grand, It'd take rm, 'frald It'd taln't necessary. I gotta scheme that the rough trunk. Wild sobs shook sha remonstrated. : take a dollar." her thin frame. Tears rolled down cuts out the steps. "Penxle, replied LXgotta," darling, 3ravely Lettle reflected upon- this her face; anger dried them on herTfot "Oh I Sort of wrecking machine?" much Lettle "There alnt time, firmly. huge block of solid finance, as yet Lettle stamped.her feet first one and I cheeks, only to replace them by a new "If we'll raise a dollar," and the old thing balks on me." flood. then the But In the middle of the second foreshe stipulated slowly, "honest-torgood- -' With savage delight In her own'suf-ferinIts own way. in compelling with noon Into bouse came highly Lettle the ness earn it, will yon show us how to I I she beat the gnarled bark till It out all "Quit doped were got Her laughing steps have a big blow-ou- t Christmas lots of Impressive triumph! and It works. This this machine of the blood came and her muscles her head measured, high. presents and fixings and strings of "She works,1 announced the child, I mine holds the card or the .handbill, ached. Then her arms dropped ; she1 things all overthe trees and candles with "-aslumped into a heap on the ground a brief nod toward the contriv- and the boy holds the machine, nd a big party T" no longer a A gust of laughter shook JJIiv. Ab human being. ance she was carrying It was a long, do that very thing, Lettle," r Til bott's ample shoulders. ""Branch on full of flght and fierceness, but a for-slender wires one at wltb stick end, promised Mrs. Penfleld. "But" but Lettle gave no explanation of its the tree, tree In the ground, green lorn little girl honelesa and heart "It's aa good aXdone," shouted broken. Wlth'lll the gathered longing ne. "on, Penzie, rtove you harder all purpose. Instead, ahe took It Into the grassrrdi a spring, Lettle came to her of a hard, dreary childhood, she had With behind bedroom and hid it Jealously the tlme." She flew at Mra. Penfleld, feet ?Shuttipt".she shrieked. "Don't set ber mind- on these holidays aa er own Bleeping7 box. strangled her for a moment' with a some idealized heights of bliss. She scrubbed her face.apd hands to you dare to make fun of me: You'll upon thoroughness that was fortunately And now it was to be as It had alexcuse " me Oh, get and full the of water, soap capacity brief, and dashed through the big door Limply she dropped back Into her ways been : no tree, no presents, no brushed her black curls with conscienInto the driveway, to ventilate her exchair. It bad occurred to ber vaguely party, no games, no anything I tious vigor, and put on ber better ginguberance In the open air. Next week she would prowl' through must be conducted not business that Crink followed. "Say, Lettle," be In- ham dress. For a moment she stared various ' streets In the early dusk, feelof to natural changes according Mrs. in shoes. at ber shabby dismay quired anxiously, "how yon going to now and then before a winPenfleld had bought them when Lettle ing, but by heroic methods calculated stopping do dow to watch somebody else's ChristMr. And because coax to Jesuits; first arrived, but they had necessarily She turned on him disdainfully. Abbott happened to be amused by day- mas tree, spreading Its branches be; "Landy patience, Crink, how do yon been cheap ones,' and .the Inevitable fireworks, he languidly gave her tween parted curtains, dotted with light had happened. : a'pose I knowr . lighted candles that gleamed on tinsel chance. another "I4on't carel" decided Lettle. wltb "Well," he returned. disapand "gay red bells Just as she had by me," "Excuse Lettle, repeated of toss a head. "The her of upper part done last year and year before and pointment, "you told ber sure, Just as "I contrition. ber of. emphasizing way 111 if.me's as good as anybody, and keep i before I Perhaps, as had hapget excited thinking boot this here year "Oollyt wont yon never grow op folks busy looking at that.: Some day machine," once, she would find a church pened danced A- bright smlla, have lots of shoes lots of 'rem.'' . . Crinkt Don't you know you bave to party. She would climb up on a fence mouth and small across her lighted be sure of a thing first and then yon Upheld by the redundant luxury ef her black eyes. "Ton see, ltl, a and look In at the window at groups ' go ahead and do It afterward? rm the future, Lettle set forth. Her ob- up wonderful acbeme. All the boy has to and groups of children waiting for doing the sure part new, and pretty jective bad been In mind from, the do Is to stand at the bottom of the Santa Claus to give them presents Boon HI think of a way of pulllnr It first Part of the Information which the from the big tree with Its deep, soft under the and shoot card off. Trust mer - : s life steps she bad picked np la ber open-ai-r boughs, and chains of tinsel and gutbow all out doped Lettie'a- - enterprise was complicated was the system by which advertising door I got It next ter. Inside outside I What a differthe to he's while then hiking and. by.th fact that ahe" was-stlla the material la distributed. She had card Into ence I And she, Lettle, would be outshadow of debt Sha owed twenty known more than' one boy who was em- house;- he putt another side, clinging te a fence, looking to . . V -cents on the replacing of Mr. Wopple's ployed by The Wideawake Advertising upon good times that had 'never been creaked chair swivel suddenly, The window, it bad been a slow matter agency, and bar present visit was to e an hers. Outside always, always to himself Jerked Mr. Abbott as to accumulate the' money te pay for headquarters. t ' . lastaesa The mocking nee moment of Impulsive violence, and The office waa an Informal affair, a erect position Her body shook with fobs. Her thin never again would she be lacking m wTiarrow roonr oa the ground floor. The disappeared from', hlsl face; Ilk the fingers twisted In the dry grass jnd Where's fbg.s your of morning. pect for a pane of glass. Bat now to company consisted of one man and. an lifting the' sharp oak leaves. , demanded. machine?" he who aouar office boy. It wu the latter raisa a no, a dollar and twencold touched hecbnrnUlg cheek. She It's at home. V ty cents In a week in less time I stepped forward when Lettle entered. ; squirmed away. The cold touch folsteal I Well, Trald There would be endless preparations to She hugged tight to the counter by lowed, SMreached to push from -"c i make, and the money weul.d have tobe jwsyof concealing her shoes from- - the fin fen her,- - and Jr fingers fell on the soft v Lettle " y mternrpted In band Tefore the plana could begin. view of the critical, but ber bead was Ob, ears With a wild cry Lettle " ' f brntUeaBiy. ; HerbUck, eye sprang sat Sha could not allow herself more than teryblgb.- 1 1 threw, her arms around the wide as shet glimpsed th hldeousness taree days..- It waa appaHlng.'v The h "Is the manager ..' iaturs.JIs. licked, bar face, BOgbt rd eee-ef falrarev-- iI window, monay bad been raised - by" wise dog, a dog of .family, ThernBantgiBrnwtTmae K ctuse are, were yea rustod, tnf tonaV weary hours of aoUd labor Lettle herself could see him, a stout yoa id seen small people suffer a make macMftaa for yoa for picking up wood, washing steps, run-Wmaa with heavy eyebrows, sitting at a Td be knew exactly what to do. errands. . The rewarda had beea desk behind'' the counter. But .'the dollar apiece, v And, honest, the- ytued to.llck end Lettle con ' to forestall refusal, in reverse ratio ta the Intensity of efJa. her eagerness bug, Be bad offered bis young maa was person ef evasion. an thaOQS forts and had ranged from' one cent and she took It with greed, X do tor be said, ahe rushed madly through "What caa yoer P to a dime per Job. The latter had with a. points of ber scheme, Instead of ma' t vastly better.' Her tear were buy smile. them diplomarJcauy, as been the Insurmountable limit ." me sea the manager, ahallng cea let Tea It was painfully evident that these .To be continued.) - : got bus. low methods most be abandoned la tnformad Lettle, aess wltb blm. aieriof a nrantic mfk Tlft. mmm ia r'thfnd Z.Tfnr. ini ti l m rwg --.aaasx M m: ?w v;',. m DOCTOR D. D. 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My line alrff revivals; ft'a ' Now ybu' run 'long outa here 'wjille I'm still holding on to my laturiAa . i"kA mm ahnneta V r j Lettie r"se swiftly, her face white fear, pud--din- 1 Ortolnal "auoeaneare," The tena "buccaeeer" orlgtaated ee the Wand ef Tertuga. It Is derived, from Ike trench word describing asea who eured meat by' the "boucaa" proo ess, a system or smoking the p trees arlcka. -- considerably-- relieved, lifting bar yea, ne shook off bar tenseness and surveyed the world la a wholly recep tive mood, i. boy waa .whlatllasH around the earner. He came n sight CtDt&am Lhrloptoa - B-- t Cup - r 1 ten htmrMr. AliboTt took up his pencil and Lottie eonsidered alriftly. -- This was frtuaf hit place la. the aermfteek a' business errand.. It was a time for from which he bad been taking, notes. dignity. ' One could not be too careful. It fras painfully evident that his easy enltausted. Hie good she tilled.- I toferance Teg him Miss .Infleld." . 1 . fiature was in lumps; like pocket:free proodly. . ;..-? . The young man laughed aloud, but J gold, end after a few minutes one Lettle stared .at htm wlthAfllnching confronted the barrenness, of country y composure. The iwmwaallmall that rock. Sensing . this reversal of word uttered In It was distinctly tnde, Lettle grew cold with prickles or puastiy rear, iteiore ner menrai vision swam a misty picture of Christmas tree, gifts. Jollity, cheer; It Jiggled dlzslly, receded, farther and farther. She gasped. she "Oh. please be Int'rustedj" begged, pounding a, small brown flat into her open palm. "Honest, ItTl . save you heaps " "Save nothing ! S'poslng your pipe dream worked, H'd take a boy as long to load up the contraption" "But even If It did," broke in Lettle use Se'd be more pHigerly;1t,a" pay nebon -- I |