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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SALINA, UTAH t - By KATHLEEN NORRIS LILLIAN Copyright by Kathleen Norris SYNOPSIS. Ellen end Joe Latimer, orphans, without means, make their home with their Aurj, Elsie, at Port Washington, small New York town. Ellen Is studyP'd ing art. her expenses by Mrs. Sewali Kose, girlhood friend of her mother. Mrs. Rose Invites Ellen to a Thanksgiving house party and the girl is delighted. On the way from the station to Mrs. Roses Ellen rides attractive with a remarkably young woman and a much older man. She takes them for father and daughter, but they arc introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Josselyn. Ellen does not fit In with the younger members of the parly, and Is miserable. leaving for her home next morning. Ellen meets Gibbs Josselyn, Bon of her He has disapfellow guest. proved of his father's wedding and is not on speaking terms with the couple. Declining to stay at Mrs. Roses, Ulhbs drives Ellen to the station. They miss the train and Gibbs undertakes to drive the girl to Port Washington. Their auto Is wrecked. Ell-- n Is hurt, but It Is not thought to be serious, and she and Gibbs part. He has been attracted by the girl, and she by him. Ellen's Injury proves to be severe, and for months she Is an invalid. Recovered, she Is taking part In the town's Memorial day festivities when Gibbs Jnsse-lyon a yachting trip with a friend, George Iathrop, meets her again. The feeling of mutual attraction has strengthened since they parted. They leave Port Washington man and wife. Nearly seven years later Glbhs and Ellen Josselyn. with their aon Tommy, come hack from France to New York. They are welcomed by Josselyn, Senior, and hla beautiful wife, IJlllan, the old forgotten. CHAPTER V Joe? Joes .he three went together to the pnrk or the zoo and chattered all day as If they Lad beem of one age. And Ellen felt no pity for he sliver head when she saw it bent agilnst Tommys black locks; someho there was a dignity and a fittingness here that was lacking at tbe dances and the teas. CHAPTER VI Continued great fellow, he said. Were very fond of Joe at my house. In some ways lies the most remarkable hoy I ever knew! lie's absolutea Lain kept the two families In the city hotel for more than a week of luxury and pleasure. Aunt Elsie, upon whom Ellen had descended for the day, hnd found a pleasant little country nurse for Tommy, the same mnld thnt she had had during her Illness, nnd Ellen consequently had nothing to do hut amuse herself. The big car wns at the ladles disposal, Glbhs often went with them, Ids father less frequently. Joe sometimes Joined them In the evenings, and George I.athrop duly gave them a dinner party. To this party Harriet came, a thin, nervous, sweet girl, plain of face, but wlih a pretty manner, nnd most nt ease with Joe. She accepted Ellen's overtures of friendship eagerly, sent' her flowers, and showed In more than one way her pleasure In the companionship of Joe's sister. So ten days went by, and long before they were over Ellen began to long for a simpler life, where Gibbs would seem her own again, and where Tommy might always he free. In the happy old WHy, to he In his mothers company. They would visit tbe Long Island house, that would be a simpler life, at least, and then they would find a studio nnd apartment of their own, keep the little port Washington Lizzie for Tommy, get a cook besides, and go back to their own way of liv- d tf black-and-whi- ! good-nature- tl.er-in-la- white-pebble- d d c g r - t Like it! Gibbs merely echoed. And I think Its the Ellen said honestly: loveliest house I ever saw!" It Was Italian in type, the plaster walls stained a warm cream, the windows and doors placed Irregularly; some large, some narrow. A wide stone stairway rose front the pebbled path to the second floor, climbing against tbe side of the house, at its base stood great jars of potted hydrangeas. Under the stairway water poured from a lions mouth into a shnllow basin, nnd above It, In the smooth facade of the house, a blue plaque was embedded In a arch, a Della Ilob-bi- a bambino spreading his little bands in untiring blessing over the doorway. There was the perfection of exquisite simplicity in tbe whole, tbe perfection of absolute order and appropriateness. Tbe three years that the house had been standing here might have been three hundred, so kindly did the trees enclose it, so readily had the bare vines made themselves at home. Even while the newcomers stood gazing nt it, a nesting bird, with n thread banging from Ills bill, disappeared Into the chimney Ivy, and a maid, opening an arched door in the house wall, showed behind her trim little figure a vista of stone arches and tiled floors that tempted Ellen to an immediate Investigation, nnd made her exclaim again. They went up the wide outside stair, nnd through the dark enrven wooden door at the top, nnd were In a quaint, long room marvelously paneled In rich wood, with a glorious view through enormous windows that were curtained v widths of some dark only by silken stufi The room was devoid of merely orns mental things, one splendid rug crossed the florr, logs blazed under the carved acanthus leaves of the great marble fireplace. There wns a black oak table that might have come from a monastery, the chairs were large and Comfortable despite their severity of line. The effect was of space, silence, nnd shadow. Lillian, enchanted by her visitors admiration. led them to other rooms. Here was a piano, with a harp beside It, In a small room lighted by three narrow gothic windows. Here was the breakfast room, bright nnd square, with Quimper plates ranged on an old dresser, nnd Perugian blue cottons at the windows. Sometimes they steppenr up, nnd sometimes down, through exquisite doorways deeply arched, every vista hnd been studied, and made perfect. Sometimes Ellen looked down at the formal garden, with its moondini and its trimmed cypresss close to the woods, sometimes she laughed in surprise at finding herself unexpectedly above the tiled courtyard where maids we-- e chatting In the sun, or crossed a stone balcony presumably leading Into the library, to find herself In one of the long, hare corridors again. Everywhere was the same effect of space, nnd restraint, and emptiness. Gibbs presently went to his stepmother, nnd took both her hands. "I congratulate you. my dear! Ive not seen anything better In m.v life!" She looked up nt him with unsmiling eagerness. No, hut truly ? You know Ive been waiting for your verdict, Gibbs." It's n fairytale! Ellen said. Of course I had a big architect to help me do It. Lillian said, with a prettily deferential glance at her hand. "Ard we had that Pepper In the bouse for three months," the obi man said mildly. Who's that Pepper?" Ellen asked with her gay Ian li. "Lindsay Pepper, tbe man we met?" "lies n very idee fellow," Lillian corrected, w it h an inibiljent smile. lie decorates, and picks out things for you. and so on its ids business. Most people are afraid of him. but I am one of the very few who boss him about, and lie likes it. lie and I laid gr.al lights about everything, and I always got my own way. So.-- , if you like it. I wont have Lindsay Pepper ge; tbe credit! lie got more than the credit, he got th usb "aid Josselyn, Senior, in an undertone, and with a mischievous look vine-wreath- ing. Lillian hnd told them something of ly and utterly honest. Things don't the home at Wheatley Hills, Tom deceive Joe. I like to Int.odwe him had great fun designing It." to people If theyve got anything that "You designed it ! the old man said Interests Joe, he gets It out. If they gallantly. haven't, It doesnt matter how much I stuck In everything I wanted," champagne they open, or whether they IJlllan conceded, and Tom almost lost have a season opera box or n villa In his mind trying to reconcile Spanish Italy, they simply don't register with tiles and old English woodwork and Joe. I think that fellow will go a Hutch doors! long wny! lies taught my hoy more It must he wonderful nnd fearful to 'ndw than I could ever tench hltn, behold, Gibbs said later to his wife. more than hell get out of college. I have a vision of tapestries nnd MisEllen went hack to Gibbs with her sion oak and stripes eyes shining. nnd Tiffany lamps all merrily InterMr. I.nthrop wns talking so nicely mingled. Lillian would get what wns about Joe, Gibbs smart, you know. If she lived In La Oh, thats a love nffalr all 'round !" Trnppe monastery! Of course HarIJlllan said lazily. Two days later they drove straight riet's feelings are no secret. Shes from the hotel to Wheatley Illlls, and plain, and shes not likely to meet any- to the Vlllino dell Orto. It was a one else on the same Intimate terms thnt she's known Joe. George Is willing, Joe Is willing 1 suppose and Harriet Is more than willing. "Joe!" Ellen could only echo. In amazement. Joe Is clever, and steady, and senand George sible," IJlllan said, doesnt fare about nnythlug else. Ills one terror Is that his precious child will he snapped up for her money Joes position doesnt make the slightest difference to George!" It was said so pleasantly, In her Indifferent manner, that the oddity of this sentiment, coming "'front IJlllan, did not occur to Ellen, nor the propriety of her saying It to Ellen nt all. The two women, utterly different In type, were Inclined to like each other, perhaps for the reason that they lived In alien worlds, and spoke nliep tongues. Ellen, dear of vision for jfl! her simplicity and Inexperience, knew that IJlllan regarded her tviffi a sort of Indulgent contempt. AvTunftrr who wits cheerfully unfashionable to the point cf dowdinoss, who was domestic and unselfish and contented, had no common ground upon which to meet I.lllian Josselyn. As the pleasant days went on, Ellen marveled at her more nnd more. Lillian never talked of herself. She had "I Congratulate You, My Dear! Ive her mysteries, her cryptic reserves. Not Seen Anything Better in My She had friendships of a sort wlih Life! women, sometimes she tried t- - make Ellen express herself about them. And day of soft showers and uncertain sun Ellen, sitting next to her fa F"e had friendships with men, but of shine. who was driving the ear. she never spoke at all. She was the type of beautiful woman who enn was in an ecstasy as she begun to ree ieuitiiu silent with perfect ognize the familiar country. This Is OUr little outfit," Josselyn. ant! when she did speak It wns amuse her old husband, or to en- Senior, said, At last, turning In at a, drive, between grin' courage Ellen and Gibbs to talk. s tbe evening occasionally all four trees nnd spraying, enormous rose went to the theater. But Lillian liked trees that already wore young gretn butter to dine nt leisure somewhere, Tbe bard-rollelawns showed a faint, Hnd to meet friends, ns they always emerald film; bushes ready to bud did. and to dance. Gibbs danced a were everywhere; in a few weeks the IRle, Ellen less. They sat and chut-G- place would be a mass of fragrant with Josselyn, Senior, quite Imp-pl.- bloom. All about were the curves and enjoying the music and the gen- rises of wooded hills, beyond lay the era! gaiety of the scene. Lillians Sound, coldly blue In the distance. partners would bring her hack, flushed, Here nnd there another country boon ..rvely. silent; she would exert herself was visible; a stately facade of dark l e pleasant to the group at the table brick, or the clns-Jgiven and white until she was claimed again. She of .the modern colonial worn!. Each taught Glbhs new steps, but It was of these bad Its fifty or a hundred quite apparent that she enjoyed dime-is- acres. Its stables and garage and lodge with good dancers, regardless of to match the house. The Josselyn was small, less than ten acres in feeling for them os men. Sometimes they went to the ten dances that ml; there was a handsome fence, and were the latest attraction at the big some of the finest woodland on the enWeis; Ellen would feel a III tie sorry tire Island, but no lodge. .Vr her father-ln-law- . But Ellen bad only a confused Im He was always She presslon of these things at the Interested, alert. ; her whole trend a little pathos In his eagerness attention was een to Join them In all their amusements, tered on the house. She gave Gibbs not to be a clog, or to affect , their one amazed glance, he met her look, nnd they botn hurst Into Inugnter. plans. He treated his wife with unvarying Weve been had, old dear, what?" Sut he grew deeply fond of he said shamefacedly. amen, and little Tom became the lov Ltlllap smiled contentedly of hla lift, There were days when You do like It e FEELS LUCE A PERSON MADE ALL OVER AGAIN dn dn I at Elbn "Don't Pson to him," said his wife. Site took E' It n and Gibbs to their own rooms, and before she even It ft them she stood for u moment, with one hand on Eihn's shoulder, and the other bolding Gibbs band, as they stood before her. "I hope you're going to be lomfort-uble,- " she told them, with a wistful It means so much (o your smile. father, and to me, we " Tin re was a hint of feeling in her voice and as if she had not meant to show It. she We want you laughed a little shakily. dears to like us!" she said. And immediately she was all practical. "I've put you both In here, Ellen, it's not the largest room, but It has the pret tlest view, nnd the fireplace. And in summer, you can move if you like And Thomas Is right next door, across the bath. Lizzie can either sleep there or have a room upstairs with the oilier gills. Little Keno will look out for you. she's Japanese, hut she under stands everything, and If you ring, she'll bring you anything. Don't dress unless you want to; Im going to get " into something comfortable She was gone, and the younger Josselyns left to smile upon each other like children In a fairy tale. Ellen explored tbe little Couiu?u; every need had been anticipated, everything wal perfect. These aren't Pembroke beds, but by George, theyre awfully good ImitaAu6 tions, Gibbs said, investigating. I like the goldfish floating atmut In that tall bowl. There are other goldfish downstairs, and did you ever see anything so wonderful as the flowers?" Ellen contributed. Just freesia lilies In the music room, and masses of pussy willows In the hull, and early violets here- - Gibbs, dear, and she came close to him, nnd put her hand on bis shoulder. ure we lueky, or what? Did you get that delicate Insinuation of what we were to do In summer? her hushand questioned In turn. Do you suppose they expect us to live here?" Ellen answered, with a Glbhs, cautious look about that amused him, it looks like It ! And you know," she went on happily, when she had taken a simple, soft little brown dress from the eloset where Keno had carefully arranged all her clothes, nnd was brushing her dark hair, you know. It would be r Imply wonderful beyond words to be here, Gibbs, and then for you to have a "studio In town. Ive always felt that It wns a mistake for families to combine, but If we had the studio, and could stay there for a night or two, and then with your father and Lillian going to town as much as they do, and leaving us alone here. It wouldnt be like falling over each other all the time! And, Gibbs, If Its like this now. Imagine what June will be nnd how Tommy will love it ! 8he wns happy tonight, happier tnao she had yet been In this old atmosphere that was yet so strangely puzzling nnd new. Life In the city bad been trying, she had been conscious a hundred times a day that she was unfitted for It. But now she was back in the country. Aunt Elsie and Joe and grandpa only a few miles away this was her own atmosphere. They would soon dilute the luxury of Lillians home with Intervals In soma simpler place where Gibbs could lunch in his old painty jacket. If he liked, and where Ellen could cook a little, even If It were on a gas stove, nnd garden a little, even If It were only In a window garden. And he would be painting all through the happy mornings, and she would go to market with Tommy beside her, and hear him bis reading lesson, nnd make him spend half an hour on exercises with his violin. What are you smiling about?" Gibbs asked, s they went downstairs, with bis arm about the velvet dress. He had told her he liked that foolish little dress, and the violets pinned beside the prim white collar. You! She gave him the usual and as usual, he tipped her bright face up for a kiss. A moment later her father-in-lacalled her from the entrance hall downstairs. Ellen ran down to JUd him, and to walk about the bare garden with him. respectfully asking him questions about the lawn and the roses. Gibhs went on to the long drawing room, where Lillian was standing, dressed In some Oriental shapeless garment that gleamed with rich embroidery. She was staring down at the fire, her beautiful dark bead bent she lid not seem to hear him come in. When his shnd"w fell across her tislon she looked un. her eves grave. Then she smiled, and merely shaped tl e word "Gibbs" with her lips before dtopping her eyes agitn. "Ellen Is out in the garden with dad." Gibbs volunteer,-'!- , nibbing his hands before the blaze. Lillian gave him an absent look, and fell to dreaming again. Little flames licked noisily in the silence. about tbe back-leg- , After a few minutes Gibhs gave hts stepmother a quick look; It was ns If he saw her. young, beautiful, troubled, for tbe first time. Something was making her unusually silent tonight; he wondered what It could he. Headache, Llll'nu?" he ventured. The words sounded curiously Intimate and tender ns he heard them fall, he had a quick flash of diffidence. Did he call her IJlllan?" But of course he did ! She looked up with her slow smile. No, Gibhs. 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