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Show THE SAUNA SUN. S ALIN A. UTAH 115252SHS2SaSZ r. u a a a H Josselyns V nj H Wife B a a la Bv KatKleen Norris a a a a a a g Illustrations by Irwin Myers Copyright by KatKUn Norris CHAPTER XVIII Continued -- 2(1 Then they were at the beach, and the center of a Joyous activity. Gibbs was settled, with the plaid, on a warm curve of rocks, where he pulled his cap over his eyes and watched them all placidly. Lizzie found another natural chair, where she sank down with her baby, gazing with dreamy content at the glittering water, steeped in the peace that the tugging, busy little lips at her breast seemed to enhance rather than Interrupt. Then little Ellen was settled on the pillows under the umbrella, and Lizzie gayly joined the A hundred times, on this workers. memorable happy day, Ellen found herself watching Lizzies little white figure, her happy, youthful face. Lizzie was Just twenty : what might have been her destiny at twenty? The tireless, sweet green water rose and fell ; each wave formed an emerald arch of Itself before it broke with a long, splitting crash, to rush in, level and Incredibly swift, flinging upward 8gainst Impeding rocks, and curving over the white sand. Gibbs watched It a delicious lull of body and soul. So much of it such splendidly wasted beauty and energy, year after year. How pitiful was even the fullest, even the longest human life, against this glorious miracle that went on year after year throughout the centuries, that had been as old as the world when Padre Junipera Serra walked along these shores. Joe clattered near him on the rocks He tilted the cap over his eyes a trifle and glanced at the absorbed group by the fire, fully. Her eyes went to Ulnna, dozing on the rocks, and a sorrowful .Jook filled them. I wish I hadn't hated her!" she aald softly. You havent much to regret! Joe assured her, rolling over for a nap. They did not speak again until the car grated on the sandy road a few feet dbove them. They all saw that the day had tired Gibbs. He was a little stiff as Joe helped him tc the car, and there was an anxloua look In Ellens eyes until she had him established In the spacious, pleasant order of the porch again, and was personally superintending his slow drinklug of a glass of milk. But he seemed to recover rapidly. Presently he was smiling and listening again In his usual way, and Ellen went off with Lizzie, to share the delight of preparing the baby for bed, and to talk over little Ellens lust meal for the day. Tommy, In a glorious splashing and spattering, was profusely watering the garden, and Joe came over to the couch and sat down by Gibbs side. Im afraid our descending on you this way has been a good deal of a tax, Joe said regretfully. Gibbs liad been lying with closed eyes, and the sunken hollows about them filled Joe with concern. Rut now he opened them and smiled, and stretched out a hand to clasp Joes fingers. Always welcome, at any time, dear boy, he said kindly. "But more than ordinarily welcome now. I had thought of sending for you hut one puts things off and theres always che danger of alarming Ellen Never had Joe felt the other mans extraordinary charm as he felt It now. when Gibbs Josseljn, at the end of a perfect September day, confided to his care the things he loved best In life. You see, old man, shes going to need you soon. And that, is why I am glad you are really Interested in establishing yourself In Los Antonios. Shell go away, for awhile, hut she loves this place and if you and Lizzie and a troop of children are here You and Lizzie will look out for her, Gibbs added, after a silence. And the baby will do more than any Manage to speak to me alone a minute, sometime, will you, Joe? Gibbs said. Joe, not moving his eyes from the defiant crab that had wedged his little body tightly In a crevice of rock, cleared his throat. Sure ! he answered gruffly. Ellen also had her word alone with Joe. It was after luncheon, when Lizzie had curled up like a child on a patch of warm sand, and fallen asleep, and Gibbs was apparently dozing. Tonmiy was wading along the bubbling line of foam, and the baby slept on, You knew Harriet and George were here last summer, Joe? Ellen ventured. Do you ever see Harriet now?" he answered, No, indifferently "Shes a queer sort of girl. Whats she doing collecting plates? She has a remarkable china collection, Ellen admitted. China collection ! What's that for a woman to do! Joe stretched comOh, well, he fortably in the sun. said leniently, thats all right, If she likes It. Harriets nice enough, but shes spoiled by too much money. Yet you liked her very much once, Joe, Ellen suggested, from the depth of deep amusement and satisfaction. Oh, yes kid love ! I never really loved any one but Lizzie, said Joe. Ellen saw that he really believed It, and with a great sigh of thankfulness she laid one of lifes ghosts to rest forever. I'd like to go down to Los Antonios some day, Joe mused, and see what sort of opening there might be well, for Instance, in starting a paper there. I havent said anything to Lizzie, but I talked to Gibbs about it. Id like to live here, and have a little bungalow, and a bunch of kids, and I think Lizzle'd go crazy! Im seriously thinking about It. I could have a little Jitney and go back and forth You could have a slice of A ready, Ellen promised eagerly; weve twenty acres here, and there are dozens of -- house-site- s ! Joe yawned again, blinking at the sun. By the way, he added, more anlmntedly. Ellen, You knew that Lillian had remarried? Just thnt, through George. Have you heard anything more? It was Lindsay Pepper, of course? It was Lindsay Pepper. Rut the strange thing, young George Lathrop told me, was that she didnt really wont to do it. She and the old lady dont hit it off at ali well, and all his Remoney conies from his mother. sides that, Lillian would rather have been a rich widow, you know at all events, she did deliberately try to get out of It. Rut, Joe, I dont see why she f ouldn't ! "Oh, he had a tremendous hold on her. Yon see his name was mixed up If with hers In the whole business. she didnt care for him, she never should have been away from home the night of the accident! I suppose he simply forced her hand. Funny thing, Joe added, reminiscently. When 1 first met her sue had all the cards: beauty, youth, a rich man's wife. Now ales married to a man four years younger than herself, who Isnt exactly a teetotaler, yoii know, and whom she upports well, thats coming to her. Poor Lillian! Ellen said, thought Well see. The voice stopped. II was twutgm now; there was no more sunlight under the oaks, and Tommy and hla hose were gone. The ocean moved Ilka molten lead, wrinkling softly Into opalescent gray and blue and silver. Weill Gibbs said briefly. That all. fairy Tale - In the long silence Lizzie slipped out and burled the glimmer ef her white gown In a wide porch chair. If tills Isn't Heaven! she breathed, contentedly. A moment later Tonmiy little twilight concert began. They could see a pool of warm red light about the piano, In the big sitting room, and Ellen's bent dark bead and the little dark head over her shoulder. There will be a splendid moon Gibbs told them. He and Ellen watched It together, hours later, when Tonmiy was long In bed, and when Lizzie and Joe had stumbled away, as happily tired and Just as sleepy as Tommy, the child, was. Then Ellen sat in her favorite seat, a low hassock beside his couch, so that her arms lightly rested against him, and their fingers were laced. They had no light, and could look across the low, broad rail of the porch, straight into the sleeping garden, and down the sloping sides of the little canyon to the sea. Et In Arcadia ego7 Ellen said. Weve had more than one Arcndy, And Ellen, her husband answered. tills has seemed to me not less perfect, somehow, because It is not to last I He heard the quick rise of her breast, and felt a faint tightening of her fingers. It has seemed right, somehow, to spend this year with you and Tommy, here hasnt It been a perfect year I T won't allow you to talk so, Gibbs, she said, determinedly, but unsteadily. "Just this once! he answered, and she could tell by his tone that he was His wonderful smile the smiling. smile lie had given little snubbed Ellen Latimer, when he drove her to New York In his car! "No formal goodbys, GJhbs said. Not that! For if you dont know what you are to me, Ellen, what Ive felt as you poured all your goodness and sweetness and faith over me " With a sudden movement she laid her face against his hand, and he felt that her eyes were wet. Gibbs, please I" Rut theres one Well, I wont. When Tommys older, tell thing him tiie truth. There's a time In a boy's life when It makes a lasting im pression on him to realize that you You pay, you cant play with fire. one way or another. I'm paying this way. Theres too much else for a man to do, Ellen too many things need changing for any sane man, or any woman, to go right on Into the thirties with the egotism of the teens. And that brings me to the other thing, Some day. If yon feel like It, I wish youd do something for some kid who has gotten himself in wrong with the authorities I dont know exactly how I wonder, now lying here, how I could ever have lived In a big city, and not realized that there are fellows who havent anything like my natural advantages, and who get up against misand misinterpretaunderstandings tions " I Ellen said steadily, thought, that when you are better, if we ever go hack, Id go to Mary Cutter, beHe Heard the Quick Rise of Her cause she is interested in all that sort Breast, and Felt a Faint Tightening of thing, and just follow the cases in of Her Fingers. some court. One couldnt do much, of course. Hut there would always he one! And I think of her, with books, something, a visit to a mother, or perand her garden, and Tommy, and Tomhaps a word here or there Hes an odd child, but mys music What a little saint you are. Ellen ! she understands him, and his mistakes Just a little Inspired saint, thats all! wont be the ordinary mistakes Gibbs exclaimed. That's Just what He smiled at Joe, and somehow Joe I mean. The law is all right, of course. smiled back, although the younger man It must he what it is. Rut I tell you, felt tears hot behind his eyes. Ellen, that Its enough to drive the deVVonTbe my mistakes, Gibbs said cency and the good out of any man. It was all too easy for me. The musingly. coldness, the carelessness, the It was always plain sailing, and thats smells, and dirt not not exactly disciplinary, you You must forget all about it, she kmow. I never cared much about the deother fellow's troubles Ellen's the said. "You never did anything to a prison experience it was all serve one for that and now, lying here, Joe, for the past few months, Its come to a horrible mistake! It wus a mistake from n human me as a sort of revelation that even In Gibbs conceded thoughtstandpoint, It If never this Im having Ive easy. but I dont know about rny had any particular pity fn the fellows fully, I won who havent enough money, or had sick record in a higher tribunal. of bow fellows the der many serving wives, or had to sit on an office stool life terms now ever had an angel for eight hours a day I certainly can't exa mother, and a saint for a wife, pect the world to stand still with symand friends and warm food clothes one man because to be pathy happens from the hour they were born, algoing out a little ahead of time! and serv Joe could find nothing to say, and ways money to buy prestige ! Ellen, if I had after a moment Gibbs spoke again, ice and preference my life to live over again, do you more briskly: I think it would be? Ac Well! There was another thing I know wlmt the to cording principle that until evto to wanted you, and I'll say It, say man had it. I didn't want other and then we neednt take this up ery until and other child had It, it, every was here last again. George Lathrop I didn't want my son to have It whatsummer, and we went Into this a little. He seemed to feel that we might he ever it was. travel, clothes, education, making too much of this, and he sent toys, everything! "I suppose thats loving your rfiogh-bn- r a specialist down from San Francisco us yourself, added Ellen's thoughtEllen never knew why he came; he ful voice. in been have to Williams happened Well, you go to old George, and he with tne, and his wife came, and ull that. Rut thats not the point: the and Mary Cutter will help you find the C.ihhs was beHfter thing Is that 1 know how George feels casts you're she Rut laid her hand again. ginning about Ellen; hes always adored her. I mean that he makes a sort of a little lightly over his 'ips. Don't talk that way not as If !" patron saint of her. Every other womHer cheek was laid ngaiiist his hand an In his life Is Judged by Ellen. Now, He put his free hand softly some dav shell be lonely; Tommyll again need a man's hand, George will lie his on her head. And even through her dark hair Ellen felt the chill of guardian, anyway some day, George thick, will tell her he can't help t what his fingers. TIIE END she Is to him ! And thats where I want you to use your own judgment. One Original Tongue Joe. I cant tell her this, of course. There are some persons who supAnd also theres a chance that she may honestly not want to marry any one! pose that Hebrew was ttie language But if she lets any thought of me spoken by Adam. Others say that HeYou might tell her then, tie added. brew. Chaldean and Arable are mere In a low tone, that the purest and dialects of the original tongue, of best and sweetest thing in my life was which It Is said In Genesis 11:1: The what she gave me that no man ever whole, earth waa of one language am owed a woman the debt I owe berl" of one speech. i GRAHAM 5yAARY corriioM h iuin mmn - -- m BONNER uNtm THE POOR DRESS Oh, dear, said the dress, I feel so sad." Now the dress was hanging up In the closet. Reside it were a number of other clothes. There wus a best party dress and an old apron, an old coat and a good coat, and a scarf aud a hat and several other things. "What is the trouble?" asked the party dress. I am hated," said the dress, and it makes me feel so sad. "Youre hated, said the party dress. That Is too bad, too bnd." And the party dress drooped just a little and the rosette which was on Its left shoulder looked, for the moment, rather crushed. That's a shame, a perfect shame, said the party dress. It Is dreadful to he hated." Oh, yes, said the other dress, it Isnt nice. But it Is not only for myself that I feel sad. I feel sad for my little owner. You see she goes to school, and 1 am her school dress. It Is true I'm a plain dress. I was her best Sunday, dress last year, though. I was worn to parties, too, just as you are now. Tarty Dress. snid the party dress, "Dear me, will I be hated next year? I hope not for your sake, snid the plain dress. "I hope she will feel differently by then. I dont altogether blame her, the It is hnrd for plain dress continued. her, but It is hard for the grown-ups- , UJ SAY to be getting ahead of story, though, dont Colds. 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Rut tonight after a hard day for my dear little owner suffered badly today when three children went Into a corner of the school cloakroom and giggled and pointed and made remarks about me but tonight," the plain dress repealed. I heard the mother nnd the father talking. I told her, the mother said, that It was silly of her to feel badly, but Ii oh, I know how the child suffers. it dreadful to think other children can he so cruel. Rut, tiie father answered, If she showed them she didn't mind it they'd soon give up teasing. Still it Is hard but I cant afford anything extra. I'm afraid, not even for the malerial. And the parents both looked at each other and their eyes were sad. I was out upon the chair then, after my own er had gone to lied, and then the ninth er came and put me away and as she did so a tear fell upon me. Oh. party dress. 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