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Show Sqarf dieted Tbat Tablecloth B AAA1AAAAA lAM li bf! EsitBiloen Noirris kathibn CHAPTER 4X Conliaoed "And whatd you go to the library for, Sheila T we "Well, wanted to see each other, Joe. You see, when 1 went to give back that blue purse and I lost It, Ms, but my money's here safe, 1 left It homel WeU, and then, Joe, when I went to the Me to give back the money, I got my. self up like a beggar, remember? ao that they'd feel sorry for me, ee? WeU. It eeeme that this Gertruda Keane, whose puree it wee, is a ward of the Me Camns her father and mother died when she wee little, and ahe grew up with the Me Canns. And Peter McCann was right there and I hadn't seen him since Tiller's Beach because he had lost my address but I didnt know that- -" "Slow up, Sheila! You and he rnn. liked each other at the beach?" "Just that one day. And then we danced that night," "And then the next time you meet him its four days before hie marriage to another girl?" "You see, Joe?" "But you were (tiU in love with will admire your skill him? crocheted cloth ijafoM a "WeU, I sort of liked him. Sheila j, kmly pineapple design. suddenly took a firmer tone. "But 1 make grand iquares Pattern 2441 hate him now! she said. wort, too! L direction for square; it "Three days afther ye've merried of it and stitches; pho-- d him!" her mother muttered in an That's fine dolne! iquare; materials re-,-jj undertone. "Walt a minute, Ma. So you and send order to: Peter said you'd meet?" aCbth Bitm. NMdlteimfl cents tralS - Ik. Shanghaied at 10 Dept New Tat in cobs for Pat-- times Pilots a year, idiots gliding steamships Tort harbor, find out of She swallowed, nodded, watching her brother's face anxiously, with drenched eyes. Then, fighting beck the tears, she told them of her incredible adventure. Presently Joe interrupted. "Sheila, listen. I want to believe you, end I want to get this straight But It eounde awfully Ashy. Why should those men want to drag you and Peter Me Cann along with them? Why shouldn't they let you the ocean go home?" nigh for them to board the :M and, consequently, stay !k vessels until they reach Tor such inconvenience, the I company pays three dollars g n weU as expenses, cafy three men were away same time, one having been ied to Panama, one to Phila-hi- a and one to Southampton. ei Relieve OKEKI "Trying Days" life Dr. Pierces Favorite Pre- dn orer a period of time. Helps Apical resistance by improving Bool sssimiiUtiom Adv. Word in Season spoken in season is like tide of silver, and actions word ore precious than words Pfa. die truth about yon knsbimd. You'll find out going to do on Page 19 of 7 issue of True Story Mage "W oa safe Adv. s- -I know "Well, they were trying to hide something, Joe; they were afraid. They were trying to hide some- thing!" "Go on. What happened then? "Then we went bumping up end up end up Into the most desolate old house you ever saw, and I was so tired X lay down end went to leep with all my clothes on. "And the next day yesterday there we were with three terrible-lookin- g men, only they turned out to be not eo fierce, and then this first man came up and X guess he told them everything was all right, because, anyway, we started down in the eame truck only first X cooked dinner for them. Ma. X cooked a t, only I had to thicken it with flour, because there wasn't any cornstarch so then they brought us to this place called Capitol Junpot-roas- ction" "But when were you In Boston, Sheila? "In Boston! We weren't in Bos- ton." "That's where your telegram Method la Work came from." rtodis the very "Why, It couldn't have been, Joe! hinge of bust ! ad there is no method with We gave him our names on SaturPartiality. CeciL day at the studio, and he said hed send the telegrams right away. He thought Peter end X were married, or were going to be, anyway " "But listen, Sheila, let's get this straight Were you married here in Hew York?" "Merried! Joe, you're crazy, or Ihtaportantlleaiapl else I'm going crazy. I dont know which! We never were married. We never We hate each other! thought of getting married! WmcaftcB mult frea "X guess you and I dont underlLSTEH?' S? n P take Hakbam's YmUtU Coca- stand each other, Joe laid slowly, after a long pause. 1 guess were sort of In the dark. Who sent that?" limp obHe took a much-folde-d tosio. Trt ill long of yellow paper from his pocket opened it passed It to Sheila. it and looked ale Oneself She flattened a M oneself ia fa reality the at him. Then she reed It again, tfutmph. Sir J. Lub- - this time including a glance at the date line, "Boston. March 15, 12:13 A. M." The message wee brief: "Peter Me Cann and I married eveby Justice of the peace this letter said. happy it "Very ning." Ml soon. Wr ' fm Brt Vlqu Bmuuai Ilk. M By Td Mt wri.ua with It was tkla NatMMr iwt signed "Sheila. For a long time Sheila eat staring at them aU in silence.' The color drained from her face. Is that what be eent?" she whispered at last n noihs wnu semes Ob. blessed Saint Joseph, save Angela prayed, frantically. No heavenly Intervention appeared likely. But there was an u! interruption, nevertheless. Frank Me Cann quietly opened the hall door and stepped into the kitchen. He was confronted by Sheila, with blazing eyes. She had thrown off her brothers detaining band, her fingers had been on the knob when Frank turned it "Hello, hello! Peters older brother laid in hie pleaaant voice s he took in the scene. ''What's going on here? "What'a going on, Sheila 4 hotly, with a heaving chest i that my mother and my brother and filter don't believe me, and Tvs had about enough of being treated like a thief and a liar and a and X dont know what else besides!" pale-free- d, an-f7- street-walk- CHAPTER X "Well, here here don't be in such a hurry! Frank (aid, stopping her with a big, gentle hand. Tve got to go! Sheila told him, breathlessly. But wilt minute' "You wouldn't she fold him. "You'd get out if your mother and lister and brother all d youl Gentle and dark and be smiled down at her, not freeing her arm from the grip of his fingers. "WeU, X never doublecross ed you, did I, Sheila?" "Let me go! the girl said angrily. She looked up, end for the first time in her life die really saw him, a dark, smiling young man, with Irish blue eyes. 1 never doublecrossed you, did X? Frank said. The girl a poke dazedly, as if out of a dream. "No, you never doublecrossed me." "Sit down, then," he said. Sheila did not move her eyes. Be a good girl," Frank urged. Suddenly she sat down. She still watched hie face expectantly. My father is very anxious to see Sheila and you, Mn. Caricadden," Frank said. So that we can begin to get aU this straightened out Unfortunately unfortunately Joe and I, here, gave the thing to the papers t noon today, he added with a rueful laugh. "Thera was no marriage, it eeeme now," Joe said. No, but the evening papers have double-crosse- good-nature- fiiet whatever you think to right my It was only a question of Justice brother' U do," he laid. to you, Sheila." Mn. Caricadden glanced at "Well, you can teU your mother Sheila. that Im perfectly satisfied!" "It wouldn't be fair to your brothMiss Kennedy my young laer, an him in love wif another Frank persisted, agreed with dy young lady." ihe said. Sheilas bewildered eye went my mother.then she doesn't underWell, from Frank's serious, handsome face to her mothers face; returned stand the way I feel!" Sheila said hotly. to Franks again. Color began to Frank waa smiling, as at an anstain her ghgWt. child. "What are you talking about?" gry She's a pretty wise young lady, she demanded flatly. he said, ee if he were "Niver you mind, miss!" her Bernadette, merely thinking aloud. Sheila stood mother answered. looking at him, panting. We feel as if you got the the You don't think I ought to marry rotten end of this, Sheila, Frank Peter!" the challenged him. explained, with a "It "X thought' Her earnestness afmight be that you and your mother fected him In of himself, and spite that all of us it might be that we he looked at her with his kindest exfel-tSheila seemed email and He floundered; his kindly smile pression. in her scant old cotton gown, pale, finished the sentence. fallwith her tumbled coppery Theres gerrla that feel they ing on her broad forehead. bang She waa have reputations to loce! Mrs. fighting to her life. Carscadden contributed stingingly. I thought youd wint to, Sheila," My Father my brother we ail Frank Mid, sympathetically. want to weU, to do whatever we Frank!" Suddenly she was clingFrank began again. ing to him, jumbled against him, Sheila, disdaining words, laughed soft and warm and sweet Dont leornfully. let them make me!" Come," Frank laid, you like If he said anything to her aha did Pete, you know you do." not hear it His arm waa about her "Sheila," Angela breathed, you for a minute, his face against her love him! You've always loved Mm, hair. Why don't you Then they had drawn apart and Sheila touched her sisters hand. his fingers, that had been gripping Shut-ushe said mildly. Anhere, were loosened, and he was waa still. gela running down the stairs. Sheila "Sheila, atop out here into the stood dazed, alone in the hallway. hall a minute," Frank said. "I want After a while ahe turned toward the to apeak to you. kitchen; a strange light waa in her Still disheveled, and pale, and absent eyes, a dreamy smile on her with delicate umber circles about She moved like a sleepwalker. lips. her dark blue eyes, Sheila obeyed. It was marvelous how she liked to When Sheila the room obey him. She leaned against the it wee to a sulphurous silence oa tha part of her mother, who was alone there. Joe had gone to bed In the front room, and Angela was in Sheila's place in the big bed, crying, asleept or feigning unconsciousness, Sheila could not tell. It was a little hard to manage a dignified performance of disrobing and ablutions with her mothers steely eyes upon her, and with tha consciousness that she would presently come to bed in the Mme small room with her, but Sheila achieved it Angela rarely slept in tho big bed. Xt wee a tacit sign of Sheila's alienation from the family that she should Joe clicked teeth and tongue. Mrs. Carscadden began a wail, put her fingers over her mouth again. "What else could we do?" Frank argued. He had put out a big hand and gripped Sheilas fingers as they toy on the table, but he was not looking at her. "We had given the disappearance atory to the police Saturday night, he said. "Then the telegrams came. The quickest way to hush the whole thing up was to tell them that you and Pete had decided to give your families a surprise and get married. We made it a as dignified as we could, didn't we, Joe? We said that this followed friendship begun at Tiller1 a up Beach last summer that kind of thing. "What complicates it," he said, directly to Joe, "to that when Sheila end Pete got to town tonight they went itraight to a police station and turned in the story. The bootlegger story, I mean. So that whatever we do now, its well. It'll cause some little confusion, Frank e concluded, with hto grave for the distressed and attentive cir-dhalf-smil- TO tell the world! Joe said. 'Papa telephoned the police station. Frank resumed, "and they had already lent a man up to the Broadway place. WeU get the dope on that, and then we'll know how to goon. Probably the police wiU take it up at this point. How and then Sheila looked thoughtfully at Frank Me Cann, gftiHying hie face with childlike, as vague, aerioua eyes. He wee dark as Peter, with Peters blue eyes. But hto shoulders were squar defier, and there was something Ho madt him. about nite, polaed Peter seem like a little boy. Just the twist of hto square mouth, not as quite emUing, an sympathetic he occasionally glanced at her was to enough to set her pulses moving a alow, rhythmic beat that seemed to be rocking the whole world as wen as the heart of Shells Carscad- 36-in- r , SEW1NQ CIRCLR PATTERN DEPT. MS New KMtswMfy Art. Calif. Saa Francisco Rncloca U canto in eotoa for Pattern No............. Stas. Name MMiMMMSMiaioiiasioMSSiee Address half-amO- e. After Second Trip Thief s Conscience Awakened The shop keeper was wondering to dispose of three large1 cheeses which had spoiled. He instructed his assistant to' put one of them in the back yardl to see if anyone would take it during the night. The assistant did so, and next morning he re--J ported the cheese had disappeared. That evening the second cheese was deposited in the yard, and in1 the morning it had gone. On the third evening the ' remaining cheese was carried out I how can' p, It That eame Sunday morning, Joe answered, watching her. "Well, of course Its a lie, Joe, die said simply. "We never were --w in Boston, we never were married. den. 14 40 U "Be a good girl," be had aaid to You can go to the library and you on the roof where we her. And ha bad called her "Sheimarks see the from i .,Bltia4 Crnelty I suppose. Theyfrs la." After she had run away e,rth the plow seems Jumped out new, this And from snow. the aU in hatefulness, the probably still there II accusing, suspicious Angela, and you can see the studio. Peter find thia reproachful Joe, and this totell you the same. And you con knew the on map! tally unknown Me, then she Junction Capitol of that she would take these magic worst the believed aU You aninner champhrases out of the very me, Sheila answered, getting on ber of her soul and testa them gry. "You an thought Id run erf the over and over again on her tongue. and got married by a justice Ma and How, tomorrow being St PatAngela of AU you, peaeel rJarnofDjeo, rick's Day. it's a holiday." Frank and even Joel Kduey Action mother won"AU right aha stammered, trem- waa saying. And my AH dered If you and Joe end Sheila feet. to her and getting bling You U never would come down to our house in oa the work right I will run away! hsve the the morning. Mrs. Caricadden. and won't I on JjHuSJTS U hear of me agalnl opt to bHOM alter odd police chasing me up and prlnfing then we can talk the whole thing toJurUioIroimthiUtotiTiae probably be a reitoriea that I eloped with another over. There'll the police department by ruined me, port from girla fellow you've never me then and we can give out a statesee Youll youl ment to the presi and straighten evagalnl" next Jos sakel erything out And by this time risSheila, for heaven'a cheerfully, laid Frank Gelttag week," protested. "Be your age. else could ing, everyone will have forgotten SteLSct 1Wt a telegram like that what all about it You'll be down? Ma think? Ma glanced at Joe, and Joe nodthe as m! bad as Ma was just wildly. sobbed of youl" Sheila will! Me then Mid solemnly. "Dont touch me, Joe, don't hold alL and . Frank stood looking at them me! X tell you Im going away know to you went! "My mother rm never coming back, neverl sbaffiJSSS ever so simple, everything you wear thia spring has to be very feminine and pretty. This is a particularly easy dress to make. Try it, if you haven't done much sewing, and have been wistfully wishing you could. You CAN, with these easy patterns. Detailed sew chart included. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1909-- B is designed for sizes 12, 14, 19, 18, 20, and 40. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36,; 14 I, and 40. Size (32) requires 3 yards of material without nap; 1 yards braid. Send' order to: bo then tonight. "A lot I care! Sheila thought angrily. "Theyre all against me! Sha deliberately summoned Frank Me Cann to her mind, deliberately dwelt upon every look of his, every word, his smiling remoteness from any trouble of hers; he that waa so cool and faultless and amused at it aU! Ho girl would ever get Sheila that one into trouble, thought going off to sleep. At eleven oclock the next morning she and her mother and Joe presented themselves at the Me Part of the way Cann mansion. they rode In a bus, following the Fifth Avenue side of tho park In ekeitement. the holiday-mornin-g Crowds were already gathering for the St Patricks Day parade. There waf Banda were abroad. snow left In the park,' great stretches of it under the bare trees, and there were children skating and scream ing on the pond. It was a cold, unless morning, with a sharp bite in the heavy air. Sheila maintained a sulky silence all the way; her mother and brother scarcely spoke. And this She waa but twenty-onmorning her life was ruined before her. Ho girl alive could live down headlines like those, no girl could go to an office with thia to face! Most of the morning papers had run a conservative notice of the Second Son of Judge marriage. Me Cann Surprises Family, and . T theught youd want to, Sheila, Frank said. dirty wall of the odorous narrow hallway and Frank addressed a few urgent sentences to her. Sheila, I know how you feeL Its been terribly rough on you, But you mustnt Frank began. blame your folks. What else could they think when those wires came, but that you and Pete had run off together? This Ken,- - whoever he la, must be a smart devil, Frank went on, ee Sheila merely raised her solemn eyes to his without speaking. "Hes probably the brains of the whole outfit. He mw that an elopement would shut us all up, dyou see, and give them time. Iti too bad, its all as rotten ee it can be, but it's nobody's fault You just have to keep your nerve for a few days "Will the morning papers have the atory that we were married?" the girl asked, somberly. Well, they may. But what do i Frank changed the you care, if' form Of hil word- s- 'ainco iti not true? he asked. "I do care, ahe said, stubbornly. Can't you look at the whole thing aa a sort of adventure, something that might happen in a movie, say ? You and Pete will think this is a great Joke, some day. "Therea only one thin," Sheila began suddenly, after a troubled study of his handsome, dark face. "Iif wont marry Peter Me Cann. Hot tho Church itself" 'listen, listen, he Mid soothingly, his hand on her arm, "you don't have to get so excited about It. You don't have to. You don't have to marry anyone, if you dont want toi ID become a nun, first!' Sheila whispered, fiercely. She saw Frank's o brighten characteristic his face. "You won't have to go that far. But if his mother and father exanxpect me t- o- Sheila began, iously. Frank reflected a moment They don't" he told her briefly. "You're sure they dont? .Tho man spoke mme slowly: to Why, they wouldnt went you do anything you didn't want to do. to." They might think you wanted "Well." sha Hid, In Instant relist 1 don't want to. You know, Shells, Frank began, You and looked away, hesitating. beknow, my mother thought he and sines you "that again, gan Peter bad been shut up in that place for two night- sHe hesitated, and Sheila took it up defiantly: Yes, I know. And whafa more. Peter was In my room that first left of It. night, what there wss I that la. But I don't caret It doesn the slightest difference." hsif-smil- Pair Married I r - i "I suppose,' said the manager-th'next morning, "that the third-chees- has gone? "No, was the reply, the other TP HIS charming little frock has two have come back. A such a beguilingly flattering , and it looks so crisply John Don't listen to her. tailored, that you can appropriate- Is sura to result Read "A Tragedy, ly make it up in spun rayon or My Husband in May True Story thin wool for runabout, aa well as Magazine and be warned. Its on Hto now. 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