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"T: I I f’’ ' ‘ J ' LI L ’ ’' "i ' ' — -' L-jL v ' - V? t-''‘T- “V ‘ '' cs t " - -- L - - - j PAPER i-W-c-" ' v - - n ' j - r -t 31 ' ''gfflssqrx - ' ‘ ’ ‘Cl ' fi 4' - I jW r w W s HS Pk T I MS H4 Ik ? f ' By f s-ct u rv - - ’ 'A ti- 4 I Sanderson ':Mhr’ref-Ldve‘ ' — (Copyright by 'All Company Britton the Belli? & reserved) rights -rf - ' '-y T a ‘ ’ e - : 1 V I rA RJORIE BECKWITH as certain -known of xlrXV Captain Becky because A A TJU — wssawg Indian UVUW river In vppivlw lorida has been Invited to by her wealthy friends the Hattons in visit them at their country home New Hampshire Sho hesitates at first to because ahe knows that she cannot so as dress 'well rtieUe Hatton her Siiend parents manage to overrule her ouiprrinn fin Tnia f‘nrr nnn riih goes feeling some restraint at firstof She meets various young friends and Schuyler Hatton some of whom’ try to tease her but with the help ofa Schuyler she holds her own She rides but allows herhorserace against Lucile self tq be beaten' Becky shows a great deal of interest in a certain fewis Ahiswede whom she has before befriended in and who turns toup at the Hattons’ place and helps him get a position as reporter on newspaper V t fl - I ' - -Her ? ggjl niii w u iy i - accept 'X I m cYi llwiwM Lucile H gig ' f -V ' w ' ' - !"" A y a' AWB CHAPTER “ 8 i -lorida ‘ THE N " Ride in XVI the mqrnlng Hills Becky the first and up was ’ of W the around before -household r¥ It' z — )$ wr Iwi Jaw £ ' J-l -Ly-aaa ' to be The’ early mail arrived and nine although there a was drizzle of rain falling she slipped iIrtto a rubber coat and darted down to the’ lodge as soon as she saw the mail arrive She was deterailneil that Lucilo and Schuyler should catch no sight of that letter for sho bad been teased so much on th© way home about Mr Webster that Mrs Hatton had finally put it a stop to for good Sure enough the letter was there hand that JL WfiW - sLfW K r nr L&SfeU' -i” - WILJL a mfr - ad-scrawling -wus most the first to disappointing at But girl gratification the lead" was writtei’i on a typewriter’ and there was a mere note from its writer s Beckwith” read the “Here is the lead for the my very best wishes for You success have mv address and to would hear how It turns out Should you ever visit- New York please consider that am at your if need of a guide you Jiave like to would visit the vou Press Club and other points of interest which a Chicagoan (!) might not always see" Instantly Becky’s mind flew back to r her uncle's parting words at the train "And by the way would you have any ‘Here it the lead for the story with my best withe for its success’ read the little note objection to lorida experience's My dear Miss Beckwith your being put Into a book? As hinted to last night the side you have a keep at new and fresh arr approving glance directed at it He’s been in England and acts like very Interesting character whom Becky was up early Schuyler stuck-up” In the might make use of In the future! With all “I’m glad we got Lewis landed safe regards to the Hattons believe me and was carried off by Mr Hatton on Lucile!” expostulated her "Why of his silence "He ought yours very sincerely special expeditions said the boy after one many mother Mr Hatton laughed "Harold Webster” It to make good with Downs” it’s true mother!” was nearly noon when they returned "You know the porch the will” replied Beaky and she found sitting on “I hope he Abstracting this Becky slipped the Lucile "Just the same he’s an little members of the party whom she "What’s that funny to two already addressed get paper into an awfully good sort once you bf did not yet know house away up there on the hill?" a with note her and overlook his affectedness Last summer own farmhouse’ Cecile she had met or rather seen "Nothing but a an left it at at the lodge be sent to Lewis the lake he and Sky had a fight over at with a laugh “They the races and Becky was already swered the boy Lucile did not appear until noon Gus forgot himself when Sky teased selfside taken with the girl’s quiet have the barns over on the other in right They've been Schuyler and the others were him and sailed BCsldfe Schuyler sat a from here We’ re getting possessed air out of sight The day was a down for breakfast good friends ever since” tall in lartky youth clad into the valley very now that leads up who’s Cecile Arden?" asked dismal one with a misty rain falling "And of English riding clothes orest’s Corners Ain’t great?" correct all Bedky laughing morning During the afternoon this It’s cut He rose and bowed as the girl "Oh just beautiful!" exclaimed Indeed" put cleared off and by evening a red sun"She is a very nice girl Becky asthe valley opened out below was introduced in Mrs Hatton ‘‘Idn’t you meet her trifle On Bittier Just a taken aback by his them and they started down at last week? She be the race wore a would a fair one New greeting Beaky remembered hand lay little farms the immense wide Leghorn hat with a blue bow” Therewas little activity at the farm behind them Alt Schuyler’s words of the night before Hampshire "Oh yes" answered Becky ‘‘The during the day Becky occupied herself Reaching out she seized young von around were the mountains and Schuyler girl quiet with such in home during the writing letters pointed ahead to a towering mass Platen’s hand and shook it heartily lovely hair 1 remember" morning and for most of the afternoon of "I’m very glad indeed to meet you-’’ granite "She’s quite a musician too” added little was absorbed with the pianola in the sho exclaimed’ smiling "There’s the Corners— that Lucile "Plano you know" When the family gathered music room The somewhat startled boy opened splotch o’ white ’bout halfway up" this moment Schuyler returned At in the library after dinner that evening his it suddenly mouth then shut "An there's somethin’ else too” beaming at last Schuyler spqke up ho answered broke in Dusty from behind “Look “Aw” "It’s all fixed up! Bus’ll bring Cecile gljrte! "I say Ld’s set up a party really!" of "chawmed back us” If for luncheon the weather's over all tomorrow and take a ride through the “Is that Gus?” Becky turned and gave a little gasp you can say good Jack’s goin’ to let Dusty know" finisof Becky wants to see the mountains broke in Schuyler But at that alarm Rising behind them with its till “Then won’t start after you and you can’t see anything from the Humphreys' rolled darkness merging into the hills below car up noon?" asked his mother Billy and Dusty Tho and to a cur” containing Jack the west was a great inky Schuyler Bight alter" announced for ’Won’t the roads be pretty bad party gathered on the veranda with cloud extending nearly halfway up the "I certainly hope the sun’s out” Hatton of riding?" suggested Mr much merriment and laughter ©ky A chorus cries went up as the "But what’ll wear?' asked Becky father” put in don’t think sp Soon after luncheon Mr Hatton called "I girls saw in sudden dismay At the frank question to and ordered eight horses Lucile eagerly “They've had a day up the stables ‘Do think we’ll have a storm '" Mrs Hatton and Lucile smiled you ’how quickly oft in and you know dry brought to the house Schuyler Dusty asked Cecile a trifle fearfully “That don’t matter" interposed in shape By and Jack were clad in sweaters while ithesq mountain roads get Schuyler hastily maliciously "Gus’ll prob’ly liave "Mebbe" grinned Hump ought to be just right Billy and Cecile had tomorrow they costumes ridin duds but the rest of us'il go in "Shucks! We wpn’t neither" good in haven’t had a ride And we to of what similar Lucile and sweaters an’ leggings" Schuyler with confidence "It with me” smiled Mrs Hatton Becky nodded Becky’s eyes "Come ain’t heading this way” if it might "I "111 see what "Looks as rain” declared ware' agleam with Interest think can find for you” "Looks to me as if it was heading Becky-and Lucile followed Mr Hatton standing the wide steps she broke out her on id txs fine” way” stated Billy looking over the former not without some tn appeared with the every stand a as grooms "Do you think you could her shoulder at the slowly moving mass inward hesitation horses There's a black cloud over the Hatton mis-ch! dayte ride?” asked Mr in "It’ll pass over” said Dusty mountains the south" "I believe in beiiig sensible up here" it we’re nearer the Comers than all announced Mrs she opened "Oh think won’t” returned we day would Hatton as wouldn’t ride Go ahead Sky” a clothespress "I allow’ Lucite to wear "Anyway aren’t going to let arc home Becky in dtenmy we reached the Corners weT’ returned not” asserted Schuyler divided skirts and the other girls have a cloud now!" scare us back When wastheymerely IL is of which a straggling "Qf course taken to There why chorus went from the In and no reason assent up the morning A a few houses and two stores the shouldn't ride astride especially others and waving a last farewell the We acould women Let’s go past lune1 along up in sky did not look nearly so threatening take a this’’ down the gravel driveway a place like party in started Lucile and take I'o rest' Corners Gus who had had most of his high “Here mother” cried Lucile spirits They’ rode two we are great quarry' pile of shaken out of him on the look at the old dragging a garments abreast Becky and Schuyler leading manners out urged vigorously that they finish "These ought to fit Becky too" Then came Dusty and Billy Humphrey way "And the old deserted house" added the journey to the top of the moun "They look about right" declared Jack and Lucile with Cecile and Gus house too?” deserted tain "la there a Becky holding a suit against her body! last shining her eyes "You're the only one with naked Becky "I’m so much obliged for them” far going?” asked anyif duds ever "How are we 4ura’’ responded Schuyler “The to spoil” retorted Billy “so you ‘Sure’” ’’Don’t menUon-4t4auieMs Becky as they swept out into the JUST' Wit Till "It is wet don't blame us! Let’s Hatton closing the door only main highway get go have Lucile?” of on" it! Who’ll we old suit Lucile’s and "Let’s see” responded Schuyler an you are of willingly 5Oh and Jack Becky seconded her and Dusty and Dilly than welcome to it You'd better "orest’s Corners is about five miles more sister''“Let’s get it it they rode through the Corners with replied hte Briggs change We’ll that the mountain try on now so can go past up to of only give tho eight if hardly a stop pausing make a necessary” and then home by the other come two morea and Up How horses a swallow of water and cluinge about calling Becky hastened to her room and tried road” lust for mountain road they in Gus it fitted the winding Platen and Cecile Arden?" To her delight This meeting with the apup von on the costume program the went forgetting everything in Schuyler perfectly So comfortable was it that provhl of all they struck into the "i’ll do It' now glorious scenery that lay outspread too’ 'Gus is a she laid it aside with a sigh as she mountain road a few moments later and just the ones Becky was so absorbed that them slipped back into her waist— one that Becky when you get to know Mm" were soon among the hills sport notice how the sun ws she did not she had bought from the Daubigny herself immensely Her horse Schyvler darted out to the totelephone gradupllv fading from sight until a to sisters in Jlelbourne’lorida She had booth and- his sister turned was a beauty respondingof instantly reins sudden shadow plunged the valleys receive some callers that the slightest movement the a smile dressed to deeper purple ahd the into and she had only to drink in the clear afternoon and bad noted more than ous ’Gus needs some explanation Becky “Mx-dear Jlttitr note - "sldty -Mtes with its I - be-glad I rwB of service Possibly ’ I I it -ana a ' I -morning a ' defended absently envelope -to although t extremely ' it formal hay-barns - good-looking A moment A I ’ it some-those declared everhbrHatton I upstairs £ ’ "Anyhow 3 ' I Lucile villageof -start s A-' ' i - 1 ’ -bourse” -party "-exclaimed - below -‘"They’re enjoyed -' ' s A Beckywith fc x - - “ - below -partv |