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Show ! - - ;jOaC)eOOeC3090aoO00000 : Hiram's " f I Butterfly 8 8 6 A Story of an Aeroplane o o - o By CLARISSA A1ACKIE ' o o "opfllRlil, 1910. by AtlH-rlcttn 1'rcsn o O iFtoolutlon. O CfoO'OoOsOsOoOOeOaOeOaOoOiO ,lt tvaH poImimI on the rolling prrou mrf f tlu wost imwlow ntnl with ha uilsprond wins: loolu-tl very nntr like ii pri-tit white hut tartly. ' "I cull It nn 'nlr tiler.' " explained 'II-i 'II-i mm Nutlet in the little crowd of man ntul women who linl gntlirrcd about the mnohlne. "I fool justly proiul of her too. Mndo every bit myself e:.cept the otuhic." "Musi have cost u pretty penny," I drawled .Jium Lummox en lonely. 1 "If H'd Kon mo I'd rntlier hne nn 1 nutcriuohlle. You enn tnke the bull 1 family out In one of. iliem curs." I 4,I1 do Hivni sort of u m-HWi con- I Intptluu." put In lln. Poueon SUiuner. 1 Kor Instance, suppiwe you wanted to i take Mien out on n tUiniluj ufteruoon. 1 Where Hie laiiil would the bltV .Shr- 1 veered eurlously at (bo broad lonthir 1 Hlnip (but served us tbe slnjrle sent In 1 (be llylni; uiuehlno. 1 "I -wouldn't want to po." snapped 1 Kllen Hurler, with an nnury glance tiT 1 bet- liusbadd. "Caleb me trusting myi Helf In (be ulr with any maul" i All tbe -wblle that ber busbnud was demonstrating tbe -wonders of bis In- ventlon -and even while be made a short experimental lllf:ht above the eloer tops Elleu was thinking bitterly il of tbe money that bad gone Into the usvloss nine blue. The bank account, 9 savlnjis of years, bad been drained to jfl its last dollar, and tbe uiurtgagu which 8 Ilbitm bud plaud on the house to get m more iuoiie. to perfect his patents M Keemed to Mini like some buge blotch B that would never be er..dleated. ra When tbe onlookers had pone nwa.v KHen .still rvmaJuul. silt ntly-waleblnp lljnun's movements about the mull mu-ll 't'litne, Presently he looked up. and jM- his pae :.it Iut hostile e.es. Ho fcpij- - sirulphten d lu-iucdli tcly, Jfcl "! -wish J on d'dn't foel so hitter irF l",u 'f 1 U2ut t 'cpPit to make a bun-Up bun-Up ,M 'b-cd timtK as mftfb with ibis hi von- Y "lf Ith Allure. IUlon," he ient ou fP quietly. i' tnlu- a Job in the phi fac- - tory to D.dpevilo till I've earned ' onouph to put the money" all back. 1 I'll do it and run the farm too. Hut J I'm not polnp to fall. Do you think I'd put that money In it if I hadn't i folt pretty sure of sliced',? I'm polup !! up tonljflit too. Don't you want timee mk "No, 1 don't. IT tram lluticr. and 1 m 'Wlh ,nu wouldn't lly oer the lmuse. Hr. 'I'he pt""'..y tlih:p ml, lit f.ill on il and f kuoek uff a uhlinacyor come tbrouph j the roof. Land l.mnvH. 7 d like to keep I n roof over my head even if I starve , f 'to death!" Elleu turned and proceed- "" ed tywaid the house without one baek- wurd planee at her husband. IJIraui stood by the maehlue. IiIh shoulder diooplng slightly, Jdh lu-oad 'foreheaid knitted thouphtfull.i. ills brown, eyes seemed to ppor.uuloiishy s beyond the hn ,inp hills .as. If ilinnr- ous of lbe ivsult of tliis evenhip's experiment. ex-periment. Ihulauet, the nIatcu bad nn estate there, jiral he 'bad promised Hiram be would buj the pattnt out-rlplitif out-rlplitif .the -air HJer", wouJJ makV n tiuecerihful fllpht ' arr. m tint Wuufy miles il i ouniry llmt A'mni(vd their respsctlve ho-ajoa. . Now, as he stood there In the juu-"! juu-"! ture, W Invention the public topic of Ihe community, ttu-um sjifike as If la . elf defu"e npnlnt bis nJpbbow illKiipjinnul and bis wife's bitter res-3pinUicu res-3pinUicu '" " 'I may le a farmer bam and bred," he rcjld nloffly, still with that farsce-lup farsce-lup pjattfe jui'OHs the bills, "and may-' may-' be tlwt's (bo -erj' reason I'w invented a Hyhip machine hen I cotilcln'i eon- ' - li'h a corn sJiJlil' or a mowlnp ma- cblne'to suvu my life'. , It's the birds have done It. I've studied 'em till I """"""" " ln!Jevo I could nlmost fly myself." Tbe supper bell Janpled noisily from the frout jwrcb. where Ellen awaited l bis fominp. lie was quick to entcb the note of Impatience In Its brazen tonsue and hastened toward the house. As he cmterwl the kitchen bis wife - - iwsied Into the dlnlnp room and sat down at the table, tl It was a !'ent meul, ss hud been all (he men Is in that house since the mort- fiase bad ritcd theroon. At last III- i miu pimhed his plate anlde and arose. f I "I'm polnp down to tltc potoIilce, - Klk-n. When I come back I'm going M to ituU,a tljie oa$ fltsbt I'vq ever t- H temotcil. if 1 miccecd in gutting over H to Budmiet' pliTo he's promised to H l,uju .lt- Vwi wouldn't ant to H coma ut and h' me oft?" lie spoke Wfe- H lllt'c i tfnllv If (To be continued.) I |