| Show WHAT SHE W ANTED and wom woman an uke like miss nan cy got it by JE JEANNE ANNEo 0 L 1 0 IZEAUX As nancy followed by young tenny came up from the lake and across the veranda of the inn she BOO noted that her aunt anns busy buoy chatter to mrs 0 ordway adway ceased and judged that she had been the subject under discussion aunt Aun tAnn ann was always hushing bushing herself at nancys approach and the girl had determined to find out why now instead of going 11 up to change her dress tor for a game of tennis elie ehe turned summarily on the good looking bronzed young fellow as is they stood together in the hall ball im going to change my mind instead of my dress mr tenny will you yon mind it I 1 blont play until tomorrow he d mind d lut said he did not as p clit 0 on 1 ea i but 0 belll 11 go on he lake with me tomorrow a he a ked as aa he prepared to g gal she nodded her brown head wit it t its cl clos 0 b braids ra I 1 da a and lid and he g h t how i arable deep blue eyes were od nd a a tanned face ace with an 0 od d dimple dimp a in the left cheek and a itt ti boyise figure rid of 0 her sha shaw N nancy a ancy bellber ate ly entered t the he frios glos t unused inn parlor and eat W it do d doe 0 lb 0 open window to lie hear mat chat h her r aunt Just outside was laying baying ab about t her all summer the well preserved old dame had worn an I 1 indefinable n air of secrecy also she had ceased to persecute the walh arguments why she ahe should and settle down why if at twenty tour four a girl know what whai she wants she never will im letting her alone to see what she will do ive given her every advantage since her mother died when she was sixteen ashes had attention enough for a dozen normal girls and ihas made no use she shies ahles away from a decent marriage like a skittish colt now j she dan can have her head john job n Nort 0 onla 18 comi up next week y she seems at boast ait to know what she ehe want snapped mrs ordway john corta certainly illy has had bad summary treatment abher at er lands hands band and seemingly jagt t because he e Is in every respect abe it would be just the thing h n ha thee h er girl in her set would be ho 11 d t 0 do this winter when I 1 re her that a younger man woi wo have the wild oats period to goj go ira r yEh and that lie had had tte i it if there was waa a Y wild ild crop in her family shed help to als well as help reap it well weil nt comIng for another try with lie and young tern ten I 1 hoots he nobody that is cousin of tile testers To stera A civil e eai er without a cent to kis name ing to south america this fall nit ad but a j man I 1 tore fore nancy finds well this she refuses john morion im going to give her the little her mother left her and wash vay y hands bands of her L lets ets dress for tho the afternoon it time As the old dames lumbered toward the front door nancy made a swift silent flight to io her own room and sank into the first chir with both I 1 hands pressed to her b burning I 1 ing cheeks and I 1 let myself lie managed spied on discussed Us ed like A little thought roused her to pla planning a course of 0 action at le ler st she would not be on hand next week v eek to give mr norton his chance before tho the assembled E be ivoun da mand her ber little an fn aloo UJ 1 W in the bank and study elthe nursing or medicine as she had begged be ged to bo be a allowed to do when sh she left college three years before stio she would be happy to fall out pt th the circle of do and C chatter h As she dress fori for ich ch she felt a new life shaping itself itself or her eastman man tenny w would uld n ay ise her ile he vas aar a man ot of action at thirty he vas beginning to do dot bings it hip preparation ig uld ask him at tho stairs foot it hii was waiting and lid asked to lunch with ath her and afterwards led iker her to ho he por porch chand and with an odd look on hi it 3 face eald will you boudo do me alvort a fauvor im go ing to south america day after ta morrow just have at a t algram am will you give me all da day tomorrow something seemed to a weight upon her spirit 11 lie tj wa going why of co course u arse 1 I 1 IT id like to she dresa in trAmP tramping illg things and go 90 where I 1 say without your aunt anywhere she replied with her steadfast fast the next day found nancy and tile the young engineer tra tramping the miles to a rough halt mountain lunching over a campf campfire lre enjoying themselves them solves hugely like two c with no ifo mention of past or future the present was enough in the early afternoon they readied the windswept top and looked d down wit on a world glorious with late september colors a glow of splendor the world and the he glories thereof he quoted nancy just sit elt down and let me show you something site she obeyed and he seated beside her all he produced was a thick package of 0 kodak pictures but wonderingly sho she looked at them they were pictures of bridges he had helped build then of wild south american scenery of gangs of men at work men in rough clothes doing rough work of mountains and deserts and rivers this Is a sort of panorama of my life he explained whimsically 1 I 1 love it I 1 love to do things the fosters have given me the first sum nier mer resort polite society time I 1 have had bad since my people died when I 1 was eighteen I 1 am free to say that id rat rather herdie die than live as they do I 1 want real work and real people and I 1 want what I 1 want I 1 am on the way to got it too save the greatest thing I 1 dont know about that yet yec he paused and somehow she had nothing to say finally he said eald here to Is the roost where I 1 spent last year and must spend this ile he placed before her a picture of a mountain cabin set amid splendid heights and spaces with small cantos cabins about it this Is home nancy it has ha a few rugs and books and ti lings a cupboard ful of blue dishes and a kitchen there are the mens cabins some of the men have wives and children they have only mo me to look to and I 1 cant doa do a comans womans work there Is no school for the children there Is no one to show them a higher standard of living and this he concluded soberly Is tho the real workaday I 1 L I 1 it was a kodak of himself in work clothes tall and strong and unconventional ile he rose and taking her by the hand helped her to her feet these pictures rep represent all I 1 am and all I 1 lieve except a few thousands in bank I 1 have no relatives nearer than the fosters I 1 brought you fa U out here in the wild wilda to tell you of my wild ufa life before I 1 offered you the whole outfit do you want it something compelled her to look up at the serious resolute face and yet she coulta t answer you know I 1 want a wife a comrade a helper not a toy 0 oy r ain a mere ere ornament though heaven knows known youve sufficiently ornamental tor for a kings courtl court lee its wicked to ask you but 1 1 I do want you nancy do you know yet just what you wan want 01 ills voice was waa whimsically tender neney nency remembered her aunts words and smiled as she stood facing lUa bigy oung fellow and to la pd odd fash fashion loii of offering himself oh she said suddenly truth aw a and W courage coming with a rush to her lips 1 1 I do do know what I 1 want I 1 vant v ant you and all the things you tave have and what you do and what Y you ou arel are you must know I 1 want yaul you As the went happily back to the inn abo said amusedly 1 I wonder what auntie will say eay to a twelve hour notice for a wedding im afraid I 1 been beed exactly a comfort to her the roan man laughed from her con on the porch after I 1 left you this noon I 1 gather that mr john norton norton will not have his last flast try nancy looked at bilm reprovingly were you listening too I 1 went purposely into the parlor I 1 hear it all did you did that make yoi tell roe me you were due to be told sooner or later but it make me any slower clower about itt it they looked tit at 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