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Show yTTTTyT'yTTTTTT'l'TyT't'Xl-l--Jfc--l l'l'T 1 HIS OBJECT LESSON 1 Dy CATHERINE CRANMER. -H"H-f-I"f'H"f-H"H"H"H"H"H"H"f1f "Larry, havo my horso ready at five today." As Harold Urentley spoke his attention was attracted by old Larry's unusual lameness as ho started off toward to-ward tho stables. "Hold on, Lorry," called Harold. "What has got Into your legs. Aro you doing anything (or that rheumatism?" "Sure, Mr. Brcntloy. I can't boo how modlclno I swallow Is going to help my logs, but old Doc Whitley says to keep on taking it." "I'm ntrald that cooking you do over thero Is nono too good (or you. Larry, why didn't you marry, and now you'd havo a wlfo to tako caro o( your aches and pains?" "Well, Mr. Brcntloy," began Larry slowly and standing with his loft hand on his hip nnd his right, hand holding his knee, "It was Just becauso I wns too hard-headed to glvo In on anything, any-thing, and whllo I was waiting (or tho girl to givo In on ovorythlng sho married mar-ried a (cllow that wns so glad to got hor ho didn't core who give In nor how much." "That la rather a voguo explanation and a surprising ono to mo, Larry. I novor found you hard-headed." Harold Har-old was curiously Interested. "But you novor found mo till after I'd learned a thing or two," responded Larry. It's a long story, but if you want to hear It all I'll tell you." "Go ahead, Larry," Harold smiled encouragingly. en-couragingly. "You see," bogan Larry, "Mary Glenn and mo wbb tho same as engaged, en-gaged, and I was so Jealous I didn't want hor to danco with the other (el-lows. (el-lows. Sho was a girl with as many ways o( smiling as a mocking bird has of singing, and, of course, the follows flocked around her. One ovenlng I got mad 'cause sho danced thro'o" times with tho samo fellow, and I guess I took a nip more than was good (or my temper, and on tho way homo I laid down tho law to Mary. She didn't got riled, but she said, Ji'st as calm as you plcaso: 'Whenever you got ready to quit bullying mo and to let drink alono as much ns you want mo to let the other boys alono, thou 111 bo ready to glvo In about anything In reason. There's got to bo glvlns in on' both sides, or wo dou't koop company any moro, and that's all I've got to say.' It was all sho did say, too, and my storming around about a girl trying to Interforo with a man's personal liberty didn't draw ono word (rom hor. When sho rcachod her (athor's gate sho flounced into tho houso quick ns lightning light-ning and at Christmas tho samo year sho married another fellow." "And you, Larry what did you do thon?" Harold asked this por(unctor-lly por(unctor-lly to bring Larry's mind from tho (ar-away (ar-away past. "Mo? I sailed for America, and I've been hero oyer sinco. So," concluded Larry, "you" sco, hero I am, with no wlfo to help mo carry the load that comes with tho years." "Yes, Larry, I think I do see," said Harold slowly. Then ho got up abruptly abrupt-ly and went Into tho houso. Ho closed his study door nnd went straight to tho tolophono. During tho brief interval inter-val until ho rocelved a reply no visible musclo moved, but hlB face grow very palo and his heart pounded away llko a stationary englno. "Colonol Huntor's rcBldonco?" Thon, almoBt Instantly, "May I speak to Miss Eunlco?" Ills attltudo remained rigid as ho awaited hor volco In tho receiver. "Eunlco, this is naroia. May l taiK to you a llttlo whllo?" Tho hand th'at hold tho receiver was trembling. "There's a lot I'd llko to say that could hardly bo Bald over tho tolophono, tolo-phono, but If I told you that I've bo-gun bo-gun to sco Bomo things dlfforontly would you let me como to sco you and explain?" And Harold, whose arguments argu-ments In court woro noted for1 their dlrcctnoss, found himself floundering for words tn which to preBont his side of tho caso to the calm-voiced young woman at tho othor end of tho wire. "Woll, no; perhaps that Ib not exactly ex-actly explicit. Tho only way 1 can be explicit Is to say frankly that I'm ashamed of the attitude I tookfwhon wo disagreed over whothor I should dlctnto to you about your professional associates any moro than you about ml no." Harold almost ombraced the tolophono Instrumont as bo added, In his most porsuaslve tones: "And, Eunlco, ybu'vo mado such a success as a social worker among unfortunate women, won't you undortako to sot right and make happy ono more man whoso mind is open to conviction and whoso heart Is starving for you?" A very brief pause marked tho birth of a blissful oxprcsslon on Harold's face. "You say 'Central' is not deaf? I'm not either, Eunlco, and It makes mc happy to bear that gentle tono In you: volco. If I come by In fifteen minutes will you go for a long ride and supper at tho Country club?" Tho Intorval that followed was Infinitesimal. "I'm on my way now, dearest!" Tho receiver was still swinging on Its hook when Harold wont from the room and called to Larry: "Novor mind about the horso, Larry; I'm going out In my car." "And you'ro not going alono either, or I miss my guess," chuckled Larry to blmsolf, as ho llmpod away toward tho Btablcs. (Copyright. 1915. by MeClure Newipapet Syndicate.) |