Show EmI e I ORE 1918 C DODD ME COMPANY PRINCE PROVES HIMSELF A REAL CANINE HERO AND WINS APPROVAL OF THE CORNERS Synopsis TIer Her father and mother reported lost at sea sen when the Dunraven on which they had sailed for Europe was as sunk Carolyn May Cameron Cameron Hannas Hanna's Hannas Carlyn is Carlyn is sent from New York to her bachelor bachelor bach buch- elor uncle Joseph Stagg at the Corners The reception given her by her uncle Is not very enthusiastic Carolyn Is also chilled by the stern demeanor of Aunty Rose nose Uncle Joes Joe's housekeeper Stagg Is dismayed when he lie learns from a n lawyer friend of bi his hili law in that Carolyn has been heen left practically penniless and consigned to his care as guardian learns of the estrangement between her hel uncle and his time one-time sweetheart Amanda Tarlow Farlow and the cause of the bitterness between the two families CHAPTER VI Continued 7 t Aunty Rose remained ned apparently as austere as ever er while Joseph Stagg was quite as much snuck Immersed In business as IlS formerly Yet there were times when she and the child were alone that Mrs Kennedy unbent In a greater or less ess dc degree r e. e And on the part of Joseph Stagg Stag he found himself thinking of sunny haired eyed blue-eyed I Hannahs Carlyn with Increasing I frequency you ever have haye any little girls Aunty Rose nose Carolyn May asked asked asked ask ask- ed the hoUSel housekeeper on one of these Intimate Intimate intimate In In- occasions Or little boys I mean of your very own Yes said Aunty Rose nose In a matter- matter of-fact of tone Three But only to have lune them in my arms for a very little while Each Ellch died soon after coming to me There was something somethIng- quite wrong with them all so the doctors said sold Oh my dear All three of them 1 sighed Carol Carolyn n May Mar Two girls and a n boy Only one lived to be three months old They are all nIl buried behind the church yon yon- der The next nest morning early Carolyn May Ia with Prince went over oyer into the church churchyard churchyard and and urd and found the three little lIttle- stones in a row She knew the they must be the right ones for there was a bigger bigger big big- ger get stone with the Inscription Frank Kennedy beloved spouse of Rose Kenned Kennedy Ken Ken- ned nedy upon it The names on the three little stones were Emeline Frank Jr and Clarissa Weeds and tall grass had begun to sprout about the little shaped lozenge-shaped I stones and about the taller taUer one While she was thus eng engaged ged a tall tallman tallman tallman man In black black looking looking rather weedy himself if the truth were told told came came across the graveyard anI stood beside her lie He wore a 8 broad band of crepe around his hat and on his arm and was very ery grave and serious Who are you little girl he lle asked his voice oIce being quite agreeable and his tone kindly Im Carlyn Ma May If you rou please she replied looking up at him frankly Carlyn May Stagg he asked Youre Mr Stagg's little girl Ive I've heard of or you Carlyn May Cameron she corrected correct correct- ed seriously Im only sta staying Ing with Uncle Joe He Is m my guardian and he lie had to take me of course when m ray my papa and mamma were lost at sea Indeed 2 returned the gentleman Do you ou know who I 1 am I I 1 I think said Carolyn Caroln May lay doubtfully that you must be the un un- un- un For a moment the gentleman looked startled Then he flushed a little but buthIs buthis buthis his eyes twinkled The Time undertaker he murmured Do I look Jook like that Excuse me sir said sold Carolyn MayI May I dont don't really know you rou you ou know Maybe youre you're not the undertaker No iNo l I am amnot not Though our undertaker undertaker undertaker under under- taker Mr Is a very good man man Yes sir said the little girl po po- po- po S I 1 am the pastor here your here your pastor I I hope he said mid putting a kind hand upon her ber head Oh I know you now said Carolyn Caro Caro- lyn May brightly Youre the man nina Uncle Joe says sas Is going goia to get a strangle strangle stran strati gle gb hold on Satan now nov that vacation Is Is' Is over Rev neve Afton Aiton Driggs looked rather odd again a The shocking frankness of the child came pretty near to flooring him hut himI I ahem I ahem I Your uncle compliments me he lie said drUy You dont don't know that he Is ready to do his share re do you Ills His share repeated the time puzzled d little girl Toward strangling the strangling the I Evil One pursued tho the minister a wry smile curl curt ing lag tho the corners of his lips Has lIns he lie got a share In It too tooT asked Carolyn MayI May I think we all aU should I have said the minister looking down at her with returning kindliness In his glance glauce Even little girls like you ou Carolyn May looked at him him quite se so- Dc you on spose she asked him confidentially con con- that Satan Is really wicked enough to trouble little girls It W wu II a g startling bit of new phy thus suggested and Mr Driggs shook his head In grave doubt But II it gave him something to think of or all that da day and the first sermon preached In InThe InThe InThe The Corners church that autumn seemed rather different from most of those solid indigestible discourses that thai the good man was wont to drone out outto outto to his parishioners Dunno but it Is worth while to give the parson a vacation Uncle Joe at the dinner table Seems to me inc his sermon this morning seemed to have a new snap to it hell he'll give old Satan a hara ham rub this winter after all nIl Joseph Stagg Stags 1 said Aunty Rose admonishIngly I think hes he's a avery ery nice man sold sail Carol Carolyn n May 1 suddenly And I 1 kep awake most of the time you time you ou see I i heard poor pOol Princey howling for me here where he was tied rp vp Hum ejaculated Mr Stagg Which kept you awake the awake the dog or orthe orthe orthe the minister Oh I like Mr 1 Driggs very much the little girl assured him And hes he's in great fiction too I am sure He Hehe Hehe Hehe He He- he wears crepe on his hat and sleeve Huh so he does grunted Mr 1 Stagg lies Hes most always In mournIng mourning mourning mourn mourn- ing for somebody or something Do you spose Uncle Joe that he looks up enough nough It does just seem to me as though poor Mr Driggs must always be looking down instead of ot looking up to see the sunshine and the blue sky and and and-and and the mountains like my papa said you should Uncle Joe was silent Aunty Rose said sold very briskly ly for her ler And your papa was right Carl Carlyn n Ma May He was a very sensible man I have no doubt Oh he was quite a wonderful man said the little girl with full assurance It was on the following morning that school opened The Corners district school was a red building with a squatty bell ben tower and two front doors standing not far up the road beyond be be- yond ond the church Miss Minnie Lester taught the school and although Miss 1 Minnie looked very sharply through her glasses at one Carolyn Caroln May thought she was going to lov love the teacher very much Indeed that was Carolyn Mays May's attitude attitude attitude at at- toward almost everybody whom she met She expected to love and to tobe tobe tobe be loved Was It any wonder she made I so many friends There proved however at the start to be a n little difficulty with Miss Min Mm- nie nb Prince would not remain at home He lie howled and whined for the first half halfor of or Monday mornings morning's session as Aunty Rose confessed almost driving her mad Then he slipped his collar and tore away ayay on Carolyn Mays May's cold tra trail 11 Into the school marched the dog having drawn the staple with which his chain had been fastened to the bole of the tree in Mr Stagg's back yard ard Miss Minnie was WIlS both alarmed and angry Some of the little girls shrieked and wept when Prince pranced overto over overto overto to Carolyn Mays May's seat scat If you do not shut that awful do doup dog up so that he cannot follow you here Carolyn May I speak shall to your uncle uncle un un- un- un cle dc Mr Stagg about it Ugh the ugly beast 1 Take him hun away at once I ISo So Carolyn Mays May's schooldays at The Corners did not begin very happily after acter all aH She had always loved and been loved by every teacher she had ever had before But Miss Minnie seemed prejudiced against her because e of Prince The little girl felt badly about this but she was of at too cheerful i l tempo a ament a- a meat ment to droop for tor long under thin the pressure pressure pres pres- pressure sure of or any trouble The other children chil i dren liked 1 J r e and Carolyn May found plenty of ot playmates It was on the last lost Friday In the month that something happened which quite changed Miss 1188 Minnies Minnie's attitude towards that mongrel Incidentally The Corners as a community was fully ful ful- fui- fui I ly Jy awakened from Its lethargy and as asIt asIt asIt It chanced like the Sleeping Beauty and alt all her retinue by a Prince The school session on Friday afternoons afternoons after after- was always shortened This day Mr Brad Brady one of or the school trustees trustees trustees trus trus- tees came caine to review the school mind and before he left to pay Miss Minnie her salary for the month Carolyn May had bad permission fr from frota Aunty Rose nose to go caning calling that after after- 1 noon Freda Payne whom sh ShA 1 li hie i ivery very much lived up the road bond beyond the schoolhouse and she and nad Invited n the time little city girl to come conic to se see her Of Ot course Prince had to be lie Included In iii the Invitation Freda fully understood understood under under- stood that and Carolyn May took bErn bErnon on ou his leash They saw Miss MInnIe at her desk when the they went past the schoolhouse She was correcting written e. e exercises Carolyn May secretly hoped that her own was much better than she feared ft It was Not far beyond the schoolhouse Prince began to growl and the hairs hair stiffened on his neck Whatever Is the matter with you Prince demanded Carolyn May In a moment she saw the cause o othe ot of the dogs dog's continued agitation A roughly dressed bewhIskered man sa sat beside the road eating a lunch out ant of or a n newspaper He leered at Carolyn May and said I guess gness you got a bad dog there aint ye little girl Oh no Hes He's very polite answered Carolyn May You must b bo be still Prince I 1 You see she explained he doesn't like folks to wear old oil clothes If If It If you had on your our Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day suit Im I'm quite sure he would no not growl at you lie He wouldn't he hey 1 said sold the man mar hoarsely licking his fingers of the las crumbs of ot his lunch An suppose j a feller feHer aint got no Sunday suit I Why then I spose Prince wouldn wouldn't over ever let you come into our yard I yard 11 he was loose Dont let him loose now little girl said the fellow getting up and eyeing the angry dog askance Oh no sir Were We're going visiting up the road Come away Prince X wont won't let him touch you she assured the man Time The seemed rather doubtful 7 if f her he ability to hold the dog long lorg am and he lie hobbled away towards the school school- house Carolyn May had a n very call call Fredas n l-Fredn l Freda's Fredas s mother even approved o oJ anI and it was an hour before th the tho two started for home In sight of ot th school house Prince gave evidence again of excitement I III wonder what is the time matter with you now Carolyn May began when suddenly she sighted what had evidently evl evi dently so disturbed the dog A man was crouching under one o othe othe of the schoolhouse windows bobbing up now and then to peer in It was th the tho thoman man mann whom they had previously seen beside the road rond Hush flush Prince whispered little Carolyn May holding the dog by th tho collar coHar She Shet too could see sec through the open ope window Miss Minnie was still at her he desk sk She had finished correcting th the pupils' pupils papers Now she had hod her ba bag open and was counting the money Mr Brady hu hud given her ber oh o breathed Carolyn May clinging to the eager enger dogs dog's collar colIa The man Ulan at the window suddenly left his lila position and slipped around to the door In a moment he appeared In Inthe Inthe inthe the schoolroom before the startled teacher Miss Minnie screamed The Time man with a rough threat darted forward to seize her purse Just then Carolyn May lay unsnapped the leash from Princes Prince's collar and le let him go Save Miss Minnie Princey she cried after the charging dog Prince did not trouble about the time door The open window through which the tramp had spied upon the schoolmistress was n nearer He wen went up the wall and scrambled over oyer the time I slit sill with a savage determination that tha left no doubt whatever in the tramps tramp's mind With a yell of terror the fellow 1 bounded out of the door and tore along J g the e road rond and through u h The Cor Cor- I nee ners at m a never ne before equaled in that locality by a knight of the road Prince lost n a III lif tie time in recovering his footing and again getting on the trail of or the time fleeing tramp But he was soon baying the fellow tellow past the blacksmith blacksmith blacksmith black black- smith shop and the store The Time Incident ailed tailed the entire caUre population lation ot The Corners save gave the bedridden bedridden bedridden bed bed- ridden to the windows and doors For once the little somnolent village I awoke Prince continues to prove that he Is a very important character In this story The next installment Installment installment Install- Install ment tells how he is concerned In another incident that may be heard from later Dont Don't miss this TO 10 BE DE CONTINUED |