Show A Carolyn of the Corners I BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT Copyright MM br by Dodd Road Mood ft b Company too Ino I PRINCE BECOMES A HERO OF ANOTHER ADVENTURE WHICH INCREASES HIS POPULARITY Synopsis Her IIer Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the Dunraven on which they had sailed for Europe was sunk Carolyn May Cameron Cameron Hannas Banna's Bannas Corlyn Is Corlyn Is sent from New York to her bachelor bachelor bach bach- elor uncle Joseph Stags Stagg at the Corners The reception given her by her uncle is not very enthusiastic Carolyn is also chilled by the stern demeanor of or Aunty Rose nose Uncle Joes Joe's housekeeper Stagg is dismayed when he learns from a lawyer cr friend of his law in that Carolyn has been left practically penniless and consigned to his care as ns guardian learns of the estrangement between her uncle and his time one-time sweetheart Amanda 1 and the cause of the bitterness between the two families Prince the mongrel do dog doc that Carolyn brought with her and the boon companion of the lonesome girl Is in disfavor with Uncle Joe who threatens to dispose of him but Prince becomes become a n hero and wins the approval of the Corners by routing a tramp in the tho act net of robbing the tho schoolteacher I CHAPTER VII 8 A Sunday Walk Really if Prince had bad been a rain yai dog do his ego would certainly hare hare-be co come e unduly developed because of or this thi Incident The Corners as a n community community voted him an acquisition whereas heretofore he be had bad been looked upon a aa as asa asa a good deal of a n nuisance After she recovered from her Iler frIght Miss Minnie walked home with Carolyn Carolyn Caro Caro- lyn May and allowed Princes delighted delight delight- ed little mistress to encourage the tin hero to shake shale hands with teacher Now v you see sec hes he's acquainted with will you JOU Miss-Minnie Miss said Carol Carolyn Caroln n May Ja Hes ulIes an awful nice dog You didn't k know ow just how bow nice he e was before Almost everybody went to church and all the children to Sunday school was held first The Rev Her Afton Alton Driggs though seri seri- ous-minded ous was a loving man H He was fond of children and he be and his childless wife gave much of their attention attention attention at at- to the Sunday school Mrs Irs Driggs taught Carolyn Mays May's class of or little litre girls Mrs Driggs did her very ery best too to get the children to stay to the preaching service but Carolyn May ay had to confess that the pastors pastor's discourses were usually hard to under under- stand And he is always reading about the she complained gently to toUncle toUncle toUncle Uncle Joe as they went home bome together on this particular Sunday and I cant can't keep interested when he does that I spose the were very ery nice people but Im I'm sure they weren't related to us us-they've us they've all aU got such funny names 1 Hum ejaculated Uncle Joe smothering a desire to laugh Flow gently sweet s Afton docs does select his passages of Scripture mostly from the valle valleys valles s of dry bones I allow Youve You've got it about right there Carolyn May I Uncle Joe said the little girl tak- tak her ber courage in hi both hands will you do something for me Then as asbe ashe ashe he be stared down at her from under his bushy brows she added I l dont don't mean that you arent aren't always doing something some some- thing for me letting me-letting letting me sleep here at nt ur house and cat eat with you and all that But Dut something special J 1 What a Is the something special asked Mr Stagg cautiously Something I want you to do to to- day You always go of off to your store after aCter dinner and when you come home its jit's tB too dark Too dark for what I 1 For us to take a n walk said the little girl very earnestly Oh Uncle Joe you dont don't know how dreadful I miss taking Sunday walks with my 3 pa a a I 1 Of course we took cm em in the morning for he had to go to work on OIL the paper in the afternoon but we Idid did just about go everywhere If It you would go with me the little girl ad added lied wistfully just this afternoon seems to me I wouldn't feel so so-so so so empty Humph 1 said Uncle Joe clearing his Ms throat If It its it's going to do you OU any particular good Carlyn May I suppose I 1 can take a walk with you It was a crisp da day ono day one one of those autumn autumn au au- days duys when the tang of ot frost r re remains remains re- re mains in the air In spite or of nIl all the efforts of the sun to warm It Here and there thoy they stopped to pick pickup pickup pickup up the glossy brown chestnuts that had burst from their burrs That is Carolyn CarolO May and her uncle undo did Prince after a single attempt to nose one of ot the prickly burrs left them them strictly plane plon pi one You ou might just as ns well try to cat Aunty Roses Rose's strawberry needle cushion cushion cush cush- ion fon the little girl said wisely have hao a sorer nose than Amos Bartlett had when he tried to tofile tofile tofile file it down with a wood rasp rasp Hum 1 ejaculated Mr lIr Stagg whatever pO possessed Jes cd that Bartlett child chillI to do such euch fool a trick Why you OU know his nose is awfully big said Carolyn May And nd his mother is always worried about It IL She must have worried Amos too for one day last week he went over oyer to Mr shop borrowed a n wood rasp und end tried to lie file 2 his 1113 nose down to a u pro proper r size And nd now he be has to go with his nose all greased and shiny till the new skin grows back buck on It it Bless Bloss ute we what these kids will do 1 I I muttered Buttered Mr Ir Stagg Jl It was Just at III that moment that the little girl and the man becoming really good comrades on this walk met with an adventure At least to Carolyn May it was a n real adventure and one she rho was n not nt t to forget for a long long time Prince suddenly bounded away awny barking down a n pleasant glade glide through the bottom of or which flowed a n brook Carolyn May lay caught a glimpse of something something- brown moving down there and she sho called shrilly to the dog to come back But nut that's somebody Uncle roe Joe Carolyn May said with assurance as cs the dog slowly returned Prince never ne barks like that unless its it's a n per per- son And I saw something move moYe Somebody taking a n walk like Uke us us Couldn't be a deer said Mr Stagg Oh cried Carolyn May later Inter Isee Isee I Isee see it again That's a skirt I see sec Why its it's a n lady 1 I Mr Stagg suddenly grew very stern- stern looking as well as silent All the beauty of the day and of the glade they hey had entered seemed lost on him le lIe went on stubbornly yet as though loath oath to proceed Why WIlY murmured Carolyn May its Miss Amanda 1 That's who it ItIs itis Is sM The carpenters carpenter's daughter was sitting sitting sit sit- ting ing on a bare brown log by the brook She was dressed very prettily all nU in brown Carolyn May wanted awfully to speak to Miss Amanda The brown t r y 1 4 cIa a fr d i r Leaped Forward With His Walking Stick to Strike lady with the pretty roses in he her cheeks heeks sat on a log b by the brook her face turned from the tho path Joseph Stagg and his little niece were coming along And Uncle Joe was quite stubborn He Ele stared straight ahead down the path without letting the figure on the log get Into the fo focus us of his vision Hanging to Uncle Joes Joe's hand but looking longingly at the silent figure figur on sn the log 10 Carolyn May was going down iown to the stepping stones by which they wore wora to cross the brook when whon su suddenly 1 Prince came to a halt right rl at it the upper end of the log and his ills body stiffened WIld What Is It Prince whispered hi his mistress Come here Bat Bot the dog dog did did not He even not not at Miss Amanda of course but at nt something on the log And ind it Jt was Just then that Carolyn May lIny wanted to scream scream and and she Bhe could not I PV r there them on en n the tho log raising its flat fiat wicked n head out Iut of ot an mx aperture was was wa wasa s sa a Q snake a horrid silent writhing creature the look looh lo h of or which hold the I little mUe girl stricken horror and speech- speech i lacs Uncle Jre glanced down do Impatiently to see Bee what made her hold back so 50 The childs child's feet seemed glued to the earth She could not take another r step Writhing out ont of ot the UIO hole In the tho l log r and colling colUng as it did so Into an nn attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude to strike the snake looked to be dangerous indeed The fat fait f t that it If was only a large blacKsnake and nonpoisonous nonpoisonous nonpoisonous non- non poisonous made no difference at that moment to the dog do or to the Uia little girl nor girl nor to Joseph Stagg when he saw It It was coiled coifed right at Miss Amnnda's Amanda's back She did not seo see It for tor she nhe was quite as intent upon keeping her face turn turned cd from Mr Stagg as a. he had been determined to her presence Carolyn May was shaking and help help- less Not so fiO Prince He repeated his hla challenging growl gro and then sprang at nt the vibrating head Miss Amanda I uttered a stifled scream end and jumped I up from tho the log whirling to see what I was happening behind her ber Joseph Stagg dropped Carolyn Mays May's hand and l leaped aped forward with his walking stick raised to a strike e. e But tho the mongrel dog was there thero first He wisely caught the behind tho the head bend his strong sharp rp teeth severing severing sev sov- ering its vertebrae Good dog 1 shouted Mr Stagg Stage ex ex- Fine dog dOi lOh l 1 Oh Miss Amanda I shrieked Carolyn Carolyn Carolyn Caro Caro- lyn May I I 1 I thought ho hG was going to sting sUng you you you-I I did I 1 She ran mn to the startled woman and nud clung to her hand band Prince cc nosed the dead snake Mr Stagg looked e exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceed- foolish Miss Amanda recovered her color and her simultaneously What a n brave dog yours is little girl she said to Carolyn May And AndI I do so ISO despise snakes I 1 Then she looked directly at Mr Stagg Stag and bowed gravely I thank you she said but so 50 coldly so go Carolyn May thought that her voice might have come Just ot off an Iceberg Oh I didn't do anything really anything really I didn't stammered the man It was the tho dog Both looked very uncomfortable Joseph Stagg began to pick up the scattered chestnuts from the overturned overturned overturned over over- turned basket The lady stooped and whispered to Carolyn May Come to see me my dear I want wanto to o know you bett better r. r Then she kissed Carolyn May and slipped dipped quietly aw away 1 from the tho brook disappearing la in th the quickly under under- growth Joseph Stagg and th the little girl went vent on across the stepping stones while Prince splashed through the water rater Carolyn May 1181 wa Will thinking about Miss and she believed her ber Uncle Jo Joe was too Uncle Joe she said would that bad iad old snake have hare stung Miss Amanda Huh No I reckon not not admitted Mr Stagg StAg absent Blacksnakes Blacksnakes Black Blacksnakes snakes dont don't bite A A. hi big one like that can squeeze some But nut you were scared of It like it-like like me and Prince And for Miss Amanda said Carolyn May very nry much In oar ear nestI nestI nest I guess most everybody Is scared by the sight of or a snake Carlyn May But nut you were scared for Miss Amandas Amanda's sake Just sake just the same as I Iwas Iwas was repeated the little girl decidedly Well 1 he growled looking away troubled by her insistence Then you dont don't hate bate her ber do you your the child pursued Im glad of that Uncle Joe for tor I like her very much I think she's a n beautiful lady To this Uncle Joe said nothing I 1 guess thought Carolyn May wisely that when two folks ore love each ench other and get angry the loves love's there Just the same Getting mad doesn't kill It It only makes em feel worse Poor Uncle Joe Poor Miss 1 Amanda Aman Aman- da I Maybe If they'd Just try to look lookup lookup lookup up and look 1001 for brighter things they'd get over being mad and be happy again When Uncle Joe and Carolyn May returned from this adventurous walk Mr Stagg went heavily into his own room closed the door and even locked It Ho He went over to the old fashioned walnut bureau that stood stool against tho the wall between the two windows and stood before It for some Borne moments mome inan In Inan Inan an attitude of deep deer reflection Finally ho he drew his bunch of ot keys from his pocket and opened one of the two small U drawers dra In the heavy plea of ot furniture the furniture the only locked drawer there was He drew forth a tintype c picture faded now but el clear ar enough I to show him the features of tho the two Individuals printed en an the sensitized plate Ills His own oyes eyes looked look a out ont of the photograph photograph pho pho- proudly They were much younger ores eyes than they were now And nd the tha girl beside him In Ute the picture pie pic ture I Sweet as a II wild roso rose fandy Mandy lovely calm countenance promised ed all aU the he beauty and dignity her matured womanhood had achieved Mandy I Mandy I ha ho murmured over OTer and over again Oh Mandy I Why Why He Ho held the tha tintype for a long long time In Ia his hand gasing on it with ey eyes that saw laW the vanished years rather than the portraits themselves Finally he ha hl hid 1 the picture away again closed and locked the drawer with a n sigh and with slow etow steps left the room Carolyn I lr arns from simple Chet Gormley some somo things about her financial affairs that cause her much worry Read Rend about bout It ItIn ItIn Itin In the next Installment TO CH BH CONTINUED |