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Show eiSSJMENS OMEN Illustr&ticnjty cjT V"1' DOM J.LWIN CoEJfrijlt tKHytl.MBB S-MtmU CO. Bsmy Turnsd, 8Urtltd. fixed on lie man ilun which hsd to stubbornly closed tit doors on on of them. Sensations of varying degrees of anlmoalty stirred In each of them, except the child, still too young to be tainted by the corroding tents of worldly Injustice. She skipped along sldewiae, her warm, soft hand clasped In her Aunt Hannah's decently-gloved palm. Borne wave or vibration of the Intense feelings of her elders patted to her, and as they drew nearer the house she, too. began to grow grave, and her skipping quieted down Into a sober walk. "That's Uncle Domlnlck's bouse, Isn't It?" she said to Hannah. Hannah nodded. Ry far the most amiable and wide minded of the sisters, sis-ters, she could not rise above the sense of rankling indignation that she felt against (he Ryans for their treatment treat-ment of Rerny. "That's the biggest house In San Francisco," said I'earl over her shoulder shoul-der to her parents. "Ain't It. Popper!" "I guess It Is," answered Josh, giving giv-ing bis head a confirmatory wag, "and even If it ain't. It's big enough, the Lord knows!" "I can't see what a private family wants with all that room," said Han-nuh Han-nuh with a condemnatory ar, "There must be whole sootes of rooms on that upper floor that nobody lives In." "Don't you fret. They're all occupied." occu-pied." said Ilerny. "Each one of them has their own particular soote. Cornle has three rooms all of her own, and even the housekeeper bas a prtvaw both!" "And there's twelve Indoor servants," serv-ants," said Hazel. "They want a lot of spaa for them. Twelve servants, Just think of It!" "Twelve servants I" ejaculated Hannah Han-nah almost with a groan. "Well, that don't seem to me right," They were eloe to the house now and silence fell on them, as though the antagonism of its owners was exhaled ex-haled upon them from the mansion's aggressive bulk, like an unspoken curse. They felt overawed, and at the tame time proud that one of their number should have even the most distant affiliations with a family too exclusive to know her. Tbe women with their more responsive and sensitive sensi-tive natures felt it more delicately lhan Josh, who blunderingly expretsed one of the thoughts of the moment by remarking: "Some day youH live in there, Iler-ay, Iler-ay, and bots the twelve servants." "Hats!" said Ilerny, giving her bead in angry toss. "I'd rather live In my lat and boss Sing." Josh's whistle of facetious Ineredul-ty Ineredul-ty died away Incomplete, for at that noment the hall door opened and a ortly masculine shape emerged upon he porch. Ilerny, at the first glance, as not sure of Its Identity, but her loubts were dispelled by ber brother-n brother-n law's quick sentence, delivered on he rise of a surprised breath. 11111 Cannon, by gum! What's he Solng there?" t This name, as powerful to conjure with in the city as In the mining- i ampt, cast Its Instantaneous spell up- I n the sisters, who stared avid eyed i ipon the great man. He for his part I teemed oblivious to their glances and , o their presenoe. He stood on the I op step for musing moment, looking I lown with that aort of filmy fixity of ' tase which Is noticeable In the glance i if the resting eagle. His appearance t vas a last crowning touch to the iroud. unspproacbablo distinction of I he Ryans. "Don't be look as If he was think- ng?" said Hazel In a whtsper. "I I vonder what's on his mind." i "Probably that Monday's payday I nd he don't know whether he can t cratch through," said the Jocose Josh. Ilerny did not ssy anything. She i elt the interest la Cannon that aba I I e Stood on the Top Stsp for a Mus- ' Ing Moment. t t id In all conquering, successful peo- c I. and in ber heart it gave her a i ense of added Importance to think I bat the family she had married into nd who refused to know her wss oa t rtendly terms with the Itonanxa King, r A half hour later they had found t eats in front of the band atsnd In tbe i ark, and. settling themselves with a t reat rustling and preening of plum- ge, prepared to enjoy tbe music Han- A ah and Pearl were given two chairs i t tbe end of a row, end Hazel and r terny, with Josh as escort, secured s 3ur on tbe line Immediately behind, tomlnlck had not yet appeared, so the t Isters spread their skirts over a va- ant seat between tbem. and Herny. In 1 lie intervals of inspecting tbe people p round her. sent exploring glances ti bovt for the u!I figure of ber hut- c and. h Fh was very fend of the park and and stand on sweh Busday afternoons, t o go there bad been oh of the greet s diversions of her girlhood. She loved to look at this holiday gathering of all types, among which her own class was largely represented. TI.e outdoor am-phliheater am-phliheater of Oiled benches was to her what tbe ball room and tbe glittering horseshoe at the opera are to the woman wom-an of society. She saw many old friends among the throng, girls who had been contemporaries of hers when she had first "gone to work " and bad long since married In their own world and now dragged children by the hand. She looked them over with an almost putKlonate curiosity, dlscomfltted to see the fresh youth of some, and plested to note that others looked weighed down with maternal cares. Rerny regarded women who had children chil-dren as fools, and the children grouped about these mothers of her own age-three age-three and four sometimes, with the husband carrying a baby were to her only annoying, burdensome creatures that msde the party seem a little ridiculous, ri-diculous, and had not half the lia-preaslveness lia-preaslveness or style of her elegant costume and lilac frills. The magnificent afternoon had brought out a throng of people. Every seat In tbe lines of benches was full and foot passengers kept constantly coming up. standing for a few measure, meas-ure, and then moving on. They were of all kinds. The beauty of the day had even tempted the more fashionable fashion-able element out. and the two sisters saw rnuuy elegantly-dressed ladles of the sort on whom Hsiel fitted hats all day. and that evoked In Ilerny a deep and respectable curiosity, Doth women, wom-en, sitting high in their chairs, craned their necks this way and that, spying through breaks In the crowd, and following fol-lowing attractive figures with dodging movements of their heads. When either one saw anything she liked or thought Interesting she laid a hand on the other's kne. giving it a slight dig. and designated tbe object of her attention at-tention In a few broken words, detached de-tached and disconnected like notes for a sentence. They were thus engaged when Hazel Ha-zel saw Domlnlck and. rising, hailed r' with a beckoning hand. He made bis way toward them, moving deliberately, delib-erately, once or twice paualng to greet acquaintances. He was taller than any man In the surrounding throng and Ilerny, watching him. felt a sense of proprietary pride swelling in her when she noted bis superiority. Tbe son of an Irish laborer and a girl who had begun life as tbe general servant in a miner's boarding-house, he looked aa if his forebears might have been tbe flower of the nation. He wore a loose fitting Suit of gray tweed, a wide, gray felt sombrero, and round his waist a belt of yellow leather. Ills collar col-lar turning back from hi- neck exposed tbs brown strength of his throat, and on lifting his hat In a passing salutation, saluta-tion, his head with Ita cropped curly hair, the ears growing close agalnat It, showed golden brown in tbe sunlight sun-light With a phrase of greeting be Joined them, and then as they awept their skirts off the chair they had been biding, bid-ing, slipped In front of Herny and sat down. Haxel began to talk to blm. Her conversation was of a rallying, loklng sort, at which she was quite proficient Ilerny hesrd him laugh and knew by the tone of his voice that he was pretending and was not really imuaed. She had nothing particular to say to blm, feeling that she accomplished accom-plished enough in inducing him to Join hem, and, sitting forward on the edge sf her chair, continued to watch tbe people. A blonde coiffure some rows n front caught her eye and she was itudylng Its Intricacies through the In-erstlces In-erstlces that came and went between be moving heads, when the sudden mergence Into view of en unusually itrlking female figure diverted her attention. at-tention. The woman had come up 'rom behind and, temporarily stopped y the crowd, had come to a atandstlll i few rows In front of where the sis-era sis-era sat She was accompanied by i young man dressed In the Sunday llgnlty of frock-coat and silk hat Aa ie turned to survey the lines of filled hairs, Herny saw that he had a pale ikln, a small black mustache, and dark yes. Hut her interest In him was of the ilightest. Her attention waa Iramedl-itely Iramedl-itely riveted upon tbe woman, who be-tame be-tame tbe object of a glance which In-ipeeted In-ipeeted ber with a piercing eagerness rom her hat to the hem of ber skirt, leray could not see her face, but ber lablllments were of the latest mode ind of an unusual and subdued elo-tance elo-tance which bespoke an origin In a uore sophisticated center than San -raneleco. Herny, all agog with curl- ' lty, stared at tbe lady'a back, not-ng not-ng not only her clothes but a certain -Vfelessness In the way they were put in. Her hat was not quite straight 1 rv comb, which crossed the bsck ol ler head and kept her hair smooth, vse, crooked, and blonde wisps hung ' ro.ji it over her collar. Tbe hand that elt op ber skirt In a loose perfupe- ' ory manner, aa though these rich un- ' legs were possessions of no no ' nenc was covered by a not particular- i y wUte glove. Suvh unconscious new added the die I I notion of Indifference to tbe already 1 narked figure. Rerny wondered more han srver who it waa and longed to 1 the averted face. She was about 1 o Wan across Domlnlck and attract laiel's attention by a poking finger Urn-ted against ber knee, when the 1 t oman, with a word to ber companion, I noved ber besd nnd let a slow glance weep over the rews of faces. "Hasel." Rerny hissed acrojs Doml- I ilck. "look at thst girl- Who 4 sher I She did not divert her eyes fum the I roman's face, which the now mw in ' iroflle. It was pretty, she tbf.ught 1 nor from a rich. unmlagled jrirlty f coloring than from any pe.ritct.tar 1 auty of feat a re. The bead with Its I ravely-travellng fiance continued to in till Persy had the satisfaction of 1 eelng the fsoe la three-quart era. A 1 SYNOPSIS. mil Cannon, tha bonanaa king, and his daua-hter, Hoaa, wlio hail paaaeil up Mrs. Comeltua ityan'a hull al Han Kranelaro to a'-rompany her father, arrive at Antelupa. Ixmiliil.k Hyan rails on lila mother 10 t a hall Invitation for hla ami la rifua1. Th riiMormltiwl M laity rrfuaa to rm-oa-nlax her ilmiKhter-ln-law. iHim-Inlrk iHim-Inlrk hail Iwrn trapix-t Into a marrlaaa with Kernlra Ivaraon. a atriioicraplmr. aevrral yvars hla anlor. Hha aitiniulra hla money, thry hava frinnt iiuarrHa. unit ha slips away. Cannon and his ilmiRhter ara aiioKnl In at Antlop. I Hiiiilnlck Mvan la rra'-un) from alorm In iinron-erloua iinron-erloua tnnillilon ami lirounlil to Anti-lopa hnH. Anlrlopo la rut urT hy alorm. Itoaa 'annon nurara liomlnli-k hark to Ufa-Two Ufa-Two wwk latr MTnl- fllaroVi-ra In api-r where huatiund la ami wrltea teller trying in amooth over ltf Urultlea between them. I (ofiilnl. k at laat la ahla lo jlon fellow now ti.iiniit prtaotiera In hotel parlor, par-lor, l a loaea temper over talk of Huford. an arlor After three weeka, and of lin-phaomnent lin-phaomnent l aeen. Trl-rnni ami mall arrive Imniliilck seta teller from wife. Telia Hoae he ilo.-nn t love wife, anil never ill. I KtortiilioiKnl paopln hek'ln to ilepnrt. Hoae mill Ikiinlnti'k emhrai e. fnther aeea Ilium ami ili iiiiuiila an e planatloti Hoae'a brother len la maila inanaKer of rain-h, anil la to m-t II If ha alnva aolwr a year Carinon enpreaaea sympathy for Ihiml-nlrk'a Ihiml-nlrk'a t'llli'n In talk with Itoaa. Imml-' Imml-' Bli k relurna home. Ilernv eerla heraelf In ph-eae him. bill he la lii.llfTerent. Cannon Can-non ralla on Mra. Itvan. They dlai'iiaa iMim-Inlrk iMim-Inlrk a marrliika llfttiultla, and Cannon augtfeals buying off Iterny. CHAPTER XII (Contlnusd.) There wss something strungs about Domlnlik since he had come bark, something that Intrigued her, that she could not satisfactorily explain. She assured herself that he wss still angry, but In the deeper places of her understanding under-standing the voice that whispers the truth snd will not be gainsaid told her It wss not that. Neither was It exactly ex-actly antagonism. In a wsy he had been studiously kind and polite to her, a sort of consclounly guarded politeness, polite-ness, such as one ml ,'ht practice to a guest with whom ot.e was Intimate without tx'lng friendly. She tiled to explain to herself Just whit this change was, and when it came to put- 1 ting the matter In words she cculd , not find the right ones. It wrs a cold- ' ness, a coldness thst wss not harsh 1 and did not express Itself In actions or phrnses. It wss deeper; It wss ex- ' haled from the Inner places of his be- 4 ing. 1 Sometimes ss she talked to him she ' would meet bis eyes fixed on her with 1 a deep, vacant glance, which she sud- ' denty real lied was unseeing snd un- ' heeding. In the evening as he sat ' reading In the cramped confines of ' the den she surreptitiously watched blm and saw that a moment often ' came when he dropped his book, and J with his long body limp In the arm- J chair, his chin aunk on bis breast, would sit with a brooding gaxe fixed on nothing. Once, as he wss dream- c Ing this way, she ssld suddenly: c "What are you thinking of, Domlnlck? Doml-nlck? Antelope?" J IMstarted and turned upon her a face that had reddened consciously. "Why should 1 think of Antelope?" he said, and she wss awsre that ber remark had startled blm and made j him uncomfortable. "For no particular reason," she an- j, awered lightly; "you Just looked as If , you were thinking of something a long way off." b She tried to reassure herself thst it all rose from the quarrel. To believe a that comforted her and gave her con- e fldenre, but It was hsrd to think It. n for not only did her own Instinct pro- t claim against It, but Domlnlck's man- 1 ner and attitude were in distinct refu- ( tatlon of any such theory. He wss , not sullen, be was sbaent; he was not u resentful, be wss Indifferent. And In a small outward ways he tried to please r her, which was not after the manner a of a sore and angry man. On this very Sunday he had agreed to meet , her and her family In the park at the r band Stand at four. She alwsys dined n with her sisters on Sunday and If t the weather was fine they went to the t park and listened to the music. It , was nearly a year now since Domlnlck 1 had Joined these family parties, pre- t feriing to walk on tbe Presidio hills t, and the Cliff House beach with a n friend from the bank. Rut on the eve- nlng before be had promised to meet R tbem; been quite agreeable about It. 4 A Rerny had thought, when her plead- Ings snd Importunities had finally ex 0 ' torted from blm a promise to Join tbem there. n She left the dining room and walked t up the hallway to tbe parlor, ber head t ' drooped, anxletlee gnawing at her. a The little room was flooded with sun- a shine, and she parted the lace cur- t Ulns and. throwing up the window, j leaned out. Tbe rich, enveloping I warmth surrounded her, claspe her. 4 aeeened to sink deep Into her and s thaw her apprehensions thst were so t cold at ber heart. She drew In the p aweet, still air, that did not stimulate but that bad In It something of a I crystalline youth and freshness, tike I A air of an untainted world, con- I; '-erned with nothing but tbe Joy of t ivlng. The scents of flowers were in t It; the mellowness of the earth snd its s fruits. Peace wss the message of this p irsnqull Bunds y morning, peace was m la the sunshine. In the sound of bells b with which the air was full, in the b fall of feet light. Jovot feet on the a pevement. In tbe vo!c of passers by and the laughter, sweet sad broken, f of cHldrru It wsa not right for say s one to harbor cankering cares on such a day. The earth was hsppy, abandoned aban-doned to the sunshine, Irresponsible, care free, rejoicing in the perfect moment. mo-ment. The woman felt the restoring processes that Nature, In Its tireless generosity, offers to all who will take them. She felt eased of her troubles, soothed and cheered, aa though tbe enwrapping en-wrapping radiance that bathed her held an opiate for Jungled nerves. Winking In the brightness she leaned on the window sill, Immovable, quieted, fwllng the warmth suffuse her and dissipate those alarms that half an hour earlier had been so chill and heavy. As she dressed, the sense of well being be-ing snd confidence Increased. She looked very well this morning. Since Domlnlck's return she had looked hnggnrd and thin. Sometimes she hud seemed to see, showing shadowy through her reflected face In the mirror, mir-ror, the lines and hollows of that face when time should have put a stamp on It that neither masHage nor pigments would efface. A sudden moment of revelation showed her herself aa an old woman, her nose pointed, her mouth a thin, tight line. This morning morn-ing the glass gave her back none of these disconcerting hints. She was at Iter test, and as she dressed carefully and alowly, she had the satisfaction of seeing that each added article of ap- 1 pare! Increased hor good looks. When she finally put on her new hat the one she had bought In celebration of 1 Domlnlck'a return and over It tied a white and Murk dotted veil, she wss 1 so gratified with the picture she pre- 1 sented that she was reluctant to leave 1 It and pirouetted slowly before the 1 glass, surveying her back and side views, and finally lifting her skirt that 1 she might see the full effect of her Iliac petticoat as It burst Into sight 1 In sn ebullition of pleats and frills. 1 Walking up the avenue she wss brldllngly conscious that her brilliant ' Pm aranre drew Its tribute of glsnces. 1 Many people looked at her, and their 1 ildelong admiration waa an even more ' exhilarating tonic than the sunshine. 1 She wslked with a light, elastic step, 1 ipreadlng perfume on the air, ber 1 progress accompanied by a rich seduc- 1 live rustle. Once or twice she passed members of that exclusive world from which she had atolen Domlnlck. She iwept by them, languidly Indifferent 1 tier eyes looking with glacial hauttur r er their heads. The Bound made by ier brushing silk petticoats waa gratl- 1 'ylngly aggressive. She Imparted te 1 hem a slight disdainful swing, and 1 Ifted her dress skirt daintily higher, 1 onsclous of the Impeccable amplitude i if her emerging lilac frills. The habit of dining wtth her own c eople on Sunday bad been one ahe 1 tad never abandoned, even In the first f isplting daya of her marriage. It was 1 1 sort of family reunion and at first Vmlnlrk had been a not unwilling ' tartlclpant in Its domeatlc festivities. 1 the solid bourgeois respectability of its wife's relations appealed to him. "or all hla advantages in monsy and duration be wss of the ssme class ilmself, and while Rerny was, If not a ' teloved spouse, a yet endurable one, ie had found the Sunday gatherlnga nd subsequent hejtra to the park not ntlrely objectionable. For over a year iow he r d ea aped from it, pleading he need of open air and exercise, and ils sisters In law, who had at first pro-ested. pro-ested. had grown used to his absence nd accepted It aa something to bear incomplalnlngly. The day wsa ao fine that they hurled hur-led through their dinner, a hearry ind lavish meal, tbe rhef d'oeuvre of lannah'a housekeeping, and, loath to se a moment of the sunshine, determined deter-mined to walk down to Van Ness ave-lue ave-lue and there catch an outgoing car o the park. It was the middle of the fternoon and the great thoroughfare sy still and Idle in the slsntlng light 'here wss something foreign, almoat roplcal In Ita vista, in tbe scene that iung like a drop curtain at the limit f eight pale blue hills dotted wtth -h re-colored houses In the back-round back-round of sky deep In tint the follsge lark against It as If printed upon Its mense glsring blue. In the shsrp lines f pslms and spiky leavsa crossing tuccoed wslls. The people that r noved slowly along the sidewalks filed fil-ed Into this high-colored exotic sating. sat-ing. There wss no hurry or crowding d mong them. They progressed with P n un-Amertcsn deliberation, tasting a he dellcste sweetness of tbe air, re- t! olclng in the sky and the sun. pa us- a ng to look at tbe dark bushlness of fi Irscsena against a wash of blue, the keleton blossom of a Century plant he pool of thick scarlet made by a P larlerre of geranium. g The three slaters Hannah and a 'earl leading. Hemy and Hasel walk- n ng behind with Josh fsred buoyant- a y down the street. As they passed. K hey commented on the bouses and ft belr Inmates. They had plenty of I lories of the dwellers in those solemn s lalacee. many of whore were people c rhoee humble beginnings they knew tl iy heart and whose rapid rise had a een watched almost awe-stricken by a a admiring and envious community, b As the Rysn house loomed Into new belr cbstter cesd, and their eyes, h erioua with staring attention, were 1 moment later the moving eyes lighted Indifferently, bruskly, aa though checked by the Imperative stoppage of regulating machinery. Only a person watching closely would have noticed It, but Rerny was watching with the most vigilant closeness. close-ness. She saw the Infusion of a new and keener Interest transform the glance, concentrate Its lazy, diffused attention Into something that had the sharpness and suddenness of a leaping leap-ing flame. The next moment a flood of color rose clearly pink over the face, and then, most surprising of all, the lady bent ber bead In a grave, deliberate de-liberate bow. Rerny turned, startled end In a vague, undefined way, disturbed, too to see who hsd been tbe object of this salutation. To her astonishment It was Domlnlck. As ahe looked at him, he replaced hla hat and she saw to tbe augmentation of that vague aense of disturbance that he waa a pale aa the bowing woman was pink. "Domlnlck," she exclaimed, "who's that?" "Miss Cannon," he said in a low tone. "Roae Cannon?" hissed Hazel on the other side of him, her face thrust forward, for-ward, and tenae In tbe Interest of the moment "RUl Cannon's daughter?" "Yea. I met her at Antelope." "Rerny, did you aee her dress?" Hasel Ha-sel hung over her brother-in-law in her excitement "That's atralgbt from Paris. I'll bet you a dollar." "Yea, I aaw It," snld Rerny in a voice that did not aound particularly exhilarated; "maybe It Is." She looked back at Miss Cannon who had turned swsy and was moving mov-ing off through the crowd with ber escort. es-cort. Then she lesned toward Domlnlck. Doml-nlck. His voice had not sounded natural; nat-ural; as she planed ber arm against his she could feel that be trembled. She eald nothing but settled back In her chair, dryly swallowing. In those few paat moments ber whole world had undergone a revolution that left her feeling dazed and a little sick. It was ss If the earth bad suddenly whirled around and she had come up panting and clutching among familiar thtnga reversed and upset In an instantaneous in-stantaneous flash of illumination ahe saw ever-'hlng the look In the worn-an'a worn-an'a eyea, her rush of color, Domlnlck's voice, his expresjlon, tbe trembling of bis arm it was all perfectly plain! This waa the girl he bad been ahut in Antelope with for three weeka. Now she knew what the change waa, the Inexplicable, In-explicable, mysterious change that bad so pu filed her. 8 he felt bewildered, and under her bewilderment a pain, a fierce, unfamiliar unfa-miliar pain, gripped ber. She did not for the moment say anything or want to speak, and she felt as a child does who is dazed and stupefied by an unexpected assault of 111 treatment The slight sensation of Inward sinking, sink-ing, that made ber feel a little sick, continued and abe aat In a chilled and drooping alienee, all ber bridling 'on-celt 'on-celt In herself and tier One cloibes itricken suddenly out of her. She beard Hazel asking Domlnl-k 1 lestlons about Miss Cannon, and she heard Domlnlck's answers, brief and riven with a reticent doggednets rhen Hate! asked him for tbe time ind she was conscious of his elbow pressing sgalnst her arm as he felt For his wstrh. As be drew It out and Held It toward the questioner, Rerny mddenlfi leaned forward, and. catching catch-ing bis hand with the watch In t, :umed I's fsce toward ber. The bend lMneath hers waa cold, and shook. Sbe et It go and again aaak back la ber :halr. The felteg of sickness grew itrooger and was segmented by g tense of physical feebkoesa, of being tremulous and cold deep down in her bones. Hazel rose to her feet, shaking ber skirts into place. "Let's go on." she said, "It's getting chilly. Come along, Josh. I suppose If you were let alone, you'd alt here 1 till sundown listening to the music la j a trance." ' Domlnlck and Josh rose and there waa an adjusting and putting-on of wraps. Rerny still aat motionless, her hands, stiff in their tight gloves, lying open on her lap. "Come along, Rerny," said HazeL "It's too cold to sit here any longer. Why, how funny you look, all pal and shriveled upt You're as bad sa Josh. You and he ought to have mar tied each other. You'd have been a prize couple." Josh laughed loudly at this sally, leaning round the figure of hla wife to present his ioollsb, good humored face, creased with a grin, to Rerny. "Are you willing, Rerny?" he cried gaily. "I can get a divorce whenever you say. It will be dead easy; brutal and Inhuman treatment Just say tbe word!" "There'll be brutal and Inhuman treatment If you don't move on and stop blocking the way, Josh McCrae," said Hazel severely. "I want to go out that aide and there you are right in the path, trying to be funny." The cheerful Josh, still laughing, turned and moved onward between tbe seata, tbe others following blm. The mass of the crowd wus not yet leaving, leav-ing, and as the little group moved for ward in a straggling line toward tbe drive, the exciting opening of the Wit Ham Tell Overture boomed out from tbe aoundlng board. It waa a favorite favor-ite piece, and they left llngeringly, Hazel Ha-zel and Josh particularly fascinated, with heads turned and ears trained on the band. Josh'a hand, passed through his wife's arm, affectionately pressed ber against his side, for despite the sharpness of their" recriminations they were the most loving of couples. Rerny was the last of tbe line. In the flurry of departure her silence had passed unnoticed, and that she should thus lag at tbe tall of the procession was not in any way remarkable, as. st the best of times, she wss not much of a walker and in ber high-heeled Sunday ahoes ber progress waa alwaya deliberate. Looking ahead of ber, ahe saw the landscape still as a picture under tbe slanting, lurid sunlight It seemed to be painted with unnaturally glaring tints, to be soaked in color. Tbe grsss, crossed with long shadows, was of the greenness of an aniline dye. Tbe massed follsge of tree groups showed a melting richness of shades, no one clearly defined, all fused In a thick, opaque luarlousness of greens. The air was motlooless end very clear. Where) a pasting carriage atlrred the dust tbe powdery cloud rose, spreading tarnishing blur on the crystalline clarity clar-ity of the acene. Tbe sua Injected these dust films with gold, and they settled slowly. aa if it made then heavy, like ground up particles of metal. rro riB coxtivuet).) Hippopotamus Described. Johnny, who had been to tbe ctrcua, ays the Youngstowa Telegram, wss) UUIng his teacher about tbe wonderful wonder-ful things be had seen. "An" teacher." he cried, "they bad one big animal tbey called the hip hip hip" "Hippopotamus, deer," prompted the teacher. "I can t Just say Its name." es-clalraed es-clalraed Johnny, "but It lottfc juri like .PW pounds of Beer." |
