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Show SHH? E? M k KnKnfr1 n a ,-tr-4 l " By FRANCES PARKINSON KEYE . 111 "!' WO Service lail tER VContlnued he e ' - H .V itiii111" 1 1 1 nlKht of the dance 10 5 V w pick s'e flowers ifft) e party. Mummer had t(1 '!'etVs 1 was snvlnK In 'J0D wut Sarah's grave. "':,! I lat , child!" ' lh :vr sucsosted the rose- ' ;, ,ii not and dusty, hur- SYNOPSIS Plsnnpolntod bncnuso of hor lnnhtlitv . family, to put tllslnB touches to h Zum, Jo, ' 8e,"shness f lain I. Irritated by tho stolidity by her e or Oru ', C.hamber-tn C.hamber-tn th. community. NeM Conrad. u Te lawyer u fo be H " Vl(3, of the evening, and MUdveth. Anne's suitor is wl t. , Bnsatlon ln,pr.od by Ann.-, fresh youUB beautTand ? h"? fin': character. He Invites her to accompany him and his hostess T Mrs Prlffln on a plcnto the foUowln Sunday. Anne accepti tSn awaV. h. U b.". Ins "unconventional." She dips Into her scanty savings and buys suitable "tlnery" for the trip from an old friend and well-wisher. Mr GoldenburL The picnic la a red-letter day for Anne. oiaenourg. tie boy. I put that on, too, though it looks strange with my percale dress. I suppose you've seen It. It's beautiful, too, but of course I like the ring best. I was very much surprised that your mother should give me a present. It was awfully kind of her. "I've , chosen the sample for a wedding invitation I like best, and I'm sending you a list of my friends' names. I shouldn't have known I ought to do this if you hadn't told me about It. There never has been a wedding in the little lit-tle church here, but we can have ours there, If you wish. Mr. Halns, our minister, would be pleased to have your brother Arthur take part In the ceremony. "I think the little flat will be wonderful. won-derful. I love mission furniture and brass beds. "What do you think? Mr. and Mrs. Goldenburg have invited me to New York with them I Mr. Goldenburg Golden-burg takes a trip every year at this time to buy his fall stock, and he's going to help me make my money go a long way In getting my trousseau. We're leaving Monday, so send your next letter to me at the Waldorf Astoria As-toria hotel, New York city. I think we'll be gone a whole week. I simply can't believe it's true. Next to getting engaged to you, It's the most wonderful thing that ever happened hap-pened to me. birth at least to be drawn Into them." He got up suddenly, and stood with his hands on the back of his chair, facing them. "Look here," he said abruptly, almost al-most violently. "I've had r long drive, and I'm tired. I'm going to bed. But I'll tell you this much, and then we won't discuss the subject sub-ject again. I'll continue my usual subscription to this household Just as long as you're decent to Anne. Not a second longer. It may not he very aristocratic to bargain, but I notice that none of the rest of you seem to want to work, and I don't believe you want to go hungry. You better think it over." There was no hint of this battle, however, or of his own victory, when he wrote Anne. "Dearest darling sweetheart " it began. "I can't find any name lovely enough and loving enough to tell ,? ij then I pneuea my "' 1 there weren't enough George followed me ed 1 .s and asked Bie wh-v 1 of . theco with some of those '.wing In the meadow." ?K" id them at the dance, of fl know what they're "4 ,.f i do Queen Anne's De 'by Jove!" i vkly he had sensed the t1' ihich had eluded George a? jhe caught her breath. ts where the soil Is very '' 1 . (armors think It's just . 1 .j awful pest."" they can't see how ' it Is. Anne Anne my -5 bad tightened about her n of steel He bent and :ce against her hair, then "f rith a little cry, his lips "' .cross her cheek, seeking ;and found it already up- , the hard, hot kisses pressed down on it. They "5 seh other, two clean, pas-laung pas-laung creatures, fused in time. I don't believe I've told you I'm tremendously interested in polities. pol-ities. Even more than In law. I'm a member of the city council In Hlnsboro now. Perhaps some day I can go further." "Oh, Neal 1 I'm sure you can." "Anyone can be President, you know," he said teaslngly. "You could." "Well, perhaps I can be mayor. But we'll have a look at the White House anyhow. Maybe It won't appeal ap-peal to you, and that would settle It," he laughed. Then, changing the subject abruptly, "Another thing we mustn't economize on is your rin'g." "Honestly, I don't need an engagement en-gagement ring. I shouldn't mind a bit" "Nonsense. Let me hold your hand a while, so I can measure your finger." Neal's second visit was even briefer brief-er than his first. But in the course of It he had a long talk with his prospective parents-in-law, whom he found stunned but acquiescent and then insisted in announcing the engagement in the Wallacetown Bugle. Having thus burned all his you how I feel about you. "I miss you so terribly that I'm doing everything I can to shorten our separation. I've found a little home for us. It's very small just a living room, bedroom, bathroom j and kitchen, but we could manage in that for this winter, couldn't we? The furniture's rather awful mission mis-sion oak in the living room and a brass bed, and so on, but I don't mind if you don't. "I've been to a stationer's, and asked him to send you some samples sam-ples of wedding invitations. I thought perhaps it would be easier for me to attend to that than you. Write me which you like best, and a list of your friends whom ,you want to invite, and I'll have the 1 cards addressed and sent out from "George feels terribly. He hardly looks at me when I meet him, and he won't speak to me at all. But Roy and his mother have been awfully aw-fully kind. "I wish I could write letters like yours. Of course I can't. But just the same, you know how much I love you, and that I'm wishing all the same things that you are wishing, wish-ing, and counting the days, too. "With a heartful of love. "ANNE." After the invitation to go to New York was extended by Mrs. Goldenburg Gold-enburg Anne lay awake all night, trembling with excitement; and when they were actually on their way, they all three put their heads together and made a list of her household needs. : Same of their first great 'j 3 the first to recover him-drew him-drew away from Anne : i a caress that he might A j to a child. Then he took s between his two hands. it me, Anne." looking." :! :'t mean that this should j -Dot for a long time yet. .e I didn't love you " ; i you love me " I ecause I didn't want to hurt urtle you " iaren't. I love you. It would bridges behind him, he departed to tell his father and mother of his impending plunge into matrimony. He had adroitly contrived to avoid much dis.cussion of the Conrads with Anne. He knew, all too well, how bitterly they were bound to oppose the match, but he hoped, as far as possible, to keep this knowledge from her. Mrs. Conrad came from one of the oldest families in the country, and she never forgot it or allowed anyone else to forget it. All humanity, to her, was divided into two classes those who were "re-dr.H" "re-dr.H" nnrt those who were not. Her here. "Do you think you can manage a church wedding? And Is there a church parlor or something of the sort In which we could have a reception re-ception aferwards? Of course my family and some of my friends will want to come up, and I realize how little room there is in your house? But do just as you think best. I've asked Roy to be my best man. I think that's only fair, considering that he introduced us. My brother Arthur would like to assist in the marriage ceremony, and I should like to have him, If that would be agreeable to your own minister and to you. And of course I want George Hildreth to be one of the ushers. "I want you to have your ring to wear right away, so I'm going to forego the joy of putting it on my- i inn r 1 1 n iiiiiiiir mi "Oh, Mr. Goldenburg, I'll never be able to buy all that with three hundred hun-dred dollars you know that's all I have left." . . . "Yes, you vill, my tear, you'll see. An' I'm goin' to speak to some of my pizness frents apout you. One In de caterin pizness, piz-ness, he'll send you up a nice little lunch by express, one florist, ve'll talk to him apout de decorations for de church." The visit to New York was one of rapture from the beginning to the end of the five days that it lasted. Anne had never been in a hotel before be-fore had never seen an elevator, a menu card, a bell-boy or twin beds; she had never ridden in a subway, or attended a play In a theater. She made mental notes of everything, gleaning fresh bits of knowledge from each new experience. How much this trip was doing to prepare her for the still more wonderful t WQcninp-tnn with Neal 1 He -ed me, not being sure." jioght he was going to take j arms again, and kiss her-tart, her-tart, as he had before. In-:e In-:e knelt down In the long -id bowed his head. ; he said, so softly that she -'fly hear him, "Anne, you ?en a queen In disguise, a jingellng perhaps, but a ?! the same. Will you help " the lace for you to wear?" ' ; over a month later, Anne ' "'ere married, not allow their sudden he's he-'s Interfere with his plans. )wing morning he started -rsult of his wealthy client, is later he returned, with i of complete success in "je. aeans five hundred dollars ins." he told Anne, "and husband's standards were much like her own, and his sense of self-importance quite equal to hers, though, like herself, he depended largely on the past to establish his claim to distinction. He had never made much headway in his profession as an architect. They had very little money, but they contrived to keep up appearances in a way that was almost uncanny. Their eldest son, Arthur, an unmarried clergyman, and their widowed daughter, Harriet, Har-riet, lived with them, as well as Neal. By pooling their resources, in this way, their income went much further than it otherwise would have done. Harriet had very pronounced pro-nounced views, all Neal's decision of character without his charm. Her husband had committed suicide by jumping from a sixth story window while they were on their honeymoon. Neal burst in upon his family, A it You mustn't think Jsome kind of a fairy prince, iw are a queen." V' said Anne, flushing. too ! You know you do. i! But I'm not I'd be will-let will-let that George Hildreth's (as much salted away as I "is very minute. Sure you 'it to change your mind?" 1 wish you wouldn't." that her love was so ! to her still, so sacred, that not jest about k. kissed his mother and sister dutifully, duti-fully, but without enthusiasm, and told them, immediately, of the fat fee which he had captured in the course of his vacation. Then he told the rest of his story. "I knew you'd think that was good news. But I've got some that's better yet. I'm going to be married." mar-ried." There was a moment of ominous, horrified silence. Then a simultaneous simul-taneous exclamation. "Married 1 To whom?" one to Washington with Neal! He was not going to find her Ignorant, after all, of all the niceties of life which he knew, as she had feared. The Goldenburgs had lost a daughter, daugh-ter, Rachel, who would have been just Anne's age if she had lived. Mrs. Goldenburg finally confided this to Anne, her beady eyes brimming, her plump hands twitching; and Anne in turn confided it to Neal when after a three weeks' absence he returned to West Hamstead, and stood amazed at all that had been accomplished while he was gone. "So they're doing all this for me In her memory! Just think of It." "I believe they're doing It partly in her memory, but largely because they love and adore you. The Jewish Jew-ish race appreciates qualities like yours. But anyway, I shan't forget Perhaps I can do them a good turn some day." Ml pi right, dear, I won't. But a talk over the practical : things. Because I want to fn right away." That's what I want, too." ,(. I wish you wouldn't," he 1 lightly. "You have no idea lri1 It is for me to behave ?ou speak to me like that. But M to straighten out a few !t details first, as I said " a good practice, for a fel-;! fel-;! ge, and It's growing. I'm ? fair income. And I've sethiiig. Not an awful lot. "begin clear, with something s Wd something behind us. But "A girl named Anne CliamDenaiu. She lives In a little place called West Hamstead." "My son are you really telling us this in earnest?" "I certainly am." The Conrads exchanged terrified glances. , . . "Then I must ask you to explain yourself." I Neal's worst enemy could hardly accuse him of a lack of eloquence, on any theme or on any occasion Ind this time he otrtdid himself. The results, however, were even worse than he feared. W Ha vo expect us-your father "Neal would you mind very much do you suppose it would be pos- Blble for me, to keep on teaching after we are married? I don't see how my family Is going to get along without what I'm earning," she faltered. fal-tered. Neal did some swift calculating. "I'll Continue My Usual Subscrip-tion Subscrip-tion to This Household Just as Long as You Are Decent to Anne. self It started to you by express this morning. I know my mother L .. tki,w too. with rs sending you something, too, wun a letter welcoming you into the fam- '"I wish I could kiss you tonight, over and over again, as I did that time down by the 'oscbi;sh'.n.dpffnere' you in my arms. But I will before ion" And meanwhile you know that' I love you with all my heart I and soul, and that I am counting ?he days that must go by before you nre my wife. "XEAL." Anne w-rote back: "Dearest Neal : The ring came this morning, and fits perfectly. I put it on right away, and have It on now Of course it's the most beautiful thin- I ever saw in my life. th:.Tour mother's letter came, too nnd a love,y brooch winch she said Jour wife ever since you were a ht- "And you expect and I, your brother and s.s er-to go to the wedding ... to recede th!.Whnar7cPrvne; soon my w,e. you were thinking of hringing her here to live, "wouldn't be so cruel to her He had scored. His mother at teSpted to draw blood in her, turn "Ilavt? you thought what the JSwafof your contribution the farriily . expenses Is goin mean to us in our old age? Harriet and Arthur arent so very aged. It wouldn't hur eltl er oTthem to get out and hustle a lit ".olot degrade us-and ymS-with ;o!! your language-and yo ur are the result of Jou I sociat.ons. ntieman, by allowed yourself a g-in His contribution to me expenses ul his own family had been seventy-five dollars a month, nine hundred dollars dol-lars a year. If he added this burden bur-den of Anne's to his own, they were going to be a good deal straitened in consequence ; but that, as he saw it was what he ought to do. They were in the same boat, as far as their dependents were concerned; and he intended to do the rowing. j "You've been earning ten dollars i a week?" i "Yes." j "How many weeks are there in the school year?" Thirty-eight." "Three hundred and eighty dollars dol-lars well, we'll manage to find that much some way. Don't worry." -You mean you'll send it?" "Of course why, Anne darling, don't take it that way" (TO BE CONTINUED.) j "to begin small. I thought .j ! and rent a little place we ' i ! "ve in this winter, and we l01 around together, after we "larri!d, for something better. ' t0 buy or build a little i "'our very own, right away. 1 ,r wonomy, ln the long run, a 1 rent." 1 see that. And I'll get ready, ,i ..'Wies and linen. Of course 1 nave much. But I'd rather 1 ' ton my trousseau than any-'3 any-'3 ' n think of." !f ' thafs settled then. Now im d you "ke to go for our moon?" ; "e, with you." ; uld you say to Washing- :LNe,a1' how did you guess! and longed-" i t()' &o have I. So that's set- t trlr," -iDd we wont stlnt on "' e'ther. we'll have a good |