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"l don't see what nil thfit has to do with you."

Jane sighed a little. It was bard to explain when her mother was antagonistic.

“Simply that people are more in-

"Thelfre awfully becoming it you have. Ive pfdud-uly vault bellied. iouve never 561:1‘ a lite like this. lt‘: Ule uiing for uie, since no nuen aiClK, but L suppose it's bu... dull tor you. uo back ll. you want. i shunt mind-only won't you nu lonesome by younself in the spart-

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pect Miss Ansell to support the doctor's wife-no, it wouldn't do."

"I don't see the difference be- tween that and supporting him."

Jane laughed suddenly,

“One ls philanthrophy. the other charity-charity lt I'm in it,” she explained.

Mrs, Talbot still did not see.

."l would be a -burden if I mar

“Illl take Aniy.,_Sbe should be gotten away ctrom this stupid liie. She'll stagnoting here. She'll mar» ' 1'3! Dick just ‘because she's bored, and be stuck here all her life." "That's a good ides, talus her 1110115. I'll ztlx it up with mother. As for Jim Clarke-you know l "trust you Claire. Only l don't trust him. l shank ask you to promise not to

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"But Jaile if you know can't you speak to her? She's deceiving her a husband. That's wicked."

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brown eyes that held iill the firo and determination oi‘ licr father's eyee when he was young, darkened and solteneil as she stared across the room. Jane frankly in love was iliffvri-nt from Jane the medical stu‘ ‘dent, or Jane the critic. Little Mrs. jTulliot had an iiiiier wisdom, a inoiherly intuition, that she could

"Well, some people are like that. 1-1111161- -’\111Y'S 31111115’. she's spoiled They're -built that way. She is in already. |Shc'll get notloni-i in t’lie love Willi Luther, only uiie Wants city. She mixht never want to come the admiration of other men too." 11111111." "Arid you excuse it." Anger blazed from the older woman's eyes. LNo, I don't excuse it. I simply I _ I ac nowled-ge it. It's a psychologic- 22: :::.'".'.:...".:-’:.'.:1 2.11:1 ‘if; wei- w e rend the ilire ‘Th6. determination. “I and medical rum’ 1 mum have H-_ _ t 3V H v_ - U‘ timid you that of (llnlm when I first l 1111l1*“1111-1 .1. -111 l1-15b1111 111 ‘BMW lier, As u matter of iacl, she's “f” 1111*“ 119111- 111 1111i ‘7 M1145 Otioilly u. little selfish and foolish. "1111011111011 111 1101' "~‘-1"»"~‘1- ‘Sill.- doesn't moan any‘ harm and YOU'VE =1 1111111. 1111113 different- whm- 11mm Jan“ 11°? W111“ she doesn't intend to step over 0111119 1111-5 59°11 W113’?- Y°11 1111-11

wouldn't. elio do, rather, now thatglny mom, laws‘ She“, we weak ow lii‘e-—" her feelings were so involved? The o" ,vo be unconventional... “And

mother was fairly cold with fonr- mono-- Quail-og-

and ivitli helplessness. i "You, 1; you wan; u, p“; 1L “m; “And Jane-dock at Janie. She's S-lle walked to the ‘w udow. Jlni- w“); “Mo” 1,9091» um 500,1 599mm,; seen ton .lllll(‘ll oi‘ life. I can't tinder- the DOHLlililll. Wilt-l coining" ilnwn Lll""]|‘)V o“, “from m m, onylhmg slitntl my children iuly more. Their 11111111- C1111?“ “"15 11111131111! 1° 111ee1i-ls‘ ideas are ull different from mine. him. "to tuko the letters. Slit‘. uort- “mi Talbot gaflpod M m“, cy>ni.1l“i\y don't think 1]“, way thgy-wgpq ell them llktSlily-(Llltl slipped one‘ “l rolmu-k l-mm ho,- daugmen tough! uny more, |,||ey_-_" She 11110 1111*- 111111159 v1 11" 1111-1111 _ lWlicre were they all going? wiiut broke 01f. crying u dlttlr, heuri- ' \\‘11l‘l' they coming t0? They con- 11\1'*‘111°111E W1111 1191' 11g“ 111111 11117 CL-MRE REBELS 1li(1llP(l I'Vll and suld right wasilPfllil-

171111111" '33 ‘wrung, illlll wrong often right, and “Now you want to take Amy too.

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look tlio path. Jim, the postman. iuiiiirally took tile patli—-so ilizit_ when (llziire went to meet liini and

the windows of June's room, but had the house between herself and the ‘place where Luther ilsually eat.

When Jill's, Talbot saw the letter separated and hidden, lier first in- t SllllCl. was to express her surprise, her second to cover up tile lucid- ent. ISlie remembered that same

large square envelope-it liud come from that man in the city and Luther had objected to Claire receiving it. i Then she saw that Jane took in the "whole affair. Jane was looking through the window at her sister-

i-urved here, and a path led along work‘ M was 10° mmpneated "or the top of the hank, a path that-Mr “hm” ‘my of u MW‘ “'1'” was ti. shortcut from the mud be-‘Lhey ‘I'd not cmmemn “me Link)" Ho“, flllfiy even went down and helped

Carriages Cilllli‘: around the curvelmke "am "r the "Wm" They "m1 oi‘ the road, cycles or pmlestriniislczed only “wee who crmclwd

ing to?

got the mail slie urns not far from other “w” w” “king mam"

brought the nizill—-the rest of it- aiid laid it on the table by Luth- er's hammock. He glanced

pression, she picked up a book and sat dow-n in her chair.

asked abruptly.

nled the letter. acknowledged it—-for iioticed her absence at mail times and Dick, who sometimes worked in the opposite field, had once let drop an innocent remark that gave

zio. What was the world coni- Meantime, down on the lawn, zin-

Claire. with innocent face.

tit ii. hen at his wi-fe. With unmoved ex-

“W-hereb Jim's letter today?" he Claire flushed, frowned, and do

After a time she Luther had

and hearing [people talk like Jane does?"

lnitlier could not answer. BE- tween the old ways and the 110W was u. gulf wide as the Atlantic for this poor did woman. -lle so I quietly, holding ‘her hand.

be Continued) <09»? iNKSTAND T0 DAUGHTER BRIDE

(To

A quaint manually-is observed a1. illoydon. iiii iNbnfolk. Enitilllfld- About: 300 years e90 11111‘ 10111 "1 the manor bequeated lune sum 01 $5000. the lnieiresit from wliifoh was to {be voted annually 1o 1W0- vilide dominion iilor four blllllefi- '

Under like irmmn oi‘. the 1161111911- uie y‘ unseen. llille eildcst. the show eat and one wildest brides 1111111111611 duping the course of each W111‘ 1111 the punish church.

tions they might have had in the He hated the subject. Some 111W he'd let go In his column and women in general what he thought of them. Remind them 111111- 1111111 were their superiors in ilils ut lieu-st: they kept sex in its Proper place and were capable i1l~ ways of more than one lileu ut u time. So Willi Gora Dwight. Ile be- loved he'd make u confidante of her —-to u certain extent. At iill events he'd TOfFPHII llln i-ioul nt (hut tran- quil foul. -

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Gore Dwiglii. after the fashion of other successful authors. hsd r8- cently bought a house. It was 111 East Thirty-fifth strect. not i111‘ from tlie one at pmflent 00131101611 by llladulnc Ztlttinuy. but 116G191‘ Lexington Avenue. It was one oi

, gone to some small interior town filings’? bu’§°“_‘,‘,’f,‘l’“g“iso',',',f,‘of,f'z';iIumi written it there. When it was .

period she hod written a number of short stories that had been pulilii-ili- ed in the best magazines. and one novel of distinction that liad made B. “howling success" in San Fran- cisco, owing i0 the unprecedented (efforts of the fashionable people. led by young Mrs. Mortimer Dwight1 but hnd faillen fiat in the East in spite of the reviews. Then had come a long intermission when fic- tionists were of small account in a world of aiwful facts. She WES quite forgotten. for she made not even a cusual contribution to the maga- zines; shortly after the war broke out she offered her services to Eng- land and for long and weary years was one of the most valued nurses iu the British armies. At the close of the wiir she had returned ulCali- fornin, intending to write her new, novel at Lake Tahoe, but finding the season in full swing she lindl

mouwonlib, Lbc irritable reaction against the Iwnr itself, knocked ro- mance, Optlmliillt. aspiration, ideal- liim, the sane and balanced fudg- ment of life, to sinithereens. More. cliches. The world was rotten to the core and the human race so filthy the wonder was that" any writer would handle ft with tioiiglll liut they plunged to their necks. The public, whose urges, inhibi- tions, complexes, were late. found their release in these novels and I stories and wallowed in them. TM more insulting, the more ruthless, the more onesidpd the disclosure of their irremedinble faults 1nd meenliesses. the more voluptuous the pleasure. There had been rese- tions after the Civil War, but on s higher plsne. The population bod not been maculsted by inferior

races. (To be Continued) '

., plnlshed she had brought it on to P°'“"°' 1&5? lhgofl'z"g'gpao'fl',l,zr Tlqzlvew York and had remained here fiarlfa theelowm flooo ‘ever since.

The dining room. 0n the loft oi

Ailiier like mamiilage ceremony’ me hrllde and ibrldecroom proceed to the Vestry lo Sign the r9815“??- and the lbilide is then measured

in-law with mild amusement. “Oh! Did you see-f" "Of murse," Jane answered bo- forc the question was finished.

the thing away. “All right. d do let him write. Why not? You keep me penned up

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when you have ABSORBINE JR. handy in the

medicine cabinet. -

If the younger Children develop Toothnche," liar-ache or a little ABSORBINE JR. will

Sore Throat in the night,

moths and relieve and send the sufferer off to sleep.

If accidents hnppen—a cut finger, burnt hand, sprained ‘Eng cut-

ankle. bruised nppiy at once

arm, wrcnched shoulder or “

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$1.25 a bottle at most druggista or lent postpnld by

“Stupid little thing! Slle goes every day for the mail. iEveryoiie knows it. I've seen ‘her before-only usu- ally she gets down to ilie road i0 meet: Jim.

"She thinks she's hidden down tlierc-tind she is from every win- dow but this, But from liore You can see right through that low

limb of ilio oak tree. Generally shc

reads tile letter there, before ehe

brings the rust of the mall up." "Bub-do

you ililnk Luther

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in this hole with nothing to do but dance now and then with a silly idiot who works on a. farm-Dick. l I nieun——and go to a bad movie once a week. It's a hideous place, I hate it. Do you hear? I hate ii! l

by the Uflllflifllildlg minds-ten‘-

h-lllfli the dowml-es awarded to thew qualified to JTBCGIIVB them.

Al. the end of the year the ne-rnlnige ‘i-eleoi-de mie- examined

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