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Didn't Want to Marry By ETHIL‘_LLOYD PATT- ' 4 lleketnrnoftheTroulalaSlnoeTaHag

(ghamr, m‘ - fFRUiTwTii/Es"

For a moment, I think I almost '. lost cuIIBCIOIIBIIGSB. I was too do» - ed to think. Mr. Fellowea, wlthh whom 'I had been . dining, hail in- ,~' slsted upon taking me for s drlve around the ipark bsforq he put int-vi. on thetraln for home. All through Y

pg... it scarcely showed.

l “qy dinner

‘ me limping

; gratefully.

uardlen Office" ‘ . I'm-atrium te I v

mar, K. 0. I-I. l. Faliner larrleta ete. "l: of Nova hfpll“llllldlllfl

one‘! fig], has escort, Mr. , lie. ‘this man had teased me. He had worked ine into a state of nervous excitement He "called me "a little devil . an al- though he teased and annoyed me, I had been too ignorant really to fear him. '

wllh him and driving through the park, and he had attain-pied by force tn take me In his arms, had the real danger l» was - running downed upon me. It had swept over me in a wave of instinct. It given me strength ‘to fight the man off. I had managed to strike him with all my strength and then, as almost spent I flung myself back- ward against the door of the taxi, I had felt the door give with me. Without an instants hesitation I hud turned ville handle and In spite of Mr. Fellowes’ wurnlng cry. I had flung myself from him back- ward on lo the hard road of the park. There hail been a quick sense of pain, a fleeting glimpse of a taxi with a man's scared face looking buck at ine from fl, and llien-~silence.

Probably it was only for a mom- ent that I lay In n huddled mass. I started to rise and stifled a little cry at the sharp pain which stab- bed at my knee. I felt, too, that my palms must be bleeding. 'l'hey began to sting where I had thrown them out to save my face In the fall. I rose gingerly. Well, any- how, I was able lo stand! My leg was not broken~ .

"Hello!" said o voice close be- side me. “What's up?"

I turned, scarcely able to think, all ready lo do ibaille once more. Like a young wild animal. trapped, I ivas fo‘r the moment at war with all the wnrld. In the half light of the park I saw the figure of a young mnn beside me. Whencc he had come I did not know.

"HelioP he said again. “What's up?" Let's help you.

The words were simple enough; crude enough. But something in the voice went straight to my

v t _" Dora. the telep- ,

4 _ through my resentment at his advances.

Not until fwas alone In the taxi ' '

bHN I. QUILDERIQN

1'. d. norm, farrsbord, N. s. “I suflenediihuith Rheumatism for five years, liavitigift sobadly at times I was unable to up without assistance.

I tried dilferentimodloines“ I saw advertised add was treated by doctors in Amherst, also In my home town, but the Rheumatism came back.

In I916, -,I_s'aiv In an advertisement that ‘Fruit-a-liues’ would atop Rheu- matiunwand took one box and got reliefflhen I took them right along fer about six months and the Rheu- matisnrwasiall gone and I have nave: felt it since.

Anyone who would care to write me as regards ‘Fruit-a-tives’ I would be glad to tell them what ‘Fruit-a.- tlvss"did for ine."

JOHN E. GUILDERSON, Contractor and Mason.

60c. a. box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25o. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Frult-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont.

But anyhow I'm not hurt. I guess that will leach me a lesson, all right."

The young man turnednround. For the first time I fell his glance searching my face steadily through the shadows.‘

"Were you In need of u lesson?" he queried gently.

He slipped his hand beneath my chin and raised my face so that the light shone more fully upon ii. And this touch I did not resent.

"Why, you're only a kiddie!" he

heart. soothing me us might my mother's own hand had it been laid suddenly on mine.

"I---I fell,” i stammeretl.

"Yes? said the young man dry- ly. “l saw you. Ynu didn't fall from the clouds, either.

light. Let's see how mucii damage has IIGEII done."

l lei the strange young man put his hand ibeneaih my arm and "lead in the bench he hail I sank ilown upon it For n moment I sat ' silent. I was gelling hack my self- (lilIllrOl—.'l(l]LlSfiIlg myself-wreath- irig more slowly. The man beside me did not speak. He did not ev- en stare at me. Instead, he waited patiently until I moved.

"Now then," he said, "let's look at your paddles, first."

(lbedlenlly I held out my two trembling hands. I had hail on black cotton gloves. ‘They had been torn away in my fall. My palms were scraped and bleeding. The young man looked at them for a moment and whistied. Then took a clean handkerchief from his pocket and flipped it in a drinking fountain that was near; came buck and wiped the dirt and blood from my palms. Then be washed the handkerchief again, quietly tore It Into stripes and bound up my two hands.

“Now then,’ he said in n busi- nesslike way. "How about the knee? Your sklrt's all torn." _

I looked at him big-eyed in thé dark.

"I—I—." I stammered.

"Oh, I see," he said. “All right. I'll turn my back and look at the moon while you look, Here, take this hit of wet handkerchief and wash your knee off If it's dirty. Dontlet the dirt slay in lt."

_IIe' thrust the piece of damp lin- en into my hand, turned his back and began to hum. I found that I was more bruised than cut. Pro- bably my leg would be stiff next day, ‘but that would be the extent of the damage.

“Us all right," I said in a small

pointed out.

voice. "You can look around. My sun's all torn. Oh, dear, I wish It wasn't! It's going to look awful

in the day time with a. patch (m!

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the test ehuwa that 9°" 51”‘! i‘ Io a very poor condition, yeflbz: qqmplildly run-down. “d Dyepepule. Llv"-T'°“ ° a Constipation. \°°- M)’ "wmmm " alien to you Ie a botilo 0i

DriWilsont

l ed made reliable flTgyfiuflnn’ h and other purl-

aa old, from the prlaclp drake, Burdw Mo] herbs. A the remedy fo gee (lid Ind, die bailda up he entire eyetein. " “ . M's-.-.::r......"~"

r common ills-

inu lull»! In‘ l‘

“II think I'm hurt a little-not much}

lIereJ conic on over lo ihat bench in the]

ENTERS

I "la, uaiolJumfi-l

you've ibecn a naughty girl! Come on, now. tell us about it. Let's get it straightened out."

Nly lips quivered like a baby's.

"Oh. ilear!" I began , and my over-wrought nerves The tears and sobs came in a torr- out. urul about my shoulders. Wdthout 1i word he pressed another hand-

ikeriwliief into my hand.‘ My head i went down on his shoulder with a where I wqrk_-_-'

gurgle.

"Go on." he said. out im pupil's shoulder! you good."

It will do

(Thapter XII

ates, I raised my hciid from the strange young man's shoulder. IIe gave me a liiiie pa! in encourage me. I mnppeil my eics with his handker- (rliief. “That's right," he suidPFeel any better now?" zl managed to make hlin under- stand that. I did. "Nowf he said, "I'll tell you what we're going to do, You're gning to stay still for a few minutes, then you're going to hike my arm and We'll walk out of the purk. We'll find a nice quiet little place where you can ‘go In the ilressing room and wash your face with nice, cold water and straighten your holi- then we'll have some ice cream, or something like that-that little girls like, and then you are going to tell me all about it. And I will give you o good scolding and take you home—anrl you will promise nev- BI‘. never to do It again!“ ~' ‘ "Yes," I said chlldlshlytffl will," "All right!‘ Lsald thpljstrange

young man, "come on. =Let's get tmllel‘ way. Mly namdils Hugh Trotter." ~

. l. "Mina ls Nell Blrneyflfl, said In a very meek voice. ', "

“Well. Miss Nell Blrniey," said Mr. Trotter, “you just coins right along with me and mind eyirything I say, as though ‘I were your big brother. Because, believe, mo, I know something of this wonlduand I think I can guess what you've been doing!"

"How?" I asked.

“Well, for one thing,’ Mr, Trotter told me. “I'm, more than twenty- one. And for another I'm n repor- ter on iihe Dally Sphere. Being a reporter. If you are on your job, does not allow you to daily long in the outer darkness, otherwise Igno- rance of ‘the World. I am one of these sophisticated and hnrd young men who smokes and drinks ‘Blue Law besr—the kind-you read about. But, ,strangs as lt-vmny seem, I am nnruiterly rotten§ to the core. S0 I will, "on occasion, behave quite (lecontly towards young ladies In dlstreiis- particularly," he added beneath his breath, "when they have a pair of eyes and are only babies, anyhow."

I put my little bandaged hand upon his arm and paitered along obedlently at his side. Once as we walked. he looked down at ms somewhat quizzicslly.

"You're a good little thing," she suggested, "when yQnb-e not bad- aren't you?" ‘ i

"I'm not bad! I declared, with the first show of spirit I hail been able to muster. ' "I did something naughty but I'm never going .to do It again."

"Of course not!" said Mr. Trot- ter. “Where have I hoard thorn wards before?“ i - '

I-Io led rne through the darkened paths of the park and out Into the side strreta again. At the end of two or three block: we turned

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lime. The place seemed deserted

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sing room. your face.

you come out!"

Indicated. Viewed ~

I was able to pln It into folds so Then unwrapped Mr. Trotters y bandages‘ from my palms. had ceased to bleed. Jr-sorubhofl myself clean, as he hnd dlrecteibl

hair. Then I saw some powder on a little dressing tabla. It was some- ‘thlfig I seldom used. I hndvbad no

for toilet ai-flfices. Now, however, I brushed my face lightly with a bit of cotton dipped in the powder‘ then I bit my lips andlplnched Joy cheeks to bring back some dolor‘.

I stared ln a mirror at myself. What I saw was a slip of a girl about five feet three inches tall who weighed about one hundred

hair which I wore brushedvback quite plainly from my face and in a

huge, heavy, shining knot at the

m..." inlay ' It was "after the dlnuerhour and ‘before lheli-II

Mir. Trotter waved his hand to the

;"0ver there," he said, “is a, dres- Go on now and Bomb You're a sight! And brush your hair and you'll see. I'll have something nice for you when

I retired behind the door he had in the white _ light of electricity the rent in lily gown was not as bad as I feared

pa!!!

' took off my, iiai nun‘ siuusieh‘ m . '~

um. in my‘ short labor-ridden lite‘

‘l’-

SCIENT

i Made in Canada

and fifteen pounds. I would have

called myself uunhotlceable. As a

matter of fact, t oug l, I was-not , ‘ _

utterly plain. ' My eyes were‘ vsry Write for Llleralllrl _ ;\ large and dark, and my mouth was _ ' ""-__ full and curved and would have Hound Walflmm

smiled had there ever been any- 189s‘ Jam" s‘ ,. thing In myllfe thus far to-smlle ' ' ' about. I hail quantities of black our" \

back of my neck. My hat was a plain black sailor. My shoes were shabby and my gloves were gone for good.

“I'm simply a horrid looking llt- ile thing!" l told myself and turn- ed from the mirror with a shrug.

Chapter XIII

iiiiiih e. A

“ RIVERSIDE "

‘ One of these master minds was Duane H. Church, who, among otli

' - ' . I ,. _ ECI-IANICALLY, defined, a watch is a machine (contain! from I50 parts) whose sole end is to “keep moving.” anjd is best-as a timepiece the motion of which approaches tofiibsolute uniformity, : ' ~ ' If you open your watch and examine its mechanism, youo substantially of two supporting plates, between which is ' of meshed wheels to take cure of the mo wheels are called the train. , ‘ The lower supporting plate in a Waltham watch is the foundation u which every unit revolves- and is permanently fixed. This p ‘l; with minute holes to take the pivots, screws and pinionsoft erebiprm parts which form the movement proper. . T; ‘_ During the 69 years of watch development at Waltham many ilhistrlou; names have been _udded_ to the history of horological achievemenfg-mgp whose genius for invention, whose supreme skill in making cdncreta the]; vision, ave produced marvelous machinery that has revolutionized the art of watch-making. ‘ i

If n '1 ' '1 . giii

fi .. P“! yenienii recqrdlng {knew

11°

er wonderful machines, invented one that drills, threads and finishes the 01.132 plate of the Walthnm watch.

This machine accomplishes many operations with such methodically exact, automatic continuity that one instinctively imagines a superhuman‘ brain is hidden in the multifolil action controlling its extraordinary work.

It makes every operation (and there are l4l);witli ‘infiinitesimal exactness, to the fraction of a human hair; flawless, beautiful in complete simpllclt

tho table.

said. "Ilow old are you? Seven- tccn—clght+>en? Look heremwhat m“ have you been up lo?

I mink anything. You've been foo scored. Now drink ihai hot soup and see If you don't feel ibctter."

_, ray that I bfifier- n ' ithfuk vcry much of your grog", Now sold Mr. Trotter, "Ive or- graut-grllnii-filtllel‘ friend. - You

gave wny_ ilereil something for you to eat, but know, n-Imt clinches my opinion or I , I felt the strange young man's; n-hout it.’

"Go on---cry it Trqtteig

quickly. I still like Dora and I am ti!" Y“ "I" 3”“ advlclh" not feel that my calamities were‘ ili-‘I’ fault. “l mean," I wen! I cried hard for about ten min- "she is very nice tome and that's 'I‘hei1 l began to feel better. 1,11 that mauer5_ isn't m’

nice clothes, of course. Accent‘ on the ‘nice clothes."

"I-Iello!" said Mr. Trotter as I came out of the dressing room. "Richard is herself again! Come on to the iparty and see what I've ordered for you.“

I ifollowed him to a table and sat

down. Somehow, in spite of this young man's glib tongue, I felt ut- terly at home with hlin from the first. ‘He? had fold me that I was to think of him as though he Were my big brother. I did. I trusted hlin and liked hlin at once more than I knew myself. A cup of bouil ion stood steaming before ine on

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i ., "Of course, you've been to il-in- " he said, "but you didn't eat’

game along. And that's all."

‘ - “w u.‘ All] vi . T ., I ma I15 he told me and I am feel “m; imfii, 1 ‘,;.,,,,,',°"" Wm‘ a

want you to begin and tell me all _him is that I ilont seem io'reinem-

ber his coming back, after you left ihlni tlllwfllllrrlefll)’. to "there's a girl w"?

I took a long breath. , y _ No, my dear, Pmimtr; m establishment he“

"wéu," I ibegen, the tailoring

$1: ll egg! Go on and‘ ‘eat- , your littlsscrnmbled egigs and‘_san- - t , t I M sages. -'D0n't you open your mouth m Prrup e‘ ‘ r Qxcepfto put food in it. for a few moments. because I'm going to

I1

“Oh, of course!" "There always ls a girl." “But she's a nice girl,’ I said

enamel- . xiv

ForJHfQvQImomants Hugh Trot- ior watchedme and saldnothing.

l was’ too nervous and hungry to resent his glance fastened on me. lie had found me In the park, a lit- ile hurt and very scared. He had offered me his immediate protec-

I nodded my head. Hon‘ _ ..

man iseemed psychic l Now probably, in the light of the "And she asked me." I told him. restaurant where he had taken m8. “if I wouldn't dine with her onil he was able to get his first good two genuemen (rlendgy rook at me, and decide for himself "And you dld,’ supplemented Mr.’ 110W H1110}! 0f my 8W1‘? W!!! ""9- Tmmm |Although,at the time, I remember‘, "Yes: I said “and I guess iiw ii dldnt occur to me thaythin mun who was with her was all young man mlkhi doubt my tale’- right. Anyliowahe liked m“... lot. I was unflwuswmed‘ w ‘Hanan? And she talked to him und didn't sell In consequence. I was Imiw- pay any attention to me; and the Cllsi-"med ‘m 719M118 ally 0B6 3011M man I was with Wils perfectly hor- "l? Ywrd- v1 hi"! 101d m9 simllie rid! Why, I declared, in a burst 711ml»

of indignation at the TGCOIIEPIIOII,‘

I rushed to her rescue. on to explain,

v

"Yes," said Mr. _Trotter.~“Go'on. I gel yoh. We won't go lnlo that. She is very pretty and she wears

T0 ine llils

So now, having finished boul-

napkin and things, and touching my skirt!’ I rushed on. "And you didn't like It," said the‘ young man. “OI course, you iliiln"t - Nice, good little girl so ‘for. Only very foolish to have gone to dinner with the mist dnan.‘ _ "And than‘ was hot," I contin- ued, "and f wanted to go home; and Mr. Fsllowes said he would take me, only v‘ Instead we drove around theopark first." "Ah-l said Mil‘. Trotter. "Now there's n had mistake! Surely a WNW“ little girl who earns her living W" ought to know better than that." you 1W1 a vsry narrow escape." I flushed jmcomfortably. "Well, I did," I admitted, "and I broken my arm!’ sold ‘f did not want tq go; but I didn't know how to get nut or it. And, anyhow, before I knew it, I, W85 In the taxi, and we started to my throat and face‘, drive, andihsn he went f0 kiss me "Oh no!" and-mud told lhlm he couldn't!