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G iii iHi FIGHTING lili[S

A LONELY CAPTIVE.

"My Poor Dear Wife-Here is an

other month of captivity which has

seemed like a century. It is the life of some face of the bluck Vandyked

complete aaimaiisatlou. We work at

brid e It is e nightmare which haunts

8 ~ UI

me df? Wd night- tly released his bold of her. and the

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Rus‘:i:nu:u:ibl;:;lil3l? oliqliflhttegensre :mm musmched 'mm turned w "ny

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few in number and live alone. less w

--(word coneored, apparently IIOUS-

, d ri d of b

ed') than we They are ep ve

all d t walk

liberty and are not owe o where his luxurious limousine stood about as we are and associate with one b me glue of the broken mit As he another. lu

French and RUBSNU9 are 5eP°"“°”d' his foot on the clutch and his hand on

four in each room I have the 8000 t

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fortune to have with me a YOUUE E-"5"

” 1-'ff I. _

if fum onmmmmows ousnnrsn A 1 ' MAY 55 ""5 _*_

- R Y J E By George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester 1'

EliiiiTli El’lS0l)E.

lier'iissband’s Enemies. CHAPTER I.

Ill beautiful runaway bride opened her eyes in dazed be- wilderment to find herself gaz- ing up into the dark. hand-

She was in his arms. She felt

e white mustache, Gilbert Blye gen-

er up the hill. Her eyes closed again.

urden, hurried up the embankment to

mped into the drivers sent and put

e brake he glanced down at the

e of the accident. The taxi lean-

lish officer. it is a great favor. He is a charming young fellow, ill. and 1 make him my best friend. Poor fellow bellasno family and is less well -- (words censored.) God has put him in my path. I will watch over him like over 3, - (word censored. pro babiyhrotherl. Together We try to forget the rigorous of our -- (ceasored) prison. Sufllciently warm- ed and fed. but to eat, to eat. The poor English fellow receives nothing. and I share with him.

‘-'Send whatever you like. Every-

thing is permitted here. except any- thing which looks English. No Engr lish product is allowed. Send for two -especially butter, BUSH. bl'\?ad» sweets, and tobacco. Being unable to smoke is the hardest punishment. Send linen, but no more winter under- clothing. I have given my sweater £0 my little English friend. I-Ie is -` (line censoredll Courage still. W_e will come back, and remember that lf YOU suffcrl share your suffering. MY kisses come to you by thousands. Let us bow down like brave people before the sad reality. All my kisses and my constant thought. Thy Jean."

BATTLE OF CERNAY.

A French soldicr writes: They

shouted as though to encourage each other. it is useless to deny that these fellows march doggcdly to death. The attack had been prepared in the true German style-that is to say. with attention at thc lost detail. The time was well chosen, and thc scene was lighted up by rockets and searchlights, which gave fantastic lights and shad- ows to thc battle. Now again every light wont out, and one fought on without knowing upon whom \ve were firing. All the Germans were carrying hand grenades, or a kind of explosive bomb which had a very disagreeable effect. it was a new machine-- these blessed fellows are always inventing new ways of killing men- and was in tho form of a ball fastened to a stick.

NEW FORM OF GRENADE.

The stick is thrust into the riiie, and

on pulling the trigger the ball goes off like a grenade. Owing to the num- ber of assailants we had to yield ground. lt was the wiser thing to do, as"it was in our interests to give way for-_ a short space. Our artillery. was in position, and we had hardly fallen back before the ground was swept wit.h shells which burst amidst the ex- ultaut Germans. More murderous evcu than the hand-to-hand lighting which had proccdcd it, this hellish fire proved io the new-comers in our trenches that they had made a mls- iake in ousting us. They realized that so well that they tried to retire. This attempt had been foreseen, and was made impossible by a cataract of projcctiles which formed a curtain of flame and iron behind the fugitives, at the same time separating them from their reinforcements.

Meanwhile our men had recovered,

and re-formed for the counter-attack. As soon as our artillery, marvelously handled, ceased to play upon the

trenches, wc flung ourselves on the'

demornlizod Germans. thrusting our way among thc dcad and woundcd.Not only did we get back our trenches but we went beyond the tunnel of the German mino and when morning come we had only to bury their dead, pleas- ed with thc fact that they were twice as numerous as ours.

AN INFERNO.

Describing his experiment at Ncuve

Chapelle, a private who before the war was a Liverpool policeman and was in charge of a machine gun at the battle saysz-

"Our brigade after halting for a-

bout two hours. received orders to move. We cvcntually halted at a farmhousc with our guns] Shortly after wc made n move further along but it was not until the following day that wo mme into action. Thcn \ve matic hcadway. We captured a trenth and hold it. Tho next day we moved forward with our gun-s, and made n dash ovcr tho open, carrying ihc guns, o distance of about sixty yards through a hill of bullets. We got into a German continuation trench whlchwas in a terrible state. Dead Germans were lying in it and the water was waist deep. We eventually get to thc end of it and mounted one of our guns. After we had emptied a few belts you should have seen the flags go up-all white ones- and we captured ovcr 300 prisoners. Our artillery played havoc. They simply lifted o-1 much as a- hundred yards of their trenches ot once. The Germans lost thousands killed and prisoners. and lhcro must have been in conse- quence thousande wounded. We cap- tured some very important positions. and today we received thanks from the General."

THE MORAL I8 THERE.

Horn is the latest story which I

have hcard concerning Lord Kitchen- er. A mincr‘n wife, whose husband was by precept and practice a con- vinced anti-Prohibitionist, was told the other day by s lady visitor that Lord Kitchener had become strictly teetotal, and all his household. "My," she commented.; “but his wife will be glad, pair 'umsn. Bhe'il mebbe ken noo whit it means tae get s bale weelcs pay in her hand." The ioke, of course. is that Lord Kitchener has nev- er been married. but the moral is there ali’ the sense.

A French officer in a letter to his

wife writes:

man.

languages. we read. ond W0 Dial' another clasp about her-the man with

.. ,

seen

cam

lieu

,turned

Gilbert Blye. freed of his beautiful

ed against a sturdy tree which bud s pped it from u fatal rumble. Blye's chauffeur, the wide featured Scatti.

s bringing up the unconscious driv-

er of the taxi. 'i‘he vivacious bru- nette and the heavy man with the thick lidded eyes were helping Mrs. Villard. That gentle faced woman had insisted upon walking, but she

e with a painful limp, and her

face was drawn und white. Blye start- ed the car forward with u jerk, turned it dextrously in the narrow road und, Jumping down, arranged the cushions with a swiftly certain hand.

When June again opened her eyes

Blye was brushing back her soft brown hair from her pale forehead, but he was not holding her. She was in the luxurious limousine. with hor

d pillowed on the shoulder of the

white mustacbed man, Orin Cunning- ham, and his arm was about her. She straightened as she became aware of that clasp, and Blye, his black eyes glowing down upon her, smiled reas- surlngly. The car started. and she ‘ to look at Mrs. Villard, who

She Was In His Arms.

'sat baide her with compressed lips. The injured taxi driver was up in front, supported by the heavy lidded man. The runaway bride closed her eyes again and sank back into the sup- port which she so umch detected.

Blye! How much he had been in

her life since she had run away from Ned! And little did June know that

tained the number of themuto in which she had driven that day. The number was M607707.

Soon .Tune lay in her-little room in

the hospital, her hair waving about her on the white pillow. and her ‘ Blends were permitted to bid her good night. The vivacious Tommy Thomas sat at the head of her bed and stroked June’s white hand; Orin Cunningham. a particularly debcuair figure as be leaned against the window casing, smoothing his white mustache, twin- kled over at her; T. J. Edwards. the heavy man with the thick eyelids and the round head with im absurdly abort cropped gray hair. was gentle in his rough wsy. Gilbert Blye, over by the door. had not much to say. but he nev- er removed his luminous gaze from the runaway bride, and when the pink cheeked nurse came to drive th out Blye was the last to make his adlens, and, bending over gracefully, he kissed

herhandi

Elouoria Blye received a telephone

message from Bill Wolf a few hours

after the time of the auto accident.

“You husband bez gone to his club,”

he said huskily.

The wiiie drove hastily to the club

entrance. She met Wolf, who pointed

to the chauffeur Scatti, saying:

“There's your husbands driver.”

Houoria saw Scattl standing beside

ber hulbaud'| limousine.

"l’d like to make you a little pres-

ent,” laid Honoria. in sugared accents, and, fumbling in her pocketbook, she

produced a bill.

Seatti turned to her with alacrity,

and every line in his broad, low face

widened.

The line of his lips also thickened

as be separated them in a grin of pleas- ure. He took the bill with joy, looked at its denomination in the light of one of his side lamps, flopped open his heavy driver'e coat. shoved the bill deep in his trousers pocket and but- toned his coat tightly from top to bot-

tom.

"Now, you'll tell me where Mr. Blye was this evening. woa't you 7" she

wheedled. . The smile faded from Scsttrs lines. “Aren't you going to tell ma?" And

the voice rose another notch.

No answer.

“Give me back that moaeyi” she

screamed.

There were thirty-seven lights to be counted before the perspective merged ia a blur. Bcstti calmly inspected them all ia deep absorption. but during the entire time that one narrow slit of

sanyo had a dancing gleam in if.

Houeria scowletl been nt the impos- ing entrance to the club. The doors

mod wide open. fnsidetbe tssellat- ed vestibule were stiiiiy uniformed st- toadauts. Beyond was s marble col-

Ned, through his detedzive, had ob- ,I

over the plain, coarse white ulghtgewa in which she had been put to bed.

pretty nurse smiled in triumph. "Come ini"

on the door, but before it could open Juno had hopped back into bed with one spring. She and the pretty nurls were laughing nt each other in the sheer light hearteduess of youth when the doceor with the funny -red side bums camo in.

1 through an arched opening, was s pau- aled screen.

Suddenly Boaoria dashed up the

steps which no woman had ever trod and before any one could stop her had rounded the paueled screen and stood in the grill room. amid a wudemess of -oslten tables, at nearly all of which sat men busy sending curling wreaths of incense toward the blgb gilded cell- ing. V

There were glasses before most of

the mea. and a dense and pnintui el- lence pervaded the place. although as Hoaorla had rushed through the hall she had heard the loud babble of ani- mated conversation. The mea in that club weretumedto speechless clay at the sight of this fumiug apparition.

“There you arel“ she screamed, and

as her gaze settled from its swift rov- ing into a fixed direction one mnn came to life and rose-the black Vnndyked Gilbert Blye. "There you are!" she screamed again and started to twist ber way among the tables toward ber long lost mane. "You will stay away from home, eh! You will run around with other women! You will"-

A door In the corner opened and

closed, and Gilbert Blye was on the other side of it! A fat man laughed. Honoria Blye turned on them all and began to tell them just what she thought of their club. A half dozen at- tendants regained consciousness and crowded round ber. One of them, in- dulging in soothing talk, accidentally laid his hand on ber sleeve, and she left four red lines on his face. For the first time in its dignified history that club resounded with the shrill echoes of a confirmed soo/ld. The chuckllng fat man achieved an inspiration. He came up and said confidentially:

“Your husband is slipping out of the

basement."

When Honorla reached the imposing

entrance she was just in time to see Scatti slamming the door of the lux- urious ilmousiue, and as that brilliant- ly lighted carsped 'u the street with Gilbert Blye recli».‘_‘g comfortably amid the soft cushions .-1 peal of laugh-

ter iilled the block.

Honoria sprang into ber electric

coupe and. turning on all the "juice," wheeled down the street in mad pur- suit. But at lust: she gave up the chase

and went home.

The parrot was asleep, with its head

tucked under its wing and the haleful eye closed. Elonorla turned on the light and finished, to the parrot, the violent speech she had begun in her husband’s club. The baleful eye open- ed, and the bird moved uneasily from fool: to foot Occasionally its neck feathers ruiiled and its wing tips jerk- ed, but it gave no other sign of wake- fulness. In time, however, Honorin paused for breath, and the parrot slow- ly brought its shining round head into view. The head feathers were tou- sled and the eyes were sleepy as the familiar spirit of Honorin stretched its

wings.

“0h, shut up!" it hoarseiy cranked

A nurse with pink cheeks awakened

June in the morning, and as the patient opened her cycs the two pretty girls smiled their appreciation of each other.

"How are you this morning?" asked

the nurse, preparing to put u thermom-

eter between .lune‘s red lips.

“Perfectly well. thunk you." laughed

June, tossing ber waving brown hair back from her shoulders as she raised

up. “How is Mrs. Villard?"

“A slight sprnln," expln ined the nurse

brightly. “She will be able to go home in time for dinner this evening. My, but you folks had a lucky accident! You must lie down until the doctor

comes."

“1'm going to get up," announced

June.

"Against orders. My dear, you must

stay in bed until Dr. Remert says you

may get up."

“Is he the one with the funny red

sldeburnsl” and June looked down

.ky

The Taxi Lssned Against e Tree.

“Where are my clothes?" "You're not ready for them," and the

This last was in answer to a knock

Pulse and looked at ber toagueand prodded her a few times and examined her bonel. talking to her all the while as if shed were a -little gl;-l‘ about ten yearn old. _ _ "Now, I am going' to get up,” pro-

claimed June. as soon as the doctor

had gone away. and she own# her pink feet out of bed again. ° here are my clothes?" _

"l’ll gettbem foryou." Andthepnet-

ty auneturued cheerfully to go. "0b. no;‘vmit a minute!" ' June's big

eyes were-sparkling. “Please let me try on one of yous uniforms."

The pretty norsedimpled. ns she ld- mired herputlent. June would look “fetching” in nurse‘s clothing. There could be no question of that, but she shook ber head.

"I’m afraid it woulda’t be permit-

ted."

"Just to try it on." begged June.

“Let's ask the bend nurse."

it seemed n tremendously daring

thing to do.

“I wouldn't risk it." And the pretty

nurse puckered her brows. Suddenly

"i’d like to make you a little present.”

her face cleared. it was ns if the sua had popped out on n rainy day. "Yes, i can! Mrs. Wade is ou duty this moming. For a minute I thought it was Miss Sim|:nons."_

"lsn‘t she nice?" and .Iune’s round

eyes softened sympathetically.

"She's un old cnt!" The prcity nurse

was very vehement about it. "l\Irs. Wade's u dear, tboug|.\," and, hurrying nwuy, she brought the "dear" right buck.

Mrs. Wade was a smiling woman-

.smiling lips, smiling dyes, and it seem- ed as if her hair smiled-but she was dubious about the uniform.

“it would bc ll radical infraction of

the rules." she declared. with an ab- surd utlcmpt nt severity, “but we’ii ask Dr. llcmcrt not to tell."

They all three laughed at that, nnd

within n i`c\\' minutes .lnue was in n stiff whltc uniform. with a prim little clip on hcl' head. :ind was walking se- dntely into .\lrs. \'iIlni°d's room. She paused on the threshold. Gilbert Blye was there! As be caught sight of her June saw the glow of admiration leap into his black eyes. She half turned to go lu her embarrassment, but Mis. Vil- lard stopped her.

“Come here. you pretty thing." she

called, and us June sbyly came to the bedside Mrs. Villard laughed. and Blye joined her.

Dr. Remert came ln and expressed

his profound :xstonlslinient nt hou- grown up .Iune looked in a uniform :ind tweaked the pink ear lobe which peeped from beneath the trim little cap. The bend nurse and-the nurse with the pink cheeks and the phenom- cnally thin nurse crowded in to nd- mlre June; then Du. Remert scattered them so that li rs. Villnrd should have some rest before her next banllngingn und he took June with him for a round of the wards. Ile gnve her n thermometer to carry so she should look useful as well as ornamental, She cnme bnck from that round of

the wards ratbcr thoughtfully. She had seen so much pain and sorrow and suifcrlng. wan children und wnn moth. ers and wan mon who should have been strong. and in the light of all their woes her own problem seemed

foolish and insignificant.

In Mrs. Vlilnrdis room as June ap-

proached the door she beard voices. among them Orin Cunnlngbam’s_ She turned away and wont across the hall to the room where the injured chauf- feur lay. He w:\_.~l in considerable pain. the pretty name said. but he lny there smiling, with great cheerfulness upon his roughly molded countenance. “I guess I'il be laid up for u week

or ten days," hc stntcd. with n grin.

"Thnt’s n long time to be confined in n narrow little room," sympnthized

.iuue.

The bead nurse brought her bit of

sunshine into the room.`

“How are you feeling?" she linked.

"Bully."

"Then you can probably stand n picnsnnt surprise." smiled Mrs. Wade.

“You have n visitor."

"Obi" The sunshine left the rough-

ly molded face. but tilazrin was back in a minute. "Say-_ tell her the doctor says I ain't ro be talked to loud. And can't one of you nur-sei stay here to

make it strong?"

His grin was so eonilding that the bend anne grinned bqek at him. She

was n woman of much experience.

“Of course you mlilfhdf be talked to ref! long." she agreed. "AM 7011 should have a nurse with you to take care of'yom'° she iwklll li- June 0

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edbhcllaa-falgrintolune. whossi “WU Pdmiy at the head of the bed. The msn sank back when the head

‘nurse left and looked as feeble as he could. His nurse was smoothing the Pillows when the door opened, and there came in a large. heavy jawed woman. with a long ostrich feather on her hat, half a dozen cheap rings ou her-ilnlers and two buttons hanging loosely on ;her coat one by. a single thread. - . "Well, well. Joel" she said in a heavy

voice. and she stared at June. “Dida't I lilwllys tell you you’d get it?" She bent over and kissed her husband as a matter of propriety. “Hurt you much I"

“Something fierce!" huskily murmur-

ed Joe and half closed his eyes.

“Tough lucki" said the woman.

“You wouldn't take out that accident insurance I wanted you to. and now I IUPP08e lean starve."

"Oh, well, you ain't done it yetl" ob-

jected the man, his tone losing some of _ its feebleness. “I guess you can get along till I can get out of this. I give you every cent I ever make."

“I guess t.hat's n lotl” And the wom-

an sat down with a thump.

“Thirty dollars last week."

“And how much the week before?" “W2U. it was a rotten week." And

the man tamed his eyes toward June, who looked steadfastly out of the win-

quarter. be proceeded in helping him self. “You got enough to run you for ten days. You know you have. Come ou, Alice. be sociable."

“0h, I can come on all right, and I

can be sociable all right, but sup. pose you don't get out of here in ten days! Then what do I do? Starve, 1 guess! Bay, how do you come to be in a private room?" She looked at June and sniffed. “And with a private nurse?"

“The good sport that picked us up

put me bere."

The woman surveyed the bare little

room. There were no curtains at the WIUGOWB. no upholstering, no softening graces of any kind on the white enam- eled fittings. but it had an immense su- periority, tbe cause of which she could not fathom. It was absolu.cly clean, and she paid an unconscious tribute f.o that phenomenon.

"Why, it's better than I got it at

home!" she complained. The mlm turned his bead over and back again, but he said, nothing.

"Say," the woman went on, “the fel-

low that spent the money for this room and the private nurse \vould have done better to let you go in the public ward and give you the money for your wife!"

June. at the window, moved impa-

tiently.

"Nurse," said the man. “can you get

me my punt:-i'."`

June opened the door of the tiny

white enameled wardrobe in the corner and brought out the m:1n's trousers, handing them down with the tips of ber thumb and forcflngcr. The wo- man took them and deftly ran her hands into the pockets.

“Seven fifty-tire," she reported and

clicked the money into her purse. She hung the trousers in the wardrobe and shut the door. “'1‘hnt`ll llclp n little. Did you get your pay for this drive?"

“Not yet, Alice." "Well, you tell me who it was, and

l‘Il go after it!" She had turned from the wardrobe and was regarding a tray which stood on its folding stand by the wail. She lifted the napkin. "My God!" she exploded. "A bot- bouse peach! And you didn`t eat it all at that! You know what I had for my breakfast? Cotfee and sinkers and hashi And here you are living on

the fat of the land!"

“Looky here, Alice!" The man had

raised up in bed, and there was a twitch of pain at the comers of his lips as he stretched out an oil black-

ened foreiinger.

.Tune whirled from the window with

a snap of her big eyes. She still car- ried the thermometer which Dr. Remert had given her. Now she thrust it in the mau's mouth. put a hand at the

dow. There being no help from that'

` “Weil,soI¢1ag,J0e,"shesald. “S00 if you can’t get your money for thlf drive by the time I come 8311111-" 55° waved a wifely baud at him and stalk- ed out. She turned to June ia U19 hill- --xf me renew mrs pagans un for UU' room will give Joe the money illlmad ‘wen be a lor neue: ou." ` June was so shocked at the cold cal- lousuess of this speech that she could only dummy nod ner head. and ll” walked down to the nurses' llti-I8 desk i at the end of the hall. l¢8V1118 31° W°m' an to find her way out alone. 306. I-|19 chauffeur, lay. cheerfully Krillllllll- wlth the thermometer in his moat-ll. Again the everlasting p\’0\>l€lU-'U10 man, the woman and the money i T59 runaway bride sat in the vacant C118-il' at the little desk and pondered it all out. This person who nagsed. who fol- lowed het- husband even to the hospital to nag and whose husband welcoméd the hospital as a relief from nagging- this woman was the outcome of the custom by which the 1119-U. €a1'Um3- possessed all, and the money 5° Bl" tohiswilewasasagift. ASel0Sl1 woman and one without delicalry. H0611 as this nagger, made it her business to get ali she could. and the pursuit had become a passion with her. She was ‘L"l I I

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“Bevan fifty-Eve," she reported.

like those beggars who continue to beg after they have become rich by it, begging from the force of habit and from the love of the art of making peo- ple give and from the sordid desire to possess. It was wrong, all wrong, some- where. June shuddered as she remem- bered this wife going through ber hus- band’s pockets, and then she recalled her dream of herself standing before Ned as a piteous pauper, holding out her hand for alms. She had been right, she decided, as sho had decided time and again. She had acted wisely in running away before she had com- mitted herself to charity and before any borders had been set between their love. She must earn her own way-

Mercyi June sprang from her chair

and ran to the room of the chauifeur with a sudden violent wrench of her conscience. Joe lay there quite cheer- fully with the thermometer still in his mouth, and he grinned :ls rvoll us he could after twenty minutes of this ex- ercise. Wbeu June removed the ther- mometer that side of his face remained twisted and puckcred for some time, and it ached. but he was perfectly happy. He could be alone for twenty- four hours.

CHAPTER Il.”

HERE was a consultation in

Mrs. \'lilurd‘s room. Tolnruy Thomas sat :lt thc hcud of Mrs. \`ill:\rd`s hed. T. J. Ed-

wards, the heavy man with lin- thick lidded eyes, ant on thc other side in stolid silence. Cunningham lcnnvd neg_~ ligently on the foot of the bud. Before Mrs. Villard lny n picture of June clip- ped from n Rrynport paper on the day of her mnrrlugc to Ned \\'arner. Tom. my Thomas had just found it und had brought it with ber. Cuunhighnm picked up the picture und looked nt it with twinkling eyes. sinootlilmr his white mustache cornpluccntly. Gilbert Blye, sitting in the fur corner on ilu- wiudow sill. with his \'nnd_vko in his long. lean white hand. suddenly rose and, walking ovcr tu Cunningham. fool; the picture from him and lnid it on thc

bed.

The pretty nurse with the pink

cheeks opened the door presently and heard these words in Fllye‘s suave but forceful tones:

“The thing to do is to gain ber-cond.

dence. There must bc n complete change of method." _

The voice atoppt-d abruptly. Ed. wards. Cunningham, Tommy Timmm;

and

.\lrs \`lllurd nt-rc nil llstenln

June was In a Stiff White Uniform.

:ckdof his neck and gently- forced m own. “The times up," she empy reissue woman. Her voice was low- andfsott, and the visitor pumled afterward ll to

hair”-“it cengd--be so 060310 writing I l\l.- use went -to e doss- ooeaed it. aware that the eyes of Joe

were dsedfoa he_r.la.u£`,:&||¢stitude. The-woman looked ly at bel

moment: than liar eyes twiukled. “l think I‘ll leave this duel"

He was e jovial doctor. and a very

ulmlsd bali, all at the end of that.

nie; doctor tudd. Be felt Janet -

"Much oivllgedl' And the man tura-

husbhnd; but the have at the doll'

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teutly. llirs. \‘lllnrd seemed tmn§|¢3_ Tommy Thomas. with dcviltry in hor eyes, was Iauglllng nt Cunningham. who seemed uncomfortable. The round headed I-Idivurds silt slowly nodding |13 be looked at Blye. Mrs. Villard reach- ed quietly forward and turned the niece of paper on the hed fare down. ward. She seemed even sad.

"Beg pardon." said the pretty mu-"_

Noting the nudricn silence and slipping ia, she .put ber hmui under the sheet and felt of Mrs. Vlliard's ankle. The entire group was motionless, and gh," was a strained tension in the |-oem “_ til the mme what out. she saw an-,_ Villard teaching forward for the piece 0! ala" ll Ihr slum me nom-. ana in Ill VIII# Iwi) lb! beard Blye'e

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abruptly. but the swan-mwwdtmnq di-lteli. "Oh, see the pretty nuniial' then.;

Cunningham. And June gllmcedtdoym in embarrassment ` In that moment ot her tbwncasneyg Tommy Thomas and M1'l..Villard, 3|” and Edwards. all glared at Cunning.. ham. He hushed anwwdkedtlistvouelyl over to the window- "Really, the costume iltguitse be¢om_ ing t0 F011." he added I-ltims .he had never used to her b¢!0l'¢.ione of eg. travagaut relpwt. _ _ "Indeed it is. -dear," dd Tommn Thomas. She .slipped an arm around June's waist rxotectiugly. _ana mg, vuiard glanced up at ber»compenh|| with moist eyes. ` "Well, we'll see'you lieu" said TJ.;

Edwards, with a clumsy attempt gg henrtiness. and. rims. he _bowed to the ladiu. "If I-l1¢l’9'l ll\¥f-U11! I can do, let me know.” His ssnallteyee mv. ed to June, but there was ao patronlg. ingly fatherly glance in than and M disposition to pat hu' oufhemhouldsr. _ June was puzzled. There seemed he be a distinct change in the attitude on all these people towlrd har- Ytar-_ any they hadlpursued her wit.h=a meek. mg certainty, in which there was an underlying iusoleucs, but now they seemed to have lost 'thatnofe abovem- famtliarity, and she liked the ellmge. only Blye was the same. His black: eyes glowed when they rested upon her, and he still worehis suave-smile, though somehow he seemed more frank. June found bellelf sudden!! liking this black Vandyked man. Ag she turned to smooth Mrs. Vlllan!'s pillows the tires men exchanged glances, and the suavely smiling Gil- bert Blye stroked his black Vandyku.. They turned their eyes as by one ae cord of the beanrlrularunaway bride. -

Ned Warner at the very moment hi

which Blye and his crowd had changed their tactics toward June was, after: interminable red tape.. securing the ad- dress of the owner of ear No. M607'i0'l’, und, that secured. he hurried out bn the beautiful home of Mrs. .Vlliardup the Hudson. He came to it by the lower road, and as he approached the house be saw Marie in the doping -hill- side garden. ,He stepped in the shelter of the wall to consider. Al few days ago his first: impulse would lnve been to rush up to Marie and seize her and compel ber to tell what sbedsnew, but Marie had proved herself to be a. slip- pery customer. She had deuled know- ing Ned on his first meeting with har after the runaway. She had denied knowing earnest and eager am! black Aunt Debby when thutfalthfuhmrvant ot .Tnne's mother had happened upon Marie in the market, and only yestess dny Marie had run away fromrthe en- tire famiiy, taklngiiunefa collie, Bounc- er, with ber. Them was little to be gained from Marie. If Ned were abld to force himself in and smreb tha house .Tune would be’-blddemby lomo one or be helped to ucape. li! Nl happened yesilerduy It U10 'WWUH O’Keefe's and also at the Boutthecuzl-I ties building and everywhere-else. Sd there was but one-thing to do--ha com- ceal himself about the gwimdl until June herself shouimappear. VHOIGUW ed that coniue, and the W1' hair dragged ou, noon. n.fuemoon,evming.

With the dusk the limou-

sine of Gilbert Blyell the-@0lUiiiL and in its brilliantly iigbnatiicomfort sat the precious Juueantillrnivillsxd. Tommy Thomas, Orin CIIIIIIMKNUII and Gilbert Blye. Sirnlgetwhatlk dif- ference this day had mills ill JUIIBU feelingtowardmesepeople. T@'liketl her. If their views otllfewemnot ha: views she could keep hsrulm. Taq seemed to have discovemlk. that IU meant to retain her wayne! tcldnkiw and living. and itwaseoummhnissl since they had spparentk acknowl- edged aus. New herwalcnequum- ion tours. Yilhrdwuuldbeualzll more pleasant. Ther wuuacingill gay cumradeanipas thqthswvmrird

Villard home. _

Ned. Warne sstho shdUd'nkU new in wanna me womans ns- den and nearer the home. up toward the hack pmeb be dau opened and J\me’s eollbemnp harm!-J

ing out for an ensuing

had no sooner

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