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EN lla ’ DO and was: uni _iilltrrdPgr on; a. m of in; "trtar,wtttr,ruasa. 'F- tlt ’tu and up munching at M' -'.: n a-utr. r: catered 6* ‘m. no man an curry at... toe a Dom-In ".110 sl'! 5m! uni-Minna C.?'., W ”and." he remarked. '.’::vlu cu strtuetttitt up. "You The morning sun was pourm: through the window in the eastern end ot the granary its beams tell _ on the tire with the blow-nut and l filled the rent with a faint but pun- gent smell of rubebr. On the bed Un the corner. beneath IV heap of blankets, lay the boy. one little [ soot," fsrotudintr from under the rumpled mews, bore its own dark evidence or the previous day's journeying in the dusty field: one arm, thrown upwards. fell open- pnlmed across his forehead. the l little finger linked in a flirtlnri curl ot hair; two ruddy lips, slight, ly parted in the sleep at childhood,', disclosed aha flash of white teeth: throng? their smiles. Cal, leaning! over h m, paused tor a moment in the clutch of a great _'.:tr,telr) it was at wholly nnexpected times like this that some tremendou;V thing about the boy reached tura around his heart and crushed from. him Just one word--Ce1esta'. . . Dim-eyed he saw the little figure through the mist of his dead moth- er's tragedy; dim-eyed he followed him down the eight wonderful years of his young life: down to Jark. aon state‘s farm and the old Ford cunhionn in the granary, . . . "Oh. that't not in the bargain." he managed to Bay. . "it is " she says so. You don' know her pt How’s he fixed?" "All right. He has one suit In good shape.'" "rm lorry." Cal and simply, will. Jnchon Stake masked hill (attire. by worrying a plug ot during tobacco Something in his bee mm! that the old man himself had not Vite trot over That kind o' thlng.” “You She sent mqout to say that mybe the boy--wtttst In It you call him? Reed, is It'. Family name, I suppose!" Cal thought ot m) busy woman complaining that she could get no help._“nm for the soul or sake o' her," and ot the glimpse ot her heart she had given him yesterday. and'ot 'the bigger glimpse her hus- band had given him now. "Well. you better get him- up an' take him over to the action] th' Imornlng. Mile an' a hair "south. straight dawn the road. Annie sfo, He’s the teacher. an' I guess sihe's all right. Don't know myself much about eddication, excep' I wish I had-it. Gander'tl drive the team awhile. an' you can spell 'im oii’ again when you get hack." Cal found himself tranting some words ot thanks, but the farmer had moved down the stalls and bis voice was raised in loud briticism of Grit Wilson. A shoulder scald on one of Grit's horses seemed to be the occasion. Cal slipped out quietly to awaken Reed. L”. M. I hor-ar hone MI 're--in I. an " a woman. I: ”we . hit Inta' 'Jim. boy. you're by!“ Four beat than”! Who 'q the In!“ “my up yet. at In but nigh, on In In: linen." -. tttat hind o' thing." “wan, not exactly. Jan a sort of notion I had." - “Queer mMne. Well, that don' mat- "r. She things he uoght to start to school att' said It there was any mendlu' or anythin' needed to bring It in an' she'd tix u up right away. so‘a he could start Ju' slimming." “hi0. Hat’- good for him. The lint m ukm'. Seems to have ' “It! at I sling to him. You now. to km 3 troy, u you might uy. on": woman never gets over "Come, old but." he said at his moot out!" Breaths! was another hurried Inc-l. All meals l\tho farmhouse. It leemed. we" hurried; ample and hurried. Tssre.tuv4 been the same stinking 1n the wash basin by the min laurel: the name single filing mm the table: the same "dining b." Thu “no It was into putrid" and lull, Med volumes Incl "n. "It. hand And corn syrup. It Mm. We Ind had a good nIzht'a mat, or no my.“ rent. she gave no up; her pic» was ”1me 'hll tt H been the My baton. nnd the .1 but!» that, mid would be m amh-. In! me My um Hut. The * 'tbitt m In the centre of “1": m a “cannon of a”) “an; item-y. today. it femur. .15. Int ',rrt".tTt,:g Inv- ~M tter, (blues has“ to 'Bg0.tke0statgrottt"rho-.rt" bqtM6ut.rs.tnrwrtnrtN i, '-i--tooemo, , baeqb-ivr,-rBs f " “WWI-him Indian; time to roll nhnklng himself tree "School ,(oday? Roll not less interesting and practical, Jackson Stake. coatiess and ve'st, lcex, and with trousers still cling- ing precariousis% his broken sus- nenders. occupied the arm chair at the end of the table. His hair. now mostly grey. and thinning put on mp, had once been red. and there was still an autusrh hue to the pep- per-and-salt ot his moustache; hie eyes were keen and grey: under hristly brows; his mouth large and zenial; his cheeks swarthy; his "Mk ’z-rmsed and furrowed; his hands- one would not speak of inrkson Stake'a hands. one would my his fists. His figure favored norpulenco and his ample body showed threatening symptoms at overflowing the taut waistline of his blue overalls. He gave the Im- presslnn of being aimiable and wil- iug to talk had not the more urgent business 1,r breakfast intervened On his right sat Gahder Stake. lan- ky and swan-like. with a line face that sunburned yellow instead ot red, a tremendously busy Adam's apple, dark hair plastered to place with water, and eyes that were blue. not grey. He, too, was coatless and restless. and even while sitting he would give his body an occasional hitch as though to reassure his ov- orails. Across the table from Gan- tier sat Grit Wilson. also without mat or vest, and with yesterday's whisker grown one day older and sandier. A parenthesis of wrinkles about his mouth and ‘chin agree- trett of none “and!“ W t.eraeetho6au-ttua.er. tun coll-add. The - d the room in which they set we. more! with “when; trues at ft. not other”. which but long It.“ (if unpaved shout All. all. no. the stove, still bland M (In. the less trampled com". The well- and telling were ot pie-tor. one tun; white, but now mind non yellow to grey id token of may I .cuilnsry ,uceideut on the kitchen range. The door we- in the out. a window in the south, “other in the west. Red roller blinds, ot I substance broadly suggestive o! the linoleum PMer>ot, hurt: in thei windows, their ""1"'"Pe?e by cheap cotton curt-ins vhich had token on something at the yellow-i grey color of the wells. A neuterl‘ announeespent ot rthe previous‘ year's Brandon [sir end a new cal-I ends? iron: the Phlnvllle sunset evidently intended to relieve the} dullness ot the walls, had precisely‘ the opposite effect. The 'T""? consisted ot the long board table in the centre of the room: the steel range\wlth its numerous nickeledl parts ruetutiy awaiting a polishingt rub; the wood-box, but! filled with split poplar and crowned with a shelf and water-pails; the bright red cream separator in the corner, altggmtive of n mssrty-patttted hyd- rant; a cupboard ot shelves papered with ant-lent copies of the Plain- ville Progress. and supporting an assortment ot dishes and utensils; six chairs, including one 'without a hack. allotted to Reed; a sewing marhine; a shell with an alarm vim-k .aml Hamilton Blake's bicycle. _ _ . _-" .- 7777â€"7.” 1 - h was. 'B-sd' I,.'.",".',',) M\” “'1 door. can]. I gttts- at (in I'. ".tdetrttt, tho the no. tte at shred am. an - an“ tub-Ion emu-II; mu a. noor, and u umrmpp As you‘re mm 1101:. m plus for . lorry Chret--- 'or I moment I“ study (in no" mum-e. " mm... a ham Yuk- ude than: of qrtat "lawful mn- nc his uncoupling In! than m In. nut to and in“ a. m at ply-Mu , mo _ huh a. mu am. JM" m MI hi - On The occupants of the room were £7310 f Blind-Wet They "See" And Find Delight In Their Christmas Tree And Gifts mm m their 03mm tree. Po--""' u Inn-moo you and I. They no - of the , the new New Tort III-mute for the liner hm Yuk- uon ot the ”ROAM. In the 4NNNq Iva-dorm at that mm in" lad their whit! M m oi lull“ "vettrtted to much the It'd 'thed-tttatt-hr-Ort- It,“ u- mwmnmmumh I - in II In. m. In I Inn-d. this mm- - W D “I - ..0 M m "Spring weather. I blame it on. Always like that in- May. . . . You mus' he a good boy tor Annie F'rolic, [has she bids you. an' work hard at your lessons. It's the wind, the May wind-was your sister mar- ried long; t mean---" She stopped. realizing the indel- lcacy of her question, and" in the momentary pause Cal recovered his balance. "Not long; Reed was [he only child," he equivocated. "Well, we mus‘ get him all." she exclaimed. as, sweking safety in ac- tion. she drew Reed on to .the tloor before her. Her ftmters were trifling with his He: her old knees seemed pressing hungrily against his; her hands were amooth.g his riotous hair into some semblance of order. ubiy conceded that for him the first bloom ot youth was gene, never to return; but his deep brown eyes had the mischievous twinkle ot per- ennial boyhood. Nulves or North sntusuo don't know how Immune they "a In not raving to contend with our modern uxlmeters that click up the “to tutor whou' standing Btiil than when moving. For tut uryice. the M Kt They swung slang cheerily. Reed with his noonday lunch wrapped in the current issue of the Plalnville Progress; Cat with his thoughts busy over the favorable turn their prospects had taken. There was occasion tor cheertutness. He had literally motored into a job, and not only a job. but a home tor him, self and Reed. Over what the old farmer would say when he discov~ ered, that the crryatuitraot Gal's Im, nglnstion -provided the old. former was under any deiuaiou-Cat al- lowed himself no uneasiness. But- ticient to the day. It was enough that in twenty-four hours'he and Reed had become members of the family. lt was enough that Ritetl had captured the heart of the stern and overworked Mrs. Jnckson Stake. The fiddling with his neck1 tie-Cal was not blind. It was enough that the sun shone and the birds twittered as they hopped along the barbed wire fences that bordered the road and that the yet. low buttercups glimpsed up shyly out of the green grass. and that little dribble: and shreds ot a whist- lod tune felt trom Reed’s nursed lips as he jogged along by the side of his "Daddy X." It was enough. . I HM! 0001' pulled, an In elm the d?,' “It“ trith Reed to "mm mm. been“ 1 huge platter upo- er, went on on the winding trail which to. n little rout pig among the grove: ot populnr Ind, _ _ . wiiiow. still nan-kiln: Ind Irma". with dew, ld turned wnth on the. Out of th. Frying-Pan main road. Among a block ploughed Ott Chriutmns n certain minister New, now funny tinged with men. was lnv'itod to dinner at the house lay a crime:- of white-washed mm of one of the Its-dine men in the mummy, probably the homestead town. At the dinner-table he‘was or [Pruner Frte. To the Iett they placed opposite a goose. The'lndy could see Candy's tour-ham team of ttttt tttttttret V!" placed on the min and seeder, with IOander tttmsetrsdaMrr'is left. Seeing the 80039 he re- hitching along behind. as he drove 1ntiritttd: _ his slow shame back and ton-tin? “Sh-n I an BO close to the Further afield taint spirals ot dust gootse?" against a Qty as clear an tspring Finding the words a bit equivocal water marked the progress or Grit he tamed around to the lady, and Wilson and inning“ stoke. gsaid. in a most inoffensive tone: "What are you doing with those snow-trants?" asked the old gentle man pnspiciously. a few days before Chriitmas. _ 7 Mall-I nun- manly so to the tabla. mount that and“ uln- deor and and “to” tho country in ttto than manor. tutttr--tttrt they so! than just the "au.' "ellin' 'em, Bir. Sellin' 'em three for a penny. and them what can't afford to buy 'em get: 'em tor, tttttfin'.?' _ "Ah, indeed?" said the old gentle- man, "I'll buy the entire lot." mun-n m mmf with I'L. w. can .......,.....tr-tt' mummy decorum ' 'ts/y. 0. Wohhol ......tmte._ett I "on" It. beauty " we“ a that ot I. W Mm A. _ the any on. tin can. with tci'll1",'12k1' '"r't' " . Jinx. mm In“. a. “an touch . - ' “Minnow: not?" ...... llwrl the pm “In. my; that! I. IRON“. and , urn-nun. hit. "(an m can w. a. mall ....... an"! an. _ J o. _ - mailman i All m but mu m: ' “that“. main. tum-nah...“ ws my. First " to the many (To be Continued.) Copyright _ cm n - To. luau _11r"t""t'tP-tt"to a Cher'thor and told an msqrmerith.-toatoenrve.m bought . cook bobk and u turkey and may“ on “I" bid. Then he you for ' couple at 18mm from the "no: in tr manna! when In am no. uni felt that he in ready (or the omen). 0n the I“ ft he united the Incoming ot the turkey with smiling ulteonudeuee. Th0 door pinned. and In cane the maid. hearing I huge putter upon whigh In. I was rout pig. Excuse me, I meant the roasted one." - Billie. who had been having trouble wittrttts older codisin Ralph, came Into the house. His mother knowing nothing of the trouble said: "I know what I’d like to give him." said Billie savagely. "but I ain’t big enough." "Billie, what would you like to glve your cousin Ralph tor Christ- He had Just settled himsselr down after dinner for a comfortable smoke when his wife came and sat on the‘arm of his chair. Says Red Pepper heat Stops Pain In Few Minutes "INe got a lot of things I want to talk about/dear," she said. strok- ing his hair. "Thath good." he replied. grimly. “Uusunlly you want to talk'to me about a lot ot things you haven‘t got." RheumaLlsm. lumbago, naming; backache. 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