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PHONE 553 SAFEGUARD AND PRF.SKRYK your I- urs, Blankets, Comforts, Heavy Hangings, Portiers, Carpets, Rugs, Winter w raps and Clothing by having them thoroughly cleaned by our SPECIAL PROCESS before storing for Summer. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS CUMBERLAND, Md. Always Safest and Best HER COUSIN AGATHA She Was Oashing and Handsome With Many Moths Flutter ing About Her.. ' By GEORGE MUNSON. Sylvia Blaine kiu happier than hho hud ever been In all her life before, Hut when one ib nineteen happiness comes ?*asily, especially when one U in love. Tom Oarragh wbm generally consid ered the most promising young law I yer In Btuplfton. Tbo Darraghs and ! the Maine* bad b??pn me id burn when ! Staph ton wa? only a tiny hamlet; old ' Mr. Darruugh had re turned to the city | of his blub to end his days there, and I Tom ha<H l?to a lawyer's office. ' Now at Twenty-seven be bad a flour | ishing business And be loved Hylvia | Main?. Hylvia could not believe that It wail right for any girl to be as happy as sho was. And why should Tom have chosen her when there were so many sweet girls of bis acquaintance? If he bad ever known her cousin Agatha, for example, she was sure that Tom would never have looked twice at her. Agatha Maine was five years older than Sylvia. Although she had been born in Stapleton, she bad not lived there much during her checkered ex istence. Bhe had made an unhappy marriage and was suing the man for a divorce. Agatha was a handsome blonde ? "dashing," people called her ? with any number of moths fluttering round her. And the worst of it was that Agatha, who could nerer resist making conquests, was coming to stay with Sylvia's mother. How could the little country girl re tain her influence over Tom when handsome, rich, citified Agatha was there? "Why, you foolish child," said Tom laughingly, when Sylvia voiced her Suddenly She Stopped. fears, "don't you know that 1 am madly infatuated with you? tiring on your Agatha and watch me." Sylvia sighed anil sintered Tom to kiss the incipient lines o? trouble off her pretty forehead. Hut. when Agatha did arrive, a resplendent be ing in a picture hat, with four trunks and a pedigreed dachshund, she was more than ever convince d that her days of happiness were numbered. ' 'Agatha was so kind that tUo girl half minded to confess her trouble to her. Hut Agatha seemed also a little li' urtless. Sylvia was bound to con fess that as she sat wiCh her and her mother and watched the rider lady's eyebrows gradually contract as she listened to their visitor's ilippant com ment on men and events. Hut doubt less it was Agatha's unhappy matri monial experience that was responsi ble for that. "Why, my dear auntie," she said to Sylvia's mother, "what funny, old fashioned ideas you havo about men. Any woman ran twist any man round her little finger, if she chooses." "I wonder if she will choose to twist Tom round her little linger," sighed Sylvia to fierself. when. Agatha congratulated her warmly. Her inter est In the engagement seemed almost unnatural, and she insisted upon pur chasing a large part of Sylvia's trous seau. "She also inquired into the con dition of Tom's finances, and when she learned that hiB homo would have to be a very modest one she seemed ; quite distressed. ' And 1 have more money than I ! know what to do with." musingly. ! "Richard settled $10,000 on me when I we were married, you know." On the day after her arrival Tom Pwas introduced to her. Sylvia, watch* I lng them closely, although sho as sumed an indifferent manner, felt that her worst fears wero confirmed. With in a few minutes after the introduc tion they were chatting together liko old friends. "Well, I've seen this wonderful Cousin Agatha," said Tom, as they parted, "ai.d she can't hold a candlo to you, sweetheart." Hut Sylvia de tected a note of insincerity in his voice, and that night sho cried herself to sleep. The next day Cousin Agatha plead ed a headacho when Sylvia broached tho proposition of a walk. Sylvia had some shopping to do, and, after a stroll through tho woods alone, re turned through the village. Suddenly she stopped dead ; she felt as though I an icy hand had been laid upon her heart, for at a window on the seo> ond stofy of some buBlneB? offices she saw Agatha'* bat. There was no mistaking that bat. Thsr* could not possibly have been another like It III Stapleton. And the Irony of tbe situation lay Iq the fact tbst tbe bat was uodding at the win dow of Tom's office. I'here were fow people In the street, snd nobody noticed Sylvia clinging. with pale faoe and trembling liinbM, to a corner of tbe building op posite. She could uot tear her eyes uway from what she saw. And a mo ment or two later she saw Agatha's ' filmy lace handkerchief pressed to her eyes, Haw Agatha's head bowed Upon her hands, and Haw Tom's hand pat* ting her cousin's shoulder consol ingly. After awhile Sylvia summoned strength to go home. She did not tell anybody what she had Been. She wrote a Utile nolo to Torn that evening. "I !)nd that I made a mistake," she Haid. "1 thought 1 loved you, Tom, but I was wrong. 1'leaue do not call or write to mo, and never ask mo to explain.'' She knew Tom was too proud not to take her at her word. And the next two weeks were miserable ones, for Bho herself was too proud to lot Aga tha know how she was suffering. "Well, I must say I don't think much of that Sweetheart of yours, Syl via," said Agatha. "If I were engaged to a young man I should expect him to come to see me every evening. And here it must be a couple of weeks since he has put In an appearance.". Sylvia did not make the retort that was updn the tip of her tongue: That on four separate occasions she had seen Agatha in Tom's office. And when her mother, looking at her searching ly that night, asked her whether any thing was wrong between Tom and herBelf, 8he denied It miserably and hurried to her room, that she might give way to her tears without re striction. But everything draws to a close, and the time was come for Agatha to leave. The four trunks were packed, the wonderful hat went into a special box, giving place to a neat traveling hat, and Agatha was waiting for the carriage to come to convey her to the sttfTion. "Sylvia, dear," she said, "there isn't anything wrong between Tom and yourself, is there?" . "N-no," stammered Sylvia brazenly. She would never give her cousin the satisfaction of knowing the harm that she had wrought. "IJecause," said Agatha, "I wouldn't have engaged his services if I had reason to believe ho was going to be unkind to you.'' "Engaged his services, Agatha?" asked Sylvia, bewildered. "Yes, dear. You know 1 didn't like my lawyer, Wagstaff, who, between ourselves, hadn't been quite straight with me, So I thought: Here's $500 worth of law business going beggirrg, and why shouldn't Tom Darragh have it and be able to start housekeeping with a nest egg in the bank? Only, I'm afraid ho must think me a dread ful goose, Sylvia. B.ecause, tho first time 1 went to his office 1 began con trasting him in ray mind with Rich ard, and thinking what a lupky girl you were ? and 1 just broke down and cried. Why ? Sylvia!" For Sylvia was crying, too, and when the cab arrived she had only just begun to explain. She was so remorse ful that she did not notice the direction which the cab was taking until it stopped outside Tom's office. And then ? I can't go in, Agatha. I dare not. I'll write to Tom ? " "Well, now, you just sit still and I'll bring Tom out to you," said Aga tha sternly. And when, a minute later, the door opened and Tom came in. Sylvia clung to him, sobbing and re pentant. "O, Tom, what a goose I was. Can you ever forgive mo?" sho asked. N'On one condition," ho answered. "That you marry mo next month." ? "On one condition," said Sylvia do cilely. "Which is??" "That Cousin Agatha shall be bridesmaid.'' (Copyright, 1313, by W. G. Chapman.) Oxygen and Breathing. That there is less oxygen in the rarefied air of celebrated mountain health resorts than in any room with closed windows, no matter how crowd ed with persons, was an unchal lenged statement made in the Times by t lie English expert on ventilation, Dr. Leonard Hill. The British Royal society hns just published a prayer supplementary to tho report on the Anglo-American Piko's Peak expedi tion by My?sr M. P. Fitzgerald, which concludes with tho statement that "arterial blood contains considerably more oxygen at high altitudes than at sea level." Tho lungs are better ventilated, for one thing, but it is certain, also, that the old theory that the lungs should be plentifully sup I plied with chemically pure air must be discarded. The little cell-like al veoli at the ends of the lun^ branches have a special power of extracting oxygen, even while the supply of oxy gon in tho air is deficient. This sec retory power is increased at high al titudes. and tho increase does not dis appear until a considerable time after descent to sea level. His Sketch. A youngster in school was busy drawing. The teacher, to appear in terests, approached him and said kindly: "Well, Johnny, what are you draw ing?" "Why, I was making a picture of you, but It didn't look enough Iiko you, so I put a tall on It and called It a dog." LOOK! LOOK! 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