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VOLUME XXXVI LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920 LAI<K ?MICNOI,&4 ?M MMNr cY <WM t f4C R/&mOr .JaU (Continued from Last Week.) - ,"You hive the fan with you ; Mon tani jumped right out of his sent when you opened it in the theater." This she received with more laugh ter; Montana amused her immensely, she said. She wasn't in the least afraid of him. Returning to the inat ter of the luncheon, she suggested the, Tyrlngham. "You know, I want very much to see Mr. Ruashford's old home and the place all our veteran retainers cane from. At one?-yes. Good night I" Alice and Mrs. Farnsworth reached the Tyringham on time to the minute. As I had spent the morning on a bench in the park, analyzing my prob lems, I found their good humor a trifle jarring. "You don't seem a bit glad to see tis," Alice complained as she drew off her gloves. "How can any one he anything but, happy after seeing that <elicious 'Cock Robin'? It is so deli ously droll." "I haven't," I remarked iwith an attempt at severity, "quite your knack of ignoring disagreeable facts. There was Montani right in front of me, Jumping 111ce a jack-in-the-box every time you flourished your fan. There's that fellowN we've got locked up at Barton--" ' "Just hear the tuon, Constance I" she interrupted with 'her ndorable laugh. "We were thinking that he was only 'hemiinilg to see tigs our way, the only true way, the jolly way, and here he cometh like a melancholy . Jacques ! We'll hnve none of it !" "We tuist confess," said Mrs. F'arnsvortIh conell'tIingly, "(iht.ha Mr. Singlefon is tl siing tii'ugh Ia severe trial. We pr'eclpitatel ourselves . upon him without warlntg, and imi medItIely involved b1lin1 In a iesh of mtiystery. IlIs Imin lmt Ion must have time to adjust itself." '1'hey were spoil lug iy appetite; I was perfectly aware of that. I had ordered the best luneheon I knew how to coinpose, and they were doing full justlice to it; hut I was acting, I knew, like a resentf'ul by. - "I love you that way," said Alice as I stared vacantly at my plate. ''lit you really are' not making yourself dilsagreeable to us-really he is not, Constance!" Mrs. Farns.orth afllrmed this. I knew that I was merely being. rude, and the consciousness of this was not upliftinog.' At the luncheon hiouri the influx of shoppers gives the Tyrlng ham a cheery tone, and1( all ahout us wereC peopile apparently3 conversing uantly andl happ~lily. Th'le aippeara nce of Uncle Ihash's ghost in thei famniliar dininig r~oom would have been a w~el come diversiovn. I was ppie~culatinog as to just what lhe wouldl say about his widow and1( the whole mess at lirtoni when Mrs. F"arnsworth addressed me "'If you know that we want you to pilay with us only a few (lays longer three days, shall we say, Alice?-if you knew that then we'll untangle ev erything, wvould n't you be niice--very slice?" In spite of hiaelf I coutldn't resist this appetd. I was miore and more'i .pressed by the fineness, the charmn of Mrs. Farnsworth, When she dIroppod -the make-believe foollshnessj In whi -she indulged quite as- amusIngly as Alice, sihe appearedl to be a very 'sen sible person, The humor danced lin her eyes now, buit sher glange'was mnord than an appeal; it was a 'commtand. "If you knew that one troubles ar-e not att atll the troubiles you're thiniking abput, but very different--" "Please pat'don me," I muttered humbly, antd wished that Alice were not ~o bewitching in a sailor hat. It mayr have, hgfe been the' hat or only ~a pleading tone that Stafriendlier attitude Siy f lye universe .and its visible an tnts.The crejvd thinned out, hqM itgre'.tokdng of all manner of: gs Sniust contie it- again very'soon," Satl Jice, "And nt~ me we shan't 'rna$' which;, was very naggbt.V. supswhen you, ibegin a .;ory. you ' ut hv to keep it golag o' it: wi)) din on your handst. That's the wny with our st)r'y, yIuI know. Of course it's int:Ind toI anystify You, hbut you tre In the story Just is we are." My inysli21ceation was certainly deep enough withouitN this seggestion that I was it lere character il at tale whose awkward beginning aroused only the gravest apLprehensions as to the con clusion. She looked at her watch and continued: "I'im so absurd--really I amin, iii ever so, uany ways, that no one would ever lt lie In a book. Fveryone would say it) such person ever existed I It's incredible I And so I have to pretend I'm in a story ill the time. It's the only way I can keep happy. And so many people are in my story now, not opily Montiti, and the poor fellow locked up at Bar ton-oh, what if he should escape! Constance, it would he splendid if he should escape 1" "You dhn't finish your enumeration of characters," I suggested. "Is lily part an important one or am I only a hay figure?" "My dear boy," cried Mrs. Farns wot-th. "you are the hero l You have been the hero from the hour the story beganl. If you should desert us now, whatever should we do?" "If I'm the hero," I replied in her own key, "I shall begin making love to Allee at once." Al le, far frotm being disturbed by mly dhcliration, nodded her head 'Ip provingly. "Oh, we had expected that ! IBut you needn't he in a hurry. In a story like thin 11', that ruos.JlgIht on fronm day to (lily, we must leave it lot to chacie. Ani there are ever so m;ny chances-" "Not all on1 the side of failure, I hole?7" "We must I e goiing.'' She laughed. I wlshed she hadn't thallt harnleteril tic Mltle turn Of the head thatt was so be'guilin~g ! I'o1ly rufle willi lu' all the way 1 0 liartonI. If anyi ng~ii senle' t wasl ill teutted on the drIve, I canl'i leeni ll it. OCur talik, chietly of knights andl ladiles, and wild flights from Ianginary eneuies. hned the effect (of simrrhihg Flyanu to pet'rilons .i urlts of spteed. . "F'lynnl hats caught the spirit I" cried Alice exultingly. "hlaven't you, Flynn ?" When I Showed Myself at the Win dow He Rose. IFlyslm, turning to confirm this, caus-14 ed the car to swerve and graze a trilek l)iledi highl with houseihoid goods. "We may eiude the pursuing knrights," I suggested, "but 50ome vii iage. constable may tako 'It into his head to pinch us." "Oh, that would be ioveiy," crie@I Alice. ''And we'lt telegraph dear Mt. Tori'once to come and bail us out."1 We reached Balton at nine o'clock and. after an informal supper I list ened to Antoinp's solemn reporsts as I walked to the garage. Tile prisoner hi*ad made11 no algni, he said, antd noth inV had occurred during the day.: 'hutthee'sthis, Mr. Singleton, witch you ought .to know,, sir. Tbhp old 'T'rillguhnml nna1)la dOt lifra the goings onihere. biel'il admit it's al mueihty (queer. I don't c0ompiln!n, siy htit stome of the boys threaten t< leave, sir. And I look at it tlis way. th~at nobodly uinderstalnding what the: .eying ane brlihes offered and takin pii soner s is all n!it, In Itnost p clb!itr. We got to know -Where we ' tand(, thatt's what it's comle to, sir. And the widow belng flightylice and [lynn coming home and saying noth nIt. htot sinking his Iead when we tsk bln where he's been- You set' for yourself, sir, how it looks to us." What he .said as to the general as plet of things was true, but I didn't ahnit that it was true. Alice had con vertel lilt, to the notion that I wasy I elarneter in a story, a plaything of iate. nnd I lightly brushed aside An toine's muelancholy plailnt. "Ally man of you," I said, "who leaves this property will be brought back and shot. 'T'ell,tht to the boys !" Nevertheless, the perfect equanimity of the gentleman in the tool house when I visited him the next morning shook my failh a trifle In the story hook features of life at Bhton. III is tt exenplary prisoner, the guard: sorted, tnd he had maintaine d the 'ictest .silience it my tbsence. IIe e, smoked, anld rend, cnttrtettsl3 anking the men for their attentions. d that was all. When I showed my if at the window he re:;1 and threw wn the magazine he was reading d replied good naturedly to my in Iryas ;o houi he was getting along. "I have no eitlpltint except that * guards wore uttrgui'iosly. Tho Poor olch tihnpS . ill sleep, you know." "If you're so bdly gurdeid, why don't you escaiti?" I nseri'I tartly. "It would relieve your miii i lot if I shouel (1lsapear?" he asked in sinuatingly. "You are impertinent," I replied, irritated that he should have surmised that his presence was eausing uinensi neSP. "If you will come to your Senses nol toll e10 the meaning of your visits here, we may agree upon tents. As it stands, you're ai tresynss or; you tried to bribe a servant to rob the house. If you're at all faitlia r wlthl crimainal i1nw In this country, you e~nn es!tho:ate the nutuber'1 of years' linprb !i 1onet ih will h, i.:anhoiel youi r It :t' iii te intli.w '1 ice:." "if it's ', plain,1 wh . ilon1't youa hinel to" over to the nulhorities?" he na s i, p1'rvokin ly tool. "I'mt ;;lain;: you a c~hanc III conf'terss iinied t(eil w!.o's ba'k. al' slip this. ''ell m11 Ju.l t why. yvour oiat~ terntle .Alon .ani is :uan 1:: Mrs. Ikishf1toni1, and I'll I tiirn luo'tt .. "it pin w';:it fori me to confess any thanz. you wlill, t fa -e." h e 1:01 "I repet i w: art imp h-d by thO amw asvs youl :1n1 1. 1 think I i te ln't oilhLien youl ls to whaut h~ey alre." "I :to::iI h t' in1 to h i'Lar your- idl s 7f l y mtill' iv(.," I tnswered 'eebly. "I shall be fral nk. " he reiled rei siy. "The reai you dln't tu me I over to the polle is the very sl) ikpe oneo I1hat you donl't wanllt to emlimrral':ss he .istres, of the house yondter by talking the light of imbielty to beat upon hier Very charmting hed. You wish to save her annoyance, ani pos sibly somIhing onch graver. I tIns see that you are impressed; hut it ought to please you to know that I share your feeling of delsiecy where she littl fcoed tAndt are ad hato theittln Mftai s I"noimpated, by likg afyeig. tS tiorawe or eacty o tionsi"nbuee to h nidtiamyan thee' danero tion'rudesan"Ms adhlftr, hIt we had huriedly.b"t the nconeivablef th atayelshtold- wSlish toinjur her ofr'ithabt shte oudhave mion doutiainthe ;shat ndlge In litlc toha aloe atc prut off for car wodta lyo"u iotir e"doftle faest' T"hi repaste hdsn pictresn e totav the pmaginatyon; the'si congero o tres adbules "Your hbiltoplatborsme, roundd, Salt). Honed thad lade andu the brnoring o the guc~aesAntom sti tboncs wheo oethere\ blowtch, farthr on I hAdlice "Tr iate rto bealon bonde tckrof for~ aid thatn oth norter andefth epae. rTeds for the most picurse o n h r'pry wid confsio oe tees and1#tt.vt bur Bashu~ had buvilaho plformi roud tar scraping of. their feet on the rough slope. "flow will that do?" asked Alice. "Beautifully," replied Mrs. larn1 worth. "Now go ahead from the be ginning of the scene.' Cautiously drawing back the brniches, I espie'd Alice strik!ng a pose on a nutnuaoth rock. She bent forward. clasping her knees, and with an occasional glance at what appeared to he an open book beside her, she began: "You ask me who I am, mny lord? It matters not at all who or what I am ; let it suillee that berries are my food and the brook that sings behind inc gives me drink. To be one thing or another is weariness. Would you ask yonder oak for a name, or trouble the wind with like foolish questions? No; it is enough that a tree is strong and fine to look upon and that a wind has healing in its wings." With her head to one side and an arresting gesture, and throwing into her voice all its charm and a new compelling innocence and sweetness, she continued: (To be continued.) Jud Misses Him. Jud Tunkins says he misses the old. fashioned barber who threw in a mon eolgue for nothing. 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