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I'-*- -v...- ' . Eft* ' O l O I 01 OI 01 OI OI QI o To | QI Q I c \v 7 o J ?| Road to Gi O o o ? By Dorot/ ? t ~~ J Author of."Georyie," " ? # O . ' ? X Cnpifi tght. IMS, huj. B. L1PPIXC( o . ? '? " > + ofoTo"Polfbib'ib'io io ioioio ic - CHAPTER XII. 10 Continued. "I won't sit and howl for the moon any longer. If I can't be happy myself, I might as well try to please Greenie. I'll put on the Ninon frocl; . she's always worrying about, and dc my hair up. If only t*could behave to everybody as if I didn't care!" They used Lady Malinder's boudoii as their dining-room, a pretty little cozy room with bis windows, ana there they dined together every night and were as a rule quite cheerful anc often even pay. Tormentila's spirits rose when she had put on the fresh prety dress, anc the pearls round her neck, and shf felt, as she ate an exceedingly good dinner, tbat if it was the last recklessness of despair. Greenie should never never know it. She would do the sporting thing at last. And after dinner they played piquet together, and if the time didn't exactly fly. it passed pleasantlj enough for them both. It was about nine o'clock that thf world turned uoside down. Greenif bad gone upstairs to find her eternal epbroidery, and Tormentilla stood on the terrace outside the open win dow, starins miserably across thf ghostly, twilit lawns, givinc waj weakly in her first moment of liberty *1 K AT VinClH allowing me uuiiapimicas m ji^i . to come out and taunt her. And ther she beard a door open in the roon: behind her. heard a surprised exclamation at the emoty room, and turnec to go in. But John Edward, in his clumsy motoring coat, came forward eagerly. "Sandy! I've brought you a message from Lady Malinder. You're tc come home at once." "What?" She stared at him witt indignant astonishment. "Come home? Why?" ^ "Because of Dolly,, you see. She's in a terrible way?Lady Malinder, 1 mean. Says she must have you all together at such a moment as this.' "Because of Dolly?" Her amazeack?>.'1 thf? OllPS ill CTH L UC^^'ViAVU *w W*. v. 1 tion. ^ He stared: then flushed uneasily. "Haven't you heard? Do you mear to tell me they haven't wired to you about it? They haven't left me tc break it? Oh, Lord!" Torrcentilla grew as white as a sheet. "To break what?" she asked faintly. John Edward gave an angry little laugh. "Dolly's bolted," he said curtly. "What!" "Bolted. Cleared off. Eloped "While we were helping our own delightful runaways, she was carrying out a little Gretna Green scheme ol he own with perfect success." "^ut?how could she?alone?" Tormentila asked vacantly. She did n't understand. "She didn't so alone," John Ed ward said sharply; "she's married th< man I told you about?Mandelbsr: Mordenstein. At the very moment that our little disaster was takins place at Fallingfleet, they were getting safely married at some out-of the-way East End church, and across the Channel before the orthodox let ter was found on her pincushion, 11 was f>M b*aiit'f"llv arranged. L?d^ Malinder is frightfully upset, and ] don't wonder. She begged me tc come over and bring you home ai once. It's a tremendous blow to ev eryhody." "What does it mean?" The pooi child had hardly grasped the new: yet. "Well, he's a prince, ?ou see. wit! royal blood of sorts. It must havt sounded very fine to Dolly. Xo on< seems to have thought of telling hei that it was almost certain to be mor sanatic. She's kept so quiet about il too." '"Dolly always does keep qniei about her own affairs," Tormeutill: ; said slowly. 5 "Well, she's done it this time. Anc why didn't she ask me to release hei and tell me she wanted to break off' It makes one look such an inferna idiot??. thins like this." "I'd better go and find Greenie.' The girl moved away half stunned but he laid his hand on her arm a: she 1 fGrif turned, and stonred her. "Sandy?Sandy dear." "Let me go to Greenie." She trier to free herself. , "Sandy, you aren't going to leav< mp now?" She stopped, half frightened, whol ly bewildered. He took her littl< rold hand and patted it with some re ] morse. "It has been a most awrui day 5 "I've broken it to you like an un feeling, selfish brute; but it's beei an awful day. We've all been so in j fernallv upset." "Yes," she said: "but T think I't better go and tell Greenie?" 2 "I've wanted to come to you fron the first moment. I always want t( turn to you for comfort when I'm un hanpy, don't I?" "Yes," .he said again: "but I thin! tf we must go back to mother at once.' i "There's no one like you. Sand} dear, and?don't you see? You don' . seem to understand what this mean: to?to you and me." She was quite silent. How tal she seemed in her white dress! Hov pale her face looked under her htav] brown hair! "I'm half afraid of you to-night,' he said ruefully, "you seem so giowr up and changed. I was never afraic 3) of vou in the old blue dress, was I?' She tried 10 s;o, but she did not could not, si;eak. He put his hand on her shoulue; am! drew her nea"er to him. "Sandy, de?'\ you won't lei me b< taker "way from you again, wil ? ^m . >ioio?o?otototofoio>otoio?o , ( 'HE ? ? _ ( jo ] *etna Green & : ? j? , Jo I tea U eakin, 1 t\? The Wishing King," Etc. ( o 1 )TT COMPAM'. jAUritihis reserve-.. , 11 O I O I o I o i o 10 To i o I o I u i o i o. o ( you?" The childish helplessness of 1 this pathetic appeal was too much for * her. She looked up and met his eyes 1 squarely, and to his joy her own jolly grin at last spread itself out to cheer t him. : "I won't if I can help it," she said j ? wistfully. I think it was through the Malinder 1 , ?arv>^ to " servants xnai me nam. ac^ic. v.*.*.,, | ! light at last. The only wonder was ( [ that it had remained a secret so long, j . when one remembers how Tormen1 tilla.Mo frustrate Mr. Bromsgrove's 1 evil designs, had been obliged more 1 t than half to confide in the head gar- * 1 dener and the head game-keeper? 1 > both married men. ' ! It was at the Cogwheels' bridge- 1 drive a. month later that it was first 1 , openly discussed: 1 i Mrs. Hay was frankly annoyed. "I have always heard," she said? 1 "in fact, it is one of my husband's 1 t most settled convictions ? that the ' habits and morals of the aristocracy s are beyond all?well, you must admit ' i that they would never be tolerated ( > for an instant in the upper middle ' I class to which we belong, and which I is, my husband often says, the bul- \ wark of our country?the backbone i of our empire." ( 7 "Yes, but how sweet of her to run . about in her old blue linen pinafore. * t with her frank, unaffected ways, and 1 1 " lr inH TVTrc * I ue bu lu C*Cl J uwu,* , n*uu i Cogwheel murmured. "I said to Au drey directly I heard the news this 1 afternoon, 'Darling,' I said, 'you ' s would never have guessed that she j I was blue-blooded for a moment, would you? She was so polite and friendly and natural with everybody.' ! > And Audrey quite agreed with me." ; Lise laughed. Mrs. Flanelle, who i had "been busy sorting her cards, ' leaned eagerly back to join in. "She might have been a milkmaid | 1 > in a sunbonnet." she said. "I never i'' t was so surprised in my life, and it is P I such a relief to me to think that we | ' had such a delightful talk together : ' in Garland's the day she took the I' children in and gaye them buns?all,! about?" She caught Lise's eye and j 1 reddened a little. "T little knew that j J II an angel was entertaining us un- i i awares," she finished hastily. "Shall i' ?(I plav to hearts, partner?" | ' | All through the evening the play j ^ l , was interrupted by their comments, | but then, as Miss Cotton remarked, one never exnects bridge at a drive, 1 I and no one ever mind?, except one or two elderly men, andMf so. whv come? ' "But my heart aches for the ' thoughtless child." she said. "You i1 never know what deception may lead ! into when you once begin." ! ] "You never know what anything J will lead you into if it rorres to that," j f Lise said coolly. "And if you never : ! bezin anything, you won't travel far,! ' | will you?" i'' Miss Cotton shook her head. "I'm j1 ; afraid you are a nhilosopher." she 1 said sadly, "and that is ?o risky, I ; ' ' I -, always think.' and so destroying to ? ' one's peace of mind. I'm afraid I am ' t! right. There was the Lord of Bur- { '; leijrb. you see?a similar case?and , ' j you remember his sad bereavement; j - and then the- young Pretender, too, 1 ?. and Perkin Warbeck and Lambert 1 j Simnel?always such traeic enisodes 1 t i in history. I am sure it is belter far r; to 'ive ar oren life. T once knew a [' girl?a pretty girl, too?who mas' queraded as a mother's help, and she t. was the comfort and ris?ht hand of a 1 - simnle, trustful family for years. But}! truth will out, and I leave you to 1 r guess the climax when all was discov- i > ered." , 11 "Who was she really, then?" Vera ! i ? Hay asked with much interest. "What ( ; was there to discover?" 11 ; | "She was a ballet girl who had ! r strained something permanently, ! - which prevented her from pursuing j ' t her calling, yet allowed her to run ! 1 up and down stairs a hundred times a j 1 t day. No one would have known that i she wasn't a simole, modest English girl if they hadn't been told, and she i kept it up for years. I heard her r mistress say with my own ears that , Miranda would be a blessing in any j ! home, and then?like a thunderclap 1 ( ?the end came. Did a diamond take < that trick?" "Plow?" Miss Hay was doerly in3 terested by the story, and obviously bored by the game. ', "Oh. she got engaged to a young | I man in tea, and she told the whole ; shocking truth to them all the day | ? she left tliem to get married, when it j, was too late to do anything. Xot > - the king of spades? Why, I thought . ; that was played long ago. How stu pid of me!" i I "What did the tea man do?" "Oh, be'd known it from the first. . - But you can never tell what might i not have been averted if she had not , - stooped to deceive, can you?" J No one could, but it didn't matter 1 much, and a diversion came here: a little natural confusion brought I 1 about by the surprising second ap-; ' ) pearance of an ace of hearts, and it , ' - was not until it was finally discovered that Audrey had absently absorbed j ' : a whole trick into her hand a few '! minutes before, that any one rememf | bered the real interest of the event ing. ? Audrey sighed as her partner frankly showed her what she had 1 1 done with their score. I 1 "You oughtn't to make me play," ' she said. "Every one knows that I don't care for cards. They are so superficial, aren't thay? I begged , I i mother only yesterday to let me stand 1 ' out and talk to any of the players j ' j who looked dull, and all this might 1 . have been avoided. 'Dearest,' I said, 'you know I always did trump my r partner's trick and forget what lead had been r?l'e:l for. from my earliest: 1 ? days, didn't 1?' And mother said, ! j 1 'Oh, yes,' but that I ought to get more i i iini??MWI \ ' - . AGAINST THE WEA REPUBLICAN PARTY'S FAVO ARE FOR THE STRONG. Those Who Can Afford to Pay "Protection" Are the Beneflciarlei of the Organization Today? its Ideals Abandoned. Whom is the Republican party, w its high tariff policy, protecting day?whom has it been protecting a quarter of a century? Not 1 weak but the strong, not those \s needed protection, but those who co afford to pay for it and who did i for it. The party has long been b practice in the game if I am to be a ;lergyman's wife, and a real influence." It was a most interesting drive. Every one said so. Even young Osgood, later on in the interval, when le was waiting on Lise in the supper oom, told her that he'd had his suslicions too; for the man was so much ike a groom that if he wasn't one he :ould only have been a Duke. "What a rum business it has been, lasn't it? And Miss Cogwheel's engagement?that's queer, too. Do you inow, I always thought I had a ;hance there. She seemed to think I inderstood her so well, and she's nev;r been really understood before. She ;old me so." Lise laughed. "Ob, Harry," she said, "what a ihild you are! Does any one understand Audrey? We've all tried our iest, but she's still a beautiful mys:erv. There's poor Nigel. He's left lis business entirely to Jack, so that ve've no possible chance of a holilay now, and gone abroad to drown lis sorrows in the Mediterranean. He's so wretched that he'll eat almost anything without a murmur, md he has never said a word about :he simple life since he heard the lews. I'nft afraid he thinks he might oave won her if his habits had been :hose of other men, and regret is always so much harder to bear than remorse, isn't it?" Osgood laughed. Audrey, coming jp, caught Lise's last remark, and put her own construction on it. "Oh, I hope she won't feel that," she said softly?"not remorse. One ioesn't want any of one's fellow creatures to suffer. As Percival said it the time, 'Uneasy is the head that ivear a crown.' and I thought it such in apt quotation when I heard that rormentila v/as really Lady AlexanJra Greenros;e and Lord Mallnder's roungest daughter, and that she was n marrv the Duke of Lavendale a! most directly. I feel more pity than anything else. She was an immilsive, misguided girl, Percival thinks, but [ feel sure she acted for the best ac:ording to her lights. One can only feel sorrow if the lights proved to be but dim and smoky, can one?" "She was a dear, unselfish child," said Lise warmly, "and very good for all of us, especially Jack and me. ?ou treated her abominably, AuIrey." "You misjudge me" ? Audrey turned away with a sigh as she spoke?"and events prove that I was juite right. But the thought of that poor girl driven to make a marriage >f convenience is the only blot on my happiness. Of course, her narents insisted unon it, when Lady Doreen ran iway. Aristocratic parents are so bard, so despotic, I always think. Dearest.' I said to mother when I heard the news, 'if you and father had disapproved of my engagement [ should have broken my heart;' and mother sa:d at once that their one svish was to see me happy?she did really." "But isn't it possible," Osgood isked in surprise, with a" fleeting - AMI. - - ^ TAV?T( "CM memory o; lormenuua ami .jumi ****ivard as be had seen them waiting o happily together in the narrow ane for the tardy bridegroom elect, 'that they are fond of each other? Tbey seeipefl very jolly together." "I think it's a love match." said Use with a ouiet little smile, for she ilone knew the story of the Paradise nd the serpent who had swallowed :he key, but Audrey shook her head, 3tiite unconvinced. She stood there,, jle^ant and ethereal, with the lamplight shining on her golden hair?a spirlt-srir!. Mr. P.romsgrove said she [coked like a soirit. "Oh, no," she said wistfully; "la novels perhaps?or even on the stage,. lut not in real life. How can a duke jxi sct to be loved for himself alor.e?" The End. Trapping Birds. A bird expert has returned to Europe from the West Indies with over two hundred captives. He boiled down tree-sap into a thick, sticky mess, and put it on shrubs and * ?1 fnftlr Drancne? at inaues wucic tuUrt food and drink. Once they grasped the sticky perches they were fast and could not fly away, says the expert. Some were caught by tying to a jtring large grains which girds swallowed. and there they were. Among the captives are starlings, finches, pigeons, doves, herons and canaries. ?Xew York Press. k?< The Somber Side of It. The society dame was giving a luncheon to the distinguished aviator. "In spite of the danger of your occupation." she said, "where is an irresistible fascination about it, is there Mr. Uppengo?" "There is, madam," he answered. "In fact, does not the excitement af it seem to be a species of intoxication?" "It dcc", madam." sighed the aviator. "and sooner or later every one of us takes a drop too much."?Chicago Tribune. The first trust in the United States to pass the $100,000,000 nprk in capitalization was the United States Leather Company, osganized in 1S93. Its capital stock combined with an issue of bonds amounted to $138, 1)00,000. The University of Heidelberg has received from a foreign benefactor interested in the advancement of science tbe sum of over $30,000 toward the foundation of a radiographic institute. One of the biggest pieces of engineering in New England is a 2500horse power dam in the Union River at Ellsworth, Me. It is constructed 3f hollow concrete and cost nearly $500,000. British cocoa firms have decide 1 not to use any more cocoa from the Portuguese islands of Sao Thome and Principe because of the ill treatment Df the natives laboring on the plantations. A dental college has been added to the University of Madrid, whose graduates will be allowed to practice in Spain without further examination, ing wnat it canea proietuuu?i which was really privilege?the p tection of giant industries that wi able to contribute and did contribi to party campaign funds. Steel tru and cotton trusts and Tool trusts a oil trusts?these came to be the Jects of the party's persistent lov: care. And now we come to the era of 1 so-called "strong men," for whom earth is supposed to exist. The w< may go hang. Campaigns are, as < of the newer leaders once said, me ly questions "of finance." The dei opment has been slow, but. look back over the past, we can see h great the change in spirit has be By abandoning the negro, and by fering the bait of protectionism, b Mr. Taft and his predecessor hi endeavored to capture the south, litical strength rather than politi righteousness has been sought 1 And it has been sought for in exce Ingly practical ways. The ol statesmen, faulty as they were, wo have wrecked prosperity rather tl have abandoned a principle in wh mey Denevea. iouay pruspenij' the be-all and the end-all of polit: The Insurgent protest is In real a protest against the gross mater ism which has so long ruled the pai It is also a confession of party si The only idealism in Republican p tics is now found among the Ins gents. Whether they can inocul the organization with it is the qi tion. But it is sad to think thai great political organization which, its beginning, had no thought of i tection as a permanent policy, 1 indeed hardly any thought of it at should, today stand before the co try as the purveyor of protection men who do not need it and v ought not to have it, that it sho have come to regard idealism?wh was once its very life breath?aim as a disease.?Indianapolis News. Roosevelt's Inconsistency. The ordinary corporation has spe< advantages from the law, perpeti of existence, limited liability, the c centration of small amounts of cap into corporate capital that may be mense, and it has the help of a fc of negotiable credit that a private i son.cannot command. These adv tages impose responsibility, and law properly undertakes to apply t responsibility. But what do all th advantages amount to compared w those the tariff grants in the rest tion of foreign competition, in compulsory home market at advan prices? And what are the dang from the ordinary corporations c< pared with those who are Invited establish and aided in maintaining i nopolistic combinations by the ! that shuts out foreign rivals? Agai the former Mr. Roosevelt has much say and says It with extreme bit ness. Against the latter he Is tong tied and his convention goes to limit i in defense and in praise, course in politics mere inconsistei does not always count, but in this c it would be Interesting If the vot< stirred by Mr. Roosevelt's attacks privilege, should strike at the wc example of privilege, and strike the harder because Mr. Roosevelt h 6elf is its champion. Roosevelt's Position. Mr. Roosevelt is a very late com to the belief that the tariff Is a mc Issue or any issue at all. He was silent as the grave about the ta during all the years when, with great influence and authority, might have done much to take crookedness out of the customs sch ules; when he might have done m than any other man to destroy vast and complicated mechanism which the protected trusts ext mnncv frnm thp riponle. Such a ( sade, it is true, might have desti ed him politically. Choosing the < porations as the objects of his asults, he has prospered mightily. ] the more prosperous he is in t sense, the more will the immense vesting class and all the people, consumers, feel the pinch of the h cost of living and reduced incon Mr. McKinley was called the adva: agent of prosperity. By his choice the policies and the methods that k him to the fore politically, Mr. Ro< velt has made himself the chief ag of the other thing. Labor's Proportion of Benefit The chief plea of the beneficiaries I protection is that the cost of labor this country is relatively so high t the industry employing it must be I [ tected against the cheaper foreign | bor. And so far as tne people Den< I that protection is necessary to American laborer?so far as itnecessary to give him a decent sta ard of living?so far they are will that the Industries should be prot< ed, or anything like a fair proport of the benefit, that protection gives It Is Time to Stop. The country will go to destruct eventually if this steady inroad the federal power upon the field served by the founders of our g ernment for the states Is maintain as it is now being directed by the publican party. Roosevelt's Stand. One gathers that owing to the I culiar conditions that exist, ] j Roosevelt Is only standing on 1 New York platform with one foot i | his fingers crossed. ][ GIVEN LICENSE TO PLUNDER How the Trusts, Under Republican Misrule, Rob the American Consumer. In a Bpecial dispatch from New HaveD, Senator Bulkeley is said to 'or have made the statement that "every 3 promise made on the platform on which Taft ran has been redeemed." One of the promises made in that platform was that the Republican party ith would revise the tariff to conform to to- the difference of the cost of producfor tion here and abroad, plus a reasonLhe able profit to the home manufacturer. rho Did they do it? Not by a large mauld jority Every one conversant with >ay the cotton and woolen schedules then ell- existing, knew instinctively the meanaut ing of that promise must be that the >ro- cotton and woolen schedules of the ere Dingley tariff bill must be reduced, ute No other outcome could be imagined sts or thought of. The statements made md by various important politicians ob- through the country since the present Ing bill became a law, that the Republican party had not promised to reduce the the tariff, sounded to those who knew the the facts like the most arrant non;ak sense or the densest ignorance. >ne To give you a more explicit idea !re* of my meaning, I will give you an ex7?1. J .T l_ tl,. r\t 1 QfiQ pentriUJtJ I iit&u m lac.Duuiuiw ui *vw. *nS Going to England in the month of ow July I took with me various samples en- of lightweight, spring worsteds for of" men's wear, made by American manuoth facturers, and had them examined lve and valued against English producP?" tions of the same character, and this cal was done by one of the cleverest extor. perts in Bradford, England. The first !e<*" sample he compared with a . cloth tier made and sold by an American woolen company at $1.14 per yard net. lan The English goods of the same weight ich an(j character, and quite as good material, cost in Bradford 54 cents, Ics. and the most astonishing fact of all 11*7 was, that these goods could not be lal* Imported and sold at the price at ty. which the American woolen company ns- sold their goods. These %nd other oli- similar samples I shall be glad to mr- show to any one who is interested in ate the matter. ie3' Does the honorable senator mean t a that the American manufacturer is *n entitled to have 64 cents per yard pro)ro* tection on a fabric costing abroad 54 iau naritaf Hnao >10 nlnlm the nrnmisp nf a^' the Republican platform was carried un* out in this and numberless other into stances of the same kind? The most charitable construction to put on his statement is, that he has been, as Mr. ich Taft was, badly advised.?Letter in ost New York Times. Roosevelt and the South. "If the nomination of Colonel Roose' velt by the Republicans depends upon on his ability to carry a single southern ital s*ate> the member^ of that party opposed to Mr. Roosevelt need have no fear of his nomination," said George ^er L. Martin of Atlanta at the Raleigh an the other evening. Mr. Martin for 20 the years kas been a member of the North hat Carolina general assembly. Although ese his present term has not expired, he ith now *s a resi(^ent Atlanta, to which ric- recently removed. the "I was in Atlanta the day Colonel ce(j Roosevelt made his recent speech," er8 continued Mr. Martin, "and the man Dm- certainly was given a most remarkable A.1 Ti I J U..A it. ? ~ J to uvauuu. it raiueu, uui, tuw uuwu l/ia\ m0. turned out to hear him was very [aw large. But while many people of the nst south are taken with the personal l to magnetism of the man and like tc ter. hear him speak, it is quite a different -ue- proposition to consider him as their the candidate. Of all who heard him and Of who assisted in making his appearance QCy there the spectacular thing it was, I ase believe that not a man except those 3rSi who ordinarily vote the Republican on ticket would support him, and it IS ,rst doubtful even if he would get the toall tal Republican vote of Georgia. It Is lm. one thing to cheer and applaud and quite another to give the recipient of this adulation one's suffrage."?Washington Star. 'ert >ral All Due to the Tariff. as We do not think it was very wise riff of Mr. P.oosevelt to put the tariff in his the front place.. It is too obviously he the type and embodiment of all that the he professes to abhor and fight in pollied tics. It is the mother of trusts, of ore monopolies, of combinations under the the forms, nay under the direct inspiraby tion and encouragement, of the law. ;ort Every word that he has had to say? :ru- they are not so many, but they are 'oy- iterated and reiterated interminably? :or- about the evil and neril of monopolis as- tic corporations Is "peculiarly" true of But the products of the tariff legislation hat of the past forty years. The particiIn pation in public affairs, the domlnaall tlon of the legislative branch, the inigh direct control of the executive, influies. ence in party politics, corruption and nee demoralization in every department of of public activities such as he denounces ept in his vague and fervent fashion?all >se- these are sins of the corporations ereent ated and fostered by the tariff.?New York Times. t Rights of the Workmen. i of The people are taxed to protect the in industries and their employes. The hat government does not collect this tax, >ro- but It makes a tariff law and the peola pie pay the tax In added prices. And sve if the government makes the people the pay this tax to the protected indusis tries, primarily on the plea that it is necessary to the workmen, then It is I the government's duty to see that the ?ct- workmen get what they are entitled to ion and what the people are assessed to ? give them. Tariff Absurdities. 'on Where the tariff affects prices is in by those commodities of which the supply re" is largely drawn from abroad and imov portations come in competition with ed, the domestic product. Even here very many American manufactures have grown beyond the need of the tariff's protection. In our iron and steel manufacture, for example, it is not probpe able that the reduction of rates will VTr. make any difference in domestic the prices, since we are competing with ind foreign manufacturers in their own field. .... ... # III =====?4^^^ i i' ^ Agatha Penr By EMMA J Copyright, 1910, by Assoc Aunt Penelope?Aunt Penny, for I short?waved a lean, ringed hand at a row of ancestral portraits on the walL "These," she said, sternly, "are j the people on whom you are deter- \ mined to bring a public scandal, Aga- i tha." 1 It waa not the first time in my experience that Aunt Penny had < brought me before this court of the < past, that hang in the upper hall. I i had broken my engagement, one Aunt < Penny had planned and executed for 1 me, and with the wedding day but a 1 week off. -i For forty-odd years Aunt Penny had 1 worshiped at the shrine of family as 3 it was pictured here. For instruction, * correction or reproof, she had always < brought me to face these shadows in i their atrocious frames. To her they < reflected the glorious and honorable ? past of the family of Penryn. To me 1 they seemed a quaint, half-giddy array of men and women who, In their day t and time, had believed themselves 1 unworldly and correct Some of the i women wore monstrous hoopskirts, 1 some of them held up attenuated arms i to display leg-o'-mutton sleeves; oth- 1 ers faced the world from the depths i of huge poke bonnets. They were all ? hfa/tf loocnna cr fVta flhaiirditv 1 W^VV"' iV-WK/VUU, WVMVUllift of some fashions that have passed < away. i Some of this men, with their great 1 shoe buckles, resembled the pictures 1 of George Washington; some pf them i ?these must have been the poet-artists of the Penryns?wore wildly long i hair, that had the appearance of be- < ing uncombed. None of the gentle- I men, In the matter of apparel, woqld i Lay Face Down on the Floor a Perfect Ruin. % ' . ? has passed muster in any society of which I knew, unless, perhaps, they had chosen to foregather with the butler and the coachman, or associate with the members of a waiters' union. 1 For the most part the faces of my forbears were fat, piacld, smirking and satisfied in expression. In their eyes there was a look of reproach for ; me, with one exception. I thought I detected- in the face of my great- \ uncle, Peter Penryn, a look of sober sympathy. His portrait hung lower than the rest, at the rear of the hall? for a reason. Tradition said that after 1 a long engagement, arranged for Uncle Peter by his friends, he had been 1 Bued for (breach of promise; that he 1 had eagerly paid what the court 1 thought was sufficient balm for his act of treachery, and had lived and died a bachelor, thus losing caste ( among the ancient and honorable people who lboked down from the wall as I followed Aufit Penny to ' their high tribunal, to explain why ' the engagement was broken?why I '< would not be married as she and the 1 ancestors had expected. It was a trying ordeal for me. I ( loved Aunt Penny devotedly, and had 1 spent 20 years under her roof and in ! her care?I was five and twenty. The ' wedding trousseau was upstairs, some ( of it in the partially packed trunks, ' and the bridesmaids were in readiness and on tiptoe; the wedding breakfast < was ordered. I knew that the break- '< ing of my promise would give Aunt i Penny the most intense pain, as it 1 had done. i To save her feelings and to keep < ray place in her afTections, I descend- 1 ed tJSsubterfuge. 1 "Aunt Penelope," I declared, " it 1 8an Francisco Fire Cisterns. f 1 An important part of San Francis- I i co's new fire protection system Is the series of 100 reinforced concrete cis- c terns of 7,500 gallons capacity each, i built under streets and other favor- i able places. The cisterns are circular, i 32 feet in diameter and 16 feet deep, i and arc made intercommunicating by s means of nine-inch mains, also con- i crete. Besides, each cistern is direct- i ly connected with the regular mains. < The tops of many of the cisterns form | s the roadways of streets. i In the early years of San Francis- < co's development an emergency water supply was provided in somewhat the same manner. Reports show that In 1870 64 tanks had been built, but In < the flre report of 1906 only 18 were < mentioned.?Popular Mechanics. 1 Let Your House Have Expression. How refreshing a house can be! How much it may express of all that is best In human nature! When you j build your homo learn the language j of expression In materials. A house ! { cannot be too small or too humble to ' f fail of this expression if the spirit is !< ~ . BOWEN __________ ilated Literary Press sn't my fault that Leon?Mr. Masters ': -desires to break the engagement" 'd "Desires? What are you saying, Agatha? Declines to marry a Penryn, vlth the invitations all out, the bishbp nvited to preside and with a beautl- , !ul bride, such as you will be?" <.%J "He does," I faltered, with a sudden letermlnatlon to see Leon Masters at race and make him .tell Aunt Penny 'M t was his wish to be free. Why I had ~M :ome to. the decision not to marry *| L.eonVWhy I had sent him k letter 'v| jreakftie off the marriage at the last Moment, I could hardly explain. 1 - J !elt that his being younger than I? ' i Jeon was twenty-two?all at once seih irated us. We had played together La J jhlldhood, we had been sweetheart* Ja a early youth, but with the wedding ? lay a week off I felt that I waa taking ? i mean advantage of a child to marry . -4 -eon. I did not love him. But I might have known better than jo tell this story to Aunt Penny, born S Ighter that she was. Since I could. emember, Aunt Penny had never jeen so,happy aa when she was dong battle with some one. I loved her -f warlike spirit, but when she changed >$ n a minute to the soldier she was, . md declared, "Agatha, this shall be . ty ooked after immediately!" I saw far " :onsequences of my rash conduct. 3he left me with her line eyes glow- \';.s ng with ljattle light, and I fled in the lmousine that had waited for me for J in hour to the office of Leon Masters. He had received the letter that nornlng, I knew, if the mails had lone their usual work. He took me ?* to his inner s^hctum and I hurried ?jjj| my explanation: _ yJjj "T.pnn?Mr ^Masters?I've told Aunt ' ' Penny that you?that you are the % 3ne who didn't' wish?she is hurt, ~A very much hurt, Leon, and angry? ind I thought that perhaps you would \ tell her that It is you who decided -j that it Isn't best!" Leon looked' unutterably relieved. jf "Is that all, Agatha?" he said, "I -\ was afraid?very much afraid?that ?igg you did not mean?that you might ' V have reconsidered your letter?that 'y] you were not?that you wanted "to go V: on, you know!" . . His \)lunt words, his evident satis- 3 faction \yith what I had done brought Iw the hot blushes to toy face. And I , had expected to find him over- . whelmed with grief?had even pic- ' tured his efforts to win me back! "So," I stammered, "you really didn't!" y^jj "No, Agatha, I really didn't, but I would not have caused you any?er? % embarrassment?not for a king's ran- / som. And dad had set his heart on }Jj it?he thinks you are perfection, ^ Agatfia?and you are. I didn't want $ you ever to suspect how I had really begun to feel about it! Dear old Aunt Penny! Of course, I'll see and tell her that it i^ what I wished to ' -i do r Worse and worse! Home I went, hot and trembling. I shut myself In my room and would see no callers. . Toward evening, when I had reasoned it all out, and had begun to be glad we had both been saved from our : t friends and from the great mistake, Aunt Penny^came to me with a triumphant light in ter eyes. "Agatha, my poor lamb," she said, "Leons' father has come to set things right. You must come down and see him." When I reached the drawing room, where he waited, I could not help Knnf Tfmm r* an/1 Ko n^onmo UUlJlZYAUg uun JUUU5 auu uauuovtuv Leon's father Jooked. - He might have been forty-five?he had been a widDwer for many years. He took my hand In his. "Agatha! Miss Penryn!" he said, '< . ; "what can I say to you?what can I . ioV <' J Sitting there with my hand in his, < [ told him the whole bald, disagreeable truth. He bent over me when [ had finished. "Agatha!" he whispered. "Dear!" ;j Love that had fled from a long ;ourtship came to me that instant without any courtship. I loved Leon's father, and I knew it. I found myself swept, unresisting, into iis arms. Aunt Penny came in soon, ind we told ber of the change, and restored her to normal afterward. < rhere was to be a 'wedding on the day set I would marry Leon's ' ; father. There would be a little gossip, of course, there is always a , 3uzz of excitement over the marriage jf an elderly man who writes checks sometimes In seven figures. When I went upstairs on that night , )f ray second betrothal I glanced ilong the wall at the faces of my ; incestors. They seemed to smile approval at me, all but one. My great incle, Peter Penryn, lay face down jn the floor, a perfect ruin. When le fell, or why, I never knew. Waa le ashamed of me. I wonder, or waa tie overcome with Joy? here?and the spirit is growing rapdly in our best American life. It is shown not only in our exteri)rs but in our interiors and in all sorts of interesting ways. It shows tself in pottery and tile making, in interior wood finishes, in fabrics, in netal and in furniture. It shows itself in a new feeling for color whether t is used in tones or In full bright legs. 111CIC ia wuvcpilUU UJ ;olor harmony both in the relationship of the various rooms and in the elatlonship of their various parts.? ;jood Housekeeping Magazine. Why He Objected. Upgardson?Your wife insists on llling the house with furniture differ>nt from anybody else's? She must lave some peculiar plan in view. Atom?She has. Installment p.'an. rhat's why I'm kicking. Family Pride. Mrs. Parrot?What is Mr. Porcupine jutting on such airs about these days 1 DeMonk?Why. he claims that his ;reat-grandfather furnished the quills or the 'iothpicks at the farewell banjnet > *e Kcostvelt left Africa.