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OlA (MP1 +'&L- Comedy of Youth Fount Great Play of the Sar From Phototfra Copyright, 1013, by D< CHAPTER XIV. Peg In England. '*UOW long have ;rou been here?" again asked Ethel of Peg. J f "Sure I only came in this minnit," said Peg innocently lead with a little note of fear. She :wa.a not accustomed to fine looking, splendidly dressed young ladies like ?thel. "What do you want?" demanded the young lady. "Nothin'," said Peg reassuringly. "Nothing?" echoed Ethel, growing angrier every moment. ""Not a thing. I was just told to v vs.lt" said Peg. "Who told you?" " "'A gentleman." replied Peg. "What gentleman?" asked Ethel >(-jfirarply and suspiciously. "Just a gentleman." Peg, after futn JHIng nervously in her pocket, produced "Peg Bent Down Over Michael. the card Mr. Hawkes had given her. tvhich Michael immediately attempted . to take possession of. Peg snatched It Jiway from the dog and handed it to the young lady. "He told me to wait there!" Ethel took th? card irritably and read: " 'Mrs. Chichester, Iiegal Villa.' And what do you want with Mrs. Chiches-j Ser?" she asked Teg, at tbe same time. if>oking at the shabby clotrvs, the hun- J ; grv looking do>r and the soiled parcel. *'I don't want anything with her. I: was just told to wait." i "Who are you?" Pep: was now getting angry too. ' There was no mistaking the manner; of the proud young lady. Peg chafed under it. She looked up sullenly into Ethel's face and said: "1 was not to say u wurrd, I'm tellLu" ye. 1 was just to wait." Peg settled back in the chair and stroked Michael. This questioning was not at all to her liking. She wished Air. Uawkes would <-ouie and get her out (if a most embarrassing position. Hut .until he did she was not going to disobey bis instructions. He told her to say nothing, so nothing would she say. Ethel turned abruptly to brent and . found that geutleinun looking at the crtid little stranger somewhat aduiiringily. She gave an impatient ejaculation and turned back to Peg quickly: "Yon say you have only been here a minute?" "That's all," replied Peg?"just a mirjnjt "Were we talking when you came An?' "Ye were." "Ethel could scarcely conceal her rage. "Did you bear wbat we said?'* "Some of it?nut much." said Peg. "What did you bearV" *' Tlease don't?it's so hot this morninV" said Peg, with no attempt at imitation. Just as If sbe were stating a : simple, ordinary occurrence. Ethel flushed scarlet. Brent smiled. "You refuse to say why you're here .- or who you are?" Ethel again asked. "It isn't me that's refusin'. All the v gentleman said to me was: 'Ye go to the place that's written down on the card an' sit down there an' wait An' that's all ye do.' " Ethel again turned to the perplexed Breut "Eh?" "Extraordinary!" And Brent Shook bis head. The position was unbearable. Ethel decided instantly how to relieve it Sbe looked freezingly down at the forlorn Lookinc little intruder aod said: PEG | O' MY HEART sy J. Hartley Manners led by Mr. Manners on Hi ne Title?Illustrations phs of the Play >dd, Mead fy Company "The ser\Tai2S?* quart^I* are at tt back of the bouse." "Are they?" asked Peg without mo' ing and not In any way taking tt statement to refer to her. "And I may save you the trouble < waiting by telling you we are quil provided with servants. We do n< need any further assistance." i'ogjusu looseu at clucj uuu iuc b<*nt down over Michael. Ethel's In; shot had struck home. Poor Peg wi cut through to her soul. How st longed at that moment to be bac homo with ber father In New Yorl Before she could say anything Ethi continued: "If you Insist on waiting, kindly d so Ihe re." Peg took Michael up In her arms, co lcct.cd once more her packages an walked to the windows. Again st heard the cold, hard tones of Ethel voice speaking to ber: "Follow the path to your right unt you come to a door. Knock and as permission to wait there, and for you future tnjidance go to the back doc of a house and ring. Don't walk ui announced intb a private room." P??g tried to explain: "Ye see. ma'am. I didn't know. A the gentleman said was, "Go there ai wait' "That will do." "I'm sorry I disturbed ye." An she glanced af~the embarrassed Bren "That will do!" said Ethel finally. Poor Peg nodded and wandered of through the windows sore at hear She went down tbe path until sb reached the door Ethel mentlonec She knocked at It. While she is wai' ing for admission we will return to th fortunes of tbe rudely disturbed loi ers <?>. Ethel turned Indignantly to Brec as tbe little figure went off down th path. "Outrageous!" she cried. "Poor little wretch!" Brent walke to the windows and looked after hei "She's quite pretty." Etbel looked understanding^ at hin "Is she?" "Ill a shabby sort of way. JLMOn you think so?" Etbel glared coldly at bim. "I never notice tbe lower order You apparently do." "Oh. yes?often. They're very Intel estlng?at times." He strained to ge a last glimpse of the Intruder. "Do you know, sbe's tbe strangee little apparition"? "Sbe's only a few yards away If yo care to follow her!" Her tone brought Brent up sbarplj He turned away from the window an found Ethel, arms folded, eyes flast ing, waiting for him. Something 1 her manner alarmed him. He ha gone too far. "Why, Etbel." be said as he cam toward her. ? - J ? a i "suppose my momer nau waiseu i here?or Alaric?instead of that cres ture? Never do such a thing again." "1 was carried away," be hastened t explain. "Kindly exercise a little more r< straint You had better go now." Thei was a finality of dismissal in her ton as she passed him and crossed to tb great staircase. He followed ber: "May I call tomorrow?" "No." she answered decidedly; "nc tomorrow." "The following day, tben," he urged "Perhaps." "Remember. I build on you." She looked searcbingly at him. "I suppose we are worthy of eac other." Through the open windows came tb sound of voices. "Go!" she said Imperatively. And sb passed on up the stairs. Brent wee rapidly to the door. Before either b could open it or Ethel go out of sigt Alaric burst in through the windows. "Hello. Brent!" he cried cheerfullj "Disturbin* ye?" And he caught Eth< as sbe was about to disappear, "Or yoi Etbel?" Ethel turned and seated herself wit her little white lap dog clasped in he hands, then answered coolly: "You've not disturbed me." "I'm just going." said Brent "Well, wait a moment" And Alari< turned to the window and beckoned t( some one on the path, and in from th< garden came Mr. Montgomery Hawkes "Come in," said the energetic Alaric "Come in. Ethel. 1 want you to mee Mr. Flawkes. Mr. Hawkes?my sister Mr. Brent?Mr. Hawkes." Having sat isfactorily Introduced every one, hi said to Ethel: "See if the mater's wel enough to come down, like a dear, wil ye? This gentleman has come fron London to see her. D'ye mind? An< come back yourself, too, like an angel He says he has some business that con cerns the whole family." Alaric bustled Hawkes into a chai and then seized the somewhat uncotn fortable Brent by an unwilling ham and shook it warmly as he asked: "Must you go?" "Yes," replied Brent, with a sigh o raHaf .... aianc'dashed to the door and opened 1 It as though to steed the visitor on his 1 way. "So sorry I was out when yon called," 1 lied Alaric nimbly. "Run In any time. ^ 5 Ethel Turned and Seated Horself. ' 1- 1 d Always delighted to see you?doligtotea. ie Is the angel wife all well?" 's Brent bowed. "Thank you." "And the darling child?" 11 Brent frowned. He crossed to the ^ door and turned in the frame and ad,r monlshed Alarlc: ,r "Please give my remembrances to j. your mother." Then ne passed out As he disappeared the Irrepressible Alarlc called after him: 11 "Certainly. She'll be so disappointed i? not to have seen you. Run in t'.ny time ?any time at all." Alaric closed the door and saw bis mother and Ethel a coming down the stairs. t All traces of emotion had disappeared from Ethel's face and manner. She ff was once again in perfect command of L herself. She carried a beautiful little e French poodle in her arms and was feeding her with sugar. t. Alaric fussily brought his mother e forward. 7- "Mater, dear," he said. "I fcund this | gentleman in a rose bed; Inquiring the ,t way to our lodge. He's com? all the 1 e way from dear old London Just to see you. Mr. Hawkes. my mother." Mrs. Chichester looked at Hawkes (j anxiously. ! p. "You have come to see me?" "On a very Important and a very prl- j i. vate family matter," replied Hawkes gravely. . 't "Important? Private?" asked Mrs. Chichester In surprise. "We're the family, Mr. Hawkes," j. ventured Alarlc helpfully. . Mrs. Chichester's forebodlrgs came f. uppermost. After the newji of the " bank's failure nothing would surprise her now In tjje way of calamity. What it could this grave, dignified loosing man want with them? Her eyes tilled. ! u "Is It bad news?" she faltered. j ? ii ?? j ii- rT? i ' uu, ueur, uu, tiu?weiru *ur- aun&cs r> genially. 1 d "Well. Is It good news?" queried j i. Alarlc. ^ n "In a measure." said the lawyer, d "Then, for heaven's sake, get at it You've got me all clammy. We could e do with a little pood news. Walt a 1 minute! Is It by any chance about the n bank?" < . t- "No." replied Mr. Hawkes. He cleared his throat and said solemnly and ;o impressively to Mrs. Chiches:er: * "It is about your late brother, Na?. thaniel Kingsnorth." >e "Late!" cried Mrs. Chichester. "Is e Nathaniel dead?" ( e "Yes. madam." said Hawkes gravely. "He died ten days ago." * t Mrs. Chichester sat down find 3ilent>t ly wept. Nathaniel to have died with out her being with him to comfort him 5 nnfl nrrnnsrp thinca with him! It Wfl9 1 L e" -- . most unfortunate. 1 "Poor old Nat," Alaric said. "Eh. Ethel?" , 1 h "Never saw him." answered Ethel. I ? her face and voice totally without e emotion. "You say he died ten days ago?" ask- . e ed Mrs. Chichester. { lt Mr. Elawkes bowed. e "Why was I not informed? The fuit neral"- ? "There was no funeral," replied Mr. h Hawkea. g "No i'uneral?" said Alaric 1b astonj ishment. ( "No." replied the lawyer. "In obedlb ence to his written wishes he was ere- t ,r mated, and no one was present except , the chief executor and myself." j V,rmr i en y^v. c The Will. a ; "WV TOW, In Mr. Kingsnorth's will," I I %J went on the lawyer, preduc- a 2. ing a leather pocketbook filled a with Important looking papers?"In his will"? ho repeated. Mrs. Chichester stopped crying. b "Eh? A will?" o "What?" said Alaric, beaming. "Did d the dear old gentleman leave a will?" t | Even Ethel stopped playing with Pet | v I nn,i Hctonwi Inncniillv to the eonver- t | sation. | i: Mr. Hawkes, realizing he had their | " complete interest, went on importantly:, t l* "As Mr. Kingsnorth's legal adviser t up to the time of his untimely death t r I have come here to make you ac- n [T quainted with some of Its contents." y lie spread a formidable looking doc- j ument wide open on the table, adjust- j x ed his pince nez and prepared to read, t ' "Dear old Nat!" said Alaric reflec civeiy. "do you reiueiuuer. mater, we met him at Victoria station once when I wan little more than a baby? Yet 1 can see him now as plainly as if it were yesterday?a portiy, sandy haired old buck with three Jolly chins." "He was white toward the end and very, very thin," said Mr. Hawkes softly. "Was he?" from Alaric. "Fancy thnt. It Just shows, mater, doesn't it?" He bent eagerly over the table as Hawkes traced some figures with a pencil on one of the pages of the will. "How much did he leave?" And Alaric's voice rose to a pitch of well defined interest. "His estate is valued, approximately, it some ?200.000," replied the lawyer. Alaric gave a long, low whistle and 3miled a broiid. comprehensive smile. Ethel for the first time showed a ?ieam of genuine interest Mrs. Chichester began to cry again. "Perhaps it was my fault I didn't see him oftener." she said. Alaric. unable to curb his curiosity, burst out with. "How did the old boy split it up?" "To his immediate relations he left"? Mr. Hawkes looked up from the will jnd found three pairs of eyes fired on him. He stopped. It may be that :onstant association with the law ?ourts destroys faith in human nature; but, whatever the cause, it seemed to Mr. Hawkes in eacn 01 muse eyes ?>iu>| eflected the one dominant feeling? jreed. The expression in the family's combined eyes was astonishing in its iirectness, in its burefacedness. It struck the dignified gentleman suddeny duujb. "Well? Well?" cried Alarie. "How nuch? Don't stop right in the middle )f an important thing like that. You nuke me as nervous as a chicken." Mr. Hawkes returned to the will and ifter looking at it a moment without eading said: "To his immediate relations Mr. Klngsnorth left. 1 regret to say?nothng." A momentary silence fell like a pall >ver the stricken Chichester family, j Mrs. Chichester rose,, indignation lashing from the eyes that a moment ilnce showed a healthy hope. I "Nothing?" she cried incredulously. "Not a penny piece to any one?" ven:ured Alaric. The faintest suspicion of a smile lltted across Ethel's face. Hawkes looked keenly at them and mswerea: "I deeply regret to say?nothing." ' Mrs. Chichester turned to Ethel, who jad begun to stroke Pet ajraln. "His own flesh and blood!" cried the >oor lady. "What a shabby old beggar!" commented Ala ric indignantly. "He was always the most selfish, the nost"? began Mrs. Chichester, when Ur. Elawkes. who had been turning >ver the pages of the document before lim, pave an ejaculation of relief. "Ah! Here we have It This, Mrs.! Chichester, is how Mr. Klngsnorth ex>resstd his attitude toward his rela:ions In his last will and testament: "*I am the only member of the Klngsnorth family who ever made any aoney. All my precious relatives either j nhertred it or married to Ret It'" "I assure you"? began Mrs. Chlcbes:er. Ala :ic cheeked ber. "Half a moment, nater. Let us benr It out to the bitter | ?nd. He must have been an amusing >Id gentleman." Mr. Hawkes resumed: "'Consequent y 1 am not going to leave one penny :o relations who are already well pro. rided for.'" Mrs. Chichester protested vehenently: "But we are not provided for." "No." added Alaric. "Our bank's justed." "We're ruined!" sobbed Mrs. Chlches-! :er. "Broke!" said Alaric. "We've nothing!" walled the old lady. "Dear, dear!" said the lawyer. "How jxtremely painful!" "Painful? That's not the word. Disgusting 1 call it," corrected Alaric. Mr. Hawbes thought a moment rhen he said. "Under those circumstances perhaps a clause in the will Tinv hnvo a certain interest and an ele nent: of rHief." As two drowning people clinging to he proverbial straws the mother and on waited breathlessly for Mr. Hawkes :o go on. Ethel showed do interest whatever. "When Mr. Kinffsnorth realized that ie had not very much loDger to live he .poke constantly of his other sister. Ingela," resumed Mr. Hawkes. "Angela!" cried Mrs. Chichester in surprise. "Why. she's dead." "That was why he spoke of her." ;aid Hawkes gravely. "And not a word of me?" asked Mrs. Chichester. "We will come to that a little later." ind Mr. Hawkes again referred to the pill. "It appears that this sister. Anjela, married at the age of twenty a ertfiin Irishman, by name O'Connell,! nd was cut off by her family"? "The man was an agitator?a Fenian gitator. He hadn't a penny. It was disgrace"? ' I Alaric checked his mother again. Hawkes resumed: "Was cut off by.: ler family, went to the United States f America with her husband, where a! laughter was born. After going j hrough many conditions of misery j rith her husband, who never seemed I o prosper, she died shortly after giv-, ng birth to the child." He looked up.'' Mr. Kiugsnorth elsewhere expresses ils lasting regret that In one of his sis-1' er'a acute stages of distress she wrote i' o him asking Mm for the first time to I sslst her. He replied: "You have made, our bed. Lie in it' " I ^ "She had disgraced the family. He' vas. justified," broke in Mrs. Chiches- j er. I "With death approaching," resume Hawfces, ''Tlr. IvirigsnorCTa cofiaclenc began to trouble him, and the remen bra nee of his treatment of his unforti nate sister distressed him. If the chll were aJlve be wanted to 6$e her. made inquiries and found that the gi was living with Her father In very poc circumstances In the city of New Yorl We sent sufficient funds for the Jou: ney, together with a request to the fi ther to allow ber to visit Mr. King; north In England. The father coi sented. However, before the youn girl sailed Mr. Kingsnorth died." "Oh!" cried Alaric, who bad bee listening intently. "Died, eb? Ths was too bad. Died before seeing be Did you let ber sail, Mr. Hawkes?" "Yes. We thought it best to brln her over here and acquaint her wit the sad news after her arrival. Ha she known before sailing she might n( have taken the journey." "ttnf- whnt trno fho nsn nf hr5n?r1n her over when Mr. Kingsnorth wa dead?" asked AJarlc. "For this reason.'* replied Hawke "Realizing that he might never see he Mr. KIncsnorth made the most remarl able provision for her In his will." "Provided for her and not for"? b< gan Mrs. Chichester. "Here is the provision." continue Mr. Hawkes. again reading froin.tb will: "'I hereb.v direct that the sut of ?1.000 a yenr be paid to any respec able, well connected woman of breei ing and family who will undertake th education and upbringing of my niec< Margaret O'Counell. in acordance wit the dignity and tradition of the King: norths.'" "He remembers a niece he never sav and his own sister"? And Mrs. Ch Chester once more burst into tears. "It beats coekflghting: that's all can say." cried Alaric. "It simply beat cocktigbtlng." Mr. Hawkes went on reading: "'1 at the expiration of one year my nlec is round tu oe, m me juu^luclii ui lu executors, unworthy of further intei est she Is to be returned to her fatht and the sum of ?250 a year paid be to provide her with the necessaries c life. If, on the other band, she prove herself worthy of the best tradition of the Klnpsnortb family the cours of training Is to be continued until sb reaches the age of twenty-one. whe I hereby bequeath to her the sum c ?5.000 a year, to be paid her annuall out of my estate during her llfetlm and to be continued after ber death t any male issue sne.may have?by mai riase.'" Mr. Bawkes stopped and once ajrai looked at the strange family. Mr Cbicbester was soDDing. "Ana rae? ni owl sister"? i Alarlc was moving restlessly nbou "Beats anything I've heard of?pos tively anything." Ethel was looking Intently at Pet' cont Hawkes continued: "'On no accoun is her father to be permitted to vlsl her. and should the course of trainin be continued after the first year sb must not on any account visit he .j tiffis mm Hawkes Read the Kingsnorth Will. father. After she reaches the age o twenty-one she can do as she pleases.'' Mr. Hawkes folded up the will witl the air of a man who had finished ai important duty. Alarie burst out with: "1 don't see how that clause interest! us in the least, Mr. Hawkes." The lawyer removed his pince ne: and. looking steadily at Mrs. Chiches ter. said: "Now, my dear Mrs. Chichester, ii was Mr. Kingsnorth's wish that th< first lady to be approached on the mat ter of undertaking the training of the young iuuy suouiu uv?j^uu. Mrs. Chichester rose in astonish oient "I?" Alaric arose in anger. "My mother?' Ethel quietly pulled Pet's ear an<] waited. Mr. Hawkes went on quietly: "Mr. Kmgsnortn said 119 wouia d< sure at least of his niece having a stria upbringing in the best traditions ol the Kingsnorths and that, though his sister Monica was somewhat narrow and conventional in ideas?I use his own words?still he felt sure she wat eminently fitted to undertake such fl charge. There?you have the whole object of my visit. Now, will you unlertako the training of the young lady?" 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"Mr. Kingsnortb was of the opinion that you were well u provided for and that outside of the H sentimental reason that the girl was r your own niece, the additional thoa> sand pounds a year might be welcome ' g as. say, pin money for your daughter." j) Ethel laughed her dry, cheerless lit* j tie laugh. "Ha! Pin money!" )t Alaric grew suddenly grave and^ drew his mother and sister out of Mr? * g Hawkes' vicinity. ^ ia "Listen, mater, Ethel. It's a cod thousand, you know! Thousands don't 9 grow on raspberry bushes when yoor * bank's gone up. What do ye think, ? t; eh?" \fra nhlohoatpr hHfhtone/V "It would keep things together.'* she said. . "The wolf from the door," urged Alarlc. Q "No charity," chimed In EtheL t- " 1 (To be continued,) ie J FOE SALE. r Three handred bushels Ami ber and Orange cane seed at a good price. s The L. W. White Co.