"Wc?wp sun? nil I kno^v how to pluy. I guess, mamma." "I use' to play on the- inelodeon," Airs. I>ett volunteer oci, an.l spread and examined her right hand. "Well!" said Cornish. She now told the-ra about her loghouse in u New England clearing, when she was a bride. All her store of drama and life came from; her. She rehearsed It with far eyes. She laughed at old delights, drooped at old fears. She told about her little daughter who had died at sixteen?a tragedy such as once would have been renewed in a vital ballad. At the end she yawned frankly as if. in some terrible sophistication, she had been telling the story of some one else. "(live one more piece," she said. "Can we?" Cornish asked. * "I cfln play 'I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old,'" Lulu said. "That's the ticket!" said Cornish. They sang it, to Lulu's right hand. "That's the one you picked out when you was a little girl, Lulle," cried Mrs. Rett. Lulu had played It now as she must have nhived It then. Hulf after nine and I)i had not returned. But nobody thought of 1)1. Cornish rose to go. "What's tliem?" Sirs. Bett '* demanded. "Dwight's letters, mamma. 'You mustn't tbuch them!" Lulu's voice was sharp.. "Say!" Cornish, at the door, dropped his voice. "If there was anything I could do at any time, you'd let me know, wouldn't you?" That past tense, those subjunctives, unconsciously called upon her to feel no intrusion. i "Oh, thank you," she said. "You don't know how good it is to feel?" ."Of course it Is," said Cornish heartily. They stood for a moment on 'the porch. The night was , she said, she had had breakfast. S'.< merely wanted to see them abui: sm . tiling Then she said nothing, hut sai looking with a troubled frown at Jer.ny. Jenny's hair was about hr-r m k. like tlie hair of a little girl, a south window poured light upon her. the fruit and honey upon tlie table seemed her only possible food. "Yoij look, troubled., Luhi.'V Mrs. yht by D APPLE-TON AND COMFANT I'low" saiilT "Is IT 11 bout ^ottinrr wort?" "No," said Liitu, "no. I've been places. I ruoss tiie bakery is ?oJn?, _Io_i^L_I?e make cake." "I knew it would come to you," Mrs. .Plow said, and Lulu thought that this was a strange way to speak, when she herself had gone after the cakes. But she kept on looking ahout the room. It was so bright and quiet. As she came In, Mr. I'low had been reading from a boob. Dwight never read from a book at table. "I wish?" said Lulu, as she looked at them. But she did not know what 'she wished. Certainly it was for no moral excellence, for she perceived none. "Whit is if, Lulu?" Mr Plow asked nrd he was height and quiet too, Lulu thought. "Well," said Lulu, "ii s not much, hut I wanted Jenny to tell ine about lnrt night." "Last night?" "Yes. Would you?" Hesitation was her only way of apology. "Where did you go?" She turned to Jenny. Jenny looked up in her clear and ardent fashion: "We went across-the river and carried supper and then we < tllllt? IHUIIC. "What time did you get homo?" "Oh, It was still light. Long before eight, It was." Lulu hesitated and flushed, asked how long Dl and Bobby had stayed there at Jenny's; whereupon she heard that Pi had to be home early on account of Mr. Cornish, so that she and Bobby had not stayed at nil. To which Lulu said an "of course," but , first she stared at Jenny and so Impaired the strength of her assent. Almost at once she rose to go. "Nothing else?" said Mrs. Plow, catching that look of .hers. Lulu wanted to say: "My husband was married before, just as lie said he was." But she said nothing more, and went lioipe. There she put It to Dl and, with her terrible bluntness, reviewed to Di the testimony. "You were not with Jenny after eight o'clock. Where were you?" Lulu spoke formally and her rehearsals were evident. Di said: "When mamma comes home, I II tell her. ' With tliis Lulu had no idea how to deal." and merely looked at her helplessly. Mrs. Itett, who was lacing her shoes, now said casually: "No need to wait till then. Her and Bobby were out in the side yard sitting in the hammock till all hours." Di had no answer save her furious i flush, and Mrs. Bett went on: "Didn't I tell you? I knew it before the company left, but 1 didn't say a word. Thinks I, 'She wiggles and cbltters.' So I left her stay where she was." "But, mother!" Lulu cried. "You didn't even tell me after he'd gone." "I forgot It," Mrs. Bett said, "finding Ninlan's letter and all?" She talked of Ninlan's letter. I)i was bright and alert and Ann of flesh and'erect before Lulu's softness and laxness. "i don't know what your mother'll say."" said Lulu, "and I don't know whnfr nrv>Ti1o'lt thin!.-'' I v........ "They won't think Bobby and I are I tired of each other, anyway," said Dl, and left the room. Through the day Lulu tried to think what she must do. About Di she was anxious and felt without power. Sim thought of the indignation of Dwighr and Inu that Pi had not been more scrupulously guarded. She thought of Id's girlish foily, iier irritntiiig independence?"and there," Lulu thought, "just the other day I was teaching her to sew." Her mind dwelt, too. on Dwigld's furious anger at the opening | "f Ninian's letter. But when all rtiis had spent itself, what was s'.ie herself to do? She nuist leave kin house before lie ordered 1 er to do so. when she told him that she had confided in Cornish, as t"ll she must. But what was she to do? The bakery ce.kcmaking would not give her a roof. Stepping about tJte kitchen in her blue cotton gown, her hair tight and flat as seemed proper when one was not dressed, she thought about these things. And it was strange: Lulu bore no physical appearance of one in distress or any anxiety. Her head was f erect, her movements were strong and swift, iter eyes were interested. She v,as im drooping J.ulu with dragging step. She was more Intent, she was somehow mure operative man sue 111m ever been. Mrs. Lett was working contentedly beside Iter, ami now ami then hummine an air of il at nia-ic of the night hefere. The sen surged through the hitch' n door and east window, a returned oriole swung and tinted on the elm above the gable. Wagons clattered by over the rattling wooden block pavement. "Ain't it nice with nobody home?" Mrs. I'.eit remarked at intervals, like the burden of a comic'song. "ilpsli, mother," Lulu said, troubled. I.or ethical retiiieinents conflicting with her honesty. "jjpoMk the truth and shame the devil," Mrs. I5ett contended. When dinner was ready a_t( nnoii, I_>i ditf not" appear. ~ A fTttle* eTirlTeF Lulu ! had heard her moving about her room,' and she served her in expectation that i she would join them. "Di must he having tire 'tnntrim' j tlds time," slie thought, and for a time ' said nothing. Hut at length she did say: "Why doesn't Di come? I'd better put her plate in the oven." Rising to do so, she was arrested l>y her mother. Mrs. Bett was eating a baked potato, holding her fork close to the tines, and presenting a profile I of passionate absorption. 1 "Why, DI went off," she said. I "Went off!" 1 "Down the walk. Down the side; walk." '">he must have gone to Jenny's," ' suid Lulu. "I wish she wouldn't do I that without telling me." Monona laughed out and shook her straight hair. "She'll catch it!" she cried in sisterlv enjoyment. It was when Lulu had come back from the kitchen ami was seated at the table that -Mrs. Bett observed: "I didn't think Inie'd want her to take her nice new satchel." "Her satchel?" "Yes. Inle wouldn't take It north herself, hut Di had It." "Mother," said Lulu, "when Di, i went away just now, was she carrying. a satchel?" "Didn't I just tell you?" Mrs. Bett j I demanded, aggrieved. "I said I didn't think Inle?" : Tried the Parlor?" And Directed Her Kindly and With Hi6 Thumb. j "Mutter, which way Aid she Monona pointed with her spoon. 1 j "She went that way," she said. "I j seen her." Lulu looked at the clock. For Mo- : nona had pointed toward the railway j | station. The twelve-thirty train, i i which fevery one took to the e.'ty for j ! shopping, would be Just about leav- ; | Ing._ ; ".Monona," sain Bum, "(ion i you go out of the yard while I'm gone. Moth| er. you keep her? " Lulu ran from the house and up the ; street. She was In her blue cotton dress, her old shoos; she was hatless and without money. When she was still two or three blocks from the staI tlon, she heard the twelve-thirty I "pulling out." She ran badly, her ankles in their low, loose shoes continually turning, her arms held taut at her sides. So ; she came down .the platform, 'and to the ticket window. The contained ticket man, wonted to lost trains and ! perturbed faces, yet actually ceased ! counting when he saw her: "Lenny! Did Di Deacon take that : train?" "Sure she did," said Lenny. "And Bobby Lurkin?" Lulu cared nothing for appearances now. "He w??nt in on the Local," said l^eimy, ami ins eyes wiueueu. "Where?" "See." Lenny thought It through. "Militon," lie said. "Yes, sure. Mill- j ton'. Both of 'eiu." "IIow long till another train?" "Well, sir," said the ticket man, j I "you're in luck, If you was goin' too. i Seventeen was late this morning? she'll he along, jerk of a lamb's tail." "Then." said Lulu, "you got to give me a ticket to Militon. without me paying till after?anil you got to lend tne two dollars." "Sure thing," said Lenny, with a manner of laying the entire railway system at her feet. "Seventeen" would rather not have ! stopped at Warbleton, hut Lenny's slg-'l rial was law \>ight add Ina were going to be angry now! And D1?little I?i. As y.tilu thought of lier she began to cry. Slie said to herself that slip hud taught Di to sew. In sight of .Million, Lulu was seized with trembling and physical nausea. | She had never been alone in any unfamiliar town. She put her hands to her hair and for the lirst time realized j her mlled-up sleeves. She was palling down these sleeves when the conducttor came through the train. "Could you tell me." She said timid- j ly. "the name of the principal hotel in ! Mi 11 ton V Ninian had asked this as they neared Savannah, Georgia, i The conductor looked curiously at I lier. "Why, tlie Hess house," he said. "Wasn't you expecting anybody to meet you?" he asked, kindly. said Lulu, 'lint I'm going to find my folks?" Her voice trailed away. "Beats all," thought the conductor, using his utility formula for the universe. In Mlllton Lulu's inquiry for the Hess house produced no consternation. Nobody paid any attention to her. She was almost token to be a new servant there. "You stop feeling so!" she said to herself augrily at the lobby entrance. "Ain't you been to that big hotel in Savannah. Georgia?" The Hess house. Mlllton, had a tradition of its own to maintain, it seemed, and they sent her to the rear basement door. She obeyed meekly, but she lost a good deal of time be lore sne iounu nerseu at me eim ui the office desk. It was- still longer before anyone attended her. "Please, sir!" she hurst out. "See If Di Deacon has put her name on your hook." Her appeal wan tremendous, compelling. The young clerk listened to her. showed her .where to look in the register. When only strange names nnd strange jvrltlng presented themselves there, he said: "Tried the parlor?" And directed her kindly anil with his thumb, and in the other hand a pen divorced from his ear for the express purpose. In crossing the lobby in tho hotel at Savannah, Georgia, Lulu's most pressing problem had been to know where to loo):. But now the idlers In the Hess liouae lobby did hot exist. In time she found the door of the intensely rose-colored reception room. There, in a fat, rose-colored chair, heside a cataract of lace curtain, sat Dl, alone. Lulu entered. She had no idea what to say. When Dl looked up, started up, frowifed. Lulu felt as If she herself were the culprit. She said the first thing that occurred to her: "I don't believe mamnia'll like your taking her nice satchel." "Well!" said Dl, exactly as If she had been at home. And superadded: "My goodness!" And then cried rudely: "What are you here for?" "For you," said Lulu. "You?you? you'd ought not to be here, Dl." "What's that to tfou?" Dl cried. 'Why, Di, you're just a little girl?** Lulu Saw that this was all wrong, 1 -i. 1 | .. TT no oKa uuu snipped imserauij nu>? ?aa one \o go on? "Di," she said, "If you and Bobby want to get married, why not let us get you up a nice wedding at home?" And she saw that this sounded as If she were talking about a teapnrty. "Who said we wanted to be married?" "Well, he's here." * "Who said he's here?" 'Isn't he?' r>i sprang up. "Aunt Lulu," she said, "you're u funny person to be teTling me what to do." Lulu said, flushing: "I love you just the same as If I was married happy, in a home." "Well, you aren't!" cried D1 cruelly, ? * A- j - i i. "nnu i m goiug to ao jusi as i uuun. best." Lulu thought tills over, her look grave and sad. She tried to find something to say. "What do people say to people," she wondered, "when it's like this?" "Getting married Is for your whole life," was all that came to her. "Yours wasn't," Dl flashed at her. Lulu's color deepened, but there seemed to be no resentment in her. She must denl with this right?that was what her manner seemed to say. And how should she deal? "Di," she cried, "come back with me?and wait till mamma and papa get home." "That's likely. They say I'm not to be married till I'm twenty-one." "Well, but how young that is!" "It is to you." "Di! This is wrong?it is wrong." "There's nothing wrong about getting married?if you stay married." "Well, then it can't be wrong to let them know." "It isn't. But they'd treat me wrung. They'd make me stay at home. And I won't stay ut home?I won't stay there. They act as if I was ten years old." Abruptly in Lulu's face there came a light of understanding. "Why,* Di," she suld, "do you feel that way, too?" I?i missed this. She went on: "I'm grown up. I feel just as grown up as they do. And I'm not allowed to do a tiling I feel. I want to he away?I will he away!" "I know about that part," Lulu said. Site now looked at Di with attention. Was it possible that Di was suffering in the air of that home as she herself suffered? She had not thought of that. There Di had seemed so young, so "dependent, so?asquirm. Here, by herself, waiting for Bobby, in the Hess house at Millton. she was curiously adult. "Would she he adult if she were let alone? "You don't know what it's like," Di cried, "to be hushed up an laughed at liliu puiii in) itiii*ii11*>11 tu l-i^ iniiif, you say." "Don't I?" said Lulu. 'Don't I?" She was breathing quickly and looking at I ?i. If this was why I)i was leaving home. . . . "Hut, l>i," she cried, "do you love Hobby I.arkin?" T'.y this J>i was embarrassed. "I've got to marry somebody," she said, "and it might as well be him." '^ut is. It him?" (To le Continued). 1 i ? The largest sum said to have been , won by an owner in the course of a ! single racing season In England was v.on by the Duke of i'ortland with hi3 [two horses, Donovan and Ayrshire, i The amount, was in excess of $305,000. ' IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL ! Sunday School ' Lesson' (Py REV. P. B. F1TZWATER, D. D.. Teacher of English Biblo In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright. 1922, Western Newspaper Onloa. | LESSON FOR OCTOBER 8 THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OR JESUS LESSON TKXT-Luke 2:1-20; 40-62. GOLDEt* TEXT?And Jesus Increased In wisdom i.r>d stature, ami hi favor with I God and mar ?Luke 2:52. REFERENCE MATERIAL?Ma't. 1:18; 2:23. PRIMARY TOPIC?The Boy Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC?The Boyhood of Jesus. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOriC ?Jesus at Home and at School. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ?The Religious Training of the Young. I. The Birth of Jesus (vv. 1-7). 1. Time of (vv. 1-3). It was at a time wlieu the Jews were coming under the Roman power. It was u most I propitious time for tho introduction of the gospel. The whole world was unI der one rule, niuklng it possible for 1 ministers to go from place to pluce 1 easily and without molestation. 2. Place of (vv. 4-G). Bethlehem, as the prophet had foretold 700 years before (Micali 5:2). God moved the emperor to enforce the decree of taxation in time to cause Mary to be at Bethlehem. 3. Circumstances of (v. 7). His surroun .lings were of the most humble , ; sort. J lie Aimigmy ueumi wuur ; wended to take upon himself humuulty?to .be born In a manger, becoming the poorest of the poor thut none might I be hindered from coming to Him. II. The Birth of Jesus Announced (vv. 8-20). 1. To Whom (vv. 8, 9). The shepherds who were watching over their flocks by night. The glorious gospel message wus first given to laboring men. 2. By Whom (v. 9). The first gospel sermon was preached by the angel of 1 the Lord. The angels have part in : making "known the gospel to lost men. : These glorious beings no doubt deeply ! sympathize with fallen, sin-cursed men. 3. The Nature of the Message (vv. 1 10-14). It was good tidings of great Joy. It was good tidings because the ; way of salvation was about to be opened for all?Jew and Gentile. So glorious was this news that a multitude of the heavenly host accompanied it with a song of praise. It i9 through ' Jesus Christ that God's kindness and | good will are made known to man. 4. The Shepherds Witnessing (vv. 15-20). They made a prompt investiga! tlon of the angel's message. III. The Child Jesus Growing (vv. | 40-52). Jesus Christ was divine, but His i deity did not Interfere with His development as a human being. The processes of his physical, mental and spiritual growth were the same as those of any normal human belug. 1. Jesus Tarrying Behind at Jerusalem (vv. 4043). At the age of twelve years a Jewish child took his place as a worshiper in the temple, for he was considered a "child of the law." Being conscious of Ills mission when His mother and Joseph were returning from attendance at the Passover, Jesus tarried behind to enter the temple and inquire into the meaning of the ordinances of God's house. 2. Jesus Found in the Temple (vv. 44-47). When Ills mother and Joseph had gone some distance on their jourru>v th?v nerceived that Jesus was missing and sought for Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. Not finding Him there they returned to Jerusalem, where they found Him in : the temple. (1) lie was "sitting" (v. 46), showing that He was no passing visitor or sightseer. He was perfectly at home in His Father's house. (2) He was "hearing" (v. 46). He was hearing the teachers of God's Word, j Tills shows that He was eager to learn God's will. (3) He asked questions (v. 46). His growing mind was inquisitive, It more than received what wus taught; it inquired after. (4) He answered questions (v. 47). Ills answ'ers showed great wisdom, such us to astonish those who heard Him. Yet we should not surmise that He was consciously displaying His wisdom. It ; was not an exhibition of His divine wisdom, but the expression of the workings of a perfect human mind suffused by the Holy Spirit. * 3. Mary's Complaint- (vv. 48-30). She remonstrated with Him for Ills behavior. To this He replied in a dignified, yet tender manner. He made no apology, showing that lie was more than the son of Mary. K1\ TM, 4. .(eSUS UoeUKMiee \y. ui/, xiiuugu He was fully conscious of His divine being mid mission, lie lived a life of filial obedience. 5. Jesus' Development (v. 52). (1) Mental. He "increased In wisdom." (2) Physical. He "Increused in stature." (3) Spiritual. He "increased in favor with God and man." ? j ?"I'ncle Joe" Cannon, speaker omor- j i itus of the house of representatives, is; 1 gain? to hit tin Inn?. Ion? trail, said a ! special Washington dispatch to the New York World Saturday. He will j j cover the same route he tiavelcd S3 | 'yearn atjo with his parents in a prairie < schooner from North Carolina to IJ! i nois. This time "I'r.clc Joe," who is 1 s7. will travel hy automobile. 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