"Yes, it Is,'r snli!" she cried. "It's tnie. Tou ought * to know that." She waited for a moment. "You did it," she added? "Mamma said so." At tliis onslaught Lulu was stupelied. For she began to perceive its truth. "1 know what I want to do, I guess," 1>1 muttered, as if to. try *to coverj what she had said. .. * * J r Up to that moment; Lulu lrtul Tteen feeling intensely that si e understood l>i. but that Hi did not know this. Now Lulu felt that she and I>i actual-; ly shared some unsdsi?ected sister- j hood. I{ was not only that they wore; both badgered, by Dwlght. It was! more than that. They were two women. And she must make Hi know that she understood her. "Di," Lulu said, breathing bard, "what you just said is true, I guess. Don't you think I don't know. And now I'm going to tell you?" She might have pound It all out,' claimed her kinship with Di by virtus of that which had happened In Savannah. (ieorgia. Hut Di -stalll: "Here come some ladles. And goodness, look at the way you look I" Lulu glanced down.- "I know," she said, "hut I guess you'll have to put up with me." The two women entered, looked1 ahdut with the Complaisance a' those who examine a hotel property, find criticism Incumbent, and have no errand. These two. women had outdressed their occasion. In their presence DI kept silence, turned away her head,.gave them to know 4fcut>she?hud. nothing to do with this blue cotton person beside her. When they had gone on. "What do you mean hy my. j having to put up with you?" Di asked I sharply. "I mean I'm going to stay with you." Di laughed scornfully?she was j again the rebellious chil l. "I guess I lobby'11 have something to say about ; that;" she sahl insolently. "They left you In iny charge." "But I'm not a baby?the idea, Aunt Lulu!" . / i i "I'm going to stay right with you," said Lulu. She wondered what she should do if Di suddenly marched away from her. through that bright lobby and into the street. She thought miserably that she must follow. 'And then her whole concern for the ethics of Di's course was lost In her 'agonized memory of her terrible, J^uken j shoos. Di did not march away. She turned her back squarely upon Lulu, and She Turned Her Back Squarely Upon Lulu and Lcokcd Out of the W:ndow. looked out of flu* window. l'or her > life Lulu could think of nothing more tp say. She h.'.xv feeling inisenihlv on the defensive. They were sdi'.nu in silence when Ilohhy T.nrkin enino Into the room. IH flow t<> meel liitn. She assumed nil t>m? i?n tty ablations of lu-r roK*. j ignw ! Lulu. ( "liolihy! Is It fill rl^l t?" tyibhy looked ovi r 1m t head. "Miss Lulu." ho s;iid fatuously. "If It ain't Miss Lulu." Ijjo looked O.oiu Iter to Id, ami did i not, take in JDI'S r^JswdL-shru?;. 1 j "Bobl?v," said PJ. "she's conic to slop i/s pot tint; married, but site can't, t I've told her so." "She don't have to stop us," quoth I lobby gloomily, "we're stopped." "What do you mean?'' J>i laid one I band flatly along her cheek, Instinctive In her melodrama. Hobby drew down his brows, set his lmnit nn liis lpjf elbows nut. "We're minors," said ho. "Well, gracious, you didn't have to tell them that." "Xo. Tl>ey know I was." "But, Siilv! Why didn't you toll them you're not?" ' "But I am." PI stared. "For pity sakes," she sr. id. "don't yotf know how to do any- J thing?" "What would you have mo do?" he inquired indignantly, with his head ! hold very stiff, and with a boyish, ' admirable lift of oliin. "Why toll fhoin we're both twenty-; ono. Wc look It. We know we're re-, sponsible?that's all they care for.' Well, you aro a fumy . . ." "You wanted me to lio?" he said. "Oh. don't make out you never told ' n lib." "Well, hut this?" ho stored at her.' "I never heard of such a tiling," DI! cried accusingly. "Anyhow," lie said, "there's notli-: ing to do now. The cat's out. I've | told or.r ages. We've got to have our. folks In on it." "Is that nil you can think of?" she demanded. "What else?" "Why, come on to Balnbrldge or i Holt, and tell them we're of age, and be married there." "Di," said Bobby, "why, that'd be a rotten go." Di said, oh, very well, if lie didn't ? , if i.-.i I WilliL in marry iiit. Jie repueu Kiumiy tlmt of course lie wanted to marry her. I)i stuck out' her little .hand. She was at a disadvantage. She could use no arts, with Lulu sitting there, looking on. "Well, then, come on to FaJnbrklge," D1 cried, and rose. Lulu was thinking:. "What shah I siivV 1'don't know wliat'to say. X don't know wlmt I can say.-" Now she also rose, and laughed awkwardly. "I've tcld Di." she suiil to Fobby, "tluit wherever you two go. I'm going too. Dl's folks left her In my care, you know. So you'll have to take me | along, I guess." She spoke in a man- | nor of distinct apology. At this Bobby had no h?ea what to reply. He looked down miserably at the carpet. Ilis whole manner was a mute testimony to his participation in the eternal query: How did I get j into It? t> ijjjobby," said Di. "are you going to 1 let her lead you home?" This of course nettled him, but not j In the manner on which DI had count- i ed. He said loudly: "I'm not going to Bainbridge or Holt or any town and lie, to get you or any other girl." "Come on, Aunt Lulu," said DI grandly. Bobby led the way through the : lobby. Di followed, and Lulu brought | up the rear. She walked awkwardly, ! eyes down, her hands stiffly held. ; Heads turned to look at her. They passed into ino street. "You two no ahead." said Lulu, "so I they. won't think?" They did so, and she followed, and ! did not know where to look, and thought of her broken shoes. At the station. P.obhy put thent on the train and stepped back. Tie had. ! he said, something to see to there in Miilton. IH did not look at him. ; And Lulu's ??ood-hy spoke her genuine i regret for all. "Aunt Lulu," said Pi. "you needn't think I'm goin^ to sit with you. You j look as if you were crazy. I'll sit j back here." "All rijrht. 1)1," said Lulu humbly, i ** * It was nearly six o'clock when tliey i arrived at the Pcacons'. Mrs. Lett i stood on the porch, her hands rolled In her apron. "Surprise for you!" she called brightly. Lefore they bad reached the door, Ina bounded from the hall. "Davliuj?!" Siie seized upon PI, kissed her I.....II.. -1.. ... K . . . .1. 1.,... #l.r> ISMIIil.t, IIM'U I'iM'lv 1HM1I Jill f I 11T7 ; trnvolinp bap. ".My new bnp!" she cried. "PI! \Vli:it have you pot that for?" In any embarrassment Pi's instinctive defense w is lr-arty lauphter. Slip low hiuphcd heartily, kissed her mother .-train, and ran up Ihe stairs. I.i:lu slipped hy her sister, and into ihe kitchen. s. Pwirht had come hnine. I.ulu could hear Inn pourinp out to him tlie mysterious eireuiiistanee of the hap, could hear the exappented air of tlie casual with which ho always received 1 tic excitement of another, and ospo- i eially of his Ir.tt. Then she heard Ina's feet paddin up the stairs, and itfter that Pi's sliri'l, nervous lauph- i ter. I.ulu felt a punp of pity for Pi, a*- if she herself were about to face them. There was not time borit to prepare supper and to clutnpe the blue cotton dress. Tn.tiint jlress T.ulti_wn5 pouring" water "wnen Dwight "entered { the dining room. "Ah!" said he. "Our festive ball; gown." She gave him her hand, with her peculinr sweetness of expression? almost as if she were sorry for him or wore bidding him good-by. "That shows who you dress for!" he cried. "You dress for me. Inn, aren't you Jealous? Lulu dresses for me!" c Inn had come in with T)l, and both were excited, and Inn's head was moving stiitly, as in all her indignations. 1 Mrs. Lett had thought better of it and i had given her presence. Already llonona was singing. Hut no one noticed Monona, and Ina did not defer even to Pwlght. She, j who measured delicate, troy occasions by avoirdupois, said brightly: "No, I>i. You must tell us all about it. Where had you and Aunt Lulu been with mamma's new bug?" "Inn," said Lulu, "tirst can't we heap- something about your visit? How Is?" Iler eyes consulted Dwlglit. His features dropped, the lines of his face ; dropped, its muscles seemed to sag. A look of suffering was in his eyes. "She'll never be any better," he ; said. "I know we've said good-by to her for the last time." "Oh, Dwlglit!" said Lulu. "She knew it, too," he said. 'It? j it put me out of business, I enn tell you. She gave me my start?she took all the care of me?taught me to read?she's the only mother I ever Knew? tie stopped, and opei?'d nis | eyes wide on account of their dimness. ] But eventually they were back ! attain before that new black bap. And Di would say nothing. She laughed, j squirmed, grew Irritable, laughed; again. j "Put an end to this, Lulu," lie com-! manded. "Where were you two?, since you make such a mystery?" Pi's look at Lulu was piteous, tor- j rilled. Pi's fear of her father was now clear to Lulu. And Lulu feared him, too. Abruptly she heard herself temporizing, for the moment making common cause with Di. "Oh," she said, "we have a little secret. C'nn't we have a secret if we ' want one?" "Upon my word," Pwight commented. "she has a beautiful secret. I don't know about your secrets, Lulu." hi very time mat he out tins, that j fleet, lifted look of Lulu's seemed to bleed. "I'm glad for my dinner," remarked Monona at last. "Please excuse me." On thai they all rose. Lulu stayed In the kitchen and did her best to make her tasks indefinitely last. She had nearly finished when Pi hurst in. "Annt Lulu. Aunt Lulu!" she cried. "Come In there?come. I can't stand it. What am I going to do?" "DI, dear," said Lulu. 'Tell your j mother?you must tell her." "She'll cry," Di sibbed. "Then j she'll t"l! papa?and he'll never stop ' talking about it. 1 know him?every j day he'll keep It going. After he ; scolds me it'll he a joke for months. I I'll die?I'll die, Aunt Lulu." Ina's voice sounded in the kitchen, j "What are you two whispering about? j T nnmnin'o lnti?f TO of tlio , x ur'.utiu, ukiiuiiju o null, ui tuu way you're acting . . "Let's go out on the porch," said i Lulu. nn the moment by her Indignntion. i "Mrs. Deacon? " began Bobby, and t stood up. very straight and manly ( before them nil. r But Dwlght Intervened. Dwight, t t!ie father, the master of his house, f Ileje was something requiring him to act. So the father set his face like n mask and brought down his hand t on the rail of the porch. It was as x if the sound shattered a thousand v filaments?where? "Diana!" his voice" was terrible, t demanded a response, ravened among t thorn i "Yes, papa," said Di, very small. "Answer your mother. Answer me. Is there anything to this absurd tale?" "No. papa," said Di, trembling. . "Nothing whatever?" j "Nothing .whatever." ' ' "Can you Imagine how such a ridiculous report started?" . "No, papa." t "Very well. Now we know whore v we are. II' anyone hears this report , repeattd, send thom to me." t "Well, but that satchel?" said Ina, ^ to whom an idea manifested less as a 1 function than as n leech. "One moment," add J)wight. "Lulu o will of course verify what the child J has said." ? "If you cannot settle this with Di," c said Lulu, "you cannot nettle it with ii me." '' "A shifty answer," naid Dwight. "You have a genius at misrepresent ing facts, you know, Lulu." v "Bobby wanted to say something," said Inu, still troubled. "No. Mrs. Deacon," said Bobby, low. "I have nothing?more to say." In a little while, when Bobby went away, D1 walked with him to the gate. It wus as If, the worst having hap- , pened to her, she dared everything J now. "Bobby," she said, "you hate a lie. But what else could I do?" He could not see her, could see only the little moon of her face, blurring. "And anyhow," said DI, "It wasn't a lie. We didn't elope, did we-?" "What do you think I came for tonight?" asked Bobby. The day had aged him; he spoke like a man. His very voice came *1 gruffly. But she saw nothing, sof- ' L .1 l.t tr. ll'llt'U IU IJ1 11 J* JflVIUVUf T>?3 ICttUJ vu take his regret that they had not g gone on. "Well, I came for one thing," said Bobby, "to tell you that I couldn't F stand for your wanting mc to lie today. Why, Di?I hate a He. And now :tonight?" He spoke his code al- 1-i most beautifully. "I'd rather," he said, "they had never let us see each other than to lose you the way I've lost you now." "Bobby!" "It's true. We mustn't .talk about | It." I "Bobby! I'll go back and tell them j all." "You can't go back." said Bobby. "Not out of a thing like that." j _ She stood staring after him She j heard some one coining and she turned toward the house, and met ! Cornish leaving. * ".Miss Di." he cried, "If you're go- | t A -1 nnvlwwl.. ' HIK l(> IMUf/e Willi uut>uuut>t icuiciuut:i ? it's with me!" Her defense was ready?her laugh- j ter rang out so that the departing ! . Hobby might hear. ? j When Di had gone upstairs, Ina said to Lulu in a manner of cajoling confi- j ] denee: "Sister,"?she rarely called her | that?"why did you and Di have the black hag?" j So that after all it was a relief to Lulu to hear Dwight ask casually: 1 "I'.y the way, Lulu, haven't I got ; , soiue-.mnil. somewhere about?" (To Le Continued). ? 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