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OLIVER. L OCTOBER-. /^GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEOfa ^ COPY RIGHT, BELL S YN 0 ICATE,(w N.U. SC.RVICE) CHAPTER VIII? ?Continued The best trained automobile In America," said Sammy, with his our. does 'it ..n,<>d08,y- "Kindness Is what 'So sorry to he lute." said Mrs. ' uge, as Oliver ceremoniously <handed li<-r out of the ear. "What Is thai I hear, Oliver?" said t le minister us he stepped out of the /.H? i'.",ne untl M,R' had pre e him. "Is It true the detectives are here and expect to start this ridicu lous search tomorrow?" ,UM'e 1,11 rl?,lt-" replied er' of 1'iem tried to sell vou " M,,,kHn8 tl,p ot,ier <>?>?" ? ver'a ,"t " CTi.?(1 Kripplng Oil tlv?r,U bi" ^ t'"?t man a deteo ,f ! 's,le startled. .No less a person than Mr. Sherlock Bleutl>8" HVV( ^,H,onp. ">? renowned BlPutli, said Oliver, smiling C V>. ? "Ve""1 Tl"? amounts ln jour Zu ln? us a set of Dickens." ane started to 6ay something but Instead, abruptly .turned away ami Joned the other women on the porch ?tole'over'her ?hl" ?J mla?lv,"? > ''Hey,' 0Uver!" called out Samfnv ParL'X", Z ''.'cLV'r """ . .[il* volce ?s Oliver came up. ' Pull picked up something rich L7Z>27 ,n dUy h?f"re i'osterday ' S NlZ. ? T VOlUme ?f the 'Ar?l>' % k??w l8?'.Utely nn<'xPUrgated ? " you?" ' y?" fe" for ll> know1 a .n" S?,,f,U(K Mv w,fe doe-n't "? leanell' n0'!^ ^ *h,m- Sn,nmv the M,u,!gMni J said 'ta Wf!8h 1 00Ul(l rememb<*r what i ,, J |? lhe >niy rtbont ? about your streak pV'0 '""V"? tH,kl"K " l,|,,e I think P,t V mV foMl P>'es! Yo" ?> think Id have sense enough to? oh ,,liend :u,(l kl<-k me. (Mile ' WL re' ,T,lsf ,,s hftr(l vou like" Come on. 1'hey're v.altlng for us. You needn't worry, old boy " Sammy and Oliver entered the sit ? burn crown, flooded her magnificent shou ders and arms, and then wavered timidly, almost helplessly. ns It first Z Zo" T"ct r"" ?p er tlmn m! n*i * Wfts n hon" *"?> bravely stood UT'grounV^' O.ced Msr4 ?" ?* Mr Sage, with a distinctly bewll dered and somewhat embarrassed ex presslon keeping company with the proud and doting 9m||e that seemed to be stamped upon his lean visage stood across the room with his da Jh' ter and Mrs. Sammy. "Do you mean to tell ni? niu-o. that those blighters Intend to begin dlKgln* up your p|?ee tomorrow}" Josephine asked Incredulously Oliver laughed, "i ,hlnk we,? rather enjoy ,he excitement, Aum Josephine" he said. "I suppose they'll begin prying up the kitchen floor to morrow, or digging trenches In the or tear|n* up the flower-beds." She looked at him narrowly. "What utter ro, 1 Do they expect to And vo" father burled In ?,e cellar or )Jr the kitchen floor?" "They don't expect to nnd ;.(m .MtZl"" ?"vcr' w" He Klanced over his shoulder m Jane, rhelr eyes met and their gaze iTn? 5,PCO,),,,, "? detect) the clouded, troubled look In hers and was suddenly .conscious of what must have seemed tft her a serious Intensify n his own He knew now that be was In love?that he alwuys had been in lov. Willi Jnno. thai h. . "P* rt>ught against the strange, mad Impulse to shout that he "*? '? 7* Wllh '..r, bljr-all hfs? and that no man should Uke her away from him. And ?het She was thlnkln* of that dry, hot olght when he came to sil I hla father, out of - ' ih0?- cov*?"?d with fresh blhok mod. There had been no r?ln , for weeks. The roads were thick with ??. US no.C thut his ahoM were muddy. He h?d ?^oken to her ?bout them he had wondered where Oliver h^ beih to ?M into mud ?? hl, And she, herself, had never ceased to wonder. Oliver was strangely restless dur ing dinner, and Immediately after the company rose from the table at Its conclusion lie asked June to come with him for n little stroll In the open ulr. "1 want to speak to you about some thing," lie urged. "Hetter throw some thing over your shoulders. The night air ? " "Ought you to go off and leave the others, Oliver?" she began, a queer little catch, ns of alarm, In her voice. "Muriel and Sammy ? " "Come along," he pleaded. "They won't mind. I must see you alone for a few minutes, Jane." "I will get my wrap," she said, after a moment's hesitation. "It may be chilly outside." "Why. you're shivering now, Janie," he whispered anxiously, us he threw her wrap over her shoulders. "Are you cold ?" She did not reply. He followed her out upon the porch and down the steps. word passed between them until they had turned the bend In tHe drive and were outside the radius of light shed from the windows. He was the first to speak. "See h?>re, Jane," he blurted out, "I'm ? I'm terribly troubled and up set." That was as far as he got. speech seemed to fall him. She laid her hand on his arm. "Is It about ? about the detective, Oliver?" she asked tremulously. "No," he answered, almost roughly. "It's about you, Jane. You've Just got He Started Violently, the Words Oying on H i? Llpa. to answer me. Are you g<'lng to bp niH rrlecl ?" "Yps," slip said, hpr voice so low I>p could scnrcely hpnr the monosyllable. They wnlkcd In rIIpiicp fur twenty pncps or more, taming down Hip palh that led to ih?? Rwarap road. t "I ? I whs nfrnld go," he muttered. Then fiercely: "Who nre you going to mnrry ?" She sighed. "I nm going ty nturry the first miin who asks rre," she re piled find, having cust the dip. "tit Imliintly mistress of herself. "Have you imy objections?" she asked. ul most mockingly. If he beard the question he paid no heed to It. She felt the muscles of Ids strong foreurm ((row taut, and she heard the quick Intake of his breath. She wnlted. She begun In hum n va grant little* air. It seemed an age to Iter before be spoke. ".lane," be said gently and steadily, "If you were a man and In my place ? I mean In my predl<?hment ? would you go po far ns to ask the girl you love better than anything In all the world to mnrnr you?" "There couldn't be any barm In ask ing her. She couljd refuse you, you know." ?' "Thera's the gypsy's prophecy," be murmured thickly. "It ? It may coin true J?ne." "It ? It cannot coin* true," she said "It cannot, OHv?r." "Still It Is something to be consld ?red," he Jintd heavily and Judicially ttta hand closed over hers and grlppeil If' tightly. "If you were In my place Wouldn't yon hesitate about Inviting liar to? tb becoma a widow 1" ?Oh, I love you, Oliver, whan your voice tocnds as If it a laugh la It," the whispered "In a month 1 will b? thirty." hq went on, his heart as UgU as air. "I might usk her to give me a tldrty-dny option, or something like that.'* "Yoij goose!" He pressed her urm to Ills side, and was terloi^ when he spoke again, aft er a moment pause. "I have never naked a girl to marry1 me, Jfrne. Never In all my life. Do you know why?" She burled her face against his shoul der. A vast, overwhelming thrill rae*-d through him. Ills arms went about her and drew her close. "I never realized It. June ? I never even thought of It till Just a little while ago ? but now I know that I have always loved you." Her arm Rtole up about his neck, she raised her chin. "I began calling myself your wife, Oliver, when I was u very little girl ? when we first bfgan playing house together, and you were my husband and the dolls were our children." He kissed her rapturously. "Oh. my Cod!" he burst out. "You'll never know how miserable I have been these last few weeks? how horribly Jeulous I've been." She stroked Ids cheek ? possessively. "I haven't been very happy myself." she sighed. "1 ? l wasn't quite sure you would ever, ever nsk me to be your wife." "That reminds me." he cried boy. lshly. "Will you marry nie, Miss Sage?" "Of course I will. Didn't I say I would marry the first? what was that?" As she uttered the exclamation un der her breath, she drew away from him quickly, looking over her shoul der at the thick, shadowy underbrush that lined the road below them. "I didn't hear anything." said tie, turning with her. "It must have been my heart trying to burst ou{ of It ? sh ! Listen. There Is someone over there In the brush. D? n his sneaking eyes, I'll ? " "Don't ! Don't -go down there !" she cried, clutching his arm. "You must not leave tne tlone. I'm? I'm afraid, Ollle. I am always afraid when I am near that awful swamp." "I.et's walk down the rond a little way. Jane," said he stubbornly. "Don't be afraid. I'll stick close beside you." "You won't go down Into the swamp," she. cried anxiously. "No. Just along the road." They ran down the little embank ment Into the rond. After fifteen or twenty paces Oliver pressed her arm warnlngly and stopped to listen. Ahead of them, some distance away, they heard footfalls ? the si ow? regular tread of a nmn walking In the road. They stood still listening. Suddenly the footfalls ceased. , "He knows we have stopped," said Oliver. "He's listening to sej if we ^ure following." She was silent for a moment. "You remember what I said about being ' spied upon. Oliver. I feel It, I feel It all about me. You are being watched all the time. Oliver. Oh, how hateful, how unfair!" "See here. Jane. I've been thinking. It s wrong for me to ask you to marry *j me till all this mess Is over. It's wrong for me to even ask you to con sider yourself engaged to me." "Nobody believes that you |>ad any thinK to do with ? " "My dear girl, nobody knows what to believe," said he seriously. "That's the worst of It. My father Is gone. I was. so fur as anyone knows. the last to see him. As you say, no one may believe that I had anything to do with It, but where Is he? A queer thing has Just happened You know Peter Illnes? that queer old bird who has always lived In the cabin at the lower end of the swamp? He has skipped out. Hoarded up the door and win dows and ? " ? He started violently, the words dy ing on his lips. OT to the south, bty yond the almost Impeneti able wall of night, glenmed fur-oft lights In the wall of I'eter Mines' shack. "He must have returned," he said. In an odd voice. "Those lights " "Let us go In. dear." she pleaded. "I? I hear something moving among the weeds down there. It s grisly, Oil ver? creepy." Oliver yielded to her entreaties and they made their way back to the house. Mrs. Sage was holding fort In her most effective Kngllsh when the two entered the sitting-room. She may have eyed them narrowly for a second or two. but that was all. Sammy Parr, however, who harf been observing Oliver very closely, got up from Ills chair and marched ur-oss the room, his hand extended. "Congratulations, old man!" h? shouted Joyously. And little old Mrs. Grimes, from hei place on the' soTn. remarked, as sh# leanetj buck with a sigh of content : "Well, goodness > knows It's about time." Proving that since the entrance of the lovers the great Josephine had fulled to hold her audience spellbound. (TO HR CONTINUED. > V*ry Trum Once the composer Massenet was rompelled to listen to a ymthfut prodigy and give his opinion. "You have tnlent." he said to th? l?:tle pianist, "and with proper dil igence and perseverance you ought to be able 10 ? H ?'Ob. I would love to compose, nki," Interrupted the prodigy ; "how shall I set about It V "You will have to lenrh a great deal more and become older." "Hut you composed when yon thirteen." "Yes," acknowledged Massenet, I didn't ask uU^OO* how tu do U Winter Building Has Many Strong Points | Possibilities of greutiy extending winter roust ruction lu home building us well um In the building of sky scrapers Is being brought out In own. your-home shows and In slnillar ex positions In u number of cities. Heal estate boards through the National As sociation of Keul Kstute Hoards huve had part in the study Instituted by the I'nlted Stutes IVpurtuient of Com merce for aiding In distributing build ing activity over P_' months of the year and so lessening the cost of construe tlon. a cost greatly affected by the trudltionai seasonal character of the construction Industry. An exposition to the public of the advantages of building one's home dur ing the sluck winter period, when bonuses ure not. and a showing of the , practical possibility of winter building j with modern construction methods was ! recently held In 1'lttsburgh in contiec j thai with a home beautify exposition Architects, conductor* and material men in Pittsburgh united Irt uolntin-; out the advantages to the prospective home builder of undertaking his work nt a time when labor will be plentiful, contractors free of the pressure of i other Jobs and architects in a position | ?o gi\e close sup(?r\ Isioii to I liv work ! I Small Suburban Home \ Grows in Popularity ! Soaring building costs since the wnr- ] time peak have practically stopped the j construction of large houses in most i of the suburbs of Chicago and other j large cities. Now the trend In home building Is toward 1 1 1 e small residence, a home which cuu he cared for easily by the housewife herself, or perhaps with Wc cusional help from the "cleaning woman." Most housewives usually are 'lissatlslled with any maid they get, unyway, and would rather do the work themselves if it Is not too much like drudgery. The small home In the country or suburbs M>Ives the problem of rent for the average city dweller. In many In stances he can purchase a home for a small down payment and pay off the balance In* llrst and second mortgages, In sums that would be much less tl.au his rent In a city flat. Architects report a decided call for iiomeft of the smaller type. Ily this we do not mean bungalows alone, al though this type of home Is very pop ular, but homes of from six to eight rooms. Kven an eight-room house is classed by some as large. Many firms of contractors and build ers are now making a specialty of the small house. Teach Hone Ownership A course in hot?e ownership Is the newj'St form of education In real estate mutters. Such ? course, de signed to give unbiased information to 1 1 1 ???*<* contemplating the pureimse of a home and to home owners who \jnnt to learn the principles under lying home value*, has been organ ized for the general public in Wash ington. by the V. M. (\ A. The course. Mi line with the gen eral activity of the National Asso ciation of Heal Kstate Hoard-; in pro moting wider home ownership. I* sponsored bv the Washington real estate board. Title examination, building construe, tb.n, mortgages and the various meth ods of financing the purchase of a home will be some of the subjects ? discussed. Home Voitng Home, sweet home is the dearest place on earth to every one. We all take p; ide In it and tell the world that our city Is the best place on enrth to live. It would be a foolish citizen In deed who would by Ids or her vote re turd the progress of his home town or make It the subject of ridicule. ? Washington (Ind.) Democrat. Model Playground Plan The children's bureau In the Depart ment of l.ahor. Washington, D. f\. has on hand for free distribution a ground plan of Its playground model The model was prepared for the bu reati as tin Illustration of how to use n lot of live acres or more as a recrea tion center for children. Growihg Old Gracefully Houses as well as people should ?Jji with grace and charm Years /(errors for the carefully built itulld your home ns you do life, to take tthe rebuffs of time os ii conqueror and not as a slave. A Modern Solomon The rural inaglst riitf told the young coupic he would have to fine them for Mpecdlng. They admitted that they wefe M>lng at a pretty smart clip, but told him they had only $"?. that they had come to be married and that was to he his fee, lie renal dArd this and then handed down IiIh decision. ^ "In that oaae I'll mnrrj' ye mid take the $."? The speeding case I'll continue frtr six month*. If yen cah't pay the fine I'll give ye a Jail sentence. tiy that time you won't mihd[ IL" -Doitoi Transcript. ^ ; , "They haven't missed a single day at school!" "They're well all the time. The doctor says they are the healthiest children he knows. "He told me constipation is what makes so many growing children sickly. Poisons from the waste matter spread through the little bodies, and lower their resistance to disease. So I'm very careful to guard against constipation. I simply give them a little NujoT every night. "Nujol isn't a laxative at all, you know, but it keeps them just as regular as clockwork. They like it, and the doctor says it's just the thing for them." Nujol helps Nature in Nature's onn way Mothers arc the best friends of Nujol. When their chil dren's health is at stake they seek the remedy that med ical authorities approve be cause it is so safe, so gentle, so natural in its action. Constipation is dangerous for anybody. Nujol is safe for everybody. It does not affect the stomach and is not absorbed by the body. Nuiol simplv makes up tor matter and thus permits thorough and regular elimi nation, without overtaxing the intestinal muscles. Nujol can he taken lor any length of time without ill effects. To insure internal cleanliness, itshould he taken regularly m accordance w irh the directions on each bottle. 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Children Cry for MOTHER Fletcher's Castoria Is especially pre pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all apes of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitation*, alwayi look for the tignature of Absolutely Harrolc?? N9 OlriatQ. I'hjrtidatu everywhere r?*ommetid ft