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The Good Luck Knocker xnsaoi By JANE OSBORN A <€ by McClure N*w«pap«*r Uyndlcate.) Myra Oriinwude stopped at the nur* serymau’a on her way hojne fiAmi achool one Suturday afternoon In Oc tober. She watt buying , some bulba to be planted now for spring flower ing. The nurseryman asked her If she did not want to set out any shrubs or sinall 4rees. Myra hesitated. ‘‘I know the place lacks shade dreadfully,” she said, “but it would be several years before they did anything." 1 ' “You aren’t thinking of leaving, are -.you?" smiled the old nunteymau good uaturedly. “Oh, no," assured Myra, "duly one hates to put a lot of money In a place on shrubs and trees when one isn’t sure that one will stay long enough to enjoy them. 1 get toy appointment by the school board only for a year at a time." • “I guess there’s no chance the school board won't reappoint you," assured the nurseryman, who was well In formed In local politics. "Why, there’s Miss Snooks. SSie’s taught* tb the schools for forty years." Myra suppressed a slgb. * “Forty years!” she gasped. "That's a long, long time.” Itut she went home with her bulbs withoot buying the shrub* Myra wan twenty-four $h** bad been appointed to touch Kugllsli In the high school tn I>ulton two >esrs l*ef\»re when site left college, end bemuse she had no fauill) and didn't like hoarding houeoa and did like the shady streets and quiet wa>a of the little town of Lfeitoo. Site bad built s little house oO M I It 0>Ht **•< s Or<t*w> e d Mr “ , | * ••• i‘f tier i»etgM«ir« th<-agM n tbst Mtva ttrlmwale te«>-|i in I •■It<4, the rr>*l H'*'< > \|.— o< it a* s •' ha«t dea t id hre life Une fl.ix M » r» was brow •mg ar.aitel a little •ei^Hid-hsnd fumtiure •hufk.tn a mn-«loan neigtil«i*rhond of olil I tul- top She ws» Imihliig f<tr an lne\|«en- alve pair of Niidtrotia Kite i||«| not find the andiron*, hut sin* del naiie up<>n m much rsrniHheil hrua* knocker thrown In with nther bits of Junk in s decrepit old •cuttle She bought it fi»r s song, 'unking no comment* thut might Induce the dealer to raise Its price *‘lt'a one of those miserable ^oh| things.” commented the dealer. came off a house the> tore down some where around here. Had to chop the door down, almost, to get the knocker, hut, then, the doo* whs bust In, any way. Nowadays they makes the knockers so they screw on easy, but tills one has rivets that goes right through. If it hadn't a’ been made so queer 1 might ’s' sold It before. Hut no one wan ted to go to all that fuss to fasten It on.” Myra waited until she reached home to admire the knocker ae leisure. It was large, ami displayed a griflin’s head of a stamp that Myra bad never seen on any modern replicas. But she hesitated about putting It on her front door. Once It was attached, reasoned Myra, it would have to remain in place. If she left and sold her house, future tenants would not appreciate the old knocker; they would not pay her what it was worth. Besides, she wanted the knocked herself: ^ ’ ... Then one day after a rather gloomy day at school and a gloomier visit from MU* Snooks. Myra gave instructions to a nearby carpenter to go to work and fasten the old knocker on her front door. The seat day when she re turned from school tie was waiting to finish the Job Before her supper the knocker was la place. When it was knocked It aeot out a booming soon that faixJx JhQQlk tot Ultia hauar “I'm going to atay here the neat of my Ilf*” afce t«M a younger teacher wfeo caMed an her that evanlog ‘Tve la rates "Fiddles!Uka. Myra." said her com panion. "You'll marry, af coarse." "Wlmm would I msrryT* asked Myra, with eyes wide open. "Don't ask me," laughed the other teacher. "Kvery girl has two or three men to choose from when tbs Unit comes." ”1 haven't," sald^Iyra simply. The other teacher shrugged her shoulders Slid the'tnalter seemed to be settled. The next Ifay a letter estne from Tom Jurrold, u letter that Myru had been expecting for many months. But when she opened It and read it she found that the letter said more lima she had expected Tom Jarrobl's letter would say. Briefly he wanted to marry her. Ilg had been on a long ,l>usii0.sg trip.. Affairs had shaped'themselves, us lie would explain later. Me had been released from an old engagement and now offered himself and his mil lions to My fa. * Myfa at lirst felt resentment that Tom had not relieved her anxiety by writing before, ihPin there was curiosity concerning the igher engagement, of which she had never known. Later she was In a mood to write a letter that would amount to an acceptance. Then she looked uj) from her desk, saw the rivets of the knoCker sticking through to the inside of the door, and wrote a Letter of refusal. "Somehow now that I’ve got that knocker attached 1 can’t leave," she told herself. “Those old rivets seem to hold me right here to Dalton." , The letter was sealed and Myra aturted at a loud resounding knock. She opened the door gnd stood f**c«M4» face with Bailey Manway, known to every one tn Dalton save newcomem It tee herself. “Fardon me," he said, "hut I *awr our old knocker, your old knocker now, of course. You see, our family has lived hen-' for centuries. That knockef was mi the old Hanwa> house, inru down ten years ago while | «ra* off at ndU-ge. Then you know I wag in Franc* daring the war ami after that hustiHSM kept me bct*w* for a while, amt —well, I always Ibtetuled to get I hold "f the old d<n*r km* her. but I I ne\er did I Just hap|a-n»«t to we It as ' I was pa*alt*c and I thought I’d % tut>" * Myra asked Halley llanwnjr to sit 1 •b»w a la her ttttt* living rooni Fi plaining Ms at'S'bment fur tW old knocker ho asked |f || nas mweffd# I that be might buy It hwh. Then a,nf a ten kettle •••ding ' oseT •wiled VI * m to the ktf-heo As J she oeni She ashed Mr Manway »•• ‘ slay l-aig e—otgh to dnwh a ntf -f tow > •od Mn Manway »rry g’adiy aesrptod , -| dmiT mo hM I #wa let yww haso the kowthef." she esgtslnod WSOT tho ten enf* “T.aa soo. H fcs attwched tn tho .».-e I fmmt 4or«4ad hwiaf that I e—*M noser teO«o ISsll~at and thts ttttle h'—o > mi ana* of tho kwwtkar se I •hmT aoo W*w |Tn ^dng In •wft wtfh n m kit Mnoony dH ant nrge his ymtmt •*w» ohm ho omt that efts mom ho ashed If ho asight at team return the nett day at (no to son (ho aid kn«rker »• rwh In * aildho^ at am >»toii Thai reload M|fn ws«M to the ywM -dNe •« fspnteh her totter i* fuan Jace>a«t nho did M W—W wtihunt to •truhe*! fhe mid .<id grtdht “tissaf «dd Steehes * sho so*d tto *»euu» wsaidd ha*r • ««iar If ■( hodnT Iwon f*W tow ’ 1 be mti •kay Ikt.tey (ton*ay cnMod a*«*'» seer s» swohn i<i iheS* O' •V-<aio*eW-e t-i • -e- -4 l a tartly Vklam ho Isno a • tee •** **l I wan tod |o Indnro yon to tri toe hate (he kmaher, hot'Wow I k,«o«w I sJatll ne«Of wont t«, hj«r tho knj^et uitlMatl I hr • hanwtng lllllo ale, res» itrd It ,V«mI tie* *ery i»r%t weok nil ItaHm «a* tnikittK «d the surprising engMgs- Wenl of Vltm t< tin wade, a n*danty. amt h ui*-) Manway. ri*h amt tndn- rnual •l*-«*'rSelani of tfir founder of the town THEATRE ONE NIGHT TUESDAY GEO. 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