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Bt CHAPTER XXV1-Conth%!,d. --20 'When YOU go away," silo .,ald atI haft, "I want you to remnenmbwr this JPJW going to do my best, K. You hatve' tught mc aill I know. All mny life I'llI have to overlook things ; I know mthat. -But, In his way, Palmner calres for mne, .31 will always come back, and p~erhalps; Hfer voice trailed off. F ar ahead of .hetr she saw thle years stretching out, inarked, not by days and mlonthis, but 4? Palmer's wanderings atway, hist re -WOrsful returns. "Do at little more thanil for~gettinlg,", E... satid. "Try to cartle forl. n Chri.1' ie. You did oncee. And that's your 11trongest wealponl. It's allways a wom1-. -4n's Strongest weapon. And it wins ll "Le end." "I shall try, K.," sh10 answered CVtedHently. But hie turned atway fr'on the look Ither eyes. Harriet Was abroad. si'e had1( Sent "mrds from g'ls to her "tradi It was ai innovation. TohreFI two or three , people on the Street who receiv d her 4ngraved announcement thagst she wa. there, "buying new chic models for te .utnull and winter-afternlboon, frocks, e"enling gowns, receptilon dressem, and~ wraps, from Por-et, Martial et Armand, tid others," left the envelopes casual on thle parlor table, as if comunlt onls from Paris were quite to be ex aweted. Do K. lunched alone, and ate little. -Sidney came home at half-pist two runmc delicately Aushied, at; If she hlad *iurried, and wite A that's your ihat caught Katii's eyeslay anwe. "Bless t ye child!" sie s wid. "Tere' A need to sk how he Is today. You're -All one sile."1 The slile tlet just at trille. "Katie, someoae hats wrte ty Jsm'e Out on the street, InI chialk. it' .401h Doctor Wilson's, and It o()ks ;I) '- l Y. Please go out anid sweep.I it 01y.", "'m about crazy with thait od chalk. ."n do it and wilre." "'Please do it now. I on' wd t ainy QWe to see It. Is-is Mr. K. IllsltairsJ" But when she learnedo tha K.as pstairs, oddly enoutghl, sh11 dI niot go (p at once. She is t - In the lower hatll and listened. - Tes, he ws there. 8he could hear him moving abu.Her S..ofried slightly as sle listened. .irastine, looking in frioii her bal ; ony, saw hier there, and, seeing sme-l4. thing in her face thatdt a she hadver m pected, put her hand to er tlroait. "Sidney w" "Oh--hello, Chris.", "Won't You come and st with me?" "I haven't mchld t e-tait sI'want 1o 'Peak to K."d "Katie, s e1e h as w en co e vu t Docrreditoohr, all( it lonce.S fly, Chrsie gomut asee t of K., "I'd bout o crae house ften. old chowl happy to. ee it, hati semed to bei nele Buryto wen K.'s lattedtio was toub .nbappy, eodly enoug, surey din ht up ne saatw once h sothe edge thee hallin; butend.she was t hre iiW, to faet slhtacase. liTee.a -'. NoUrltinG ooing iMan im ati Al ehicg in hetaea he oy Chadstnee enecteSdo pt he and toun her fth t *'von' you comein and sitr wihm? lor. at oingre tohearry all at omilc ChretyCriins.s hewsmn A thrilling myst man who lost his girl who helped hi slitmied doors. Harriet used to be quite disagreenbile about it. Sidney slid from the railing. "There he is now." Perhaps, in all her frivolous, selfish life, Christine had never had a bigger noment than the one that followed. She could have said nothing, and, in A queer way that life goes, K. might have gone away frorn the Street as mity of heart as lie had come to it. "Be very good to hIm, Sidney," she said unsteadily. "le cares so much." t CHAPTER XXVII. K. was being very dense. For so long had he considered Sidney as unat Lainable that now his masculine mind, a little weary with uinch wretchedness, refused to move froin its old attitude. "It was glamour, that was all, K.," said Sidney bravely. "But, perhaps," said K., "it's just be cause of that miserable incident with Carlotta. That wasn't the right thing, of course, but Max has told me the story. It m as really aulte innocent. She fainted in the yard, and-" Sidniey was exasperated. "Do you wanit te to marry him, K.?" K. lookud straight ahead. "I want you to be happy, dear." They were on the terrace of the Wh ite Slinings hotel again. K. had or dereti dinner, making a great to-do Itiout gel ting the dishes they both liked. But now that it was there, they were not eating. K. had place(d his chair so that his prolile was turned to ward her, Past K.'s proille Sidney could see rhe magnolia tree .haped like a heart. "It seet.is to me." said Sidney sud denly. "thait you are kind to everyone but ate, K." lie faiily staninncered his astonish tInent : "Why. '.lint on earth have I done?" "You at e trying to make me marry Max, aren't you?" 8h1 ws ve ry properly ashamed of that. aild, when lie failed to reply out of sheer inability to think of one that would not ,;aiy too much, she went hastily to sonething else: "It is hard for te tLO realize that you-that you lived at life of your' own, a busy life, doing useful things, before you came to us. I wish you would tell nc some thing about yourself. If we're to be friends when you go away,"-she had to stop there, for the lunp in her throat-"I'l want to know how to think of you-who your friends are all that." lie matde an effort. Ile was think ing, of course, that ie would he vis uiitzing her, In the hospital, In the lit tle house.4 on Its side str-et, as shte hetr hi)s just parted(. hietr haunts foided before her oat the table. "I shtall be wot'kintg," he said at last. "So will you." "l )es thbat tuianl you) won't hitve tnt, to titlink of tue?"' "I' blazIi've I 'ma stupidlert thant usutal to iiirtq Y ont (enni think of tne as ntever ua,. t tIinu' you or' ihe Strteet, workinig Or pltayini.." woa'k ail the timae. And he was goinig hack to his ol tricaids, to people who had aliwatys kanown lhim, to girls lie dild his best then, lie told her of the (o1d faitully house, built by one of his forebea rs wh'lo hiad been a kinig's tntan until Waishinigton had pmut the case for the colonies, and wvho hadl given himself and his oldest son) then to the cause thaut lhe muade his own, lie told of old servants whlo had wept wh-ien he decided to close the houise and go away. When she fell silent, lie thought lhe was interesting her. But a terrible thitig w-as haippeninig to Sidney. Side by side with the -won ders he described so casually, she was placing the little house. What ani exile it mutst have been for him!I When Ki., trying his best to interest her- aind to coneali his own heaviniess of spirit, told her of his grandfathier-'s old1 caw' rinige, she sait back in the shaidow. "Fearful old ting," said K.-"regut lar cabriolet. I can remember yet the faimiily rows over it." "When I was a child," said Sidney quietly, '"amil a carriage drove up and stopped on the Str-eet, I alwvays knew somieonet haad (iied I" There wits a strainied note in her voice. K., whose ear was attuned to every note in her voice, lookced at her' qutickly. "My great-grand''athier," said Sidney in the samae tone, "sold chickens at market. He didn'S do it himself; but the fact's there, isn't it?" K. as puzzled. "What about it?" he Bald. "Oo 9n," safI Sidney dully. "~Tell me about the wvomen you have known, your friends, the ones you liked and the ones wvho liked you." K. was rather apologetic. "I've always been so busy," he con 'eased. "I know a lot, but I don't think hey would interest you. They don't to anything, you know-they travel tround and have a good time, They're tither nice to look at, some of them, But when you've said that you've said t all." Nice to look ati Of course they 3 e~ beriwt~ mthng else tobok of ry story about a courage and the m tofind it again In all the world but of how they looked. Suddenly Sidney felt very tired. She wanted to go back to the hospital, and turn the key in the door of her little room, and lie with her face down on the hed. "Would you mind very much if I Isked you to take me back?" Ile did mnind. He had a depressed 'eeling that the evening had failed. knd his depression grew as he brought lie car around. He understood, he hought. She was grieving about Max. kfter all, a girl couldn't care as she i tad for a year and a half, and then tive a man up because of another voman, without a wrench. "Do you really want to go home, Sid iey, or were you tired of sitting there? In that case, we could drive around for an hour or two. I'll not talk if you'd like to be quiet." Being with K. had become an agony, now that she realized how wrong Chris tine had been, and that their worlds, hers and K.'s, had only touched for a He Almost Crushed Her. time. But she was not disposed to skhnp as to agony. She would go thti'ough with it, every word a stab, If only she might sit beside K. a little longer, mttiglit feel the touch of his old gray (coat atgaiinst her armt. "i'd like to ridle, if you don't mind." K. turned the automobile toward the c'ounitry roadls. "K." "Yes?2" "Was there anybody you cared about --iny girl-when you left howe?" "1 was not in love with~ anyone, if t hit's what you mean." "YouH knew Max before, didn't you?" "Yes. You know that." "If you knew things about him that I shiouldl have known, why didn't you tell nme?" "I couldn't do that, could I? Any how-" "Yes?" "I thought everything would lbe all right. It seemed to me that the mere fact of your caring for him-" Trhat was shaky ground ; he got off it quickly. K. was suddeunly aware that Sidney was crying. She sat with her head turned away, using her handkerchief stealthily, lHe drew the car up beside the road, and in a masterful fashion turnetd her shoulders about until she faced hImt. "Nowv, tell mue about it," he said. "It's just silliness. I'm-i'm a little lilt lonely. Aunt Harriet's in l'arls, and with JToe gone and everybody "Aunt Hairriet !" Hie was lproper'aly dazed, for sure. ".gd with you goinig away iad never comin~g back--" "I'll conme back, of course. How's this? I'll promise to comie back when you graduate, and send you flowers." "You won't, K. You'll be back wvith your old friends. Girls who have been everywhere, and have lovely clothes, and who won't know a T bandage fronm a figure eight I" "There will never be anybody In the world like you to mae, dear." liis voice was husky. "You are saying that to comfort me." "Tio comfort you! I-wvho have wanted you so long that it hurts even to think about it ! 10ver since the night [ came up the Street, and you were sit-| ting there on the steps-oh, my dear, ay dear, if you only cared a little I" Because lhe was afraid that lhe would get out of hand and take her in his arms-which would be idiotic, since, of rourse, she did not care for him that v~ay-he gripped the steering-wheel. It rave him a curious appearance of mak ng a pathetic appeal to the wind hield. "I have been trying to make you say hat all evening I", Bald Sidney. "I Ieve ou o0 mnuch that- K., won't you take o lu.!or arniVs By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Take her in his arms ! He almost crushed her. Ile held her to him and muttered incoherencies until she gasped. It was as if he must make up for long arrears of hopelessness. He held her off a bit to look at her, as if to be sure it was she and no change ling, and as if he wanted her eyes to corroborate her lips. There was no lack of confession in her eyes; they showed him a new heaven and a new earth. "It was you always, K.," she con fessed. "I just didn't realize it. But now, when you look back, don't you see it was?" lie looked back over the months when she had seemed as unattainable as the stars, and he did not see it. He *hook his head. "I never had even a hope." "Not when I came to you with every thing? I brought you all my troubles, and you always helped." Her eyes tilled. She bent down and kissed one of his hands. He was so happy that the foolish little caress I imade his heart hammer in his ears. "I think, K., that Is how one can al. ways tell when it is the right one, and will be the right one forever and ever. It is the person-one goes to in trou ble." He had no words for that, only little caressing touches of her ariher hand. Perhaps, without knowing it, he was formulatiag at sort of prayer that, since there must be troubles, she would always come to himl and he would always be able to hell) her. And Sidney, too, fell silent. She was recalling the day she became engaged to Max, and the lost feeling she had had. Site did not feel the same at all now. She felt as if she had been wan (lering, and had come home to the arms that were about her. Looking in. to his steady eyes, she knew that she was safe. She would never wither for hillm. Where before she had felt the clutch of inexorable destiny, the woman's fate now she felt only his arias about her, her cheek on his shubby coat. "I shall love you all my life," she said shakily. His armis tightened about her. The little louse was dark when they got back to it. The Street, which had heard that Mr. Le Moyne approved of night air, was raising its windows for the night and pinning cheesecloth bags over its curtains to keep them clean. In tlte second-story frame room at Mrs. McKee's, the baritone slept heav ily, and made divers unvocal sounds. lie was hardening his throat, and so slept with a Wet towel about it. Down on the doorstep, Mrs. McKee and 31r. Wagner sat and made love with the aid of a lighted mnatch and the peneil-pad. The car drewv up at the little house. Katie had heard It, and now she camne heavily along the hail. "A womnn left this for Mr. K.," she said. "If you think it's a begging let ter, .vou'dl better keep it until he's bought his newv suit tomorrow. Almost any moment lie's likely to bust out." But it was not a begging letter. K. read it in the hail, with Sidney's shining eyes on hImt. It began ab ruptly: I'm going to Africa with one of my cousins. Site is a medical missionary. P'erhaps I can work things out there. If I caused death, I did not mean to. You will think that no excuse, but it as trcue. In the hospital, when ? changed the bottles on 3dis P'age'u medicine tray, 1I did not cate much wvhat happened. But It was different with you. You dismissed mae, you remember. I had beeni careless about a sponge count. madet up aspy mind to get back at you. You remember the packets of gauze I sponges we made and used in the operat lng room? There were twelve to each package. When we counted them as we got them out, we counted by packages. On the night before I left, I went to the operating room and added one sponge every here and thtere. Out of every dozen r'ac'kets, perhaps, I fixed one that had thirteen. The next day I went away. 'Theni I was terrined. I was so fright. enedi that I went clown sick over it. When I got better, I heard you had lost a case and the cause was being whispered about. I alnmost died of terror. Thena I left theI city. I couldn't stand it. I was afraid to read a newspaper. I am not going to sign this letter. You know who It is from. And I am not going to ask your forgiveness, or anything of that sort. I don't expect 'at. Butt one thing hurts me more than anything else, the other night. You said you'd lost your faIth it yourself. This is to tell you that you need not. And you said something eise-that anyone can "come back.' wonder! K. stood in the hall of the little house with the letter' in his hand. Just be yondt on the dlorstep was Sidney, wait ing for him. Is arms were stIll warm from -the touc'h of her. Beyond lay the Street. andl beyond that lay the world amnd a nman's w'ork to do. Work, and faith to (10 it, a good woman's hand in the dark, a Providence that made things right in the end. "Are you coming, K.?" "Conming," he said. And, when nie was beside her, his long fIgure folded to the short measure of the step, t e stooped humbly and kissed the nem of her soft white dress. (THE EIND.) South Carolina has a new .aw l* signed to make it easy for tenant iarm. ers to becowne proprietor. YOUNG FARMERS GUESTS OF HONOR kEADERS HONOR PRIZE WINNERS OF THE AGRICULTURAL CLUBS. HICH HONORS WON DY CIRIS Sound Advice is Given Young Farmers By Von Engelken and Others. Columbia.-At a dinner given in Co. lumbia four boys and one little girl were paid unusual honors and describ. ed as the disciples of agriculture. They were the winners of the big agricultural prizes. Agricultural lead-. ers, educators, bankers and business men praised the young people and told them that the man with the hoe will play just as important part in the war with Germany as the man with a gun. "The Rural Boy and Girl the State's Best Asset," was the subject of an excellent address by Senator Alan Johnstone, chairman of the board of trustees of Clemson college. President Riggs spoke of the part that agriculture will play in a war and praised President Wilson. He said: "If war be ours it will be the sublime 'sacrifice of a great natiot., administered by the strong resolute hands of that high priest of inter national liberty, Woodrow Wilson." Comimissioner Watson. Congress man A. 10. Lever and Niels Christen sen, chairman of lit- finance commit tee of the senate, were unable to at tend and sent letters of regret. "In the event of war it will be as neces sary to send crops to Maurope as to send fighting ships and men, so that the boy with the hoe will be on the firing line just as much as the boy with a gun," said Senator Christensen in his letter of regret. Ernest Brooks of Prosperity in Newberry county, first prize winner in the boys' corn clubs. was presente'l with the Lever metdal by J. E. Swear ingen, state superintendent of educa tion. le was also presented with a check for $20 from the H. C. lHastings Seed company of Atlanta by A. J. Bethea. lieutenant governor. In re sponse he made one of the best and most eloquent speeches of the even ing. Enoch S. Pepper of Easley. second prize winner in the corn clubs, was presented with a gold watch from the W. 11. Mixson Seed conpany of Charleston by W. If. Mixson. head of the firm. The winner of the third place in the corn clubs was Neal T1. Hodges of Manning in Clarendon county. He was presented with a check fort $25 from the H. S. Hastings Seed (company of Atlanta by W. B. Dove. secretary of state. A gold watch was presented by A. B. Langley to Vernon Huskey of Gaff ney in Cherokee county as the first prize in the pig club contest. The present was donated by the Carolina Life Insurance company of Columbia. Miss Margaret Montez Henderson,' wintner of the sec-ond prize in the plz club contest, will receive a $20 die posit from the Palmretto National bank of Columbia. Trhe presentation speech was made by F. H. McMaster, Insurance commissioner. Miss Katie Bell Hlagan, who won third prize in the pig club contest. was presented with a gold broach, given by Sylvan Bros., of Columbia. The presentation speech was made by D~r. D. B. John son, president of Winthrop college. ?-. J. H. von Eagelken, president of the Columbia farm loan bank, was the guest of -the. agriculttargl wor.kers and gave some sound advice. He made a plea .for 100 per cent farmers. "We need these boys to pay the loans of their daddies," said Mr. von En gelken. L. L. Baker, state director of the boys' agricultural club work, who ar ranged the banquet, thanked the banks and other business concerns for their support of the club work. It was announced that Miss Nellie Lee Caldwell of Spartanburg county, winner of first place in the poultry club contest, would receive a medal donated by The Progressive Farmer. The medal will be sent to Miss Cald well by Miss Edith L. Parr-ott, direos tor of the home demonstration work. who attended the dintner. Miss Par rott said that Miss Caldwell was one of 3,000 members of the poultry clubs, and one of 6,000 members of the homo demonstration clubs. W. M. Riggs, presidentt of Clemson college, actedl as toastmaster-. Fire Destroys Island Hotel.| Charleston.--Wire of an unknown origin totally destroyed the Isle of Palms hotel. thte widely popular hion tiery, valued at $90,000, with total In surance of $'70,000, being consumed to ashes between the boutrs of 2:30 and 6:30 a. m. The blaze was discernable for many miles around, being plainly visible in this city. Nothitg but the chimneys of the 200 room building now remain. 4 high wind fanned the flames to fury in a short while, and there was no chance of saving the buildIzagor aar of its contants CRISIS OF WOMAN'S LIFE Change Safely Passed b* Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Wagoner, Okla.-"I never et tired of praising Lydia E. 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