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VOLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919. MBER 21 .A AU HOMSTHROUG JOHN I50osi i on ti ned from Last Week.) CHAPTER V.-Andrea, worrying ovet her deplorable lack of change of clothing is surprised and delighted when a trunk, loaded with everything in the way o1 clothing dear to the feminine heart, is dropped at her doorway by stalwart na tives and she is told by White Man tha they are hers. White Man b a skillful shot saves her from the a tack of a sable bull and she is fast becoming rec. onciled to her fate after eight days Jr the craal. "Don't tease me," .Id the mian lightly an(d then his face fell. "Don't make me feel old." "Old !" cried Aildren. "Who could be old tonight? Why, White Mall, we're -we're kids." Ile laugheel in his sudden rollef. "So we are. So we shall be." "E'xcuse mae," said Andrea solenmily. "Did I hear you laugh?" At that he laughed again, not up rourlously, but as though his slow smile lad becomo vocal for the occa I Didn't Put On the Leggings," She Said Shyly. clan. Andrea noddedl in a phleased way as if shie were conigra tulatfinrg herllsel f Oen guessing aright ; it was a laugh. When the lltueuirs arid thle coffee ('nm2e1 sihe stairted chasinmg a lilet of bireadt troundit an emptly jlate with tat tra ighat, small finder. "'You fi x one,'' she said, "and1( we'll have a race." Tfhe man11 watc'hed( her indullgetlty, but absen'1t-llinldedly. Presenitly lhe filled1 two' glaisses. "'My dlear Andreat'2 l'cllor," lhe sa2idi gravely, "'let u1s drink to all the hearts in thie world tonight Slhb st(ood uap to 111'e toast, and1( afier it t hey sat In a long silence. It was Anldr'ea ithat biroke' it. "'You know, Whbite hmii, I'm a woman.'" "Of )'courIs'e youl ar."' lhe sid quickly, a war1y look comning into his ''ee. "Yes," sid Anidrea. "So of course, too, I'm cur'lious." IHe gave the dleep sigh of relief of one Who findsk that 'lhe, ice is (quite thi k, aifter all. 'Spee l'y, please."' "WVell," said( Andreat~l. "It's that trik. I've ullZ'.ed and puzzled, but I can't make out quite how that trunik happeneud." "And no 'wondler," said( M'sungo. "It's sha22ple enough, how~ever, io the male maiid. Let me lhlp you. Whien I ciae out eight mioniths 'ago my sister whas wiithl mit--just about your' size, mieanit for her and had been1 sent ahead with mHy kit. She never needed it." ie paus1ed and added, "I lost hier at Cape TJowrn." "Ohi !" cried Anidrea, too-readly tears springing to her eyqa. .7 "Yes," lie continued calmly. "It was pretty bad. She mairried a cub of a naval officer cad Is traipsing around the world on thie chanuce of hitting the right Dort andl~ lunching with him once." A a OR OF MAINED G1J3 RDU3.-BTC 21hRTL COMPNY A2imlren's haid went to her breaSt iVld siayed there as though to imnjprisonl her fluttering heart. "Wiit Man,' she said, "please don't do that to ie again-ever. You see, I've always been silly about things that get hurt." "Forgive me," he said. "I was thought less." "Carewss, perhaps; thoughtless, never," said Andrea, smiling once more. "Well," she went on, clasping her hands and throwing her head back, "I'm for your sister. The woman that could make up that trunk is a genius." "She would be," remarked the man enigmatlellly. Andrea paused in her thoughts; then caeni wide awake and looked at him narrowly. "White Man, didn't a woman make up that trunk?" 'No, there ire few women lving that couhl. Think it out. That trunk wIs Ill honie, mliuSele and sinew-with anll after-dinlier Cigarette at the hot tom1. Why, the last iltie I sa1w M:!Nsle she had two sma Illoving viains and at wicker house she thought she wais going to bring with her. I'd fixed It with i quartermaster to drop the lot overboard In the night and at the last inomnt. She never even heard of t his triltik." During his long speech the color had been rising in Andrea's cheeks. "I (lon't think I like you a1s itich as I did," sh said slowly. "Somehow you were getting too good to be true. You bought. and packed all those things yourself." Ile met her gaze steadily. "Don't," he whispered, "don't let's he old." "All right," said Andrea vith 2a quick shrug of one shoulder. "But you've known lots of women, haven't you't" "You exaggeriate," Ie answered, si5l ing. "I've met lots of women." "Pshaw 1" said Andrea. "That's an other old crock of a shibboleth. Sonic Illen t lots about woien-a Jolly sgight too much." "That's different from knowing wom. en," (aid M'sungo quietly. "It's no shibholeth, that old bel(ef. Woman, to 111111, is A1n eternal voyage of dis Covery-31 hu12)ad of valleys and plaks, of lights and shadows, of storm and acin1g p)Oee. ColtinlentS Had OCe11s are lost in her uitraveledl heart, and when she throws wd(e her arms, the waly is open to Illavenl and Hell1." "I'm going to bed," murimured An drea, and stole aiway. It was just as well for Andrea that she had1( goney early to bed, for at five o'clock of the next mo2rnin2g a rock was hulied at hier door that almnost burst It in. "DIdn't that get her?" yelled M'sun go's v'oice. fromi half across thle kralun. "No, Master,' " answer'ed Bauthxtub. "Missls sleep p~lenty hard, sanme likec pickanin,"' She sIlipped 0n her hathlrobe, opened00 the (1001 and put out her heald. "Were youI calling moe?" she asked with ealrly m1orniing dlignlity. "Not exactly," answeredl the whlite 11a11 ini the 52ame1 tone. "Breakfast in twenity minutes; ha1th wihen y'ou comle home." Hie turnedi to give orders to a group of his capitains. Andrea was instanitly thrilled to thei Inew adlventure. She called to Balthtub to biring hier walshstand and1( water and~ rubbdedl one balre foot agalist the other In impatience until lhe wats out of the way; thea she dressed feverIshly and ran out. In ten mninutes they had breakfasted; in, five more they were otf. A long lIne of blacks precedIed them22, behind~ ('2mo1 M'sungo's gunlhearer, walter boy13s, 1Ba1lh tubl, a carrier or two, and2( an ancIent dlonkey half hIdden under an enormous cowboy saddle. "What a funny lookIng old donkey 1" remarked Andrea. "What's he for?" "For you, when you get tired," an Sweredi M'sungo. "Really I For me?" said Andrea. "What's hi s name?" IM'sungo thirew back his head and laughed softly. ~"Why," lhe said, "I never thought I'd have to tell any one -'when-I inmed hIm. Wo call him Mar gueri te. I named him after a friend of mIne." - "Was she as ugly. asal! that?" (Unntinued on acnnl npa thik senannn Christmas Suggestions Only 13 shopping days remain before Christmas. Our stock is now complete with beautif ul and useful gifts for every member of the family. Shop early and avoid the-holiday rush. BED ROOM SLIPPERS. 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