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ADY IARKSPUR MEREDITH NICHOLSON Copyright by Charlos Boribner's Song (Continued From Page One..) Searles musingly, "lnialig at the Grand Central witih enough hand luggagy to fill a freight-car; a big, raw-brined creature, with a horse fae and at horrible mess as to clothes. You will he there to meet her, -idefer ential, anxious to please. You will pilot hltrr u1p to the coast of Barton, til the servants heavily to keep them fromt murdiering: her, and twiddlel yotmr thumbs in your garage as you await her further pleasure. By the way, are those anletit freaks still on the pine--those brolken-down hotel etnloeecs who were yourit unle's sole exiw crimentl in ph1ihinthrtopty?" "Torr.''ee assiures me they are all ver-yv !:uich there.", Sear,(es yolei ittelg to lnuz,-er. ".a I-ng lshwoman wi-th lofty ideas of * doe's;ti service woulrl certaiuly enjoy a romp witIi IhaIt crew." ")h, they are in thme s hi las.. w it m11e." I explaine. "h' P1)1i(e (em't ho s'pl till I die, and while I live t hey))'re to he larbo4redl- iout thirty of theml--elothed and viet ualerl." "I Ihink there's it farce in tlie idea, and I mly Itry it (one' of .these days," he slid, scrilin g in his not 'bo 4f)0k "A refuge for broken-dow n ehatiher mnids, venerable hell-hos1) grownt gray in the service, and the head) Wialter who amatssed a fortune in tips and then toyed with the market once too often and lost his ill-gott en gains. Vhnt was the head Walter's 1n:ne who preslded wvith such stateliness in the dining-room of the 'T1yringhmn?" "That's Antoine, who married the assistant hou'sekeeper at: Ahe Tyring ham. lie's the butler and .has e?'rge of the place. When I get settled I'll ask you up and you can study the bunch at leisure." "Splendid ! I'll be 'up in :a couple of weeks. I'm going to Ohio tomor row for a family reunion and a look at the loved spots my infanc y knew." LIME The arrival of cost of seedis a for his health a TPhe apliIentioll (of wilt(ncreasei th yiel,'j . 1. Iaim c I o rr0 'ects thI 4. I~liml ditmoe il 4., ($Jimet alist in 11 7.ailabe humuks'm -H. lai1me aks te1< 9i. 1.11me f~lomst coI tt plan(t gothl~ ail ir We haime laestten creased their ci LAURENS, S. C. e en Olile" I remar ked 'eny1o0,1sy. '"WeIl, -thee's 'iwa'ys your 'didtaut *urltie cruising 'fhe seven seas :in pursuit 'of (husbands. Nobody With an tint to his 'dredtt -enn pretend to be alone 4t the wo'id. Aunts must rank just :g little bolow(' mothers in the 'heavenly kingdom. When I was a boy out in Ohio there were two great occasions every year in my life-one when I went to visit a grand old nunt I had in the country, the other shien she visited us, arriv ing with i gagonlond of jam, jelly, :.attising brend, pound-cake, and other -inp'.trelhnsable manna." ''" - .. or I'll cail the -'001 censor.' [ tin'ii.l, pit m i1p my hat. "S ud 2Im. Vir- i nt v yl 'VL ele 'ts -a- ''ttn,'2 n' l i '.! so.'l you wrh'tla.: it's a e- lse I.'t-: !,rl:qtiri.'" he coi)rrectel Ii' t ''I ' .'n1, l . g"o shn1iil hve it I ''2,'jd~ 8n1senger tomiiorrowv." S I Wiled Allto\ii e 1 i t1 I wonbtlId renlCli i:u r '-on- t-otald (lte followIing bIly. This wtns teinberlut-. 11917. .As le t rain rolled 11long the f:iith- slng-( tilwlrdl I'.'irton I shook ii:' the hIIlIr'ssion ocen2sioned by inly enforr r ret ironie1nt fronm the great 2Ilrn'-t! orti''.:e 8. [ 1 done unler ! i-' l'rImnih ling nil that it wals possi. lift- for 111) to do: 1811 there was s m 8 , cn18shtlih on- ii the fact that by reason of lly two years oil tie h title-line I1 was .li.t so luch ahead of tile friene'ls I lint in Now York: who were answer Ill,., the call to the colors atuil hntt their expei'ne' of war before thein. The11 trangull1 life that had1( been recomu tonied', by the doctors was lnot only iu'ss!ible at I.1rion, but it wais Ithe only life thant cotubd he lived ther"e. Mty leisure I ieailit to emiploy in begin1 aning at nivel that hadl heen tensing-mi( ever since I solted for holme. )f ny,%- uncle Illsli I had( only tlie happie1st ani most grlteful tleinorles. Quite iatu'rally it hand occurrl'd to file at timies, andi my friends haird en couraged1 the iden, that Inly uncle wulId (lie some day and leave time his r(ilney. 'T'here was nn pariculir reason1 why he spould do so, as he d111 never 1:anifested any u1nusual afle tion for me 0nd I h1ad1 certainly never done allythillg for lun. Antoine vas at the IUnrton station wtiith (lhe touring-enr Uncle Ilish unad bou1hidit to establish communication with,11 the villgo. Flynn, the big Irish rant Who had been (he loornlnn at the Tyringhnin for years inld retired he entise of ihc'umntismi neqj Iuired from long exposure to the eleetils at the hostelry's portals, was at the whel. Antoine greeted me with thmt ir,. of lofty condesensIlon tempered with n sincl(ere kIinll1iess that hnd made 1h1hn a prince among hend-walters. As I shook hands with him this lips quivered and tears cinme to his eyes. I bade Antoine join mhe in the back sent that lie might the nMore easily THE EC the cotton boll wee Lnd commercial ferti Lnd pleasure, but for SEVENTEEN REA By C1 A. Caldwell, A e' nelidity of tihl soil. I the03 conversion of organi ma1t12 I I >oils withCJ)P~t varis P2 eeil inec s hep pirifctondufton fhrom~h R bring me,3p to date -is to affairs on the estate. "It must be a little slow up here after the years you lived in toyn," I suggested. "but of course you're .all old friends." "Well, yes ; all friends," he acqui eseed. but with so little enthusinstn that I looked at 'him quickly. He pre tended to be absorbed in the flying landseape at the moment. Flynn, I noticed, was giving ear to our con versation from the wheel. "It was tad, very sad, Mr. Bash ford passing away so far from home, sir. It was a great shock. And he had looked forward for years to a quiet life abroad." Antoine's speech was that of , a well-train'led English upper servant, and I imagined that in his youth he had taken sotme Etnglish butler as his mnodel. lie used to pretetd that he knew French very inperfect.y, and I was surprised when he now aildressed nie quite fliently in that language. "You htve been with the armnies of dear France," he retnarked. "The wV-ar is very (realful. My parents were of Verdun: it grieves ine to know of the stitering in the land of illy people." As I replied syinputhitI h lly in Frtcitih I s1w l'iynn stI ra ighten1 hin '4e ar the w0111he with an linaitint flin, f t his head. Antlilne in ilented hiin will: a:1 ntoenpl lions nod: "Mai r'ie'd Elsie. the G~ernuin worniani who w or!od in the line n-rat n at the Ty rl:han: ThIis ha nllntse, sol 'mint lrtrIohl'. ant there is t titputry girl, 'trOhn. who was ill lort a lon;t(tneji !''ort I nt is ' left. :iti he s.nt ''her ftor" tit- ctti a ro aI let i S lit' tl d'evil with hller a. ' agt her Inndt." ':lihed iit tlw' ol fellow's m 'ilhy eal eartne stets. 1111t tiee war sil( :l'el o cntin;; y helf o lti I the ti' 1 t niecs at l nt iar l-ot hei t - ott I::tt ntri g the rt crudese('n a o1" rne ltts 1ue to the uph al ;i :n loin whlen I e stairliedt tne by it 5''e!4I'ie t uittereei ('llse' to Illy en:r: "T hreh lat het e te (lirles for th' " ow Iteser have ennsed, tat nun-h nxity Itt setis hat there arte per o tnxious cto ee her. There hive biln itluiries, one-dtwo-three l izles." ''Irobabtlly somne of her Amer"(lnn friends axiis ng tohen respects. or sole of the neidhos taking gnl. of' cu Itesy," I uggestledt. "A f'oreig;n gentlelman who nets very 1.eerly," A Itoine persisted. My uncle's widow was it ivgue, unl k'own being whom I hnd never Cx peted to cross my horizons. If lht' meditlated a descent upon lharton-on the-Sound, the trust company wiolIt certainly have had somi hint of het )upproch, but Torrence clearly ht had no tidings of her beyond her last communiention from. Bangkok. Still. IONOMI viteScaciD1n liesmkei 4bo It' was wholly possible that a globe trotting widow would have friends in inany parts of the world, and I could) see nothing disturbing In the fact that inquiries had been aide for her. I said as much., Antoine's answer was another shrug and a je'-k of his head toward Flyn, as though even the erri ploymnent of an alien tongue might not conceal our conversation from the big Irishnian. When we had reachied the fatti and were running through the grounds Antoine spoke3 again. "We thought we would put yor up at the house, Mr. Singleton, ani not in the garage," he said inquir ingly. "N%-,t .it all, Antoine," I answered quickly. "We must stick close to the taw In such rsatters" "Very goot. sir. Stop a)t the garage To the enniil observer the nraPr w"ts it ('bartning two-story house fol' lowving thie general lines of the plaster andu Ilinhier resilence, from wticlh it Was separatel Iy ia strip of w\oodlniii I 11 t fCornital garlen. The gare( gind <tlirters f'or the einullfenur Were ait 4 ne end1441 iit the other were a 4iflow1-sinir:s tiv ,in; iro tn. with biiOl(i firept:-. i:i! tir e (l' i b( rs i1lov-e so : ' s to aoffo l it ch ri: n ing viw ' the :oinii , w)ose ph r , ' 'e ,Irvetl in ifep)ly ait till: ploit. Ui.n the c'haItinrein's sid~e V as a smaltl klu'phen frotnl whicht I hurtl hern se r\vet w\ith Illy 0:0 fwhen i lfilge(l there. "'el hot:( is in o41 rler. Yo.u w1ll iiive y" ur ii ntais :4 the resiience. I suppose."' ?hr," .\Itleita' suiggeste<!. 1 hi:s a Minlainent n11)(1 when II n te! Ihi, i ;: :r conlt I i 44- m44.4'ore 1.11',':Itl .1}' rve\td there tan inl tuy ,t\'n t;;a:rlers". 1 sa:id uit f',Or the I1." It It I lyi:m might give mt Ilak .':15 ii 4:d iida'on lit I ga 4 :4tr:ge, het Oh l I w\"i Id dii4t' :1! thte houIse. l i s five '(! ,"; w heln I r iiniiE'il tin' :armre(, ;ni A'ntoine left toe aftrer o4 ah(,? .;: ty Ib; . with tII, s44rges tit4n thlait I tlh SIli:l w- Z411 / ame1 rm4i m11. It foruter v"alet of the Ty'r:ingham, for I1!\ny : rovice, il; mhtt regtn!rr. I knew \ Z1: 111t tfmim lv w"r'ell i st bt l 1 I wo"nlid enIIl~l \\"hen1 tv it ::tn re "lie is n!' that rave," said) Atitoinle 'lain:tively In ( he i':rnci h which 1now" - e1m4'd to Comte re'alily enoulgh to his lip s. "lin'e? Ifothrn' Iion ! You mu't tronhle yourself shout race questions out here. Antoine. 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