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C. =3v atisfaction of our Lord Coffees and rou used it? ,EWIS gs to Eat" * When Betty I! | W as Lost I A Search That Ended In, Success By LULU JOHNSON Strang, sitting in his big touring f car, watched with Lazy interest the tiny figure of the child toiling up the hilL He was fond of children. | all sorte and varieties, trot mere i i was an elfin daintiness about this : independent young wayfarer that appealed most particularly to him. She oocld not be more than five, ' yet she carried herself with a knowing little air that belied her timid j eyes and her rosy, quivering month, while her smart frock and fetching i hat indicated comfortable cireurn; stances. , He forgot that Danvers was half I hour late for their appointment I He even neglected to think about | a certain girl whose image for the past week had filled his thoughts alj most constantly. I To his dismay, as the child was opposite him she sat down upon the 6teps of a high stooped house and began to cry, not loudly and with a wild display of grief, but quietly, as if she sought to keep back the tears that trickled down her cheeks. In an instant Strang was out of I the car and knelt on the stoop be; 6ide her, seeking to learn the cause 1 of her grief. 1 "I guess I'm losted," was the plaintive reply, "an' there isn't any policeman to find me." "Perhaps I'm as good as a policeman," he suggested as, with a shudder, he thought of this dainty child's spending the day in some dingy police station. "How were you lost, and where do you live ?" "I was wi' muwer," was the halting explanation. "She corned in on the trolley, an' when we changed I was losted, an' then I tried to find Aunt Mollie's, an' I guess she's losted too. I can't find her either." "Where do you live? In the country?" he asked hopefully. If they used any particular trolley it might be easy to trace her people. "On the gween trolley," assented the child. "We live way out, most to where they stop." "I guess we can find you then," declared Sidney cheerfully. "You jump into my car and I'll take you out along , the line. We're sure to see the place then. Is your house right on the line of the cars?" "No, we has to walk a dood lot," said the child. "But you'll remember the corner where you took the car?" urged Strang. And this time she nodded an assent. Only one suburban line boasted green cars. These ran out to Mount Holly, a distance of eighteen miles. By following along the road, which for the greater part of the way paralleled the tracks, he probably ; would enable the child to get her bearings. She was old enough to recognize I a familiar neighborhood even if she was too young to be able to oall the suburb by name. He made her comfortable in the ^ Vv J? l\?w% rv?AO/?n f lw fKnv UtOiUU Hi ill^ aiiu totutij wuvj were whizzing through the side streets toward the open country. Sidney forgot all about the. belated Danvers, but he could not quite forget about the girl who had been haunting his memory. As they rushed along her image came back afresh to him. Somehow the child with her flowerlike face reminded him tantalizingly of that older girl whom he had seen sitting in a box at the theater a week before. Strang had questioned several of his friends between acts, but no one seemed to know her, and he had spent his leisure time since then in trying to find some trace of her. He was not permitted to enjoy his thoughts long, for the child soon forgot her troubles in the delight of riding, and her very evident pleasure delighted Sidney, who even dared arrest to let the speed cut another notch when the child begged to go faster. But when they had come to the end of the line and she had not recognized any familiar landmark the situation turned serious. Perhaps even now a hysterical mother might be clamoring at the police station for her child, and a general alarm sent out at once might cause him to be apprehended. With an anxious face he turned to the child for a suggestion, and the self possessed little one promptly 1 - J . repueu; "We might look for Aunt Mollie. She lives close where you found me. She can tell where I live. If you stop where the cars stop you can get to her place from there/' Sidney Strang accepted the Bug gestion thankfully, and after treating the shivering child to hot soda he headed the car for town. He sent it along at the best speed limit, wondering how he would explain this semiabduction should the police have been warned. He breathed more freely when thev entered the citv again, and J W w presently they were at the transfer Koint for suburban trolleys. From er seat in the car the child seemed able to pick up her landmarks, and presently, sighing with regret, she pointed to a house which she declared to be her aunt's. Sidney drew to the curb and alighted to hft the little traveler down. "It was a terrible nice ride," she declared. "I wisht I lived miloe an' mike an' miles away." Sidney scarcely echoed the wish, but he petted the cheek that was offered for his oareee and turned to climb into the car. At this instant he board an exclamation of surprise and turned to look into the glowing eyos of the rosy girl he wanted to know, the girl of the box party. She had caught the child up in her arms, laughing and crying simultaneously. Sidney decided that she was the "Aunt Mollie" for whom they bad searched and raised his hat ? ?* -*-. "The kiddie lost her way," he explained. "I ran out to Mount Holly in the hope that she might he +/ ? lrwva+a Via* hnmo Hllf t.hp f>f auiv iv aw?*w uv* ? fort was unavailing, and at last she remembered that she could find her way from the transfer station to your house." "Lost!" The girl laughed nervously. "Betty," sne added, "do you mean to say that you made this gentleman take you out to Mount Holly?" The child nodded her head and looked fearlessly at the other girL "Betty has a passion for automobiling," she added. "Father has an inexplicable fear of it and will not have a car, so I suppose that she took this means of obtaining a ride, the scheming little puss. She shall be punished and put to bed. She doesn't live in the country. Our home is just around the corner. - - "Betty went out to play with a , little friend, and not until the oth- ! er little girl came to ask where she j was did we realize that she was not safe at the Rawlings home." "Jimmie Rawlings?" asked Sidney quickly. "Jim and I are great ; friends. May I ask him to bring { me to call some time? Then I i might have an excuse for taking j Betty for a ride without tempting i her to get lost on her own door- j st/m Tt. wna inafc Around the corner i that I found her/' "She deserves no more rides," j was the severe declaration, but Sidney offered an emphatic negative. "I shall feel that she deserves many rides," he declared boldly, "if you will act aa her chaperon." The pretty girl flushed, but a glance at the eager face of the child decided her. "Ask Mr. Eawlings to bring you over," she consented. "1 am Alice Fakins, by the way, and I am sure that Betty?and I?will be very giad to go riding." "Til come tomorrow," promised Sidney ae he climbed into the car. Then as ho rolled down the street he a&ured himself that Betty should be forgiven and have a daily ride, for she had found for him the girl of girls. Beginning of Melody. Folk song was the beginning of what we call melody, and the best specimens of folk songs are quite as perfect within their smull range as are the greatest works of the masters. Their contour and rhythm are sometimes as delicately balanced as the mechanism of a fine instrument And when we remember that these melodies were the spontaneous utterance of simple, untutored peoples, who in forming them depended almost entirely on instinct, we realize how intimate a medium music is for the expression of feeling. People who could neither read nor write and who had no knowledge or experience of artistic objects could, nevertheless, create perfect works of beauty in the medium of sound. ? Thomas W. Surette in Atlantic. Dying In Harness. Lord Redcsdale in his reminiscences of King Edward VII. relates the following of that monarch's last days: 'Til as he was when he reached Buckingham palace, he-worked with ? 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