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lErski p fePiori . UWj^VWUl I J Illustrated by (Continued from last week) ! CHAPTER IV ? The little girl rose startled, but her breeding was too fine for betrayal, and rite went to him with hand outstretched. The boy took it as he had taken her father's, limply and without rising. The father frowned and S* x smiled?how could the lad have learned manners? And then he, too, saw the hole In the moccasin, through which the bleeding had started agnln. "Take him Into the kitchen, Barbara, and tell Hannah to wash his foot and bandage it." The boy looked uncomfortable and shook his head, but the little girl was smiling and she told him to come with such sweet Imperlousness that he rose helplessly. Old Hannah's ! ayes made a bewildered start! "You go on back an' wait flor yo* "You Go On Back an' Wait for Yo' Company, Little Miss; I'll 'Tend to Him!" company, little miss; I'll 'tend to him!" And when the boy still protested, she flared up: "Looky here, son, little miss tell me to wash yo' foot, an' I'se gwinter do It, ef t got to tie you fust ; now you. keep still. Whar you come from?" His answer was a somewhat haugh4. ty grunt that at once touched the quick Instincts of the old negress and checked further question. Swiftly am! silently she hound his foot, and with great respect she led him to a little room In one ell of the great house In which was a tub of warm water. ' *C!? maist'T say you heen tra\?lin n* uaebbe you like to refresh yo set aid a hot hath. Dar's ?aue o' little ?narster's clothes on de IhmI dar, an' a pair o' his shoes,'an' I know dej'll Jus" flt you snug. You'll flml all de 'folks on de front po'ch when you git through." She closed.the door. Ouce, winter and summer, the hoy had daily plunged Into the river with his Indian I companions, but he had never had a both in his life, and he did not know what the word meant; yet he had learned so much at the fort tiiut he had no trouble making out what the tub of water was for. For the same reason he felt no surprise when he picked up the clothes; h? was only puz/led how to get Into them, lie - tried, and struggling with the breeches he threw one. hand out to the wall to keep from falling and caught a red cord with a bushy red tassel; whereat there was a ringing that made him spring away from it. A moment later there was a knock at his door. "Did you ring, suh?" asked a voice. What that mount he did not know, and he mnde no answer. ,, The door was opened slightly and a woolly head appeared. "Do you want anything, suh?" "No." "Den I reckon hit was antfdder bell?yassub." N The hoy began putting on his own r clothes. Outside Colonel Dale nml Barbara had strolled down the big path to the sun-dial, the colonel telling the story or the little Kentucky kinsman?the little girl listening and wide-eyed. - "Is he going to live here with us, papa?" "Perhaps. You must be very nice to hlin. He has lived a rude, rough life, hut I c?.n see he Is very sensitive." v At the bend of the river there was the flash of dripping oars, and the shng ?V.. of the blaek oarsmen came across the f yellow flood. "There they cornel" cried Barbara And from his window the little Ken tucklan saw the company coming up the path, brave with gay* clothes and smiles and gallantries. The colonel walked with a grand lady at the head, behind were the belles and beaux, and bringing up the rear was Barbara, m corted by a youth of his own age, who carried his hat under his arm and bore himself aa haughtily si his eiders. No sooner did-* bs foe thou t I II I le Dale J leer^M Fox,drf^S. RJt Llvfngst^^^^ through the gale and "swing arouivJ the road that encircled the great trees, and up to the rear portico, where there was a Joyous clamor of greetings. Where did all those people ! come from? Were they going to stay there-and would he huve to be among I them? All the men were dressed alike and not one was dressed like hliu. Panic assailed him, and once more he looked at the clothes on the bed, and then without hesitation walked""" through the hallway, and stopped on the threshold of the front door. A . quaint figure he made there, and for the moment the guy talk and laughter quite censed. The story of him already had been told, and already was sweeping from cabin to cabin to the farthest edge of the great plantation. No son of Powhatan could have stood there with more dignity, and young Harry Dale's fnce broke Into a smile of welcome. His father being indoors h^, went forward with hand outstretched. "I am your cousin Harry," he said, t and taking him by the arm he led him on the round of presentation. "Mrs. Wllloughby, may I present my cousin from Kentucky?" "This is your cousin, Miss Kntherlna Dale; another cousin, Miss Mary; and this Is your cousin Hugh." And the young ladies greeted him with frank, eager Interest, nnd the young gentlemen suddenly repressed patronizing smiles and gave him grave greeting, for If ever a rapier Hashed from a human head, It Unshed from the piercing blnck eye of Hint little Kentucky backwoodsman when his cousin Hugh, with a rather whimsical smile, bowed with a politeness that was a trllle too elahornte. Mrs. Cleneral Wllloughby guessed how the lad's heart was thumping with the effort to conceal his embarrassment, nnd when a tinge of color spread on each side of his set mouth nnd his eyes began to waver uncertainly, her- intuition was quick and kind. "Barbara," she asked, "have you shown your cousin your ponies?" The little girl saw her motive and laughed merrily: "Why, I haven't had time to show him anything. Come on. cousin." The boy followed her down the I steps in his noiseless moccasins, along a grass path between hedges of an-' cieut box, around an ell. and prTst the kitchen and toward the stables. At the gate the little girl called Imperiously : "ICphralm, bring one of nt.v ponies!" And In a moment out came a sturdy little slave whose head was all black skin, black wool and white teeth, lead- 1 ing two creamy-white little horses * that shook the lad's composure at la<l, for he knew ponies us far hack as he could remember, hut he had never seen the like of them. Ills hand almost trembled when he ran It over f their sleek coats. an?l unconsciously 1 he dropped into his Indian speech and , ' did not know it until the girl asked 11 laughingly: J "Why, what are you saying to my ponies?" And fie blushed, for the little girl's 1 artless prattling and friendliness were ' already/beginning to make hlra quite s human. "That's Injun talk." Hugh had folia wed fhetn. I "Barbara., your mother wants >ou." | he said, and the little Kill turned j s toward the house. The strainer was ill at ease with Hugh and the latter knew it. "It must be very exciting where you Hive." "How?" # t "Oil, fightiiik Indians and shooting deer and turkeys and buffalo. It must ? be great fun." "Nobody does it for fun?it's mighty 1 hard work." ( "My uncle?your father?used to tell us about ids wonderful adventures out there." "He had no chance to tell me." I "But yours" muct have been more wonderful than his." The hoy gave a little grunt that was I a survival of Ids Indian life, and turned to go hack to the house. "But all this, I suppose, is as strange to you." "More." Hugh was polite and apparently sincere In interest, hut the lad was vaguely dist^lrhed and lie quickened Ids step. The porch was empty when they turned the corner of the house, hut young Harry Dale came running down the steps. Ids hi/nest face alight, and caught the little Kentuckian by the arm. "Get ready for supper, Hugh?come t on, cousin," lie said, and led the t stranger to his room and pointed to < Hio /.1/iHioa .,n I, V t.iWiii^o WI1 llic l?yu. "Don't they fit?" he aRked, smiling. ( "I don't know?I don't know how to git Into 'ein." Young Harry laughed Joyously. 1 "Of course not. I wouldn't knowhow to put yours on either. You Just wait," he cried, and disappeared to return quickly with an armful of clothes. < "Take off your wnr-dresa," he said, "and I'll show you." With heart wanning to such klndnesH. and helpless against it, the lad ' obeyed like a child and was dressed 1 ; like a child. ( "Now, I've got to hnrry," said Har- i ry. "I'll come ba<jk for you. Just look at yourself/' he called at the Kill I ' I'l. I ==aBME3B3?gg?*1 tEiem with tFi back of Vs TTaii3 and looked at tlie hand curiously, yc was moist. He had seen tears In a woman's eyes, hut he did not know that tliey could come to a man and he felt ashamed. CHAPTER V The boy stood at a window looking out into the pothering dusk. The notching of horses, the lowing of cattle, the piping of roosting turkeys and motherly clutter of roosting hens, the weird songs of negroes, the sounds of busy preparation through the house and from, the kitchen?all were sounds of peace and plenty, security antl service. And over in Ids own wilds at that* hour they were driving cows und horses Into the stockade. They were cooking their rude supper in the open. A man had gone to each of the watch-towers. From the blackening woods came the Ctlhlllng cry of u panther and the hooting of owls. Away on over the still westward wilds were the wigwams of squaws, papooses, braves, the red men?red ra skin, in blood, In heart, and red with hate against the whites. Perhaps they were circling a Are at that moment in a frenzied wnr-dnnce ? perhaps the hooting at that moment from the woods around the fort wan not the hooting of owls at all. There all was hardship?danger; here all wns comfort and peace. If they could see him now! See his room, his fire, his hod, his clothes! They had told "Here He It, Mother." him to come, and yet lie felt now the shame of desertion. He had come, but he would not sta long away. The door opened, he ti rned. and Harry Dale came eagerly in. "Mother wants to see you." The two boys paused in the hall and Harry pointed to a pair of crossed rapiers over tlie mantelpiece. "Those were your father's," he said; "he was a wonderful fencer." The lad shook his head In Ignorance, and Harry smiled. "I'll show you tomorrow." At n door In the other ell Harm knocked gently, and a voice thut wat o\v and sweet hut vibrant wltb liuteriottsness called: "Come in !" "Here he is, mother." The lad stepped into warmth, subtle rngrnncc and many candle lights. The treat lady was just rising front a hair in front of her mirror, brocaded, towdered tmd starred with Jewels, to brilliant a vision almost stunned be little strati iter and it took an ef ort for him lo lift his eyes to tiers. "Why, this is not the lad you told tie of," she said. "Come here! Both >f you." They came and the lady itTutini/ed them eouipnrtngly. "Actually you look alike?and. Jarry. you have no advantage, even f you are my own son. I am glad 011 are here." site said with sudden loherness, and smiling tenderly she 666 Cure* Malaria, Chills and Fever, )engue or Bilious Fever, It kills th? terms. 37 rhe State of South Carolina, bounty of Chesterfield, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Summons for Relief t. A. Griffith, Plaintiff, against 2. L. McGuigan and Frank McGuigan co-opartners m trade under the name of E. L. McGuigan and Company mul all ether ^persona who may be partners in said firm to the plaintiff unknown, defendants. To the defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and reluired to answrn- the complaint in this iction. of which a copy is herewith lerved upon you, and to serve a copy >f your answer to the said complaint jn the subscriber at his office, Ches:erfield, South Carolina, within twen;y days after service hereof exclusive >f the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plafhtiff in this iction will apply'to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. June lpth, 1022. M. J. Hough, Plaintiff s Attorney 'lo the defendants above named: Vou will please Like notice that the Summons and Camplaint in the above stated case and all papers connected therewith are on file with the Clerk of Court of Chesterfield County,South Carolina, and that said Summons and Complairft were so filed with said Clerk of Court on 8th July, 1922. M. J. Hough, Plaintiff s Attorney at home?" j "No, I learned to read and write a | little from Dave and Lyddy." And then he had to^tell who they were, and he went on to tell them about Mother Sanders and Honor and Bud and Jack and Polly Conrad and Lydin and Dave, and all the frontier folk, and the life they led, and the Indian fights, which thrilled Barbara and llarry, and forced even ttoRh to listen?though once he laughed Incredulously, and In a way that of a sudden shut the boy's Hps tight and made Barbara color and Harry look grave. Hugh then turned to his wine and beI gun soon to look wore flushed and I sulky. Shortly after the ladies left, Hugh followed them, and Harry and the Kentuckian moved toward the head of the table where the men had gathered around Colonel Dale. "Yes," said General W'llloughby, "It looks as though It might come." "With due deference to Mr. Brockton," said Colonel Dale. "It looks as thriugh his country would force us to some action." They were talking about impending war. Fur away as his wilds were, the boy had heard some talk ?of war in them, and he listened greedily to the quick fire of question and argument directed to the Englishman, who held his own with such sturdlness that Colonel Dale, fearing the heat might become too great, laughed and skillfully shifted the theme. Through hall and doorways came now merry sounds of fiddle and banjo. Near a doorway between parlor and hall sat the fiddlers three. Galiant ' bows and dainty courtesylngs and nimble feet were tripping measures quite new to the backwoodsman. I Barbara nodded, smiled and after the dance ran up to ask him to take part, but he shook his head. Hugh had looked at him as from a supotlor height, and the bov noticed him frown I !ng while Barbara was challenging him to dance. The next dance cleared I I his face and set his feet to keeping I time, for the square dance had, of course, reached the wilds. "I know that," he said to Harry, who told Barbara, and the little girl went up to him again, and this time, (lushing, lie took place with her on the floor. Hugh came up. "Cousin Barbara, this is our dance, 1 believe," he said a little thickly. The girl took him aside and Hugh went surlily away. Harry- saw tin* incident and he looked after Hugh, frowning. The backwoodsman conducted himself very well. He was lithe and graceful and at llrst very dignified, but as he grew in confidence he began to execute steps that were new to that polite land and rather boisterous, but Barbnra looked pleased and all onlookers seemed greatly amused? all except Hugh. And when i'.ie old tiddler sang out sonorously; "Oenelman to right ? cheat an1 swing!" the boy cl -a led outrageously, cheated all hut his little partner, to whom each time he tinned with open loyulty, and Hugh was openly sneering now and genuinely angry. "Yon shall have the last dance," whispered Barbara, "the Virginia reel." "1 know that dance," said the boy. And when that dance came and the dancers were drawn in two lines, the hoy, who was third from the end, heard Harry's low voice behind him: "He Is my cousin and my guest, and i you will answer to me." j The lad wheeled, saw Harry with | Hugh, left his place, and went to f them. He spoke to Harry, but he looked at Hugh with a sword-flash in each black eye: "I don't want nobody to take up ' for me." ! Again he wheeled and was In his i place, hut Barbara saw and looked i troubled, and ho did Colonel Dale, He went over to the two hoys and put his arm around Hugh's shoulder. J "Tut, tut, my hoys" he said, with pleasant firmness, nnd led Hugh away. I and when General Wllloughby would have followed, the colonel, nodded him , back with a smile, and> Hugh was _1 seen no more that night. The guests left with gayety, spilles and laughter, and every, one gave thejr*Ura?ger a or wine lie took, and the quick dizziness that assailed hit.) frightened him, and he did not touch it again. Beyond Barbara, Hugh leaned forward and lifted his glass to liiin. He shook his head and Hugh Hushed? "Our Kentucky cousin Is not yery polite?he Is something of a barbarian ?naturally." "He doesn't understand," said Burbant quickly, who hud noted the Incident, and she turned to her cousin. "Papa says you are going to live with us and you are going to study with Harry under Mr. Brockton." "Our tutor," explained Harry; "there he is across there. He Is an Englishman." "Tutor?" questioned the boy. "School-teacher," laughed Harry. "Oh!" ^ "Haven't 'you any school-teachers put both hands ^in Ills "shoulders, drew' him to her and kissed him, Hnd again j he felt In his eyes that -urlous sting. I "Come, Harry!" With a gallant bow Harry offered hi* left arm, and gathering the little Keuiuckian with her left, the regal lady swept out. In the reception-room she kept the boy by her side. Every man who approached bowed, und soon the lad was bowing, too.- Barbara almost cried out her astonishment and pleasure when she.saw what a linrdsome figure he made In his new clotidng, and all her llctle friends were soon darting surreptitious glances at him, and many whispered questions and pleasing comments were passed around. Then Ccnerul Wllloughby bowed with nol.la It.. 1.../ ? I Was Rude to You Last Night and I Owe You an Apology." i ou hnd left us. and Barbara there nearly cried." Barbara blushed now . ml did not deny. "Come to breakfast!" she cried. i "1 dd you liud anything to shoot?" Harry asked. "Nothin' but some squirrels," said the lad. I Then Hugh came in pale of face and looking rather ashamed. He went straight to the Kentucklrtn. "I was rude to you last night and I owe you an apology." He thrust out his hand and awkwardly the boy rose and took it. "And you'll forgive me, too, Barbara?" ' "Of course 1 will," she said happily, hut I, ,.I.O? ,? .in -c i.ui ..on..11* 11 J. I.lir ill winning?should he over do It again. The rest of the guests trooped In now, and ?oine were polnp out on horsebuck some for a r.uil. and some visit* lnc tip the river in a bnrpe, and nil were paired off. "I'm poinp to drive Cousin Erskine over the place witlj my ponies," said Barharn, "and?" "I'm poinp hack to bed," interrupted Hugh, "or read a little I.atin and Greek with Mr. Brockton." There was Impudence as well as humor in this, for the tutor had given up Hugh In despair long ago. Barbara shook her head. "You are going with us," she said. "I want Hugh to ride with me," said Colonel Bale, "and give Firefly a little exercise. Nobody else cun ride him." The Kentucky hoy turned n challenging eye, as did every young man at tie* table, and Hugh felt very comfortable. While every one was getting ready, Harry brought out two foils and two masks on the porch a little Inter. "We light with those," he said, pointing to the* crossed rapiers on the wall, "hut we practice with these. | Iluph. there, is the champion fencer," i he said, "and he'll show you." Harry helped the Kentucky hoy to [ mask and they crossed foils?Hugh ! giving Instructions all the time and nodding approval. "You'll learn?you'll leprn fast," he j said. And over nis shoulder to Harry: "Why, his wrist Is as strong as mine now, and lie's got an eye like a weasel," Witli a twist he wrenched the foil from his antagonist's hand and clnt| tered It on the steps. The KenWtck| Inn was bewildered and his face i ! Uuwti.wl II" ?. > ? I..M JI" 'I, in- > H>1 lilt- Wt'lipUll. "You can't d<> flint again." "I don't believe I can," laughed j Hugh. "Will you learn me some more?" nsked the bo.v eagerly. "I surely will." A little Inter Ilnrbnra and her cousin were trotting smnrtly along n sandy road through the fields with the colonel and Hugh loping in front of them. Firefly was a black, mettle- 1 some gelding. lie had reared and j plunged when -Hugh mounted, and , even now he waa champlM hls bit ,.u?.c iiigiui; ui'iiirr .mi a. utile, -anil th?* two led the way to the dining room. <( "Harry," she said, "you and Barbara take care of your cousin." And almost without knowing It the young Kentucklan bowed to Barbara, who cotrrtesied and took his arm. The table (lashed with silver and crystal on snowy-white damask and was brilliant with colored candles. The little woodsman saw the men draw back chairs for the ladies, and uuciv uuruiint s neroro Hugh, on the other side of her, could forestall him. The hoy had never seen so ninny and so mysti-rlous-looklng things to eat and drink. One glass ???? I I II < Tou Bght with "*em> I want to I learn how to use them.'* | Harry looked at him seat-chlngly, but the boy's face gave hint of no j more purpose than when he first asked the same question. "All right," yald Harry. ! The lad blew out his cundle, hut he went to his window Instead of his bed. | The moonlight was brilliant among the trees and on the sleeping flowers and tin* slow run of the broad river, and It was very still out fhere and very lovely, hut he had no wish to be out there. With wind and storm' and sun, moon and stars, he hud lived . face to face nil his life, 'out here they i were not the same. Trees, flowers, house, people had reured some wall between hlin and them, and they seemed now to be very far away. Everybody had been kind to him?nil but Hugh. Veiled hostility he had never known before and he could not understand. Everybody had surely been kind, and yet?he turned to his bed, and all night his brain was flashing to and fro between the reel nf vivid pictures etched on It In n day and the grim background that had hitherto been hls~llfe beyond the bills. From pioneer hnbit he awoke before dawn, and for a moment the softness where he lay puzzled him, but he could smell the dawn and he started to spring up. He felt hot nnd stuffy, though Ifarry hRd put up his windows, ! nnd he could not lie there wide awake. He could not go out In the heavy dew In the gay clothes and fragile shoes he had taken off, so he slid into his own buckskin clothes and moccasins and out the still open front door and down the path toward the river. Instinctively he had picked up his rifle, bullet-pouch nnd powder-horn. An hour later he loped back on his own tracks. At the front door Harry hailed him and Barbara came running out. "I forgot to get you another suit of clothes last night," he said, "and we wore scared this morning. We though* THE HON How to Make and Use It VIII. MOREAE If there are several sending stations at various points from your set, It Is often a very good plun to run several aerlul wires at right angles or radiating as shown In figures 11 and 12, connecting them together and running the lead-in from the point where all Join, us shown. Sometimes this principle may be reversed and several lead-ins inav be carried from the miter of tlie radlntlng aerials and Joined to form a single lead-In and will bring even better results, figures 13 and 14. These several lead-Ins may be con- j nected by means of an anchor-ring, figure 15, t<> equalize the waves or currents, or they may he provided I with multiple point switches as shown In Klgs. 13 and 14. This switch ur- j rangement has the great advantage that you can largely cut out stations I you do not wish to hear by using the | lead-in towards the station you desire i to hear. This will result In the others being fainter or weaker In comparison and they can therefore be more efTce- | yS \ i ., ^ ^, K atrial. | him with outstretched hand. "I'm mighty glad you did," he said heartily. "ErsWIne lias already told ua about you. You are Just in time for dinner." "That's mighty kind," said Dave. And the Indies, after he was presented, still looked at him with much curiosity and grent interest. Truly, strange visitors were coming to Red Oaks these days. That night the subject of Hugh and Harry solos back borne with the twe IE RADIO | cCV> By A. HYATT VERR1LL | ^ CwiHHWImifO tlm H IOUT AERIALS . - - J telegraphic spark signals froin soma station and yet, merely by altering the direction of their aerial or the position of the lead-la they could hear everything perfectly. So^ou see a great deul uiuy depend upon th? simple aeria^ even if it consists of ouly a single wire. On the other hand, many i amateurs have obtained splendid re! suits with a wire run around the walls of a room near the celling; a wire run through a hallway; a wire dropped down an air-shaft or elevntor-shuft, or even from an Iron bedstead or bedj spring. It ull depends so much upon local and climatic conditions, surroundings and other conditions that no hard and fast rules can be made, | but despite ull this, nine times out of ten. a high aerial, well above surrounding buildings und from 100 to 150 feet long, will give the best ?esults. But remember that If there are elevated | tracks, steel bridges, trolley lines, elecj trie wires or steel structures near, you j should run your aerial at right angles to them In order to \ avoid failure through leakaze or Inductance ? . You must also bear In mind that the */ \\ "ground" is almost as if \ important as the aerial, / for without u good j ground tiie set will not work. A water, steam, or gas pipe will usually make an excellent \ ground, hut before us7" ing it be sure there is no insulated joint between the connection of your wires and the ? eartli or thut the pipe does not enter an earthen or tile pipe nenr the ground or In the i. cellar. In making the t JT] ground connection, g 5 CD scrape the pipe clean -H and bright and solder j./r the wire to it. Iftliisls not possible, wind the connection with tin-foil and tine wire and wrap it with adhesive tape. Where no pipe is available carry the ground wire to a sheet of copper, an old copper boiler or a copper tank or basin tilled with charcoal and buried at least five feet uiulor the surface of the earth. A lightning rod or tire escape will sometimes make a very good ground. But It is not so much what V<m use for !i lrrniiinl the connections are hih! how well th? object is grout led. Do not use an electric light or telephone, telegraph or door hell wire for a ground. To repeat, be careful of your connections and sure of your grounding. , i t on wag going to England for a visit, < lie summer was coming on. and both fathers thought it would he a great benefit to their song. Even Mrs. Dale, on wboui the hunter pad made a most agreeable impression, smiled and said she would already be willing to trust her son with their new guest unywltere. "I shall take good care of him, madam," said Dave with n bow. Colonel Dale, too, was greatly taken with the stranger, and he asked many questions of the new land beyond the mountains. There was dancing again that night, and the hunter, towering a bead above them all, looked on with smiling interest. He even took part in a stiunre dance with Mis* .Tone Wtl longhhy, handling his great bulk with astonishing grace and lightness of foot. Then the elder gentlemen went into the drawing-room to their port and pipes, and the boy Ersklne slipped after them and listened enthrnlled to the talk of the coming war. Colonel Dale had been In Hanover ten years before, when one Patrick Henry voiced the first Intimation of Independence in Virginia; Henry, a country storekeeper ? bankrupt; farmer?bankrupt; storekeeper again, and bankrupt again; an idler, hunter, fisher, and story-teller?even a "barkeeper," as Mr. Jefferson once dubbed him, because Henry had once neipeu his father-in-law to keep tavern. That far. back Colonel Dale had heard Henry denounce the clergy, stigmatize the king ns a tyrant who had forfeited all claim to obedience, and had seen the orator caught up on the shoulders of the crowd and umidat shouts of applause borne around the court-house green. He had seen the same Henry ride Into Richmond two years later on n lean horse: with papers in his saddle-pockets, his expression grim, his tall figure stoopIng, a peculiar twinkle In his small blue eyes, Ills brown wig without powder, his coat peach-blossom in color. Ids knee-breeches of leather, and his stockings of yarn. The speaker of the Iturgesses was on a dais under a red canopy supported by gilded rods, and the clerk snt lioiionth with a mace on the table before hlni, but Henry cried for liberty or death, and the shouts of treason failed then and there to save Virginia for the king. The lnd's brain whirled. What did all this mean? Who was this king and what had he done? He had known hut the one from whom he had run away. When he got Dave alone he would learn and learn and learn? everything. And then the young people came quietly in and sat down quietly, and Colonel Dole, divining what they wanted, got Dave started j on stories of the wild wilderness that | was his home?the llrat chapter in the Iliad of Kentucky?the land of dark forests and cane thickets that separated Catawbas, Creeks and Cherokees on the south from Delawares, Wyandot tes and Shawnees on the north, who fought one another, and all of whom the whites must fight, j How the first fort was hullf. and The first women stood on the hanks of the ' Kentucky river. He told of the perils nnd hardships of the first Journeys j thither?fights with wild beasts and i wild men, chases, hand-to-hand combats, escapes nnd massacres ? and only the breathing of his listeners ' could be heard, save the sound of his own voice. And he came finally to L r<t. is r I r/].n e ri tuslly tuned out by your Instruments. Aerials nre most peculiar affairs and a little experimenting will enable you to determine tlie best size, height and tyi>e to use. It is well known that wireless waves nre directive, or in other words, that they travel more strongly In one direction away from the sending aerie." than in others and while thie has been largely obviated in upto date stations, yet the ordinary receiving aerial is directive and will get stronger signals if the lead-in is towards the sending station, or is pointed towards it, so to speak. I know of several cnses where amateurs failed utterly to hear voices, music, or even ooy s eyes. "Gosh," he said, "but Hugh can ri?le! I wonder if he could stay 011 him bareback." "I suppose so," liurhura said; "Hugh can do anything." Many questions the little girl asked ?and some of the boy's answers made her shudder. "Papa tyiid last night that several of our kinsfolk spoke of going to your country in a party, and Harry and Hugh are crazy to go with them. Papa said people would lie swarniiuir over tlie Cumberland mountains before long." "I wish you'd come along." Barbara laughed. "I wouldn't like to lose my hnlr." "I'll watch out for that," snld (he hoy with such confident gravity that Barbara turned to look at him. "I believe you ' would," she murmured. And presently: "What did the Indians call you?" "White Arrow." "White Arrow. That's lovely. Why?" "I could outrun all the other boys." "Then you'll have to run tomorrow when we go to the fair at Williamsburg." "The fair?" Barbara explained. For an hour or more they had driven and there was no end to the fields of tobacco and grain. "Are we still on your land?" Barbara laughed. "Yes; we can't drive around the plantation and get back for dinner. I think we'd better turn now." "IMan-ta-tlon," snld the lad. "What's that?" Barbara waved her whip. "Why, all this?the land?the farm." "Oh!" * "It's called Bed Oaks?from those big trees back of the house." "Oh. I know oaks well?all of 'em." She wheeled the ponies and with fresh zest they scampered for home. Everybody had gathered for the noonday dinner when they swung around the great trees and up to the back porch. Just as they were starting in the Kentucky boy gave a cry and darted down the path. A towering figure in coonskln cap and hunter's garb was halted at the sun-dial and looking toward them. "Now, I wonder who that is," said Colonel Dale. "Jupiter, hut that hoy cnn run!" They saw the tall stranger stare wonderlngly at the boy and throw back ills head and laugh. Then the two came on together. The boy was KttlI flushed but the hunter's fare was grave. "This is Dave," said the boy simply, "Dave Ynndell," added the stranger, smiling and taking off his rap. "I've been at Williamsburg to register some lands and I thought I'd come and see how tliis young man Is getting along." Colonel Dale went nnirklv to meet