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As the shield-shaped knocker
breeze.
did
large, melancholy hound came slowly
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Mr/ Van
"I am glad to see you.
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slow words coming with great Bind' said Aeck
Sallie's voice was not as inhosptt-
Comeson, and Til blow
boat
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Where he
AN EXPENSIVE DISEASE.
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ible and safe, and
as nearly as possible.
Chamberlain pulled a great oar. and'
was. in fact, far superior to Aleck In
had the tide with you.”
"Heb"snta Aleck.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Aleck Sees a Ghost.
proached the visitor with * tentative
wags of the tail, and after sniffing
mildly, lay down on the cool grass
"Lor, I don't know,” said Ballle.
"The new mistress, her name's Red-
up the
Agatha
SINGLR
NHA BDLLINGER,
c.
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through it all.
ky, Aleck hedged Me
said the. secon
"That must
money."
"Almost $6
vou to lunch.”
Wbly
tug
you know. li U a bargain, Mise Rey
nlerF'
"Very well, it is a bargain,” agreed
Melanie; "but I shall choose bachelors'
buttons!”
So they took the tender and got off,
with a great show of exactness as to
time and strietness of rules. Madame
Reynfer was to hold the wateh, and
Aleck was to wave a white handker-
r r«
trip
Juli
Inne
>tha
belt
STRENGTH
Without Overloading The Stomach.
-h ,
"The doctors thought he had appen-
diettie until he went Into bankruptcy,
and then—"
"Continue.” ~ \ .
"They diagnosed Ma case a noth to
The stomach.”
promoter
fan a good deal of
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to the kitchen.
Aleck. Van Camp soght the region
indicated by Sallie's gaunt Unger wit.
some misgivings; but he was Pre
ently guided further by a clear XO106
"Come in this way, Mr. Van Camp,
if ybu-please!"
The voice led him to an open door,
before which he stood, looking into a
large, > old-fashioned bedroom,, Izom
whose windows the white curtains
fluttered in the breeze: Mies Redmond
was propped up with pillows on a
horsehair-covered lounge, which stood
along the fqpot of a monstrous bed.
She was clthed in some sort of wool
>
a message to Miss Redmond and then
shell know juat what I want. If you'll
be a gqod as to take- r—
"Why, certainly, of coui
Boosting a Mine.
“How's the -ale of stock coming
on?" inquired the first promoter.
"Sold 9,000 shares this morning,”
please give those to. Miss Redmonar
SalHe wiped her hands, which wee
perfectly clean, on her white apron,
took the card and bit of paper and 4
parted, sniffing audibly. When • nr,
turned. It was to say, wih a4iehu
more Interested air, that Miss. .M2
mond wished to-e him . upstairs.
She stood at the bottom of the wide
stairway and pointed to a corner
the upper floor. "She’s in there.oom
on the right!" and so she stalked on
_
The Other Sase±
for Am"om Jvareltomamreita
terrible sufferer. I
sides and such a soreness I eoid searce
straighten up at times. My.bncxachet
ISSSStfi womaszrour
around. It seemedalmpstimPosdt
to move or do a bit of work eno*
thought I never would be any better
until I submitted to an operationebtt
my husband thought I had t**1** ***
wg.----------1 try GrapeNtutuj,
Since that morning I have been a
new man; can work without, tiring,
my head is clear and my nerves strong
and quiet, "on
off quite unexpectedly
called the Jeanne • D'Arc.
friendly enough to disarm suspicion it-
self. Sallie Kingsbury looked at him
for a full second.
“Come in."
Aleck followed her into the wide,
dim hall, and waited while she pulled
down the shade of the sidelight which
she bad lifted for observation. Then
she opened a door on the right and
said:
"Set down in the parlor while I go
and take my salt risin’s away from
the stove. I ain't had time to call
my soul my own since the"folks came,
what with callers at all times of the
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Lonseur
Muctnr
pbv the
EKgatha
to. who
gAgatha
-h bhore
bn Re
.nd, the
M's ah-
. .1 o is
th. Han
1th Dr
he party
ire Age-
payer is
clanged dully to Aleck’s stroke.
"Nonsnsel I had the lobsters ex-
tra!" asserted Aleck.
“Well. if you had been born an Eng
lishman, we’d make an oarsman out
of you yet!"
fought.
ad, they would play
Bg sternly against
imberlain would ex-
nautical lore; or to-
ning, they would
ations in the hear
Irst week they were
arm for a night and
horse for gnawing the bark offer trees
So I never go no nearer the house
than thia"
"All right, Simon; you wait for me
hero."
Aleck walked slowly along the coun-
try road, enjoying the fragrant felda.
the quiet beauty of the place. It was
still early in the dan for he had lost
no time in followiaz the clues gath-
ered from the village as to the sur
But they had news to tell the ladies,
and while they were having their
dinner their thoughts were turned to
another matter. The island. It ap-
peared, had for some years been aban
doned by its owner, and Ita only .in-
habitant was a gray and grizziy old
man, known to the region as the her-
mit. His fancy was to keep a light
burning always by night In the land-
ward window of his cabin, so-ae-to
warn saflors off the dangerous head-
land There was no lighthouse in the
vioinity, sod by a kindly consent the
people on the neighboring islands and
"We’ll put into Charlesport tonight,
if you don’t mind," said .Aleck. "If
I can find the man that waa marooned.
able as her words. She was mildly
2222
L after all.
6 his heart
le Melanie
shat might
I to want.
| what she
wanted the
w, chefish-
h with,his
hat, and it
her seeilt
And so, in
atting his
ladies and
I was the
to learn something
"The hermit said the map wouldn't
eat off his,table,” went on Mr. Cham-
berlain; ''but asked him for raw eggs
and ate them outdoors. Bald that ex-
cept when he asked for eggs he never
spoke without cursing. At least, the
hermit couldn't understand whet he
said, so he thought It was cursing.
And while the old man was talking."
point of skill; but his stroke was not
well adapted to the choppy waves In-
shore. He had learned it on the
sleepy Cam, where the long, gliding
blade counta best. The men stayed
said- Aleck, who had been grave
enough between all their light-hearted
talk. "I didn't tell you, Chamberlain,
that my cousin, my old chum, went
1 Sweet Perquisite.
Candy is a perquisite of theater ueh.
i ers seldom taken Into account After
' a Saturday matinee the enterprising
usher can secure enough bonbons and
chocolates to last a week. Thenn
absorbing the play the larger the sup.
Ply. At an interesting climax the
Mi matinee "giri forgets her can,
box .nd let. It slide to the Noor wl
several pieces sticking in the eorIth
Tmmediately after the perform.nc.An
enterprising ushers senreh al
for discarded sweetu. - • • ou e
to you and I
pomhams Vegetable Compound ana
could do almost all my own wort for a
family of four. I shall
I owe my good hcalthtoyomrVegeteble
Compound. —Mrs. HATWARD SowEES,
Cary, Maine. _________________
on the mainland opposite encouraged
his benevolent delusion, if delusion it
might be called. They contrived to
send him provisions at least once a
week; and they had supplied him with
a .flag which. It" was understood, he
would fly ip case he was in actual
need. So. alone with his cow and his
fowls, the old hermit spent his days,
winter and rummer, tending his lamp
when the dark cams on.
Aleck and Mr. Chamberlain bad
picked up some of this information at
the last port' which the Sea Gull made;
but what was of new and real interest
to them was the story which the old
man told them bf a castaway on the
island a few days before. 2
"All hand, had abandoned th
yacht just before she went down, it
appears. The owner was robbed by
his own men and marooned on the her:
mit’s Island—that's the gist of it."
She disappeared and presently came
back with a white apron on in place
of the colored gingham she had worn
before; but it is doubtful If Aleek no-
ticed this tribute to his sex. Sallie
looked withered and pinched, but more
by nature and disposition than by age.
She stood with arms akimbo near the
center-table, regarding Aleck with in-
qufsitiveness not unmixed with nking
"You can set down, str," she said
politely, "but I don’t know as you
can see airy of the folks. The man,
he's up-stairs sick. clean cut of his
head; the young man, he's nursing
him. Can't leave him alone a minute,
or he'd be up and getting out the win-
added Chamberlain resentfully, "that day..
blooming peacock squawked like a cli
demon."
"The yacht that went down, accord- . . . .... ..0.0 a.,
ing to the man, was the Jeanne D’Arc." hurt and grleved, rather than offended
way; and behind, a deep green lawn
lay under the light, dappled ehade of
tall tree.. It was a lawn that spoke of
many years of care; and in the mid
die of its velvet green, under the
branches of two sheltering elms, stood
the old red house. It looked comfort-
able and secure, in its homely sim-
plicity; something to depend on in the
otherwise mutable scenes of .116.
Aleck felt an instantaneous liking for
it, and was glad that his errand, sad
as it might possibly be, had yet led
him. thither.
Long French windows in the lowex
part of the. house opened upon the
piazza. add from the second story
rumted white curtain, fluttered to the
about Jim, if he really was on the
yacht. You can all go ashore. If you
like. There's a big summer hotel near
by, and It‘s a lovely country.”
“We'll stay wherever it’s most con-
venient for you to have us.” said
Melanie, looking at Aleck, for once,
with more than a friendly interest in
her eyes-
"And perhaps I can help you, Van;
two heads, you know,” said Chamber-
lain.
The village still rang. if so staid a
community could be told to ring, with
reports of the event of the week be-
fore. Doctor Thayer had been- sphinx-
like. and Little Simon had been imag-
inative and voluble; and It would have
been difficult to say which had teased
the popular curiosity the more. Aleck
found a tale ready for his ears about
the launch and' its three pasaengers.
starboard one evening when the sun
was low; .and as the plumes of spray
from the Incoming waves rose high in.
the air a rainbow formed itself ta
the fleeting mist, f was a fairy plo
ture, repeating Itself two or three
times, no more. - ‘
"That's my symbol of hope," said
Alck quite impersonally, to anybody
who chose to hear.
Mr. Chamberlain -turned to Aleck
with hisireadsccourtesy. “Not the only,
one you have received: 1 hope, on this
charming voyage.”
Madame Reynier was ready with her
pleasant word. "Ardn't we all sym-
bols for you—if not of hope, then of
your success as a host? We've lost
our aches and our pains, our nerves
and our troubles; all gone overboard
from the Sea Gull."
"You're all tremendously good to
me. I know that,” said Aleck, his
. a faded' traveling rug. By her side
a, stood a chair on which were writing
materials, Aleek's note and card: and
a half-written letter Agatha sat up
as she greeted Aleck.
rose in the middle; a sureenougbt 1 may be able
token of esteem—that kind of thing.
and James had so recently traveled,
and drew rein in the shade at a dis-
tance'of a long city block from his
destination. He pointed with his whip
while he addressed Aleck, his sole
passenger.
"Yonder's the old red house, mister.
The parson, he bated to have his trees
chief the minute they touched sand.
It into harbor where Mr. Chamberlain was to give a like
" signal when they started,back. .The
yacht slowed down and held her place
boat. Then the white handkerchief
appeared, and the boat started on its
return.
Aleck profited by Chamberlain’s
work, and made the boat leap forward
by a shorter, almost Jerky stroke. He
came back easily with five minutes to
spare.
"Good work!” said Mr. Chamber-,
lain. "You have me beaten, and you'll
get the bachelors' buttons; but you
----—
By Lydia E
gred tobe farmers as -
men, even where the soil
A Calif, business man tried to find
some food combination that would not
overload the stomach In the morning,
but that would produce energy
He writes:
"For years I was unable to find a
breakfast food that had nutritlon
enough to sustain a business man with-
out overloading his stomach, causing
indigestion and kindred ailmenta,
"Being a very busy and also a very
nervous man, I decided to give up
breaktast altogether. But luckily I
with many conflicting details. Some
said that a great singer had been
wrecked off Ram’s Head, others that
it was the captain and mate of the
Jeanne D’Are. others that it was a
daughter of old Parson Thayer's sweet-
heart and two sailors that came
ashore. Little or nothing was known
about, the island castaway. Aleck fol-
lowed the only clue he could find,
thinking to get at least-some inkling
of the truth.
oherr
—Ikse- will/"
said Sallie Kingsbury "Only you
needn’t take all that trouble I can
tell her what you want myself."
Ballle "8 one of these persons who
regard the pen as tbe weapon of last
It wasn’t a house to be hurried, that
was plain. After a wait offve or
ten minutes Aleck was about to knock
again, when a face appeared at one
of the side-lights of the dor: Present-
ly the door itself opened a few inches,
and elderly spinsterhood, wrapped in
severe inquiry, looked out at him.
-“Can I see the lady, or either of the
gentlemen, who recently arrived here
from the yacht, the Jeanne D’Arc F’
Aleck’s voice and manner were
round the corner of the house, ap-
his love. Wm she+.
let her take, as she] w
Its, the best he could
K promising The aspect of
Ks was that of a "limited but
Hosperous agricultural com-
| Under the shadow of the bills
Md little hemes, or fresh-paint
p cottages Sometimes a bold
ak formed the shore for miles
be, and the hills would vanish
macs Hers and there were
Ida formed by mighty boulders.
L which the waves endlessty
and as endlessly foamed back
i sea .
a beadland loomed up on thelr
•
Hmature experience Was
Mejiiked that even better,
HFto cap her gaiety with
Mer, whimsical drolleries.
E mood, he would not let
Hm him in spirit it was
Eheart to keep him from
Heck achieved the super-
K of making his influence
■nly when she was alone
Kon him in her thoughts
Sly than she herself knew;
Eenseness was only the re-
Eis own thought for her.
FBeen sailing a little more
bekr changing the low,
Enecticut fields for the
(thorn shores, going some
er out to sea, but delight
in the sweet, pine-fringed
blue. There were no more
s to visit, only small vil-
• fishermen gathered after
s haul orwdere slow, primt-
Hilding was still carried on.
ie inhabitants of the coast
Mbit the sub
Ein her heart
K day, though
■fegagement as
Es would read
Kaffected man-
Madame Reynier
Valeo for audt-
her alone. And
b and loved, all
of their life or
hrase, a thought,
record, and each
the other had
sometime they
r. They learned
whimsical preju.
ted on them all
med, each from
robust optimism,
vision, some
Little Simon drove leisurely
L 4, long, rugged hill over which
1 - -
th cereal part o the morning meal,
and.ivigovates me for the day’s busl
ne. Name given by Postum Co.,
BattleCreek, Mich. Read the Iitte
book. The Roud to WellvMe," in pkg,
, "There’s a Reason.
==i5=E:=
mond; some kin of Parson Thayer's
and she's got this house and a lot of
money. The lawyer was here yester-
day and got the will all fixed. She's a
singer, too—one of those opery sing-
ers down below, she la."
Sallie made this announcement as
if she was relating a bewildering blow
of Providence for which she herself
was not responsible. Aleck, who be-
gan to fear that he might be the re-
cipient of more confidences than
decorum dictated, hastily proffered
his next question.
"Can I see the lady, Miss Redmond?
Or is it Mrs. Redmond?”
Sallie gave a scornful, injured snim.
"Miss Redmond, sir, though she’s
old enough to be a Mrs I wouldn’t so
much mind her coming in here and
using the parson’s china that I ilways
washed with my own hands if she was
a Mrs. But what can she, an unmar
rled woman and an opery singer know
about Parson Thayer’s ways and keep-
ing this house in order, when I've
been with him going on seventeen
yeara and he took me outer the Home
when I was no more than a child r
Aleck's heart would have been
stone had he resisted this all but pas-
sionate plea.
"You have been faithfulness Itself
I am sure. But do you think Miss Red'
mond would see me, at least for a few
minutes?"
Sallie recovered her dignity, which
had been near a collapse in tears, and
assumed her official tone “I don’t
know as you can, and I don't know as
you can Shajs alck. too; fell over
board somehow or other, offer one of
those pesky boats, and get neuralagy
and t don't know.what all. But I'D
go and see how she’s feeling.”
“Stay, wait a minute,” said Aleck,
seized with a new thought "rn write
„RotnlsBElde
eration. I heard of .theenodwdikn
Pinkham’s Vegetable
doing for others and I ured seerae0
ties of it With theresul!tthatnt tfrry,
imeraszfsvaes
girls. Mrs. R. B-Citt.Begtrtcerh5:
mmamhadisa nadku Eu
-2—
dow. Frail I know.”
Aleck listened sympathetically. “A
sad cast And what is the name. if
I may ask, of the young man who la
so tur
as thanking the old man for
eggs," added Chamberlain.
anukt ' toils
nkhamrf Vega
"a. Their
HereTold.
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In strength of field, cast-iron mag-
nets are from ten to fifteen per cent.
Inferior to those of steel, but they are
equal in magnetic permanence, and
ashore a long Mme, disappearing en-
tirely beyond me dump of trees that
screened the outbuildings. When they
reappeared, an old man was with
them, following them down to the
resort, not to be used until necessity
compels. But Aleck cpatinued writing
en a blank loaf of h‘s note book. The
message was this:
/ 'Can you give me any Information
concerning my cousin. James Hamble
ton. who was thought to be aboard the
Jhanne ‘D‘Arer" . <
The air, He tore the leaf out, extracted ‘a
went or what for, I don't know. Of
course, It may have been another
Jeanne D’Arc; it probably wag. But
It troubles me.”
Melanie was Instantly aroused
"Oh, I had an uncanny feeling when
you first' mentioned the Jeanne
DAre!" she cried. "But could you not
find out more? What became of the
man that was marooned F’
"He got off the island a day or two
age,” said Aleck. “The people that
brought provisions to the old man
took him to the mainland, to Charles-
port %
"The beggar left without so much
Fair Comparison,
"Do you mean to say that you com-
pare yourself to Shakespeare?” Why
aotr" inquired the manager of the
Clothesline Burlesque company.
"Shakespeare had pretty much my ex-
perience. The critics roasted him
and the ' authorities were always
threatening to close his show”—.
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fresh and clean, with a tang ot cerdfromhlnupoekstono"
-- distant salt marshes l ' and cad. 0. miss I
A long row of hemlocks and Norway
Spruce bordered the road, and, with
the aid of a stone wall, abut off from
| the highway a prosperous looking
vegetable garden. Farther along a
I flower garden glowed in the fantastic
coloring which gardens acquire when
planted for the love of flowers rather
than for definite artistic etfects
. Farther still, two lilac bushes stood
sentinel on either side of a ate
The business man, especially, needs
food in the morning that will not over- -
load the sfomach, but give mental ‘
vigor for the day.
Much depends on the start a man
gets each day, as to how he may ex- ”"
sect to accomplish the work on hand:
He can’t be alert, with a heavy,
fried meat-and-potatoes breakfast re-
quirng a lot of vital energy in dl-
gesting it.
Camp. Will you come in? I ask your
pardon for not coming downstars t0
see you, but I have been ill, and am
not strong yet." *
She was about to motlon Aleek to
a chair, but stopped in the midst of
her speech, arrested by his expres-
sion. Aleek stood rooted to the door
sill, with a look of surprise on his
face which amounted to actual
amazement. Thus apparently startled
out of himself, he regarded Agatha
earnestly.
"Will you. come inf Agatha repeat-
ed at last.
"Pardon me,” he said finally to his
precise drawl, "but I confess to being
startled. You—you bear such an ex-
traordinary resemblance to some one
I know, that I thought it must really
be she, for a moment.”
Agatha smiled faintly. "You look-
ed as if you had seep a ghost."
Aleck gated at her again, a long,
scrutinizing look. "It does make one
feel queer, you know.”
"But now that you are assured that
I’m not a ghost, will you sit down?
That chair by the window, Please.
And I can’t tell you how glad I am
to see you;.for James Hambleton,
your cousin. If he is your cousin, is
here In this house, and he is ill—very
ill indeed." ‛ ,
Aleck's nonchalance bad already
disappeared, in the segs of sur-
prises; but at Agatha's Fords a flush
of pleasure and relief overspread his
face. He strode quickly over toward
Agatha’s couch.
“Oh, I say—old Jim—I thought, I
was afraid—"
Agatha was touched by the evi-
dences of his emotion, and her voice
became very gentle. "I fancy it is
the same—James Hambleton of
Lynnr. Aleck nodded and she went
on: "That's what he told me, the
night we were wrecked.”
Agatha looked at Aleck, as if she
would discover whether he were trust-
worthy or not, before gtving him more
of her story. Presently she conti-
ued:
“He’s a very brave, a very wonderful
man. He Jumped overboard to save
me, after I fell from the ladder; and
then they left us and we swam ashore.
But long before we got there I fainted,
and he brought me in, all the way.
though he waa nearly dead of exhaus
tion himself. He had hemorrhage
from overexertion, and afterward a
chill. And now there is fever.”
Agatha's voice was trembling. Aleck
watched her as she told her tale, the
flush of happiness and joy still light-
ing up his face. As she finished re-
lating the_meager facts .which to her
denoted so many heart-throbs, a sob
drowned her voice As Aleck followed
the story, his own eyes wavered. -
"That’s Jim. down to the ground.
Good old boy!" he said.
..There was a silence for a minute,
then he heard Agatha's voice, grown
little and faint. "If he should die__!”
Aleck, still standing by Agatha’s
couch, suddenly shook himself.
"Where is he? Can I see him now?"
Agatha got up slowly and led the
way down the hall, pointing to a door
that stood ajar. It was evident that
1 she was weak.
(TO BE CONTINUED
Cast-Iron Magnets.
The difficulty of making good Cast-
iron permanent magnets has been
overcome by a very simple process.
The iron chstina after being machined
to the required dtmensions, is heated
। in a gas furnace until the iron can just
I be handled without distortion through
softening. *
• It is then plunged in a chemical
• bath, which removes superfluous ma-
' terials and leaves the iron dean. F-
nally, it is magnetised by means of
1 electric colls.
,ume
cerlty.
Melanie kept ’ silence, but she re-
membered thq rainbow.
The headland was the landward end
of a small island, one part of which
was thickly wooded. A large unused
house stood in a clearing, evidently
once a rather pretentious summer resi-
dence, though now there were many
signs of dilapidation. The plef on the
beach had been almost entirely beaten
down by storms, and a small, flimsy
slip bsd taken Its place, running far
down into the water. A thin line of
smoke rose from the chimney of one
of the outbuildings; and while they
looked and listened the raucous cry
of a peacock came to them over the.
str.water. Presently Chamberlain
ggested:
"I feel it in my bones that there'll
be lobsters over there to be had for
the asking. I heard your man say he
wanted lobsters. Van; and I believe
I’ll row over there and see. rm feel-
tng uheomntonly fit and need some ex
ereis." _
"All right. I’ll go too," said Aleck.
"I’ll bet a bouquet that I beat you
rowing over—Miss Reynier to furnish
the bouquet!" was Chmberlain’s next
proposition. “Do you agree to that,
my lady?"
"And pray, where should I get a
bouquet? —
“Oh, the next time we get on land
And we won't pat up with any old bou-
quel of juniper bushes and roeks,
either. We want a good, old-fash-
ioned round bouquet of garden posles,
with mignonette round the edge and a
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Davis, Lon. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. [26], No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1913, newspaper, March 14, 1913; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1494376/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.