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you back before you've really arrived,
but you are fond of Nora yourself and
just wanted to ward you off. ::
You see, when we came down Nora
was the belle of the beach and all Of
the chaps were after her. We three
dc1ded to pool issues. With the car
and the two boats we could offer all Of
the attractions the beach affords. Joe's
mother Is the chaperon and since Nora
IS bound to be married to someone, it's
going to be one of us three.
"We're not dividing her up, you
know, or anything like that. We sim.
ply want to keep some rank outsider
from carrying off the prize. Nora can
have whichever of the three She
wants, but the other fellows have no
chance"
And am one Of the other fell
lows?'" asked Pointer. r.
Not exactly" demurred Bailey.
"but you see you are too late and
we'll hang it all, you don't suppose
that we've been hustling all summer
just to keep Nora from becoming en-
gagged until you got down. do you" -
1T didn't credit you with such dis
interestedness," assented Pointer. AT
the same time I fail to see that Miss
Wynn is bound to marry one Of you
three. You have not consulted her.
have you?"
|. "Of course not. But since the other
fellows can't get near she will have to
one of the three of us in the
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home" supplemented Sprague,yz
Pointer rose ahd came over to the
table. We're much obliged to the
syndicate, boys" he said with q smile
as he regarded the three men. but
you see we were married just before
dinner apd we're going to spend the
honeymoon on the new power house,
boat Tom was telling you about. We
are very much obliged to you for all
your courtesies and am sorry that
! the syndicate fell through, but we had
agreed not to say anything about our
engagement, until my play was ac-
cepted.'' 81 -...r..
"And you knew all along?" gasped
spragne. -
Mora wrote me-" he explained.
''She suspected from the start and
tried to make you stop wasting your
time, but you were so confident Of
success that It was not much use to
talk" "a. 49,, =. ~ 49,
sprague was the first to break the
silence. ...- w.
I'VE deserve what we got for trying
to be pigs" he said solemnly. 'Tm
glad the syndicate lost
! ITS been bad year for trusts, .
suggested Pointer with a smile. Bet
ter drink to the death Of the syndicate
in a bottle I'd like to send over
| Bring it over" suggested Birney,
'"and bring Mrs. Pointer over with It.
| know she's dying to give M the
| laugh and she may as well start IN
now" .~~.r ID. a#-ss- .s,-.
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hurrying toward them.

hurrying toward Them
Looks Alike a squall,"~ he began
when he had greeted Pointer. There's
new 'houseboat down by the pier.
She. carries a motor launch, too. Bet
one of those chaps we chased away is
| trying to come back at u.s." ,..::
Who do you suppose it ISL" de-
manded Bailey with interest," o. -
Search me-, said Spra;gue with a
shrug of his shoulders; you've heard
about the Wynn syndicate ?" he asked
Pointer. Il think it's a rather neat
name he went on when Pointer
made mute assent. E"You see one Of the
syndicate must win. It's a sort of joke
NAME - 3
+: Here's another joke" put in Bailey.
Ned wants to come in and cut us out.
He hasn't a boat or car or the ghost
Of a chance"
poor Ned"
Sprague regarded him with pity.
! Pointer never had really belonged to
| the little Bohemian group. He was too
hard a worker because there was need
| for work. The others had money, some
talent and little ambition. Pointer
/ had talent and ambition, but little
| money. -- =;
Joe Birney had introduced him to
| the others on the plea that they need
ed an example in industry.
The idea, of Pointers trying to win
Nora Wynn's hand with nothing tc
offer, when it had been all they could
do to hold her attention with theil
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whispered tearfully, "and TIL tend you
down to the very last minute. I
won't desert until their old moving
van backs up to the door an. have
to-" ,
There was a world of tragedy in
that "have." The Baileys lived in q
tiny cottage, but small as it was it
filled the lot and though the toy-like
garden In front glowed with color
Sue cast longing eyes on the house
next door.
There were great beds In the adj
Joining lot ready to be planted, filed
only with the dried stalks Of last
years plants. Stephans. the owner.
halted one day and leaned over."tte
fence. ,.grS,%:,
why don't you do a little garden
ing over thege?' he asked with g. nod
In the direction Of the unused beds
Il don't know as can rent the place
this year and if don't you can have
1t all to yourself. II do it may help
to have the flowers. I'll pay for the
seeds and send man around to get
things in shape for YOU <sS
Sue wanted to hug him for the sug-
gest1on, but instead she thanked him
demurely, and when Stephans came
the next time the flowers were al
ready making Roadway. IS.
3 All the, early summer Sue had de-
lighted In working in the garden alio
the olive Of her skin had given place
to q tan that the other girls envied.
Now the flowers we're to be taken
from her and she would have to stand
Idly BY while strange hands worked
among her, pets, III .i.. ISL. f
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led the way to a touring car in the rear
of the diminutive' hut, that was. by
courtesy, called the depot, II have my
car, Tom Sprague has motor boat
and Joe Birney< has his houseboat
Between the three of us we manage
to keep Nora Wynn pretty much to
ourselves. Tom takes her over to
Joe's for bachelor supper or tea and
In the evening we all pile aboard the
car and take a ride. We don't know
which will be the winner, but it's to
be enc of the three, and you might
as we'll get the return half of your
ticket ready We're the Three Musk
eteers and we don't allow any tres
passers''
There were four Of the Muske-
teers,' reminded Pointed, land OAR
tagnan wasn't the least Of the three. "
Bailey chuckled at the suggestion.
'Of course. we're glad to- see you, old
man. he said, with an affectionate nat
on the back. I'm not trying to send
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w VOuAu hui VA
pect Mr. Stephans to refuse to rent
just on your account. she reminded
gently You have had the pleasure
OF your flowers through the spring
and the better part of the summer.
You should be grateful for that
But think of those glorious chrys-
anthemun1s,," sobbed Sue. Now I
shan't have one. and I'll have to sit
on my own side, the ~ fence ana
listen to some old catebrag about her
beautiful clnrysanthemums. Her
chrysanth emums! - AS though Z had
lot, broken my back, almost. tending
them!" MP r * 49, II ..as H. Z: !.
THAT was understood when Mr..
stephans permitted you to Use ths
lot, reminded Mrs Bailey.
But why did he haveato 60 and
rent it2" asked Sue 'illogically. I've
halfia mind to pull them all up. #ss,,. z
She darted from the house. never
needing her mother's call. but once
in the yard 'of the house next door
her courage failed her and her hands
slowly ,lnclp sed from around tho first
stalk she grasped, e.. '5# u. I .5;,s-.s Il
= can't Dc it, yo". / heauties." she
"
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= Then the chrysanthemums bloOmed
and. one morning Sue found a dozen
on her side of the fence. There was
no note or card, just a double handful
Of blooms tied with a bit of vine and
laid on the rail to which the pickets
were nailed. ,>. -
Lorrimer, sitting In the breakfast
room over his coffee and newspaper,
saw her hurl them with all her might
into the yard. His face clouded, but
presently the black look disappeared.
Miss Bailey has returned the flow
ers-without thanks: he said to his
mother. II imagine that she believed
the gift an effort to- start. a Irritation"
1T seems too bad that she cannot
have some Of her own flowers" was
the smiling answer. @ s**>
I'll manage that" was the conf
dent reply and that afternoon when
Sue went to work in her tiny garden
there were more flowers on the rail,
but this time they bore card
|. She was still puzzling over the lat
ter when Lorrimer came up.
Il hope that these meet q more
pleasant reception than those OF this
morning" he said ~ he barred his
head BIS s7Sss=st- 81 w szs PSI
II don't understand. this" ex-
claimed Sue withsa puzzled frown.
What does il mean !? For teacher 2 .
THE teacher Of the Correspondence
School 81 Floriculture. Z explained
Lorrimer. u know who the teacher
Is, for more than once I have seen
her leave her. lesson for the following
day. 81.
s. Il had Is do solnet hing, ! couldn't
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so bitter was she against the in
truders that she decided that good
looking George Lorrimer was very
common sort Of person. She paid no
attention to his courteous salute wher
she passed the house once or twice,
and he could not know that from be-
hind the closed blinds Sue was watch
ing his futile efforts at gardening =,
Her little clenched hands beat upon
the window ledge as she saw the
plants dropping for the want Of water
and at last she could stand it no
longer. s.,
One: night she climbed over the
fence and adjusted on a stick a note
asking that more water be put upon
the plants. A couple OF days later she
made q second nocturnal visit to say
that: the plants .we"c being watered
too freely. .... u :s.5.,-} J.,
Lorrimer seemed a willing pupil
and after that discovery was made he
came, to look every morning for the
help4ul little ,notes as he tended the
plants. Every day he found some
fresh hint as to the care Of the flow
ers, and though at first b had tended
the plants merely because his mother
liked them and was too much sof an
invalid to look after them herself he
came to be q real enthusiast and Sue
began to regard him with greater ap-
prevail, =s. 4. 1 SEA
. /. q Her first notes had bean solely in
the lls9 interests Of her own beloved How
Ell. Now she wrote them to encour-
=afa the love Of Towers and never
hid 1ll, propagandtst . more willing. con-
vert l. 81
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I'd give you a check for $4,000 to
start on the day you brought home |
your diploma, and here it is.' II
"Please keep the check until called
for, Governor" slowly replied Tom.
"Got letter from Uncle Ebenezer. up
in Connecticut, the other day, and I'm
going to accept his invitation to come
up and stay all summer. My geology
will come in handy on his stony old
farm, and I'll get q needed rest be-
sides.'
But the club and the races and all
that?" =.
"Let 'em slide. I'll put on overalls
and slosh around on the farm and be a
hired man for few months. I've
been thinking things over. Governor,
and am going to take myself seriously
for awhile"
His father reached out and patted
the boy on t-,e shoulder and returned
the check to his pocket with puzzled
but gratif1ed look on his face.
If it's a wise child that knows his
own father, the old saying may we'll
| be twisted around to run that it il a
wise father that knows his own son.
In due time Nellie Lawton made her
appearance at her Aunt Gregg's, and
In due time, also. Tom Gaylor made
his appearance at his Uncle Ebenezer's
and the two halves Of the coincidence
met and formed a whole one.
! And that's how it happened one
morning that as Tom was coming from
the barnyard with pail of milk in
either hand and having on a pair of
overalls, he looked over the line fence
and saw a girl in calico feeding Aunt
Gregg's chickens. She looked up and
saw him at the same time.
Smart looking girl for a farmers
daughter" he said to himself after a
stare.
II didn't know that they had such
good looking hired men in the coun-
try" said the girl to herself as she
finished scattering the rest of the feed,
The two farmhouses were not q
hundred feet apart. Toms Uncle Ebe-
nezer and Aunt Martha had known
Mrs. Gregg for years and years. II
would have been as easy as rolling off
a log for Tom to have found out about
the widows niece, or for Nellie to have
found out about Uncle Ebenezer's
newhew within half an hour, but for
some reason they hesitated to make
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man to come with him. He led the
way out back Of the barn, and after
looking around to see that no one but
a spotted calf was within hearing dis
:tance, he whispered:
Uncle Ebenezer, you won't say
a: word to Aunt Martha. will you ?" Z
= mot blamed word!" !
II found girl over there when j
went after a hoe" + 81 z=.5,.
: "Yaas. Did she bite you?'' ..S...
! "A. girl in Calico"
: ."Go on '-...@. ,~% w. -
Just the incest girl I ever saw IN
MY life. BY George. but I, want to
know her! Who is she? Why hayen't
you said something about her - 81 :: :
Didn't you say your father eau
toned you about gals7" asked Uncle
Ebenezer, with a twinkle in his eye.
But not about this one. He meant
the girls in the city-the chorus girls
you know. Tell me who she is?'' :
Wall, IL you've got, to know, and Il
you are goin' to- collapse II, you dom,
know, she's the Wilder Gregg's niece
from the city. Her father was q ma
jor in the army. and I beli,ve he'l
rich" ~ 41% = S ~ :, .
And you let me SO over there with
these overalls and this old hat on!''
J. But she was dressed in caliker
wasn't she? wasn't goin' to say
nothin' till you had got" through
knockin': rocks to pieces and f1ndin
out If I: had a coal mine on the farm
but bein' you have seen the gal and
made> aher believe that rusty oil
scythe hangin' on the limb of an ap
pie tree is a new hoe hangin' on tn,
limb of a cherry tree. you'd better
take the old thing back and beg he
pardon. Don't go'n dress up ana spill
1t ALL
/: Tom had scarcely left the Greg
premises, with the old scythe on hi
shoulder when Aunt Gregg made he
appearance on the veranda, saw hin
and asked what he had been after.
! 'He wanted a hoe and lent it t
him." was the innocent reply.
But that's a scythe. When Uncl
Ebenezer sees it he'll think. I've gon
Edaffy. What did the young Teller loo
llike?"',
''Why-way. I thought he locke
rather NICE"
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Uncle Ebenezer suggested that Tom
run over to the: widows and borrow
one. There was no$sreason why the
young man should refuse, but his face
had begun to flush before he was half
way there. .,, ..s
Aunt Gregg had lain down for a
nap. Nellie sat on the veranda, saw
the hired man coming, and was Sc
cretly glad that she was going to get
a nearer view of him.
IL want to borrow IA hoe ?"
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1T WAS AN OLD, .sCYTHE.

co., I see. You want. a spade"
Excuse me, but said q hoe. You
hoe corn and potatoes with it. You
hold it in your hands this way and
chop down the weeds and draw the
dirt toward YOU
He was looking at her all the time
and she was returning his glance. He
was wondering why all good-looking
girls did not wear calico dresses and
thus increase their good looks SO per
cent. and she was wondering why more
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How did he talk 2"

How did he talk
& why. he talked abont hoes. I had
a feeling all the time that he wasn't
a. farmers hired man. &c he 1aadu't
had overalls on I should have been
ashamed Of this calico dress. Aunt.
who 10 he, anyhow"
He's coming back with the old
scythe. and mebbe he'll tell you him-
self. I've got to go In and mix the
hour Tor those bisldta."
'But I'll come. too. sent MIN OF
with a scythe when he wanted . hee.
and"
"And you've got to stop right here
and explain things. He wears over
alls, and guess he can tell you tho
difference between buckwheat and
cornstalks." zz =.
Tom turned slowly in at tho gate,
his face twice as red as before, and
as he finally stood before the embar-
raised girl he looked OFF into the gar
den and said:
My un-uncle thanks you very much
for the loan Of the h-hoe, ana I've
brought It back. ~ ! " -
"And now you want a scythe ?" shs
laughed. j j.
y -es. That is-no," he answered
the same way. and he had the nerve
to come and sit down on the veranda
after having hung : the implement
where he found it. j.
They not only chatted away like old
acquaintance for the next hour, but
when Aunt Gregg came out and said
supper was ready Tom went in and
sat down with the others.
Two days later he was over there
again, having no reasonable excuse
this time, and when Uncle Ebene1er
came in from feeding the stock. no
said to Aunt Martha: ~ "a
well. bis father mustn't blame ma
II Tom has fell in love with that gal,
and I'll bet my boots he has. HIswas
half a hundred years younger" -.
"Ebeneezer, you wash up and sit
ready for dinner!" was the prompt
command. There won't be nobody
to blame for nothing, and you just 80
along and mind your business and
quit peeking oyer fences sas II you ex-
pected to see q circus anmewhere
around" Il =
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had got back with it Uncle Ebenezer
"You must have seen somethin'
over there that skeart you half to
death. I said hoe and here. you've
brung back rusty old scythe that's
been hangin' on that tree for five
years. Didn't they tell you the diff
ference tween a hoe and scythe at
college?" '. o..
For answer Tom beckoned the old
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young men in the city did not wear
overalls to give themselves an athletic
look. &c.. -. - =: >.r>.>.~ =.
For a long: minute she forgot to an
swer. Then she said:~, 81.
isn't that hoe hanging on the
limb Of that cherry tree out there?"
1t was rusty old scythe, but Tom
smiled. bowed and shouldered the i'm.
plement and marched off. When he
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car and no boat, and what show do
you stand?"
Don't you think that you're rather
selhsh?" asked Pointer. You have
monopolized Miss Wynn's company all
summer because you knew her in
town. Now when I come down here
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stand by and see you kill the flowers Is
explained the girl. ~
But why not have given oral in
struction?" he questioned.
Because / hate you," was the
frank reply "You took my garden
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that she hates to impose on us so
much, but we tell her we like it and
we just won't let anyone else carry
her off. We've kept her, on the go for
seven weeks nov"
Bailey turned in at the hotel to set
Pointer down. and Tom Sprague came
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stammered Tom as he halted five feet
away from the girl in: Calico, Vi.
IA hoe ?" she replied. ""I-Ithink
we must have one, butareally / don't
know what hoe is. DO you cut grass
with it?" So .. ...<r: r (: q: -;
It's to dig with-to hoe" explained
Tom with smile and wondering at
the some time. at the Ignorance Of a
farmers daughter. i,#s.%, = -
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piled. II don't want to go to Newport.
the Berkshires, the Catskifls. Atlantic
City or any other, resort"
"Phew!" whistled the major, as he
opened his eyes in surprise.
mo, I want to go up to Connecticut
and stay all summer with dear old
Aunt Gregg on the farm"
But you can't show Off your dresses
on a farm"
II don't want to. shall wear cal
leo most Of the time"
"And the young men and the fiirta-
tions?"
II don't want them. Papa, do you
"Great Scott!"
*And that it is time stopped flirt-
ing and settled down to be a woman p
'Who'd a-thought it? Not 20
years old yet, and you want to give up
flirting! Well. as long as your dear
mother lived she contended that you
were cut out for an old maid, and now
I begin to believe it. Have your old
calico dresses made and go along with
you. I've been invited on q yachting
cruise, and can go and feel all right
about YOU" .,*>s.:,s s,&> ., -.
1t takes two halves to make whole
&C obedience. The above is only one Of
tho halves. Not two miles distant
from where the major and his daugh-
ter sat talking, Judge Gaylor was say
ing to his son Tom on the same day:
well, my boy, you are through
with your geology at last, and now !
suppose it will be the club, the races
and all that, and a year hence you
won't know sandstone from flint ]
guess I made more or less of a fool
of myself after getting my diploma,
and can't criticise you. There's only
one thing want to caution you about
Be fool about everything else If you
will, but leave women out. That is
don't make foolish marriage. I said
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nQu1r1eSs@.:E;.. -. e 49, n "
Observation-Disclosures Of Tom occasion
ally HI het tried to use the scythe and
stuck The petnt' in. the ground. or wan
deere d, j, over B the: pasture picking up
specimen 23of the drift period, and he
caught sight. Of her ,as: She gathered
peas from the garden'to or. scared a. hen
off her nest under the currant bushes.
TheMSene day C. hoe was broken. and
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long run, though she has turned us all
do wn so far. 49,.
Then there's still q chance for nae"
suggested Pointer. - - y :
f. mot a bit. Don't you see that you
have nothing to offer?, You have no
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!. FROM eJOKEL AND.

harness for nearly year "'After the
honeymoon is over one gets wise to
tie fact that the blindness was onlv
IA bluff 81 ...s SIS 3. %
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you calmly announce that I am out
of the running. I SHOULD imagine that
Miss Wynn should h9{Ne something to
say about that 5 z
she likes it," asserted Bailey
eagerly. "She is all sthe': time saying
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Then why not share it?'' asked
Lorrimore. I'VE will work it on shares
and divide the. ,spoils." -. g. s.. 81
Her face lighted up at the thought
OF working in. the garden again ana
Lorrimer. smiled, too. for he had
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)U'RE out Of it,"
was the pleasant
greeting that Tim
Bailey gave his
friend, Ned Point
er, as he landed on
the platform of the
tiny station from
the Seacoast Spe-
cial.
you see," Tim
continued. as he
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paved the way. to Offering her a larger
interest In his life; half OF every
thing. For like other pupils Lorrimer
had fallen in love with his teacher
and through the chrysanthemums
hoped TO work up to orange blossomA
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Wouldn't Interfere.

"As matter of fact said the man
who was looking for an argument,
every mans life is his own. Now, Il
I took a. notion to commit suicide,
what right would you have to prevent
me?" sssss4s3s ... 3.
Don't you think for a moment that
1 would" answered the cooi-natured
party as he .meandered on his way.
Mary's Carl.
Mary had a horseless cart, &,
= Run by gasoline, you know; sy
And everywhere that Mary went
The smell was sure to go. z Sc
She: headed It for school one day
Her mother said she must: &
But why was Mary an hour late
Alas. tire bustl
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from me. This was all mine before
you came. st
And that Is my offense?" he asked
gently. ''Nill you permit me to re-
deem myself by offering It back y
Il couldn't take It away from you. s
denied Sue. 81; !. 81
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I'LL, pet?" queried OK
Major Lawton as he
laid aside his paper
and threw away the
stub of his cigar at
the approach Of his
daughter Nellie.
"YOu asked me to
decide where we
should so for g. cou~
pie Of months this
summer" she re-
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Mary's Cart.
vVisd ON Of Experience.

Love IS blind, z rena rkeI the. quo-
tation. dispenser. who happened to be
single.
Don't you believe il, = rejoined the
man who had been trottina in doubls
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H p Y,v rented, the

4 = H,Vl, rented, the
house next door!"
Sues voice was
tragic as she made
I he announcement.
Her mother looked
up from the knitting
which was her con-
slant occ4pa ton
when household tasks
were done.