Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
FAIRY GODFATHER /
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BY GRACE MACY. (

Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
81 don't see how we're ever going
to choose which one Of us is to go.
l do think that he might have deigned
to designate some one by name."
Listen to Teen prepare for diet
of sour grapes. It's never the princess
royal who Is chosen. I'll bet cookie
Eve goes"
Eve glanced up from the pattern
she was stenciling on a PONCE sun
shine.
mo, thank you" she laughed. 81
have none of the back to nature i'm
pulse ut ALL"
swell, l wish he'd ask me-" Dick
returned. "1'll bet the old duffer has
dandy place up there In the noun
tains."
Hush, here comes dad" warned
Christine, as the study door slammed,
and the doctors quick step sounded
along the hall.
He looked the group on the veran-
da over with shrewd, kindly eyes,
drawing on his motor gloves.
"Have you chosen the victim YETI"
'Dick wants to co." said Eve, "but
I'm sure Mr.. Caldwell expects one of
us girls. Don't you think so, dad?
You see, he says his sister Is staying
with him and he wouldn't have men,
toned chaperon If it had been just
case of Dick. l can't go, and Teen
doesn't want to-"
Suddenly from the army hammock
ut the end of the veranda, there bobbed
a tousled head of red curls.
81 want to co." called Pipes, con-
fldently. "Td just love to go, dad
You know I'd get along all right"
Her elder sisters eyed her hopefully.
Pipes would be the best to 90. after
oil. She was just between fifteen and
sixtecn-what Dick called fine pat
tern of 'napper.'
So the letter was sent back accept
ing Mr.. Caldwell's invitation for one
Of the young Prestons to spend the
summer up ut his camp in the Cat
skills. And one week later Miss Con.
stance Eleanor Preston, otherwise
Pipes, found herself deposited on lit
tie platform ut Indian Leap. There
was no station, only q waiting bench
with projecting roof over 1t. Seated
on this was u young man reading n
magazine. Pipes approached him with
her usual serene assurance.
"Do you know the way up to Mr..
Caldwell's place"
"Tm going by there. Can't I take
you upf" he asked. Its about six
miles. You're not Miss Preston, are
you?"
"Oh. yes I am" answered Pipes.
"Why? Did he send you down to
meet mc?"
The young man nodded, gravely.
IL was sent down to meet Miss Con.
stance Preston, from New York. You
see,' he added. II thought you'd be
about twenty-five"
II am sixteen" replied Pipes, with
her best air of aloofness.
The camp was In the hemlock belt
on the south side of Indian Leap. The
lodge was big one-storied affair
surrounded by wide yeranda. Miss
Eunicc Caldwell. u dear little old lady
who slept most of the time, was chate-
laine and hostess. Mr.. Caldwell, him
self was like nothing so much as n
big, shaggy mountain bear. He was
out all day long, following his pur-
suits as II naturalist, and Pipes
tramped with him happily. Very UNI
eXpectedly Miss Eunice let the cat out
of the bag.
"You know" she said, In her COM
Portable way one day when Pipes and
she were alone. ~ have to laugh TO
see how reconciled Horace Is getting.
W he wrote that letter think he
ru,..1r hoped that Eve would come up,
i haven't seen your sisters, my dear
but l believe that Evelyn is the pretty
one"
"Yep," answered Pipes, happily
"Eve Is the pretty one. Teen Is the
clever one, and am the freckled one
I'm sorry he was disappointed"
"Oh, but he isn't now, my dear. It's
quite satisfactory. You see, it's very
lonesome for him when Gerard Is
away"
Pipes paid no attention to the words
then. She was getting ready for q
trip to Indian Leap after n particular
kind of moth they had been hunting
for weeks.
They missed her ut lunch time, bu
1t was not until twilight that Gerar(
began to be frankly uneasy. Miss Eu
nice told him that Pipes had gone owe
to the Leap after some sort of a bug
The two men started out with lanterns
to seek her. Gerard never forgot tina
night and its dangers. The Leap wa
a sheer fall into II chasm hundreds 0
feet deep. With Mr.. Caldwelrs help
he lowered himself over the precipic
when they heard her first answering
call for help.
"Its just my ankle" said Pipes
sand maybe shoulder and collar
bone. was getting down here al
right when slipped and fell, but 60
the moth, tell him. Don't crush 1t. It
in the net"
1t was month later when til
Preston family received II letter frol
Mr.. Caldwell:
II am sure you won't mind my keeI
ing Pipes here until she is fully reco,
cred. Shes engaged to my pephe,
and the two of them will have all Nv
got They're very happy, I'm sorr
the older girl could not have enjoye
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