The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06
FAIRY GODFATHER
~S~~~~~s
BY GRACE MACY.


Il 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 a 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 stenciiing on a PONCE SUM-
shine
mo, l thank you" she laughed. II
have none Of the back to nature i'm
pulse at ALL"
We'll, 1 wish he'd ask me-" Dick
returned. "rIl bet the old duffer has
a 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 yet?"
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 1t had been just
case of Dick. can't go, and Teen
doesn't want to-
Suddenly from the army hammock
at the end of the veranda, there bobbed
tousled head of red curls.
Il want to CO." called Pipes, con-
fdently- '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 go, after
all. She was just between fifteen and |
sixteen-what Dick called fine pat
tern of 'fapper.'
SO the letter was sent back accept
ing Mr.. Caldwell's invitation for one |
of the young Prestons to spend the
summer up at his camp In the Cat
skills. And one week later Miss Con-
stance Eleanor Preston, otherwise
Pipes, found herself deposited on lit
tie platform at Indian Leap. There
was no station, only waiting bench
with projecting roof over it. Seated
on this was young man reading
magazine. Pipes approached him with
her usual serene assurance.
''Do you know the way up to Mr..
Caldwell's place"
I'm going by there. Can't 1 take
va IN ha oho civ
miles. You're not Miss Preston. are
your"
"Oh, yes l am" answered Pipes.
"Why? Did ne send you down to
meet me?'
The young man nodded, gravely.
Il was sent down to meet Miss Con-
stance Preston, from New York You
see" he added. Il thought you'd be
about twenty-five"
Il 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
by wide veranda. Miss
Eunice Caldwell, a dear little old lady
who slept most of the time. was chate-
aine and hostess. Mr.. Caldwell, him
self was like nothing so much as a
zig, shaggy mountain bear. He was
,ut all day long following his pur-
suits as naturalist. and Pipes
ramped with him happily Very I'M
Miss Eunice let the cat out
# the bag.
You know" she said, in her COM
ortable way one day when Pipes and
he were alone. Il have to laugh to
ee how reconciled Horace is getting.
When he wrote that letter l think he
ather hoped that Eve would come up. !
haven't seen your sisters, my dear.
ut l believe that Evelyn is the pretty
ne"
Yep answered Pipes. happily.
Eve is the pretty one. Teen Is the .
lever one, and l am the freckled one.
IN sorry he was disappointed" 8
"Oh. but he isn't now, my dear. It's !,
ute satisfactory. You see, it's very :
)nesome for him when Gerard is
way" :.
Pipes paid no attention to the words o
len. She was getting ready for a
lip to Indian. Leap after particular :,
md Of moth they had been hunting "
II weeks.
They missed her at lunch time. but
was not until twilight that Gerard
,gan to be frankly uneasy. Miss Eu- tn
&c told him that Pipes had gone over =
the Leap after some sort of bug.
he two men started out with lanterns NJ
seek her. Gerard never forgot that
ght and its dangers. The Leap was
sheer fall into a chasm hundreds of a.
ct deep. With Mr.. Caldwell's help. En-
lowered himself over the precipice no
1eD they heard her FIRST answering ~
IL for help. c,p1I
ITS just my ankle" said Pipes. of
md maybe a shoulder and collar the
ne. l was getting down here all No
hit when l slipped and fell. but 1 got Sta
e moth. tell him. Don't crush it. It's i
the net" OF
1t was month later when the pa,