Williams news., 1918-03-14

an occasional salute and show his col
 Ors in an unmiStakable way. Jed met | few people on the road so early in the morning, but thO~e he did come across | he presented with a tricolOr badge and | stopped at every farmhouse he came
 to and planted a couple of flags beside | it's gateway.
 It must have been about nine o'clock
 when Jed, pursuing a short road | through belt of timber, allowed old l Nance to rest and browse while he en- | ployed himself in the wagon box un- fastening some bundles of small flags,
 ready to pass out to sightseers when the procession started. He had about | got everything in ship-shape order and | was placing the old musket more | handy to the wagon seat, when a move | ment of the vehicle made him stumble. Bang! With a fearful chatter the | old gun went off as he accidentally | touched the trigger. The startled horse made a wild jump. Away went Nance | with wagon, gun and flags, but not with Jed.
 The old man had been sent spinning with a violent lurch over the tailboard | of the wagon. He landed with shock | and groan, almost somersaulted, was l conscious that one limb had struck a tree log by the side of the road with terrific force and felt his senses de serting him.
 Slowly consciousness came back to him. Horse and wagon had vanished. Jed sat up, wincing with pain. He tried to get to his feet, found he could not do so, and the truth dawned upon him that one limb was broken just be- low the knee.
 The pain was intense and he felt weak and alarmed. The road was not one given to general travel. He thought of shouting for help and then strained his hearing, as the sound of approach ing voices held his attention. Two children, boy of ten and a girl of about eight, pulling long homemade play wagon, came into view. "Grandpa says if we can haul five loads of the wood each day he will give us a penny a load" Jed heard the boy say.
 "Yes," responded the girl, "and if we do that until frost comes, mamma says there will be enough to feed the kitchen stove all winter. You know we may not be able to get any coal all winter on account of the war"
 Jed called to the children, who re- garded him shyly and in wonderment. He made them aware of his mishap.
 "I must get to the nearest house and have a doctor sent for,'' he told them, weak from the intense pain of the in- jured member. Hurry and get some one to come for me-
 'We live the nearest" vouchsafed the little fellow, ''but we have no horse and wagon, and grandpa can't walk. If you ain't too much hurt and could sit on our little wagon here, we could get you to the house, and then I'll run over to Mrs. Porter's, who has got telephone, and get the doctor.'
 You're a bright, good lad," com mented Jed, and then, through groan- ing and writhing dismally, with the help of the little ones, he managed to place himself on the fiat board of the vehicle. His helpers were careful and solicitous, but the way was rough and uneven, and at every jolt the sufferer nearly tainted away. His eyes were closed and he lay collapsed upon the wagon board as the lad shouted out l:
 "Oh, grandpa here's man broke his leg, and he wants a doctor, and"
 Jed Farley looked up. His face be- came void. He gasped for breath. By what trick of fate had he been discov- cred by the grandchildren of his own brother, and now at his mercy for the care and attention he had refused that brother for so many years!
 ''Yes, get a doctor" breathed Jed appealingly. "This fearful pain will kill me. I can't move."
 e., marked Morton Farley from the old armchair he had filled, helpless, for a full decade You are welcome, Jed. l It's a poor home, for ever since the day I was struck down by footpad and robbed of the money I owed you, all ready to pay you back, I haven't | been able to stir, even on crutches.'
 The sublime patience of Luke Farley touched the soul of old Jed strangely. | An hour later he found himself sur rounded by the care and comfort he craved, with his nephew's wife his nurse. The doctor forbade his removal | for a week. What wonders in healing | old animosities those seven days re- | vealed!
 EdgemoOr heard of the transforma- ton of Jed Farley into a loving | brother With SauSfact1On ana apprO- bation, Judge Warrington first, and, the day Jed was removing to the home of his brother to live with him perma- nent1y, he said to Jed:
 'T called you a sham patriot, and-'
 ''Yes, you did" snapped Jed.
 '1 take it back"
 "Oh, you do?'
 'Yes, Jed, so part friends with me. to and surely you're doing your bit by