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CHAPTER X-Continued.

At last the bell rang. Captain Elisha
gprang up, smiling, his impotence and
worry forgotten, and, pushing the but
Ter aside, hurried to open the door him
self. He did SO, and faced not his niece
and nephew, but Pearson.
Good evening, captain" hailed the
young man cheerily. Didn't expect
me, did you? l dropped in for a mo-
ment to shake hands with you and to
offer congratulations to Miss Warren"
Then. noticing the expression on his
friends face, he added: whats the
matter? Anything wrong? Am in
truding?"
'No, no! Course not. You're as well
come as another egg in poor mans
henhouse. Come right in and take off
your things. I'm glad to see you. Only
well, the fact is l thought twas
Caroline comm home. She and Stevie
was to be here over two hours ago, and
I can't imagine what's keepin' EN-"
He insisted upon his visitors remain
ing, although the latter, when he IN
derstood the situation, was reluctant to
do so.
But a good many minutes passed,
and still they did not come. Pearson,
aware Of his companions growing
anxiety, chatted of the novel, of the
people at the boarding house, of any
thing and everything he could think of
likely to divert attention from the one
important topic. The answers he re-
ceived were more and more brief and
absent. At last, when Edwards again
appeared, appealingly mute, at the en-
trance to the dining room Captain
Elisha, with a sigh which was almost
a groan, surrendered.
Il guess he said reluctantly-"I
guess, Jim, there amt any use waitin'
any longer. Somcthin's kept 'em, and
they don't be here for dinner. You and
Ill set down and eat-though l amt
got the appetite 1 callated to have"
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PoIiceman,s Hannx Lot.

A little Indianapolis miss whose
mother is dead lives with her little
brothers and sister at the home Of
her grandmother. Fer father, who is
a physician, has his office and home In
another part Of the city.
Surrounded by everything that brings
happiness to the heart of child, the
little girls thoughts often wandered to
poor daddy, who was all alone.
One day she surprised her grand
mother with the startling remark
Grandma, wish daddy was police
man."
"A policeman, dear! Why? Daddy
is physician, and that Is very good
profession, you know"
Eyes, grandma" persisted the child,
but If daddy was a policeman he
wouldn't be SO lonesome"
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for my part in the disagreement with
your father. / wrote the truth and
nothing more. I considered it right
then-I told your father so-and
have not changed my mind. / should
act exactly the same under similar cir
cumStances."
"You blackguardp' shouted Stephen.
Pearson ignored him utterly.
Il do owe you an apology" he contin-
ued, "for coming here as I have done
knowing that you were ignorant of the
affair. / believe now that you are mis-
informed as to the facts, but that is
immaterial. You should have been told
Of my trouble with Mr.. Warren. /
should have insisted upon it. That
did not do so Is my fault, and apollo
gize, but for that only. Good evening"
He shook himself free from the cap
tain's grasp, bowed to the trio and left
the room. An instant later the outer
door closed behind him.
Caroline turned to her brother.
"Come, Steve" she said.
"Stay right where you areI" Captain
Elisha did not request now, he COM
manded. "Stevie, stand still. Caroline,
/ want to talk to you"
The girl hesitated. She had never
been spoken to In that tone before.
Her pride had been already deeply
wounded by what she had learned that
afternoon; she was fiercely resentful,
angry and rebellious. She was sure
she never hated any one as she did this
man who ordered her to stay and listen
to him. But-she stayed.
Caroline" said Captain Elisha, aft
er a moment Of silence, ST presume
likely--of course / don't know for SIR
tin, but ] presume likely it's Mrs. Duhn
and that son Of hers who've told you
what you think you know"
ut doesn't concern you who told us r.
clustered Stephen, pushing forward.
He might have been a fly buzzing lon
the wall for all the attention his unkle
paid to him.
IT presume likely the Dunns ttld
you, Caroline" he repeated calmly
His niece met his gaze stubbornlJ
"Well," she answered, "aEd If they
did? Wasn't 1t necessary we sho5ld |
know It? Oh,"--with shudder Of dis
gust--"T wish / could make you undlr-
stand how ashamed feel--how wicked |
and ashamed feel that FL shojId |
have disgraced rny fathers memdry
by Oh, but there can'tl Yes: MS.
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ENDED SHOW FOR THAT NIGHT
Midget Performers Scented Danger
When They Heard the Ringing Of
Police Patrol Coma.

Two little colored bards from News
alley We're giving a concert la carte
before a Washington hotel. The
crowd which gathered was larger than
any that ever regarded soapbox ORA
tor. The boys sang, the dimes few,
they paused, and sang and danced some
more. The two kids wove in witty
lines as they went, and really made
the thing a vaudeville act. But finally
they decided It was about time for an
intermission.
Were goin' away" announced the
larger, who was perhaps eight years
old.
saw, don't do that" admonished the
crowd.
"You didn't treat us right; that's
ALL"
Dimes flew again. The boys started
to sing. They saw that their audience
was growing to capacity crowd. But
they started up on the last tune.
Somewhere out on the East sido
some one had had an argument, or
else an automobifSsiiiisiss:s tipped over.
for an ambulance was hurrying back
to the city hospital, changing its bell.
The performers heard 1t. Up looked
the youngest.
"Um, policel" he yelled to his little
partner, and the two of them scurried
as quick as lightning down the nearest
alley. The crowd went on to its mo-
vies.-Indianapolis News.
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slider him an-an ingratC-and scoS
drel--and miserable"
"Steadyw Captain Elisha's interrd
ton was sharp this time. STEADY mo-
Leave out the pet names. What is
you've got to tell?''
'I--my sister and ] have found
what a scoundrel he is, that's VIII
We have learned of the lies he wII n
about father. We know that he wv
responsible for all that cowardly, iyias
stuff in the Planet-all that about the
trolley combine. And we don't intebe
that he shall sneak into this house
again. If he was the least part Of d
man he would never have come
"Mr. Warren began Pearson, step.
ping forward. The captain interrupted
"Hold on, Jim" he said. "Just a MIN.
ute now. You've learned sometEsn'
you say, Stevie. The Dunns told ySui
I s'pose."
"Never mind who told mel"
II don't-much. But / guess wee
better have clear understanding, all Of
us. Caroline, will you come in here
please?"
He stepped toward the door. Ste
phen sprang in front Of him.
"My sister doesn't intend to cheaper
herself by entering that mans pres.
ence," he declared hotly. '.I'll deal
with him myself"
call right. But guess she'd better
be here just the same. Caroline,
want you"
''She shan't come"
Eyes; she shall. Gardiner
The boy would have detained him
but he pushed him firmly aside and
walked toward the door. Before he
reached it, however, his niece appeared
SWELL" she said coldly, what is II
you want of me?"
II want you to hear Mr.. Parsons
side of this business-and mine before
you do anything you'll be sorry for.''
II think I've heard quite enough OF
Mr.. Pearson already. Nothing he can
say or do will make me more sorry
than I am or humiliate me more than
the fact that I have treated him as a
friend"
The icy contempt in her tone was
cutting. Parsons face was white,
but he spoke clearly and with deliber-
alton.
Miss Warren" lie said, IT must in
sist that you listen for another mo-
ment. / owe you an apology for''--
Apology" broke in Stephen. with a
scornful laugh. Apology! Well, by
CAD, just hear that, Carol"
The girls lip curled. II do not wish
to hear your apology" she said.
"But I wish you to hear it not for
my attitude in the trolley matter nor
for what published in the Planet nor
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CHAPTER XII,
Caroline, | Want Your

DEARSON had dined hours before
but he followed his friend, re.
solved to please the latter by go.
ing through the form Of pretending to
eat.
They sat down together. Captain
Elisha, with rueiul smile pointed to
the floral centerpiece.
1--WE won't touch the birthday cake,
Jim" he added a little later. "She's
got to cut that herself"
The soup was only lukewarm, but
neither Of them commented on the fact.
The captain had scarcely tasted Of his
when he paused, his spoon in air.
Hey" he exclaimed. Listen,
What's that? By the eVerlastin', it is.
Here they are at last"
He sDrang up with such enthusiast
that his chair tipped backward against
the buffers devoted shins. Pearson,
almost as much pleased, also rose.
Captain Elisha paid scant attention
to the chair incident.
What are you waitin' forT' he de-
manded, whiring On Edwards, who
was righting the chair with one hand
and rubbing bis knee with the other.
Don't you hear EN- ct the door? Let
'em IMP
He reached the library first. his
friend following more leismely. Caro-.
line and Stephen had just entered.
We'll" be cried In his quarterback
voice, his face beamipg with relief and
delight, you are here, amt you!
begun to think Why, what's the
matterr
The question was addressed TO gte.
phnn, who stood nearest to him. The
boy did not deign to reply. With a
eontemptucus grunt he turned gcOru.
fully away from his guardian.
What is it, Gardiner demanded
Captain Elisha. HAS anything hap.
penedY
The girl locked colby az him. All
new brooch-Mrs. Corcoran DunD's
birthday gift-aparkled at her throat
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preciate our blessings, while the nov
city for the time being Of going with
out and using our own ingenuity, is q
source of pleasure.
The camp cook who can produce q
good meal with the background of a
hunk of bacon, frying pan and a
sack of meal, Is worth further ac-
quaintance. He builds his fire. max
Ing q stove of stones, on which he
places his frying pan; then with a little
salt pork or bacon soon sizzling in it
he lays in his freshly caught fish all
rolled in seasoned meal, and a crisp.
delicious bit satisfies the appetite of
a hungry camper
Fish, fresh from the running brook,
broiled before fire while held by two
sticks, will give the uninitiated the
taste of savory dish which civilian
ton never can produce
The delicious mushrooms growing
in such abundance in the woods and
fields will make d full meal when well
prepared. One must have enough
knowledge to distinguish the good from
the poisonous varieties. There is an
endless variety of good foods which
may be prepared in the woods.
A fowl or wild game of any kind,
dressed and covered with a paste Of
barley flour and water to keep in the
juices and flavors, may be buried in
hot ashes and roasted to toothsome de-
liciousness. Remove the paste. and
any ashes clinging to it will come off
with it. The seasoning, of course, must
all be done before it goes into the
ashes.
If one is not able to go for an out
ing, unhampered with weight and
ready to enjoy even the discomforts OF
simple foods prepared in the open, he
would better stay atlhome, for such are
not agreeable companions. The broad
est, most helpful people are they who
never lose the childHkc enjoyment Of
simple pleasures.
Ns,.1 hlef~v.Q.
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| be all the children will care for. The
older members Of the family will prob
ably like mullins or griddle cakes with
cupful Of coffee. Most delicious,
fluffy corn flour cakes can be made
by using one beaten egg, half-tea-
spoonful of salt, cupful of sour milk;
the richer the better, and q half-tea-
spoonful of soda; stir in enough corn
flour to make it of the consistency
liked for cakes. The thinner they will
cook and turn well the more delicate
is the texture of the cake. Serve
these with maple sirup or corn sirup
and the family will ask for them again
and again.
Fried cornmeal mush is another
good and substantial breakfast dish
(which will stay by" until another
meal. Bits of meat, chopped dried
fruit like dates and figs or nuts, are
all good to add to it and increase the
food value of the dish.
Vegetables, because Of their bulk,
are most necessary and should form
large part of the food Of the entire
family after it is out of the milk stage.
Vegetables are rich in mineral salts
and vegetable acids as well as the
wonderful and little known, growth
determinants. "An onion day keeps
the doctor away" If the women who
are an ounce overweight would cut
out one meal day or eat very lightly
at luncheon and not gormandiZe at
dinner, they would feel better, be hap
pier and able to accomplish more
work and at the same time be doing
something to help win the war by con-
serving food. Children should not be
Stinted as they need food for growth
but the average man or woman might
easily cut down the food from one
quarter to half and gain in physical
as well as mental power by so doing.
1t is not well to serve cornmeal at
noon or night if it has been served in
any form at breakfast, unless the fam
lily is especially fond Of it.
Cottage Cheese Club Sandwich
Toast three slices of bread on one side,
butter and cut in halves diagonally
spread thickly on the untoasted side
with cottage cheese; add water cress,
salad dressing, and the other half of
toast. Garnish with cress or parsley.
For hot night nothing is SO good
as a slice CT two of cucumber with a
good salad dressing used as a sand
witch filling.
Oh! man is meier contented with his
lot, the sages say;
In summers heat we long for March,
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CAROLINE AND STEPHEN BREAK OFF DIPLOMATIC RELA-
TONS WITH THE CAPTAIN

Synops-Awood Graves New York South
boro Cod Captain Elisha Caught
storm while the he meets Capn Warren by accident and
with the latter his The informs Warren
brother eighteen died
him guardian Of his children Caroline twenty
The captain tells he will
situation before deciding whether he will
the trust The captains arrival New York consterna
his wards their aoatc friends The captain
reporter with
Sylvester firm The captain decided his
pleased
calls and surprised he had the
by captain
had caused the injury makes him help
expenses until his captain
Rogers
plans birthday
the latter with
the day with Dunns fails to return for dinner
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ing nouSeWork q
pleasure, the sim
pie outfit of the
real camper would
find her helpless.
We need to get
away from all the
conveniences that
make life enjoy
able TO really an
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ment or a great deal of
planning. We have any
number of breakfast
foods that will supply a
fair meal with top milk.
A good dish of we'll
cooked oatmeal with top
milk or thin cream will
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The KTTC1\EN
GBLNE s

When we look into the long avenue
of the future and see the good there is
for each of as to do, we realize after
all what beautiful thing it is to work
and to live and be happy Stevenson.
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MEALS FOR THE DAY.

In these days of conservation of
wheat, the breakfast helps one meal
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COOKING IN CAMP.

For the housewife dependent upon
her modern equipment to aid in max
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DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead | took Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md" Nearly four years
I suffered from organic troubles, ner-
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The captain leaves the War
rens' apartment, but refuses to
give up the guardianship which
has caused him so much trouble.
Watch for the developments In
the next instaIIment.
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Oh! man is meier contented with his
lot, the sages say;
In summers heat we long for March,
in winter time for May.
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work is pleasure. ! tell all my friends
who have any trouble Of this kind what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable COM
pound has done for me. NELLIE B.
BRITTMGHAM, 600 Calverton Rd., Balti-
more, Md.
1t is only natural for any woman TO
dread the thought Of an operation. So
many women have been restored to
health by this famous remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
an operation has been advised that IL
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying it be.
fore submitting to such trying ordeal
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DEARSON had dined hours before,
but he followed his friend, re-
solved to please the latter by GO
ing through the form Of pretending to
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-08-08
Stairway to Tore: "You
can't get away with a thing
like this. Explain itW
(TO BE CONTINUED
WORDS HAVE MANY MEANINGS
Imagination Cuts Big Figure When
Terms of More or Less Pictur.
sequences Are Employed.

An amusing and plausible analysis
has been made of the way many peo-
pie in the United States use and un-
derstand the words ranch" ''planta-
ton and farm" In the magma
ton of fasteners, says the analyst
in effect, a plantation or ranch sug-
gests wide acres and a gentleman on
horseback riding about to oversee their
cultivation by picturesque hirelings,
whereas farm suggests a compare
lively small field of growing vegeta-
bles personally conducted to harvest
by a plain man in overalls. Yet many
a ranch or plantation is no bigger
than a small farm, and many large
farm is as big as a corresponding
plantation or ranch; and the word
gentleman" fits as many farmers as
ranchers or planters. The farm. how
ever, says this observer, may easily
get into society by being spoken of
in the plural; and all the farmer needs
to do to attain this distinction is to
build fence across his land and then
call it the Something-or-other Farms.
Christian Science Monitor.
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CHAPTER w.
Word From the Insurrectos.

Moon paled, stars died, the east
flushed to the coming of the sun be-
fore they turned back from a fruitless
quest, riding again close together
toward the north.
Stairway and Gaucho had kept upon
the trail through the fields, the others
spreading out to east and west as
they rode that there might be no
chance of missing the party they
sought in the night.
But in an hour they had come into
country where all tracks were
mingled. with the hoof marks of cattle
and vaqueros' ponies, and their trail
was smothered and lost.
Shortly before midnight they had
come upon three men, ragged, ugly
looking Mexicans, sleeping about a
camp fire whichswas fast dying. The
men knew nothing or professed at
ignorance, Stairway could not tell
which.
After that nothing, although they
had pushed many miles into the Next
Cul lEdlIZtu Tic Ut
ter uselessness of riding farther.
1--WE may as well go back, Gaucho,"
Stairway said at last. "They will want
ransom, suppose. When they speak
Wen know what to do"
And reluctantly, his face black with
the wrath upon him, Gaucho Morales
called to his men to turn back.
The sunlight lay bright and warm
upon the oranges and their blossoms
when they rode back to the rancho,
Stairway threw himself from the
saddle, bit stiff from long hours of
hard riding.
Then, walking slowly now, loath to
greet Teresa de la Guerra with news
of their failure, he came into the patio.
She was there waiting for him.
Nothing" he blurted out. "We
have found nothing"
81 know" she said quietly. She
came toward him, putting out her
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of the voice. "Senor Don Eduardo
Ramon Tore, at your service, senior y
"Oh, h--l,' grunted the American
under his breath. And then, riding
into the heart of the excited group
refining in his sorrel close to deep
chested black animal, its hide glisten-
ing with sweat, he said shortly: well
Tore. what is it? We are in some
thing Of hurry"
Tore laughed.
I'VE? So you are one Of US, senior
Bueno. 1t is pleasure to know"
HE has met up with the raiders
Senior Stairway" Gaucho snarled. "He
was riding this way from across the
river. He is wounded, seer"
Stairway saw that there was blood
upon the young Spaniards cheek, that
there was a long cut which might have
been made by grazing bullet.
Small reason we should loiter
here" he said quickly. what way
did they go, Torre?"
South, naturally, senor," replied
Tore evenly.
"Gauchoi" cried Stairway then
Scatter your men out as we ride SO
that we make line a mile long when
we come to the hills just across the
line. Let them keep a sharp lookout
and fire if they see the rebels. We
must not get too far apart, or we shall
not be able to do anything. How many
of them were there, Torre?"
II forgot to count, senior. I should
say, fifty, perhaps"
1--WE are twenty. That is enough
You are not coming with us?"
II think not. Why, with so compe-
tent leader as you, should l come
also? No. / think" and he turned
his horse toward the white walls OF
the hacienda, "that I shall remain
Mere with my kinswoman. There may
be a second attack upon the rancho
Good hunting, senor."
He turned his horse, and, sitting
easily, gracefully In the deep Mexican