Connecticut western news., 1919-10-23

school, too?"
 Dave's quick temper fired up in re sentiment, but again the kindliness of the mans manner disarmed him. He was silent for a moment, and then he said:
 No, ain't. That's what makes me sick now. I came in here intendin' to get an education, an I've never got even a start at it, excep' for some things perhaps wasn't worth the money. There always seems to be sOmethin' else-in ahead"
 There always will be-" said MT. Duncan, until you start"
 But hOw's it to be doneY Dave questioned with returning interest. "Schools an books cost money, an I never save dollar"
 And never will" said Mir. Duncan, until you start. But 1 think l see plan that might help, and if it appeals to you it will also be q great cOnven- fence to me. My wife likes to go driv- ing Sundays, and sometimes on a weekday evening, but l have so many things on hand I find it hard to get out with her. My daughter used to drive, but these new-faDgled autOmO- piles are turning the world upside 1 dOWn-and many a buggy with it. Well-as saw you driving in here l said to myself, There's the man for 1 that job of mine, if I can get him.; 5lt I'm not rich and I couldn't pay you regular wages. But if I could square the account by helping with your studies a couple of nights a week. used to teach school and | haven't altogether forgotten - why, that would be just what 1 want. What do you say?"
 q never saw anything on four feet I couldn't drive" said Dave, ''an' if you're willing to take a chance I am. When do we start?"
 "F'irst lesson tonight. Second les son Thursday night First drive Sun l day" MT. Duncan did not explain that he wanted to know the boy better before the drives commenced, and he felt that two nights together would satisfy him whether he had found the right man.
 Dave hurried back to the cOaIyard and completed the days work in high spirits. It seemed he was at last started on a road that might lead 1 somewhere. After supper he sur prised his fellow laborers by changing 1 to his Sunday clothes and starting down a street leading into the residen- i tial part of the town. There were speculations that he had "seen skirt"
 MT. Duncan met him at the door and l showed him into the living room. Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lov- able in the mature womanliness of i forty, greeted him cordially. She was sorry Edith was out; Edith had ten his engagement. She was apparently deeply interested in the young man 1 who was to be her coachman. Dave had never been in a home like this, and his eyes, unaccustomed to com 1 fOrtable furnishings, appraised them as luxury. He soon found himself talk l ing with Mrs. Duncan about horses, and then about his old life on the ranch, and then about coming to town. Almost before he knew it he had told her about Reenie Hardy, but he had checked himself in time. And Mrs. Duncan had noticed it, without con- ment, and realized that her guest was not a boy but man.
 f Then Mr. Duncan talked about gar dening, and from that to Dave's skill 1 in hn0 tn hn nm and from that to coal itself. Dave had shoveled coal all winter, but he had not thought about coal except as something to be shoveled and shov- eled. And as MT. Duncan explained l to him the wonderful provisions of na- ture-hoW she had stored away in the | undiscovered lands billions of tons of coal, holding them in reserve until the worlds supply of timber for fuel should be nearing exhaustion, and as he told of the immeasurabIe wealth of this great new land in coal resources, and of how the wheels of the world, traffic and industry and science, even, were dependent upon coal and the man who handled the coal, Dave felt his breast rising with a sense of the I dignity of his calling. He had had to do with this wonderful substance all winter, and not until tonight had it fired the divine spark of his imagna- tion. The time licked on, and although he was eager to be at work he almost . dreaded the moment when MT. Duncan
 should mention his lesson. But be- ] fore that moment came there was a
 ripple of laughter at the door, and a
 girl in tennis costume and a young man a little older than Dave entered.
 Edith" said Mrs. Duncan.
 Dave arose and shook hands. Then
 Mir. Allan Forsyth was introduced.
 MT. Forsyth shook hands heartily, but
 Dave was conscious of being caught in
 one quick glance which embraced him
 from head to heel. And the glance