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as they walked out into the sunshine. She told him that she was to meet Nina at his mothers at five. Richard, with sudden eagcrness, wondered If she would spend the interval in hay ing tea somewhere, but instead they went into n boOkshOp, and she carried a new book triumphantly away. "It's a frightful day in town" Harriet said, "and if we're a little early we may all get away to the country that much sooner!"
 She established herself contentedly beside him when they did finally start for Crownlands. Waul. beside Han- sen, did most of the talking; Nina was silent. and Harriet noticed that she was very pale. Richard was repeat ing to himself one phrase all the way; a phrase that he found so thrilling and absorbing that it was enough to keep him from speaking aloud, or iis- tening to what the others said.
 "I love her-I love her-I love heri" thought Richard. And sometimes he glanced sidewise at her, her beautiful hair rippling in thick waves under the thin veil her face little pale from the heat of the day, her glorious eyes faintiy shadowed. When the swift movement of the car brought her shoulder against his. their eyes met for smiling second, and it seemed to Richard ti.at his heart brimmed with the most delicious emotion that he had ever known.
 Nina complained of headache when they reached home, and went early to bed. Harriet. when she had rubbed and changed to an evening gown, glanced in at Nina, and thought the girl asleep. There were men guests for dinner, and afterward there was bridge. Harriet sat with Madame Carter for awhile. for the old lady had also dined upstairs, went about the house upon her usual errands, and, going to her own room. found Nina reading. at about ten o'clock. Nina did not look up or speak as Harriet came in.
 The door that led to Richards room was not only unlocked, but actually ajar. Harriet gave it q surprised glance, and spoke to Nina, In the next room.
 Nina. did you unlock this door,"
 "What door?" Nina called. "Oh, yes." she added. q did"
 "Oh," Harriet murmured. And she stepped to the door, and looked into Richards roonh
 It was sort of upstairs sitting room, furnished simply, in man fashion. with deep leather chairs on each side of the fireplace, broad tables carrying only the essential lamps and ashtrays, a shabby desk where Rich ard kept personal papers, and book shelves crammed with. novels. Har- riet. making timid round. saw Bal .ac and Dickens, Dumas and Fielding, several Shalespeares and a complete Meredith, jOstling elbows with modern novels in bright jackets, and yellow French romances losing their paper covers.
 Suddenly her heart turned to water; some tiny sound in the silence warn ing her that some one had entered
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Harriet. I want you to tell me the truth !''
 Harriet, turning, faced her between two curtains of ripping gold. She saw new Nina, a Subdued, thought ful, serious woman in the old confl- dent Nina's place.
 But first I ought to tell you that wasn't with Amy today!' Nina said.
 ooh, Nina Must we begin that sort of thing?" Harriet reproached her. But she was puzzled by Nina's man. ne. Back to schoolgirl tricksl'' she said.
 "Never back to a schoolgirl" Nina said. passionately, 'Tll never be that again. Harriet" she went on. i've written Royal three times, since my birthday, and I've seen him twice."
 "You saw him today?" Harriet ven- tured.
 'T went there this afternoon" Nina adE:i5ted, heavily. I ,.cn suddenly, "Farriet, did my father pay him-d!d he take money-to break our engage mentT'
 "Nna, what horrible thought! Of course not!' Harriet could fortunate ly answer In perfect honesty.
 "Oh, Harriet" the girl caught her hands, turning sick and imploring eyes toward her, "are you sure?" "Nina, dear, your father would have told mer'
 "He might not-he might not" Nina said, feverishly. But if he did" she whispered, half to herself. 'Thats Pilgrim, I rang for her." she said, of knock on her own door. Ask my father to come up, will youf" she said to the maid when Pilgrim appeared. "We1l settle it now."
 "Nr. Carter Is just coming up." Pil- grim said. And a moment later Rich ard, with an interested face, came through Nina's room, and joined them. Harriet had had time only to knot her | hair back careleSsly, and slip into the | most formal of her big Chinese coats. Father" Nina said, when they three were alone together. "did Royal Blon- uiU take cneck IFOlu you tSil uitS S | ago?"
 Richard, taken unaware, glanced sharply at Harriet, who shook her ! head. with an anxious look. He sat down beside Nina on the bed, and put fatherIy arm about her.
 "Ah, Father, don't put me off" the girl begged "I wrote him, after my birthday" she said. "and told him l that money made no difference to me. l He didn't answer. Then I got Bruce l Hopper to ask his mother to have Blondin meet her at the club for tea, and I saw him then. Bruce" Nina cast in, still in the new, self-contalned tone, "has been wonderful about 1t! know he only seems silent sort of boy. but I'll never forget what he's done for mel Royal" she resumed, . didn't want to see me, and said he had promised Father t,,lt 1t was over.
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She turned. discovered here In the very center of his own private apart ment. He was standing moi three feet away from her. For a second they stared at each other with a sort of mutual trepidatiOn.
 "lIello!" he said; then matter-of- factly, "I brought home a paper to- night; wanted Unger to see it! l left it in the suit I wore"
 He stepped to the dressing room, and prObed in a pocket, without nov ing his pleasant look from her.
 Giving my room the once over?" he said. -..
 'Nina left the door open. I've never been in here before," Harriet said, try ing to make her voice as natural as his own. Confused and ashamed, she was hardly conscious of what she said.
 "Here we are!" Richard glanced at the nGper he had foura. "See here" re said, presently, going to a win dow, "come here a minute, l want to show you this! You see" they were both looking out into the moonlight now, you see, this Is where l propose to build on that big room downstairs, throw the library into the blue room, and have big sleeping porch upstairs here" he explained. Perfectly feasi- ble. and yet it will make different house of it !"
 Harriet commented interestedly enough. But she heard his voice rather than his words, and saw only the well-grOomed, black-clad figure, the shining patent-leather shoes, the fine hand that indicated the changes.
 Perhaps he was conscious of confu- sion, too, for his words stopped and presently they were looking at each other in strange silence, Richard still smiling, Harriet wide eyed.
 Then suddenly lis strong arms held her close, and her blue, frightened eyes were close to his, and she felt everything else in the world slip away from her except the exquisite knOwl' edge that she loved this man with all her heart and soul.
 q want to tell you something Richard said, quickly and incoherent ly. ''I want you to know that l love you-I think I've always loved you this wasn't h our bond. tnow. but
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Aren't you-ever-going to under. stand?"
 For long minute they looked into each others eyes.
 Harriet, do you mean it?" Richard said then, simply
 "Yes," she answered, q mean it :! I've always meant 1t. Pve always loved you, I think. No man could want any woman to love him more !''
 The blue eyes so near his own were misty with sudden tears. In the de- serted little lane, in the blue summer morning and the green shade of the sycamOres, they were alone. Richard put his arms about her.
 And for moment he held all the beauty and fragrance and laughter and tears that was Harriet close to his heart; the soft hair tumbled, the brown, firm young hand resting on his shoulder, the warm cheek against bis own.
 A breeze rustled through the branches high above them; the blue river, beyond the brick wall, flowed on in an even sheet of satin; two birds looped the enclosure in a sudden twittering flight; and from the stable region came the plan- tive bleating of mother sheep. But to Harriet and Richard the world was all their own.
 My wife!' said Richard Carter.
 (THE END.)
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think I couldn't have wanted you so without loving you! Tiff the time comes, Harriet, when you can care for me, you'll tell me. won't you? That's all I want. just to know that you will tell me. You're going to tell me, your self! I'm going to make you love me! I'll be patient-Tll not hurry you-but some day you'll have to tell me that rve-rve won you."
 He had spoken swiftly, almost sten- ly, with a sort of desperate determina- tien. Now he freed her arms as sud denly as he had grasped them, and added. in a lower tone:
 "Until that time I'll not-nOt even kiss the top of your hair, Harriet" he said
 In the mad rushing of her senses she could not find the right word but she detained him with an entreat- ing hand. Her eyes. shining with a look that he had never seen there be- fore. were fixed on his. But Richard did not look at her eyes. fe looked down at the hand she had iaid on his own.
 "I don't think" Harriet said. breath lcssly, that I can ever like you any more than I dow
 She had meant 1t for surrender; her heart was beating wildly with the glorious shame of a proud woman who gives herself. But Richard was not looking at the betraylng eyes. In the great new love that had swept him from all his old moorlngs there was q deep humility. He only heard her say that she could never learn to love him. He bent his head over her finger tips, and kissed. them, as he said quietly:
 But I'm going to try to make you just the samei'
 Then he was gone. and Harriet was standing alone in the softly lighted room. For few moments she re- ma'ned perfectly still, with her white hands pressed to her burning cheeks. Then, shaken with joy and surprise with a delicious terror and something of a child's innocent chagrin, she went noiselessly back to her own room. closed the communicating door, and undreSSed with pauses for the dreams that would come creeping over body and soul, and hold her fin their exquisite stiffness for long min utes together.
 She was brushing her hair when Nina suddenly appeared, and came lifelessly in to sit on the edge of Harriet's bed.
 'I want to ask you something!" Nina said. in an odd voice. And.
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CHAPTER XVI.

After that life took on mysterious fragrance and beauty that made every hour of it an intoXicatiOn to the mas ter and mistress of Crownlands. The fact that their secret was all their own was all the more enchanting. To the domestic staff. to the children, to the outside world, life went upon it's usual smooth way. MT. Carter would be in town tonight. lIr. Carter was detained at the office, Mrs. Carter was chaperon- ing the young people, there were flow .ers for Mrs. Carter. That was all Bot tomley and Pilgrim and Ward and NJ ma saw.
 But to Harriet and Richard the de- liciOuS, secret game of hideand- d-go-s seek made everything else in the world in- significant. Harriet opened the boxes of flowers he sent her with heart sui to be absent from the dinner table over which she presided with an az ony of renunciation that almost made him feel ill. When he chanced one day to meet her with Nina, in breezy, awninged summer restaurant, the sight of the slender figure thrilled him as he had never been thrilled by any woman he had ever known. He was to speak to her, to hear her voice e! One day he bought her shoes; in the shop she looked at him for approval. He thought the shoes, low shoes with buckles, that showed the silk-clad an- kle, very suitable and pretty. He was thrown into sudden confusion when the shoe clerk turned to him with a murmured mention of the price.
 Ten dollars? Richard fumbled for his purse. He had met her walking alone in the Avenue; she had said that she must get shoes. Hundreds of other men were presumably buying their wives shoes, up and down the bril- liant street. But Richard found the adventure shaking to the soul.
 "They're lovely shoes." Harriet said.
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Vote for three)

(Vote for three) (to vote for the organization Of said district make cross CD in the square opposite the words Irrigation District - Yes; to vote against the organization of said district place a cross CD mark in the square oppo- site the words Irrigation District - No. Vote for three directors placing cross CD in the square opposite the names of those desired to be voted for.)
 c. E. OWENS, Chairman, Board of Supervisors. ATTEST:
 M. R. TANNER,
 Clerk, Board of Supervisors,
 Navajo County, Arizona. The Clerk of the Board of Super visors is hereby ordered and directed to cause this said notice to be pub lished and posted as herein above pro- vided for and cause sufficient sup ply of ballots and election supplies to be printed and rendered to the cleo tion officers hereinbefore appointed to conduct said election.
 Dated at the office of the Board of Supervisors of Navajo County, State of Arizona, at Holbrook, Arizona, this sixth day of March, A. D. 1922.
 c. E. OWENS, Chairman, Board of Supervisors. ATTEST:
 M. R. TANNER, Clerk, Board of Supervisors.
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Continued from page 5

State of Arizona, Legislature of 1921, and so far as applicable in accordance with the general election laws of the State of Arizona.
 The following named persons are hereby appointed as judges to con- duct said election herewith:
 D. Brinkerhoff,
 Levi Brinkerhoff,
 Jesse Dewitt,
 one of whom shall act as Clerk of the election. The said question to be submitted to the qualified electors of said pro- posed irrigation district shall appear upon the official ballot and shall be substantially in the following form: No. -----.-.--.-.........(t to be tom eff by in spector.)
 ................. EVAPORATION ................ BALLOT FOR IRRIGATION DISTRICT ELECTION Woodruff Irrigation District, Satur- day, April 9th, 1922. Irrigation District Yes Irrigation District ....-.........-... No 1 Names of qualified electors to be voted for for Directors at large in said proposed district: James Brinkerhoff ........................ R. L. Ison ......................... F J. D. Smithson ......................-....-.... Marion V. Gibbons ........................C - Albert Hatch ..a Hyrum Hurley ...:.......-.- 
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CONTINUE WAR
 ON LLITERACY.
Western States Convention Takes Advanced Ground in Fight.

We print thefollowing ex- cerpts from an article in the Yuma Morning Sun. Lack of space forbid it's entire in- sertion, but it is a topic which should meet with the warmest interest from all thinking men and women. F "At the Illiteracy Confer Ience of the Western States, Iheld under the auspices of fthe llliteracy Commission of |the National Education As sociation at the Fairmont Hotel. in San Francisco, February 3 and 4, 1922, Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, Chair man, presided. About three hundred delegates were in attendance representing the eleven Western States. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, chair man of the convention is the originator of the idea for a complete elimination of il- literacy in this country, hav- ing'instituted her great work in the mountains of Ken lucky, in 1911, and later hav- ing carried this campaign in- to every school district in the Blue Grass state in the form of Moonlight schools. While Arizona stands about third among the states in the entire Union in a we'll organized educational sys- tem, yet the number of il- literates, according to the last national census in Ari- zona, is astonishing in the extreme. Of the eleven Western states representedin this conference, Arizona was surpassed in literacy by nine. Nearly 15 per cent of the population of this State were classed in the 1920 census as illiterates. Several of the States represented in this conference are reported with about 3 per cent of Hitter ates.
 In the meantime l trust that every daily and weekly newspaper in this state, as all magazines and j. ull-aIs will publish these resolutlons in full so that every teacher in the state as we'll as club women and members of or ganizations may read and digest the scope of the work to be done by, the Illiteracy Commission.
 This letter was signed by Arnoldas H. Mcclure and following it are a digest of the resolutions taken by the meeting.
 "We pledge ourselves to the prompt elimination, the entire wiping out, of every evidence of illiteracy on the part of every person within our nation whose mental cap- acity renders him educable in the essentials of literacy. This problem should be gen. erously supported, from state funds and likewise from national funds.
 We urge the enactment of legislation on the part of the United States government which shall provide definite and thoroughly adequate education for the Indian population in the United States and which shall limi' immigration to those persois only who are evidently lite rate and who are likewise mentally capable of continu- ed educational growth.
 We urge, also the unrest ricted use of the public school plant throughout any portion of the twenty-four hours of each of the six work ing days of the week on the part of all responsible agen- cies in furtherance of the accomplishment of the above ends.
 H. B. Wilson, California Chairman.
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Reading maketh a full man. ;" This probably refers to one of the best cellars. New York American.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-21

In commenting editoriaAy upon her
election. the Silver City Independent
says: Grant county in according
Miss Isabel l.. Eckles, Democratic
candidate for state superintendent Of
schools, a magnificent majority of over
1900 last Tuesday, paid Miss Eckles
a fully deserved tribute of affection
and recognition. This majority was
the largest ever accorded any candi-
date in the history CT the county. 1t
proves that the people OF Grant county
appreciate Miss Ecllles' years Of de-
voted effort to education in the county
and state. Miss Eclxles is the first
woman ever elected to a state offic q
In New Mexico. Under her guidance
the cause of education in this state
will make unprecedented progress.
Her nomination was unsolicited. She
was drafted by her party's convention
TO make the race because of her emf
nent qualifications. She made no
campaign, yet was elected by one of
the largest majorities ever given a
candidate at an election in New
Mexico. Grant county and the State
Normal regret to lose Miss Eckles, bu:
as state superintendent of public in
struction she will enter a broader edu-
cational field in which she can render
q greater measure of public service
The Independent predicts that the
administration of Miss Eckles as head
OF the State Department of Education
will be the most successful, the mos
efficient, and the most satisfactory
since that Office was created"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-21
DEATHS.

'i 49, Mch SSlf e'i Finn on November ~
Relatives, friends and employees of
Pennsylvania railroad car shops are in.
vitcd to attend the funeral from the resi-
dence OF Mrs. McCue. 204 East seventh
street. on Wednesday morning at $40
Church Interment Holy Cross cemetery.
Dover, Del, on arrival Of train leaving
Wilmington l0.i6 a m.
| FIRTH In this city. on November 10
1922, Joe. NJ Firth. aged 90 years.
Relatives. friends. members OF Jscob' s
| Camp. Modern Woodmen and employees
| of the Pussy & Jones Co. are invited to
| attend the funeral services at his late
Thursday afternoon. November "a. az
2 O'Clock Interment silverbrook come
terry. .N2o-1
! M'DOwELL-At her late residence. 1922
| Market street. on November 10. 1922,
Mary v, widow Of Edward Mcdowell
Rolstives and friends are invited TO at
tend the funeral services ut the chapel at
on "Wednesday afternoon. November ~. at
Brandywine cemetery.
sMITH-on November 10, 1922. Anna
a; n.Ncili. widow OF William f. Smith
Relatives and friends are invited To at
| tend the funeral at the funeral parlors Of
Chandler II. Gebhart. New Castle Dol.
| on NeuTehuay morning. november -. AZ
Q O'CLOCK. Requiem high MACS at ST
Paurs Church. Delaware City, at 10
O'Clock, Interment at Sc. Paul's GENE
terry, Delaware City. Del
SMITH-At Hillcrest. Del. on November
20. 1922. George b. Smith. aged 70 years
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral services at his late resi-
| depce. Gordon avenue and Marsh road
Iillcrest. on Thursday afternoon, Novem.
| Der 90 at O'Clock. Interment at Lawn
croft cemetery.
SWEENEY--At ToushKenamon. Pa. or
November 10. 1922. Miles Sweeney
aged 76 years
Relatives and friends are invited TO at
tend the funeral from his late residenc,
on Wednesday morning November %
at 9 O'Clock. High mass at st. Patrick
Church, Kenneth Square at 10 O'Clock
Interment at ST. PatricK's cemetery.
WALTHER-ln this city. on Novembe
, 20, 1922, Elizabeth A.. wife OF ALDER
Walther. aged 90 years. eight months
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral services at her late resi
dence. 604 West Fourth street. on Wed
nesday afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock. In
terment private.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-21
DIR. SYPHERD ADDRESSES
ST. JAMES BROTHFRHOOp

DR.. W. O. Sypherd Of the University
of Delaware addressed the 81. James
Brotherhood Of Grace NJ, Il. Church.
in the church house, last night. on
The Literary Values of Luke" DR..
Benjamin Johns. new pastor OF the
church. was present at the meeting
and made a brief address. A. A. Atchi
son sang two bass solos. ]. w Miller
president, presided.
A nominating committee, compris-
ing J. w. Lattomus. chairman. w. w
Van SAINT and Clarence Mckay. was
appointed 10 nominate new officers
and present the names at the next
business meeting, II was announced
that the committee in charge OF ban
ouet preparation shopes TO secure Ever
EFT c. Johnson for speaker at the affair
The committee Is headed by William,
Harris. The banquet will be held De
cember IA
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-21
|MARSHALLTON CHURCH
| DEDICATED SUNDAY
Fine. New Structure Will be
Placed in Service With Ap-
propriate Ceremony.

The program for the dedication Of
the new Methodist Episcopal Church
at Marshalton is In readiness for
the exercises. which will take place
Sunday, November 20. at the evening
service.
Rev. II. V. Johnson, ID. -. OF Wash
lngton, ID. c. who Is an able speaker,
will preach In the morning, Rev.
Carlisle Ia Hubbard, ID. d.. of St
Paurs Methodist Episcopal Church,
Wilmington will preach at 2.30 p. IN.
and at 730 p. m. Rev r. Y. Johnson
will preach short sermon, after
which the dedicatory services will be
held and will be conducted by DIR,
Robert Watt. Supt. of Wilmington
District of the Wilmington Confer
ence.
Special invitations have been sent
TO former pastors and the day prom
Uses to be the greatest in the history
of Marshallton.
There was a large crowd at the
corner stone laying on July %, but
now that the church is completed
and being one of the finest in rural
New Castle county, an even greater
gathering is expected TO attend the
dedicatory exercises.
The ladies' of the church will serve
sandwiches and coffee to those who
wish to stay, and provision will be
made for any who wish TO bring
their lunch, as the social hall of the
church will be put In readiness to take
care of seating several hundred
people
The main auditorium of the church
with tho Sunday school rooms com
hined. has a fiooC space of over 1920
square feet, while the Social Hal
has $500 square feet.
The new structure Is only in keep
ing with the growth of the commun'
ity and being situated on the Lincolr
Highway. with both the trolley ant
bus line running into Wilmington
and also direct bus service TO tn,
University of Delaware and the VIII
mington High School make II mos
convenient location for those desiring
! to live in the suburbs.
The public school grades are dis
iributed over the town for lack o
room IN the main school house, tire
other buildings being utilized 70
portions of the classes and Il Is hope
that Marshallton may soon be abb
TO have a school house which sha
also be In keeping with its growth
as therej are nearly 800 pupils no
on the roll