Evening star., 1924-06-08

There's some lumber stored in the
| barn. I'll show you where it is and
you can start work at once"
His first glimpse of the damage he
had wrought had startled him. Then
Immediately it became a challenge.
At noon, when she went to summon
him to dinner. he had made famous
progress. She noted that, but all she
said was: Dinner is ready And
don't pay any attention to Clem.
please. He is very faithful and true,
but he is half-witted. Just now he
resents you and is inclined to be sus-
picious."
OF the latter there could be do
doubt. The loose-jointed, leathey-
faced hired man gave Tuck a furtive,
bristling glance.
"Clemr' said his mistress sharply.
The effect was magical. "Haw!"
muttered Glen, and subsided.
Shed make a darn good animal
trainer" thought Tuck. Il wonder
how she gets that way
If. when Ann Duncan was twenty,
her father had not surrendered to
the sophistry that suicide was the
only solution of the mess he had
made of his life, Ann al twenty-four
would not have been as she was.
She and her brother Bobby, who
was five years younger. were already
motheriess Bobby must continue in
school and then go to Yale. That
was absolutely final. But how?
While the problem still pressed, an
abandoned farm and still more
abandoned real estate agent had sug-
gested possibilities. So here she was
an abandoned farmeretta If she
had been less determined Of spirit
she would have quit long ago.
Instead, she had made herself a
match for the men she dealt with and
she drove as hard bargains as they
did AS for the rest-well, Bobby was
in Yale anyway. To some that might
her effort
Tuck returned to the reconstruc-
tion of the chicken coop promptly,
working the afternoon through, paus-
or take trip to the kitchen for a
glass OF water. On one such trip.
he surprised Ann about to take a
kettle of water from the stove. And
was surprised in turn because she
had discarded her khaki and wore
what seemed to be an ancient eve
ming cape. This had once been a
n
material both soft and rich, and there
wrists and collars.
Now, apparently, she used it as a
oathrobe.
please don't bother" she COM
manded as he sprang automatically
to relieve her. I'm used to waiting
on myself"
Yet even as she squelched Tuck
is one thing you can do for me-" she
said. "You can give me your prom
Use to stay here and help Clem until
I get back
Until you get back" he echoed.
i've got to go to New Haven. My
brother is at Yale and I'm afraid that
he is-sick. Clem will take the milk
to the station as usual but he must
have some help. Can you milk a
cow?''
Tuck-before whom life stretched
emptily and endlessly-actually grim
ned.
i've never had any experience, but
1 might be able to achieve the art
Its simple enough, if you don't
iii try not to-" said Tuck meekly.
Thank you. I'll see that you are
properly paid, of course"
"And anyway it will be much better
than being sent to JAIL" he reminded
her. And then. remembering her
brother, he added hastily-being
Tuck: 'T didn't mean to rub it in
of course I'll be glad to do whatever
I can"
In a moment of less stress she
might have pondered that AS it was
she bathed, dressed and departed, all
within the hour.
Don't try to talk to Clem-it just