pointed to a girl in pink gingham, passing the gate, rose quickly and ran from Jeremiah's yard through the back entrance.

She crossed a vacant lot hurriedly, her cheeks burning with indignation and a sudden realization that Jeremiah was old enough to have sense. Her heart was throbbing with such pulsations that she could hear each beat in her ears. "Jeremiah knows what women want!" called and called to her, beating time to her steps as they clattered down the pavement of the street on which she lived.

It was already dusk and in the shadows stood two men, one was her brother and the other she knew well.

"I may be old," he was saying, "but she's not going to marry him, she's going to marry me, if I've got anything to say about it, and she's not going to flit about either, she's going to make the best httle pie-baker in the West, and we're going to settle right down. I'd never think of taking her to the cold, drear old East, so I've sold my property in Jersey and put it into the coziest little home on Winton."

more.

Mary Louse heard no She crossed the lawn, her head turning in dizzy circles, one dream realized, the other nipped in the bud with the certainty of forty.

AN ADVENTURE IN COURTSHIP (Continued from Page 44)

Helen Blaine. But I wouldn't trade her for the three of them, because I know she'll fight the world hard with me-or with whatever man she would have given herself to every inch of the way."

We were silent a minute. Suddenly Jimmie rested his arms on the table and looked me square in the eyes.

"Dick," he said, "you've floated too long. The younger set is coming up and soon the 'flappers' will be saying you're 'old.' You can't be a sprinter all your life. Don't you know a 'true heart' whom you want to choose as partner in the distance run which now is facing all of us?" "Lucile might be the one-" I said thoughtfully.

"Who is she?" Jimmie demanded. "An out-of-town girl, you've never met her," I replied. "But she's wonderful

Lida was as pale as ashes, but Ruth helped her out. "I'm glad for Zack," she said. “I always liked Zack and had faith in his chin. A bad nose gives a man away and a good chin saves him. Zack's chin was all right, and he couldn't help making good."

The ringing of the doorbell interrupted her. Mrs. Madigan jumped. "I warrant that's Zack now," she said. "Well, I'll go home and tell Francis we can begin to bring the parlor suite over here tomorrow. It'll be a relief to us both."

As she went out the door Ruth and Angie looked at Lida. The doorbell was ringing for the second time.

"It is Zack," said Ruth. "And you go to the door, Lida. It's you he's come to

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With joyous beat, while I
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