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WHERE'S DUNCAN?
OW, do you know you young
N people are mighty queer?
Somebody has told you that he
heard ofd man Jsalah Winchell a-gab-
RPN bling about old,
? ‘g times, and here‘
: ; you come fishing
i ; s : for what you call!
. ‘ a story. Why,
e 8 bless your soul,
P SB®o 88 man, It is no sto
? i Lt -ry at all, just a
‘»lfi!g‘,:; ¥ . happening, as my
e ’%fif . wife used to say.
e wA% 1 If you want me to
i*‘“ Feilgic F 7 tell what there is
8, W . of it, there must
FHiE .«g"' :be some under
& 2iR 4 standing about it,
: '».«"W‘i 4 You know what
- Sials :1 ought to be left
3 i # out. I would know
¥ myself, I reckon,
i if 1 stopped to
think it all over,
but there's the trouble. When I get
started, I just rattie along like a run
away horse. I'm all motion and no
sense, and there's no stopping me un
til I run over a stump or up against a
fence, And if I tried to write it out, it
would be pretty much the same. When
|l take a pen in my hand my mind
takes all sorts of uncertain flights,
like a pigeon with a hawk after it.
As to the affair you were speaking
of, there's not much to tell, but it has
pestered me at times when I ought to
have been in my bed and sound asleep.
1 have to¥l it a thousand times, and
the rest of the Winchells have told it,
thinking it was a very good thing to
have in the family. It has been ex
aggerated, too; but if I can carry the
faects to your ear just as they are in
my mind, T shall be glad, for T want to
get everything straight from the be
ginning.
' Well, it was in 1826, Thaf seems a
long time ago to you, but it is mo
longer than yesterday to me. 1 was
i 8 years old, and a right smart chunk
of a boy for my age. While we were
ginning and packing cotton our over
seer left us, and my father turned the
whole business over to me. Now, you
may think that was a small thing,
bécause this Hu’l{uad business has
turned your head] but, as a matter of
fact, it was a very big thing. It fell
to me to superintend the ginning and
the packing of the cotton, and then 1
was to go to Augusta in charge of
two wagons. [ never worked harder
before nor since. You see, weé had no
packing screws nor cotton presses in
those days. The planter that was
able to afford it had his gin, and the
cotton was packed in round bales by
4 nigger who used something like a
crowbar to do the packing. He tram
pled the lint ¢otton with his feet,
and beat it down with his iron bar
until the bagging was full, and then
the bale weighed about 300 pounds.
Naturally you laugh at this sort of
thing, but it was no laughing matter;
it was hard work.
Well, when we got the cotton all
prepared, we loaded the wagons and
started for Augusta. We hadn’t got
more than two miles from home he
fore I found that Crooked-leg Jake,
my best driver, was drunk. He was
beastly drunk, Where he got his
dram I couldn’'t tell you to save my
life, for it was against the law in
those days to sell whisky to a nigper.
But Crooked-leg Jake had it, and he
was full of it, and he had to be pulled
off of the mule and sent to roost on
top of the cotton bags. It was not
& very warm roost, either, but it was
warm enough for a nigger full of
whisky.
This was not a good thing for me
at all, but T had to make the best of
it. Moreover, I had to do what I had
never done hefore—ll had to drive six
mules, and there was only one rein to
drive them with. This was the fash
icn, but it was a very difficult mat
ter for a youngster to get the hang of
it. You Jerk, jerk, jJerked, if you
wanted the lead mule to turn te the
right, and you pull, pull, pulled, if vou
you wanted her to go the left. While
we were going on in this way, with
a sfubborn mule at the wheel and a
drunken nigger on the wagon, sud
denly there came out of the woods a
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thick -set, dark-featured, black-beard
ed man with a bag slung across his
shoulder.
“Hello!” says he. 'You must be a
new hand.”
“It would take a very old hand’
sald I, “to train a team of mules to
meet you in the road.”
“Now, there you have me,” sald he;
and he laughed as if he were enjoy
ing a very good joke.
“Who hitched up your team?” he
asked.
“That drunken nigger,” sald L
“To be sure,” said he; “I might
have known !t. The lead-mule 18 on
the off side.”
“Why, how do you know that?” I
asked,
“My two eyes tell me,” he replied;
“they are pulling crossways.” And
with that, without asking anybody's
permission, he unhitched the traces,
unbuekled the reins and changed the
places of the two front mules. Tt wun‘
all done in a jiffy, and in such a
light-hearted manner that no protmt‘
could be made; and, indeed, no pro
test was necessary, for the moment
ihe team started 1 could see that the
strang:r was right. There was no
more fjerking and whipping to be
done. We went on in this way for a
' mile or two, when suddenly [ thought
‘m ask the stranger, who was trudg
ing along good-humoredly by the side |
of the wagon, if he wounld like to rlda.}
He laughed and sald he wouldn’t mind
it If T wonld let him straddle the‘
}aadd]a-mufi!; and for my part I had
no objections.
~ 8o I crawled up on the cotton and
lay there with Crooked-leg Jake. 1
‘had been there only a short time
‘when the nigger awoke and saw me.
He looked scared.
“Who dat ¢ tvin' dem mules, Marse
Isalah?” he asked.
“I eouldn’t tell you even if you were
sober,” said L. “The lead-mule wad
hitched on the off-gide, and the man
that is driving rushed out of the
woods, fixed her right, and since then
we have been making good time”
“Is he a sho’ 'nuff w'ite man, Marse
Isaiah?" asked Jake,
“Well, he looks like he is,” sald I;
“but I'm not certain about that.”
With that Jake crawled to the front
of the wagon, and looked over at the
driver. After a while he came crawl
ing back.
“Tell me what you saw,” sald I.
“Well, sir,” said he, “1 dunner whe'er
dat man's a w'ite man or not, but he's
a-gettin’ sideways on dat saddle
mule, en every time he chirps, dat
lead-mule know what he talkin’ about.
Yesser, She do dat. Did you say he
come outen de woods?”
“I don’t know where he came from,”
said 1. “He's there, and he's driving
the mules.”
“Yesser. Dat's so. He's dar sho’,
kaze I seed ''m wid my own eyes.
He look like he made cuten flesh en
blood, en yit he mought be a ha'nt;
dey ain’'t no tellin’. Dem dar mules
is gwine on mos' too slick fer ter suit
me."”
Well, the npshot of it was that the
stranger continued to drive. He made
himself useful during the day, and
when night came he made himself
musical; for in the pack slung across
his back was a fiddle, and in the ma
nipulation of this {instrument he
showed a power and a mastery which
are given to few men to possess. I
doubt whether he would have made |
much of a show on the stage, but I,
have heard some of your modern!
players, and noné of them could ap-'
proach him, according to my taste.|
'l tell you why. They all seem to
play the music for the music itseif.
but this man played it for the sake of
what it reminded him of. I remember |
that when he took out his fiddle at|
night, as he invariably did if nobody
asked him to, I used to shut my eye-‘
and dream dreams that T have never!
dreamed since, and see visions that|
‘are given to few men to see. If l!
were younger, | could describe it to|
you, but an old man like me is not
apt at such descriptions,
We journeyad on, and, as we jour
ineyed, we were joined by other wag
ons hauling cotton, until, at last,
there was quite a earavan of them -
twenty,at least, and possibly more.
This made matters very lively, as you
may suppose, especlally at night,
when we went into camp, Then there
were scenes such as have never been
described In any of the books that
profess to tell about life in the
South before the war. After the teams
had been fed and supper cooked, the
niggers would sing, dance and wroes
tle, and the white men would gather
to egg them on, or sit by thelir fires
and tell stories or play cards. Some
times there would be a fight, and that
[waa exciting; for in those days the
‘shotgun was mighty handy and the
dirk was usually within reach. In
fact, there was every amusement that
such a crowd of people could manage
to squeeze out of such an occasion,
In our caravan there were more than
a dozen fiddlers, white and black, but
not one of them that attracted as
much attention as the stranger who
drove my team. When he was In the
humor he could entrance the whole
camp; but it was not often that he
would play, and it frequently hap
pened that he and T would go to bed
under our wagon while the rest of the
teamsters were frolicking. I had dis
covered that he was a good man to
have along. He knew just how to
handle the mules, he knew all the
roads, he knew just where to camp,
and he knew how to keep Crooked
leg Jake sober. One night after we
had gone to bed he raised himself on
his elbow and said:
“Tomorrow night, if T make no
mistake, we will camp within a few
miles of the Sandhills. Theres my
Journey ends, and yet you have never
asked me my name.”
(Copyright, 1881, 1883 and 1911, by the
Centlry Company; 1883 by Joel Chandler
Hfrfln; 1911 hy ¥sther Taßose Harris
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Printed by
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with Houghton, Mifflin Company.)
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.) I
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On next Tuesday and Wednesday, De
cember 17 and 18, the war mothers of
Atlanta and vicinity will open a pantry
in room No. 81, Arcade Building. Com
mittees will be on hand from 8 a. m.
to 2 3 m. both days to recelve supplies
and delicacies donated for the sick and
wounded men at Fort McPherson and
Camp Gordon.
Everr mother in Atlanta and vieinity,
as well as the wives, frandmothera.
daughters, sisters and aunts, are invited
to send to this “antry mmethlnfi for the
noble men who have made sacrifices and
are now suffering.
Jellies, preserves, sweet pickles, fresh
fruits, dates, cakes, candles, beaten bis
cuit and fresh eggs are suggested for
stocking the pantry, together with a
'?Odt book, a late magazine or a growing
plant,
The committees follow:
Tuesday--Mrs. Henry Ittner, chalr
man; Mesdames John 1. Tye, J. W. Be
dell, W. H. Adkins, Herman Cronheim,
M. L. Brittain, M. B. Palmer, James A.
lek‘:{. Warren White, Edwin Stewart,
Wednesday—Mrs. 1. P. Rosser, chair
man; Mesdames T. P. Connell, M. D.
Pade% C. H. Ashford, Robert I. Fore
man, D, P. Lopez, Vassar Woolley, Har
ry Schlesinger, W. A, Wimbish, B. L
onnally.
Navy Dance.
One of the features of the navy dance
of the Georgia School of Technology,
which takes place Friday evening at the
Capital City Club, will be the musical
numbers rendered by the Dick Tope or
chestra. Dancing will begin at 10
o'clock and continue until 2 o'clock.
Debutantes Plan Script Dance.
Miss Henrletta Tuxg‘)or, president of
the club, announces at there will be
nvflgt dance given by the Debutantes on
Wednesday evening of next week at
§:3O o'dlock at the Capital City Club.
The proceeds will go to the Christmas
trees and entertainments for the conva
lescent soldiers at General Hm{mnl No.
6, at Fort McPherson. A special orches
tra will provide musie during the eve
ning and dancing will contlnue untd a
| late hour,
Cathollc Committee of K, of C,
A special meeting of all the Catholic
women on training camp activities l!
called for Friday, December 13, at
o'clock in the pavish hfll of the Sacred
Heart Rectory.
Plans for the celebration of Chrhtnw;
|ln the K. of C. huts will be completed.
'and every Catholic woman s Invited to
'attend and help with the work.
! Mrs. E. A, Kalkhurst, Mrs, J. A, Alex
ander and Mrs. J. B, MeCallum will be
in charge of the workrooms In the parish
hall of the Sacred Heart Rectory Fri
|day from 9 to b o'clock. The knitted
blanket donated to the auxiliary was
awarded to Miss T. 1. Larsen.
| Dinner Party Planned.
| Lieutenant Kent will be host at a
idlnner party at the Pledmont Driving
! Club on Saturday evem&g. his guests
to include Misses Julia urpra\;. Cath
erine lealnrl, Margaret hitman,
Tdeutenant Allan Gottchaldt and Lieu
tenant Rollins. .
Scxooll fnur‘t‘alnmm. ol
n interesting program e glven
at the W, F. F#aton School F’r\iflny at 3
o'clock by a girls’ elub directed by Su
san Clayton,
A small admission fee will be asked
and the proceeds used for the wounded
soldiers at Fort McPherson,
Tackey Panfi
The Ira Street Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation will give a tackey {nuty on the
school grounds Friday afternoon, De
cember 13, from 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock
The public and school children are cor
dially Invited to attend,
There will be a sale of fancy goods,
fams, jellies, canned goods, also a fish
pond and fortune teller. Prize for the
tackiest _boy and tackiest girl will be
{lven. The proceeds of the party go
oward payment for a Liberty bond. Ad
mission 10e,
Joseph Habersham Chapter to Meet.
The Joseph Habersham Chapter, D. A.
R, wlll| meet Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock In the Sunday se¢hoo! room of St
Mark Methodist Church, It will be a
gpocial meeting of the chapter, and the
nkhvem of the church have offered the
room through oour\"g to the members,
The full report of the festival dinner
will be given at the meeting.
A guest of honor at the chapter meet
ing will be Mrs. Royal Ingersoll, who is
spending the winter as the guest of her
arents, Mr, and Mrs. J. M. Van Har-
Rnan on Bast Third street, while her
husband, Commander Ingersoll, is In
Il‘lnriu with the American peace commis-
Rion,
Christmas Bazaar,
The ladies of Inman Park Baptist
Church will hold a Christmas bazaar all
dey Friday and SBaturday at Kenny's
Tea and Coffee store, on Whiethall
street. Many articles suitable for Christ
mas gifts and also eanned frults and jel- |
lies will be on male. |
The ladies In ehn?a ask the utronure \
of thelr friends and the general publie.
' Christmas Bazaar,
The Woman's Missionary Unlon of the
Central Baptist Church will hold a
Christmas bagaar on Friday and Satur
day In the Arcade Hulk"ns.
a‘uncy articles of all kinds, Christmas
mfirnuom. will be on sale, and the
public 1s condinily invited. T
A Lofths Perfection Dismond Ring for & Christ-
R‘m will make any woman's heamt glad
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Driving Club Plans
Holiday Festivities
Announcement was e Thursday by
the managemeént of the\Piedmont Driv
ing Club of the holiday program of en
tertainments to be given by the club.
On Wednesday afternoon the club will
entertain at a tea-dance in the ball
room from & to 7 o’clock.
There will be a regular dinner-dance
on Saturday evening, December 21, and
on Christmas night the club will enter
{)&llr'l 300 guests at their usual Christmas
all,
Following will be the regular Saturday
evening dinner-dance on December 28,
Elaborate preparations are bheing
made for the ball on New Year's Eve.
Officer Candidates
Give binner-Dance
The ecandidates of the Twenty-fifth
eompany, Central Officers Training
School at Camp Gordon, were hosts at a
brilllant dinner-dance Wednesday eve
ning, at the Piedmont Driving club. The
dinner was served at tables placed In
the ballroom, which were decorated
with red and white chrysanthemums and
small American flags.
The patronesses were Mr, and Mrs.
John 8. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. James D,
Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Veasey Rain
water, Mr, and Mrs. Qeorfm Street, Cap
tain and Mrs, James Palmer, and Mrs.
Spencer Struble.
The guest invited were Misses Dor
othy Dougm.s. Marie Stoddard, Floise
Robinson, Hazel Nelson, Marjorie Brown,
Nellie Dodd, Mary Nelson, Henrietta
Tupper, Sara Kenned{, Henrietta, Davis,
Mary Stewart, Nell Choate, Isabel
Amorous, Rehecca Walker 'Vir%l‘r‘nla.
Hand, Rudene Becht, Hallie Poole, Fliz
abeth Martin, Georgia Rice, Emil&Weut.
Dorothy Arkwr;fiht, Maude riton,
Martha Collier, Margaret Whitman,
The cadet officers included Ralih An
derson, George Anderson Frank An
derson, E. R. Anderson, Charles Ansley,
Hal Aromson, J, H. Atkins, 1. L. Dal{.
Irvin Barber, Paul Dear, George Bech,
John Beching, Woodson Bercaw, Wil
liam Dill, J. B. Broswell, Otto Bristow,
Ralph Hrnadrug‘. William Brotherton,
Rupert Bush, Frank Butter, Joseph
Carlson, Thomas Campbell, Willlam
Chn‘m;an, Hall Collins, Walter Couse,
David " Crownhart, M. J. Cunnh}fham.
William Dacey, John Dowman, George
Da.n:% 0. B. Dawes, SBtanley DeHa
ven, Wilburn Delizer, Richard Detscher,
Robert Delks, John Dodery, Harold
Dwyer, Harvey Edwards, James Klliott,
Albert Xsher, Harris Bvans, Ralph
Seely, Charles Perkerson, Herbert Fin
nignn Russell Finney, George Fitzger
ald, éidnay Foucher, Ray Fowler, Gor
don Gardner, G. Getsinger, George Gil
bert, Milton Geist, John D. Ginnotchio,
G. James Gooden, W, B. Goodnow Jokn
L. Goodrich, Raymond Grismer, Emory
Gross, Albert Gustaffon, F. J, Gutberlet,
Miss Teute
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Maggie Teyte, the famous Metropoli
tan star and concert singer, arrived In
Atlanta early Thursday morning and is
at the Qeorgian Terrace. Miss Teyte,
who 18 one of the most diminutive stars
in grand opera, Is known and greatly
admired in Atlanta as “Mimi,’’ the lit
tle heroine of “La Boheme."” This role
alone has made Miss Teyte famous, her
interpretation of the part with the Bos.
ton Opera Company having created
something of a musical sensation here a
few seasons ago. The New York opera
public acclaimed Miss Teyte in this role
quite as heartily as did Atlantans when
she appeared in the Metropolitan a few
weeks ago,
The concert Thursday evening at the
Eggleston Memorial Hall will be the first
time Atlantans have had an opportunity
of hearing the popular young singer in
this kind of music, She created a furore
in New York last winter with her con
certs, and no less an authority than
Max Smith, The American’s music critie,
pronounced her concerts the most en
joyable to his taste of any in the great
‘geries presented in New York during
the past season.
The concert Thursday evening is one
of the numbers in the Series Intime,
gponsored by the Musiec Study Club, of
which Mrs. Armond Carroil is president.
It will be one of the most delightful mu
sical events of the season keres
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Miss Evelxn Dunson is i with in
fluenza at the home of her parents In
\’Anllay Park.
Miss Ellen O'Keefe 1s spending some
time in New York City.
Miss Eppie Clarke is eonvalenclux at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Peter F. Clarke, after an illness of
pneumonia. ‘
Mrs* Andrew Calhoun is ill with in
fluenza at her home on West Peach
tree street.
Miss Isabel Amorous will return home
from Monwomor(y. Ala., on Monday.
Mrs. Bliss W, Cook and little daughtgs
have returned home from a visit to Mrs,
J. P. Carter_in Rochelle.
James E. Fltxgutrlck is reported to be
eritically il with pneumonia at Wesley
Memorial Hospital, \
Mrs, A. W. Miller, of Rlchmond, Va.,
18 spending tbe winter with her son, H.
W. Miller, and her nlece, Mrs. W. R,
Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. North, of Rock
ford, 111.,, have returned home after a
visit to Mr. and Mrs. 8. G. North, of
Myrtle street.
Slaton. Hitt Wodquwmam.
. The marriage of Miss Lamar Slaton
and Bdward Greenway Hitt will take
Yllc. quietly on Saturday afternoon,
December 21, at 4:30 o'clock at the home
of the bride’'s uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mra, Johmn Marghall Slaton, on Peach
tree Andh Pine streets,
~ Only the immediate family and the
young ladies who were chosen to attend
Miss Slaton, before the bereavement in
the family, will witness the ceremony.
The Rev. James E. Dickey, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, will offi.
clate, and Moultrie Hitt, brother of the
bridegroom, will Act as best man.
Child Welfare Committee.
Mre, H. C, Phipps calls a meeting of
the child welfare dommittee of the At
lunta Woman's Club for ¥riday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock at thr'plubmm
on Baker street. All member#’are urged
to be present, and preparations will be
made for the Christmas tree for 500
children.
Woman's Auxiliary Meeting.
The Woman's ?u:!lb\ry to the Y. M,
C. A. will hold its mulfr meeting Fri
dlav evening, December 13, in the Boyw'
Clab room of the Y. M. C. A Bullding,
on Walton street,
A full attendance is urged, because of
8 plan to give a Christmas entertain.
ment to the two rds Rxmnnr«il by the
auxitary--Ward E‘M srt MePherson,
and Wand 8 at Camp Cordon.
All members also are urged to bring
books for the Boys' Club, jeifes for the
convalescent goldlers and knitted
squares for the quilts which are being
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The members of the Debutante Club
of 1918-19 will be hostesses at a large
dinner party on New Year's Eve. This
is the second of a series of dinner par
ties at which the club is enfertaining
during the season, the first having been
given at the Halloween ball on Oeto
ber 81. '"Phe club, which includes thir
teen m%mbers will entertain twbo guests
for each member. A number of attrac
tive matrons will be invited to chaperon
at this affair,
The regular tea-dances at which the
club entertains on Wednésday afternoon
will not begin until the first of the year.
H. W. Hargis, Louis Haslon, R. E,
Hgughton, John Hawkins, Charles Hays,
2T Ha){:n, E. R, Hoffman, A. B, Ta{lor,
Arthur Thibedeau, I. 1. Thomas, Wil
liamm Wallace, Johm Warmsley, J. Wai
lerstein, Berne Waltmeyer, F. ‘W. Wag
ner, Leo Welsh, Charles White, Rupert
Willlams, C. C. Williams, Lorenze
Winters, Arthur Wood, David Wood,
Leslie Wood, H. W, Zfi}llgler‘
E. R. Hoffman, John Howe, D. P, Hop
kins, Edgar Harwood, Edward House,
8. B. Hubbard, John Jacobs, Carl Ja
cobs, Edward Kane, Joseph Kane, D. H,
Keller, Clay Keller, Elmer Mayer, E. L.
Miller, Homer Millican, Ernest Mitchell,
1. W. Matton, Hall Morford, P. J. Mo
riarity, W. M. Morrison, George Moon,
Joseph Mulholland, A. B. Myron, Georfe
Nevinsg, Charles Newman, James Nlc%s,
Hdward Nolan, James Wardell, William
O'Donnell, H. F. Kimberly, P. E. King,
L. Kllnger‘Arthur Kline,Wade Knowlton,
G. N. LaFonte, Charles Lane, Sam lLa-
Penta, B. L. Larrison, Moses Luffmon,
John Learn, Joseph Logue, R. G. Lord,
Robert Lott, Edgar Lowe, George Lyon,
Robert MeConnell, P. A. McCormick,
John McFadden, Richard McGehee, Paul
MeKith, Thomas MeMahon, Wallace Mc-
Mahon, J. H. McVeigh, E. A. McWil
liams, George Madden, Charles Marks,
Willlam Marks, W. J. Mather, K. B.
Matheson, John Maurer, T. M. Philpot,
Pdward Read, Richard Riley, B. E
Richter, P. G. Robertson, John Robin
son, H, A. Rogers, Elmer healer. Walter
Russell, J. G, Silverman, Lloyd Short,
Morston Smith, Charles Sheldon, Walter
Scott, Lamar Schnabel, Joseph Shea,
Herbert Shellwood, P. K. Shaw, Ralph
Steinmetz, Paul Swarthontz, Catherine
Giddings, Madeline MecCullough, Patty
McGehee, Margaret McCarty and others.
The officers of the Twenty-ffth-€om
pany include Captain Marshall R. Diggs,
commander.
First Lieutenants Noble Ladd and Ce
cil A. Barlow.
Second Lieuetnants James McKline,
Arthyur Lyle, Douglas Graham, F. E.
Dinsmore and Leroy E. Bray.
Red Cross Meeting.
Inereasing interest is belng shown in
the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call and
the Masque which will take Plnce on
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By ANN LISLE. :
(Copyright by Kings Reatures Syndl
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CHAPTER LV.
NCE upon a time I learned a quo
tation from Robert Louis Steven
son. It has returned to haunt me
now. .
“SBO long as we love, we serve; so long
as we are loved by someone I would
almost say that we are indispensable
and no man is useless while he has a
friend.”
But I hadn’t a friend in all the city—
and I hadn't served Neal. So 1 was
just about useless.
Those were ugly gray moments I spent
leaning against the refectory table star.
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Neal was telling Jim the secret from
which I, his sister, was shut out—and
shut out because of my own stupid fafl
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and not an excited boy maundering
about his promotion and hls “crushes.”
Suddenly, in very shame, I tore my
self from my teiltale position and fairly
planted myself in a chair across the
room. After all, if Neal had needed
me—had actually wanted to confide in
me—he would have made another effort.
No, he preferred to go to Jim. No one
needed me.
“‘So loni as we love, we serve,”
Well—whom, then, was I serving? Not
Neal. Not Jim, either, for if there was
indeed the gambling fever in his blood,
I didn't know how to still it.
Jim and Neal-my two boys—were to
gether in the other room. [ was out
side alone. All my efforts to bring
them close had never availed. But when
they needgd each other they found
;a:h other—gravitated together without
‘No_ one ,wants me. No one needs
me. I don't even know how to help
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told myself, and sat motionless—beyond
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But I was so numb with pain that I
couldn't bring myself to respond. I just
sat there, silent and still. Agaln the
voice from behind the closed door:
‘““Annie! Annie!” ‘
I didn’t reply. I didn't matter—no
one needed me. But to myself I made
a breathless vow:
“So long as I live I will never ask
what the secret {s that Neal and Jim
have. So long ag I llve I won't pry.
They've shut me out. Well—they shall
see that 1 can accept even that with
dignity.”
They Both Appear.
Maybe martyrs look foolish to other
wople. Nevertheless they suffer. I.can
{ueur witness to this—they suffer tor
tures.
And now the closed door opened, and
in came Jim and Neal—together.
“Well, little dreamer, how about din
ner?”’ demanded Jim.
Hig tone was jovial enough, but it
had the insistence of a hungry man
when mealtime comes. I came back to
earth and 7 o'clock with a start.
There was not a single thing ready.
I had forgotten all about dinner.
The worst of it all was that this was
the one thing for whlc&l was needed.
The one way I could sefve my husband
and my brother—by preparing their
meals. I might be as miserable abouft it
as ever I liked, but revolt wouldn't free
me. I was the cook—that was all—the
cook.
1 Igat up mechanically.
“Nothing’s ready. But I'll hurry. Will
you peel potatoes for me, Neal?’
1 began distinetly, but ended on that
homey note in a sudden yearning to find
Neal again, cosy and=jolly, the red
headed boy I knew. Surely he'd come
back if got him in a kitchen apron,
laughing as usual over the thumbs he
developed when hé got a vegetable knife
well in hand. I could find the brother
1 came near losing if once I got him out
In the kitchenette. Jim would lie on
the couch and read his paper. I wanted
to shut him out now-—and be alone
;vlth Neal. But Neal didn’t gshare my
esire,
“Think I'll go out for diner. Not hun
gry vet. Take a walk first,” he muttered
uneasily.
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“Righto!" Jim replied in complete un.
derstanding.
‘“But, Neal—-you won't want to go
when I tell you the news,” I broke in,
“We's going to have company——"
““Oh, company!” Neal's hand was on
the doorknob.
“Do you want to be out when Jim's
little sister comes to dine with us? I
don’t think Phoebe would like that very
well,”” I said, trying for a ferfectJy
natural manner, with the usual results
—my mouth seemed to twist and send
out stilted, unnatural words.
““Oh, Phoebe!”
Neal's voice was still steady, held se
by a cold deternrination to act like a
man and not break down and blubber
like a hoy--of that I fel sure. He took
“his hand from the knob, and then—turn
‘ed toward the door again with a new
purpose,
¢ think I'll. just run over to the
Rochambeau and call for Phoebe,”
said he.
A Suggestion.
Jim looked up from the pawr he was
reading. His eyes caught Neal's and
held them for a second. Then, as he
:lm)!( up his reading again he spoke -
ryly:
“I wouldn't.”
Neal opened his mouth as If to pro
test, closed it again, and walked over
to the curtained recess where he hung
m’r‘ °‘°“Zf”f hing In and hangin
nstead of reaching a -
up his hat, he disappeared behind the
curtainsg with it. And nothing more was
said about calling for Phoebe. The si.
lence remained unbroken, save for the
rattle of Jim's paper as he folded back
the sheets. I went out to get the din
ner. Nothing else was required or ex
pected of me.
After a moment Jim appeared in tha
doorway.
“T'll help you,” he sald. *“T sent the
bgynout for a breath of alr—he need
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That was all. And I asked no ques
tions. Had I not vowed that so loni as
I lived I wouldn’t questiag Jim or Neal
about the secret from which they had
ghut me out?
(To Be Continued.)
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