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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1923)
_ _ y^ __/' Gv Gene Stratton-Porter SYNOPSIS. Mirhticl O'Hallornn. an orphan newsboy, adopts a little crippled girl. Dougins Brace, a young corporation lawyer. Is in terested in Mickey and in turn Interests his fiancee. Leslie Minton. Leslie and Douglas take a trip te the great swamp and become fascinated with the ‘•eng* of the birds. I^eslle decides to make another trip and invites Mrs. Min torn. wife of a prominent attorney, to accompany her. On their return Mr. Min turn breaks all relations with his wife and Mrs. Minturn disappears. Dougins Bruce and Leslie Wintoir are stunned by the happening and center their attention on Mickey whom they have de termined to adopt. (Continued from Yesterday.) Then Leslie took leave of the others, returned to the cabin, and hurried to her room to dress for her trip to bring her lover. Douglas Bruce was waiting when she stopped at the Iroquois and his greeting was joyous. Mr. Winton wras cordial, but Douglas noticed that he seemed tired and worried, and inquired if he were working unusually hard. He replied that he was, and beginning to feel the heat a little. “Then we will drive lo the country before dinner to cool off,” said Leslie, seeing her opportunity. Both men agreed that would be en joyable. After a few minutes of casual talk they relaxed while making smooth passage over city streets afld the almost equally level highways of the country. At the end of half an hour Douglas sat upright, looking around him. "I don’t recognize this," he said. "Have we been here before, Leslie?" "X think not,” she answered. ”1 don't know why. It was one of my best lowed drives. Always before we have taken the road to the clubhouse, or some of Its branches.” They began a gentle ascent, when directly across their way stretched the blue water of a lake. "Is here where we take a plunge?” inquired Douglas.__ Another Big Smashing Offer for Saturday in Quality Suits i* O’Coats .Clothes that arc alive with good style, clothes which make you appear your best, and clothes which make big returns in satisfaction. Men and Young Men Take Your Pick from Hundreds at \ Choose from fine worsteds, choose from all the new models. Many of the suits have two pairs of trousers. Widest variety of overcoat models. Never before in Omaha has $25 bought as much real clothes quality, as much style as you’ll find here Saturday. The Palace reputation for big values is gaining ground every day and this knockout $25 Suit anti Overcoat offer will simply augment that reputation. Store Open Saturday Till 9 P. M. CLOTHING COMPACT I COR,.i4» &- D0UQLA5 A "No. indeed'." answered Leslie. “Here we speed until we gather such momentum that we shoot across the water and a!igt\J on the opposite bank without stopping. Make your landing neatly, Roger!” “Why have w*> never been here before?" marvelled Douglas. "I don’.t remember any other road one-half so inviting, .lust look ahead here! See what a beautiful picture!" He indi cated a vine of creeping blackberry spreading over gold sand, its rough, deeply serrated leaves of most artistic cutting, with tufts of snowy bloom surrounding dark-tipped stamens In their centers. "Isn't It!" answered Mr. Winton. "You know what Whitman said of it?" "I'm not so well read in Whitman as you are." "Which is your distinct loss," said Mr. Winton. "It was he who wrote •A running blackberry would adorn the parlors of Heaven'.” "Ajid so it would!" exclaimed Doug las. "What a frieze that would make for a dining room! Have you ever seen it used?” “Never," answered Leslie, "or many other of our most exquisite forms of wild growth.” "What beautiful country!" Douglas commented a minute later as the car sped from the swamp, ran uphill and down a valley between stretches of tilled farm land on either side, sloping back to the lakes now growing dis tant, then creeping up a gradual in cline until Atwater flashed into sight. "Man! That's fine!” he said, rising in the car to better admire the view, at whirl) Leslie signaled the driver to run slower. "I don't remember that I ever say anything quite so at tractive as this. And if ever water invited a swimmer—that white sand bed seems to extend as far into the lake as you can see. Jove! Wasn't that a black bass under that thorn bush?” Leslie's eyes were shining while her laugh was as Joyous as any of the birds. He need not say more. There was a bathing suit in his room; In 10 minutes he could be cleaving the water to the opposite shore and have time to return before dinner. The car sped down where the road ran level with the water. A flock of waders arose and circled the lake. On the right was the orchard, the newly made garden, the tiny cabin with green lawn, hammocks swinging between trees, Indian-blankets spread, and the odor of cooking food in the air. The car stopped, Douglas sprang out and offered his hand as he saw Leslie intending descending. She took the hand and kept It in her left. With her right she included woods, water, orchard and cabin. "These are my surprise for you,” she said. "I am going to live here this summer, and keep house for you and Dad while you run and reform the world. Welcome home, Douglas!” He slowly looked around, then at Mr. Winton. "Do ygu believe her?" he asked. In creduloiwly. “Yes. Meed! Leslie has the faculty nf making good. And I'm one day ahead of you. She tried this on me last night. Hurry into your bathing suit; well swim before dinner, and then we'll fish It was great going in this morning! I'm sure you'll en joy it!” "Enjoy it!” cried Douglas. "Here Is where the paucity of our language is marie manifest.” Too happy herself for the right word. Leslie showed Douglas to his room, with Its white bed. and row of hooks, on one of which hung the bathing suit; then she went to put on her own. and they hurried to the lake. “You are happy here, Leslie?" ask ed Douglas. "Never In my life have I been so happy as I am thia moment," aald J,eslie, sklfting the clear water with her hands while she waited for her father before starting the swim to the opposite shore. ‘‘I've got the most Joyous thing to tell you.” "Go on and tell. ‘Bearer of Morn ing'," he aald. "I am so delighted I'm maudlin.” "Right over there, on the road to the clubhouse, while 'seeking new worlds to conquer’ this afternoon, I ran Into James Minturn wearing a bathing suit, to his knees In mud and water, building a sod dam for his boys." "You did?” cried Douglas. "I did!" said Leslie. "Here's the picture: A beautiful winding stream, big tree/ like these on the banks, shade and flowers, birds, and air a plenty, a fine appearing woman he introduced as his sister, a Minturn hoy catching fish with his bare hands on either bank, the brother Minturn Fruit and Nut Salad Ice Cream PINEAPPLES, Golden and juicy their rich fla vor heightened by the addition of red Maraschino Cherries and assorted Nuts! That’s theSce cream you can enjoy any time you wish for the next few days. It’s a Harding Private Brand, Quart or Pint Bricks. .Ice Cream. must have adopted legally, since he gave him his name—” "He did," interrupted Douglas. "He told me so—” “I vvgs sure of it," said Leslie. "And an interesting young man, a tutor, bringing up more sod; the hoys arted quite like any other agreeably engaged children—but Minturn him self, looking like a man 1 never saw before, down in the sand and water building a sod dam—a sod dam I'm telling you—” “I notice what you are telling me,” cried Douglas. "It Is duly Impress ing me. ‘Dam’ Is all I can think of.” “It's no wonder!" exclaimed Leslie -‘What did he say to you?” queried Douglas. “It wasn't necessary for him to say anything,” said Leslie. “I could see. He Is making over his boys and in order to do it sympathetically, and win their eonfideore and love, he is being a boy hitnself again. He lias the little chaps under control now. There are love and admiration In their tones when they speak to him, while they obey him. Think of it!” “It is something worth thinking of." said Douglas. "He was driven to action, but his methods must have been heroic, for they seem to have worked." "Yes. for him and the boys," said Leslie, "but they are not all his fam ily." “The remainder of his family al ways has looked out for herself to the exclusion of everything else in life, you have told me; 1 imagine she is still doing it with wonderful suc cess," hazarded Douglas, •"It amazes me how men can be so unfeeling.” “So y^u talked to him about her?" "I surely did!" asserted Leslie. "And I’ll wager you wasted words." said Douglas. "Not one!" cried the girl. ."He will remember each one I spoke. If I don't hear of him Inking some action soon I'll find another occasion and try again, lie shall divide the Joy of remaking those boys with their mother.” "She will respectfully—I mean dis dainfully—decline!” "You Hon't believe she was in earn est In what she said to me, then?" asked the girl. "1 ani quite sure she was.” he answered, "hut it few days of her former life with her old friends will take her back to her previous ways with greater abandon than ever. You mark my words.” "Mother your words!" cried Leslie emphatically. "I tell you, IWuglas, T went through the fire with her. I watched her soul come out white. Promise me that If ever he talks to you you won't say anything against her.” "It wouid be a temptation," he said. “Minturn is a different man." "So is she a different woman! Come on. Dad, we are waiting for you," called Leslie. "What kept up so?” "A paper fell from my pocket, so I picked it up. and in grancing at it I became interested in a thought that hadn’t occurred to me before, and I forgot. You most forgive your old Daddy; his hands are about full these days. Between my job for the city, and my own affairs, and those of a friend, T have all I can carry. Now let me forget business, I call this great of the girl. And one of the biggest appeals to me is the bill of fare. I had a dinner for a king last night. What have we tonight?" "But won’t anticipation spoil it?" she aaked. "Not a particle,” he declared. ((ontinned In Monday Morning Bee.) A sweet sandwich for the kiddle’s lunch box Is made by spreading one slice of bread with jelly and the other slice with peanut butter. Retired Farmer, 40, Takes Life With Gun Gibbon, Neb., Oct. 5.—Ernest Dena ler. 40, a retired farmer, shot and killed himself In the rear of the O. J. Walker lumber yard here at noon today. Mr. Wa'.ker heard the shot, but laid no attention to it until called by Bert Kenner, who was passing and saw the body of the suicide, with a revolver clutched in his hand. The bullet from a .32-ealiber automatic pistol had penetrated his forehead. The dead man was identified by papers in his pocket. He is said to tie survived by two sisters, Kate and Alice Dengler. Despondency is believed to have caused his act. New Lumber Yard at Wymore Wymore, Neb., Oet. 6.—The Farm ers Dumber company of Wymore has just completed a new, modern lumber yard, coal bins and material sheds at ■a coat of over fin non. 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