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BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES ] V- ——-J!y THORNTON U. RUROKSS_J Peter I.istejia to An Unbelievable Story. , Such fun as Danny anil Nanny | Meadow Mouse had tryinff to ennvlnee Peter Halibit that they really were the old friends he was so sure were dead. Hut at last Peter had to be lieve Of course, l iKht away he want ed to knmy where they had been al! the long winter. "Everybody thinks you are dead,” be declared. "How under the sun did you keep hidden so that no one gut s glimpse of you or found a aingle sign of you? Where were you?” "We spent the winter way down In the Sunny South, where the feathered folk go every year,” replied Danny ln( a very matter of fart tone. “What Is that?” exclaimed Peter. Danny repeated It. Peter grew in dignnnt. Ye*. *ir, Peter actually grew indignant. "This i* a nice way to treat an old frlendi" he exclaimed "Of course, if you have a secret hid ing place you have a perfect right to keep It a secret. Put why tell me such an Impossible, foolish story as this?" "But It is the truth," sail! Nanny. “We really did spend the winter way down in tlie Sunny South. Peter. We didn't see a flake of snowr. It wu just like summer down there. And we saw the strangest things. There are some of the queerest people down there you ever hoard of." Peter shook his head reprovingly “Nanny " said he, "you .ire w r<e than Danny. 1 suppose shat pretty soon you will tell me that you each giew a pair of wing* an«l flew down there and bark again.'' Danny ohuekled, “No, Peter," said he, “we won't tell you anything of the kind, lieeauso that wouldn't he true. A pair of wings did take us down there, hut they were not our wings. The same wings brought us hack.” Peter became very angry*- Peter doesn't like to he teased, and he felt sure that Danny and Nanny were making up that story to tease him and to keep to themselves the serret of where they had spend the winter. "You are not telling the truth, either one of you!" he snapped. “I don't think it is at all nice to treat an old friend in any* such way. No one with a fur coat who runs on four lego and lives on the Green Meadows or ir tho Green Forest ever lias been down to the Sunny South or ever will go. and you know it. If you must tell a story, why don't you tell one that , people will believe?" Danny and Nanny chuckled «nl • huckl d and nudged each other. But they saw that l'cter was very angry, "feter," said Nanny at last, "do you know that the gi eat man bird i* bark here on the Green Meadows?” Peter nodded. He had watched that great man bird land. "What of It?” he asked gruffly. 'The wings of that great man bird are the wings that took us down to the Sunny South and brought us hn< I ’ replied Danny. Then hs told Peter how they happened to be rar ried away ause they had made their home in the great man-bird, thinking it wasn't going to fly any more. He explained how they had kept their home there because they had grown used to It and because the man who made the great man-bird fly had become one of their beat friends. Still. Peter didn't believe that they really had leen way down in ths Sunny S' ut> where so many of his feathered friends spent each winter, (('oiivrish* 19*4 ) The next -ta. \ Jenny Wien Find* Danny and Nanny.” - —- . — N THE NEBBS THE BELLE OF NORTH VILLE. Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess fs VS MNTEVnEGQ I SVWl(\ &PPIEBEL - I'M PUV ] NT OV *TvJ,E MOONaE^HSCLUB / : leuoinG lclO'ES’ Social club / or; NCteTNv/>Ltc 3r/+j f\ D^OUGvAT VOG * P'ECE OF KW\. Mf\feQ>tL Ck\^E — EVES'* EGG ^MW \ UJtNT \NTO TM«T CbMX. UJAS^GESH \ “TO TV4E MINUTE (VNO IVE GoT TwE ] \ PPPUT^TON OF WWINS “THEDESy f CbMX. IN-TOUUM — BHD I'M ^ y \ GOOD COOvC \F 1 DO VT V MVSEEE _^ VOO'RE NOT DCW'iG ftNYTHINGX TUESDAY (S&HT, CO^E OJ&R, TO ODD ) FELLOWS WW.L . TmE t^OOtsQ)Eu^ GIB.LS M2E GUYING ft MUS'CftL ftc^D I ‘tSnCC - TME TICKETS ftRE. 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The iIkvs of adroit watching that followed brought no new incident.* and revealed few new facte. But they con firmed Cordelia's fil'd imprenainn that there van a hidden Bomeihing at Rolling Meadows, and confirmed and enlarged her first impressions of the lieopie; Gladys wan fitfully generous and gay, fitfully cross and impatient; now that Cordelia was seeing her in timately, she noted that Gladys se.emed constantly under a nervous strain, for which the planning of the coming party seemed hardly an ade quate explanation. The more Cordelia saw of Esther •Stevens, the more nhe liked the quiet siepsister. On several occasions Esther spoke in amusement of her self; she had tieen engaged before the war—had been jilted for h hand somer woman with a handsome in herltance—an old maid had to do something with her broken heart, so she had brought the fragments to Gladys. She was congenitally l.iz.v, she said, so she had remained with Gladys ever since. To Cordelia siie seemed so competent that Cordelia could hardly believe she was here just for a pensioner's ease. A < urious Kart. The outstanding fact Cordelia noted about Esther was her Jove for the adopted Eraneois. Her love seemed far greater than that of Gladys. Had she been the boy's actual mother she could not have shown greater con oern in every detail that affected him. And Francois plainly loved h r better than his other mother, really liked her better than be did Mitchell, despite his delight in being with the butler; perhaps this delight. so guessed Cordelia, was due merely to the fact that Mitchell was the only man about the house to whom the hoy could turn. As for her own part in this rays tery, Cordelia considered liersclf as entirely outside it. except in so far as It was a problem w hii h she was to solve. Of course this affair meant, in its secret financial aspect, her re maining up ill her splendid world— in the world where she was g- :ng to meet Jerry Plimpton as she had been meeting him. Also she felt excitement in the ad venture; gratification In the exercise of her faculties for sue ceding in any thing she tried to do. Hhe was going to solve this problem—somehow' Xo doubt of thatl Also ehe wished to ex tricate Gladys, or whoever else might tie involved in the mystery. But he yound these considerations excited nnd intrigued though slo* was. Cor delia diu not feel he raelf personally involved In the affair. 1 >eeplte all Cordelia s trying to note every look, every Inflect.on of tone, every act of these people. It was not until ahe had l>een at Rolling Mru ovvs a week that she gained her first clue to the realities of the situation Toward 11 o'clock one night she caught a swift questioning look which Gladys gave Esther, and aw Esther's almost Imperceptible nod. instantly Cordelia's every sense was on the alert. She pretended a yawn, said slye was going to get a book from the library with which to read herself to Meep. With the book she ascended the main stairway with the ttred man ner of one to whom a few pages will he an infallible sleeping potion. Cordelia Malts. Inside her room she dropped the hook, allpped outside again, locked her door, and carefully made her way down the hall toward a little used stairway In the western wing. For tune favored her, for she gained the porch unobserved. Standing in a corner of the puich In the black shadow of thick wistaria, not even feeling the chill that had come with night, Cordelia waited In rigid expectancy. Minutes throbbed :>y: a half hour; an hour. Then from | the shadows of the house there 11 merged a vague figure anti hurried ..Iway to tire right, avoiding the path and keeping to the ailtnt lawn. With mounting tensity Cordelia I waited f..r another shadowy figure to leio-M the lawn. Minutes passed. But no ilgtif reversed the darkness. \nd then it tame to her that the other pet son or persons might have been waiting over there in the un known blackness ttfore she had come out upon’ the veranda She delayed no longer, hut went swiftly down the steps and across the lawn. In her excitement she did not catch the first words: hut the voice «)■ Gladys and it was angry, loud. The l first words the really heard were in a man's voice a cool, steady voice "Soft pedal v our talk a bit, Qladya,’’ said the voice "You're not using the l-e-t sense in the world in crying out like this—and the way you did the other night. The other night you got Miss Marlowe out of bed. I don't mind it so much, hut it's not particu larly safe fur you ’ Cordelia almost gasped aloud as he recognised this quiet voice It had the quality of authority, of as sured mastery over those it addressed. It was the voice of Mitchell, the self ! effacing ever present, soft-toned Mit chell—that perfect butler. "You don't expect me to take any such talk from you calmly! ’ exclaim ed Gladys, in a lower tone. A Warning. "You must acquire better control of your nerves, my dear,” responded Mitchell. Though assured, his voice had an easy, pleasant, affable quality. i n.jst say that you have lost a lot in the matter of nerves in the last five years. And I must say that you're making things rather absured when your nerves make it necessary to arrange to slip off to a place like this when a private talk is ntcesaary Esther here has far better ^ contp 1. You should try to copy it. my dear.” • "Will you please s'op ‘my dearing' wc" . ried Gl'. iya ih exasperation. "I'm tired of it!" Anything to please vou, Glades The rh T can't give bond for mv tongue: it s got a frightful memory." "At i another thing, the exasper ated Gladys went on. "I want you— nd so dues Esther—to stop making up to Francois ” "Po you. Esther?" Mitchell in 1 quired. If Esther made anv reply It did not come to Cordelia's ears. "Anyhow—what is behind your always trying to make Francois so fond of you ’ Gladys demanded. I like the boy and I like 1i make him happy, as I have told you. Isn't tl -t r-'ason enough? ’ "Not reason enough for you’” Well, of course there might be oilier considerations prompting my kindness ” His tone was meditative still pleasant: Cordelia could guess how provoking that pleasant quality was to Gladys “ Who knows. I may be thinking of the desirability of some day kidnaping Francois." "I wouldn't put it beyond you to try!" Humiliating. ".And if I should try. It would make the business very much easier, and less dangerous, now wouldn't it. my dear—beg pardon, Gladys: I forgot I uasnt' to call you my dear—much ss dangerous, if Francois cams one ,,f hU own accord because he lik'd me >.) mi'll’1 A neat plan. I rather fancy that plan." NV ther of the two made response to tide. "Or who knows, perhaps I am thinking of something else. For ei ample, that I am getting ready to claim him as my own son." iu n u’dn't dare'" fcurat from Gladys in r choked voice. Mitchell--you're not in earnest >1 lit any sueh claim"’ breathed Esther. tVi i.lia could not tell whs'her he * in earnest, or merely taking h;s c i- ire in rv raising his power over thi-e two. He responded to neither "f then-’, and went on in his pleasset. meditative tones. That last idea Is decidedly good It w old make a most convincing and affecting newspaper story. Father emits dom-stic service In search of son lost in war chaos of Franc*. Re If '.-hip proved bv the instinctive affections between the two: a s'ight !v different version of the ancient s 1 rmon-and two mothers (,tunt Yes, indued, most affecting and cervine v - ' 'll the *h t be'iev • I like this plan much better than anv 'ns thought of It s safer—and t! • e ?-• V be ni l ’1 more in it Yes. when I get pood and ready I think I’ll claim mv son " : i v th t find 1 11 ftgh! you!" eg claimed Glady s Fein me" Oh will you. Gladys, it'' dent’' ' Mitchell si.it scftl' • Now will you? 1 do wish you d try thst cour«r It would be most interssting to m toh evidence with you In court, mv dear—most Interesting!" Neither of the women spoke ' s ' said Mitchell in his tort. ' <t.i e t, n 'I think I like this pi,in tiest. l it claim Francois as me Slip " 'M« re-' fra moment ot n- "e »\ : delta w.is suns that In h tins,. ■ rues «he had rustle.I 'he simian lush Hut if so. there w is no imins,hat* sign thst she had been heard within. Esther M is the next to apeak. 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