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"I hmen't the slightest Idea what
you're talking about." JuJIa's torn
was col(i, niit slip drpw herself Mi'
haughtily, though the gesture was In
effective, so fur as Noble was c n
cerned. In the darkness of the quiver
ing Interior. The quivering stopped
Just thpn, however, ' as the tnxlcah
baited before her house.
"Will you pome In with me a mo
ment, please?" Julia Bald as she goi
out. "There are some things I want
to ask you and I'm sure papa hasn't
pome home from downtown yet.
There's no light In the front part of
the house."
There was no light In any other
part of the house, either, ns they dis
covered after abandoning the bell for
an excursion to the rear. "That's dis
heartening to a hungry person," Julia
remarked; and then remembered that
she had a key to the front door In
her purse. She opened the door, and
lighted a hall luster while Noble
brought In her bags from the steps
where the tazlcab driver had left
them.
"There's nobody at home at all,"
Julia said nirhtfully.
greed, shaking hla head. "Nobody at
all, Julia. Nobody at all." Rousing;
mmseii, he went back for the goir
tools, and with a lingering gentleness
set them in a corner. Then, dumbly,
be turned to go.
"Walt, please," said Julia. "I want
to ask you a few things especially
about what you've got 'all down In
black and white' In your pocket. Will
you shut the door, If you please, and
go Into the library and turn on the
lights and wait there while I look
over the bouse and see If I can find
why It's all closed up like this.
"It's chilly. The furnace seems to
b off," she said. "I'll " But Instead
of declaring hi Intentions, she enact
ed them ; taking a match from the lit
tle white porcelain trough on the man
telpiece and striking It on the heel of
her glittering shoe. Then she knelt
before the grate and set the flame to
excelsior beneath the kindling and
eoaJ. "You mustn't freze," she -said,
with a thoughtful kindness that killed
him.
"I'm Robinson Crusoe, Noble," she
aald, when she came back. "I suppose
I might as well take off my furs,
though." She did so. first unfasten
ing the great bouquet she wore and
tossing It upon a table. Noble was
Standing close to the table, but moved
away from It hiirrledly. This revulsion
ehe failed to notice; and she went on
to explain, as she dropped her cloak
and stole upon a chair. "Papa's gone
away for at least a week. He's taken
bis ulster. It doesn't make any dif
ferences what the weather Is, he never
wears his ulster In this town, but
when he's going away for a week, or
longer, he always takes It with him,
except In summer."
"I suppose." said Noble huskily, "I
suppose you'll go to some of your
aunts or brothers or cousins or some
thing." "No," she said. "My trunk may
pome up from the station almost any
time, and If I dose the house they'll
take it back. The servants are hav
ing a holiday, not expecting me
back."
"You needn't bother about that
Julln. -Til look after It."
"How?"
"I could sit on the porch till It
came," he said. "I'd tell t?m you
wanted 'em to leave It." He paused
painfully. "I could wait out on the
porch with It, to see that It was snfe,
tmtll you came back tomorrow morn
ing." She looked full at hlra, and he plain
tively endured the examination.
"Noble!" She hnd undoubted'y a
moment's shame that anv creature
frhould come to such a pass for her
sake. "What lovely nonsense!" she
said ; and sat npon a stool before the
crackling fire. "Po sit down. Noble
unless your dinner will be waiting for
you at home?"
"No," he murmured. "They never
wait for me. Don't you want me to
look after your trunk?"
"Not by sitting up all night with It
on the porch." she said. "I'm going
to stay here myself. I'm not going
ont; I don't want to see any of the
family tonight."
"I thought you said you were hun
gry." "I am; but there's enough In the
pantry. I looked."
"Well, If you don't want to see any
of 'em," he suggested, "and they know
your father's away and think the house
Is empty, they're liable to notice the
lights and come In and then you'd
have to see 'em!"
"No; you can't see the lights of thin
room from the street, and I lit the
lamp at the other end of the hall. The
light near the front door," Julia added,
"I put out."
"You dldr
"1 can't see any of 'em to-night."
she said resolutely. "Besides, I wsnt
to find out what you meant In the tax- j
Icab before 1 flo anything le." i
, ..nilfi
"What I meant In the taxlcab?" he
echoed. "Oh. Julia. Julia !"
She frowned, (lrvt at the fire, then,
turning her head, at Noble. "You
'ill'
Julia's Eyes Grew Dangerous "The
Little Fiends!"
seem to feel quite reproachful about
something," she observed.
"No, I don't. I don't feel reproach
ful, .Tnila. I don't know what I feel,
but I don't feel reproachful."
She smiled faintly. "Don't you?
Well, there's something perhaps you do
feel, and that's hungry. Will yon stav
to dinner with me If X go and get
It?"
"What?"
"You can have dinner with me If
you want to? and stay till ten o'clock
If you want to? Walt I" she said,
and jumped up and ran out of the
room.
She came back and called softly to
hlin from the doorway, half an hour
later; and he followed her to the dining-room.
"It Isn't much of a dinner,
Noble," she said a little tremulously ; be
ing for once (though strictly as a cook)
genuinely apologetic but the scram
bled eggs, cold lamb, salad and cof
fee were quite as "much of a dinner."
as Noble wanted. To him everything
on the table was hallowed, yet shred
ded through and through with an ex
cruciating melancholy.
"Now we'll talk!" said Julia, when
she had brought him back to the fire
again, and they were seated before It.
"Don't you want to smoke?" He
shook h!s head dismally, having no
heart for what she proposed. "Well,
then," she said briskly, but a little rue
fully, "let's get to the bottom of things.
Just what did you mean you had 'in
black and white' In your pocket?"
Slowly Noble drew forth the his
toric copy of the North End Dally Or
iole; and with face averted, placed It
In her extended hand.
"What In the world I" she exclaimed,
unfolding It; and then as Its title and
statement of ownership came Into
view, "Oh, yes! I seel Aunt Carrie
wrote me that Uncle Joseph had given
Herbert a printing press. I suppose
Herbert's the editor?"
"And that Rooter boy," Noble said
sadly. "I think maybe your little niece,
Florence, has something to do with It,
too."
Wwltfrit? She
'S.'liH-t hiii j7
usually bus all to do with anything she
gets bold of! i;m what's It got to do
with me?"
"You'll see!" he prophesied accu
rately. She began to read, laughing at some
of the Items as she went along; then
fche suddenly became rigid, holding the
small journal before her In a trans
fixed hand.
"Ob!" she cried. "Oh, oh!"
"That's thai "s what I meant,"
Noble explained.
Julia's eyes grew dangerous. "The
lltt'e fiends!" she cried. "Oh. really,
this Is a Ions-suffering family, hut It's
time these outrages were stopped I"
She jumped up. "Isn't It frightful?"
she demanded of Noble.
'Yes, It Is," he said, with a dismal
fervor. "Nobody knows that better
than I do, Julia V'
"I mean this!" she cried, extending
the Oriole toward him with a fine
sweep of gesture. "I mean this dread
ful story about poor Mr. Crum!"
"Rut It's true, though." he said.
"That's what hurts me, Julia I"
"Noble DlllT
"Julia !"
"Do you dare to say you believed
nr
He sprang up. "It Isn't truer
"Not one ord of It I I told you
Mr. Crum Is only twenty-six. He's
not beenout of college more than
three or four yen-, and It's the most
terrible slander to Kay he's ever beer,
married at all !"
Noble droped back Into hi chair o!
mj-.rr.Vi "I thought sou meant It
wii-n't true."
"I've Jnt told you there Isn't on
wrd f tr
'T.ut you're engaged to him,'
Niil.le gulpid. "You're engaged t
him, .luKa:"
She uppeured not t bear him. "1
suppose It can be lived down." sin
al'l. "To think of I'licle Joseph put
ting suih n tiling Into the hands of
those awful elulilren !"
"Rut. .luUa, you are eng "
"Noble I" she Mild sharply.
"Well, you are eng "
Julia drew herself up. "Different
people mean different things by that
wotd." she said with severity, like an
annoyed Instructress. "There are any
number of shades of meaning to
words; and If I ued the word you
mention In writing home to the family,
I may have used a certain shade and
they may have thought I Intended an
other." "Rut, Julia"
"Mr. Crum Is a charming young
man," she continued, with the same
primness. "I liked him very much, I
liked him very much indeed. I liked
him Very, very much. I liked him
very "
"I understand," he Interrupted.
"Don't say It any more, Julia."
"No; you don't understand. At first
I liked him very much in fact I still
do, of eiMirse I'm sure he's one of the
nest and most attractive young. men In
the world. I think he's a man any girl
ought to be happy with. If be were
only to be considered by himself. 1
don't deny that I liked him very much
Indeed, and I don't deny that for sev
eral days after he after he proposed
to me I don't deny I thought some
thing serious might possibly come of
It. Rut at that time, Noble, I hadn't
hadn't really thought of what It meant
to give up living here Ht home, with all
the fumlly and everything and friends
friends like you, Noble. I hadn't
thought what It would mean to me to
give all this up. And liesldes, there
was something very Important. At the
time I wrote that letter mentioning
poor Mr. Crum to the family, Noble, 1
hadn't J hadn't " She paused. In
some distress. "I hadn't "
"You hadn't what?' he cried.
"I hadn't met his mother!"
Noble leaped to his feet. "Julia I
You n.-en't you nren't engaged?"
"I am not," she nnswered decisively.
"If I ever was. In the slightest, I cer
tainly am not now."
I'oor Noble was. transfigured. He
snuggled; making half-formed ges
tures, speaking half-made words. ,
"Julia Julia " He choked: "Julia,
promise me something? Julia prom
ise to promise me something."
"I will," she said quickly. "What do
you want me to do?"
"(tlve me your word," he said, still
radiantly struggling. "Give me your
word your word and sacred promise,
Julia yuu'll never be engaged to any
body at all!"
At six minutes after four o'clock of
the second afternoon following Julia's
return, Noble Dill closed his own gate
behind him as be set forth upon the
four-minute walk that would bring him
to Julia's. He wore a bit of Indoor
geranium In the buttonhole of his new
light overcoat.
Fasslng the foot of an alley which
debouched upon the street, he was
aware of a commotion, of missiles
hurled and voices clashed.
Castlnc a glance that way. Noble
could see but one person; a boy of
thirteen or fourteen who looked
through a crack In a board fence,
steadfastly keeping an eye to this a;er
ture, and as continuously calling
through It, holding his bead to one
level for this purpose, but at the sume
time dancing and dancing tauntingly,
It was conveyed with the other parts
of his body. His voice was now sweet,
now piercing, ami again far too
dulcet with the overklndness of bur
lesque; and if, as It seemed, he
was unburdening his spleen, his spleen
was a powerful one, and gorged. He
rppenred to be In a torment of tor
menting; 'and his success was proved
by the pounding of bricks, and ro"ks
of size, upon the other side of the
fence.
"Oh, dolling!" he wailed, his tone
polsonously amorous. "Oh, dolling
Henery! Oo's dot de mos' booful eyes
In a dray bid nasty world, Henery !
Oh, hns I dot booful eyes, dolling I'at
tywatty? Yes, I hits! I has dot
pretty eyes!" His voice rose to an
unbearably piercing climax. "Oh, what
prettiest eyes I dot! Me and Herble
At water! Oh, my booful eyes I Ob,
my booful
Rut even as he reached this apex,
the head, shoulders and arms of Her
lert Atwoter rose momentarily above
the fence across the alley, behind the
tormentor. Herbert's expression was
Implacably resentful, and so was the
gesture with which he hurled un ob
ject at the co.-nedian pre-oceup!ed with
the opposite fence. This object upon
reach'ng Its goal, as It did with more
a splash than a thud, was reveuled as
a tomato, presumably In a useless
state. The taunter screamed in aston
ishment, and after looking vainly for
un assaiiunt, began necessarily to re
move his collar, as Noble went on his
way.
How blindly we walk our ways I As
Noble flourished down the street there
appeared a wan face at a prison win
dow and the large eyes looked out
upon him wistfully. Rut Noble went
on, as unwitting that he bad to do
with this prison as he was that be
had to do with Master Torbln's tomato,
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The Tauntsr Seromed In Astonish
ment. The face at the window was not like
Charlotte Corday's, nor was the win
dow barred, though the prisoner knew
solace In wondering If she did not sug
gest that famous picture. For all pur
poses, except during school hours, the
room was certainly a cell ; and the
term of Imprisonment was set at three
days. Florence had finally been
obliged to face questions awaiting
her; and It would inve been better
for her bad the used less imagination
In answering them.
Yet she was not wholly depressed
as her eyes' followed the disappearing
figure of Noble Dill from over the
fence of the yard whence she had
ventured for a better view of Noble,
thereby risking a henvler sentence.
Noble pnssed from her sight, but
nevertheless continued his radiant
progress down Julia's street. Life
stretched before him, serene, Ineffably
fragrant, unending. He saw it as a
flower-strewn sequence of calls on
Julia, walks with Julia, talks with
Julia by the library ore. Old Mr.
Atwater was to be away four days
longer, and Julln, that great-hearted
brlde-not-fo-be had given him her
promise and sacred word.
Rlushlng, indeed divinely, she had
promised him, upon her sacred word,
never, so long as she lived, to be en
gaed to anybody at all.
(T1IK END.)
LIMITED
First Sergeant Wilkerson My baby
never cries as much in the summer as
in winter.
Sergt. Douglas How is that?
Wilkerson The night Rre shorter.
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