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“Well, I don’t want a lot of
talk at home about this. Do you
understand? I want you to wait
a bit aud go slow. If things seem
to he all right a little later on
you can ask Carol to come and
see you, perhaps; but you'll have
to look out. She hasn't fine
elotbes to go visiting in, 1 imag
ine, and they’re pretty proud. I
guess they ve lost their money.
Their father died a couple of
years ago, and they’ve been up
against it. They do seem like
awiuliy nice people, I'll admit;
and, it it’s all right later on, you
can get to be friends, but you'll
have to go slow. Mother wouldn’t
understand it, and she mustn’t be
annoyed, you know'. I’ll take
you out to see them sometime
when they get settled if it seems
all right, but meantime can you
keep your tongue still?”
Elizabeth’s lace fell, but she
gove-her word immediately. She
*nd her brother were chums; it
was easy to see that.
“But can’t l have her out for
a week-end, Sid? Can’t I tell
mother anything about her? I
could lead her some dresses, you
know.”
ion go Slow, uiu, ann icuvt;
the matter to ine. I’ll tell moth
air about them pretty soon, when
f've had a chance to see a little
.nore of them, a.ud am sure moth
er wouldn't mind. Meantime,
don’t you fret. I’ll take you out
when I go on busness, and you
shall see her pretty soon again.”
Elizabeth had to be content
with that. She perceived that for
some reason her brother did not
care to have tho matter talked
over in the family. She knew
they all would guy him about
bis interest in a girl who wanted
to rent his barn, and ajhe herself
felt that Shirley was too line to
be talked about in that way. The
family wouldn’t understand un
less they saw her.
“I know what yon mean, Sid,”
she said after a thoughtful pause.
“You want the folks to see them
before they judge whut they are,
don’t you'/”
“That's just exactly the
point,” said Sidney with a gleam
of satisfaction in his eyes. “That
is just what makes you such a
good pal, kid—you always un
derstand.”
The smile dawned again in
Elizabeth's eyes, and she patted
her brother’s sleeve.
“Good old Sid!” sho mur
mured tenderly. “You’re all
right. And 1 just know you’re
going to take me out to that barn
soon. Axen’t you going to fix
it up for them a little? They
can't live there that way. It
would be a dandy place to live
if the windows were bigger and
there were doois like a house,
and a piazza, and some fireplaces.
A great tug stone fireplace in the
middle there opposite that door!
Wouldn't that be sweet? And
they’ll have electric lights and
some bath rooms, of course.”
Iler brother tipped back Lis
head and laughed.
“I’m afraid you wouldn’t make
much of a hand to live in a barn,
kid,” he said. “You’re too much
of au aristocrat. How much do
you want for your money? My
dear- they don’t expect tiled hath
rooms and electric lights and in
laid floors when they rent a barn
for the summer?”
“But aren't you going to do
anything, Sid?”
“Well, T can't do much, for
Miss Hollister would suspect
right away. She’s very business
like, and she has suspicions al
ready because I said I was going
to put in partitions. She isn't an
object of charity, yon know. I
imagine they all are pretty
proud.”
Elizabeth sat thoughtful and
still. It was the first time in
her life she had contemplated
what it would be to be very poor.
Ib'r brother watched her with
interest. He had a feeling that
it. was going to be very good for
Elizabeth to know these Hollis
teid.
Suddenly he brought, the ear
to a stop before the office of a
big lumber yard they were pass
ing.
“‘I’m going in here, kid, for
just a minute, to see if I can get
a to put in those partitions.
Elizabeth sat meditatively
studying the office window,
through whose large dusty panes
could be seen tall strips of mold
ing, unpainted window frames,
and a fluted column or two, evi
i dently ready to fill an order. The
| sign over the door set forth that
10
window sashes, doors and blinds
were to be bad. Suddenly Eliza
beth sat up straight and read
the sign again, strained her eyes
to see through the window, aud
then opened the car door and
sprang out. In a moment more
she stood beside her brother,
pointing mutely to a large win
dow frame that stood against the
wall.
“What is it, kid?” he asked
kindly.
“Sid, why can’t you put on
great big windows like that?
They would never notice the win
dows, you know. It would be so
nice to have plenty of light and
air. ’ ’
“That's so,” he murmured. “I
might change the windows some
without their being noticed.”
Then to the man at Ihe desk:
“What’s the,price of that win
dow? Got. any more?”
“ Yes,” said the man, looking
up interestedly; “got half a doz
en, made especially for a party,
and then he wasu’t pleased.
Claimed he ordered sash win
dows ’stead of casement. If you
can use these six, well make you
n special price.”
“Oh, take them; Sid! They’re
perfectly lovely,” said Elizabeth
eagerly. “They’re easement win
dows with diamond panes. They
will just be so quaint and artistic
in that stone!”
“ V* ell, I don’t know how they
will fit,” said the young man
doubtfully, “I don’t want to
make it scent as if I was trying
to put on too much style.”
“No, Sid, it. won’t seem that
way, really. I tell you they’ll
never notice the windows are big
ger, and casement windows aro
not like a regular house, you
know. See, they’ll open wide like
doors. I think it would be just
grand!”
“All right, kid, we'll see!
We’ll take the man out with us;
and if he says it can be done I’ll
take them.”
. l. . 1
wtJH uvurjoyeu.
“That's just, what it needed 1”
she declared. “They couldn’t
live in ihe dark on rainy days.
You must put two in the front
one each side tlie door, and one
on each end. The back windows
wHl do well enough.”
“Well, come on, kid. Mr.
Jones is going out with me at
oneo. Do you want to go with
us, or shall I call a taxi and
send you home?” asked her
brother.
“I'm going with you, of
course,” said Elizabeth eagerly,
hurrying out to the ear as if slie
thought, the tiling would be done
all wrong without her.
So Elizabeth sat in Hie back
seat alone, while her brother and
the contractor discoursed on the
price of lumber and the relative
values of wood and stone for
building purposes, and the big
car went back over the way it
had been before that, afternoon.
They stopped on the way out
and picked up one of Mr. Jones’
carpenters, who was ,iust leaving.,
a job with his kit of tools and
who climbed stolidly into the
back seat and sat as far away
from the little blue velvet miss
as possible, all the while taking
furtive notes to tell his little
little girl about her when he
went home.
Elizabeth climbed - out aud
went about the burn with them,
listening to all they had to say.
The two men took out pencils
and foot rules, and went around
measuring and figuring. Eliza
beth watched them with bright,
attentive eyes, putting a whis
pered suggestion now ami then
to her brother.
“They can’t go up and down
a ladder all the time,” she whis
pered. “There ought to be some
rougli stairs with a railing, at
least as good as our back stairs
at home.”
“How about it!” said Graham
aloud to the contractor. “Can
y ou put in some steps, just rough
ones, to the left? I’m going to
have a party out here tamping
for a while this summer, and I
want it to be safe. Need a rail
ing, you know, so nobody will
get a full.”
The map measured the space
up with ins eye.
“Just want plain steps framed
up with a hand rail?” he said,
squinting up again. “Gues we’d
better start ’em up this way to
the ba'-k wall and then t urn back
from a landing. That’ll suit the
overhead space best. Just pine,
you want ’em, I s’pose?”
Elizabeth stood Lke a big blue
bird alighted on the door rill,
watching and listening. She was
a regular woman, end saw big
possibilities in the building. Kite
would have enjoyed ordering
parquetry flooring and carved
newel posts and making a regular
palace.
The sun was setting behind the
purply hill and sending a glint
from the weather-vane on the lit
tle white church spire when they
started back to the city. Eliza
beth looked wistfully toward it,
and wondered about the rapt ex
pression on Shirley's face when
she spoke of “working” in the
church. How could one get any
pleasure out of that T she meant
to find out. At present her life
was rather monotonous, and she
longed to have some new inter
est?..
That night after she had gone
to her luxurious little couch she
lay in her downy nest, and tried
to think how it would be to live
in that that big barn and go to
sleep up in the loft, lying on that
hay. Then suddenly the mys
tery of life was upon her with
its big problems. Why, for in
stance, was she born into the
Graham family with money and
culture and all Ihe good times,
and that sweet, bright Carol girl
horn into the Hollister family,
where they had a hard time to
live at ail 1
CHAPTER IX
Quite early the next morning
Sidney Graham was in his office
at the telephone. He conferred
with the carpenter, agreeing to
meet him out at the barn and
make final arrangements about
the windows in a very short time.
Then he called up the trolley
company and the electric com
pany and made arrangements
with them to have a wire run
from the road to his barn, with
a very satisfactory agreement
whereby he could pay them a
certain sum for the use of as
much light as he ^needed. This
done, he called ujMan electrician,
and arranged that, he should send
some men out that morning to
foire the barn.
He hurried through bis morn
ing mail, giving his stenographer
a free hand with answering some
of the letters, and then speeded
out to Glenside.
Three men were already there,
twff 0'f them stone-masons, work
ing away under the direction of
the contractor. They had al
ready begun working at the mas
sive stone around the windows,
striking musical blovys from a
light scaffolding that made the
old barn look as if it had sudden
ly waked up and gone to house
cleaning. Sidney Graham pur
veyed it with satisfaction as he
stopped his car by the roadside
and got out. He did delight to
huve things done on time. He
decided that if this contractor did
well on t he job he would see that
he got bigger things to do. He
liked it that hi3 work had been
uegnui a uiure.
The next ear brought a quar
tet of carpenters* and before
joung Graham went back to the
city a motor-truck had arrived
loaded with lumber and window
iruines. It was all very fascinat
ing to him, this new toy barn that
had suddenly come into his pos
session. and he could hardly tear
himself away from it and go back
to business. One would not have
supposed, perhaps, that it was so
very necessary for him to do so,
either, seeing that he vas already
so well off that lie really could
have gotten along quite comfort
ably the rest of his life without
any more money; but he was a
conscientious young man, who be
lieved that no living being had a
right to exist iu idleness, and
who had gone into business from
a desire to do his best and keep
up the honorable name of his
father’s firm. So after he had
given careful directions for the
electric men when they should
come he rushed back to his oiiiee
once more.
The next two days were filled
with delightful novelties. lie
spent much time flying from of
fice to barn and back to the office
again, and before evening of the
second day he had decided that a
telephone in the barn was an
absolute necessity, at least while
the work was going on. So he
called up the telephone company,
and arranged that connection
should be put iu at once. That
evening he wrote a short note to
Miss Shirley Hollister, telling her
that the partitions were under
way and w ould soon be complet
ed, and that iu a few days he
would send her the key so that
she might begin to transport her
belongings to the new home.
The next morning, when Gra
ham wont out to the stone barn,
he found that the front windows
were ip, and gave a very
m*mmm ■■ n j j ■ j ■
[ appearance to the edifice, both
| outside and in. As Elizabeth had -
j surmised, the big latticed win
dows opening inward like case
men* doors seemed quite in keep
ing with the rongu stone struc
ture. Graham began to wonder
why all barns did not affect this
style of window, they were so en
tirely attractive, He was thor
oughly convinced that the new
tenants would not be likely to re
member or notice the difference
in the windows; he was sure he
shouldn’t have unless his atten
tion had been called to them in
some way. Of course the sills
and sashes were rather new-look
ing, but he gave orders that they
should at ouee be painted an nn
obst.rastive dark green which
would well accord with the mossy
roof, and he trusted his particu
lar young tenant would not think
that he had done anything point
ed in changing the windows. If
she did, lie would have to think
up some excuse.
But, as he stood at the top of
the grassy slope and looked
about, he noticed the great pile
of stones under each window,
from the masonry that had been
torn away to make room for the
larger sashes, and an idea came
to him.
“Mr. Jones!” he called to the
contractor, who had just come
over on the ear to see how
the work was progressing.
Wouldn’t there be stores enough
all together from all the windows
to build some kind of a rude
chimney and fireplace!” he
asked.
Mr. Jones thought there would.
There were stones enough down
in the meadow to piece out with
iu ease they needed more, any
way. Where would Mr. Graham
want the fireplace! Directly op
posite the front doors? He had
thought of suggesting that him
self, hut didn’t know as Mr.
Graham wanted to go to any
more expense.
“By all means make that fire
place !”' said the young owner
delightedly. “This is going to
be a jolly place when it gets done,
isn’t it! I declare I don’t know
but i d like to come out here und
live.”
“It would make a fine old
house, sir,” said the contractor
respectfully, looking up almost
reverently at the barn. “I’d like'
to sec it with verandvs, and more
winders, and a few such. You
don't see many of these here old
stone buildings around now.
They knew how to build ’em sub
stantial in those old times, so
they did.”
xx Jii i i ca. ib vv uuiu’Uitiisfj a
fine site for a house, wouldn't
it?” said the young man, looking
about thoughtfully. ‘‘Well, now,
we’ll have to think about that
sometime, perhaps. However, 1
think it looks very nice for the
present;” and he walked about,
looking at the improvements with
great satisfaction.
At each end of the barn a good
room, long and narrow, had been
partitioned off, each of which by
use of a curtain would make two
very large rooms, and yet the
main section of the floor looked
as large as ever. A simple stair
way of plain boards hfld been
constructed a little to one side of
the middle toward the back, go
ing up to the loft, which had been
made safe for the children by a
plain rude railing consisting cf a
few uprights with strips across.
The darkening slats at the small,
windows in the loft had been
torn away and shutters substi
tuted that would open wide and
let in air and light. Rough spots
in the floor bad been mended,
and around the great place both
up stairs and down, and even
down in the basement under
neath, electric wires ran with
simple lights and switches con
veniently arranged, so that if it
became desirable the whole place
could be made a blaze of light.
The young man did not like t»
think of this family of unprotect
ed women and children coining
out into the country without all
the arrangements possible to make
them fed safe. For this reason
also be had established the tele
phone. He hail talked it over
with the agent, paying a certain
sum for its installation, and had
a telephone put in that they could ,
pay for whenever they desired to ,
use it. This would make the ;
young householder feel more
comfortable about leaving her
mother out in the country all day. i
and also prevent her pride from
being hurt. The telephone was ;
there, bln: ',<ied not use it unless
necessity arose. He felt he could \
explain that to her. If she didn’t
like it, of course she could have
at taken away.
(To Be Continued Null VVeei.)
If b*d been In the Juns’e it>
etead of being In vaujgfevlUe, her baby
| would be alive. Borne Va-ikionable moth
ers can ayinpa.UUz« with SuzeUe and
them.
LAND IM DEMAND
Why Western Canada Can Taka
Her Pick of Settlers.
! Opportunities and Condition* Thers
Appeal to the Most Desirable—Pos
sibilities of Country Proved.
Wlille Canada wonts settlers, and Is
pursuing every legitimate means to
secure them, it Is realized, as pointed
out by Hou. J. A. Colder, minister of
Immigration nnd colonization, that se
lection is necessary, and in order to
keep andeslrables out of the country
legislation Is passed that will doubt
less have this effect. As pointed out
by the mintstfr, the class of settler*
which Canada stands most ready to
welcome are those who desire:
Opportunity to acquire good farm
lninl, either free or at a cost within
their means.
Opportunity to live In a country uu
der healthful conditions and liberal
laws and among un Intelligent and
friendly people.
Opportunity to live in a country
where children receive free public edu
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abled to stan in the battle of life with,
as nearly as possible, equal ndvun
tages.
Opportunity to live In a country
where Industry applied to the land
will produce something more than fha
bare necessities of life, and will afford
within reasonable time comfort and
Independence.
Opportunity to live In a country
where ambition Is not handicapped by
any creed, birth, or class, but where
every citizen has the rigiit to asplrs
to the highest position in his or bet
chosen walk in life.
! These are the conditions which will
appeal to the most desirable people
for this or any country, condition*
which, to a certain degree, make an
automatic selection of the fittest.
Canada -possesses farm lands W
large areas which may be had free or
at a cost within the reach of the set
tler of limited means. Vast areas nr®
available for settlement within reason
able distances of railways. Land val
ues hate tn the last qnnrler of a cen
tury received a tremendous impetus,
so that any good farm land which can
still be secured in Its ••aw state at
reasonable, prices Is an attraction.
Such lands today are probably mors
attractive to the settler t.,an were the
free homesteads of the pioneer era.
The country has been tried out; It*
possibilities have been proved; the
trails have been blazed; the founda
tions have been laid. Railroads, tele
phones nnd public roads have been
provided; market tpwns dot the prai
ries and other agricultural districts;
schools, rhryches. and all the mark*
of modern conditions of life abound.
Records which have been taken over
a period of years establish the fact
that Western Canada's grain produc
tion is greater per acre than that of
probably any other new country. It 1*
worrhj of uote that the production of
grain tier acre in many of the older
countries has Increased with the In
tensified farming methods which the
very high cost of land made necessary.
This condition docs not yet obtain t>
any extent In Canada, and yet the
yield compares favorably with some
such countries in which the cost of
land Is very much greater than it 1*
In the farming districts of the Do
minion. In most cases present owners
of Canadian farm land who are not
cultivating It themselves are willing
to sell at moderate prices and oa
terms arranged for the convenience of
the purchaser, provided that the pur
chaser Is prepared to go Into actual
operation and bring the land unde*
cultivation nnd cause it to producer
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