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11 It was practically the first time, Jo reflected, that Miss Sturgis had noticed the baby. Now. she seemed unable to proceed until site bad spent some time with him upon the blanket. Mr. Hunt appeared fctueh interested in young women who showed themselves so fond of little children. He carolled a gay song to the baby. And as soon as the song was ended, and Adelaide, who sat upon the blanket with her shoulder turned toward Jo, had begun to express her admira tion for Mr. Hunt's remarkable voice, Jo [ticked up little Schuyler, and slipped away with him. “Don’t go—oh, don’t go!” called Dallas Hunt after her. 8h« turned smiling. “Time for lifs morning nap,” she ex plained. “Lets make it a rendezvous —every morning at this hour— We four, eht” If a human baek eonld ex press n contrary vote. Miss Ft urgis* back expressed it at j that moment. Tier voice, pitched low. was yet audible to •To, departing. Tt was suggest ing that Mias .Tenney’s time— unfortunately—was not her Own. VIII. Through the inist and fog of an English early morning the ship on which Mrs, Schuyler Chase had crossed (lie Atlantic nosed its w'ay into the South ampton dock. She had had a wireless message from one of Schuyler’s companions half way over—“Doing well,” so the worst oV her anxiety had been allayed. Vet she was sure there was a crisis of some sort to to faced in her husband’s life, arid site was eager to he with him. At the earliest nossible point on the pier at which he could jo?»> her. the Reverend Howard Caldwell wait found, his rubi cund face lighted with a re assuring smile. “All s going well, your hus band’s improving, M r s. Chase,” were his first words, as he took her in charge. She thanked him and expressed her rel ief. hut asked no questions till they were in the London train. Then she turned to him. * * Please tell me all about it,” •hr K.vd. “The doctor can do that bet ter than I Hut T can give you a general outline of the at tack.” This he proceeded to do. •bowing a grasp of the situa tion rather beyond that, of the average lavman. Tie described the acute illness which had laid bis frf.’nd Chase low', and then proceeded more cautiously—ns Pallv instant I v felt—to let her bnow the chief reason why she bad been summoned. “Tf seemed to us that he needed you to help him through what is really more of a mental ami spiritual emery enev ttian a physical, though ft’s the physical condition ■whi»li brings on the other. You sen' his tone was verv gentle. tbnn<>t| straightforward enough *—“h's ems are affected.M “Oh,M ff was more n breath than an exclamation, hut it wesrii tTnr Fillv’s imigination hint frap~'l ahead of his infor mation; Fehnyler’s eves- his m^host possession, after his lwinianf mind —wern they in danger? It must tie so, or the manner of informin'* her wnpld he less careful. Flic tried to siihdne the sudden rnc- j in** of tier heart, and he as enfm as Fchuvler's wife needed ?o bo if she were to he worthy the trust reposed in her by Fehr' ler’s friends. “Go on, please Mr. Paid welt.” she said quietly. “It is a •“•dons sffeetinn, then," “The doctors can’t quite tell T t They say Mint sometimes ■urh scute conditions subside, with due care, and don’t he. Ttw l.iHirtisnc City. Pom the St. Paul Newt. I mw a pathetic vight a few days •go A hear** «u follow'd by one email Pord in which itt a men delving and Ihiee wimll children, cxiiitg pttlcoueiy. Through the crowded afreet* llu* email cortege Wended Its way Cam of all dr •rrt)dium whir* d by It filled with laughing happy troubled or care worn men and Wiunen and few of fectti i eeei rluniiHd the tragedy of fee I tears* and It* follower». A j fat tor and three amali children Ko ine to bwvy the mother and going ah no Ash a thing could Him fcappr » In (he country There, no come progressive. But—yonr husband has somehow learned enough about such eases to un derstand that on the other hand they are sometimes pro gressive and—perhaps—incur able.” Now she had it. No wonder Schuyler wanted her ,if there were only half a chance of his trouble being as desperate as these last phrases showed her it might he. Poor Schuyler, so intensely sensitive to impres sions, so subject to desponden cy as the almost inevitabe se quence to the hours of exalta tion which came to him in his church relations. The faintest foreshadowing of a coming limitation to his powers—what must not the thought do to him? Oh, how thankful she was that she had come, that, she hadn’t had to delay a day in coming! And how the train crawled that was taking her to him! “He’s really quite comforta ble,” Mr. Caldwell hastened on to snv, though now Sally, hav ing heard the worst, hardly listened, her mind was so busy with Hie image of Schuyler waiting for her to come to him. Only she could know how he needed her. . , . “He’s up and partly dressed, sitting in a re clining chair, and his eyes aren’t bandaged, he’s only wearing very black glasses. But of course his continuing the trip is out of the question. There’s only one thing to do, Doctor Burton says, and that’s to go home when he is able, and spend the rest of his vacation in absolute quiet. I needn’t tell you what a disappointment this is to Kirk Bronson and m". Your husband was the vital spark of our expedition, and it seems almost not worth while to continue it without him.” “Oh, but of course you must go on,” Sally said warmly. “No one will be more anxious for that than Schuyler himself. And if T may take him home I shall be so glad.” “If no new symptoms de velop,” Caldwell thought best to provide. He had taken counsel with Schuyler’s physi cian as to the exact manner in which he should inform his wife, and had been warned that of all things he must avoid be ing definite. “As a matter of fact,” the eminent London specialist had said bluntly to Schuyler’s two anxious friends, “such conditions are the devil to deal with, they’s so indefin ite—for a while, at least. There is no predicting just what’s coming till 'it shows its head. There’s always the chance, with such patients as Doctor Chase, that the condition is partially hysterical—meaning that it’s the result of overworn nerves rather than due to seri ous organic lesions. If that is On It n m ik < r ah in aii a -* • X X x» . x s sails VJ a, sight. If not, the trouble is very nearly bound to be pro gressive, with no known rem edy. The great tiling at pres ent is to keep him from worry ing and brooding and forecast • „ ft iner. So this was why they had sent for Sally. Schuyler had not definitely asked to have her sen tfor—she had been right about that—but he had hardly needed to ask, it was so easy for bis companions to di vine bis longing for her. Tt was an open secret among nil bis colleagues in the ministry that Mr. Schuyler Chase was indispensable to her husband’s power, and they knew she un doubtedly was equally indis pensable to bis very life, if that life were threatened. The journey to London seemed endless to Sally, and Hie grcHt city having finally been reached, the trip in the [ cab through the congested j streets seemed unbearably j slow Milt at last they drew up ! before a dingy but eomodinits- | matter how poor or lowly you may be some kindly souls will always follow you to thy gravy and lender hearts will weep with ttnwe who love you. Those small i >wn 1 folks may be prying and nmotis and Ignorant, but when tr -tbl# comes they are always read, to help Perhaps they are what like to rail smaii-aouled Indiridua'.t. but then, what does that mail. so Ion* as they have such bt* he*ru? The dtp ‘a a fine place for liv ing but lonesome place in ate Pur we aie all m bualed with p*. Una our pet ambitions to tntr»t on keeping pare so engrossed wtth our trivial omipotkMia. that we nave no time to stop when death puaaa , looking house. Conversation between the two had long since languished and died, for which Sally had been grateful. If Mr. Caldwell had tried to “enter tain” her all the wav, ahe couldn't have endured it. “He’s in this nursing home,” he said, as Sally looked up at the smoke-stained walls. “It is really quite pleasant inside.” He led her up the stairs, pre sented the nurse in charge, and suggested that Mrs. Chase be allowed to see her husband by herself. The nurse nodded, went into the room, came out again, and held the door open for Sally. “He’s expecting you,” she said. “It will do him a great deal of good to see you—if he doesn’t get too tired.” Sally didn’t hear her. She went, in and closed the door, and stood for an instant look ing across at the long figure in its dressing-gown, stretched in the invalid’s chair, the blackest of spectacles shielding the eyes, but the mouth smiling bravely as Schuyler stretched out his arms. “Oh. Sally!” She came across the space, dropped unon her knees beside him, and held him close, sub duing her own emotion sternly as she felt his. “You mustn’t cry, dearest,” she said. “I’m here now, and everything’s going to be all right.” And how she wished slip knew that this was a sure prophecy! Hpr husband controlled him self, though she knew that in his weakness it took all his will not to break down and be like a child in her warm arms. Schuyler's tears bad always been the sign of his dangerous over-eniotionalism — she real ized that more now than she had ever done before. “I’m so terribly glad to see you," he murmured. “It’s hard not to be a baby about it. Oh, Sally, I wanted you so! But I didn’t send for vou—you know that.” She nodded. “Mr. Caldwell said you didn’t, though you had every right. Anyhow, I’m as glad to be here as you are to have me. Together we’ll have you on your feet in no time." “On niv feet, but not—able to see my way around, per haps." She felt him shudder. “You—k now T" “I know you’ve had some thing of a breakdown, but I know you’re going to get over it. And we’re going home just as soon as they’ll let us. Out at Cherry Hills you shall have a wiser vacation than a hurried, tiring European trip. And Rich Fiske will be better for you than the most distin guished doctor London can produce. You’ll love it at Cherry House, Schuy. The children are getting brown as chestnuts, and so am I." “You look like a southern darkey through these con founded glasses. I wish I dared push them up and see my lovely wife as she is.” “No—you’ll have to take it for granted I’m as lovely as VA11 fltlnlr m Ct.. 11 .. i„l J L! ««»v. • MUII» IWIU II 1111 gayly. The meeting safely over, she felt her will and power to help him, to lift him out of his depression, actually to make him well, flooding into her being as water fills a dry pool at the lifting of a dam. Her weeks in the country had given her reserves of vitality, and they should all be his. Al ready she was stimulating his courage, for his smile was brighter than at first, and his pale cheek had taken ou a tinge of color. When the nurse came to end the interview Schuyler de murred. “She’s better for me than any tonic. Miss Stoughton!” he pleaded. Hut Sally rose. “T need to powder my nose and change my frock,” she protested. “Even tonics mustn’t he taken too freely.” When she had seen the great doctor who had Schuyler’s ease and the eminent oculist who had been called in consultation. And so we rush our dead oft swift* ly to the cemeteries and lay them away as quickly as possible. We send our floral offerings to the und ertaking parlors and let It go at (hat We say It with flowers In the city; In the country they say It with teers. And It U not that we have harder hearts It u only that we have grown so used to rubbing shoulders with tiagedy that we Ig nore It Death Is our neighbor m often that we have learned to turn our eyes away. And gradually we have allowed the undertaker to do for our dead, what friends once did As I looked at that broken man all the known facts were before her and she faced them. The one thing to tie to was that nothing was yet sure—there was a good fighting chance that the alarming symptoms might subside. That was enough for a working basis For Sally; she would lake her hus band home with a brave heart. It was a fortnight before she was permitted to sail with him. In the meantime she had sent off Howard Caldwell and Kirk Bronson, insisting that they were no longer needed. They left reluctantly, yet. with obvi ous relief which they tried val iantly to disguise. One didn't go on well-earned vacations in Europe to stay nursing a fellow clergyman if a wray out of such a duty were provided; and they could hardly he blamed. They took leave of Schuyler with great, heartiness, many predictions of swift recovery, and a final duet of “God bless you’s!” which left the patient chhfing and exhausted. “They’re good fellows— princes,” he said weariedlv to Sally, as their departing cab turned the corner, “and they ’ve done everything on earth for me. T’m no end grateful hut—if they hadn’t gone just when they did I know I should have gone myself—to pieces. T’m ashamed to be so weak. But I felt as if they were the tradi tional hulls in the chinashop— and T were the china, and a miglitv breakable sort, at that Caldwell’s preaching voice is based on bis speaking voice— either one would drown out a fog-born in a test.’’ “They have been wonder fully kind,’’ agreed Sally, “but I did begin to feel much that way myself. Lusty health al ways finds itself rather diffi cult to subdue to the needs of convalescence, and I could hear the china shaking on the shelves. Forget them, dear, and remember only their friendliness. We’ve a minister at Cherry Hills I think you’ll like, he's such a contrast, to these more conventional clergy men.” “At Cherry Hills? He must he pretty small shot. And 1 thought you planned to take a justifiable vacation from church-going while you were there, since there’d be nothing worth hearing in such an iso lated spot.” There was a touch of jeal ousy in Schuyler’s tone which was startlingly familiar to his wife. He had never much liked to have her listen to and ad- j mire other speakers. It was one of his weaknesses of char acter which she had never been able to understand. And to be jealous at the mere mention of a country preacher! But in the next breath she said to herself that the poor fellow was bound to be envious of nil activity just now, and particularly of any form of platform activity. “Mr. Mackay doesn’t seem like a minister, more like an understanding friend,” she said lightly. And went on quickly to other topics more congenial to one who was al ready eating his heart out at the thought of other men’s nreaehinc. when lie was to be long barred from his own. They got off comfortably, within the fortnight, with Doc tor Burton and Miss Stoughton to see them on board the ship and establish them in the room iest stateroom obtainable. July though it now was, the voyage began on a gray day, with heavy weather threatening. ‘‘I hope Dr. Chase won’t be seasick,” the English physician said to Sally, aside. ‘‘It would be the worst possible strain on his eyes. At the first hint of it put him to bed and have the ship’s surgeon give him bro mides.” (TO Bi: CONTINTKD) Out of Style From Life Janet—I went to the doctor again today and he said he wouldn't have to operate after all. Jeanette—What a pity, my dear. I'm no sorry. and those lobbing children. I wished that fhU mother might have - been privileged to die in the little town where I was born COMMITTKKMKN NAMKO Indianapolis. Ind Appointments to the American Legion Trophies and Awards Committee, a sub-com mittee of the National Ksecutlvr Committee, to serve one veer, were approved by the executive commit tee at the January meeting as fol lows: J, M Henry, chairman. Min nesota. Robert B M IV.. Wee Virginia: Wotney DilU, Iowa, and H. L Plummer. Wisconsin Former LeMars Banker Quoted on Interest Rates Paid Depositors From Bulletin of American Bankers Association. Opposition to reduction of interest paid depositors, as proposed by some bankers to meet the situation caused by diminishing mar gins of bank earnings, U expressed by J. F. Sartori, president of Se curity Trust and Savings bank, of Los Angeles, in an article In the current issue of the American Bankers Association Journal. “One of the easiest ways to meet the problem would be to reduce Interest paid depositors, but it might prove the most inopportune, for reduction would challenge depositors to transfer their savings to some financial institution not affected by the reduction,” Mr. Sartori says. “They would find a cordial welcome at many thou sands of financial institutions catering to the saver's business al though not themselves banks. Millions have already withdrawn sav ings from the banks and deposited or invested them elsewhere. Added millions have under consideration making a change to secure higher income. “A lessening of the interest rate would expose our savings bus iness to a general onslaught from competing financial institutions eager to capitalize Just such an opportunity. Thousands of profes sional investors and financiaal organizations of different kinds would ask for no better opportunity. Instead of making our savings business less attractive it is desirable that it be made more attractive, for it is being undermined by competition so keen that many savers are bewildered by the number of invitations to invest their savings at from 5 per cent, to 10 per cent. The mails are clogged with of fers, and printers’ ink is being worked overtime. With the advent of the radio, even the air is alive with investment offers addressed to the savers of this country. House-to-house canvassers are, many and persistent. Just imagine how the business of our competitors would pick up if the banks lowered the savings interest rate! “Where a high rate of interest is paid on savings deposits, the banks have been able to meet competition and show substantial growth. Granting that the trend of interest on commercial loans is downward, the average savings depositor is not interested in commer cial loans nor benefited by the low rate they bear. Any argument that reduction in interest on savings deposits is justified by the fact that commercial customers are paying a low rate on their commercial loans would serve to convince savings depositors that they are being treated unjustly. On the other hand, if rates on savings loans were so low banks could not pay present rates on deposits, argument in Justification of a reduction would no doubt merit the co-operation of savings depositors. “If interest is to be lowered, a good place to begin would be com mercial depositors, for if any account has been misused since the war, it is the commercial account on which liberal interest is paid. Commercial depositors are receiving interest on temporary and fluctu ating balances which prior to the war were left in banks without in terest. In this case a reduction can be partially justified by the low rate on commercial loans.” State Department Makes Stand in Petroleum War Foreign Attempt* to Grab World’* Sup ply of PY-iroleum There should be no doubt in the minds of the American public that the Government at Washington is aware of the efforts of the Royal DutWi Shell Company, supported by the British Government, to cor ner the oil supply of the world outside the United States and exclude American companies from participation in these supplies. The most striking example of this policy is in the bitter conflict with regard to Russian oil. All well-informed Govern ment officials know the Rus sian oil fields are potentially capable of a production second to the United States alone. The State Department is not deceived by the cry that the | Russian oil purchased by the American companies is “stolen oil.” Enraged by the American competition Sir Henri Deter ding last September unleashed a price war in oil products in India, in which secret rebates were a feature. The losses of Royal Dutch have been approximately three times as heavy as those of American companies. Sir Henri now purposes to have the In dian Government put a tariff on imported oil. This discri mination, aimed solely at American competition, would leave the field to him. Every department of the Government attempting to pro tect the interest of American oil companies runs up against the close connection between SIR HENRI DETERDING (laUrnatlonal niuatratad News) the British Government and the Royal Dutch Shell Com pany. Sir Henri Deterding was knighted by the British Gov ernment for his services to the Empire during the war. Nom inally, he is a Hollander. He has eighty-two thousand Brit ish stockholders on his books. The State Department is by no means ignorant of the fact that in stiffening the back of American companies against Royal Dutch Shell it is up against the British Govern ment itself. The department, however, feels that a strong American stand is justified, not only in the interest of a decent protection of American corpo rations but in the interest of the United States in acquiring an adequate supplemental oil reserve against the day when our own oil shall be gone. Big Year for Black Hills. From C. and N. W. Bulletin. Fifteen million dollars will be spent in the Black Hills by tourists this summer, it is estimated by a survey based on the growing busi ness of the last few years and the largely multiplied number of re quests for information that are coming in this spring to railroads, newspapers and other sources of In formation. In the plans for the summer va- ! cation the Black Hills rise like an amazing mirage in the midst of the plains and farm lands. They are the most accessible of ail the mountain playgrounds. The Chicago and North Western railway covers the thousand level miles between Chi cago and the first glimpse of the agged purple sky line in leas than it hours. From the modern hotels KeverUng to Nature. New You When the nvxJern unman linallv arrives at the “van ishing point" in clothing -lf she ever does- nobody will be any too greatly shocked. Such was the prediction made by M Eugene, one ef the famous hair sculptors' of Paris, creator of hair stylrs and developer of the permaurn wave, In a talk before a group of beauticians at the Wal* ; dorf. “The new generation of flappers, with thrtr chiffon stucglnga. bare lr. res. and skimpy dr soars.1' said M Eugene, "are gradually reverting to the days when hair, serving at one# aa a rain coat and an over* —the new Alex Johnson in Rapid City, the Franklin in Deadwood, the Evans in Hot Springs, and the new Highland in Lead, a car or a saddle horse will find a remote wilderness in less than an hour. Away from the hotels in the towns, are log cabin inns by the wayside, and at the outskirts of nearly all the towns are tourist parks. The recreations the Black Hi Hi offer their summer visitors, range ail the way from panning gold to playing golf. There are no more fortunes in the placer streams but there is a "string of coirs" in Lire bottom of the {ran bright and sub stantial enough to make the wash ing of gold a thrilling amusement — Q What is the size of the Great Sait lake? A. E. S. A. This Utah lake has an area of 1.800 acres. coat, constituted the entire ward robe of the primitive man. "Nature simply n taking care of her own The legs and arms of sweet 18 today already are as downy as peaches, and If the time evei comes when the girls wear nothing more than bathing suits, they will be fully protected against sunshine and rain. and. furthermore, will be as modest as Lady (iodiva "It will be centuries before we develop into a race ef hairy Ainut. but meanwhile, the hat less craw has been working wonders far the hair of the head, and if the present tendency keeps up. oakinesa will toon be an <sui«ard of pitenumeti •