*Itt.I>WAn. ^ By Joseph C. Lincoln Author of "Capn Enf 'Partners of the Tide"* Copt pic#r iso? A "So—er—not yet,” answers t'other tdoctor, pompous. “But, of course, that's quite usual—often the regular Chins- Er—yes.” Jordan nodded. Then he asked a few more questions; when the young ster was took sick, and how it begun, and the like of that. Finally he says to Redny: “What have you been eating lately?” “Aw, I don't know, sir. Miss Agnes give me some jelly and some mush and cream and—" "Yes. 1 know. But those are what you’ve had inside the house. What have you eaten outside? I noticed an orchard back of the farm here. There , were some very pretty late apples on ' the trees. How do they taste?” Redny looked worried, seemed to me. He fidgeted with the edge of the bed spread. “I ain't et. only a few of ’em," he says. “The ones on the ground was wormy, so—” Miss Agnes broke in here. ‘‘He couldn't have eaten those apples, doc tor,” she says. ‘I've expressly for bidden the children to touch them.” "Yes, of course,” says Jordan. “'But I’ve had the advantage of being a boy once myself. The apples on the ground were wormy, you say. How were those on the tree? And how many did you eat—well, say uight before last?” “Only six," says Kedny, beginning i to snuffle. "I knocked 'em down with | a rock. They was—” "I see.” Jordan smiled, quiet, and stood up. ''Doctor." he says to Dun can, “I wouldn't operate yet awhile, lie seems to he much easier now. 1 think it will be safe to wait.” Duncan bristles up and waved his i hand, pompous. He was going to | speak, I guess, but alt at once the sense of what Jordan meant seemed to work down through his skull. He business with Washy Sparrow. Mr. Hartley wa’n't no wore to be blamed for that than a— ’ She stopped me. ‘‘Please don’t,” she says. “I know; Sureka told me. And. Mr. Pratt," she adds, and her face lit up like there was a glory inside it; “I'm not going to ask you to beg his pardon for me. But will you tell him that, as soon as I can leave Dennis, I'm coming to Wellmoutb to ask his pardon myself, and—to thank him? Tell him that, please.” Eureka and me drove back to Well mouth together. If that old buggy had been trimmed up to match the feelings of the two inside it ‘twould have been the gayest turnout that, ever come down the pike road. No circus cart would have been in it. But poor Van! CHAPTER XIX. Simple Versus Duplex. I left Eureka at Nate Sctidder's. She was going to have him take his dory and row her over to the island. She was to see to things there till I come. Dewey was all right and over his cold, she told me, so she could take up her regular job again. Scud der was glad to see us. I don't know but he'd been seared that his whole gang of lodgers had cleared out and left him in the lurch. I told him about the doctor chase. His eyes stuck out. "Godfrey scissors!” says he. "It must have cost that Hartley man a lot for that automobile.” '‘Cost!” says I. "You bet it did!” ”1 presume likely that'll come out of the doctor's bill, won’t, it?” “No,” I says, scornful. "Land of Goshen! No. Why should it?” “Well, if twas me I'd take some of it out. The doc hadn't no right to be over to Uranlboro after giving folks notice through the papers that he was to Wapatemac." He thought a min ute more and then he says: "Say. Sol; don't you cal’late there's a com mission coming to us from Beu Baker? He'd never let that auto wagon if we hadn't provided the customer.” Didn't that beat all? Sometimes 1 think Nate Seudder'll rjse up ju his coffin afore they bury him and waut a commission from the undertaker. He'll never rest easy and see all that cash going to somebody else when he's furnishing the center of interest. I found Martin planted easy and I'm Coming to Ask His Pardon Myself, and—to Thank Him.' looked at me. I was beginning to grin. Then be looked at Agnes and Marga ret; they looked queer, and Miss Tal forci's mouth was twitching at the corners. He turned as red as a small ; pox flag. | "I—I—why didn't you tell me about ! those apples, boy?" he asks, sharp. "You never a3ked me," snuffles i Rodny. "All you asked me was what ! 1 had for supper, and 1 told you." "Green apples, hey?" says I, more to ; myself than anybody else. "Humph! j Well, they never operated for them | when 1 was a boy." I went down to the kitchen pretty soon after that. Eureka was there and she and me bad a big talk. Duncan come stomping down a little later and ; went out and slammed the door. “Humph!" snaps Eurek3, bobbing her head the ■way she always done; "he ain't going to get the chance to try his tricks on that boy. Pesky thing! Why don't he run a butcher : shop? Then he could cut up and saw | be happy, and nobody'd be killed ex | cept them that was dead already.” . Hy and by Agnes came to the door ! and called to me. "Mr. Pratt,” she says, when her and j me was in the hall together, "how can i thank you for what you've done for me and for that poor little child?” "You can't," 1 says, short. “Because I ain't done nothing. It's Mr. Hartley that—” "I knotv. Ur. Jordan has told me some. Please tel! me the rest. How is he? Is his arm badly hurt? Is he suffering? Do you think there's any danger?” Here was my chance. And I just spread myself, too, now I tell you. I spun the whole yarn, from the time the Dora Bassett pulled out of Horse foot Bar cove to when Hartley was loaded into the Old Home depot wagon. "He's a brick, that's what he is, ’ says 1, finally. “And he always was one. And there's one thing more I’m going to tell, now that I've gert my hand in. Miss Page. That's about that pretty comfortable in an upstairs front room at the Old Horae. His arm was hurting him some, of course, but other ways he felt better, having had a nap and something to eat. He wa n t sick in bed at least; and that's how I expected to find him. I told him the good news from Red ny, and it. pleased him 'most to death. Then I give him tile Page girl's mes sage. He didn't say much, but twas plain to see how he felt. I promised to be back next morning, and then i said good-by. His gocd-by to mo was sort of absent-minded. 1 left him smoking and looking dreamy out of the window. I was in a hurry to get to Ozone, but 1 couldn't help stopping where they was digging the cellar for the new part of the hotel, and looking for our old friend Washy Sparrow. He was wheeling dirt in a wheelbarrow and he seemed mighty willing to let go of the handles and talk to me. "Hello, Washy,” I says. “How's the. stomach and lungs these days?” He groaned. "Pratt,” says he, "I'm dying on my feet.” “Well,” I says, looking down at his cowhides, “you’d ought to have plenty of room to do it In. What are you dying of—dropsy? You're five pounds heavier than when 1 see you last.” He shook his head. “Tell Reky I'm doing my best to forgive her,” he says. "When I'm gene- maybe she'll think how she treated me. Say! how soon's she coming home? Lycurgus can't cook fit to eat.” I told him Eureka 'd bo home that night. It seemed to give him a-little more hopes. “When you see Miss Page." says he j “just tell her I want to talk to her. won't you? Tell her I'm 'most through with this world and 1 want to speak to her about providing for the children. Ask her to come over and sec me." Just then the foreman yelled to him to stop gassing and hustle that wheel barrow along. He done it. surprising prompt, too. I* thought. 1 asked the foreman about it. "Oh!” he says. "Mr. Brown's give me the receipt for him. Every time he groans or coughs I set him to lug ging stones; the louder the groans the bigger the rocks. He's getting well fast.” I took Nate's dory end went across to the island. Eureka was up to her elbows in work. "Sakes alive!" says she. "Who's been letting this house gc* this way? The tea kettle bottom's burnt out and somebody’s been trying to eat the ax. And the beds are so wet that the feathers are beginning to grow.” "That's the Natural Life." I told her. "The Heavenlies lived it for a whole day." “I thought they lived it afore I come here at all." she says. "Things was bad enough then, but nothing like this.” “ 'Twas me that was the Natural then.” says 1. This lat attack hit the Twins.” ‘ Do ycu know who I think ought to live the Natural Life?" she asks. T said I didn't. "Nobody but natural born idiots, that’s who." “1 guess that who's been living it," says I. Next morning I went over to see Hartley. He was fooling like a new man. Dr. Jordan had been there ahead of me and set the arm. Redny was pretty nigh well. Jordan had the right cure for green-apple appendicitis and it wot'ked tip-top. J drove up to the depot in the Old Home wagon and met Van Brunt. He was in fine spirits. The Tea Lead deal had been closed up—the Street pirates having decided not to pass the dividend—and the Heavenly Twins had made money by the keg. I judged. “How'd New York look to you?" 1 asked him. "Hush!" says he. "Don't speak lightly of sacred things." When he heard about what had hap pence while he was away he was the most surprised man in the county. "Skipper," he says, grabbing my hand, "you're a star of the first magni tude. You and Eureka are the redeem ing features of this Natural experi ment. You pay the freight and a large rebate over. And Martin! bully old boy! I want to see hint.” Him aad his chum was shut up to gether for a good half hour. When Van come down to the porch he beck oned to me. "Scl," he says, “there's another rpiestion I want to ask you. Of course 1 know that Martin liked the boy and all that, but that reason won't quite do. What's the ~ea) one?" Twas a ticklish place for me. But I couldn’t see but one way clear; that it. but one way which was best in the long run for all hands. So I spunked up and answered. “Mr. Van Brunt," says 1, "I hate tc say it. but of course you know that your partner and Miss Agnes set con siderable store by each other at one time. And you can't, break off feel ings like that same as you'd bust a piece of string. I—” He nodded. “AJ1 right,” he says “I'm not altogether a blockhead That'll do. I've been sure of it, my self, for some time." "I understand," I went on. “that the reason she give him the mitten was on account of his being too grasping after money. If she'd seen him. like I have, just throwing it away as if 'twas shavings, 1 guess likely she—” He interrupted and looked at me queer. “How did you know that was the reason?" he asks. I'd put my foot in it away over the shoe iaces. "Well.” I stammered, "you see I— that is. 'twas told to me—and—course 1 can't swear—” "Who told it? Ob. never mind. 1 see. Dear James! Well done, good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few- things, and general superintendent and adviser of all the rest. Sol. I learned something when 1 was in New York. Considering all you've done and know. I think you’re entitled to know more. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Stimulants Before the Duel Frenchman Explains the Necessity for “Tanking Up.” The Frenchman was still pale and tremulous from his encounter with the rough. "Did I not conduct myself well, hein?" he demanded. “Fairly well. At the same time, for one who has fought four duels there was a certain pallor, a certain nervous ness, that rather disappointed us.” The Frenchman looked mortified. Then he tapped significantly his little glass of fine champagne. "But I had none of this," he said. “3 was taken unprepared. I had not the time to—what you say—tank up.” “But you don't tank up for a duel!’” r "Don't we? How little you know! | Imagine it—the horror—the gray deso ! lation of the dawn—the surgeon -with j his cold and glittering instruments— | the witnesses cruelly searching you for the least sign of fear—and all this without tanking up. Voila, you are mad. "No, no! Every Frenchman, before a duel, tanks up. A dueling field smells like an American bar. And it is as tounding, with the thought of the duel before you, how much it takes to tank you. A pint, a litre sometimes, but steadies the nerve and clears the eye for the dread encounter.” His Job. The armored knight of old was evi dently in the hardwear business. r | One of the Important Duties of Physicians and the Well-Informed of the World is to learn as to the relative standing and reliability of the leading manufactur ers of medicinal agents, as the most eminent physicians arc the most careful as to the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it is well t known to physicians and the Well-Informed generally that the California Pig Syrup I Co., by reason of its correct methods and perfect equipment and the ethical character of » its product,lias attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and. therefore, that the name of the I Company has become a guarantee of the excellence of its remedy. 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