OUT UNDERTHE STARS After He Had Told Helen Whole Truth. e, S E KtSER. For three hours Helen Sibley had been **.-Ag at Northport Junction Ia*cfcjy the evening was pleasant. so that ah* mas not compelled to sit In Che staff} disgy mti* station There • as Ja one pretty thing about North port Junction, and that was Helen. If .th* trsA lor nbteh she was waiting ever came and ever departed again. Nsnkyw Junction voaid resume Us babtt U being shoot as unlovely a spot as one might find m lthln the tem pernt* me While He..-a remained the place • (raid possess erne attraction that would hate lent distinction to a far soore important and a far more splen did tender of nrtirity than the June Lot » as ever likely to become. The operator in the bay window that Jutted out into tb* pedal of land be p (sees the branding tracks evidently had an eye for beauty as well as an ear for Morse As Helen walked up aid down the platform be ■ at coed her and became theagntfwL He wonder ed why tt was that nature becitmed her gifts so lavishly upon some girls ar 1 treated other* so shabbily. The beauty that Hrei potoeased might base made a dozen plain girls fair if 1: rad teen distributed among them. ► . b was tb* opr". r s reasoning. Tbe operator at Northport Junction was a philosopher. But Helen a as not tanking of phil osophy. nod a she Lad noticed that the operator wa* eagerly matching her the •act neither added to her pleasure nor caused her annoyance For some reason dv was t Making of Tom Har Mrs Fern apt it va* because of the kswuneas of her surround tog* It was nearly a year since she bad re fused o listen when Tom bad said that h= could "explain everything la good time.- mod fer months she had thought that sh* was sever going to have any tnterewt in bit4 again Tba-king cf Tots naturally caused her to -Link of Mrs Ua&forth. tbe pret t* young grass-widow who Lad come / leiet them There iu something *t y stertous about Mrs Utnforth. Peo •he *ae T*».«a.«*f at Tom Harlow. | !_ her. bat sobudy seta. am why. She aad ease s. I a atraagrr aad ahe had • rarefal U lease her past behind her It bad am tahea her kmc Us find ac ahr »a5i'hr adicittef to W«h plenty at the dost fash titled :»•.;.*> the talk of oae daj. the disap . aad aa the rationing Doming Hartoa laid Heiea that K had to gs to Chi li seek later he returned. bat a sub eeaotie! ctuaea at hpnagheid had re tarasd before tarn The sahetab'ial n’tmm had seen Toa aad Mia Eha tott tagether th Chtcaga. Of camp Teas had atosf IVira that It was ail right, am hr had aot explained Me had aseenty prwaused u 4t a> Tt gaud «sw.“ had Heiea had aatarmUy de-tded that the -good u**~ cemid aaoer «sne g* T«aa a«at a»ay Sae thoaght over ai this aa she :sr petjewty a trod at Vorthport Jane •Jo*... A damam ? sates ahe trsed to hx her thoughts oa 'Other things. hot ah wave the/ tamed taws to the old sab >err. Sit bacame artery with heraeft. at las?, and more for the purpoar at try’.sag to forget Teas Harlow thaa •itl the hope at dtaauat alar»i-fa», "** ah* werd lata the eta::-aa aad ashed the sperstar If It was likely that the trata tar Medford movud arrive oa MM • She s last reported tfty mtecie* late.’ the operator i&furmcd her. There• a waahoot ap the road’ Heiea taraad away with a ieeiing of hoiw i ana wan and w«at outside ag*tp ft Xorthpar; had hashed diatcol to her heS«d*. is aw seemed oexoia e While she was trying to cwoat the spyaiitag ' arts bet at missies that she mould hsme to wait, she beard the wtsstle of aa eastar sway ap the rerve arouad (hr UB ea the malm itae. Warn the wag in* stopped at the Jaacffac Heiea saa a sc-aa atap dowa fraaa ea of be Pal.taa; rare aaay at the rear She paid so aticstioa to Arts. awpMMtag he was a passenger who fcad awreSy stepped off to ge: a brew a of fresh .air. hat after the tram had gone aa ahe soured that the was walkhur aiowly dowa the coder path hi rtf i tho trarh towatd the ns tana For a bbsui she gased at h*> mam thea harried inside. It was Tom Hsrio* carrytsg a so:?-rase Stoocutg the darken comer ta the dm Hews so? down taraet her /hark toward the dowr. sod maned, hop Ad that so oae woald <«sae ta aad (soring ««e»itag tfat she canid im has* eaplataad Her earner was so — When does the train leave for lied ford T' he asked ax tLe ticket win dow. It's pretty hard to tell." the opera tor replied. "She's reported fifty min utes late, but there's a washout up the road, and she may be held up all night." Ttat s encouraging." Tom remark ! ed. "What I've seen of this place doesn't make me yearn to s;-end the nigtii it-re Wberes the town?" "This is it." "Isn't there a hotel of any kind?" "X'o. nothing in that line except the farm Louse half a mile down the track, where the night operator and 1 board." i suppose there s no hack?” 'None that I've ever beard of.” W hat lime do you light up here? r They ought to let you use plenty of oil in such a lonesome piaee as this, i *l * getting pretty dark ” "Just a minute. Here's my call.” The operator turned to his instru ment* and Tom Harlow waited at the 'i' ket window, hoping there might be encouraging news con ercing the train 'or Medford; bat be was doomed to be iisapposcted. "I guess you may as well make up your mind to hang around uere all j night," said the operator after the in strument had ceased clicking (he ►poke rather loudly for Helen s bene fit I ; "they say the track is washed out .n half a dozen placet There's been a cloud-burst." While Tom drummed with his finger ;.;