... . __SYNOPSIS. '•i'lm,-l O llnllorsn. an orphan n'witmv Htionta n little rrlpuled girl. Dougl*. llrure. a yuuiig rorporation lawyer, la In terested In Mu-key and In torn Interesta his fiancee. Leslie \Yuiion. Leslie and Douglas take a trip t* the great swamp and become fascinated with the on«s of the birds. Leslie decides to make -mother trip and Invites Mrs. Mln turn, wife of ■ prominent attorney, to accompany her. On -theIP return Mr Mlnturn break, all relations with hi. a"fe and Mrs. Mlnturn disappears. Douglas Bruoe and Leslie Hinton are stunned by the happening and renter their attention on Mickey whom they have de termined to adopt. (Continued from Yrsterday.) "I know, too,” said Mickey. “Gim me a little time.” He studied the There he thriftily lifted the cloth to problem till he reached his grocery, peep, and with a sight of satisfaction pursued his way. Presently he open ed his door, to be struck by a wave of hot air and to note a flushed little face and drawn mouth as he went into Peaches’ outstretched arms. Then he delivered the carefully car ried clover and the following: ”1 got these from a big, pink field bewildering, That God made a-purpose for cows and childering. Her share is being consumed by the cow, Let’s go roll In our right now." . ’’Again!” demanded Peaches. Mickey repeated slowly. "How could we?” asked Peaches. "Easy!" said Mickey. " ‘Easy?’ " repeated Peaches. "Just as easy!” reiterated Mickey. “Did yoii see it?” demanded IJeaches. "yes, I saw it today,” said Mickey, ‘it’s like this: You see, some folks live in houses all built together, and work at selling things to eat, and wear, and making things, and doing other work that must be done, like doctors, and hospitals: that’s a city. Then, to feed them, other folks live on big pieces of land; the houses are far apart, with, streets between, and beside them the big fields where the wheat grows for our bread, and our potatoes, and the grass, and the clover like this to feed the cows. Today Mr. Bruce didn’t play long, so I went walking and stopped at a house for a drink, and there was the nicest lady; we talked some and she give me our supper in that pretty basket; and she sent you the clovers from a big pink field so sweet smelly it would ’most make you sick; and there are trees through it, and lots of birds sing, and there are wild roses and fringy white flowers; and it’s qfliet ’oept' the birds, and the roosters crowing, and the wind comes in little perfumey blows on you, and such "Better ’an our milk?” demanded Pc&chcs “Their milk is so rich It makes our look like a poorhouse relation,’’ scoffed Mickey. "Tell me more,” demanded Peaches. “Walt ’til I get the water to wash you, you are so warm.”* “Yes, it's getting some hot; but ’taln’t nothing like on the rags last summer. It’s like a realTady here.” "A pretty warm lady, just the same,” said Mickey. Then he brought water, and, leav ing the door ajar for the first time, he soon started a draft. That, with the coming of cooler evening, lowered the child's temperature and made her hungry. As he worked Mickey talked. The grass, the blooming orchard, the hen and her little downy chickene, the big cool porch, the wonderful wo man and man, the boy whom they expected and who did not come; and then cautiously, slowly, making sure she understood, he developed his plan to take her to the country. Peaches drew hack and opened her lips. Mickey promptly laid the washcloth over them. ,. “Now don’t begin to say you won t, like a silly baby." he said. “Try it and see; then if you don't like it you can come right back. You want to ride in a grand automobile like a •smillyingaire lady, don’t you? All the swells go away to the country for the summer; you go to be a swell lady! I ain’t going to have you left wav behind!" . “Mickey, would you be there? she flsk‘‘d • •'Yes, lady, I’d be right on the job!’ said Mickey. "I’d be there a lot more than I am here. Xou go the week they wanted that boy, and he didn’t come; then If you like It I li see if they won’t board you, and you can have a nice little girl to play with, and a fat, real baby, and a boy bigger than me—and you should see rtier. Peaches opened her lips; Mickey re applied the cloth. • Calm down, now. he ordered, l ve decided to do it. We got to hump ourselves. This Is our chance. Why there's milk, and butter, and eggs, and things to eat there like you never tasted, and to have a cool breeze, and to lie on the grass—" “Oh, Mickey, could I. cried P "Sure.’ sillv! Why not?" said Mickey. ‘•There's big fields of it. and the cows don't need it all. You can lie on the grass, or the clover, and hear the birds, and play with the children. 1U take a day and get things righr before I leave you to come to work, like I'll have to. W hen I come at night I'll carry you outdoors. Whs. I'll take you down to the water and you can kick your feet in It. where It's nice and warm. All the time you ban have as many flowers as your hands will hold and such bird sing ing: Why. Lily Peaches OHalloian. there are birds as red as blood! Yes. ma'am! And yellow as orange peel, .and light blue like ‘his ribbon, and Nftark blue like that—hold still til II /oTiold m.r •sES/SSSSr'»■ *.“555 on you, unless you say so, said Mickey promptly. «he "And youd stay a whole day. she asked anxiously. "Sure!" cried Mickey. "An' If I was ufraid you d bring me back?" she went on. . . "Sure! Right away! h®'Promised. "An' they wouldn t anybody gel me there?” "Way out there 'rnong th« ,cJ0V^,re scoffed Mickey. Why *t» h they'll 'get' you if they are Koln« Nobody out there wants you. but III "Mickey, when will you take me?" she asked eagerly. ..mmised 1 Ref ore ho very long. prpm seu Mull, -. "You needn't be t,“r|,rls!J to hear me coming with the nJsJMV to see you any day now. an<1 to M wrapped in a sheet, and put In a big u | ountry bread. There was a ■«•*» st blue bowl of yellow butter, of ^rryr.e::enanyde,,X:e powdered NTd ‘hi* "^ck" surveyed the ' ' "Now, MISS Chicken, here's howr h, warned. "1 found YOU a wsrm «u.d feverish.' If you load up with this y ou 'll be sick aurte. You get a cup of milk, a slice of bread and butter, some berries and a teeny piece of meat. We can I’ve- from this a week, if the heat doesn’t spoil It." "You fix me," said Peaches. Then they had such a supper as they neither one ever hud known, during which Mickey explained wheat fields and bread, bees and honey, cows and clover, pigs and ham, as he un* derstood them. Peaches repeated her lesson and her prayers, and then, as had become her custom, demanded that Mickey write his last verse on the slate, so she might learn and copy it on the morrow. She was asleep before he finished. Mickey walked softly, cleared the table, placing it before the window, and, taking -from his pocket an envelope Mr. Bruce had given him, drew out a sheet of folded paper on which he wrote long and laboriously; then, lock ing Peaches in, he slipped down to the mail box and posted this letter: Dear Miater Carrel: I saw In paper* I Hold how you nut different left* on a dog. I have a little white flowersy-girl that hasn't ever walked. It’* her back. A Nurse Lady told me at the "Htnr of Hope" how you came there sometimes, and the next time you come. I sues* I will let you* see my little girl; and maybe I'll have you fix her b*ok When you see her you will know that to fix her back would be the biggest thing you ever did or ever could do. I got a Job that I can pay her way and mine, and save two dollars a week for you. I couldn’t pay all at once, but 1 could pay steady; and if you’d lose all you have In any way. It would come In real handy to have that much skating In steady hh the clock every week for hh long as you say, and soon as I can I'll make it more. I’d give nil I got or ever can get. to cure Lily's back, and because you fixed the deg I'd like you to fix her. I do hope you will fume noon, but of course I don’t wish anybody else would get sick so you'd have to. You can hbk if I am square of Mr. Douglas Bruce, Irlquois Building. Multi opolis. Indiana, or of Mr. Chaffner. editor of the Herald, whose papers I’ve sold since I was big enough. MICHAKL O’H ALLORAN. CHAPTER XII. Feminine Reasoning. With vigor renewed by a night of rest, Leslie began her second day at Atwater Cabin. She had so many and such willing helpers that before noon she could find nothing more to do. After lunch she felt a desire to ex plore her new world, Choosing the shady side. *he followed the road to ward the cluhouse, but one thought in her mind—she must return in time to take the car and meet Douglas Bruce as she had promised. She felt elated that she had so planned her summer as to spend it with her father, while of course It was going to be delightful to have her lover with her. So going she came to a most attractive lane that led from the road between tilled fields, hack to a wood on one side and open pasture on the other. Faintly she heard the shouts of children, ami, yielding to sudden Impulse, she turn ed and followed the grassy path- A few more steps, then she stopped In surprise. An automobile was stand ing on the bank of a brook. On an Indian blanket under a tree sat a woman of fine appearance holdflfg a hook, but watching with smiling face the line of the water which spread In a wide pool above a rudely con structed dam. overflowing It in a small waterfall. On either t#nk lay one of the Mln turn boys, muddy and damp, trying with his hands to catch something in the water. Below the dam, In a blue balbriggan bathing suit, stood James Mlnturn, his hands filled with a big piece of sod which he bent and ap plied to a leak. Leslie untied the rib bons of her sunshade and rumpling her hair to the light breeze came forward laughing. "Weil, Mr. Mlnturn:" she cried. “What is going to become of the tax payers of Multlopolls while their champion builds a sod dam?” Whether the flush on James Mln turn’s face as he turned to her was exertion, embarrassment or unpleas ant memory Leslie could not decide, but she remembered, after her im pulsive greeting, that she had been with his wife In that early morning meeting the day of the trip to the swamp. She thought of many things as she went forward. James Mlnturn held out his muddy hands as he said laughingly: "You see I'm not in con dition for our customary greeting." "Surely!” cried Leslie. "It Is going to wash’ off. isn't it? If from you, why not from me?" "Of course, if you want to play!" he said. "Playing? You? Hone.'rtly?" queried Leslie. "Honestly playing," answered the man. "The 'honestest' playing In all the world: not the political game, not ADVERTISEMENT. BEK THE .UGH OR COLD THATHANGS ON Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serious Ipng trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulslon. an emulsified creosote that Is pleasant to take. Creomulslon Is a new medical discovery with twofold action; It soothes and heals the inflamed mem branes and kills the germ. Of all known drugs, creosote Is rec ognised by the medical fraternity as the greatest healing agency for the treatment of chronic coughs arid colds and other forms of throat and lung troubles. Creomulslon contains, In ad dilIon to creosote, other healing ele ments which soothe and heal the in flamed membranes and stop the Irrita tion und inflammation, while the creo sote goes on to the stomach, is ab sorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and destroys the germs that lead to consumption. Creomulslon Is guaranteed satisfac tory In the treatment of chronic coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, catarrhal bronchitis and other forms of throat ami lung diseases, and Is excellent for building tip the system after colds or the flu. Money re funded If any cough or cold, no matter of how long standing. Is not relieved after taking according to directions. Ask your druggist. Creomulslon Co . Atlanta, Oa. the money game, not anything called mtinly sport, just a day off with my boys, being a boy again. Heavens, Leslie, I'm wild about it. I could scarcely sleep las® night for eager ness to get started. But let me l^ake you acquainted with my family. My sister, Mrs. Winslow; a friend of mine, Miss Leslie Winton; my sons’ tutor, Mr. Tower; my little brother, William I Minturn; my boys, Junior and Mal colm." '"Anyway, we can shake hands.” said -l.esli8 to Mrs. Winslow. "The tiuoit is so ingrained 1 am scandalized on meeting people if I’m forced to neglect it." ♦ Will you share my blanket?" ask ed Mrs. Winslow. "Thanks! Yes, for a little time.” #hid Leslie. “I am greatly interested in what is going on here." "So am I," said Mrs. Winslow. "We are engaged in the evolution of an idea. A real 'Do-the-boy's-hair." "It seems to he doing them good,” commented Leslie. "Never jfiind the boys," said Mr. Minturn. "I object to such small men monopolizing your uttention. 1 Look at the 'good' this is doing me. And would you please tell me why you are here, instead of disporting yourself at, say, Lenox?" "How funny!" laughed Leslie. “I am out in search of amusement, and I'm finding it. I think I'm perhaps a mile from our home for the summer." "You umaze me!" cried Mr. Minturn. "I saw. Douglas this morning, and told him where I was coming, but ho never said a word.” "He didn't know o‘ne to say on this subject,” explained Leslie. "You see, I rented a cabin over on Atwater und had my plans made before 1 told even father what a, delightful thing was in store for him." "But how did it happen?" "Through my seeing how desper ately busy Daddy and Douglas have been all spring, IJaddy especially," replied Leslie. "Douglas is bad enough, but father’s just obsessed, so much so that 1 think he's carrying double." "I know he is," said Mr. Minturn. “And so you made a plan to allow him to proceed with his work all day and then have the delightful ride, fishing and swimming in At water morning and evening. How wonderful! And of course Douglas will he there also?” "Of course," agreed Leslie. “At least he shall have an invitation. I'm go ng to surprise him with it this very evening, liow do you think he’ll like it?" "I think he will be so overjoyed he won’t know how to express him self,” said James Minturn. "But isn't it going to be lonely for you? Won't you miss your friends, your frocks and your usual summer round?” "You forget," said I^eslie, "My friends and Tny frocks always have been for winter. All my life I have summered with father." "How will you amuse yourself?" he asked. "It will take some time each day to plan what to do the next that will bring most refreshment and joy. I often will be compelled to drive in of mornings with orders for my housekeeping, nnd when other things are exhausted I am going to make an especial study of wild bird music." "That is an attractive subject.” said Mr. Minturn. "Have you really mude any progress?" "Little more than verifying a few songs already recorded,” replied Leslie. "I hear smatterings and snatches, but they nre elusive, while I'm not always sure of the identity of the bird. But the subjeot is thrill ingly tempting." “It surely Is,” conceded Mr. Min turn. “I could see that Nellie was alert the instant you mentioned it. Conte over here to the shade and tell me how far you have gone. You see, I’ve undertaken the boys’ education. Malcolm inherits his mother's musical ability to a wonderful degree, ft is possible that he could be started on this and bo begin his work while he thinks he's playing." Leslie walked to the spot indicated, far enough away Ihat conversation would not interrupt Mrs. Winslows reading, and near enough to watch the hoys; she and Mr. Mlnturn sat on the grass and talked. “it might he the very thing," said Leslie. "Whatever gives even a faint hope of attrartlng a boy to an edu cational subject is worth testing. “One thing I missed, I always have regretted,” said Mr. Mlnturn, "I never had educated muslsal comprehension. Nellie' performed and sang so well, nnd In my soul I knew what I could understand and liked in music she scorned. 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