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'•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
<ar and Just -cooled right out to
!i:,,r^rP,ri?U0thgiV.H Tonight we
uuf kuiiDfT,’ won t wt! t
“Yes, Mickey, and 'fore you came ^
dldn t want n-ny Httppei at all.
now I do," said Peaches. ,, 8aj,j
"Vou were too warm, honey, a
Mlckev "We'll Just fix this old noi
ckykeyWe1l run right away from »t.
See? Now we'll have the gramlis
supper we ever had, . , . ,i
Mickey brought wMor I |
forks, and opened the basket. *J
i ",stored with
and marveled. Theie w.t rl,,th.
bottle of milk wrapped In a *®1. _
There was a big loaf of cru > 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
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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. Sometimes I thought if I
had known only enough to appreciate
the right thing at the right time it
might have formed a slender tie be
tween us; so I want the boys both to
recognize good music when they hear
it; but they have so much to learn
all at once, poor little chaps, I scarce
ly see where to begin, and in a mu
sical way I don’t even know how to
begin Tell me about the birds. Le*
Just what Is It you are study
; ing?"
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bird or indisputably based upon it,"
answered Leslie.
"Did you and Nellie have any suc
cess?”
"Indeed yes! We had the royal luck
to hear exactly the son I had hoped;
and besides we talked of many things
and Nellie settled her future course
in her mind. When she went into
•the swamp alone and came out with
an armload of lavender fringed or
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and her heart firmly resolved to be
gin a new life with you. she told me
she felt like flying; that never had
she been so happy.”
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Mlnturn. Hr seemed puzzled: "I
don't understand. But nothing mat
ters now. Tell me about the birds,”
he said.
(Continued In Mornlna nee. tomorrow.)
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