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KT M : v D on t VP Willi , Willi SYNOPSIS ; ' t a p -ntherlna of cronies In the v o( Liberty, Maine, Jim Sala , . en to the history of the i orins Hostile Vallsy Its pait , i, its superb Rabins streams, i i, i -ve all, ths mysterious, en k Huiay,'' Wife of Will Ferrln. i . :' f ii, he drives 'to the Valley I c a day's fishing, though admit i i himself bis chief desire Is t i the reputedly glamorous Hul 'e srrln. '"Old Marm" Pierce and ). r nineteen-year-old. granddaugh ter Jenny HvV. In the Valley.- Since liu'a more than a ehlld Jenny has at first admired and then deeply loved young- Wilt Ferrln, neighbor ing farmer, older than she. .: -. CHAPTER I Continued T ' cur vvui kh, ii limn. 'mm iiiiinun '.with the pride of first manhood; end In bis eyes Jenny was still no than a ..fell ' - 1 ..KM .1 who came to watch him 'flab, and iuv vroDB -on ner 1 imnucn ' neninn wi'ii BU ma UUI W AUXIgUt U1D (XVUt, t ' e he crept near to drop his line ; the pool; or the might appear V (J him In the hay Held while he v .ed; or In the garden where he v:ug busy digging the roots on tome crisp day In fall; or the came to help him plck'apples In the orchard below the house. It mattered not what the occasion, she drew near him when she could, asking noth ing, demanding nothing, content to he near htm. and to watch him, : and to hear , his tones when he . spoke-to her. - T She worshiped htm,' and Will, not blind, was pleased and at ihe same - time amused by her adoration. And Marm Pierce, watching them, hoped, one thing and feared another. There' was in Jenny , no coquetry at all ; she had no Instinctive knowledge of the arts and graces which might have persuaded Will to see that she wi not the; child he thought her. hair as often as not hung in V avy : braid, between: her shout l i, her sun-bonnet was worn with c artiflce, her' dresses ;were:rotigh' V en she, traversed the shadowed i 'tests, she went easily and smooth ly as a wild thing; but otherwise her movements bad still the awk wardness of strength hot yet con- trolled, of bone and muscle not yet . in full co-ordination. Her very stead ; lness and serenity must make ..her In Will's eyes, the old woman con sidered,' sexless, like a boy; Jenny oaa none or tne ; Shynesses,-- the withdrawals, the reluctances of a ., girl. M;-U-" Marm Pierce came to be trou bled by the matter by and by, and she made an occasion to see old Enoch, Will's father, and speak of It with: him. These two were of the same' generation; Marm Pierce only a little the older; for ..Enoch, as IS apt to be the cast hereabouts, had married late, and Will was his ; only child. ; ,r . - s i But Enoch' Vat' older than hit yearr and Marm' Pierce -'younger than hers. J Vigorous enough to do "y work that needed doing around farm, he was apt between these . sical activities to sit with va cant eyes, staring at' nothing. In the patient apathy of age. -; ' Marm Fierce laid her concern be fore htm, spoke to him of Jenny and . of Wia I dunnowhat to think," ahe confessed. "Seems like. If either one of 'esn bad any git tip and git, Y they'd have' found out what was : the matter, with them by now. But Jenny, 'he's -the first boy ahe ever knowed; and -i Will dont'act like he'd had much to do with girls.1 , . "Will's a good, steady boy.". Enoch assented. "Be stayt dost to home." - , . Marm Pierce thought with tome impatience that Enoch had' prob ably not even beard what she said. "Jenny dont know the meaning . of it," she told him stoutly. "Don't l- now what's the matter with her. the's hungry for him, but just see in? him and. being with him Is enough to keep her satisfied. She i t know what It Is she's hungry for. Like as not she won't ever Pnd out, only tf the time comes v. ' a she can't see him, then she'll bo plain .starved .",.2;-j:. An she -urged, honestly troubled : '' ut you have a notion 'of some i t to do about iti Will's as i i u as she la. - He acts Uke the v a boy; and I doubt If It ever k her that he's a. man l" ,f ' t to confess her perplexities to h proved of no use or avail. doubts1 and fears"' rebounded i his passive silence. He ap- 1 to Usten - without hearing ; thing useful to say, 1 v; i was .In midsummer; and in fr of that year, Will went Augusta. " Enoch had a to keep house, and the old ,'! manage, what chorea ) be done around the farm ' ; -VI A In winter time. .. Will had cut and fitted a plentiful supply of wood to last till spring; the roots were In the cellar, salt pork In the Jars. A man came -through -the neighbor hood seeking good stout fellows for a construction Job, offering - good pay; he stopped at Enoch's house at noon one day and after breakfast the next morning, Will, with -a high sense of adventure, departed Into- the auter - worldVyiW i; 5 ; It was two or three days before Jenny knew that be had gone. Then Bart Carey stopped at the bouse one morning: and told . them the news, , , s 1 '"The fellow wanted - me to go along, too," he said. "Good pay and all that But I got to stay here and look out for the place.' I couldn't go and leave Amy by. her self. ' . ' y :t ; ;-yV.f-.-'jt'. ?But Will, be went the next morn ing, towed to be back In April, or maybe May." f Marm Pierce, seeing:. Jenny's white Hps and rigid face and tor tured eyes, got Bart out of the house as quickly as1 possible ; and once the door wss closed upon him, she turned to catch Jenny In her arms and hold her close and ten derly. "Cry It out, Jenny," she nrged briskly.-That'll make you feel, bet ter, child. ;-Ton go on and cry I" . ' ' Jenny - whimpered, - . bewildered, half-terrlQed as though . by some thing she could not clearly : see : "But Granny, I feel sick I I'm , all aching and hot and empty 1 Granny, what's the matter with met" a Th same that's been the mat ter with every woman that ' ever loved a man," said old Marm Pierce, strangely' gentle. ; ;;tz$.fi,iU&3. "tK)ve htmt" Jenny whispered, her eyes wide,? Do I love Wllir. "He's a dumb Idiot to go away," Marm Pierce exclaimed, in rising anger. "But men are a dumb lot. Jenny. He's no worse than the rest, likely." 1 She chuckled, fondly. "Tes, that's it, Jenny," she said. . "Only you've come to It younger than most Cry, child. ' That will ease you. And he'll be back lh May." , j' CHAPTER II ':V-'--;-.,-:v-y.'.-:.;i... S. -.. J- ' WILL FERBIN came hack to Hostile Valley before May: but not to stay. Old Enoch, Will's father, endured the winter; but the treacherous - enticements of first spring betrayed him. When the drifts were shrinking, and the brook shook off its bonds and went roar ing down the gorge, and the soft rains came, Enoch caught one day cold that within 48 hours was much more than a cold. Wilt sum moned In baste from Augusta, ar rived too late to see his father die. He stayed to see the old man laid away In the small family bury ing ground hidden In the border of the spruce woods above the house. Jenny went to the brief services, standing In the background of the little group around the grave. Marm Pierce had stayed at home. 0y bad no conveyance readily ' avail able 1 and the walk around by the road was long, and the way through the woods was too arduous for her. But Jenny saw Will, and watched him, her eyet hovering about him tenderly; and: afterward, when the others began to move away, the came to his il&kty::':" - "I'm awful sorry about your pa, Win," she said. f Will Ferrln nodded. , He was' old er, aged as much by his father's death as by these months away from home; his lips were white and hard compressed Just now, and his eyes were steady and a little frightened, as though be were faint ly afraid to face the world, as he now must, without. bis father'! strength behind him. "I wlsh't rd been to home," he said grievously. "Might - be it wouldn't have .happened, with me here to do the chores." " , - "Now don't you. Will, she whis pered, comfortingly. ."Granny says old folks are like as not to die In the spring; and "-he was old, and tired.? And she said softly : ; fit's good to know you'll be here now." He looked at her In faint -surprise. "Why, rm going back," he told her. "Pve got a good - Job, while It lasts; and good pay.' I 'low to let the farm Jay Idle this sum mer 1 come back next . year when this Job's done, with the money I've vei'-.irt-'ipv' . "I guest the farm'll miss you," she said, not urgently, yet with a rueful note In her" voice. - "Farms need, taking care of, and tending. Granny says- a piece of land will go back to woods mighty quick, If you let It be." ::: ,, sv-i ' Then they came down toward the inyed b iiirid to do what must still be done by the grave; and Will spoke as . they walked gide-by-side. "I can bring the farm back, , an other year. he said, But looks like I ought to hang onto this Job, long. as I can.' It's a dam they're building .over there, and. a power plant and alt" She made no open effort to dis suade him. ; He said, with aome blundering perception of the change In her: v "You've growed a heap, Jenny." -, ' She shook' her head. "No, WW, rm no bigger than I was.". , . He protested, smilingly: "Sho, young one. Iou'11 be a grown wo man, first thing yon know." . - . "Some ways,"-she confessed, Tm a woman now,";. She watched him hopefully . but: he did not speak, and she asked:' "Xou aim to stay any time at allf, p -. . 1 'low to leave first .thing In the morning,", be returned, i-The were come to the houses "So I don't know's m see yon again, before. Nice of you to come over, Jenny. Pa, he always liked .you." j. Jenny nodded, not-trusting her self to speak; she turned away. , ' So the Ferrln place on the slopes above Carey's brook wag deserted all that summer, and , the next win ter, too; and for Jenny, with Will gone, , Hostile - Valley became a dreary solitude. The girl came swift to womanhood; the change was nianlfest to ,- the rudest eye. TJncle Win Haven, returning on one o bis infrequent visits to the yal ley, met her one day when , she went to feed the hens; and chncked her under the chin and told her she waa a One wench now, and would have kissed her, but Jenny turned her head aside, Back indoors, she told Marm Pierce that Uncle Win waa about; and the. old woman said crisply? , - s , "Ton keep away from him, Jenny. He'll get sick of It mighty soon." The old man stayed In the neigh borhood for a while, lodging with She Saw or Felt or Heard a Move- . ment on the Bank Above Her. . Bart Carey; and Amy, Bart's sis ter, came to Marm Pierce one night for sanctuary. ..,; "They're over there, the both of them,' drunk on Bart's cider," Amy explained.' ; "And making such a noise and tother you can't sleep In the house. : I thought maybe you Could give me a bed here. I'll go back in the morning and cook up some breakfast for them." i ' Marm Pierce made ner welcome, and Amy slept on the couch in the dining room;! "But if you had any glxzard In you," the old woman told her briskly, "you'd roll the both of them out of doors to sleep It, off." Amy smiled wistfully. "Bart's all right, the most of the time,": the said. "Only thing, Is, 1 keep out of his way when he's drunk a lot of cider. He gits to be noisy, ' And she said with a glance at Jenny: "Win Haven was saying that Jenny here has got to be a grown woman all of a sudden. Toil have, too, Jen ny. ' I hain't seen yon for a spell." "Why shouldn't she!" : Marm Pierce demanded. "She's nigh on to twenty. Time she was growing up, If she's ever going to." , i 1 ; ? But the change In Jenny, was, In fact, much more than a matter of years; for this Is a part of the al chemy which first love may work In a woman child; .. She had come to wear a rich bloom apparent to the dullest eye, Marm Pierce, watch ing the girl sometimes when Jenny did not know, thought that. If Will were here, even he must see the beauty In her now, - Some time later, when Bart Carey came over one day on a' manufactured errand. the old woman ' was uneasy. She had known this young man since he wag a boy, and She was not In the least persuaded of his virtues.,' The fact that, .Instead of farming with the diligence that was hereabouts the rule, he derived the major por tion of hit Income from taking fish ermen as boarders, prejudiced her against blm: Thrift and Industry were to her mind cardinal virtues; the neglect, of them was a taint on any'taan;''itt4;!' let Bart could not be blamed for his courses. His father before him bad been 'shrewd enough to per ceive the possibilities of profit in the big trout In Carey's brook; he had even at one Urns run a small advertisement in one of the sport ing Journals, and neglected his. farm to attend the customers who came to fish. . Bart had always been a fisherman. . His younger brother Wilfred preferred farming ; and he liiiil ud j a gar den, cut the hay, plti. 1 1 e apples. When the elder Carey (lied, he left the farm to Wilfred, the bouse to Bart and Amy. - - ."That way, WUf red can ran: the farm, do what he wants,and Bart can fish If he's a mind,1! he said, when he wrote the will. .. But. lives have a way of shaping their own .destinies. . Wilfred moved 1 to Liberty, and married, and found ' a farm of his own; and Bart with his sister to keep: house foi him -stayed on here, and did only enough farming for his ' personal needs. , , He and old Win Haven had al ways found a certain ribald bond between them. Bart, though be was j three or four years older than Will 1 Ferrln, had never married;. Marm Pierce felt critically that be was not likely to. he thought him a roister er, but she was careful to say noth ing against him to, Jenny, with a wise understanding that barriers are In the eyes of youth a challenge, and that the : forbidden- object be comes Infinitely more desirable from the very fact that It Is for bidden. Tet she was ready If the need arose to lend a hand. - U ,:- The need did not arise. ' Jenny, In her wanderings afield alone, more than' once 'encountered Bart These encounters seemed to' her ac cident; bat Marm vplerce thought otherwise. 1 Bart, the., old woman guessed, preferred ' to see Jenny without subjecting himself to her grandmother's , watchful - vigilance. It was true that -he came some times to sit In the. kitchen, his hat between his knees, and . talk with them both together,; 'true that when he fetched dry groceries from the store in Liberty he might stop for a while In the dining room where the Warm lamp' burned. But be sel dom came openly ; and : frankly to see Jenny;t, Bather he met her casu ally by the brook, or a the road, or In the woods. J- Sii:.:, There wat in the lower reaches of the brook Just above the bog a long pool with a Sandy bottom and deep water at the bead; and Jenny, on a hot summer day, used some times to go there to bathe. She could not swim;. but she liked to gather her skirts about her thighs and wade In the cool clear water, or even sometimes remove all her clothes except a white shift and im merse herself completely id the re freshing flood. The place was re mote -and solitary, and none but the most ardent fishermen -ever went so far; so she was not likely to be surprised there. K ' i But one day when she was wad ing Into the foot of the pool, the sand soft between her toes, her skirts ' high, she taw or felt or beard a. movement - on the bank above' her and looked- up and dis covered Bart standing smiling there. - She dropped her-ktrt 'into the water, heedless of the fact that thus they were wetted along the hem, and faced him steadily; and be called, raising his voice to be heard above: the song of the small ripple at the head of the pool: ' "Water's cold, ain't itr -. . She shook her head. "Feels good, a hot day," she said. She was not confused or embarrassed, not even resentful V; He had a right to he there If he chose. ' He slapped ; a mosquito , on his cheek. "Give yon the rheumatism," he predicted. "Me, I wear rubber boots wben I go to wade. Ton bet ter come out of there." "" Jenny asked: "Flrtlng!" Then realized that he had no rod. "Just looking over the brook," he explained. " "Couple of men coming to fish tomorrow, and I wanted .to see where the trout was lying;. Wa ter's kind of low." r '" - "Guess rve scared them, If there was any In here," she said. - He grinned. "Sho," he said flat terlngly, "no trout wouldn't ever be afraid of yon, Wonder to me they ain't nibbling at. yore toes." ' :. She looked down at her bare feet, and realized that the waa standing here with has wet skirt drabbled about her knees. '' So the came ashore, and wrung out the hem of her skirt, and sat down with her back to blm to pull on her stock ings and shoes. He stood behind her, coming no nearer, speaking of canal things, till the rose to face him again, .; , He asked then :' "In a hurry, are yOUT "Grannyll be wondering where Tve went to." -, i ' ' ' i"Set and talk he urged. -I want to talk to yon, Jenny." i. f Walk along with me, then, the proposed, and moved resolutely on her way. ' 'i , ' : But as she passed Mm, he caught her arm. Deep silent wood lay all about them, and the shadows were cool. , "Too don't ever give me a chance to talk to you, Jenny," he protested. ... , ''v'- "What about, Bartr the.: asked gravely. - yty:j-ii;-. He laughed. . "Sho, there's a plenty of things for a feUow and a girl to talk about Jenny.1 High time yon got on to that"!jSvj ' She ' stood, ; her ; xhead f a little bowed, thinking of Will.. "I do know that: Bart," ale said. "But not you;and w&- t t'Vjte "What's the matter with me) he asked, half angrily. : .1 , , "Why, yo're aU right,1! she said honestly. "Tou've been mighty good to Granny and me, fetching things from the Tillage, and helping with the bay, and the farming, and all But not the tort . of thing yon , mean. Bart" - '''' '''-:.&;1!: (TO BE CONTINUED) , - , TIUiMEIsliOUS V.'.S" ', --4": ;;, "' .' . "" ""' - r. . . TRIFLES ,3; ELMO SCOTT WATSON , "UNLESS" M'TpHB ' department commander . placet too much confidence' in your zeal, energy and ability to wish to Impose on -you precise orders which might hamper your action when nearly In contact with the en emy. , He will, however. Indicate to yon . his .own - views of : what your action should -be, and he deslr,es that : you should conform to them, unless you should see sufficient rea sons for .departing from them." It was June, 1878, In Montana. Gen. George Armstrong Custer, rid ing at the head of the Seventh cav alry in search, of a big village of hostile Indians, pondered over these orders from his commander, Gen. A. H. Terry.' He knew the plan of campaign Terry and Gibbon and he were to strike the enemy at the same time. And that time was June 26. But Custer waa "In bad" with President Grant If, unaided by the ; others, he could find the In dians first and get In a smashing victory, he might get back Into the good graces of the administra tion at Washington. On the morning of June 25 his scouts reported the discovery of the village, in the valley Just be low. True, Custer was 24 hours ahead of the appointed time of the rendezvous with Terry and Gib bon. But here were the Indians. He remembered Terry's orders . . . "he desires that you should con form to them." And yet "unless you should see sufficient reasons for departing from them." Wasn't that little word "unless" a good ex cuse? So he decided to attack. And on that word "unless" hung his life and the lives of 300 men of the Seventh cavalry. For that many perished, or, died later of their wounds, In "Custer's Last Battle" on the Little Big Horn. H. U. (U. S.) GRANT WHEN the first-born son of Jesse Boot Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant was six weeks old, his relatives wrote their choice of names for him on slips of paper, folded them, then drew one. It was "Ulysses" his Grandmother Simp son's choice. But Jesse Grant tacked "Hiram" on In front of "Ulysses." As the boy grew older he didn't care so much for "Ulysses" because village wits pretended It was pro nounced "Useless." Congressman Thomas L. Hamer, writing out Grant's appointment to the United States Military academy, couldn't remember If he had a middle name. But he did recall that the boy's mother was a Simpson. So he wrote It "Ulysses Simpson Grant." 'On May 29. 1839, Ulysses Hiram Grant registered at West Point "But" protested the adjutant "this appointment Is for Ulysses Simpson Grant" More trouble over his name I "All right Ulysses Simp son Grant It is," he replied. And "U. S." Grant he became. The Civil war brought new mean ing to that "U. S." After Fort Don elson It stood for "Unconditional Surrender," and as a commander of the victorious Union army In 1865, It was easy to believe that It also stood for "United States." Both meanings were easy to re member when It was time to elect a President In 1869. Would things have been the same if his initials had remained "H. U." or U. H."I THIRST IT WAS hot that day along the road to Palos In the Spanish province of Andalusia. The dust eddied and swirled around the hoofs of a little white mule and arose In a choking cloud around bis rider. He was Cristobal Colon. Ahead of blm, the mariner saw the walls of a monastery . . . Santa .Maria de la Babida. Surely the good friars there would give a thirsty traveler a drink of water I ' They would, Indeed I So he drank several cupfnls of the refreshing fluid. Between drinks Joan Perez, officiating guardian of the monas tery, listened to the stranger's tale of thwarted ambition. He wanted to tall West across the Sea of Mys tery. He had sought the aid of Ferdinand and Isabella, rulers of Spain.- But they had refused. 8y and by the disheartened sailor rode away. He did not know that Juan Peres was the confessor of the queen, nor what a deep Impres sion he bad made upon the friar With his tale of vast ambitions. But he soon found out For Perez' eloquent pleading In the Genoese sailor's behalf convinced Isabella. .And so it came about that the thirst of Christopher Columbus on that hot summer day along the road to Palos tent him sailing' at last across the Atlantic to Immortality at the discoverer of America. fy ' . Weitsra Mtmpapar Onion. ' ' '' ' CIXL COLLAR OF MEDALLIONS By GRANDMOTHER CLARK ' No matter what state you live in; you will find the women Interested la crocheted collar They are be coming more popular every day, and we know our readers will be Inter ested In the Ideas we have to offer. 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