VOL. XLII
GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptist—N. Main St.—Jas. W.
Rose. Pastor.
Preaching services every first
sod Third Sundays at 11.00 a. m.
and 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 a. m.—C. B. Irwin, Superin
tendent. ,
Graham Christian Church— N. Main
Street—Rev. J. F. fruit*:.
Preaching services every. Sec
ond and Fourth Sundays, ai u.uo
a. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—E. L. Henderson, Super
intendent.
New Providence Christian (iß'urch
—North Main Street, near Depot—
Uev. J. G. Truitt, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and Fourth Sun
day nights at 8.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday ac
9.45 a. m.—J. A. Bayliff, Superin
tendent.
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet
ing every Thursday night at 7.45.
o'clock.
Friends-North of Graham Pub
lic School—J .Robert Parker, Pas
tor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and at 7.30 p. m. >
- Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—James Crißco, Superin
tendent.
Methodist Episcopal, aouth—cor.
Main and Maple St„ H. E. Myers
Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11.00
a. m. and at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt.
. Methodist Protestant—College
St., West of Graham Public School,
Rev. O. B. Williams, Pastor.
Preaching every First, Third and
Fourth Sundays at 11.00 a. m. and
every First, Third, Fourth and
Fifth Sundays at 7.00 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. in.—J. 8. Cook, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wst Elm Street-
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su
perintendent.
Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)—
J. W. Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
Fourth Sundays at 7.30 n. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
2.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su
perintendent. •
Oneida—Sunday School every
Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Pome
rpy, Superintendent.
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BYNOPBIB.
CHAPTER I—Sheridan's attempt to
"}**" a business man oI his son Bibbs by
i m In the machine shop ends In
Bibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous
wreck.
CHAPTER ll—On bis return" Blbba la
met at the station i>v bi» sister Kdlth.
CHAPTER III—He finds himself an In
considerable And unconsidered figure In
the "New House" of the Sherldans. He
sees Mary Vertrees looking at him from
a summer house next door,
CHAPTER V.
• It was a brave and lustrons banquet;
and a noisy one, too, because there was
nn orchestra among some plants at one
end of the king dining room, and after
a preliminary stiffness the guests were
impelled to converse—necessarily at
the tops of their voices. The whole
company of fifty sat at a great oblong
table, a continent of damask and lace,
with shores of crystal and silver run-'
nlng up to spreading groves of orchids
and lilies and white roses—an Inhab
ited continent, evidently, for there
were three marvelous, gleaming build
ings; one In the center and one at each
end, white miracles wrought by some
Inspired craftsman In sculptural icing.
They were models In miniature, and
they represented the Sheridan build
ing, the Sheridan apartments, and the
pump works. Nearly all the guests
recognized them without having to be
told what they were, and pronounced
the likenesses superb.
The arrangement of the table was
visibly baronial. At the head sat the
great Thnue, with the flower of his
family and of the gueßts about him;
then on each side came the neighbors
of the."old" house, grading down to
vassals and retainers—superintendents,
cashiers, heads of departments, and the
like—at the foot, where the Thanhs
lady took her place as a consolation for
the less Important. Here, too, among
the thralls and bondmen, sat Bibbs
Shqrldan, a meek Banquo, wondering
how anybody could look at him and
eat.
Nevertheless, there was a vast, con
tinuous eating and the talk went on
with the eating, incessantly. It rose
over the throbbing of the orchestra and
the clatter and clinking of silver and
china and glass, and there was a
mighty babble.
And through the interstices of this
clamoring Bibbs could hear the con
tinual booming of bis father's heavy
voice, and once he caught the sentence,
"Yes, young lady, that's Just what did
it for me, and that's Just what 'll do It
for my boys—they got to make two
blades o' grass grow where one grew
before!" It was his familiar flourish,
an to Bibbs, and now Jovially
declaimed for the edification of Mary
Vertrees.
It was a great night for Sheridan—
the very crest of his wave. His big,
smooth, red face grew more and more
radiant with good will and with the
simplest, happiest, most boyish vanity.
He was tlie picture of health, of good
cheer, and of power on a holiday.
He dominated the table, shouting
Jocular questions and railleries at
everyone. His Idea "was that when
people were having a good time they
were noisy; and his own additions to
the hubbub increased bis pleasure,
and, of course, met the warmest en
couragement from bis guests. He kept
time to the music continually—with
his feet, or pounding on the table with
bis fist, and sometimes with spoon or
knife npon bis plate or a glass, with
out permitting these side-products to
interfere with the real business of eat
ing and shouting.
"Tell 'em to play "Nancy* Lee'!" he
would bellow down-.the length of the
table to bis wife, while the musicians
were in the midst of the "Toreador"
song, perhaps. "Ask that fellow If
they don't know 'Nancy Lee'!" And
when the leader wonld shake his bead
apologetically In answer to an obedient
shriek from MM. Sheridan, the "Torea
dor" continuing vehemently, Sheridan
would roar half-remembered fragments
of "Nancy Lee," naturally mingling
some Bizet with the air of that uxori
ous tribute.
No external babbling contributed to
this effervescence; the Bherldan'« table
bad never borne wine, and, more be
cause of timidity about It than convic
tion, It bore none now. And certain
ly no wine could have Inspired more
turbulent good spirits In the boat. Not
even Bibbs was an alloy In this night's
happiness, for. as Mrs. Bherldan had
aald, be had "plana for Bibba" —plana
which were going to straighten out
some things that bad gone wrong.
Bo he pounded the table and boomed
his echoes of old songs, and then, for
getting these, would renew his friend
ly railleries, or perhaps, turning to
Mary Vertrecs, who sat near Mm,
round the corner of the table at bla
right, he would become autobiograph
ical. Gentlemen less naive than be
had paid her that tribute, for abe waa a
girl who Inspired the autobiographical
impulse In every man who met her—lt
needed but tbe sight of her.
The dinner seemed, somehow, to cen
ter about Mary Vertrees and tbe Jocund
host as • play centers about Its hero
and heroine; they were the rubicund
king and tbe starry prlnceM of this
spectacle—tbey paid court to each oth
er, and everybody paid court to them.
Down near the augar pump works,
where Bibbs sat, there waa audible
apeculatlon and admiration. "Wonder
who that lady la—makln' such a bit
with the old man." "Moat be some
hlress." "Heir—a 7 Polly, I jpxas X
»» w «■"" ) ■- IJM "W
could stand It to marry rich, then!"
Edith and Sibyl were radiant; at
first they had watched Miss Vertrees
with an almost haggard anxiety, won
dering what .disastrous effect Sheri
dan's pastoral other
things^—would have upon her, but she
seemed delighted with everything, and
with him most of all. She treated him
as if he were some delicious, foolish
old joke that she understood perfectly,
laughing at him almost violently when
he bragged—probably bis first experi
ence of that kind In his life. It en
chanted him.
As he proclaimed to the table, sbe
bad "a way with her." She had, in
deed, as Roscoe Sheridan, upon her
right, discovered Just after the feast
began. Since his marriage three years
before, no lady had bestowed upon him
He Pounded the Table and Boomed
Hla Echoes of Old Bongs.
so protracted a full view of brilliant
eyes; and, with the look, his, lovely
neighbor Bald—and it wag her tint
speech to him—
"l hope you're very susceptible, Mr.
Sheridan 1"
Honest Itoscoe was taken aback,
and, "Why?" was all he managed R>
say.
She repeated the look deliberately,
which was noted, with a mystification
equal to his own, by his sister across
the table. No one, reflected Edith,
could Imagine Mary Vertrees the sort
of girl who would "really flirt" with
married men —she was obviously the
"opposite of all that." Edith defined
her as "thoroughbred," n "nice girl;"
and the look given to Roscoe was as
tounding. Roscoe's wife saw It, too,
and she was another whom It puzzled
—though not because Its recipient was
married.
"Because!" said Mary Vertrees, re
plying to Roscoe'* monosyllable. "And
also because we're next-door neighbor*
at table, and It's dull times ahead for
both of us If we don't get along."
Roscoe was a literal young man, all
stocks and bonds, and he had been
brought up to believe that when a man
married he "married and settled down."
He knew that young married people
might have friendships, like bis wife's
for Lamhorn; but Sibyl and Lamborn
never "flirted"—they were always very
matter-of-fact with each other. Roscoe
would have been troubled If Hlbyl bad
ever told La in horn she hoped he was
susceptible.
"Yes—we're neighbors," be said,
awkwardly. "I live across the street"
"Why, no!" she exclaimed, and
seemed startled. "Tour mother told
me this afternoon that you lived at
home." Slowly a deep color came Into
ber cbeek.
"No," be said; "my wife and I lived
with the old folks the first year, but
that's all. Edith and Jim live with
them, of course."
"I—l see," she said, the deep color
Still deepening as she turned from him
and saw, written upon s curd before
the gentleman at her left, the name,
"Mr. James Sheridan, Jr." Aud from
that moment itoscoe had llttlo enough
cause for wondering what he ought to
reply to her disturbing coquetries.
Mr. James Sherldnn had been anx
iously waiting for the dazzling visitor
to "get through with old Roscoe" and
give a bachelor a ehauce. "Old Ros
coe" was the younger, but he bad al
ways been the steady wheel horse of
the family. As their fstber habitually
boasted, both brothers were "capable,
hard-working young business men."
Physically neither was of the height,
breadth or depth of the father, lioth
wore young business men's mustaches,
snd either could have sat for the tallor
sliop lithographs of young business men
wearing "rich suitings in dark mix
tures."
Jim, approving warmly of his neigh
bor's profile, perceived bcr access of
color, which Incr»ased his approba
tion. "What's that old Roacoe saying
to you, Miss Vertrees?" be asked.
"These young married men are mighty
forward nowadays, but you muan't let
'em make you blush,"
"Am I blushing T she aald. "Are
yon sure?" And with that she gave
blui ample opportunity to nuke sore,
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916
repeating with Interest the look
wasted upon Roecoe. "I think you ]
must be mistaken," she continued. "I
think it's, your brother who is blush
ing. I've thrown him into confusion."
"How?"
She laughed, and than, leaning to him
• little, said In ajtone aa confidential
as she could make it, under cover of
the uproar, "By trying to begin with
him a courtship I meant for you!"
This might well be a style new to
Jim; and It was. He supposed It a
nonsensical form of badinage, and yet
it took his breath. He realised that he
wished what ahe aald to be tbe literal
truth, and be waa Instantly snared by
that realisation.
"By George!" he said. "I guess
you're the kind of girl that can say
anything—yes, and get away with it,
too!"
She laughed again—in her way, so
that be could not tell whether sbe was
laughing at him or at herself or at the
nonsense she was talking; and she
said:
"But you see I don't care whether I
get away with it or not. I wish you'd
tell me frankly if you think I've got a
chance to get away with you?"
"More Uke If you've got a chance ft»
get away from me!" Jim waa inspired
to reply. "Not one In the world, espe
cially after beginning by making fun
of rae like that"
"I mightn't be so much In fun as
yon think," she said, regarding blm
with sudden gravity.
"Well," said Jim, In simple honesty,
"you're a funny girl!"
Her gravity continued an Instant
longer. "I may not turn out to be
funny for yon."
"So long as you turn out 1o be any
thing at all for me, I expect I can
manage to be satisfied." And with
that, to his own surprise, it waa his
tuns to blush, whereupon sbe laughed
again.
"Yes," he said, plaintively, not
wholly lacking Intnltlon, "I can see
you're tbe sort of girl that would laugh
tbe minute you see a man really means
anything!"
"'Laugh'!" she cried, gayly. "Why,
it might be a matter of life and death!
But If you want tragedy, I' 4 better put
the question at once, considering the
qiistake I msde with your brother."
Jim was dated. She seemed to b«
playing a little game of mockery and
nonsense with blm, but be bad
glimpses of a flashing danger In It; be
wan but too senalble of being 'out*
classed, and bad somewhere a con
sciousness tlint be could never quite
know tills giddy and alluring lady, no
mutter how IOUK It pleaaed ber to play
with hlin. Rut be mlgbtlly wanted ber
to keep on playing wltb blm.
"Put what question?" be said, breath
lessly.
"As you are a new neighbor of mine
and of my family," she returned,
speaking slowly and with a cross-ex
aminer's severity, "I think it would be
well for me to know at once whether
you are already walking out wltb any
young lady or not. Mr. Hberldan, think
well! Are you spoken for?"
"Not yet," be gasped. "Are you?"
"No!" she cried, and with that tbey
both laughed again; and the pastime
proceeded, Increasing both In Its gayety
and In its gravity.
Observing Its continuance, Mr. Rob
ert Lamhorn, opposite, turned from a
lively conversation with Kdlth and re
marked covertly to Sibyl that Miss Ver
trees wax "starting rather picturesque
ly with Jim." And be added, languid
ly, "I)o you supposeshe would'/"
fror the moment Sibyl gave no sign
of having heard him, but seemed Inter
ested In the clasp of a long "ropt" of
pearls, a loop of which she was allow
ing to swing from ber fingers, rest
ing ber elbow upon the table and fol
lowing with ber eyes the twinkle of
diamonds and platinum In the clasp at
the end of the loop. Hhe wore many
Jewels. Hhe was pretty, but hers was
not the kind of prettlnesa to lie loaded
with too sumptuous accessories, and
jeweled bead-dreasea are dangerous—
they may emphasize the wrongness of
the wrong wearer.
"1 said Miss Vertrees seems to be
starting pretty strong with Jim," re
peated Mr. Lamborn.
"I beard you." There was a latent
dlacontent always ao one where In ber
eyea, no matter what ,abe threw upon
the surface to cover It, and Just now
she did not care to cover It; ahe looked
sullen. "Starting any atrouger than
you did with Kdlth?" sbe Inquired.
"Ob, keep the peace!" be aaid, cross
ly. "That's off, of oourss."
"You haven't been making her see it
this evening—precisely," ssld Sibyl,
looking at blm steadily. "You've talked
to her for —"
"For heaven's sake," be began,
"keep the peace!"
"Well, what have you just been do
leg?"
" 8b!" be said. "Listen to your fa
ther Inlaw." •
Hheridan waa booming and braying
louder than ever, the orchestra having
begun to play "The Hoaary," to bis
vast content.
"I count them over. Is la-tum-tee
dum." be roared, beating the measures
with bis fork. "Kacb hour a pearl,
each pearl tee-dam-tum-duui— What's
the matter of all you fulka? Why'o't
you sing? Miss Vertrees, 1 bet a thou
aand dollars you sing! Wby'u't—"
"Mr. Sberidsn," sbe said, turning
cheerfully from the ardent Jim. "you
don't know what you Interrupted!
Your son Isn't used to my rough ways,
and my soldier's wooing frightens blm.
but I think be waa about to pay aome
thing Important."
"I'll aay something Important to blm
If be doeao't!" the father threatened,
more delighted with ber than ever. "By
gosb! If I was bis sge—or s widower
right now—"
"Ob, wait!" cried Mary. "If they'd
only make less noise! 1 want Mrs.
Sheridan to bear."
"Hbe'd My the same," be shouted.
"She'd tell me I waa mighty slow If I
couldn't get ahead o' Jim. Why, when
1 was his sge—"
"You must listen to your father,"
Mary Interrupted, turning to Jim, who
bad grown red again. "lie's going to
tell us bow, when be was your sge, be
made those two bladea of graas grow
out of a teacup—and you could see for
youraelf be didn't get tliein out of bis
sleeve!"
At that Sheridan pounded the table
till It Jumped. "Look here, young lady!"
be roared. "Some o' these days I'm
either goln' to slap you—or I'm golu'
to kiss your
Edith looked aghast; she was afraid
this was iudeed "too awful," but Mary
Vertrees burst into ringing laughter.
"Botlj!" she cried. "Both! The one
to make me forget the other I"
"But which —" he began, and then
suddenly gave forth such steutoriau
trumpetlngs of mirth that for once the
whole table stopped to listen., "Jim,"
he roared, "If you don't propose to tliut
girl tonight I'll send you buck to the
machine shop with Bibbs!"
And Bibbs—down among the retain
ers by the sugar pump works, and
hatching Mary Vertreetf as B ragged
boy in the street might watch a rich
little girl In a garden—lllbbs lienrd.
He beard—and he knew what hU fa
ther's plans were nonv
CHAPTER VI.
Mrs. Vertrees "sut up" for her (laugh
ter, Mr. Vertrees having retired after a
restless evening, not much soothed by
the society of bis I.andseers. But Mrs.
Vertrees had a long vigil of it.
She sat through tbe Slow night hours
In a stiff little chair under the gaslight
in her own room, which was directly
over the "front ball." There, book In
hand, she employed the time In her
own reminiscences, though It was her
belief that she was reading Madame de
Itemusnt's.
Her thoughts went backward Into
ber life und Into her husband's; anil
the deeper Into the past they went, the
brighter the pictures they brought her
—and there Is tragedy. Like her hus
band, slie thought backward because
sbe did not dare think forward definite
ly. What thinking forward this trou
bled couple ventured took the form of
a slender hope which neither of them
could have borne to bear put In words,
and yet they had talked it over, day
after day, from the very hour when
they beard Sheridan was to build bis
new house next door. For —so quick
ly does any ideal of human behavior
become an antique—their youth was of
the Innocent old days, so dead! of
"breeding" and "gentility," and no
craft bad been more strhltly trained
upon tbem than that of talking about
things without mentioning them. Here
in was marked the most vital differ
ence between Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees
and their hig new neighbor. Sheridan,
though his youth was of the same
epoch, knew nothing of such matters.
He bad been chopping wood for the
biorulhg tire in the country grocery
while they were still dancing.
It was after one o'clock jprhen Mrs.
Vertrees beard steps and tne delicate
clinking of the key In tbe lock, and
then, with the opening of the door,
Mary's Isugli and, "YesMf you aren't
afraid—tomorrow!"
, The tlcor closed, and she rushed up
stairs, bringing with ber a breath of
cold and bracing air into ber mother's
room. "Yea," she said, befflre Mr«.
Vertrees could speak, , "he brought mo
bome!"
She let her clonk fall upon the bed,
and, drawing an old red-velvet rocking
chair forwurd, aat beside her mother,
after giving her a light pat upon, the
ahoulder and a hearty kiss upon the
cheek.
"Mamma!" Mary exclaimed, when
Mrs. Vertrees had expressed a hope
-Why Don't Vou.Aik M«r
that she had enjoyed the evening and
bad not caught cold. "Why don't you
ask roe?"
This Inquiry obviously made ber
mother uncomfortable. "I don't—" she
faltered. "Ask you what. Msry?"
"How I got along and what be'a
like."
"MaryT
"Oh, It Isn't distressing!" said Mary.
"And 1 got along so fsst—" Hhe broke
off to laugh; continuing then, "Hut
that's the way I went at it, of course.
We are In a hurry, aren't we?"
"My dear, I don't know what to—"
"What to make of anything!" Mury
finished for her. "Ho that's all right!
Now I'll tell, you all about It It wua
gorgeous and deafening arid teetotal.
We could have lived a year on it. I
think the orchids alone would have
lasted us a couple of months. There
they were, before me, but 1 couldn't
slesl 'em snd sell 'em. and so—well, so
! did wbst I could!"
She leaned back and laughed reas
suringly to Iter troubled mother. "It
seemed to l>e a success—what I could,"
aba Mid, clssplng her harula behind
her oeck and stirring the rocker to mo
tion a* a rhythmic accompaniment to
her narrative. "The girl Edith and her
alater-ln-law, Mrs. Itoscoe Sheridan,
were too anxloua about the effect of
thlnga on me. The father'* worth a
busbel of both of them, If be knew It.
He's what he la. I like him." She
panned reflectively, continuing,
"Edith's 'lnterested' In that Lamhom
S?7 • P*L good-looking tad not stupid.
but I think he's—" ~ She Interrupted
herself with a cheery outcry: "Oh,
I mustn't be calling him names! If
he'a trying to make Edith like him I
ought to respect him as a colleague."
"I don't understand n thing you're
talking about," Mrs. Vertrees com
plained.
"All the better! Well, he's a bad lot,
that Lamhorn boy; everybody's always
known that, but the Sherldans don't
know tbe everybodles that know. lie
sat between' Edith and Mrs. Roscne
Sheridan. She's like those people you
wondered about at tbe theater the Inst
time we went —dressed In ballgowns;
bound to show their clothes and Jewels
somewhere! She flatters the father,
and so did I, for that matter—but not
that way. I treated him outrageously!"
"Mary!"
"That's -what flattered htm. After
dinner be made the whole regiment of
UH follow htm all over the home, while
he lectured like a guide ou the Pala
tine. He gave dimensions and costs,
and the whole b'llln' of 'em listened us
if they thought lie Intended to make
them a present of the house. What lie
wait pi undent of was the plumbing and
that liny of Naples panorama In the
hall. He made UH look at UII the
plumbing—bathroom* and everywhere
else—and then he made UH look at the
Hay of Naples. He Bald It wan a hun
dred and eleven feet long, but I think
It's more. And he led us all Into the
ready-uiade library to see a poem
Edith had taken a prize with at school.
They'd had It printed In gold letters
and framed tn mother-of-pearl. Hut
the poem itself was rather Hlmple and
wistful and nice—he read It to us,
though Edith tried to stop him. Hhe
was modest about tt, and said she'd
never written anything vise. And then,
after a while, Mrs. Itoscoe Sheridan
asked me to come across the street to
her house with them —her husband and
Edith and Mr. I.a inborn and Jim Sheri
dan—"
Mrs. Vertrees was shocked. "Jim!"
she exclaimed. "Mary, please—"
"Of course," said Mary. "I'll make
It as easy for you us I can, mamma.
Mr. James Sheridan, Jr. We went over
there, and Mrs. Roscoe explained that
'the men were dying for a drink,'
though I noticed that Mr. Lanlhorn
was the only one near death's door on
that account. Edith and Mrs. Itoscoe
said they knew I'd been bored at the
dinner. They were objectionably apolo
getic about It. and they seemed to
think now we were going to have a
■good time' to make up for It. Put I
hadn't been bored at the dinner, I'd
h«cii amused; and the 'good-time' at
Mrs. Itoseoe's wan horribly, liorrfbly
stupid."
"Hut, Mary," her mother began, 'ls
—la—" And she seemed unable to
complete the question,
"Never mind, mamma, I'll Hay It. Is
Mr. James Sheridan, Jr., stupid? I'm
aure he's not lit all stupid about busi
ness. Otherwise— Oh, what right
have I to lie calling people 'stupid' lie
cause they're not exactly my kind?
On the. big dinner table they had enor
mous lehig' models of the Hherldun
building—■"
"Oh no!" Mrs. Vertrees cried. "Sure
ly not!"
"Yes, and two other things of that
kind—l don't know what. Hut, after
all, I wondered If they were so bad.
Well, then, mamma, I managed not to
feel superior to Mr. James Sheridan,
Jr., because he didn't see anything out
of place In the Sheridan building In
sugar."
Mrs. Vertrees' expression bud lost
none of Its anxiety and she shook her
head gravely. "My dpur, dear child,"
she said, "It seems to me — It looks—
I'm afraid—"
"Hay as much of It an you can,
mntnmn," said Mary, encouragingly. "I
can get It, If you'll Just give me one
keyword."
"Everything you any," Mm. Ver
trees liegiin, timidly, "seems lo have
the nlr of— It I* as If you were seek
ing to—to make yourself—"
"Oh, I see! Vou mean I sound as If
I were trying to force myself to like
bini;"
"Sot exactly, Wury. That wasn't
quite wlmt 1 meant," said Mrs. Ver
trees, speaking direct untruth with per
feet unconsciousness. "Hut you said
that—that you found the latter part
of the evening at young Mrs. Hherl
dan's unentertalnlng—"
"And as Mr James Hlierldan was
there, and 1 saw more of 111 in than at
dinner, and had a horribly stupid time
In spite of that* you think I And
then It was Mary who left the deduc
tion unfinished.
Mrs. Vertrees nodded, and though
both the mother and the daughter uu
derstood, Mary felt It Is-tter to make
the understanding definite.
"Well," she usked, gravely, "Is there
anything else 1 can doV Vou and papa
don't want me to do anything that dls
treases rne, and so, as this Is the only
thing to lie done, It seems It's up to me
not to let It distress me. That's all
there Is about It, Isn't It?"
"Hut nothing must distress you!"
the mother cried.
'That's what 1 say!" said Mary,
cheerfully. "And so It doesn't. It's
all right." Hhe rose and took her cloak
over her arm, as If to go to her own
room. Hut on the way to the door she
stopped, and stood leaning against the
foot of the bed. contemplating a thread
bare rug at her feet "Mother, you've
told me a thousand times that It doesn't
really matter whom a girl marries."
"No, no!" Mrs Vertrees protested. "I
never said such a —"
"No. not in words; I mean what yon
meant. It's true, isn't It, that marriage
really Is liot a Ix-d of rosin, hut a field
of battle'? To get right down to It, a
girl could fight It out with anybody,
couldn't she? One man as well as an
other?"
"Mary, I can't bear for you to talk
like that." And Mr*. Vertrees lifted
pleading eye* to her daughter—eyea
that begged to be apared. "It «ouul«
—a I moat reck leu*!"
Mary caught the appeal, carne to her,
and kissed her gayly. "Never fret,
dear! I'm not likely to do anything I
don't want to—l've always been too.
thorough going a little pig."
She gave her mother a final kin* and
went gayly all the way to the door this
time, paualng for her poatacrlpt with
her band on the knob. "Ob, the one
that caught me looking In the window,
mamma, the yorfngest one —"
"Did he speak of It?" Mrs. Vertrees
asked, apprehensively.
"No. He didn't ipea£ at all, that I
saw, to anyone. I didn't meet him.
But he lan't insane, I'm sure; or If he
Is, he has long Intervals when he's not.
Mr. James Hherldan mentioned that he
lived at home when he was 'well
enough'; and It may he ho's only an In
valid. He looks dreadfully 111, but
he has pleasant eyes, and It struck me
that if—lf one were In the Sheridan
family"—she laughed a little ruefully
—"he might he Interesting to talk to
sometime*, when there was too much
stocks and bonds. 1 didn't see him aft
er dinner.'!
"There' must lie something wrong
with him," said Mrs, Vertrees. "They'd
have Introduced lilm If there weren't"
"I don't know. Ills father spoke of
sending hlui hack to a machine shop
of souie sort; ' glanced ut him Just
then and he was patlie.tlc-looklng
enough before that, but the most tragic
change eaine over him. He seemed
Just to die, right there »t the table!"
"Mr."Hherldan must be very unfeel
ing."
"No," said Mary, thoughtfully, "1
don't think he Is; but be might be un
comprehending, anil certainly lie's the
kluil of inyn to do anything be once
sets out to do. Hut I wish I hadn't been
looking at that poor boy just then!
I'ui afraid I'll keup renumbering—"
"I wouldn't." Mrs. Veitrees smiled
faintly, and lu her smile there was the
remotest ghost of n genteel rogtilsh
ness. "I'd keep iny mind on pleasanter
tilings, Mury."
Mary laughed and nodded. "Yea, In
deed! l'lenty pleasant enough, and
probably, If all were known, too good—
eveu for me!"
And when she had gone Mrs. Ver
trees drerv a long breath, as If a bur
den were off her mind, and, smiling,
began to undress lu u gentle reverie.
TO lIK CONTIN'I'Kh
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAI
TUESDAY.
The British lines north of the Bom
fne, northern Ffanee, are gradually
being brought up to a level with those
of the French further south. l/mdon
announces the capture of Contaltnal
> >n, marking notable progress In the
work of crushing- In the Herman sali
ent extending from Thlejival on the
north to Montauban on the south. This
has been further actie rated h y the
taking of aeveral linen o»f German
trenches In Mametz wood southwest or
Montauban. The entire village of
Montauban Ih now In the possession of
tho lirltleh while the greater portion
of tbf* Mametz wood Ih In their hands,
the official statement asserta.
The main ItusMlan army In Volhynle
Is reported twenty-three miles from
Kovnl. The retreating Au*yo4)er
mans have tired the forests In this
part.
WEDNE6DAY.
The (feruiaiiN, reinforced,
delivered strong attacks against the
llrltlsh on the Hoininc front in north
em France. They gained ground In
Mametz wood and Tronea wood in the
vicinity of Contaltnsson, which town
was taken by the Mrltlali. The latter
are reported, however, to be slowly
pressing back the point of the «erman
salient In that region.
The crown prince* army made vlo
lent attacks ut".|)ead Man's Hill, west
of the Meuse. lant night, but the ofll
clal statement of tin- French war office
states that these assault* w re re
pulsed Fast of the Men •*. a counter
attack l»y the Freneh resulted in the
ref apture »•/ pn• i f?». Comi-i wo 1
from the (iorriiHie
The I(iism|;iii s r■ ndv.iricluif on the
new Kovel u nil two •♦ldes and
the fall of the ju.i «• a rTiin a week
Ih predtried.
THURSDAY.
A new and desperate drive by the
Gorman frown prime against the
northern defence* of Verdun lias again
focussed attention for the moment oil
the Meuse tiuttb-ground Heavy Mass*
ch of Bengali Infantry have been
thrown against the French in this new
attack and slight gains (OP the attack
ing forces are recorded
Heavy artillery duel* are in progress
lu certain sec tors of the Homme battle
area, and fighting continued at various
points on the llrltlsh front, but there
was no change in the situation, accord
ing to the war office,
The Russian* have reunified their
Caucasus offensive and Uk'-n Mamak
hat urn, twenty-live miles wefct of Kza
rum.
FRIDAY.
Renewing their great offensive In
northern France, the lirltMi broke in
to the Oorumn second line In the Som
me region along a four mile front. The
villages of l.ongueva.'. ltazeutlnele-
Oram) and I'a/entlne-le I'etlt, as well
a* most of Ovlllers were unofficially
reported captured, an were the Trones
wood and a gain of ground east of
ConLslmalson.
In the VVrdun r#».-ion -the Germans
have, no I:TR not f(»ll w»-d up their
lM.mbardmci t of the F«»r? Houvllle re
gion by further Infantry assaults.
Heavy artillery fire t« being contlnu
el. North of the Aime attempted
tierman atta«k* were stopped by
French ma bine gun fire
The Germans alyng the Stokhod are
being reinforced from the west front
There Is a ha'-t of the Russian advance
pending the arrival of artillery.
The Russians are advancing south
of Mamakhatum In their renewed Cau
casus offensive.
SATURDAY.
The Hrltlsh continue to deepen the
big dent In the German lines north
of the Homme. After forcing the sec
ond line a!ong a four-mile front. Gen
eral Blr Douglas llalg's forces con
tlnued the attack. The Oermnut at
one point have been pushed back to
their third line of defence. This
marks a Hrjtlsh advance of four miles
from the original Ocrman UneVas they
existed at thp beginning of the offen
sive on July 1 In the Fricourt-Mametz
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sector. London reports the taking of
more than 20UO Germans within the
past twenty-lour hours, the total since
the start of the offensive now being In
excess of in.noo.
The French are busy at Verdun,
where they have repulsed an attack
near Avocourt redoubt, o nthe extreme
left, while their artillery ie actively
replying to bombardments by the
crown prince's guns on the eaat bank
of the Meuge. At Apremont, attempt
ed German attacks were broken up.
The itUHslan advance toward Kovel
Is still halted by desperate German
resistance on the Stokhod.
SUNDAY.
Under a blanket of fog the German*
In the region of the Somme hurled
violent attacks against La Maisonette
and the village of Iliaches, recently
captured by the-Krench, and took those
positions by surprise. The French,
however. Immediately launched a vig
orous counter attack and recaptured
both places. Near Oulchea, north Of
'.lie river Aisne, the French stormed
the German trenchei, and north eaat
of Verdun they made considerable
progress to the west and south of
Fleury.
At a terrific colt the Germans
pierced the Russian lines near Barano
vichi, only to be hurled back by the
furious counter attacks the Ruaalana
Immediately launched, a nd In which
the men who had swept through the
first line defences were beaten down
una made prisoners. . "
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Washington Party Dies.
Tlic Washington party state com
mittee In Harrlslmrg, Pa., voted hot
tu organize. TIIIH action was a mo*
tlou by William Rlnn and waa taken
after a tumultuous de ate of two
hour* In which Kllnn wan hotly
H->»HII.M! UIKI charges of using tbo
steam roller were made.
Thi' \'.!i was 23 to 21 and ends the
Washington party organization. Tbo
plan I- to replace It by a progressive *,
league wlili li wl)l be for Hughes, bat
wlil li will not be pari of the Republl
ian party. OlOprd Plnchot and State
Treasurer Young proposed the new
league In an effort to overcome tha~
111 feeling engendered.
Mr Young's declaration that while
lie was not a Republican and did not
wan I to be no considered, was follow
ed by a declaration by (jeorge Holmee
that be and bin friends were for.
Hughe*. Kllnn said frankly that ho
was going to vote tbe Republican
ticket.
Slate Treasurer Young Introduced ft
resolution endorsing Hughes as fol
lows- i
"Resolved that the Washington
party of Pennsylvania concur* In the
action of thtf Progressive national com.
mlttce and endorse Charles E. Hugheg
for president of the United States.'* __
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Th« Other End.
The Judge to whom a woman had ap
plied for n divorce looked sternly nt tho
applicant mid addressed her thus:
"You say you want u divorce because
your married life Is one long series of
fights? You don't look It"
"No, yotir honor,"- said the applicant,
"but you ought to see my husband."—
New York Times. j
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