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MUTT AND JEFF
HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU! I'M AN EXPERT AT THIS STUFF!
I'LL KNOCK THIS APPLE OFF YOUR HEAD. AT
THIRTY PACES!
HOLD STILL! How Do You EXPECT ME TO KNOCK THE APPLE OFF
YOUR HEAD!
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DON'T!
- TWENTY-SIX, TWENTY-SEVEN, TWENTY-EIGHT, TWENTY-NINE,
THIRTY!
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to flame the smoldering spark of desire as though, he had a goal to reach and in Nathan. Mrs. Ogden, with three would not yield until he had reached other buxom towns ladies, were ser- that goal.
It was a vague goal. Even Nathan ving as chaperon at the fortnightly
Disap could not identify it. At first he be... dance in Odd Fellows Hall. proval masked her face when Johnny lieved it was success in his work, but Nelson tried to show a group of friends when this success came there was an emptiness, an incompleteness about it how to truck.
"Outrageous" Mra. Ogden declared that he could not explaine
That spring, two years and a half emphatically. "I'll put a stop to that
He drove there in his kind of business at once." And she after his departure, Nathan went back did. Which settled things in Nathan's to Fairview.
own car. He wore smart clothes. There mind once and for all.
It was He told Cora Payson about his de- was money in his pocket.
It was good to be there. were cision after the dance. · They
It was, he standing at her front gate. There was good to meet old friends and see the no moon; a million stars-winked. at respect in their eyes. them, and distant, familiar noises were thought, the fulfilment of a dream, of faintly audible. Maple leaves: rustled an ambition.
He saw Cora the second night after- in the tree that shaded the house. The
his arrival. She was the same; per- midnight train whistled far up the tracks. A whippoorwill called in the haps prettier, more healthy and fresh looking than he had remembered. He woods behind Gora's father's farm,
had pictured this meeting, was - sur- "I'm going to-morrow,Nathan stat- prised at the quickening of his pulse, at. ed grimly: "I'll get along somehow, the relief that surged through his sys- I want to see what the world is like tem when she told him she wasn't mar-
ried, nor engaged. outside,"
"But, Nathan, have you thought of That might Nathan talked with his everything? Your future here is so father. Mr. Burt had aged. He was sure and safe.. Your father. expects glad Nathan: was back. Now he could retire, confident that the farm would you to run his farm, and then?!!
"I know," he interrupted. "It looks be in good hands, the proper hands.
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like I'm a fool. I've everything and I'm leaving it for nothing. And" He took her hands—“and there's you—
·UB;"
She looked up at him, but he went on swiftly, almost defiantly. "I've got to go! I've always wanted to. I'll The casual acceptance of a never be satisfied till I do. Please try and understand, Cora
Nathan stared at him. "You mean you still want nie to take over?"
"Why; son, you're our only child. Who else would 1,1look to?"
"I do, Nathan. I understand. want you to go.”
Nathan ran a tongue along his lips. situation
he had dodged, runaway from two and one-half years ago. startled him. I But more than that, the fact that his folks took it for granted he was home for good was a blow.
It
Nathan remembered that night. came back to him a thousand times He went off to bed without replying. the wind in the maples, the whippoor The next day he called on Cora. She will, the distant whistle of the train listened gravely while he told her what It brought a lump into his throat. It his father had said, and what was in made him yearn to go home. But he his mind...
couldn't do that. His pride wouldn the ""Why, Nathan, of course. It's what | let him, even though there were times I expected.” – She looked at him in- when he was hungry, and he had to tently. You don't want to go back?" sleep in the park.
He shook his head and smiled. “It's
He sought work for weeks. He bare better, here, dreaming about what's be ly scraped by, doing any sort of odd yond the horizon, than experiencing it. job that came along. It was hard. He No. I belong here. I'm going to was fitted for nothing besides farming. stay
His sunburned face and calloused hands, Cora took his hand and patted it. betrayed-him, made him self-conscious. Poor Nathan. He needed her. He knew that people were amused. He needed some one to keep him reminded knew that they laughed at him, made of what he wanted.
He
him the butt of jokes. They weren't (Copyright 1898, by The Associated friendly, nor were they hostile. Mostly Newspapers.) they were indifferent, interested only in themselves, in what they wanted and their chances of getting it. He discovered they lacked in scruples; they'd go to almost any extreme to attain an end. He discovered that he'd have to be that way if he wanted to succeed.
Gradually the callouses left his hands. He became more and more to look like a city man. He acquired a certain amount of confidence, of assur- ance.
There came a time when... Natkan secured work. A clerk in a wholesale. houses. He worked hard... He was ad- vanced with a serien of small wages. A new life opened up to him. He was able to dress: better, to afford a fow himself to the city
ys dreamed aboutite
he went ahend wzfriends and on-
invited him
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