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The girl, lying limp amidst the pillows in the cool,
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beautiruz, 20,
readers and discontented with the unelena i robo of morini netivition that make up her Who Like Jelen lutty with MEDIANI. HEATHEROE, who mus arting <.
BALLY MOON, Joest roquette, niso varolla at the cint fut riding loomates,
fully. "You don't know what a lond with abining lock brushed back, that takes off my mind!
herself
appeared in her doorway.
Good the
Katharine, allowed ghost of a smile.
"She's sent the dog away," he ven- tured further.
"Mrs. Merser? Yes, I knew. The children were heart-broken about it."| "Little devil," said Michael thought
ZOE PARKER, Katharine's friend, sent to
LARKIN. returns. She peenlita in sering Cilla in maite of her parents" objertfestar,
Tumpe to forget a love fair with Gips fully, of the ferrier,
Katharine
bling with Michael, is thrown From her home, Starked but not arrowly in Jurse, when I fakers to the nearby home of VIOLAT MERSEN. In The evening Michael
prot to men limp.
CHAPTER X
Long shadows Iny across Violet Merser's old-fashioned garden when Michael Heatheroe, brave in gray tweeds, his stern young face browned and anxious above the crisp sun
news of linen, came to inquire för Katharine.
faint
be
"Ul, the poor thing didn't menn to be mischievous, He WOR only a
Katharine wasn't consciou puppy.
of the meaning of the words. She only knew she had to say something, While Michael continued to stare at her like a man bemused, There was a subtle singing in her blood; her pulsea thudded
nightt Miss Katharine. Sybil says pleasant dreams."
Dinnn came to stand by her bed- sid, straight and tall in faded blue pajamas.
Mummy says we nay tell you good night. Will it bother you?"
The soft little voice, the lumbent, enger eyes stirred Katharine,
"Of course not."
Dinnn perched bird-like, on the dressing table stool.
"Do you care for children? Some people don't very much. I had a teacher who didn't but she was moyed to another school. Don't you think that was a break?"
1
"He'll be all right out there in the country," Michel said absently. "You like dogs, don't you?"
"Mummy says you're unt to alk "Yep," Michael confessed, smiling," aid Sybil, coming gravely that lightened the sternness of his suit, printed all over with yellow and that altogether churning smile of his to stand at her elder's side. She was adorable in her thin one-piece pajama face and illumined his eyes,
lavender Charlie Chaplins. "I never had one," Kathariție enn-
You're darlings, at all coel Katharine said, rush. She
fossed,
made of
"Never had a dog?" he demanded, aghast.
"No. My stepmother doesn't like
hem."
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and sometimes Sybil geta searedly in to be near us. Lavinia's downstairs,
the night."
The girl, lying limp amidst pillows "Never did?" He sat on the arm in the roul of the low-ceiled surer of the chintz-covered chair Mrs. Mer and stiff and diffident, as she usually room, heard his step on the porch,ser had lately occupied. There was afraid I'm
did with new acquaintances. "I'm heard the low roll of Lavinia's hearty nothing. Katharine thought,
putting your mother to African laughter in answer to his i
in the most dreadful trouble, running congraons about this tall, lean young her out of her room and all,” voice.
man in this altogether feminine "Oh, that's perfly all right," said Mrs. Merser was established in one fitted Inneely, easily corner of the white-curtained room/Michue]*Ifentheroe might be pour but away on his western trip right now
Diann seriously. with a book. Katharine had been no matter what Berine might say, so she often steeps in the guest room dozing. Far below, in the fields, the of ahouts ΟΙ the children could
cautioned to be while
Miss Strykhurst Katharine, with a faint smile curving her lips, had listened to their chatter as they had had their supper on rustic table in the garden, Funny, she had always had an Iden he wouldn't care for children. It there little Merger girls were rather dar him this! She had never talked twitch the covers straight and bring Queer that she should be telling asleep in when a child, with some wiec. kind, soft-voiced person to lings, with their eager, crisp voices and their bright eyes. Sybil was the little one-she was 8, with a rosy small face framed in Alice-in-Wonder- Diana was just past 10, land hair.
egn, her brown eyes alert a spat
and wistful at once. Katharine could hear them. "Muminy, you're a lamb." Mummy,
slim and
"Rotten slimme," he contributed.
always wanted in Katharine
Knirt," mother died I ind n puppy. He-
confessed. "After my he was run over"
about Deggie to anyone before.
room. "Patient satisfactory?"
Mrs. Merser came back into the
"Oh, she's a wonder," said Michael. "It's a great relief to know that she's all right.”
The sun slipped behind the line this is such a good supper." Yes, of hills to the southwest as he went this was the sort of house Katharine down the stairs, so that the bright would have liked to have grown up his going. Katharine could hear him ness of the day actually faded with
And then Michnet came, "I'll go down," Violet Merser anid, "It's that young man the riding club owner, I'm not sure of his name."
"He's Michael lieatheroe," said the girl faintly. Sho an upward dick, like the syllables
a coress.
"Oh!" Violet Mersor widened her eyes at the tone. "Do you want to see him?"
chafing the two little girls in the garden as he passed. He was nice with children; some men were.
"I'm coming riding nome day."
small Sybil called.
come
"You're the one that gets scaredy," said Sybil scornfully. "Children, children,
along! You'll wear Miss Katharine out." Katherine would have liked to fall sort of room
food
ker drink of water.
Tell me Mummy."
night, again, Sybil's voice. how much she'd missed. Bertine had It made Katharine ache to think
meant well, but Bertine was a marti- net. A girl of 13, who had been for four years under the care of servants, good and bad, had been the merest: grist to Bertine's mill.
"Don't do that, Kathurine."
"Stand up straight, Katharine"
יי
"I declare, Victor, she's stubborn as a mule. And she never allows the slightest sign of caring.
Those had been the complaints, down the years. No wonder Katha- rine had learned to keep her child- teh dreams, her adolescent hurts and imaginings to herself.
Violet Merser camo in again, anx- lous for her guest's comfort.
"You do that," Michael told her. Then he was gone. You could hear the sound of his old car, the broken-down one he had bought at that filing station for $25, chugging Colour washed across Katharine's away down the road toward the town.
"We can see all the kill lights from "He seems a nice boy," said Vlalet here," she said, going to the window. face like a tide, leaving her mute and helpless. “I—I don't know.”
Merser, straightening pillows. She beside Katharine's bod. See, those, The older woman's gaze was touch was thinking that the girl looked as to the right are the windows of the el with compassion, and with same lamp had been lighted behind eld Rogers place thing else, perhaps. She had heard those dark, long-lashed eyes of hers. Berline's fretful voice a few hours Or could she be imagining it? It would be rather dificult if Victor "Perhaps it would be wise. He's Strykhurst's daughter were to fall in boon ringing up all day. Guess he's love with a nobody hard-working been fearfully worried.
young Lochinvar who had ridden out of the west.
before.
"If you think it would be, all right
"Of course, I do".
•
"Want anything before I marshal my two whirlwinds to bed?"
Katharine shook her head. "Not & thing, thanks," Michael had to stoop his head n
"Well then, I'll leave you for a bit. trifle to enter the door. There was Ring the bell if you need anything. the girl in the bed, the white, plain Lavinia will hear. The quaint way coverlet twitched straight over the this. house is arranged, the kitchen outline of her slim shape; there was juts out just under this bedroom," Violet Blorsor, tall, dark-eyed, sym-sald Mrs. Mersor, with her low- pathetic.
throated laugh. Is just splendid,” "Mias
Strykhurst
"It's just darling." said Katharino said Violet Merser easily. I'll go swiftly. "So old and sort ofsort speak to Lavinia for a moment of finished," she finished inadequately. Those little Indians of mine- have, gone off the reservation."
She was gone, with a faint rustle
"You should have seen it when we took it over," Mrs. Mersor told her. "Sybli was a baby then. We camped
of silk like a whisper or like in the barn that summer. My hus-
kins
band fell in love with the place do Lace rose and fell with the quicken cause of the maple trees, It has ing of Katharine's breath. Michael heaps of drawbacks, but every time I
in her room, and she alone! How complain about, the plumbing and go strangs life wasl
to-100-name-shining stiff-modern; house I come back loving this the
"You're all right?".
"Of course. The doctor ran in more again. He said I can get about to- morrow."
Just a bit of a shock ?? Just that, I guess. "Gosh," confessed Michael
Sho went off with a small grimy hand in each of her capable ones, and Katharine could-hear delighted shouts from behind a closed bathroom door. youth-Presently two small scrubbed faces,
f
Katharine's kindled.
was
Fight Violet thought. | "She docs care about him."
Downstairs Lavina admitted handsome, white-haired gentleman of 60-odd. Katharine's father. "I call Miz Merser." Violet came down the stairs at that' moment.
"Bo, Victor," she said lightly. "We meet again!"
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