staring at me~with those wild eyes of Tils greetings to my mother. HOT FROM THE GRIDDLE hers. For a moment she did not recognize "Surely," said "your 'wound may Five Minute Chats CHAPTER XIV. I, me, but when she did she jyst not be so serious as you think. could I THE Fury itself supplies arms. on Our Presidents took three steps forward and sprang bring the surgeon of our regiment to The Tally of Death. at me with her two arms round my you.** If water sold for 10 cents a glass it Day was breaking, and the first gray neck. "My dear Jack, I have not been giving GREAT would be more satisfying to some mea light bad just begun to steal through "Oh, my dear old Jack!" she cried, and taking wounds this fifteen By JAMES MORGAN the long, thin slits in the walls of our "how fine you look in a red coat!" years without knowing when one has However, very few men are wis* barnv when someone shook me bard by SHADOW "Yes. I am a soldier now, Edie," said come home. But it is well, for 1' enough to render one word sufficient the shoulder, and up I jumped. I had I, very stiffly, for as I looked at her know that all is ended for my Little (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) the thought in my stupid, sleepy brain Man, and I had rather go with ray pretty face I seemed to see behind It JAMES MADISON A girl seldom refuses to eat conj that the cuirassiers were upon us, and that other face which had looked up =0 voltigeurs than remain to be an exile from the cob unless she has stor« I gripped hold of a" halbert that was to the morning sky on the Belgian By and a beggar. Besides, it is quite certain leaning against the wall but then, as teeth. 1751, March 16—James Madi battle field. that the Allies would have shot A* CON AN DOYLE I saw the long lines of sleepers, I son born at Port Conway, me, so I have saved myself from that "Fancy that!" she cried. "What are remembered where I was, but I can Still, a man never seems anxlom Va. humiliation." you then, Jock? A general? a captain?" to marry a woman who isn't afraid ol tell you that I stared when I saw that 1772—Graduated at Princeton. •'The Allies, sir," said the major, ii_ was none other than Major Elliott a mouse. 1776—In Virginia legislature. with some heat, "would be guilty of "No, I am a private." that had roused me up. His face was 1780.3, 1785-8—In Continental no such barbarous action." "What! Not one of the common very grave, and behind him stood two After a man has passed the chlon congress. But De Lissac shook his head with people who carry guns?" sergeants, with long slips of paper form age he begins to lean toward the 1787—In constitutional convention. the same sad smile. "Yes, I carry a gun." and pencils in their hands. simple life. "You do not know, major," said he. "Oh. that is not nearly so interesting," "Wake up, laddie," said the major, 1789-97—In congress. Copyrlctat by A. Co nan Doyta. "Do you suppose that I should have fled said she, and she went back to quite in his old, easy fashion, as If we 1794—Married Dorothy Todd How wonderfully developed must be to Scotland and changed my name if the sofa from which she had risen. It were back on Corriemuir again. Payne. the furniture movers' bump of d* 1 had not more to fear than my comrades was a wonderful room, all silk and SYNOPSIS. "Yes, major," I stammered. 1801-9—Secretary of state. structiveness. in Paris? I was anxious to live, velvet and shiny things, and I felt Inclined "I want you to come with me. I feel for I was sure that my Little Man to go back to give my boots CHAPTER I.—Writing Ion* after the that I owe something to you two lads Much of the milk of human kindness would come back. Now I had rather •vents described. Jack Calder, Scottish another rub. As Edie sat down again ASname for it was I that took you from you: JAMES MADISON made a great is adulterated beyond the cream-gen* farmer, tells how, in his childhood, the die, for he will never head an army I saw that she was all in black, and homes. Jim Horscroft is missing." fear of Invasion by Napoleon, at that for himself before entering eratlng stage. again. But I have done things that so I knew that she had heard of De time complete master of Europe, had I gave a start at that, for, what with the presidency and added nothing to it could not be forgiven. It was I that Lissac's death. gripped the British nation. Following a the rush and the hunger and the weariness, while in the White House, it must be A divorce suit is often included in led the party that took and shot the false alarm that the French had landed, "I am glad to see that you know all," I had never given a thought to that he was a good deal of a man but the wardrobe of the actress for advertising Jim Horscroft. the doctor's son, youth of Due d'Enghien. It was I—ah, mon said I, "for I am a clumsy hand at fifteen, quarrels with his father over my friend since the time he had rushed not much of a president. purposes. Dieu, Edie, Edie, ma cherie!" He breaking things. He said that you joining the army, and from that incident at the French Guards with the whole Like all the more famous Virginians, threw out both his hands, with all the a lifelong friendship begins between the were to keep whatever was in the regiment at his heels. Madison was not of the highest Some people get so tired by doing fingers feeling and quivering in the boys. boxes, and that Antoine had the keys." "I am going out to take a tally of aristocracy, but the son of a plain* air. Then he let them drop heavily nothing that they are never able to "Thank you, Jock, thank you," said CHAPTER II.—When Jack is eighteen our losses," said the major, "and if'you well-to-do farmer in an outlying county. in front of him, and his chin fell forward do anything else. she. "It was like your kindness to his father's brother dies and his daughter, care to come with me I shall be very His early life was passed at Montpelier, upon his chest. One of our sergeants Edie, seventeen years old, comes to bring the message. I heard of it nearly glad to have you." the farm which his grandfather laid him gently down, and the live with her uncle. Attractive personally. Don't judge a man by the clothes ha a week ago. I was mad for the time— Intensely romantic, and seemingly feeling had wrested from the Indians from So off we set, the major, the two sergeants. other stretched the big blue mantle wears. Form your opinion by the apparel quite mad. I shall wear mourning all little sorrow for her father's death, the and I, and, oh! but it was a it he drew his, only private Income over him, and so we left those two of his wife. my days, although you can see what a girl la something of a pussle to the dreadful, dreadful sight—so much so and at last he was buried in its soil. whom fate had so strangely brought simple folk of the Calder home. fright it makes me look. Ah, I shall that even now, after so many years, together, the Scotchman and the He was dependent on his father until never get over it. I shall take the veil Why estimate the complexion of a CHAPTER Hi.—Edie makes a plaything I had rather say as little of It as possible. he was fifty, when the latter died and Frenchman, lying silently and peacefully and die In $ convent." man's wife by the stray hair seen on of Jack's affections, and though always It was bad to see In the heat the place became his own, with 100 within band's touch of each other somewhat in awe of her, a feeling "If you please, madame," said a his coat sleeve? of the flght, but now, in the cold morning, slaves, who continued always to address upon the blood-soaked hillside near of deep love for his cousin develops in maid, looking in, "the Count de Beton with no cheer or drum-tap or the boy's heart. Edle reproaches him for Hougoumont. him simply as "Master Jimmy." wishes to see you." A woman is as old as she looks, but staying at home In Idleness while his bugle blare, all the glory had gone out Standing only five feet six Inches "My dear Jock," said Edie, jumping every *uman Imagines she is the ex. country is at war. Stung by her words, of it, and it was just one huge butcher's CHAPTER XV. and one-quarter inches, he was, with he declares his intention of Joining the up, "this is very important. I am so ception to the rule. shop, where poor devils had been Grant the smallest of our presidents. army at once, but she persuades him to sorry to cut our chat short, but 1 am stay. He tells her he loves her and she ripped and burst and smashed, as The End of It. Naturally thin and frail his zeal for sure that you will come to see me Yes, Hazel, when some men have no apparently returns his affection. though we had tried to make a mock study nearly wrecked his health while And now I have very nearly come again, will you not, when I am less better occupation they hunt up some* of God's image. There on the ground to the end of it all, and precious glad a student at Princeton college, where CHAPTER IV.—Jim Horscroft returns desolated. And would you mind going Ihing for their wives to do. one could read every stage of yesterday's from Edinburgh, where he Is studying for months at a time he slept only I shall be to find myself there, for I out by the side door instead of the fight, the dead footmen that lay medicine. Jack tells his chum of his engagement three hours out of the 24. Unfitted began this old memory with a light main one? Thank you, you dear old A man never appreciates the gift of to Edie, believing the girl is in squares, and the fringe of dead for military duty when the Revolution heart, thinking that it would give me Jock you were always such a good sincere. Some days later he witnesses an a solitaire diamond more than when horsemen that had charged them, and came, he went to the Virginia legislature some work for the long summer evenings, unmistakable display of affection between boy, and did exactly what you were he holds the other three aces. above, on the slope, the dead gunners Edie and Jim and reproaches his friend. instead. Yet this seemingly but as I went on I wakened a told." Jim tells him Edte has promised to marry who lay round their broken pieces. The thousand sleeping sorrows and halfforgotten broken-down young man was destined him, she laughing at the Idea of her engagement Regret is a feeling frequently induced Guard's column had left a streak right griefs, and now my soul to be the longest lived of all the presidents, to Jack. The two seek the girl And that was the last I was ever to by the discovery that there is np the field like the trail of a snail, with the single exception of ami she declares only fondness for Jack is all as raw as the hide of an illsheared see of Cousin Edie. She stood in the in ore than one way to do a thing. and at the head of it the blue-coats but love for Jim. sheep. If I come safely out of John Adalns. sunlight with the old challenge in her were lying heaped upon the red ones, When a candidate for re-election to It, I will swear never to set pen to paper CHAPTER V.— Jack, though deeply eyes and flash of her teeth, and so I where that fierce tug had been, before again, for it is so very easy at the legislature, Madison revolted IS RACE TO BE HAIRLESS? hurt, accepts the situation. News of the shall always remember her, shining they took their backward step. downfall of Napoleon and the end of the first, like walking into a shelving and unstable like a drop of quicksilver. war reach the country. Walking along And the very first thing I saw, when stream, and then, before you can look Prediction Made, Not Without Reason, As I joined my comrade in the street 1he coast, Jim and Calder witness the I got there, was Jim himself. He was round, you are off your feet and down That Coming Generations, landing' of a. stranger from a small boat below I saw a fine carriage and pair at lying on the broad of his back, his face in a hole, and can struggle~out as best He is completely exhausted and in a dying Will Be Bald. the door, and I knew that she had turned up toward the sky, and all the condition. They revive him and you can. asked me to slip out so that her grand against Jim's advice Jack takes him to passion and the trouble seemed to We buried Jim and De Lissac with That the man of the next century new friends might never know what the Calder home, where he remains as a have passed clean away from him, so four hundred and thirty-one others of will have no hair on his head has been guest. He gives his name as Bonaventure common people she had been associated that he looked just like the old Jim as the French Guard and our own light de Lapp and Is evidently a man of predicted time and again, and the fact with in her childhood. She had I had seen him in his cot a hundred distinction. infantry fn a single trench. Ah, if that many men under 40 are bald never asked for Jim, nor for ray father times when we were schoolmates together. you could sow a brave man as you sow seems to indicate that this may be and mother, who had been so kind to CHAPTER VI.—De Lapp's line manners I had given a cry of grief at a seed, there should be a fine crop of possible, the man of the coming generations and dtories of adventure greatly attract her. Well, it was just her way. and the sight of him, but when I came heroes coming up there some day! Mrs. Calder and Edie and he is "at acquiring baldness at an she could no more help it than a rabbit again to look upon his face, and to see home" at once, causing vague disquietude Then we left the bloody battlefield hehind earlier age until finally a hairless ,can help wagging its scut, and yet to Jack and open di9gust to Jim. He how much happier he looked in deatli us forever, and with our brigade specimen of the genus homo shall arrive. it made me heavy-hearted to think of sends a letter addressed to the king ol than I could ever have hoped to see we marched on over the French border But it Is through no fault of Sweden, and Jack naturally wonders it. Two months later I heard that she him In life, it was hard to mourn for what manner of man he has Introduced on our way to Paris. their own that men are losing their had married this same Count de Beton, him. Two French bayonets had passed to his home. 1 had always been brought up during hairf while women are perhaps unconsciously and she died in child-bed a year or through his chest, and he had died In all these years to look upon the getting ready to become two later. CHAPTER VII.—Major Elliott, neighbor a« instant and without pain, if one French as very evil folk, and as we hairless females of the species, and and close friend of the Calders and And as for us, our work was done, could believe the smile npon his lips. Jim Horscroft, recognizes De Lapp as a only heard of them in connection with while they may be only working out for the great shadow had been cleared French officer he has met in Spain, and The major and I were raising his fightings and slaughterings by land the will of Providence, they are doing away from Europe, and should no the two seem to reach some sort of understanding. head. In the hope that some flutter of and by sea, it was natural enough to It deliberately by "bobbing" their hair. Horscroft goes back to Edinburgh longer be thrown across the breadth life might remain, when 1 heard a wellremembered to resume his studies. He is to think that they were vicious by nature Tlie fashion was introduced, it Is of .the lands, over peaceful farms and voice at my side, and marry Edie as soon as he has his diploma. and ill to meet with. But then, said, by Russian women, who disguised little villages, darkening the livdh there was L)e Lissac. leaning upon his themselves, trying to get out of their after all, they had only heard of us which should have been so happy. I elbow, among a litter of dead Guardsmen. in just the same fashion, and so, no bolshevist-ridden country. Coming to CHAPTER VIII.—Jim is expected back came back to Corriemuir after I had He had a great blue coat muffled from Edinburgh within a day or two, and doubt, they had just the same idea the United States, their bobbed hair bought my discharge. When my father jack has a strong suspicion that Edie is round him, and his hat, with the of us. But when we came to go attracted attention, was first taket^*^ died. 1 took over the sheep farmland aot overanxious to meet him. Walking high red plume, was lying on the through their country and to see their up by the bohemlan set In New York, married Lucy Deane of Berwick, and irith her. they notice and admire a small ground beside him. He was very pale and now Is rapidly spreading. Some bonny little steadings, and the douce, vessel standing off shore. Returning to Dolly Madison. have brought up seven children who and had dark blotches under his eyes, the house, Edie finds a letter in the garden, quiet folk at work in the fields, and of tjig older women, not wishing to are all taller than their father, and which she claims is for her. Jack but otherwise he was as he had ever the women knitting by the roadside against the old Virginia custom of sacrifice their locks, are said to be take mighty good care that he shall accuses her of clandestine correspondence been, with the keen, hungry nose, the and the old granny with a big white setting up the drinks. His morality wearing false bobbed hair. not forget it. But In the quiet, peaceful with De Lapp, and Edie tells him wiry mustache and the close-cropped smutch smacking the baby to teach It was mistaken for stinginess and the the Frenchman is her husband. days that pass now, each as like H"l head, thinning away to baldness npon manners, it was so homelike that thirsty voters flocked to the capacious Liberality. Jill the other as so many Scotch tups. I CHAPTER IX -Astounded by the news. the top. His eyelids had always barrel of his opponent, who was I could not think why It was that we The following was overheard in a can hardly get the young folks to believe Jack satisfies himself of Its truth and drooped, but now one could hardly see had been fearing and hating these good elected. The defeated candidate had barber shop: waits to meet De Lapp. The latter laughs that even here we have had^ our the glint of his eyes from beneath to wait a dozen years for his first at Jack's threat of what Horscroft will people for so long. But I suppose that. Customer—Seen Bill lately? romance, when Jim and I went a-wooing. them. do when he learns of the affair. chance to distinguish himself. Still First barber—No, I guess Bill's all In truth. It was really the man who and the man with the cat's whiskers "Tinlloo. Jack he cried. "1 didn't no time was lost, for, while he was was over them that we hated, and now In with appendicitis or somethin*. came un from the sea. CHAPTER X.—Arising next morning. thought to have seen you here, and that he was goue, and his great shadow waiting, he diligently prepared to meet Jack' makes the discovery that De Lapp Sycpnfl barber (speaking up)—He [THE END.] and Edie have gone. He sees them in a opportunity when it should come arid jn't got appendicitis, He's got a can- yet might have known It, too, when small boat on their way to the vessel he was cleared from the land, all waa made a close study of all governments, 5r afidni to be operated on lor it. Irs had noticed the d%y before. A note left I saw friend Jim." brightness once more. wasn7T going far bu^ I ttited JO ancient and modern, He fty De Lapp informs them that his real "It is you that have brought all this naine is De Lissac, colonel of a regiment We jogged along happily enough If Madison had not been crossed fifid fold him to go to tlie hosj)I- him ant trouble," said I. Mother's Opinion. ihe Flench Guard. Horscroft returns through the loveliest country that ever blessed In love, posterity Blight not tal anil havS yhatevffi done to him with his diploma and learning Edle's "Ta, ta, ta!" he cried In his old, A rather prominent old bachelor of I set my eyes on, until we came to catch him on his human side at all that he needed "and CP fie wahtefl a treachery swears to pursue and kill De impatient fashion. "It is all arranged Indianapolis the other evening went prosy, Lissac. Major Elliott Informs them the great city, where we thought thai and only yawn over this seriouti, shave or haircut, JusTlfct me know, for us. When I was in Spain I learned home with one of his friends for Napoleon's escape from Elba. Horscroft maybe there would be a buttle, for studious, cool-tempered unaggressive, and I'd do It for him and he needn't and Jack go with him to enlist In hi' to believe in fate. It Is fate which supper. Now, the friend has a sixyear-old there are so many folk In it that If weazened, little great man. He was worry about paying for it, either. -ogiment. has sent you here this morning." son, who is lively indeed only one-in twenty comes out it would already a mature bachelor of thirty, "This man's blood lies at your door," and the bachelor was much Interested make a fine army. But by that time two and a member of the Continental Jhe Good Sftnarltan. CHAPTER XI.—The three are wltl said 1, with my. hand on poor Jim's in him. At the supper table he asked they bad seen that it was a pity to congress, when a sixteen-year-old girl It isn't even safe to trust even to a Wellington's army on their way to the shoulder! the youngster, "Now, Bobby, when you field of Waterloo. spoil the whole country just for the in his Philadelphia boarding house good Samaritan ally more. The grow up are you going to get married "And mine on his, so we have paid sake of one man, and so they had told was the first to touch a soft spot In Tarkio Avalanche reports the case^ of CHAPTER XII.—Drawn up In line of like your father did or are you going our debts." He flung open his mantle him that he must shift for himself in his heart. A young clergyman who one who turned out to be thief. Be battle In the morning, they plainly see A to be an old bachelor like I am?" as he spoke, and I saw with horror the future. The next we heard was hung and sighed over her harpischord discovered Dr. William Cunnlflgft#ttr, a De Lissac with Napoleon's staff. Back came the little fellow's immediate that a great lump of clotted blood was that he had surrendered to the British, cut him out, and he was painfully local physician, having trouble with his answer: "Oh, I'm not going CHAPTER XIII.—The end of that fate hanging out of his side. to and that the gates of. Paris were open awakened from his first dream of love touring car, and promptly offered ftil June day draws near with our three to be an old bachelor. Mother wants "This is my thirteenth and last," to us, which was very good news to by a letter of dismissal which, for reasons help him. After the doctor had grate: friends unhurt, and, with the rest of the me to amount to something." said he, with a smile. "They say that me. for I could get along very well unknown to this later generation, fully accepted the man got in and army, waiting the time to advance. Napoleon's Since then the bachelor has announced last effort to save the day, the thirteen is an unlucky number. Gould just now on the one battle that I had the young miss sealed with a pinch tinkered the car a bit and then started attack by the Old Guard, Is made and himself as a willing candidate you spare me a drink from your flask?" had. of rye dough. off to ride up and down the street a Jack and Horscroft recognize De Lissac for a leap year girl. The major had some brandy-and-water. time or twO to see how it worked. To But there were plenty of folk in Madison was past forty, and well in one of the officers leading the Guard. The repulse of Napoleon's most famous De Lissac supped it up eagerly. into his Indian summer, when he became date he is still seeing.—Kansas City Paris how who loved Boney, and that veterans and the breaking up of the His eyes brightened, and a little fleck involved in still another boarding Times. was natural when you' think of the French army follow, then night, and rest Gone for the Day. of color came back Into each of his glory that he had brought them, and house romance at Philadelphia. baggard cheeks. My boss had given me some special how he had never asked his army to Only, instead of a lady boarder, he CHAPTER XIV.—Jack Is aroused from Wanted—Large contract for saw­ sleep by Major Eliott, who tells him work to do, and had departed saying "It was Jim did this," said he. "1 go where he would not go himself. fell in love this time .with a landlady's Horscroft is missing, and, with a party, he would not return that day, writes heard some one calling my name, and They had stern enough faces, for us, I daughter, Dolly Payne Todd, ing lumber this winter. Have portable they set out to look for him. They find a correspondent. It was exceedingly there he was, with his gun against my can tell you, when we marched In, and who was only twenty-six, had lost her Jim, dead, where the fiercest- fighting mill of ten thousand feet capacity. warm and to work was torture. Putting tunic. Two of my men cut him down we of Adams' brigade were the very husband and was living with her mother, with the Guard had: occurred. Beside him Enquire of M. L. Miller, Ericsburg, tfe De Lissao, alive hut at the point of my books and papers away, I selected first who set foot in the city. We "who received Into her house a just as he fired. Well, well, Edle was Minn., Box 16. 2tp death. He tells them that Jim gave him the most comfortable chair in passed over a bridge which they call few gentlemen boarders." Among them worth It all. Tou will be In Paris in his mortal wound and charges Jack with his office and sat down to read a magazine less than a month, Jack, and you will Neuilly, whjch is easifer to write than was Senator Aaron Burr of Ne% York, a message from him to Edie in Paris. which I found on his'desk. You see her. You will find her at number to say, and then through a fine park, Madison himself was staying at another CHAPTER XV.—A month later, when can imagine my chagrin when he returned eleven of the Rue Miromesnll, which the Bois de Boulogne, and so into house, where he and two *10*2 A DAY! the victorious allied armies are in Paris, in an hour and asked for the Is near the Madelaine. Break |t very the Champs d'Elysees. There we other future presidents, Jefferson and Jack calls on Edle. She has heard of gently to her, Jack, for you cannot bivouacked, and pretty soon the streets work. Monroe, were living three In a room. De Llssac's death and declares herself Aggressive Women —r- to Inconsolable. However, while Jack Is think how she loves me. Tell her that were so full of Prussians and English There the fame xf the pretty young there, a visitor, the Count de Beton, is Aren't Wives Unreasonable? all I have Is In two black trunks, and that It became more like a camp Quakeress traveled to him, and he announced, and she hastily dismisses her than a city. "Alt' very well for you to preach that Antolne has the keys. You will asked Buri—they were at Princeton Yes!—and erca raore to those childhood friend. That to the last time economy," said his wife, "but I notice not forget?" together—to take him to see her. The W*K bave durability to go put The very first time that I could get Jack and Edie meet. Years afterward he MI will remember." whenever I cut down expenses that learns of her marriage to. the Count de away I went with Rob Stewart, of my match flamed up in the flash of an IndnSt overlMw^i^tto Bfeton two months -after De Lissac's yon smoke better cigars and spend "And madame, your mother? eye, and Dolly and her boy were i. is a friend tt eveiy wommn in company—for we were only allowed to world. death, and' her1 own, end two years :5' the All you have the more money for your own pleasure trust that you have left her very welL go about in couples-^to the 'Hue borne away to Montpelier, where she -ability to sell aproduct that later. Jack returns to his home, ~and, And monsieur, too, your father? Bear than at any other time." ywa» net yoo ml mo—y. write Miromesnll. Bob waited in the hail* proved her tactfnlness and kindliness having done his part In lifting the Great NATIOlUUL SELUW fe$06WTKIII "Well, confound it, what do you suppose Shadow from the earth., spends the rest them ujydistingtfished regards."Even by dwelling In peace under tho same and I was shown upstairs, and as I AHkl of' his days in the. quiet farmhouse which now, at death closed in upon him, he I want you to economise fof^aapway put my foot over the mat there was roof with her mother-in-law thirty-five had been the seen*: of the tempestuous gave the old bow and wave aa he sent 1"—Boston Transcript yean. Cousin Edle, just the same as ever* pomance of Edie Jim and De Lissac.