laid down a tetter half-read, to smUe "Oh, Richard!" she sai£ carried tested ^Harriet, do you mean it?" Richard Ua titMm. Ward,- dark head very at Away by her own delight. "Look "I never have more!" Harriet said then, simply. sleek above his informal summer costame, it Isn't if: the sweetest darling .baby smiled. -," Tm sorry- about the bad "Yes," she answered, "I mean It I was deep in talk with Brace that ever was,! Oh, you sweet!" she night,4' said she. I've always meant It. I've always Hopper, who had evidently ridden 6ver said, putting uer lips to the little woolly "I couldn't help, thinking1—" Richard loved you, I think. No man could from the country club, and was In a head. began. "What is it, Mollle?" he want any "woman to love him more!" well-fitting, shabby jersey that became "You are!" Richard said quite without added, harshly, to the hovering maid. The blue eyes so near his own were his somewhat lanky frame. Nina, premeditation. "Nothing—no matter—sir," Mollle misty with sudden tears. In the deserted somewhat silent, but interested-W everything, Harriet laughed, Surrendered the stammered, retreating. "It was just little lane, in the blue summer wore an expression of quiet little lamb to Trotter and followed that the man. about -the sheep came morning and the green shade of the self-possession that her father found the old man's departure to the stables sir—" she faltered. If sycamores, they were alone. Richard touching. Nina was growing up, he with an anxious warning. .• "The sheep!" Richard echoed, put his arms about her. thought'. "They're to have this little enclosure frowning. Harriet laughed gayly. And for a moment he held all the Completing the group, and officiating all to themselves," she explained f'^vl "Oh, yes!" she said. "I told you I beautj, anL- fragrance^ .and laughter at the foot of the table, was the to Richard when they were alone. had ordered two or three young 'M. radiant Harriet. She looked as fresh "He's going to build thorn a little sheep," she explained, to keep our as one of the creamy rosebuds that shed." And as Richard, his back leaning lawns cropped. They look so adorable, Were massed in the dull blue bowl before against the low brick wall, made and they do it so nicely! Has he her, her shining hair framing the no immediate attempt to move, she got them, Mollle?" she added, eagerly. dusky forehead like dull,gold wings, looked at him expectantly. "Shall "Oh, I must see them! I'll be back In the ftall sleeves of her blue gown falling we go back?" she suggested. exactly five minutes, Mr. Carter." she back from her rounded arm. "That sounded very pleasant to me," said. j^opqriqht' bq Kofalegrv Ndrri "You're late, my son," said Madame Richard said with deliberate irrelevance. "What are we supposed to do with Carter, as he kissed her temple. them In winter?" Richard asked, smiling. Harriet looked at him in puzzled (Continued From Last Week) "Never mind," Harriet said serenely, "My darling girl," Harriet "aid, silence. "I've just this instant comfc and he warmly, "you must do what seems "Oh, they will have a little—a little "Bow yon must laugh at me, Harriet!" "I mean your calling me Richard," saves my face! Do turn that toast, byre!" she answered, readily. "You'll right to you. But you won't need me?" she said tljen. he said. Ward!" she added. And to the maid, —you'll like them!" And he heard she added, tactfully. MI? T^angh at you I" Harriet said, She flushed brightly and laughed. "Mr. Carter's fruit, Mollle, please." her joyous voice following Mollle "Well, you see Mrs. Gardiner and stricken. "My darling girl, I am the "Did I? I always think of you as Breakfast was the least formal of aw£y. Mrs. Hopper are sisters," Nina explained, last woman In the world who could do Richard she explained. all the informal meals at Crownlands. Richard pushed back his plate and readily, "and, they'll be with that! I was only your age, ?Tlna, when "So you abandon me on the Brazil Bottomley was never in evidence until looked irresolutely after her. Then us. But if you'd like to come—we are I met him—you know that story. Wto, trip?" he asked, watching her seriously. -going camping* in the most glorious the late luncheon mail and newspapers, suddenly he rose and walked through Nina, you're but eighteen, after all and the morning gaiety of the the pantry, asking two startled maids canyon that ytfu ever saw!"- Ninajnterrupted you'll have many and many an affair "Well—?" Harriet shrugged. "I young people all made for cheerful disorder. herself with sudden enthusiasm. for Mrs. Carter. Etelka had been several before the right man comes along," thought you had to go," she added. ''And I am so glad I really can years In the house without ever Harriet said. "You'll look back on this "I'm—I'll confess I'm disappointed. seeing "him" In this neighborhood before. ride! I'd feel so horrible if I couldn't!" "If you're going into town at ten. some day, and say, 'It was an experience, But to have Nina want to do anything Father, we'll go/ too," Nina suggested. "I think you'll have a wonderful two and I learned from it! It is only is such a relief to me that I'm only "But I can't," she was heard to murmur Richard crossed a sunshiny brlckwalled months of It," Harriet said, "and then going to make me happier and more going to think of that!" yard, where linen was drying, in an undertone to the disappointed Granny'll be coming West, to spend the sure when the man whom I really love "Yes, I have to go," Richard said and\ went through a brick gateway Bruce. "I have to get clothes, don't winter In Santa Barbara, too! And comes to me I'" slowly. "I must be there for a month that gave on a neglected little lane. now, Nina, love, it's after eleven I Nina, sitting between Richard and at least. But I'm disappointed, too. "Oh, Brazil—Brazil—Brazil!" the The lane had once been the driveway /o'clock," she ended-,with a change of Harriet on the, bed. looked wistfully I got thinking of It, In the night—I youth said, disgustedly. "I hate the tone, "and you have had a terrible a for carriage and a prancing pair, from one face to another. couldn't sleep! I'm disappointed, too." sound of it I" day! We will hate to do sane more but there were only riding horses at He fell silent. "I wish," he said hesitatingly, •Til try to make it .so, Harriet!" "Ttygse clothes are for the ranch," shopping tomorrow afteflhooi^and try ^rownlands now, and three of these "that you had not told me she said. And s6mewhat timidly she Nina said, smiling.. Both her father on the riding habits, and do a thousand were looking over the wall at the that you—you don't feel that you—are added, "Father—and Harriet—shall and Harriet augured well from the things. And, Nina," Richard heard her grass-grown road. And Richard found For a Long Minute They Looked Into going to love me!" he said. "I love you feel dreadfully if I say that I don't youth's instantly transformed face. add tenderly, when his daughter had Harriet here. Each Other's Eyes. want to go to Brazil? I'll tell you you .with all my heart and soul. It— given him a rather sober good-night "Say—honestly?" he asked, lneloquently, She was on her knees, in the pleasant well, It's all I think of now. I want—" why. Ward is going out to the Gardiner kiss at the door of her room, "whenever with an irrepressible grin. and Tears "that^was Harriet close" to green shadow of the old sycamores He turned and picking an Ivy leaf ranch, and Bruce is going, too, and you feel sad and depressed .about "I think so," Nina murmured. The his heart the soft hair tumbled, the and maples her badk was toward him. from the wall looked at It Intently for it seems to me that riding and camping it, just remember to say to yourself, brown, firm young hand resting on rest of their conversation was inaudible She was looking up into the face of a moment and tore It apart before he and living in the open air will be— 'This won't last! In a few months the his shoulder, th^ warm cheek against they presently wandered forth to the old stableman, Trotter, who stood let It fall. "However," he said philosophically, well, will seem better to me than just his own. sting will all be gone!" finish it on the tennis court Ward before her, his crooked, dwarfed old smiling at her, "we'll let being on the steamer! I dread seeing A breeze rustled through the "Ndna is 'in safe hands!" Richard followed his grandmother upstairs, and figure still further bent, as ^ie beld that wait!" strange places and meeting people," branches high above them the said to himself, thankfully, as he Harriet and Richard were left to finish two strong young ewes by their thick, Harriet, close to him, laid one hand said Nina. "The Gardiner girls were closed tl^e door. He carried a memory blue river, beyond the brick wall, their breakfast alone. woolly shoulders. upon his shoulder. simply darling to me the term they flowed on in an even sheet of of Harriet's earnest eyes, her low, eager "You look tired," Harriet said, rising, As Trotter gave him a respectful were in school, and—don't you remember, "You misunderstood me," she saTI voice, her encouraging arm about satin two birds looped the enclosure when his omelette came in, and good morning, Harriet sprang to her Harriet?—we were the only people steadily. "What I said was that I in a sudden twittering flight and Nina's shoulders. pausing beside the head of the table feet and whirled aboiit and Richard who took them out for Christmas and could not love you more than I do! from the stable region came the plantlve for an instant on her way to the saw the woodeny stiff legs of a very Easter holidays, and they like me! bleating of a mother sheep. But pantry. They were all at breakfast when he young lamb dangling from her arms Aren't you—ever—going to understand?" And—if you wouldn't be too disappointed, to Harriet and Richard the world was MI had a bad night," Richard admitted. and the lamb's meek little black-rubber came down the next morning. His all their own. Harriet, I believe I would like "But that's not all you're going mother, In one of her lacy, flowing face close to the beautiful face he For a long minute they looked it better!" "My wife!" said Richard Carter. to have for breakfast?" he pro­ robes she always wore before noon, loved. *nto e§ch^.other's eyes. (THE END.) -L International Falls Press' Representative Directory ThtyMci™so0«rff 1 F,I|S F. B. GREEN EXHIDE BATTERIES SHAPIRA'S When Your Automobile Needs ZIMMERMAN ELECTRICAL Homes Furnished on Easy Attention Call COMPANY The Battery Is the Life of Your Car LICENSED EMBALMER AND Payments FUNERAL DIRECTOR THE CENTRAL AUTO CO. 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