W EDNESDAY, O« TORER 22, 1919, POPP rr rr sere rs rr rrr ro rrorsess Uncle Jake's Best | : § Brssnssiscossesnnsosmissesseoscs (Copyright, 1918. by the AlcClure News- paper Syndicate.) Maud po pout of her Epolled-chi Indulge in ne truly married te ted---not arch courtship « she 3 have 1 lust spoil everyiliir don't like him, but he is If he héd n are sometime Yaneing years foibles that had be characteristic of Ris boyhood. Nq thing pleased him bet ter than a p cul joke, Jokes were always of a kindly nature and, so far as any one knew, they had never caused any one real « But Maud took herself, all she took Rodney, amazingls ofisly. Now th Xummer rd come, the Rodney Blaines had made arrang ments to depart from the city for the woods, where Rodney owned a sma! mountain cabin He had just announced his inten tion of enco ing Uncle Jake to oe cupy a smaller cabin not many rods from theirs which he would make the headquarters| for his fishing and out ing trips; and he would share the comipany of his nephew and niece in many of his hours of inactivity. "Well, my dear," Rodney assured his wife, "It isn't at all as if he critical or intended to interfere with you im any way. There is no one eise he likes so well us You--and me. He's the best sport in the world and what if he does pull off a practical joke once in a while? 'I rather like his Joking." "Like his joking!" Maud and her eyes snapped fire as mich as eyes as bine fire. "And besides" sald Rodney, as he went on inspecting the fishing para phernalia that he had recently pur- chased as pre! unary to 'he vaca tion in the woods, "besides uncle has willed everything he has t us. That shows that he is devoted to us.' Maud at this accused her husband of being mercenary, though had ony one vise made this aecusation would have raged indeed. The result was that Uncle Jake went with the Rodney Blaines, and this was not because Rodney . acted contrary to his wife's pleadings, but ' becuuse after having protésted and pouted she assured her husband that he was right as in all other cases shui that she was sorry that she had shown tach prejudice and would try to feel AS strong attachment for Uncle Jake as did her hushand, Then she regretted her good nature. First he disguised ax possible game warden and called at the cabin one day when Rodney was net at home and informed Maud that her hasband had been violating the game law and would have fo serve a life imprison- ment. Maud, in spite of her ardent suffrage principles, was quite igno- rant of the law and before she recog- nized Uncle Jake in the heavily Talse-bearded person, she had offered him her entire worldly wealth if he would go dway and say nething to the authorities concerning Roduey's guilt. Then on the day that she went fish. ; though his y seri were echoed as hers ever could snap she Prem nnn he contrived to Lave bh iaelf ta & little pack ad brought with him to I which Proved. after edly angled for five mein 8 can of sardines r which she had a de- nd of which Rodoey t knowlog this, had tupid jokes both of allowed herself to be ar in many ways" she the evening after the sar- but so loug as he jokes ng te tell you," Rod- ! You see It 1% Just be- v does joke that I'm it be hadn't been w be Mrs. Somebody a disconsolate old dsummer and Maud-- old Maud who pout. id very archly the *uris lperely the back of her neck Instesd ! the present psyche ~was four or five hundred miles away from Rodney. who was working n the r'ry he office of the Uncle no tad not yet found occasion to retire, Rodney had danced with Mand and sent flowers to Maud on occasions lust as a dozen others had done, and ax-he had done to a dozen or so be #ides. Of course he thought she was pretty, and when there were other men frying to put thelr sames on her dance order Roduey wus always as eager as the others. But it hed never occurred to him that he might want to marry ber. In fact, Rodney--Iin spite of his twenty-five vears--had bever thought very muct thout wanting to marry any lady. But Maud at eighteen had definitely made up her mind, that lurked some- where beneath those soft brown curls, that she did want to marry, and that she wanted to marry Rodney Blaine, though she would have dled rather than to have let any one suspect this. She had convinced berself--and at eighteen one convinces oneself of Such matters quite easily--that there as- no hope. She had smiled and pouted as archly for Rodney as sie had for Tom and Bill and Walter, and Tom and Bll and Walter had all in their own way let Maud kpow that they found her distracting and that they dreamed of no greater bappiness than to be her siaves for life. But Rodney had wade no such pro- festations and, though he always asked for dances when he was about he managed to dance with other pretty giris if she refused him Maud had thought it all out in her elghteen-year-old mind. She was quite sure that the case was hopeless and that she herself had srrived at the place where she mus: decide between a life of resigned spinsterdom or the alternative of marrying the man she merely liked This mén was Walter. Walter had | come up to her mother's country place | to press his sult with considerable pers sistence. Maud had assured Walter that she didn't really Jove him. but had fibbed In saying that she loved no one else. Then she thought it over quite defin- itely and decided that, as she was oeither musical, artistic nor literary, {and had no sisters or brothers te Whose children she might devote her self, she had better be married; if only for a home and to have some one man- age her affairs. If Walter asked her again before he went back to the city she had determined to accept him. Then came the special messenger from the post office, ten miles away, bringing that tes-pound box of the choicest candy that the most expensive | candy shop In the city had for sale. Maud opened it, and out dropped a card that simply bore the engraved name of Rodney Blaine. That changed everything. Walter went back to the city unrewarded for his trip, Inciden- tally asking another girl to be his wife, | and was accepted. ; { The same locomotive that bore him back to the ety and away from Maud, }: le \ | carried a letter from Maud to Rodney, | THERE is no time in wom- an's life that she cannot . benefit by the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food in order to keep up the supply of pure, rich blood and to ensure a healthful condition of the nervous system. > Headaches, neuralgia, nervous 3 50 cents & bor, § for gam, all denlers "Bimansen, Bates & Co, Lea, Torants, . that showed between the lines that she bad been thinking as much of him ss | the candy showell that he had been L\inking of her. Imcidentally, the next | m\Hl carried an invitation from Maud's | oye to Rodney to spend part of his i vacation at their cabin, and--well, it was then that Rodney discovered what be had been too stupid to guess before, that Maud really was the most charth- ng girl of his acquaintance and the one he had been in love with from the first. "It was Uncle Jake that sent that candy," Roduey told Maud. "He was | In one of his Joking moods and he took i your name because it was the first ; one he came across in my address | | book, then he got hold of a card of | | mine and off went the candy. You see } | I bad aiways loved yob, Mand. but 1 { didn't know I bad a ghost of a chance. | | I thought you were all in favor of that | | Waiter Bates. So if it hadn't been for : | Uncle Jake's tendency to joke, I never i would have had the nerve to ask you. | I never could have guessed how things were." i Maud was in a reminiscent mood, | that brought to her lips a pout that was srch and piquant. 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