MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1919, THE DAILY sons why It was important that he ! shou da. A Matter of Holding the hat gingerly in his hand v stood still and studied his ances "he tral heme at clode ra The win- Tradition = r' | dows over. Ihe pareR wonid be in that --- trot chamber where he was born and LJ where--but somebody was sitting near one of them. Just a glimpse of fine By DORA MOLLAN brown hair and a broad forehead, that 8 but it was rather tantalizing Copyright, 3915, by the MeClure News ! for the reasom. rr 3 . . awe x paper Syadicate.) Could it be the girl of the poppy Alicia jammed her widpbrimmed A NAL, sitting up there in that historic 'shade hat an iach farther dewn on frost chamber where dad had first Ber well-shaped head and toiled on oe his miether, when she had come through the blistering sum, up the | from boarding scheel with dad's sister for a vacation, the chamber that had Knbedeep sorrel and daisies It way] DOA a sort of upstairs sitting room with a sigh of grateful relief that she | '2 those days? He'd few, would Fits, gained the shade of the pillared porch ae Ryd: Be a pa a hi Of the old Caverly house. The deer { soft brown hair and It certainly was Ee alt. she peeped into the de | 8 Well-modeled forehead, but he knew serted: mansion and was lured by ts he liked the hat and what the hat cool shadows. Picking her way cave. 'Whispered of its owner. fully over the uneven flooring, she It was very still, that well-shaped [passed through the stately colonial en- head of which he could get but . trance Into a wide hall, thence up the | Slimpse. Evidéntly its) ower . hadn't Somewhat rickety but beautiful stair. Noticed his approach. Would 'it be tase and into a great empty front Possible to gain that room unheard? chamber. : he wondered. Here, on a built-in seat by one of, Cx. Surely it woul be Re Jrespan=it ot ow . was s ae, \5. & the Ha. yy qaws, frat Which tried It, and saeceeded. He reached seated herself, removed the wide shade: the doorway. on tiptoe, the shade hat «hut and laid it on the window sili. A | Still In his hand. There 'the intruder "cost breezé from the water ruffled her | Stood motioniess, drinking in the ple fine brown hair. There was no sound | fre before him, the slender girl in 3 But the drowsy hum of afi occasional | frock of delictte green, the gin! with Dee and the soft swish swash of tiny © ne pre hale, Slows light'y about ' y the ocean zephyrs. Wa helets oh the Snack el duchp | The #irl of the poppy hat. indubita- Quality in. the early afterpoon alr of bly. The right girl, the right girl o! & midsummer day that is"wificult to all girls. And sleeping quietly on the Pesist when one is sione apd falry | window seat, 4 Dresses caress one's eyes. Alicia didn't So, movelass she seemed, so very try very hard. still, that Suddenly &_ panic fear Presently she was thinking in a con- smote Pliny. He took a hurried step fused, half-conscious way of the things forward, and Alicia opened her eyes. that must have happened in this old They looked, first, 'straight Into house, §bailied now, she had been | Pliny's, and then dasedly about the told, for twenty-five years. This old old, dismantled room. "I was think- front chkambeér--how many lives had it | ing of the people who must have lived weltomed inte the world; how many | and died here; and of the brides ushered qut? How many young brides why, I must have fallen asleep! had looked out of this very window | You'lt--" dowh onto the sparkling ocean? "Yes," interrupted Caverly, "1 found Alitia's eyes were closed mow; she | Your hat on the grass. And I was dida't trouble fo open them to see just | thinking of brides, too. Brides--and how that sparkling ecean must have this room. You see"--Pliny went on looked to the young brides. The hot | like a race horse, giving the girl of midday air was an easy victor. i.the poppy hat mo chance to speak-- The soft purring/of the waves on the | "there is a tradition in the Caverly pebbly beach became mete insistent; | family that the eldest son always the tide was rising. With it came a | meets bis bride for the first time in stronger breese. ! this reem. It held true for three gea- It lifted Alicia's shade hat and waft. | erations" od it gently down to a resting place | The girl raised her right hand to amid the sorrel and daisies. Severn) | her cheek and deliberately pinched it bees investigated its wreath of gay. | 0 hard that the red mark, staining coloréd Sowers with disappointing re the fair skin, wan visible so the young sults--and flew away, meralizing, no = D8 actress the room. doubt, on thelr partienlsr version of Quickly he Siping and sat down be- the aphorism "All is not gold," ete, ' Side her. Boldly he did the Alicia slept on. sumptuous thing of grasping, quite Sothewhere In the direction of the | gently, the hand responsible for_ the very rough road from which branched Hemish: Why aid Fou do that?" he Ahé grassy late a new seund originat- wp rr t dreaming™ | ed. It wae an alien, mechanical sound. | @ make sure was dot dreaming. It the sieoptt had awakened she: sutosred Alicia, diawing away her | would have identified it and wondered "00d. "Who, pray, 'are you--whs | a little, perhaps. ; Walk into the Caverly mansion, py- | A powerful car was passing overs) ing on sleeping girls and talking about : "» i or, rather, through--the abandoned | Sh 3 De pac Before | thabenghtare. A quartet of & alle | yup." oo Pliny Caverly the | from the house it gave up the under | fourth," he sald, "and at your serv. | taking- and the driver picked his way i | lea, fair lady, forever. 1 was born in | up the lane like one unfamiliar with ! this nd on 'the shree day my | ot unprepared | FI x . ! My Surroundings i ! | youhg mether died. The next week | + : | my dad took me away and Lve never | . Ouining the level plateau where an | coon 10 piace till new. Poor dad} | utbbstructed view of the old mansion'| yo never could bear to come back. could be had the young man paused, | "But'Pm here at last, and just in | and with folded arms stood deep in | time to find you here. So the trad'tion | ihe Jurrel and daisies; Through. wide- | iy suigiieq for the fourth time. Let's set, humorous gray eves he took in the | .u: the house in order and live happily | scent before him. "Poor Dad!" he ooo. after. What do you say?' i sighed at last, and made his Way te Alicia gave the fourth Caverly just { ward the house. ane Instant's glance, and there was the | "Why, even some of the popples still faintest, tiniest, remotest suggestion | growing in front of the house!" he ex- | op the shadew of a smile at one cor | claimed. Alicia's hat played its PRC § por of her mouth. But she socked tical joke for the second time. Ruf | hurriedly at her watch, Jumped to her mot with such disappointing results | feet and replied: } {his time to the be-fosled. 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