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THE McHKXRT PLAINDEALER. McHEXRT, ILL. JOSSELYN'S WIFE By KATHLEEN NORMS "ELLEN!" SYNOPSIS.--Ellen and Joe Latimer. orphans, without means, maKe their home with their Aunt Elsie, at Port Washington, small New York town. Ellen is studying art. her expenses being paid by Mrs. Sewpll Rose, girlhood friend of her mother. Mrs. Rose invites Ellen to a Thanksgiving house party and the girl is delighted. On the way from the station to Mrs. Rose's Ellen rides with a remarkably attractive young woman and a much older man. She takes them for father and daughter, but they are introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Josst?ly,n. Ellen does not "fit in" with the younger members of the party, and is miserable. Leaving for her home next morning, Kllen meets Oibbs Jossetyn, son of her fellow guest. He has disapproved of his father's wedding and Is not tin speaking terms with the . couple. Declining to stay at Mrs. RoJfle's. Glbbs drives Ellen to the station They miss the train and Gibbs undertakes tg drive the girl to Port Washington. Their auto Is wrecked. Ellen Is hurt, but It is not thought to be serious, and she nnd Gibbs part. He has been attracted by the girl, and she by him. Ellen's Injury proves to be severe, and for months she Is an invalid. CHAPTER IV--Continued --5 . The glory of the year deepened swiftly, and joy kept p.-ice with it in Ellen's heart. The harness was long gone, the couch was upstairs again, and only a cushioned rocking-chair In its place. Ellen could sweep the parden path again, with her hlue sunbonnet over her eyes. Ellen could cut out cookies on condition that she went straight upstairs and lay down for an hour afterward. Except lhal she usually went to bed at eight o'clock, and avoided the more violent forms of youthful amusement. Ellen might live her old life again. But it would never be the old life. It was so enriched and so enhanced by the tive long months in prison that Ellen felt sensations of freedom absolutely birdlike, warmth and -flowers and blue sky intoxicated her. Leonard Henshaw, for whose attentions she had wistfully longed a year ago. was her captive now, but she did not want to marry Leonard Henshaw. She only wanted to be alive, and to claim her work and play among the living again. May thirtieth, always a great day in Port Washington annals, broke cloudless, and found all the village already in holiday mood. The yacht clubs would go Into commission at high noon, with every imaginable form of gayety to do honor to the occasion. At the Port Washington club, where Ellen and her friends would presently gather, there were to be swimming races, a great outdoor luncheon, a baseball grime between the married and the unmarried men, moving pictures, games and prizes for the sn.all children, a dance until long after midnight. and, of course, the raising of the colors. Ellen was taken down by the Henshaw boys, in their car, at eleven o'clock, and was under parole not to race, even if she swam, not to "crew" even if she sailed, and to be home at Ave o'clock to get three hours' rest before the dance. Strings «> every w here. |Wtherin£ <i eager^jpMltt* '* pier erflf* WW" loaded to u.^., capacU.*-0. *ere making for the yachts. Presently the colors went up, fluttering gayly against the blue, and the cannon, fired from the grassy mound before the clubhouse, was answered by twenty booming shots from the boats. As the detonation died nway tlie band hurst madly into sound, and thirty .voting figures plunged from the pier end for the first swim, to pull themselves upon the float a moment later as sleek as seals. and add their shrieks and laughter to the general uproar. If Ellen Latimer, one of the seals, who was warning Bobby Carnival that If he pushed her Into the water again he would be sorry for it the longest day of his life, had chanced to glance toward The Eaglet, one of the visiting yachts In the bay, anchored three hundred yards away from her, she might at this moment have received a shock. For a man with a thick mop of silvered hair under a visored yachting cap was standing there, yawning happilv in rhe warm sunshine. , Glbbs Jossetyn. if he had been through no such schooling as Ellen in the last few months, had suffered, too. in his own way. Like Ellen, he had seemed to lose his place in ihe world, with his father's marriage, his resignation from his father's firm, and the transplanting from his father's house to his club. Sensitive and proud, he feand the attitude of his lnthna«es equally distasteful." whether they sympathized with him or criticized him. he missed his work, and found no incentive to take up anything new. Without tiis realizing It, the pretty Utile Miss Latimer hud touched him. She was not flirting, tike Lueia. she was dead in earnest, the bright-eyed, rosy little enthusiast. He chanced to come to Man haslet Jwrbor with George Lathrop and :<J*orge's motherless boy and girl In tine for the opening of the clubs on Decoration day. George, Junior, leaping out of 'he CSbin ready for swimming, the older Mtn followed suit, and (iibbs. whom tiw boy adored blindly in all things, ptosed him in the fresh dancing wa t*r, and dragged himself up on the an chored raft at the side of the dub yfer, where they got into conversation *ltli a boy in a dirty gray sweater. WW w-- iMtlag theft*!*/* the son. "This is going to be the girls' race now," said the boy, when he and George, Junior, had discussed several important matters. "They'll all line up here, and dive, and swim to the flout, and touch It, and then swim back." On the pier, the crowd was gathering to watch the races, and presently a dozen slender laughing girls in wet bathing suits formed a line on the edge of the float, and at the crack of the pistol were into the water with one shout, and tearing Mie so many salmon for the swimmers' float. The sweatered boy was now heard to objerve to (Jeorge, Junior "That's my sister out there oA the float. She could beat 'em all! She got first prize last year, and two years ago. She fell out of an automobile, and hurt her spine, and they won't let her swim yet," "I don't know what she's' dolngln that rig, then," Gihhs observed. : "Oh, 'w£ll, she swims, but she can't nice!" • Gibbs thought the hlg, loosely-h'tiflt country fellow had a most engaging smile, and paid small attention to his words at the moment. Meanwhile Ellen, wrapped in a mantle of drying black hair, was rocking herself back and forth on the lloat, discussing the races, and congratulating the winner. Perhaps she noticed the two strange men and the boy who dived suddenly from the anchor float, but as this chanced to be the moment when the Henshaw hoys, with two girl passengers. elected to upset their ennoe, it was probable that she saw nothing of the visitors. Later, when she and Aunt Elsie were busy at the lunch tables that' had been built on the green between the clubhouse and Ihe tennis courts, and with a score of other women were cutting cakes, helping salad, und pburfcg coffee, Joe lounged up to them, gorging on sandwiches. Interested In all other forms of food, and even willing to be useful in some not too conspicuous way. "There's a feller on one of the yachts that ast me to come out with a boat, about four o'clock, and bring him In to get cigarettes and ice and butter and things," Joe volunteered. "He asked me my name, and I said Latimer. I get sick of this 'Joe--Joe--Joe' business. Every wop in the place is named Joe! Gosh, that kid with them must have things pretty easy. His sister was there, a little kid--but, Gosh, she was a pippin! Harriet! She's about ten or twelve with her hair all hanging round!" Ellen laughed, and for the young Lattmers the episode seemed closed. And yet not only to Ellen, and to Gihhs Jossel.vn. but to Joe and the innocent Harriet of the hanging locks, the hour was filled with possibilities, and never to be stricken from the calendar of the four lives again. For Gibbs had caught the name Joe called to George Lathrop, Senior, and had mused uporT It. "Latimer--that's funny. Latimer and Port Washington--he might be her cousin or something. I suppose the mime names run through all grades In these old country places. If he comes at six. i;il ask him if he knows m,v little lady. What did Mrs. Rose call her?--Helen, that w;is "Is there any one down Helen Latimer?' in the "I'd like to get hold of a boy like that, and keep him about the place," Lathrop said, enthusiastically. "It would be the making of George." "Well, if you like the boy, I assure you you'd be amazed at the sister;" Gibbs said. "She's a little beduty; dainty, clever, quick as a whip! I take it they're the best sort of American blood, come of a long line of simple, decent people:--" "What's the. matter with her?" Lathrop asked. "The matter with "her--how d'you mejjn?" Gibbs, who was mixing a salad dressing, looked up sharply. "Why, she's sickly, or something," his host answered innocently. "Didn't you'hear the hoy say this morning that she couldn't swim any more, and just now, didn't you hear lilm say that she couldn't dance?" "He said she'd been In a motor accident, and hurt her spine," little George said. "But she got the prise for swimming lust year, and second prize In the ladies' singles--What Is It,' Uncle Gibbs?" For Gibbs had laid down his fork and was staring at him strangely. "Great Lord!" he said in a horrified undertone. "But that couldn't be!" And ns they all looked at him in surprise, he turned toward his host. "You remember when my car was In a smash-up, last November, George?" he said. "It just occurred to me--It Just incurred to me that that little girl wns with me! I don't suppose there's one chance in a thousand that that was where she got hurt--I don't suppose there's one chance in a million--" He got up and walked to the cabin window. The sunset gun had fired, the hairnet* were lowered. Port Washing- Then Sh^ Stopped Speaking and One Hand Went With a Quick Gesture to Her Heart, and in the Dimness He Saw Her Breast Rise Suddenly, and Her Lips Part a Little. ton wns deftt darkD at tkut -- ..^c. lly ones after a moment's thought. "You never heard of a lady named Mrs. Rose--Mrs. Sewall Rose?" "Sur#fcl did!" Joe said, smiling. "She's the lady that got my %Ister started in the art school !** *"/ "Well, of course!" Gihhs wns surprised al his own pleasure In identifying her at last. "Your sister, that's It! And what 1s her name?" "Ellen." Joe smiled. "Ellen, of course!". Gibbs echoed. "Well, how is she?'* * "Oh, she's all right, now," Joe answered carelessly. "If you're coming ashore for the dance tonight, you'll see her. She can't dance, jpxeept Just a Utile, but she's going down " "I hardly think we will coit&*Jn for the dance." Glbbs answered. ^Funny --she looks as If she Couhl dance! But you give her my love--Mr. Josselyn. will you?" At the dinner table George Lathrop asked Gihhs if lie had noticed that boy. That was no sort of hoy to he knocking about the water front of a small fishing village, he had an^exceptlonally J (.ibhs first saw Iter, was talking pret fine face. 1111 y to some older woman with greai It was a night made for youth', and beauty, and the innocent, radiant egotism of beauty and youth. Ellen knew, when the girls told her y she looked perfectly adorable, that they spoke no more than the truth. To her happy eyes they all looked adorable; and she truthfully returned their compliments. Gibbs, his host, and both the children came ashore in the rowboat of the Eaglet at eight o'clock. I«athrop, Senior, had friends among the cluh members, and was quickly taken to the henrt of Port Washington's younger set. He was a democratic man. and he liked to see his daughter's blonde locks bobbing over the shoulder of the boy who had rowed the boat that afternoon. Gihhs had declined to enter the 'ballroom lit once, and had remained on the porch to finish his cigarette. From the darkness here he watched Ihe dancers, and lie had no difficulty in finding Ellen, in her pale pink ruffles, with her exquisite, radiant face. She was not dancing, although the blue eyes and the pink slippers evidently longed to dance, and when Use of Columns Gave Charm to Old Houses gravity and attention. A youth cutm up and She transferred her ear.wai gase to him. and presently Glbbs- fell 11 quick sensation of nliintst palrt n<*ai his heart as her face brightened int*» an actual laugh. So sweet, so ytying, so Innocently fresh and good! Glbbs wondered whether summer arid moonlight had gotten into Ills blood, as he felt It run warmer at the sight of her. Too dignified to write him what a day of pleasure had cost her. too honest to make capital out of the fortuitous chance, she could adjust her little affairs with courage and character, and, having chosen her patb. pursue it to the end. The man who won Ellen Lattmer would be a lucky man, he thought, with a curious wlstfulness. And suddenly, with an unaccustomed flush of color In his face, the question sprang into his heart full formed. Suppose such a girl could come to care for a man like him? Where could he find anything better, or sweeter, or more rich iu promise for the years to come? He was tired of. the old life, he had never really cared for the false standards, the superficial women, the Intriguing, shallow girls, the show and glitter and cost. To put 1^1 s arm about that lovely young body, to feel her cl6se to him as she raised her flowerlike face for his kiss, to see Ellen in the sort of gowns' he could J design for her, crouched beside a studio fire--crossing an old garden In spring-- Nothing In mohths had so stirred his old delight in living as the thought of pleasing her, spoiling her, finding the untouched deeps of her Joy always fresh. Suddenly the plan was born. Paris I They would go to Paris, and there they could both work, and could make for themselves a life nothing short of the Idenl. A dim old studio, one of tho§e clever maids who delight in the cooking nrt, summers Idling In Brittany or Holland. And the lovely young Mrs. Josselyn, n picture in gipsy hats and, summer smocks, or velvet, childish winter gowns, would fill his life with sweetness, and Inspiration, and everything that was clean and good and honest. He crossed th^ porch to the floor of the ballroom as the dance ended, aii'd met her, In the group of girls and boys who were doming but for a breath of cooler air. She was talking to another girl, but she saw the strange mnn, nnd turned her bright eyes curiously toward him. Then she stopped speaking, rnd one hand went with quick gesture to her heart, and in the dimness he saw her white breast rise suddenly, and her lips part a little. He got her hand, nnd held It, nnd still she did not spenk, merely stood breathing high, and looking steadilyat him. Glbbs found his own voice curiously unmanageable. He cleared his throat. "Ellen!" he said. • • • • • • Another dance began, and another, and yet another. And through them all Ellen und Glbbs sat on the dark porch, over the softly moving water, nnd talked with that desperate deep relief that pilgrims know who find fresh. Icy springs after the parching desert, or mothers know who weep beside the bedside of the child that will live. It seemed to Ellen that all her life had been only a preparation for that talk. Sometimes be made her laugh, and she would flash him a look from averted hlue eyes, and bring all her dimples Into sudden play, nnd often she made him laugh, and would regard ious childish seriousmirth was explained, it part they were serlucli to explain, much Trwr T,. ft nnd poignantly sweet to •member, nnd with eloquent looks nnd monosyllables they relived It all, ami found It Inexhaustibly wonderful and strange. And at midnight Ellen was driven away, by Leonard Henshaw, her hand still warm from the touch of Glbbs' big luind, her shoulder still feeling the pressure of his protective arm, her heart and mind and soul in a whirl of starshine. She undressed, wrapped In a sort of love for the gown and the hair and Ihe eyes Glbbs had praised, and lay down on her small white bed and extinguished her light so promptly that her restless aunt, in the next room, felt a sensation of gratitude. But Ellen had no tH^l to waste with sleep tonight. Nor did Gibhs sleep. He sat outside his stateroom far into the morning, smoking, thinking, smoking again. At about four o'clock, when a faint hint of duwn was glimmering Into the darkness. George, Senior, looked yawning out. < ' "For the Lord's sake--old man!" "I know--I'm coming now." Glbbs arose, cold, yawning and stretching. "I know," he apologized, smiling. And coming near to the tousled nnd pa- Jnma-clad form of his friend he said with u certain boyish appeal In his voice: "I'm awfully happy about something. George, and awfully--sort of scared. Wish me luck, old mnn!" Will Be Big Factor in Industrial World While hut twenty-seven years old. young Hugo Stinnes is now managing the estate of hundreds of millions that belonged to the great German industrialist. He is thus described fey Dr. Ludwlg stein, German publicist, in ^Hearst International Magazine: "I first met young Stinnes In 191.*. fie was eighteen, shy. reticent and reserved", hut extraordinarily mature and intelligent. I talked with him a long time and enjoyed the conversation al least as much as he did. "The next day I saw his father and he said, 'Junior is much brighter and abler than I am,' adding tiiat some day the young man would succeed to the control of the Stinnes Interests. . "If young'Stinnes knows much about business It Is because he wns always in such close touch with his father. It was the custom of the elder Stinnes to hold nightly conferences with his Wife, son and daughters, during which he would speak with the utmost free dom of his business plans and prospects. These conferences perhaps did not mean much to the ladles, but thej; enabled young Hugo to see exactly] how his father went about it to carrjr on his, great enterprises. "I)uring the war, young'Stinnes was sent by his father to Scandinavia o<j' innumerable secret errands of business ana politics. For months in succession he wns on trains running he-- tween Berlin and Stockholm most of the time. On these errands lie con' ferred with .bunkers, statesmen an# diplomatists. To them he must have appeared like a youth. But it Is indicative of his temperament and "big ability that he gained both the respect of those with whom he conferred and the Undisguised appreciation of, his father. On these efrands, Junior always made good. He accomplished what his father wished him to do." SUFFERED FIVE YEARS FROM STOMACH TROUBLE Times Change Hj.yoa want to know how times are changing, take the story of the celebrated sheik. Ihn All Hussein is the tnosf Illustrious member of the family. It Is he who rules the desert around the sacred city of Mecca, and claims descent from no less a personage than the prophet Mohammed himself. Ihn All is monarch of a wide sea of sand; do<g> he roam the desert rilling treasure chests and snatching ladies from their escorts in moving picture style? Apparently not. .Listen to this report of modern Arab mnnners vouchsafed by the' London Times: • Ihn All writes his orders with a fountain pen. He operates a wireless. He owns a newspaper called El .Kibla, dictates editorials--and eoi4 rects the galley proof. Oh. yes--and his telephone number is Mecca, No. 1.--From Collier's. Kueii of the charm of old Colonial j genuinely attractive column ought * to houses In tfh^.Cnlted Stales and• of- possess. . . the oplahtatlon mansions of the old South WHS Inherent in the use of the architectural column, an element popular wherever men build beauty as well as sound construction into the structures they erect. For thousands of years, from far off antiquity, architects and builders have found nothing so utilitarian und beautiful as the column. Most all of the fumed buildings of the ages owe much of their character and beauty to the use of columns as Importnnt exterior and interior structural details. A column fulfills Its purpose when It really supports the structural weight above It. It should never be a false ornamental detail, forcing the structural support to be gained elsewhere. Steel Is a material wh.ch lends Itself particularly well to column construction and Is capable of , yielding that sharpness of line that a As a general rule It will be found that I toman or Greek Doric goes well with the simpler design or building. Roman Corinthian. Greek Ionic- and Ihe more florid variations due to Renaissance Influence fit In logically with the more pretentious type of building, interiorly and exteriorly. »' "Patented Leather" "Patented leather" Is the real name of the Japanned and permanently p<>|. ished leather that nowaduys we speak of as "patent leather." When boots made of this leather first began, very many years ngo, to be put on the market, they were described as "patented." As a matter of fact. It is doubtful whether the whole process was patented, though, of couibe, each successive Inventor bits patented hi* particular varnish, and so am. "Well, it's evident Gibbs and Ellen are to be married. How will their marriage turn out? That's the next question. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Listening for a Metal Old legends tell of men who hod the. power to look down into the earth, and see where gold and silver lay hidden. We cannot do this yet, but something almost as wonderful Is now possible. says London Tit-Bits. We can listen and hear the veins of precious metal. Two Swedish engineers, Hnns Lundberg and Hurry Natbarst, have Invented an electrical instrument which wilt locate metallic ores under the ground and Indicate their presence by making a sound that can be heard. 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