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On the way from the station te 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. Josselyn. Ellen does not "flt In" with the younger members of tfie party, and is miserable. Leaving for her home next morning. Ellen meets Oihbs Josselyn, son of her fellow guest. He has disapproved of his • father's wedding and is not on speaking terms with the couple. Declining to stay at Mrs. Rose's. Glhbs drives Ellen to the station. They miss the train and Glbbs undertakes to drive the girl to Port Washington. Their auto is wrecked. Ellen is hurt but It la not thought to be serious, and she and Glbbs part- He hafl been attracted by the girl, and she by him. Ellen's Injury proves to be severe, and for months she Is an Invalid. Recovered, she Is taking part In the town's Memorial day festlvfties when Gibbs Josselyn. on a yachting trip with a friend, George Lathrop. meets her again. The feeling of mutual attraction has strengthened since they parted. They leave Port Washington man and wife. Nearly seven years later Gibbs and Ellen JosBelyn. with their son Tommy, come back from France to New York. They are welcomed by Josselyn, Senior, and his beautiful wife, Lillian, the old Ill-feeling forgotten. By KATHLEEN NORRIS :w Copyright by Kathleen Hottte At AH uruMBWtm OWJHUMPHREYS REMEDY BEST FOR CHAPTER V--Continued --7-- MJoe? Joe's a great fellow," he said. "We're very fond of Joe at my house. In some ways he's the roost remarkable boy I ever knew! He's absolutely and utterly honest. Things don't deceive Joe. I like to Introduce him to people--If they've got anything that Interests Joe. he gets It out. If they haven't. It doesn't matter how much champagne they open,*or whether they have a season opera box or a villa In Italy, they simply don't register with Joe. I think that fellow will go a long Way! He's taught my boy more •ow than I could ever teach him, more than he'll get out of college." Ellen went back to Glbbs with ber eyes shining. "Mr. Lathrop waa talking so nicely about Joe, Glbbs!" "Oh, that's a love affair all 'round!" Lillian Raid lazily. "Of course Harriet's feelings are no secret. She's plain, and she's not likely to meet anyone else on the same intimate terms that she's known Joe. George is willing, Joe Is willing--I suppose--and Harriet Is more than willing." "Joe!" Ellen could only echo. In amazement. "Joe Is clever, and steady, and sensible," Lillian said, "and George doesn't care about anything else. His one terror Is that his precious child will be snapped up for her money. Joe's position doeso't make the slightest difference to George!" It was said so pleasantly. In ber good-natured, indifferent manner, that the oddity of this sentiment, coming from Lillian, did not occur to Ellen, nor the propriety of her saying it to Ellen at all. The two women, utterly different In type, were Inclined to like each other, perhaps for the reason that they lived in alien worlds, and spoke alien tongues. Ellen, clear of vision for all her simplicity and Inexperience. knew that Lillian regarded her with a sort of Indulgent contempt. A woman who was cheerfully unfashionable to the point of dowdiness, who was domestic and unselfish and contented, had no common ground upon which to meet Lillian Josselyn. As the pleasant days went on, Ellen marveled at her more and more. Lillian never talked of herself. She had her mysteries, her cryptic reserves. She had friendships of a sort with women, sometimes she tried tv make Ellen express herself about them. And she had friendships with men, but of these she never spoke at all. She was the type of beautiful woman who can remain silent with perfect self-possession. and when she did speak it was to amuse her old husband, or to encourage Ellen and Glbbs to talk. In the evening occasionally all four went to the theater. But Lillian liked better to dine at leisure somewhere, and to meet friends, as they always did, and to dance. Glbbs danced a little, Ellen less. They sat and chatted with Josselyn, Senior, <fuite happily, enjoying the music and the general gaiety of the scene. Lillian's partners would bring her back, flushed, lovely, silent; she would exert herself to be pleasant to the group at the table until she was claimed again. She taught Glbbs new steps, but It was quite apparent that she enjoyed dancing with good dancers, regardless of her feeling for them as men. Sometimes they went to the tea dances that were the latest attraction at the big hotels; Ellen would feel a little sorry for her father-in-law. He was always well-groomed, interested, alert. She found a little pathos in his eagerness to Join them In all their amusements, not to be a clog, or to affect their plans. He treated his wife with .unvarying courtesy, but he gTew deejfly fond of Ellen, and little Tom became the joy of his life. There were days when the three went together to the park or the zoo and chattered all day as If they had been of one age. And Ellen felt no pity for the silver head when she saw It bent against Tommy's black locks; somehow there was a dignity and a fittingness here that was lacking at tLe dances and the teas. day, had found a pleasant little country nurse for Tommy, the same maid that she had had during her illness, and Ellen consequently had nothing to do but amuse herself. The big car was at the ladies' disposal, Glbbs often went with them, his father less frequently. Joe sometimes joined them In the evenings, and George Lathrop duly gave them a dinner party. To this party Harriet came, a thin, nervous, sweet girl, plain of face, but with a pretty manner, and most at ease with Joe. She accepted Ellen's overtures of friendship eagerly, sent her flowers, and showed In more than one way her pleasure In the companionship of Job's sister. So ten days went by, and long before they were over Ellen began to long for a simpler life, where Gibbs would seem her own again, and where Tommy might always be free. In the happy old way, to be in his mother's company. They would visit the Long Island house, that would be a simpler life, at least, and then they would find a studio and apartment of their own, keep the little Port Washington Lizzie for Tommy, get a cook besides, and go back to their own way of living. Lillian bad told them something of the home at Wheatley Hills, "Tom had great fnn designing tt." "Tou designed itthe old man said gallantly. "I stuck In everything I wanted," Lillian conceded, "and Tom almost lost his mind trying to reconcile Spanish tiles and old English woodwork and Dutch doors!" "It must be wonderful and (earful to behold," Glbbs said later to his wife. "I have a vision of tapestries and Mission oak and black-and-white stripes and Tiffany lamps all merrily Intermingled. Lillian would get what was smart, you know, If she lived in La Trappe monastery!" Two days later they drove straight from the hotel to Wheatley Hills, and to the "Villino dell' Orto." Tt was a 'I Congratulate You, My Dear! I've Not Seen Anything Better in My Life!" day of soft showers and uncertain sunshine. Ellen, sitting next to her father- in-law, who was driving the car, was in an ecstasy as she began to, recognize the familiar country. This is our little outfit," Josselyn, Senior, said, at last, turning in at a white-pebbled drive, between great trees and spraying, enormous rosetrees that already wore young green. The hard-rolled lawns showed a faint, emerald film; bushes ready to bud were everywhere; In a few weeks the place would be a mass of fragrant bloom. All about were the curves and rises of wooded hills, beyond lay the Sound, coldly blue In the distance. Here and there another country home was visible; a stately facade of dark brick, or the classic green and white of the modern colonial wood. Each of these had Its fifty or a hundred acres, its stables and garage and lodge to match the house. The Josselyn estate was small, less than ten acres in all; there was a handsome fence, and some of the finest woodland on the entire island, but no lodge. But Ellen had only a confused impression of these things at the moment ; her whole attention was centered on the house. She gave Glbbs one amazed glance, he met her look, and they botn burst Into laughter. 'We've been had. old dear, what?" he said shamefacedly. Lillian smiled contentedly. CHAPTER VI * _ Rain kept the two families in the city hotel for more than a week of luxury and pleasure. Aunt Elsie, upon whom Ellen had descended for the "You do like It?". "Like it!" Glbbs merely echoed. And Ellen said honestly: *1 think it's the loveliest house I ever saw 1" It was Italian In type, the plaster walls stained u warm cream, the windows and doors placed Irregularly; some large, some narrow. A wide stone .stairway rose from the pebbled path to the second floor, climbing against the side of the house, at its base stood great jars of potted hydrangeas. Under the stairway water poured from a lion's mouth Into a shallow basin, and above It, In the smooth facade of the house, a blue plaque was embedded In a vine-wreathed arch, a Delia Robbia bambino spreading his little hands in untiring blessing over the doorway. There was the perfection of exquisite simplicity In the whole, the perfection of absolute order and appropriateness. The three years that the house had been standing here might have been three hundred, so kindly did the trees enclose It, so readily had the bare vines made themselves at boqse. Even while the newcomers stood gazing at It, a nesting bird, with a thread hanging from his bill, disappeared into the chimney Ivy, and a maid, opening an arched door In the bouse wall, showed behind her trim little figure a sunflooded vista of stone arches and tiled floors that tempted Ellen to an Immediate Investigation, and made her ex- Claim again. They went up the wide ontside stair, and through the dark carven wooden door at the top, and were In a quaint, long room marvelously paneled In rich wood, with a glorious view through enormous windows that wtere curtained only by tb'n widths of some dark silken stuff The room was devoid of merely ornninental things, one splendid rug crossed the floor, logs blazed under the carved acanthus leaves of the great marble fireplace. There was a black oak table that might have come from a monastery, the chairs were large and comfortable despite their severity of line. The effect was of space, silence, and shadow. Lillian, enchanted by her visitors' admiration, led them to other rooms. Here was a piano, with a harp beside It, In a small room lighted by three narrow gothic windows. Here was the breakfast room, bright and square, with Quimper plates ranged on an old dresser, and Peruglan blue cottons at the windows. Sometimes they stepped up, and sometimes down, through exquisite doorways deeply arched, every vista had been studied, and made per*- feet. Sometimes Ellen looked down at the formal garden, with Its moondlal and Its trimmed cypresses close to the woods, sometimes she laughed In surprise at finding herself unexpectedly above the tiled courtyard where maids were chatting in the sun, or crossed a stone balcony presumably leading Into the library, to find herself In one of the long, bare corridors again. Everywhere was the same effect of space, and restraint, and emptiness. Glbbs presently went to his stepmother, and took both her hands. "I congratulate you. my dear! I've Hot seen anything better In my life!" . She looked up at him with unsmiling eagerness. "No, but truly--? Yon know I've been waiting for your verdict Gibbs." "It's a fairytale!" Ellen said. "Of course I had a big architect to help me do It." Lillian said, with a prettily deferential glance at ber baaband. "And we had that d--n Pepper In the house for three months," the old man said mildly. "Who's that d--n Pepper?" Ellen asked, with her gay laugh. "Lindsay Pepper, the man we met?" "He's a very nice fellow," Lillian corrected, with an indulgent smile. "He decorates, and picks out things for you, and so on--It's his business. Most people are afraid of him, but I am one of the very few who boss him about, and he likes It. He and I had great fights about everything, and I always got my own way. So. If you like It, I won't have Lindsay Pepper get the credit!" "He got more than the credit, he got the cash!" said Josselyn, Senior, In an undertone, and with a mischievous look at Ellen. . "Don't listen to him," said his wife. She took Ellen and Glbbs to their own rooms, and before she even left them she stood for a moment, with one hand on Ellen's shoulder, and the other holding Glbbs' hand, as they stood before ber. "I hope you're going to be comfortable," she told them, with a wistful smile. "It means so much to your father, and to me, we--" There was a hint of feeling In her voice and as If She had not meant to show It, she laughed a little shakily. "We want you dears to like us!" she said. And immediately she was all practical. "I've Meaning of Putting the Right Foot Forward In getting out of bed In the morning always take care to place the right foot first, or the day will be unlucky. Many otherwise practical people also take care to place the right foot first when entering a bouse, says London Tit- Bits. The origin of the very common superstition with regard to the right foot Is easily accounted for by association. It is a psychological offspring of the word "right," and its meaning of "In conformity with moral law, permitted by the principle which ought to regulate conduct," and so on. The word as applied to the side of the human body which is toward the east when the face Is turned to the north Is of exactly the same derivation, and owes its present application to the fact that most people are "right-handed," and therefore, the right hand is the right hand to do things with. By extension the word came to , cover that whole side of the body: so. In getting out of bed, If the right foot Is right, the left foot must be wrong. Moreover, the word "left" Is from the Anglo-Saxon, meaning worthless, and. applied originally to the left arm, has suffered the same extension as the word "right" over ttoa on* side of the body. Rocks for a Park At the registry office • in Bath, Maine, there is recorded a deed from the United States to the state of Maine of Sugar Loaf islands at the mouth of the Kennebec. The deed says that these islands shall be used for park purposes, and In the event ok their being used for any other purpose the title shall revert to the United States. But the Islands are a couple of large rocks each about 200 feet long. A good deal of their area Is devoid o? growth, while on the rest shrnbs, grass and a few small tract struggle for life.--Exchange^ pnt you both In here, Ellen, It*s not i the largest room, bat It has the pretj tlest view, and the fireplace. And in summer, you can move if you like. And Thomas is right next door, across the bath. Lizzie can either sleep there or have a room upstairs with the other girls. Little Keno will look out for you, she's Japanese, but she understands everything, and If you ring, she'll bring you anything. Don't dress unless yoq want to; I'm going to get Into something comfortable--" She was gone, and the younger Josselyns left to smile upon each other like children in a fairy tale. Ellen explored the little domain; every need had been anticipated, everything waa perfect. "These aren't Pembroke beds, but by George, they're awfully good imitations," GIbbB said. Investigating. "And I like the goldfish floating about la that tall bowl." "There are other goldfish downstairs, and did you ever see anything so wonderful as the flowers?" Ellen contributed. "Just freesla lilies In the music room, and masses of pussy willows In the hall, and early violets here--Glbbs, dear," and she came- close to him, and put her hand on his shonlder, "are we lucky, or what?" "Did you get that delicate Insinuation of what we were to do In summer?" her husband questioned In turn. "Do yon suppose they expeot us to-llve here?"" "Glbbs," Ellen answered, with a cautious look about that amused him, 'It looks like It 1" "And you know," she went on happily, when she bad taken a simple, soft little brown dress from the closet where Keno had carefully arranged all her clothes, and was brushing her dark hair, "you know. It would be simply wonderful ' beyond words to be here, Glbbs, and then for you t6 have a studio in town. I've always felt that It was a mistake for families to combine, bat if we had the studio, and could stay there for a night or two, and then with your father and Lillian going to town as much as they do, and leaving us alone here. It wouldn't be like falling over each other all the time ! And, Glbbs, If It's like this now, Imagine what June will be--and how Tommy will love it!" * She was happy tonight, happier than she had yet been In this old atmosphere that was yet so strangely puzzling and new. Life In the city had been trying, she had been conscious a hundred times a day that she was unfitted for It. But now she was back In the country. Aunt Elsie and Joe and grandpa only a few miles away-- this was her own atmosphere. They would soon dilute the luxury of Lillian's home with intervals in some simpler place where Gibbs could lunch In his old painty jacket. If he liked, and where Ellen could cook a little, even If It were on a gas stove, and garden a little, even if It were only In a window garden. And he would be painting all through the happy mornings, and she would go to market with Tommy beside her, and hear him his rending lesson, and mqke him spend half an hour on exercises with his violin. "What are you smiling about?" Glbbs asked, as they went downstairs, with his arm abbut the velvet dress. He had told her he liked that foolish little dress, and the violets pinned beside the prim white collar. "You!" She gave him the usual answer, and as usual, he tipped her bright face up for a kiss. A moment later her father-in-law called her from the entrance hall downstairs. Ellen ran down to Join him, and to walk about the bare garden with him, respectfully asking him questions about the lawn and the roses. Gibbs went on to the long drawing room, where Lillian was standing, dressed In some Oriental shapeless garment that gleamed with rich embroidery. She was staring down at the fire, her beautiful dark head bent; she did not seem to hear him come in. When his shadow fell across her vision she looked up, her eyes grave. Then she smiled, and merely shaped the word "Gibbs" with her lips before dropping her eyes again. "Ellen Is out In the garden with dad." Glbbs volunteered, rubbing his hands before the blaze. Lillian gave him an absent look, and fell to dreaming again. Little flames licked noisily about the back-log. In the silence. After a few minutes Glbbs gave his stepmother a quick look; It was as If he saw her, young, beautiful, troubled, for the first time. Something waa making her unusually silent tonight; he wondered what It could be. "Headache, Lillian?" he ventured. The words sounded curiously Intimate and tender as he heard them fall, he had a quick flash of diffidence. Did he call her "Lillian?" But of course he did! She looked up with her slow smlla. "No, Glbbs. Just one of--" she passed her hand quickly over her for#, head, frowned faintly, and sighed*-- "just one of my bad times," she said, very low/ looking down at the Are again. "I'm not on speaking terms with your friend tonight!" His.friend? Glbbs could not understand her. She would not call Ellen that. She would not speak so of his father. He could only echo her words stupidly: "My friend?" "Your friend Lillian," she elucidated smilingly. Glbbs felt an unexpected sensation at his heart. He did not speak again, nor did she, and when Ellen and the old man came np from the garden, chilly and laughing, with a few early violets adding their wet freshness to Ellen's other violets, Lillian and Glbbs were still standing before the fireplace, and .still silent. •'Satan Finds mischief for idle hands to dor."/ Gibbs and his wife have beecr too happy. What now? Advance Made During Span of Four Lioet In the eleventh month of his ninetythird year G. W. Baldwin, Yale, '58, wrote a letter to the secretary of the Yale Alumni fund on March 26 last, which contains a statement well worth reflection, says the Independent. Mr. Baldwin said: "I have argued cases before.Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, who died at the age of eightyfive. He once said in my presence and hearing that he had talked with a man who bad talked with Peregrine White, who was born on . the Mayflower In 1020." These four lives span the history of America from tne landing of the Pilgrims to the preseut. Peregrine White's father died In that first terrible winter at Plymouth; his mother's subsequent marriage to Governor Winslow was the first wedding of Europeans In New England. Peregrine himself lived to be eighty-four, remaining "vigorous and of comely aspect to the last," as one of his contemporaries delightfully described the original Mayflower descendant. Between, the death of Peregrine White at Marshfield, Mass., in 1704. and the birth of Lemuel Shaw at Barnstable in 1781 stretch some forty miles and seventy-seven years. It is a pity that the chief justice did not identify the octogenarian who as a small child talked to the still comely Peregrine at Marshfield about 1703, and who In 1785 or thereabouts, himself nearing ninety, passed word of that meeting along to young Shaw at Barnstable. But though that artcient worthy is unidentified, the Incident Is entirely credible. A chain of only four lives connects the Mayflower and the giant dirigibles that cross In two days an ocean upon which the weary Pilgrims were tossed for seventy-flve days. The beginnings of America are thus brought intimately near. Yet It Is even more significant to reflect that only the last of these four lives covers the transition from sail and horse to railroad, motorcar, airplane and dirigible. Chief Justice Shaw" traveled no more swiftly.In his youth than did Peregrine White. The competent Industrialism of our day would be almost as foreign to one as to the other. The acceleration of civilization, as measured in human triumphs over time and space Is seldom to be visualized so sharply as in this contrast. 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