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“Joe. it doesn’t come out even.” Joe Hayden laid down his book and looked up into the puzzled eyes of hls Pretty young wife. Ruth’s remark brought him not to a realization of her problem but to a realization of herself. The 1am 1i ht gave an addgd sheen to the califglly brushed hair. She looked very pale and small and Y0“?gv in the big wicker divan, plled high with cushions. 7 u Avln » unnuvu ‘" - 1 lie would impose on you if he got a one day’ When he came 1% féoi‘n t2: chance. It is Mrs. Mullaney we really garvles-t fiilgnat “00131 Magma on i owe. I don’t think that pony is worth ‘6}: y'mg " 1 uP-on "8 ‘ . 'd I what we owe her. I have figured it Heat prostratiofnl tlée doct01 55.11 i, out " Three weeks 0 ten er care at u- , ,, brought her to her feet again. But “HOW do You figure 1”. pertain lines between her brows had Well, Mrs. Mullaney did more for deepened. These linescaused Joe a me than an ordinary nurse would. vague distress, He noticed them now On the other hand she was here only particularly and came around to .her' a few hours a day after the worst side, hdisgllacing sIoIme of the cushion‘si E'sasfi‘oveé‘bné nurge WOl‘lylVd have 1\caost ‘on t e ivan. e was s rong an e a s a ay. e owe rs. brown and weathered-looking with aniMullaney that much at least for the air of freshness and cleanness thatlfirst week. .In these last two weeks farm work in'the open had given h1m.she has put in as {nuch as one week s fIile laid thehtips ofgnsbstrongfigreizggi:vhzrlslagheg‘ihelliiégttlfiszoilgdazogng n ers on er w.n e row 0 = - 1mg; lat three dollars a week. Three weeks “Ruth we have a big job on ouriwould have been nine dollars. That hands. Lifting a mortgage whileimakes chentyâ€"nine dollars. Then the founding a home isn’t easy. But we'doctor might have to make two or have a good start" I can’t see why itlthree more trips if we had had a less is making scars in your forehead." dependable nurse. It comesto eightyâ€" Ruth drew the brown fingers down five or_ ninety dollars, I think. How with her own small white ones. lmuch Is that pony worth? ’ 615th had given him. He laid the tips of his strong, gentle {ingers on her white brow over the mes. Ruth drew the brown fingers down[ with her own small white ones. “Thinking bothers one more when one is not working,” she explained.; “I’m going to start in to-morrow and do the work myself. Dr. Kellar sajdl “Ruth we have a big job on our hands. Lifting a mortgage whi‘.e founding a home isn’t easy. But we have a good start. I can’t see why it is making scars in your forehead." I might," she added quickly as she saw the protest in his face. “You needn’t worry. I am not going to be foolish and overtax my strength again. But there is so much to do that when I just sit here and think it worries me. I had just got things going right when I got sick. It’s all in planning and management, Joe. What we country people lack is sysâ€" tem}: You knew” _ She said it with a pretty little air of including herself. But Joe knew she meant, “you country people.” He had married a city girl. In her three months on the farm she had mention- ed many things which her late em- ployers, Baker and 00., would have considered bad management. She tapped a little block of paper with her silver pencil. “I have been trying to figure out what we owe MrsuMullaney.” “Well. we owe her a great deall more than we shall ever be able to pay,” declared Joe Warmly. “Little Ned is crazy for a pony, and I think: I’ll give him that Shetland, Job. Job“ is old and rather moth eaten but he‘ll? do Ned Mullaney more good than a six-cylinder automobile. And Mul- laney knows if he is ever Shorthanded in his crop all he has to do is whistle. for me.” l laney knows if he is ever shorthaqdedl H'el- husband picked up the silver in his crop all he has to do is wh1st1e, pend} and drew a line threw the for me", items. Ruth’s small hand suddenly came! “Yes,” he said slowly, “I think down on the wicker table with a force, you’ve left out a 101;" thglfllade the lamp Shade 513‘”?- . Into that moment that was made. “When you confract a debt do you start paying it on the installment plngjor the pest 9f your life‘fl’ “Why, Ruth,” the man’s voice was troubled and his eyes were full of ain, “do you think you could pay Irs. Mulluney with money?” “That is exactly what I think we' should do. A debt is a debt. The best 1 way to pay it is fullyvand promptly‘ to stop the interest. The earlier we country people get to using money as common currency," she greatly stressed the word money, “the better it will be for all concerned. The Mul- laneys need money, goodness knows, if all that you and Al Grimes say is true. And Mrs. Mullaney certainly earned it. here. You write a cheque For One Cam ‘1' m &» H403 Ask for a trial package today. Delicious! Economical ! USED F63!) EARS 755 Speciain Pri WE HAVE A SELECT STOCK of Repaying Mrs. Muilancy Rival-dale Gara Phone Gerrard 2604 ngs. Sedans ISSUE No. 2‘ you. Cash 0 r or Danforth Av nicall Newh PART I. may obtain BY ELIZABETH GUILFOILE. und and Ma nted. .ge, Ltd. e. To rent 04 - 2605 and I’ll mail it to her with a nice little note. I’ll promise you she will take it without protest. We must not start out in life with a lot of obliga- tions. We had better pay as we go. I don’t like the idea of Mr. Mullaney feeling free to call on you just be- cause his wife has been of service to us. He is notoriously lazy and depends on his nieighbors too much, anyway. I don’t like to think of you plowing his fields with their knotty old roots, and sawing wood with his rusty saws. He would impose on you if he got a chance. It is Mrs. Mullaney we really owe. I don’t think that pony is worth what we owe her. I have figured it Joe’s head was turned away from the light. He was looking out into the starljt night. “That wouldn’t be enough. I think we ought to give her a cheque. With Dr. Kellar’s bill it will make my illness cost pretty high. I’m sorry it had to happen,” she added softly, “when you have to work so hard to make ends meet.” She stood up quickly and went to him. Instantly he put his arms about the slight figure. “Don’t you know you wgre mighty §ic](, Ruth?’f “My God, Ruth! Do you think I count the money that it takes to take cage; of you_?” “I certainly do and I know it is owing to Mrs. Mullaney that I pulled through. She left all her work to take care of me and she didn’t even know me very well. She said she hadn’t much time for visiting and I had never been to see her. It had not oc- curred to me that I might need her so soon. That’s the reason, Joe, I think we should do the right thing by her without any delay. It’s an awful feeling to be in debt. I never owed a hundred dollars in my life and I hate to think of our owing it now. Look, Joe, I’ve got it all down here. Do you’think I’ve left out anything? “Not Exore than seventy-five,” he an§gered quiefclry.» ' Into that moment that was made, perhaps, for understanding, there came an interruption. The gate creakedâ€"someone was coming. Joe laid the pad and pencil on the mantel beside the clock. “Howdy, folké?” Al Grimes loomed in the doonvay. “How are you, Missus?” Ruth gave him a pleasnt word in reply. She liked A]. He was her hus- band's “right-hand man” and had been in the employ of the Haydens in the time of Joe’s father. WOMEN CAN DYE ANY GARMENT, DRAPERY Dye or Thing 3 cups of (To be contir New for 15 Cents. Norn, ued.) Tangled Tméis, CHAPTER XLII. Kirby took his lady driving in a rented fiivver. It was a Colorado night, with a young moon looking down through the cool, rare atmos- phere found only» in the Rockies. He drove her through the city to Berk- eley and up the hill to Inspiration Point. '1 They talked only in intermittent snatches. Rose had the gift of com- radeship. Her tongue never rattled. With Kirby she did not need to make talk. They had always understood each other without words. But to-night their silences were filled with new and awkward signifi- cances. She guessed that an emo- tional crisis was at hand. With all her heart she welcomed and shrank from it. For she knew that after to- night life could never be the same to her. It might be fuller, deeper, hap- pier, but it could not hold for her the freedom she had guarded and cher- ished. At the summit he killed the engine. They looked across the valley to the hills dimmed by night’s velvet dusk. “We’re through with all that back there,” he ‘said and she knew he meant the tangled trails of the past weeks into which their fate had led them. “We don’t have to keep our minds full of suspicions an’ try to find out things in mean, secret ways. There, in front of us, is God’s world, waitin’ for you an’ me, Rose." Though she had expected it, she could not escape a sense of suddenly stilled pulses followed by a clamor of beating blood. She quivered, vibrat- ing, trembling. She was listening to the call of mate to mate sounding clear above all the voices of the world. A flash of soft eyes darted at him. He was to be her man, and the maiden heart thrilled at the thought. She loved all of him she knewâ€"his fine, clean thoughts, his brave and virile life, the splendid body that was the expression of his personality. There was a line of golden down on his cheek just above Where he had shaved. Her warm eyes dared to linger fondly there, for he was still gazing at the mountains. He asked no formal question. She answered none. Under the steady re- gard of his eyes she made a small, rustling movement toward him. Her young and lissom body was in his arms, a warm and palpitating thing of life and joy. He held her close. Her eyelashes swept his cheek and sent a strange, delightful tingle through his blood. Kirby held her head back and look- ed into her eyes again. Under’the starlight their lips slowly met. The road lay clear before them after mafiy tangled trails. (The End.) His eyes came home to her, and as he looked he knew he longed for her in every fibre of his being. One of the axiomâ€"s that al‘e'not true is “No one can perform the impos- sible." We can tell just what strain an iron bar can stand, and we can gauge precisely the force of steam; but when we come to the human being we find a paradoxâ€"a creature that does the impossibleâ€"Frank Crane. 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