ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS Packed full of un i 5 crushed sultanas, that’s the secret of their tempting flavor. Christie’s Sul- tanas are always exceptionally crisp and fresh, Christie's Biscuits “here's a Christie Biscuit for every taste” _| MISS ALADDIN —By— Christine Whiting Parmenter #, Author Of , “One Wide River To Cross” “The Unknown Port", Etc. SYNOPSIS Nancy Nelson is a sub-deb, a gay, irresponsible girl of nineteen, with no care beyond the choice of her cos- tume for her coming-out party. Sud- denly, in the market crash, her in- dulgent father loses all he had, and his family is faced with the neces- sity of a simpler method of living. At this juncture a letter is received _ from an eccentric relative in Color- ado, who offers the girl a home on what seems to be impossible condi- tions. z f After much consideration Cousin Columbine’s offer is accepted, and Nancy and Jack arrive at Pine Ridge. Nancy set out one afternoon to climb to the top of a hill so as to obtain a view of the surrounding landscape and misses the path Aurora Tubbs had told her to follow. A truck comes along the road, driven by Mat- thew Adams, and she asks him which Way to go. They ascend the hill, jJook around, and then go on. to Cousin Columbine’s. There Mark _Adam tells Nancy that his brother Luke has broken his leg, and that Jack Nelson has been hired to help out while Luke’s leg gets better. With Jack away, Nancy finds that she is lonesome, and having no books to read, the idea of starting a public library at Pine Ridge seems a good one, and Nance writes home to get her parents to send all the books they could spare and all they could induce ‘others to let them have. Nance and Matthew Adam go Christmas shopping in a neighboring town. On their return to Pine Ridge, Nance is amazed to see the Colum- bine residence all lit up, and asks Matthew if he knows why. He said: Let's go in and see. Then Nancy learns that she is ‘having her debut, but in a different setting than had been planned for her in Boston. Nancy's parents and friends gave their liberal support to her request for books, and a sizeable box arrived in due course. Father Adam painted a sign for the library, and the Adam boys worked on the shelves for the books and decorations to make the room look presentable. Now Go On With The Story. CHAPTER XVI. March “came“in like a lamb,” and continued lamb-like for so long that Nancy hung her fur coat at the very back of her closet, and concluded that spring had come. It was on one of these rare days when Aurora, deep in an orgy of housecleaning, ordered the girl emphatically to “clear out,” that Nance decided to test the woodland trail to the hilltop where she had gone with Matthew three months before; and reaching the summit, dropped breathless at the foot of the old pine. She had wanted to go out to the Adam ranch that morning, but it was “library day,” and Mary Taylor, who would have taken her place be- hind the desk, was visiting in Pueblo. There was nothing to do but stay at home, and this was the sort of weather that made one long to “go Somewhere”—surely too fine a day to remain indoors. So here she was, gazing off at that marvelous picture, with Pike's Peak looking only about & mile away; and at her feet a clump of Colorado anemones like those Matt had brought her from the ranch last week. Nance wished that Aunt Judy, who so loved flowers, was here to see them. Suddenly it struck the girl as un- believable that she should be two thousand miles from home, alone on a hilltop under a pine that had (as Matthew Adam pointed out), viewed things that were part of the history of her country. If only this wonder- ful old tree could talk! Why, it had stood here in silence and watched that Indian and his boy approach the lonely cabin where a small Colorado Columbine was rapturously enjoying her first Christmas tree! Did it tug at its sturdy roots in an effort to send forth a warning? mused Nance whimsically; and then said aloud: “But I'd never have had these thoughts if Matt hadn’t put them fn- to my head, perhaps. He's a queer boy—Matt Adam—so awfully shy most of the time, and such a riot when he forgets himself. I never Saw any one just like him. Mark’s bright as a dollar, and one can have Perfectly grand times with him; but there are days when TI like his brother even more. Somehow Matt makes you want to protect him, he’s so sensitive. And in that Tux the night of my—” Nance started, blushing as red as ever the approaching Matthew had. He smiled and apologized: “Sorry I .| Scared you. Thought maybe you saw the truck bumping along the road down there. I caught a glimpse of an orange tam and made a guess that you'd be under it. Mother wants you for supper; and Dad has prom- ised to fry chickens if you'll come.” “Does the invitation include Cousin Columbine?” asked Nancy as the young man dropped to the ground beside her. “Of course. You can ride back with Luke when he gets the milk cans this afternoon.” “That's grand,” smiled Nance. “How did your mother know that I was crazy to go out to the ranch to- day?” “She didn’t. It's a farewell ban- quet for yours truly. I’m swapping jobs with Mark to-morrow. Uncle Tom needs some one a while longer, and Mark is fit to tie at missing so much of your society. He called Mother up this morning with a pathetic story which she fell for in- stantly, and proceeded to point out the fact that it was my duty to re- lieve him. Jack’s going to drive me to Prairie Ranch to-morrow, and come home with Mark. I hope to thunder I'll be back in another week.” “I hope so too,” returned Nance sweetly; “but it’s been wonderful for Jack, having this chance ot stay with you people. I didn’t dream your uncle would be laid up so long.” “Neither did Mark,” laughed Mat- thew, “or it would have required even more persuasion to make him go! But it was Uncle Tom who fixed things so Dad and Mother could Marry when they did, and they'd lend him anything from their sons to their last copper. Say, Nancy, haye—have you decided when you're going East?” “I wrote Dad yesterday that I though we ought to stay till June. There are such a lot of things we want to see, Matt; and goodness knows if we'll ever come again.” “Of course you will! What makes you say a thing like that? Why— why if I thought . . .” He didn’t finish the sentence; and Nance said demurely: “It’s nice of you to want us to return! And we're going to miss you Adams a whole lot. That's straight, Matt. Yet I can’t help wondering if when we once get home again this—well, the whole experience, won't seem almost like a dream. If you knew how I dreaded to come! I was scared out of my senses. You've no idea what an awful coward I am,” “Was, perhaps,” Matthew correct- ed gravely. Nance threw him a little smile; then her face sobered. “I’m not so sure the past tense is correct, Matt. Sometimes I think my courage has never been tested, and wonder how I’d show up in a pinch. It was pride that made me consent to come out here—that is, mostly pride. I wanted to help Dad, of course. We all did. But I’d never have come alone, Matt. I’m no hero- ine.” “I beg to disagree with you, lady. Jack says you never whimpered at giving up that glorious debut.” The girl raised her head in sheer surprise. “He did?” Matthew nodded. “Your kid brother thinks the world of you, Nancy. Didn't you know it?” Nauce pondered that. “I knew Jack was fond of me, of course; but when I hesitated about coming to Colorado he—he called me a parlor ornament, and—” Matt laughed, his eyes shining as his mother's had when Nance first saw her. “What's the disgrace in being ornamental so long as you're some- thing else besides? Look at our lib- rary, Miss Aladdin! Honestly, Nance, Dad says he doesn't know any one who's accomplished so much in a Thousands of housewives find Gillett’s Pure Flake Lye saves hard rubbing and scrubbing in dozens of messy cleaning chores, Quickly cleans and disinfects toilets, sinks, garbage pails, In- FREE BOOKLET: The Gillett’s Lye Booklet shows you how this powerful cleanser and disinfectant takes the hard work out of houso clean- ing. Also full inf< It disinfects and banishes odors, too— stantly frees clogged drain pipes from obstructions. 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Wheeler, were describéd by him before the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House, London, the other day. Three distinct sites had been excavated, he said. In the first he had found Neo- lithic pits filled with pottery of simple design, resharpened flint axes and other weapons. They had also cut into the site of a Neolithic village of about 2000 B.C. For the next fif- teen centuries the site was without human occupation, owing to water shortage experienced on nearly all highlands of Europe. In the second excavation they cut across a bank re- inforced with a pallisade of one-foot timbers and a ditch fifty feet wide and thirty feet deep. They discovered twelve or fifteen hearths at different levels in the ditch filling. “On this site we found seventy-six Iron Age pits, used for dwellings, cooking and storage,” Dr. Wheeler said. 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