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CoMFORT _ .
His Red, White and Blue Girl!
Holiday Story Cyclus—No.7—by Joseph f Novak
. Copyright, 1918, by W. H. Gannett, Publisher, Inc,
CHAPTER I.
“One flag, one land, one beast one bana,
One Nation evermore,’
. Oliver Wendel
. of the G8 “snip Union,
sansats, may I ask a favor of
you?
Miss ora’ Swayne, in an
extravagant kimono, came into
. parlor, and after
~s tehing little. nod to her
caller, she plunged Tito the mintter which was
the pibiest of bis early morning cal
e returned gallantly, “it‘is cust
tor me'to do favors for gou and
be thus allowed. Therefore, why do y
euch a timid maner?”
“Because, Marshall, it is a favor that I fancy | _
f a er not grant. Mrs, Buford bas
en denly called ‘upon to entertain Sir Rich-
Deed
omary
feel ey to
ik in
ard n, or a short
Sropting, ‘eroise for. tamerrons aed for a dunce
at the yacht club io the evening. She wishes
ra g,
Hee ee Sour Fourth
the jads of the village bee ‘and that I was
chaperon, as it were. She said that she knew
you wouldn't mind postponing the affair for a
day, 80 t we'd accept her, tn vita-
tion. eally
ised tha
You wr postpone i won't you? I
.HIB SOON REAPPEARED, CLUTCHING TAB HALE
DROWNED, MUCH SCARED. BOY.
: date to ask you, but: ” and her _Folce trailed
off into silence.
Marshall Searles lookea up at her, with clear,
~ frank eyes, in which indignation was now slowly
kindling. ’ Adora bad never seen him: angry,
. nor did she expect to see him grow so. now.: Nor
did she, though he was periiously near to St.
moi said, almost disdainfuliy,
wet w Who ts this Sir Richard Molton,
~ Buford presi ee
enta ith a en be is he 1
vhost Bsten se roast Welt Y for, one,
“fa 1 do not intend to alsappoint my
0
- "It isn’t capitan them, Marshall.” Adora
interrupted, for. saw that he would not be
,, easily shaken; ae ws just postponing their pleas-
ure ai gives them nty-four hours
. more to think. aout the glorious time coming.”
“Well, the fifth isn’t the Fourth of
vs. July, and never can can only say, Adora
that Sir Richard's veoming is not going ‘to spoil
sy plang for TOW.
ra rather cruise with Mrs.
“But Marshal
ou?” be asked, with hurt in bis voice,
of f July
Bufor:
” outa
“Very well then, Adora, I'll release you from
out engagement to £0 with the Jads and myself
jomorrow.
“Noe 't you postpone the affair?” ©
0.
cd you won't he, ange ye
oo. WARE yo" AWhy ‘should 1 ‘bet
2 Td insist on haying you keep
» [With me, when I know it would be kept Jo une
Willing “spirit? Cancel. insiet when 1 ee
Tholethaught is to be included in Mrs, Butord's
lastly, when you tell me you'd pre.
fer the cruise, can I do, otherwise? There's noth:
ing to be avgry abou
fouive ‘stated three excellent reasons that
ould be good cause for anger. | But Marshall,
dear, sou know Eve e boating, canoeing, and
3" you <0. many times that, 1” think
Yn gated to Be excused. this
“Well, haven't excused your” be asked, bis
yoice ente, for he knew she had been unushally
Do you think
our engagement
but somehow 1_ don't feel
right ih ieaning Viiyself_ of your kindness. » No}
if you'd Just be a Uttle vexed, provoked oF angry’
Yd feel as if Tw easure punished for
polling your pi Jat Marshall, af I can set
off your neeppeiatnen by making some arrange-
ment for a frolic or excursion of som
the futur
“Don’t b Adora, It isn’t my nature to
accept Daina for’ little sacrifices.
ow I've spotled | your “Fourth. of Joly
party, but reall t help it. and I thiol
you could oblige
“I suppose 1 ough ie to, Adora, but I can’t dis-
appoint the lads, if it is only a matter of post.
ponement. Why, the day after, their Fourt of
uly spirit will have fled, And’ then too, I don’t.
care particularly about meeting Bir Richard ;
there will be other opportunity nity.
sorry because I won’t have you herp me enter-
tain the boys. Tive told them of the ‘Red, White,
* and Blue ‘Lady’ who was to recite war-time
poems and sing. war-time Songs for them. I told
them of the gown you were Fol ng to wear, and
tat Ya, wear my uniform. They'll be so disap-
pointed.’
“Well, Marshall, why not ask someone of the
gther. as “there gre rafts of ‘them who would
be ie and recite, and Ww who would fy
at ie Sitter ay oa laying. bape ero)
Hbanks for the couipliment. “Jour words imply.
but In eleventh hour e1 ements.”
He wal s burt ‘8 think that fae Should want
in’
Well, what affair of his, it, he con-
tinued, in thought. She was not engaged to him
“and eould he expect Adora. who was belle of the
fashionable summe ony known as “Dell-
Rocks By-The-Sea” to be away rom the social
whirl the coming of Sir Richard Molton would
erento? Nay.
he was sorry to see in ber, the woman in.
stinet to worship a
girl was talent Detore the unmeant rebuke.
Marsbell. tee eeling tbat the interview was over,
king up bis sachting cap, which
ed to
the bored
Cottage on tbe beac!
the head ore ‘the. stairs he stopped, and
crossin his wind-tanned arms (for he was in en
dephab ie, heving rowed over from his hotel) he
“I don’t
ant you to enjoy yourself, and forget that
Jou had & previous engagement’ with me. Perhapa
ought to oblige, you, and yet 1 cannot disap-
le, I beg your
point my boys.
par
she went back alge the cottage,
CHAPTER U.
Pop! Pop! BANG! BANG! BANG! ROOM! t
~These sounds’ greeted | Marshall Sea on
awakening the next mornin ng. dt mis ene, but
9.80 clot and the young man, after awaken
ime “lay ‘Iuxuriously.idie. in_bis
ie in "his room Jo the hotel, from which place,
he, seaward, could see the ocean with its fasel | t
at it”
bring. - A little ‘isapholniimeat, of course, Dat he
determined to b it ‘show it before his
boys, Jest: it spoil fhetr pieneure which was to
be a full day’s ride in launch on the ocean,
and a atepiay ot Sheworks in the night.
Near the be ma chair lay bis yniform and
AZ
that be employed In war time
Gays at the reveille of the bugle.
Dressed, he stepped to the ‘Window and looked
Far down the pier, be
DI
dpon him until be espied a
away the time by feuenine of crackers, Then be
smiled again, and descended to the dining-room,
blithe); test “Yankee Doodle” to the ner-
yous several dowagers already dis-
Jone em tneir morning sleep by the booming
of explosives.
Breakfast dispensed with, be picked up the
newspaper and read until fee Bour neared, elgat
was to mee Then he lef
the hotel and strolled cwrard the wharf, gradual
ly gathering In bis followers who axed upol
bim in his uniform in undisguised admiration.
He greeted them jovially. then, they all clam:
e he man had been
ingrinto order, “We was, gay
punting, In holiday array.
He admonished the jads to. hurry, for he
wish 0 push off before Mrs. Burora’s yacht
did. o hing, haste and admeni-
nicety of an
shall in his khaki, uniform and Jeggings and felt
hat, feol slovenly and w
was dress jeliclously cool lok-
at the knot.
dainty bue webich the sacies oh the. yachting arty
sported, Ador: silken flag
white and piue, wthe Saow Sot the morning was
In her brilliant cheeks; her blowing brown hair
under the bij made her altogether delight-
to Marshall and to the
the yacht.
and Blue Lady’
8
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She nodded pleasantl:
bogs, then went aboari
sn't the ‘Red, White
comin me with ‘as Se Sear es?” ane of the boy
sk 1 ‘know you said she
P thouene maybe she was sick?
better longside 0” you, “cause you'd mi
je, you
with your, soldier suit ‘and she with
ail that atl ioe stuff.
“Weil, Bi
, Miss ‘Adora has seen St to make
. of “excuse ‘her
“But who's going to tell us all them nice
po'ms *hout Fourth of July?’ he persisted.
“Why, we'll have to cut them out, but Dll
try and’ make it up by, telling you war stories.”
thi a | be grand 2”
be “Ail low, are we all ready? All
aboa’
With'a grand hurrah, the launch slowly moved
of midst tbe ferric crashing, of glant crackers,
which, tossed ii founta’
of spray. ‘The Sboutlog Gud racket and bangiog
of exploding crackers kept up as the launc
with er proudly floating flags swept with steady
swaying into the sunglade shimmering on the
ace
‘Ail morning tbe merry launch sped over the
water, sometimes dashing far out into the ocean,
again’ hugging the shore, or exploring bays and
Iniets, Now and then the happy party, disen-
barked, bad glorious pow-wows, attacks, battles,
Marshall Heading them in their boyish sports.
hey dined gloriously witho ut a
thought. to ‘proper Blending off
none the worse for They
wits singing of the “Star Spangled
“Dixie” while the phonograph vied with them
in keeping up the bul
wished to arin from Marsh all’ canteen
which bad gone through tb they huzzahed
him as he told stories of ‘the patties, in whieh
pe. ha i been, and pre ch he, assured them that
pades were not acts o hae st bravery,
bait the, lads any. ‘realized et at aby man who
fights for ‘hts with his whole
Sool ie ag. much a She ‘who performs
the jpreatest of deeds,
gazed upon their hero, as he, coatless,
hatless SS, with he breeze tearing through bis bait,
detailed vividly the adventu’ he had
and of his affrays in the Phillipines,
And so the afternoon wore on, the hou:
nearing Tour, and the launch was. again beaded
foware Dell- ell Rocks By en The: Sea Over, fhe ote 7
he sh
through the rolling Serralls. tnd Muplatterine, me
spray against the wind shield, leaving in ber
now bove into
wake, ste white-capped tra
acht, 3
ytew, fer e ocean, and
at whitesalled
‘eat boom pping ig in’
T'was not long ere sath 8 recomntzea it as that
of Mrs. Buford. It w ig at a steady pace,
and continually gaining.”
race it!” exclaimed several of the
don’t think we can, boys,” Marshall sald,
Met ie she overtakes: us, we'll ive three rousing
‘He “hardly wished to be observed by thos
aboard the yacht, for he felt te, was Seareely
an object of beauty. His bat b
face felt coated with salted spray, his bair' was
Inds.
7 commer gir}
of missing this and the th of other
August. Renew your Saboetintie
comes is 298 or less. Use the ‘coupon, on pege
F|ef youth,
‘y from the wi He was coatless, “bts army
kaki trousers were So solamhed with spray and here
apd there with grease.
The great yacht was speedily gaining and it
a matter of a few moments now when
nes, wave your fags ay
if charging the enemy, ana yell” three good
cheera,” Marshall Inetructed, “dad just as she
acl nes us, Jet us sing the ‘Star Spangled Ban-
newith bogish votces, fred with the patriotism
ey shouted out the inspiring chorus:
en conquer we must
When our cause it Js Just
And this is our mott
‘In ‘God Ww
‘And the Star, pauica Banner
In triumph shall
ger the | Land of tbe ‘Pree
the home of the Brave!”
From the yacht came’ the clapping of hands,
and as it slid alongside, came jazziing smiles
while the men 8 Shonted + Fave ls
he bo
ree cheers and tixer for the
and aii 1 aboard ber. Hurrah! Hurrah!
Sir
They selled lustily. At that juncture,
Richard “Molton came to the starboard” side.
Adora was with him,
“Now, boys, three ‘cheers for Sir Ricbard Mer
ton,” Searles’ cried, and they gave them
pirlt, secompanied with afrantie wa waving. ot fen
—just how it h: -kn news
There "came a scream {rom Ador es tur
about and beheld a small strug; sing, ‘ture in the
water, One of the lads in his exelteroent, had
stood up,
8
and, toppled over into the water.
Searles sam e
Quicl
neh, the next moment be had dived over the
raltog, and Lisappe'
conpesred, clutching a very, wet, half
arevoea. ry) much scared young patriot, who,
in eplte of everything, was still clinging ‘to bis
fi ver in a moment, he had the splutter-
tng, cougtine boy in'the launch in no time, none
oe worse for his di
f and ate he it around
arewell and tn
Searles’ cheeks bur: elt that the rescue
pad been @ rather ridiculous. performance.
fie sent the launch with. vengeful speed, send:
ding over the waves, so fast that its sides were
almost on a level with the water.
clubhouse reached, the
articular room where they w: washed up, and lat-
erly partook of the lunch p r be
after which they sat out on th re piaz
et lubhouse overlooking the ocean, w' ile the might
slowly fe:
Searles bad changed bis clothes, he now wore
summer flannels, a dark blue coat and yachting
cap. “He wandered, somewhat restlessly up an
down the piazza. he Io
faller, more stern and less the jovial fellow of
the afternoon, for his boyish mood was gone, re-
Placed by that of the, man.
Perhaps the 3 aimiy"r realized this, for o one
observed covertly. Yo anot
Searles seems Kinder blue-like.
ugh, and Seartes an-
nobnced that they would take to the. launch
gain. Timothy was to manage the engine, so
Searles sat with the lads and watched the ‘dis-
acht-club.
little distance from
¢ clubhouse, and it was not long ere the won-
dertol display began. Searles had hired a man
from the city to bring down a magnificent lot of
pyrotechnics, and the sma}l lads now watched,
ld reac!
sat beside Searles, oted the faraway look
in that young man’s eves, noted bis seeming stern
let.
“Mr. vaain't you feeling
el? is wondering if maybe you - wasn’t
Bick because you had to Jump into the water to
et me, and’ then you sat
2
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3
Searles,” be whispered,
a sped Jovially.
sick,” he returned. “I don’t mind
an Sceasional. ducking. But jf I seem to be guiet,
why it is just because I'm listening to the music.
t it beautiful?” and he directed the attention
‘ami
ft the lads to. the musie from
orchestra witht the clubbouse, softly yet clea: "i
e water in the midst of the bursting Spr
fap bombs.
They little suspected that his heart was with-
: Fam: . :
HIS ACTION CAUSED THE FLAG TO DRAPE GRACB-
FULLY ABOUT THEM,
io “the clubhouse, that for thelr sakes he was
Senying | himself f great pleasi
the eveniog "he chatted w:
the | Tada, a tnen tow ard ten o'clock he brought thon
ashore, and with soldierly step. they marched
ck to the village and dispersed’ to their homes.
For comerime then, Searles sat upon the beach,
dreaming. wer the ocean, jittle gleams of
[™
vw
lightning broke, portending a storm
From the clubhouse the soft musie continued
“The Summer Man and His Nymph”
d will appear complete i in Avguet COMFORT. It isa bewitel
‘ie summer reso: tnd them are t!
s the che characters the young coll
iry fairy of the Iake, Take no chance
oe ma Mi id Summer Short Story COMFORT in
0 if ibgoamber ai above 90 your mame on the wrapper in which this paper
to come invitingly. It stirred bis soul. Then b
decided to go to ihe dance. It w ‘s. Butord’s
affair, while she might be provoked with
bim for not attending the cruise, yet he knew he
could, by tantalizing flattery, win ber over.
@ affair was informal, and summer flannels
seemed to be the tog, so that he was quite in
as
*Thoe gaiered the ‘ballroom over which a patriotic
wave had 61 ‘The favors had been given out,
tbe: tonained “of faxes,
of the other girls.
ever, in in, veptevof of rine tact that Siriicbard. fol-
low:
But vyhen the "saw Searles, she smiled and
podded bright)
I'm not making up a card,” she fi ‘but 5
promise to dance with, Oo, “ibe
finished as the music commenced.
‘Some chap approached ber, clamoring for the
dance, “Your ‘da nee 1" sbe quer! red. “Why, real-
to that enchanting two-
ced
ste Jamestown Dixie,” and when it wae fin-
ished, they stepped to the plaza and away from
the Test of, the, guests. i
“1 enjoyed ‘the dance very much, Adora,
Searles beenn.
~What Sta you think 0b me tor fosisting on
dancing with as 2 oe must bate me,
but realy J ad, to T want to know
en me for desert.
manner I di
a
hher You reall have ‘in give
party in tbe shamful m
aye you ueveruny th that At would be all
I your art
env
into the launch safely, could 1
that, I had to stand for ine guying of a fellow
| a4 he stopped for his disgust ‘and humiliation
Ghok
“I know bow you
felt," she returned.
the lad tumbled into. tbe water. Sir Rie bard
never moved an eyel:
was no more than 1 could pect.
Iam rather glad it all happened as it did, for
She hesitated, and as he looked at ber with
tae Jook she ‘do loved, she ‘sald low
wee
1 hardly think i gare to feave, the pro
tection of this,”” and Grew the silken flag's
folds, more closely ‘about ber,
‘n you medn you want an American chap
to take care. of you.
“Yes.” and her votes grew low.
“And cao. 1 be that man?’ he cried, as he
gausht her hand which clasped a corner of the
“Yes, Marshall.”
White and Blue Girl", he
breathed rap
turously.
His ‘action ‘caused the fag to. drane prac
about them. It was & beautiful table
en, as their lips met
ouilte, ap! rope late! ly float 3.11 p= my
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