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The feature that saved the young fellow's face froray eyes, whose steady, fearless look seeleam of humour

Pinkey listened, with the disciplined patience of the army, to the recital of the exploit that had won the War Cross for hiht eyes As S, stiffened by a un bullet, over the horse's neck and sat sideways

The applause was so vociferous, so spontaneous and hearty, that nothing approaching it ever had been heard at The Colonial But it stopped as suddenly, for in the h the air like a flying-squirrel, to bowl the Smith boy over "You said you wouldn't tell about that 'Craw de gare,' ner call ly, as he sat astride of hirown-up folks, and I don't like to be laughed at Sorry, Big Boy, but you got this coed his host's head on the gravel

The tere surrounded when this astonishing incident was over and it was found that not only was the Smith boy not injured but seeuests shook hands with the boys and congratulated them; they examined the War Cross that Pinkey produced reluctantly from the botto, and finally Mr Appel presented the purse in a speech to which nobody listened--and the Save five of it to the driver of the laundry wagon

"I was shore pinin' to step in the middle of a horse," was Pinkey's explanation of their eccentric arrival "It kinda restshis leet close, he welcomed the S enough to learn that the latter and Helene Spenceley knew each other

Nobody, however, was interested in seeing his roses Even Miss Mattie Gaskett, who always clung like a burr to woollen clothing with the least encouragement, said carelessly when he showed her the leed over to hear what Pinkey was saying

There was nothing to do but withdraw unobtrusively, though Wallie realized with chagrin that he could have gone upstairs on his hands and knees without attracting the least attention For the first tiht had kept hi war crosses in the trenches instead of rolling bandages and knitting socks and sweaters