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To be absolutely safe and to obta" ist GfW&* >° be absolutely sate and to oDTain ', ' C just the desired shade, always insist WW < upon genuine Hopkins Rajah Brand ( Egyptian Henna. Egyptian Henna. J. L. HOPKINS & CO. Dept. H 220 Broadway, New York small cousin Timothy, the pretty new bonnet on her head and everyone's eyes straying towards it. And afterwards when she sat on the women's side of the house and the preacher singled her and her pretty new bonnet for the close of the sermon she realized with a little shock at her own boldness that she was only amused. Once she would have been ashamed. Now she thought only how Roger would laugh in hearing it. "Speaking of Satan," the Reverend Parris' words came in slow deliberation, "I must also bid ye beware of women who bedeck themselves with ribbons, curls, and silk bonnets, thus causing men's minds to wander. I say that a female who would fritter away her time trimming and tricking herself out in such fashion should be looked upon as the very gizzard of a trifle, the epitome of nothing and a very apt prey of the devil !" Strange how things couldn't reach her any more! Strange how that one meeting could have changed her forevermore. And then she looked out of the window and saw she could be fearful after all, for Roger was hiding behind a tree close to the meeting-house begging her in pantomime to come to the cabin. Frantically she nodded she would and motioned him away before he should be seen. She did not hear the talk about witchcraft that held the others when Bilge the village drunkard told them of the tall man he had seen, wrapped up in a cloak tbat could only belong to Satan, hiding behind the trees so close to the House of God itself. For Barbara stopped only long enough to ask her aunt if she could take Jeremiah what was left of the cold chicken before she was on her way to the cabin. Her eyes glowed as she watched the two eat and talk of the state they both loved, and it wasn't until Jeremiah had left them alone that she found the voice to speak. "It must be very gay in Virginia." The words came wistfully. "We make it gay !" Roger laughed. "We've a saying there : 'When danger lurks around the corner, you must dance the safe moments away.' " "Dance?" The word was such a shocking one to Puritan ears that Barbara was appalled at the little thrill it gave her saying it after him. "Have you never danced?" Roger looked at her pityingly. "The cotillion! The gavotte ?" "The very names sound frivolous," Barbara sighed, "but nice !" There was nothing for it but Roger should teach her and though at first she was aghast at her own temerity in dancing and on the Sabbath day, too, she found it did not seem so sinful after all, feeling the touch of his hand on hers, warming her heart to his eyes and his smile. So that night with the moonlight streaming in through her window she needs must dance again, imagining him there with her, imagining that touch of his on her hand, and his smile. Whirling and curtseying as he had taught her and so intent on her little game that she did not know the door had opened until Timothy spoke. And when the child asked her what she was doing, it was easy to say that one word, 'dancing,' though only yesterday it was one that would have frightened her in the saying of it, and when he puckered his forehead "in bewilderment and asked why she was curtseying she said gaily, "That's a curtsey to my partner. Oh, he's such a handsome young man, Timothy!" "But I don't see him." The boy's eyes widened. "You're not supposed to," she laughed, and then suddenly the laugh was gone and Grace Bradley greets her homeland on arrival from England, where she appeared in a new film. she put her arms around him. It was on the day the village was raising the preacher's new house that she saw Roger again. She had not thought it would be so soon but she was glad when she met him on her way and after that it did not seem to matter that her tardiness might be noticed with Roger laughing with her and the two of them clambering up into a tree when they saw the cowherd ambling along the meadows with his charges. Different this time, too, from all the other times, hiding there in that secret leafy little world, so close that every move they made meant that their hands or shoulders must touch and with the new confusion coming when they found their lips so near. "I'm fast learning how it feels to be a fugitive," Barbara said at last, "hiding in trees and tumbling down hills at every sign of danger. Will it always be like this for you?" "I suppose I could send a petition to their Majesties, asking them to pardon me." "Could you?" she asked eagerly. "To King William, to Queen Mary? What would you say?" "Now if I were talking to the King, man to man over our pipes and ale, I'd say, 'William, can't you and I come to a fair and square understanding? 'Tis no great sport being a fugitive from injustice. You see there's a young lady in the case. Just put yourself in my place, William. Suppose you were chased out of London and had to hide at Dover by the sea. You'd miss your Mary, wouldn't you? I'm not saying a word against Mary, but the young lady I have in mind is the most fascinating, twinkling, dark-eyed maid that ever took an honest man's breath away. 'Tis monstrous that I should not be free to see her and tell her what's racing through my mind.' " He leaned closed. "Now whisper," he begged. "What would you say to that petition ?" "I'd say I could not refuse you," Barbara whispered, and then she was in Roger's arms and his mouth found her and the world ended and began again. And later when Barbara took stock of time once more and Roger had jumped to the ground and pulled her down beside him that kiss was still on her lips as she hurried away. It was on the shore road that she met Dr. John and he dismounted from his horse and helped her up to the pillion behind him, and so it was that they rode to the house-raising together and so it was that Martha saw them, and her jealousy flared to a passion it had never known before. ■L HOPKINS RAJAH BRAND m EGYPTIAN ■ HENNA