Colonel Hathaway's residence. These girls were prepared to work, and work diligently, under the leadership of Mary Louise,

ing pajamas and pillows for the Red Cross, and that's also an admirable thing to do. But our duty lies

buy bonds?" asked little Laura Hilto

gave her a

annot refuse us. We've all been loaded to the brim with arguments, if arguments are necessary, but we have

rlow, earnestly, "we're wasting

e all here, in this big box, and the banners are standing in the hal

s running from waistband to hem, a "Godess of Liberty" cap and white canvas shoes. Attired in this fashion, the "Liberty Girls," as they had dubbed themselves, presented a most attrac

e individually responsible. Each one knows what she is expected to do. Let no one escape. If any man claims to have already bou

treets of Dorfield. But on the way they had sold old Jonathan Dodd, who happened to be in the car and was overawed by the display of red-white-

pproving eyes. They were pretty girls, all of them, and their silken costumes were really becoming. The patriots gazed admiringly; the more selfish ci

n the corner and made inquiry

determined to make the Dorfield people do their full duty. May we depend upon your bank

inly look fascinating, if you're a fair sample of the others, and I don't see how anyone can refuse to back u

ional colors and bearing her banner, was a sign of conquest, for it seemed to these busy men as if Uncle Sam himself was backing t

e argument was generally effective, and when she had smilingly pinned the bond button on a man's coat and passed on to interview others, she left him wondering why he had bought more bonds than he ever had intended to, or even provoked with himself that he had subscribed at all. These were

was still running in its accustomed grooves. They could not take the European war to themselves, nor realize that it might sweep away their prosperity, their liberties-even their homes. Fear had not yet been aroused; pity for our s

their cheeks rosy from successful effort. Their individual sales varied, of course, for some were more tactful and wi

hree hours' work, but it's not enough to satisfy us. We must put in a busy afternoon and try to get a total of at least one hundred thousand by to-nigh

, for already they had gained confidence in the

he first visited the big flour mill, where she secured an int

at and the absurd activities of Hoover. We stand to operate at a loss or else shut down altoget

it better to lose a little now, for the sake of future winnings, than to sacrifice the past and future and be reduced to pove

t the girl in amazement. She was rath

that," he said, less gruffly. "You'll hav

mocracy, and would not allow herself to feel annoyed. She devoted three-quarters of an hour to Mr. Chisholme, who gradually thawed in her genial sunshine. She finally sold him fifty thousand dollars worth of Liberty Bonds and went on her way elated. The regular Bond Committee had

tofore resisting all appeals, bought from Mary Louise bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand; the Denis Hardware Company took ten thousand. Then M

advise you to get into more respectable business. My money is mine; it doesn't belong to the Allies, and they won't get a cent of it." He was getting more angry as he proceeded in his harangue. "Moreover," he continued, "our weak administration can't u

the time were Professor John Dyer, the superintendent of Dorfield's schools, and the Hon. Andrew Duncan, a leading politician, a forme

administration and o

appearance. He wore double eyeglasses, underneath which his eyes were somewhat watery. The smile upon his

ew Duncan who answer

he in stilted, pompous tones, "is that our friend Herring unwisely voices his prote

e American people are loyal to their President. There may

er, scowling, and he swung his cha

if you keep talking that

ningly. "Your threats, young lady, a

buy goods of Mr. Herring if he knew him to be disloyal in this, our country's greatest crisis? And t

owed, broken by the Professor, who

erring is a loyal American, with America's best interests at heart, but he does not regard our present national activities as leniently as we do. I have been endeavoring, in my humble way, to change his attitude of mind," here Herring swung around and looked a

grocer's stern face. The Hon. Andrew wa

can put me down for a hundred dollars more. We must support our country in every possible way, with effort, with

as to how much of my meagre salary I can afford to spen

ese offers. "It isn't like risking the money; it's a

ng of that. I'm a poor man, as you probably know, but what I have is a

purchasing a liberal share of bonds. Then I can forget your dreadful words. Then I can carry to everyone the news that you've made a splendid investment in Liberty Bonds. Even if you honestly think the administration has be

im, despite her efforts to smother those feelings in the cause of Liberty. Then Herring looked at Professor Dyer, who st

his mahogany desk. Then he reached for his check-book and with

elp keep our flag waving, as the Professor suggests. When we've won our war-and of course we shall win-there will be a day of

t as she glanced at the check she saw it was for ten thousand dollars, and that meant sinews of war-help for our soldiers and our allies. She co

t, as he is very wealthy, but he is an obstinate man and it is a triumph for our sacred cause that he was induced to buy at all. Yo

ds," suggested Mary Louise. She di

But as he watched her depart, there was a queer expression