h or sad
or mean to try to forget." He held out his hand and gave Johnnie's
fingers a good grip.

With Mr. Perkins gone home to Cis, Johnnie stayed beside the wheel
chair. Those yellow-gray eyes were still burning with earnestness, and
the bright head, haloed by its hair, was held high. Dusk had deepened
into dark. As he looked into the shadows by the hall door, he seemed to
see a face--his father's. A moment, and he saw the whole figure, as if
it had entered from the hall. It was supporting that other, and more
slender, figure.

"I'm your son," he told them. "I'm twelve, and I know what y' both want
t' see me do. It's stick t' my job. It'll be awful hard sometimes, and
I'll hate it. But I'm goin' t' try t' be jus' as brave as you was."

It seemed to him that his father smiled then--a pleased, proud smile.

At that, Johnnie straightened, his heels came together, and he brought
his left arm rigidly to his side. Then he lifted his right to his
forehead--in the scout salute.

THE END

=_Novels for Cheerful Entertainment_=

* * * * *

GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT

_By Joseph C. Lincoln_

_Author of "Shavings," "The Portygee," etc._

The whole family will laugh over this deliciously humorous novel, that
pictures the sunny side of small-town life, and contains love-making, a
dash of mystery, an epidemic of spook-chasing--and laughable, lovable
Galusha.

THESE YOUNG REBELS

_By Frances R. Sterrett_

_Author of "Nancy Goes to Town," "Up the Road with Sally," etc._

A sprightly novel that hits off to perfection the present antagonism
between the rebellious younger generation and their disapproving elders.

PLAY THE GAME

_By Ruth Comfort Mitchell_

A happy story about American young people. The appealing qualities of a
brave young girl stand out in the strife between two young fellows, the
one by fair the other by foul means, to win her.

IN BLESSED CYRUS

_By Laura E. Richards_

_Author of "A Daughter of Jehu," etc._

The quaint, quiet village of Cyrus, with its whimsical villagers, is
abruptly turned topsy-turvy by the arrival in its midst of an actress,
distractingly feminine, Lila Laughter; and, at the same time, an
epidemic of small-pox.

HELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE

_By Harold Bell Wright_

Wright's greatest novel, that presents the life of industry to-day, the
laughter, the tears, the strivings of those who live about the smoky
chimneys of an America