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'GOOD! IT SHORE WILL \, BE A RELIEF, NOT THAVE THAT YOLING NITWIT UNDER (3. FOoOoT, MYSTE SYNOPSIS: When Chink Dercon kills “Spider” Schlite, Jchn Waye, who has pledged the dcath of both, alone, ex- cept for the killer, knows the soret. Gloating at his revenge he places besid> the body of Schlitz a confeczion bearing the name of Dorscn .Thus is be- gun the executicn of a ven- geance born when “Limey Doc” Simen, alias Charters, Gun- man Gryde, Schlitz and Dorson kidnaped his daughtor and gave her up, dying, after he had paid as ransom his family dia- mond and other gems. Mr. and Mre. William, Waye’s detec- By Percival Christapher Wren: fim SEVEN NIG WAYE suis vuisy some one cther than myseil. Gradually I thought less of ven- geance, murder and destruction, and more of help and salvation; less and less of the affairs of the wretched John Dacte Waye Van- derleur St. Clair, and more and more of those of Marjorie Lauder- dell. If I helped her to happiness, she brought to me that which I had never expected to know again— peace, and that joy and happiness which only peace can bring. The change in me was, of course, ! almost imperceptible, but the day {dawned when I realized that I | was no longer waiting at The Mon- tives, are pretended patients in \asl:ry in the role of avenger, but Simen’s home, where Waye hides and overhears Simon plotting with a woman to kill a patient, Marjorie, who re- oombles Waye's daughter. Re- ccvering a message which the weman has handed the doc- tor, Waye reads thereon the figure 10,000—pricc of the girl’s life. Chapter 41 LOVE'S ALCHEMY Of my sojourn in that excellent and extremely well-run Nursing- Home, The Monastery, I have not $pace, time nor desire to tell, for I wish to write not of myself, but of Marjorie—of Marjorie who now came into my life and altered it and me. Not intentionally: not by thing she did, but by being Jorie. I saved her life my soul my real self . . . Marjorie, the child whom, for 30 Rieces of silver—or 10,000 pieces of gold—this dog would have betrayed to a cruel death. Marjorie, in complete ignorance, any- but she saved and so without a word of remon-| . strance, exhortation, or admon- ition, and merely by boing Mar- Jorie, worked this miracle, this epiritual alchemy, slowly changed a Dbitter, cruel murderous and vengeful savage back into a de- ceni human being. She changed a seared and brand- ed convict—a man who was l2ss a an than a vengeance incarnate— z;ck into, at least, the semblance ©f what he once had been before * the blows of fate had bludgecned him to his knees, and stricken him down into the mire. " It is, I understand, a law of physical nature, that two things cannot cccupy the rame space at the same time. Mar- | | in that of protector and rescuer. | I was not biding my time, mere- {1y to choose the occasion for my vengeance, but waiting until the arrest and execution of Chink Dor- i son should leave me free to move | abok without fear of arrest—a very real fear, for my description had been broadcast by the police Ins that of a suspicious stranger who had hung about at Witherby | End, and had mysteriously disap- | peared by early train, immediately {after the murder. Possibly, even if arrested on suspicion and proved to have been in the house that night, T could | clear myself of the charge of mur- der, but I might as well be hanged as sent back to live a lingering death in the American prison from which T had escaped. i Once Chink Dorson was arri y | found guilty and hanged, I could ;(hcn set about effecting Marjorie's escape from her position of danger. ! For my own fate I cared little; | but what would be the child's fate if, escaping, I were arrested in her company, and she again fell into the clutches of that vile woman, her uncle's wife, and this viler man, | Charters? The moment that I saw Mar- Jorie, I loved her, because she was | my daughter Rosemary. Imperceptibly but, quickly my deep devoted love for her changed completely, and, while lcving ‘ther | —I fell in love with her. I can cxpress myself no better than that, and can make myself no clearer. ‘Women and men of undarstand- |ing will wnderstand, and, to oth- | ers, no word of mine could explain the change that gradually came | about. ! We had a meeting-place, a se- clud spot of our own among the It was soon, slowly but surely, ancient ruins that gave the Nurs- borne in upon my consciousness 108 Home its name; and there we that this law applies equally to would meet to compare notes and things of the spirit. | make plans. ’ I came to The Monastery with | It was this that first brought my soul, mean and small as it realization—in a flood of golden was, filled with thoughts of ven-|l!8ht, filling my soul with joy in- geance and murder. effable—for I soon found that, in- . Even in my better moments, when | Stead of approaching our trysting- 1 remembered that *‘Vengeance is place in the spirit of a father about Mine,” saith the Lord,” 1 again ar- 0 meet an adored daughter, I was gued that, for His vengeance, the 40ing co in the true spirit of a Lord must need a human instru- ment, and that I would be the in- strument. My mind was diseased, decadent, unsocial and destructive. ‘And now, gradually, almost from that hour, the subtle change be- gan, and in dual way. Not only had Rosemary come azain into my life in the form of Marjorie Lauderdell, reawakening the noblest of all human emotions, but, for the first time in many years, I was at last thinking of NN Distinctive EXCLUSIVE But Not EXPENSIVE - DEVLIN’S First and'Main Sts. i RN lover. Before long, I was like any boy- |ish lover who, after counting the minutes since the last meeting, goes | with trembling joy to see the face |to hear the voice, to touch the |hand, of her without whom the | world is naught. Yes, I loved Marjorie when I {saw her, and I fell in love with her {when I knew her—despeorately and hopelessly. Oh, Marjorie, Marjorie! never did you dream of it. ‘Who can love—and hate? What mind can be filled at the same moment with purest, most unselfish love—and with deepest, hlackest most hideous hate? Yet, although my own affairs now seemed but petty, the more I loved Marjorie the more I hated those who would injure her. That Charters and his foul son had done me the deadliest wrong was not now the reason for my wrath against them. It was be- cause of their intent to injure Mar- jorie that I hated thew:. Had I never seen Marjorie I would have killed them both in my own way and at my own time. Having fallen |in love with Marjorie, T would have abandoned my vengeance (far all | desire for it had died in me) ‘but | for their foul plot against her. | But no! In the very act of soft- |ening to foregiveness of them for | what they had done to Rosemary, | for filthy gold—what did I find? That they were again about ‘o de- stroy her. | For this plot was again an at- . And {tack upon my Rosmeary . . . Rose. | mary-Marjorie . . . my child, my heart’s desire, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931. If, for her preservation, thes: dogs must die, T would be their slayer. But in no spite of ven- geance for wrongs done to me. And so, ere long, my role com- pletely changed and I, who had come to kill, remained to save, though killing might well play a necessary part in saving. And these were anxious days in- deed, for there is mo anxiety to equal that which a lover feels on behalf of his beloved. It may be imagined that I lost no time in taking all possible steps to secure Marjorie's safety. To the utter bewilderment of the scoun- drels in whose power she was, I promptly revealed the incredible fact that I knew all about the plot even to the exact figures of the sum that was to be the price and reward of their villainy. 1 made it very clear to Charters that any injury to Marjorie would precede his arrest by the briefest space, and showed him that T knew enough of his past and his accom- plices to bring his present edifice of respectability crashing to the ground, and himself and them to the gallows. Naturally I was under no illu- sion that anything but my life stood between Marjorie and death, but, thank God, T had already, for my own personal ends, so arranged matters that about the most dan- gerous thing for themselves that Charters and his gang could do would be to put me out of ‘the way. Should 1 disappear, there were, as they knew only too well, at lea: \ LU? MYy STARS, SON. I THOUGHT POLLY REFUSED YE LAST NIGHT/ three people whosz immediate busi- ness in life would be to find out | what had become of me. | (Copyright, 1930, by Frederick Stokes Co.) A Out of the window! So Mon- day do the mysterious | prewlers go—but not o hopes. B iAlimony Clubs Crowding Britain’s Debtor Prisons LONCON, May 2. — Reports! show that about 12,000 debtors arc sent to priscn yearly in England. | Many are husbands un | pay separate maintenace |ances to wives. Tax defaulters al- 50 are numerous. Debter prisoners may wear own clothes, receive letters talk when taking exerc they pay their debts, they are re leased. | | | | | | | | | | | e BARTER REPLACES MONEY o | ANGOLA, Portuguese West Af-| rica—Mpney is so secarce in thi | colony that some towns have turn-| ed back to the old system of bar- | ter and merchants mark their | | goods in terms of so many bags of | corn or coffee beans. D i i was chosen By CLIFF STERRETT e=e/"01 YEAH, BUT SHE SAID SHE'D STILL BE A SISTER T™O ME ! BRAGAW HEADS ALL-ALASKA | | AT DOUGLAS P.-T. | Officers Are Chosen for! Territorial Chamber of Commerce DOUGLAS NEWS A The final meeting for the term cof the Douglas Parent-Teacher As- | soctation will be held in the scheol assembly hall next Tuesday eve- | ning May 5. Tt will be an im- | portant meeting as the officers for next year are to be elected and there will also be an. interesting program. The speaker or the evening is | Miss Martha C. Pohnert, a mis- cionary from China, who is on a furlough. Permanent reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce | a meeting at noon tes from all four Territory. ragaw of Anchorage, ent; J. E. John- s 37 TR dY | St Luke's Cpiscopal Church | son of Ketchikan, Alfred J. Lomen The entire program will be as of Nome and Andrew Nerland of Fairbanks, Vice-Presidents, and M. S. Whittier of Juneau, Executive follows: Violin solo—Miss Elsie Shramen. Vocal selection—Miss Glen Kirk- | ham. sonnel of committees and | Talk—Miss Martha Pohnert. cf contemplated activities| Community singing. be announced Monday by President Bragaw. ———————— ttie FORMER ISLAND FAMILY TO RETURN TO DOUGLAS Nels Lee, oldtimer of Dzuglas and | Treadwell, was a visitor in Douglas vesterday having returned to the | channel from Seattle a couple of e of 400 Industrial ac- | weeks ago. Mrs. Lee and two sons ported daily in Texas, 1 come up later this month and the industrial accident board the family expects to re-locate here. ir 1e Fiji group are connected by 54-mile telephone cable. e GETTING WELL AGAIN Miss Helen Lindstrom returned home from the hospital the early part of the week and is recuperat- ing rapidly at her home. VARIGATED PICTURE AT COLISEUM “Bright Lights,” SUNDAY an all-talking picture play in color is the big fea- | ture for Sunday at the Douglas Coliseum. DANCE TONIGHT ‘A Finnish-Scandinavian-Ameri- can dance will be given this eve- ning in the natatorium. Mr. Gran- berg, who is giving the dance, has engaged good m time is promised everyone. sic and a good fr—e e e, Douglas Church Services SE— Noticee Tor this charch column must be recelved by The Empire not later than 10 c’clock Saturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics, ete Douglas Catholic Church | PR ——— s Fourth Sunday after Easter. 9:30 a.m.—Holy Mass and Ser- mon. 1:00 p.m.—Sunday School. ey No service tomorrow evening. Douglas Native Prenbmrian-" | * Church HARRY WILLARD, Lay Worker Meets Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. v Old papers at the Empire office 7 D Congregational Community Church | | REV. PHILLIF E. BAUER. i Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Preaching services 11:30 a. m., following Sunday school. ————— 3 St | AT THE HOTELS i D — i Gastineau Thomas J. McGartney, Forest A, Gardner, Thomas McCarthy, Ju- ncau; D. P. Lemieux, Haines; Alex- ander Mayer, Seattle; M. B. Dahl, Hood Bay; N. A. McEachran, Ray C. Breuer, Charles Anderson, Se- attle. 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