Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1926, Page 12

The Misty Pathway By FLORENCE RIDDELL (Copyright, 5 SYNOPSIS. Hichenda Peterson. a London office girl. wine £5.000 in_a newspaper contest and de: cides 10 spend it'in travel. The east coast of Afriea holds the greatest promise of ad- venture to her. and she books paseake 1or Port Mombasa. -~ When the boat stops at Gibraltar, Richenda goes off alons to inspect the old fown. and is accosted by a native, who' frightensa her. Angus Brodie, one of lier €ellow passengers, rescues her from’ the man, Afrived at Mombasa. the first person Riphenda sees is Brett Fairways, a noted ex- pldrer. whose face bus haunted her dre she is introduced to him by Lucille Dave ant. a widow. who_has deliberately sough ner” scquaintance. Mrs. Davenant and Fair- ways_fnvite Richenda fo join the expedition. _They start the fourn interior. _ Richenda _grows suspicious of Lucille. Brett tells Richenda he Ives her. He is moody and acts etrangely. but Richenda ‘rusts him completely, ntimacy between him tebing. Suddenly he_sas, 4id of that woman. You'vo got to marry me at once.” And Richenda. fecling she it & creature of destiny. consents. INSTALLMENT XX. The Wedding Ceremony. HE days before her marriage scemed to Richenda to pass on . winged feet. had happened at a tremendous rate. She was swept off her balanice with the rapidity of it all. Everything | h Brett was so determined. He had 1934, by Flerence Riddell) erously. “Why should we let this sud- den marriage of ours spoil your holi- day? Let us carry out the first ar- rangements and finish the safarl in the proper way!" “I'm so glad, Dickie,” Lucille sighed with evident rellef, “I know Brett woulln’t mind. But perhaps you might have . you see, young wives usually want their husbands all to themselves. “Not in modern times,” laughed Richenda.. But she didn’t ‘quite like that remark, “I knew Brett wouldn’t mind!” The past tense suggested that the two had already come to a de- cislon on this point. . She put the thought away from her, be | deeming it unworthy. Richenda_had written séveral times to Angus Brodie, whose little coffee farm, she discovered, was only a few hours’ journey from the encampment. The second -week of their arrival on the hillside Brodie had paid & surprise visit to: her. “And how in the world did you Pet here?” cried Richenda upon espying im. B “Why,” he laughed, “the railway siding down there is.the usual half- b way house for petrol—and, as it is your postal address as well, I knew “THINK IT OVER, PEAR,” HE SAID HUSKILY. “WALK SLOWLY AND Y CAREFULLY.” a’'sort of “now or never look in his] ve against which the girl found it ifficult to battle. He sald but little about the coming redding, but took all arrangements to his own hands, and Richenda found herself consulted on very few points. Somehow she liked the new masterful Brett Fairways all the bet- fer for this. . It was rather delightful to feel that the man she loved so deeply had taken over the ordering of her life complete- k. Nobody had ever taken care of Ber like this before. She had had to Wattle along alone as best she could, 4nd ofttimes the path had been hard and wearisome. Now all that was to We changed. % Again came the conviction that des- #iny had arranged this new way along hich her life gshould go. She would ot fight against that destiny. She would follow this man of hers along the path he chose to travel. . She gave up teasing argument, tentative questioning. ° Why should they wait? In a year's time sghe could scarcely love him more than she loved him now. It was im- possible that she would love him less. + She trusted him implicitly, and Falr- ways held her to that trust. ¢ Lucille Davenant, too, was very §ind. She entered enthusiastically X‘mm the talk of future plans with the irl. + Gradually Richenda lost some of her suspicion of this woman. Surely Lucille had made amends! No trace of jealousy was apparent in her de- meanor. Indeed, as before, she showed every desire to make the path 4s pleasant as possible for the lovers. < Once she sald, a little pathetically: *Dickie, dear, would you think it per- fectly awful if I asked to stay on with you for a little while after the wed- ding. T can’t get a berth on any boat going home till the end of next month, and it would be so terribly lonely sit- tng in a Nairobi hotel all by myself.” “Of course, You must stay on with you wouldn't be far off. Bo, lu.vlns nothing so terribly urgent on han just now, I thought I might spend the afternoon paying & call!” With the usual hospitality of the colonies, they instantly invited him to stay the night. He needed but little persuasion. “All going well, friend?”’ he found HELLO, PARSON POPEVYE , ISN'T T JusT, 1LING T STSRERE'S opportunity to whisper to Richenda. “I—I think I'm going to be very happy, Angus,” she breathed. He fixedly at her, read all there was to know in her smiling face. “Think it over, dear,” he sald husk- ly—"walk slowly and very carefully, And, Righenda, if ever you want ad- vice or help, remember your promise to come to me.” She nodded. ‘“‘Angus,” she said, “there will never be any need to come. But still— “If ever " he began. “Yes,” she acquiesced. “If ever— then I'll come straight to you!" The marriage ceremony was to take place at the district commissioner’s office in the nearby hamlet. Then the party was to come back to the little encampment on the hillside for at least another fortnight. Privately Richenda thought this ar- rangement rather strange. But she realized that her position in the mat- ter was slightly awkward. If she demanded the usual honeymoon seclu- slon, Lucille, who, after all, had joined this shooting trip understanding that it was to last several more weeks, would be most unjustifiably left “at a loose end." Besides, people didn’t bother much ll‘:io:il honeymoons these days, she de- clded. & And what could be better than a honeymoon in the wilds, even if there ‘were a third person with them? Anyway, she would have all the honeymoons she wanted alone with Brett after Lucllle had caught her homeward-bound boat. Fairways seemed to see nothing ex- traordinary in the continued presence of Mrs. Davenant after the wedding, nor apparently did he consider it un- usual that they should spend pre- wedding and post-wedding days in the same encampment, Indeed, he did not discuss the subject at any great length. All his endeavors seemed to be toward hurrying the marriage for- ward as quickly as possible. Richenda decided to let him drive his own course. Later on she would fashion things more as she wanted them to be. Just now circumstances were a little too strong for her. ! Constipation! How to Keep DR. W. B. CALD AT THE AGE OF To Dr. W. B. Caldwell of Monti- cello, 111, a practicing physician for 47 years, it seemed cruel thaf so many constipated men, women, chil- dren and particularly old folks, had to be kept constantly “stirred up.” ‘While he knew that constipation was the cause of nearly all head- aches, biliousness, indigestion and stomach misery, he did not believe that a sickening “purge” or “physic” ‘was necessary. In Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin he discovered a laxative which helps to establish natural bowel “regu- larity” even for, those chronically constipated. Dr. Caldweil's Syrup us. Lucille,” answered Richenda gen- Pepsine not only causes a gentle, Bowels Regular easy bowel movement but, best of all, it never gripes, sickens, or upsets the system. Besides, it is absolutely harmless, and so pleasant that even a ‘cross, feverish, bilious, sick child gladly takes it. Buy a large 60-cent bottle at any store that sells medicine and just see for yourself. 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GENTLE WAVES CARESSING THE SUN - KISSED one morning they walked car Early down the hillside to meet the hired which waited at the foot. “Dickie is not going to drive into Abdera in that awful mule-gharry,” Lucille had decreed. “And as for me— if I'm to do the ‘dame of honor’ busi- nrei;s properly T Insist on a smooth trip!” They covered some 25 miles in mod- erate comfort. To Richenda it seemed a strange journey. Brett spoke but rarely, but, now and then, she caught him smiling to himself. She realized suddenly- that there were strange hid- den depths in this lover which she had yet to plumb. Once she was caught by a sense of fear, and Angus Brodie's her, “Walk slow- And she had not done either. Just as she had plunged suddenly. headlong into love, so she was plunging headlong into marriage. She wondered. what wise Jean Ander- son would have said about it all. She would have been horrifled, of course. “My dear, what {s his income?” she would have asked. ‘‘And who is he, and where are you going to live.” And Richenda couldn't have an- swered any of these things satisfac- torily. She loved him. He was hers. That was enough. She would trust her dream of those months ago. The wedding ceremony was very brief. Richenda vaguely murmured a few words, signed her name in a little blank space that some one's finger pointed out—saw Fairways sign his. She didn’t even read the document. Then Brett kissed her; somebody else was shaking her hand, and Lucille v;'lu crying in a shrill, high voice, “All the way: Then they were hustlin hired car again, en route campment, It seemed strange to Richenda. Not like & real wedding. even forgotten to order a cake! | Then her spirits rose again. | was married—really married—and to | this wonderful silent man who sat by her side. (Continued Tomorrow.) ——e Smart Parisiennes now carry men's handkerchiefs. 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