The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1914, Page 15

LA Coole Nove Each Week te rein Wi ith pillows and a on @ heart burdened with terrible they enjoyed it together like two chil- fear, The morning and his kindness dren, letting their eyes speak volumes The night settled into the no! had made her forget for the time of comments ia the mide of the oa marke they hari ted ia tin quiet of an express train, and eac! that she was supposed to be walking lady's volubility. Unconsciously by 3Y the time they were sea! revolution of the wheels, as they into @ world of dread and sacrifice. their experiences they were being train Cella was freesing in her atti- whirled their way Chicagoward, re- Down by the brook they paused to brought into sympathy with each golved itself into the old refrain, rest, un weeping willow, whose other. beside her ai “Don't let anything hinder you! Don't -tinged plumes were dabbling in ‘The “rig” when it arrived at ¢he Jet anything hinder you!” fhe brook, Gordon arranged the sult- door driven by the blushing youtn Nad done to He certainly was not taking the cases for her to ait upon, then proved to be @ high spripg-wagon most direct route trom New York to climbed down to the brookside and with two acats. In the front one the bis on t Washington, though it might eventu- gathered a great bunch of forget-me- youth lounged without a thought of merely furnished blanket. ally prove that the longest way round Rots, blue as ber eyes, and brought assisting hie passengers, Gordoa “erselt. i, tal. “But % ‘was the shortest way home, on ac- them to her. swung the baggage up, and then it,” ebe eald, her framie 5 i count of its comparative safety. 7 @he looked at them in wonder, to /ifted the girl into the back seat, him. ic with excitement. “i af The duped Holman combination think they grew out here, wild, un- self taking the place beside her, and letters all im my euit-case. would stop at nothing when they tended. @ bad never seen them be- planting a firm hand and arm behind had the right, And perhaps she You cannot deny your own hand- discovered his theft of the paper. Aa except in pots in the florist's the backless seat, that she might feel writing. I have the last awful one— for the frantic bridegroom, Gordon ms. Bhe touched them deli- more secure, burt that be bad stood evolly and the one im which you threatemed dreaded the thought of meeting him. am cately with the tips of her fingers, as _ That ride, with his arm behind her, or done mothing. But he could Met Father's good name—bere in my It ast, be put of att gay Pasard 4, = if th And too atherent tor oarths bend Ee] amie ima no baat help it, Band-bag. I dared not put it with measage wi breast . then, if he had to answer with J oe welded about these two, “Thus like | Much to Gordon's relief, the trate {he rit before te off another children on @ picnic, they passed carried a parior car, and it happened bride, he could at least feel i : uf through 81 rove and came to on this particular day to be almost an that he left no duty to : the town of Milton, and there t me, lest otherwise its awful CHAPTER Vil. ment undone. 'y to his govern bade their driver good-by, rereading deserted save for a deaf old man with ic Mien pnad get nd There At last he ylelded to the drowsiness him with a five-dollar bill. He drove ® fiorid complexion and @ gold P| the Re, on bergen f A a cane Sener bone over him-—Just tor hope WE & vision of smiles in for- knobbed cane who slumbered audibly Westei™ words y you aot head tative » he thoug! and the he oa y! nd a marke = urthe ohaire Mie ae the track on which © Daet fa thelr monotonous won! wonderful passensors be tea met Gordon sslected. baat angers hat tates e tole ‘Semen n |. he must jump was lM jet anything il Dont’ lent the little village with awe and A® they neared the outskirts of letter from her little mand. bag, ‘aad and the great eye of am Don't! Hin-der. 1” three terrible months and forced her amazement, and had given no cine to Pittsburgh he leaned softly forward ‘this she reached over and ‘apen engine stabbed him in the & mary one od Rae Age 2 _ any one as to who or what they Were. and touched her coat sleeve to attract ‘Me Srm of his chair. face, as it bore down upon him. The CHAPTER VIII. $e NS over oo hind for the moment. CHAPTER X her attention, water Be rhe anid. “need ane next instant It swept by, its Bot HE man slept, and the train “are you offended at what I said?” F “Have I offended—hurt—you in any = “I should rather he breath fanning bis cheek, and he rushed on, The night Let Mngt ray Me er ad Meg UT to go back to the pursuer, way?” he asked gently. She turned sal "i e drew back shuddering involuntarily. waned. reece without my sopping to in his berth, baffied and toward him, and her eyes were brim- It was of no use. He could not jump The sleeping girl behind think whether you might not like it, frantic and raging. With ming full df tears, here. " the thick green curtains ‘Will you forgive met” hands that fumbled because “No,” she said, and her lips were fe had walked ctose enough to the stirred and became conscious, as in ~"Oughtn't we to burry om to bea of their very eagerness, he trembling. “No, you have been— bridegroom In the station to be al- many days past, of her heavy burden our train?™ said Cella, suddenly sought to get into his garments and most—kind—but—but I cannot for- most sure that mustache and those of sorrow. Always at first waking ‘Neavy eyebrows were false; and yet the realization of it sat upon her as Ae could not make it out. How could though it would crush the life from it be p that a man who was her body. going to ried ina great church) §=©What had happened? Where was full of fashionable people would #0 everybody? Cautiously ashe lifted her dare to flirt with chance as to ace head and, drawing back « corner of cept an invitation to a dinner where the curtain, peered out, be might not be able to get away for Gordon Jay quietly on the couch, . find his shoes from the melee of blan- get those letters!” She ended with another moment she would yield to kets and other articles in the berth, all ® sob and put up her handkerchief the spell he bad cast upon her. the time keeping one eye out of the Quickly to stifle it, staas got, I tad OF ote foot and Window, for he must not let bis prey “LatteraT” he asked helplessly. the mgedhimeclf that this was an- get away from him now. “What letters?” Sass gpittie, and she misteak other man’s promised wife to whom when the train stopped for a mo- “The letters you wrote me Allthe Then his true brown eyes looked up he had been letting his soul go out. ns at a water tank a few miles be- Jettere of the last five months, { 4nd met her tearful gase steadily, = “Don't let anything hinder youl cannot forget them. I can never for- anger burning in them. Don't let anything hinder you!” eud- yond he got off and hastily made his hem! H ‘And you think I wrote thet!” be ea denly babbled out the i1etle brook; way back to the spot where Gordon Set them! How could you think 5 sald, & something in his voles ehe hours? one under bis cheek against ghe had coming, If they were to get away it #Nd he gathered up his suit cases and Cella had debarked, In due time °°" a could not underatand. / He would atick to the train for ® the pillow, the other across bie breast Nr Bat coat and gloves, ate Bee cea, ae eat once or thelr Might artes oe. quit case,” D8 reached the village where they had “Letters!” he repeated stupidly, and “What else could I think? It bears 1 Jet OAR Oe ea ete was Ende eg ah he RUM RRTe A Seated Te etalls a eet aecarsds acy Gea sony peg Mrenkfened, There attr long delay SMOG, i Rhee n ak Rusti te ~no rafe way of getting heir? v0 pon e, eee ee cones me Le cengde ane 8 Sie of de: ter not to have it known where they him, and a small hand seized hold of he hired a rig and late in the day got what it was in the letters that burt {os @ blackguard Having decided #o mucb he ga fe scarcely semod to be breathing. went and welcome lit up bis face. got off. He had taken the precaution its handle. yt Milton. your" and deserves the utmost that the law giance toward the twinkling Hght® Celia dropped the curtain and put In spite of herself, she could not keep to close the stateroom door behind “I beg your pardon, Ltd bod hag oN All this time Cella and Gordon | She turned eyes of astonishment on Allows for such offences. With your of the city hurrying past. and, getting her hand to her throat. It startled an answering smile from glimmering him and ao it might be some time @eclared Gordon in a much m were touring Milton, serenely un- im. permission I shall make it my basi- train, keeping ber to find bi 4 faintly in her own, before their absence would be dis- termined voice. ‘How can you ask?’ she sald al- Deas to see that he gets it.” up, sauntered into the . oe m oo near and eo still. ‘AVE tT "You up and out here?” he covered, Perhaps there would be “But they are too heavy for you— conscious of danger near. most bitterly. “You surely must — “What do mean?’ she said, @ weather eye out for the cue fe The long strain of weariness, and said, hastening claver to the step. other stops before the trai ed both of them—and the umbrella too,’ Investigation disclosed the fact know bow terrible they were to me! Wide-eyed. Liew could you punisn ee You could not be the man you ha' yourself? You cannot still deny that in . e is the monotony of the onrushing train, “How are you feeling this morning? Buffalo, in which case their track she protested. “Give me the UM- 1. tnore was a train for Pitts- 80 early.’ had no idea that the evil eye of his But he would not give her even the burgh about three in the afternoon. @eomed to be to-day If you did not You wrote the letter,’ Gordon had never held ede lulled her half into unconsciousness Batter I'm sure, or you would not would not easily be followed. He brella then.” ° R : a wro letter. , beaut an : 1 now what you w jo! m “I still den: at I wroi ever Lengel years Peco shoe bakes spin slum- “““Oh, I bad to fet out to, the alr.” pureuer was even then upon him. | umbrella, rejoicing, in hia strength Gordon sent @ code telegram to hls making at those tersitie ‘cheaats: Onw ft Untis you banded tt ty’ ee frail looking 19) nF 44 of quiet . came to himself sud- ghe said. “I couldn't ane) th cid , Cells was already on the ground, to shield her $08 bear her busiens. assuring him of the safety of You must know how cruel they 00w.” Forgesnng, mS” Tala her gently “only, with all bis senses on the alert, another eau looking off toward the little village As Maloy ates -anting when the message, and of his own Inten- were.” ‘The ett tee at him, nonplussed, ae oon the couch and as the thumping noise and motion of Walk the reat of the, lek, wistfully. Just how it was to make her membered vividly @ morning when 11%) Souci, td Of Vat Une Mates ei oem afraid I don't understand,” more con back upon tateroom out into the train ceased, and a sudden silence ‘Do you sé helt Sod lot any brighter to get out of the George Hayne hai he said earnestly, the reason. rushed from the s trange Ht- two heavy baskets, that his hands fast as steam could carry him. Then “But ten't that your handwriting?” “4 : y. 3 x . The con- of open country succeeded, broken SUrPrised appreciation in hie voice. train ang run away to most apparent in’ bi iia aisle oe ee acting his rounds fow and again by distant oncoming “I was just wishing something URS te vilage she did not quite explain to might be free to shoot birds Could ne took the girl to a restaurant, you mind being. & te ngt. Look! tor was Just Mowmeith a white and receding volcos. He caught the {st myself. Do you see that beautl- heser “out it seemed to bee relief this be the aame George Hayne? | viere they mounted two high atools, bilcit?. Would you mind telling me . He took’out Bis fouatain pen, ene. n off the semi-disguising goa! walk over to that little village for ed. compri 4 t! nous appetite of nearly everything on that sounded like a threat?” hana’ . brows. . uld get. an ew objection when he returned. fe 1 cannot understand how you can ber ows mame and address he- Ten aot doctor on board, OF tite pethape or & carriage, £0 take Gordon swung himself down on the med freee ray the menu—corn soup, roast beef, ask such a question, since It has been neath the gn the carelegs, 'S you any restoratives? ‘There ie all, Here, you, Jim, take this tis on to another train. If-you hadn't cinder path, scanning the track either ST23P °F OU"Eteneg Gordon pleas. baked trout, atewed tomatoes, cold ject of discussion in then Bald It MD to her. He hesitated and the The volce trailed into the distance, Been et jast night, I might have wey, Fie of hearts nena thera antly. “We didn't travel with and custard, pels and mince pies, 414) auperity i revue Peday g ended by the metallic note of = rode ” horses.” with a cup of good country coffee was eagerness in her voice. “What a Sie ee the rail of the second ifting from one ary im for his petty, wilful mis- « oy led freshly ie anxious face, ‘That. is—my_ wife, ended by the metaiic note of a ham: ; A Oe flab ae toy turmeg bene the underpinaing of phys “T should like it #0 much; 2 and the fresh writ thot the thick Gordon cents aplece, it words whose mean- eae ‘ er end and met him lovely morning!” track, upon which he placed his foot foo It was a very merry meal. Colla know well. civar, in a script that o var from the oGordon wa too dis- yet, across his breast, where his firat VT Ves"were wiattul, like the eyes as he helped Cella across, In @ mo- you come the wrong direction eit Somehow as if for the timo ai he sald quietly, “and, acter” and: business . Traught- at that moment td notloe The itttie penell-case were sate, of those WhO weep Gad wonder why ment more the train ould va 6 fo Sit oe at ain't co @arritge, Ore, inemory of the past had been taken » 18 @ good motive In wo were not eritien reat o! ‘ jaugh, since sunshine ts im it that id i iz him, for his mind, wee op the train ,,“lancing stealthily toward the cure St yong not nue Gown the embankment, out of aight, ‘The feller what uuct to keep It skipped Ann Or Oot sin Yaw proment, with: She looked at him in gurprise, it S23 hand—and yet of course, it Lye rian kaworer Inotions he concluded: that thee gin _ “Of course we could,” he sald, “f Would the delicate girt not beatraid of om Re ee wie ta besk Out any great problema to solve or was impossible to be with those Burnie be beeen ‘Tule thouget ‘ ursuer, however, 4 0” the steep incline? H - decisions to make, Just t kindl: 9 - He tals UNS dyn took in the white, SOLSIPE | a ooe nie teat into his FM tne Able enough. Y should "She hesitated for just an instant at t© Ashville, ‘They fot @ good Diack: eople oft having @ good time, they wist In PeTeayeR thawed be did per Mashed through the minds of botb ‘anxious face, the smear of stickiN® ghoes, cave one or two other touches much rather do that than go back into the top, for it was very steep. Then, S") cae said Gordon interest. Were, at least until that afternoon — “Well, then, since you wish it statea °Vo" 4 he held it ut for her to plaster about the mouth and eye- ¢ his toilet, and stood up, looking that stuffy car, But wouldn't they looking up ai him, she saw that edi now that’s too bad, but train came. once more, I will tell you,” he de- © looked from the envelope to bis brows, and instantly knew his mn toward the curtains, He wanted to think !t awfuly queer of us to run expected her to go down with him. She y aps ae it can't be helped ‘we'll — After their dinner they took a short clared, the tears welling again into oes and back to the letter, startled, His instincts had not failed him after go out and see where they were stop- away from a tratn this way?’ pout fave little frightened gasp, wet her Parente forget it. What's the next walk tos tiny bark where two white her eyes. “You frat demanded that 1 bay ry 4 Se eee , but dared h ith Ss dn't know an: about lips, and started. v ucks disported themselvas marry you—demanded—with had time Ly put out a pair of brawny fate fne‘inat ane wan-all tight?” it" he declared, like a boy playi0k ie held her as well aa he could ‘ND on ahead and how tate | ve byemine pond, apunned by a pretense whatever of caring for mec. fF, another word the conductor, the § to ‘satcb at him, but a lurch of t Softly, reverently, he stooped and truant. “I'll slip back in the car and with two suitcases and an umbrella gna Milton's five. They've got a gar- rustic bridge where lovers had cut with w hidden threat in your demand tly ry Several people from the {e,fa'and Gordon's swift stride out- brought his face close to the opening get our sult-cases. Is there anything Clutched in his other hand, and fin- fice and; rest'rant to Milton, but their initials, Gordon took out hie that if 1 did not you would bring some ¢&" ind came burriedly . him, and by the time the in the curtains, Cella felt his eyes of yours I might be in danger of leav- aily, as the grade grew steeper, he thet'e oni: the railroad built a knife and idly cut C,. H, In the rough dire calamity upon me by means that Sa. they realised that while purporen bad righted is footing upon her. Her own were closed, and ing behind?” Iet’'go the brggage altogether and {hate ony sence bark of the upper rail, while his com. were already in your power. talked (he train hed come to @ halt, Gordon was disappeart by @ superhuman effort she con- "No, I put everything in my sutt- jt siid briakly down by Itself, whi “Hae any one here a conveyance | Panion eat on the little hoard seat | “You took me for the aame foolish Bran, tity “asin we ~staterocom, and the con trolled her breathing, slowly, gently case before 1 came out,” she said lst- he devoted himself to steadying t! Be ae erence gt ind watchod him, She was ponder: little girl whom you had delighted co STRat city station, another man was in the aisle behind aa if ahe were asleep. | 1, lesily, aa though she tind already lost girl's now Inevitable and swift de- PO Bee Re Ne We eine Ranienely Ing on tho fact that ho had Cut hor tease for’ years “before you went sen ces rh i we le looke: for @ long moment sire to ®O. scent, 2 initials, and not his own, It id abroad to live, nd when I refused him walting to Dnile had hurried back ¢nrilied by the delicate beauty of ner "“Syin"'afrnid® you are no * ne ““T'certainly waa not an ideat way of Suout the indolent #roUD, | ive tien lie the George of old te you you told me that you could not {tls Pittsburgh?” he called out to the from his appeal to the conductor and sleeping face, filled with an intoxicat- gaid, pausing solicitously as he scaled travelling, this new style of “gravity” » lows’ five dollars,” declared a'azy cut bis own and never once think of only take away from my mother all % pod tood looking helplessly down at the ing joy to see that her lips were no the atop: road, but it landed them without de- f0F jose h Bye sn ane ause. hers. And he had put but one H, the property which she had inherited ‘elled the porter, put- Gelicate girl as 8 there so white longer white; then, turning reverent; ‘Ene was surprised at his interest (na: though much | shaken | and yovory well,” said Gordon, “How Hrobably he thought of her now as from her brother, by means of a will Peery tee, carro ot away, he unlocke @ door an ¥ scratched, an ven! of ever - 3 Celia » with t , made just fe ¥ G and seemingly Married tn presently, gtepped forth, bce tele course I am,” she sald tige of dignity. It was impossible not S00n can you, be, piren re Toe, on else he wae uae eine dad uakhowe aieeet eieerataes in goes on to Cin. followed by a grave elderly man with The other occupants of the car insistently. “I have often taken to laugh, and Cella’s voice rang out Peek peed By ae the indy?” her name Celia Hathaway that he you; but that you could and would tl pretty quick. We's late git- Messtonal air. He touched @ prac- were still wrapped in slumber, Loud jonger walks than that looks to be, merrily, showing that she had not Comfortable for the may) oo) was not thinking at all. blacken my deat dead father’s name 2, 1M, you see. hg ‘to the limp wrist, looked gnores of various kinds and qualities gnq 1 shall feel much better for being always wept and looked sorrowful. oy ner dainty city dress scorn- . Those letters! How they haunted and honor and show tha: every cent ,,Nelther of them had noticed ued Anew the face, and then, taking teatified to that. out. I really feel as f I couldn't “Are you much hurt?” asked Gordon woman in her dainty tty dress scot. 12 isuded every bright expe: that belonged to mother and Jefferson !" Fourd clothes with a slo ante bottle from @ case he carried, Gordon closed the door of the com- stand it any longer in there.” anxiously, holding her hands and is fan prettier to his mind; but Tience that she fain would have and myself was stolen property. pockets bad called for a glass. partment noiselessly and went down “‘wqood! ‘Then, we'll try it!" looking down at her tendeiy. the eyes of her, so blue, like the lit- "sped and held for a little hour, “When I challenged you to prove a few milea back ape tauls er eng Te ee ae ee ee Meee nid:hear 5 Je Burrleg 18 foe the bagraRe and | Before ahe could reply, the express {10 O¥ed towers at her breast, went They wero silent now, while he any auch thing against my honored and walked through the car several closed lips, the w! | e jeft her # roan ther, times eyeing them keenly. He stuck created » rrnite torrie presently yolces outside, ‘The conductor stood {eft her standing on the cnter foase treir voices and laughter; and ‘when to his head, His tongue was sud- worked and sho thought. He had father, you went atill further and his hi 1 4 tt uw finished the C. H., ‘| threatened to brin, t in at the door now turtively long bret at was talking with two brakemen. He heard 4, Ing morning. {t was past they saw thelr own train Genly ted. gigunta adoter 7 bul: inethadl ats REIRE Ie with ‘witnesses 824 drew back quickly again out ef tered, © long biigh hovered be- the words: "Three-quartera of an ‘he opening Morning. _ take ub ite interrupted way grum- ail right! It's as good'a youl another C, but Instead 0 g StOFY and, prove it with wi Pa scarcely more than # wirtne biue eyes hour at least,” and then the men take up, ite interrupted way Hon, cett™ volunteered @ millenctaced man Another IH, he carefully carved out who would awear to anything yo0 MEM 4.0 nurciediy gathered up the tateen the line, ad: thee the walked off toward the engine, CHAPTER IX. passengers on those two trains had half altting on a wuyar barrel. He was Cat "Who was. Get OM pow life, you-as muchas owned Saar baggage and they went out of the opened. od about, bewildered. look- Gordon looked across the country, tant not been deeply wrapped in slumber, of a type who preferred to see fash- stupid! George, of coliree: tie had charge were faire, and yet you dared . the porter rushing back as She looked about, veren closed her and for the firat time since he started Y was fust at that instant they niente have been surprised to seo fonable ladies uncomfortable, | stupid! Goorge, of course. Ho had reached the door, to assist them ing longest at Orit she wished they on his journey let himself remember that the thick-set man 10 two fashionably attired young ‘The youth departed for his “team” started ® 0 by mintake But oh: get a last tip. There was no pot’ brou Fut ber back, and lay that it was springtime. his berth not ten feet away sons, with hate awry and claspe and after some inquiries Gordon found PA Het Sa eAR Ty ache e | pytblng more as mai : J t Hie hey fre an enn sein became broadly econactous Lens EY eorcing. But ae venice tis tiny white colonial cot over the carving and leaned over Pena ips ne pee spent mamee ee Wi epee Ca 4 h ther to slip away fro mt o'clock of . my Ad mt time in eir The physician adminiatered ttor to Teached a place where ho could bo of the unwonted atiliness S,0C10cK O08 May mae e Es time the acrons the gtreet Yo prepare a ranack™ te rail, |” 1%” tine tn her company. ing was nded their bagmage 13, the ae the berth immediately. <hen discovered. If he had bar ough 52 of the train and the cessation of mo- two in t road below remembered to for muneels Boe ae peenion.. Be Jean further over, and her soft fingera falsehood, but you dared to threaten {ral au ith the slouch hat f bring his suit-cas: fe could slip him to such look up ie notice, = touched his hand f he tO make this known through the followe stood unobtrusively be- with skilful hands and strong arme ith cing noticed ana tion that had lulled him to Be gen cusarine, ed fifteen ‘minutes in @ dark little touched his hand for a moment. She 1 hore ri in upon the back now without being n were rapidly disappt a would not draw them away quickly, Bewspapers if I did not marry you, hind them. ie see Bo wig girl mmfortable, get it! He could even go without it! sound repose, They Went gally Gown the road, the Baleares pare (acces ta funeral Jost she hurt him: why, ahe aid noe You realized that I knew that, even Gordon looked down at the white, i tanding awk- jut—he could not leave her that way A noft clicking of the latch set him girl's pa a Gordon meanwhile tend efen and could he? Ought he? Perhaps he to uetening and hia bristly shocked with the morning and the exerciae, breakfast, of poached eggs cof know, but she could not—would not— though few people and no friends awe face of the girl and his heart hurt him. Not now! ‘The two handa Would believe euch @ thing of my toucl with compassion for — was not naturally delicate, and home-made bread, butter like ros Sw ate father, § Hone iniem Ho would hace iikad erent Train stood at the top of a high head waa atuck instantly out between Bho ria ihe night before had’ been and's comb of amber honey, ‘To each 1Oe G8: ho, Mice Jor 8 Foi malate ang false though it Nancuauia ceape ae ieee Ped aS cote that © help, but he did not know How. 5 embankment of cinders, below which the curtains into tho alsle, eyes to- {ho result of a series of heavy atraina the experience was a new one, and [ie AG! inged hin wou mother to death. You knew that { would set her heart at rest, but be sean AN the brusque but was a smooth country road running ward t) stateroom door, just in time Then a sharp whistle sounded, and Would give my life to save her, and could not do it here, for every seat Rood-hearted conductor went away parallel to the railroad for some ine to aee that a man was stealing quiet- a farmers boy with a now take ang $2 YoU bad me in Your power, as you about them, was Slied with noisy, left wi 3 a sack of corn on his shoulder came DAY 3 + aod \ ACS PI Ger wan to all appear- angles to It, which stretched away ly down the passageway out of the mauntering briskly down the road to You have, aiwaye wanted me tn pered low and tenderly: Rheem wae sleeping quietly. between thrifty meadow-lands to @ end door, carrying two sult- A the bridge.” “Instantly” they drew Your power, Just because you love to worry, little girl! He locked the door, so that no on® Reatling village, Id be to slide down &2 Umbrella, It was his man, He e ou ong \way or t e ummer apart, and Cella felt that she had torture, and now you have me. But should disturb the sleeper, and went ‘ow easy It would be to slide dow been was sure instantly, and his mind n the verge of disloyalty to her You cannot make me forget w! But and w: hat true have done. I have given my li slowly Into the little private dressing that embankment, and walk out t gree tants with the thea Ale , I cannot give any more, Ifit is not ¢ rope a Tm ae ba: Spal minute ABaE BR) tee Stee te REiGee S/he TURAtE Tost te vad outdone nmestt throneh When you go out of town for the summer you may find it Is Btatlon, “wach Bung ithe Kit? ote natiatactory you will have to do your Born Ove ee Ne aaulpn Talrror before him, looking at his own some sort could be hired to hear him foolish sleep. difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading | thousnt hn conaclous of that one wie acopned her tae tnta tha litte patlent and trust me. But me can he. Cy A Gordon aeore tenes Tee etrah Cmorhaps, “where, he , Ho half sprang from his berth, | matter, ae other had come 0 wot handkerchief, and Gordon @at until 1 see itl can get the statercom pe Cyr respecting, had really done could easily get a train to Washing- then remembered that he was but Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.90 each or buy with white, drawn countenance and on the sleeper twelve BOUFS All the toe tO HOW Eo ne sw eoecare Party dressed, and jerked back | them at a fancy price in some country store? CHAPTER X1. fing line latiabaccn iocarar ihe, att f with bie courtenus baw. \ ing himself w some invisible hands to care Xl. atehin, all, Ane Brn be ae ores nae faNthe sweet sleeper inside the cart aulckly to grab his clothes, stopping You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer and oat HERE were « lot of people villain who had thus dared tmpore figure as he threaded his way amonx done! in the operation of putting them on u ; v f ] pon thie delicate flower of woman- 8 minute he rallied, to lize And yet, for her sake as well as his { } at the station, They had hood. He longed to search the world sue rome. fe ie Pulm wing, mat his ‘ce was dirty. He washed own, ho must do something, and that to yank up his window shade with marks of the adhesive plas' right speedily. an impatient click and flatten his ay 4 then, not satisfied with She had sprung from her berth the face against th Inde ane! But ult, he brought his shaving things instant he closed the door upon her, walns' je window pane: us Bn bis suit case and shaved. Some- and fastened the little catch to bar before he was dressed the train start- cw he felt more like himself after him out. She had dashed cold water @d. His chance seemed gone, Sis tollet was completed, and he into her face, fastened her garments Gordon had made his way back to -"nped hack Iméo the darkened draw- hurriedly, and tossed the glory of side without meeting any “ig iriam and atretched himself wear- her hair into place with a few ‘akeful fellow-passen: fly on the couch, which, according to touches and what hairpins she could But a distant rumbling greeted hij directions, was not made up, but find on the floor, Then putting on ears. The waite’ for express wai reading for six cents a week. By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months you wil secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction by the foremost living authors. Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends who expect to spend the summer in the country. her heart filled with mingling emo- | been to a family gathering over for the false bridegroom; and, tions, In spite of her reason a tiny ; of some aort from their re- "ding, wive him his just dues, bit of hope for the future was spring- 4 k 1ked And what should he do or say? ing up in her he: and without her " marks, and they talked pared he tell her at once who he was own will she found herself inclined to | loudiy and much, so that the two and trust to her kind heart to for- trust him. A stood apart—for the seats were alloc- sive hia terrible blunder and keep At least It was all she could do at i conversation, save a quiet smiling right? No, the secret was not his to comment now and then upon the divulgo elther for his own benefit or (To Be Continued.) ”—THE STRANGE EXPLOITS OF THREE NEW YORKERS IN THE TROPI NEX1 WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL *\* ’ w NEX?, WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL “|? CAPTAIN VELVET’S REVOLT EDGAR FRANKLIN, suttoro 4’ m4 ones OO ENT —===_You Get It for 6 Cente py ==—~ ; i