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the Evening World Daily Magazine, Thureds ust 6: 1914 The Story of a Nameless Hero’s Sacrifice and of a Love That Would Not Be Sacrificed { |GRCATER LOVE HATH NO MAN © (SaEaSi 92") © By Frank L. Packard | DBHDOHDDOIOIDNDOHDOODHODOOOOHDHOHOSOODHHOODSHHHHOHOOHGHHOSM p fie: ©HTHDHHO}H}TDHHHOGOHHTGHHHOSHHO}GPOGHOHTTHOGGGODGHHOOGHDOOOSOOOOOO ©9GHHHHHHHDS©HIOOOOOI|OSOO' NOOOOK Ton ace: ? ( dOserHae iO Hy ikores HBSS Co.) oto ie 4 motioniess, rigid, strained, ~ . placed a spade, trowel, rake and hoe plunged into the bushes where, not Canada—and they get caught.” Dr. . 7 Vom B " tent; then the handle dropped from , In it, went down the driveway to thi more than two minutes before he Kreelmar resorted to handker. a ‘te wh Reig | 4 lown to jart— , road and stopped half way along the himself had dashed for cover—tiere Chief quite as unnecessarily as be- ‘I show you pi: ie outside edge of the hedge. Here he * f id quite as unnecessarily mop- An hour later Varge was at bt Unloaded his tools and began to busy Was the thrashing of branches—com- ped” nis tae foray ype om Ls t the last moment and himself with one of the holes that ing closer. Varge raised wig head and for a fF pped @ last moment SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, his grasp. He turnod, facing the cor- and edu. ner of the gray prison wall, where ley Falls; through the trees sho could just see cw ‘Or, the figure of the guard pacing back reluctnatly under the name . Vargo 6 and forth upon its top—and his shout the children hai made in the hedge | An instant, barely that, and heav- yes of the two men "Peters" by Cap'n Jonah Sully. fe dow, ral like a clarion through the quiet the previous afternoon, Kingman Ing, floundering, red-faced, carbine It was Dr. Kreel- ico and fetuses Of the peaceful afternoon. 4. was just coming up the road from ! hand, Kingman burst into sight, silence, not a yard away. There was a cry — “Well, I've got to be jogging along,” CHAPTER XVIII. Varge, to all appearances oblivious from Kingman, the carbine was half he said, “Patient sent for me out this + *¢, flame Ie P. of the other's approach, worked li{ted—and, in his prison clothes like way more’n an hour A man tod Ba Bde steadily on, his back turned to the some striped, hunted tiker at bay, breaking out of penitentiary has got T HB oun set on an angry hard igeing and the Mary K. Jones z testy’ He ‘The flash and f the carb ‘ . 6 flash and roar of the carbine q otionets Herat Sense from the wall, a wild shout from the : fis po guard, answered Varge's cry. “It's in the kitchen, 1 think,” bh end is set to 8A) urriedly but in quiet tones : " te meets ho paused beside her. “I fam atrald a verve jarton coming to mest tho fire must hi got a good deal ‘on of headway before it showed itself. Boot” A thin, yellow flame-tongue appeare or an instant over the CHAPTER XIII, peak of the roof. (Continued) He turned as he spoke, dashed around the corner of the house and Varge Makes a Discovery. vreedon along the driveway to the ARGE'S eyes otill held upon rear, V the other, not a filcker in A rush of smoke drove him back the direction of the creo! road. Kingman rode slowly by Varge leaped. In a flash his hand pretty considerabl Vargo turned a little now to watch had closed on the carbine ead of hii id even if he goes him. Kingman passed the prison, Wrenched It from the other's gr: uth he doesn’t stand much more kept on up the road, and presently Kingman,” he said in @ low, deadly show than a hen in a tornado unless i disappeared from sight behind the Voice, “you know my strength. TI he's got some money.” orth Atlantic hurricas® rise of a little hill, The average time have no wish to hurt you—but J am Dr, Kreelmar puckered up his face WS raging, and the schooner, bagel id ode Mae dren a i asnldled Sy ee Sone ee anew Into a ‘wry grimace, dove his hand reefed, head into it, pounded and ck an je to command a — ec into his pocket and bro’ rs view of the road clear to the creek A moment Kingman's -eyes met of bills,” ught out @ roll tered, was laying to Mghting to rab was ten minutes—but twice that Varge's, faltered an eloquent apprecl- “I'm @ prison official,” said he, “ang Ut the storm—and it was an anxious morning it had not heen ten minutes ation of the desperate odds against I guess I'm breaking my oath and little group in glistening yellow —well, that was thc risk he had to him with his carbine gone, and th skins that gathered by the wheel am ‘ed suborning duty and acting generally take, it would only mean a dash for ebbed from his face—then his jaw like a bi . it at the end, and instant pursuit in- set hard. us act nouoréing tn the Hights were in the scanty lee of the “house,” + nd making heavy weather of By midnight a mercilem thetr steady gaze, a ques- from the kitchen door as he opened it —and mingled with th rid odor of stead of an hour's start before he “I can’t ge back,,” he sald hoarsely. gupplied with—hum! I guess Over the bows, far, far un, 4 tion in their deptha that burning wood came the sharper, more & was missed, ‘You know that. I've got to get you wouldn't have much of any piattation & queer wavering white streak, top. needed no words to amplify it. pungent odor of burning oil. Varge dropped the rake from his he hurled himself forward jn turning this over to an innocent ping a gigantic, hing wall Merton wet his lips with the tp of | His resources were a bucket and Me ed the emttew Onis iieives oot oie brave man's aot, a brave “A” Tue, aden! utter blackness. 4 meat peri olstern—the latter twenty yard: wheeled the 0" a lump rose suddenly ¥ dia tongue. away at the side of the barn” ‘He sarted with It toward the 4 rh ned to. waver as man's words, fully sensed by Varge— throat—the 4 to hang In awful hi — bien swung along quickly, but without show but there was no choice—no choice. before him tardieh the mist i we separ "i . It was the very audacity He sidestepped with a lightning-like cc aMimplicity of his plan that be mavement. hia left fat hot out and Swell i dncmre mere ete ns counted on for success. They could not swung crashing upon the point of see him from the walls; true, it was Kingman’ “You—you here?" he atammered. “I gmnjied grimly—as well a thimble to —I thought you were at Berley Falls dip in a hand basin! The kitchen, at this afternoon.” Loreal tay ae erce past noe hope “You thought I was at Berley that lay in the buckets, though if Falls!"—the words came with quick {ere were only men enough it significance from Varge’a lips. A horse's hoofs thundered up the “Well?” ph ab and a rider fashed into “At—at the trial, you know,” stum- {Fhe aroun eo _corner. It was > thi . bled Merton, realizing that his remark “ood Lora!” he yelled “Tire whole had been unfortunate and clumsily place'll go, it'’s*—— trying to gloss it over. “Everybody | Vai leaped toward the other knew, of course, that you were there, through @ roll of black smoke that tumbling tons of water crashed ¢ the bows, shaking the schooner as & “Well, it doesn't matter,” said the terrier shakes a rat, and, burying the doctor, a little wistfully, “only I'd deck, came on roaring, jaw—and Kingman dropped r s ad Unusual for a convict to walk down ania Jaw—and Kingman dropped like to have heard you say It; as it ing high above the rails With all his strength Varge r yi Preah, put after the fire of yester- malice in the blow that had stunned (rusting ton thane tanta’ ote eee day a little of the unusual might be the man and stopped the headion« Take the money, Varge, and—and— to the corner of the “house"—he Bares Ls Nan ts Serf af Sinn St incense need er tra taateRe ean ety ahs MS" a tunel ate yal a new him as meant * thi ie it 5 ny Yan ee pence end WHA EhOTe low inethere Wan no time—Ne time, thrust the bills suddenly between the it lifted, rolled butt ¥ and over, thi the Mi supposition, deduced from the ‘Tho carbine was atill clasped in CUtons of Varmo’s Jacket. Over, then. Sung. againet “I don't know what T can say to thing with a vicious shock- bumping wheelbarrow, than that he vargo's right hand. He turned and, you," said Varge huakily, soxcept cally bis hands shot Out, . he village resuming his doubled posture, ran w OMAN. BURST INTO sini had been sent, perhaps to t! what I @ald once before—God bleas again, and, smothered, chi urged suddenty—coincident wit! ROSA RS TS store store, for something too heavy, on. For hours he ran. you, I'll keep the money for I shall stunned by the blow, he bung and everybody thought it would last Four of an explosion, n can of wupmee ind unwieldy to carry by hand! Thi Ld y Y t At @ roadside, as twilight fell, he nead it badly enough—when I can, on. was Kingman—only Kingman—to fear. sat down to rest. The clatter of I'll send ft back to you.” He held out A flash of Ughtning played it be ere Lowel the creek, he }, the crunch of whee Grew bis hand. Pa od ‘ beta the . Varge glanced qi would ask no more. a horse came into. view—an octor reslmar eyed the out- tow je wheel—there was no and”— he stammered again, paused, toyn?” he asked crisply. stream of water lashed the roof, broke her from the floor and lifted her in 114 way well down the road now. Varge was on his feet, Through stretched hand dubtously, ‘The crew was gone. Jonah ly in his seat, tried to id Ki and spattered like great tumbling bin ty Tgoiden hair brushed his cheek, The houses wore closer together on a tangle of wild raspberry bushes at “I shook hands with you once be. lay senseless on the heaving eyes, and then flung out hand tub tn the’ The naa. rovived ‘a litte by, the It. thrilled him, whipped bie velos elther hand—the homes of the guards, the side of the road & dog rushed e¢ fore,” | he enapped gruffiy, “and I | Varge galled Jonah Sully, shown ike teat!’ Dont, ool at St wae not convict and guard—it douche, moaned, but still hung inert into fiery streams, dominated bim, mostly, He went o Ld ’ q in ‘8 ear—there was no ¢ for several days yet. I—I thought heated kerosene probably—ac: you were there, and so naturally I space between them. was surprised to find you here, and— there any fire apparatus in = le he instantly, and a man, ‘That was when I was dying,” swer. Then quickly he latd vi y . Th close to overpowered him, mastered him. He —the few peopl , 1 tell youl RUE Se eee one fominant, bo ladder beeen é Baoie of the root knew now, knew for all time to come, had expected paid we 1 at} the buggy. came run. bevel Varge, smiling through wet Sahoee, down ag spear aye ea ve wad Prciin er wrec argh meds are —he loved her, him— tums “ Lee erg) demanded Waren)» fried and excited—and without hem. ang Giacends ie one Rehidc neuer Hie swept ber clotet,irhter. to buling on the bank of Whe Soe | "Down, Briggs! Toe Sortcaatne ya ayant tNettie mas, of tackle Mat tne taling seo tha 8 any of your ; trailing from ‘A group of guards, the warden to help—he was shaky and weak, and him; and then, with reverently low- at OI Be ac was with- imp of Satan, down!” shouted a ft was, Well, I'll rink it.” wGhell'I help you te answer?” ata thelr head, were fust turning in from VAtg® motioned him away. | | ered head, Se fe Fused twee eG doula seo was the general store. A foot from Varge, forepaws wide hard in both his own—then turned belt— Varge sternly. “Since that day when the road. Ho saw Janet Rand epeed 46 ‘ihia to do, he sald quickly. “I'll the fair, white brow in a long, Il Suddenly, Be Sirs over the chump, Sent, nin Nene aurea OTN excites Varge. watned him clamber iste Wank ne aves Ss Cae a you came to sce me in the poniten- Scross the lawn to meet her father, hogy all right—send some fresh Ing kiss—the hungry, hopoloss, Usten, Hehind him, over the thump, with his back, quivering with excite. | Varae ned him clamber ato WARS a 5 tlary yonder—is that right and then all came toward him, run. Man‘ ihe top of the ladder to get Cry Of bis heart, his soul, his being, thump, thump of the nhesterons ment to the tip of hls SnAgRy tall oe te Ladant” chucked the Iitio’dactor the mainsail drawiner wee itense sh aii “Well,” snarled Merton; “supposing M/s at top speed. At the corner of this chap.” No; she was not dead, junded horse's hoo! s 4 setter obeye: far as to Pp e le doctor ma rawing, was listing pi ft is? What is it to you?” He broke the house Varge halted and waited a They were coming now. He heard @ sharp trot. He did not turn his into cabin roof beneath the other's arme of it now—he yoice, Ho caught Varge's hand, wrung it pits, and made it fast. There low and prolonged grow!—but to his horse, je that threatened every {nto a sharp, nervous laugh. "You're thd. shod: on aay igerée, eeeP cf assent the’, Ladder thump against the window head—there wae Bo foune of RAGS now Vargs leased cooly Dall sear Sant (0 poll ber betccm lle aa t jealous, are you? One would . Warden Rand's eyes swept the roof oljer noment supported the Mil He rales nthe mcorched foc, minutes that he bad hoped for was instant and Dr, Kreeitmar, CHAPTER XVII. rose to Varge's walst when fink you Rigead in love with her yours f07, 0 the good-conduct men over #ém{-unconscious man against, bis tame the old, brave, quiet smile, as not to be bie—Kingman, this time, nd blowing from his short Shipwreck. half-way across the deck—and Sa ; , . i | Peis he Without a trace of color in his face, here with bu Knees, Temoved them ted the strings be reached out and lald her in ‘her could have Piddes ou S Bitte fore“ itat™ exclaimed the little doctor ARGE had headed steadily apsinet the ite ralland ony Sra De el i sg gto toxether and stung them around his fpnere 66 turning back. tea tne eee Lg a Eva got you, have, Itt V south—always south. What on le face, the water Pal neck—his stockinged feet would cling Closer, louder, sharper poun: ¢ had a suspicion that was im. le got to bis knees and Lihat tl area to come here,” he thinge out of th , house where bis boots would give him no CHAPTER XV. hoofs.. Twenty yards to go! Varge fter, #o I lost no time in follow. Teta thas tat ae cae time erawisa across th said hoarscly. "You have dared to t be on the safe side, And a ladder, chance at all, Then, as though it The Escape. eyes fixed on what was evide! , deck, ly @ ing him. Now, then, sir, march to the main-sheet and began to Baek cH 3 were a baby, he raised the other in ttle path used by the children, and and get in! Quick, now! ly suggested by the doctor jr with his Lake touch that pure life with yours, black Laidley'—he called after the guard. Tor) 7 ind’ began carefully to make to the soul with the gullt of hell! “Bring a ladder! that bu HERE was no other way. possibly their elders as well,toscram- No shillyshallying about {t—back You _+> make Gloucester and ship 08 &® ‘The schooner oe Answer me! How far has this thing in the barn that is his way along the peak of the roof. | | Through the long blackness Bio up and down on from the road to go to the penitentiary! a tn Sor fishing emack for the Grand Banks? A moment more, and the top of the th ofthe stream. Ten yards! It Varge's only movement was to er" His hand closed suddenly YO", (oy iy the thea the en are Indder was gained. Here others took of that night, while the Tiieitet at the corner of the atore, too shake his head, He would be away for pores ted wn with a crushing, vice-like grip back.” the man from him, and then, putting guards’ steps on thelr norrow for @ the ator think not said calmly. of touch with the world ant at right angles, but this t! ge as cited, From the barn Varge dragged out on his boots again. Varge swung rounds rang along the steel plat- built almost on the water's edge and » “What!” enapped the litte men trom pursuit: he would be earning his feat were taken ‘ me @ ladder; and, as the warden h on soa roclousl; refuse—you re- ped himself onto the rungs and thence goons and the faint, low, indefinable the bridge railing came close—now! ferociously, ou yo something the while, and on his re- Ki ur i 4 eelbarro to it! Gente chante aire Bee repeats Ree ncaneae er tbe CPE ete stood Martha, a heavy, Medley of sounds a the nce! Siler Me frypge oA GA veree matted at him quietly. turn—well, the time to think of that » “Answer meo!"—Vé eat! to ess prison seemed to whisper and mur- Leet halance “Yes,” he said, had not yet come. eminously, deadly low. house. stupid creature, to whose: carel: Dp an air of leisurely nonchalance to hi “Huma!” said’ Dr. Kreelmar, He Night & nirst ‘bo bad itt ts backed and cut at the tough Into the dri th me, two Provably the fire owed its origin. | mur in stealth together, Varge 14y movements—and then, as the side of again. Chis thing gone?” 1 ee nine ot theme like fast “Whereis Misa Rand?” he demanded upon his cot fighting out this new the building hid him from the road, pulled out his handkerchief and 10 1 uio4 nin othe prison oult Suddenly ft parted with « * bled Merton. Pi po opped his face unnecessarily. TI love her.” mumbled travelling snakes, their striped bodies quickly. "4 ‘és problem that had cemo to him. As a he shot the wheelbarrow forward from [UPR | oateg. “Refuse, eh?— had long since disappeared—well hid- like « pistol shot, and like a wriggling this Way and that, the “I don't know,” she sald. “I heard leaped down the little de- mned fool if you didn't! You ik of @ fallen S@!l the boom swung far Tighteangled turn from the road like her say a little while ago there was mathematician evolves some SIFAne® cavity and ran like @ deer along the Consarned fo y an't! ¥oU den in the hollow trunk of a Sfcu tate monster's tails. On they something of her mother’s in her room and abstruse calculation, checking bank for the bushes ahead. . [ere a ee Mlghiodeys pf Inet ny tree close to the spot where Dy, Kreal- io. thud iy Merton's came, the convicts, thirty to the file, that she had forgot and that she and rechecking his steps to verify bis: natural course would be to ‘onto sonectease—aieat igge, keep & mar had met him. Little by little, in instantly the sc creeping back into Merton's their white faces fushed now with was golng to get t& £ haven't seen goiution and finding ever the same the bridge to look over to discover Ciit"tongue in your head—we're 10 the general stores of the email ham- the relief—she rode er genes ped from ‘the their run from the prison gates, their ber ince and"——_ , result, so to Varge over and over What he could oany Se ee jena the hands of the host of the Midian- tec an article AG 0 than be ona Roce oven, Kes eyes bright with eagerness and ex- “What's that?” txteposed a voice . & wheelbarrow on ol © Stes and you're no Gideon! Well, sir, » had sup- lovers ienouicet, eed Bel stepped back. Citement; on they came, the tramp sharply—and the little doctor was be- “sain came inevitably the same Con- Creey—perhaps expecting to see him “Than i ip uproar over plied himself with the necessities that on cement: (on, they, Caiatter of the tween them, “Shes gone in there? clusion, There was no other way— afier aioid of sand, By that time, YUve Cue & Pree Othe he lacked. meen aren eee ueyon wantto ®Winging buckets sounding dom!- You let her go in there—h'm?—b'm onder, a pretty uproar! nantly over the cries that bailed —h'm?” he jerked out. “My Lord! RAZ iuey SAG When Kingman would catch wght of 2; rgon who haan't something tO ang ao the Journey had been made— know?" Merton burst out violently, = ks 1; ‘To atay there, to seo her day by him and for the first time realize that $2)” f'icingman—and he and now, very early one morning, two thom. ° —he turned and began to run for the lr was an eocape, be shoula be clos Sey, 18, Kingman—and he it now, Very mo , wo “Anything else you can bully out of 2 to touch her perhaps, to hear it Was 8D esc : pint sling aa ey me because you hold something over Seeere MEA upon the ladder and baer hundred yards to the house her voice, to have the awful, ironic Once in the woods, and he would ee yes," eal ‘seq upon a road loge to the beach on the and bracing elt ‘as he My needs Af thare Jen ty Feo: Srpuiled himself to the roof, and, from where Varge stood, and the doc- hopelessness of it all thrust upon Te would take ee oe a compound fracture rte of Gloucester, | punt SBWAd, Rearing the pext wait)" rge turned. ded courtly, straddiing the peak, edged his way tor was already two-thirds of the him with each look into that dear shack N least when I heard you'd hit him,” aimost on the sand iteelf, a dory was way there—Varge's hands closed face that stirred his soul to the at in- There {a nothing else I want to aa Sone, pee st tho chimney to & position TOY, on ‘the other's noulder, halting depths in an agony of yearning, was to elude them until dark, when the $id Dr Kreeliie es yey fered pale oo eee Rh aly Rr Bere Seen So ye in oy ane When yea eave here , A, striped form took its place be- net oad We teeieare.S ee The Tent saaee ye morn- Gea ie tea tence rey bridge, & man os hard as that myself! Heart tarred net, over which a twisted little from a tree, stretched ou! hind him on the roof, another and an- ‘h¢ “ asn't in it, eb? ‘That's It, eb— old man was assiduously engaged. the schooner's side, but fo-niaht, you leave here, for the last other, back to where the head and .,7 Will go,” he sald, with quiet fa- ing came, and once more Verge Verge was running with all bis Thaty ie : itis mind “made up to aesoat the by “a ta of sail and ality. » walked from the prison gates to the strength, sure, light footed, spec for an instant, holding Merton with #houldere of @ man standing on the “\'¥o4 win do nothing of the sort!” Warden's home, ‘That afternoon bis ing like the wind—the bushes, the , Briggs, with # glance st his masnr merman, Varge stepped auick'Y pounding and thrashing, wae eyes. “You can write Misa Rand pe'1os tne line until it ap} snorted tho little man, a né ebance came, trees, were growing nearer and near- OF ‘was sniffing now at Varge * he said pleasantly. hr otta yr ee wv from Berley Falls that you are going Close by the cistern's ed, A elf. u're “Janet bad sent bim one day to look er, almost at hand. flusions, Wiwdly fashion, and sud- Varge's smile was contagious, os by ths danas of @way, or make any other excuse that (on sarvatory, not fit to go into for a pruning knife that had been Halt!"—hoarse-flung rang the com- denly put up his paw. Varge, stoop- ite mornin’! Fine mornin'!” said hewing, hacking—at aes ea, upon fis you like to account for your visits CORTE ote « titted gurgle, i Will go.” repeated Varge evenly. misiaid somewhere, and in his search mand from the bridge. cease. brown he the old man, in a high, piping voice. face t ceasing abruptly—but they are to For the fraction of a second thelr Ty"had gone to the hay loft, which Just a yard, half a yard, a foot ing to pat the glossy 6 i . That te all.’ baiceet Been dl the Bae ented os eyes met—then he pushed the doctor now was used as a storage room for still to make—the roar of a carbine Made be anew . oy fe Crea van ie saw you working ee bere on a ewirl of water gasp and — hand. a SU pentiy, array, from, aie and sprang the house and filled {ith old trunks, echoed and reverberated up and down Fee ae Oe eee ee oe tne tee ticre, and I thousht perhaps ‘mes, Workin with pots i A J are * CHAPTER XIV. brig, tained himself to his feet now, Tough, the Opn. heay, wavering, broken furniture and the ususl sar the little valley-e bullet drummed Cott Si what 1 would tempted you would 'e) mind telling me a few the “heavens, Ughtning. 4 A Strange Monitor. the pimcntious. footing, and shot, the Wantcaray well, of ut down Tet Achumilscre and e discarded coat Sheets hlahead end clipned a ahew, to do myself if I were an innocent things 1 want to know. Cie oc Bias around him and stabbed at his eyes. 's lying there. T was mid-June. A grateful fontente of the bucket over the glow. eo ance he gay of the warden's lying breeze, tempering the hot = ‘They came fast now, afternoon, stirred the leaves minute intervals, the buckets—a full raid th old fellow simply. Pounding mind. What might It be jt went at last, the mast, oa to know?” with It @ sectio: rincipally, where the fisb- ono, twice, peti er of leaves from the branches—and man shut up in there.” . mantled rooms on aiier tid Godin , Hie eachiad these how, undressed the next Inatant Varge had plunged ware, pulled nt the ailky ears and uickly, put on the trouse . ; t barely half- hallway—then dashed for the stal: the valeea Prison pair on over the tee bushes and was hidden from See ee ee ee ncosat mantt Heavier, denser hore, as though a hers. ing some hoard read holeric little fellow, replied Varge. schooners hull with crunching, and branches caressingly, gos Reser (nt 2m nang sine 6s ception (bis cbaleags fiw g Seee packate tot the costs Be folded rapped ay icascible ‘at falling to draw wit old Ranorman wares Bie arm blows—then swept away om ‘the mee Ful 2 o1 eliciting strom them in re- indst effectively without wasting one meet iim and for an instant checked {26 sarment. wrapped It erouse hie CHAPTER XVI. ‘arge out. a vicee elisa Cin: anne an qponse, as though they voiced @ of the precious drops, and swing it pn i bth friendly welcome, a low, whispering, back again empty to the man behind. ee MODUS iy musical rustle, Faintly to Vai ears cam: From the direction of the hedge Claiter and clang in the driveway, that bordered the village street came the steady whir of the lawn-mower. bucket dropped from the bac! ‘ Bi rd you, him back ® there with a plece of thin rope, which Fugitive! little RU bead, he took from a small chest or box He tore the jacket from his back, held ground which it had been corded; it over his nose and mouth—and leaped then he donned his prison jacket ani grimly forward. Above, angry red, A began to search hastily around the haven't that jus- You mean?” queried Varge, “that ARGE swerved instantly to tification— I am not an innocent thorce late heres a tench te man," Gd je tittere: the right, flung himacif fiat Piven I hopa they catch you!” an: low, “you SAY Sees ea pe @ the ground and bens A Dr Kreiner, with sudden here, did you? But then I dunn eneat of Remme eDietes OclOm Ee eee ete ait Onna Mr ene See to craw!. Calmness and equanimity, “If you're you didn't, kind o” looks as though passed the Ge MEP E erence (utae a tenna nla iecker went aut that! Along the bank #ullty I hope to the Lord they catch you did. Weeks ago they le Pea Beare pewees Hee And, in the hammock, ewung under hand of the man behind him, @ seething ess meet 8 he slipped inside ls Jock t, went out Pipe Mlle eae oe ae mn nohe to oul T aot ‘And they be more'n another three months naow more escurely around t " , , nly " proce e “a the Shade of the elm, Janet Rand laid Tolled splashing, ricochetting down the aomewhere above of ‘the barn and calmly " proceed = 2 o ‘fore they'll be comin’ back. What tinued complacently. ‘fore they ack. Boars featense, (hems suai § Foot and plumpsd into the Are below.” <he moaned like a man in delirium, with hie work from where he Bad @ man—heavy treaded. Varge rose "mney always do. ‘hero's peen four might be your lntereat in end Ps dock, till lay ther feebly and moaned as V: oom hook. tne, uy back to the Saher hands 'benind ber head, Varge whirled around, hia hand shot “Janet!"—her name burst trom able to judge the time by the sun almost double, began to run cau- and they nabbed overs one of the Dilits wN ‘A letter of Harold Merton's, more out and locked in the other's collar lips spontaneously in a fierce, @ when he took his wheelbarrow, tlously, A crash—vhe pureuer had for the Canadian line, trying to make “Know anything ‘baout slittin’ or Canucks out of themselves. most of all, dryl ‘Long "baout dark.” mumbled Je “Fool thing to do, damned fool dmitted Varge, & lttle nan Sully, “I reckon it'd been I'm afraid I don't, than a week old now though it was, just as the man pitched forward, guished cry; and, as though it were kept obtruding itself insistently. It head down, upon the slant of the the magic word that rent asunder had come a few days after his last roof. Varge dragged him back, sup- the fiood-gates of his soul, Shere i i ing hy ing the limp fi ith hand surged upon him a mighty e r thing to do—that's the first pine Might try Jonah Bully, He's the it Td thought ia ie oa the ‘visit—a long letter begging her again, porting the limp figure with one ha: rged Upot Y ? they're looked for, If a man is look- « one ‘He’ o'"— his voice trailed off, ‘as he had done that day when they while he reached for the next. oncom- passion—all that was primal, el! Are ou Going Away for Vacation tne’ for fa ghost of a chance to make one who hasn't gone. He's start- ~ Varge straightened up, a had trained the Virginia creeper to- ing bucket with the other. al in him rose in liberation as to somo ree ed and his escape, why doesn’t he hit south, *e) pI 4, When you go out of town for vacation you may find it is] ,"*? “vay from the big places and: difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading | towns where one man is tho chief of Unluckiest man on the co matter. police and the whole force rolled Into dooes everything he touch v one—blamed officious and inquisitive “And how is it he didn’ Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy | that man is generally; then keep un- time when the others dlr 14 tottow. (opie knees. The schooner them i der cover by day, travel by night, “Pendyceetus,” said je ol follor tant an instant, then drop} t py Di pedeedben Mo oye] ae delightful summer and never ao near anything Biecer “Went down to Boston more’n. six with a grinding, crashing Blow » immer | than a hamict or a farm house till the weeks ago to have it cut out. shook her in every timber—she wae reading for six cents a week. worst of the hue and cry has died Jonah, they had to do it twice, an’ fast on a reef—and the shore Waae® — g Mell de down? jt kept him there longer'n it would quarter of a mile away. By subscribing to The Evening World for the rest of the summer | °°", could strike the coast, work most folks, I heerd ho calc'luted to — High over now broke the seas, ae you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a] around, say to Gloucester, where get off with the ebb tide this mornin’ ravening wolves sure at last of, a gether, and as he had done once more "Quick!" he shouted. “Water.” wild, stupenduous revelry, full of ex- on that last evening after the drive, It was three men behind, and it quisite torture, of infinite joy, and all to ‘away for a little while atleast, came with painful slowness—the man of happiness, all of sorrow that & tree her to eeek a change, newaur- he held was but little further gone world of life could evar know. roundings, new life, which he was than those who atill fought gamely In another moment he had reached sure would be of eo much benefit to 0! srim, without mirth, was on bis before higs darkne: Hoo- strangely patch of water seemed to rise sail this before him—-then a shock hi D. her and was on his knees beside her. er. At last the bucket reached him, and Half across the threshold of a door And he ended the letter by stating he dashed the contents over the man's she lay, motionless, unconscious, her that business, @ matter of import- bead and shoulders and into his face. face bloodless white, one hand out ance, possibly entailing a long trip, A shout came ringing up from be- flung, and tightly clasped in it a tiny forced him unexpectedly to leave Ber- low. It was the warden’s voice, and ivory miniature—her mother's picture. ~! Jey Falls that day—that he could not, he had evidently drawn his own She had rushed from her own room therefore, give her any address then, conclusions from the tumbling buck- across the hall, probably, just as th but that a letter sent to Berley Falls et, or perhaps had seen what wus fire burst through from the rear, had 1 there are all kinds of chances of to pick up what he could get, rather prey—the lashings around him, ‘ would be forwarded. happening through a lifting layer of tried to make for the window of this | country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction | thihtiny on a fishing. smack that than lose the hull season porting Jonah Sully in his an, oven opened Wide, full of sud- smoke, A a ey ApeA other Foor where It vas almost fres | by the foremost living authors, would keep him out of the world on “Where will I tind him?" asked Varge's eyes fixed shoreward en,, quick attention, ‘The whir of ‘Come down from the roof!" ha from smoke, and had been overcome Bear this in mind, no! the Grand Banke for a few months, Varge, rising. ‘I think I. will risk the smother of epume ani yjlawn mower had ceased abrupt- ordered peremptorily, “Come down upon its threshold, ‘t ar this nm van t only for yourself but for any of your friends | the, Grant ane or no one would Me if he wilt take mecund if he ls of fying spray. How long would: For an instant the stalwart form at once!" “Janet! Janet!"—his words were a | Who expect to spend their vacations in the country, know him. But do any of ‘em do nailing this morning I guess [ had gchooner hold together? ye Varge beside it seemed to stand = “Clang-clang-clank — spit!" — 4 strong man's sobs now, as he snatched that? Not much! They head for better hurry along.” (To Be Continued.) GHOODOEDGOHWDOGHHHHDHHHHHHHHHGHHHHGHHHGHHODHHOEHHHHOHGHOGHHGHDEOSGH’G9HGHDHD}H®SHHFGOOHI. 090GHO0OSOOH DVODOGIGHODIOGDOGOIG IL LOOIDODOGVSOEGDODDEGWOHHOHDGs 4 THE BEST DOG STORY EVER WRITTEN. AN IDEAL SUMMER ROMANCE OF THE GREAT OUTDOORS te tening wots] KK AA ZZ AAN By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD [sin \ovasitirs |