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eee of Romance ne RlNSa CArr Ene, net ken to the y Nnle the st * CHAPTER Xx. INTER relaxed its clutch slowly that year. March was Bitterly cold; even April found tho roads still frozen the hedgerows clustered with ice, @idney, as tender as ever, had lost Uttle of the radiance from her eyes; w voice had deepened. Where sho ° been a pretty girl, she was now rely. She was back in the hos- al again, this time in the children’s ed. th the opening of spring the house at Hillfoot took on fresh ites, Tillie was house cleaning great thoroughness. Business 1 not been very good. The impec- ole character of the little house ha ven against it. True, Mr, Schwit- r had a@ little bar and served tho %st liquors he could buy; but he Mlscouraged rowdiness—had been known to refuse to sell to boys under twWenty-oue and to men who had al- Teady overindulged. The word went about that Schwitter'’s was no place for a good time. Even Tillic’s chicken ‘And waffics failed against this handi- sap. By the first day of May, Tillie’s un- sasiness hyd become certainty, On hat morning Mr. Schwitter, coming A from the early milking, found her sitting in the kitchen, her fuce buried 4a her apron. He put down ‘he milk pails and, going over to her, put a hand oh her head. is there's no mi. “There's no mistake,’ ‘lie into her apron, He bent down and kissed the back her neck. “Do you want to sev a doctor?” “1'4 better see somebody,” whe sald, without looking up. After that morning Tillie took up yw” burden stoicully, vther things were not going well, chwitter had given up his nursery usiness; but the motorists who came © Hillfoot did not come buck, “We're not making good, he ald. “And I guess you know the rea- om. We are too decont; thai's what's he matter with us.” hen, a week later, an instalment van arrived from town with new fur- alture, Tillie moved out to what had yen the harness room of the old barn there established herself. @m not leaving you,” she told m. “£ don't even know that I am you. But 1 am not going to yave anything to do with it, and at's fat.” Pi tly ened that B, maling a spr! Pilgrimage to see Ti! wed astounded in the road. wwe was bustling; a dozen auto- biles were parked in the barnyard, Tue bar was crowded, and a bar- “seeper in a white coat was mixing {rinks with the usual indiifevence of je kind. There wore tabs under ube trees on the lawn and a new sign on the gate. Even Sohwitter bore a new look of fosperity. Over his schooner of beer gathered something of the story. ‘I'm not proud of it, Mr, Le doyne, I've come to do a good inany hings the last year or se that 1 never hought 1 would do.” It was when WK. asked for Tillie ‘bat Mr. Schwitter's unhappiness be- came more uppa at Tillle received hini with a certain ake, then? said poor Gignity. The litte harness room was Very comfortable, A waite iron ved Jn @ corner, u fat tuble with a mirror labove it, a rocking chair, and a ocwe ing machine furnishe M wouldn't stand for it Wy; “wo here 1 ain, avid By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART 1 about uw there In the Hithe room, grave & good deal The Evening World Daily Magazine, | ea 7 oor j —- Chrlatineg’a Witla parlor fore We went ine The We in front of od down at her i wonder Hf you ia, of hal ft to promiae Just one to keep @ aeoret,” ” A Tite, Che! 16 @o oul to aoe hee” When he rome it wan ® o'clock. “E hate to €o and leave you Ne waid at lant from the o ot any idea when Hy chr” the aitehtent, here a moment? K, will Mtand behind | you want tot jornet hing,” Ha dvi ihe bade him, rather Duszied, “T think Tam @ fool for saying thie Verhapa ft nm apotling the only chance | have to got any happiness out of life. Hut T have got to may it Its atronger than tam, f waa ter. Mbly onhoppy, K, and then you came into my life, and l—now E Haten for your atep in the hall, f can't be a@ hypoerite any longer, K.” When he stood behind her, atlent ant not moving, ehe turned #lowly and faced him. He towered * on hers, “Iva @ long time aince | have had & woman friend, Christina, id woberly, “Your friendship has meant 1 pod many waya, ahead if tt were I value our friendship in Vd not care to look not for you. #o much that 1"-— "That you don't want me to epoil she finished for him. “I know ‘ow don't care for me, K., not the way But I wanted you to know. = It Goran't hurt a good to know such a thing. And it—tsn't going to stop your coming here, is it?” “Of course no said K, heartily, ‘But to-morrow, when we are both clearheaded, we will talk this over, You are mistaken about this thin, Christina; I am sure of that. Thin have not been going weil, and juat because [ am always around, and all that sort of thing, you think bhings that aren't really so, I'm only @ re- action, Christine.’ He tried to make her smile up at him, But just then she could not smile. Tf she had cried, things might have been different for every one; for per- haps K. would have taken her in his arms. Ho was heart-hungry enoug those days, for anything, And pe haps, too, being intuitive, Christine felt this, But she had no mind to forse him into a situation against his will. she "Good “It is because you are goo said, and held out her hand, night.” Le Moyne took ft and bent over and Kissed it lightly. There was in the kiss all that he could not say of re- spect, of agfection and understanding, CHAPTER XXII. IDNEY went into the operat- ing room late in the spring as the result of a conversa. tion between the younger Wilson and the Head, The relationship between Sidney and Max had reached that point that occurs in a'l relationships between men and women; when things must either go forward or go back, but cannot remain as they are. The con- ditton had existed for the last three months, It exasperated the man, As @ matter of fact, Wilson could not go ahead. Tho situation with Carlotta had become tense, irritating, He felt that ehe stood ready to block any move jhe made. He would mot go back, and he dared aot go forward. TWo reasons had prompted Wilson to request to. have Sidney in the operating room. Ho wanted her with bim, and he wanted her to see him at work: the age-old instinct of the male to have bis woman see him at his best, He was in high spirits that first duy of Sidney's operating room ex- perience, For the tine at least, Car- jotta was out of the way. Her som- bre eyes no longer watched him, Once he looked up from his work aid glanced at Sidney where she Stood at strained attention. ‘Feeling taint?” he said. She colored under the eyes that were turned on her. “No, br. Wilson,” “A great many of them faint on the first day. We sometimes bave them lying all over the fluor.” Sidney came through the operation as if she bad been through fire— taut as a string, rather pale, but undaunted, Lut when the last’ case had been taken out, Max dropped biy bantering manner, "I am proud of you, Sidney; you came through it like a soldier.” “You made it very hard for mo." A nurse was coming toward him; he had only a moment. “I shail leave a note in the mail. box,” he said quickly, and proceeded with the scrubbing of his hands Which signified the end of the day's work. When Sidney w s free, she went ta the office for the note, It was vory brief: ‘lL have something I want to say to you, dear, 1 think you know what it is, 1 never sec you alone at home any it you can get off for an hour, Ag but ono won't you take the trolley to the end Bee but one f of Division Street? I'l be there with th small garmeuts in the M 8.30, and I promise to have no witempt to you back by 10 o'clock.” rather, she pointed to them | The office was empty. No one saw ith pride, “Well, it's happened, Mr. Le Moyne, hat am I woing io do? Whataml ing to be?” “I—I want to tell you ‘illie, some ching, Don't count on it too much; idly for the last month or two," Mie caught bis arm, “I was Interested, I wanted things work out right for you All the color hud faded fron: | Toyne,” she said. jor soul any ha 1 it > "at four months are over," ny but—on, K. had fallen into the habit, after walks, of dropping into ut Mrs, Schwitter has been failing to see Tillie's ce, “You're very good to me, Mr, Le 1 don't wish the my “s going, let tt be before her as she stood by the mail box, It was 8 by the office clock. ‘To get out of her uniform and into street ns, tif minutes; on the y, another fifteen, Sho would ed to hurry, Hut she did not meet him, after all. Misa Wardwell met her in the upper all. “Did you get my message?’ she asked anxiously, “What message?” “Miss Harrison wants to see you, She has been moved to a private ney glanced at K.'s little wateh, “Must she see me to-night?" ever since you went to the operating- room," for @ ohat hee 1 want he has been waiting for hours—~ ie ao ae lin Ve, edn t WV Cal Friday. a Sidney sighed, but she went to Car- lotta at once, The girl's condition Was puzzling the staff, There was tall of “I. K."—which ts hospital for ‘typhoid restrictions.” But T. R. has apathy, generally, und Carlotta’ was not apathetic, Sidney found her toss- ing restlessly on her high white be and put her cool hand over Carlot- ta's hot one. “Did you send for me?” “Hours ago.” ‘Then, seeing her op- erating-room untform You've been there, have you?” here anything I ean do, Car- lotta Excitement had dyed Sidney's cheeks with color and made her eyes luminous, The girl in the bed eyed her, and then abruptly drew her hand Vere you going out?” Yes; but not right away.” ‘ii not keep you if you have an engagement.” “The engagement will havé to walt, I'm sorry you're ill, If you would like me_ to stay with you to-night"—— arlutta shook her head on her no!" she said irritadly, “I'm n out, I need @ resi, Are ng home to-night?” No," Sidne; ed, and flushed, Nothing escaped Carlotta's eyes— the younger girl's radiance, her con- fusion, even her operating-room unl- form and what it signified. How she hated her, with her youth and fresh- ness, her wide eyes, her soft red lips! And’ this engagement—she had the uncanny divination of fury. “I was going to ask you to do something for me,” she said shortly; “put I've changed my mind about it, Go on and keep your engagement.” To end the interview, she turned over and lay with her face to the wall, Sidney stood waiting uncer- tainly, All her training had been to ignore the irritability he sick, and Carlotta was very ill; she could see that. “Just remember that I am ready to do anything I can, Carlotta,” @he suid, “Nothing will—will vc @ troubl She waited a moment, but, ing no acknowledgment of her offer, she turned slowly and went toward ney! went back to bed. Don't sit up, Carlotta, What t ‘m frighten’ ou aro feverish and nervous. There's nothing to be frightened about.” “if it's typhoid, I'm gone,” "Thats childish, Of course you're not gone, or anything like it, Be- sides, it's probably not typhoid.” “I'm afraid to sleep: 1 doze for a little, and when 1 waken there are people in the room, ‘They stand around the bed and talk about me.” Sidney's precious minutes were fly- ing; but Carlotta had gone into paroxysm of terror, holding to Sid- y and and begging not te be left I'm too young to die," she would whimper. And in the next breath: “IT want to die—I don't want to u vi The hands of the little watch Pointed to 8.30 when at last she lay quiet, with closed eyes, Sidney, tip= toeing to the door, was brought up short by her name again, this ,time in a more normal voice: “Perhaps you are right and I'm going to got over this.” "Certainly you ere, Your nerves 4re playing tricks with you to-night." “Vi tell you now why I sent for taught her the method. “Used instead of spongt " she ex- you Plained, “If you noticed yesterday, “Cm listening.” they are counted before and after “If-if I get very bad--you know each operatioa, One of these missing what I mean—will you promise to do 18 Worse tian a bank clerk out a dol- exactly what I tell you lar at the end of the day. There's no closing up until it's found!" Sidney eyed the small packet be- fore her anxiously. I promise, absolutely ‘My trunk key is in my pocket- book. There is a letter in the tray— Just a name, no addres on it, Prom- ise to see thnt it is not dolivered; that it 1s destroyed without being read.” Sidney promised promptly; and, b cause it was too late now for her nesting with Wilson, for the next hour she devoted herself to making Carlotta comfortable, He had waited for her and she had aid, rom that time on she handled the email gauxe sponges almowxt rever- ently It Was while she was standing by the great sterilizer that she heard, through an open door, part of a con- versation that sent her through the day with her world tn revolt. “Typhoid! Of course not. 8! not come. Would he understand? eating her heart out” nee Would he ask her to meet him again? — +), you think he has really broken ‘he went miserably to bed, with her?” ard morning Carlotta wakened, The night assistant was still there, Carlotta roused her ruthlessly, “I want something from my trunk,” she said, The assistant wakened reluctantly, “What is it you want?” “A letter on the top tray, If T wait my temperature will go up and I can't think,” “Shall [ mail tt for you?” “Bring it here,” said Carlotta short- ly, "I want to destroy it.” The young woman went without haste, As the first rays of the summer sun came through the window Car. lotta sat up in her bed and lighted ‘ the candle on the stand. The night ¢ assistant stood nervously by. “Why don't you let mo do it?” she asked irritably, Carlotta did not reply at once, Tha candle was in her hand, and she was staring at the letter, “Because I want to do it myself,” she said at last, and thrust the en- velope into the flame, Not until it was consumed did Carlotta speak “Probably not, She knows It's com- ; that’s all" times [ have wondered”. rs. She oughtn't to But among #o inany there is bound to be o: and then who—who isn’t quit he hesitated, at a loss for @ word, “Did you~ did you ever think over that trouble with Miss Page about the medicines? That would have been easy, and ike her,” She hates Miss Page, of cours Th think-——~ If that's true, but it e two voices, # young » full of soft Southern inflections, 1 an older voice, @ trifle hard, as n disillusion, ‘azy about her last fall.” Carlotta, nttal, w her with him in his car one , And on her vacation last Tho voices dropped to a whisper, Sidney, standing cold and white by again, the sterilizer, put out a ha “If every fool of a woman who gteady herself, ‘So that waa ea NS wrote a letter burnt it, there would bo wonder Carlotta had hated her, 68 trouble in the world,” she said, “Ene wae } steady. enou| A d lay back among her pillows hy ay enough 10 @ mo: mont, cool and calm, moving abot Phe a haa sald Hothing &he was hor work with ive cold hands tad slecpy and irritated, and she bad giichty rowed © 0. crushed hee best cap by letting the Suknily narrowed eves. To a sort of cal nausea was succeeding an- lind fury of injured pride. He had been in love with Carlotta and had tired of her, He was bringing lid of Carlotta’s trunk ‘fall on” her, She went out of the room with disap- proval in every line ot her back ne burned ii,” informed the urse at he her his warmed-over emotions, She night nurse at her desk, “A letter tO remembered the bitterness of her @ man—one of her suit 1 NENT PERT phat att neruate pose, Tho name was kK. Le Mo exile, probab The deepening and broader Max had stood by her then, Sidney's ‘ had been very ¢ might, if he suspected the ble in few months. for just & moment she had an tl. luminating Mash of Wilson as he really wo ifish and self-indulgent, Just a trifle too carefully dressed, daring as to eyo and speech, with @ carefully calewilated daring, frankly pleasura-loving, She put ber hands over her eyes, The voices in the next room had n above their whisper, nius has privileges, of course," said the older voice. “He is a very great surgeon. To-morrow he Is to do the Edwardes operation again, I 4m glad I am to see him do } Sidney still held On the day after hier failure to keep. her appointment with Wilson she had her half-hohiday, No word had come from him, and when, after a restless night, she went to her new station In the operating room, it was to learn that he had been called out ef the city in consultation, The operating room made gaure that morning, and small packets of tampons: absorbent cotton covered with sterilized gauze, and fastened together—twelve, by careful count, in each bundle, Miss Grange, who had been kind to Gidney in her probation montha, TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that fou will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other special features. Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address “What hideous responsibility!” ahe 7, her eyes. woman. He was & great surgeon: in his hands he held the keys of life and death. And perhaps he had nover ,, cared for Carlotta; thrown herself at man, at the mercy of any schoming him, He was a She tried to summon his image to her ald, pened, “Sha o nstead there But a curious thing hap- ould not visualize him, came, clear and din- tinct, @ picture of K, LeMoyne in the of bis long arms to the ¢ over his head as she stood on the PTER XXIl. CHA Y God, Sidney, I'm you to marry m “I-I know that. ing ono pandelier and looking up at her airs. tle house, re: asking Tam asking you something elso, M “I have never been tn her.” Hu the sitting in the voice was s Ky. close to a vunk and they were ax." love with He had drawn shade vu (he grass, It was tho Sunday afternoon after Sid- ney's experience room, hs took He listened few times, have no friends, im the operating- her out, Max, didn’t She seemed to yea. 1 was sorry for her doggedly to her ac- count of the hospital gossip, doggedly and with a sinking sense of fear, not of the tulk, but of Carlotta hersvif “1 don't want you making terms, think I'm But if this to . I'm not, thing Went on, and L found out after- ward that you 6 vive, 1t would kill mo. hon you care, after alll” m afraid 1 do, Max.” on T ry that there was any “Then I'm yours, aod only yours, if you want me,” be said, and took her in his armas. Sidney broke the news of her en- Gagoment to K. horself the evening of the same day, 'No,” Tillie here. vanuhg aroun “Katie!” “Well, that's what I call it, blind, Don't had sald, “Mr. K.'s not He and Mra, Howe are galll- d together.” I'm not 1 hear her dressing up about 4 o'clock every afternoon, and, when she's parlor with th on 1 afternoon? the foot of him. ‘K.," whe to ask you something you like @ cup of tea?’ Shi him tea and cake, se that when es to table he won't eat hon- ng on the ou expect it's “Aren't you pinexs?" “It my wishing could pring. thing good to you, you would all er knee, as if wh think I know what it Is, 5! dy, sittin’ in the vr open und a book boon reading If he doesn't stop, she's the stairs calling up to way . Um waiting wouldn't # always od n Christine to see Tillie ay afternoon, when they got It was late home, Sidney was low step, ed Mt, didn't you not an entire surprise.” going to wish mo hap- any- have everything in the world,” His voice w. but his eyes a1 as not entirely steady, niled into hers. “Shall you mind very much if [ tell you awa y dear roomer here uny 1 Iam not needed?’ "Where will “The that T am thinking of going ld, you do not need a e. Don't you see you go?" ida are rather in strats, have 1 thought of het them to a i howe p—--- B and “trae ig & foam with Chen,” Yo you ever think of yourself?” @he cried “Have you always throweh life helping peopin, K. Will not be home without you, K.” CHAPTER XX111. 1K announcement of MdAneya eneamement was not to be made tor & year, Wilson, chafing under the deing, Was obliged to admit to bimacl? that It wae beat, Many things could happen in @ year, Carlotta would have finished her tratning, and by that cme we onciied to the ship, od hin leaving 1 the hospital Joti 1 postpon day at me The one with the heels that were always tapping around, waking me up, she did ity L naw her.” Afor all, it was only what K, had suspected before, Hut a sense of im. log danger to Sidney obsessed hin. if Carlotta would do that, what wld she do when she learned of the nent Carlotta made her second A new Interne had come into ine. ‘ta alone treated him with det- Then, one day, Wilson was gonded woe, ‘or the love of heaven, Carlotta,” ‘he said impatiently, “stop making Hove to that wretched boy. Ho wrig- gles like a worm if you look at him,” She lifted her eyes to his, and for once she was not acting. “L knew it of course, I have lost @ t Geter that, But 1 wanted to keep a friend, It was the right note, Why, after jd he not be her friend? | to Love plays o vital part tm this ineptring romance of A HOTLY-CONTESTED OIL FIGH 8. SECHDOLT oe engeard (0 marry enme one oyaegy Page?’—eimom « whisper, mam Nave efpectad it, enoner ‘aha made wa reply, ite tho aul ao mig faint, nd looked at iy, Mer im, indiatin ihe isn, loomed whi irewe, and drawn, was not Ley! fhe jan. If their The oar turned in at Monwitt foud and drew up before tive bowen, At the rear of the house aha anole Off bia arn and preceded him a the building. She chose the ry White face bor } fpf eae oy) carried her in up the stain pall 1a Mose ig o one of the newly Wilson closed the door, and wotag fo, Carlotta, atood looking down at What do you mean thet voing what?’ Yo 4 ant Were no more faint than E Log o hor eyes. he m't remember. fveryth! “ pei. Ianterns”*-—— — le cromm the room delibera: And went out, closing the door thin him. He saw at once where he stood in what danger, freee car arrived, young man edged his wa: the hall and confronted Schwitt se oman—in . ary they” 0: white here “Upastairetirst bed: nance room to the wn Sher up the » Pp, on the landing, he confront Wilson, He fired at’ him without’s word—saw him fling up his arms and fall back, striking Mrat the wall, then incase. At the it the. cia the, floor. vi “We' @ buss of conversatio: run out into the country and talk porch suddenly ceased, Joo gut iH things over." revolver in his pocket and went She demurred, with her heart beat- quietly down the ataire. The crowd ‘iumphantly. parted to let him through. ‘hat's the use of going back to — It's over, inn't 10?" Her objection mado him deter- CHAPTER Xxy, mined, When at last she had yielded, and he made his way down to the smoking room, it was with the feeling that he had won a victory, K. had been uneasy all that day. When he left the office he found Joo Drummond waiting outside on the pay ald you'd been up to nee of times, I thought I'd jooked at his watch, “What do you say to a walk? “Well, go on," he said, when they found themselves in the park. “Sho's going to marry Wilson, isn't ahe?” “She is, and you know it, Well, she'll be happy—not! If I'd go to her to-night and tell her what I know, she'd never see hie again,” When Joe suddenly announced hia inclination to go out Into the country after all, La Moyne suspected @ ruso to get rid of him, and insisted on going along, Joe consented grudg- ingly. They had supper af the White Springs Hotel, Joe ald: “lL want to go to Cuba, My uncle owns a farin down there. CHAPTER XXIV. JARILOTTA dressed horacit } with unusual care—not in black this time, but in White. She coiled her yol- low hair tn a soft knot at the back of head, and she resorted to the fintest shading of rouga The ride was to be a bright spot in Wilson's memory, Ho expected recrimina- tions; she meant to make him happy. “Its very late,” he complained, urely you are not going to be back at ten,” “EL hw out late. "Good!" And then, recollecting their new situation: “We have @ lot to talk over, It will take time,” At the White Springs Hotel they slopped to fill the gasoline tank of special permission to be the car, Joe Drummond saw Wilson there, in the sheet-tro: 4uee along. bide of the road, The Wilson car was iu the shadow. It did not occur to Joo that the white figure in the car Was not Sidney. When Wilson's car had gono on, he Went automatically about his p: arations for the return trip—lifted a seat cushion to investigate his own store Of Kasvuline, replacing carefully the revolver he always carried under the seat The men In the garage were talking. “That was Wilson, the sur town, on In Now he rest, ou can ife used to come here t pwitter's, like d with him, bet on Wilson So Max Wilson was taking Sidney to Sonwitter's, Joo's hands grew cold, his head hot, When K, came out into the yard he was in time to see Joe run his car into the read and tura it viciously toward W! Schwitter's, Carlotta’s nearness was having tts calculated effect on Max Wilson. At @ crossing he bent over audaciously | and Kissed Carlotta’s hand la the full glare of a passing train, “How reckless of you!” “I like to be reckless,” he replied. His boyishness annoyed Carlotta, She found no encouragement in his words: “tam mad about you to-night* She took her courage in her hands: “Then why give me up for some one else? “That's—different,” “Why is it different? Tam a woman, T--I love you, Max. No one else will ever care as Ido, Tf you'll marry me T'll be true to you all my life, I swear ere will be nobody else, ever,” te Tm sorry, Carlotta [i'e imposats | IN the evening of the shooting at Behwitter’s there had been a Inte operation at the onpital. Sidney was al. Teady asleep when she re- ceived the insistent summons to the Operating room, She dressed again with flying fingers, It was the new interne who received the message about Wilson. ‘Who ts this at the phone?” “That doesn't matter. Le Moynee my name, Get the message to Dr. Ed Wilson at once, We are starting to the city.” “Tell mo again, mess of this.” “Dr, Wilson, the surgeon, has been shot,” caine slowly and distinotly, et the staff there and have room, ready, Get the operating room ready, too,” the injured man ia, T mustn't make @ K, had brought 7 euptey doctor had come, too, “I don't see the chap whe came with us," he said. “Clever Tollow. Like to know his name,’ ae bigs A did not know, » #at alone on a bench in Ho wondered who would tell on Ld he hoped they would be very gentle with her, He gat in the shadow, wating. A desperate thing had occurred to ne could find him Carlotta, If only one. id would do it Vhen she found him on bi however, she passed him by, “she nad @ terrible fear that he might g0 away if sho put the thing to him frst. So first she went to the staf? and confronted them, They were men of courage, only declining to undertake what they considered hopeless work, “It would be the Edwardes opera~ fiche wouldn't it? demanded Cara jotia, Tho staff was bewilde: There were no rules to cover roby conduct on tho part of a nurse, One of them replied rather heavily “If any, it would be the Edwardes operation.” Edwardes himself be “Would Dr, able to do anything?” ‘This was going a little far, “Posstbly, One chance in a thous sand. perhaps, But Edwardes + ead. “Dr. Edwardes ts sitting on a be in the hall outside!" she pitted Her volco rang out. K. heard her and ralsed his head, Hts attitude was weary, resigned, The thing had come, then! He was to tako up the old bure dea, The girl had told, ae ee ee Dr, Ed had sent for Sidney. Max still unconsctous, he night watchman was in the A you stand a piece of bad 8? Strangely, her first thought waa hero has been an accident, Dr, a ‘Which one?" dv, Max-~has been hurt, It ain't myots but I guess you'd like to know Where ts he? “Downstairs, in Seventeen,” So she went down alone to the room where Dr, Ed sat in a chair, When he saw Sidney, he got up and put his arms around her. His eyes told her the truth before he told her anything, “If they would only do something!® Sidney's voice sounded strange to her ears, “There ts nothing to da, But that, It seemed, was wrony For suddenly Sidney's’ small worl which had always ately revolys in one direction, began to move the other way. .---~ (To Be Continued.) 4 ‘ + ec ie.