The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1916, Page 15

“2THE NEW? COMMANDMENT BY ANTHONY VERRALL The story of a Kentucky feud hatred trans planted in # desert oasis, where a man and a woman, turned primitive Ly necessity, come at last to love as intensely as they hed hated, (Geprrian) br Beware 4. Crete CHAPTER 1. The Waye of Nature, MOPITE the charm and beauty of that perfect day of epring, 4 apite the peacefulness and glory ef the eflernoon when youns John Ghent and Judith 1 fateful, there was latent threat wil te the wir, Met oli Kentucky could display @ mountain vale more enchanting than @le—the vale that wae red with trawedy, where the Ghente and Maineses Were ot feud, It was all @ world of tender greens, with biue and white for ony. et of the low, wide gap in the billie to the north Aowed the river, 4 ” half-way up to Ite thickly wooded banks, and bearing great loge dumberman’s harvest—ia herds and tn pairs upon ite surging bosom, was divided at the head of the valley, and @ portion ordi. bo larger than & fair-sized brook, but now quite @ turbulent stream, ome of the logs in ite current swept majestically around @ wooded @f considerable dimensions. This island was eonneated with the 14 by @ foot-bridge, rustic and slinht, th, a outdoor child of tweive, barefooted, bareheaded, and y clad, wae standing alone upen the rustic bi ome ing by as she leaned against the ri ped Uttle being, with dark- and hair of glossy black. Ndish joy aroused in her 4 by the stream, the balmy Ane, and the amell of spring, Ine utterly oblivious to a low, murmur that came trom far Bhe even failed to hear @ Am of whistling from the maln- } back there behind her, ye whistler was young John int, of the fearless tribe of Ghent, too was barefooted, #un-tanned, sturdy, He was a handsome pgling of his clan, tall for his firmly muscled well built, and ing upon him a youthful air of endence, He came up the path & handsome, well- ‘The log they were riding sank beneath the surface with their welwht To another and another ef the plunging pack they spet, making toward the: mainland as taey went, | A rod from the shore @ log end! rose bodily, ten feet high above the flood, and riding thus almost erect,! rammed half its length across the! trunk of an old fallen tree that lay! slanted down upon the bank, In- siantly the log herd was divided by! this obstacle, Young Ghent and Ju- | ‘ith bad approached the bank with skill when this sudden manoeuvre cast them further out again, with @ violent commotion about them, he atraamside leisurely, pausing The boy fairly hurled his small ccasing to whistle from time to companion from their temporary) the better to watch some fit. T#tins place to th dier footing of a team of larger logs that nosed | through the pross side by side, In the second that Judith caught her! balance on the palr, however, a wide| gap opened between herself and the! boy and into the boiling flood he pitched headlong. He went com- pletely urider, The gap was swiftly closing, like aj mighty pair of jaws, when his hat! head reappeared above the wave; Judith knelt quickly, caught him by the hair, @ragged him towards her, clutched him also by the collar of his coat, and, exerting her utmost strength, bauled him full length upon bird or @ squirrel swiftly mov- a the trees, grossed in his silent scheme of sation, he was presently startled °. low, increasing murmur of er, He ran a little forward, ne clo ‘owing woods, to ewollen stream, moment he detected nothing curve beyond the island, suddenly discerned two \t once—the figure of the jn the foot-bridge, and @ all of water, foam, and logs downward through the ey m all the confusion of a the logs. ce ‘ He was up tn a second, unhurt. we: on the bridge, looked up in “Now's our chance!" he cried aloud, and lifting Judith stoutly, he had before, leaped with her quick- ly from one uprearing log to anoth- er, where they grounded on a sloping spit of sand, and fetched her, half failing, to the land, They ran well up from the mad- ness of the flood, and turned to watch it roaring by. The boy pressed his hands upon his hair, expelling the water, Then looking fairly at tho girl at his aide, he smiled in frank admiration of her courage, Bhe looked at him with equal can- dor, a dumb declaration in her eyes, ‘They, had never met before in all their lives, but the world had become theirs in a second. It was not a long look that they thus exchanged, for the boy became a trifle embarrassed, She came closer to his side and gazed upon the river, Then she glanced at his handsome boyish again, and presently once more at the torrent, Her hand went to his, unashamed, and hia fingers closed promptly upon it “I knew you'd get me back, just fees ve the frothing onrush of t. In its irresistible on- aad logs pitched and leaped i lened whales, Fascinated, - (consciousness of the peril he was involved, she made aif to leave the bridge, a Get off!” yelled young : ne top of his voice, He Py) as fast as he could d the brid; ut the tor rf ran faster, It struck Jructure at its island end, Aalon# ite length. It hurled », Pand wolfith way and riotous re against it A grinding sound arose on the juger volume of roaring, crunching land seething. Logs came there end- wise, sidewise and quartering. Some were merely plunging, while others ped clear of the water's anarchy and charged like monsters stampeded to panic. A herd of them dived beneath the bridge and one shot half way out pon tt, Then the structure went © :down, It buckled lke a thing of straw, Some of it merely crumpled. as goon as I saw you coming,” FI The land end appeared to melt in said, in a tremulous utterance. ’ the torrent, was scared before that,” Judith went down with the floor- “Oh, it's easy to run on the logs,” tng, still clinging to the rail, A ten- he replied, “You cap see how close foot section beneath her feet was they are together.” bodily lifted by some of the logs and = After a moment of watching the their burden shot along down the fast-moving jam of tortured mons- ‘stream, with more logs leaping be- ters Judith tightened her hold on his fore them and othera nosing from the hand, rear, “Let' Young Ghent bad halted when the ete Len ue ext ane tho oven bridge collapsed. Much as he loved tho picgor than this. river and its springtime freightaye of Legs, -he gased 10 diead upon this made Judith was more than merely will- 1 aid “It must be lots " ing. She was happy—intenscly hap- ¥ ness, “He had aulte expected to behold py with “this strong, uaboastfal fome tragedy the grinding up and youth, she hed never experienced ainking of the pio,e of bridge whereon ‘the child was riding He waw her fall and immediately rise , finer little Agure he never behold in all his fife, The something that rose in his boyish breast was warmer than meco such a feeling before in all her sturdy young life, She nestied her hand even closer in his, and silently they started, side by side, their eyes to all intents and purposes directed to the flood, thelr senses warmly centred on each other, The path where the stream was divided made a bend toward the bank, to avold an exceptionally dense growth of bushes, Around this bend came the boy and the girl, shyly daring to look each other in the face, They still held bands, Neither of them chanced to see @ man in the pathway just ahead, where he stood looking out upon the river, He turned alertly as the two young on. “Hang on!" he cried abovo the roar, and leaping with youthful temeriiy out / upon the nearest tig, he sped )iko some -* confident ant: from one to another of the heaving monsters tlil ne camo Ni "tothe raftlike float where Judith clung, and caugdt ber in his arms. Together they swept on tremendous- the piece of bridge with its railing Bow canted slartingly up in the air, Tt lurched to go under, its edge at caught by some, ywerful un- tow, sucking at ite\bull, and the beings approached him and instantly fwe young creature. ped together &n angry scow! of passionate emotion wo leg. gathered on his brow, “Come on! Now! Quick!” oried “Judith!” he shouted at the @irl, “Whe bey, tm some ewift-made decision, Judith dropped her comrede's hand Wig erm oti circled Judith’s waist. in baste, The man before them was o The Evenin VER WOU FARM 1 9200.00 PLEASE UU World Deil Your Vacation Oe TT eT Se emer een sme eee eee TRRBLE SHAPE . YoU WAVE A COMPOUND PRACTURE Your LEFT CORN Fao oveR CONDITION, TH S YOUR ONLY HOP oR. COUGH ~ FW () un HU UTP | DON'T THINK YOU'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO STAND ATRID- SO YOU'D BETTER JOHN'S SPEND YOUR VACATION AT HOME WHERE YOU'LL HAVE PEACE AND QUIET, ») oF Tans “So,” he said, curling his ip in a ‘orn that Judith could never endure, his is fhe pride of a Haines—hold- ing love-sick hands with a Ghent!" Both the young beings were silent. They edged a little apart, Judith could scarcely realize the full signifi- cance of af that her uncle had said, A Ghent at her side!—a member of the hated clan at war all these years with her tribe! It seemed prepos- terous—Iimpoasible, The glamour of her recent rescue from the river was still upon her, In her bosom there were still the warm, sweet pulsations of a newly awakened emotion, She looked at her boy com- panion inquiringly, scanning his handsome young face for the sign of some deep-lald iniquity of spirit. She was only a@ child, at the verge of womanhood; she had been matured only in loathing of the Ghents, But this young knight had saved her life. She had given him more than child- ish gratitude. Sho wanted the right to trust him, to love him with ai! her warm and vigorous nature, She felt she must ¢ry out the story of his courage—the deed he had done—and clear him from the accusation of be- ing one of the Ghents, But the boy himaelf, abashed to have been thus discovered in his frat young heart emotion, and chagrined to learn that Judith was a Haines, r coiled from her presen and swered her look with @ stare that wounded her irrevocably, The man remained accusingly be- fore them, “Why don't ye kiss him?" he sald to the girl, adding humiliation to her already unbearable condition of mind, “His uncle only killed your grandpa, Why don’t you tell me you love him— if that's what it’s come to with your meetings?" The fact that a Haines had also slaughtered a Ghent was not absent either from his memory or Judith’s, but it served to increase rather than diminish bis resentment His taunts bit far deeper into Judith'’s young heart than anything else he could have uttered, If only there had been some appeal, some softness of light, In her young de- liverer’s eyes! She might have for- given him his tribeship even now, But there was none, He had been far quicker than herself to feel the sting and ¢) realize all “ia. it meant to have been £0 discovered hand in hand with a member of the hated house with which his tribe were at feud. His eyes grew more hard and accusing; his face was fiushed with shame and boyish «anger. The words that her uncle had spoken burned hotly in Judith's ears, was young Ghent's attitude, how- ever, that turned all her previous ardor back upon itasif. Revulston of fediing eet in upon her ter:ibly, Be- ‘ her uncle, He glared at the youthful pair forbiddingly, LEFT, W) Mi asine: Moadsay: Jul By Jack Callahan < emnaenen mp ot HARDENING OF THE 4IB SAIL - ONLY CURE KNOWN |S TO SPEND A week, ON EACH OF THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, $400.00 PLEASE DR, TRAINS TO SUMMER RESORTS E RQ 1 a vause had loved her young cham- pion but a moment earlier, st.» began te hato him now. ell,” said her uncle, to Judith, ag before, “if you're going to kiss him goodby for the day, you'd better git about it now.” Judith turned, with her face clos hidden in her arm for tearless shame, and stumbled off through the woods in the direction of her home. Haines took one last malevolent ldok at the boy. “If ever I catch you with that child again,” ‘ho sald, “I'm going to forget you ain't a man.” He followed Judith, clenching both his fists, CHAPTER Il. The Heritage of Hate. HE summer, with its beat and ) its labors, brought many ir- ritations to the clans at feud in the valley, and when it had gone it left no balm ip the house of elther Haines or Ghent. The da: of harvest, when they came at length, brought new aggra- vations to the warring tribes. Por- tent was rife in all the alr, Then it came at last—the merciless hour of the long-embittered foud—and the sounds of the shots and the smoke of the guna went floating away on @ acene ironically peaceful. Out of a cloudless sky the sun poured @ radiance caressful and comfortin Ja @ cloverfield @ few red cows were feeding homeward; and above an orchard, out beyond, @ thin blue colump of smoke was lifting—the evanescent banner of @ hearth-stone and a home, It was toward this habit- ation that Judith Haines was blindly hastening. Her eyes were wildly star- Ing, her dress was torn, and with all her strength she was dragging an empty rifle, muzzle foremost, through the brush, Bhe did not cry, though her wide- open eyes beheld nothing in all the world save @ scene tn which the figure of her father lay loosely prostrate on the earth, with a bullet through his heart, back there behind her in the furrow, She did not know, however, that her Uncle Mose had been mortally struck, of that two of the Ghents had been slaip by her kinsmen tn the fight. Panting, and making a strange, dry sound of grief and apprehension, the child came abruptly out of the growth of trees and shrubs to find herself con- fronted by the last dreadful scene of the tragedy, TAKE THE EVENING WORLD Her uncle, dying ip the very act, but fiercely vindictive to the end, was drunkenly pursuing young John Ghent, who ran before him helplessly, The man had @ hand axe clutched tn his relaying fist; the lad was utterly defenseless. Judith beheld young Ghent trip on ® root and plunge headlong to the earth, The wounded man behind him lunged forward and threw himself down upon his victim, His dying ac- tion followed quickly. It was a vicious but weak attempt at @ terrible deed with the axe. The effort cost him the last red spark of life, Then the boy struggled out from beneath the leaden weight, his hand to his jaw, which was severed in twain, and came running toward the place where Judith stood, with blood swiftly flowing between the Gngers pressed against his face, The meeting was not to be avoided, Young Ghent was makin ter’s home; Judith couk moved to save her life, She stood her ground, still clutching the uscless rifle, and the boy approached, beheld her there, and halted momentarily, Their childish glances met in a chal- denge of hatred, They stood thus exchanging the polson of the feud for fully a minute; then the lad passed on, and Judith, dropping her gun, ran with all her strength and all her fear to the bovse beyond the orchard, In the days that followed there were prayers to God in the houses of both Haines and Ghent, left barely ten- anted, for greater power with which to hate and destroy, Judith was schooled in fierce antagonism against the clan and friends of all the Ghents; young John was healed on hatred and the madness to exact an eye for ao eye from his neighbors, His severed jaw was knit a trifle crookedly; @ deep red scar to the left of his chin lent to the lad’s fine coun- tenance a sinister expression, like the hall-mark of tragedy and passionate emotions, On his chin he bore that scar de- flantly, determined that no persistent growth of beard should conceal it from the world, This was his sign of the debt he owed and the hatred he bore to all the tribe of Haines—who must one day pay him drop for drop of his blood, He and Judith had rarely met when at last his wish for a modern educa- tion had taken him far from the woods and mountains of Kentucky. WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you 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 Eyening World Mailed to Your Summer Address The girl had not even been made aware of his departure, and meantime, despite the passions of both herself and her mother, nature had laid certain wom- anly beauties upon her day by day. Sho had evolved to a majesty of ‘phy+ sical charm inseparabie, from feml- nine health and strength, She was exceptionally handsome, in & sombre, tragio manner that was splendid to behold, The sternness of her level gaze bestowed a dignity and exaltation upon her expréssion that stamps an unusual type. Neverthe- leas, so thoroughly had abhorrence of the Ghents been infused in the our- rents of her life that neither the bur- geoning of womanhood, the final death of her mother, nor her own de- parture from Kentucky to return no more, could allay that bitter passion within her breast, Thus they two had lived and grown their ways—the boy and girl, the youth and maid; and now at last fate had apparently divided forever the man and the woman with the heritage of hate, A environment, after years of wandering, and now a lonely man in all the jostling throng of sightsecing people at the exposition to which he had come through ecurt- osity, moved aimlessly outward toward a distant exit, through @ nar- row street of attractions, and felt himself wearied and satiated utterly by the miles and miles of displays and marvels past which be had lottered for ten long hours of the day. The alr was atifiing, Men, women end children were overheated, dusty and irascibie, ‘The sun bad doscended behind a gilded dome, leaving banks ft frowning clouds tn the sky to press the sultry heat upon the earth, Ghent firmly shouldered his way to the outermost edge of the torrent of human betn, and made progress more rapidly. Presently he halted, There, above the top of a fence sur- rounding 4 large inclosure, he beheld the monstrous dark aphore of a cap- tive balloon, a fascinating object as tt bulged against the sky, slowly, ma- Jestically oscillating as it tugged and strained at its moorings, CHAPTER Ill. A Second Meeting. T the end of a certain late eummer afternoon, Jobn Ghent, far out of bis true A man outside was raucously bawl- ing an Invitation to the horde to en- ter and explore the upper reaches of the planct, The view, the safety, the sensation and the thrill of a wonder- ful balloon ride-—all these and more were fluently depicted, and, what was more to the purpose, the balloon was “poing right up.” Whother an old-time boyish lon; or a hunger for cleaner air and @! tion lay at the root of bis impulse edge, let out one terrible abriek when ‘euddeniy deters novel delight of $1. 1016 heat neither knew nor inquired Me 4% the earth, Me bought « eed within, Anding ore apparatus about the captive te # to freah enjoy~ ment ‘The balloon a huge contrivances, # Che mig have done, endiossiy swaying back end forth tke @ caged beast pacing the @om- fines of ite narrow house In @ neve Og restionsness of spirit The bosket waa suffictently large wo accom 0 a number of passengers, but at present It contained two persone only, ‘a woman and the regular attendant ‘The woman, whore back wes turned toward Ghent, was talking to friends om the ground—two other women, whe either lacked the courage or the desire to undertake the sscension, The woman passnger was tall, superbly moulded, and bore certain unmistak. able signe of youth, despite the tact that her face not to be seen, An ofcial, to get away to hie roached Ghent brusquely, goin’ up, ett to wait here all night.” ‘and turned about to watch the engine and the men, “Let her go, Harry,” said the oficial, and instantly, as if in the Joy of action, the great bog steadied and began te rise. ‘To Ghent It seamed that the earth abruptly sank away in a quiet, orderly manner, broadening out and flattent down with @ sort of terrestrial anim tion new to his His lunge filled with uncontaminated air, Joy leaped in’ hia breast. He gased out afar to the smoky city that bad given birth to this dream-creation below him, He finally wheeled about to be- hold the scene unfolding on the ture ther side of the world they were steadily deserting, The young wo: an passenger was otill absorbed in gazing out Upon the earth planet roll. ing in space beneath her vision, Bho, too, presently thought of the view which the further side of the car must be affording, When she tutned und Ghent were face to “top of his lungs: face. ¢ was momentarily conscious that a magnificently handsome young woman with dark gray, deep set eyes and. the biackeat of hair was staring at him with @ look of alngular in- tensity, Then he knew that her strong right hand was slowly becom- ing a fist, and he felt somo fierce hurtling of antagonism spring from her being and give him chuilenge where he stood, It was Judith Haines before him, She had changed remarkably, while he had not. She knew him instantly, and he was utterly ignorant of her idontity. My the scar on hia jaw, by the light in his eyes, by the unaltered shape of his skull and face, he had boon revealed—the boy she had hated all these years more than she hated either deadly sin or hell, Her look, held Aim motionless, He neither comprehended nor dreamed what it signified to feel such @ scorn end abhorretice instantly directed NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL MY LADY OF DOUB By RANDALL PARRISH A romance of the Revolution with hero and heroina brought together in @ series ventures threaded on a decpena with every chapler. BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAYS EVENING WORLD wan hd bis betence wae lost ond 9 straight @& whi winds confusion, With one wild leap the ok upward riding the wreck tke 4 bubble on the ‘i in buoyant fury for ite wild companiona, the “hp bowled 4 bow rising, RoW downward, and rising ence again the utter confusion of the storm, The man and the womap brupuy left tomether im the cag caught at the basket instinetively the frat mighty pounce of cyclone, Judith's way stripped trom her now as she clung to he car, me of her halt was torn out eg the roots in the violence of the aotion, ‘The coils upon her head were savagely unbraided, Mer long black reasep whipped about her face were tangled in the ropes that supported the hasket, whe held with Ane young strength to her place, still staring at Ghent, half in hatred, half in terror, ae If she felt him in some way fee sponsibie for all this prodigious might Ghent recognized hi the midat of his ewift conviction that disaster and death were thetr portion, ff her aspect, as once in she faced him with both death. presence and death-menace in the air y breathed, had restored to hie memory the picture of a white-faced child with a rifle in her hands stand~- ing in his pathway and flinging her hatred upon him trom her eyes, while out In the field lay four men dead, two kin of his kin and two clunof her clan, and the feud still raging un- ended, He knew her by the eet of her mouth, the blackness of her hair and the undying venom in her challenge, He knew her, and loathed her ia- tensely, with matured and pent-up hatred that could live above thought of the storm or any scheme of destruction that lala could devise. He could almost have and not Et upon her throat the oar. It was or the peril of their his impulse—it was almply was @ woman and he scorned, strong male animal, to harm @ creature of her em. , Bho saw that she was known Bhe was glad he understood the abhorrence of her nature for he was and represented. copld almost have done some violence. Could any mad cyclone they FE efile] Fe sEEE : & g Hf Hit} upon him by @ woman strange to hie concentrated acqualntance, How long the two confronted each other thus across the frail structure that held them, neither was ever to bs know. Their exchange of mental and paychological fulminate was inter- rupted by « eilarp exclamation of the guard, He sald; “Good Lordi” Ghent started like @ creature at> his tacked from an unexpected quarter, He saw the attendant’s face abruptly blanch, ‘Then the man leaned far out over the car edge and bawled at the “Pull her down! Pull her down, Hank! For God's sake, pull her dowal” A terrific flash of lightning and a roar and detonation like the sudden explosion and rending of the very firmament came out of the aky. A huge black mass of clouds had swept upon them, driven by @ cyclone of wind, loosed at last upon the sultry upper reaches, Ghent beheld a cheap frame butld- ing on the earth below suddenly scat- ter into @ thousand separate planks and scantlings that hurtled away and upward like @ flight of unheard-of monsters, A gyrating storm had struck it and torn it literally into fragments, all of which were flung aloft in @ maelstrom of dust and smoke that rushed toward tha great balloon with a speed and fury tnde-~ seribable, One of the demolished building's sections of roof was driven end fore- most upward throagh the air, Just below the basket it struck the rope that anchored the tugging balloon to solid earth and parted its fibres as it, might have eut the merest strand of soap, ‘The rotating alr torrent pounced upon the helpless bag with @ flerceness nat to be resisted, The car was tilted aw it might have been by a. landslide, The attendant, etill leaning far out over the basket's art ae ee thus to bia co feud with naked Mande, 4a all fury of the elements and in all awsolation of the heavens, On opposite sides of the tilting car two human beings continued to cling, with a hatred greater than the raging storm between them, CHAPTER IV. A Duel of Wills, tated air, hurled onward with the storm. All night the two antagonised betags clung to opposite sides of the basket, wrapped in the utter blackness of the universe, . When the first faint streaks of day- light invaded the wind-swept heavens Ghent was seated in the car, staring into the gloom with sléepless eyes, his body, arms and legs half deadened by the strain and the long-continued fixity of @ cramped position, He not slept throughout the night He knew that Judith had also remained awake and sharply alert in alk: her penses, Bhe, like Ghent, had. ace tuated by one great instinct 7 velf-preservation, Karthward there was nothing 'visl- iatly arise, ble save billowing clouds that reflected the portent of the The roaring of the had The celestial silenoe, was orelas of absolute, by the creaking wtrained at a as t incl!