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SOOPER. BVeatag World Dally Magaitne: Tharaday: August 37 1916: THE NEWS. |Your Vacation «ute. By Jack Callahan! ! xx wens courier Nowe COMMANDMENT). MY LADY OF DOUBT ‘ . or sua waeatine te By RANDALL PARRISH t le \° - me on a mydery that Woman, turned primitive by necessity, come at deepens with every chapter. last to love as intensely as they lad hated. XT MONDAYS EVI BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD emerges we Pewee i ote munched «! hie fone er -— The second long day of Ghent's ob Grvcrme fence had commenced. Judith had ee ee > @ ex Getete mite oud. w ody Rey ys gg ons Gaming © bone wnt eangnnnry tok Save at ie » taenee on , a ae fin Bs ae eat Bee tom Het tering Oe Sew hiMbot Lyon the shelter Chent had mase BBO ey ee ee , < felt he would ver return, ; pie is 8 eee ey ek emme e 5 - : however, could Judith oe pemen ore tele, 4 tam In idleness, Dressed ' faliem sinh tnt ovens ae * to ome oeain soon, and bothered @ by a ee ee) te uncontrolied strands of her hair, HoPE You HAVE Ne eee a LT velar tone hin tratlen sows 5 A NICE TIME her forehead and into one Le ; 4 Ghat deme een, waihen maid 6 AIM tres ioig from a wile wea Boss, SENO ME J Be ethan, They 01s Newat No primitive meme front locke upon It, end suddenly | A POSTAL €EF REMEMBER Seeeee Gand te proving woe the bind 0nd cnt @ plan for r hereeif You GET A CHANCE You, BOYS : Gad Mo ot the cna sed Wo taadion the rate (im © wees eould ° PlamenLe ond siniiary necmmaary to Heir esietene burn them olf | Bebe dieser 6 mare in which ine mine yeas = The operation, with Judith, was « Retewe hed perished ofier wuihing @ ii The bot brief affair, Heturning to her cave, : Gass eEw 04 modes life ts the casts simast Bho blew Upon certain of t ' Y fesombie core pone, capable of ous: taining bumed iife fhe ground up cross pleres on whieb they were und. WIth bls potnted stakes, how. 4, be found it pormible to loosen thetr grim scheme of life, and nothing Vp the sand, which he pawed out wits more bie bande, eemteretic, Both snimel ond regeiaite ive be Ing embers of her broakfaat-fire, and) Ee © dingpes, Jone dette wy coming the thus secured @ number of twigs With alarming abruptness the He found the gravel packed and Gea We cont bumes hatitations, Nearly cremmi Slowing hot for inch er eo of ard. (by est ond privaiion be punue tie mings we thelr length, With two of thene kept ee ee eee ea ae ree a eusinn Teton tae Ls Pate” 1 the deer, alive in her hand she hastened once Oe Oe et ne oe cate ie eee | ee , ‘ ih one otitl peel] freshest obtainable leaves upon the handicaps, he labored unceasingly, ; of Whigti Phe Gal SreviONSY Glas her shelter, The heat from dawn to eucoseding at last in excavating @ CHAPTER XIV. fies Hebsaek, "| dusk was terrible, All the oasie was cavity perhaps @ foot in depth, Into ' (Contieued,) | parching, Aldere and willows lost thie it seemed to him @ somewhat It the work of @ ment The City of Dreams. fe Berd rr unane Peer peed thetr follage prematurely, especially increased trickle of water was BICKENING eenso of his tat annoyed her #0 constantly and prone bag ppabbaieade: said pee Mey be asaily asaeeed helplessness gave way to o At ame aaratuceerelaces| ‘The oun beat down upon the rocky % permit the spring to clear, A Greater emotion tn Ghent'e to her scalp, the locks were ready | pt sides of the canyon with mere! — stubborn being. He would for the brand, She caught up one HAVE YOU DECIDED bal aoe directn The world of mountains CHAPTER XVIII. not give up! He would not of the twigs with red fire aglow upon | HOW YoU WILL eomreree, Wie sr wes: Cony The Duel With the Heat and defy the very fates! It meant the hot conl straight wong the twig VACATION, squirrola had disappeared; a very lowed the spring had filled @oilng back—all the long way back to on which her hair was ro! burned EODIE ? few rabbite remained, and they were the hie that Ghent bad supernaturally timid, Man and God scratched in the gravel together had made the oasis almost ‘Tae water waa alightly dis- a lifeless desolation, colored, but good, Judith waa first Judith, meantime, despairing of at the place, She drank, refilled her meat, bad discovered that the acorns rock-basin, from which Ghent bad were ripening, The manzanita ber- partaken as he labored, and carried ries also wore red and rapidly drying. it off to her camp. The work ‘They contained a white mealy aub- achieved by tho man had apparentiy atance, decidedly sweet and undoubt- lont @ new vitality to the well. edly nourishing, Sho gathered ® As if to blast the hopes in his !quantity in the torn, wretched folds breast which his digging at the of her skirt and munched at them spring had raised, the noon eun bungrlly, again absorbed the water, and the ‘The acorns continued to be bitter heated air quivered above the very and arently useless, Nevertheless, hole, parching the sand and trees she gathered several handfule and about it, By sundown there was broke them open on @ stone, They hardly @ spoonful of water at the tay In the gun before her cave, and hole, Once more that evening Ghent grains of jaid his hands and sharpened sticks "the mountain oasis—back to the !t off in @ clean straight line as H neatly as a barber could have cut It opr truggie—and a. struggio—and to Judith “ine climbed the slope and, pro- | ceeding to the shelter, stood with | He laughed aloud, in a terrible folded arms disdainfully looking It Manner and started dizzily south- over. There lay the cordage he had ward, facing the quivering desert he fetched from the valley, and there had travetied, lay his bow, unstrung, with @ number of arrows beside it, The ashes of hie former fires lay tn a sinall gray heap, cant protection of a friendly shelf ut the edge of which were bones half lof rock he could never have told. burned and greasy, For @ moment Mow long ho lay there, panting and she thought of taking the bow, er Which she felt certain she could y retaining his sanity, concerned saidiy fastiion additional arrows, im not in the slightest degree, AX phen a scorn for anything and much by instinct as by design, he everything that a Ghent had made arose, toward sundown, and stag- or handled brought a hard compres- How he staggered at noon to the gered off southward doggedly—bound sion on her lips and a taht of con tpg ang bulging eyes, his atubhle- squirrel, the first that she had cap- pursult of lesser creatures, ihe ohlnkel wiih: preatéclatonesiaad omy ct on ee 1 the Ganie ofl parmtulibesa epee ca home. tempt to her eyes, The things tat bearded face a mask of agony—al- tured, bad been caught and hanged In the silent warfare waged against adding to the helght of all the bar- hat wasn Bie almost con- the gravel for the precious drops of He walked till nearly midnight. Ry all Me here and rot! When 8h wayy with that sinister scar upon his by one of the nooses which Judith every edible creature alive in this rier, laste laserait ean lelarea slated. UAC, orhet onaas thers Tae then he had topped the range of hilly Needed a bow she would make one jy, had wet in the runways, She found slender strip of green, the animals still At sunriso tho following morning M4nlly desperaly Nunely lt tie ee a iny, till Ghent had gone, he had scaled at dawn going north. She turned to the spring. A cer- ‘The man fell forward on the earth it while her rage was still upon her, surviving evolved new suspicions, new Judith and Ghent, ouch independently tg" without meat for two or three then drank of the rolly trickle, and ward. tain sense of freedom stole upon he, and crawicd to the water, He drank and waa somewhat mollitied. Never- cautions, new fears. They avolded old of the other, went down the ravine ‘ic at a time, thont too, had dis. herself worked for more than an Ghent gazed across the mighty land espectally now that Ghent’s shelter Hut a sip, then rolled upon his back theless, resentment burned tn her runways, thoy sought the spring at toward the newly bullded barrier, Covered the manz. a berries, ‘Ths hour, removing the sand he had cast from the rocky summit where he had been visited. There could be M9 and jay there motionless, staring at bosom with every thought of Ghent's unaccustomed hours, they fled from frightening three rabbits before Acorns he had not essayed to sample, from the hole to render further made his bed and fancied he could restraint upon her actions. She WAS the cy, descent upon her trap, and some the near approach of either the man them. Before they camo to the open fust discern the great V cleft in the all alone, The trip of greenery WO8 Judith had felt her heart give one flerce determination to retaltate, or to or woman, in terror of their live: space between the greenery and range so far to the southward—the hers; the spring, the sunlight—every- great bound of—she knew not what, beat him with ber hammer, should Thus, with every succeeding day the wall they beheld each other, and ex- range of the green oasis, While he thing was hers. She stripped off her ghe did not care to know. Until he ever repeat the robbery, surged task of procuring food became more changed a glance which, while ft Jooked a lustrous star burned in glory clothing and bathed In the water pearly midnight she watched through 4! morning in her blood. Meult, especially for Judith. She sel- blazed with undiminished enmity, Ho cut a cone from one of the stunted excavations less irksome, pines, however, and by heating it on The battle with the eun and heat & bed of coals forced it open and tad barely commenced, The morning shook out @ handful of rich brown that came upon the withered oasis was nuts, thin of shell and delicious to no less flerce than its predecessors, ; } skled down Sts channel from For Gh ae ‘ ; mac ivp.in the very angie of the V. that trickled down the darkness of the mountain gorgo For Ghent, the day became, per- dom killed anything with her sling, nevertheless conveyed @ sort Of tagte, Mor thé. thipd. Uine Giank ratenand jo the well, She shook down her hair poeiie she sought her be - force, a time of rest and recu le Ghent, with his bow, became a unc ding, such two wild “ Bimoment he thought It must be ae tried to comb it with her Angers, PAFOTS ATO SUEY: HAE UG LOE ETRE: eres Wille ent, WB: Nebo ween e Maas ataNe Ae on Daily the pool of water at the spring to the digwing, Judith had fetched Judith’s camp-fire, glowing in the roled. Yet, de. Bet never a sign of the man come tion, He lay hour after hour by the deadly marksman, She redoubled her coyotes might exchange. night—a beacon light of comfort and It was hopelessly tangled, i home did the darkness surrender to *Pring, breathing the cooler alr that efforts to acquire a needed skill, for h Judith had come with her sling and of home. ‘Then he know it was not, spite ite condition, it was a SIOFIOUB non view, played above the water and sleeping traps were becoming less and less re- a club, Ghent was armed with bow Was diminishing, There came a noon her rock receptacle, to leave it bence- when there was levy than a quart of forth at the spring. He sank into dreamicss sicep, and mantle to her shoulders. She Wa% Ghent had expended his last frantic AWAY the physical fatigue and mental Mable. and arrows. ‘They avsiulted the thres Water in the hole. | That seepage poe ber of AM sr tia 2 Phe mighty procession of the spheres, SUPerb—a natural creature im @ yi, ot strength to reach tho @gonies to which for three days be ‘Tho creatures of the strip had al- darting rabbits simultaneously—and f° bed the pool by subterranean pros * Ghent could dig no deep- cesses Ghent was thoroughly con- to waste vinced, He know he must come there @! however, tll he cleared ‘away th: at dusk to dig in the earth and fol. #and that surrounded the well, He natural environment. spring. He slept on the earth beside had been subjected. most disappeared. They had been de- both of them missed, ‘working out the destinies of planets, . ; easy victims of In the blindness of thelr fear, guns and moors, swung westward in Against the hunger that returned the pool, where Judith had seen him By evening the man was consider- Voured. The grouse, ing of th® Aounder dow! ably restored. Ghent's barbed shafts, had been the baffled, as thoy were, by the wall of desert realms of space, once more with the wan lounder down. y restored, He was once more f 5 5 . ™ poi ‘day there was no fresh captive In Lpupeapestciarsel hungry; he was willing, however, to firet to suffer extermination; the quail etone, two of the cottontaila ran to- low the alnking water to @ deeper pees gretbeietay sey oe get oeet St CHAPTER XV. the traps that Judith visited, She CHAPTER XVI. shoot or capture something for him. Were vanishing rapidly. Numbers of ward Judith, as if to eacapo between #0Urce so ces IA RGE: ORE RURMaD He Careers . went to bed hungry--and once again A Savage Partnershi, telf before he should once more eat, the squirrels had succumbed to Judith’s her very feet. Ghent had notched — All afternoon in his darkened ahel- hideipterer ware yeh ; The Acme of Loneliness, the down-creep of the night banished f ip. With a thought of his bow, which he developing skill with her aling. Not a another arrow, but he could not shoot ter he labored with his knife, sharp- 0 wee o ching alort <] ; ; vel of the sun and atmosphere, er spirit of dominion, all her f OR Judith, the return of knew w; | few of the rabbits had abandoned thei hi manoeuvre of the rab- ©ning sticks for drills and a shovel © all her spirit of domin knew was still lying on the gravel at few of the rabbits had abandoned their in the rapid manoeu “ with which to perform the work of He had scratched out the sand for ut bore more than ono Sq) ULITH HAINES, left to her- in | ‘ F vense of ownership and freedom tn his camp, his reflection strayed to burrows to creep much farther down bits, J welt in the mountaln strip {)080 Sl in its place came tho signiiicance when once juuith n'a atransely eager manner, the orge and dig ancw “Grab them! Grab them! Hit excavating at the bole, He lashed @ f POLAT OF earn ire uo of greenery, had undergone i ougnts of her utter loneliness in the | again sho awoke to the j0, : h Both Judith and Ghent discovered thom!" he cried—tho first words with Dumber of atout willow stakes, thus 1° ; «in @ frensy { many sensations when at ‘MOUs ntdie lianas oversrelentiosn needs of lite .o% fecond some haunting fear 4 toll jantle sharpened, to croas pieces, forming a St the bottom of the two-foot trench dies and 02 har Atte daw of S0RInitOn Banatitie’ So Bipge® echoed from his terrible experiences this ruse, and followed relentlessly, which he had addressed her, . Teb uad tocned wits Ue eae eae abso found _ That this sense of her isolation ane following day. her slated solitude Pah ih ound would tend to Increase upon her daily he first and most tmportant fact wrappe: n reflections before he out on the desert, possessed his mind, Judith became aware of another im- Like @ leopardess for quickness and SCooD. To the whole he lashed @ aub- She might have gone in his absence Portant fact, The rabbits that ran flercenoss, she pounced upon the stantial handle, Other pleces he mere- made aware on the following @dduced was this—there could be no — ang the woman, though forever of ©Ven out of the green boundaries and scurrying rabbits and clutched them ly prepared for loosening the earth something metailic, A moment later he had completely unearthed a point nse she , . of steel that gave him @ mingled sen- open cave, Just before sunset she Os when aguin she gazed across Scape from tho desert. Since he, & the hated tribe of Haines, was never- Mto the rock heaps below the oasis, in her hands, In her savage fingers and roots of plants, for the digging joi of petty ciasalahenent aaa had slain a rabbit with her sling Hae the gorge to Ghent's rude shelter in Strong man, had attempted the labor tholess a human being. where the two perpendicular wails they were almost immediately slain, would be no oasy task, gratitude, It was the end of a pick, traps were set. Her grim scheme of ih, socks and beheld it still unten- 4nd failed, It meant that the track- Heretofore too weak and dizzied to formed @ natural gate at Its lower She arose with them, panting, flung At sundown he carried bis imple- “11 feverish haste he clawed at the Hving had abated not a jot of its iy: fierceness, A hundred times she went to t! Nevertheless, the night brought on’ ning that day, and as often 1 Jess desolation must extend all about at remember anything, he now forgot ©Xtremity, Invariably back-tracked one to Ghent, without a word, and ments to the drying well, and stood sy piement, and presently, prying and them for leagues, They were doomed, junger, his weapons, aid every bodily #hd returned, as if unwilling to go returned up the gorge to her cave, there gazing at the all but vanished iiyging with all his might, unbedded they (wo, together to remain here need in the almost childish deinand of f@r around or to remain for long esau pool, His digging, he knew, would 89 ing tool, remarkably preserved — a @ poignant realization of all that it joined to her cave. Her work could battling for existence tll the fates iy underlying nature to behold a &WaY from cover, ‘Therefore it was CHAPTER XVII. disturb and roll the water that ® jiiner's implement, rusted and oozy meant to be living here alone, aban not fasten her attention, She made Should release them, perchance by ¢ejjiow creature of his kind. He that she spent all one morning In An Added Tort drink would be out of the question wiry moisture, its handle rotted only ‘doned by the other human being With i confession to herself that John death Itself climbed the slope toward his shelter, fetehing and piling slabs of atone to in orture. for hours, Nevertheless, 1t was Work on the end. whom she had come to the desert, (ht wan on her mind, troubling her Meantime, as always, however, sho Judith'a cave was presently in form @ barricr across the gorge be- NT and Judith, by tacit he could not negiect, Even since noon — 4t was almost too much to believe. ow it would ucem on the morrow, jnascountably; she would not admit must llve—and her hunger was ra- wight, but his eves could discern no ¢ween the walls at ite sides, nsent, became a pair, #0 the supply had visibly diminished. nen @ sickening thought of how it end after a week, and after a month tsar ghe wished him back, much as was early abroad inthe Judith at its mouth, Down the slope, Her plan was to make the place a far as the hunting was con- While be paused to take ove last long came to be here made him weak with had passed sho could not even faintly gi, must hate him should he come; making inspection of her and down through the greenery, he CUl-de-sae Into which she could drive corned, ‘There had been no draft, Judith came walking up ber despair, The two famished miners segniecture, That such an enforced j..vertheless, it was not for the water traps, ‘The first sight sho caught of hastened, past the line that he men- the helpless cottontatls for slaughter, more speech between them. well trod trail, bearing ber hollowed- who had died above at the cave in fgolation must soon become terrible. tat she climbed the gorge so many Ghent, at sunrise, aroused all the pas- tally acknowledged divided her region The space between the last green had no need for words, and no out stone, In which she was wont to the branch ravine—they bad fetched ‘ghe could have no doubt. The thought ines, nor to make an inspection of sions of her Mfelong hatred against from his own, and at length phon growth and her wall she cleared of Mclination for companionship. They carry water, Ghent turned about and thie pick to the #pring—and they, of living on and on, slaying the DITdS jor traps, him, In bis weakened condition, and pon her, working to cut out some @Very brush and stone that could Merely hunted the game In league, aw beheld her, In silence thoy exchanged like himself, had delved tn the earth and beasts for food, speaking to 10 Phere was nothing to tell her that With a memory of what he had found willows with one of her corset-steel @helter the smallest of her victims, the hungered coyotes had learned @ long, questioning glancy when the spring was drying up—and ‘one, seeing no being of her kind, de- out jn the glare of the valley, to the on the morning of his departure from knives, The place, crudely finished but selfs from necessity to hunt Beholding the tools t Ghent had still had perished for labk of drink! generating rapidly into a savage fe- north, @ half-craged man was stag- the gorge, he had come once more to Ho halted too far away to surprise explanatory, was found by Ghont on Morning and evening they took up made, Judith was immediately ap- Their work bad been done in vain! male hermit—thie was but faintly poring paintully home; nevertheless, Judith's trap—and there she beheld her at her labors, She had neither @A early excursion down the gorge Understood positions and beat all the prised of his intention, ‘The maa, for Tho further they pursued the lite; guggested to her mind, for she unrest was in her bosom, and she btn rob her of a grouse hoard nor seen him, Ho remained for @t the heela of a rabbit. He gaged undergrowth toward the wall below, his part, divining the use to which giving iaolsture the further it would shunned the prospect fn dread, wandered back and forth at random, Ha snatched tho bird i moment only, The part of hia nas Upon tt approvingly. It would help slnee the ever-increasing scarcity of her receptacle could be put, stood shrink from their lips. ‘The conviction AN that day she had roamed the — Phe sun went down at length upon With no thought compunction, ture that was savage aroused his old them both, Nevertheless, the partic. birds or rabbits had compelled them lo to permit her to fll it, before wes almost overpowering, yet so etub- small green theatre of life, hungry. the blistered world of rock and moun. obeying only the instincts of solf- hatred of & Haines, ‘Then he heard ular cottontail he had hoped to shoot to this grim and allent partnership operations should commence, She, born i# life and the clinging thereto unkempt and disturbed, When at tain, Once again, at dusk, as she had preservation, Still extiausted, half- the distant whistle of a quail, and re- had slipped through the wall where of Interests therefore, filled tt carefully, exhaust- that Ghent set more madly to work Jength she rotired within her cave so many times all afternoon, she as- f shed, and aware of his physical turned to his camp for his weapons. @ tiny ehink that seemed far ton Despite the arts of capture that ing the spring's deepest cavity in the than before, trenching the sand with that night she had no thought of fear. eonded the silent ravine to a point in incapacity for hunting and slaying for During the week that followed small for its v Ad offered escape they had both acquired, however, and process, Not much more than half @ tho tmplement that the earth had Bhe heard the how! of some prowling tho alders trom which she could look his needs, he took this meat as a Ghent's return, the round of exist: from the man ae the understanding between cupful of water remained in the hole yielded to his hand, coyote that came here to hunt, He straight downward at the spring, panther might have taken it, and ence for the pair of agonized and Ho put down his weapons and t 19 two could do nothing to re and none flowed In to replenish the ‘Till the furnace of heat was once hunted in silence, and finding her There was nothing there, with equal readiness to tight for its isolated beings settled down to one worked till dark supplcmenting alt Plenish the daily decreasing nw ‘» supply. more searing the very flesh in his trap, wherein a belated quatl had been = About to turn and leave the place, possession, if necessary, as far as bis endless tale of hunger and desperate that Judith had ac ome ished, filing of vite and other creatures of the Judith retired, returning to ber bones the man continued at his labors, captured at dusk, killed the bird and ghe started abruptly and strained a weakness would permit me ass i © xteip cave, On one smooth, flat rocks When he felt himself obliged to aban+ robbed the trap, devouring his victim |ittle forward, her breath coming With blazing eyes Judith watched : us gene During all this time the heat had at her feet lay a score of the dried don the task at last, he had barely on the spot. short and rapidly, for no earthly him, She made no movement, Her rown, 4f possible, more intense than and broken acorns, She took up @ prepared the way for the tunneling hy In the morning a recond of Judith’s reason that she knew. A moment presence was not detected. With the % TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION ee eee a yuatin “ch Cornel and ate ts Techer auppriae and wuat IAG partorss (a tollale the aaae engines of capture had performed its later one of the clumps of willows bird in hand, and tearing its skin and So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and Ghent that first discovered this vital delight it had lost not @ Little of its retreating water, Halt starved, ho functions, slaying a grouse, Bho had above tho apring of water awayed as feathers from it as he walked, Ghent may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other and alarming fact could make no dif- bitterness; 4 was crisp, nut-like and climbed to tho cooler shadow of his meat in abundance, Khe breakfasiod if some heavy welght had swept Went at once to his siielter, built him cial feat Include tt { il Hi ference to either, for both were press agreaable to her palate, She ate half stone-and-earthen camp and lay thera Beartily for once, and set her traps agoinat it, Then Ghent reoled weak- a@ fire, and resumed his dominion of Special features, Include them in your summer reading. ently aware that a new and terrible a doaen, ‘Then she stopped to con- motionless upon the earth, far too pros. anew, discovering tho feathers loft on ly into wlght--a terrible figure, epent, half of the green o Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address doom was daily threatened. ‘The sider a now idea trated to gather nuts and berrtes, the ground where the lone coyote had all but mad, ghastly, with swollen Fortunately, @ large, fat ground ug Was drying up. A; occurred to her that the hard, dry (To Be Continued) ~ ——- , ‘ } J ~ r -