The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1920, Page 19

The Ghos By Amelie Rives rineess Troubetzkoy) tween Them Comes th WHE EVENING WORLD OFFERS A NEW BOOK IN SERIAL FORM} call out to her, but his tongue was Beautiful Woman, Dead a Hundred Years, but Who Still Moves and Loves To-Day. t Garden In the Shadows of a Haunted Garden in Old | Virginia a Man and a Maid Meet and Love. Be- e Hand of a Ghost—a } EVERY TWO WEEKS. hy Coppright, 1918, by Amelie SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Redford, * thet he can resist Bur Lis struguies wi hie 0 Seghia Pisunted’ hous led a dred eary Hote house ‘secims rae sae kaha ua i St the ghostly love continua He holiday to Virgivis, 01 at ie Veriale. Cn bunting trp nie rem beautiful Melany Horse te. Of the ghost, as over oTofiuence of the fae When hee tinds gatly Molany fa0e, ‘rin ‘wedding day and Lt marriage, elng crushed, a et CHAPTRR VIII. (Coutin acd.) THOUGHT a0, too,” she an- swered bumbly, ashamed) for so disappointing him yot incapable of lying to “oy more sa. chose... His eyes closed for an instant; only for an instant. They were enough the next, There had wa to him a fragrance of dumask roses, Let her oome if she but wide im even to save him and herself Mther that he couldn't quite rémem- pain, “And in @ way, I do love it But... you see though I don't feel her there any longer . . - 1 think of ber, All the time I'm) or—something very faint, yet heady and exotic, . ‘There was no breeas, or he would have thought it had blown to him from the garden. Strung sharply now, awake and alert, |he sprang to the edge of the bed and there, if I'm not thinking of her, I’ | sat sideways, lstening fust fighting it off. It’s as if she'd left something of herself soaked into the ‘very. walls. Amd now . . « when I see you so changed , . .” “ ‘Changed’?” stared Radford. “Bo thin—#o pale,” she exclaimed “It's as if 1 felt her harming you willing barm to you.” ‘They talked to afd fro in this strain ~ wmtil Hilton was reached, When be fet her, after dinner, driving back @lone through the fragrant April might, he felt mortally tired, fagged ody and soul by the strain to “keep ut up.” A week before the wedding, Steven ‘Caanpbell, who had been called from ew Orleans to New York, and then to Bogiand for some months, arrived at “Her Wish.” He was to act es “best man” to Radford, and his letters had been full of such an unqualified and Pebilant delight, both in his friend's engagement to Melany end his pur- chase of the old place, that Radford @ecided he had been mistaken about Steve having beea in love with the ‘L. There were two doors to his room, one opening on the main hall, one into the passago at the other end of which was Steven's bedroom. Why he should have fixed so certs | upon the door leading to the mau. hall, he couldn't tell; but as hoe sat, tense and breathloss, gazing at-it, the other door apened softly, and before he could turn to face it she had glided through and was standing in the moonlight opposite the bed. He gusped for the sheer beauty of the apparition. She had never sec ned to him before so utterly phantom- like and yet @o real. It was as if she through its folds the marvellous red of her hair flamed even in the cold| ble than the hues one sees in a wak- sense of something that ‘had beon realer than the hour itself er Radford ami Steve talload lots the night of bis arrival, end it was al- most morning before Radford finally wot to sleep. Guddenty he awoke with a start. ‘He had febt ber presence in the room. Gtill he M@d not move... It was #0 deficious to lie there in the moonlit room thinking over his queer fairy tale. He had a mutinous feeling that if she wanted him she must come to him. . . It was her “last chance” + . » He wouldn't seek ber any . a memory as of things forgotten but once dearer than life | pang of the heart-strings | gnief, wilder than joy an ec- stacy, unreasoning, unrel: ited to ren- son—the lift within him as of sc is ashes. And t like fame, that burns when all elso thie solf of bis self, fuel bent toward her as if blown by a under existing conditions. suit to order, including ex Uncalled for Suits Ready to Wear Open U others, suit.and extra trousers. AL 70 Nassau ‘St Corner Daylight Workrooms: Never Before! Never Again? EXTRA TROUSERS FREE Suits te Order SO'SS After taking inventory I find myself heavily overstocked’ for this time of the year, and for this reason I am slashing prices more than half. my four stores a wonderful line of Woolens, consisting of BLUE SERGES, FANCY WORSTED, TWEEDS, CASSIMERES and CHEVIOTS. 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He had the sense of fragrance, faint and exotic, floated | holding her by his will as by a fing, toward him, chung delicately, like a|strong thread, web finer than that the ancients she came to the slender called “woven wind;” he was under | ¢ her grave she passed its invisible tent with her, closed'in|to the other side, then turned and as by some magic vapor less tangi-|gain confronted him; but her face ing dream. And with it there came reminiscence, vasue yet polgnant—a once 4 the swimming immonsity of the mo- wilder than | ment ome | given and returned on the brink of prisoned self that he had once known | and lost all knowledge of, yet that was | the very sclf of his very self, the in- | nermost vital spark of him, the flame $ are. JHUNDREDS,.OF | READY-TO-WEAR.» 10 OVERCOATS & strong wind that came from fen: A wen. opirit was held to hie quaking THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1920. ing that she should be very happy, | S20 414 not Rear him or know that el dread inconvelvably @reater than any less spaces, that streamed tow was following. he had yet known, but she felt ne ‘ Eee at euadenly, with & gontute awift and and yet, 1m spite of this feeling asd) "Ht tod was ih danger *¢¢in dan-|feur Vith drenched forehead and heart strangely | ® all her will set on it, sho was Not) gereeein danger? **and What thi®| Now she had left the avenue of fi renin drenched forencad one er velle cla the dark eyes heavy a lide | happy. Something vaguer thas|Ganger was she Koow. That waa theland was rising up the termnced lawn meeting, With al} the power of the as with the opiate of se doubt, neither as hot not as‘cold aa} ° pr brain, but she her- | as she had once flown down it, when will which he seemed to have recov- there was no longer « ay fly ih fat within |20if her whole self, mind, soul and|y child, from that terrible portralt, |ot cred from ultimate depths, her dark, imploring. Full of LS rgb oe tile es Aner ola "\ body, waa flaming With a will that| gome tense chord in her twanked wit! inel ble eyes But they no longer an exquisite, soft malice—languid, de- | her, dimming Joyousness. mtd Deen re-kindied as by the stroke Commande; |) ¥ implored—it Wag liberate And 'imperioum—they dwelt on| It was nearly 1 o'clock before she|of @ sword of flame. She was not us if they beseeched him for some- thing which was hers and yet which he possessed . . . as’ if she were | pleading for her own but for some- those st with t ‘thing as much his as hers. . And as he stood, bruising his own spirit with the jron of his will bent against her, she turned, with an infinite soft melancholy of drooped head and list- ess arms, away from him. He tried | tied. He took @ step towards her, land at. that she turned her head, and vised again to his, her imploring s, And again there floated to him | that faint yet piercing fragrance, And it was us if he had known bo} nd her from time immemorial, . Where or how, he could not remam. ber—only that she had implored him | then as now; and then as now, it had been his will alone that stood be- iweon them, | A blackness came ibefore his eyes. struck at it with his hand as hit were a cloth that hed fallen them. It passed and he swW The room was empty of| lr jth cutly. great pang seized him; he ke @ man parting with his J soul, and rushed headlong to tho r, along the hall, down the stairs | following like'a hound by the |scent of that faint fragrance. Ho saw her again, passing across the terrace towards the rose-garden. He could hear the rustle of her skirts stiff with silver threads that caught tho moonlight. The veil that | Was ty a bride's, dimmed the out+ Jiine of her @gure, She was real . « yet she was like a moonlit cloud jfloating before him. . . . He must know. .., He must know. . .°. His will held her now. She must not withdraw again until she had told him what she imploréd, , . . Until she had yielded him her secret. . And as ho held her with his will drawing her back from her strange escape... he saw, as it lwere, fine iridescent cobwebs, spread {upon che grase where she had passed Then cried out |he noticed how a rose, brushed by ler passing, swayed as from @ du- was hidden now by the transparent, noony veil that enveloped her from read to foot. White flowers held this ! in. place—small flowers with iden hearts—orange-dlossoms, , . « She was dressed like a bride. On their fragrance drifted to him, faint yet piercing, subtly honeyed and Jalluring as the thought of kisses some sweet death... . The thread by which he held her seemed now finer than ‘a star's spinning . . . less tangible than a ray of sound, too swiftly vibrant for | morta! hearing . . . seemed indeed \the ineffable filament by which his Extra Pants FREE lO: I place on sale at all *10 Odd Trousers $5 00 Odd Vests idea of his with @ look as sovereign as had f her unveiling. moment that seemed an immortality, li, immutable eyes fixed him resistless y, delicately, she amlled: this smile, exultant and ensorcelling, seemed not only for him, but for the death—-as ahe with a splendor that feeble life as could be touched by —the marvellous, living ghost, ding triumphant over her owa peen the air as upon him... abyss... if what he por sword; ding day, loft and leaned 1 flash of mihgied eostaay and terror, that wild vertigo of the spirit if he were polsed on thé brink of a measureless as if he were being drawn toward it by some power atronger Noe or death... salf the abysa that drew him... as if she were eased and that was Fa t hors was that very self of the very self in him that bent towards her fluent like flame. . noe—he Knew that th to had turned against him, that ho had fallen on his own will as on a for it was his own will that wont him to her, step by step, nearcr, nearer, until he touched fairy hands And all at| “will he clung | HAT night, the eve of her, wed- when Radford had her to return to “Her her open window, feel the Melany that Radford had known, lay down upon her bed, sinking Im-| 1. she ran, tense dnd gathered to the mediately Into @ profound sleep. But) yright of her being, through the! she had not slept more than a few|strange, suffocating night. She folt minutes when with a bound sho wa) Ss on her feet again. The very violence | of this bound from the soft deptis of | sleap into a wakefulness so sliar) and cutting that she seemed to ‘ave | alighted on edged Miinta, dashed away | from her for an instant the memory of | what it ‘was that had s0 florcely | rousod her, ‘The next, It crashed | down on her like the collapse of a Suspended wave, that falls all the harder for its brief pause, She had seen him, Hvan (she knew that she had seen him, not only dreamed of him), with the rigid, ex- preasioniess face .of a corpse, yet | moving swiftly, the eagerness of bis | body contrasting horribly with that | }atili, death-mank of hia face—moving awiftly towards some appalling dan- ger. 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