The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1922, Page 18

“hal j Setremen / THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NINTH INSTALMENT. \ WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. MARK KING, who has made a name for himself in Klondike, and now in the Sierras is on the trail of a gold mine supposed to be somewhere near the fone cabin where Gus Ingle was murdered on Lookout Ridge. The partner in his venture is an old friend, and da GLI BEN GAYNOR, who admits he is in financial straits, although his wife hter entertain themselves in San Francisco's fastest social set. RIA GAYNOR is like a dream to Mark wilderness, and of course he falls in love with her, King. Sagi | out of the He goes to her birthday party ‘with a yourg cub as a gift, but realizes that Gloria considers him only a Movelty and my is interested in MR. GRALTON, a suave person, of whom King is distrustful, SWEN BRODIE, a brute mountain outlaw, is trying to get Gus Ingle’s secret out of LOONY HONEYCUTT, old hermi it of Coloma, who Knows the secret of Lookout Ridge but who is too enfeebled to make the search. King has offered Loony den business trip to the country. Coloma. Glon. regrets her “lark and learns that Gratton has registere i as “G: three thousand dollars cash for the information, but has been refused. Gratton received a telegram and begs Gloria to motor with him on a sud- They drive all night and arrive at dawn in seeks rest in a small hotel. Later she ratton and wife.” Gloria s father has been seriously hurt and lies ill in the same hotel. Gloria is commiss‘oned to take a package to the lodge’and meet Mark King. Gratton rides with her anc begs her to marry him. A FORCED WEDDING. ey". know how I love you," he was repeating. And he was sincere; she saw that in his eyes, in the unaccustomed color in his face. He loved her as such an unclean animal could love. Oh, how he sickened her! ‘‘Will you marry me, Gloria? Will you forgive me for having, however unintention- ally, placed you in a wrong light; will you give me the right to protect yau, to defend your good name? Oh, Gloria"’— Strange that the man had never re- " volted her as he did now! = “You will come to me! You will marty me?" “T—think—#0,—Don't!" she cried sharply as he moved to come to her. “Wait"'— He swallowed nervously. "'I—I hoped you would. And I saw how terribly the events of the lust few houts might be miscoystrued. So, Gloria, daring to hope, | sent word for a Justice of the Peace.- He will be here this afternoon or this eve- ning’ — ‘The bell ‘rang. Two men entered solemnly. “My dear," said Gratton, coming forward us though to meet her and then pausing abruptly and holding back, ‘'this Is Judge-—Judge Summer ling. He will—perform the ceremony, you know. And this is Mr. Jarrold. He brought the Judge and will be a witness.” “Now, folks, if you're side by side’*— “On!" cried Gloria, “Eh? What's that?" demanded the “Judge.” She tried to smile, A QUEER CEREMONY. Mark King wi wakened by old Jim rushing into the room, ‘lighting @ lamp hastily, and making a deal of clatter, He sat up demanding: “Has Ben come?" “No, Ben ain't back,’ he grinned at King. “Guess he'll be surprised when he does come. His girl's gettin’ her- elf married. To that city guy, Grat- ton. Right now in the house!" What!" King had heard well enough, but that ‘“‘What!"" broke from him explosively. “Better come along, vited. ‘You don’t se day. Comin'?" “No, thanks, King rose and went to the door and stood Inoking after the swiftly de- parting figure. He saw the house. the windows bright with lights, light streaming out through the door to the porch. There was Gloria. Just there. Gloria was marrying. And there was the end of it—the end of everything, it dawned on him. He, who had never looked twice on a woman, had looked thrice on her and again He, the one- woman man. had found the one woman—and had lost her. Gloria was marrying. Gratton, Now He looked up into the sky bright with stars; Its great message to him was “Emptiness.” The world was empty life was empty. There was nothing simply because Gloria had come, had laughed into his eyes, and had gone ready. Stand Mark,” he tn- weddin’ every on. He would never see her again after to-night. He started and hurried toward the house. There was a window: the shade was not drawn; the curtains were blowing back and forth. He drew close and stood, watching. He saw her. Her back was turned to him; her head was down. He watched her fingers moving nervously at hor sides and his brow contracted with a sudden accoss of patn. Not once did he move his eyes from her. “She did not turn toward him but as the ‘Judge’ began talking she Mfted her head and King saw her throat, her cheek. How pale she was— “And do you take this man to be your wedded husband?" King did not want to hear the an- ewer; he turned to go. But hear now he must, for though until now re- sponses had been low-voiced, hardly above a murmur, he heard Gloria n “No! No and no and no!"* King stoppec like a man paralyzed. “He is a beast and I hate him!" cried Gloria wildly. ‘He tried to trick me and trap me. He tried to make me marry him. ButI won't! J wont! 1’é rather die.” Her voice died chokingly away, and for five seconds it was deathly still. Still King did not move. He heard Gratton’s exclamation, Gratton’s hur- ried step. The man was excited, was expostulating. “Have you gone mad, Gloria?’ King could hear the words now, “Think what you are saying’'-— “I have thought. I hate you. away. Let me go. Gratton’s pale eyes must be ablaze with wrath now; his tone told that “There's no way out for you, You've got to marry me, [''—— “Take your hand o! Her voice broke Go > vem, anger this time. King mystified, look~ “You're hurting me'’—— And now Mark King moved at last Before the last word had done vibrat- ing through the still room h6 was through the window, taking the short- eat Gratton’s hand was of ; King threw it off, hurling the man backward across the room. Gloria turned to him—- “Mark!” she cried. ‘Oh, Mark King!"" He put his arms about her, think- ing that she was going to fall For nn instant he held her tight; he felt her heart beating as though it would burst through her bosom. “You won't let him’ He moved with her to a chair, placed her tn it, and turned toward Gratton, a look like a naked knife in bis eyes. “By jings!"* muttered old Jim under his breath, “By jings!"* A SCENE. “I am no boy to be thrown aside like an old glove,'’ cried Gratton, be- side hims haken with jealous fury. ‘You have promised; you have loved me; in your heart you love me now, Shall I stand back for a girl's nervous whim? I tell you, you shall marry me,"* Gloria's laughter, cool and insolent, maddened him. He clenched his hands and was swept away by his passion to gusty vehemence: “Think before you laugh! What if, Instead of doing the gentlemanly thing, I refused to marry you? Alone with me all this time; all last night: a clerk to swear I bought clothing for register to show where we en- gaged @ room as man and wife; the San Francisco papers already bandy- ing your name about, already nosing after scandal, You've got to marry me; there is nothing else for you to do!"" Gloria flushed hotly. But only in ng from one to the other, turned at fast to Glo “For God's out of the door!” “1 think it might be best, swered qu etly. King saw lying on the table the package done up in an old cloth which she had brought. Further, he knew that he had seen it before and where he had seen it. He knew that at last he had oid Loony Honeycutt's secret where he could pug out his hand to it, with none to gainsay hm. He knew that with it was a message from his old friend Ben; that Ben, himself, lay this moment in Coloma hurt. And yet h's eyes clung to the eyes of Gloria and all of these things Were swept aside in his mind. He saw that when her eyes came to a meeting with his the flush in her cheeks grew hotter, He saw that a tremor shook her. Like magnet and steel they were swept together, He had her In his arms; he felt against his breast the wild flutter of her heart. against his face the soft brushing of her hair. He felt her body tense but unresist ne in his arms; suddenly she relaxed, her head was against Gloria in his arme—Gloria’s face hidden from him against his rough sh’ “Gloria!"' he cried again. ‘Gloria!’ “But please, Mark! I am here all alone—-with you—and—" “I know, I haven't forgotten. But, Glorta—" They both started sound ouiside, to a sudden a scuffing on the porch, They glanced toward the sound; they saw at the window the puckered and perplexed face of the “Judge.” “Some time you are going to marry me, (loria,”’ he sald gravely, “Why not now “It sounds like—Iike an advertine- ment, Mark," she laughed somewhat wildly “Poor little kid,"* he muttered, see- ing how she trembled. ‘But, Gloria, why not? Some time you are going to «ive yourself to me, aren't you, dear? While this man ts still he won't you let him marry us? It will give me the right to shut that fool Gratton’s morth for bim and—oh, Gloria, my dear, my dear’— She stood staring at him with wide He pleaded with her. “Will you, Gloria?" And then from lips whieh did not smile he heard the very faint but no longer evasive “Yes."" “Now, Gloria?" ey “Yes, Mark. If you are sure that you want me." She spoke humbly; at the instant she was humble. “But.” she added hastily, ‘still you haven't read poor papa’s letter. He was very anxious. Let me go a min- ute, Mark. Iam going upstairs. I— I want to phone to mamma first. And while I am gone you can read papa's letter, and—and"—— Her fade was hot with flushes. “And arrange with the Judge,"’ he said, his own voice uncertain, ‘ Gloria." To withdraw his racing thoughts from Gloria and her golden promise, to bend them to a letter—this was in the beginning an effort, But Ben's words caught him when he had read bed DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN FOR BETTER OR WORSE? the first line. ment of cloth. battered, the covers gone; letter was slipped into it: Dear Mark: Honeycutt’s dead. I've got his secret. But Brodie came near do- ing me in. Honeycutt, dying, sent for me. I got there just in time. He gave me the Bible; it was the “parson’s” and then Gus Ingle’s. As I was going out of the cabin Brodie and two of his gang swooped down on me. In the dark I pitched the Bible clear and they did not see; it was just that near! They came close to when I came to I been through my T don't know how much I do know he !s pockets. Brodie knows. working with Gratton, the dirty crook. I think you can beat them to It, hands down. And, for God's sake, Mark, and for my sake if not for your own, don’t let thé grass grow! Iam on the edge of absolute bankruptcy; laid up this way I don't see a chance unless you find what we've been after so long and find it quick. And watch out for Gratton as well as Brodie, BEN. A bit of the old interest swopt back over King as he read; ment raced through his blood. dropped Ben's note into the stove and eugerly took up the old Bible. on the blank pages, written in a crab at times letters blurred out but always a trace lef! where the unaccustomed scribe hai borne down hard in his painful labor ings, was the ‘‘secret’’ '® message come to him across the dead years: 4 long ago, Ing! Good god I never see such gold nor map either, And | guess there was @nough there for everybody ip alt the world. We went down the gorge to the narrow place over on the bik seedar that had broke off und that was how we *oome to the First Caive, and then we come to Caive number thre and two, And good god have mercy on my sou! when Ime deud but I got the throught right then if It was only all mine—we work- ed all seven until we dropped that t and early in the storm was coming ved. And for two but weeks maybe thre we lost track of time until this grate big pile of gold was dug that I am setting right ‘on top of right now how can @ man eat gold when he Is dying of hunger and burn it when he ts freezing. And it was big Brodle killed pore Manny I seen him und the next day or maybe it was two days Dago was gvune and never come back was i Manny's goast got him and drug him down the cliffs screaming horrible and in the gorge—anyway that was Two. and | am ali that \s left and I am going—I tride to get out and the Big storm .drov me back and all I can see is Jimmy Kelp and the parson if I had not of killed them they would killed me sure and big Brodie’s gone he is crazy an@ cant never make it back oss the mountains in this orm, and Baldy Winch he took a big nugget and went off, and he stoled what handful of grub there was. And now I can look down in the gorge and see the water all write and snow and ice sickles and I am afraide to get lost in the caives and if 1 write all this in the bible that was preacher Elsons and tle it up safe in oll- élouth und canvas und make a bote out of a chunk of wood and throw it in the river maybe it will get to one of the camps down there and a good man will find it and He give him half. You come up the old trai! past where the thie By tulla had their camp last year und over the He had opened the Packet, ripping off the old encase- There was a book, a Bible that looked to be centuries old, Gaynor’s the old excite He There at lust—Gus big mountain strate ahead and about another seven miles strate on and then there is the pass with the’ big black rocks on one side and streaks of white gran- ite on the other and down into the gorge and strate up four or five miles where the old seedar brake off and fell acrost. My god here goes. GUS INGLE. (Copyright, 1922, ‘The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Continued To-Morrow) JUNE * RECTOR REJECTS ENTREATY AND Glen Cove Vestry Fails to Oust Dr. Holland From St. Paul’s. Four years of dissension ‘between the Rev. Dr. James 8. Holland, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Glen Cove, L. L, and members of his con- gregation culminated yesterday In a request by members of thé Vestry that the clergyman relinquish his yastorate. i Dr. Holland informed the Vestry there was nothing further from his thoughts. The Vestrymen then visited Bishop Burgess of the Long Island diocese and explained at length their reasons for desiring a change of rectors. The once wealthy parish, they told the Bishop, ander thé administration of Dr. Holland has fallen so dow in (nancial estate, that, unless condl- tions are remedied there will remain no alternative but the sale of a por- tion of the church property to meet expenses. James W. 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