w lh ————— i ——— C—O AASB COPYRIGHT 19/4 BY * THE RED BOOX CORPORATION CHAPTER XXil—Continued. LL “Qood evening,” he sald formally. “Good evening,” she replied, and he went out of the door When he had gone, she flew up to ber rooms, her first coherent thought being that abe had accomplished it! She had seen Allison, and had given rim her definite answer, and had got ten him out of the house while the others were back in the billiard room She had held up splendidly, but she was weak now, and quivering in every Hanb, and she sank on her divan, sup ported on one outstretched arm; and! in this uncomfortable position she | took up the eternal question of Gail The angry tears mortification | sprang into her eyes! The library was quite steadily de voted to Vedder court tonight. A high ly import.nt change had come into the | fortunes of Market Square church, It was as if a stone had been thrown in to a group of cardboard All the years of planning had gone the | way of the wind, and the card houses had all to be built over The cathedral bad receded Ly a good five years, nnless the force and fire of Rev Smith Boyd should be sufficient to coax capital out of the pockets of his millionaire congregati in fact that quite normal already under advisement. of houses again, and, The five of this impromptu counsel were deep in the matter of ways and means. when a slender apparition, in clinging gray. he stairs It was Gail, who, for some reason un known, even to her ded that she was selfish; and Rev. Smith Boyd's heart ached on her delicately tinted cheeks and the dark browt She among came down had de« as he saw the pallor ind tracing about her eves them 30 that slipped quietly in her browg hair loosely waved, unexpected threads of shone io It aed under chandelier rreeted the lers pleasantly down in the corner, very | She ad that had | come. It was restful in this little circle of friends A noise fille hall, Hghts of the library seemed 0 when she pa and she and sat silent was gl! she i even the to bright and Ger tumbling and . 88 Lucile and Ted, Arly and Dick can in, laughing and chattering. and carry ing hilarity in front of them like a wave Gail shoved her of | her head, and the sparkle returned into her tid, Rodley, i tangle thoughts still farther back in eyes “We're dringing vou nal jovi ation Ariy and erald's party.” jabbered Lucile, kissing body in reach except Rev, Sm to yacht | every- th Boyd. | Arly extend the invi | objected Te “You might let tation herself, “I've given the laughed Arly, at that smiling it 80 much betie “it’s a little infor: on the taen pleasure to Gerald.” | 8 glance | He does vivaci nd party unformed with a new something in Whitecs him ich quite the place of cordialit) Sort i farewell affair. Arly and [| are about to take a selfish two me by our selves,” and he i i fondly at the woman iid Lie and he Boyd ar thi ing re wr} ¢ ts Wi LOOK handsome blac under discussi pleased to have included Mrs with a tor nod “Of course we'll come.’ Boyd, end party once in Doctor can’t a wes ustom decreeqa ‘Unfortunately ¢ that days.” he calculating week-end parties shall but look In his ey« to him ‘Play booky she begged “This is only a family crowd, the Bab bitte and Marion Keuneth, and we who are here Rev mother, viaibly ‘When is it to be?” he asked “Saturday.” Arly informed him, join. ing Lucile, who had sal on the arm ot Mrs. Boyd's chair Arly sat on the other one, and Gerald Fosland, with an entirely new appreciation of beauty thought he had never seen a prettier picture than the sweet-faced old lady with the fresh and charming youny women on either side of her Rev. Smith Boyd glanced, for just an instant, at Gail, who was now sitting on the ieather couch teaming confidingly against her Aunt Grace He had been at some pang to avoid this young lady recently. for it is natural to spare one's self distress; but there was a look of loneliness about her which sent hiz heart out to her in quick sympathy. “1 think I'll play hooky,” he an: pounced, with a twinkle in the eyes which he now cast upon his mother “That's being a good sport” ap proved Ted. “Slay away a Sunday or two, and Market Square church will appreciate you better.” “Let's have some music,” demanded Lucile, “Gail and Doctor Poyd must sing for you,” announced Aunt Grace, in whom there was a trace of wistfulness wer Sun there was a which sent regretted, Lucile over just once,’ Emith and loyd that looked lady at his | brightened “They do ring sv beautifully to gether!” I “I'm afraid 1 can't tonight,” refused { Gall hastily, and indeed she had good reason why her voice should not have its firm and true quality just mew. “I will accompany Doctor Boyd, though, | with pleasure,” aud she started toward | the music room. Rev. Smith Boyd was out off from the ordinary lies about not being | in good voice, and suffering from a | He hesi i tated a moment, and then he followed. i The Bedouin Love Song, the Garden | came pulsing out of the music room, first hesitantly, and them with more strength, as the friendly nearness be- | tween himself and the nccompaniat i i | | | became better established. Presently. the listeners in the library noticed an unusual pause between the songs, a low-voiced discussion, and | then, the two perfectly blended voices | rose in a harmony so perfect that there | was moisture in the eyes of two of the | ladies present. CHAPTER XXIIL Gail First! springing forward with a jerk as he left Jim Sargent's bouse, headed his long, low runabout up the | He raced into the park, and | at the lookout house as | on past: but it was only a | leeting look. He needed no reminder | of Gall As he passed Roseleal ian, | he slowed down. The roadhouse may have given him, and probably did, an other reminder of Galil, in such a man- ner as to concrete him into logical thought: for he slowed down the ter rific speed which bad been the accom paniment of his unreasoniug emotion The driving required too much con centration for specific thought. With this turning of his mental atti tude, seemed Allison, avenue glanced he up sped even the slow running of the car disturb him. and, about to slowly to a stop, sitting at the wheel head bent slightly forward, | had ceased to roll beneath bis | Presently he became aware | way and walked through the sar strip of trees to river bank, | ooking | row the the moonlight. He begaa to walk up and down the bank preseatly, turf spougily under his and it was noticeable that his | pace grew more and more rapid, uatil he siriding’ at a furious rate of sinking feet, was speed The man was In a torment of pas sion He had spent a lifetime in the deliberate acquisition of everything which he bad set his will; and it was one of the things upon which be had built that, once he had fixed his desire deliberately upon anything, he had held unwaveringly to that object, employing all the forees of which strong men are capable; patiest dogged persistence, or vicious grappling, whichever was best adapted to gain his ends Gail! If there thoughts of her, they it that mind upon her will, in all there nothing else but it was trivial; bition, power, wea'th, lame, the com mand empires and of men, were nothing, except as they might lead to her! ! 80 it was that he had come this far, | and the roadway to his present height | was marked by the cripples be had left behind him, without compunction mercy, without compassion Bankrupts strewed his way, broken men of purpuse higher than nis own useful factors in the progress of ha man life, builders and creators who had advanced the interest of the com monweaith, but who had been more | brilliant in construction than they had i been in reaping the rewards of their building. It was for Allison to do this It had been his specialty; the reaping | of rewards. It had been his facuity to permit others to build, to encourage | them in it, and then, when the build: | ing was done, to wrest it away from the builders. That marked him as the greatest commercial genius of his time; and he had much applause for it. | Women. Yes, there had been wom. en, creatures of a common mold with whom he had ssmused himself, had taken them in their freshness, and broken them, and thrown them away; this in his earlier years. But in bis maturity, he had bent all his strength to a greater paseion; the acquirement of all those other things which men had wanted and held most dear, among them acquisition, and power, and sue cess. Perhaps it had been bad for him. this concentration, for now It left him at the height of his maturity, with mis taken fancies, with long pent fires, with disproportionate desires. Bring ing to these, he had the tremendously abnormal moral eect of never have u poi his success, valting NE iLIE iad been tender were gone now he had cealered his and himself fais | creation, was am was so and until, of anything upon which he had get his wish must be his, or else every victory he had ever gained would be swept aside and made of ao value. He must accomplish, or diel Ho was withont God, this man; he had nothing within him which con- coded. for a moment, a greater power than his own. In all his mental im agery, which was rich enough (in ma terial things, there was no conception of a deity, or of a need for one To what should he pray, and for what, when he had himself to rely upon? Worship was an idealistic diversion, a poetic illusion, the refuge of the weak who excused their lack of strength by ascribing it to a mysterious something beyond the control of any man He tolerated the popular notion that there must be a God, as he tolerated codes laid down, for instance, what a gentle man might or might not do, externally and still remain a gentleman. In the meantime, If a man-made law came be- tween him and the accomplishment of | i | of thought that he might be wroag Laws were the mutual safeguard of the weak, to protect themselves against the encroachment of the wossible to the butler’'s wooden voles There was a sound almost as of a scuffle, and then Allison, with his top coat on his arm and his hat In h'y hand, strode to the doorway of the music room, followed Immediately by the butler, who oked as if his hair had been pecled a little bit at the edges. Allison had apparently brushed roughly past him and had disturbeo his equanimity for the balance of his life, Gail was on her feet almost fnstan taneously with the apparition In the doorway, and she still held the sheet deposit on one of the piles had a queer of being sunken, and there was a strange nery ous tension in him Gall effect “You at home, were informed she sald “1 meant that | am not to see you," he replied which There was a triumph io it, his having swept butier part of his imperious in she could not escape. toa, as if the ural of the strong to in the way he disregarded moral laws, were for the upholding of weak, and the mere fact that they ex isted was proof enough that they were an acknowledgment of the right of the strong to break them. There mistake here It the statement that Allison no God. He did. Allison the man, but the unconquerable will of Allison itself province break 100, 3 Aa lies recognized was a divinity it, centered a will which He believed In it all his faith on of He of his heart, his mind of his spirit, of his body WOrs it! So it that he came to the con which wap sideration of the one thing itself to him through his him with its only the to her, attempted to den) A flame fairly Was aged which shook vio lence it not his determination terrific in would have have neq him Have her? her! it willin grown up he rot him take her! She was not to be considered io it any more sha come 10 considered any other He which object, his new summit one whe $ sired was possessed of a centered and one alone his re he rags itsell Gail! She new peak the bad planned thought and sy broken and had all the other will, and press ruthless into higher skies, he know where it to think at now, ine io res but now his attain it ed rs to his Angry rn it, was crumi as been barrie ly onward not WHE time no now, on t Gail firat! CHAPTER XXIV. The Flutter of a Sheet of Music. Gail, a pretty little rosecolored morning robe, soft of around ber white throat and sat white sat on the floor of mugic room amid a chaos of sheat mu sic was humming suggested in with frills lace her elbows, She 8 Zay by one of the tities A Flame Raged Through His Veins Which Fairly Shook Him. through which she had leafed, and was gradually sorting her music for the yacht party; instrumental pleces here, popular tnings there, another little pile of old-fashioned glees which the as a little stack of her own solos, nearby thelr duets. It was her part in one companiment of Rev Smith Boyd's mellow voice. She was more peace ful this morning than she had been for many days. The butler came through the hall, and Gail looked up with a suppressea giggle as she saw him pass the door She always had an absurd idea that his hinges should be oiled “Miss Gail is not at home, sir,” she heard the butler say, and Gall paused with a sheet of music suspended in her hand, the whole expression of her face changing ceive that invariable message “I beg your pardon, sir!” was the next You had better say them all, then, because this is your last opportunity told bim, pals with with a quaver in her volee would bave given much she anger, which suppress He cast a look on her which blazed had not slept he fant He smiled, and suarl, displaying ng more than anger Hor and whe to had the his since seen her smile teeth crept into “1 have r serious effo t Bay Lave 32 thar “ive without you I for you which is yithing of which you greater vod could con ust a § gol te For i. and y for revulsion sh there was told him, i CRIOI ‘on must! immediately ‘Aa 1 would bu win you, | you You wi called the cruelty butid monopoly. If it is $ iid up ap would de to sirov on spoke last night of and trick of my big trans that ary of this ing » Wi portation whigct ands between us, it all not 4 a moment igor Marry me vill stop It just i uilt this for I shall In that he He knew he had made sure of 3id and that he where it is you, and have nothing with fied, and con clously that the moment ber his ambitioa io conquer win COme uppermost would pursua jis ar been dream of conquest with even more ne he had boecan refre shed “That would make no difference Mr she replied 1 told you Ia that | would cause | do oot aol ma rey and could nod you be not, ove you be any other in her an inexpll pi need Lo reason.” There was cable tension, a reflex of his own though ber stood face was calmly before iy : 3 still pale. she very him The savageanesas which held too long in leash his eyes, his lips, He advanced a His “1 shall not Was In him Bprang into his the sel of ¥ wig jaws step towards hands contracted as K ‘but you mus ner again plated: you me.” he harsh MArry mes made 4 that * 10 TNA UD mj impossible fempluous “I'l make you! are 6 1 ource 1 will not uae ill bankrupt your family I'll wipe it off tho earth fer re (all's nalls were pressing in She felt that Her eyes paims ald horror her {ipe were wire widening, Bim began He was glaring at » an of lo grow oon hor now, a ¥ was no attempt to conceal the cruelty on t fact “i ‘Tl connect your name compromise you" he on with m went ine t I'M be in escape. There will take in which am the mas nm im only resource an you can’t you Cab that | you? years! your fluence will not {eel Marry foal have takes all the strength and all and the got you” Out of her very weakness had come strength; out of her overwhelming hu miliation bad come pride, and though the blood bad left her face waxen and cold, something within her discovered a will which was as strong in resist ance as his was in attack. She knew itt and trembled in the knowledge of iL “You ean’t make me marry you,” she sald, with infinite scorn and contempt He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. Into hia eyes there sprang 8 blaze which she had never before seen, but dimly. ‘in the eyes of any man; but she needed no experience to tell her its despicable meaning His lips, which had been snarling, ‘suddenly took pg downward twitch, and were nalf parted. His nostrils were distended, and his blood, Popding into his face, empurpled it “Then I'l have you anyhow!” he hoarsely told her, and, his arms tensed and his head slightly lowered forward. he made as if to advance toward her, He saw in her frightened eyes that she would scream, but lie did not know that at that moment she could not. Her heart seemed to have lost its ac he sensation that the room was turn ng dark The house was very quiet, Mrs. Sar gent and Mrs, Davies wore upstairs The servants were all in the rear of the house, or below, or in the upper rooms, at thelr morning work He turned swhlt'y and closed the door of the music room, then he whirled again towards her, with ferocity lo hig eyes He came slowly, every movement of him alive with ponderous strength was a maniac. He was was frenzied one which had out Insane tind of his by BW¢ pt ULivVerse mal ivHinet'e. ——— +] 9. FomYF EY LEVORFUY ATLLW BELLNPOSTH, fb Soy Pwria of Oven Bouse mea EI Ww. HABRINGS WALFED ATTORNEY AT 4A PILEVORNYR Ba 9 W. Men Sees ME ptewtins. Yossi preety crea ded 8 RL A NO I. “ | +B omme pe J Bewwm SUGARS 555i itAR we mes kill purpose which posse Gall, st brown ey to fearful than assed him a slight, frag her brown white WHS no more the Ow nding ile es staring, disheveled about her brow, fel voured in monstrous the overwhelming might of " creature The had been dropped from her nerve which she Luttered to the floor! That noise, slight as it the of Was, se the rvea to arrest progress man just an Avoiding Disaster. priest ! ad rai t spoken ger thes KDOUL and market t« treatlicg him wher een Lig change home, : wile urged ing wehed in i sheliea nating abundai a tiling thing thrush Eo oh roid } t ana } 13¥ Hem 10 a cer capture smooth-topped stor high in the heavens and the unhappy snail the shell Is triump! would a nut These siaughter anvils 'o stone are to be found almost anywhere that birds and snails are common. 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