— SYNOPSIS, — Alan Wayae 1s sent away from Red HII, his home, by his uncle, J. Y., as a moral fallure. Clem runs after him in a tangle of short skirts to bid him good- by. Cap tain Wayne teils Alan of the failing of the Waynes Clem drinks Alan's health on his hirthday. Judge Healey buys a picture for Alix Lansing. The ju 4 defends Alan in his busincss with his employers. Alan an Alix meet at sea, bomew ard bound, wu start a flirtation whi becomes serious. IV<Continued. CHAPTER faced, wide-eyed, the revela ly and ht with droop had played were Db “Alen.” she gaid one ing head, "I've want to play any more. [ want to quit.” She lifted tearfilled eyes to him. The foil of artificiality had been knocked from her hand. She was al woman and defenseless. Alan felt a trembling in limbs. “1 want to quit, too, said in his low ating I'm afraid beaten, too. While 1 with your body we but now I'm in the kind of love a man can pray in vain. No he heart mere but you.” Tears cheeks. on thi one m In her runnine unning nie nig all his Alix,” he vib “but voice, was just in love safe enough, you for names, crawled She stood stand Alan Gerry had do: Alan the rail, hi to keep that no ofllic by surpris< judg it is call { “We wouldn' the echo to quit if alone 1 shall you are alone We will always we are near each break the ten end.” ment call fo » except We long other sion, Alix. us in the The slow te down Alix’ cheeks she had never sufferes felt that each tear paid hier levity. “Alan,” she 3: at hin Hd that it was ars were ia wit! you know going to be i “No,” he answered with many women a tritle with you, N had ever en you and 1 wanted t I thought 1 had divore love I thou nd [ was re y OL ht perl int love is you here We are bein NY AR (HAPTER ——————————————— Alix and Al fever that is hard to through satiety and ruin. 1 gtill beld apart by generations of sound tradition but against this bulwark full flood of modern life ns it was directed. an were In the grip of break hey were they It was only a year ago that the tabl talk one night had turned on whut was society's religion and Alan bad said. “Society has no religlon nowadays; it bas given up religion for a corrosive philosophy of nonet He had seen clearly then but not Sloarty enough to save himself. He had played with the corrosive ot te had di vorced flesh from the soul and now it was playing with him. He found him. self powerless in the grip of his desire for Alix With her, things had not gone so far, From the security of the untempted she had watched ber chosen world play with fire and only now tion assailed her, did she wenkness that lies in wotnan once ner outposts have fallen ang her bare heart becomes engaged io the hat. tle. Not many days had passed after their ~eturn when Alan's constant ste tendance upon Gerry's wife the absorbing center of {uterest to thelr part of town life. People enough, Their eyes were too wide open walchiog the headlong rush to- wards catastrophe, hiics."” philosophy wien tempta- realize the every One early morning Nanee sent for Alan. He found ber alone. Ste bad been erying. He came to hier where she stood by the fire and she turned and put her arms around his neck. She tried to smile but her lips twitched. “Alan,” she sald, “I want you to go away.” Alan was touched. He caught her wrists and took her arms from sound his neck. “You mustn't do that sort of thing to me, Nance. [I'm not fit for it.” He made her sit down on a great sofa before the fire and sat down beside her, “You remind me today of the most besutiful thing I ever heard said of you—by a spiteful friend.” “What was it?’ said Nance, tusning “She said, own home. 1 it before. It's a ‘She 18 only beantifui in never understood great thing te be own home.” “Oh, Alan.” sald Nance, catching his hand and holding it against her breast, “it is a great thing it's the greatest thing in life. That's why 1 sent for you—Dbecause you are wrecking for- mnee of being beautiful in And worse than that, wrecking Alix’ chances. You ix cannot do this thing. It n't gh her people and eurs were of the nation. You and ried life with nothing but to build You may have st playhouses of sand, but deep the old foundation must You must your stand on ne. you are and A {roth on rock down end take d been turned fixed on the A to his face. forward, Her eyes ha Ww she them it with head hanging and thoughts far beyoad the of the room Then he ah and got up to go. “I wilh + we Nance,” he sald gravely and led half to hlinself, half to her, yme days Al had been pre Allx with Upon his ar rival be bad had an interview with MeDale & MeDale in the course of h that firm opened ita eyes and der tha er had Le n be left their offices he had his own wr, anid to the v8 only twenty-six-—a boy. beat us? ng Walton's recor first.” “and how he go away and take vim, should she consent whic its pocket w nit e fore, W contract 1I0T¢ Or 8s oN +3 : $a McDale, Senio that " As he Nance's, time will show walked back from Alan was thinking that after hy he should slowly all there waa no re and run IRON Ww # vy 4 cus {1} reason As he saw that orossed we had note tat had been through the tterslip. Hoe up. A thrill went through he recognized Air's handwrit- stamp it must have been delivered by hand, He tore it open and read “You said that a 8 all you asked. 1 He reached his rooms. ealiold on a he as Wis no day.’ Alan's blood turned to liquid fire. conjured before him a vision He crushed it and held it to ind laughed—not eeringly but uncontrolled excitement, of Alix his lips in pure, It was not a eolncidence that Gerry that Nance moning Alan. Ger- ry and Nance were driven by the same forewarning of catastrophe. Gerry had feit it first but he had been slow to believe, slower to act He had no precedent for this thing. His whole being was in revolt against the situation In which he found himseM, It was after a sleepless night—a most unheard of thing with him--that he hings go no ong er. He went to Alix' room, knocked and entered Alix was up, though the hour was early for her. Fresh from her bath she sat in a sheen of blue dressing gown before the mirror doing her own hair. Gory glanced around him and into he bathroom woking for the maid. “Good-morning.” sald Alix. “She's not here. Did you want to see her?” He was standing beside an open window, He could feel the cold alr on his hands He felt like putting his bead out Into it. His head was hot “All%.,” he sald suddenly without look- ing at her, “I want you to drop Alan.” “But 1 don't want to drop Alan” replied Alix lightly. Gerry whirled around at her tone, His nostrils were quivering, To his amazement his hands fairly itched to clutch her beautiful throat. He could hardly control his “Stop play. ing, AlIX.” he gulped. “There's never been a divorcee among the Lansings nor a wifebeater and one is as near this room as the other right now.” Gerry regretted the words as soon ns he had said then but Alix was not angry. She looked at him through nar. rowed eyes. She speculated or the sensation of belng roughly handled by this rock of a man. There was some. was sum sort { voice, Ils anger and struggle for control, her, “And Alan, of all men,” he went on. At the words the current of her thoughts was changed. She found her- self suddenly on the defensive. “Do you think you are the first woman he has played with and betrayed?” Ger- ry's lip was curved to a sneer. “A philanderer, A man who surrounds himself with tarnished reputations.” A dull glow came Into Alix’ cheek “Philanderers are of many breeds” she Bald. “There are those who have the wit to philasder with woman and those who can only rise to a whisky or a golf club. Whatever else Alan may be he is not a time-server.” Once aroused Alix had taken up the gauntlet with no uncertain hand. Her first words carried the war Into the enemy's camp and they were barbed. “What do you mean?’ sald Gerry dally. He had not anticipated a de- fense. “lI mean what you have deduced with an effort. What are you but a philanderer in little things where Alan is In great? What have you ever done to hold me or any other woman? I re- spected you once for what you were going to be. That has died. Did you think I was golng to make you into a man?’ Gerry stood, breathing hard, despondency in his heart. Alix went on pitllessly. “What have you be come? A monumental timeserver on the world and you are surprised that a worker reaches the prize that yoo ean- not attain! The trouble with you Is that you have bullt your life altogether on traditions. It Is a tradition thet your women are falthfu. so you need not exert yourself to holding yours! it is a tradition that you can wrong, so you need not exert yourself to doing anything at ail! You are play ing with Your party was over a generation ago.” Allx had ed down. There still time for Gerry to choke ood elect. The could But he did not know it under the lash of a great do no ghosts, Gerry. calm wan her to hour yet made a final and disa “You try to hur ing me back to {i said, wk with his pew appraised it with it rather Alix and found e “Well, le Orn sneer, 11 eyes attract: hat if I dropped out , he'd sail for world of the Afric “We Cant Break the Tension, Alix.” of his anve ! " the re his life for from think escape Alix trembling sorry feit a throb of ex ultation t as his turn to wound “What do you 17” sald Alix very quietly, but it was the quiet of suppressed passion at white beat. “I mean that Alan fs the Kind of man who finds other men's wives an economy He wonld take everything you have that's worth taking, but you" Alix" eves bls white face. sald. He go away,” close @ feet not at him from her away." “Please zed “Please go started] to speak, she repeated way that was terrifying to Gerry. hurried out repeating to himself over and over, “You have made AliX cry. You have made Alix cry.” Alix toyed with the silver on her dreasing-table until he had gone and then she swept across the room to ber little writing«lesk and wrote the note that Alan had found half an hour later in his rooms. hall outside Alix’ hoping to hear a Gerry stood in the room for a mote nt gob, a cry, anything for an excuse to go back. Instead he heard the scratch of a pen but he wus too {roubled to deduce anything from that. He went slowly down the stairs apd out into the street. The biting winter air braced him, He started to walk rapid. ly. At the end of un hour he found himself standing on a deserted pier, He took off his hat and let the wind cool his head. “I bare made a woman ery—Alix!” He turned and walked slowly back to the avenue and into his club but he still felt uneasy. A walter » at his elbow. erry turned on him. “Who told you to bring that?’ Then he felt ashamed of his petulance, “It's al} right, George,” he said, more gent ally than he had spoken for many a day, “but [ don't want it. Take ft away.” He sat for a long time and at last came to a resolution. Allx loved rosea. He would gend her enough to bank her room and he would follow them home, He went up the avenue to his florist's and stood outside trying to decide whether it should be one mass of blood red or a color scheme. Suddenly the plate glass caught a reflection and threw it in his face. Gerry turned. A four-wheeler was passing. He could not see the occupant but on top was a large, familiar trunk marked with a yellow girdle, On the trunk wag a familiar label. He stared it and the label stared balk at him and finally danced before his mazed eyes as the cab disappeared luto the traffic, Gerry stood for a stunned. He saw a lady bow from a carriage and afterwards he membered that he had not bowey back, Somebody ran into him. He log) back at the flowers massed in window, remembered that he did need now, and drew away. Two men other slde of the street. long while, them passing hansom. From the Alix’ cab had taken he knew tion she ¥ for. As he 0.. the platform they were giving Inst call for the Montreal Ex He caught sight of Alix through the gates f and foll ched the first Pullma body raj the stn vas bound arrived the the window (erry saw Alan He w the he wheel the station, Where could he go? Not to his ind Alan's His would bel: the scandal be buzzing tomorry ped on tinst the pane, and then turn and stop climb with club w comfortable gloomy Kven imparted to the "hen she wi lows ge of the old at emt He tion + Grove in atn from were vo wn him The sroak (rerry not | piled glimps (sage, him the o Gerry gave ory He ginee terminable and wit he io had avoided Gunter wary icket, Ar the came to him. i mye no ticket.” “No,” said Gerry, drawing a “How much Is the Pernambuco? The purser fidgeted. ular, sir.” “Is It?" maid Gerry, “1 have no ticket forma, purser, ning. “I don’t want a id Gerry. “1 want a good rocin apd three square passage to “This is irreg indifferently. * wen ke ticket,’ Long. quiet days on a quiet sea are a master sedative tp a troubled mind. Gerry had a great deal to think through He sat by the hour with hands oosely on the ocean, trac married life and measuring grounds for Alix’ arraignment. Gerry was just and generous to others faults but not to hig own. He had forgotten the sting of Alix’ words amd to his growing amazement, saw in himself their justification. A time-server he certainly had been. But he reviewed the lives of many other men in his own leisurely class and decided that he was not without company. After all, what was there In America for such men to do except make more money ? For the firet time he was struck by narrowness of Awmerican life. There was only one line of effort The whole people thronged a single causeway. They made a provincial demand that all should dress alike. look alike, think alike. on in a body to the single goal of were lost, Individualists were rare and unwel. come, Boys stoned Chinamen because tuirbaned Asiatic, strayed to an friendly shore, with Jeers; stound ed Rriton, faulticasly the sensation Each of these nn- An a dressed of n gireoet, without a thought. 80 many the same way. summed up the “Men, machinery, machines!” With the thought of Alan his puckered. Here he felt no lpm indulgence. Some day he would Now they becnine weather-vanes all How was (it history Alan had of Ameri caught her ber mou*h until she ga membered If I ever kiss you 1 sha your soul out between i AlIX’ ams ish she re your did ” "Ww zsement she not feel an fire, Her Uhe ing ae re her soul out between her gonl stood naked Iw naked soul is an Hips and The that fore her ugly thing and from Alix suddenly too, bourne of shame volted. Alan from her, were burn Gaaping Their eyes met, she pushed His ne ae Iy backward to the door and with her pand behind her opened the Iateh. Alan did not move. He knew that if be could not hold her with his eyes he could not hold her at all. The train started. Alix passed through the door nd rushed to the platform. The pore ter was about to drop the trap on the steps. Alix slipped by him. With all her force she pushed open the door and jumped. 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