SYNOPSIS. nie Alan Wayne is sent away from R his home, by his uncle, J. Y., as ¢ fallure. Clem runs after him in f short skirts to bid him good-b3 taln Wayne tells Alan of the failing Waynes drinks Alan's heal birthday » Healey buys a pit Alix Lar . The judge ¢ wls his business with his employe Allx meet at sea, homews: atart a flirtation which be At home, Nance Sterling asks Alar away from Alix is taken Gerry, her hi and, £ Alan and defies him. sees Alix and Ala thing, and leaves Alan « HII, Ones CHAPTER Vil—Continued. “That's right.” said she fol lowed hig lead and then shook hands wit Allx cab. She is fo a got left behind. “That wasn’t was enough for from a fall.” *You didn’t save me,” a bewildering smile. “I self.” She left scratel over this fresh enigma Alix was tired and hungry called fi me to have saved on, saved him ing his the judge quickly. “I'll ask there. I'll go now.” He went off and all that day he sought in vain for a trace of Gerry. He went to all his haunts in the city-——he had telephoned to those outside. At night he returned to Alix but it was Mrs, Lansing that received him in the library. The judge was tired and his buoy- ancy had deserted him. He told of his failure Mre. Lansing was but not greatly troubled. she sald, “has a level head take care of himself,” She tell Alix that there was no When she came back the judge he asked, “what her “Gerry,” in {to did she say? “Nothing, except that she wanted to know if you had tried the bank.” The judge struck his fist into his “Never thought of it,” he “That child has a head!” He went to the telephone. From the presi- 3 sald. She felt that she stood on the iife her up. I new After all, had time-server, nto anything She longed to tell him so. would catch her arms as Alan had at herself for wanting him she rang for the master, John?” “1 don't hasn't this morn was n she thoug 1 3 made ner S ©)8¢ and “Where's your know, ma'am, M since he went Jol out nsing com JETS oe, some ti [ Mr. and Mrs when she was in to the club and tell him I want to Alix turned to her I'he sandwiches seemed ur t town, and Nover man with for Gerry not come, dered the table onight,” your masters She sat on for Gerry's & § 8i1¢ time the room to replenis! of night go to bed returned and stood looked very small, curled u leathern chair by the fire From these occas ons “It's after one o'clock, ma'am.’ John. “Mr. Gerry won't be In tonight.” Alix made no John held his ground. “It's you to go ® bed ma'am call the maid?” Allx was exhausted but It was before she fell asleep ly. She wanted to be ¢ had dressed beautifully been so beauntiful—and Gerry bad not come home. As she cried, her disap- pointment grew into a great trouble. She awoke early from a feverish sleep. Immediately a sense of weight assailed her. She rang and that Gerry had not yet come long She cried soft ymforted. She 80 she learned home. “If I dropped out of the world today" Alix stared wide. eyed at the ceiling. Why had she re- mein bered those words? She lay for a long time thinking. Her breakfast ‘was brought to her but she did not touch It. It was almost noon in the eclondy Sunday morning when she roused herself from apathy. She sprang from the bed. 8he summoned Judge Healey with a note and Mrs. Lansing with a telegram. The tele gram was carefully worded, “Please come and stay for a while. Gerry is awayt The judge found Alix radiating the freshness of a beantiful woman care ful of her person, but it was the fresh. ness of a pale flower. Allx was grave and her gravity had a sweetness that made the judge's heart bound. He felt an awakening In her that he had long watched for. She told him all the story of the day before in a steady monotone that omitted nothing and gavoythe facts only thelr own weight, When she finished the judge patted her hand. “You would make a splen- did witness, iny dear,” he sald, “Now, wwhat you want is for me to find Gerry and bring him back, isn't it? Are you sure Gerry knew nothing of your-er ~gxeursion to the station?” Alix shook her head. “From the time Le left my room and the house he Lins not been back.” “Hue he been to the elub? colored faintly, “I gee,” sald enme to her, ager, from cashier, ‘es, Gerry turday. the , the had at the bank The cashier remembered it Lansing had drawn a unt in fuil would how much. “There of relief, a steady manager been on He " sald the judee with 8 It tal bank 15t take the new “that's nerve to You u follow up * x had r ich other tween nevis nselves to oe had | n A warfare be but equally derstanding nt calm, Alix" +s been repellent and A had felt n as before Ge: had calm then there had never been un in had iTF 8 re lansing’'s here intillation lx before Gi hh the 's old butler. ugth In Mrs. 1d heen walting Alix and almost more poured » that would same There been str Khe } die waiting was over herself tearful into arms tha were and had then broken tal ready in a unded Woinen was clearer Langing sald noth- Alix, kept her In her waking hours Alix hita to petied bed and there 1smorlie her confess reflection wonders” that speculated and in the u Lansing sat and listened Her brown miched with gray, her calm fs its hailf-hidden strength. turned now on Alix, now sewed soft 3 her e into the room and held | were in spite of the disquieting 1a last it was to i¥, “You are stronger than t T i When she spoke at shy I had thought at the act believe every woman ual mo: of surrender of shame and fear. moment desire lets go It's the last chance that fate out. The who fall to take the chanee-—it seems to me they through weakness of spirit and nent &n impulse ng that holds women “More women are ruined hy cfrenm- Women decide then they think they've burned them All the circumstances were against There wasn't a loophole in the net. Fate gave you your moment and On the fourth day Alix got up but Mrs. Lansing fright- ened. found her pale and She had been crying. “Allx,” she whispered, kneeling be side the bed, “what is 1? Alix told her amid soba. “Oh, my dear,” sald Mra, Lansing, throwing her arms around her, “don't cry. Don't worry. The strength will come with the need. In the end you'll be glad. So will Gerry. 8o will all of ue” “It isn't that,” -said Alix, faintly. It isn’t that I'm Just thinking and thinking how terrible it would have been if 1 had run away--really run away. 1 keep Imagining how awful it would have been, It is night- mare.” “Call it nightmare if you like, sweet- heart, but fust remember that you are awnke.” “Yes.” sald Alix softly. “I am awake now. I want to watch the Hill come to life and dress up for the sum- mer. It will amuse me. It's long since I have watched for the first buds and the first swallows, 1 won't mind the melting snow and the mud. It's %0 long since I've seen clean country mud. I want to smell it.” “You don't know how bleak the Hill can be before the spring comes,” ob Jected Mrs, Lansing. “Will it be any bleaker with me there than when you were alone?” asked Alix, Mrs. Lansing came over to her and kissed her, “No, dear,” she said. In the squalid Hotel d'Burope Gerry occupled a large room that overlooked the quay. Even if there had been a better hotel in town he would not have moved, He was pot lonely, He wandered interested through all the city. When he was too Inzy to go (0 the city he sat In the precarious bal cony of his room and watched the city come to him. Almost a month had passed since he landed on his Lethean shore, and it had served him well The world seemed to have time-servers in small { regard. He began to think of his moth. er, He strolled over to the cable sta- tion. The offices were undergoing re- pai. The ground floor was unfur nished save for a table and one chalr In the chair sat a chooolate-colored employee with a long bamboo on the fioor beside him. Gerry's curiosity was aroused. He went in and wrote his message to his mother—just a few words telling her he was all right. The gentleman folded the mes sage, slipped it into the eplit end of bamboo and stuck it up through 1 hole In the ceiling to the floor above. Gerry smiled and thes at the gravity with which his amile was re The man looked at him in astonishment. These English were all mad and discourteous. What there to laugh at in a man at work? Gerry the city Blrageiing chocolate the ‘sughed ceived, Wus went out and rambled over Night came on He was restless. He wished he had not sent the message, It was forming into a link. He dined badly at a res taurant and then wandered balk to the Arriving steamers were posted under a street lamp I'he mall from New York was due to morrow The co be full of the latest scandal--his scandal sit on the balcony wate quay, on a blackboard mit IBULS New York society } nd hin room a K preparing to drift out : i varied cra on the tide the Suddenly he got up ar went down to the A long, ra its meager provisions, GQ | its captain in a pantomime | } quay King craft w boat was bound for Penedo alton dee Two of the erow ided to go to Penedo back with The hotel Gerry was the only guest kev He had pa that day, so the ke up Gerry went | to get his baggage closed had weekly bill he his re was In half an were need to w anyone, hour he an belongings the Josephina town stowed on and she wa the bar. slowly t Four mouth they were off San Francisen. They ioubled Ir nd tacked their to Penedo, TI was no life in Pe edo pared with the H ore it was desolate and lonely tel d"'Earope ively quay: so when tern-wheeler started up p tO Mranha {its woeekls | went with it. tr il #8 a town of a ba clify, being a would live Pirauhas tered against wa rren 0 pretense fo man andings From fift river rimbi nighty Panleo Affonso f: came the perpetoal requiem final in this far retreat itself hotel, The only Indostry in the washing of clothes and the women did that Fish were caught gre quantities but fishing was an in dusts Here man flashed when he was hungry Gerry chartered a ponderous canoe. At first he had a man to paddle him and and sometimes across the wide half-mile of water. But be fore long he leamed to handle the thing himself. The heavy work soon trimmed his splendid muscles into shape. He supplied the hostelry with a variety of fish. One morning be awoke earlier than usual. The wave of life was running high in his veins. He sprang up and, still In his pajamas, hurried cut for his morning swim. The break of day was gloriously chilly. A cool breeze, hurrying up from the sea, was stead- fly banking up the mist that hung over the river. Gerry sprang into his canoe and pushed off. He drove Its heavy length up stream, not in the teeth of the current, for no man could do that, but skirting the shore, seizing on the help of every eddy and keeping an eye out for the green swirling mound that meant a plunacle of rock just short of the surface. He went farther up the river than ever before. [is mus cles were keyed to the struggle. He passed the last jutting bend that the boatmen on the river could master and found himself in a bay protected by a spit of sand, rock-tipped and foam. tossed where it reached the river's channel. From this point the river was a chaos of jagged rocks that fought the mighty tide hurled from the falls still miles above, jerry ran the canoe upon the shore and stripped. He stepped on to the spit of sand. In that moment just to live was enongh, A sharp cry broke on his astonished ears. nay ywwel of an Inn that even did not dare in not only up down Almost at the end of the tongue of sand stood a girl. Her hair was blowd Ing around her slim shoulders. Over one of them she gazed, startled, at Gerry. He drew back horribly con fused and mombling apologies that she could not have understoed even If she could bave heard them. Then she plunged with a clean long dive Into the river. But before she plunged she laughed. Gerry heard the laugh. With Aan answering cry he nurled himself Into the water and swam as never he had swum hefore, I'he girl had farther to £0 Acro little bay, but ghe swimming and she to head and, when bottom, started to wade 16 wr SIOW could hes did Only use her work in water wal tuck to bis long powerful the girl reached the bank fingers of his right hand o! bare ankle. Gerry's enablegram to his mother was forwarded to Red Hill on the very day that the judge had goue to that no trace could be missing man. The judge was down-hearted than ever isappearance and when he found Ge 1 radiating ‘ment his tell them found of the more over Gerry's the women happiness and said 1 xelt art hes sank lo “I haven't any good news,” he mefully before he alighted “Tease him,” Alix Mrs. Mrs. Tansing had found lines in the judge's tired face and whispered back, “I can't” cablegram In the judge's hand “What's this?" he eaid Lansing, in a low tone to But new whe ty Sh yr She pu gald and a wnar-whoop, read Then he gave Alix around the walst and The th with the joy of happy people hap In a month, say at the m mths, Gerry could be The rega would be in They looks to ine into his o caught kissed her Firs it night-—zgny were guy Ianning, two m Pp her Hill Ha of is) Spring would have come. wonld be decked ont in fi sa f It 111 and blossom. at Alix hora] £ TEER 4 and Allx seemed He er before look would ¢ 18 116 The judge m » cabled Gerry ane orte«d undelivered the A t long series of messa merican oonsyl hopeful, ul then loubtf then a be vr Dey ow fH, ene = LAR RA RS Bush, San Francisco river. The envoy sent on his track by the Judge's orders | had reached Plranhas to find the little i town In apathetic wonder over the dis covery of Gerry's canoe stranded three miles down the river. The paddiec was #till in the canoe and a suit of pyia- mas. No further trace of Gerry had | been found. His body had not been re covered. The people sald it was not | unusual. He had undoubtedly been at- tacked by tiger fish. In that case his bones would have been stripped of flesh It was Impossible to drag the great river, The judge hid in his heart the har rowing detalls,. To Mrs. Lansing he told the central fact. 8he was struck dumb with grief and then she thought of Alix. Almost hastily they decided that it was uot a time to tell Alix ana during Joug months they put her off with false news of the search. They carried it farther and farther into the wilds of the subcontinent. The coun. iry was so vast, there was no telling when the messenger would finally come up with Gerry. Alix bore the strain with wonder ful patience. The truth was that her thonghts were not on Gerry, Some thing greater than Gerry was claiming all her faith-—all her strength of body and soul. Khe did not talk. She was holding that final communion with her innermost self with which a woman dedicates her body to pain and sacri flee. Alix was not afraid. In those days the spirit of the race--her race of ploneers-~shone fiom her steady eyes and even put courage in those about her. Only when the ordeal was over and an heir to the house of Lansing had raised his lusty voice In apparent rage at having been born to so amall a kingdom, did the frail Allx of other days come back. As she lay, pale and thin, but with the glorfons light of supreme achievement in her eyes, Mrs, Lansing went on her knees beside the bed and sobbed, “Oh, Alix, I love you 80, 1 love you sol” Alix smiled. Slowly she reachiod one hand over and placed it in Mrs, 1 “You wranny #1 are erving Now, what goftly | nner the wid hook been! How you iit a burden to « and mile But You dre nl not have 1d told me—then that can drown Gerry.” Alix clung to her ber faith that but “My he tt the end belief Mr nfected, the thom OF tu won't "13 Sonth tive 3 about # stopped and ves spoke for her “My dear girl” i fils olor “don't Ix 48 you : alin Africa.” * 8 the ne, sald reent Wayne of “That's 1d watched C Co “When 1 shirt sleey “Hum.” gal saw Wa 1 ngeford syne be was in on HER There are me men that won't shake hands but I'm not one of them.” 3 Judge decided with } with him, ft was then that the Gerry Lansfg was sitting alone in the shade of a bush, his kuees gath- ered in his arms and his head bowed down, Great quivering sighs that were almost sobs were shaking his gtrong body. In one terrific swirl life had wrenched him from the moor. ings of generations, tossed him hich and dropped him, broken. Between the moment when he had plunged from the sandspit and the moment when he and the girl had stood on the river bank and laughed together to sce the canoe, worked adrift by the eddy, swirl out into the river and away. eons had passed. In that laughing moment he had stood primeval man in a primeval world. With the drops of water from the river he had flicked off the bonds it had taken centuries to forge. And now his truant con science returned to stand dismayed. The girl, dressed in a homespun cotton robe belted at the waist, came back down a half-hidden path, shyly ut first and then with awe to gee him weeping. She tossed him g oot ton Jumper and trousers and then drew back and walted for him in the path He rose ginwly to his feet, dressed and followed the girl She led him along the path through the brush and out into a little valley made up of abandoned cane and rice bottoms. 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