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. In the center was a slight
elevation, too low to be called a hill,
and on it was an old plantation house,
white stucco once, now sadly weather.
streaked, Ita tiles greenblack with (I
moss of yeprs
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