° By A Story of Today and of All Days Copyright by The Century Company SYNOPSIS. mn Alan Wayne in sent away from led FIL 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- win Wayn e tells Alan of the | failing : of the Waynes, Clem drinks Alan's health on his birthday. Ju ge He aley 8 a picture for Alix Lana 1d nds Alan 8 W rs Alan a at J re bound, flirtatic ch becomes riou Nand - , Sterling asks Alan to g away from Allx. Alix is taken to task by Gerry, her husband, for her conduct with Alan and defiga I Gerry, as he k secs Allx and Alan i thing, and goes to leaves Alan on the to find that Gerry h leaves Pernambuco On a can i The judge is born Gerry + ouy Alix meet start a At home, herself the they oS . she looked then he it liste long div drawn up t Her eyes with wonder at the c¢ white master I pad he old negry back to his seat on tl white stood 1 ry. urg 1 floor two nd ate the woren Ger The more he red. Gerry set dow a sigh. The rust Before the coffee dwindled to is ed inh had def of corn Now she 1 the empty g had been de name of ta el the ey. the sigh cigarette thin as hia ipoter a veins, At tly rolled a husk, slipped it The old negresa picked and, passing it from shaky hand, Gerry lit long contented whi scraped paper. into fingers live coal hand to hia p! ie the first 1 The brought stin recollection, away the ciga- the table. “The up a shaky ited It on tte. With smil depos he cign ' gmile With a frown he t rette and rose from brute is fed and neha,” he sa id ; 1 and strode room. he bord and oked at end red The ind the | sh othe to sonse old dark; floor possesse in l the cigarette, Gerry the steps of the 30 defore him gtretehed the nd It gleamed the black line of the rushing giver. To the right were the ruins of a sugar will and stables, To the left the debris that once had been slaves’ quarters, The ficids still bore the hum- mocks, in rough aligument, that told the story of years fruitful in cane, All was waste, all was ruin, The girl silpped to a seat beside him, She rolled a fresh cigarette and then shyly laid a small brown hand on his arm. Gerry looked at her. Her big brown eyes were sorrowful and plead. dng. She held out the cigarette with a djittle shrug that deprecated the small dess of the offering, Gerry felt a twinge of remorse. He patted the hand that lay on his arm, gmiled, and took the cigarette. The girl's face lit up. She called and again the negress brought fire. This time Gerry smoked gravely. The girl sat on beside him. Her band lay in his. So they sat until the sun passed the genit! = allpping over the eaves, fr “infer hare feet. Gerry went “e himself on fallow valley, | “5 past stood up, pointed to himself and then down the river to the town. The girl shook her head. She made him under stand that he was cut off from the town by an impassable tributary to the great river—that he would ‘have to make a long detour inland Then she swept her hand from the sun the horizon to show him that the day i was too far gone for the journey | He was not much | apathy seized him at the | going back. He felt as the { had left some visible | tenance that 1 { As he stood, t he girl g nds to An af ned, thought y concer gear on his coun. gee and read, ind detached, with both to nen must houghtf 11 sped his arm his one and drew atts ion hen she gave sweep of that embr Jd all the ruin and mili lel i to hings were | 1 i herself Ie underst hands an nid them juent "enaet meas He he i COWS their lived well, f the nal member ried off to market ie proceeds bought tl of upkeep of the open am {| the iar orcas ds ributions the Civils decided. and ran to around her | sort of numbed em: dark simplicity, love, fidelity that and unmeasuring manded all In mind of the 1 f des: believed himsel no longer existed there tween him and this atran r into Com riage with § The Inst sc ipl : of of of law fell thrown aside and he band of the girl who hb woord him, POTTY [Te looked at him He put and gazed with a ion the she his into her great wells of below all 1easured eves. Those eyes were but unn that gave all there were depths and de the husband who and Ix nny ried trayed barrier be who had hig life Mar. tr to AliX vilization cman © BO wron Collingeford gave a sigh of relief when he saw what manner of place was Maple House. As they gathered around the great table for dinner he was the only stranger and he did not feel It. Nance was there with the faint smile of a mother that has just put her children to bed. Charley Stir. ling, teasing Clematis, tried to forget that Monday and the city were coming together. Mrs, J. Y., with Collinge ford on her right and the judge on her left, held quiet sway over the table and nodded reassuringly at the old captain who was raking gestures with his eyes to the effect that a whisky and soda should be Immediate. ly offered to the guest, J. Y., pretty gray by now, sat thoughtful, but kindly, at the other end of the table. Clem was beside him, It was not until the men were sit ting alone after the zlass of port, in which all had drunk Collugeford's welcome to that house, that the judge sald casually, “Collingeford Alan in Africa.” “Eh! What?" sudden Alan?’ Mn net rica.” said Col you want Nance “You shi saw said inters the captain “What's that “J about Alan W lingeford, me to called i LET ner, sie 148 in Af smiling. “Do you about it?” ayne tell Charley Stirting out. said, “come and sit vith me in the hammock.” abont eet] Africa,” said then Na ud ignantly And “Oh! and wanted to s¢ said ba idn't g l[ - thane hE : Gazed With a Sort of Numbed Emo ’ tion king up a river gorge to a crossing After lunch and the long had ten n to go to cross and it didn't help things to know that once | over we bad to come straight back | on the During the first hour's march in the florooon we heard yutid that ever rest we still {ion other side the sirange wilds those gave fort it =» ng on sto 18 like mmes we refused to he brought feve our ent sudden curt NE Vang fact of of rs before inst the indi r-brdge in Before to (he gam x ¢ il a in putable throes thot gl 3k count ion rilege we con! the mac monsirosity cent bad noiey the root of our ul thought re luck—came the gl that we didn’t have to do ten miles up hat gorge and ten back. We would have whooped except that men don't whoop in Africa-—it scares the game, “1 said the bridge was in the throes of construction, It was just thal. Its two long gliders, reaching from brink to brink, with their spidery trusses hanging underneath, fairly swarmed with sweating figures, and the figures were blark., It was that that brought us to a full stop and just when our eyos were fixed with the intensity of discovery, one of the workers looked np, saw us, relaxed and gave the lond grunt which gtands in Landin for ‘Just look at that!’ in English, “The babbling and bammering around him ceased, but while he still stared at us, we saw a veritable ap» parition, A white man, hung between heaven and the depths of the gorge, was racing along the top of the slip pery girder. His helmet blew off, hung polsed, and then plunged in long tack. ing sweeps. The man war dressed fn a cotton shirt, white tronsers and thick woolen socks, No boots, Of course, 1 didn't notice all that till af- torwards. Ino his hand he carried a ijambok. Suddenly the staring darky seemed to feel him coming but, before be could turn, the sjambok quirt came down with the elnging sting of hide on flesh We the blosl spurt The negro toppled without a cry. He fell loside, canght truss, clung, and finally with a stroggle drew him self up on to a stringer. A shout of lnughter went up from his fellows. loddsky and I hod heard it often the laugh of the African for his broth er in pain. And then they work again. The black with the blos trickling off his back rested enough to get his breath and climbed back to hig place on the gir- der. He was grinning, Don't ask me to explain it. Men dq try- ing to explain Africa. “The white man had half turned. He stood, a dling, on the girder, sjnmbok to and fro, blazing. From his lips ter of all the vile Swahili and a half a the words firs ir r JATEOD Seer Hoy Waors orf They saw On in to wl long then fell have dis stopped and little strad- and switched the His eyes dropped a pat vords in Landin, dozen other dia were white to d to inelte the 1 wets that a listens man he natives black a ©} imaily started wher a8 ever to &l does frder on onr Now's our He oon Ww, a great.’ at is just with a capital ugly, but it “And right thers us two mon arden ga plain stark I saw the light mystery Ten Percent Wayne was reves He could men. He comid mu bricks While work was else mattered Right and wrong eds of that i deatl 14 good for the the of a led, drive ke stra on, nothing measured by the ai The stem glass snap ‘I'm sorry.” he said, | te smiled a three tense tell that it Not everybody understands. Some people call Wayne no better than a murderer: but I'm not one of them. And Bodsky says there bave been a lot of murderers he'd like to take his club,” “J. Y.. there's somebody at the door,” said the captain there some time.” J. Y. awnng around and threw open the door He sprang fomward and caught Clem in the act of flight. He brought her into the room and gat down, holding hor upright beskie him. J. Y. was proud amd for a mo ment Collingeford's presence galled him “What were you doing, Clem?” he asked. Clematis was in that degree of em- barrassment and disarray which makes lovely youth a shade more love. iy. Her brown hair was tumbled about her face ata down her back, Her cheeks were Hushed and ber thin white neck seemed to tremble above side itthe aRiy the him don’: on “1 too deep atory often O08 io listening “Heen back the deep red frock. Her fn excliter of her slightly yoked lips were moist and parted went, Bhe was sixteen and beautiful beyond the reach of hack- neyed phrases, The four men fixed their eyes upon her, and she dropped hers. “I was eavesdropping,” she sald in a voice that wus low but clear, “Why, said J. Y. Clem looked around on the four Khe did not seem afraid. Unconscious ly they waited for her to go on, aud ghe did. “Mr. Collingeford wi about Alau. I heard Chariey was going to. 1 shall always eaves drop when anyone tells about Alan.” For a second her auditors were stunned by the andacity Collinge ford’s face was the first to fignt up and hig hand came down on the table with a bang. “Bally for you, young : rant” he cried and his ould be heard on the over, the grunted his me patted Clem's very Clem!” gravely. men, clear laugh « judge joined rriest in, the grunt and J. 1} der Hed shoul ang si of t aq It if the Ra of the Clem was among womank'n waits then more de to Weer and vet hi mi Tonnes. ey wLRYREY BD. ». AFTORN NT ADLAW lL LWTR Oe Durie of Oven Sema a — aD I —.. uw. BARRAGE WALES ATTORNEY APRAW BRILEVOEYH, WR Pe BV. Righ Steen A prolmaenal bute yremytty sevnadnd EL Bh. iB Same Mos. 1. 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