eT SYNOPSIS. ey an Alan Wayne is sent away fron home, by his uncle, J. ¥Y Clem runs ¢ sr him (in a tangle of short skirts to bid him good-b 1p tain Wayne tells A ; of the Waynes, Clem drinks mn his birthd Judge Heal his business with his empl Allx meet at sen Iw siart a flirtation. ling asks Alan to § is taken to t for her com Gerry, eloping, Red HIN, ell ent ie A fn ve i i fe A RC in for get even, or life when A Be ati a at ae at wr A ps A le A BGAN CHAPTER XIV- Gerry oe have evols giant ironwoo the wreck of was 80 heavs uld hard : At the end gate was in i d like flors drove the hea sand wi shat at a capst They toile barrier dow into the ew and irgarita came vy 18t turn of the = M halk out the Under the broad dome of tree on the banks of a can river Alan Wayne had p camp, The Selwyn tent and jectin veranda fly were faded stained. The net mosquito tailing were creamed w ice. Two camp chairs and a ble table, battered placed bef Over ono of the chairs hung a towel. On the ground gquatted a take-down bath tub, balf filled with water. In the deep shadow of the tree the pale green rot-proof canvas of the tent, the fly, the chairs and bathtub, gleamed almost white, On the farther side of the great trunk of the tree was the master's kitehon, three stones and a half-circle of forked sticks driven into the ground. On the sticks hung a few pols and pans, a saddle of buck, bits of fat and a disreputable looking coffee-bag. Be tween the stones was a bed of coals. Before the crotiched a red-fezzed Zanzibarl From under a second fifty gards away, came the dull, rhythmic pounding of wooden pesties in wooden mortars. The eye conld just distin. guish the glistening naked torsos of three blacks In motion. They were singing a barbarous chantey. At the pauses their arms went up and the pestles came down together with a thud. The blacks were pounding the kafir corn for the men's evening meal, Down the river and almost out of sight a black, spidery construction reached out over the water-—Alan's jateat bridge. Men swarmed on it, Six o'clock and there came the trill of a whistle, Buddenly the bridge was cleared. A babble of voices arose. There was a crackling of twigs. a shuilling of feet, here and there a high, excited cry, and then the men poured into camp. A din of talk, beld In chock for hours, arose. Gilistening black bodies danced to jerky, fantastic Stops, shouts and impatient cries to the mooks swelled the madley of sound, Through the camp stole the mango n unnamed Afri hed his the pro- ard cur and serv- collapsi- strong, were bobbi ith age but ore the tent tree, Songs, acrid odor of toiling Africa Behind the men | man, McDougal; behind him came Alan. At sight of him the Zanzibari sprang into action. of hot water into the bath tub and laid out an old flannel suit. leside the sult he placed clean { fresh socks and, on the ground, a palr ppers. lan stripped, bathed Zauzibari handed ea. By the time the tea was druni table was freshly laid and Alan t down to a steaming bow! of broth nner, dinner MaDougal joined him For a full half hour they less. Darkness fell the lights of their fitfully pipes. Krom the meu's camp subdued tte. The finished they & for every little group smel of the wood fires triumphed over every other odor MeDot tga had met n at an Afri rnished = HDisuea Ww and dressed. po him a cup of noke, vord brought out glowing CRI a eh men were lit fires—a ‘he feeding, Asa they Alan first ‘an seaport. th a chair and at Alan, busy and plans for sup my. Thi ! had asked for wered, “Get out) hia he the table # timates little Douga had ans 1 rene » interview ted request told the » {he resident mag and Alan glory in the it was this way: iyne's office and said, ‘Get in and be said get out he Ome through that One to the alr. OO on it was best since that justice when fiata, and stumpnic honor, savin’ » up to find watering h, tarrn by turm Lirat arf 4d Fil ith both of me the snkd the magisirate his twitching that was the Kafir 1 pass for ast night.* signed a 1ay weed he” “H Mel that i ny weel be” “Well, attne rion l OER, can be settled omt of oourt vast hand In your pardon, McDougal beld up a interruption. “Begging your honor, there'll this matter out Wayne and mysel’. Aince is enough. Justice and the prisoner in the dock Innghter MeDougal be nae sed of coort surrendered to stood grave and “What 1 meant” said the maghs- n he recovered, “is that Mr. will probably give yeu a job it all square.” “That's It.” said Alan. “1 asked Mr. Wayne for worruk and if It's worruk he Is giving mee 1'Hl nae be denying it is vir answer,” replied McDongal, and forthwith became Yen Percent Wayne's gang boss asd under study in the art of drivieg men with both fists and a knee MeDougal knocked out his third pipe. “The de'il of a conntry is this” he sald: “in the seas of it a life-pre- server holds you up handy for sharks and in the rivers does swimming save your life? Nae. to the crocs.” They had lost a black that day. He had slipped from the bridge into the water. He had arted to swim to shore and then suddenly disappeared in a swirl Conversationally, McDougal Umited himself to a sentence a day In which he summed up the one event that had struck him as worthy of peotice. Hav- ing delivered himself of his observa- tion for the night more and relapsed into silence erturbed. trate whe # ii lence, Alan could feel him sitting there in the dark, raw-boned and dour but ready at the word of command. It was after eight when Alan called for a light and drew from a worn let ter case the correspondence that n runner from the coast had brought in that day. He glanced over olicial com- munications, blue prints and business letters and stuffed them back inte the leather case. One fat letter, nole- paper size, remained. “MeDougal,” sald Alan, “hush up the eamp-—tell "em it's nine o'clock.” MeDougnl arose and picking up a big stick strode over towards the men, The stick was so big that he had never had to use it. At the mere sight of It the men desisted from clamor, dance and horse-play, Alan drew the fat letter from its envelope and for the second time read, Dear Alan: As vou see, this is from New York. We came down Yestardey. All summer 1 have been watching for my second self because I'm Just about grown up now-—gutside, | menn-inside is different | someboweand ihree days before we left I wns sitting on the down by the pond. 1 jumped up and ran down Long Lane toad to where i that oli stone bench after hor all the and np the low the red cow broke her leg time and there I loat her. 1 didn't and had to come away without her and now I feol so ques: of half-y, Just like you Somehow I can’t blame her. Hill in tho month so she just stayed behdod remember-- Bhe didn't gorgeous Do you This is the fires Mount to the gods in pyres ... 1 gorgeous month when leafy myriad sammer A few hours ago whem I was doing my mile on the avenue I almost got run down and Mam’'selle gave me an awful scolding for being so absent-minded. It was a true word I was just that-absent-minded because my mind was off chasing that other half. And them I came back and thers 1 was on the avenue with people staring at me more than they ever have before, 1 suppose it was because I wan out of breath with chasing In my mind Good-by, Alan CLEM. Alan sat in the cirele of light from the hanging lamp and stared into the | datkness. From the rviver came the | sound of sucking mud, then a heavy tread. A monster hippo blunderad {| through the bushes in search of food { On the other glide of the | Zanzibarl was snoring. The fires wert { burning out at the men's camp. Once more the odor of thelr bodies hung in the alr. Alan } we 1¢ the outer «ig tree trunk the arose and the mango tree hands locked gave himself up to wrgot the sounds and a, the black-green of ves, the black the black For an hour the black ywed | summer a of gat down and with | elbows on knees { memory. He smells of Afric overhanging lea | of th of the swirling river, men about him himself away world to wander over in New England { in a burst of light Red HI, yned with mountain- ash 1iled to his spirit night to a lo wi had from tore th he bel where CTov as a inderer passed torch Tlie thir tA Yu co i idding pro up my way and they're dying-—stary- ing. I came down to make a deal, I've picked out a hundred and twenty head with blood In horses and cattle. If you'll tnke ‘em and feed ‘ein through to the rains I'H give you ten out of the hundred, Some far gone to save, I'm afraid Gerry Yooked at his tiny plantations which showed up meanly in the great expanse of waste pasture. “I'm ‘am are too BOT You see, | can't afford to fence” Lieber looked around and “That's all right,” he said, lot of old wire that's no us a lot of loafers to tear Il put it up. I'l fence as much pasture as you say and throw in the on the deal” “That's mighty fair,” sald Gerry: “I'll take you.” He dropped his hoe “Won't you come to the and have a hite and Lieber started to follow “By the way,” sald Gerry over his shoul der, “vou're not a German, are you m Lieber stopped his wavered. “No,” he sald sborily, "I not. I'm an American don't think I ought to waste any time Hours tell with starving stock 1" just get back in a hurry, If mind. My men and the wire here just that much sooner nodded “I've got a to me ang down fencing down house to eat?™ horse, Ills eyes fter all, you don will be Gerry frowned again bul this time He felt that he stepped on another man's corns his “All right, he sald sooner I'll do all fending own Lieber, fier. T™h companied by 03 cing, posts h them. hot bours ar Gerry thre: foreman, nazing rapid carried it to "” “* i Le I ean noOrning to help : nex wil ' I0USe ast trian were held Re night the was tir Gave Himself Up to Memory. swept away budding He imagined those very at the end their course, the pale amber of the elms the deep note of the steadfast firs, the flaunting fire of the brave maples. Maple House arose before him, lawn carpeted with dry leaves. From the leaves floated an dusty, pungent The cool of the great, rambling ed to him. Here ia peace, they apemed to cry. 1 memory of home gripped him, held him and soothed Lim. His head nodded and slept only to awake with a start, for he had dreamed that he had lost the way back forever, leaves of its incense, shadows house beckon here Is rest, hie he Gerry turned to his work of tilling the soll. He cut the Dest of the cane and Bonifacio planted the joints at a alant with knowing hand, He sorted the bolls of cotton. The women sty died the fiber and when it was long, silky and tough they picked out the seeds with eare and boarded them, for was not yet. One duty urged another. The days passed rap tdly. One morning Gerry looked up from hig labor to find a mounted figure just An elderly man of florid face sat a restive stallion of Arab strain. The stranger's note was opnu- lence. From his Panama hat, thin and light as paper, to his sliver spurs and the silver-mounted harness of his horse, wealth marked him. He was dressed in white linen and his flaring, glossy riding-boots of embroidered Russian leather stood out from the white clothes and the whiter sheep's fleece that served ns saddle cloth, with telling effect. In his hanas was a silver-mounted rawhide quirt. His face was grave, hie eyes blue and kind- ly. As Qerry looked at him he spoke, “I'm Lieber from up the river.” Gerry started at the familinr Eng- lsh and frowned, At the frown the gtranger’'s eyes shifted. “1 didn’t come down here to bother you,” he went on hastily. One of my mea told me about the greon grass and [ couldnt I've got cattic i pot he to put in to a inzy horars to of horses Lie cattle” tart and nd ecn 1) The cattle « bie that were staggering Their beads hw They bad no pitifuily—co carried (sorry open horses gave then dashed their the the weakness siope pu food did not bottoms here they stop 1 1 Lied 8 KF The ¢ to Lent t first through away from the gap 3 i to eat and had blocked the wo At last were all in and the gap closed. tro wit radd feet } continued to low, their lips just brush ing the Iu “Poor beasts,” Lieber, the smile gone from “they are to eat.” He and Gerry back to bouse for break! The herders gat and smoked. They had had coffee; it would sre them through half the day. Before Lieber left, the herded once more and with much trou ble diiven out upon the desert. Lie ber turned to Gerry. “Don’t let them back in until tomorrow, he said. “If you do, they'll foumler, “What about the catiie?” asked Ger ry. “The cattle are ad right Th haven't enough spirit left to Kill them selves eating. They'll begin lying down pretty soon. Good-by, and re member, you'll get a warm welcome up at Lieber's whenever you feel like riding over.” “Thanks.” said Gerry. “Good-by" He watched Lieber ride away with a teeling of changes impending. Fa zenda Flores, isolated refuge, was peginning to link itself to a worli Man, ike a vine, has tendrils. To olimmb he must reach them out and cling. The reward of those long months of preparation was at hand. Once every spade thrust nad seemed but the pre cursor to barren effort. Now every stroke of the hoe seemed to bring forth a fresh green leaf. Life rell Into an entrancing monotone, It became an endless chwiin that forged (ts own links and lengthened ont into an endless perspective. Days passed, The ar rival Lieber's foreman to see how the ek was progressing was 'an fle brought with him an oli and bridle—a gift from Lieber or led and stood te” said face, hh grass, too weak went the ast, horaes were please,” ” his of at saddle gays” the foreman re jeer, on making the you can ride anythi you ean cateh” terry felt the foreman ting in place He went into tl and reappeared ¢ hat, called, The and looked tering but ward him to Gerry. “lle marked with a presentation, * needed puts 1¢ house ii and eads ifter wa- over 10 They stopped a few yards off and scrutinized Mm ax though divine his intentions hen they ap proached cantiovsly, with tense legs, ready to whirl and bolt. A greedy coll refused to play the game of fear to a arrying something climbed the fence horses raised thei were trotted Pie Home Inzy the others 10 sea would have ense of the stockman laid eyes on the | were these tw “Master,” be gs to Gerry, * ind not to | * even the Ir mh yas a i] sav ae Hit) their time He had ail. He winced of death at Fa ven down to these least 3. He himself had fed them from a warm bottle In frou- alaable time had cost ton in acre of to pay for TY worked the nda Flores oy at ught bie and 11 hit they But price an acre of ¢ cotton was a amall fe. A grip of the hand and the foreman was off in a cloud of dust At the bridge he pulled his horse d to the shambling fox trot that spares beast and man but eats steadily into a long journey. A bearer of good tidings rides slowly. Gerry turned to his work but a ory from arrested him. He dropped his field tools and ran to the house. Dona Maria glanced at him, clawed and hustled him out of the room-—out of the house. The door slammed behind him, He heard the great bar drop. He was locked out. Gerry paced angrily up and down the veranda. Calm came back to him, He saw that hie had been a fool. He stopped and sat down on the steps of veranda Here, before he had benches, she bad often sat beside him, caressed him, sung to him, flow cold be had been. How little he had done for her, He remembered that as she had worked on baby ¢lothes she had said she wished she had some bloe ribbon. They had all langhed at her, but she had vodded her girl's bead gravely and sald, “Yes, | wish I had some blue ribbon-—a little roll of blue ribbon.” What a brute be had been to laugh! own the house When a man gets into trouble because of a woman, he is in real trouble. How will Gerry rid him. soif of this entanglement with fittle Margarita? What would any upright man do? Read the next instaliment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) mi INA TS, Bb » PODAVRY aad ATCORERY LPIAW MILIIUETE, OB, Stan Bert of Ona Roces mma a ——— id Z. 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