SYNOPSIS.
se
Alan Wayne is sent away from Red Hil
ds heme, by his uncle, Y., as a moral
fadlure. Clem runs after him in a tangle
of short skirts to bid him good.b, Cap-
in Wayne tells Alan of the falling of the
nes, Clem drinks Alan's he alth on bis
hr b> ay. dwdge Healey defends Alan In
fide business with his employers. Alan and
Alix, Gerry's wife, meet at soa, homeward
bound, and start a flirtation, At home,
Gesry, as he thinks, sees Alix and Alan
sloping, drops everything, and goes to
Pernambuca. Alix leaves Alan on the
tain apd goos home. Gerry leaves Per-
ndimbuce and goes to Pirnphas. On a
dno trip he meets a native girl The
judge fails to trace Gerry. A baby is bora
to Alix. The native girl takes Gerry to
wie ruined plantation she is mistress of.
Garry marries her. At Maple house Col-
lingeford tells how he met Alan—"“Ten
Per Cent Wayne''-—bullding a idge in
Africa. Cellingefor a meets Allx and
baby and gives her e couragement about
Gerry. Alan comes ¢ to town but does
TR go home. He 1kes veral calls
in the city. Gerry be st prove Mar.
garita’'s plantation bullds an irrigat-
ing ditch. In Africa v reads Clem's
leflers and dreams of ie erry pa
tures Lisher’'s cattle during t drought,
a?
EXC OO OOOO XXX
3 TO YOU WOMEN
Supposs your husband desert-
3 ed you because you played a
rather dangerous prank on him
% danger of family dishonor? Sup-
pose, after he had been gone
two years, another man came
along and laid his love at your
feet? Would you do right in en
couraging him? Should you
wait longer for the husband?
ATT aa AT
-ate
CHAPTER XVIi-—Continued.
Gerry still waited. It
tor wait. Then
‘Geree! Qeree!
apd pounded on the
ame. Yesterday th
servile to him; today he
He shouted, "I am here! 1
ways he here.” She did not call agaln
He paced wp and down
saying to himself,
ribbon—a Httie
He stumbled on the saddle tha
find sent him.
picked up the bridle and ran
the pasture. [He caught the oldest
gentlest of the horses, openad a
and led }
Ox
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was terrible
she called to him,
8 He leaped up
Soor but nobody
had all been
nothing
oy
was
roll of
down
Then
sald
in the fence
he ealled Bonlfaclo
you must take the [fatte of
iteers—the red
face—you must
and sell him.”
The darky demurre
for market it
“It does
as [ sey.”
must sell
sell bim yom must
ribbon. Deo yon
must bring
distress. he say must
ittle roll :
Hours passed
turned. He
one money beside
addled the old hor
the pasture;
down
one with the blazed
town
do
not matter uy must
sald Gerry
the ste
blue
"
back blue ribbe: r you
have a
laid
into
sat
Gerry looked +
ding bead. Then
Dona Maria came
in." ried; “thon
T+ man child,”
Gerry went in
hed. Margarita
smiled faint
fittle roll of
hand ghe
and looked d«
of blue and un
Rer eyes, swimming
white, drawn fa
rifice she added
a
the I
bustlin
art ti
she ¢
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aaori
The calm which had settied on Alix’
life puzzled her. dered If
was beginning to 8. Bhe
was stil] debating t n Col
Hugeford arrived in the city Ugon
arrival he called Mrs. J. YY. and
then on Nance and then, of course, on
Alix. As she came into the room he
felt a strange fluttering in bis throat.
it stopped bis words of greeting. He
atuttered and stared He had never
felt so glad at the sight of any one.
“What are you looking =o dismayed
about?" cried Alix with a smile and
holdiug out her hand Haas a sbor!
vear changed Amn | 80
thin or so fat?
c ye fr wid ree
ther too thin It is per-
fection, not that dis
mays a man, You call it a short year?”
Le added gravely. “It's been an eter
wity--not a year!”
But Alix was not to be diverted
trom ber tone of badinage., She looked
\ nim over eritic ally. “Well,” she said,
1 congratulate you. I didn't know be
fore that bronze could bronze, What
a Jot of health you carry about with
von.”
Collingeford smiled. “Clem sald 1
ooked as though I had been living on
ables”
They sat and stared nt cach other.
Lach found the other good to look up-
: atone, Collingeford's tall,
"i iw the fragile quality of
She won she
miss Gerry le
the point whe
on
me so much?
os
wered himself
fat
imperfeetion
“Nel-
oll
nor too
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hard to match. Seen together,
were wonderfully in tone. Alix grew
grave under inspection, Collngsford
nervous. “There is no mews?’ he
asked.
“None,” sald Alix and a faraway
look came into her eyes as if her mind
were off, thousauds of miles, intent
on a search of Its own.
Collingeford broke the spol. He
jumped vp and sald he had come for
just one thing-—te take her out for a
walk. It was one of those uippy ear
ly winter afternoons cut out to fit a
walk. Alix must put on her things.
She did and together they walked the
long length of the avenue and out into
the park.
By that time they had decided it was
quite a warm afternoon after all—al-
most warm enough to sit down. They
"
-
-
v,
»
tried it. Collingeford sat half turned
on the bench and devoured Allx with
And just as be was going te
a word Ajllx gave him a full, meas
look and sald, almost hastily, “It
Quite chilly. It
80 fast decaived us
tentatively to-
Hoaorable
: OVS
vas our walking
and sta
ard the gate ‘Come on,
Percy,” she sald pi Sy fully.
Collingeford enuglhit up with her and
“If you call me Hener-
Percy agaln I shall dub you EHoa-
est Alix.”
They were wal
ihe rose red
king down the ave
“Honest Alix isn't hatf had.”
ntinued thoughtfully, “The race
has got into the habit of yoking the
word honest to our attitude toward
nies but i's a geod
rd that stands for trustworthy,
trathful and all tie other ad
he «
old wi
sincere,
Shed
ford,
ing of riding, Mr.
you're riding for a fall”
meaningly
“How did you know 7 he stammenred
went on rather sullesiy,
you're wrong. I'm net. But
going to.” He prodded vi
the cracks in the pavement
Collinge
Allx
then
‘Anyway,
n
3 just
clously at
' sald Alix. "Don't do that,
mean. You'll break your stick and
it's the I like."
Collingeford turned a flushed face
to her. “look I Alix.” he sald,
“you are mest and sincere and afl
i [ sald. Don't let's hedge
now If your bad
up-—if you learn saything
yu don't want te know
it right out-—would you
1 ever would"
ile He was too
«ft and she liked him
—was too much at one with him
to feel what be was goin
‘1 your Honest Alix
pause. “and 'm go-
the talking for a mo
absolutely that
never come back to me,
that 1 would tum
lingefor rel
aM
one
hink yot
did
in earne
not so
100
¥
a
you." Col
“Dou't mw
she went on ‘IH
iot, but I bave
rying anyone but
I've new
Not really.”
ye time Ins
Collingeford thoughts bad
away and AMX’
them “Don't
one horrible nistake, Perey.”
wns sure. “Don’t
mild ever love the
epened.
we
never
i er
I'd ik
te to marry Gerry
walked on
ring a
when she
that I
bearer of 11 tidi
Colllngeford flushed, this ti
“No, of
ings
me with
hame course nol,” he stam
roered.
“You see—or can't you see?’ ashe
vent on, “that all this new life of
mine I've bung on to a single hook of
faith. 1 could not break out from this
probation for any other man. [I do
not mean that a woman can love but
once--not necessarily jut 1 do think
hat one's life must spring from a new
chrysalis new love fairly.
Second oves at ght have a tang
of the bargain counter and the ready
made. Love Is not a chance tenant.
He must bulld or grow into a new
home.”
They walked a fall
eford’s shoulders droop. For
the [irst time his life he felt old
“You are right-—-you are always right.”
he said at last. “I shail go sway —
tiere where 1 to sweat.”
casy to
“What an
to meet na
first =i
on in slience
Colling
in
Soinew
“Somewhere
sweat!” exclaimed
ugly thought™
“It's only Bodsky,” said Collingeford
rominiscentiy. “Dodsky says you can
drown any woman's memory in sweat
Good old Bod! 1 wonder where I slic
find him.”
“Oh,” sald Alix, “if it's Podsky's.
one musn't quarrel with it simply be-
cause it is ugly. But”
“But what?” said Collingeford.
“1 was going to say, ‘But what naked
language!’ Perhaps it is one of those
truths one shrinks from Decause It
starts In by slapping one’s face. Any-
way, even if it is a troth, it's horrid.
It hurts a woraan to be forgotten.”
Collingeford smiled. “Just so,” he
sald and stopped before an uptown
ticket agency. “Do you mind?’ he
asked, with a wave of his hand, They
went in and be bought a passage for
$ easy
where U's
Alix.
cA Story of
Today and
of All Days
we
v
England, He was to sall the following
afternoon, He looked 80 glum over it
that Alix consented to lunch with him
and see him off.
He came for her the next day a lit
tle late but, when she saw his face
she felt « shock and forgot to chide
him. Her eyes mirrored the trouble In
his but somehow she felt that it was
not the parting from her that had
turned him pale in a night. He helped
her into the waiting cab and then
sank back Into his corner.
Allx lald her gloved hand
knee. “What is ItT' she asked
Collingeford’'s face twitched. He
fixed his eyes through the cab window
on nothing. “Bodsky,” he sald, “is
dead. He bas been dead for months.’
“Oh,” cried Alix, “I'm sorry. I'm
sorry for you." She did mot try to
say any more. She had put all her
beart into those few words,
Collingeford drew out his
book and took from it a soiled
of paper—a leaf torn from a field note
He held It out to her with trem
bing hand. “I wouldn't show it to
anyone else. Trouble has made
great-bearted. Read it’
Allx puzzled over the slip of paper
“What's the name of the place?
can't make it out”
“It's a little hole on the
Thibet. That paper's been handed
along for five months. The envelope
it came In was In tatters.”
“Dear Old Pal,” read Allx,
remember what I used to
When a man has seen all the world he
must go home or die. When we last
parted 1 had three places left to see,
bat they haven't lasted me as long as
I thought they would. I have sent you
The bores are a bit too
big for the new powder and you can't
ase the guns, I know, but you'll hav
a home, old man, and you can give
them a place fn a raek. They will
make a little room as
ends of the earth. 1 didn't kill her. 1
made her kill herself. Bodaky."
Allx was pum zied again bat then she
remembere “So he dida't kil her,
after all” said,
“Kil her! Kill what? said
lingeford., “Oh, yes. I remember
if that mattered.”
“It matters It does
Allx, outraged
er {vy _
Forgive me,
on his
ket
sheet
poc
book.
you
,
berdera of
“Do you
¥
she
Col
As
matter.” ered
sald Colll
otten thy
at you
geford. “1
org never knew
n—
Bed,
lodsky. You sald yesterday that Bod
sky used naked language. You were
right. Bodsky undressed things. Just
as some people red and some blue,
Bodsky saw things naked. [le could
look through a black robe of rumor
spangled with lies and see truth naked,
He was naked himself—naked and un
ashamed. It's bard for me to make
you see because you did not know Lim
Jodsky was one of those men who
could have accomplished anything
only he didn't. He gifted life through
a big mesh. All the nonessentials
the trivialities—fell through An act
with Bodsk ¥ was a volition, measured,
weighed, aud then hurled, That's why
if you knew him you knew that in his
hands a crime was not a crime, That's
why I know that be is dead. He nev.
er used a stale cartridge--hils gun pev.
er missed fire”
Allx mused. “1 can't see him]
can't quite see him, A mgu who can
accomplish anything and doesn't seems
wrong-—a waste.”
“You don't sae,” said Collingerord,
“because you are facing my point of
view. Yon must turn around Bod-
sky used to say that all humanity had
a soul, but it took a tragedy to make
a man. His tragedy was that life cut
him out from the herd. He wasn't a
creator, he was a creation. Genera
tions, tances, eons, created Bodsky and
left him standing ke a scarred crag.
He bad but one mission-to see and
See
|
Have yon ever gat in the
on a moonlit night and looked
Sphinx? It holds you--it holds
yours eyes in a vice. You wonder
why. I'll tell you. It knows. That's
the way It was with Bodsky. He only
towered-—knew-—understood. [If that
is nothing, Bodsky was nothing.”
They were silent. Presently Col
lingeford helped her out and together
they passed through the rich foyer, the
latticed palm room, aud up the steps
into the latest ery in dining rooms. A
little table In the far corner had been
reserved for them As they
the crowded room a hu fell over the
tables, looked and
because Alix was beautiful and
tily gowned and Collingeford all that a
man should be, but who kuew
looked because Allx was Allx and
lingeford was Collingeford. These
fell to whispering, predicting a match
Alix bowed abstractedly he
there as she followed the b
to her seat.
They sat down, h half facing
room. Alix caught her
old alr?”
desert
at the
crossed
Some were sllent
dain
those
Col
s8OON
ead walter
© the
breath, *Whifr
asked geford
answered Allx. “Only sigh
I feel out of It
makes one igh wh
in it o
Alix paused
ford.
“There
but
hinsba
tenses
tng the Collin
“No
ing.
ways
wal
BO and that al
ether one
8 to be
(20 on,” sald Collin
are only a few
almost all of
The hw
room,
have
past
be a presen
know De
§ iy
in ute
fore
these wo
forward to
day will
+ shock will
their
they get dizzy
wake them up.”
ratand,
re ord,
ke your
then bit her tongus
pe, you
iid Collin
I do not tower
"said Allx and
slip
dow seemed fall on then
yin's high, delicate paneling an
the painted oval of the celling seemed
to hover a8 suddenly darkened
emptiness. The hum and clu
far away
AlUx felt as
hey sat alone and yet not
ingeford
spoken. “Yes”
come back
1't ki
hat we
you
to
1
over
*
itter of
t houch
WUT
Collingeford and
t plone, {
y
he sald,
to us.
how (tf
‘Bodsky Las
Don't
is with
t {wo are a
ind that it's worth while
us like
“But I
‘big biack «
10W
you but |
fee!
He's «
a cloud
like
on
clouda™ he
louds. If It
them you couldn't sce the light:
hear the thunder, They
ing and thunder—4ihe
of the gods.
(y was elemental
He conld 1
make fertile
at his feet
the first time be spoke
know
now
were
aria
He
not produce but he
the livea of |
I've sat
1 was doing it
And the
home. But
ne I’
I wish I ¢
resu
wouldn't co
ir
going bome bef ve Bo
world. Only
you with me.”
“There, there
but her eyes we
ROW or you
amly
* sald Al
re
will miss your a!
As Alix
ning room
Vayne an
Alan's
he
does not
doesn't en
in this
What on earth put it
“1 do
i do.
ever, it an
swer It not
foto your head?"
Alix “Oh, yes
Someone told me
nded himself
Case
n't kr sald
I rem
that A
ow,”
m ber
lan surrou
with tarnished reputatic
Each followed the tr
thoughts until they reached the pier
Alix did not get out of the cab. She
leaned from the and said
good-by, Collingeford Leld her hand
and her eyes long, then he turned
away and hurried into the elevator.
When Alix got ¢ she sat down
and wrote a note fo Alan—just a line
to tell him that wad ready and
wished to see him. Ile came thé fol
lowing gfternoon. At first he was a
littie rd, straining just the least
too much nervous
not to betray bis
ness But the sight of Alix put him
nt hig ease {rae
She had be
woman-true in the sense of
and she was tempered as steel,
soft with the softness of
About her there
inner shrine, She drew bh to it un.
hesitatingly and be suddenly felt un-
clean just as be had Toit unw vorthy on
that other day w= he had recoiled
from Nance's loving arms around his
neck.
“You're not looking very well, Alan,”
sald AllX when he was seated, 3
"Xo, I'm not on the top of the wave
just now,” replied Alan. “Touch of
river fever. It's like memory-—-a hard
thing to shake.”
“I'm not trying to shake mine,”
Allx calmly. “My wemories have
me."
“No wonder you don't quarrel with
them,” sald Alan In frank admira-
tion.
OI
me
ain of his own
window
hom
eho
nwkwi
en
ol
honor
but
motherhood
was the peace of an
m In
hen
said
made
“Alan, when are you going to come
back? Don't you ever tire of life as a
variety show? Wouldn't you rather
bave one real steady star in life than
a whole jot of tarnished tinsel
Alan jumped to his feet
hands in his coat pockets and st
walking up and down the somber
room. They were in the library ‘A
steady star,” he repeated, “What »
ind that would be! i've raised mWny
a star on my horizon, Alix, but the
longer 1 look at ‘em the more they
vinkle back. Jt's easier
science than to down
“In the end”
must
downs him
checked is Just common
“Do you think [| dou't now ity
flashed Al “Each day [I find
old haunt led to I am {ll}
oes?
stuck his
iried
to down con
blood.”
AllIX, “a man
downs him
ably Blood
beast,"
sald
down blood or it
irretriev
ih
den
me
r
5
|
|
|
a
\
IL
S$ a pale
Jo you know
for three
Chere
said Alix it
‘lem now. She's glo
4 three years——threes ye
You us
Alan”
y seo (
Why it’
yon saw her
me beautiful"
“Ved I”
valuing gla
Well,” conceded
beautiful Bes ide Clem with her
heaps of brown bair and
eves, I am nothing I am worse—I
am a doll. And she was born with a
strange wisdom and strength of her
own The world hins never reached
will never reach her. She's made
her own world and she's made it right
And yet—the wisdom in ber deep eyes,
Alan. She knows-—-she knows it all
and you that she knows, ouly,
faith nits enthroned ™
‘Faith «its enthroned,” repeated
Alan; “that's why [ ean't come to
night.” He looked around for his hat
ind stick,
“By the way,” sald Alix, “why J. Y
and why Mrs. J. Y.? I've always won-
dered.”
“1 don't know,” said Alan.
always wondered too, 1 suppose. But
here's the judge. He can tell you
“Tell what?” asked the judge as he
walked in and took Alix’ outstretched
hand.
rR
wince
Alan, coasting a
Alix" pale beauty
Alix, “you
protested
nee at
think
me
deep vine
her
know
“I'ep
Raid dh dh dh i -
Considering his past delin.
quencies, do you believe that
Aian Wayne has a moral right
éven to hope for Clem's hand In
marriage? WI this fine, clean
girl look on Alan with favor?
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