SYNOPSIS. —f Dee Alan Wayne is fils home, by his failure. birthday fils busine Alix, Gerry's bound, and start a Gerry. as he thinks, «loping arops Perr ambuc ix train and 00s home nambuco and goes canoe trip he meet Juage falls to trac 0 Alix. The HRI e the ruined plant Gerry marries her. iingeford tells ! ow Per Cent Wi \ t Afric Collin get baby Aa gives } Gerry. Alan con not go hom Margarita's rigatir Ig Clem’'s letter rs ry pastures drought. A Collingeford » finds her changes and Clem, grow in the city and his birt? and Gerry Lieber, together Nis the i | |: Teevovrvrrrcrr serv rrsrrres rovers CHAPTER XXiV—Co with hi 8 en wife, mee rig ta Consider the men an intelligent man when comes to realize that he has committed a great wrong, an reparabie wrong against his wife and against himself. Rev- elation and a sort of terror come to Gerry. agony of he ntinued. wy cy <all y Lieber ) ! cail me » heen 1 Ger “Go and 1 if anythin “Don’t fafl my rose re to + he ! r open.” loor op an. Gerry eave sat down aettle He had not he was himself head fell ‘ame to him ‘ame to his from a night awake, found face “Yon Gerry Ame a8 mask mily Alan's Alan that spirit to his Alan tried to smi! an't you noarsely Gerry leaned forward he had to stronger than he It foreed thro Hi “Alan, what did yon do th her? Tell me that and I'll : A troubled look came i face. He frowned. “Do with whom?” “Alan,” said Gerry, voice trembling, “You Alix.™ © “Oh,” sald Alan the verge of consciousness Der I did nothing with wouldn't go with me.” “Alan,” groaned Ger 1 saw you and Alix on the The frown was gone fr forchead. He foit to him and he said, “she was I remember. She Kageman-—canght off to sleep agein, Iieber stepped cat floor He caught and with the hand over mouth led him out of the room Gerry went tamely, When they were on the veranda Lieber looked at him, “Ro.” Bie sald, his blue eyes blazing, “you only want to kill him.” “No,” sald Gerry, dazed. “not now ™ “Mr. Lansing,” said Lieber, “you get out of here. We'll this busi ness some other time.” Gerry's lip trembled. Lieber,” he said. “You're right. only you don't know it all. That chap in there—we were boys together, He ran away with my wife. That's why —" Gerry suddenly stopped. Alix had not rin away She had jumped off the train Where was she, then? What had she done through years he had been away? Why had she Jumped off the train. He struck his hand to fils head and stumbled off the ve wanda, Liebar's anger died he turned and went back to Alan Two hoursylater he enme out agnin 0 find Gerry crouched on the veranda, The spirit had gone out of him, but fie turned on Lieber with a determi. @ation in his tired eyes. “You told me fo get out and I haven't. There are ings I've got to know. I'l walt.” “l spoke In haste, Mr. Lansing.” sald Lieber. “1 want you should forgive me. You are all in, too. Come with moe.” He led alm into his own room, made him le down, and closed the shutters. Cierry threw himself across the bed, oside the tired His Sleen Roon forward and trouble ! sl himself Are Alan's eves ¢ Gewrs bedside “ye whispered The question ask was its wa ght his s nto Ian's thin th her? Do Suppressed 10Ww With still ling I remem her on She “I saw train.” Al ing back “Yea” he vith me off. A He dr you om in’s sleep ( 1d train on was gi the fun her” on ped bag- opped ike ncrosa the ear, his Gerry by one other settle You're right, the in him, but face down Lieber noiselessly shut exhausted, Ie A great in The it Als an tstretched, and Gerry lay | irms ou { slipped out i i door could { not think any more welght 1 hig 1} tony l Lis ten ay doze In the chair not but | ently he fell int on in's bedside been rest, ghtmare Pres Oo sle was all und st night awakening his brain, sth to thi onsciousness It was alm the tt ic Nn ‘Kk stren only now ie nk in rit spite 0 out in search of Ame the hall Alan's nodded all Lave i (serry room “It's Heo i didn't his sleep ight, excit hin He's thy, bt 1sked fo nethin al river, you sighed as thoug head s rested on wa on “where His hils elho chin his sald, he ia a8 she done “The boy “yy “He Iz a x sin great hie and here | eo ‘ame S is a r fp what sl stars om me She iH right red Gerry hoarsely, Alan i've ch I here fl» nrst ned. smile born.” this time In won came to his You!" and then faint disgust on the ips OR 1d and he pillow away Gerry slept next mo: found her's, blue ning Gerry still heavenly mds ered eter de owly pitilessiy, s ough were loath to mark the p whole and their Outside the n of It was virg ! domed in ness 1 street pity hrough pressing vol he sun 100, A spit itn ARs ng hie Strong I earth baked wa wilted the sides of gen of heat ike up their white bellies gasp Not a breath of alr Heat r from the ground in wave, “My God.” said Al gazing with wistful, far seeing eyes beyond the familiar, repel lent = a homeward parches up my tongue." There was such an agony of longing in the words that Gerry was frightened. He looked questioningly at Lieber “No,” sald Lieber, “he’s not dying He was dying, but he's changed his mind. He's going to go home lustead.” if he's right, Gerry,” w=ald Alan with a faint smile ut [ didn’t change my mind He did it for me. He's in line for a life-saving medal. Lieber's all right.” He stopped, tired out. Lisber “How's the Lansing? “Mighty said Gerry. He spoke almost absent-mindedly. For the first time in months the ditch was far from his thoughts “It's hard ek,” sald Lieber. “The river's never been so low before-—not in the memory of man. We do not Hear the fulls any more. The river is asleep. Do you want me to send my men down again? “It's no use.” sald Gerry dare deepen the ditch any more, ‘way below the normal level now." Alan stirred. “What's that about a ditch 7” In unhurried phrases and a low voice Lieber told him the history of Fazenda Flores since Gerry's advent and of the great part the ditch had turned up leaves on ti wrong ie dying fish turning at the last Ro hile in, ‘4 fever one . * » hellove talk in the began to water to Gerry ditch, Mr. low,” “1 don't it's played in bringing resurrection to the abandoned plantation and life the neighboring stock. Alan cast a curious glance at G “Dangerous business,” he said, Ing with the norma! in country.” Lieber nodded and went on He told his tale well, He had seen more than Gerry could have put into words, Gerry listened for a while, but be soon wearied. What had all that to do with him now? He wandered off and start ed to saddle True Blue. He must get away from Alan. Alan was drawing him, but he was bound in chains. He must remember that. Then, too, what Alan had said about fooling with the normal level worried He must and station guard at reat slulee gate A sudden puff of air, then a gale, swept down southwest The blast from He carried with it dry sti and, finally that hurtied along the to erry. “fool level flood him £0 back a KX breeze, on Lieber's wind 11 from the was torrid whirls furnace It light, pebbles hot 1 of dust, ks, sini i i i i horse Herders ers and randa The dropped The 18 not herders all lid not talk ground Gerry and his sought the house from their the vo riter by came out hered in front of ind suddenly turned ceased The dus bianzed as bef loud In sky wl at er ning quart old settled here w I'he ey ire } O the Lie were wa ook I'hey iting Ha shoulders with a south west, and that and drove He Liebe; shrugged Somewhere,” Le sald wave of hand to the there has and ha thing Temperature hot off but around heen raid sort of thin ii air the they in approac the en wns What Did You Do With Her?” rose a white, ad rider rolled off his “The 1." he Never before has there been the he t. The aw iy vyancing on Wwizon mis g horse loos ga aped such n flood.” Before month ti hoofs an off at a the words were of h a frenzied rattle True Blue tore down the trail Almost at motinted they knew to ahead of the in of out was Gerry mad gallop thwards Fazenda Flores his the first of the herders, riding nll cut across Uiranhae wall of water Lieber's eyes foll ore d on heels followed to owad Gerry’ 3 fils gt Then he turned them on Alan “That down there,” he sald, “will be turned into a rushing river in half an hour—perhaps less. We're just safe here, and that's all. You see Mr. Lan- sing? He's the spot farthest down the trafll. I'm thinking we'll never see him again.” A faint hollow flush came into cheeks. It was a flush of pride pride In Gerry. Gerry had pot hesitated He had not ridden off like a laggnrd. Even now they could sce that he was riding for life—riding with all his might for the lives that shackled him Alan's ——————_ Gerry had never ridden a horse to death before. When True Blue first staggered he put spurs to him and ald on his quirt right and left, The roar of the river was so loud that be could not tell If he had really beaten the flood or not. though he could mee just before him the long, snaky ridge of the main ditch banks, He must get on, But True Bive only came to a ring gering stop under the quirt. With hie forefeet he sti marked time as though with them’ he would drag his heavy body and master oue step nearer oie. From his loins back he was paralyzed. With a last desperate effort he straddled his forelegs, but he could not brace himself against the backward sag of dead ht. Gerry felt him sinking him and suddemly found himself standing over his pros trate horse. Of True Blue. his forefeet outstretched, and breast held high, left only a spirit ch a fallen and body. A cry escaped Gerry's lips at what had done remembered why he had done and ran not for the sluice gate but the bridge. As he reached it the beecan was a splin that, meas wely beneath head till wis to his great dying there tined a ery of Then it horror he Le for roar 1@ deafening. There tering, crackling ured the like the tinkle of a ething sound hy great commotion, seemed tiny tut there Tedd his bell r int} wand that ep! n. He cast a gi The mouster be gate, hurled, ered, * were still hangl Under then was som ince over ning of into his the matel Bel wood yw held 3 Ae gas pA Tore Off in a Mad Gallop. in water Khe tonk Giorry, £4] who she thought and w her, inoked swift rivulet hose t fore the tugged at toward the ing water and She stopped Gerry, who harning { her She looked ankiecs hundering wall of onco m knew that =he was lost and fixed was plunging id effort to react she Kor With , she he The frigh His black 1 on his running father d feel irgling with he new Then suddenly It waa a wall fright cut short Broken in two, it rang terribly her ears as she went down, The water had fell the Man. Gerry on the Khe her Yes down her he arms street inan to Lim, b ~ ope could hed called not hear their b Man eyes Margarita Joy In t he eried out The wail 11t w her to ghest not fi Ton id up the Man was tened worn con him g Eame 0 was in od Margarita and sfiw them flung down the crest of the wave. They became suddenly a twirling, sodden mass, in animate for the fling of a loose mb into clearer view against the blue sky or the uncoiling of long black hair on the seething water, Gerry reached the torrent. Marga rita and the Man had already been whirled far towards the great river. He plunged into the flood. The water was thick with earth, sticks, uprooted plants and debris of every sort. Cone flicting. swirling currents tugged at heavy stones, rolled them along and sometimes cven tossed one to the suf face. Gerry's struggling body was harled | hither and thither. A stray cugrent thot him to the surface, but before he could take breath other currents sucked him down and dragged him along the YOUED suriges of the crum bling soil. He an though he were being torn — di limb Then suddenly he was cast inte an eddy that in cempnrison with the mael. strom wns alm peaceful, For an Rave ost lnstaut be felt like one who awalue bt the cine with Hips from a terrible dream igh that trembled to realization, From head to toe he battered id bruised. His cotton clothes were in tatters, His chest heaved in spasmodic gasps. Brea through his wracked ry protruded His head the verge of miud plerced a thought With cl the current his wins itn great whistled His ey $3 Hi But ached bursting thought » of Mar hed wemed on § to his harper ti garitn teeth he mn pain-—the and the Man gtruck for r away rose a ad the head of tt “1 out of duaty the {i He mnths { of ure youd lina marke ng of waiter wi dust of nized the wid be 1 the 1Hmy lated ralnless me reco tmne where there in th of the mad fi the Pn g aning Some @ first rush and The vam o garita them he s praachin squarely It suddenly shook its of riffrafy and turning and more and ore swiftly, to the THF ing river The ley had disappeared ting on the waters, the LAE bosom of va Squat of the far-Jung The from very leve toond bright sun struck a glint of light ita white walls and gave rich col its moss-grown tiles he crowded with fow! and a strange med ley of heavy flying birds, glad perch on which to rest. Dona went the house Bhe cl great board shutters as If It had renunciation Gerry's tree floated down the river It swung slowly along near the north shore Just it were honses They were perched on the eliff. Below them more houses and under the tiled roofs of still other Just topped the flond. Thu houses were what was left of Piran: hae, From chore of loot began to quictening waters. pened upon old house still st ors to roof was of a Marla | thi into send closed Its eyes in a last below were the canoes in search shoot out the One of them hap Gerry's tree and then upon Gerry. Gerry's eyes opened and then closed again, He scarcely felt the arms that lifted him. They ear ried him to the old inn, the miserable little inn he had left behind on that glorions morning of so long ago a. on Would it not be a sort of poetic justice if Gerry should die now without ever being able to make amends to’ Alix for his dreadful suspicion and without ever seeing his son and heir? 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