CHAPTER XXXIi|—Continued.
— Fe
thoughts demanded to be seen in thelr
relation to Alix, that volce
within him was his only comfort. The
flood at Fazenda Flores had
steady
the things that Fazenda
done for hin could not be swept away
by any material force. They stood and
feared nothing-—except Alix.
Wherever his mind turned, it came
back to Alix and found in her an im
passe. Alix assumed more and
tached, in over his
acts,
tier flowerlike detachment from
bones—the skeleton—of life, her artl-
ficlality, made her seem iudicrously in
congruous in the role of judge. He
could not picture her, much esti
mate the sentence sie would pass, His
houghts led him dally up to that im
Passe and left hi Then came
doubt and the question—why
he lead himself bodily
at all?
sitting judgment
less
mn
to the
He was stil] fighting th
tie reached Barbados but the
dent befell which bir }
to his mind and
to his soul.
S$ point wi
¥ nd
He had gone ash
imply because h
fectly attuned
hours of toil,
re at igetosyn
body,
of
whole
by three vears
Was orying o
exercise than the na
freighter could afford
When the iittle group of passengers
reached with
Gerry and an ol retu:
they all turned
as If by a common impulse
fOr more
it
rrow decks of the
shore, the exception
ning adi
an
The Barbadian glanced at Gerry and
Jerked his head at
group. “Men
sense,” he
“What do you mean?
“Son,” sald the old Bar
was very tanned and
eyes blinked throt
“when a tel
of the world you ever
bad a drink at You
don't have to say ‘in Bridgetown.’ ‘EF
have a drink Ju
like that; and you
know he meant he w
when sald
world.”
Gerry smiled and
step with the Barbad
slowly on
“Yes.”
of the world in
OIE
the
sald
1sked Gerry
badian, who
whose
igh
% you he's a
ok him if
the
chap man
H
ue
Cor
1t the «t
f Le ve, No.'
19
he he was a f the
man o
fr
‘ naturally in
“It's a sure
test. The man that hasn't ef 1 his
elbow at the big
that old, ramshack irink-house
say Long
brothers and met the
end when men that roam the high seas
want news of that's
peared down the !
they drop in at the old Ice house and
ask what road 1! It's halfway
house to all the "
“Have you
Gerry
“No, I'm not thirsty for a drink J
now,” sald the Barbadian
smile. “And you?”
“Nor 1.” sal
out to stretch my legs.”
“You can't do that here,” replied the
old man. “You don’t know
Come with m He bh
said the old man
ooker
eal table in
he's really traveled
ost
- ¥ +
friends have re
Rome
of the world
ie took
seven
BPA
lost anyone?”
asked
ust
with a
I Gerry, |
iughing. “I'm
Our sun
aA rai
© ied in
shackle victoria
Gerry hesitated
home
you want to go
. oy
“You must have a
to and friends
to Don't worr about me I'l
be eareful about the sun.”
“Boy,” sald the Bar
a home and I'm
there's no reason why you shouldn't
come along. As for friends—the ones
I left here won't get up to meet anyone
till the last trump sounds. Come along.
ROE,
badian, “I've got
only host in our party.”
and the Barbadiao
sofi guttural of the West Indian black
Slowly they crawled through
crooked streets of the town Gerry
leaned back and gazed at the freak.
ish buildings. They were all of frame
work. Bome swelled at the top, and
Gerry wondered why they did not
topple over; some swelled at the bot
not cave in,
The Barbadian
“Funny town, eh?’
Gerry. nodded,
Vidgently the found themselves on
a coulitry road. It was so smooth that
the weighted carriage pushed the old
horses along at an unwonted pace
Little houses—-hundreds of them-—that
looked ike big hencoops Hned the road.
Suddenly the enrriage came to a halt
ne of the little houses was trying to
straddle the road. From around it
cite sereanms and “Now, then,
v0" Gladys, when heft,
Linfs.”
Et
watched his face.
Crios.,
ah say
ver poursd hu apgey tore
. pea
CENTURY CQ.
rent of words that tried thelr Best to
be harsh and failed. From around the
obstructing house came an old darky.
| When his eyes fell on the Barbadian
{ he rushed forward
colm, when did yo’ get back?"
“Just now, Charles.” said th.
dian. “What's the
The darky's eyes rolled
| Misteh Malcolm? Why, that ole Cun
nel Stewaat he's jes’ so natcherly par
| slinonlous that he requires me to pay
rent fo’ havin’ ma house on his Is
{80 I gays to ole mammy, we'll
move this here residence on to a gen'le
maa's lan’, and Misteh Malcolt
| mammy n the
it on to yo' old cane flel".”
The Barbadian laughed a little dryly
{ and shrugged his shoulders. The driver
got down, protesting, and helped the
family carry the house across the road
Then the cab went on and soon turn
up an ave i canopy
matter here?”
n',
Jes’
me'n
od
ie under a f f
acacia flamboyante
As they progressed.
ir witha
Erowtihs,
ery oO
thick, t
with
wining
ning
spangled brilliant
The air
with scents and
3
blooms, walled In the avenue
i grew cool but Leavy
the full-flay
ored spi
len under a blazing
The alr
| woke with a sta
sun
made Gerry dreamy
e (3185 1s
AGIAN
rt when the Bart
said to tl abm: “Thi
Walt
Just
& i
here”
The
the ruin o
stopped ahead was
great The two pi
gate i
stood, they wore alm
iden by
wtill out
’
vines To one of
dem ciuug the rusted of
Beyond the
nding way
road
it was b
iy crowded follage
of the tunnel was path.
Even it was ergrown The Barba
dian led Gerry down the path
They under
| mighty trees whose
gh
‘kept dowu the undergrowth,
vestige a
gite piliars there was a
Unce had
avenge,
igh the dense
been a
continnation of ti now
ut a tonne! thr
long the center
“ narrow
Oy
came out of
had
Hoan
AR grove
dense shade
and
yond the trees Gerry saw a vast ir
mound of with
gant geraniums.
{| fuchsias, honeysuckle and rose
he spied a broad fight
1 of the
regular vines, which |
imbing |
Then
marble steps;
m an oid
{ mingled
oO
At one en Nosk-grown
en, broken
Above the mound rose
5 br 0° £3 8
House. through
roo a
as the tw
the vines, |
drew nears
ind a
{ tered windows door, veiled with |
TeeDers
The
! and re the
farbadian went
reper
pers
Pam “Ls
“Have You Lost Anyone?” Asked |
Gerry.
Then he drew from his pocket
enormous key With a rasp the
| lock turned and the door opened, let- |
{ting a bar of light into a wide, cool |
| hall
Gerry followed the Barbadian
{ through the ball to a broad veranda at
the back of the house, A large living
| room faced on to the veranda. The
Barbadian eutered it, opened the
French dpor-windows and, dusting off
two lounge chalrs, invited Gerry to sit
down.
Gerry looked around enriously, The |
living - room was comfortably fur |
nished. There were one or two excel. |
lent rugs on the wased floor: a great |
couch, set into a bow window: lace |
curtains, creamy with age: a wonder. |
fully earved esctitoire In rosewood: al
sideboard, round table and chairs of |
mahogany that was almost fs anil |
{and black as chony., Over all lay a |
j cont of dust
The darba
| table and wit
| dust, then Le
door
ian
an walked to the round |
nh his finger wivite In the |
sat down io a worn and |
comfortable chair, a to
Gerry's. He fell into so deep a reverie
that Gerry thought he was asleep
companion
room. His eye fell on the table. He
situply the date of the day
showed an
other, filmed over with dust,
leaned over the table He
of
thick
fresh
could see
had
dust
that a long
written
Beginning with
staring up at
and through
succession dates
laid
numerals
hed
til
been into the
the
him they reac back
back the years
faded away into a diw past
Gerry tiptoed out on to the veranda
Before him was a ruined lawn;
in its
center a cracked, dry, marble fount
“ail
Off to one side was a giant plape tree,
ropes Against its trunk leaned a
wenther beaten EWing- boa
MC ropes, a
in tin
jarbadian
" he gaid,
fv
The nodded slow!
Fou were going te
Well, as
mistake
“Xa tly
last
10W
& ole
make a
Just
3. un the o
Malcolm
“Home,”
he went on, 't alto
and
just a
0G
& matter of cash, comfort
it's
pemories
drinks Sometimes
piace for
Ihere was a time when we whites
ET Ks on
tables are turned
only takes a
white
Now
He
drink every
man would have
need f
gE 10 get drunk
been sendi
}
ientifi ominissions fron
to sit like cor
tl hey
ie Bes
sitio the
offered a big
Bart
“Why don't
mt want to work
th money I know
ugh i i that.”
The Barbadian
Foren
HULR
nt
clothes
adian’s
the
153 ei J
rested one
of
he thick f
smile drew the
Worth
not ¢ ers
low
noth
My boy,
that he
You
1nd 3
dl. jut i den haven't
Killed the t
Can gel
almost anywhere,
bered that memo
en paths."
i
nfort and cool
but 1
ries travel
cash, «
bave remem
ouly bent
fo the waiting cab
w he
felt Red
Irawing
+
slow drive to t
$
i
Hil
im
oct {
Be i
by
i
1 ing oul for him, di
And during the long s
tay be learned that he had passed
that had given
his troubled sou The Bar
had Doubt
There was but one road
and it was open. Ie wrote
Alix ‘with a firm hand
freighter guaraniine
quiet twelve
$s
a
crossroads 80 jong
nase to
wadian
eft him
road back
opened his
i
}
x eyes,
The
after
reached
Hu voyage hours
ahead of time and just at sundown
A tug hurried down the bay to tell
them their berth was not ready
freighter was forced to anchor at the
Gerry watched
the Hghts spring out from the shadowy
scenes. Staten Island had been to his
boyhood an undiscovered land and the
scene of his first wanderings. Bay
ing by.
glow of the summer city, here and
there pierced with the brighter flame
of some grotesque monstrosity.
into two bands that lost themselves in
a sea and sky of twinkling lights,
of his native city and made him foe!
by that much, forgotten and an allen
But from all the myriad lesser lights
his eyes turned gratefully to the high.
beld torch of Liberty,
familiar, tited diadem, the shadowy
folds draping the upstanding pose,
the strength and steadfastness and the
their message to him as never before
It became to him what its creator hind
conceived, an emblem, and the myriad |
hecatpe a multitude, eager for attain
ment, ready for sacrifice
It was ten o'clock on a morning in
free of the freighter and took the ferry
for the of the river, le had
left all his baggage to be delivered at
The morning was
sther side
house later
had sett)
glanced at Gerry's heavy
and antiquated but they
did not smile, for Gerry himself was
such a sight makes men forget
clothes, The tan of his lean face
swing of his big, unpadded shoulders,
carried
of summer days ed down
Lint
ns
the
his clear eyes, the thoughts of
They seemed to cateh 1 breath
y
of spley winds from the worn garments
ie bady
¢
prage of
that clus
in
faraway place
12 to the stranger's virl
his eye a
s they saw
.
Lend h "
ry rea own
ilwardly calm, even
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7
Val -N
’
“Why Was He Walting
erate inwardly be was figh
lown a turmoil of emotions. Wh
hie to find In Alix? Had he a; 5
“xX Had }
mbed
ied
ange? ie
the
as
bronze
could se
inward
open door, of the old butler
# in the old fam!
his
r
hes oa
raigit at
heart
simple th
simndling
aised a niling
down wrinkled cheek
out his hand
today
wall
Gerry Is
were
Hel to see you.”
Gerry was puszied. W1 3
E 3 0H
butler
think he would
banded the his old
strode
was «
to the lbrary doo:
losed Somebody
" The words were so lo
them He
inside and
opened
slepped
y
aim
Al
closed behind
t. dressed yond
middie
upraised,
to
advance
nD
the
in a fGimgy
stood in
With one hand
outstretched,
equally
Her
Gerry's face,
3 gE
8°
of
the
be polsed
the room
other she seemed
ready for
eyes passed
Swept sear hing
For weeks she had been wonder
Terrible things had come to her
mind. Alan and Gerry. with his heart.
less note, had conspired to mystify, to
terrify her. All the joy sh
forward to in Gerry's homecoming
had turned into a bitter pain They
had not known on the bill how she w ae
suffering. Only Kemp had seemed to
understand a little and had brought
lis drop of conifort to her,
As her eyes searched Gerry the sense
He
as she had vever seen
him before, Except for that he seated |
almost weirdly familiar, as though |
ouly a good night's sleep lay between |
him and the morning of three yoar:
¢ bad looked
had fought back and overwhelmed
A hundred little differences went to
make up this solitary change. The flush |
of toc many drinks bad given way to a |
deep healthy glow, the eyes were deep |
and grave instead of deep and vacant,
the broad shoulders that had taken to
banging were braced in unconscions |
strength. Every line in the body that |
she had seen start on the road to Kross. |
ness had been foed down. The body |
gering spirit, It had become a ech |
nism, tuned to expression in action. It
was not the body of a time server, |
to her. “1 never thought the old Rock
would ever loom so big” What force |
had done this thing to Gerry? Bhe felt
pang, half half If
had been wise, less than that if
had been merely sage, could she
not have saved Gerry to himself and
pared ber faith the test of the
long years lost out of their youth?
Gerry stood erect by door,
hand still holding the knob Why wn
waiting? Alix’ rai hand
slowly out to him In welcome but he
did not She smiled a
his eyer remained steadfasd
“ envy, remorse
she
she
he
ert
he
move
ind grave
nid,
olor showed in her cheeks. Her ips
opened. What could say hurt
him enough, to pay him back for this
unjust rebuff? She
little about this new Gerry. How
she wound him?
And then he spoke
us bride came to her a flare of
she to
ndded, knew
yuld
“Will yon please
sit dow nu?
had
There is
magic
“10
will
blundered on
moment so
true woman
no
tionally tense that a
not drop the immediate Issue to
ind
has wanted to
down
untold things
hear Allx was a
The flare died out of hor
futo
1g mahogany table and
head mo
listen to the
*wWolnan,
She f air beside
her golden
tioned G O A
She wrtehed
he
Gerry's mind
seat Op pos te
“easy
moved
in
swing
body as the
ACTORS
Was sore fi
has a
On
a body health
taking care of
€:¢ rry wil the edge
hed 1
Alix’
he had foreseen had
of
He
The moment
Alix
the table ands
looked evoN
Come
sat in judgment. She planted her
Gn
» trait
His
nd that
IDEs
Dra
premi
he
hie ha 1 th y
Of soni
* faw DL
Yast
plane
mae, the
inl per
ne sl
Uncon
we
restfalr
of pineapples
the frying
#
fizh
his eves she saw ¢ hin
white, still
el, |
clonds
the Hgh-walled
gardens flar
{ trailing 1
cockscombs
and
and on consting
craft she listened with him to the creak
of straining masts and stays and to the
iap of hurrying w
him up the San Francie felt his im
patience with Penedo the Httle
stern-wheeler and learned the fascina
tion of a river with endless, undiscoy
ered turns Piranhas
Here she felt familinr
ground. Letters from the consul's en
voy had made this piace hers Uncon
sciously she nodded as Gerry described
the tiers of houses, the twisted, climb
ing streets, the miserable little inn
Gerry told of the happy dass of pon
hibiscus
garden
mango
Gerry
ng
fantastic
dark-domad
jack trees She sat with
ater the long slim
ters, She followed
“0
{ook
They came to
herself on
strings of fish. He lingered over those
‘days. Thus far he bad brought Alix
with him. He folt it. Now be came to
behind. He told her of the glorious
break of that day, of the sun Gghting
through swirling wists. She saw him
standing stripped on the sandspit. She
saw the canoe nosing heavily against
the shore and his pyjamas tossed care.
lessly across a thwart. She knew that
she had come to the moment of revels
dion. She breathed softly lest she
should lose a word for Gerry was
speaking very low. Then he showed
her Margarita, Margarita as be had
firet ‘ween her, kissing and kissed by
dawn,
(TO BE CONTINUERDD
Infant Mortality in China.
There is a high fafant mortality in
China. The English authorities In
Hongkong have endeavored to keep
statistics, and the rosults indicate (hat
only 72 Chinese Children in 1.000 sur
vive the first year.
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