CERI EE oF Fede “1 LOVE YOUI" SYNOPSIS Muskeg, a swamp in ath tibi railroad, Joe Boslock of the line, and Wilto ‘arrutl chief of engineers, consi the difficulties. A rifle she ly kills Bostock and ruthers’ arm. Carruthers tries carry the body to a Hudson's Bay company, Donald is the factor. Mcbho daughter, Molly, sees Carruthers struggling in the mu d drags him from the swamp, with his but den. Unaccountably, her father objects to saving Carrut Weakened by his wound and exer tions, Carruthers is disturbed the appearance of Tom Bowyer Bostock's business rival and per- sonal enemy. wyer | ly, and Carruthers { Carruthers declares his love Molly. She promises to be his wife Carruthers has to reach the of Clayton to attend a meet which Bostock's en wrest control of the him. Molly goes are delayed by by his dog saved by kill th snow! i Clayton, uthers in an to m. He is in and Locking over se2min impa the path of the nt are bre: post of where skeg at emies with a storm ArTY rea ies CHAPTER Vil—Continued. But him, until she of the shal dangerous she went strong her sho “Come back, making his til he reached hand to the Kitty I’ v § 3 3 . way across the planks He put ner, nen hie sul his stenay tears were sir cheeks, “1 didi She with a and st to] into the ri A plunge more dar his violent jdenly from th ver shook gesture she pled below, realized it first and the gluey ter. Kitty, center of dozen turned, as the si ward the Fighting madly, Whton detacl limbs from the sucking aged to grasp her skirt past h With drew her to through the yielding wus able to « trestle-work. He glanced at Kitty as he catch hig breath. Iny his arms, her eyes closed ; she to have fainted, fly. though Her clothes clung her tightly, and her fair hair streamed over his arms, Then, plodding through the yielding wamp, he struggled on until he reached the shore, Kitty opened her eyes and fixed them upon his, “Thank God, we're all said Wilton, “It was a that muskeg. little, and we'll hurry back you must change your things quickly.” There was a quick catch of Kitty's breath. “Oh, Will, you are so blind I" she whispered. “Couldn't you see? Are you going to make me tell you, Will? Are you going to make tell you that I love you?” She put her arms about his neck, and her face on his shoulder. Wilton, dumn- founded, hardly stirred? he did not know what to do. “I'll tell you because I see I must,’ she whispered, “I've always loved you, Will. And I never cared for Joe" “Kitty I" The cry that broke from his lips held all the anguish of his disiliusion- ment. His face grew scarlet. He tried to free himself, but she clung tightly to him. “You've made me tell you, Will, and you must hear me now,” she sald. “I never cared for Joe—not in that way. He wanted me, and I thought I could learn to love him. I was happy with him, but what could ‘he expect? He would have been ald enough to have been my father. What right had he to marry me, ignorant as I was of love and of the world? I was happy with him-—till I met you, had stream, her white wands catching irrent who the feet away, face her | for Support allow carried her to- lake, mud aud man a8 she drifted im a desperate eff and muskeg an uprig him atch She passive quickly. to pee right near now then me BY STEWART KIDD COMPANY vou, Will, you, It and it was you it my “1 always loved was my right to love j built up In your mind all that abo to Joe, 1 cared for Joe but that was all, If you in wns I to blame nearly drove me ¢1 about Joe, about loyalty your iow] you this, I Joe lived 1 was true and vou are free, and And 1 don't gers for the Mis n shameless loyalty way, azy talk about hungry for with your my to him, love, “I'm ashamed knows bow ashamed to teil Will. While I'm free, be snap of my I care for when I say You bound, fin your. I't this, cannot care a but you should have had you to drone refrain of Joe, Joe, when my heart was crying and have seen—you should ght out your z out for you, youn would not hear love, Will! me, and to where I'll n gan Afterward a dreadful from Ani was fake me away ever [arms feet man utraged ; jestone 11 a man has to live for, he was is door ie wim «1 she came a few steps i and stopped. “WHHL” : sai n a low voice It was true I told what The par heavy clo lifted gave him wl against his will, ustomed habits of “I should I looked f lame, Let have or per us for. She the same “I did ke way, I did. As much their husbands answered in strained. onotonous voice, “In » women mostly love said Gently He Put vier Arms From His Neck. I gave him all the love that was his right. And I do care for the line. 1 want you to wipe all memory of this afternoon out of your mind. Try to think of me as you used to.” He took her hands in his, forgotten, Kitty,” he sald. think of it again.” But all that night his thoughts re- volved about that dark spot In his mind, which he had barred off, as if it had been a prison. “It's all “We won't CHAPTER Vill Treachery, When Kitty left the shack she went slowly toward her house. At the door she hesitated and then, as If with a sudden resolution, she made her way quickly In the direction of the port age, There was a rig with two horses be- fore the factor's door. Inside the door Tom Bowyer was standing, and Molly faced him, white to the lips, and rigid. “I've given you your answer many times,” sald Molly. Bowyer smiled. “No wis ever made can't be changed,” retorted, “Is it a crime to love you to want to make you my wife?” “No: but it is a crime to persecute me when you know you have no right to ask me at all.” Tom Bowyer, who had eultivated his rages until they had mastered him, never refrain from into that he decision falling met o 1 I down Li fH tion. He slammed his fist erce- ly on the counter, “I'll chnnge your answer, cried. “Before 1 leave this store to I'll have you at my feet, for all pride. D=-n it. it's your pride I vant as much as vou. I want te hum there's never Molly!" he ble you, bec been woman I couldn't I'm making you an hb Your fathers a Anyone can see that, I want to care of him the of his days. to be my to Cold nuse man or tame sooner or later. anorabl dying man and your you, take for rest wife, and marry me D'you #111 id his job here the company knew I'll portage unless you marry me to come he cou hold other day if drive him from the and him take 8 pension apd live ‘no’ again!” i cried “How 5 ties am 1 to ans He can y the wr ing his fi orward Into 1} She screamed in fear, i dragging footsteps of the The old mar the sta BI r slowly rs down There wa “Yo jr “(lot own “if yet the hit ed to dist} The opening hed uy Kitty lear that tor of the scene, broke into spectat Molly grasp and ran dragged her hed agai : The fac the counter, a look of Bo anger his face wyer turned she Kitty. “Well, T guess you me Mrs. Bostock,” he said. “But, be woman, you'll understand.” Kitty's disgust for Phe ’ eanght this her ure wyer held gest him and went out of the Bowyer followed her, asked Kitty Molly McDon- She made the slightest “What does it mean?” “It means that I want yet that I didn't get,” said “Make the most of it,” he “I've as much right as Car ruthers, haven't IT" “No,” sald Kitty, “Why haven't 17” “Mr. Carruthers was first engaged.” “What's to stop her breaking it?” As his agitation subsided, Bowyer, a keen judge, noticed that Kitty's was unnatural: she seemed laboring under some suppressed emotion, He looked quickly into her eyes and saw that she had been crying. And then he knew, A slow amile spread over his face, Kitty Bostock had not made Big Mus keg her home so long out of devotion to the memory of Joe, With a deliberated impulse Bowyer put out his hand and took hers, “1 want two things, Mrs. Bostock.” he sald. “Molly McDonald, and the Miseatibl., How many do you want?” He looked at her still more keenly. “One?” Kitty sald nothing, but there was the slightest nod of her head in answer. “It's a shame, Mrs. Bostock, that you stiould have to lose all Joe's money In that ten-cent line,” sald Bowyer, He was quite at his ense now, feeling him- gelf in his accustomed element of in- trigne. “Even if it could be bulit, it wouldn't pay. And If it did pay I'd take it myself. I want it, anyway. Not that I'd hurt you, if 1 could help it, Mrs. Bostock ; but I've got my interests to look out for.” lowyer. They are jo ge “Well?” quickly, “By the end of the year your share will be worth nothing. You'll be ruined. It will be impossible to ralse the capi tal to keep the line, either. It's a shame that Carruthers should waste his time and strength trying to carry out an impossible dream. If you could sell your shares at par when the note falls due, you could pull out, and you and he could make a sensible Invest. ment, He'd soon get over the disap pointment. You could see to that.” He not hide the flicker of a smile, Kitty saw It, and loathed Bow- yer the more. She knew he was play- ing her hopes, and yet the sud den vision made her heart beat furiously. “I'm going to marry Molly,” he con- tinued, *“I swear that I possess the power to make her my wife, But I want the line in return, 1 want to see some of Joe's papers. They're yours, and you can let me gee them without doing wrong, and you'll be helping Car- ruthers indirectly. They're in his safe, You k the combination, “I' marry her this fall Mrs. Bostock, how 1 * * * * . * * Kitty asked Kitty, breathin conld on now You because can you me, just feel about her. softly at the door “He's gone, dear.” “Tet me come in to you stead was dragged back, before white tapped roo. s! whispered The hed Molly her, ian like word, me M iy spra i nting ney word is she cried Vill keep is promise to me drew her down You Molly, ite “What beside . Heaven hurting you, but I'm Kitty “Can't HO dear kn how 1 hs ppiness As well as see that It to him, th can’t you was only a passing episode ment?” Molly sat per i engage fectly silent, eyes on Kitty's fou “If he had meant it written oftener from Clayton?” “How long was he ill, ried would: then? “He was in bed a few days after you left. hie couldn't resume his work his arm had healed, but he wasn't what you could call ill. At least, he went to the directors’ every day to work on the plans” Her blue eyes, tranquil as a child's, looked into Molly's gray ones. Pres ently Molly laughed. “To think I didn't know I" she sald, “1 have been blind, haven't 1? And I thought that it was you who had ceased to love me.” “1, Molly, dear? Well—it was pretty hard, coming here with Will Carruthers and feeling you ought to know, and not daring to speak. But please don’t take my word about the man you're en- gaged to. 1 feel like a mischief-maker. But I love you, dear, and I like Will, and 1 do feel he isn’t to blame, That's why 1 came to you. And I've no doubt he's honorable enough to say nothing at all, if you want to" “Kitty 1" Molly sprang to her feet, quivering with indignation. (Mf course, till “Two-thirds of the trestiework had disappeared, including a great stretch of the foundation.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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