— I LOVE YOU SYNOPSIS. Lee Anderson, Roy- al Canadian Mounted Police ser- geant, is sent to Stony Range to arrest a man named Pelly for murder. He Is also instructed to look after Jim Rathway, reputed head of the “Free Traders,” illicit liquor runners. At Little Falls he finds Pelly is credited with having found a gold mine, and is missing. At the hotel appears a girl, obviously out of place In the rough surroundings. A half- breed, Plerre, and a companion, “Shorty,” annoy the girl An- derson interferes in her behalf The girl sets out for Siston Lake, which is also Anderson's objec- tive. He overtakes her and the two men with whom he had trou- ble the night before. She is sua- picious of him and the two men are hostile. Pierre and Shorty ride on, Anderson and the girl following. In the hills the road is blown up, before and behind the two. Anderson, with his horse, is hurled down the moun- tain side, senseless. Recovering consclousness, Anderson finds the girl has disappeared, but he concludes she is alive and prob- ably in the power of Plerre and Shorty. On foot he makes his way to Siston lake There he finds his companion of the day before, and Rathway, with a girl, Eatelle, a former sweetheart of Anderson's, who had abused his confidence and almost wrecked his life. Rathway strikes Estelle, and after a fight Anderson, with Estelle’s help, escapes with the girl Anderson's companions mind is clouded and she is suf- fering with a dislocated knee Anderson sets the knee and makes the gir! as comfortable as possible. He has a broken rib CHAPTER VIl—Continued wn “Where am 1? What pened?" she asked, Lee saw at once that she consciousness of anything that had | occurred since the catastrophe, and probably it would be some time before the memory of that came back to her. He must protect her against the shook of the realization until she was able to bear it. “Your swered. has hap- had no horse threw you,” he an “You hurt your knee and cut You will have to keep still for awhile, and we shall have to re- main here for a few days. Are you in much pain?” your head. “My head aches, and my knee it does hurt a little, It isn't broken, is | itr ves, | “It was dislocated. 1 had to set [t.” “Hh !™ A faint into her cheeks. There was a little silence “Are you a then?” “Xo, I was just a humble orderly | and stretcher bearer on the front,” Lee answered. “Bat it had to be attended and so 1 well, 1 did it. After drunk | some tea I'm going to be an orderly azain and rebandage your head” hair! You she exclaimed, putting | “Was that color crept doctor, western | you see, to, you've “But my hair—my cut i my hair off I her hands up to her head. necessary? “You were caught by the hair under your horse, and there was danger that it might roll on you at any Lee prevaricated. She patted her head again, felt the jagged locks about her neck, and looked at him with eyes In which a {little mirth appeared. “Thank you, Mr. Barber,” she sald “I'm so glad you take it in that way, 1 was afraid you might find It dif. ficult to forgive me” “I might, only—well, you see, ['ve heen thinking of having It bobbed for some time, only I never got around to it; I don't think you made a very clean job of it, did you?” They laughed, but she was weak, and ‘after she had drunk the tea Lee made for her, she fell asleep untii the middle of the afternoon, by which time Lee bad completed the shelter over her, ‘Better? he asked, when she awoke. She nodded. “You don't look nearly so swimmy now,” she said. “And I'm not in much pain. But will I have to lie here on my back for days?” “As a matter of fact, the sooner you try to walk the better. I'm going to ent a serviceable eruteh for you, and you'll be able to hobble about the camp just as soon as you feel inclined to.” “But you're not asked the girl. stiff.” “I hurt my side a little, but it'H be all right in a few days,” Lee answered, She wrinkled her forehead. “Do you know,” she said, “lI don't quite remember falling. 1 was riding, you say? Were we hoth riding? Then where are our horses? “They were badly hurt,” sald Lee. “It became necessary to put them out of their suffering.” The girl was trying bard to remem- her. “A bad fall, then? How did it happen? A bad fall in this forest?” “A little distance back. 1 carried you here. We fell down a rocky slope.” “Oh!” She remained silent a little, evidentiy trying to remember. Then ghe smiled. “You have been wonderfully good to me. You know I trusted you the 'nute 1 saw you, and I wasn't the joist bit frightened, waking up and finding myself alone here in the forest with you” “I hope you will be able to bear the waiting here,” sald Lee. “We'll go on just as soon as it's possible” “fut I'm not really In any hurry,” the girl answered, It was odd how moment,” hurt, are you? “Your left arm seems reconciled ele seemed to be now, and By Victor Rousseau {Copyright by WwW. 4. Chapman.) WNU Serviee, how the future had ceased to trouble her. “It's so glorious to be In the woods agaln, and at this time of the year above everything. It's such a long time since I was In the woods be- fore. I've heen living In a big city, you know-—nething but blocks of houses and asphalt and stone. [I felt itke a prisoner there” And lee wondered again at her ac- quiescence In this new turn of fate. “Now-—may | wash that cut in your head and tie it for you?” “Yes, doctor,” she smiled at him, He bholled the bandage, washed the cut In bolled water, and retied the strip of cotton about it. The girl was still too weak to talk very much. But it was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to him, sitting there with her in that Intimate com- panionship, forgetting that she had been at odds with him, putting aside all the memories of conflict, forgetting, too, that she was a woman, seeing In her only a comrade After awhile Lee made some cakes in the ashes of the fire, and cooked some bacon. The gir! was able to eat a little, snd he felt his appetite re turning. Undoubtediy he had gone through the worst of it. Again they sat In silence, till the gir! sald: “Do you know, I have fergotten your name!” He had not told “lL.ee Anderson” Anderson was a common enough name in the district and would convey nothing to her her, but he sald, And as she seemed still to be fret. ing or puzzling, Lee laid his hand on hers and said: “You on just as soon as if musn’t worry We shall go 's possible to” “That's just whit I've heen wonder. inz answered. “It's very iY aj about,” she “Where Am 17 What Has Happened?™ She Asked. silly of me, but are going? And, as Lee looked at tonishment, she went on: “It's curious, you know, Mr. Ander. son, but I don't seem exactly to re member where we met, either, or why I left that place—where was it? That big city whose name's slipped my memory for the moment. Nor why we came to the woods—came back to the woods, you know,” she corrected. “And then, who am I? 1 had my name on the tip of my tongue a mo- ment ago, and I'll know soon, I sup but it's—Jjust now it all seems to be confused, somehow.” And then fee realized that her memory of the past was completely obliterated CHAPTER VIII While Memory Slept No, the girl had not completely for. gotten, for It was not exactly a blank to her, She had a vague recollection of a number of things, but everything appeared to be shadowy and con fused, and when she tried to piece It together, the fragments slipped out of her grasp, It was in names and places that the lapse chiefly occurred, including her own identity, and it was this fact that gave Lee cause for meditation, She had lived in the forests in child. hood, she seemed to recall a visit to them of recent years; at any rate, she had all the wooderaft of one to whom the forest was home. She had been educated in a convent, she thought, and had been living for sev- eral years In a large city, studying. She thought she had been studying to he a medical missionary among the Indians. Thus she was not cut off from” that association of habits, tastes, and ex: periences that goes to make the per sonality ;: she did not feel that she had lost very much, and it was always as if she were upon the point of remem- bering everything. Out of this vague, blarred dream she had awakened to find herself In the woods with Lee, without the knowl where is it that we her In as pose, *- edge of how or why she had come there. It might have been the concussion from the fall, but Lee, after pondering over the case, decided that It was much more like a case of shell-shock, and that the injury to her head had been only a contributing cause, He made her a crutch next morning, and by the afternoon, she felt well enough to hobble a few steps about the camp. The accident which had temporarily ungeared_ her memory, seemed to have wrought a strange change in her nature. Bhe was no longer wildly anxious to push on fo her destination; she acespted Lee as a fact in her life, and showed how com- pletely she trusted him, despite the intimacy In which they were both living. He was sure that her memory would suddenly come back to her com- pletely. And, memory did come back in dreams. as with shell-shocked pa- tients, but only to vanish with the waking. At night Lee, lying near her beneath another rough shelter of boughs that he had made for himself, would hear her tossing and moaning, and occas lonally uttering fragments of unintel- ligible sentences, Day merged into day. Lee's rib was healing well, and the girl was begin ning to set her foot to the ground. At first she was dependent upon him in nearly everything. He helped her to take her first steps without the crutch, leaning upon his shoulder. They were always together, It was so wonderful a ship. It was that comradeship of which Lee had always dreamed. And it was the more wonderful, perhaps, because the girl's severance from the past gave it a sort of unreality, as if It were a little plece of paradise which they had snatched for themselves out of the sum total of human happiness, Soon she hegan to assume charge of the camp and the cooking. ving at her feet, listening while she talked, or lying awake at night neath his shelter, in the dread of hear | ing her moan, came at realize | that his feeling for her was becoming ——————— ———— companion- be inst to | ment of her companionship | He loved | ted to himself; glance of his would mantling into her dared think that his returned And now he cared no longer whether her memory of the past i back to her. Almost bhelter to let live In of all that had tressed her He day | to {1184} i Little ndmit word he sometimes and her, when a send cheek, love or the hie wan ever came her ignorance dis Inevitable wottld « thhiy a to dread the remembrance hegan when blot incident needed little shock that knit the eled ends of memory, and then Then what Another th was the day Hoe out their paradise would be some would would He before them? ng to be must leave thelr womdland paradise Autumn had returned wonderfully, but there was tang in anir each morning. everything was dead and lee formed every night upon the nool beneath thelr little spring. And It seemed now as if Lee's search for Pelly would have to he pro- tracted through the winter months. If his inquiries at the mission proved fruitless, it would mean returning to Little Falls for a sleigh and dogs. Then there was the matter of the Free Traders foe would find his hands full soon enough. “Do you know, Lee” sald the girl one day, “I often feel as if | were on the very verge of remembering. And when 1 wake In the morning, just for an instant I feel a different person, as if 1 had remembered And TIT am afraid of remembering. It is as If re. membrance would bring back some thing terrible with it. Who am I? “You are just you," sald Lee, smil- ing. “That's enough for me.” “Where did we meet? “In the range.” “l was alone? And then I had an aceldent and was thrown from my horse? And you, too? It is so strange. I know that I lived in a Iarge city not long ago, and that I was so glad to get back to the woods. But where was 1 riding? That's the big prob- lem: that we have to solve, lsn't it?” She looked at him earnestly. “Lee” she sald solemnly, “sometimes 1 hope [ never shall remember.” She made no plans, leaving every thing to Lee, and nothing was decided. By the middie of the second week, she could walk fairly well, her strength had come back, and the little period of elysium was drawing to Its end It was inevitable that the problem should be faced. For the first time she had accom. panied Lee as far as the lake shore. There had been no signs of the Free Traders, and Lee was convinced that they had long since abandoned all hope of finding them. It was a won- derful evening. There was a haze of Indian summer in the November alr, there was still a touch of fire in the leaves of birch and maple; the west was radiant with the sunset clouds, And, standing there beside her, Lee knew nat last—knew for sure that this love was eternal, and the former love only the pale shadow that it had cast before It. He turned toward her and read the same knowledge in her eyes. “Denr—" he sald, He took her In his arms, and she lay there, confident, happy in the knowledge that she was his, She put her arms about his neck and their a sharper thie lips met. And they looked at each other in all the thrill and glory and surprise of it. It was all so simple, #0 Incredibly dear and true, “You, woman of mine, without a name, who have come to me out of nowhere because I wanted you! How long have you known?’ “I've known almost since the begin. ning that If you cared as much as I do, Lee, you must love me more than I thought It possible to love.” He looked at her incredulously, and between them the pale wralh of Es telle floated for just a moment, He had trusted her. He had vowed never to trust again In any woman, Then it was dissipated in the sun- shine of their love. “Do you cure enough to trust yourself to me and take the chance of what the future may bring to us? “I love you enough to trust you slto- gether, Lee,” she answered, But there was just the shadow of a little fear In her eyes. “Oh, ny dear, | am afrald, awfully afraid of the time when —when | remember. Do you know that since | knew 1 loved you, and thought you cared for me, I have sometimes prayed that [| may never remember? | have been afraid of what may be lying in wait for ue, wilting to overwhelm us, as If it grudged our happiness.” “You must not let yourself grow morbid.” But Lee, too, felt the wings of that shadow of fear beat past him “There nobody he asked “We shall not find that we have been tricked like that? It would be unhear able” “No, no! surer than Liave never know that so in elae?” 00: that 1 I'm sure of that, that I stand here, loved anybody else. I well, Lee: for If there had been, 1 should have feit It hy instinct, however deep down within me the memory of him lay hurled. No, love Isn't like that: it doesn’t lose it self like that There Is nobody you--never anybody but you “But what I'm afrald of that something else, something terrible may come hetween “There's in ne nothing else us." that separate “If you engaged ¥ lee would no sooner have deliberately stolen an were other man's sweetheart than his wife To him thing of eternity It was either a very young man's view or a are love Was a there who hold thie af bind broken his life idealistic of very men doctrine fair of Estelle “Suppose | Ones; minds that was why Fat mature that had bhecome didn’t love, Yon hy engaged to someone | Joe? “You she felt couldn’ thrilled volce—"that you-—you don’t think’ the “No, I—I'm she persisted, “tl 3 know what “Oh, then haven't felt sure i jt curious In we would do, in case’ and tell him that and then, of relenses you,” we joved other, free | F we don’t has COUPrSe answered “Siu tn think of that possibility, dear, do we!" “Of course not, Lee” she But again he saw that she knit her brows in perplexity, and he knew. that thinking. to answered trying mem “You don't live in the range you?" asked the girl ‘No, IT live st Manistree long distance away here on business.™ “Won't you teil me what your busi. ness 1s? Lee hesitated. “Well, it's secret a way, though I''m not under any pledge.” His Instincts were tell her, and yet the training of eight years seemed to seal his lips against her. “You see, I'm acting for othera™ “Why, then of course | wouldn't ask you to tell me, Lee” she answered, “Only 1 have a curious sort of feeling that your business may be bound up with me In some way, that perhaps it means your going into danger.” “1 don't think there's much danger attached to it.” But she caught that “much” with alarm. “A little danger, Lee? You know, I couldn't bear you being ex- posed to danger. But—what is there beyond the range? You see, I've been talking to you about the range ever since I first heard you speak of it, and yot 1 don’t really know where we are, it's curious, too, because for the first week after my illness, I didn’t seem to care. Is there a city beyond the range?” “No, thank God, all the cities lie behind us. Nothing but forest.” “But are you going to see someone, meet someone?” “There's a Moravian mission three or four days’ journey away." “Oh, are you going there? She was still unsatisfied, still looking at him in that wistful way. “Yes, I am going to take you there, dear, and leave you in the care of Father McGrath, who is In charge of it, while I am away. He will take good care of you. He is a fine man, and well known for his work among the Indians. When the old priest died last winter, Father McGrath was sent for, all the way from Labrador to take his place. “1 think,” he added, “that we shall be able to start in three or four days now. We want to be off before the weather changes” “How long will you be away, Lee?” “perhaps a week——or longer.” And he wondered, as he spoke, whether It would be a week-—or a whole winter. He held her hands and looked into her eves. “Have you falth enough in me to be willing to walt quietly there even if--if I should be gone for more thon 8 week?” he asked Tf. do That's a I've Just come in to “Til you long, lee” return, no matter how she answered simply. “Kven if you remembered? matter what you remember?” “Even if 1 should remember. But, lee" the note of fear came into her agaln—"when the thine comes that I remember, I want you with me. I am so oppressed sometimes—when 1 awake in the morning, always. 1 seem to have been traveling In my dreams all night in horrible places, among hateful people. 1 seem to have some terrible duty laid upon me, something that I must carry out, al though it kills me. And then—I awake to you, “But one thing I know beyond ev- erything In the world, and that is that there could never have been anyone but you, lee, dearest; never In the whole world. So take me, Lee, and shield me with your love, and be all in this world to me, for [ shail never love anyone but you." “I'l! take you to the mission, dear, and when | come back, [I shall take you south with me, and you shall for- get all your fears,” answered Lee. So they put their troubles aside, and all the uncertainties of the future, and were sublimely happy In their love. Yet, happy us he was, [Lee realized that it would he well for them when he had placed her In the care of Father MceGrath st the mission. Only then would the load of anxiety be re- moved from him, CHAPTER IX Joyce Comes Home the middle of the night a wild No volee In storm sprang up. bringing with it a { driving snow. Its violence blew down | thelr two shelters almost simultane | ously, Involving them in a debris of | boughs and branches ‘They made light of thelr troubles, [ee succeeded In getting some sort of protection up, and the remainder | of that night they crouched beneath ft, happy, in spite of the snow that i piled up all about When morning they on a white world It ing hard, ito a thre | Sa them came, looked out wus freez. and the spring bad dwindled ad in very quickly a basin of ice had a fire burning { and But it looked as if | winger had come to They had | had a rude awakening from thelr pars- | dine tea ready giay It seemed essential to push on | gs soon as possible in fact wit { were likely to find themselves seriously ont snowshoes | inconvenienced in the event of a heavy meant to prosecute his In i fall Loe ini at the and, in i mission came and then return I'm suid ding ased $ fond un “I'm today, | ing, We and then if it mild be ne inter gure w ell Lee” hey enough to that situation the girl git the morn Ax could start off did me hes! KIOW mitieh re ol f without the ir Sn we on, snow slioe now when aveling ought tans ft? vouldn't | R get to the mission within two" and cided that Lee agreed, they push on slowly da | beside the lake the lake journey awa) Most of the left behind as light ag possible; his rib was fairly bandage which he eliminated serious breaking again When they stopped for noon meal they had several miles to thelr credit. The girl's knee had given her no trouble, and both were jubliant That day they covered a good fifteen miles —almost a short day's journey When they camped, the girl sald: “Do you know, Lee, 1 am almost certain that I have passed this way before. It all looks somehow familiar to me, and yet somehow as If I'd seen it in a dream. You remember that big rock we passed in the middie of the stream? Well, T had a feeling all the time that we shonid come to it as we rounded the bend. ™ “And you have no idea whether you ever lived In this region or not" he asked. “No, dear. I'm inclined to think, though, that I may have done so. Per haps 1 was at school at that very mis sion you spoke of. If I was someone there will be sure to recognize me, I've got a feeling that I was studying in some big city—Montreal or Winni- peg, perhaps, to take up medical mis sion work here" the head of about two days of the pack contents Lee had but and wore were to travel fortunately the tight around it danger of a ite the Well, it's a case of true love, all right. But when the girl remembers who she is and learns Anderson's mission then what? (TO BE CONTINUED.) Production of Tea The tea plant is cultivated in two varieties in China—Thea bohea and thea varides In the provinces of Kwang Tung, Fu-Kien and Che-Kiang. The tea plantations are usually formed in a deep rich loam, never on low lands, but on low hilly slopes. The leaves are gathered three times, in the middie of April, in the beginning of May and when the leaves again are nearly formed. 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