Ijjfg and all iKe Kmi!\| ]p||j "The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water \ —J CHAPTER XII (Copyright, 1917, Star Company. "How is Mrs. Gore this morning?" I asked Julia the next day. It was Sunday. Mr. Norton had been out late last night, and was not breakfasting at the same hour with Grace and me. "She'll not be getting up to-day at all, I'm thinking," replied tlje maid. "Maggie was telling me Mrs. Gore was very bad last evening, and that she had quite a spell of crying." "Never mind!" I said, glancing at Grace, who was listening with wide eyes to these remarks. "Why did she cry?" the child asked wonderingly. "Never mind, dear," I repeated. "We will talk of that at some other time. Eat your breakfast now." But though I strove to change the trend of her thoughts, 1 could see that she was still pondering upon ■Tulia's remarks. Were the maids al lowed, I mused, to talk of their mis tress's moods and peculiarities in the presence of this sensitive little crea ture? "Why did Auntie cry?" Grace per sisted, when we were again in* the nursery together. "Sometimes when 1 play with little girls 1 cry and ■ cry." "That is very foolishj" I said. "With Auntie it is different, for she is ill and cannot go out of doors and get lots of sunshine and fun as you can. It must have been • before you were such a big girl as you are now that you cried like that. I am sure you will never do it again." "I don't think 1 will," she assured me. Then: "Auntie's not crying now —is she?" She returned so persistently to 1 liia subject that I decided it would lie well for her t?> see her aunt, and when I suggested this she assented readily. So, leaving her for a mo ment, I went down to Mrs. Gore's room and knocked on the door. A weak voice bade me "Come in." The invalid was still in bed, but it Mas evident that her mood had un dergone a change since our interview of twenty-four hours ago. She smiled wanly. A I'olltc Offer "Good morning,'" she murmured. "I am alone, as 1 have let Maggie go to church." "Can I do anything for you dur ing her absence?" I asked. "Oh, no, I thank you," she Veplicd. "Maggie did all that I needed be fore she went out. lam glad you came in, for I wanted to ask about Grace. How is she?" "Very well," I answered, "but she is questioning me so much about you that I think it will make her happy to see you—that she will then- stop worrying about you." "She is worrying about me?" she repeated with pathetic eagerness. "Yes," I said, "she is." Why should I tell her that Julia had started the child's thoughts in an unfortunate direction? "Let her come down here," she "Don't you think" 1 began, then hesitated, actually afraid to Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton t\ pretty feature of the season is J~\ found in the blouse with middy closing that is made of dainty material. 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"I remember," plaintively, "that my little girl objected to com ing in' here yesterday beeauso the room was dark. It hurt mo'through and through that she cared so little for me." "Children all shrink from Illness and darkened rooms," I remarket! lightly. I would not touch on any danger ous topic again. If we were to have smooth sailing it must bo in shallow waters. When, in reply to my summons, Grace came down, her aunt's room was light. Tlio air was still heavy, but 1 did not dare suggest opening a window for even a few inches. The child kissed her aunt and looked at her gravely. "Why did you cry last night?" she interrogated. "Who told you I cried last night?" Mrs. Gore demanded, glancing sus piciously at me. Ail Explanation "Julia told me," the little girl said promptly. "Maggie told her. Why did you cry?" "Because I was unhappy," the aunt said. "When you are ray age, darling, 1 hope you will have less to make you unhappy than I have. Yet I/must not complain, for I have a great many comforts in your father's beautiful home." The child's mouth dropped into sad, uncliildlike lines, and I hastened to change the subject. "Grace, suppose you and I go to church this morning," I proposed. "Would you like that, darling?" "Oh, yes," she declared. "I'd love it. I don't go to church hardly ever." "Do you object to her going, Mrs. Gore?" I asked. "It's a perfect day." "Why, no," the widow remarked, "not if her father said you could take her." "T have not seen him to-day," 1 informed her. "I fancy he is still in his room. But it just occurred to me that Grace might, like to hear the music and see the people." "All right," Mrs. Gore assented. "I would not venture to advise against it .without consulting Mr. Norton. I never get to church; my brother seldom goes; I do not care to have Ihe maids take Grace with them. So she knows little of church." I wondered if this woman would, prefer that I keep her niece at home —vet 3iirely my first duty was to the child. "It is time we were getting ready," I remarked practically. "Tell Auntie good-by, Grace, dear, and we will get oft at once." When the child kissed her, and ran happily from the room, Mrs. Gore drew a long sigh of regret or self-pity. But I j>retended not to hear it. (To Be Continued.) HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Tfte Cjodjr o/ Copyright by Frank A. Munaey Co. (Continued.) "Where Is Dejah Thoris?" I cried to the thing within my hands. Tor n moment her eyes roved wildly about the scene beneath her. I think that it took a moment for the true condition to make nn.v impression upon her—she could not at first realize that the temple had fallen beforo the as sault of men of the outer world. When she did there must have come, too, a terrible realization of what it meant to her—the loss "of power, ha* miliatlon, the exposure of the fraud and Imposture which she had for so long played upon her own people. Tbere was just one thing needed to complete the reality of (he picture she was seeing, and that was added by ths highest noble of her re&lm—the high priest of her religion—the prime min ister of her government. "Issus, goddess of death and cf life eternal," he cried, "rise in the might OL' they righteous wrath and with one single wave of thy omnipotent hand strike dead the blasphemers! Let not one escape. -y ! "Issus, thy people depend upon thee. Daughter of the lesser moon, thou only art all powerful. Thou only canst save thy people. I am done. We await thy will. Strike!" And then it was that she went mad. A screaming, gibbering maniac writh ed in my grasp. It bit and clawed and scratched In impotent fury. And then it laughed a weird and terrible laugh ter that froze the blood. CHAPTER XVI. Th Burning Temple. mllE slave girls upon the dais shrieked and cowered away. And the thing Jumped at them and gnashed its teeth. Finally I shook the thing, hoping tc recall it for a moment to rationality. "Where is Dejah Thoris?" I cried. The awful creature In my grasp mumbled inarticulately for a moment, then a sudden gleam of cunning shot Into those hideous, close set eyes. "Dejah Thoris'i, Dejah Thoris?" and then that shrill, unearthly laugh pierced our ears once more. "Yes, D&- jah Thoris, I know. And Thuvia also. They each love John Carter. Ha-ah— but it is droll. "Together for a year th#y will medi tate within the temple (gf the Sun, but ere the year is quite gol%* there will be no more food for them. Ha-ah! What divine entertainment!" and she licked the froth from her cruel lips. "There will be no more food—except each other. Ha-ah! Ha-ah!" The horror of-the suggestion nearly paralyzed me. To this awful fate the creature within my power had con demned my princess. I trembled in the ferocity of my rage. As a terrier shnkes a rat I shook Is sus, Goddess of tife Eternal. "Countermand your orders!" I cried. "Recall the condemned. Haste or you die!" "It is too late. Ha-ah! Ha-ah!" She again commenced her gibbering and shrieking. Almost of its own volition my dag ger flew up above that wicked heart. But something stayed my hand, and I am glad now that it did. It is a ter rible thing to have struck down a wo man witlrone's own hand. But a fitter fate occurred to me for this false deity. "Black Pirates," I cried, turning to those who stood within the chamber, "you have seen today the lmpotency of Issus—the gods are omnipotent. Issus 4s no god. She is a cruel and wicked old woman, who has deceived and played upon you for ages. Take her. John Carter, prince of Helium, would not contaminate his hand with hei blood." With that I pushed the raving beast, whom a short half hour before a whole world had worshiped as divine, from the platform of her throne into the waiting clutches of her betrayed and vengeful people. Spying Carthoris among the officers of the red men, I called to him to lead me quickly to the temple of the Sun, and without waiting to learn what fate the Black IMrates would wreak upon their goddess I rushed from the cham ber with Carthoris, Hor Vastus, Kan tos Kan and a score of other red nobles. Carthoris led us rapidly through the Inner chambers of the temple until we stood within the central court, a great circular space paved with a transpar ent marble of exquisite whiteness. Be fore us rose a golden temple wrought In the most wondrous and fanciful de signs, inlaid with diamond, ruby, sap phire, turquoise, emerald and the thousand nameless gems of Mars, which far transcend In loveliness and purity of ray the most priceless stones of earth. ' "This wn.r," cried Carthoris, leading us toward the entrance to a funnel, which opened in the courtyard beside the temple. As we were on (he point of descend ing we heard a deep toned roar burst from the temple of Issus, which we had but just quitted, and then a red man, DJor Kantas, padwar of the fifth utan, broke from a nearby gate, crying to us to return. "The blacks have fired the temple," he cried. "In a thousand places It 1* burning now. Ilaste to the outer gar den or you are lost." j As ho spoke we saw smoke pouring from a dozen windows looking out upon the courtyard of the temple of the Sun, and far above the highest minaret of Issus hung an ever growing pall of smoke. "Go back, go back:" I cried to those who had accompanied me. "The way. Carthoris; point the way and leave me! I shall reach my princess yet." "Follow me, John Carter," replied Carthoris, and without waiting v for mj reply he daslwsd dowrt^into the tunne! at our feet. At his heels I ran down through j half dozen tiers of galleries until ai last he led me along a level floor at th< end of which 1 discerned a lightec chamber. Massive bars blocked our furthei | progress, but beyond I saw her—my in- I comparable princess, and with Iter wat Thuvia. When she sow me she rushed toward the bars that separated us. Al ready the chamber had turned upon its slow way so far that but a portion of the opening in the temple wall was op posite the barred end of the corridor. Slowly the interval was closing. In a short time there would be but a tiny crack, and then that even would be closed, and for a long Barsoomlan year the chamber would slowly revolve un til once more for a brief day the aper ture in its walls would pass the corri dor's end. But in the meantime what horrible things would go on within that cham ber! I stood and talked with Dejah Thorls, and she stretched her dear hand through those cruel bars, that I might hold it until the last moment. Thuvia came close also, but when she saw that we would be alone she with drew to the farther side of the cham ber. For a few minutes we stood thus, talking In low tones. Ever smaller and smaller grew the opening. In a short time now It would bo too small even to permit me to see the slender form of my princess. Above we could hear tlie faint echoes of a groat tumult. It v?as the multi tude of blacks and reds and green men fighting their way through the fire from the burning temple of Issus. A draft from above brought the fumes of smoke to our nostrils. Presently we heard shouting at the far end of the corridor and hurrying feet. "Come back, John Carter; come back!" cried a voice. "ETen the pits are burning," In u moment a dozen men broke through the now blinding smoke to my side. There were Carthoris and Kantos Ivan and Hor Vastus, with a few more who had followed me to the temple court. "I shall remain here beside my prin cess until a merciful death releases me from my Anguish," I declared. "I care not to live." Dejah Thoris stood as closely to the crack as she could, whispering words of hope and courage to mo and urging me to save myself. The smoke cleared away, and we stood gazing upon a blank wall. The last crevice had closed. They urged me to leave. "In a moment It will be too late," cried Kantos Kan. "There Is, In fact, but a bare chance that we can get through to the outer garden alive, even now. I have ordered the pumps started, and In five minutes the pits will be flooded. If we would not drown like rats in a trap we must hasten above and make a dash for safety through the burning temple." "Go," I* urged them. "Let me'die here beside my princess. There is no hope or happiness elsewhere for me. When they carry her dead body from that terrible place a year hence let them find the body of her lord await ing her." Of what happened after that I have only a confused recollection. It seems as though I struggled with many men and then that I was picked bodily from tho ground and borne away. I do not know. THS END. PI/AY BY SENIOR CLASS New Cumberland, Pa.. March JO. "At the End of the Itatnbow," is tho title of a play to be given by the senior class of the New Cumberland high Bchool in the Independent American Hall on March 25 and 26. PARENTS MUST EARN RESPECT Have to Give Children Benefit of Experience Without Force By BEATRICE FAIRFAX I wonder how many boys and girls to-day have the blessed feeling that their very best friends are father and mother! , Not every parent oan give his chil dren a heritage of wealth and social standing. Children have not the right to expect that—but the thing to which they have an absolute right is the feel ing of friendly understanding. Parents have to earn respect and deserve conlidence. In this practical "show me" age they do not get it otherwise. Life sweeps on very rapidly nowa days. The son of the uneducated im migrant is the college professor of to morrow, and the daughter of the il literate scrubwoman is the great urima donna of the future. Life would not be worth much if each generation were riot producing individuals #f higher type than those of the last generation. The child is inferior to his parents in just one thing—experience. Parents have to give children the benefit of their experience without forcing it upon them. The younger generation is groping toward knowl edge. You might tell a baby one hun dred times that fire burns, but for real vivid knowledge on the subject noth ing impresses that baby so vividly as a poor little blistered finger which fol lows a tour of discovery right into the flame of a match. The older genera tion can save the generation a great deal of actual experience of how fire burns if it guides Very clever ly—very tactfully! Each orfo of us is embarked in a little boat of our own pepa6nality which has to go down the stream of life. The most loving parent in all the world cannot get into his child's skiff and show him how to guide it. The parents who tie heavy ropes to the boats of their children's personality and try to draw them upstream are cruel, and they have no right to be surprised when the children lean out wilfully and cut the ropes. The parents tf-ho reach out with their oars and try to push the chil dren's barks into thiy havens seldom succeed. The little boats drift into ports they never wanted to make and, resting discontentedly for a time, drift out again. The successful parent is the one who shows his children how to steer themselves. Suppose a father finds that his daughter is interested in a boy whom his mature judgment decides to be ut terly unworthy. If he says to the #irl: "I forbid you to see that boy again," he arouses natural antagon ism. Instinctively the girl resents her father's criticism of her choice of friends and feels that it is a criticism of herself. Instinctively, too, her loy ally flames up in defense of the friend whom she feels is not being given a fair chance. Suppose, on the other hand, the father sits down quietly with his daughter and says: "Helen, I don't quite understand your liking for Joe Brady. Perhaps T am doing the boy an injustice. Will you tell me what you see in him?" Helen can do no less than respond to this equal to equal attitude on the part of her father, and her sense of fairness makes her give him a hearing when he tells her what he does not like in Joe Brady. She has no right to resent this attitude, which really has been a compliment to lier, and she naturally tests Joe along I the line of her father's objections to ' him. Perhaps she does hope to find errors in her father's judgment, but she feels instinctively that he is fair and sqyiare and that she too must be fair and square and confess if Joe proves un worthy. There is nothing undignified in talk ing matters over quietly with your children. They are individuals with tastes and desires. They have a right to a hearing, and far from forfeiting their respect if you give them fair play,you win their absolute confidence and esteem. The parent who forbids without explaining the reasons for his attitude arouses ugly emotions, ranging from stubborn antagonism to a sneaking de termination to do It anyhow. All forms of tyranny in government have gone out, and ruthless commancls do not appeal to the younger generation. No whit of respect or dignity is sac rificed by the mother or father who says quietly: "These are the reasons why I disapprove of that course, and T know that when you understand them you will agree with me." DAILY DOT PUZZLES ' 17# 16 •' 17 ' *lB •'* ~ 19* *l2 10. 2o *9 ft 2l 6 2Z. a . 2 #7 v 33 ' - 23. ■ -54- -5 3b ? 5 • 4. •37 30. * 3 w & Can you finish this picture? Draw from one to two and so on to the end. MARCH 10, 1917. Copyright, 1913, by Doubladay, Page A C®. I Continued.) "Well," said Johnny seriously, "I wanted to Ret him close to me. If I had shown him that I'd seen him when he first came In the door he'd have opened fire at once. And I'm a rotten shot. But I figured that It' he thought I didn't see him lie'd come across the room to me." "But he nearly got you by surprise." "Oh, 110," said Johnny; "I saw him all the time. I got his reflection from the glass over that picture of the beau tiful lady sitting on the whisky bar rel. That's "why I picked out that ta ble." "My son," cried Danny Randall de lightedly, "you're a true sport. You've got a head, you have!" "Well," said Johnny, "I figured I'd have to do something; I'm such a rot ten shot." We slept late the following rooming and awoke tired. as though we had been on n long journey. "Now," said Johnny when our after breakfast pipes had beeu lit, "we've got to get together. There's one im portant question before the house— I who and what Is Danny Randall?" "I agree with you there," said I heartily. Wo separated until noon. Johnny re turned promptly at 12. "As to Danny Randall," he began at once, "origin lost in mists of obscurity. First known in this country as a guide to a party of overland immigrants be fore the gold discovery. One of the original Bear Flagrevolutlonlsta. Mem ber of Fremont's raiders in the south. Showed lip again at Sonoma and head ed a dozen forays after the horse thieving Indians and half breeds in the San Joaquin. Seems now to fol low the mines. Guaranteed the best shot with rifle or pistol in the state. Guaranteed the best courage and the quietest manners in the state. Very eminent and square lu bis profession. That's his entijp history." "What Is his profession?" I asked. "lie runs yie Bella Union." "A gambler?" I cried, astonished. "Just so, a square gambler." I digested this in silence for a mo ment. "Did you discover anything for your self?" I asked at last. "Best job ever invented," said-John ny triumphantly, "at three ounces a day, and 1 can't beat that at your beastly diggings." "Yes?" I urged. "I Invented it myself, too," went on Johnny proudly. "You remember what Randall or the doctor said about the robberies and the bodies of the drown ed men floating? Well, every man carries his dust around in a belt be cause he dare not do anything else with it. I do myself, and so do you, and you'll agree that it weighs like the mischief. So I went to Randall and I suggested that we start an ex press service to get the stuff out to bank with some good firm in San Francisco. He fell In with the idea ill a minute. My first notion was that we take it right through to San Fran cisco ourselves, but he says he can make satisfactory arrangements to send it in from Sacramento. That's about sixty miles, and we'll call it a daj's bard ride through this country, with a change of horses. So now I'm what you might call an express mes senger—nt three good ounces a day." "But you'll be killed and robbed!" I cried. Johnny's eyes were dancing. "Think of-the fun!" said he. "You're a rotten shot," I reminded him. "I'm to practice under Danny Ran dall from now until the first trip." "When Is that?" "Do you think we'll advertise the date? Of course I'd tell you, Jim, but honestly I don't know yet." CHAPTER XXII. Tha Express Messenger. II WEEK later Johnny rode up on /\ a spirited and beautiful horse, /\ proud as could be over his mount. He confided to me that it was on® of the express horses, that the first trip would be very soon and that if I desired to send out my own savings I could do so. I was glad to do this, even though the rates were high, and we easily persuaded Yank of the ad visability. One of the express riders was a slight dark yo*th whom I had never seen before. In the other I was surprised to recognise Old Hickory Pine. He told me his people had "squatted" not far from Sacramento, but that he had come up into the hills on summons by Danny Randall. The fact impressed me anew as to Randall's wide knowledge, for the Pines 'had not been long In the coun try. The trip went through without inci dent. Johnny returned four days lat er nglow with the joy of that adven turous ride through the dark. Rob bers aside, I acknowledge I should not have liked that job. Tha first half doten Journeys were 1 iuore or less secret, so that the express! service did not become known to thw j general public. Then the news inevita- j bly loaked out. Danny Randall there-1 upon openly received shipments and gave receipts at the Bella Union. It seemed to me only a matter of time before the express me Vengers should | be wayMd, for the treasure they car ried wan worth any one's while. I spoke to Randall about it one day. "If Amijo or Murietta or Dick Teci* pie were in this part of the country; I'd agree with you," said he seriously,, "but they are not, and there's nobody! in this lot of cheap desperadoes around here that has the nerve. Those three boys have a big reputation as fighters, their horses are good, they constantly vary their route and their times of starting, and Johnny in especial has a foxy bead on him." "The weak point Is the place they change horses," said I. Randall looked at me quickly, as though surpnseu. ( "Why, that's true," said he "not a doubt of it. But I've got five armed men there to look after just that And another thing you must remember— they know that Danny Randall is run ning this show." Certainly, thought I, Danny 'nt least appreciates himself. And yet after all, I do not think lie In any way ex-, aggerated the terror bis name Inspired.' About this time a party of overland immigrants, headed by a man named Woodruff, were robbed of their cattle. Johnny irud his men rounded up the thieves, killing three and placing two others, Carhart and Malone, under ar rest. It was decided to try Our hart i and Malone at a miners' meeting. The meeting took place in the Bella Union, and the place was crowded to the doors. All the roughs in town were i on hand, fully armed, swearing, swag gering and brandishing their weapons. They had much to say byway of threat, for they did not hesitate to show their sympathies. As I looked , „ / Thay Did Not Hesitate to Show Their Sympathies. upon their unexpected numbers and listened to their wild talk I must con fess that tay heart failed me. 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