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Continued
"Have you been thinking about
lat bungalow of ours?"
She shook her head, and he went
ut quietly without another word.
neither pleaded nor urged, and
erhaps that was wisest, for In spite
f herself Stella thought of him con
nually. He loomed always before
or, a persistent, compelling factor.
She knew at last, beyond any
linsaylng, that the venture tempted,
rerely perhaps because it con
ined so great an element of the
nknown. To get away from this
>ul dwarfing round meant much,
he felt herself reasoning desper
ely that the frying pan could not
> worse than the fire and held at
a>t the mertt of greater dignity and
eedom from the twin evils of pov
ty and thankless domestic slavery.
While she considered this, pro
id con, shrinking from such a stop
le hour, considering it soberly the
•xt, the days dragged past in
enrisomo sequence. The great
pth of snow, endured , was
Ided to by spasmodic flurries,
ho frosts held. The camp
"thed with the restlessness of the
en. In default of the daily work
lat consumed their superfluous
lergy the loggers argued and
light, drank and gambled, made
•ough house" in their sleeping
larters till sometimes Stella's
looks blanched and she expected
urder to be done. Twice the
jickamln came back from Koaring
irings with whisky aboard, and a
otracted debauch ensued. Once
drunken logger shouldered his
ay into the kitchen to leer un
easantly at Stella and, himself in
imfed by liquor and the affront,
larlie Benton beat the mn until
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his face was a mass of bloody
bruises. That was only one of a
dozen brutal Incidents. All the
routine discipline of the woods
seemed to have slipped out of Ben
ton's tyands. When the second
whisky consignment struck the camp
Stella stayed in her room, refusing
to cook until order reigned again.
Benton grumblingly took up the
burden himself. With Katy's help
and that of sundry loggers he fed
the roistering crew, but for his sister
it was a two day period of protesting
disgust.
That mood, like so many of her
moods, relapsed into dogged endur
ance. She took up the work again
when Charlie promised that no more
whisky should be allowed in the
camp.
"Though it's 10 to 1 I won't have
a corporal's guard left when I want
to start work again," he grumbled.
"I'm well within my rights if I put
my foot down hard on any jinks
when there's work, but I have no
license to set myself up as a guard
ian of a logger's morals and pocket
book when I have nothing for him
to do. These fellows are paying their
board. So long as they don't make
theriselves obnoxious to you I don't
see that it's our funeral whether
they're drunk or sober. They'd tell
mo so quick enough."
To this pronouncement of expe
diency Stella made no rejoinder. She
no longer expected anything much
of Charlie in the way of considera
tion. So far as she could see, she,
his sister, was little more to him
than one of his loggers; a little less
important than. say. his donkey en
gineer. In so far as she conduced
to the well being of the camp and
effected a saving to his credit In the
matter of preparing food, he valued
her and was willing to concede a
minor point to satisfy her. Beyond
that Stella felt that he did not go.
Five years in totally different en
vironments had dug a great gulf be
tween them. He felt an arbitrary
sense of duty toward her, she knew,
but in its manifestations it never
lapped over the bounds of his 6wn
immediate self interest.
Stella looked out along the shores
piled high with broken Ice and
snov, through a misty air to distant
mountains that lifted-themselves im
periously aloof, white spires against
the sky—over a forest all draped in
winter rohes; shore, mountains'and
forest . alike were chill and hushed
and desolate: The lake spread its
forty odd miles in a boomerang
curve from Roaring Springs to Fort
Douglas, a cold, lifeless gray. She
sat a long time looking at that, and
a dead weight seemed to settle upon
her heart.
She did not hear Jack Fyfe come
in. Shr did not dream he was there
until she felt his hand gently on her
shoulder and looked up. And so
deep was her despondency, so keen
the unassuaged craving for some
human sympathy, some measure of
understanding, that she made no ef
fort to remove his hand. She was
it* too deep a spiritual guagniire to
refuse any sort of aid, too deeply
moved to indulge in analytical self
fathoming. She had a dim sense of
being oddly comforted by his pres
ence. as If she, afloat on uncharted
seas, saw suddenly near at hand a
safe anchorage and welcoming
hands. Afterward she recalled that.
As it was. she loked up at Fyfe and
hiil her tear stained face in her
hands. He stood silent a few sec
onds. When he did speak there
was a peculiar hesitation in his
voice.
"What is it?" he said softly.
"What's the trouble now?"
Briefly she told him. the barriers
of her habitual reserve swept aside
before the essential human need to
share a burden that has grown too
great to bear alone.
"Oil, thunder!" Fyfe grunted when
she had finished. "This isn't any
placo for you at all.
He slid his arm across her shoul
ders and tilted her face with his
other hand so that her eyes met his.
And she felt no desire to draw away
or any of that old instinct to be on
her guard against him.
"Will you marry me. Stella?" he
asked evenly. "I.can free you from
this sort of thing forever."
"How can I?" she returned. "I
don't want to marry anybody. I
don't love you. I'm not even sure
I like you. I'm too miserable to
think, even. I'm afraid to take a
step like that. I should think you
would be too."
He shook his head.
To bo Continued
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By JAXE M'IiEAX
She was a very beautiful girl and
very rich and very fastidious. People
who heard of her engagement to the
yonug doctor, had laughed behind
her back, while they congratulated
her to her face and that it was un
usual and so romantic.
Kate llogers thought over these
remarks later and would wonder if
her engagement really were roman
tic. Unusual , yes, but then she
wanted Dr. Hunt Benedict just as
she might have wanted a new fur
coat, and had determined to have
him. In her own mind she ha-J '"e
clded that her own great
would make everything all right. I
Of course Hunt had queer ideas 1
about the people, and he did like to
mess up with the poor, but she,
.planned to make a change in all j
that. Once married he would give!
up all his silly notions. They might |
even' buy a practice in a fashionable :
neighborhood, and he would be quite !
the dearest thing as a fashionable
physician.
Kate had a tender little softness;
in her heart as she thought about
him. She pictured his shabby work
ing clothes changed to the immacu
late cutaway that he would wear
during consultation hours. People
might say what they liked, Hunt
might not have wealth, but he had|
everything else a girl , could pos- j
sibly want, and she was satisfied.
Whether Kate would have been sat-!
isfled if she had been possessed with i
no worthy wealth herself, is quite
another story.
The first clash of ideas was a I
stormy period in Kate's life, she whol
had always had things her own way.
She had called Hunt up on the tele
phone and had spoken to him gaily
and eagerly.
Come right over, will you dear,
we're getting up a party for tomor
row and need you to help decide
where to go."
"Can't do it, Kate," Hunt's voice
had returned. I'm on a case, I
simply can't get away from it. Sorry
I'll make it up when I see you."
"What case is it? Can't you let
Dr. Marks have it to-night?"
It's the Baxter baby, I can't pos
sibly get over dear, good-by." And
Kate rang off, a strange little feel
ing of importance overwhelming her.
Hunt's voice had been so decisive, |
she could not help wondering if
Hunt would change all his ideas is
readily as she had supposed, will
she punish him for treating her this
way, and in the meantime there was
the laughing crowd to appease when
she had to confess that Hunt would
not be over.
"I pity you Kate, marrying a doc
tor, you'll never see much of him,"
laughed one of the girls.
"Oh, yes I will," said Kate con
fidently, more confidently than she
felt at that moment. "Hunt will give
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married."
And after they had all gone and
it was late, she rang up on her own
private telephone and waited for
Hunt to come and speak to her.
There was no answer at the office,
and with her brain in a whirl, she
was forced to go to bed without
speaking to him. She did not know
until the next day that he had spent
the nigfht in the little Baxter home
where he had struggled with death
for a tiny life, and had come out of
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(the conflict victorious. She greetedi
him coldly, and said without pre
j ample.
"We might as well have a talk
Hunt, things can't go on this way."
"Can't go en what way?"
"Why, after we're married, you
don't suppose that I'm going to have
my husband grubbing around among!
i the poor when I need him at home, I
| do you?"
"Just what did you suppose that
II would do about it, Kate?" he ask- 1
I ed evenly.
'j "Why, give up your practice, of I
I course; you don't need it; I have!
I plenty of money for both of us."
"And you thought I would be per-|
■ fectly willing to live on your nion- 1
. I ey?"
, j Kate's eyes grew wide. "Wouldn't
11 you?" she queried.
:l "I thought you knew me better.
■ | I shall keep on with my work, of
:; course; it's my life work; It's what
II I've wanted to do all my life. I'm
11 glad for your sake that your money
' I can buy you the luxuries I couldn't
SEFTMvfBEK 21, 1917.
afford to buy for you, but I shall
never use any of it."
"And I suppose you think I must
be wiling to have my husband only
after other people are through with
him—people like the Baxters, who
will have far more claim on you
than I shall.
Hunt looked at her curiously. "It's
all In the way you look at It, Kate,'
if you want me as I want you—then
our life— together is not to be based
on self. I should be glad—proud to
have ( you share my work, if you don't
feel 'that you can understand; it's
better to And it out now."
Kate was looking into the flery
blue eyes opposite, and their ex
pression turned her thoughts In upon
herself. Something had just sprung
into life in her heart that exalted
her, terrified her with its wonder.
She no longer wanted Hunt Bene
dict as she had thought she wanted
him; she wanted him as he wanted
her—enough to make any sacrifice.
In that moment Kate Rogers found
herself.
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