r. -mttTzi?rir tM"--' . m ij n.imiWffgW I ! . 4 i ff i cofrUKftrttoe, oyj ft lirptxcorr co ail eHrJarrMoL SYN0P8I8. CIIAPTElt I. nic.iar.l DcrrlnB, return ing from a winter In the woods to his mother's (arm home. Is overtaken by Ills uncle, accompanied by his eccontrlo wife, coming to 'pay a visit Qt tho farm. CHAPTEH II. A int Jorimha's ques tions about Kmlly Pulton, supposed to be Hlchanl's sweetheart, bring out tho fact that b)io Is to marry a morchant, Ed wards. CIIAl'Tnn III.-DorrlnK's disappoint ment stimulates hl ntnbltlon and un der tho mlvlco of Beth Kinney, a hermit of tho woods, ho resolves to lit himself for collpne. Kinney promises to teach him Greek. CHAPTER IV.-Dorrlnff tells his moth er his resolve, nnd In his grandfather's old laboratory boplns tho study of Greek. CHAPTER V.-80U1 Klnnoy hears Rich ard's Greek recitation In tho woods while he and Tom Bishop ply tho cross-cut aw. CHAPTER VI. Dorrlng learns that he can look Indifferently upon tho loss of Emily. He visits Aunt Jerusha, who vol unteers to help him through college, mak ing him a gift of $100. CHAPTER VII.-Tho Greek learned in tho woods carries Richard triumphantly through entrance examinations, wins np provnl from tho professor nnd Insures his popularity among his fellows. CHAPTER VIII. Kour years In college obliterates the memory of Emily. Der rlng begins his Jourr.ullottc work In Chi cago. CHAPTER IX.-Dorrlng meets Helen Gordon In her studio, where ho goes to fill an assignment. CHAPTER X. Dorrlng's promotion to art critic on his paper makes him more securo financially. Ho makes rapid prog ress In comradeship with Helen. Tho dis covery of an old lova episode In her life eveals to him that ho loves her. CHAPTER XI. Holon refuses to marry Richard nnd hamper his career and her own. They enter Into n compact which permits only romi'inlnnshlp with "no promises" on cither side. CHAPTER JCII.-lloth find lmpplness in the undefined relation, HelMi rinds Rich nrd's suggestions very helpful In her work. CHAPTER XIH.-Helrn suffers 111 of fects from sketching on thn lako shore In January. A slight Illness brings her Into closer relations with Richard. CHAPTER XIV.-Rlchard discovers a sixth sense which wurns him of any dan ger or discomfort to Helen. Ho Is called liome by the Illness of 8cth Kinney and determines to test the strength of this peculiar power of communication, CHAPTER XV.-Seth KJnney is dying, nnd R'chard resolves to remain to the end. Beth hears the story of Richard's western experience and reveals the story of his own wasted life CHAPTER XVI.-Dylng In the spring. Seth leaves Dcrrlng 11 small fortune, whleli enables him to placo his mother In comfortable circumstances, Ho returns to Chicago. Helen starts on u. visit to her home In the east and Is killed In a railway accident. She lenves a message for .Richard, saying: "I hIiiiII come back vaii U I aaju VLui. J not " CHAPTER XVII. Derrlng threw hlrasolf Intd work with tho Intensity or despair. He worked early and late. Ho dared not give himself time to think. Deaut? had gone from tho world interest from life. Work was the only thing ieft. He plodded on In a dull, mo notonous fashion. It served to kill tlmo, nnd there was the chance of los ing himself, for a little while, In his task. He would work for days with fever ish eagerness, for the sako of these few minutes or working oblivion, In which ho could lose himself, until tho dull pain that always preceded his re turn to consciousness became too strong to be Ignored. When he turnod to question Its meaning, memory stood always at hand to place the burden once more on his shoulders. Except for these brief minutes there was uot an hour In the day when his loss did not press upon him. To his tortured imagination he wus like a man torn In two, one-half to bo burled out or sight, the other to live on,, suffering and enduring, till the jagged wound should heal. At every turn his thoughts went out to .her only to bo met by the hopeless blank of her death. For months the thought of her had been tho last In his mind at night, tho llrst to greet hlra on waking. Now he sat up un til worn out with work and loss of sleep. And if then sleep would not come, he counted sheep jumping over a wall, watched water falling from a high precipice down down or reached out his hand for tho opiate that stood always at hand. Anything was better than tho hopelessness of memory. Perhaps the hnrdcBt part was tho uttter loneliness or It all. Ho had turned to Helen with every pleasure or sorrow. Now ho was called upon to face the greatest sorrow or his life alone absolutely alone. He seemed to have lost tho sense or human kin ship. Sometimes n sudden sight would touch his heart two lovers walking together. He would follow thorn as long as he dared, noting overy glnnoe nnd gesture botwoen thorn. It com fortod him to feel that lovo was still in the world although it had gone from bis own Hfo. Except for this slight link ho was cut off from his fellow-bolngs adrift on a shoreless sea. He did not feel that others Buffered as ho was suffer Inc. that many a irallant shio that passed with colors Hying wns frelgnt od with n burden ns henvy ns his own. Ho clung with pathetic eagerness to n belief that others wero happy nnd found llfo worth living. For, us time wont on, ho found tho question of tho worth of llfo forcing Itself upon him with cruel insistence not as n specu lation, but out or tho bitterness of life. It mot him nt evory turn. It stood waiting at his bedside to greet him when ho woko and It followed close nt Ills Bldo through tho day. Why should ho take up tho burden or another day? No one depended on him would mourn for him. His molhor? She was now lndonondent or his help. Sho lid not need him. No one needed him. One plunge nnd ho would know whether death ends nil, or whether In n now llfo one may meet or make new happiness. Gladly would ho have died. In hopc lesH, desperate fashion ho prayed for death. Dut something Intangible still held him rrom taking his own life. He did not porcolvo that there wero depths or misery lower than nny to which ho had yet fallen. Had ho roresoen tho trackless country over which he wns to wander, he would havo laid down his lifo In despair at the outset. But tho sight wn8 merci fully withheld from him, and ho pressed steadily on, unloved and un loving, but hugging close to his henrt ono delusive belief lovo wns still la tho world. Not for him, but for others, llfo was still worth tho living. How or when this belief escaped him ho novor know. Ho nwoke ono day to tho awful conviction that oven this had been taken from him that nothing remnlncd between him nnd absolute despair. Ho had been a fool. How could any lovo even as pure as theirs how could ovon this mako llfo worth living? It was at best a frail, uncertain thing, llnblo to snap at any moment and leave life empty, deso late llko his own. No, life was a mlBtako. Derrlng could Taney It tho gift or some arch-fiend who lay back, laughing in his Bleeve, as rrom afar he watched men rushing here nnd there, pushing nnd scrambling, cheating, swearing, dying ror what? For a will-o'-the-wisp, a mirage, a child's rable. Thus despair took hold on him. But the effect wns not what ono would havo foresoon. It drove him towards Ills fellow-men. In his llrst grief he had been moody and reserved, Bpeak Ing seldom and then only of the most matter-or-ract details or work. Now he sought companionship. He courted conversation. But his conversation was sharp and cynical In tone. No subject was too sacred or too tender ror his wit It was aB ir tho fiend had taken 'him far above and had showed him that all Is vanity and vexation or spirit trnnslont, fleeting, beginning nowhero and ending In nothtng too trifling to mourn over and surely not worth enthusiasm. Every one In the office felt the change. Many a young fellow who cane under the lash of his tongue wondered vnguely what had come over Derrlng. But no one guessed the Sometimes a Sudden Sight Would Touch His Heart Two Lovers Walking Together, cause. For although ho seemed so open und bluff, ho was moro reserved than ever. Thus two, three six years passed. Thon a change came over him. The bitterness passed from his heart and left only a groat pity for mankind. It was n cruel thing to create a race capable or suffering and condomn it to a llfo of fruitless striving! The hopolessnoss and tho misery Minunted him day and night. Ho becamo very gontle Even towards sin and vlco lie showed a louioncy that surprised his fellow-workers. Ills own grlof had be come to him a very email thing hard ly worth a heart-throb In comparison w'lth the ours under which tho hu man race struggled. He would gladly have died to bring n ray or ngnt u men. He began to understand, dimly, that tho sins of the world may l laid on one man. But with tho under standing came n conviction of tho hnpelMflhess. ICvery true man must suffer, must stoop to take tho burden on his shoulders some to boar It ovon to a cruel death but nover must one dnro hopo that bocauso ho suffered nnothor should bo freo. For himself, ns tho years went by, ho Questioned no more. Lire and its moaning had reduced Itself to this to holp those that nrc In trouble this much ho hnd gathered from tho wreck. Ho know that It wns only n fragment, a negative Bort of comfort But It was bolter than the blank npnthy or Indlfforoncc. It was some thing to live for. But lmpplness living, thrilling hap piness wns for him n thing of tho past. That It could over como to him again ho did not for n momont drenm. Llfo was upon him. Ho mtiBt endure it as bravely, as helpfully ns he might. But novor might ho hopo for n Joy that should mnko it perfect, or for a reason that should justify tho suffering. CHAPTER XVIII. Tho day had been unusually warm In the office, but otherwise no differ ent from other days. When Derrlng came homo at night ho throw himself on the bed to rest before dressing for dinner. It had becomo a common thing for hlra to stop -to rest now nnd then during the day how common, even ho himself did not realize. Ho was less Intro spective than formerly. Ho worked Instead of speculating or dreaming. When he found himself too tired to work ho rested for a little, as ho was doing now. It had taken him long to learn the art of resting. But he had at laBt gained tho power to turn aside at any moment from tho rush or lire nnd yield himself, body and mind, to a quiet rcBtfulness. As ho lay In tho half-darkened room, his eyes closed, his breath comlnir and going lightly between parted lips, It was easy to seo that tho past ten years had not all been as peaceful as this. Tho thick hair, pushed careless ly back, was Btreaked with grny. Tho exuberant vitality of tho face and frame had given place to n worn look of passive strength. Ten years should not so chnngo a faco were It not tjiat ten years, as men count tlmo, nro sometlmoB a cycle. Derrlng was not thinking of the past, however, nor of himself. Ho was resting, gaining strength for the next work that lay before him. At last ho roso and began to move about the room, ranking ready for din ner. Suddenly ho Btopped, bewildered, putting his hand to IiIb head. What had happened? A change too subtle to bo put In words had come over him while he rested. Ho looked at his face In tho mirror, half expecting to seo some sign. It was not there. But deep in his heart he felt It throbbing thrilling. Llfo was, after all, worth living! Nay, more, It was a wonder ful, beautiful thing. Tho feeling did not take words. It was too pervasive, too complete, for that. No moro thought could have carried such weight or conviction. It was too sim ple for a chain of reasoning. Yet It carried belief. He had reasoned care fully and logically to the opposite conclusion. How was It? Life could not bo worth living. Since there Is no permanent happiness, existence has no reason for being rather-than for not being, and no certainty of an outcomo that shall Justify suffering. Ho smiled at his careful logic, swept away by the force of pure conviction Lire was worth living! It lay before him slmplo as day light, and as clear. His mind ran ahead. He must find the work he could do well, and do It. Herein lay happiness. Then let him help others to find their place. He would have Joy or heart and the purpose that makes lire reasonable. It mattered little about the Immortality or tho soul, Three-score years and ten was Immortality. The structure or the universe betrayed a master plan. To live In unison with this plan, to aid In Its execution It only ror a rew years was enough. He turned to the window and, draw ing up the shade, looked across the broken lines or chimney-pots and roors td the western sky. His henrt leaped to meet It Beauty had como back to the earth. He stood drinking It In with tho eagerness or a traveler who sees home at last He had not known how his artist nature had hungered for It through tho years, The tears came Into his eyes as he looked. A tangle of chimneys nnd gables against a twilight sky, but full of subtle beau ty. Would It stay with him? Where had It beon? There In the outer world but hidden from him becauso he wns unworthy? Or In his own soul languishing with Its sickness? Then In a moment it came to him It was not In tho world, nor In his sou'. It was tho soul Itself coming to -on-sclnusnoss, r-r-ngnlylng Itself. noh,ld Ing Its own features, as In a glass existence reaching its highest form la tho consciousness or the soul. He stood awed before it It seemed to stretch away into space, wonderful, lofty, but close nbout him. Ho went down to dinner with nn oagor Interost. Everything had be come transformed. Mon and women wore no longor machines wound up to run through a definite term of pain, and calling on his sympathy and help, They wore divine capablo of the highest happlnoss. Ho felt like leap ing, exulting, crying uloiid In fulnoss of Joy at the beauty of life and human kinship. "Derrlng was more like himsolf to night than he has been for years," remarked an elderlv man to JiU com panion as Derring passed from Hie room where they sat smoking after dinner. The speaker was a quiet, thought ful man with observant gray eyes. He wns the only one left of thoae who had been in the houso ten yenr3 be foro. "Ho always used to be like that," ho went on, "full or life nnd a kind of magnetism. He drewyou." Dorrlng passed out or the house and down the street, walking with swift, eager feet. Ho felt cords of sympathy drawing him to thoso ho met Ho walked until Into nt night, seeking out tho busiest streets and pressing In closo nmong those who thronged thorn. Her wns Intoxicated with hu manity and the Joy of life. He must como closo to It. Ho was thrilling with n sonso or exultation nil this living, surging crowd, capable of per fect development of the dlvlnest Joy! wnen no roturned to his room, ho did not retire immediately. There woro letters Hint must bo written be fore he slopt Ho had thought, as ho walked, of two or three young men whom a word rrom him might help to hotter positions. He must not miss his opportunity. Lire was short He longed to bring happiness to the world. Ho fell nslcop, planning for tho coming day. It seemed Btrnngo to look forward to tho morrow with any thing except a sense or dull endur ance When ho wakened ho could not, for a momont, account for the feeling that Seemed to Stretch Away Into Space. wakened with him. Like a child, half awake, ho groped In memory to recall the gift that yesterday made him so happy. Then it camo to him. It had not failed him. It was not a passlug mood. He was awake, alive, In a world full of beauty and love. CHAPTER XIX. The morning sun was streaming Into Derrlng's private office. . Two young men were waiting for him. They had come to consult hlra nbout a pleco of work In the shuns. Derrlng himself kept out or slum work. He always answered, when pressed to give hlmseir to It, that he had no call thaf wny and a man needed a very strong call or a great deal of cheek to thrut hlmseir un nsked Into a man's home even though the home happened to be a poor one. A man's castlo might he only one corner or a room, but It was his castle still, rortlfied by all the laws or Identity and Individuality. For hlmseir, Derrlng declared, he had not the courage to Invade It. ir a man had a genuine call to the' work, let him do It and thank tho Lord that called him. For the dilettante philanthropists who posed amid the picturesque squalor or the slums he had only the keenest shatt or ridicule. It'was his Insight that made those who wero taking up the work In earnest seek his advice. While he had not gone Into it In person, he was cognizant ot every step taken, and otten. by his shrewd counsel, balanced the senti mentality or over-enthusiasm. The young men were waiting to consult him as to the best way of dealing with a pair or philanthropic cranks who persisted In thrusting themselves Into the work and who, by their obtuseness, were undoing the best resultB or the past year. While waiting for Derrlng and discussing the situation, they had drifted Into talking of his fitness for tho work and of the strange delicacy that kept him from It. "He stands ready enough to help any of us fellows that come to him. But I suppose that's Just It these people don't got In his way and we do. Lucky for me, I did!" A laugh rippled the undercurrent of the speaker's words. He was seated . . ..... - . .. ..Www...... . k w,.uv ai.n, 1 shock or reddish-brown hair rising straight nhnvn iha hrnml n.V,lt n nn nnio.nnnii- hio hut ih.nB. 1.....1. 1 bead. He looked as ir he might be 'he driver or anexpress cart or ot any vehicle that rumbled und rnttled. In reality, ho was nn artist of much promise. His sketches had In them depth of sentiment that cav Hvon greater promise- than thoir technique.! "" i o no qno nan oenovea thai he would over be anything more than a dnbbler In art. He had had plenty of money and was lending n irei devll-maj -cart life, sowing to the wind and complacently looking for ward to the Wilrh!n' Now bis suc cess wag spoken of - a thing as sured He had.. as ho put It. "got In Derring's way." and, once there, he had found aurreuder oaslor than es cape. "I wondor," he went on, thought fully, "what it is about him that holds you so? He doesn't seem to do any- tiling in nartirnlnr Tint onmohnm i . - ---..... ..HW WW..-W..W- .. frail I, ll , , It "For Your Philanthropic Cranks," Said Derrlng. after you onco know him you can't get along without him." ( His companion sat lost In thought "I think It Is because Dorrlng needs us," he said at Inst "Needs us?" "Yes. I never knew a man that needed peoplo as he does. He gives himself and never nBks. But a lovo like that must carry with it a need. If Dorrlng so much ns lays his hand on my arm, I feel a power between us a sort of spiritual rangnetlsm that I can no moro resist than I can resist my own heart It somehow asks as well as gives." "Oh, well, Conway, you're a poet. You can't expect a mero artist Ilk mo to understand anything that can't bo put Into black and white. But he's good enough for me." "For your philanthropic cranks." said Derrlng as thoy laid tho case be fore him, "you must have an organiza tion." They protested In one breath. "I know. You think that as soon as a movement has taken on organization It has lost Its vitality. That Is a mis taken view of tho case, my young friends. Organizations wero Invented to give employment to cranks. You must make ofllcos and put them in They will have so much to do run ning the offices that they will let "tho poor" alono for awhile. When n movement Is well under way It must have an organization as a life-pro-server." "I suppose It must," said tho art ist with a sigh. "Can you help us about tho constitution if wo como around to-morrow?" "Come to my room at ten. I'll be free then." They roso to go. But the poet lingered a minute. Derrlng looked at him Inquiringly. "It's nothing," ho said, smiling, "I was only wondering if I might come a little early?" "To-night?" "There's something I want to ask you about If I may." "Of course. Come" Ho paused "I was going to tako a walk before hand," ho said. "Why couldn't you " "Meet you?" "At the breakwater yes. At nine thirty." Tho poet's face lighted. "I will bo there. It's something I can't decide for myself " "Then don't expect mo to." "No. You will help me to seo It I am not sure of myself. CHAPTER XX. The night was warm, but a breeze came from the lake, fitfully. It greet ed Derrlng as he opened tho door of his room after dinner. Groping his way to the dropllght on his desk, he had a sense, as he went, or displacing, In the darkness, other forms and personalities. He often felt A In coming Into a vacant room al ways ir the room was dark or hair lighted that sense or other forms giving way to his, retreating, gliding past, with noiseless being. Always for a minute they Jostled him, as ir unable to escape. Then, In a breath, his presence filled the room to the lurthest living corner. There was no i one there. J He round the dropllght and reached for a match. The breeze stirred again and blew against tho hand that held the match to the dropllght He shaded It with his other hand, and the light flared up Into his tired race. HI eyes smiled ubsently. Ho was thinking or the poet and his troubles, Derrlng had moro than hair guessed them. He had been revolving In his mind all day what he should sav to mm. him. Tho woman was a'strancre crpn. . .. lure. uerring bad studied her face tho night berore at the play. It was . .... .. . : . heavv. with deep linos, but there was something fine in tho eyes. He re cal'ed them now wistful lju mag net If. he pushed back the pacrs on his defK with a llttlo sign. Why should thoy come to aim with their troubles? He was strangely tired. But with it all. undornonth, beat a sense of com inn release. Groping for it. as ho seated himself at the desk, ho took up his pen and throw off the depres sion with an offort He was only tiled. Ho vould go away noxt week toi a rost. Meantime Beaching for a siteot of paper he bogan to write. lie wrote rapidly, re'erring now and thun to the letters he had pushed aside, sealing each note aa it was hnlbhed and laying It ou the pile nt hand. When the last ono was done, bo ran over the scatteted letters bo fore hlra, filing some for reforenco, tearlnc otusrs across und thnnylm; them Into the wnato-basket He looked at his watch nlno o'clock half nn hour yot. Itlslng ho stretched himsolf nnd looked about tho room. He moved to tho window. It wns a moonlight night and shadows hung luminous evorywhore, lrrndlat lng bricks and tiles nnd trees. From a tower nenr by tho clock Bounded, spreading sonorously In tho still air. The curtain swayed a llttlo In tho breozo nnd ho looped it back. Return ing to his desk nnd moving the drop light to the tablo ho drew a big chair besldo it He searched among tho books on the tablo and took up a vol umo of poems. The poems wero Conway's. Ho had seen most of them before In manu script But ho wnnted to read them again. Ho had not decided what to say to his visitor. Tho room was very still. Something burred at tho screen, tapping It with light touches a June bug, perhaps. Derrlng paid no heed. Ho was absorbed In the pago beforo him. The light fluttered a lit tle and ho looked up Impatiently. Ho turned it down, glancing towards the open window. Ho took up tho book ngaln. But the poems hnd lost their hold. His eye wns on tho page, but about him, nround him, something stirred. Ho raised IiIb eyes slowly, He Sank Back the Face Was Gone. looking towards the window. Against tho screen, faint against the moon light, he saw It her face smiling to him, the eyes shining mistily. Ho half rose, stretching out his hands to her. Ho sank back. Tho face was gone. But her voice, softly, was speaking to him through the distance: "You aro coming coming coming" With a quick exclamation he turned. The light at his side had gone out The room lay In darkness. He stared beforo him. She was not there. No one wns there. It was tho common prosaic darkness of a June night (To be Continued) FACTS J The news items of the home com munity. Q The things in which you are most interested, jThebirth3, weddings, deaths ot the people you know. Q The social affairs of our own and surrounding towns. These turn tha Jclnd of fact this paper (Iras jroa im erary issue. Thar are certalnlr wartli the subscription price. Steam Outfit for Sale. 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