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FOUR Tlltt ALLIANCE If EVA LP, TUESDAY, FK15IJUA11Y 1, 1921 r TAXI An Adventure Romance By George Agnew Chamberlain S-iIiicIiimIv's i ii. Vlite ( II roi ne rvi .i v"! hni pul.lie ir ii" llnt'nary f :i ( 1 1 1 night and hour en by tin' nnlvlng Mr I'.i.kIici Tmuioni and or,.'. red to r'iiikI by ; twentv i.ilti a ti'i fnff sni-nr iiun"n. i'm iT - T. t i in i . - I" " uir III I lir villi tilA InnflAp III. I ... 1 . .1 - .1 -. N t !e ,,. ,11.,.,,,., , whence the BM,,.,' . " ... (- ,J "'V,'"; '"" " Mi"F ui e .....,, o, m,h i.s; i.i.ie sue luni r..m - kiniur h h ii ii t f I'll ifu 1 t 1 1 rrn .ai t va . i 1. 1 - 4 f ujum i" w i mis sun puiee. rii-r neart nursung uM nuiiuni.avuiuineoilVloUSI ' , U, otlK f;u,,.H., ,0 aI Uin, 1 nwmi me onvmnn li nn Instinct ef, of h,r mother. 1, , ' 1 "euior. Then rum,- Mr. I'.oacher Tremnnt's .,.,, ..ner n-usn r.-r doing It; voire In .'.::!i,- familiar tones. 1 1 1 1 "" ' now , ",;r, .,.,, h ceme cry? Why. you trl 1 -i."i -inn ,uii 'n voi, expected, r Pnie liio,-u,..m, ..i.i i:..,r, ho-telry. Of nil tl.e dn fools! Wliat he h II What n the very lni of the hnl,;c of pre '11 illie course hi" lie wn nailed Of sight. But once within Its modest po.tal. Us habitues four I themselves In the cleverest fnke atmosphere of n pleas ure loving decade. An organizing gen 111, sensitive to nil those chi...,, tites Inter he win listening to Hihi Junets w hi, , ,MiHlly grate on the soul hovering nt tl.e edge of tl.e decline to A vermis, hml punderod effect h e! v Ooprrlgbt, 1 h HuDoi Marrlll Uwvuf SYNOPSIS. FART I.-Kohcrt Hervey Randolph, funj New lo.k nisn-about-tow.i, leave tk home of his ivwetheart, Mudne Van Tlllr. cIihkNiikI b. raimt of hsr refusal f Ma iruoiaal ol ni.irriaK His Income, fW.OOO a yiar, which he mum surrender If a rertuln MIbs IninKen Pamela Thorn- JBii (wiiuin he ha men only a a small Tin ten year licfi'ie) is fuund, la not onldered by the a:rl of hi heart ade- jvate lo modern nec.is. In a "don't care" mood fUndol h emr a taxi, unseen by U driver, and I driven to the Blag or or a theater A man he know. k Heanicr, Induce a girl to enter the ab. Ueamer. attempting to follow, la ruatied back by Kandolph and the cab Move on. ill new acquaintance tell Randolph she I a choru girl, and ha mmt her position. 8he Is In dixtress, even BMinrry, and he takes her to his apart- Bent There, after lunch, a chance re- Mark convinces him the Rlrl I the mln- iBaT Pamela Thornton. Ms does not tell aver of her good fortune, but Secure her JWomlse to stay In the flat until the taornlng, and leaves her. In a whimsical aood, also realising that the girl's reap arance has left him practically pennl- !, ne onues me taxi driver lo let him take his Job. and leaving word with the sacal representative of the Thornton es- wnrre us can nna 1'amcia, takes up is new duties under the name of "Slim Mervey." He loves the girl, but hi pride forbids him approaching her under their oanged conditions. Altotii tills time n series of colncl fences txTell the yonnn mid fevere1 rair of the city of New York which Would have Riven pnnse to the persons involved rmrt they hecn nhle to fret tocether and cnnipnre the dope. Take wnat happened to Miss fJeorjrlette lairone. Her people hnd playel In liartl luck and died. Oeortfe had se cured a Job and was doing prettx eii at it until young Hot-tor Pones met her and gradually persuaded her tnnt she Mas threatened with gallop ing consumption. Once he had fright ened her. the rest looked easy; he would take her out of hnd ventilation Into his run-about and the onen-air out of the goodness 0f his heart and g"i.tleii.,in explfihi'r.K to Miss Van T. thnt n cylinder hnd gone ro:ig on his own car at tin- InM moment. Mis Miidge V1111 Tel Her, uiion whom ' Mr. Itm.tlolph h;i, not laid eyes since j the very detlulie purling of their ways ' on the rock of remiy mrU, wns more I heniillfiil tonight ilmu nt any other tl'i"" since the evening of her coining- ! out puny. The renson whs one and ; the snme. Tonight, as upon that oih I er, she stood within a threshold and ' I..U.1-...I ..... f f . . . . I t-.i win ii,, witn h nig ij. a flaine wns In her clicks and In her eyes; her Hps were half-parted and hlrsly. her bosom ajrltated. Fhe was divinely dressed. They were very silent on their way to dinner at the Knickerbocker, hut they exuded an aura of tense expect ancy thnt mnde nothing of the glnss barrier between them nnd the car pi lot, who soon felt himself lifted and carried on Its wave. Something wa cooking beyond a doubt and he then and there determine, to slick a fist through the crust of the pie Just he fore the smell of burning. There Is nothing more stereotyped than a night run before the fever hounds of New York. It Is Invariably a four-act piny that stnrts with a sin gle cocktail and a tasty dinner, goes on to a show peppered with double meanings, thickens at the cabaret In the clne harmony of booze and dance music and finally bursts "somewhere In the country." The first net wns easy for Randolph; ue went on with the villain mid the lending Indy, but once the revolving aoor of the hotel had clucked on their backs he hnd to withdraw to the wings and dope out a means of evolving rrom a super Into a star of the first magnitude. He decided thnt It didn't much matter who wafted the couple from dlnnei to the show, but that the next entr'net would hold the crux of the night a entertainment, for the cab that secured the freight for the caba- ret would stand a good chance of nail ing it after the bnll. Consequently he wns content to pick tip a gutter-snipe and then trail his prey to the theater. "Them Is the two," he said to his ally, suborned with the promise of two bits, cash on delivery, "the John with the hhzh hat and the dream-dame In smoke-colored chttTon. j to an Ignoble end nnd uiH-le of em-h small room an Isle of forgetfulne-s ; : price, twenty the bucks In advance, supper nml drinks extra. I For "1 'f those who do not remember 'he epoch of the tSreen wood hostelry and are consequently ; rending on ami on In mortal dread of j the paragraph that will Introduce the 'nr. tei 11 lie si, hi at once Koriref It. 1 t ... 11 1 nnn Trent',i me ve.ied .n ns a ..inner t .an ; , n. no! one cnn , ti e devil Wh.it clip with K onl ihe wing of flesh and ! the What " Slake out the beginning of the Infer- "pon n bmnd land eternally prornl natlonnl mix-up. hurl another bound i never materially seized. Few are "That's some name for a skirt. Cap," ,th? fullness of his purse, he would !a,! th ex,,rM,,e admiringly, fake enre of her. He begnn by lending her to a Neth rllmh Show and supper afterward. They danced a little nnd for the first time In her life, but under medical dvlce, she took something In the y or stimulant after the Initial pret an Some Skirt, hellpvo ma Nnrl I won't forget 'em." And he didn't No sooner had Mr. Bencher Tremont. bearing a thistle down burden on tits arm, swelled out from the theater with the anxious look on his face of a mnn with three cars ty coektnll. They Issued from supper ,n the SnrflRe a home and no call nd It wns when Mr. Chauffeur Slim n"m"'r In his left hand waistcoat lleryey beard the- whispered address innj tne game, became s threeome. Counting upon tlie ahsf ruction, or rather, the concentration of his fares on Interior fltfliiKs. Driver llervey foon switched his cab from the char tered route nnd nwde for down-town through silent hack streets. In Just .ten minutes be drew up nt an old fash'oned house in a very onlel square, shut off his engine to'the Idle nd waited. Not for long. Out of .i "' a blasphemous exclama tion In medical tones nnd with It a cry of awakening from tienrHa Thioiich one window she looked upon the home of her childhood; through the other upon that happy railed garden-square, which wns the umbrageous tamer-close of nil her dearest, purest nd dreamiest memories. Oh 1" she gasped. "No, you mustn't cold hlrn. This Is Inst where I want to get out iiml wnlk. It's it's extraor fllnnry." Then fim the curb. "I maj te going to die of consumption, doc tor, but. after all, I'd nitlur rather lle that way." . Twist things around a little ami. you'll get what happened to Miss Ter ry de Guest with the differ, nee thai that beautiful and hungry young worn n who had all but turned her back on Settlement work and her face to the Ureat White Way, suddenly awoke not In the moonlit embrace of Clair inonte, but before the accusing face of a House In Henry street. Nor was Mr. Slim Hervey partial to sex in salvation. There was the Instance of young Bertram Blossome who khame-facedly hurried Into his cab a painted, wan-faced waif of Uie street with self-accusing eyes. No case this of hunted and hunter rath er two strayed bits of weak humanity ilrlven before the unleashed dogs of poverty and lust How readily and unquestlonlngly the boy slipped from the cab at his home address, miracu lously confused almost as by ttye med dling finger of God with one very different! How gratefully the girl took the possible fare and "something over." and how her tears brimmed when ten minutes later the blue-eyed .chauffeur, a wage-earner like herself, said: ".Nothing doing, Sister. The ride Is on me," and promptly whirled away ! While nil tbeso in. Men? were en gaging, each In Its own n.ty, and bowed a reasonable profit to all con eerned, Mr. Kandolph looked upon them more or less as a means of get ting In his hund during a period of Initiation. Ouce he felt sure of him self and of his new chauffeurlng point of view and attitude toward the gay world from the under aide, be began to haunt the neighborhood of East Ninth street at the hour when dinners re plenty and taxis scarce. pocket than the Imp was at his aide. "Su& mjsterk wepter taxi? Got one at the head of the line that I'd give up Just to youse for a dime." "Lead me to It." said Mr. Tremont "Say," said the snipe to Itnndolnh as the car Jumped. "I've took the boss Inside on fer a friend. You watch yeself." It wns a short run to the lair of the Midnight Itolic, but Mr, Randolph was not surprised at the double wage he received m r at the murmured con versntton 'bat accompanied It "FH" ary mark into November of IHlS, and the time left oiiisliie of those limits Will be found entirely sufficient to the needs of this chronicle. Let It further be noted ti,t It Is Inconceivable that a single drop of the kind of blood which flowed in the veins of Mr. Hub ert llervey Itnmlolpli could ever an swer to the name of slacker, proof positive In Itself flint the events herein set forth happened when the War didn't. Mr. Slim llervey, chauffeur. vns Still plunged In reverie when his senses were assailed by a whiff of ii,,c. a mere nuance of perfume, that pro claimed the approach of Miss Madge Van Tellier He Jumped out Just In time to throw open the door of his cab for the couple and take the mur mured order of Mr. Bencher Tremont "All right. Hit It up for Greenwood." Luckily for the cabman's entertain ment, his engine was working In si em periection that night. The late nour gHve him almost undisputed right "j unit driving Dccame an automatic adjustment of his course in line with the curb and re'eased his attention to gorge Itself at leisure with eaves-dropping. By squirming nis snouiciers he managed to cock one ear over the top of his high overcoat collar; It wns the enr next to the open Bpeasing-sior. "What a dream of a night." said me cienr voice of Miss Van TAliipr "Shall I be a trultor to my sex and Deirny one of Its secrets to you?" 1 lease do." murmured Mr. Tre mont From the very tone of his voice one could divine thnt he hnd slipped an arm around her and was holding urr ciose, iWr(l1 v l! T "Walt for Me at the Seventh Avenue Northeast Comer. Get Me?" op your gas tank and wait for me at the Seventh avenue northeast comer Get me?" "Sure." grunted Mr. Randolph. "Where to, mister?" "Greenwood hostelry." breathed the villain. fc "rra on," said Mr. Randolph, ran his car to the comfortably quiet nook designated, dug out a road map of Manhattan and vicinity, scrutinized It carelessly and settled down to medl tate, T9 select am once "affluent few tbs Dame of the 0. tostelry above mentioned will crlnf certain vivid recollections and will also place the enrono i ,.-y of this yarn, for the said abode of revelry was too good to last very long; it choked to death on Its own popularity and consequent pub Uc'ty. From the outside, even In Its hey-day, It presented a most Innocu ous appearance. Just a renovated farm- ssj K ,mssMa3g Vta I house stuudlug'under j clump of vell- "Well. It's this." she continued, "omen are not conquered by man "one. nut Dy man and atmosphere. We never rush at the precipice; we flutter toward It with many stops and pauses. The silliest breezes of Im pulse may carry us on or a puff of unmna aid hold us back. It all really depends on the man Imposing his at mosphere so steadily that the drifting soul of wpman forgets its Inborn title to vagrancy and sleepily assumes Its enemy's goal." "Madge." said Mr. Tremont almost earnestly, "you frighten me. I never knew you could talk like thnt You frighten me because I have a terror of analyzed personal relations." . Randolph could hear a faint rnstltnir of her robe as though she had nestled closer to her escort. "I never meant to startle you, Bencher." her voice continued, not quite so clear. Into Its tone hnd crept, hesltntlngly, a trace of unaccustomed emotion. "I was only warning you. Every mnn can make a world of his arms for one woman; not all can hold the Illusion to be yond possession." "I can. If you will only help we," whispered Tremont, and paused as though his own earnestness were tak ing him by surprise. "I wonder," said Miss Van Tellier. "You have played the right game. You have never said a vulgar thing to me or stooped to the usual hypo crisies; those are compliments by In ference that have flattered the best that Is in me. You have set the play In a high nlane thnt winning ..,!.., all of me; but " "But what?" asked Tremont. "Bur there Is danger In the h.gh flight." finished Miss Van Tellier. "An air-pocket In your atmosphere and. pouf! all Is lost the good In me that you, will have missed as well as the bad that you could have won by s baser effort." "What do you mean?" asked Tre mont, no longer making the slightest effort to hide his awakened Interest. "I was thinking." said Miss Van Tel lier, dreamily, "that every woman is 'i group or tnree individuals. Shall I tell you their names?" "Yes." said Tremont "The first." continued the girl, hei voice flouting from her as though carried on the bosom of her dream, "Is called Flesh; the second. Spirit and the third the third I shall name the Veiled God." "Madge!" cried Tremont, and Rar, dolph, listening with all his ears, could almost feel the clutch on his own arms with which the man had seized the girl's, as though to drag her back from her mind's far distance. "1'eople wonder," she continued, hei mood unbroken, "at the wreck of ap parently perfect marriages and yet It's so simple to any woman that it's amazing that I should be the first te display our open secret, qnly the complete lover cnn be secure of his beloved, Beadier. He who wins her flesh alone leaves her spirit to betray him. and he who wlus the spirit alone Is In mortal danger of the woman of the flesh." The explanation." said Tremont whimsically, "Is so feminine that It confuses. If you had said that each woman Is a trinity and must be thrlcs won before a msn's honor can feel secure, understanding would be a sim- splrlt but not ofthe Veiled God In woman, for Its very essence Is a de fcrrd possession." She paused, hut as Tremont clung to the silence, she presently contin ued. "The complete lover Is the mnn who having conquered all the heights bf flesh nnd spirit In his mistress, dwells consciously In the presence of an undiscovered god and gazes out sed the menfew are the men" Her voice trailed off ns thoutrh her thoughts had run ahead of words and reached final ity without the use of the spoken phrase. "Few are the men who attain to thnt serene security," Tremont fin ished for her. only half conscious of wbrt he was saying. Randolph could her the rustle of her tinning to her eompnnlon. "How wonderful." vhe snld. "Thnt Is what I thought, hut didn't sny." "Madire." said Treinont. "what have you done? It's true that I have never on..'e., in Hypocrisies with you a that I have never while with you spoken n vulgar word. Did you think that I have been knowingly wls-e? Welt. I haven't. I didn't know until this moment why I chose a rare and high atmosphere to rench you. Now I know. It was because von were 1L i mere, i cnose only to come to vou rather than drag you down to the drub of the tibial. Wl nt yon have done Is to carry me higher than I ever mennt to go. Yon bnve taken me off the beaten pnth and showed me nn un expected trenstire. I'm no longer mr elf. i am cold nnd nfmhl Me choked himself Into a gu'pln mr.rtletilnte silence ns he climbed rrom the cnb to ii-.k In the face the sum total of all Iimmhii stupidity. No sooner had he nligl.ied than Miss Van Tellier found herself in voice agHln. ' h; she moaned, pressing her hmids lo her eyes, achlngly open, iae me away from here." "Sure, miss," vnid Mr. Randolph promptly, threw In his clutch mid win off. in, your p n you I Ileyl You I Driver I Confound your , , Imper tl.iencel I ley! IIW am I going to get home?' The first of these cries was very plainly, the last very faintly heart by Mr. RnmMph. After them enme down the wind something that sounded very much like the chost of a wall of tle-pnir. but the driver paid no heed. Ills attention was absorbed by something quit,, different; the dry sons or a little heap of smoke-colored ChilTon. I'etours, subterfuges and the finesse nljOf the rond-faker were swept from .,,,. luiuii; ne niaiie straight for the bridge and home, but long be- rore they reached the river all sound had ceased to Issue from the cnb nnd strnTght down flf;e thnf Tniltor'arcfi nnirel Johnny out of heaven Into the arms of hell." "Bobby I" cried Miss Vnn T., throw Ing bnck her heHd nnd struggling to releime herself. "How dare yni sny ft thing like that? How dare you be here, anyway? I hnte you. don't know how I ever could have, thought I loved you. I fell, but It wns Into Bcacber's nrms, and I wish I wns there right now." More sobs, convulsive ones thnt shook the slim body In Mr. Rnmlolph's embrace from twitching shoulder to tired fiet. Lest the render be startled by what's coining next It will do well to remind him that this poignant scene was staged nt three o'clock In the morning on the high stoop of the Vnn Tellier residence In Knst Ninth street nnd never left the perimeter of the door mat which In Itself pre ented an al most feminine contradiction, in thnt If bote, done In red on Its t'nee, the word "Welcome." but was neverthe less padlocked nnd chained to the Iron railing. Kv n ns Mls-s Vnn Tellier wns sob bing her heart out and Mr. Randolph was standing in the bewilderment of one who knows he has no only token the wrong turning but placed both his teet in a heart nip, a thick, heavy, unsympathetic voice arose from the foot of the steps. Here! Youse I Break away an come along of me." Memories of a mischievous boyhood swarmed to Mr. Randolph's mind rec ollections of l,ce ,.., i., In Its stead reigned a purposeful, al- ch,ef "f Madison Square gang his most menacing silence. What w as ungied to the cry of "Cheese she thinking In there? What could ' "e t'"I'! u'e's pinched, fellers!" she think? Why didn't she go rlnht . sweat came out upon his brow; on crying nnd keep her mind fullv "'only relaxed his grip on Miss Vnn T ....... i .. . . . ..... . o trt-iMi luni wiuspereu tremu lously to her to keep her nerve hut hand him her latchkey. Over his shoulder he said with forced calm, "On what charge, offi cer?" "Same old dope." replied the police man phlegmntically; "drunken, dlsor- ueny. (. ome nlong, now. er d yer want me to climb them steps so's we c'n nil roll down together?" . During that speech Mr. Randolnh ninde a lucky shot at the kevbole. stealthily turned the lock nnd opened the door. "The way's clear. Madge." occupied with thnt? As they swept down the incline lion, uie nritige into City iPill park ne suddenly realized that he had been on the verge of giving himself away. He half turned his head and shouted Randolph could feel thnt the speak- thro"Ph ,np I't'nklng-slot. "What Od er was drawing away from the clrl urv miR!" and a moment later his senses were r vol,e cnme hapk to him from to surpnss themselves In additional vory c,ose us though her face had divination. "You nre afraid of that bccn Prssed to the glass In an effort woman In me?" asked Miss Van Tel- ,0 lnake n,m ut- "At the coiner of ller softly. "What about this one?" "ie Avone and East Ninth street." And then It wns that Randolph's- dp- Ten minutes Inter he drew nn bis ductlve antennae nulvered imi.w ,i!. cnb at Ihe nnnointed snot n.i burden of Intelligence. He knew s ,,n to throw open the door but kent ne w,1'spered. "Beat It." certainly as though he had faced n,s fol on the clutch release, lenvlnsr "h. ,s Bobby, you dear." rattled snout that an adorable Madge, tender ,ne Rears In mesh, first sped ahead. M1S8 Bn T- In " stnge whisper that and wide-eyed, hnd slipped her bare A" nls precautions were In vain. l,e heard across the street. "I arms around Beacher Tremont'a neck As ne opened the cab door his coat Mn ' mt'an ' lV. really, whnt I said and kissed him on the mouth. sleeve was seized lu a very determined at)0ut h"t'ng you. But I do love There was a long silence: then rlp and drawn inward, cntchlne his came Tremont'a voice, thick and e,how ,n 0 Jiu-Jutsu leverage that left strange to the ear, "A moment ago." nlm tne Hobson's choice of either get It said, "I was afrnld for you; now t,n out facing his captcr or lis I'm afrnld for myself. I am like a tening to his arm break. He chose man who hns carelessly dropped a t0 Ret rtwn from his seat quickly, lighted match and finds himself with- "Well, Bobby." murmured Miss Van in the ring of a prairie fire. I cnn T only wonder at my sturldltv in think. Mr. Randolph attemnted no evasion ? Ing of you In connection witL a casua! ne banded the lady to the curb and !t to y". Bobby. I'll owe it to you. possession and not as a consuming guided ner gently toward her own understand? umne. iou see? Already you have uo'r nu up the high steps. "Madge,"' sure, tied Mr. Randolph as ho ournea tnrough the thin crust of lies ne "a,a- y fought a great fight to- Bencher. Bobby, and I'll I'll " For , heaven's sake. Madge." groaned Mr. Randolph, hearing sound ns of a bear starting to swarm a tne. "Keep all thnf till New Yenr's." I was Just going to say." continued (Mss Van T. breathlessly but with a Wnd on the cumbrous shall ow coming up the steps, "that I'll ow that guards man from definite selzurA n,8"t and when you had won vou felt by woman any woman." I orry for Tremont and surrendered. Kiss me. Beacher." murmured the You were swept too high on the wave girl's voice as though his words had ot the best ,,int ' 'n you. Promise swirled around and by her. leaving me tnat yu won't forget that you ner purpose untouched. "Take me nave w't Promise nie that you will and hold me carefully where no un- walt and tRke Tremont, all of hlui, aina air can drive me from vou. Tnke Wlin honor." an uie women in me one by one If nat do you mean? What did you must." you hear?" cried Miss Van T. amrrllv. ..... i. " ai tnat moment Mr. Robert H. Rnn. er pale face suddenlv flushinu dolph. in the person of Slim Hervey, "From the start of the ride to the Chauffeur, very nearly wrecked his finish I heard every word." decline,! iour-cyllnder argosy with Its burden Mr- Randolph frankly, "and more." of three fates, still Individually and "And morel" repeated the hnrd collectively Indispensable to the con- pressed girl. "What do you mean by linulty of this yam. He missed the more?" She still tried to browbeat ditch by a hair's breath, caught his blm. but remembering one incredibly own with a gasp, returned to the mid- l(nfc" "Is, her e.es fell in the unequal u.c ui me oroau nignway and fixed name witn isoniiy's and attemnte,i tn . .. - i - - ins attention on a certain very definite create diversion by staring at his gal- uiuuer wiin wnicn it had been more terea legs and heavily hooted feet or less constantly concerned ever since "Look up. Madge. Look nt he had been directed to hit It un for said Mr. Randolph and waiter! nti-n. . - . - urveiiwoou. ly unt first her oni? lislu.u flnMo..i The road to that well-known hostel- an,l then her lovely eyes swept slowlv ry was usefully devious and fares "P ' "ce. "That's It" he con were seldom worried as to how nnv . particular driver set out to find this t,nucd ns their looks met and locked. choicest of ueedles in the hay-stack of L?t'K noIl thlt so we can't lie." the country inns that do"t the land- II " ,,y should I He If you really heard scape of Westchester and adhicent everything?'' asked Miss Van T and counties as long ns he brought the Budflenly smiled. search to a successful end somewhere ' "Madge, you little devil." said Mr. this side of the pangs of hunger. I Randolph, suppressing an impulse to Nevertheless, had not Mr. Tremont. BnaK her, "can you think of what himself a motorist of no mean experi- yu've been doing and laugh?" ence, been completely absorbed by the "Te8' 1 can. Just now," said Miss sudden discovery that he had his an T, ln ,,tt,e gasping phrases that right arm around an entirely m 10 man, especially one of Mr. Ran- world, he would have been struck In do'pn's limpid nature, carried only evltably by two things. First, thai Khe,r ace va,ue n words, but which this was certainly not anv on nt th ? any woman would have read as climbing rowls to the Greenwood hos- P,aln,y as the red-weather signal, telry; second, that the man at the i"Loolt ou for showers of tears fol- wheel knew more about losing his way ,lowe(1 Dy storm." ln the vicinity of Manhattan and find- I "WelV said Mr. Randolph solemnly, Ing It again than did the combined I U you real'y don't realize Just where roadmaps of the United States and you bave beea- ,et ,ne tel1 yu- First Its allies supposing It to have had ou flew hsh'Into clean air and you allies at the time. However. Mr Tre- ,took Tremont with you. You were mont's absorption was not only abso- Possessed of a vision and you made lute but continuous so that It held nlm 8ee too m,rage of those him tn Its Inexorable grip right up to ,1,fted places that are the altar of the the moment of ghastly awakening and mlnd before ,ove- Just mirage, an even over the edge, lie was Just say- lllus,on f perfect happiness, which Ing, "My darling, never fear. I'm cold reasoa fells us we can't ever turn taking you to a place so quiet and so lnt0 relnforced concrete and plant In guarded that this dream which you the ,Qr-1, but which we must either have dressed In un riexpected glory orever hoh us a vision or admit that can flow oil unbroken as loug as we ,love ,s a sol'did and wingless thing." are true to it and to ourselves," wnen Mlsa Van Telller's eyes fell from the cab drew up at s solemn and Im- 0,8 frank gnze. Something seemed to presslve portal. crumple within her; she put her arms Without leaving his seat, the cab- around Mr. Randolph's neck, clung man reached back, unlatched the door to hllu dropped her face against his snd threw It open. "Greenwood ceine- "boulder and sobbed, not noisily, but tery, sir." he barked. 68 wno weeps to rest The firl was first to grasp the ,I, l,I1 her close to him and went words, the time and the place. "OhP on hl8 'ace s,'t as though to a duty, she gasped, and ln the sound of her "Tlien what did you do? Because he cry Mr. Rundolph could divine her hesitated, merely hesitated at the high whole body suddenly stiffening to s floor of adoration, you promptly tense awakening and to ihe stabbing filammed It. nnd drppped. plumb pushed her firmly through the door, then caught Its knob, slammed It shut and turned to meet Nemesis. "Hello. Flahahartyl" The huge policeman stopped his ponderous but sure progression and stared long and suspiciously into Mr. Randolph's face. Finally he gave a grunt of recognition. "Slim," he said to himself aloud as though somewhero within his vast bulk there were a sep arate monitor that had to be tipped off to the situation, "Slim Hervey." "Sure," said Mr. Randolph, leading the way toward his wagon. "Who else did you think it was at this timo ' night r "How did I know," demanded Mr. Flahaharty gruffly but not unpleasant ly for hlra, "as you had taken on de liveries o' fancy dress-goods on top o your regular line?" He breathed heavily and allowed his eyes to protrude farther than us ual In search of a thought which he sensed in the near distance. "I tell you. Slim," he finally continued. "I don' know what this burg Is a-comln to. Why, even the street kind used to have a man to take 'em home, but this here was a bit o high-tlyin' fluff me, I could see that an' they had to give It to a cab!" "Forget It," said Bobby nervously. "All I says," continued Mr. Flaha harty, "is thnnk God both o' my golls Is married to hairy men that can an' does lick the stuftln's outen 'em." "Well, here we are." said Mr. Ran dolph' as he stooped to turn her over. From his seat behind the wheel he begun to breathe more easily and leaned out to study the fuce of kls friend, the officer, to make sure that therein was no guile. "Cheer up. Jim," he said not quite reassured. "Forget It." "I'll try." said Mr. Flahaharty dubi ously, "but It'll come hard, beln the first time I ever seen a thing like that She sure give you a tussle, Sllml" (Continued in Next Issue) OH, GRAVE, THY VICTORY? A CTOUD Of told-timera hnA Kun caught red-handed at dice by the vil lage preacher, who had delivered a bad--ide on the evils of gambling. When he was through one recalrit drawled: "Say, parson, you ever shot crapsT" I should say not" "You ever had a pair of dice in your Hands 7" Emphatically, no!" Well, then, what vou want tn com around talkin' to ua about for?" This decision about movinir vnm licker is a good deal like the famous recipe for cooking rabbit. Even if you have so coal in your basement it may be a comfort to know there is plenty of it in the mines. V