mi 7 XT 1IAIV.& AVJULIUL? IVJIJLIIAiVi EznroJe. w ize CoyisHT 1969 v fteBDs -MirRtLt coupmy SYNOPSIS. Lawrence Blaloley, lawyer, noes t Pittsburg with tho forBCd notes In th" Ilronson coso to net the deposition n( John Gllmorc, millionaire. A lady ro nucsU lllakcloy to buy her n. Pullman ticket. Uo Klves Iht lowor U nnil re tains lower 10. Ho finds a drunken man In' lower 30 nnd retires In lower 9. Ho nwitkens In lower 7 nnd finds Ills clothes nnd line inlxsltiff. The man In lowor 10 !. found murdered. Clr cumstnntlal evidence points to both ltlnlteliy nnd tho man who stole hfs , clothe. Tlio train Is wrecked and Hlake lyls rescued from n burning enr by n fclrl In blue. His arm Is broken. The Klrl proves to bo AUboii West, his partner's sweetheart. Illakeley returns home and finds ho Is under surveillance. Moving pictures of tho train taken Just befovo the wreck rovcal to Blftkolt-y . man ledii lnj from tho train with Ids stolen srlp. InvestlRntlon proves that the man's name Is Htilllvun. Mrs. Conway, the woman for whom lllakcloy bought 11 Pullman ticket, tries to malto a bargain with him for the forged notes, not knowing Hint they nre mlsfdr.fr. Blnkeley and an amateur de tective Investigate tlie horn? of Hulllvan's sister. From a servant Blukeley leurns that Alison West had been ther on a visit and Sullivan had been attentive to her, Sullivan Is tho husband of a daugh ter of the murdered ninn. lllakeley'n houe Is rnsa?ked by tho police, llh learns that tho nlfalr between Alison and els partner Is off. " CHAPTER XXVII. Continued. And when tho endless meal was over, and yards ot white veils had been tied over pounds of hair or Is It, too, bought by tho yard? and some eight ensembles with their ab Ject complements had been packed Into threo automobiles and a trap, I drew a long breath and faced about, I had just then only one object In life to find, Alison, to assure her of my absolute faith and confidence in her, and to offer my help and my poor self. If she- would let mo, In her service. She was not easy to find. I searched tho lower floor, tho veranda and the grounds, circumspectly. Then I ran into a llttlo English girl who turned out to be her maid, and who also was cenrchlng. Sho was concerned bo cause her mistress had no dinner, and because tho tray of food sho 'carried would soon bo cold. Ittoolc tho tray from her, on tho gllrapso of something white on tho shore, and that was how, I met the girl again. fiUo was sitting on an over-turned boat, her chin in. her hands, staring out to eea. Tho soft tide of tho bay lapped nlmost at her feet, and tho draperies pf her white gown melted hazily Into J&p sands. Sho lpqjel Ukq a wraith, a,, despondent phantom of the sea, although tho adjective la re dundant Nobody over thinks of n cheerful phantom. Strangely enough, considering her evident sadness, sho was whistling softly to herself, over and overi somo dreary llttlo minor air that sounded like a Bohemian dlrgQ. She glanced up quickly when I mado a misstep and my dishes jingled. All considered, the trny was out of tho picture; tho sea, tho misty starlight, tho girl, with her beauty oven tho sad llttlo whlstlo that Btopped now and then to go bravely on again, as though it fought against tho odds of a trembling Hp. And then I camo, accompanied by a tray of llttlo silver dishes that jingled and an unmistak able odor of broiled chicken! "Oh I" sho said quickly; and then, "Oh I I thought you were Jenkins." "TJraeo Donaos what's tho rest of It?" I asked, tendering my offering, "You didn't have any dinner, you know." I sat down bosldo her. "Seo, 111 bo tho table. What was tho old fairy tale? 'Little goat bleat; llttlo table appear!' I'm perfectly willing to be tho goat, too." Sho was laughing rather tremu lously. "Wo never do meet like other peo ple, do wo?" sho nsked. "Wo really ought to shako hands and say how are you." "I don't want to meet you like other -neonlo. and I suppose you always think of me as wearing tho other fol low's clothes," I returned meekly. "I'm doing It agam; I don't seem to bo nblo to help it. Theso aro Grang er's that I have on now." She throw back her head and laughed again, Joyously, this time. "Oh, it's so ridiculous," sho said, "and you have never seen mo when I was not eating! It's too prosaic!" "Which reminds mo that tho chick on is getting cold, and the ice warm," I suggested. "At tho time, I thought there could bo no place better than tho farm-houso kitchen but this Is. I ordored all UiIb for something I ' want to say to you tho soa, tho eand, tho stnrs." "How alliterative you aro!" sho Bald, trying to bo flippant. "You aro not to say anything until 1 navo nau my supper. Look how the things are finilled around!" nut sho ate nothing, after all, and pretty soon I put tho tray down In the sand. I said llttlo; there was no hurry. We were together, and time merint nothing against that ago-long wash o tho sea. Tho air blow her hair in small damp curlsagalnst her face, and llttlo Ijy Httlo tho tldo re treated, leaving our boat an oasis in a wasto of gray Band. "If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year Do you suppose, tho walrus said, that they could get it clear?" sho threw at mo onco when Bho must havo known I was going to sptal I hold her band, and as long Km CIRCULAR. cfTAlRQifJS I ns I merely held it sho let it Ho warm in mine, Hut when I raised it to my lips, nnd kissed tho soft, open palm, sho drew It away without displeasure "Not that, please," she protested, nnd foil to whistling softly again, her chin In her hnndH. "1 can't sing," aho Bald, to break an awkward pause, "and so. whon I'm lldgety. or havo something on my mind, I whistle, hopo you don't dlsllko It?" "I ,love It," 1 assorted warmly. did; when sho pursed her lips 'Uko Hint I was mad to kiss them. "I saw you at tho station," Bho said suddenly. "You you wore In a hurry to go." I did not say anything, and after n pause Bho drew a long breath. "Men aro queer, aren't they?" she said, and fell to whistling again. After awhile she sat up aa if Bho Had mado a resolution. "I nm going to confess something," sho announced Buddenly. "You said, you know, that you had ordered nil this for something you-y-you wanted to say to me. Ilut tho fact Is, I flxed It all camo bore, I mean, because I know you would come, nnd I had something to toll you. It was such a mlscrablo thing I needed tho accessories to help mo out." "I don't wnnt to hear anything that distresses you to tell," I assured hor. "I didn't como hero to force your con fidence, Alison. I camo because I couldn't help it." Sho did not object to my U80 of her name. "Havo you found tho your pa- She Was Sitting on 1 pera?" Bho naked, looking directly at mo for almost tho ilrat tlmo. "Not yet. Wo hopo to." "Tho police havo not Interfered with you?" "Thoy haven't had any opportunity," I equivocated., "You needn't distress yourself nbout that,, anyhow." "But I do. I wonder why you still bcllovo In mo7 Nobody olso does." "I wonder," I repeated, "why I do!" "If you produce Harry Sullivan," sho was Baying, partly to horself, "and if you could connect him with Mr. Bronson, and get a full account of why he was on tho train, and all that, It It would help, wouldn't It?" I acknowledged that It would. Now that tho whole truth waB almost In my possession, I wbb stricken with tho old cownrdlce, I did not want to know what sho might tell me. Tho yellow lino on tho horizon, whoro tho moon was coining up, was a broken bit of golden chain; my heel In tho sand waB again pressed on a wom an's yielding flngors; 1 pullod myself togethor with n Jork. "In order that what you toll mo may help me, If It will," I said con strainedly, "It would bo necessary, perhaps, that you toll It to tho police. Since they have found tho end of Uio necklace " "Tho end of tho necklace 1" Bho re peated Blowly. "What about tho ond of tho necklace?" I stared at her. "Don't you remem ber" I leaned forward "tho end of tho camoo necklaco, tho part that was broken off, nnd was found - In tho black sealskin bag, stained with with blood?" "Blood," sho said dully, "You mean that you found tho broken end? And then you had my good pockot-book, and you saw tho necklaco in it, and you must havo thought "I didn't think anything," hastened to assuro hor. "I toll you, Alison, I never thought of anything but Ihal you "word' unhappy, and thatt I had no right to help you. God knows. I thought you didn't want nfe to help you." Sho hold out hor hand to mo and I took It between both of mine. No word of lovo had passed botween us, but I felt that sho know nnd under stood. It was ono of tho moments that como seldom In a lifetime, nnd then only in great crises, a moment of perfect understanding nnd trust. Then sho drow hor hahd away and sat, orcct nnd determined, her fingers laced in her lap. As sho talked tho moon camo up slowly and throw Its bright pathway across tho wator. Dnck of us, in tho trees beyond tho sea wall, a sleepy bird chirruped ,irn.nv n,i ,vn inrr ni hdlit. drowsily, and a wnvc, larger nnd cold er than Its brothors, sped up tho Band, bringing tho moon'B silver to our very foot I bent toward tho girl. "U am going to ask Just ono qnos tlon." "Anythlrig you llko." Her volco wna almost dreary. "Was It bocnuso of anything you aro going to toll mo that you refused r.lehcy?" Sho drew hor breath In sharply. "No," sho said, without looking nt me. "No. That was not the reason. CHAPTER XXVIII. Alison's Story. Sho' told her story ovenly, with her oyes on tho water, only now and then, when I, too. sat looking Seaward, I thought sho glanced nt mo furtlvoly, And onco, in tho mlddlo of it, sho stopped altogether, You don't renllzo It, probably," Bho protested, "but you look llko a a war god. Your fnco Is horrible." "I will turn my back, If it will help 'any," I snld stormlly, "out If you ox- nect mo to look anything but murder- oub. whv. von don't know what I am going through with. That's all." Tho storv of her meeting with tho finrlln womnn was brief onouch. Thoy had mot In Itomo first, whoro Alison and her mother hnd taken a villa for a year. Mrs. Curtla hnd hovered on an Overturned Boat. tho ragged edges ot society there, pleading tho novorty of tho south since tho war ns a reason for not go ing out moro. Thoro was talk of a brother, but Alison had not seen him, nnd after a Bcandal which Implicated MnC"r al..yrifaC,10, been forbidden to bco tho woman. "Tho women had novor liked hor, anyhow," Bho Bald. "Sho did uncon ventional thlngB, and they aro very conventional thero. And thoy Bald she did not nlwuyB pay hor her gambling debts. I didn't llko them. I thought thoy didn't llko her because aho was poor and popular. Then wo camo liomo, anu 1 almost, iorgot nor, but Inst Bprlng, when mothor wna not well sho had takon grandfather to tlio uiviora, nnu it. aiwayH uses nor up wo wont to Vlrglnln Hot Springs, nnd wo met them there, tho brother, too, this tlmo. Ills name was Sullivan, Harry Plncknoy Sullivan." "I know. Go on." "Mothor had a nurso, and I was alono a groat deal, nnd they woro very kind to mo. I I saw a lot of them, Tho brother rather attracted 1110, pnrt- ly partly becauso ho did not make lovo to mo. Ho oven Boemcd to nvold mo, nnd I was piqued, 1 had boon Bpollcd, I suppose Most ot tho other men I know had had " "I know that, too," I Bald bitterly, nnd moved away from her a trlflo, 1 was brutal, but tho whole atory wns n long torturo, I think Bho know whnt I waa Buffering, for aho showed no re sentment. "It was early and thero woro few people around nono that I cared ubout. And mother and tho nurso played crlbbago otcrnally, until I felt na though tho llttlo pegs wero driven Into ray brain. And when Mrs. Curtla arranged drives und picnics, I I slipped away and wont. I supposo you won't believo mo, tut I had never dono that kind of thing before, and 1 won, I havo paid up, I think." "What sort of looking chap wns Sulllvnn7" I domanded. I had got up nnd was pacing back nnd forward on tho said. I romotnber kicking savngo- ly ut a bit of water-soaked board that lay In my way. "Very handsome as largo ns you are, but fair, nnd oven moro crcot." I drew my shoulders up sharply. 1 am straight enough, but' I wan fnlrly sagging with Jealous rage. "When mother began to got around, somebody told hor that I had been going about with Mrs. Curtis, and her brother, and wo had a dreadful time, Vn3 dragged homo llko a bad child, Did anybody over do that to you? "Nobody sver cared. I wns born Dd you Marry Him?" I Demanded. an orpuau, i saiu, wiui u ciieunuao attempt nt iovity. uo on. "If Mrs. Curtis knew, Bho never said anything. Sho wroto mo charm- ing-ioitcrs, ami in uio Bummer, wnen mcy went, to uresson, bho oskcu mo to visit her there. I was too proud to let her know that I could not go whero I wished, nnd bo I sont Polly, my maid, to her nunra in tno country, pretended to go to Seal Harbor, and really wont to Cresson. You seo I wnmcd you It would bo nn unpleasant story." I wont over nnd stood In front of her. All the accumulated Jealousy of tho last fow wcoks had been lired by what aho told mo. If Sullivan had como acrosB tho Bands Juat then, I think I would havo strangled him with my hands, out of puro hnto, "Did von inarrv him?" I demanded My voice Bounded honrao a0 strange In mv ears. "That's nil I wnnt to know. Did. you marry him? "No." I drow 11 long breath "You cared about him?" Sho hcBltntcd "No." Bho said flnnlly. "I did not caro about him." ' I Bat down on tho odgo of. tho boat and mopped my hot fnco. I waB heart ily ashamed of myBclf, and mingled with my abasement was n great ro lief. If sho had not married him, nnd had not cared for him, nothing elso was of any lmportanco. "I was sorry, of courflo, tho momont tho train had Btnrtcd, but I had wired I was coming, nnd I could not go back, and -then whon I got thoro, tho nlaco was charming. There wcro no neighbors, but wo fished nnd rodo and . motored, nnd-r-lt.wna moonlight, llktt this." I put my hnnd ovor both ot bora, clasped In her lap. "I know," I nc knowlcdgcd repentantly, "and ptoplo do queor thlnga whon It Is moonlight. Tho moon Iiub got mo to night, Alison. If I nm u boor, remember thnt, won't you?" Her fingers lay qulot under mine "And so,' sho went on with n llttlo bIkIi. "I began to think perhaps I cared. But all tho tlmo I felt that thoro waa something not qulto right. Now nnd then Mra. Curtis would say or do something that gavo mo a queor start, as If Bho had droppod a mask for a moment. And thoro wna tronblo with tho servants; thoy woro nlmoBt insolent. I couldn't undor- stand, I don't know when It dawned on mo that tho old Baron Cavalcantl had bedn right when ho Bald thoy wcro not my kind of people But I wanted to got away, wanted It des poratcly." "Of course, thoy wcro not your kind." I cried. "Tho man wns mar ried! Tho girl Jennie, a hoiiHomnld, was n spy In Mra. Sulllvnn'H employ, If hn ,,rUtendcd to marry you I wn..i,t i111V(, killed him! Not onlv that. but tl)0 ,nnn no mrdored, Harrington, wnH ,ll(J w,fo.fl fnthor. And I'll bco ujm hnng by tlie nock yot !f jt tIlkoa ovory ono,-gy ,uui Cvory penny I pos ROgB I could hdve told her so much moro Kcntly. havo broken tho shock for her; I hnvo novor boon proud of thnt evening on tho Band. I wiib alternate ly n boor and a rulllan llko u hurt youngstor who passes tho blow that 'lum hurt him on to ma playmate, mai both may bawl together. And now AIIboi put, wiilto anu com, witnoui speech. ITO II 13 UUNTIJNUISJJ.) Leaves Pennies In Church. A Boston clergyman, commenting on tho largo number of cents In tho nverago church collection, Bald that whon on n recent Monday ho had offered n nowswoman outsldo tho sub way Htntlon a B-cont pleco In payment for a newspaper Bho threw up hor hand, remarking: "Why la it that men novor havo pennies on Monday morning? It la tho only day In tho wcok I havo trouble making chango," "My good woman," replied tho clergyman, tho reason Is that on Sun day they leav:i tholr ponnJcg in church." The Church Its Danger and , Security By REV. W. G. CURRY TJ3XT Awake, awoke, nut on thy strength; O SHon. Isaiah I.tt. 1. Jehovah spoko this whon Judaism: had fallen into great 'weakness. Kno mien beset on ovory nldo. The churct has often had Its limes ot moral weakness. Dollveranco nlways camo Tho slumbering giant not only awoke but oxertcd himself. A deep slum ber prevailed when Christ camo, Groat Bystcms of idolatry provallod. Tho true God -was nigh forgotten. Tho Saviour gathered n little band around htm and sont them forth. With matchless strength they attacked the tho powers and Salmi's kingdom was fc'uukon. Another crisis camo papal corruption. Puro Christianity slept beuoath gaudy trappings ot Catholl clsm, movements for freedom wore wntchod, and dungeons woro filled with those who dared look up "Awako awako!" was soundod. Mar tin Luther nroso to rodtoro spiritual lty. Slnco then tho truth has been gaining power. When wo consider Uio facilities wo have, tho outlook li now hopeful. There is nnothor sldo. I. Tho church la threatened wltt danger. 1. Dnneor from nocullar activity and excitability ot tho times' in which wo live entirely an earnest ago. Now dlscovorlos, now forces ap pearing. Law of chango Is ovory whoro. Wonderful schemes claim public attention. Sclonco, art nrd over presenting now questions. Oui minds nnd linndB aro full; novor wni thero moro activity. It is not nn tin fortunate condition. Wo would no! lock tho wheels ot progress, and re mand tho ago back to tho darknoss ol tho past. In tho midst of tho oxclto mont wo nro In danger of Infection, un less thero bo a corresponding oarnosb noss in Christian charactor. Our dan cor is inability to control those forcoB Wo nro too much controlled by thorn. Wo nro bolng pormontod by tho spirit of tho world, liiBtcad of pormoatlng II with our spirit. Wo must show a ro llglon full ot llfo and energy not s cold, slcopy religion. 2. Tho tendency to Innovation, W bollovo all essentials aro clearly re vealed In tho Scriptures. Yot w think moro light nnd improved meth ods may bo cmlpoyed. But from Gor- many cotnos a spirit that would say our foundations. It has found Its wny Into our theological Bchools, and Is poisoning tho mlndB of th rising ministry. Thoy toll us thai reason and not faith must bo tu guldo. Thoy havo discovered tho Bl bio Is an nntiquated book, and the gospol too cold. Thjy would take away tho Blblo aB a perfect rule ol faith and practise Tho danger lies In having our mlnda nllonated from tho simplicity ot tho goapol, and 0 doslro to seek tho novoltlos. Wo need now moro than over before to cry for tho old paths. 3. In donitor from tho lncreaslnfi boldness and cnorgy ot tho enomlcs ot Christianity. Wo aro no longer at tacked by n fow, but tho ranks are strong nnd tho Infidelity declares Its truths to bo tho only truths. It has novor displayed so much determina tion. It la widespread and is wun men In dally walks; la In politics, talnta legislation, and haa takon hold unon tho nubile press. Tho world ifi iinnded with Its lltcrnturo. Vaat multitudes listen to lnfldollty'a mod em apostlo. Unlit of all theso facta havo wo not cause for alarm? Aro wo In a condition to auccossfully contond with theso forcoa? Tho church is hnt mittlne forth hor strength, alio huH hnd smooth Balling u Ions tlmo, nnd sloops. 11 wimt nro tho olemontn ol strength. 1. Sound doctrine. In theso days of laxnesa and lnsldlousnoss wo nood to contend enrnostly for tho faith onco dollvorod to tho aoinw. xuo doctrines of dopravlty, atonomont and talvatlon by graco must uo omna Rlred. Lot this bo dono, and lnlldol- lty will not affoct tho rollglon of per sonal oxpurlpnco. o a..iriiimi llfo Wo need a high or-Toncd spirituality, a religion that ontora into all our social anu uusinosa relations, giving color and ahapo to tho daily Hfo. How shall this strength, which God nniiu on us to exert, bo put on; Is not physical, but splrltunl strength thnt wo need. It must bo put on upon our kneoa. 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