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CHAPITER XII
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watched the owner of the house
drive away in his buggy. Bolling
turned to Serenity.
“It’s difficult to understand. But
your path is plain, x wish I were
just a bit more righteous—perhaps
my prayers would have availed bet
ter than they seem to have. But I'll
, be waiting if you need me.”
thanked- him with her eyes.
CHARTER XIII
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;is almost asleep.”
j “Well,” responded the confederate
’ with an attempted smile, “I suppose
I you -can take our own time now—
j Mrs. Parrish.”
i .And that was the picture presented (
to Langdon Parriish when he ascend-}
ed the stairs noiselessly and paused,
at the open door of his son’s room.*
Serenity was the first to see him. >
Easing Maury’s head back gently
on the pillow, she got to. her feet and
stood with one arm stretched over
him in a protecting gesture. Bolling
wheeled in his tracks to face the
newcomer, dropping his ritual book
with a gentle -clatter. Myra shrank
back fearfully when her turn came •
to encounter Parrish’s blazing eyes, closed mow.
“So!” It was little more than aj
whisper.
Full knowledge of his boy’s crit
ical condition and the unconscious
application of the sick room’s un
written code prevented an outburst
from the father,
effort to control himself, he motioned! imperiously for the others to leave!
the room,
to the spot,
ing at her heels, led the way into the
hall. There the girl leaned against
the wall and watched Parrish close
Maury’s door very quietly.
There was quiet defiance in her
blue eyes as she faced her father-in-
law.
“Go!” he ordered in a tense,
srtained voice as he pointed with a
shaking finger i-n- the direction cif the
staircase.
“No, I will not go!”
Bolling laid a restraining hand on
the other man’s arm, but was impa
tiently shaken off. Parish advanced
closer to the girl, 1ns “ace twisted
by a sudden and terrible grief.
“What are you trying to d-o?” he
grated “Kill him?”
“No,” said Serenity again,
trying to save him.
save him—for me.
me.” Then her arms went
quicks entreaty: “Can’t you
stand?” she cried piteously,
it’s becouse I love him so ”
Parrish's big hands dropped help
lessly to his side; his broad shoul
der seemed to sag with them., “Fin
ish it then,” he ordered dully. “He
was all I had.”
He swung o<n- his heel with the
i last word stalked, into a nearby
j room and closed the door after him.
Serenity’s first thought was for I Maury. Had he heard and understood
! the outburst? :She darted back to his
j door and stoed with her ear against * it listening. Reassured by the silence
Serenity looked sile turned to discover Bolling per-(
forming a similiar office at Parrish’s i
door. Something in his expression
the clergyman made ‘her suddenly afraid,
nook from the! “What is it?” she whispered
He adjusted
Her hand sought Myra’s with
gesture, found it and
by an answering
women who loved
most waited in sil-
He wants
be—
that.
tihe
and
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1 “He’s all right?” 'anxiouis cleric.
“I see.” Then to Serenity, “I think j -j think so—just tired. I won’t
it might be well if you and Myra disturb him for a few moments. He
would come up. too. You could stand
in the hall -outside the door while 1
go in—just in case he wishes to see
you. Suppose we du that.”
Without waiting for Myra's per
mission, he led the way into the
front hall and the others followed.
Reaching Maury’s door, he turned
and held up a warning finger. “Wait
here,” was his whispered caution.
Serenity leaned against the wall
o-f the gloomy hallway, straining her
ears intently for the first sound of
voices from the tsick chamber, She
.caught the soothing murmur of Dr.
Boiling’s greeting, but no answering
voice,
a quick groping
was rewarded
squeeze.
So the two
Maury Parrish
ence, waited for what seemed like
an eternity until the minister came
to find them. He laid his two hands
on Serenity’s shoulders with a com
forting clasp.
“Yes, he understands.
you to come to him. You must
But there is no use to- tell you
Both of you come in.’*
Trying bravely to conceal
shock Maury’s sunken eyes
pinched face gave her, Serenity
walked quietly to his bedside. There,
she dropped to her knees, leaned
over and pressed a kiss on his fore
head. Seeing that he was trying to
speak, she laid her fingers on his
lips with a smiling shake of her
head,
“You mustn’t talk, dear—please.”
Then, taking one of his hands in
both of her own, she placed her lips
close to his ear.
“I came here to tell you that I
love you, Maury,” she said very
slowly and distinctly. “If you will
let me—I want to be your wife. I
will stay with you always. If you
will have me—just nod your head
the least bit.”
Maury’s eyes seemed to cloud with
doubt. The three watchers held
their breath as the waited for him
to give some sign. Then Serenity
Dale was speaking again:
“I understand,
is only pity. It
truly it isn’t. I
lieve it then, but
loved you, that day we drove up the
Fair Hills road. And every hour
since. There never can be anybody
but you. If it should be only a mem
ory—I want to belong to you. That’s
how much I care.”
Maury’s eyes held hers in a long,
searching gaze. Then he nodded al
most imperceptibly,
up at Dr. Bolling.
“We’re ready!”
Without a word,
drew a small black
side pocket of his coat,
his glasses and made ready to read.
But Myra gave a smothered exclama
tion of alarm and drew near the foot
of the bed where Bolling stood.
“Quite right,” he admonished
gently. “We shall need a witness.
Please stand just as you are,”
Serenity slipped an arm under
Maury’s head so- that she might sup
port it against her shoulder. His
eyes were fixed wonderingly on her
face and she repaid him with a trem
ulous smile. “You’re
very happy, dear,” she
low that neither of the
the message.
Then came Boiling’s
and unhurried: “Dearly beloved, we
are .gathered here—”
-On went the simple -ceremony. Se
renity’s responses were whispered
softly; Maury’s were quite inaudible
tout there "was no mistaking their in
tent.
“Until death do you part.”
A gasping sob from the foot of the
bed. That was Myra.
The final words exchanged, the
bride laid her lips for an instant
against her husband’s. One of his
hands moved feebly up and touched
her shining curls, slipped listlessly
back again. The sudden movement
aroused the .girl. 'Sihe looked at
Maury’s closed eyes and listened to
his breathing, even as her trained
fingers sought her wrist. Then she
gave a reassuring now
Who still held ‘his book
forefinger marking the
marriage ceremony.
You’re afraid this
isn’t that, dear—
was afraid to be-
I know now that I
making me
told him, so
others heard
tones, grave
to Bolling
in his hand,
page of the
V
She
Knees of the Gods
to the
waiting
was the
When Serenity returned
sick room she found Myra
just within the door.
‘'Manry’s still sleepin’,”
whispered report. “I wish ou’d step
out in the. hall and aet me speak to
you a minute.”
"What is it, Myra?” The- door was
| “I know about the doctor goin’
: away. I listened. And I don’t want
you to worry too much about him. I
have seen him have these tantrums
before. He’ll -come around, if you
give him time. You’re going to stay
Making a visible right here, ain’t you?”
“Of course.”
‘‘That’s what’s being .botherin’ me.
Myra seemed still rooted Here you walk in, get married and
But .Serenity, with Boll- settled down and I bet you didn’t
even bring a toothbrush.”
Serenity forced a little smile. “You
are right, I didn’t. I wasn’t sure
what was going to happen, myself.
But it doesn’t make an difference.”
“Don’t you want me to slip down
to your place and get your things? It
won’t take long.”
“That’s very thoughtful of you,
Myra. But I believe I’d rather not
be left alone. I shan't sleep tonight
anwav. I want to watch.”
“Well, then you’ll slip out of that
dress and put my bath robe, I got an
old pair of bedroom slippers for you,
too. They ain't muon to look
but they” ease your feet some.”
“That’s very thoughtful of you.”
“But I’m going down first and .get
you a bite to eat. You’ll find a cup
of coffee will set you up a lot and
keep you from gettin’ sleepy. I won’t
be long.” {And she stalked in the
direction of the stairs.
Left alone with her patient, Seren
ity drew the most comfortable-look
ing of the stuffed chairs close to the
bed, sat down and folded her hands
How strange this all was.
Gone now was the nervous strain
that had buoyed her up during the
hours that had passed. She would
try and relax now. Booking, about
the unfamaliar apartment, she tried
to make herself believe it was ihome.
She was a married woman—in- her
husband's house. That was her hus
band lying' here before her on the
bed.
-She
times,
cance.
the objects she saw about her.
opposite wall with its old-fashicmed
paper, the walnut furniture, looking
more gloomy and forbidding than
ever in the waning light. The steel
engraving of the orphans and their
angel parents.
Maury’s trunk still stood by the
window, but there was no evidence of
his typewriter and its attendant lit
ter of papers and books. Myra had
man’s ! collected all these things .and stowed
“I am
I am going to
He belongs to
out in
under-
‘Tt’s—-
“What
sharply.
“I’m worried about him.” He jerk-
his head in the direction of the door.
“Oh! You don’t mean-—”
“No, no. Nothing ras>h, I think.
But he’s had a hard blow. I shall
wait here a little anci see if he won’t
listen to me. Perhaps I can make
him understand.”
With a sudden gesture, the girl
bowed -her face on the little 1------
shoulder. As his arm encircled her,
he felt the slight form shake
i epressed sobs.
“There, there, child! You
hold fast. There are two lives
to mdnd now,” Thex, •’You’re
sorry, are you.”
“No,” she gulped, “of course I’m
ii
with
must
here
not
at,
repeated the name several
trying to realize its signifi-
But it was as strange as all
The
them away in the wardrobe.
The bride tried to visualize her
husband’s life in this room, to pic
ture him as a small bdy, waking up
every morning to* find himself in
these surroundings. How had 'he
managed to retain his merry, light
hearted ways, she wondered. WhyJ.’lvj wllv 'V J, vVlllwv JL XIA _ . < , • • * ’ n
not sorry! But it’s all so needless. If hadn’t it stifled hiis spirits long ago.
only he__>> j The room looked like Dr. Parrish.
She raised her head with a startled Perhaps it would all nave been dif- , ....... _._h—Mrs< pamsh
that was her name now. How
the like a dream all this. .She half ex-
5> | peeted to wake up and find t-he old
muttered life waiting for her. The stillness of
under" his'breath, as he saw his old it disturbed her—that_eonstantmur.
friend start forward with the c,-
dent intention of deterring him.
“Don’t do this thing!” Bolling en
treated, in a little more than a whis
per. “You’re making a blunder you
will regret as long as vou live. Wait
until Maury is better. Wait—”
“Stand aside, will you!”
“Langdon, man -—you’re wrong!
Parrish’s only reply was a look of
hate mingled with despair. Then he
was gone.
A moment later, the pair in the up
per hall stood at the window and
air at the sound of a door's opening, .furent if Mrs. Parrish-
Langdon Parrish strode Into the liall _Ahd y
a shabby suitcase dangling at
end of one of his long arms.
“Out o-f my way!” he i.......
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“ " ' ' ’ ’ —that constant mur-
ey‘p muring of the pint, Doughs outside
■ the window. It was strangely, dan-
' gerously soothing. She must keep
every sense, every nerve on the alert
for a change in- Maury’s condition. A
battle for life and love was pending
here. She must win it—must win—
How long had it been since she
checked that pulse count and respir
ation? Almost in a panic, she con
sulted her watch. She had not dozed
as she had feared. What a comfort
io know that Myra was in the house,
—dependable Myra. That was her
step in the hall now.
‘‘Your supper’s waitin’ for you on
the dining room table,” whispered
Myra, satnding stiffly by the chair.
“You go and eat. I’ll set here.”
Again the dream.
Another strange room with a table
set for one, Serenity could not bring
herself to eat, but ishe poured out a
eu,p of -coffee and sipped it slowly.
The mistress of the house dining in
solitary state, watched only by a
stuffed deer head on the opposite
wall. Glassy eyes staring down from
under a shadowy ispread of antlers,
iThoh the deep silence was broken
by a scratching sound, a plaintive
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With a little cry of pleasure, (Ser
enity Parrish put down her cup and
ran to the outer door. There ( she
dropped to her knees and gathered a
wiggling little body close in her two
arms.
“Kewps—Kewps! I’m iso glad!”
As darkness came on, Maury’s
conisciousnes seemed to dim with the
outer world. He moved about rest
lessly now, mumbling fretfully from
time to time. Through it all, Ser
enity watched him witm a profession
al calmness that aroused Myra to a
sense of impending danger.
“He’s been like that a good many
times,” the latter volunteered hope
fully. “Sometimes, he’is real sens
ible. Like when he talked
you. Other times you can’t tell what
•he’s drivin’ at, at all.”
“I think,” observed the doctor, “it
would be well if you would take a
little rest. Can’t you lie down some
where near? Where I could call you.’
“No’m. I don’t know what you
figure’s goin’ to happen, but I’m go
ing to be here. May,be my- boy—’
“Gods don't have knees,” inter-1
dupted Maury’s voice, suddenly and
clearly. “John Loraine says—-No
body cares what lie says—-just a par
asite. Never mind, I say— Never
mind, John- Loraine—”
Serenity pulled Myra nearer and
whispered :
“Do you know what he means by
that? I heard him call that name
while you were downstairs. Who is
John Loraine?”
Imstead of replying, the woman
crossed the room and fumbled at a
package that lay on the floor. Then
she beckoned the doctor over to the
dresser where the night light burned
dimly.
“I reckon this may tell you.’
With these words, Myra laid a
small red volume in Serenity’s hands
The girl held the bootc where the
rays of the lamp fe’n on it irnost
brightly. She read its title, stamp
ed bravely in gold:
KNEES OR THE GODS
;by
John Loraine
Se looked up at Myra with puzzled-
wonder in -her eyes, “What is that
book?’ whispered she,
"Didn’t you ever hear of It?”
“No.”
“Well, I promised I wouldn’t ever
way nothin’ about it, but that name
on the book’s Him—” (She jerked he-r
thumb in the direction of the bed.
“I don’t understand.”
“He wrote It. Didn’t want his
own name on the book. I don’t know
why,”“You mean it was—-my Maury?
It’s his book?”
“He wrote it. Didn't want any
body outside of the family to . know
about it. You’re in now, so that’s
why I’m tellin’ you. I tried to read
it, but I couldn’t make head nor tail
out of the. thing. But it’s a book,
anyway.”
(Continued next week.)
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