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Metal • e......... •e..me0•da Menes'et East p.m - 6.04 6.18 6.23 6.32 6.46 6.52 6.52 6.48 7.12 7.21 7.83 7.45 7.45 7.55 p.m. 3.15 3.21 8.82 8.44 8.52 4.06 4.13 4.20 4.32 4.40 4.50 6.05 p.m. 2.20 2.37 2.52 8.12 8.20 8.28 By George Andrew Chamberlain HARPER & BROTHERS Publishers New York and London (Continued from last week.) That was it. He and Alloway had become real. Wthout renouncing dreams, they had stepped boldly inti that realm of bodily unity which, be- yond all other human relationships, resents the merest implication of di- vision or withdrawal. She herself had become living water, yet he knew parched lips and a devastating thirst for the unknown sources from which she had sprung. A madness felll up- on him, the madness that Inust have all of - the thing it loves even at the price of klling. He became subject to fits of depres- sion following so swiftly upon motts�- ents of absorbing exaltation that Al- loway was first bewildered, then frightened, and finally felt herself glowing with a slow, steadily mount- ing anger .terrifying in its impersonal, detached intensity. She looked upon this strange, new emotion within her- self with startled, unbelieving eyes, as though she stood helpless before MASH Beth,r- Re. zips • Baby chicks cost too much to lose by lack of care and proper feed. White Diarrhoea and other chick diseases prevented by feeding Pratts Baby Chick Food. It saves millions and insures healthy fast- chicks and early -laying pullets Buy the best. Bab Chk1c Food 344 i eater* aft Wer Pis `��` A'f1L Y BoopAx� RA FaRaw t've tororyto New headquarters for salesmen In many of our offices, Cus- tomers' Rooms like the one indicated above„ are placed at the disposal of the Long Distance user. 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Just are$ome trifling event or fleet - lug ipapression oeeurring in childhood may lay the foundation for a mature life `•of'bragedy, so had the inspiration of Bouri e'a theory of mystery as a holding power taken possession of her brain at the formaitve period of her awakening into love from maidenhood and destroyed all other and truer values. She became overnight a wo- man full grown, a woman ef one idea upon which centered a host of vagar- bv which, she attempted to divert and entrance Ritt's mind without setting it at rest. One day she turned on him. "You are not fairl" she cried, her lips trembling, her eyes flashing. "You break your promise with your eyes and hands and in your mind even if you try to keep your lips from speak- ing the things we said we would never ask. Sometimes you make me feel very small, as though to be your wife and your playmate and plaything and even a slave willing to kiss your nak- ed feet were quite a little gift." She threw out her hands and drop- ped them at her Bides with a, falling forward of (her shoulders, assuming an attitude of abnegation and des- pair. Her head drooped and her eyes glazed with the look of the wounded hart. Bourne threw himself at her feet, wrapped his arms about her knees, and buried his face against her. His whole frame was shaking with still -born sobs which died in the dryness of his throat, wracked him and choked him. "It must be because I love you," he -whispered, hoarsely, as though groping for lost foundations. "For- give me, Alloway, my darling, my own girl. I didn't know that love could be such a brutal thing. Some- times it beats my body with flails, drives me mad and makes me turn to rend you, as though by tearing you apart I might find the nooks and cran- nies still hidden in your soul. My darling, I do love you; my heart is bursting because I love you so." She sank to her knees within the circle of his arms. "Then take me, Ritt," she whispered. "Hurt me, dear; kill me; only smile first, laugh first, kiss me." She became all ten- derness; her arms twined themselves about him, drew his head down to,her breast. The white heat of these battles, ending always in a paroxysm of mutual surrender without capitulation of the poin at issue, carried with it its own peciliar strain which had the effect of stripping from them both the normal resiliency of two person- alities in sane though intimate con- tact, and left them overstrained, stripped to the nervous fiber of a fev- erish existence. But there were mo- ments, even days, when sudden lassi- tude tvould fall upon them, and, lift- ing, would set them free to laugh and trifle happily with life. Those were days marked with a big red letter when they would escape from them- selves into the rapidly searing coun- try and play among the gray rocks and the pungent, drying grass of the hilltops like veritable children of Pan frolicking madly among the swirling leaves af autumn. Out of this spirit of joy Bourne seized one day an inspiration. Obses- sed subconsciously by an unswerving desire, he conceived the idea of laying out a hypothetical map based on all the casual allusions to distant spots on the earth's surface which Alloway had let fall, and then to carry her away on a long tour, following as ac- curately as he could the aotual steps of her life in the hope that she would betray herself or he betrayed by some collision with the past. The cunning he displayed at the inception of this scheme went far to prove that he was indeed a madman imbued with a su- perhuman shrewdness. As they lay on their backs on a flat rock just comfortably warmed by the sun of a rare November day, he raised his arm and pointed at the clouds. "Let's pick out the ones we were born under," he said. "That's east and that's north; so you know south and west. I pick that bulgy, lazy cloud over there. It's hanging over Murray Hill." He had turned to watch het face with an avidity which forced her to give more than casual attention to his request. Her eyes wandered first to the east, wavered, and,jhen drop- ped. "I was born under no cloud," she murmured. "I was born at the meeting of night and day." By the grave expression of her face he knew that there was a meaning buried deep in her words, could he only fathom it. For that occasion he was content, but on subsequent days he made other essays of a litre nature and pierced his results laboriously to- gether as one tries out the sections of a jig -saw puzzle until he felt suf- ficient assurance to +produce the great atlas on an evening when they were alone in the library and propose a new diversion. "Let's travel," he said. "Let's,trav- el the whole world over." "Oh, let's!" -cried Alloway, clapping her hands, hurling herself on the big couch before the fire and tucking her feet beneath her. He drew up a low table, spread the atlas open at the map of the world, sat down beside her, and seized her hand. "Now stint your eyes so you can't cheat, and we'll see where we begin." Vie made a pointer of her slender forefinger, carried it through the air in wide circles which rapidly diminish- ed until he plunged it down. `There," he said. "Yon didn't cheat did you ? . It's C,lt1na." „I didn't," Maid Alloway, laughing, "but what about you?" "China." repeated Bourne, disre- non. bran through. felk Rbeumai a+dti bring in just you. havepr+ poisons that .ca the joints and stick the torte •soignee_ appears, or ,,cite eau ' While Rheurtaa is expensive, it is one di, forced rheumatism tc appear. Get a bottle of Rha druggist • to•day'. It:• the joyful relief ••yew; money* Will be return tshui• ee,►r .1�l�el e relic[ icpakein- in the quicldyr ellr die - and in - that has iaamd dis- any ve you ;or your garding her accusation old turning the leaves of the great boo rapidly. "Here we are. We"fl ei?l` some- where on the coast. Everylhody does. You say where." - "One can only start front Shang- hai, if one starts at alI," said Allo- way, enigmatically. He led her a great tour 'through China, visited place after place fa- miliar to their many long talks, cross- ed to Japan and into India, flew off at a tangent to Rio and tbe.Birer Plate, calve back and approached:New York by some uncharted air route vaguely depicted. Long before they had finish- ed the journey Alloway's face had ex- perienced a peculiar change of ex- pression, at first wondering, then doubting, and finally fully convinced. She lost interest, her eyes wandered, and presently she arose and stretch- ed her arms in feigned weariness. "I'm tired with so much travelling,•' she said. "Let us go to bed." "And to -morrow w'e'll pack," said Bourne, looking up at her with a pe- culiar fixity. 'What do you mean?" asked Allo- way. . , He laughed nervously. "I mean just that, you dear girl. We are go- ing to pack for that very trip. Don't you want to go?" Alloway looked at him intently. "No," she said, after a pause, "I do not wish to go." "Oh, Alloway," he begged, rising and putting his arms around her, "please go! Please play my game! Oh, darling, please don't spoil it! I want it so much and I'll be so good, so very good." She denied him again and again and with each denial he returned more fervently to the attack, petting her, pleading with her, caressing her with all those arts of the lover which break the wills and the hearts of women. She melted slowly in his arms; ques- tion chased question across her fea- tures, but in the end it was an ex- pression of terror which lay like a transparent shadow superimposed ov- er the yielding and yearning tender- ness of her face. "You wish it more than anything else?" she asked. "More than anything else," replied Bourne. "I will go," murmured Alloway in so low a tone that he could scarcely hear her, and then clung to him with such trembling hands and such a quivering of her whole body that for a moment fright made him forget his hard-won victory. "My derlange' he whispered, "what makes you shake so? Why are you afraid?" For a moment she did not answer. She dropped her face against his breast and premised closely to hint. "Twice I have lost the big round world and found it," she said, finally, in the same low and far -away tone. "I am afraid of losing it again and finding a marble." "What do yon mean?" asked Bourne unsmiling, intent "You do not understand; you have not understood," murmured Alloway, lifting her face and smiling into his eyes• then she released herself and cried, gayly, "Come, I'll race you to the room." She flew up the spacious stairs like a disembodied sprite, but the heart of the ohild in her was panting to bury its head in a pillow. All the following day Bourne rush- ed from one office to another, studying time -tables and sailings, securing res- ervations and shopping here and there to make a purchase. He was troubled over the mood in which Alloway had given in to him, but, nevertheless, he was in feverish haste to be off and put his fantastic scheme to the test. He had seen his father and had talk- ed to him for the first time in his life with conscious mental reservations. J. E. had subjected him to such a gimleting from his penetrating eyes that for a moment his son was tempt- ed to be done with half truths and tell hie father all the madness and A Pebble was the Cave Man's Candy! It kept his mouth moist and fresh on his hot, rocky road. Calling en his sweetie, he took Isar a smooth, white stone! Today, to make a lasting, satisfying 'repression, take her Wrigley's. net iso 1 aI; hu riga wan face ;ice i#dbh ta�•SIi t to '. n + .w hti: ;Old. :ant' feather meddle to' any goo& It' was .de them he ham sensed the fever in Ritts whip perceived with one: flauh of his;mental vision that it -must run'jt,s. coigne. While:Bourne won rushing :about town, completing his areangefeents, Alloway sat in her bedroom,. listless- ly superintending Janet's packing. The maid looked pp frequently from her work to study her mia,tress's face with growing dissatisfaction. She found upon it an bion of wistful sad- ness such as it bad not borne even in the loneliest moments of her long so- journ at the hotel. "You are not very keen on going this journey, are you, Miss Alloway?'! she asked. The girl smiled at this form of ad- dress, so suggestive of a conjunction between_ respect and affection, which Janet had continued to use in spite of the marriage, apparently from some vague intention of asserting rights in her mistress prior and superior to those of the other servants. "Not very," said Alloway. Janet dropped over a trunk hanger the garment she was about to fold. "Are you happy? _Are you?" she asked, with a suppressed intensity quite foreign to curiosity. "Oh, yes," said Alloway, easily, and rose from her chair. "I think I'll go out and buy a thing or two," she con- tinued, dressed herself in an incon- spicuous travelling suit, arid left the room and presently the house. Simon glancing at her absorbed face, sug- gested the car, but she refused, say- ing that she preferred to walk. He watched her until she reached Madi- son Avenue) where she paused, looked at her watch, and then turned uptown, walking swiftly, her head erect. She disappeared from his view and from the house in Murray Hill; she did not come back. Bourne returning very late for lunch, looked into the dining room, and then hurried through the house in search of his wife. He was keen to talk to her, anxious to infect her with the exuberance which he had be- gun to feel and which had eclipsed the forebodings aroused by her reluct- ant acquiescence to his plans. When he learned that she had gone out to shop and had not yet come home he was conscious of a feeling of dispro- portionate disappointment which, as the grandfather's clock on the stair- way landing chimed the first quarter and then a second, changed to annoy- ance and finally to alarm. He questioned Simon as the last member of the household, to have seen her, and without thinking what he did walked hatless to the corner and looked up and down the street FI Send for free Dad alarms otng hull t Trench's world-famous prep. aration f or Epilepsy and Fits --simple home treatment. over 80 years, ssecese. Testimonials from an porta side wort • over 1000 In one year. Write at once Us TRENCH'S REMEDIES LIMITED 9t.datn ' Chambers. 79 Adelaide s� lit Toru" to. 1)utarie as far as the eye could reach +e� +en(ly he came to hlmseif, ,returrted hintiedly- to the house,..- left *dere tI t he be notified of hie 'P 'e4 xe» turn, and went luneldese.tato the library. For an hour be walked up and downy arguing with himself "that Alloway had been merely delayed, that sbe had become interested and for- getful of time and that'she would re- turn now at any moment. "The door will open during this turn," he would say to himself, and whirl quickly on his heel with- a look of strained ex- peletancy on his face. But the door did not open, and when two hours had passed he rang for Simon and changed his order. "When my farther comes, Simon, tell him I'm in here," he said. Then he sat down with his chin cupped in his hands and waited without the movement of a muscle or the flicker of an eyelash. His brain was divided; one part of it was in a turmoil of search for unused expedients, of speculations and impot- ent striving toward a solution which continued to elude it. The other part was quit calm and said to him, with monotonous repetition: "I told you so; I have been telling you it would happen. Stop your questioning. It's not use. No use." CHAPTER FIFTEEN J. E. entered the library slowly. It had hardly needed the anxiety on Si- mon's face or his hushed message to bring home the fact that a disaster had befallen. The house itself seem- ed a robbed shell, a darkened habita- tion from which the life blood had been suddenly sapped. Silences John•Bourne had never before notic- ed, save on the day of terror which had witnessed the passing of his wife, seemed to smite by contradiction on his ear. He had stopped deliberately in the hall and listened for Alloway's laughter; but instead he heard the silences, picked them out as one might pick out vacancies where ttarn:iliar chairs and tables had once stood. He walked up to his son and laid his hand with a light touch upon his shoulder. Ritt leaped to his feet, stared at his father, and then sat down again heavily. "She has gone," he said. J. E. nodded, drew up a chair, and seated himself. For an instant a look of weariness and disappointment clouded his brow. He drew a deep breath, and after a long pause spoke. "I can't help you," he said, 'with- out reproving you first. There is only one way in which you could have hurt Alloway -you must have bruised her imagination. How did yon do it?" Ritt kept silence for a moment; then he leaned forward in his chair and stammered his way into his story. Presently it came with the rush of an, unloosed flood. He poured out to his father all the tale of his unreason '1' HE Firestone process of Guan-Dipping is one of the most important of the many Firestone contrifintions to more economical highway trans- portation. By this process, every fiber of every cord is thoroughly saturated and insulated with rubber, minimizing friction and heat so destructive to tire life. On the cars of hundreds of thousands of motorists, in the day -in and day -out service of the largest truck, bus and taxi- cab fleets, is the battle of tires on race tracks, Firestone Gum - Dipped Tiros, because of their greater stamina, are delivering longer mileage with added safety and comfort. 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