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Show THE SUX SUN. SATINA. UTAH and building Tommy auch a tower as never had gladdened hi eyes before, and went downstair to the study. was alone there, Her father-in-ladreaming over a fire and a book, and smiled as Bhe came In. Lillian had gone off with Mabel Iointdexter for dinner, he explained, and would he there all night Ellen, seating herself, seemed to feel a eertain lightening in the atmosphere with Lillians departure. Presently Gibbs came In, silent and gloomy, to find them having tea. He declined Ellens brief, civil offer with equal brevity and cold civility. He answered his father's questions, delivered dryly, with patient monosyllables, and followed his wife upstairs to make himself presentable for the Informal dinner. In their room, Ellen nervously He Broached the subject of Lizzie was surprised, but his comments amazed her with their mildness, and be brought a pang of strange, unfamiliar pleasure to her heart by his CHAPTER X Continued 13 Its about that man your mother wanted you to marry? Ellen suggested, after awhile, her arm still about Lizzies shoulders. The girl 'nodded ' And Lizzie. looking up. Should you marry him? Ellen ventured. "I love him! Lizzie answered, lu a choked and angry voice, after a shamed pause You love him You poor child! And he wants to marry you?" "He says he will. Lizzie had writhed about so that her back was almost turned to Ellen, who had to bend forward to catch a glimpse of the flushed face and inflamed eyes. And dont you think you would be Ellen happier, pursued sweetly, don't you think you would be happier, if he loves you, and you He dont love me, Lizzie Interrupted sullenly. But you said I said hed marry me! The blood came to Ellens face, and she sat back, feeling a little sick. She had read of the old tragedy a thousand times, but how much more poignant was this first encounter with It, this sickening realization of what It means to the woman to sue! She tad loved, and she had given, and now It was his royal prerogative to lift her up, and make her honest, or to drive her to Ah, life was hard enough for the Ellens, who keep a man's respect, but lose his love. But for the Lizzies I Are Lizzie, she asked timidly. you youre not ? Lizzie had dried her swollen eyes, and their misery was turned toward without self-murde- r. Ellen. she answered, with No, maam, if there was a returning baby coming, Id marry him tomorrow. But he hes a good man, Mrs. Josse-lyn- , and hed never be anything but shamed and kept down by a girl like me. And we done what we done like children might do something wrong," poor Lizzie added, with her eyes brimand all the time he was ming again, in love with another lady I knew he was, but he didnt know himself how he had come to think about her and so when we when we said we wouldn't see each other no more, I thought that it was all over and done with except for the way I felt. But l but ma guessed it, and she was mean to me," the girl said simply, "and nothing ever seemed right again. I didnt want to go with any of the other boys, and I kep feeling what if I should marry some day, and have a little girl " She began to cry again softly. Ellen, whose face had grown ashen, sat staring at her blindly. Her heart was pounding ; her brain In a whirl. She had heard those terms before Lizzie had been Aunt Elsie's maid through n illness last winter When was this, Lizzie? she asked, clearing her throat. Last winter, Mrs. Josselvn. Look at me, Ellen said, after a Look at me, Lizzie. Was it pause. Joe? Was it Mr. Latimer?" She sawj the answer in Lizzies eyes before the girl said quickly: self-contro- l, nw-fu- No, maam! Oh, no, ma'fim 1" Elien could smile sadly as she shook her head. "He told me about It, Lizzie. lie told me all about it, but he didnt say It was you. I'm so sorry. Im so desYou you do love perately sorry. him? Oh, my G d, how could I help it?" the girl answered, with sudden vioI had never worked before. lence. Mrs. Josselvn. and at home it was trouble trouble trouble! My father drinks and my sister's husband drinks Ive seen him hit her a few days beAnd your fore her children come! aunt was so good to me, and the captain treated me like I was his granddaughter, and everything was so pleasant and warm. And Joe always anxious for me to get enough to eat, and helping me with kindling and all, and one night tying up my finger where I'd cut it, and sometimes he'd kiss me. you know, and tell me I looked nice! And then one night he wasn't coming home, and the captain wanted som tobacco, and I run up street for it. after supper, and when I come back my feet were all sopping, and after Id undressed, I come down In a wrapper, to get warm " Ellen could see the old Main street house. Her eyes were shining. "Eve done that, a thousand times!" she said, half-alouAnd Joe come in, pursued Lizzie. It was after nine, but he hadn't had his supper. And him and me went out and got somethin to eat Her voice fell. Ellen did not speak. I Ha's going to marry Miss Lathroa" Lizzie said presently. "But that can't stop me loving him, and remembering how hed laugh when he was building the breakfast fire and how I felt about him! I thought then we might get married, although I always knew It wouldnt he right for Joe and shes rich, and all that, and and of course he loves her She stopped speaking, staring drearily ahead of her. Ellen was silent, too. But she kept one warm friendly little hand tight over Lizzie's hand, and In her troubled face there was no hint of reproach. You say he loves her, she said, thoughtfully, after awhile. I think he does, too, in a way. But he has been most unhappy about this, Lizzie; Ive seen It, only I didn't understand. lie has been worried and uncertain we've all been wondering what was on his mind. And I didnt understand. I thought it was some reckless girl I suppose its always this way. Only I never thought of you, Lizzie, so quiet and good and unselfish no, don't begin to cry again. I didn't mean that I blame myself I blame unkindly. myself " Thus Ellen, reaching for some guiding principle through all these mazes. Well! Some one will come in and find us here, she said, with sudden decision. "Go upstairs and bathe your eyes, Lizzie, and get Tommy ready for lunch. And dont worry. I'm going to think It all out! Comforted, the girl escaped, and Ellen ate her lunch In thoughtful mood, and afterward walked with Tommy to the station a mile away. She said nothing to any one at the house, but when they were on the road she told Tommy that they were going to meet Uncle Joe. How j know he was cornin? Tommy demanded. I telephoned him, dear. Ellen was excited: she trotted Toms small legs along In a spirited fashion. Joe, descending from the train, complimented them upon their cheeks. Of course you dont understand, Ellen echoed his greeting as she kissed him. But Ill explain, Joe. I didnt bring the car because I want to talk to you, by myself. Trot ahead there, Tom. Its about Lizzie, Joe. His honest, kind eyes flew to hers consciously. She told you? She was going to kill herself Joe. He walked along at her side for ten paces without speaking. My G d my G d !" be said then, under his breath. And, after another silence, he said, suddenly and firmly: Im sorry, Ellen. I know how you and Gibbs will feel. But I cant stand it any longer. Perhaps other men can do it: I cant. I'm going away get a job somewhere and shes going with me. It's the only way, for me. Shes a better woman than I am a man, because she gave herself where she loved. I thought Id cut everything, and get out for awhile, but now I see that this is the way out. Ill go and Ill take Lizzie. Well go now. Ill make It up to Lizzie, somehow! Oh. Joe, I love you!" Ellen said, tears and laughter in her voice. I think thats the only way out I 1 know that youll be glad some day." Half an hour later she sent Lizzie out to the gate on 6ome pretext, and Lizzie did not come back for almost two hours. When she did come, Ellen was playing with Tommy, and Tommys stone blocks, on the nursery tarde. Mrs. Josselyn," Lizzie said, coming close to Her. and laying one hand on Ellen's arm, I hope God will make up to you what you done for me. dont deserve you should treat me like his but Ill never forget it ! Mrs losselyn. weve beeD talking and lie's (ust gone down to get the four o'clock train and he says we are to be married. And if God helps me If God helps me I'll make him the best wife ! And Lizzie, turning her back suddenly. began to cry again. But Ellen knew that these were tears of joy. Her own mood was the more sober of the two os she went slowly to her own The right thing Is not always room. he easy thing." she mused apprehensively. Now she must face Gibbs with this extraordinary news. And Gibbs, of Joe always, would find in this a complete confirmation of his poor opinion of the younger man. George Lathrops dearest dream shattered, Harriet and a fortune flung aside, and Joe and a village girl, ungrammatical and unlettered, off to be married: the summary was disheartening Indeed. .And yet under all her uneasiness Ellen's heart was singing with the joy of a decision wisely made, and a hard Step bravely taken. She left Lizzie tremulously smiling, 1 I again until Gibbs, hoara wtufc paa sion, shouted suddenly: "I'll stop you, by G dl Til kill you before Ill listen t yeul . . . Ill stop you . . .! Oh, no, Gibbs!" she from the landing, seeing the threatening gesture. In the same Instant tka old man groped blindly for an lrry scimitar that lay on the hall table, a beautiful thing supposedly a book-knifbut measuring some tw feet In length, and very heavy. Then suddenly It was all over. Silence fell In the hall, and cutting through It Ellen heard the gasp of a maid. ' Torrens and some of the girls had come running In. Gibbs, with an ugly sneering smile on his Ups, stumbled back, clearing In with his hand a flowing his forehead. liis face, under the trickling red, was ghastly. The old man, steadying himself with one hand on the table, stood panting and staring wildly at him. final summary: By G 1, you ought to be killed . . . a fight like I think you did right. Joes not my mother's name the first man who has made a fool of this!" Gibbs spoke thickly, his breast If any other man bad said himself, but they may hit it off, after heaving. all. She's Just as apt to make him that . . ." lit"You get out of my house! the old a good wife as that empty-headetle Harriet I respect him for doing man answered, In a quivering whisper. It. Get out of my house do you hear? Ill get out of your house !" his son Ellen, sitting at her dressing table, felt a wave of happiness, almost weak- answered bitterly. As he strode toening in its intensity, pass over her. ward the big closet the maids murTo have him approve her again to mured and dre-- back from him. Til have the ice of the past months show get out and I'll take my wife and child tomorrow! he said, surlily. the least break Gibbs, dear!" Ellen had run down He was sitting by the fire. Now, the him her stairs, and was clinging to his at mirror, glancing through Gibbs, dear. Its your father! she saw him drop his head into his arm. Don't speak so ! hands. He took her hand from his arm, but she heard him say mood"Money What good would it do him? not roughly, and for a moment looked ily. lie had taken an What good has it done any of ns? I at her vaguely. wish to God we had never come here! overcoat from the closet, and had his I wish to God we had stayed in Paris! cap In his hand. "Gibbs, youll come hack!" she Why did they go downstairs earlier begged urgently as he turned toward than usual that night? Ellen never the door. When youre cooler, Gibbs you mustn't quarrel with your facould remember. She remembered that they had not dressed, and that at ther She saw that In the whirl of Ills pasabout six oclock she was following Gibbs down the wide, open stairway, sion he could not hear her, or could when his father came across the low- not understand her. But at the door er hall toward them. The old man he seemed suddenly to notice Torrens, held the evening paper that Gibbs had and he turned back. he said, Heres your chauffeur, brought from the city, in his hand, Ellen, on the landing, stopped short, bltlngly, to his father. Why dont was that aghast at the dark, angry suffusion you ask him where your of blood In his face. night? Why don't you ask him Look here just a minute, will you, whether he left her In Great Neck, or Gibbs? his father said In a shaking whether she took a train for the city? voice. His effort to control it gave You remember the night of the storm, It almost the effect of a shriek. Gibbs Torrens: where did you leave Mrs. . ran down the last stairs, and joined Josselyn that night? I took her to Mrs. Peppers house In Great Neck, sir," the man said, eager and uneasy. Before we laid the car up, we went there, sir. Gibbs gave one last look at his father, shrugged his shoulders, and was gone. The noise of the slamming heavy door died away, and there was silence. The maids stood grouped together at the dining room door, their eyes terrified. Josselyn, Senior, was still keeping one fine old hand on the table for support, his eyes fixed upon a spot on the floor a few feet away, his bead banging. Ellen was the first to move. She gave the maids a quick look that dismissed them, and went to put her arm about the old man's shoulders. Come Into the study, she commanded him, as if he had been TomShe was trembling herself and my. her heart was beating violently. This burst of primitive fury, this rending of all the careful structure of years, had left her shaken and shocked. Smiles and politeness and explanations for years," thought Ellen, and then suddenly this ! The old man sank Into a chair by the fire and leaned wearily back with closed eyes. For a while they were silent : Ellen, watching her father-hi-laanxiously, saw that he was breathIll Stop You, by G dl Ill Kill You ing more evenly, and gradually rel. gaining his Before I'll Listen to You!" I struck him, Ellen I struck him ! him at once, bending over the paper he said suddenly, resting his head In as his father brought It to his attenhis hands, and his elbow s on his knees. tion. Ellen, standing where she was. He looked old, and strangely broken. and looking down upon them, felt herI saw It in that accursed pnper, he self beginning to tremble. went on, "that Lindsay Pepper and Gibbs read the indicated lines and his mother had gotten back yesterday faced his father. He seemed to tower from visiting the sister In Montreal. over the old man. 1 And It all catne over me In a flash Weil, what about It?" he asked at thought he and Lillian had made the length, after a frightful silence. The lie up between them." two were measuring each other like "But you remember that Torrens, wrestlers, Gibbs eyes hard and angry, that very morning in the studio, said his father's look the soul of all that that lie had just come In from Great was suspicious and revengeful. Neck, she said soothingly, Ellen did not hear the old mans an"Pd forgotten it! he answered, swer. which came In a quick, furious stricken. I know how Gibbs feels about Lilundertone, nor what he said again, after Gibbs had made an ugly re- lian," Ellen said gravely, In a Their faces were close tosponse. "But Gibbs wouldn't do that! gether, and they looked straight Into Oli, no. he wouldn't!" she added, half each other's eyes as they spoke. The to herself. And as he gave Her a missound of their tense, harsh voices, in erable look, everything that was sane this beautiful hall of so many perfect and motherly In her came to the sursilences, seemed to Ellen full of su:l face Now, let's not worry about It," den terror and menace. "Gibbs was toe she said, cheerfully. You're telling a deliberate false- angry to be reasonable, but I begged hood!" she heard the old man snarl, him to cmnp back, and 1 know that as and something was added to which soon as lie's worn off some of his tern Gibbs answered, in a measured, grat- per. he will. Then you can explain ing voice: "You shall not say that! It to him: it Isnt," Ellen added innoBy G d, no, man shall say that to cently, "It Isn't as If he hadnt rather me ! lost Ills head over Lillian, you know, And suddenly the dignified custom lie lias something to blame himself for of the years dropped from both, and there!" Youve known It all along," Josse they were like two hairy denizens of some primeval forest ready to spriDg lyn. Senior, commented thoughtfully and rend. The storm had come so with a shrewd look. (TO BE CONTINUED.) suddenly, and from so clear .a sk.v. that Ellen had had no time to run for Coal Has Bright Flame She stood help, no time to think. Cnnnel coal burns with a height where she was, one band gripping the flame, and It Is probable carved dark wood of the rail, the other candle-likthat the name is a corruption of pressed against her heart. This coal Is found In Oh, don't!" she whispered, un- candle-coaheard. "Oli, what is It?" Kentucky. Ohio and Indiana, and She caught the words . . . you some believe that It is a product of hound , . . you liar! Betraying an accumulation of anlma' as well . remains. The same kind of coa1 own . . father lying your your way out of It like a common . . ."! is found in Scotland, where it I and then everything was unintelligible called carrot coal. 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