Show V t i Recalled t to Life lj fJ r i r By CECILLE LANGD N k i Y c. c o x o oJ J 1019 Iola bj bl U Union Tragedy deep and direful direful had spread I d a a. settled gloom over the quiet little t village Tillage It had come with ith a force orce and suddenness of a thunder blast At i n a farm farmer r with frenzied I face and horror-haunted horror eyes had driven I r I j en CI Into the town at wild speed his horses horsE'S In a lather his lips parched and trembling He ne had circled to the theY I Y curb where the mashal stood and and had brought the wa wagon on to a halt and the ther r hor horses cs to their knees knee with a n shock Something terrible I 1 he panted 1 forth At the river young joung Darcy No- No Non n- n ble i He was driving an automobile Ii It slid from the roadway across FlatRock Flat Hat HatRock if Rock and plunged into the river man and all Oh it was awful I 1 There was an Instant uproar and ex The town officer sprang to the seat of his motorcycle and made for Cor the familiar spot described Others Oth ors frs hurried after him him- Soon the slanting slant slant- f ing lag shore of I Elk lk river was crowded with an awed n agitated throng j Jt It was Willis Dalys Daly's new automo- automo automobile k w bil bile bile poke spoke one of the crowd I noi nor noticed no- no r i tl tired ed Darcy came carne down the street with It not fifteen minutes ago He much used to it I reckon and f made a n wrong turn t f The b bj bystander slander spoke a n name very J Y dear to the townspeople Darcy Darc Noble Noble No ble was a n general favorite young favorite young oung r natured bright ju just t beginning a promising prom prom- ising business life lIff Many 1 thought of of hi his widowed mother Some too thought of Arline Dru Drury for It was very vry generally supposed that h he was wai I r as good as engaged to her i By dusk strong helpful hands with f the aid of two stout teams a diver and strong chains had dragged the out of the water a wreck Attached to it was a fragment of cloth torn from the coat of Its unfortunate driver apparently as he lie and amI the machine ma mn- machine chine went down to destruction The body of the young man was not discovered discovered dis dis- r covered however It was was- theorized E t that tha stunned he had floated downstream down lown- stream over the dam Search was waS' made for two days after that but no IJ- IJ v trace was found of bf the victim of the tIle tragedy r k The widowed mother of young Noble i. t was crushed b by the unexpected bei bet be be- i The friends of Darcy Including In In- eluding Arline Drury showed the deepest deep deep- p f est cst grief Dale closest friend of Darcy seemed most deeply shocked an and stricken It was my fault he almost wept Oh that I I. had never never allowed him to take the machine I warned him tobe tobe to tobe be careful knowing that he was a n amere at t- t mere novice at the w wheel heel I shall never never nevi nev nev- i er forgive e myself I In vain his friends remonstrated that he was guiltless guiltless- and taking too E greatly to to o heart an accident over which he had no control Willis Daly became a a changed man He lie went about hol huh 0 lo loe low eyed e ed and depressed His first t. t action was to visit the mourning mother moth moth- er erand and arrange a lifelong pension for forr r f. f her She too tried to persuade him i t- t t that not In the remotest way could she consider any any responsibility on his part In the untimely death of her son From the first he had evaded Arline Arr Ar Ar- r line Une Drury Then one evening as he r. r sat In his office drearily attempting to Interest himself In a book there was a tap at the door and Arline and her cousin Irma Merrill MerriU entered rt e Their mission was sober but but solace solacing lolae- lolae e ing Frank outspoken full of keen human sympathy Arline appealed to Dale to come out of his mental gloom Her sincerity won his confidence She Invited him to her home Within a month she had well-nigh well won him from his morbid mood Then Willis Dale Dahl made a discovery that aroused a new 7 and distressing devoted complication devoted ly heart and soul he loved Arline Drury I t Abruptly he realized the abyss Into which he had fallen He was shocked crushed at a conception of the unnatural unnatural t ural position In which lie lle found himself him him- self el It was like sacrilege to even 1 dream of supplanting the dead manIn man manIn In the affections of the supposed chosen chos chos- en one of his love Arline must never nevera a suspect th the truth Dale made all art arrangements arrangements ar ar- t to leave the village at once and forever A broken life Ute but better to remove w Its po possible shadow from her bright t spirit he be uttered as he started forthe for the railroad station to begin a n long aimless Journey And then he drew back k aghast ll Tale Pale wretchedly thin the mere ghost of his former self Darcy arcy Noble confronted him He was so weak that he could scarcely stand but at once and briefly brieff brief brief- f ly My Darcy recited a terrible experience fn tn the river months of wandering his mind a dull blur But now now now- Help me to the Merrill place 1 he pleaded to the mj mystified stifled Dale Irma first my first my affianced wife I IIrma i iIrma Irma 7 spoke Dale In a great marveling marveling mar mar- eUng gasp and then th the light shows In upon his mind and his soul was was' radiant as he tenderly uttered their thel beloved name name name and and and MIllsDale Willis MIlls r Dale kne knew that all ll |