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Show ' . 'i'i-- j . .' :. THE BINGHAM NEWS V ; - Katharine g00 m COI'VKK.llT BY KATHAKINK SEHUN UIBT. CHAPTER XIII Continued. 11 There were blistered spots above that pathetic, mistaken signature. The poor girl had meant to sign herself "Respectfully," and somehow thut hIf broke his heart. He drank the strong coffee Wen Ho brought for him, two great cups of It, and he ate a piece of broiled elk meat. T'rion ha Tlant nut flffuln nnrl u'albml ened child, and wake, trembling, happy to find herself safe In his, arms. So they lived their spring. Wen Ho, the silent and Inscrutable, went out of the valley for provisions, and dur-ing .his absence Joan queened It In the kitchen. She was learning to laugh, to see the absurd, delightful twists of dally living, to mock Prosper's oddi-ties as he mocked hers. She was learning to be a comrade and she was "Something for you, leopardess," he said he bad told her bis first Impres-sion of her. She took the box haughtily and walked with It over to her chair. But he came and kissed her. "Jealous of my mall? ' Tou foolish child. What a girl thing yon are! It doesn't matter, does It. how we train you or leave you untrained, you're all alike, yon women, under your skins. Open your box and thank me prettily, and leave matters you don't under-stand alone. That's the way to talk. Isn't it?" She flushed and smiled rather doubt-fully, but, at sight of his gift, she for-got everything else for a moment. It was a collnr of topax and emerald set in heavy silver. She was awe-struck by Its beauty, and went, after he had fastened It for her, to stand a long while before the glass looking at It. She wore her yellow dress cut Into a V at the neck and the Jewels rested beautifully at the base of her long, round throat, faintly brown like her face up to the brow. The yellow and the green brought out all the value of her grave scarlet Hps, the soft, even tints of her skla the dark lights and shadows of hair and eyes. "It's beautiful," she Bald. "It's won-derful. I love It" All the time wry grave and Still, she took It off, put It on Its box, and laid It on the mantel. Then she went out of doors. Prosper hurried to the window and saw her walk out to the garden they had made and begin her work. He was puzzled by her manner, but pres-ently shrugged the problem of her mood away and went back to his mall. That night he finished his novel and got It ready for the publisher. Again Wen Ho, calm and nneom-plainin-was sent out over the hill, and again the Idyll was renewed, and Joan wore the collar and was almoft as happy as before. Only one night she startled Prosper. "I asked Pierre," she said slowly, after a silence, In her d voice, "when he was taking me awny home, I asked, 'Wbere are you golngr and he said to me, 'Don't you savvy the answer to that question, Joanr And, Prosper, I didn't savvy, so he told me and be looked at me sort of hnrd and stern, 'We're to be married, Joan.'" Prosper and Jonn were sitting be-fore the fire, Jonn on the bearskin at his feet, he lounging bnck, long-legge-smoke- veile- d In one of the lacquered chairs. She had been fingering her collar and she kept on fingering It as rapidly down the trail. It was not yet dark ; the world was in a soft glow of rose and violet, opalescent lights. The birds were singing in a hundred chantries. And there, through the firs, a sight to stop his heart, Joan came walking toward him, graceful, free, a swinging figure, bareheaded, her rags girded beautifully about her. And up and up to him she came sound-lessly over the pine needles and through the wet snow-patche- looking at him steadfustly and tenderly, wlth- - learnlng better speech and more ex-quisite ways. It was Inevitable that she should learn. Prosper, In these days, spent his whole soul upon her," fed her with music and delight, and he trained her to sing her sagas so that every day her voice gained in power and flexible sweetness. She would sing, since he told her to, her voice beating Its wings against the walls of the bouse or ringing down the canyon In untrammeled flight Pros-per was lost in wonder of her, in a passionate admiration for his own handiwork.'" He was making, here in this n solitude, a thing of marvel; what he was making surely Justified the means. Joan's laughable simplicity and directness were the same ; they were part of her presence ; no civilizing could confuse or disturb them ; but she changed, her brain grew, It absorbed material, it attempted ad-ventures. Nowadays Joan' sometimes argued, and this filled Prosper with delight, so quaint and logical she was and so skillful. They were rending out under the firs by the green lip of the lake, when Wen Ho led his packhorse up the trail. He had been gone a month, for Prosper had sent hlrn out of the val-ley to a distnnt town for bis supplies. He didn't want the little frontier place to prick up Its ears. Wen Ho out a smile. She came and stood be-fore him, still without dropping her sad, grave look. "Mr, Gael," she said, ."I hev come back. I got out yonder an'" her breast heaved and a sort of terror came into her eyes "an' the world was awful lonely. There ain't a crea-ture out yonder to care fer me, fer me to care fer. It seemed like as If it was all dead. I couldn't abear it." She put out her hand wistfully ask-ing for pity, but he fell upon his knees and wrapped his hungry arms about her. "Joan," he sobbed, "Jonn ! Don't leave me. Don't I couldn't bear it!" He looked up at her, his' worn face wet with tears. "Don't leave me, Joan I I want yon. Don't you under-stand r Her deep gray eyes filled slowly with llirht. she nut a hand on either she spoke and staring straight Into the flames, but, at the last, quoting Pierre's words and tone, her voice and face 'quivered and she looked at hlra with eyes of mysterious pnln, In them a sort of uncomprebended anguish. ' "Why was that, Prosper?" she asked ; T mean, why did he say It that way? And what what does It stand for. marrying or not 7" Prosper jerked a little In his chair. "Well, Joan, I'll go Into the subject with you one of thew days, when the weather Isn't so beautiful. It's reallj a matter of law, property rights, and so forth, oine out and look at the moon." "Listen!" They stood side by side at the door. "Some silly bird thinks that Is the dawn. Look nt me, Jonn!" She lifted obedient eyes. "There I That's better. Don't get that other look. I can't bear It. I side of his face and bent her Hps to his. "I never thought you'd be wantlu' me," she said. CHAPTER XIV Concerning Marriage. And It was springtime; these prison-ers of frost were beautifully sensitive. They, too, with the lake and the aspens and the earth, the seeds and the beast', had suffered the season of Interment. In such fashion Nature makes possible the fresh undertakings of last sum-mer's reckless prodigals; she drives them into her mock tomb and freezes their hearts It Is a little rest of death so that they wake Kke turbulent bac-chantes drunk with sleep and with Love, spring says, Is an eternal fact, welcome Its new mani-festations, llenmtlng bluebirds built their nests near Joan's window ; they were not troubled by sad recollections of lust year's nests nor the young birds that flew away. It was another life, a resurrection. If they remembered at all, they remembered only the Impulses of pleasure; they had somewhere be-fore learned how to love, how to build ; the past' summers had given practice to thclr singing little throats and to their rapid wings. No glumts forbade happiness and no God man-voice- d saying, because he knew the ugly hu-man aftermaths, hard sayings of "Bo ye perfect." Whnt counsel .wan theirs for Joan love you." A moment Inter they went out Into the sweet, silver silence down to the sliver lake. Fotir months Inter the nnme of Pros-per Gael began to be on everyone's lips, and before everyone's eyes; the world, bis world, begun to clnmor for him. Even Wen Ho grumbled nt this going out on tremendous Journeys after the mall for which Prosper grew more and more greedy and Impatient. His novel, "The Canyon," hnd been accented, was enormously advertised. There Were Blistered Spots About the Pathetic, Mistaken Signature. bad made an extraordinary success. All this he explained 'to Joan, who tried to rejoice because she snw that It was exquisite delight to Prosper. He wns by way (f thinking now thnt his exile, his Wyoming adventure, was to thank for his success, but when a woman, even such a woman ns Joan, begins to feel thnt she hns been a useful emotional experience, there be-gins pain. For Joan pnln began and dally It Increased. H was suffering for her to watch Prosper reading his letters, forwarded to him from the western town where his friends nod his secretary believed him to be re-covering from some nervous Illness; to watch him smoking and thinking of himself, his fame, his talents, his fu-ture; to watch him scribbling notes, planning nnotber work, to hear his ex-cited tnlk, now so ImiK-rsonn- so un-related to her; to see how his eager-ness) over her education slackened, faltered, died; to notice thnt ho no longer watched the chnngeful humors of her beauty nor cared If she wore bronze or blue or yellow; and worst of all, to find him staring at he- - some-times with a worried, impatient look which scuttled out of sight like some ugly, many-legge- crenture when It met her own eyes painful, of course, yet surh nn old story. Jonn, who bad never heard of such experience, did not foresee the Inevitable end, and. In so much, she wns spared. The extra pnln of forfeiting her dignity and t did not touch her. for she mnde none "f those rnot pitiful, un-availing efforts to hold him, to c!tng did not even protend Indifference. (TO ISR COXTIM'KD ) bad ridden-b- y a secret trail back over the rnnge; he had not passed even the ranger station on his way. He called out, and. In the midst of a sentence Joan was reading, Irosper stnrted up, ' Joan looked at him smiling. "You're as easily turned away from learning as a hoy," she begnn, and faltered when she saw his face. It was turned eagerly toward the climbing horses, toward the pack, and It was sharp and keen with detached Interest, an ex-citement that had nothing, nothing in the world to do with her. It was the great bundle of Prosper's mall that first brought home to Joan the awareness of an outside world. She knew that Prosper wns a trav-eled and widely experienced man, but she hnd not fancied him held to this world by human attachments. Con-cerning the "tall child" she had not pbt a question and she still believed her to have been Prosper's wife. Put when, leaving her place under the tree, she came Into the bouse and found Prosper feverishly slitting open envelope after envelope, with a pile of papers and magazines, ankle-high- , beside him en the floor, she stood nghnst. "What a lot of people must have been writing to you, Prnppr!" He did not henr her. He wns greedy of eye nnd finger tips, searching writ-ten sheet nfter sheet. He was flushed nlopg the cheek-bone- s nnd a little pnle about the lips. Jonn stood t!mr her hands bunging, her bend bent, staring up nnd out ht Mm from under bor brows. She loo'-ed- . In this nttltude, rnther dnncerotis. Prosper sped t ' tr"u:l his mnll, nmdr nn odd gesture of tlospetnrlen, snt still a moment storing, bis brilliant, green-grn- y eyes gone dull nnd blank, then he gave himself a shuddery sbnke. pulled a smnll parcel from under the pnpers, and held It out to Juan. He smiled. ind what had her human mentor taught her? He had taught her In one form or another the beauty of passion nnd Its eternal slnlessness, for thnt was his' sincere belief. Ily music lit had taught her, by musical speech, by the preach-ing of heathen sage and the. wit of modern arguers. He hnd given her all the moral schooling she had ever had and Its golden rule was, "P.e ye beauti-ful and generous." Joan was both beautiful and made for giving, "free-hearted" as she might herself have said, Friday's child as the old rhyme has it end to cry out to her with love, saying, "I want you, Joan," was Just sooner or later, to see her turn and bend her head and hold out her arms. Prosper had the reward of patience; his wild leopardess wns tamed to his hand and her sweetness made him render and very merciful. Their gay little house stood open all day while they explored the moun-tains nnd plunged Into the lake, choos-ing the hot hour of nonn. Jonn made herself mistress of the house nnd did her woman's work at Inst of tidying end besutlfylng and decking corners with gorgeous branches of blossoms while Prosper worked nt his desk. Ho was hnppy; the reality of Joan's pres-ence hnd lnld his ghost Just as the reality of his bad laid hers. Ills work went on magically nnd added the glow of successful credfb n to the glow of satisfied desire. And bis s'n of deceit troubled him very llrtle, for h bad worked out tlint problem and hnd de-cided that Pierre, (lend or alive, wn unworthy of this mute. Put sometimes In her sleep Jonn would start and nionn, feeling the. touch of the white-ho- t Iron on her Shoulder. Her haired of Pierre's cru-lty- , her resolution to be done with him' forever, must hnve vividly re-newed Itself In those dreams, for she would clinff to Prosper like a frltfht- - AfterX Every Meal ! Havs i packet in your pocket for ever-read- y ; S refreshment. g fcv, j Aids digestion. 5 Allays thirst. 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Man alive, the art was old In Cleopatra's time." Matrimonial Motives, Miss Antique You ought :o get mar-ried, Mr. Oldehupp. Mr. Oldehupp (earnestly) I have wished many times lately that I hud n , wife. .', "II :ive you really?" "Yes. If I hud a wife, Blie'd prob-ably have a sewing machine, and the r sewing machine would have an oil can, and I could take It and oil my office 1 door. It squeaks horribly.'' Ixmdou Tit-Bit- s. Peace-Tim- e Use for Airplanes. Immense Icebergs drifting down from the high. North like castles of glistening sliver arehilocklng the har-bor of Old Fort Buy, an ancient French-Canadia- n fishing jilnee on the const of Labrador. In some way the fifty Inhabitants have notified the government of Canada that they ure starving. Colonel "Billy" Bishop, V. C, the man who brought down 82 German planes during the war, Is going to tnke food to the people off there, There you have a good pence-tim- e use for an airplane and an able aviator. One Sufficient. JCexdore My chimney has been smoking all day. How can I cure It? JNaybor Give It one of those cigars you gave nie the other day Boston Evening Transcript. i Slight Difference. A ninn seldom has as much faith In his vote when he Is voting for some-thing as he does when he is voting to punish somebody. When you see a young man nt church every Sunday night It doesn't take a puz.lo expert to find the girl. A good memory Is one that enables a man to forcet the things he does not care to recollect. When a man feels mean that's his cue to keep silent. He Knows. If the doctor doesn't listen to the relation of half your symptoms, It Is because he knows what's the matter, anyway. Habit. "Look, mother! the police are tak-ing a man up." "Well, don't act as If you thought it was your father again !" Many 'a mini has started something which has finished him. Terrible or Ridiculous. If nngpr proceeds from a grest cause, It turns to fury. If from a snvill cause. It Is peevishness; nnd so It Is always either terrible or ridiculous Jeremy Tayloa |