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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH r Sally Sez JJ(oMim- (EnoeDnsaiM9s (GmB WHAT WENT BEFORE Br chance Jamei Le meeti Lucy Gresham, daughter ot Sir John Gresham, ship builder. L eek revenge for being unjustly accused of robbing the Gresham firm and being sent to prison. He blames Oliver Ames, Lucy"a cousin, and Gresham's manager. Lee has inherited wealth and changed his name from Warrington, In compliance with the terms of the will. He secures an Invitation to Lucy's birthday party. Lucy la practically engaged to Ames. Lee makes love to her, his only idea being to hurt Gresham and Ames. With her father's consent Lucy lg married to Lee. He stuns her by telling her he does not love her and hates her whole breed. Lucy hears Lee's Btory of his wrongs and his determination to be avenged. She believes In his Innocence. "Llnforths," competitor of Gresham's, shows a determination to crush Its rival. Lee tells Lucy that he is "Lln- "JrtniU that he means to 'wreck Gresham. Jocelyn Upton 'asserts that Lee loved her before he met Lucy. -- "Jim," she broke out, suddenly. "Give way to this love you feel. . . . Give way to Jim. Let it possess and soften your heart ; let it drive out the devil of revenge. . . . Perhaps it's awful of me to suggest it, seeing how things are, it but better that, than this hate that ..." is poisoning you. The effect of her words upon Lee was astonishing. "What are you saying I What are you saying 1" he cried, on a low, tortured note. "Tou are telling me to give way to love? To let love rule me? To take what my soul in Its moments of abject weakness, craves? Xou are telling me this? Lucy. . . Lucy I . . "I am telling you, because it is the only way I can see," she went on, breathing rather quickly. "The only hope I can see. It's the only thing I can think of, Jim. I see now that it is true that you do love her; I haven't been absolutely sure until now. . . . And I see, too, that you have not conquered your N love quite so completely as you trv to think. . . . Yon love her still, if you would only let yourself. . . . CHAPTER VI Continued I'm telling you, Jim, to forget ev10 erything else, and' give yourself to Be opened his Hps as If he would this love. Don't consider me. Don't speak again, but closed them, with consider anything. Just let It lead to her dismay, you. . . " Her words faltered and nothing said, and caught her arm, pulled her Into the died away, and she stood looking drawing room and only stopped up at him, her big eyes wide and close beside the window. His hand earnest. under her chin, he said abruptly: "Lucy! Do you know what you "You've been crying." are paying? Do you know what this She tnadp no answer; couldn't; means? I've fought it all I can. . . . her lips were trembling so. I'll take you at your word I I'll take "You're crying now," he added. the love I'm mad for . . . Lucy She tried to free herself, but he He took a stumbling step wouldn't let her go. towards her and was close before "What are you crying for?" he her now, the tortured note turned went on. to sheer agony In his voice. A "Because. Oh, I don't know I moment of deepest silence passed ; Oh, what does one cry for? Not then he broke into a laugh, and because one Is . . . gloriously hap- his hands dropped to his sides. He py, anyway. . . ." turned from her. "Did he make you cry? Ames?" "Skies above! You nearly took "jSto . . . Yes . . . Perhaps it was me off my guard!" he cried in a . . i he. Oh, do let me go !" She was low voice. . . . "But you shall not now ; beyond You can't I Offer me all the love crying the power to disguise or control in the world and It shall not weakthe fact. He released her sudden- en me! You are asking me to bely, his face darkening: tray the vows 1 made. In the black"All right go," he said, sullen- est moments of ray humiliation. . ly, and she turned and fied to her Vowt made in a prison cell, from bedroom; flung herself face down-war- d a soul In purgatory, are not to be Into her pillows, and let the My weakness betrayed. tears have sway. After the tears, lightly shall not conquer' my strength ! ' came a blessed few minutes of Shall not I Do you hear, Lucy?" He sleep, from which she was awak- protested it strongly. ened by Anne coming In to put out "Yes, I hear, Jim," she answered. her evening things. He caught her by both shoulders, " "Oh, Anne . . . It's you . . ." she and drew her toward him. Held said, only just waking fully. "Is her quite close and looked down it late?" Into her eyes. "About a quarter past seven, "The power of woman Is very y madam. Will you wear the gray great It can do almost anything crepe?" it likes, with a man. Make of him "Oh, anything, Anne," broke In almost any kind of fool and traitor. Lucy, lying back again. "I've . . . . . , But great as it Is, It can't I've a splitting head. . . . Just put tempt me away from my task. Do my things out and I'll look after you understand that, Lucy?" myself. . . ." She hoped that exWithout looking up, she ancuse would serve for the heavy swered : eyes. When Anne had left her, "Yes. Very well, Jim. I . . . have she rose, tiredly, and dressed. She tried; that's all." She pulled away, had Just slipped on the shimmery, but he held her close. sleeveless frock of palest gray that "What can you think that I have Anne had laid out for her, and was to fear from love?" he said, the struggling with a rather awkward words coming through clenched shoulder fastening, when Jim teeth. "What, can love do to me, knocked at her door and came In when I can hold yon near, tou'-from his room. yon, look down Into your eyes and She forgot the refractory hook, remain . . . unmoved?" dropped her hands to her side, and She wrenched herself free, and her gown fell apart, revealing the stepped back from him, flushed flawless white of her shoulder and and angry-eyethe sweet, curving line of her girl"Jim, that's hateful! Hateful! I ish neck. He stood for a moment, was speaking of love. . . . Real beat her, and quite still, looking love. . . . Not a passing, momenlook neath that she found herself tary emotion, such as the worst blushing hotly and made a quick sort of man might feel, and the effort to gather the shoulder of her sort of woman might evoke. basest frock together again. . . . I was speaking of love. . . ." He put out a hand and pulled He stood for a moment hesitatAher nearer to hlra suddenly, and then past her, and ing, then gathered up the shimmery went out of pushed the room quickly. gray stuff. She stood as he had left her, a "This is a devoted husband's trahand pressed tight over her mouth. ditional Job, isn't it?" he said, and I . . . can't stand It. "I of gravely studied the mystery hooks and eyes that presented lt- - can't I" she cried to herself. . "I . must get away from It all. . self. so that I can . . . "Don't, Jim," she said, unsteadi- Ilight away " The Insult he had Just think ly, and tried to move away from To hurt him, but he held on to that flimsy, offered her, said tobadly. when say his he had her, what stuff wouldn't let and shimmery go. It given to Jocelyn. "It was one of the conditions you heart was all that she had laid down, that I should play the seemedto todo degrade for him. part of devoted husband," he said. tried "I must get away from It all. "Jim . . . don't make fun of it. . . . she said again, as she went It isn't fun to me." after Lee, to dinner. "Nor for nie." he said quickly. Dinner was a very silent meal "'So, I know that. And I know During the whole why. . . . And. . . . Oh, Jim, I'm so that evening. course of It, he said only one thing. -- rJ&rribly sorry about it all !" ' 'Tou know why? What do you Which was: "Gresham's are busy with the mean, Lucy?" he asked sharply. She raised her blue eyes to his. question, of building two boats for "You told me that you had the I'avanari line. Llnforths have I know what got to beat them on the deal. You known . . . love well know that Llnforths you meant by that, now," she said, may as to." intend . found . And "I've . out gravely. She looked at him with tired It's awful, Jim." eyes and said, In a subdued voice: "Awful . . . ?" he echoed. "Very well, Jim. Go your own "That you should have lost that way." . . . for the of sake happiness During the following week she revenge. . . . She . . . loves you, scarcely saw him, and when she too. you know." "I know she does!" he broke did h was particularly morose and She felt that she was her unsmiling. out, and suddenly pushed some sort of crisis. She away, and covered his face with awaiting his hands. "I know she does . . . found herself trying to guess what It would be, and from what quarGod help me!" he muttered. So It was true, then, she thought ter it would arise. Would It come From herself? Or from Jocelyn hi.dn't been talking for . . . Jocelyn? from Jim? effect this time. . . . When It came, It came from a "Is hate after all, so strong , Jim?" she asked, her quivering quarter she hadn't reckoned on. Hps Tinly . Just able to whisper the From Oliver Ames. A letter, tell"Is hate strong enough ing her that Llnforths had once question. Their deal to conquer love?" again beaten them. "It is. . . . It Is I It shall be !" he with the I'avanari line had fallen cried. "Those three years of hell through, and he heard that Lln. . . have got to be paid for. . . . forths had got the Job of building That Isn't revenge, that Is simply the boats. "And It's no particular consola. . . Justice. . . . And Justice Is a tion to reflect that they are bound P law of God. . . L They stood for a long moment to lose on the Job," the letter went on. "I think things ore going to facing each other. y ....!" ... -- - ... ... ... ... HEROES His be serious. But well fight of course. The news seemed to galvanize her back to life and energy. She knew now what she Intended to do. At breakfast she went round to Jim, stood beside his chair, and silently laid the letter before him. "I told you that, didn't II" he said. "I'm going up to see Oliver about this," she said abruptly. "To Edgestone? Where the Gresham shipyards are?" he asked, rather as if he were thinking of something else. r. "I shall go to a hotel In Edgestone is only. , . ." "Four miles out of the city." He supplied the information in the same mechanical way. "So I can easily go there and see Oliver. Or he. . . ." She broke off, because he rose suddenly, pushing back his chair, rather violently, and said in an odd voice: "Or he can come and see you at your hotel, I suppose?" "Yes." "Did it ever occur to you to ask whether It would be . . . convenient to me?" "No," she said at once. "I didn't think I was under any obligation to consult you about It" "Perhaps you're not . . . What are you going for?" he broke out after a moment's silence. "To see him about this." She pointed to the letter on the table. "To tell him about me, you mean, don't you?" he countered. "No. I shall not tell him about talk it over you, Jim. But with him exactly as if I do not know ..." New-cbeste- ... h 9 Elmo Scott Watson (Copyright) WNU Service h FORGOTTEN BY by Coitcordin Merrcl ' 4. - dpi "All right Good night, Lucy." Hpr vnfpe rna not- nnitA Ktpfldv SS she bade him good night, too. A good deal to her surprise, sne found, when she was ready to start next rlnv that .Tim w waltlnz to take her to the station. She thank ed him for that He bought her ticket, found her a nlnra In flrnt.pl a as Dullman, heaped the table before her with papers and magazines, ana as ne left hpr. h tnnk nff his hat bent down and kissed her cheek. "A devoted husband does mis sort of thing," he murmured, and hp lpft hpr iniickiv. without look She watched him go. ing back. with the quick stinging of tears in her eyes, so that his mighty figure was blurred in her sight Leo went stialght out of the station, without once looking back, fliine himself Into his car and What he started it immediately. was thinking or feeling, tne wisest, man on earth could not have dipsftpri from his apt. sullen face. And yet a turmoil of emotions was raging through Dim. As he was rounding a corner, slowly, he was hailed from the pavement by Jocelyn Upton, and drew up beside the curb to greet her. "Want to give me a lift?" she her thin eager little face lighting up. "Certainly. Get In, he answered, and she obeyed. "Where to?" he asked, as he started off again. "Anywhere I don't mind. Shall we go for a little trundle in the country?" she suggested. "Sorry. Not possible. I've a lot asked, to do." She moved restlessly beside him. "Oh, all right . . . home, then," she said discontentedly. He took her home. "Come in and see mother," she Invited as they reached the door. He followed her in. It appeared, though, that Lady Cordelia was not at home, so he nrpspntlv found himself alone With Jocelyn In the drawing room. "Sit down, Jim dear," she said, nnd nnshpd him Into one corner of a deep couch, while she took the other. "So nice to have you an to myself again, after all this time. . . Haw's thp married state? Does it offer any real compensation for a state ol single Diesseaness Lee was In no sort of mood for this kind of thing, but he managed a laugh, and mumbled something to turn it off. She lit a short, stumpy little cig- arette, and put one, with a rather angularly coquettish gesture Into his mouth. "I don't want one of these scented, silly little things 1" he protested, half laughing. But she silenced him by thrusting forward the one she held beas a means of light"What Time Are You Leaving?" tweenhis.her lips, Which, the cigarette being He Added. ing so exceptionally short, brought who Llnforths are, and try to de- their noses very nearly touching. vise some means of defeating Lln- She drew away, laughing. a forths exactly as If I were "Now you see the reason, don't stranger to them." you?" she said, softly. "Then you are setting yourself "Reason of what?" he asked, against me?" rather moodily, smashing the ciga"Against you? I'm doing my ut- rette Into an ash tray. most to keep you from making a "Why they are made so short success of a 'dirty trick.'" "Won't It seem odd to him if . . . He rose abruptly. . . . I don't come with you?" he said, "I must go . . ." he said quickly, slowly. almost unbearably Irritated by her. She looked up at him quickly. "Daren't you stay?" she ques"No. He knows you are . . . very tioned softly. He looked at her, busy." suddenly startled. There had been "Suppose I want to come?" nis a meaning in that, that had missed eyes looked down Into hers, smoulhim up till now. Then he turned dering and dark. She met his away again as If he were going to leave, just as quickly as a wholly "Well, I don't want you to come. mauuish panic could carry him. There would be too much risk of But her voice, saying: Oliver your being recognized. "How's Lucy?" halted him, and would be bound to know you. And him round again, as if there are the Gresham men to brought there were some magic power in tli ink of. too." the name. "And If I am willing to take that well, thanks," he an"Very risk? If I don't give a d n wheth- swered, a touch stiffly. er I'm known or not?" She looked at him, with her litBeneath the burning Intensity of tle dark eyes. "Has she said anyhis eyes, she found herself hesithing about me, lately, Jim?" tating slightly. "Let's see. . . . No, 1 don't think "I still don't want you to come," she said at last, looking away. "I so. I didn't know she had seen . . . want to get away. . . . Just for you lately." "Oh, didn't she- even tell you a little while." There was a shake she cried. In affected surthat?" In that. He looked at her, steadily prise. me?" "From for a moment. Then: "From everything." "Jocelyn, what are you driving "From nie?" he insisted. "Yes . . . and from yon," she at?" he demanded bluntly. "Come and sit down again, dear, lie drew a breath and cried. And and I'll tell you," she said. wheeled round from her. But he didn't move. He Just stood again there was silence. "Suddenly he went back to his where he was and said: "Tell me." chair and sat down. "It's difficult to shont these "When are you going?" he asked things out across such a distance," abruptly. "Tomorrow. Terhaps I shall wire she objected. These things . . .? Ue was silently to Oliver today, asking him to fix What things? He finally comprome questioning. demost rooms for at the up mised by striding over to her and cent hotel In Newchester." close befo.e her. "The Koyal is the best Will you standing "Weil?" he asked. go there?" "She was telling me the other "I don't mind where it Is, so long as It's comfortable. All right, I'll day what a fiasco your marriage ask Oliver to get rooms for mo at is," she said slowly. "What!" That broke from him the Royal." He said no more, and from the from the sheer unexpectedness of time he left the house after breakShe laughed; an impish, disafast, she did not see him again unne came to her greeable sound. til midnight, room, then, Just as she had retired "Oh, yes; she was telling me for the night that Jim. And more besides. How "Made all your arrangements?" miserable she Is; what a mistake he asked from the doorway of his the whole business has been. . , ." room. She paused a minute; then added: "Yes." she answered, looking at "And she was wondering what him. She thought he looked tired, could be done about It" rather pale, and not very happy. "Done? What did she mean . . .?" "What time are you leaving?" he "Well, Jim dear, ninrrlnges aren't ndded. the Irrevocable things, these days, from King's that "By the ten fifty-fivthey once. . . ." Cross." (TO I3B CONTINUED. ... ... look-quietl- - it e fell1 W War" "One-Ma- n TN THAT curious old chronicle, the Newgate Calendar, published In London In 1777, may be found this entry, "So dangerous an Individual to the kingdom as this man, Altken, perhaps, never existed. Confession and repentance can hardly soften the abhorrence felt on the contemplation of the extent of his crimes. ! Altken, that universally detested character, during the progress of his public ruin and desolation, had gone by several names a plan generally adopted In a long course of villainy." Thus did old England pour out the vials of her wrath against the young patriot who war against the waged a enemy and who all but succeeded in crippling the "Mistress of the Seas." The son of a Scotch blacksmith, James Altken came to America at the age of nineteen to enlist In the fight for liberty. 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