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Show THE PAYSOMAN, PAYSON, UTAH BURMESE TROOPS IN FRANCE HOLD WAR COUNCIL PAGE THREE ID NO So, after all, Ward took an extra pang away with him from the chance meeting. What if, after all, his watchIf ing and waiting meant nothing? she were gone, beyond earthly finding? Death for him might he a beginning only, a door to eternity, but all the philosophy and hope of his faith did not fill his empty human arms. That night lie walked the London streets until dawn. He came back from Oxford at the end of liis course there. Home was AUTHOR or V"Twf dan in lower ten," etc. cnlling, and work, blessed work, thut COPYRIGHT brings forgetfulness. DARY ROBERTA RINEHART On the last Sunday before he sailed he attended service in Saint Pauls. He CHAPTER XII. I tell you now. knew the church well. In those earlier limatters any, but philosophy had taken his lt was only an hour or so before change your memory of me. Ever days when dawn when Iluff got to the hall. There since Ive known you Ive had one young brain by storm and his faith were no trains between midnight and dream. You were to marry me and I had rocked, he had gone to Saint Pauls. Something in the very solidity morning. And Talbots car. which he was going to turn straight. I could of the old church, in its antiquity, in debeen had have have done it with your help. But the nearness of those might used, long e layed by his burst tire, lie took a now ones of the earth who had lived great suburban trolley line for perhaps half He dropped her hands and turned and died, secure in S!j "H his teachings, had the distance and walked the rest. away. Elinor watched him wistfully. steadied him. At four the The not one in oclock he could wanted she L thing morning he And now, when It was his heart that pressed the arbor button, and old Hen- give. There could be no compromise failed, and not his soul, he went there. rlette, grumbling at this second dis- between them. It must be all or nothIt was there that he found Elinor. turbance of her rest, roused Elinor ing, and she had given her all to some- She wns Just in front of him, In the one else. again. prim garb of an English army nurse. In the doorway he turned and looked And it wns no resemblance thut roused Time was precious, Iluff, having Burmese troops fighting on the western front with the British forces, holding n council of war on the rats, rung the announcing bell, made his back at her with haggard eyes. It was his first interest. What he saw was These venomous creatures are the dread of the fighters in trenches and cause a great deal of trouble to the men. way up through the dew to the house. as if he were Impressing on his mem- only a slender girl, kneeling, and eviAnd so it was that Elinor, opening the ory every light and shadow of her dently in tears. She was This British official photograph was taken at Contalmaison. very thin; house door, met him face to face. As face ; every line of her straight young he saw that, and her shoulders heaved she recoiled from him, he closed the figure. Then he went out into that convulsively. But ns the service went door. darkest hour of the night that pre on she grew quieter. When she rose WOMEN BY BRITISH OF MADE MILLIONS SHELLS 1 have from her knees at last, she was quite brought you a message front cedes the dawn. Ive been For the first time since his injury calm. Boroday, he said swiftly. a fool and scoundrel and its about Wards mind was quite clear, lie had It wns then that he knew her. all up. not been able to sleep, and the nurse Ward watched her with an ache In Elinor hardly realized what he was had been reading to him. Strange read his throat. She looked frail, sad. Alsaying. The light of horror had hardly ing, too, for the assistant rector of ways In his mind he had pictured her died out of her eyes. To her, Walter, Saint Judes. The books old Hilary in her summer garden, a flower herself once her lover, now typified all of suf- had kept on his bedside still lay there. among her flowers, or as she had to looked that night in old Hilarys liEven the nurse, accustomed fering and nearness to death that lay In old Hilarys room upstairs. many hooks for many men, was gently brary, the night' when, to save-fejin- ,' she had told him the shameful truth The first train leaves the city at outraged. Ward lay in Ms bed, his eyes half about herself. And now he found her six oclock, he said, trying to keep his voice steady. It is hardly likely they closed, listening intently. At last the here, wearing the garb of service, "and on her knees will be out so soon, but under some nurse put down the book. So fearful wns he of losing her that Why, its frightful, Its outrageous pretext or other they will search the house this morning. its blasphemous! Do you really think he stayed close ns ' the congregation , moved slowly out of the church. She IIow can I leave the house now? I should rend you any more of them? Ward smiled feebly, did not Intend to go; he saw that. She Upstairs in fathers room If you are afraid of the effect on stepped out of the crowd and waited. I know, he put in hastily. I know He thought It probable that she was all about it. Elinor, I am sorry, I am you. nurse almost Not nt said to seeking what he himself had once the excuse no I all, say Its sorry. wildly was crazy, but I was. sharply, and picked up the book again sought a quiet hour under a holy roof. Ward lay back on his pillows and And so It wns that they came face to If I go away, Elinor said, with face again. She put her hand to her arguments. white lips, how will they manage listened to the age-ol- d So it was on such literature as this throat, with the falnlliar gesture, when about him? The nurse needs so many How she saw him. For a moment neither things, and I I see that she has them. that Elinor had been reared fair a plant to have grown thus In the of them spoke. The ordinary greetings A flame leaped Into the boys eyes. dark 1, And as the nurse droned on were out of place, and what was there If you care for him like that what are you going to do about it? Ward came to renlize how natural and to say? It was Ward who spoke at last. room of one of Great Britains big munition factories, where most of the work Even if he cares for you, you caunot how inevitable had been her developStriking scene in the shell-fillinment. Reared In such soil, what might It doesnt seem quite possible, Eliout . he ever found about him. Is done by women. If marry he not himself and he said. have nor, become; you She had never been Elinor to him He will never marry me. And he more than that, would he have been f so sweet, so tender, so good? save In his thoughts. But neither of does know. SALVING A NIEUPORT AIRPLANE FROM THE SEA Toward dawn the nurse slept In hori them noticed. The fact that Ward knew the truth I am sorry you have found me. I about Elinor and the band brought chair. Her cap had fallen a little back to hiiu their common peril. He crooked, and the beautifying hand of have tried so hard to bury myself.? It was Increasingly hard for him to thrust aside, for the time at least, his sleep had touched away the small furrows between her eyes. Ilnin she was, spenk. All the things that had lain In passion and his despair; and calmly directed his energies toward preparing but kindly and full of gentleness. Ward, his heart for three years clamored for lying awake, watched her. She was no speech. the house for the inevitable search. You are quite well again? So systematic had old Hilary been longer very young, ne thought of the Perfectly. But you? You are thinthat there were few papers to destroy. children who should hnve clung to her Such of the ledgers as were incriiniriat broad, flat bosom and felt the touch of ner. her tender hand. I have worked hard and, of course, ing he burned in the furnace. Elinors Then, because, curiously enough, I have suffered. It was not easy to box of jewels he carried upstairs and of gentleness and tender- tear myself away from the few friends placed on the library table. Such set- everything ness reminded him of Elinor, his I had tings as had remained from the counthoughts swung round to her. He And then, at last, he broke Into try club raid, after the gems had been closed his eyes, and dreamed the speech, rapid, Incoherent He blamed taken out, he melted together in old dream that had been with him, sub- himself for his hardness that night in Hilarys crucible and placed the gold consciously, all the night. To take her old Hilarys library, he condemned himand platinum nugget in Elinors box. He had set the safe to a simple com in his arms, and by teaching her love, self for a thousand things. She lisbinatlon and closed it. Except for its teach her Infinite love; by showing tened, rather bewildered, with the old and forgiveness and great ten- wistfulness in her eyes. size, and for the protective wiring mercy to lend her by these, nis atderness, been buried in its walls, it might have Why should you say such things? a family safe, built by a nervous and tribute, to the Christ this was his she asked at last, when he stopped from sheer panic. You were elderly gentleman living In the coun- dream. I And because it brought hope and was a criminal. I have been right try to hold his silver spoons. learning ' $ It was too late by that time to bury healing and great pence, after a time things since then. You were always box as Boroday had suggested he slept. Elinor, standing alone In the kind to me. I have never forgotten. the 4 '4'. (fc , 'fc Huff did the next best thing, lie house outside his door, took courage Kindi He almost groaned. ? from his even breathing and ventured buried She Elinors in held out Iter hand. -it garden, I must go carefully A 3 w. .ja in. So light wns his sleep that she now. My time Is not my own. under a clump of crimson plilox. Shu vT'O' A "'V- - ' Elinor worked hurriedly, but with dared not touch him. She knelt very glanced down at her uniform. Do you .v. cifA ,v.v.v "'C;-d remember what you said to me once hopeless eyes. Her preparations con- - quietly by the bed, and kissed the about the brotherhood of man? I have in little more than putting on ner of his pillow, Men of the British navy in tlie east Mediterranean salving a Nieuport airplane that had fallen into the sea. been trying to live up to that. the clothing in which she meant to Ward spent Ills Sabbatical year in travel. In this new life on which she Ward took her hand. It was very was entering she wanted little to re- - Oxford. He had thought to find peace cold. WINTER WAR GARB IN ITALY Do you remember that? FRENCH IN CAPTURED TRENCH AT VERDUN mind her of the old. A letter to Hen- - by exchanging one form of activity for I remember almost everything you riotte contained enough money to pay another, hut with the less arduous du-othe servants and the household no- - ities of liis work there he had more told me. Even the things, that night, '"""""rrvwMiw vv'memssmssB. counts. In another envelope she fold- - time to think. He found the old pain while I was watching the clock. I reed the deed to the house and a note even greater; Ills restlessness grew on member them all. him. In the three years since Elinors The church was empty, 'save for a conveying It to Henrlette. You can sell it, she wrote. Good- - flight he had done many things, lie verger here and there, busy about his by, dear Henrlette. I shall never for- had left Wotfinghain for New York, duties. Quite suddenly Ward lost his get you, and If ever it Is possible, be wnd could feel his usefulness now composure. sure I shall see you again. And I I remember everything too. only hounded by his strength. But the ohl zest of life was gone. He Your smile, your eyes that The time came, just before dawn, night when when she and Walter stood again face was restless, heavier of spirit. There I was carried into the house oh, my had been times when he had thought dear, my dear, you are written on my to face in the library. Iluff was going at once. It was not that he was forgetting, only to dis- heart. lie bent over, shaken and pale, and Borodays plan that any of them cover, through a stray resemblance, should further incriminate Elinor by while his heart pounded and his blood kissed Hie palm of her hand. accompanying her to the train. At a raced, that his forgetting was only the It is you who are good, he said sound of steps on the stairs, Huff numbness of suffering. I, who talked smugly of virhuskily. started. Once, on the Strand in London, he tue and tenderness and pity, and who The nurse going down, probably for cane face to face with Boroday. Ward let you go out of my life I care for v ouhl never forget that meeting, its ice. she explained. you more than I care for anything in He is getting better, isnt he? quick hope which died into tile old this world. I want you I wart you. Yes. hut he still suffers at times. a.ciie at Boroday's words. Elinors eyes turned toward the high When the steps had died away, EliI have not seen her, ho said, altar with ils cross. Always, xxhen she nor slowly drew off her engagement am nlvnys looking. Perhaps she s looked nt it, she had seen the cross nt ring, and held it out to him across the wise, to break wiih us nil. Still, we Saint Jude's, and the dawn, and spnr-- ! table. Although lm was watching her, loved her. I have never married, and rows drinking out of the wet gutter at he made no move to take it, and she i'c was like my own child. her feet laid it down between them on the He had taken a eh rlcship in LonI want you, said Ward, and waited, don. he said. While, of course, lie did frightened. tabip. This is one of .the heroic soldiers of I dont think we need talk about It, not say so, Ward rend between liis But her eyes came back to him, clear Walter. she said simply. There, is words that he was done with the old and full of promise, Italy in the new winter uniform delife for good. He held out his hand signed especially for those who must nothing to say, is there? I hnve always loved you. she said I suppose not, he returned bitterly. and the Russian took it. fight In the mountain passes. I will go with you. And simply. If only you will try not He added: if I hear anything. Boroday said, your God shall be my God. to hate me, Elinor. Both Pleased. she "Ill let you know. Once or (THE END.) I do not hate you. But If he had wrote me; from Liverpool once, after Newed Do you know. Id rather die- dshe landed, and again from here. Then play tennis than eat. A first line trench on Hill 304, tl: scene of some of the Moodiest engageOne of Many. Huff came swiftly around the table the police closed up the Dagos place, Mrs. Newed Well, Itn glad to hear ments of the war. The hill has been won and lost by both sides several The Friend (who has been abroad) It, Charles, for Id much rather play times. It is now held by the French, who have resisted every effort of the and taking both her hands In his, held which was the only way she knew to And how is your wife, old man? his to a throat with them despairing reach me. Ive never heard since. bridge than cook. German troops to drive them out. Ex Husband Oh, I havent any wife Then you think she may be In Eng- now. She gesture. got a divoroe last summer, I know would didnt If make that it land? Ward asked eagerly. Should Be Worth Something. on the stage. is now and you more unhappy, lie said slowly, The Russian shrugged his shoulders. Naming Hindu Babies. Cyttsus proliferus, popularly known Daily Thought The Friend Ah. an actress, eh? kill I'd I myself Hindu as tagasaste, is a plant of ornamenme Babies are named when they today. When anyone has offended try Perhaps, if she is living. She was Oh, no; shes merely Walter 1 tal value and a good stock forage plant to raise my soul so high that the of- are twelve days old, and usually by the not strong. Sometimes I wonder on the stage. too. mother. Descartes. fense cannot reach it. HAD $MARY J GOD' ROBERTS RINEHART dead-and-gon- 1 g one-hal- v' V : jfc . ksiiauan ,r cor-siste- ff j tw-.e- |