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Show white and high, a prominent, dolir.7, nose, ana Irises or clear, ium)n gray. It wasnt altogether an Ani! Saxon type of countenance, nor It definitely European ; it rather to have taken all the better qualities from several races, it Wa. a face to Inspire Immediate trust aw confidence and respect, and Harmon despite his lack of practice In all three of these reactions, was evidently at. tracted by It. The Man Nobody Knew . Vlchy-Celestl- for me, said the man Indifferently. I guess Ill have vlchy Til too," said Harmon, relaxing, if to wasnt for something I cant Just de. tried well have as he his that might The Individual glanced up from . scribe I d say well, never bla ar penetrate a curtain of solid fabric. . . . what business have present task; the wound In was abEr asked mind. he yet? Seen any was still annoying and he been In, by the way? LET EM MAKE'ME LOOK LIKE THAT! , sorbed In learning to write with his humorously. The younger mans reply was tardy The taciturn one moved Not yet. left hand. and not particularly gracious, the a trifle away ; a man less Everyone knows about the Legion Etrangere nicn-ar- d What for? he muttered, Earthan wined and Why, the longest time I ever put and less dined famous Foreign Legion of the French army. Well, Why, said the nurse, cheerfully, mon would the tn at any one business was selling in. taken have probably Foreign for a model. To help the surgeons. hint and removed himself, but Har- - surance. The last thing I did was a Morgan of Syracuse,- N. Y., enlisted in the HiHiaro Theyll take your picture for guide m was an Inquisitive disposition, seii bonds. Why? name Henry the under 9f the in war the almost exactly look Legion great and make you curb It to 11M A nim-se- lf stiffened. never salesman Harmon he attempted and with So you can guess that the hero was not in love way you did before." corapan- Thats the last thing in America sat up he was the sort of travelingreflect up q00j Lord wit from Individual The to the hospital Christians makes WOrld who Ion have ' . . . but, ay1'? or with life. The Hun sent him Id so that the nurse was startled homl- straight, snot of Justifiable much definition yoll must have been a whirlwind was without on the a wounded knee and arm and a face pretty by his animation, which cide. ana Why, a man with a presence like you1 knee his fixed local in history, his a parallel surgeons up line?' he Inquired wouid hardly have to open his mouth! Is away with shrapnel, What your ne What I" he said. a pause. Youve got a sort of . . . ill be C V his arm. When they proposed to restore his fieatures, The nurse spoke In after Certainly!" m And his man queerly. laughed other himself. The of hanged If I know what to call It lied and said he had no photograph the tone one uses to an ailing child. if It makes so but a kind of feeling, If you know !k first The Youve known that, havent you? rage against life he caught up a picture postcard bearingmuch difference to you. what , I mean. Salesman Why, all The Individuals voice was queerly you. you need Is an Introduction and a dotcried: dont and get of I quite the radiant face Christ pardon? Beg You strained. and unmanageable You said . . . ted line! Let em make me look like that! Or anything else, mean to say theyre going to make me I said the first line. I meant the The young man laughed rather forthat? do Could . . . they n! look d the way dont give a ... first-lin- e trenches. Ive been in It. and sipped hls vlchy. lornly now?" Could they? Even In head hls upward Harmon The French surgeons were interested and did a gooa jerked at present I havent either." Just Why, of course, she assured him comprehension. in back is Knew Man Harmons gaze was unfaltering, and The said Nobody he And You never told me thntl presently job. I seel You mean the war! hlg interest and admiration bounded Oh, and Why Dick selling of didnt you? Morgan Why passionately. Syracuse, telling of the death And youve been right on the spot higher. Mechanically, In accordance you have told me I And here couldnt Carol in Durant, with love and stock the fighting Is? Pretty lively with hls habits, he was striving to disfalling deeper mining been . . ." He put his hands to where Ive to refused marry isnt It? Something stirring cover bow this new acquaintance had who life there, old up the only girl of his his bandaged face and seemed the time? most all once at all Then might be put to practical use. Was shrink within himself. Dick Morgan, the failure. The other mans I right, or was I wrong? Playing ln so. I imagine theres nothing out: Well, he burst was amazingly diffident, and hard luck dont strengthen a mans Complications! Well, rather especially when the to prevent . . . Then they could make accent and the out at him, Incredulous. to be worthless courage much, even if he tries to bluff me not look like it, If they wanted tol Harmon peered mining stock apparently turns know? you dont Good Lord, himself into thinking it does. Cut out Isnt that so? only man in the world who knows Hilliards secret dies of to I deal. a happened Not great vast the regret stuff ; thats my advice, and In perplexity, She regarded him the first day I was in the you Cm take or ieave it Forget hit apoplexy and the hero finds out that the heroine did love get a surgeon, of summoning and thought trenches." luck as au Dick Morgan: And Holworthy Hall handles these complyou had over here, to that tough quiver for the man had begun In It again afterward, an(j get LUsy figuring out how youre you got But he which shock Amercharacters shell and human this from ications and these real, though I suppose? Ill bet you did going to cash in on all your expert- hadnt undergone. ican community in the masterly way that makes him read No. what ence. Americas full of chances you understand Why, I dont I You pever got back at fa "What If from one end of the country to the other these days. But said she soothingly. youll land something big in no time. mean," and through? one youre Just day, j Cant help It If you try. Salesman! Good reading! youll Just be calm and" Yes. After I was discharged from gon youre carrying your best The Individual gestured with fierce : I was discharged from the inea(jation right on top of your own 2L Impatience. Permanently unfit. too.' army and shoulders do what can you say, If they cent of cross or medal, and his depres-tsioCHAPTER I. army? "English The young man gave him back a wry was apparent, and acute. The make me look like any old thing they French." No are and finished his vlchy. devil in the nurses, arguing that perhaps his pride choose to, then wlmt said smile some record! thats Well, In the beginning of things, he was was wounded I for? a for only hope It comes true," he said. photograph as seriously as his flesh, they asking That cerHarmon looked at him steadily, and merely a number ; but even that was offered quick condolence and got themto go by he said helplessly. Harmon appreciatively. Why, Not to say some record under the spell of those radiant creditable, because .his number was, selves rebuffed with You want to look like your old self, tainly is of the Inrekind. shrugs the luck Going falling had he toughest that tough to low enough stared and stared until he signify features dont you? dividuals shoulders, and Inarticulate I take It? back home, himself and all at once to came I sponded pretty promptly to the rally- sounds which had all the earmarks of dont No, Looks that way, doesnt it? his fist. down on the table, so ing call. After that, and with the suppressed profanity. He didnt even The nurse gasped. His tone had been brought narmon Ignored the sarcasm. that the glasses rang again. cataclysmic suddenness which marked soften when Pierre Dutout, a hard-hi- t churlish, but the echo of Jt vaguely Back to work, eh? What did you the on status all changes of military His relief. and Well, why shouldnt It? As a matterritorial In the n'fixt bed, squandered suggested triumph Is?" . . could say your line western front, he became, one frosty a . subsided had of fact, why shouldnt It?" ter symptoms of energy to lean across days supply I didnt say. I haven't any Just The younger mans expression morning, a Case, and got himself and whisper sympathetically to him: it be that he actually was relieved? now. hanDumfounded, she made another effort roughly classified (and tenderly Meaning what?" e Old man . . . Vieux espece de Harmon pondered a second. Grand a a Case, Stretcher as dled) said Harmon deliberateknow how it Is . . . to convince him. I Meaning, SolOh! Gentleman of leisure? Blesse, and. In consequence, a proper and I havent got But you want to look Just as near- dier of the first that thing Ive got to do friends either. ly, I wouldnt eh? Well, tny fortune, temporary inmate of a field hospital Is to hunt up a couple home I want you to take my Croix de ly like when get If I were you, Youre disap-on the Belgian plains. "Dont you suppose I know what I worry salesmen of Guerre. . . . When I go nowhere. myself. Are you good but the ; pointed thats natural There, he was unofficially known as Even when speech returned to the want?" he Interrupted rudely. come to an end yet. Of hunting for a good job, or arent you?" world hasnt But havent you a photograph, any- course It Is Arent you a little hasty? The Joyeaux, or Joyous One; not because Individual he was a man of curt ren something of a he displayed a very buoyant disposl sponses and stinging monosyllables mans Intonation was sardonic. way, that I can Into young to and harness leave the get army I tion far from it I but because he be- a problem ti the surgeons, a problem No, I havent 1" he snapped. cleaned up most of my money, Ive but after all theres plenty of It was a lie; the passport again, longed to the Foreign legion; and in to the nurses and (if the expression in havent. Harmon said In United very slowly to the cellStates. excitement the right the course of another day or two he his eyes meant anything), ar. over- photograph was In the lining of a cer- Big work to be done, son Big money ing, by making quick decisions. I as an Evacue, whelming problem to himself. It was routine-ticketetain wallet, and he had hid It there to make. And It helps the war along. make up my mind pretty fast. If you apnow that and provided with a lukewarm too. I tell you there never was a big- - can interest me on short notice you peared that, after all, It wasnt simply for reasons of hls own. But bottle and a couple of evil women that he hated it was the uni- hue great danger was definitely past, ger opportunity to make money than can interest other people. Mind you. on and a still further bulwark of protec there Is right this minute. The hard were just discussing this sort of smelling cigarettes to console himNeu-lll- verse. the road to the base hospital at Ills military book Implied that he tion offered. If the nurse spoke truth, job isnt to find the scheme ; its to find thinking out loud. No obligation on had no parents, no close relations, no the Individual could afford to come the men to run It. Dont you worry either side. Doesnt do any harm to first the for he became, friends to notify, no fixed abode. He out from ambush. And I dont want At Neullly . youll land something, right off talk about it, does it? Individ received no visitors, no letters, no to look the way I did before, and the hat! time since his enlistment, an Then suppose, said the young man But if your uni. and at the very outset he was dis- pneknges freighted with magical de- whats more I never did I" the Thanks for you define your Idea of a placidly, compliment half as smart as they no Im rather particular. tinguished by certain qualities which light. But to those who pitied him In doctors are good Its Oh, Anybody job. compliment! me look had passed unnoticed In the frying pan all his loneliness he was .utterly con- think they are let em make a these can make Its But money days. you admit youre out of luck, and fire 01 the trenches. For one temptuous; he even went so far as to like that I Or anything else either of fact . . , Say, and statement plain n! to fillip sidelong to the floor a religious I dont give,a d thing, he was obviously immune But you admit Tm a whirlwind. go in and have something. Come she was gaz lets, and was Shocked horrified, aphe for devout a ; card and him another, tendered kindness post In and be sociable. What you wants The young man smiled with faint by and he did Ing at a picture postcard he had a drink. Am I right or am I wrong? amusement. parently immune to hope. lie was a and sentimental passer-by- , the not It in her presence, unashamed. Later, snatched from under hls pillow and man of Inveterate silence; Well I said you ought to be with ta in of fortitude suffering when a smiling orderly picked up that thrust upon her. It was a reproducsilence And thats what the doctor or- lng. grim post card and tucked It under his pil- tion of a religious painting by Rem dered! Come out Its on me. (which is altogether too common a virThe young mans mouth turned es-earn to low he was no less contemptuous In brandt. It was the radiant face of the any base tue in hospitals The other man hesitated, and at ward at the corners. Christ. last succumbed, out of sheer unconpeclal merit), but rather the dogged permitting it to remain. But the one Go ahead and describe the job, reticence of black moods and chronic stupendous fact which, more than all cern, to a companionship he realized Well, my idea of a pretty sweet II. CHAPTER bitterness. To be sure, speech was else combined, made him an object of In advance would be distasteful. for a man of your age Is to start, was this other of but to that bewildered curiosity him, he consented briefly; course about All right, physically difficult twenty a week Nine oclock on a night In June not In arm. they stummen wilii similar misfortunes spoke the scores and scores of men with arm and together, commissions. on vel June evening, i were reborn Neu at who across the treacherous blessings with their eyes, and gave Yes? What per cent commission but a furious June night, with bled and tacked back gratitude In voiceless murmurs. illy that spring and summer, he was vet, crossed the threshand deck, presently Oh, eight to ten per cent. blackness overhead, Stygian looping had never asked for Not so the Joyous One. From the day the only one who old Into the hazy light of the smoking The young man glanced at Harmor boiland water and Stygian battering a demanded mirror. room. Harmon, smiling broadly, wiped and nothing of his arrival he laughed quietly. against the hull plates. The ship the brine This, of Itself, wouldnt have been ing from his smarting eyes. desired nothing, but to brood sullenly Youre a broker, of course, but that was dark blind as the as night Itself; he In as Inan long delayed astonishing Now, then," he said, what particu- doesnt sound much like aloof; and so, when he became dark, without a conservative ray to play the brand of poison do yon dividual, he also becume a mystery to the preliminary stages of recovery, for traitor. On decksingle lar And Investment securities to me. venturer a What man with a solitary the nursing staff. It was rumored that now and then( the rail, and apathetically broke off short and stared, fascipated, is It Industrials? hugged be In to hut woman proves an hater, he was Implacable at the extraordinary young man In Harmon grimaced. watched the waves tear past. and there seemed to be something In the second stage It was remarkable, front of him. Out of and Yes, Im a broket. the warmth and cheer He set down It third was the in stage and unique. He was anywhere from twenty-fiv- e it. hls smokthe vitiated of and fumbled for a card. the to glass held It be atmosphere staff The extraordinary care Amerof of the the to this American dlsfrom the Regardless a social as well as from a path- ing room came Martin Harmon, big. tantforty, hinlilng mo trenches, and hls age was as hard about ican nurses (all hoveringly attentive from A of florid,exuberant. lift ew a bonda' Som terman so that heaving viewpoint, ological own had who as nation to a clever womans; there Montana guess to one of their the deck sent ; him sidewise should zinc. have Interand no lurching disfigured copper was something about him peculiar to fought for France), his spirit remained ribly Metals are the big noise these days. est not even a morbid mterest In he saved hls balance by struggling abysmal and clouded in gloom. Only his own appearance. And It wasnt toward the rail, when suddenly the youth, and yet when hls face was tn I guess you realize that, dont you? repose, he might easily have claimed twice, in the initial month of his con- that the Individual was simply Indif- slope was reversed, and he slipped two score of years and gone undis- Munition work. finement, did he betray the weakness ferent to the mirror; on the contrary, and slid to the barrier of safety, puted. It was a face which suggested Dt an ordinary emotion ; on each occato aversion It was active and ener- clutched It, and found himself at arms both the fire of his to and the general had come sion a he flinched, and motioned It length from the lonely watcher, who drain of experienceImmaturity Ill show 'em whether ; there was breathsalute, In the name of the republic, one getic; hadnt even turned hls stirred, or away as though the mere I can make a about of taking It, hint the gravity of the Individuals neighbors, and to frantically of good or t seeing himself as others head. dignity of marble, of ageless permadeliver a bit of bronze which dangled conception Hello!" too saw too was him said hls and Harmon, repellant, surprise nence. It was a slightly thin face, from a ribbon striped red and green. tinctured with easy familiarity. Some scarred Who unthinkable to endure. (TO BE CONTINUED.) by a heavy line or two, and It was said (and doubted by those There came a day In April when n night! ceremothese at seen that evidence the Indelibly stamped with; it) s hadnt was requested of him, ' Yes, It Is." The tone of the re- of intense thought and toward sufferMarking Linen.' nies the Individual had grown fever- photograph When marking linen with Ink, first a knew was he there where was but so curt sponse Surely Harmon that curt, his to eyes, but lacked It come the hollows tears which, make the initials with a lead ing; ish. and let Into likeness of himself, didnt he? His Instinctively leaned forward to pencil at the first glance, should have aubscquently he had relapsed than which had cover what expression of countenance ami It'was photograph, stoicism passport of a tffin ntill greater depths WlU prevent . went with It. 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