Show r t D o I t Q Q by the M Editors Editor's note note For For some unexplained unexplained reason reason several chapters of ofTIe ofTie TIe The Confessions of a Bride serial became transposed d and were published this week causing considerable confusion confusion con con- fusion in the sequence e of the story con I The missing chapters have been i I found that should have preceded those published this week These Thes jwill will be run now beginning in today's II I issue at the rate of two instead of of lone one chapter a day The concluding I chapters grow more intense in their I interest and have a decided bearing I upon the chapters to be published during the next week I Look On While Common Men Restore a Fellow Being to Life Used though they were to uncommon uncommon uncommon I mon sights the crew of the training tug lug stared incredulously at the form of the unknown man as they lifted it from the rope basket and stretched it in the shade of the deckhouse Queer things Ive I've seen but never the like o this said a pilot pilot next to me Howd he get down there Maybe he Just took a little walk out from the shore and lost himself in the dark was the retort of an engineer What t gets me Is how long It took tool him I started to say About two hours I I think for that was about the time which had elapsed since I had glimpsed the Germans German's motorboat in the morning haze But I kept a guard on my tongue I wouldn't returned spoil T Tiny's nys ny's story story story-If if ever the spirit returnee returned to that still form and gave it power to tell how it feels to be lost on the ocean bottom For a time it looked as If there would be no story as if Tiny's great adventure adventure adventure ture were to be his last adventure as If Mary Thomas' Thomas romance had come to its unhappy end But the crew of the tu tug knew the thelast thelast thelast last detail of the art of putting breath into a a. seemingly inanimate body As AsI I watched them work I was inspired with a tremendous admiration for them all They were just common men of the new conscious class-conscious type which glories in the title They belonged to the new democracy they democracy they realized the dignity of the common man and they didn't want to be anything different and yet In whatever they undertook they were always proving themselves modern supermen They set out to save Tiny Goffs Goff's life without any intention of winning a Carnegie medal In the common way of the common man they put every ounce of their energy and every atom of their conscience into the particular duty of the tho moment And they didn't look to anybody for praise or reward or even credit I didn't understand the process of bringing Tiny to life me but It was plain to see that the men wasted neither their words nor their motions They cooperated without interfering I couldn't help belp contrasting their way of ot working together with the way of ordinary women How women do flutter flutter flutter flut flut- ter about and get in each others other's way all talking at once in any emergency I felt that I was a thousand times fortunate to have an opportunity to watch the scene on the tug The men were tanned and sweating and their clothes were spotted with oil They didn't differ in the least from millions of other craftsmen mechanics and la laborers laborers la- la borers Many a fine lady would have considered them rude or tough but butto butto butto to me they were all simply wonderful And I wished from the bottom of my heart that the wives and sisters and sweethearts and daughters of the men men- who bear the brunt of the worlds world's hard labor would sometimes stop to see them themas as the heroes they truly are and would take more pains to appreciate them Lots of women waste oodles of adoration adoration adoration ado ado- ration upon movie heroes or upon loafers whose chief glory is a stiff collar collar col col- col- col lar or some skill in dancing or an In Inclination inclination In- In to spend Their preference shames their understanding of what makes a real man So absorbed was I in my glimpse of ofa ofa ofa a world of real men men that I failed to no notice notice notice no- no tice that Mary Thomas and her trainer had been hoisted aboard until Marys Mary's voice in n m my ear astonished me She had removed her driving dress She put her arms about me and looked If f down upon Tiny's white face I Was Vas it was It-was was it a a. dance of death she exclaimed in a horrified whisper Mary Tells Me of Her Dance of Death on the Ocean Floor Have Havo you lost your mind What about talking ARE you I turned upon Mary Thomas sternly I ifor for tor I didn't want any woman to j tie Ue her sex by having a fit of hysterics hysterics hys hys- before those fine sane men I Listen Jane Its It's awful If he lie I dies dies It It will be on account of my foolishness You see see see-I I made him dance flance the Sub Sea Shurrie with me Dont Don't you remember remember remember-I I told you I had invented it it In a Joke to amuse him right on this very deck But youve you've saved his life girlie At least we hope so so I said You Tou dont don't know the time I wasted Its It's the curse urse of the pearls Im I'm sure 1 Mary Ilary went on rapidly but not always coherently Down there words cant can't be heard One has to gesture s sly gesture so I Mary waved her hands rather wildly When we touched the bottom our already lowered Of I arc l light ht was course we found Tiny watching us but he did not recognize me You see he had broke with me for good before I had my suit made He never knew that I took tool any training But somehow I wasn't much astonished to toI find him walking around under the sea Its It's so 50 strange down there Anything Anything Anything Any Any- I thing might happen But Smith my trainer was glued to the sand at sight of Tiny Divers are t nui superstitious and andI jl II I think Smith was scared most to toI I I death Well Tiny riny came toward us in inI inthe I I the awkward attitude a diver must I II I take to lift the weights on his feet And Just to show him it was me me- me me-I me meI I 1 It was I I-I I I began to do the shuffle I Mary was all in a tremble I saw for the first time in our acquaintanceship acquaintance acquaintance- ship that the little dancing dancin girl was losing her nerve I drew her to the steps which led to the wheelhouse I thought it a good plan to keep her talking until we learned the worst or orthe orthe orthe the best about Tiny Goff Tiny was making odd gestures He lie seemed to say that he was choking I Smith wanted to interfere but Jane I thought Tiny had recognized me I I and was playing opposite in an undersea undersea undersea un un- un- un dance of death So I grasped his hands and dragged dragge rum nim along and he staggered grotesquely and tried to I throw off his helmet which helmet which was was was' madness madness and and still I ed on believing believing be be- lieving that he had caught the spirit of our dreadful duo And even there Jane JaneI I thought a a. hit we c could uld make of it on the stage And AndI I laughed to myself inside my helmet partly because I was really so happy happy happy hap hap- py to be with him again even again even down there where there where no other girl had ever eyer danced and flirted with a lover Mary l gazed far into the green water water water wa wa- ter as though fascinated by something I could not see then she turned a white face to me saying But even as I laughed I stumbled My feet struck something something- soft soft soft- mushy It Ita waS waft a a long roll like dice a mummy I 1 would have hav finished my dance by throwing myself into Tiny's s arms for safety when all an of a sudden sud sud- den Tiny den Tiny toppled over over over-in in a heap Mary herself might have gone down downin in a a. heap had I not spoken sharply Go on I Smith came out of his trance and looked at the gauge auge on Tiny's oxygen en tank The thir was empty I had been a fool Tiny had tred tried to tell tellus tellus us he was suffocating and I had been so wrapped up in my own Idea that I had missed his meaning altogether Unobserved by bv Mary Maly I cast an anxious anxious anxious ious glance at the recumbent figure of the Montana giant Had the curse of the pearls snatched him by a hairs hair's hairsbreadth hairsbreadth breadth Its my luck Jane moaned the girl pirl I was sent down to save him And I was true to form Nothing can l keep me from being a silly silly- silly A loud Hallelujah from the lips of the old engineer interrupted Mary Caps went into the air Mary sprang to the of the man who had fallen in love with her at first sight who hart hal fled from her hr when he lie had learned about her past I wondered If It were wise to let him see her when he lie h came 1 back ack from the brink of the grave To be continued |