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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, arms, and clung to him feverishly "I dreamed you had disappeared,' she cried, in bewildered explanation. "How could that happen T' Ha soothed her. "How could my bulk disDon't talk nonsense!" appear? They breakfasted later than usual, teriorated under Babooma's leadership. His adherents Increased In number, and had barely finished when the noise Co. as did his cruelties. There being In- of many agitated voices reached their Copyright by Tko Bobbs-Merrl- ll ears. sufficient grown women, he seized Glancing apprehensively at each almost made young children, girls, oars he had fashioned, and paddled them other, they hurried out of the hut. the afterof his lusts, toys' and back to land. The was leaden, hues of angry they disappeared sometimes, orange sky Silence fell upon them as they neared ward the horizon, the air suffusing under of cloak religious fanaticism, the shore. It was the hour when exoppressive. From the direction of the to the sacrificial upon altar Balhuaka; palm-groterior things diminished to nothing- sometimes streamed a hurrying, chatsatiate his own appetite ness, and the Big Things were too for human toflesh. tering crowd of black figures men, vast for conversation. He beached women and children. the boat, then slipped his .arm around of Many times Croft was on the point Croft's brow and his lips utilizing that last bullet But with set. The mine contracted, the hut It his the girl and drew her toward had evidently exploded ' influence have would vanished. "Our wedding night, Barbara," be even sooner than he expected.' Natives regard their own chief with whispered. Seeing him, a walling cry arose from them To Her feet lingered a little, and she extraordinary superstition. the advancing crowd. Weary and terhe is In The tabu. next permanently pnused now and then to admire beau- rank was stumbled forward to the one of Babooma's followers. rified, theywhere ties of Bcent or sound ; the rising moon the women fell upon palisade, showed her face tremulous. Outside Only more dangea would have resultthe ground, moaning, weeping, waving ed for and Barbara himself, and probthe dark hut, she drew herself free, wild arms, sometimes adding their civil war in the settlement These voices to the unintelligible babble of turning toward the sea as though loath ably on were their Insisting making to leave it. It seemed as though she people men. To comprehend their meanthe own hell, and nobody could save them were silently bidding farewell to some was at present impossible. ing numshort part of her life ; and the man behind ber. of exterminating half their Presently their talk grew more coher stood motionless, his eyes on her : After a time Alan refused to allow herent he was able to make out its averted head, silently waiting, making drift Barbara near the settlement. said She no attempt to touch her. . . . "We will serve thee, O Great White She passed long hours with Chief r . At last, slowly, she turned and held little. . . Thou art merciful I out her hands. He took them close Meamaa and her children, banishing Thou art wise beyond the wisdom of the mental torture during his absence our men ! In his. . . . We will work for In the radiance of lier welcome upon "Come, my dearest," he said. thee, O Chief! Thou carest not to his return. torture and kill. . . . One night he returned, after a . . . Thou hast done much for our stormy day's battling in the south, tribe. Under thee it will become strong. his with own shakoptimism gravely Six months, when you live In an If thou wilt be our chief. The fruits en. It was, he knew, but a question of earthly paradise, are but a flash of mine vivid light in a sky which is always days before the threatening blue. These two had crossed their should burst. The division had widened to an extent which only blood looming mountains and arrived at the ana would, eventually, explosion valley upon the other side; and they found it fair and shining, full of the bridge; It needed but a match to the fuse, and that explosion would come. songs of . Barbara did not meet him as usual. The days sped by, each seeming to exceed in beauty Its predecessor. There He wondered a little, making his way Supper was no need now to fill each moment quickly down to their hut. with arduous, thankless toil. All walla was ready, but she was not there. He and divisions were down. When Alan, looked Into the sleeping hut, but that with a few slashing cuts, severed the also was empty. Anxiously he turned bamboo partition in their sleeping hut, his steps toward Roowa's abode. Meamaa sat outside, suckling a new adit had been symbolic. "There !" he exclaimed, his foot upon dition to her family, crooning softly the canes strewing the floor. "No over the little dark form. She waved an arm toward the east. more twos. Everything's one." "The great chiefs wife went up to "One!" she breathed, renouncing, with the outward surrender of her the heights long, long ago! Meamaa only privacy, all the private strong- still watchingofffor her," she said. up the slope, and the ,He strode holds of her nature. But the look she gave him was no longer elusive. native woman continued her crooning It was steadfast, shining, exultant. . . . song. Barbara was seated upon the rocks In the wilderness Barbara had found nearly a year before, the dawn the "hidden want": the love which, where, had witnessed their simple marriage with all Its many Her elbows were propped can alone tune the extraordinary ceremony. on her knees, her chin was sunk In cosmology, called life Into any semblance of a harmonious whole. . . . her hands. Alan approached noiselessly, but Sometimes they played ridiculous she became Instinctively aware of his games upon the sand, gambling with He noticed a strange exthe money lying useless In their lug- presence. pression in ber eyes as she turned to gage. him : a wonder blendThey hunted, fished, worked, bathed greet ed with a which seemed A Wailing Cry Arose. together. And, during these months, reflected In tenderness the smiling, tremulous each learned much, which was acof the will grow, the fish leap earth cumulated and stored within their lines of her mouth. from the water! . . . We love She up out stretched her hands, silently hearts. thee, O, Mighty Friend of the Gods! Their clothes were in rags, but. they and he took them In his, mystified. "I wondered what hud become of We will serve thee! . . ." Thus, made fun of the matter. Alan clung " he began. and mucn more with a similar burto his old razor, and Barbara to her you den, did they babble in their eagerness. "I felt I must come here. This alscissors. Commanding silence, he bade one of a seems kind of sacred ways temple, "After all," she said, "we can cover them explain the cause of this visitaour own. . . . Alan!" Oh, ourselves in reed matting. Provided tion. She gazed into his face you don't grow a beard, I can face Babooma, It transpired, soon after dima of with tears yet suspicion anything." Croft's departure the previous evening, her the soft in lisht ming eyes. of months .Six perfect happiness! "What dear?" he asked, more puz- had worked himself Into a passion. It was against all the rules of fate; Expressing contempt for the white man but even fate seemed to have cast off zled. She made no reply; but the glory and his gods, he raised tbe tabu. Enthese two for a time. For some reason the world was made passing beau- In her face seemed to deepen, radiat- couraged by his own adherents, he then declared war upon the white tiful, and human beings placed in it ing toward him. . . . Loosing his chief with instant death to all who to shoularms her hands, his up crept without any choice. But the' attainthwarted his designs. This set the ment, much less the possession, of ders, round his neck, drawing his bead fuse alight An outburst of murmurown. to down her permanent bliss therein iias not been A sudden, vague realization of some ing disloyalty to Babooma warred decreed. with the usual superstitious fear of At the end of six months, the first stupendous happening caused him to as their him chief; while draw Is close. Bar"What her ominous cloud appeared. Chlmabahol It, affection for Croft flared the native chief, fell ill and died. bara?" he murmured. "What are you theirto genuine white heat To prove his words, up Babooma became head of the tribe. trying to tell me?" Babooma by opposition, She tilted her head back a little, maddened No care or pity for his fellows perone of the men seized and strangled saw and meated the hide of brutality encasing the dawning comprehension: dared openly to rebel; Babooma. All the worst instincts of in his face. A faint smile flickered who This was too much for the peaceful the savage, held la check by the old again across her own. faction. Secretly and swiftly, they "Can't you guess my husband?" chief under Croft's Influence, now rose together, under cover of conspired was he conscious to the surface. His own adherents, the of Instantly While the rest of the tribe night. same reInimitable tenderness in her impatient of restraints, hailed him stole out some eighty-odthey slept, with joy. The division in the settle- gard which he had just seen in the women and children and ment became at once more evident: eyes of the woman suckling her child. Including sped through the wood9 to the north. murmuring dissatisfaction upon one The same mysterious essence of This drastic move meant a tremenseemed to emanate from both. side, threats and tortures upon the bound around as they With a muttered cry, his lips sough) dous decision, other. age-olwith were It superstitions. InThe white man's popularity had hers; he caught her close, pressing terror-strickelittle creased with the Increase of health, her to his heart as if during all the was a forlorn, cleanliness and ' Industry among the forces of nuture, all the venom of band which Croft presently addressed. trying to allay their natives. Now he took full advantuge savage immunity, to take her from He spoke kindly, fear, feeling a certain relief that the of It, and only his continuous Inter- him now. trouble had occurred so vention maintained order. The posiSuddenly, impulsively, she looked up anticipated soon. Most of the men, he noticed, tion, however, was fraught with dan- Into his eyes. were armed: therefore it should "Shall ger. To continue to Inspire a you love It?" she whis- not befully Impossible to overthrow Bafear after more tlmn pered. booma and, once for all, quell the A reflection of her own tenderness eighteen months was In itself a preelement. savage carious tank, only achieved by the showed In the smile which answered "Whether I can be your chief or her. The glory of the sinking sun weight of his own personality. not Is In tbe hands ef my gods," he he was confronted by his face. with prudent piety ; "but concluded From Koowa hatred. "Shall I?" he breathed. "My dear personal rest assured of my protection. Tour he had learned of the chiefs mania for est what a question!" women and children are tired from women, anil women were srarce In the long walk through the forest Let the tribe. White women no longer VI them come Inside our garden for safeoffended the blark men's Instincts. . , . and food." At present vivid memories of a Hand In band they descended the ty He opened the entrance In the wounded shoulder, blue devils hissing hill, full of this fresh wonder. After Awestruck Into silence, they from round Croft's hut, the supposi- supjier they sat on the shore In the tion of a hidden white tribe ever at moonlight, talking In low tones of the filed through, their minds full of the devils." experienced here hand, restrained Babooma from defi- future, making wonderful plans. . . . 'little bluemenfolk. their Might these not by ance of a man tabu. But familiarity Both itosseased that curious sensiand the scraps of education Imparted tiveness to nature which coin(els one. spring up and burn them even now at the great white chiefs command? by the white people were gaining upon in any crisis, to make for open spaces, They squatted in one close group, hunIt was only a limitless horizons of ocean. superstition. It and grateful for all they received, mutter of time. was after midnight when at last they gry Barbara hud quickly perceived that went to bed. The night breeae had following Barbara's movements with her man whs seriously troubled con- died down, and a peculiar sense of adoring, wondering eyes, as she distributed food. Their faith In Croft cerning the tribe. Dimly aware her- alrlessness pervaded the 11 find; the equaled their faith In their god, Balself ,f the first faint clouds in the water became tlra to olllnesa once within the palisade, their Barbara was restless, and laylong huaka; brightness of their sky, heralding Itahooma sank. fears of Then nen, possible storm, she nought to hide awake. The strange stillness with Its a sharp watch for them, to keep their happiness undis- sensation of false calm heralding sp. resting outside, kept Koowa was sent any daylight attack. turbed. proschlng tempest, revived her feed them. Alan went Indoors to to the the months disaster. During of When at last following cloud grew ever mors menacing. Those he fell asleep. It was only to be tor- attend to his store of native weapons. . , . Presently the excited -- Isltora natives who, fundamentally brutal and tured with the same premonitions d In the garden, tired and satisfied, Idle, had not appreciated their enInto nightmare realities. She sleep. - . . forced life of Industry, quick! de awoka gasping and subbing la Alan TO Bg COMTLNUKO.) SINNERS IN HEAVEN : . PART THREE 1W By CLIVE ARDEN Continued. 13 Wit h only the birds for witness, th sound of the surf for choir, the radiance of the eastern sky for altar, simply and from their hearts' depths these two plighted their troth. The few chief sentences from the marriage service were chosen by Barbara for tlielr only rites. There would be many, away In the world, to scoff, many to condemn. But no ojitward consecration of ground, no army of ordained priests, could have rendered more sacred that moment when the hush was broken by their avowals. Perchance the "Destiny that shapes our ends," seeing all things, reading all hearts, who bad flung these two together upon this far garden of Ills own creation, and given them there the one supreme gift which is part of Himself, would understand and accept their vows : " To love and to cherish till death us do part. . . . And thereto I plight thee my troth. . . ."' Their voices did not falter. The small tin ring encircled the girl's finger: they stood silent a while, with locked hands. Then he drew her toward him, and very gently their lips met. "My wife!" he breathed. low-voice- d Barbara bathed, dressed, and got breakfast, with no thought of fatigue after a sleepless night. Her heart seemed almost unbearably full. As she watched the smoke curl up from her own fire, and that rising from hut, she resembled the priml- -- rlve woman grvrying in this life shorn a of all false trappings. Was not likewise cooking food for her man? In the south, too, the native women were so employed. Man and his mate In palace or hovel, in mansion or hull All the artificiality hiding the big realities farted away with the worlds beyond the blue horizon. It was the same with Alan. Like some fine, strong, wild thing, he dived, swam and splashed in the river; then returned for breakfast, ravenously ' hungry, singing as he swung down the bay. ' "I have a great surprise !" Barbara Announced. "Here is a tin of 'bully I saved It for any emergency. toeef. Shall we have It for our wedding feast, as a special treat?" He shouted with laughter. "Lord! To think of 'bully' becoming a special treat for a wedding feast! Bring it along, O wise and thrifty woman." They ate their "wedding feast" In mossy shady dell ; and even the y memory of Aunt Dolly, who had provided It, failed to cast more than a momentary shadow across their joy. Alan lay along the bottom of the boat, his head pillowed In Barbara's lap, as the sun began to sink. "Well?" he asked. "Have you found a desert Island honeymoon very Irksome? What about the big cities where you expected to 'feel life'? What about your heart's desire?" She laughed low, passing caressing fingers through his hair. 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The flrst letter In each word la Indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pusslo. Thus Wo. 1 under the column headed "horlaontal" defines a word which will all the white spaces up te the flrst black square to the riakt, and a number under vertlenl" deflaes a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one below. No letters so In tbe blnek spaces. All words nsed nre dictionary words, ezeept proper names. Abbreviations, sinus, Initlnla, technical terms and obsolete forms nre Indicated In the definitions. URSERY RHYME ninth-erhoo- d n The Sound of the Surf for Choir. other heart's desire. You are life to rue now, Alan. That's why " "i'ou came to me Inst nlht?" he miggested softly, as she Mopped. She iifMldcd. The boat drifted I;iy, rnressed by the soft breeze, rocking gently with the tide. "Thnnk God you did," he murmured, nfier a pause. "Kverythlng was becoming unbearable." She trailed her fingers in the water, lost In thought. "It was strange," she observed present ly, "that the day on which I first Jii'gjin to feel what you hnd become to me should have beea my wedding lf lay!" "Those first months here nearly drove me mud until I was sure the field wss Hear," he replied. "Then f meant t win P "Oh. Alan!" With sudden passion she drew his head back against her breast. "If I lost you my husband I should die." tie turned In her arms, sal pressed his litis to her soft neck. ! It mean all that to you, at last?" In the boat until dark TrybadRtajred fallen. Then Alan took th pnl-isad- ... ... msg-nlfle- f0 ING dong bell. Pussy's in the well; The velvet cat 1 got on Christmas rJay-- 4 He don't know how to swim. An' I'm lonesome without him Oh fish him out for me without delay, Find four re sou era. Tap aid down, on wall curb) top aids down, an wFl I lan aida dewn, an oioum; tap aioa town, an blaua. |