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Show THE SINNERS in TIMES-NEW- HEAVEN By CLIVE ARDEN i NEPHI. UTAH S. n ' i I 1 ll 0. "" 5T" " Pf"", XI ' a iT" " - jj . bwt PART FOUR Continued. 16 r But fate destined otherwise. With Inileased sense of desolation and .leleTBsness, she . foresaw the trails ooming In front of her the misery she must cause, the lack of understanding she must face alone. Only the desire to reach Mrs. Field had reconciled her to this return ; now that was crushed. . . . Bewildered with conflicting emotions, with burning throat and aching head, she crouched, shivering. In a corner of the carriage while Hugh wrapped his traveling rug round her knees. Tbe train rushed through the wintry darkness. An elderly clergyman dozed In one corner of the compartment ; two conversagirls carried on a tion, interspersed with bursts of laughter. Hugh discoursed upon all the little mundane happenings In Darbury during her absence, and she was grateful to him. Thus, amid prosaic surroundings, hidden under unemotional exteriors, life's tragedies and comedies work out their scenes. The two girls, absorbed now In their magazine stories, were oblivious to the living drama, full of tragedy and bitter Irony, being enacted but a few feet away. When ever Barbara looked at Hugh, the Ironic misery of this false situation was Increased. To him, at present, things seemed only This he had vaguely unsatisfactory. accounted for In the obvious way; therefore, worrying was futile. . . . MI shall soon know without being told," Miss Davies had said. And she did. By the time she had extricated her niece from the combined watery tendrils of Mrs. Stockley and Martha, and kissed her cold faee. she knew ! The girl greeted them all with a certain quiet warmth, lacking both effu- iilon and emotion, which bore as little resemblance to her old Impulsive ways as the forced smile and sunken eyes to a face distinguished by Its serenity. home Nobody returning to a longed-fo- r and fiance would look upon them with those eyes of haunted hopelessness! No Illness would leave those rigid lines of pain around a mouth ever enslly wreathed in smiles. . . . "Something has happened," the woman of the world said to herself, watching In si lence. What It might be, she was left to conjecture. Mrs. Stockley, after the poison dropped into her mind the night be fore, regarded her daughters Island life as some terrible blot staining the clean pages of her existence, which must not be lightly touched upon. She upon the eubject, felt shocked and apprehensive over the rtrl's appearance. As usual, she took refuge In helpless tears. It was Mar tha, urged by Hugh, who, noticing the chattering teeth and clammy hands. hot soup and bed at once. suggested -With a 'ot bottle," she added. A contraction caught Barbara's Everything throat, preventing speech. and was so familiar, so home-like- ; yet so Intolerable! She allowed herdin self to be led Into the ing room. Somebody removed her coat. and somebody her hat; then Hugh's voice ottered an exclamation. "You've bobbed your hair, Bab! low-voic- well-know- n Whyr Kneeling unsteadily before the fire, with hands stretched to the cheerful blare, she was struck by the strangeness of this question coming from him the Indirect cause two years before. "It was better short," she replied shakily. "I hope It will soon grow sgaln now,' said her mother anxiously. "I dislike the erase for "bobbed" hair; It's The meshes of the net which had ioomed near with the advent of the Ie Korceau. appeared to the girl's mind to be closing steadily round her. I.Ike one struggling In vain to elude them, she staggered to her feet. "Mother let me go to bed! I feel too 111 " It was Hugh who caught her. as she stumbled toward the door. With Mar tha, he half carried her up the stairs to her old room. . . . And all through the night, as she tossed about, with wide feverish eyes staring at Martha fussing near st hand: where hundreds of years ago, It seemed, she had blown out the can vision sfter die opon her old home-lif- e vision rose, full of exquisite tortnre, A night of deliri to her mind. ous terror in a little, vault-likA fearful vigil seated hut. waiting In upon upturned suit-casthe dnrk for the natives' attack. . A pair of scissors snd a shock of dnrk hair, from nnder which dear gray eyes lanrhed nn Into her face. . . . Aa early dswr, with a little tin key ring. . Oolden hopes of motherhood, . , dsshed slmost ss soon as awakened. . . . Like a relentless panorama, detail after detail came vividly to life srsln, with, ever present, the booysncy of a man's strong personality csrrylng he pressed her all before It. . . . to thst little circlet lips of tin. with a bitterness of grief too deep for the relief of tears. . . . Downstairs, Mrs. JMocsley snd her sister sat long Into tb night, talking, Mrmlslng. arguing. Kver snd anon. tao former damped the atmosphere ... ... rttn tier teora e "She Is so changed so changed !" she repeated at Intervals. "If people are already talking, I don't know what they will say when they see her I" "She Is sure to tell yoUj soon, all that happened," consoled her sister. Then we can contradict any wrong suspicious." "I am sure she has been moaned the other; "or why should she look so III and miserable, now she has come home? I don't believe she was even glad to see me her own mother! It seems so ungrateful. But Bab always was thoughtless and Inconsiderate over my feelings." "Why not ask her for the truth, to morrow?" suggested Miss Davies, her curiosity difficult to curb. "Or shall I? I am more used to girls In trouble" 'No, Mary !" said Mrs. Stockley, with quick anger at any Interference. "I will not have you Insinuate that she Is one of of your 'fallen girls, like this ! If she has suffered anything at that man's hands, she will tell me, herself. I couldn't speak of It now. Besides, I wouldn't dream of forcing her confidence! After all, It may be only the result of her illness." Miss Davies glanced at her, rather sharply. "What was really the matter at Singapore, do you suppose?" she asked. "Prostration. And shock. Don't you remember? Very natural, I am sure, after such terrible times." Miss Davies drew In her Hps, In her usual way when considering discretion the better part of valor, and made n reply. Ill Mrs. Rochdale gave an annual local dinner party before Chrlstmns every year, over which she presided like a hen clucking, with her Buff Orpington smile, upon the chickens pecking at the good things pro vided for them. Everybody who was anybody In the neighborhood received an invitation, so that the parties bore a singular similarity. Fresh Interest was aroused this year, owing to the expected presence of Bar bara. So far, she had been seen by few. For a week a severe chill had kept her In bed. Invisible to the curl ous eyes of those who buzzed around Lake cottage. The more persevering. after lier arrival downstairs, spread In teresting reports of the extraordinary change wrought in her looks and be havior. To the girl, weak In health and tor tured In mind, everybody and everything seemed unbearable. Perceiving the suspicious curiosity around her, glie Instinctively cloaked herself with reserve, throwing no Intimate sidelights upon the vital point causing so much conjecture. News from De Bor- ceao was all she craved, and she felt fresh anxiety concerning the lack of It. Had Mrs. Stockley's weak mind not been poisoned, making natural talk upon the island life Impossible to her, things might have been vastly different for all. As It was, the topic became Increasingly difficult of approach; until It assumed the character of something mysteriously tabu. Only the wreck and possible fate of Aunt Dolly were discussed. Croft's name was never even mentioned between them Urgent business on Mr. Rochdale's Devonshire property summoned Hugh thither before Barbara came downstairs. Still, therefore, the full ex planatlon she Intended to give him hong. heavy on her mind, assuming In creasing proportions the more she pondered over It. His horizon had been so contentedly bounded by eonven tlotial, orthodox views, that It might be difficult to make him understand he true case. She' shrank from hurting him, from destroying his faith, as she knew she must do. Mrs. Field's letter, full of the sympathy so vital a part of her nature, brought a grain of comfort. Full of genuine grief and af fection for her cousin, which she took for granted was shored now by the girl, there was no discreet avoidance of the matter. Being his nearest rela tive, she was kept Informed of all pro ceedings concerning the recovery of his body: the lack of Information from the De Borceans. with their possible fate, wss, she ssld, csustng renewed anxiety. She urged Barbara to use the "House on the Moor" and Its library whenever she wished, as usnal. Mrs. Stockley never encouraged or believed In Invalidism other than her own. Once downstairs, her daughter was expected to renew her old house hold duties and seek diligently to re cover parochial ones. That she showed no Inclination for either Increased tn sense of strain between them. Her shrinking from company would give rise, her mother dresded, to further "talk." It was, therefore, strongly con demned. She found It Impossible, ss things were, to escape the ordeal of Mrs. Rochdsle's dinner party wlthont hurting the kind old couple by actual rudeness. Having decided thst Hugh must be told the truth before anyone else, she wss obliged, thongh shrinking In every fiber of her being, to dress In en of her old evening frocks snd be fetched In the Rochdsle's big rsr. . . . This bad been one of Aer few As be treats In post years. good-nature- d large-hearte- far-seein- ... d, unwise, for many reasons. For one thing, we had to play upon their superstitions to insure our own safety and obtain any Influence at all. It needed great wariness." "But surely," he remonstrated pe- dnntlcally, "at the risk of one's life one should carry on the Gospel? Missionaries have to risk ' 'We were not missionaries!" she reminded him sharply. She looked Imhorripatiently at his d fied face and eyes. "We tried to encourage them In cleanliness, Isn't gentleness, and consideration. that all part of the Gospel's real mean ing? To have stuffed entirely new doctrines down their throats would have been ridiculous!" Quick startled glances were directed upon her from all directions; the Negatives" present flushed uncom fortably; Mrs. Stockley tried. Ineffec tually, to fix her with a stony eye. "Apparently your success was not very great," she observed tartly. Old Mr. Rochdale hastily smoothed over possible trouble by inquiring concerning the personal character of the natives. "They are very simple and real," the girl replied warmly. "You find the same fears and Jealousies and faults as everywhere else; but they are not hidden by any thin veneer of civilization. When they love or hate, they do so openly." "I hope," remarked Miss Davies, not much liking her tone, "you made them wear decent clothing?" "Most of them were naked," said Barbara ; "some wore a little matting.' Everybody rather hurriedly went on eating. Hugh hurled himself Into the silence, thinking to change the subject. "What did you do about clothes, Bah? Did your own last out?" "Fairly well. I made some breeches, and wore them." The vicar coughed; Mrs. Stockley refused her favorite game In her em & ,M, 111 . . . Mrs. Rochdale barrassment. remarked tactfully: "Dear, dearl Isn't It all like a novel? If you had been there, Hugh, It would have been really romantic!" Hugh laughed. "I shouldn't be much good on a desert Island," he observed modestly.- - "Must have been beastly uncomf ort abl e." "I bet Bab often wished you were there!" smiled old Mr. Rochdale, In his genial way. "Only she won't own It. Now, nngh, make her confess !" But Hugh's glance had fallen upon the girl's left hand, and he did not reply. Barbara felt like one undergoing slow torture; her nerves seemed lacerated. It was the constant repetition of little drops of water which sent the condemned man mad. "Bab," asked Hugh, "whatever are you wearing In the shape of a ring? Where Is mine?" Everybody craned forward, and she hastily withdrew her hand. It seemed as If curious hostile eyes were peering at something sacred, the only thing of value to her now In life. I "I have lost your ring, Hugh. It was left on the Island with everything else." "And you are wearing that Instead? I must get another at once. What is A Severe Chill Had Kept Her In Bed It? A key ring?" body's attention. "I gathered from the "Once," remarked the vicar, rising papers that you obtained a wonderful from his oblivion, "I had the case of a Influence over themT" "Weren't they awful creatures?" put wedding party forgetting the ring; and In Hugh, with a grimace. "I wonder I married them with a key ring !" yon weren't scared stiff, Bab !" "Really!" asked Miss Davies. "I "I was at first," she owned. "But I suppose It Is quite legal?" Provided, of course, that "Quite! grew very fond of them." "Capital!" beamed the vicar. "Our everything else is In order and a brothers, in spite of difference In color. priest performs the ceremony." Barbara's right hand closed con Doubtless they responded to your af fectionate overtures, poor souls?" vulsively upon her left, under the table. A vision of Alan's affectionate over (TO BE CONTINUED.) tures with electrified wire, flashing eyes, and fearful rhetoric, until his brothers became responsive, brought Refused to "Fall" for the shadow of a smile Into her white Bishop's Second Scheme face, which old Mr. Rochdale saw and A western minister tells a story, ac answered. "I Imagine Croft got 'em under more cording to the Kansus City Star, show by bullying than affection; didn't he?" ing how a bishop, accosted in a Chiho laughed. "That wireless stunt was cago street by a neat but hungry a brainy notion! I suppose he had to stranger, derived profit from the en whip op the lazy beggars pretty hard counter. Now the bishop took a fancy to the afterward, to make 'em work?" "No," she replied", aware of many needy one, took him to a hotel and eyes upon' her face at this open allu shared a good dinner with him. In Yet, the slon. "They loved him and obeyed having left his episcopal wallet pocket of a different episcopal Jacket, him because" her voice faltered "because he had the personality to he suddenly faced the embarrassment command obedience. He inspired them of not having the wherewithal to pay to work for their own good. They for the dinner. "Never mind," exclaimed the guest. learned cleanliness; and we taught "I have enjoyed dining with yoo. and thera to talk a little English" I shall be charmed to pay the price. "Capital I capital !" The vicar beamed Allow me." again at her, through his plnce-ne- . And Ihe stranger paid for the two. "How did they receive the Word?" Tills worried the prelate, who Insisted an she "Wonderfully quickly, "Just let me rail a taxi and we'll "Some of swered, misunderstanding. run op to my pface, where I shall have a thera could talk quite fluently in very the pleasure of reimbursing yoo." But short time with "But the Word? How did they re the strsnger met the suggestion "See here, old msnl You've stuck celve the Gospel?" me for a bully good dinner, but hanged "Oh! We did not sttempt to di If I am going to let yoo stick mo for turn their own religion," tsxl fsrel" The vlcsr gsxed at her, aghast, ss "Too did most of those present. The Impostiblm mesn " he began, "yoo esn't mean "No msn ever allows himself to be that yoo neglected the first oppor lieve that n woman la single front tunity of giving them the Truth?" "Tes." she ssid calmly. "U yoo look choice." From "Pin Bufar," bj U upon It la Tliat light. We tlioufht It Doagua, listlessly finished her toilet, the poignant pain of It all struck her afresh. . . . The reflection of shad- owy, sunken eyes and aureole of dark hair mocked at her, in the large drawing room mirrors. . . . The unconscious Irony of the conversation, the kindliness of Hugh's parents and their delight over her, his own affection, were unbearable torture. . . . He had only returned that day, and she spoke to him In desperation, as they went in to dinner together. Hugh !" she whispered, "I must see you alone, to tell you " "I know !' he broke In eagerly. "I'm dying to hear everything ! It was a beastly nuisance having to go away Just then; but It couldn't be helped. Afraid we shan't get a chance tonight, though." "Tomorrow, then? Hugh. I must 6ee you alone tomorrow !" There was a passionate urgency in her voice, a tragic pleading in her eyes both signs which he entirety misunderstood. A flush overspread his face, and he pressed her bare arm to his side. "Bab, darling!" he whispered, "don t you think I'm Just longing to be alone with you, too? I I counted the hours until I got back, today !" Barbara sat down at the table, her heart like lead. She felt like a murderer who, about to drop poison into the cup of a trusting friend, talks and smiles upon him the while. The vicar's enthusiasm over the mis sionary results of this providential visit to "children of darkness" (having a double meaning, this phrase was considered witty In Darbury), broke loose almost In the same breath wherein he concluded grace. He was not among those whose Importunity had been crowned with success where seeing the Wandering sheep" was concerned. 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