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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, INN ER S HEAVEN n f I r I ' mate rein, "how far did this Continued. "Tills was our wedding rlnf." ihe whisperftd. Tlie liiyoluntury start which the fitii1&vft was quickly contro'led. She met steadily, albeit with some apprehension, the girl's searching look seeming to probe to her very soul, proving its faith. "Yes," she encouraged. "You married htm? Tell me everything; will you?" "You understand?" The searching K;4kAiever relaxed. "You do ation go? Infatu- What can you never The girl looked at her, startled, at a momentary loss. Her sensitive face, an enemy to subterfuge, flushed angrily. 'Ah !" exclaimed her aunt meaning ly, V'I thought from the first there was something wrong." 'Wh-whdo you mean, Aunt Mary? There was nothing wrong!" 'Then why maintain such mystery? Why are you afraid to talk of the matter to tell the truth?" A rush of loathing, contempt for 'The appeal In that passionate re- all the suspicious minds about her, gard and question brought quick re- recklessness, which. In impulsive natures, has sponse. effects, swept "Dear," she replied, pulling her the girl away. After all, what did down on the couch by the tire. "I their feelings matter? What their understand. You loved each other ind opinions to the man whose memory acted in accordance with honorable she had tried in vain to shield from convictions. In extraordinary circumvulgar calumny? Barbara turned and stances. Is that enough? What more faced the two women, tossing back can I say?" the hair from her brow. "You shall have the truth!" she Barbara drew a breath of Inexpressible relief. Holding fast to that sym- cried, with suddenly blazing eyes. This 'infatuation' you talk about went pathetic ha'hd, she recounted with simto the end. He returned my love. ple fervor the whole history. Nothing was omitted up to t!ie present. When We became husband and wife," her voice ceased, there fell a long silence. From somewhere tn the ho'ise VII came a merry laugh; an opening door The silence was awful. A dormant let out a brief flood of dance music. . . . Then a piece of coal dropped volcano could not have seemed more The two Into the fender, and Mrs. Field moved. vibrant with foreboding. "Ah, my darling!" she cried. "It is women sat, bereft of speech, gazing I know I blankly at tlie girl, who faced them bitter know. . . ." fearlessly from the hearthrug. From That was the first of many taks Mrs. Stockley's face every vestige of together during that Christmas season, color had fled. She looked suddenly old ; her features were haggard. which brought with it such acute Then Barbara, as she had done twice . . . On the afternoon of Boxing duy, before, held out ht'r left hand. "This," she said, breathing fast, "Is as the girl sat alone. Hush suddenly my a wedding ring. He was my husgrave-facewith Hugh, appeared the bewildered "doggy" look still in band." The tension broke. Mrs. Stockley his eye. She rose to meet him, with gasped, and her sister gave a snort some embarrassment. "Mrs. Field's with the old people. of contemptuons laughter. "'Husband'!" she mocked. "Pray She said you were alone," he blundered. "Bab I've missed who was the priest? Where was the In explanation. church? Or had you a native regyou." old thing!" The simple directness touched her. istry office?" The sarcasm was to the girl merely She, too. had been conscious of a gap In tlie surface of her life, among the as the heat of an extra candle to old haunts of their childhood, which one already enveloped In flames. She had added to her wretchedness. Im- Ignored the speaker, fixing her eyes her mother. pulsively, she gave him her other hand. upon "Do you understand, mother?" "I have missed you, too, Hughle!" At that moment the sight of her Hugh clearly had something on his mother's deathly face struck, like a raind. her heart. Her anger subblow, upon to he blundered on, "I wanted say," as as It had arisen ; In sided quickly I a was rotter that to tell you place a huge pity arose, making I've been thinking the deuce its day! It imperative that the womof a lot lately, Bab! And I wanted an suddenly who had borne her should be saved know on count to cud you you just the suffering of misconstruction. me any time to back you and Croft Impulsively she moved forward, . . . iup, I mean." It was clumsily expressed ; but she stretching out both hands. "Mother?" understood what the effort cost him. Sirs. Stockley rose slowly to her It behind all and the genuine feeling feet. Ignoring the hands, still staring Hugh looked at her diffidently, then at her as If she were some away through the window, speaking hideous daughter snake seen In a corner of I wanted "And and huskily. .quickly her comfortable room. you to know that' ir later on, per"You my "You !" she muttered. me, could felt you marry haps you " me with dare to face you daughter at he her, after nil paused, glancing 'I shall always be there Just the those lies?" The hands dropped and clenched at same." The eyes that met his were swim- her sides. "They are not lies! It "My dear!" was impossible to get married accord ming In sudden tears. ing to Knglish law. We therefore per she cried. "But It can never he now "You need not say anything, or formed the ceremony for ourselves. We took the same vows it was perbother about It," he said simply. honorable." fectly hands his she pressed Impulsively Miss Davies broke In with another against her cheek; then he drew him self free. Hugh intensely disliked harsh laugh. "Did he actually succeed In stuffing scenes. Having said what he wanted. he turned tlie subject. "Mrs. Field yon with all that, to cloak your liu told me to have tea with you. She morality?" "Aunt Mary! How dare you 7" there were loads of muffins! Let's "Oh! It's always the same! Haven't and toast them, it on the hearth-ruI dealt with hundreds of cases In .as we used to do." So they sat together on the floor my work wh ch have been 'perfectly honorable'? Fools! Dupes! You weak toasting muffins, the harrier breaking women believe nnytliing!" them. Thus Mrs. Field down " Barbara choked, In "You on her return; and a rer foiled i t.J.n 1o'k of relief crossed her face. her furious Indignation. "Immorality!" Mrs. Stockley caught nt the word. "Immorality? In one of It was one of those days when ev. our family? My own daughter ?" The village ervthing goes wrong. "You got off lightly," broke In her Martha nnd not did come; "help" the girl narrowly. therefore considered herself too much sister, watching her lorgnette. "Without pay overworked to complete any one Job. through the price! Most girls are not so I.unch was late, the soup tepid, the Ing But I suppose you took fortunate. lukewas coffee were hard, potatoes cure to prevent " good of the warm. The clogging "Yes!" cried her mother almost hyswheels of this miwU groove naturally resulted In "nerve" on the part of terically, "suppose there bad been chil Mrs. Htoekley. These, working up dren?" "There would have been," she re found relief In an explo gradually, with unnatural calm, her eyes plied an af announced sion, when Barbara Surely burning in an nshen face. "That Is ternixm's golf with Hugh. sort for why I was so ill at Singapore." there must be work of For a moment holli women were her to do In this tragedy of an household? This led to a agnin bereft of speech, Barbara turned heated argument, which took a sudden to the fire and stood gazing into Its deflection down an unexpected chan- depths. "Ila!" gasped her aunt, at last. nel. "Of course. If you have renewed always thought there was something " suspicious In that Illness." jour engugenient with IHugh never run." Tlin the girl flashed round, con "I have not mother. "And why can you never marry tempt ringing in her voice. "Yes, Aunt Mary, you would! PeoHugh?" her mother asked testily, "1 ple like you would find something It still because of that ridiculous infatuation? Bar'nura, I Insist upn your suspicious In an archangel. Oh !" she cried passionately, "I know all the forgetting such nonsense." "You don't understand, mother. I disgusting, vulgar gossip concerning Alan and myself! I knew It before I ran never forget." reached Kngland. Now, I suppose, with Mrs. Stockley "Ni." agreed nine heat; "I do not understand; and you will all purr In your thinking how wise yon were " I think It I time I did!" "B Barbara !" spluttered her She turned to her sister, as usual, aunt. for support, which was speedily forth"Oh, yes, you will! But" turning coming. Mlsa Davlea' "Barbara," brgnn that worldly wom- IMailng eyes upon "you are all wrong! How an, her curiosity at last giveu legiti under-staiiw- ... '" ... mem-crie- d bet-vee-f- l fT.-ii- well-oile- d durn-found- can you tell what was right and what was not out there? What do you all know of real, fundamental life? What experience have you had of love, temptation any problems that you should dare dare to judge? You all carry out your religious observances to the letter but what about the spirit of it all?" The two women were staggered by her furious flow of words. "I understand," cried Mrs, Stock-ley- , In weak Impotent rage, "that you have disgraced cur name! Sin cannot be excused. Whatever the man was-a- nd thank heaven he Is dead! you should have shown strength. You you are nothing but a wanton !" "Mother!" The girl recoiled, as If she had been struck, catching at a chair for support. Her mother broke into a storm of hysterical weeping. "Go !" she cried, between her sobs. Leave the house ! I I refuse to own you ! Go to your friends who condone Immorality who encourage sin. . . Join Jenny Grant " "Mother!" she cried again, with white lips, "you don't realize what you are saying " "I do! I do! Go!" Weakly she stamped her foot, then sank Into her chair, burying her face in her handkerchief. A wild caricature of a laugh broke from Barbara's lips. She looked at her mother's shaking form, then at her aunt's rigid figure and hostile countenance. ."Very well," she said slowly, "I will go." As if dazed, she put up her hand to her head, and gave one look round the familiar room. . . . Presently the drawing room door closed, with deliberate quietness, behind her. ... Barbara's sudden appearance at the flat brought Mrs. Field little surprise. She had heard the rumblings of the storm approaching In Darbury, had seen the lowering clouds; but, with hydrangeas; pausing for breath, while the lane dropped to the old Inn In the valley below, the white and gray cottages straggled along on either side the stream gurgling over Its stony bed between rolling coombs in the valley behind, to the harbor which was Its . Such was the retreat in goal. which Barbara found herseff. The chance memory of a friend's rapture hud led her weary footsteps thither to a small gray house near the river, kept by a bright young wom-u- n and her husband. Here, unknown and unnoticed, away from the stings of malicious tongues, the Inquisitive world not even seeing a newspaper she wrestled with the questions and doubts and miseries of her heart. "If the Joy of your own personal love Is withdrawn," Margaret Field had said, one day tn Loudon, "the seed is never lost. You may think It Is for a time ; but, later, it shoots up. nourished by experience, growing into a strong plant which will develop Into a flowering tree of many branches." The truth of that, too, was dimly in her mind as sne watched the stars come out above the harbor in her heart the tired peace of one who, giving up tilting at windmills he can never conquer, lays his hand upon the plow which needs It. If solving the mystery of suffering could never be accomplished ; if her own personal keynote to happiness were lost ; then content she must be to hold out the hand of fellowship to those companions in bitter waters to help find It for the world starving for love. . . . Perhaps who knows? that is the answer to the riddle. As darkness fell, she turned down the path .over the rocks ; crossed the little bridge spanning the river; and made her way to the gray house, from which cheerful lights beckoned. . . . She fumbled with the handle, turned It ; opened the door ; then stood for a for moment blinking confusedly: something big and dark had loomed up In the small passage, hiding the hanging lamp. . . . A great cry burst suddenly from the In the dark she girl's lips. turned ashy white; swayed; clutched and would vainly at the door-poshave fallen, had she not been caught by arms that held her so strongly that they stopped her breath. . . . 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Solid flesh no ghost!" He raised her chin in the old possessive way, and looked long Into the thin face and eyes, which told their own tale of suffering endured ; then he pressed her head to his breast and held her close again in silemv, ns If defying any fate to separate them now. . . . "But," she stammered faintly at last, "bow is it why I don't understand 7' "Why I'm not sleeping with my fathers, as you all surmised? Well that Is your fault." "Mine?" He nodded. "When Babooma was about to send me to my gods, you conveniently sent him, instead, to the shades of Valhalla that last bullet, you know !" Her eyes opened wide, and she caught her breath. rf i aiT'ancr?i! 'Dl !i lilt broad-shouldere- d half-clad- "Very Well; I Will Go." rare Insight, she forebore to interfere. Some storms, being Inevitable, are best left to themselves. "Forewarned and forearmed," one's work comes later with salvage and reconstruction. Not a whole regiment of engineers could pull down the wall encircling Mrs. Stockley's horizon; of that Mrs. Field was certain. In time, when tlie shock, and above all the talk, had subsided, a few bricks might, with Infinite tact, be drawn away, allowing an occasional glimpse of wide uplands beyond. . . . But that would In the meantime not be yet. It was the girl's quivering soul which needed Infinite delicacy In handling; which wavered, struggled, sank gradually lower Into the dark wilderness of morbidity, from which those who get lost therein take long to discover a way out ; and, when they do, find the burrs and thorns still sticking to them, never to be quite shaken off. Margaret Field had been through nil this herself, years ago. No words, (TO HE CONTINUED.) she knew, could help. She watched Get Loans From "Aunt" the girl closely, but made no attempt to force her. Putting back the clock In Purls and other big French cities of her ii.in days, she entered the the pawnbroker Is called "my aunt." black pit witli her, understanding her In France one needn't blush In doing da rk ness. business with the pawnbroker, for ha Barbara went away. She gave no Is the slate; that Is, the government address. "1 want to feel cut off from conducts the pawnbroklng business. It everything and everybody who knows does It very well, too. If I am to beme for a time." she said, when her lieve tlie testimony of some Americans who have "traded" with "My Aunt" friend expostulated. while awaiting delayed remittances A remote Cornish village, trailing from home. "My Aunt" has had a Its whitewashed cottages down a pre- good year's business. She does little cipitous narrow lane bordered by lit- business nowadays with the working-man- , for be Is always In work. Thu tle cobbled ditches wherein ducks waddled nnd tnlked together winding center of poverty has moved. It Is tlx brigade which, unable to round a comer between fragrant gar- white-colla- r dens that merged Into gray walla of make both ends meet, resorta to "My houses and banks which, In summer, Aunt." Oddly enough, "My Aunt's" oozed ferns from every crevice, burst shop In Paris Is on "the Hill of I'lefy." fuchsias Not a misprint for pity. A. U. L, la forth Into Area of purple-re-d and bulged out Into great cluiupa of World Traveler alag-.itudark-ringe- ... URSERY RHYME FUZZLE d ' rn;'W'.TK3S , .t(Jt,. M.4.,: with the me. window, to my dolly, VVjOME And look at the stars that shine on the sea: From each golden star a dream will come down To some little child in each city and town, 4rCSw.svSwi;, ''vJ i - - Foal inMM clMkt. Ult n4 dova n hot drtav 7 |