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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH M 1 f nPTEK XIV H IV B ill a 1 1 i i a I M fcs a 1 Ff P4 1 Hr'' &4BEN AWLS YVILLIAV.S Continued time southeasterly, and Richard took every opportunity to catch the sun, or to take a lunar. They sighted the Diego Ramirez Rocks one mcrmr.g an hour after breakfast; and Mary put on her coat and went up the companion and found Richard exuberant as a triumphant boy in the knowledge that his calculations had been accurate. The men forward were shouting instead of talking, their voices d with triumph, knowing that presently they would turn at last northeasterly for the long run home. "Now, I'll snatch a wink, Mr. Forbes," Richard told Mat. "Call me when we come abeam of the 15 rven George sike her name them, and she turned in quick Wi:sn .ay; end George saw her on and his cheek paled. She enftoward him, forced herself to ipeak casually. t r "Well, they're gone, almost out of reht row think I'll go George r.odded. "I "I'll below.'' He seemed hoarse. tn? to take a nap." Ke turned away. Mary, after a moment's doubt, went with him. folHe did not protest when she look he did neither but lowed him; to ground. He walked rapidly aft before descended the companion, she overtook him. At the foot of Rocks." So he and Peter went below with the companionway she found that he bad stopped to wait for her; and George and Mary; and Richard when she faced him he asked a flat stripped off his great sea coat. Mary said: "You're dead for question. sleep, Richard. Go lie down." "Mary, what were you and RichHe nodded. "I could sleep three ard ta'img about?" He cried wretchedly: "Oh, I'm days in a row," he agreed. He be went into his cabin and closed the sorry, Mary! I don't want to door behind him. this way! But I've seen you so often lately talking to him, and if I come Mary made George lie down in near you, you stop. I try not to his bunk for warmth's sake, and covered him over. She returned to notice. I try as hard as I can. But her own cabin, and drifted off to I can't help it, Mary." Desperate to reassure him, and sleep. Later she roused a little; heard Peter say in the common to stop his questions, she rememroom outside her door: bered the pearls. "Richard's worried," she said. "There were some "I tell you you're wrong. But pearls in a packet in his desk, and anyway, watch yourself. Dick will they've been stolen." "Pearls? Where did Richard get ..." high-pitche- them?" "They were mine." Once begun, she must tell him everything; but at her word, his hand tightened on her arm. "Where did you get them, Mary?" "Jarambo gave them to me the day we left Gilead." "Jarambo?" His eyes cleared with relief. "I suppose he'd had them for years. Probably dove for them himself. Was that it?" "No," she said. "I think I know what happened." She told him the truth, or her best guess at what the truth might be; she related now at last the massacre at the island, and the burning of the ship. "They had killed Aulgur, you know," she reminded him. "I suppose these were his pearls, and they got them, and Jarambo found them on their schooner." He sat down, shaken by what he heard, fumbling for solid ground again. "Our islanders slaughtered those Mi men?" "Yes!" She said. "But they did it because they loved you, George." After a moment he cried in a sudden strength: "Mary, I'm glad they did! The world's better without them." "Yes." "Mary, why didn't you tell me all this before?" "You were so ill." "Did Cap'n Corr know about the massacre?" "Yes." "Does anyone else aboard know?" "Corkran knew, of course. He's probably told everyone. And they all saw the smoke from the burning schooner before they reached the is- land." He nodded briefly, said in a slow scorn of himself: "Everyone knew but me, but no one told me." "I knew how unhappy it would make you." He laughed shortly. "I know now where I stand with you all. You think me a weak woman of a man, who has to be and cajoled guarded and shielded, protected from the truth." "Please, George." He shook his head. "Oh, I suppose I'll be all right when I've thought it i "George, please.' blow you to pieces. He keeps gun in the top drawer." She sat up in swift alarm. As her feet touched the floor, she heard Peter go on deck again; and then George opened her door. He grasped her arm, his fingers crushing it so that she uttered a low Mary begged cry of pain. She looked up into his face and saw it twisted and convulsed by some terrific passion; and she whispered in a quick terror: "George! What's the matter?" He said harshly, "Come out here! I want to talk to you and Captain Corr." Holding her, he wrenched open the door of Richard's cabin; and Richard asleep in the bunk opened his eyes, his head rising from the pillow, and then his whole body rose as he came to his feet in a sharp alarm, steadying himself with his hand. "What's wrong?" he asked. He brushed past them into the common room, leaped toward the companion, thinking only of the ship, thinking her in danger. When Richard, emerging from the cabin, brushed him aside, George had lurched toward the desk; and before Richard reached the foot of the companionway, George dragged open the top drawer of the desk and lifted out of it the heavy old revolver always kept there. At his cry, his command, Richard turned and saw good over; but it's pretty hard J find yourself so contemptible in we eyes of other men!" He went to his own cabin and shut the door behind him, shutting her out. When he appeared for supper, he seemed to be himself once more. hey were all cheerful at the supper table. Peter did most of the talking, as he was apt to do. Since the weapon leveled at him firmly. tftat day when he killed the whale For a moment he did not move, nich had broken Richard's arm, staring in a bewildered astonishne was sure of himself, ment; but then, his concern still for exuberantly inclined to condescend. his ship, he said curtly: At dark that night, the weather "I'll be back!" And he went up Sn,W: the wind came more the companionway. and it stiffened, and was Mary began to understand what "id. Richard shortened sail a lit-- e was coming; to foresee the content stayed on deck most of the night of the next half hour. She heard, 8 Lhis shiP- usin8 fls much wfnS as though far away, voices over as he wisely could, extract-Ji- g their heads; but she did not look up. from the half gale all it would She stared at George as though he y glve. The weathef were a stranger seen for the first time; and she waited for Richard to ?ARJchard drove her return as for a rescuer. Bnd When he descended the compan dayS that ionway, he closed the scuttle behind him. shutting them in. He CHAPTER XV stooDed at the foot of the ladder, looking from one of them to the bu??n6e ?oughed more and more; other. George had turned, stood braced now with his feet wide apart, Mary's urin3. h 0nP!,te back to the desk. The Venturer, his L dfly. fusing wesJwarC,ddled' terested in this Quartering the seas, was combining JMtwa: passage of the Horn which a pitch and a roll in an exasperat SedR-iapProaching: and he ing motion, slitnering upward at an many questions. angle, poising, lurcning aown again. Georee had put on some compo He was steadier now, and qui 1 sure. thing dont 2 hit 18 f0We're apt to eter. He backed against the desk, ee Lk still holding the revolver, and faced cleVr i;tPn11,ghtA.lon as stay them both; and he spoke in crisp, alnw tones. He said evenly: "I want this business between you stopped, can "preuv e uarK u ere a tndav. HOW. "ny ice ahead of us. And the niaht Richard stared at him; he looked Ips, helplessly at Mary. "I'm so tired I m now kePt the deck Humb." he said, speaking to her, tog f hours of darkness, not not to George. "Maybe it's because oma 15 I'm short of sleep. I don't know neir course wn h thia what he'a talking about." - care-SSw- ? - Vt T? ed Tri ricl M. w. NEW IDEAS Delicious., .for fisherS... welcomed aihoma to prepare ... cove ... coot 2 Wf-rV-i hhiT i self. She moved toward him, said leadingly: "George, you're sick. Let me put you to bed. Please!" "I'm sick to death," he told her. "Sick of you! Don't touch me. I've shut my eyes to your wantonness long enough." His word stopped her like a blow. Richard protested gravely: "George, you're talking in circles. If you've got anything to say, say it. What's on your mind?" "I'm talking about you and Mary making love to each other all the time," George told him; and his own rage choked him, and he coughed, bending double, clutching at his chest, his face dark with lack of breath before he could speak again. "Do you think I'm blind?" he challenged then. "I think you're crazy!" "I'm crazy, am I?" George visibly fought to control himself; to speak impassively. "Oh, I don't blame you so much. Why wouldn't you make love to her, when she begs for it? Captain Corr, leave her alone. No matter what she says. Because if you ever touch Mary again, or speak to her, I'll kill you." Richard said miserably: "Man, you're sick!" "Maybe I am. But I'm not too sick to pull a trigger. I've killed as big a man as you, with a pick axe, and he had a gun! Don t you touch Mary again, or speak to her. "Speak to her?" Richard echoed. "Why, sure I will; and I'll touch her too if it comes that way. Have some sense! Why wouldn't I?" George cried explosively: "Because you're in love with her, and she with you!" But on his own words, a paroxysm of coughing swept him, bent him, silenced him. He dropped the revolver on the desk, clutching at his chest with both hands. It was long before he could speak again. Through that long moment Richard looked at Mary, and Mary looked at Richard. Before the moment ended, each knew. It was true! While their eyes met in that long exchange like a revelation, like vows exchanging, these two forgot George, racked and helpless by the desk. His words undoor. locked at last a What he said was true, and while their eyes held now, they both knew it! They knew that they had loved each other always, and would love each other always. They had not guessed the truth before; but they knew it now forever, beyond doubt, beyond change, beyond forgetting. Each thought wonderingly: I was blind not to know then that this was true. But now they knew. Now they knew; and the knowledge was a gulf, deep and terrible and hopeless. Their eyes held hard, till George recovered; and they did not know he had recovered till he crossed to thrust at Mary with a movement like a blow, to break the bridge of their exchanging glasses, and to cry, pitifully furious: "Don't! Stop! You shan't even look at him so!" She spoke in a panic of haste, desperately denying, as much to persuade herself as her husband. Mary whispered: "George, George it isn't true!" She looked at Richard again. She knew it was true, knew he knew. "It isn't, please!" she cried like a prayer. George faced her, challenged: "So it's not true?" "Of course not!" He lifted one hand, brushed it past her like a scornful blow. "You're a liar!" Mary begged: "George, please!" He swung to her, staring at her narrowly. "You want me to believe you don't love him?" he demanded. "I don't, George." He grinned mockingly. He slipped his arm through hers. "All right," he said. "I believe it. I believe you. You're my wife, and you love me. Is that true?" "Yes, yes, yes." "You love me with all your d heart?" "Yes." "And soul?" "Yes." "Fully and completely and passionately?" "Yes, yes, you know I do." He had begun this catechism in tones derisive; but under her earnestness, his derision faded. He was so lost without her, wanted so much to believe her, that he began to do so. She saw with a slow rising hope that he did begin to believe her; and she thought fear would Jive with her always now, fear lest he discover the truth. She thought: All my life I'll have to lie to him, pretend, make him believe I love him. II he knew I don t, he would die. (TO BE CONTINUED) time j "' But Mary knew. So many incidents out of the past came now to enlighten her. This man facing them with a weapon in his hands was the same George who could not endure the thought of leaving her with Joseph Neargood at Gilead. He was the same George who could not see Fritz Aulgur give her a pearL He was the same George who was forever tormented by a devil of jealousy. It did not occur to her to wonder why the passion in him had thus suddenly come to a head. Certainly he had lost control of him- long-close- quick ... economko ... order, today, from your grocer. By Ruth Wyetii Spears ric straight around and about 2 inch over edges; then cover top and bottom; then the inner sides with the plain fabric V inch below the edges and i inch over the top and bottom; then cover the top and bottom inside. l. i'-C- ,4 AV r fit T Ktx n IB ( 1 ur? s Vi?r NS--JX- .VS. -" g- ss WSTE FA6MC around Of BCS AMD LMJ THEN MiJOtlTC AND LID B WITH PLAUi COWTRASTINC MATERIAL -- BOTTOM-Llfl- d "pHE pink and green chintz boxes on these closet shelves are lined with plain green cambric and they are hinged so that the front may be opened withcov-ere- out taking off the lid. 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