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Show THE OGDEN 8 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 3t 1921. . mm Vv take his horse, .but ran down the wild, swift things on foot, with only his own lords to help him drive the ' quarry "which thing no other man lrThts kingdom might do." Came back, too, the remembrance of Harry England himself as he ran, faster surely than ever man had run before, to save my father's life; of the tales that were told about his marvellous swiftness, of - '(Continued from Preceding Page) in which were set two bluex eyes ' like blue stones. He was slightly above middle height and had a certain active and capable air about him, as if he were accustomed to use his muscles. I connected it, vaguely, with the deep tan of his face and yet there was something about his cool, repressed look that rather suggested the student. An add combination odd as the tan and the light, bright eyes; as the excellent dress suit ("It does show off a man with a real waist," whispered Mabelle) and the hands, which were well kept but burned almost to blackness. v On the whole, the newcomer , intrigued me somewhat; especially as I felt almost certain though not , : some-- S t t turned round In a flame of anger. 'Please remove your hand.' I said. 'You are making a anil suddenly the words died away in my throat." I foot And as he crossed. the room to me I meeting him for the first time since my childhood looked cn him no longer with a child's pas ' sionless eyes, but with the eyes of a woman. And with a woman's heart I knew him, however that old tale might 'run, as kingly; however the recoYd of his days might run-d- ark though the tale might be as my king. So life Is lived in seconds, in minutes long as hours. They gray hours and years between them are not life. -- that I had seen him WJLU r . -- Quite - err 'l - v where before. I was Just opening my lips to say so when Mabelle, who had been staring with unconcealed 4ellght, suddenly seized my arm. "Oh, oh, look!" she whispered. felAnd I saw that the low, with the strange blue eyes, was walking right up to Lorraine-an- d holding out his hand. "He knows her!" I exclaimed. I saw him speak to her and then turn round to look about the veranda. . Ma belle was standing right , in .front of me; she was taller and broader than I, and I was half d veiled, besides,' by a pillar. I do not think I could have been visible to him, but, unlike Mabelle, I had no interest In knowing whether I was or not. Quite .half my mind had been occupied up to, this with another thought; and now, on a sudden, it overflowed, like a still, glassy dam that has been rising higher and higher unseen behind its embankment, and all in a minute rushes f t . v.: 0- - s h . ' " sf- - $ 7; A . i 9 r A" r. - -- j s jt dark-haire- d "t . - f i V X- I I it; I ! i palm-screene- h, - A - : , " v f .. 'i ; ,AV : - ' i I - , 1 ' . 1 i , I ''V"? ' A 'i "f.. h ' . . ' , - 7 - .: ';( . '7. . f . 7 j T 1 The world or was it my heart? --went on again. "JUid I saw that the tall, tall figure in the dress was coming toward me, and that its eyes were fixed on me. And they were deep, dark, ruthless eyes, and above them rose the splendid brow, and beneath them showed the strong, ugly mouth, and the hard set eyes of Captain Harry England He was no beauty in face save for the forehead' that promised so much, that might have raised him 'so far. But in majesty of figure and bearing I use the word "majesty" .designedly, there Is no other that fits Harry England was king, of any room he might enter the whole .world over. Do you remember how some word, some sight may have recalled to you things heard or seen In uncomprehended then; but now, in the flash of a new illumination, clear as the sun? That happened to me when I saw Harry England enter the dancing room and . remembered," long ago, the drunken 7 7- vv 7 , .; V: J7 7 7 .' v - m a Ar":;- 7 . ' 7 : A; .'. r c . - v i - v7 A;. "A- f r ; 4 s&h. ; A-- :" ' V- - - i d child-,'iioo- ! ' ? 4- ,x v Vv ' f y4- , . - y V t ,.( " ' k ' . 't - ' v ' V;: - ; ' ' . c ,-- v i your hoitcff, you know. Won't you Introduce jonroelj? You crn with the captain of the boat, dlint you? Can I find you partner? Sat ca.it a g'.anct at him. I Vntw what he waj going to by t om trick of thought rtadlsc Wfort he laid IL ,Th-It came: "Whr, i think tbt Hill Uij ks.owi rne. I am Luke Itcry, and he i to be my w IfA. Hemexbcr me now, DaraTT Ixrralne had tra!jse4 me well. "NeTcr bo hy," h6 usd to fay. -NeTcr bo taken aback. Ncrcr show feeling publicly. Thco ar the tcsrli of irood-bredlng." I aniwcrtd to the te,iL I dont know whit I felt at the moment- -it wn cne cf those Imtanu when of feeling fuse temper&turo thought. I can only recall the pesiatlonrf sudden deadsesi that came Into my lianda and my arms, up to the elbows, aj tho blood ruyhci tack to my heart. My Engera tecsM to b closed round my fan all tl.T an 1 cold, llko dead fingers round a knot of faneral Cowers. 4r, I replied itn-jpulihl- - I confronted a face tancrd teal brown, blue eyes; a UcsUns, V pos8C38iTc expression. Assuredly, I thoubf. the key hai been Irft oat Mabelle Incarnate prose, as waysbroke In upon . dance I shall die!. 'England, for a moment, had been delayed on his way; one or two men ' luppcr-roo- ci rrraove your I said coldly la & Hawopga. 1 cot pretty girl f transe to th'.s sort of thing). "You are making a And suddenly word the. died away in my throat, "Aren't you making a said the pleasant voice. "Do you mean to say you don't know me. Dara? I was dumb. I stared at him. And all tha time, over my shoulder, I felt wjLiiont eyes, I ftcn taw-H- arry (at - - door. ' lact," mynoment of s the of Tl ea.se al- . wonder. l "Look at this tall man, she exclaimed, her fan up to shield her words. "He's coming here. I believe It's that terrible Captain England. I wonder he didn't get killed in the war by some of our own men; there are quite enough people who hate him and who'd have been glad of the chance. Oh, talk to him, Dara; here's my beauty-bo- y coming If and he 'doesn't ask me to ' back, ; . scTcnteea. tho had deserted iheir partners to rush up to him and seize him by iho hand. If he was well hated among the island and it would bo absurd to say he was not he was also amazingly well loved by .a certain faithful following. He got away from hl3 admirers, I know how; I watched him making his way through the crowd that was " momentarily growing do-no- t thicker. . . "Your aquamarine look splendid," said a pleasant, strango voice behind me. And a strange hand well-kepbut burned almost to blackness was familiarly laid on my shoulder. I turned round in a Came of anscr. Somebody,, I supposed, had been making too early acquaintance with the supper table. Such things were cot unknown In the easy going Lot e t iaim or liawongx well-shape- t, M Intmiynl Frtnr Srr!c, (C 19?T. vi .... England coming cloccr, standing still. Mabelle broke In apraln. -I'm Alias Carstang," ho said. cp-p-eil- rg t7 . e Qtilte. 1 think. In $n ordinary rclce. Ccrta!nly, Luke, I remember you now. I'lcaso eicuao me, tut you ". a til left. anything I Luke, amlltne it!!!, held my card two-etc- p . eteodlly acroti hi plm wblle h wrote his name oa It ence, at thfl eerend dar.ee tho name stretched down the card to the last dance after He gate me back my card, place! cne arm d Mabellc's mcit will-Jnwaist and iwusg c- -t onto the Bf-gtilni- rc-n- gr floor. The bejf, teeing my card, burst : Into rcmoniL-acce-s -Oh. Ch. y.ltn Harf- ltrn! "Ob, Ml a Iara! Thate plrary! Aro you gt:lns to Irt him haxc the whele lotr "Don't be put Tspoal" "Cat half a dozen for xu They clattered and huilled like a Sock cf fowls at feedlcc time. A HtUo way cZ Uinr England looked at me with his ilrang dark, filcnt ere?, anl, without & word. ra?ecd down the room and away. To De Continued NtKt Sunday, - Joe, 7 f; .... . - ; i - V v- - ' 'S V - te rt a ' and changed to much. ThU U a great scrprUe. Mabelle. may I Introduce Mr. Irory to ycuTT Mabelle, her profingering gramme, became intUntly Intent oa securing the ccTeted dance; but he had aelfoiaeiiloa enough left to tread t?a my foot tetrttiy and to wfcUpcr cloio to my ear: -- Oh. yoa lucky 21 til denL you !y Utu deTill whlla the icrittllnc ""iTorr" oa her card. Tho dance Just starting was it cne that the marked. Luke, after -writing MI CariUng'" neatly 'Number One." turned to mo and m!indy look my card from my hand. By this time my tuna follow tre cf lade had collect e4 from H ccr-neof the teranda and were call- In cat cay for a waltz a. harr-yrow- n . j ; i , , J at Hiliwa Dara. 1 - : trllh a nrrros lit'I'm. tle it'seIc. i -- - ( ; 7 d, "Harry England Harry thel Fifth direcY line, but wrong side of And my ' father's vole the" ' stopping his speech. And the strange tales about Harry England that had been whispered, even in my guarded ear, by other girls at school that, he was "somebody If He chose to tell"? that the family he came from had a wonderful old house in Warwickshire called "Faveroy," and had always ibeen specially honored, at court; -that their name "meant Something" and so did the name 'of the Louse; that Harry England had run' away from home when a boy because some other boy at school had said Ibis family was descended fromoh, from a very wicked word;' tnd he said he would go where there were no kings and queens and make him-ee-lf ' a king of another kind. These things "came back; came back also the daywhen I had been at my history lesson with Lorraine and had read of Harry the Fifth-Pri- nce Hal arid how when he to hunt the deer he did not vchos 7 r . . ' . in - doctor talking to my father, away ' , 7 'V v - war-staine- j v t-- . . .f V (jS 1 ? and very rare? il i ; .- ' 1 . .- 'Itr vf ' v. . f hi !' . downward in a flood. ,The curtained doorway of the Resident's roo'm (it had never been out of my mind while we were talking) opened wide, the curtains .'ehook and parted, and out came a tall, very tall, figure in stained uni' form of khaki. I felt something stop. I did not know whether it was the world or just my heart It might have been ' either by the feeling. I wonder how near we are to death sometimes In these moments that conje and pass like the rush of Nearer' than we a shooting-starDoes not nature, be. think, it may, the "wise nurse," .make them swift ( ! : . |