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Show THE OGDEN SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1921. STANDARD-EXAMINE- R ID 7 (Cont'd from Last Sunday) CHAPTER X. (Continued) te. A""" 7 OU should have heard the . kings and queens cheering;! you should have seen Kavlki of the Turtle Cays jump up and slap Harry England on the back; and Merana, Queen of Aivel (she "was young and largeeyed and long of hair), spring from the mats. I think she would have kissed the King of Borona in her excitement, only her fat old bushand, Prince Consort Lukuo, pulled her hack by the tail of her gown, and caused her to sit suddenly and violently down again. Then it was for Malera to resume her office that had been usurped, and with many bendlngs of beautiful wrists and turnings outward of dimpled elbows, to serve kav to all the rest of the kings and queens. As keva, mod erately taken, makes for talkativeness, even as immoderately; drunk it paralyses the limbs, leaving the drinker unable to walk without as. sistance, the talk ran high and gay and noisy for an hour jot bo. And" Harry England sat with my hand in his and never let it go until, of a sudden, as it seemed, the moon was down and the sea below the veranda showed pink as the inside ,of a shell and the coral beach was gray in the coming dawn. Then lie rose, and helped me to rise, and told Lalua that she must come with us to see me home. Lalua nodded wisely. 'Good," she said. "We went out Into the iyory dawn-ligh- t, and through the silent, flowery lanes and roadways; and It was as if to me the gates of Paradise kad been unlocked, and I was walk-,inamong the blooms of Eden and tjbeside the Tree of Life. " 'At the gateway of our house, "where .the climbing fires of were beginning to burn In. the sun, Harry 'England redly to take ray left hand in 'paused tooth --of h's, and slip off the little T Y ' y ' A" A ' X "''.. x slipped off my little forget-me-nring and the half hoop of aquamarines and flung them in a whistling curve over the edge of the cliff." , , " . ' - lnterert ST- .' ' 'f i i 1 -- ' ' T H 1 n r- 1 thlnrs funereal "You'll want your boots to go out for a walk, more likely. . Now there," she eald, movlrrj: away from the bed, "that's done It; you couldn't get her to the hospital if you prayed her on your bended knees. Whatever did po8e you to talk Itke thatT "Oh, I am ao snrrr," rieTed Malera, coolngly. We wore all I out on the veranda .again. was so anxious to pet her to I meant It all for tho Cobest." "limp!" commented Nurso a "In my rxprk-r., ni-Iof tho mischief that's - , u ( - .1, - ' , . v.;., 'hi , r ; . f VV-'s"v- e. '- t r r X . I . t , c nlne-tenth- , r . X -. ' as V ' . : A '- - '.--: "s' ' " v V -- A I f - : . haif-lioo- A - 0 " - . ,- .;. i , ''evv- r . ' s, - - , ':,' . , x . . aA . ; A -- ' v. .. i - I.. V -- ft e. . ' . beyond the group, half way tnTa-hiti- , and he proposed living there; had had part of it for some years; it was a nice property. Yes, he knew I owned half of . kissed. And the great pink pearls were fastened to my ears by the closing of the heavy gold setting so that, as Harry England said nothing but a blacksmith's tools could have set me free. Our wedding was arranged for the next week but ono. Lorraine, formally asked for fcef 'consent bv England. Jjlmseif in the course of a proper afternoon call-hagiven It without much cavil. She had made an objeetion or twau enough! and she na not asked me to leaye the room .before aha made them, England had answered all ehe eald, gravely Hiliwa Dara: he thought the best thing I could do was to sell out to Luke. He knew Luke had an ex traordlnary objection to him, but he did not know that he was called on to consider that. He had heard about Luke's letter. Was there anything else Miss Hamilton wished to ask? Miss Hamilton had nothing else to ask. She said gracefully but clearly enough that she did not al- together anprove of. the marriaere. However, she did not suppose mnch good would be done by refusing the consent that 6he, as legal guardian, had to give. "Not much," was England's quiet d plain-spoke- n and! calmly. It was true, he allowed, that the Queen of the Islands had been partly run by handsome young native girls, some years before. It was not true now; tt would mot be again. f U was true that he had killed, more than, one manin fair fight. He-- , could not, he said, see the difference - between that and the thlpgs they had given him bits of ribbon for over on. the other side of the worlds A fight was a fight and that was all there was to It. It was not altogether true that he had broken and oppressed one trader after, another who Incurred 'or got in the way of his his business. He had certainly not run his affairs on. philanthropic principles; he did not know anyone who did. The under-do- g always yelped; it was his privilege , -- ill-wil- l, to do eo. .VA-vit- " V v. y: ... o i . As regarded his own prospects they were very fair. He had Just Ibought Rorona, avfine island out comment. lit that . one polite sentence I think e he had asked him , If he meant to carry me off, should she refuse her consent; in his brief reply he had. informed her that he' were certainly would- They one of worthy another, those two. I have sometimes wondered why they never tell in loye. It. would have been a mating of two tigers. But If Lorraine had nothing to say.'or nothing that she would say against the match, there was another person who 'would, under ordinary circumstances, have had1 a great deal to say, J. have often wondered Just how events would have turned out if Dinah had not fallen ill. She did, suddenly, and rather seriously. She hid been ailing for a day or two, and on the evening of the at the Queen's she had taken a bad turn. The doctor did not think her IH ness dangerous, but it puzzled him a little. She was very low, rather feverish and Inclined to be delirious, wandering every now and then and coming back to her senses only for a little time before drifting off again Into dreams and . " kava-drinkln- fancies. N ' g :a ' v -- through . now. as away. He Harry Eniland had called once, after hla formal call on Iorrm!ne, to tH ma that Important bualneaa look him frota Hawor.fca, but that he would be back the day before that fixed for the wedding. He stayed a little while for a chat. I was more and more aiton-tahe- d by the difference bctweea his behavior to me, and that of Luke. Luke, in the IMtle time that had been ours together, had seemed "especially anxious to mark hla proprietorship otroo. I was cot to dane with this one. I was to do that, and wag not to do the other. X I was to tcmember was to come out and wander alone with him In the icarden, under the rooonlUrh't; I was to alt beilde him on the bench, with his arm about rn when ho chose, and to go ta and dance agala when he thought that dancing would be pleaaant. o I He was like his letters thought kind, generous, but oh. so determined on that point of pro- prletorthtp. on the holding of the foollth little bond that had beea forged by our eldera, long ago! Concerning that extraordinary f.arh of another spirit that had blazed up and burned the bond to a cinder, I did not think when engaged thus comparing my two lor era. I may have felt that It wa. eo far alien to Luke's own real character a. not to come Into the , ! nursing, however well meant, could be equal to tho trained services of a competent professional. The professional nursed Dinah for a day or two and then asked to be allowed to remove her to the pretty cottage hospital on tho hill overlooking the town. ... . ivAv ' - ,.::.iv4: A':vh y XJ V ysy 2 y.t rr unskilled '& brought lua'a for her," said Malera, meekly acthe reproof. cepting -There Is nothing like them; but I am Jc,nf11 JK.-- so few; I could only ing." A A v i ' 1 V I was sitting on a ex-plain- ed re proval. "There are all sorts of queer things that the doctors don't understand in these Islands," she said. "I'm sure she will be better where they can observe her all the time. Let us tell her; she will be so glad." cried the nurse, as Malera flitted with that light dancing step of her3 out of the drawing-rooand down the veranda that led to Dinah's room. Malera did not seora to hear; she went fast; her pink satin nightdress robe floated out behind her, yet she did not seem to be hurry-In.- " The nurse followed her on high tapping heels that pattered like "Here, stop! m little hoofs. long chair Just between the two rooms; the doors of both were' open and I could see in. Malera reached Dinah's bed before Nurse Elsie was half way down the veranda. She flung her--e elf on her knees beside it. 0h, Dinah, my very dear,' she said in her cooing voice. "I am so glad; they are going to take you out of this hot house up to tho lovely hospital on the top of the hill, where you will have such good care. Presently they will come for you and take you away. 6h I am eo glad for you." That morning the low delirium had almost cleared away; Dinah knew what was said to her and understood most of it. The effect of Maiera's announcement was dynamitic, Dinah, though accepted by all the Hiliwa Dara family as practically an equal, bad, neTertbelesa, been born and bred in the domestic servant clasn, and she retained all its To the servant the prejudices. word hospital" 13 one of unspeakable horror. While tho titled employer when sick, Is ready at once to exchange a luxurious homo Had perfect service for the austere private ward and its tyrannical In like nurse, her kitchen-maid- , case, shudders and weeps at the baro thought of hospital care; begs to be spared it; would gladly exchange for half a bed In a grimy cottage and the rough help of 1 ' Ignorant neighbors all the safeties. helps and resources of modern science. Dut Malera could Malera hare known thist I cannot say. I can only say what happened. Dinah burst Into tears, sat up in her bed and declared her Intention of running away. "GV me my bonnet and shawl," she said, harking back In her confused speech to old days of youth and London for, in the burning Islands, such words as 'bonnet' and "shawl" are not la anyone's vocabulary. Gl' them me, till I gst up and run where I can hide; Til bare no hussies with towels cn their heads takln me to where them doctors can poison me and cut-- me cy after I'm dead." soothed tiush." hu?h, Oh, Malera, making, on her knees, in her graceful, brilliant dress, a picture of aurpaaslng loveliness (ecd well, I th.nk, sho knew it!) "Det.r Dinah, no cne will do anything yea don't like. Nobody will cut you u;j. The doctors only want to make ycu well. Ar.1 the hospital Is such a nice place." Dinah made a leap rlsht out c f bed and began fumbling with bands that shook pitifully for her clothen. Nurse Elsie, who had been ineffectually trying nowto Intermit took action. Maiera's speech, "Here, don't mind her.' she sail la the clear, deliberate tone useS so effectively by the practlsei nurse. ' You're not going any- - "Thanks. She fancies them, and they take down the fever a little tald the nuns, "Let me cool them, like before T asked Malera. "It It such a pity there Is co Ice, See, you must use a very, very sharp knife like mine raior-edge- d (she pulled sheath knife from her dress) ''and you. must cut the lime In twp with a quick sweep, so that the oll shall not come out too much from the kin; It Is too hanh, that oil, It burns the Hp. Then, Hko this, yea put It in the wind, but no sun. for ten minute s, and It Is cold-S- he set the plate of Hmes oa the rail of the veranda. They were certainly magnificent sraoeth-sklnne-and fruits; round, tennis-balls. as large as Malera fhlftcd the cut halves bo that the wind ahonld blow over them. "Give her to drink. she said, and .floated away down the steps, out through the garden. d She's wonderfully rretty. heTr Do you!" is a graceful r im't ' countered the nurse," "I don't know, deed, I thought. I Looking back across the seas years, it seems attual, vivid part I said. And. indid cot know. upon- - that week, and acrojs the to me the most of my life. I can hardly realize that at the time It all seemed to me like a dream. Yet this was so. I know that I went through the business of every daythe sewing and preparing of my clothes; the turn of nursing In Dinah's room. it r flat-toppe- d she? commented Nurse Elsie, gen-crously. 'Yes" I agreed. "Do rou like ma nae. attitude, but I do not think he knew it to be so, except as he knew, la general, his own physical perfection. He sat thus. looking at me oftener and longer than I could have wiihed, talking scarcely at all, and not moving, during the first half-houcf hfs stay, from the position he had taken up. In homely phraie h'.i Immobility "got on my nerves- - at last; X had never seen any human belsg keep so still. His dark, long eyes, full of things unoomprehended. Incomprehensible, seemed the only lire things aVml him. They, Indeed, were as alive as two electric dyna mos in futo play. I grew tired of making conversation; of teTUnK him ILil I hf.d beea to call on the Carstangr, tfcat Mabel hd a cold; that everybody had beta rery nice about our engagement (which waa true, for I dont think most peeyla had had time to realist the original one, before they heard it did not actually exlit, end that the happy rasa was quite another than Luke). I grew tired, as I say. and sud -What are denly broke oat with: you thlntlng eff Why are you to stiii "Do you watt me to be lively t asked Kngland. with the ghost cf a rmllf about his Upi, and these dyr.ajr.ca In hli ycs beginning te more than ever. sparkle X "I tlon't think I do." - raid. very sorry there are V get three this morn- "She'd be far bettr there," Nurse. Elsie, standing up straight and slim in her spotless blue uniform and white apron.MOne doesn't know how these obscure troubles may turn out," "Do you mean that it's contagious V asked Lorraine; "I don't mean anything,. Miss Hamilton, because I don't know But on general prin anything. ciples, when the patient keeps so persistently low and delirious, with quite a moderate temperature, U'p as well toave her under closer observation than one can get in a private house." Malera. who had called to after Dinah, nodded her apla-qui- A ' e, Some more of those good limes of' La ) Lorraine ordered a nurse from the hospital to come down and attend to her; she herself was too practical and modern to think that question. Harry England, on the afternoon when he came to say good-bywaa tactfully left wjth me by Lorraine. We were on the little aide veranda, I remember; the small, sheltered one, overhung with glorious chains of pasilon fruit and Cowers, and overlooking, at no great distance, the cliff elge and the fallen line of the sleeping, wide Pacific, He handed me a comfortable chair and took for hlmaelf the oaly straight one on the veranda, la which he sat upright, as he always did, one foot a little back, one hand the other drop. best- y i' t y, la four days la counting three." Every night when my mosquito net la all round and laid my head on the pillow I said to myself: "One more day gone;' four' days now three two. And I alwaya added, to myself: "I do . . not believe it," Yet as I say, looking back aad knowing now whither thoie five, four, three, two days were leading me. they seem clean cut upon the plain of memory as oa a Ukraine teppo the tall, black potts that mark what was once a track done In the world goes n n d e r that label. I hopo when I die that they'll put on my tombstone, "I hate r,i to-da- to-da- y 'She never meant for the anything - H . . A 4 with my earrings, first one side, then the other. I heard him draw 5x1a ibreath quickly, once, twice. "You'll want a blacksmith to Bet you free from that, hp said. Lalua looked aside as we parted.' minute later I was in my own Toom, staring at my face In the glass and wishing I could cut out with a knife or burn with a red-- i hot Iron the place on my lips where another man, before my lover, had ' ' awake. 4 Every morning when I awoke, la my little. stiU room overlooking the wide seaa, I said to rayeeif: "I am going to marry Harry England In five days from so-and-s- o. v p ring andthe of aquamarines. I had forgotten all about them during the storms, of yesterday; they were so much" a : part of my hand that I never remembered whether I had them on or not. Some way from our gate the sea ran into the land in a sudden curve, making a narrow bay; surrounded ty high cliffs. "At all stages of the tide this bay was flooded with water fathomless, black-bluThe captain eyed the distance and with a mighty shot flung out the two rings in a whistling curve. They rose, sank and went down below . the edge of the cliff. "Just a moment. Stands still I" he said, and his hands were busy - In find ; : . lt s 's ( for she kept still on the same level, neither bettr nor worst, th twelve o'clock rest, for my complexion; the fiTe o'clock walk, tor my health as if I were only half my very best never worn, in the nightdress, eecond drawer from the top." -Pooh, nonpenae!' declared the nurse, throwing the sheet lightly over her patient and tucking In the moaqulto-net- . g. forget-me-no- t gt , ot , . "Harry England "youH ; bou-galnvlll- where. Get back Into bed and have You're rotng to your beef stay her, la this house. Come on. back." . "Am I going to tuy? Am 1?" begged Dinah, leaning on Nurse Elsie's arm and climbing painfully Into her deserted bed. "I'm not 111. you know, nurse; it's only a bit of Infusion; lnsectual infusion, the doctor called it; I hsrd him. I me always was easy infused. 111 be all right tolay quiet, and morrow; or, if rrn not" her eyes brightened with a touch of th old 1 ' "Why do you not?"Became," I answered him consideringly, "ycu teem to me like something that Is rtlll U'l tt goes eff with a bang. He Uurhed at thli. layrVd heartily, with his hands asudder.lv boylh-gesturpnt up before his face that at well cn him, his thirty years. da-rpl- (Continurd on .Vrxf Pa??) te e |