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Show THE WEEKLY KEFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAn &tUtetKintKtnMMxMnmnmmixfiQ8 cmiaaianmaissffismina I ' . . O By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN' "Through Stained Glau, Author of Home 1!J. by fCopyrlcht, Co ) Ttpbbn-Morrl- ll mnsm. I. Andrea IVllor stood on the edge of the cliff at the hark of the Indian and pared out across miles of moonlit hny. It was not for lack of a partner that she stood alone. File had promised this very extra to our insistent men, hut had excused herself to one after another of them, Just for a moment. Just while I powder my nose." They had all seen her run up the stairs In the main hallway; they had not aeon her travel steadily on through the lenpth 'of the hotel and corue down the Indder-llkexit Into the garden. Why had she done it? That wns a question that she herself could. not have answered but that did not occur to her as a matter for so often had a similar Impulse snatched her momentarily away from (i crowded world. Andrea had a past, but very little history. She was the only daughter of Lord Iellor of IVllor, a land jioor boron who could distribute five files ' among his five sous hut very little cash. As a rcmr'f Andrea hud lived life, If life you can call It, of tub- uloted Impoverished English gentle-- t women: Everything that the traffic will bear for the men of the fondly and for the girl Just enough frocks at her com'ng put to dissemble the halt that clothes the hook that catches tho man with millions. During her first season offers had come to lmr; not the measured advances of buyers In the marriage market. for about the brow of such budding maidenhood as hud peon hers there hangs a guardmn halo that Mlruls the eyes of sane-agemen, but the oVrtenplng onslaughts of hearts, It was In her fifth season that tho arbiters of her fate raised the shears of destiny and clicked them. lie who fell to her lot was n man of humble origin who had reached the ripe age of fifty-eigwithout ever having hud time to tunrry. Ills life, with a flif-- , ference, hud been Just ns narrow, hidebound and conventional ns had hers. The difference was that he had the stereotyped Dick Whittington trail to high finance rather than the - social highway, - lie lnd started out In ' Africa with a pack of cheap Jewelry, an open mind and an easy conscience, and i Lad emerged after twenty-fivyears as one of the few Gentiles In tho combine that controls' the world's diamond output. Ills wealth was so great that an ultimate peerage was almost a matter of course. Ilut, as usual, an aristocratic marriage hud to come Ocean hotel twenty-fiv- e e rolu-tlo- n, 'he d youth-maddene- d trav--cle- d . e first The contract was as as any ever perpetrated by a royal house. Allowances, carefully graded, were stipulated to be paid at fixed times to Andreas parents and. to each of her five brothers. She herself come In for a large and Inalienable marriage settlement and was further secured In such detulls as to where the town residence wns to be located as well as to the number and nature of the country places which were to be maintained When the document was finally completed It was casually submitted to Andrea for approval. Nobody dreamed that she would doubt for a moment that those In family authority were most able to decide what wns best for her and nobody wan right.- - fclu merely skimmed through the typewritten pages of the prenuptial agreement, satisfied herself that a vast sum of money was destined to the upkeep of IVllor, nnd drenmy-eyewith sudden memories, nodded her adorable head In consent. All doubtless would have taken Its appointed course had not the European war put In Its mightily disconcerting finger. Surprising things happened in South Africa. Andreas afii-- , anced sailed on twenty-fou- r hours no-tlce. The diamond mines closed down, took a short nap, and then suddenly awakened to the fact that America alone was demanding as much of their product as had the w hole world before It turned Its entire attention' to making munitions and paying for them. Andrea's betrothed found himself harnessed to his Job, possibly for the duration of the war. As a result it was cold-bloode- d ! d decided in family 'conclave tfipt, it w as Incumbent upon Andrea to take advantage of a providential detail of two of her brothers on the Xyussuland ex- - pedltionary ' foTce' amr ' acc(Hiipan.v them, surrendering St. Georges chapel for a quiet marriage In the colonics. It was a blow, but the fact that the J entire set of tapered allowances would not start until the sacrificial ceremony had taken place more than offset the loss In potnp. Andrea started for Africa escorted not only by the aforementioned brothers but by oil Gwen, hale and hearty et sevAunty. j. enty in spite, or jierhaps by reasou, of having been frightened out of many years growth. So here they were, Aunty ami she, on the point f part-le- g with the two boys at thu .ust pos -- over-pale- sible port up the coast and whose Inhabitants had seized upon the occasion to give a grand ball in the mode of the English, who have ever danced, courted and loved best when oil the eve of battle. Andrea drew' a long and qnlverlng sigh. Tomorrow the hoys would he gone. Tomorrow Aunty Gwen and she would depart In state In the private ear her affianced, too busy to the last for the soft preliminaries of love, had sent down from the high veldt. tomorrow would Indeed Tomorrow 'The mark the beginning of the end. end of wlmt?" cried something within her that same something that had so often spurred her to momentary escape. She felt a great despondency, n terror of the morrow that would bring the end of nothing but that nevertheless jwould murk the death of part of Andrea IVllor. Then a more startling emotion seized her. She realized, almost with the sharpness of a recoil, that she was on the vprge of becoming forever a woman without a history. She looked bark nnd saw that she had never done, one outre thing; she looked forward and saw that she probyjdy never would ; she looked dowAund At her very feet was the coping that edged the almofct precipitous cliff. Upon the piyie stretch of sand wns n d blur, it dark, blot. She concentrated her unbelieving gaze upon It until she made It out beyond a douht. It wns an airplane. Two midget figures moved around It busily. Andrea watched the mldfcets dreamily and thought of all the stories sho had rend about flying machine elopements. As she stood there her diaphanous second-bes- t party dress and her loosened hnir stirred by the spice laden breezed of an Indian ocean dawn and her eyes full of the still, fairy, light of a tropic WOoh,1 the thing drying Its vast' wings ou the distant snntls seemed like a giant moth, strayed from some Arabian Night and sent fn answer to the cry of childhoods valiant fancy. Who Were those midget dots? Were they men or genii? Whence had they come and wldther would they go? Did they talk with tongues or like Brown les, with their toes and eyes? Andrea wondered all these things, suddenly stopped wondering, skipped up the ladder-like stair from the garden to her room, snntched up a warm cloak affair which buttoned In a high collar at her neck and thnt fell sheer In folds from her shoulders to her ankles, and In less time than it would take to say Jack Robinson a hundred and fifty times she was slipping and sliding down the path of i many slants. y She came upon the airplane ao that khe forgot to be disappointed at Its gross materialism. It was very real indeed ; so were the men who attended It. One was the tallest, blackest, nakedost native she had yet seen, a mighty statue In unlmnglned bronze, pngnnly clothed only at the loins with a spotted pelt. The other was a white man gone brown In the sun. lie was neither very young nor old. he carried himself erect with the bearing of a man who Is and knows it, and when he moved he gave an exhibition of Jong, thin mi ties 'under a perfect central control. Ills mouth seemed to be possessed of n smile that never wavered in sptto of the fact that he held a piece of wire between his teeth and was otherwise Intent on a number of things. It was the black mnn who first sensed Andreas presence and gr.ve warning to his master In a low, guttural, rolling string of flowing vowels The white man did not look round ; he merely shrugged his shoulders nnd went on with his Job. Andrea watched him In silence until she was convinced that everything that could be done to the machine was about to be accomplished and its proprietor on the verge of flying away and then, emboldened by that unwavering smlltv she said In such a voice as children use when pleading for cake,- Please, Mr. Man, take tne with you. She knew a good deal about flying machines ; she knew they couldnt stay up very long and - that If they were worth anything at all they Invariably came back to where they started from like pigeons. She had left her door locked and she figured that she would be back long before Aunty Gwen could work herself up to the point Of having Jt broken in. When her voice rang across the silence of the false dawn, clear and light as a,silver hell giving tongue across snow, the white tnau started ihul dropp'd the wrench he was mait Jo nUdoirf nipulation. then let it full to the ground and turned to look her over. She was certainly something to see and to wonder at. llcr eyes of Irish blue danced with a light younger than far-awa- wide-winge- y her fnce a light that attends the eter-riwistful child within ue but beneath their shining gaze were shad. ows and hpr cheeks were side rounded JuhtJojoiH., qfher, jlil n was a Mt of black conrtplaster, shameful mask of a tiny sign of too much chocolates and too little exercise. She wns slim enough to look tall la eplte affair of dark bln of that eloak-Ilkfrom her shoulfell cloth that glove ders to her ankles In folds. Through all his Inspection the pinns face never changed. II looked her over deliberately, Judged deliberately, nnd deliberately let down the litth ladder that gave access to the observers seat. He helped her up without a word, strapped her In and then turned to iKiur out voluble Instructions in dialect to the bronze statue that stood at attention, Mack eyes fixed on his masters face, red lips repeating like a prompter In a Latin theater all that his master said. The white man clambered to the drivers sent, placed before Andreus, nnd shouted a word of command. The plane swayed, moved slowly forward, raced fast down the sand and faster, until with a billowy lift It rose straight In the eye of the rising sun. Andrea started to draw a full breath of absolute Joy and instead swallowed nn entire gale of wind. It almost burst her open. She had to eleneh her teeth to conquer It,' and with her hands made- a vizor for tier : eyes, a wind mask for ter mouth. She wanted to sing, hut she was Inarticulate In the face of an element at Inrge and spnrrlng for another chance to rush down her throat. She felt the cheated song racing around In her blood, swelling her heart. Informing all her limbs with a new Joy, a new life. She swayed this way and that, looked up and down;, then she leaned far out to study the rugged hrown face of Mr. Man, the face that always I The story of a man and a woman utter atrangere forced together circumstances, living In the heart of the African Jungle, completely by cut off from the civilized world. CHAPTER John Boganfa, Etc. e ever-wideni- - ever-wideni- -- aud-denl- full-grow- well-traine- He-caus- ht- d -- dcLb-erate- ly five-barre- square-shouldere- d hnrd-presse- d at once. Please, Mr. Man, Take Me W.th You. me, From whereshesa t at - Id shoulder the goggles were not so complete a mask. She looked and her eyes became fixed In a fascinated stare. Two deep lines lay like parentheses-from the mans nostrils to the corners of his mouth. They made his mouth look as though It smiled, but the man was not smiling. Suddenly she knew that through It all, from the moment he had laid his masked eyes upon her, he had never smiled. Her heart turned cold. sroUetL CHAPTER II. Up to the moment of the sodden chilling of her exultant blood, Andrea had been almost oblivious of the din of the engine. Now shecould think of nothing else. The deafening roar that made speech futile was a very real barrier; it imprisoned her. hchl her like the bars of an iron cage, and even beat her remorselessly with its rapid-firexplosions of defying sound. She sank back on her seat, panting and sobbing. She was frightened. Never since the'day when as" a' little child a closet door closed ami locked upon her and inexorable darkness had held her for moments that were such an eternity v known such The feeling that had come to her then came to her now darkness, a sinking of the heart down, down through an Interminable void and, tumbling after It. body, soul, a leg or t rh nTTeome apart in the maelstrom cf fear. The present nightmare did not last for long. Andrea gradually realized that in fact she was quite grown up, cot a child at all but a strong 'and e had-She- , wr-a-ftr- i -n-- rtnt ter-ror- Tug-ha- nd. me to ..take you with said the man In the SRme calm vulceand doaL happen, to be going hack. Not going back stuttered Andrea, trying valiantly to appear collected. I did ask to c come, b but Its every womans privilege to ch change her mind. When I first looked at you I sow a smile that was kindly and chivalrous. How could I know that your smile is, nothing but camouflage made up of lines of dissipation, and your hideous goggles nothing but a mask for hard eyes? I thought you were a mnn, but youre nothing but a beast, willing to torment a girl who has foolishly put herself In your power. My dear girl said the man, you asked me to bring you with me, and like a fool I did. Now, like a woman, you are crying because I didnt bring you and leave you at the same time. Same old story. Women are forever wanting to eat their cake and have It still. I am not crying. said Andrea, "and iry name Isnt my dear girl but the Honorable Andrea roller. She paused on that weighty announcement Really? said the man, unmoved. Hrother in the Flying Corps. Nice, humdrum noble family, as I remember It. Well? Don't cried Andrea. "Don't start that horrible noise again. I want to talk to you. I want to oh, what are you going to do with me? There was a pathetic threat of terra in theqiu slinn that should' have melted the rockiest heart but it failed. I have no intention of doing anything with you beyond what you asked for, and no Interest, said the man quietly. He reached once more for the You asked n - reasonably healthy young woman who had ridden straight to hounds at many a gate before which men had often paled. What was she fright-erte- d jil)out.? A man? Why, in the vulgar vernacular of across the water, men had been her ailment, for years! Her backbone stiffened with a snap, she assumed 'her natural erect and carriage, and, leanthe hips, laid her from forward ing hand on the mans arm. Gentle action failing to command his attention, she tugged at him, then shook him. He ohowed no sign and Andreas lips gradually set In a thin straight line. Doubling up her fists she started to pummel Mm Into submission. Tho onslaught wns sudden, and It was reasonable to suppose that the man would half Jump out of his skin to their mutual peril. She was prepared for that but not for what really The man merely raised transpired. his shoulders at the first blow and paid no heed whatever to the ones that followed In rapid diminuendo, ceasing suddenly when Andrea painfully realized thnt such fists as hers were never Intended for stone crushers. She sat vague hack filled with wonder and admiration for the construction of the male frame. In the meantime the airplane continued to monnt steadily Into the chilly morning blue. She looked about her and down. The world was Very far away and very small. It looked like something that one jnlght forge! and leave behind 'entirely. She tried in vain to pick out the tiny roof that was sheltering Aunty Gwen through her morning nap. Tears once more came Into her eyes and then receded as a new idea came to the assistance determination. of her She stooped over, took oft one dainty satin slipper, and after a foolish glance upward to assure herself that the man couldnt possibly look, undid certuln fasteners with fingers that could see In the dark, and subsequently removed one of her best party. Blockheavy silk champagne-colore- d ings. This done, "she sat back with the stocking in her lap and stared long nnd pensively at the man sitting before her Intent on the business of going somewhere at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. That thought electrified her. A hundred miles an hour meant fifty for every half hour, and thirty minutes had certainly passed since she had delivered her person Into the trap of a kindly smile that was rad. She took a long breath, leaned forward, slipped the stocking deftly around the mans neck, tied it in a single slipping knot and pulled. The results were Immediate. The. man headed the airplane up for a last grab at altitude, started It on a long, straight downward glide and cut off his engine. The blessed stillness that followed was so Ineffably sweet that Andrea had to give vent to one great sigh before she spoke, and while she was doing thnt the man calmly drew a hunting knife from his belt nnd severed the restraining strands of a stocking that only a moment before had been almost worthy of the ankle it had clothed and adorned. Oh! gasped Andrea. Is that all you had to say? asked the mnn. Into the vast and rushing stillness his calm voice dropped words as cool and hard as pellets of Ice. Andrea choked with rage. She had to swallow a lump In her throat before she could gasp, I want to go back I I T throttle. "Stop! At orce! 1 cried Andrea. must know what you mean. How can I talk to you with that awful din going on? Oh. yogll have lots of time to talk, said the man, and "Vo sooner wen the words out of his mouth than they were almost wiped off the slate of memory by the sudden roar of the engine. Andrea sank back In her seat, crumpled uprin body and mind, and cried like a baby. Great big sobs came tumbling up and out of her swelling throat. For- the first time In many yeats she felt that she wanted her mother and at once. she sobhed Oh, mummy ! mummy like a little child, and a moment later, Just exactly like a little child, she stopped crying, sniffed twice, blinked her eyes dry and presently smiled for no special reason, Just as a dawn smiles when Its sun breaks out from the dewy cloud3 of morning. What hud happened? Why, a most Important thing. She hnd suddenly realized that no one could hear her crying, not even herself! Every person one meets, thought Andrea, following the line of her disSome covery, has to be climbed. people are Insignificant mounds and you Just walk over them; others are high cliffs that It takes a long time to climb but that give you fresh and wider views the higher you go. And then there are others, she continued with a vindictive look at t he stolid back in front of her, thai are Just great round hard bowlders. Her mouth drew down at the corners, but she would not succumb again to feeling sorrv for herSelf. Instead she shielded her eyes once more stock of the various handiworks of God. The world was good to look upon that morning. It was twirling by in a strange rotative movement that gave It an illusive appearance. It was like a new toy In the way of panoramas. Things started to come nearer, changed their minds and then swept Into the past, lingering long on a steep horizon as though they hesitated before an Irrevocable plunge. Andrea found that by holding back her skirts she could look straight down. She did so off and on for half nn hour and the things she saw" told her much. Borest and plain, forest and plain swept under and away In an endless gentle undulation cut twice by long, wandering sliver bands. From high In the air those bands were nothing mere strips of ribbon that a child coaid step over. But down there? She knew that down below they were mighty rivers, doubtless teeming with hippos, crocodiles and snakes! Papes The first dose eases your coMiT! -d-up They arrive at their eSj p next installment. Pi 1. , Female" Destroyers the Deadl sr enough, elrtmuuh th. American destroyers ,.,(M g fuel supplies than tie- itriti-- h tl,,r were rather mere dam nmj In their lines a fart tint inspire,! , Strangely , ;1 - famous retort which rapidly through the ranks of i,n, tj;lvit You know, remarked a fir.tish rf. fleer to an American i.i;e the destroyers better thau the American. 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NEW PROCESS IN SCULPTURE Invention of Italian Scientist Will Revolutionise Work of Masters of the Chisel. A process for producing by photography is . the fruit bas-relie- fs of the Invention of an Italian scientist. The basis of the Invention Is the property possessed by a film of chromium gelatin of swelling In proportion to the Intensity of the light falling upon 1L The Swelling Is greater with a tow than with arhlgh'lntensiryrso that the light passing through a photographic negative produces upon a chromium gelatin plate a positive In distinct relief. The transparency of an ordinary negative, however. Is not truly proportional to the relief of the original modeL but by an Ingenious automatic device Involving double exposure this difficulty Is avoided and a negative is obtained having Its lights and shades correctly graded to produce the effect of relief. At a Disadvantage. There had been unpleasant word before between the dramatist and ft lending comedian as to the latters habit of adding Impromptu Jokes to his part. Theres no need for yon to gag, snld the dramatist angrily, after the comedian had done it again. Your part as written Is quite funny enough. All youve got to do Is to say the words and wait for the audience to laugh. The comedian did not look Convinced. Thats aU right for you. he grumbled. You live In town snd tan afford the time. Bat dont forget I have to catch the midnight train to my place In the suburbs, and I cant wait till the audience Laughs! . on the Deep. her first trip to Nactasket. little Bess remarked as she loosed over the Wash-Da- y On side ofthe steamer? Mamma, yhpypny too much bluing in this water. Which reminds us of another tot who exclaimed on soring the wake of a steamer: Oh, look, mother, that boat Is losing all its soap. 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A cold Is probably tbe mon of all disorders and wne ed Is apt to be most m. to- - Saenzs last, year, as vere the greatest war the world known. For the last Bosch ees Syrup has boon killed coughs, . bronchitis, colds, a & i t ritatlon add especially laC. 1 It gives the patient .3-coughing. from free rest; morn f expectoration In the in used in America and ;t a ..families of thousands ir, 'd civilized world. Sold everyw-- e It Does. talks." Money Takes a lot of it nwa1r to make muifc of a noise. I ; |
