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Show ii 'Bl JOHNBOGARDUS. KrCfj'ap - 5 etSv TngnOBaS-MCRRILIiCaffiAHy lnMvrJ1iS 1 .ul broadened, the ellft had rlm-n to nlntut Imposing helshts; while they were still well off the shore tliuy hhot Into Its vluidnw. The boat-mini boat-mini chofe n landing' at tho foot of the CHIT road, n quarter of a mile away from the steep path by which Andrea had made her descent. As the safaii began to form on the beach Trevor turned to Andrea. "We're going to your old hotel, you know. It's really the only one. If you prefer, I can send for n motor-car for you and myself; but weM have Jo wait halfnn hour." Atiilr.tn rnltf'iir Itfir ln-niilli na fttlin Andrea caugnt Iter lireulli as she realized that it was only minutes before she would he In collision with u world. Her-eyes ran down the line of their mnrching column already on the edge of an Incongruous setting, but still impressing with that subtle dignity digni-ty which the free and half-naked black takes with him everywhere and which In born of his nholuto Indifference to standards not his own. "Let us go down at tho head of our men," she answered. - "You are right," said Trevor, pleaded nt her shrewd judgment. "Wo mortals," he added, "don't always recognize rec-ognize the Importance of lighting an atmosphere with an atmosphere. To go In as cock of our own walk Is a thousand times better than u moior-car moior-car and the back door." Andrea nodded. "I felt It but I could not put It In words like that." As Trevor, the white head of a quarter-mllc-long and glUtenlug black serpent of humanity, swung In between be-tween the gatepots of the hotel's Imposing Im-posing portals, the ever-opportune Marguerite. stretcln;d his neck, rali-ed his barrel-head and brayed. Above that raucous cry sounded tho spontaneous sponta-neous and uncontrollable peal of Andrea's An-drea's silver laughter. Tho groups of men and women nil but one on the hotel veranda stopped stop-ped In their various occupations ns though paralyzed; drinks paused halfway half-way to tlllrsty lips, cigarettes burned unconscious lingers, knitting needles' poised Instnntancoudy all but one pair. Tho manipulator of the exception excep-tion was a dear but very proper old lady wearing n cap of tilmy loco on her plentiful white hnlr and enough filmy lace on her perron to make the porch chair, In which .'-lie sat, look liko n stall at a Red Cross bazaar. She was knitting a vast khakl-colored sweater and nt tho sound of Andrea's laughter she gave no sign beyond pursing purs-ing her withered lips while she methodically meth-odically finished off tho stitch upon , which she had been engaged. That done, she, raised a pair of beady black eyes so wonderfully alive that it seemed Impossible they belonged be-longed to her wrinkled fnce and (lashed (lash-ed one look at Andrea mid one at Trevor. Tre-vor. "Well, my dear," she said calmly, presumably to tho former, "It's a relief re-lief to have you back apparently alive and wel." No sooner wore tho words out of her mouth than Mie was fcwept Into Andrea's Impetuous embrace. "Oh, Aunty Owen! Oh, you old dcarl" The lady defended herself with considerable con-siderable energy Anil was heard to grumble that even kissing hud degenerated de-generated Into a rough pastime. Ilav-lng Ilav-lng rescued herself from Andrea's nrm, she ald, "Now that that Is over you will please go to your room and change from that outlandish circus costume; you'll find everything ns you left It except for n hew lock on tho door." Andrea glanced at Trevor and lean ed over to whisper Imploringly In her aunt's ear. "Your husband?" enunciated the old lady clearly. "Well, that's n relief, too; but I prefer to meet him elsewhere else-where and after you have presented documentary evidence. By the way," she mldcdMvlth ominous emphasis as shn resumed her knitting, "Harry Is still here." "I should say I am," exclaimed o youth In the trim uniform of the Flying Fly-ing Corps, as he stepped out from the hotel door. "Hello. Shter Andy." Then his ejes fell on Trevor. A slow smile of happy welcome iprcad over his fnce. "Well, fll be d 1" he exclaimed exclaim-ed fervently. "D' you know, Trevor, I've been saying from the llrbt. 'Cher-shez 'Cher-shez he 'lylng-mnchlne.' Come In and let nui watch you have a drink." Trevor, quivering under tho pressure of the control he hud summcucd to carry him through the trying moment mo-ment and tilled with an Immediate love and ndmlratlou for Aunty Owen, paused to direct his following to n iieiuby Miennt lot. "Is that marrlngo tip straight?" asked Harry. "Straight ns the good bishop of JIo-.111 JIo-.111 and two other nils-Unnary Johnnies jould make It," replied Trevor. Harry was thoughtful for a moment, 'hen ho said, "Well, Trevor, 1 don't mow how jouYo fixed for proof hut von know thatthrough lean years ipfd 'nt, I'm fur you fiom the hienk In 'ialk. As one sportsman to "another, I ongratulate you c;i putting one over in that up-country unlimited leather-sack leather-sack of vintage wines. Ily the way, jou -enllze I've got to wire him." "Of coiiic," Mild Trcuir. "The soon-r soon-r the better. Don't worry about An. Irea's food and raiment," ho added flushing. 'The truth Is, I'm pretty .veil heeled with the needful." "You Americans generally are." said Harry oihnlrhigly. "Sort of jolly na-i na-i .loual tradition." Twenty-four hours later the din-mond din-mond magnate, perennially Hushed as lo face nnd henvy of paunch made his niireslvt arrival. When he had washed and otherwise attempted to freshen his perspiring person he sent out a call for u family conference. It took place In the Trevors' Tre-vors' ulttlng room. Harry wan there resentntlve of the house of 1'ellor vor and his bride. The sole male rep-presentutlve rep-presentutlve of thr bonne of I'fllor opened the proceedings with the following fol-lowing speech: "1 laminar." he said, "on the part of my sister I wish to offer you an unqualified apology. It teems that alio was er suddenly carried car-ried away by nn ImpiiNe In eoiijiietlon with a I1Iiik machine, but you will he glad to know that Trevor here has er has phijed the man all through and you are permanently relieved from any further responsibility In the mutter. I don't think there's another bally thing to say beyond repeating the apology due you from my entire family." "Xot a thing to sny, you young sycophant syco-phant of a whipper-snapper I" thundered thunder-ed the red-faced magnate. "Do you think I came down here to listen to your mal len speech, accept a dirty apology and got out with my tall he-ween he-ween my legs? Well, I didn't, I came lovn hero to show this Interloping vagabond of n scavenger where he tnd his wife don't get off." ' A gleiuu crept Into Trevor's oyr ; ho same gleam that had shone there .hen he h. .1 shot MneCloster, hut It imied huo his alow nsMirlng smile is his gaze met that of Andrea and eok note of her alarm. Ho remember-d remember-d that only If n minutes before he had iromlt.ed on tho honor of a lover to io .een only and not heard. "Aren't you a hit late for that?" isked Harry, unperturbed. "They seem o he running before tho wind nlreadv ,nd with n fair lead." He lit a clga--etto and snapped the dead match through the open doorway. "You think so. do you?" said tho magnate, his eyes snapping malignantly. malignant-ly. "You've probably never heard of the shipping ring, hut I'll tell you this the line that takes the two two-two two-two whatchuiiiny-calliims as passen. gers Is ruined. They'll stay In Africa till they rot." , Anilrea.atifld,. lajtfl, J'Robert' m " , , he said In iier coolest nhd b1 cfctl nice. "If Sir Ifcinmar Is Roin to forcel u to wait here for one of our ownl "earners to put In-I think you ,1 boj 'r collect that thousand pounds rc- ""'was the end. The mngnnto gasped,!,, .prang up and iled. pursued by u "W nioko arrow propelled from HarryM rounded mouth, Aunty Owen pursed I lur lips but kept on knitting; sho I could not, however, altogether hide tho I nuph that was In her snappmK cjes. i - I Andrea dropped on her knees besldoj I tier I "Oh, Aunty Gwen." 1ie begged I "won't you please let me IntroUiilIt Robert? He's the dearest, 5t V. thoughtful, strongovt and weakest tan M that u lucky girl ever loved," Z fLrK That night when nil the hotel was tn darkness and silence rclgncd Andrea Hi and Trevor stood together by the cop- W . . .i... A.i Af dm fill? nnti h.okfMl H lng nt the edge or tno cnu nun "-"kvu m across the moonlit bay to the fnr-nway lino of tho sen, Ilehlnd them was the dark, massed shadow of the Rougaln-1 villa trellis; nt their feet and before I them stretched nn open world, bathed I In kindly and opalescent light. Andrea's eyes started at the top of the zigzag path and followed It dellb- . crately down the cllff-slde until they reached and swept the gleaming cres--cent of the beach; then they rose and stared at the placid moon. Nine weeks, no more, had passed since Inst this scene had held hen yet Into them was packed the germ of all her llfo almost to the exclusion of preceding memories. She felt n welling wlthlli iitf i .4ps Ij I'll' U JK' t Wife - She Felt a Welling Within Her cf All the Major Emotions. her of nil the major emotions and frightened, turned from them to hide her face against Trevor's shoulder. '" Her nnns slipped up around Ids neck a and clung to him. .' , "Oh, White Man," she whl-pcfeJ, "my Wonder Man, plunderer of 'my ; heart. If desire to give Is" any measure, how far jou have led me along the shining' road I" (Till: USD.) i |