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Show A THE BINGHAM NEWS 7? I Sinners in Heaven I Bq CLIUE ARDEN jf f Copyright fey Tha Bobbi-Marrl- Co. 5 PART FOUR Continued 20 "I killed him? I killed ISabnoma a man t" Swiftly he closed her lips with his own. with quick perception of he effects which renewed civilization might have had upm the primitive In-stincts aroused on the Islund. "I owe my very life to you, wife of my heart," lie whispered. lint his reflections were misplaced. "Thank (5od !" she cried unexpected-ly "I would Mil) kill anybody any day who attempted to hurt you." "'Norn de Dleu!" he echoed the Frenchmen. "Our life will be a check-ered career." Then Harhara fully recognized once more the old Alan of flesh and blood, (loop moods and light banter, pontic Idealism and prompt action delirious-ly human, warm with love and life. She suddenly laughed, the bewildered sense of shock falling from her the first real siontaneoiis laugh of nihny weeks. "Alnn! Alnn! Nothing matter hut "It was h I !" she murmured brief-ly. "Have you heard?" "Madge told me everything. She got the news of our rescue almost directly after you left London: I came home like the very devil by sra, air, and land to find you had disappeared gone to break your little heart alone, where I couldn't tlnd you" "I had to come away, lan. I was In a turmoil " "Sly linrhara, don't I understand !" Suddenly his eyes blazed In their old way; and he dashed an arm upon the table, causing the flume of the lamp to Jump. 'Those I. lighted Pharisees! Those d d, gossiping " "ih, my dearl" She laughed again at this familiar vehemence. "I went to iMirlinry," he explained briefly. Her laughter fled. "Yon went to Parhury. Alan?" She glanced appre-hensively Into hl grim face. "What what happened?" He remained silent for a moment, then met her eyes with a smile. rather bitterly. "I couldn't feel more married." she added, with the quirk shy look he loved. His gray eyes darkened; with a little catch of the breath his arms tightened. "There's one thing, therefore, which hold bud barons must have In their pockets when they chase their victims to Dnrljiiry, to prove their good in-tent." "What Is that?" "A special license, I know a parson near here. We haven't met for eight years; but I wired 'his morning to tell litin we should arrive at his church to he married tomorrow " "My dear whirlwind I" she gasped. He bent, with his old violent sudden-ness, and caught her up so close she could scarcely breathe. All the old passionate, dominating love, wMch had so often swept her away, poured torth and surrounded her; so that, panting and glorying, ker Individually, after all Its lonely travail, once more transfused, transformed Into his own. "So." he whlsjiered. "we must have another wedding, my Iteloved I Ituf It cannot he more beautiful mure real than the other In the dawn" "With a little subbing, tremulous !.h. she clung close. . . . "If we had one every year. In every land and every tongue." she murmured whim-sically, "they would all seem beuutl-fu- l to me." Tli landlady discreetly entered at last to lay the supper. She cast one comprehensive glance at the armchair, and her smiling fuce grew more radi-ant. "We are to he married In the mcrn-Ing.- " Alan remarked. Cornish people take life calmly. They do not lose their beads or forget their duties in any crisis. "Yes, sir!" Mrs. Tregutheran agreed brightly. "I'm sure I du hope you will both be happy. And will you have eggs tu breakfast, sir or bucon?" "Both heaps !" They smiled at each other when left the room. "Somebody must feed us." be oh- - "Well . . . No deaths occurred." "I'id did mother say ?" There was a very free, candid In-terchange of opinion! 1 honestly fled to reconcile ,vour mother, but" he gave one of his old careless shrugs "she considers herself disgraced, and talks darkly of being obliged to leave Iinrbnry. ... I saw Rochdale, too " Barbara raised her head again. "Ah! I'eur old Hugh ! He has been splendid, Alnn. Ills friendship his struggle to to believe " Her vilce quavered. "I know. And he, of everybody con-cerned, might with Justness have co-ndemned" They fell silent awhile, each know-ing, by their own Joy, what It all meant to the friend who had lost. . . . A realization of what this return would mean to Mrs. Field combined with her own overwhelming Joy to draw from the very depths of her heart a voiceless prayer met thanks-giving. In the luminous, darkened the fact that you are here ullve! But I can't understand It all. How was such a mistake made?" "Very easily. Because De Borceau didn't, of course, know friend from foe! Things were going all right with us. But when one of the devils set fire to the hut and the friendly spear knocked me out. He Borreau lui'.ur illy though nil was up. Some of Baboo-nia'- s lot tried to reach you. but Boowa frustrated them. Then Ie Borceau was staunch to his oath. He fought anybody who came near you, like a medieval knight, and carried you off to safety, I'oor Komva thought he had stolen you from me, and nearly went mnd !" He luughed remlnlscently. "But you? What happened to you? The expedition searched the Island. And whnt became of the lie Borceaus when they returned ?" He sank Into the big armchair, still clasping her In his arms. "It's quite a fairy story. You remember the wood In the east where, that first Christ-mas day?" "Every leaf!" she breathed. He smiled Into her eyes. . . . served, passing his fingers through her curly hair. "Every little note has Its niche." "But not every moss-covere- d rock. In that wood was a very cleverly con-cealed entrance to n subterranean pas-sage leading to a kind of vault. This narrowed down Into another outlet quite ImpussaWe on the shore, which allowed h little fresh nir and glimmers of light. This cave was tabu. In happier days, when the tribe was suff-iciently to provide Its own meat, the condemned dinner was well, we need not go Into details! But that cave was supposed to with the spirits of past feasts. Nobody liked to speak of It, or go nur It. When I was considered dead, our friends, very naturally, carried off my bleeding corpse " "Oh, don't!" cried the girl who had suffered so much from this g net. She buried her face on Hugh sat long over a lonely break' fast, a few days later. The "old peo-ple" were nwa.v. The London paper, with Its list of marriages, lay upon the table before liim; but he stared n.wiy absently, through the w indow, w ltl out turning the page. . . . Presently, with gun and dogs, he stepped out Into the raw February air, turning aimlessly down a lane. . . , An hour later, followed closely by six puzzled brown eyes, he walked slowly up the pathway In the little wood where neons ago he and Barbara had discussed their honeymoon. The gun still rested unused w ithin his a -- in, the cartridges untouched within their bag. . . . 1'nderfoot. the fir needles lay soft and damp with here and there fronds "mm mi bis shoulder. . . . After a lucid Interval he resumed his narrative. "When they realized you had been 'stolen' and I wus still alive, the fear arose that the 'bird of 111 omen' would return and make off with me, too! So, to Insure my safety that was the Irony of It ull they raised the tabu and hid me In the cave. Only Iiomva was courageous enough to enter with food. I was knocked out for time. When I recovered Barbara ! Can you possibly Imagine my feelings upon discovering that the rescue party imil come and gone? 1 was raving mud! The poor beggars had done it for the best and were bewildered. Nothing would convince them that the white men were my friends. I spent what seemed years of agony, doubtful If any further help would come. My only hope lay In you." "In me?" "I thought you would persuade De Borceau or somebody to try again, not of sodden dead bracken drooping upon them. The tall pines swayed a little, whispering their everlasting, murmur-ous song; dropping, sometimes, splashes from their wet leaves, like tears, upon the dreariness below. All the world appenied gloomy, dead, sor-rowful. It seemed Impossible that, soon, the sap would run in the tall trees, the young green shoot forth upon the hedges, spring with Its fresh myriad life awake with the "singing of birds." . . . The unloaded gun dropped unheeded to the ground. . . . The six brown eyes questioned one another wonder-Ingly- ; then looked back at the tweed-cla- d figure lying face downward, with head buried In his arms. . . . At last Shag, Hugh's favorite ter-rier, ever the most tender-hearte-of friends, approached cautiously; sniffed ; then gently licked what was visible of a much-love- cheek. (THE END.) "Oh, Don't!" Cried the Girl. eyes that met her own, she saw the same look of almost reverent awe. Never had he seemed so gloriously alive, so radiant In spirit. Again she raised her hands to feel the features she had never thought to see again; then drew the dear head, with pas-sionate tenderness, dow n to her breast, and clasped It there. . . . To both of them, beneath the super-ficial lightness of talk, this hour equaled In sacredness that of tlielr resi coiiienr "I wanted to come myself." he cried. "I Implored and threat-ened and Oh! everybody was so IStit what happened to Ie norceau?" "As soon us the plane's arrival was known the whole tribe raced pell-mel- l to the shore and burned It to cinders. I found the brothers hiding for their life In the forest." lie gave an Ir-repressible bubble of laughter. "They literally fell from Hie trees upon my neck ! We have been kissing each other's hands or faces ever since. So again, nothing remained but to wait snd hope. 1 thought at least a mis-sionary party would turn up. That second expedition was Infernally slow !" He laid his cheek Impulsively down upon hers. "Uut He lior-ea- could jive me news of you. iie toj me everything about Singapore" Her lips turned trembling a little to his. "And." she whlspereil, "'If':" "And 'It.'" Ills arms tightened. "And other things. I Insisted. He acted loyally for us both, Itarlwrn. But by heaven! It made my gorge rise to know what you were facing the Inferences, the And there I was. j powerless as a stranded infant to t hall you " marriage morning in the dawn Hut this held In it, also, the bnlf-feart'- Joy of a resurrection. The past (lurk-nes-with fhe struggle toward the light, had left Ineffaceable marks upon each soul, . . . "Can't we go hack to the Island?" she whispered at last. "Some day." lie raised his head and smiled. "We'll retire there, now and then, nnd live It all again! Hut our first Juunt Is to Australia. I've been commissioned to rebuild the old bus. There's been nn awful lot of Inten low ing and publicity since I got hack ten days ago " "Only ten days! And you've been to Iarbniy " "That's not all." He looked at her with eyes which held something of their old Inscru-tability. "Your relations showed unflattering surprise at what they termed my 'con-stancy' now we are rescued. Oh, lord !" "They would!" she cried, with In-dignation. "The fetir (tint we meant hrazenlj to defy the English law- - possessed them. They besought me to marry yon 'pro-erl- In a church.' Yi.ur aunt particu-larly Insisted uimn a Protestant church not a registry ofllce, or chapel." "Just like Aunt Mary!" She loughed A sab ami Nothing ramady fo euM T burns, or skin trou. bit. Protect, ra-ti ve and healfcTaks Internally fce cough and cor throat. Vaseline prTHOLlUM JILLY Cliaaalirninh Mi. CcCoaeM. tkatstk. NawYotfc I seS t Help That Achy Back! 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Buokltt RESIdOL 5oothinq &nd He&linq For Raphes and ChaJinq ..PARKERS I pr HAIR BALSAM l(jk.-s-r 6 Reraorea Dandruff Stop Hair Falling ZJ Raatora Color and fotTht zL BMutr to Grar and Faded Hair StSwtV s'J Hlacoi and II no at Droaaiita. Chen. Wk rakhomje.N.T. 1 tiUf5rF5.C0.PNS Cm.. Cal- - SStJ!- - naare. comfort to tha nTii SnTT ;1"" !.' "o by mail or t Uror Work. Pucbufna, N. I. 6000M roadsbi PAVED HIGHWAYS SHOW BIG GAINS i According to American Automobile association official, substantial prog-ress Is being made In the developmeut of a national system of highways. The association cites as an example the fact that It is now possible for a mo-torist to start from the zero milestone In Washington and make a circular tour of 2,300 miles back to Washing-ton over a continuous dustless paved highway. This is but one of many numerous long stretches of pared highway, says the A. A. A. touring and transportation board. The highway from Vancouver, B. C, to San lUcgo, covering a distance of more than 1,700 miles. Is another ex-ample. Each year constantly Increas-ing mileage of continuous paved high-way Is added to the national highway system of the country as the various slates All In gups on trunk line high-ways. The greatest need for continuous paved highway Is between northern and southern points, as the South dur-ing the winter months offers climatic and scenic attractions which no other section can provide. The same Is true of similar attractions for the motorists of the South, which are to be fonud in the northern states In the summer months. Even In the South marked progress Is being made. The southern states were naturally slower in get-ting started In their development of trunk line highways. The resources which cun be drawn upon for road building purposes are not as grent Among the eastern seaboard states North Carolina is leading the way for her sister states. 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Va., gathered a box of chest-nuts and sent them to Henry Holt, a farmer boy living nenr Gnuley Bridge. Recently the girl, who Is now Mrs. Henry Holt, found the chestnuts hid-den away In an old trunk owned by her husband. They were well pre-served and good tasting. Sign of Improvement Golde was working In his tardea when the minister passed. "Allow me to congratulate you," said the pastor. 'Oh, my garden Isn't so much," mod-estly said Golde. "I didn't moan that," the minister explained; "this la the first time I ever saw you on your knees." Lucullan Civet Credit Lucullus, famous Itoman general and epicure, la said to have been the first to Introduce cherries Into Itnly about the beginning of the present era. lie is reported to have spent fabulous sums on his table. The Department of Agriculture has produced a motion picture film show-ing methods of eliminating bothersome earthworms from putting greens. Nation' a Advance Wealth statistics were first taken In the United States In 18,'0. At that time the wealth of the country was $7,i:,780,000. In 1022, the total wealth had risen to $320,8ai,800.000, while the per capita wealth has risen from $:i07.;9 to $2,013. . Paved Roads Increase Motor Vehicle Travel Paved highways increase the amount of motor vehicle travel. Every motorist luis seen instances of where comparatively little-use- d ronds become arteries of heavy trallic almost as soon us the pavement of the new surfacing was ready for use. An Instance of a well-know- high-way will serve to bring out this point In 1019 n stretch of the Pacific high-way near Medford, Ore., was paved. In 1019 4,418 tourist automobiles passed over the stretch of road, while In 1920 the number Increased to 22,-00- 0. Plainly, the paving of highways means that the traffic over them must be Increased. This most result In con-gestion of vehicles unless the roads are built wider than was necessary in the case of the dirt or gravel highway. And we find that everywhere today It Is the policy of road builders to lay wider pavements on the highways. They realize that this Is the only wny of making motor traffic snfe and eff-icient to the highest possible degree. We find that In many places where old pavements have become Inade-quate because of the constant Increase In the number of motor vehicles, those In charge of s have made them wider by add-ing new strips of pavement at the side. The user of roads must recognize the need of wider pavements and do his part In the work to bring wider highways for his community. Such work on bis part will make drWlng more safe and more comfortable for him ns well as all other users of the roads. Famout Old Church This year sees the three hundred and sixty-fourt- anniversary of the demo litlon of the magnificent Church of St. John al I'eitli. the restoration of which Is now contemplated. This is without doubt one of the most Interesting churches In Scotland, says the Weekly Edinburgh Scotsman. Tradition ascribes Its foundation to the Plots, but. whoever founded It, It Is one of the earliest stone churches built In the country; and, In the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries, as evinced both by ancient documents and by the surviving remnants of the edifice of Unit time. It was magnificent and extenshe. The monk of Dunferm-line, to whom It was granted, nllowod It to full In.o disrepair a state of af-fairs which Itobert the Itruce set about remedying, but the restoration was stayed by Ids death. Good Roads Squibs What's the Issue, from the stand-point of the autolst'8 pocketbook, good roads or snd Inroads? Thirty-on- e states and Alnskn share In the pro-rat- a distribution of funds made each year by the forest service to those states and territories contain-ing national forest lands. More thnn $10,000,000 has been spent In highway construction paving, grad-ing nnd bridges to bring the famous Bnikhend Old Spanish trail routs through the Southwest to Its present perfection. Trnfllc laws which differ In different states nnd different towns in the same state are a cause of confusion, acci-dent, loss of property, and loss of life. Uniform traffic laws, the same the country over, will promote safety. I'lnns for a highway from New Or-leans to Portland, Ore., which will follow as nearly as possible the boun-dary lines of the old Louisiana Pur-chase, have been officially launched. It will commemorate the purchase of the territory by the United States. , Odd Quail in Borneo The long, hairy, reddish crest gives the moderately si.p(l. rich green plum-age- d greenwood quail a distinguished appearance, says Nature Magazine. In Its native haunts, from Slam to Bor-neo and .Tavn. tt Is a lover of the tropical forest up to an altltune of 4,'KU feet, and seldom visit th open country. |