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Show ""Sav I '.--' v.. :.',- - ' . ... . Si": ,T rmf - I " ' ' , rrAfli. inmiiimmim iMiiMlHIIII 'III ' 1 : 'TIT 4 . - V i THE KINGHAM NEWS Iji j U ' V I I, .." --.1 SINNERS in HEAVEN By CLIVE ARDEN Copyright fcr The Bobbs-Merrl- tl Oe, 5 "She t so changed "o changed!" she repeated at Intervals. "If people are already talking, I don't know what they will ay when they Bee her!" "She la Bure to tell you, soon, all that happened," consoled her Blter. Then we can iontradlct any wrong suspicions." "I am sure she has been moaned the other; "or why should she look bo III and miserable, now nlie has come home? I don't believe she was even glad to see me her own mother! It seems so ungrateful. But Bab al-ways was thoughtless and Inconsider-ate over my feelings." "Why not ask her for the truth, to-morrow?" suggested MIks Davles, her curiosity difficult to curb. "Or shall I? I am more used to girls In trouble" "No. Mary!" said Mrs. Stockier, with qul"k anger at Hny Interference. "I will not have you Insinuate that she Is one of of your 'fallen girls, like this! If she has suffered anything at that man's hands, she will tell me, herself. I couldn't speak of It now. Besides. I wouldn't dream of forcing her conf-idence! After all. It may he only the result of her Illness." listlessly finished her toilet, the poignant pain of It all struck her afresh. , . . The reflection of shad-owy, sunken eyes and aureole of dark hair mocked at her, In the large drawing room mirrors. . , , The un-conscious Irony of the conversation, the kindliness of Hugh'a parents and their delight over her, his own alTec-Ho-were unbearable torture. . . . He had only returned that day, and she spoke to him In desperation, ns they went In to dinner together. "Hugh !" she whispered, "I must see you alone, to tell you" "I know !" be broke In eagerly. "I'm dying to hear everything! It was a beastly nuisance having to go away Just then ; but It couldn't be helped. Afraid we shan't get a chance tonight, though." "Tomorrow, then? Hugh. I must see you alone tomorrow!" There was a passionate urgency In her voice, a tragic pleading In her eyes both signs which he entirely misunderstood. A flush overspread bis fere, nnd he pressed her bare arm to his side. "Bab, darling!" he whispered, "don't you think I'm Just longing to he alone with you, too? I I counted the hours unwise, for many reason. For one thing, we had to play un their super-stitions to Insure our own safety and ohtaln any Influence at all. It needed great wariness." "But surely," he remonstrated pe-dantically, "at the risk of one' life one should carry on the Oospel? Mis-sionaries have to risk" "We were not missionaries!" he reminded him sharply. She looked Im-patiently at his, horri-fied face and short-sighte- eyes, "We tried to encourage them In cleanliness, gentleness, and consideration. Isn't that all part of the (loepcl's real mean-ing? To have stuffed entirely new doctrines down their throats would have been ridiculous!" Quick startled glances were directed upon her from alt directions; the "Negatives" present flushed uncom-fortably ; Mrs. Stockley tried, Ineffec-tually, to fix her with a slony eye. "Apparently your success was not very great," she ohserved tartly. Old Mr. Rochdale hastily smoothed over possible trouble by Inquiring con-cerning the personal character of the nutives. "They are very simple and real," the PART FOUR Continued. 16 But fate destined otherwise. With Increased sense of desolation and hopelessness, she foresaw the trails looming In front of her the misery she must cause, the lack of understanding she must face alone. Only the desire to reach Mm. Field had reconciled her to this return; now that was crushed. ... Bewildered with conflicting emo-tions, with burning throat and aching head, she crouched, shivering, In a cor-ner of the carriage while Hugh wrapped his traveling rug round her knees. Tl train rushed through the wintry darkness. An elderly clergyman dosed In one corner of the compartment ; two girls carried on a d conversa-tion, Interspersed with bursts of laugh-ter. Hugh discoursed upon all the little mundane happenings In Durhury during her absence, and she was grate-ful to him. Thus, amid prosaic surroundings, hidden under unemotional exteriors, life's tragedies and comedies work out their scenes. The two girls, absorbed now In their magazine stories, were oblivious to the living drama, full of tragedy and bitter Irony, being enacted but a few feet away. When ever Bar-bara looked at Hugh, the Ironic misery girl replied warmly. "You And ' the same fears and Jealousies and faults ns everywhere else; hut they are not hidden by nny thin veneer of clvlllnn-tlon- . When they love or hate, they do so openly." "I hope." remarked Miss Davles, not much liking her tone, "you made them wear decent clothing?" "Most of them were naked." said Barbara ; "some wore a little matting." Everybody rather hurriedly went on eating. Hugh hurled himself Into the silence, thinking to change .the sub-ject. "What did you do about clothes, Bnh? Hid your own last out?" "Fairly well. I made some breeches, and wore them." until I got back, today ! Burbara sat down at the table, her heart like load. She felt like n mur-derer who, about to drop poison Into the cup of a trusting friend, talks and smiles upon him the while. The vicar's enthusiasm over the mis-sionary results of this providential visit to "children of darkness" (having a double meaning, this phrase was con-sidered witty In Darbury), broke loose almost In the same breath wherein he concluded grace. He was not among those whose Importunity had been crowned with success where seeing the "Wandering sheep" was concerned. "I am so deeply Interested in your work among the natives," he began, his clear clerical tones arresting every- - Miss Davles glanced at her, rather sharply. "What was really the matter at Singapore, do you suppose?" she asked. "Prostration. And shock. Don't you remember? Very nutural, I am sure, after such terrible times." Miss Davles drew In her lips. In her usual way when considering discretion the better part of valor, and made no reply. HI Mrs. Rochdale gave an annunl local dinner party before Christmas every year, over which she presided like a good-nature- hen clucking, with her BufT Orpington smile, upon the chick-ens pecking at the good things pro-vided for them. Everybody who was anybody In the neighborhood received an invitation, so that the parties bore a slngulaP similarity. Fresh interest was aroused this year, owing to the expected presence of Bar-bara. So far, she had been seen by few. For a week a severe chill had of this false sl'Uhtlon was Increased. To blm, at present, things seemed only vaguely unsatisfactory. This he had accounted for In the obvious wuy; therefore, worrying was futile. , . . "I snail soon know without being told," Miss Davles had said. And she did. By the time she had extricated her niece from the combined watery tendrils of Mrs. Stockley and Martha, and kissed her cold face, she knew ! The girl greeted them all with a cer-tain quiet warmth, lacking both effu-sion and emotion, which bore as little resemblance to her old Impulsive ways as the forced smile and sunken eyes to a face distlneulshed by Its serenity. Nobody returning to a longed-fo- r home and flunce would look upon them with those eyes of haunted hopelessness! No Illness would lenve those rigid lines of pain around a mouth ever easily wreathed In smiles. . . . "Some-thing has happened." the woman of the world said to herself, watching In si- - The vicar coughed; Mrs. Stockley refused her favorite gnme In her em-barrassment. . . . Mrs. Rochdale remarked tactfully: "Dear, dear I Isn't It nil like a novel? If you had been there, Hugh, It would have been really romantic I" Hugh laughed. "I shouldn't be much good on a desert Island," he observed I i modestly. "Must have been beastly uncomfortable." "I bet Bah often wished yon were there!" smiled old Mr. Rochdale, In his genial way. "Only she won't own It. Now. Hugh, make her confess I" But Hugh's glance had fallen upon the girl's left hand, and he did not reply. Barbara felt like one undergoing slow torture; her nerves seemed lacer-ated. It was the constant repetition of little drops of water which sent the condemned mnn mad. "Bab," asked Hugh, "whntever are you wearing In the shape of a ring? Where Is mine?" Everybody craned forward, and she hastily withdrew her hand. It seemed as If curious hostile eyes were peering at something sacred, the only thing of value to her now In life. "I have lost your ring, Hugh. It was left on the Island with everything else." kept ner In bed, Invisible to the curi-ous eyes of those who buzzed around Lake cottage. The more persevering, after her arrival downstairs, spread In-teresting reports of the extraordinary change wrought In her looks and be-havior. To the girl, weak In health and tor-tured In mind, everybody and every-thing seemed unbearable. Perceiving the suspicious curiosity around her, She instinctively cloaked herself with reserve, throwing no Intimate side-lights upon the vital polat causing so much conjecture. News from De Bor-cea- u was all she craved, and she felt fresh anxiety concerning the lack of it. Had Mrs. Stockley's weak mind not been poisoned, making natural tulk upon the Island life Impossible to her, things might have been vastly different for all. As It was, the topic became Increasingly difficult of approach; until it assumed the character of some-thing mysteriously tabu. Only the wreck and possible fate of Aunt Dolly were discussed. Croft's name was "And you are wearing that Instead? I must get another at once. What Is It? A key ring?" "Once," remarked the vicar, rising from his oblivion, "I had the case of a wedding party forgetting the ring; and I married them with a key ring!" 'Really!" asked Miss Davles. "I suppose It Is quite legal?" "Quite! Provided, of course, that everything else Is In order and a priest performs the ceremony." Barbara's right hand closed con-vulsively upon her left, under the table. (TO BR CONTINUED.) lence. What it might be, she was left to conjecture. Mrs. Stockley, after the poison dropped Into her mind the night be-fore, regarded her daughter's Island life as some terrible blot staining the clean pages 'of her existence, which must not he lightly touched upon. She felt s upon the subject, shocked and apprehensive over the girl's appearance. As usual, she took refuge In helpless tears. It was Mar-tha, urged by Hugh, who, noticing the chattering teeth nnd clammy hands, suggested hot soup and bed at once. "With a 'ot bottle," she added. A contraction caught Barbara's throat, preventing speech. Everything was so familiar, so home-like- ; and yet so Intolerable! She allowed her-self to be led into the well-know- din-ing room. Somebody removed her coat, and somebody her hat ; then Hugh's voice uttered an exclamation. "You've bobbed your hair, Bab ! Why?" Kneeling unsteadily before the fire, with hands stretched to the cheerful blaze, she was struck by the strange-ness of this question coming from him the Indirect cause two years before. "It was better short," she replied shakily. "I hope It will soon grow again now," said her mother anxiously. "I dislike the craze for 'bobbed hair; It's - The meshes of the net which had loomed near with the advent of the De Borceans. appeared to the girl's dis-traught mind to be closing steadily round her. Like one struggling In vain to elude them, she staggered to her feet. "Mother let me go to bed ! I feel too ill " It was Hugh who caught her. as she stumbled toward the door. With Mar-tha, he half carried her up the stairs to her old room. . . . And all through the night, as she tossed about, with wide feverish eyes staring at Martha fussing near at hand ; where hundreds of years ago. It seemed, she had blown out the can-dle npon her old home-lif- e vision after vision rose, full of exquisite torture, to her trfind. ... A night of deliri-ous terror In a little, vault-lik- e hut. ... A fearful vigil seated upon upturned suit-case- waiting In the dark for the natives' attack. . . . A pair of scissors nnd a shock of dark hair, from under which dear gray eyes laughed up into her face. ... An early dawn, with a little tin key ring. . . Oolden hopes of motherhood, dashed almost hs soon as awakened. . . , I.Ike a relentless panorama, de-tail after detail came vividly to life again, with, ever present, the buoyancy of a man's strong personality carrying all before it. . . . She pressed her lips pnssloiintely to thnt little circlet of tin. with a bitterness of grief too deep for the relief of tears. . . . Downstairs. Mrs. Stockley and her sister sat long Into the night, talking, surmising, areuing. Ever and anon, the former damped the atmosphere wt'Ji her tesrs ) "7 it Bn" " ,1i v.,r"(K A Severe Chill Had Kept Her In Bed. body's attention. "I gathered from the papers that you obtained a wonderful Influence over them?" "Weren't they awful creatures?" put In Hugh, with a grimace. "I wonder you weren't scared stiff, Bab !" "I was at first," she owned. "But I grew very fond of them." "Capital I" beamed the vicar. "Our brothers, In spite of difference in color. Doubtless they responded to your af-fectionate overtures, poor souls?" A vision of Alan's affectionate over-tures with electrified wire, flashing eyes, and fearful rhetoric, until his brothers became responsive, brought the shadow of a smile Into her white face, which old Mr. Rochdale saw and answered. "I Imagine Croft got 'em under more by bullying than affection; didn't he?" he laughed. "That wireless stunt was a brainy notion! I suppose he had to whip up the lazy beggars pretty hard afterward, to make 'em work?" "No," she replied, aware of many eyes upon her face at this open allu-sion. "They loved him and obeyed him because" her voice faltered "because he had the personality to command obedience. He inspired them to work for their own good. They learned cleanliness; and we taught them to talk a little English" "Capital ! capital !" The vicar beamed again at her, through his plnee-nes- . "How did they receive the Word?" "Wonderfully quickly," she an-swered, misunderstanding. "Some of them could tulk quite fluently in a very short time " "But the Word? How did they re-ceive the Oospel?" "Oh! We did not attempt to dis-turb their own religion." The vicar gazed at her, aghast, as did most of those present. "You mean" he began, "you can't mean that yon neg'ected the first oppor-tunity of giving them the Truth?" "Yes," she said calmly. "If you look upon It In that light We thought it iZLtSLjLJ-TTl- i f..- iii - never even mentioned between them. Urgent business on Mr. Rochdale's Devonshire property summoned Hugh thither before Burbara came down-stairs. Still, therefore, the full ex-planation she Intended to give him hung heavy on her mind, assuming In-creasing proportions the more she pon-dered over It. Ills horizon had been so contentedly bounded by conven-tional, orthodox views, that it might be difficult to make him understand the true case. She shrank from hurting him. from destroying his faith, as she knew she must do. Mrs. Field's letter, full of the large-hearte-g sympathy so vital a part of her nature, brought a grain of comfort. Full of genuine grief and af-fection for her cousin, which she took for granted was shared now by the girl, there was no discreet avoidance of the matter. Being his nearest rela-tive, she was kept Informed' of all pro-ceedings concerning the recovery of his body: the lack of information from the De Borceaus, with their possible fate, was, she said, causing renewed anxiety. She urged Barbara to use the "House on the. Moor" and Its library, whenever she wished, as usual. Mrs. Stockley never encouraged or believed In invalidism other than her own. Once downstairs, her daughter was expected to renew her old house-hold duties and seek diligently to re-cover parochial, ones. That she showed no Inclination for either Increased the sense of strain between them. Her shrinking from company would give rise, her mother dreaded, to further "talk." 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