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Show "I remember how my emerald blue silks tossed and shimmered in the sun as I ran to meet father and Captain England; and how my hair, r yAj caught in the fresh breeze, Wi streamed out like one .-' . great wave of -v copper." I from Last Sunday) iAPTERI. (Cont'd) 3 ncl'i be absurd to 43d I did not ft- Eg tteitarteiJ n our tllrub lt pissni, i' .'i nrli "y iionlnf. Chll'ln I ere as sea-ano a Ml icd movc-m I V h about them. only Hbed cur own coot 'Ions Nflu - odd, un-rJBiiel.T un-rJBiiel.T rcav In whl um rou,rn a' "I had been the tl - tW-'r 1 l Bit It: I teM Htllh old Ivon I Hi told me that I , t to ti-d-wbi, ! 1 1m ' Btttrom him and thai hav-I hav-I must put it out of s think of it 1 Kh t'lr.;' J -:' iiM-W- f. !i,i. I did no if'' "; : "- r1 PC hand up I f1 wo"fi'l upwar.! 'be hill, ti unseen Row, r 'olbf'r- and a man M in odor 1 ih!"' "kl '' ''' ' 1 ""Hi , Klqvel deomoiK,, ,iy 3 tSft0,J'n"- Ji, WnK np r .1 fJL- abJUt that N EVhpJr love ,,,,.r 1 "I shall Know when I go to iho world." J exclaimed proudly, "I shall know everything about everything: every-thing: then." Luke d d not answer, but chewed grass, looking at me. It struck uo then, for the first time in my lit3, that be was a very handsome creature. crea-ture. I did not put It in that wav; I only thought to myself that iha light, bright blue of bis eyes, ani the width and depth of the brow that arched them over, and the straight lines of his cheeks unlike the apple-shaping of my own wero good th.ngs to luok at, like the sea and the sunrise sky, and the rain "when It I'll1 in strong, shining lines upon the shore. . , . I did not tell my playmate these things. It may have been because of that strange new raiment of his, that seemed to alter him and set him apart from me; but I think on the whole it was because of nothinc more non. less than girlish mcle ty. That is a bloom thac springs, sown or unsown, in the breast of every woman-child. I have never believed those tales of beautiful shameless maidens brought np alone on coral shore-. A girl's modesty is as much a par. of her as her eyelashes or her hair. Lorraine had never taught me anything any-thing save my ordinary schoolroom lessons; but I knew, as well as if s-he bad lertured me twico daily on behavior to the opposite sex. thin ou did not tell n boy he was handsome! hand-some! at least, not auch a boy as Luke had suddenly become. I would havo told him once la-, year last night when? I could not remember. I only know that thing, somehow, somewhere had changed and were'uot as thoy once had been. And, though I had no guide but the ancestral memories that slumber, almost unfelt, in every breast, I knew, very surely, that things would never bo quite as they had been again. Oh, yf$f the world was changing, ou Hiliwa Dara! "Hup!" bul'l Luke suddenly, gaining gain-ing his feet in a single spring and tT f ' f pulling me up Immediately after. I was quite rested, but I would lather he had left mo a littl" longer, because I was Just working my way to an idea that he knew or guessed something about thai strange conversation in the outer hall that I did not know. Som -thing In his expression in the way he looked at mo, consideringly, as If he were thinking over matters that concerned me. but wouldn't tell me what thoy were had sur-nested sur-nested th? thought, and with it had como the Instant desire to mak? him tell me. And then he must needs Insl-t on hurrying on, as it we had not a good half day before us. "Ho guessed. I suppose," was my resentful thought "I hate him when he uuessos. Just wait; I'll make you tell me by and by." But now we v ere come to the peak of high Parnassus, where tho way was so steep that you could havo turned at any point and sat down on the path as on n chair; and even our youthful Iuoks were ia. , bit v cllinbed lu silence, scrambling like ponies over the stones, until the last turn of the track was reached, and tho fierce assault of tho southeaster, from which we hail DMX1 shielded, struck us full lu the face. "Oh glory!" I cried, standing With arms outspread to drink it In. "I love. I love, f love the wind I would rather kiss It than Father. 1 love the grass oh, one must love the grass when It stands up tull and. dances in th wind like that! Luke. Luk'V listen to the betelnuts, hear what they re saying to (ho wind." On Parnassus' peak, thoro are belclnut8, the most wonderful to my mind of all the wonderful palni family. I used to feel shaken with a Wild pMllon of admiration when I stood underneath one ond saw Us slim, white column, no thicker than my own Bllm neck, trembling but not yielding to the 'touch of the strong trade wind, aud Its 1 1 ' ' ut ireon (luted tana spark- ling and ruffling against Hie blue of (he high-up-skies, seventy feet above. "The betelnut's a princess." I eang. "An enchanted princess, sorrowful sor-rowful and proud. I could mako a poem about her. The palm's a wood-nymph who loves a man of the sea. Look at them below us. rushing down the slopes and bending bend-ing over the lagoon; their bodies are white, and they curve like a diver . . ." "Look out, Sappho; don't you dive," warned Luke, clutching t'.io tail of my short tunic, a- 1 lean. -l over to look down. Wo learned the same lessons, so that I followed his allusion. "Sappho," I said with some dignity, dig-nity, "was a poetess, but I daresay I shall be one, but you should mu call me her, because she had dark' hair, and wore violets, and I have chestnut hair, Father savs. and there are no violets here. Hosido?. Sappho was not quite nice. Lorraine Lor-raine soys so. I shall be a poetess, and I wouldn't mind Jumping over i he I.eucadlan cliff Just as .-he did. If I was ver unhappy but I always al-ways mean to be quite nice." Luko looked at me with that new. odd look of his. I have nid ilia our lessons were alike; but there Wore a good many books In the big library room that he was allowed lo read, while I was put on honor not to toue-h (hem. Now aud then I was consents of n ere- ar.d auparlorltlei on his part, that I Jealously ascribed to those shelves. "I should certainly hope so." wai all he said; but there was a stress on the "I" that puzzled me. "It's not your business any more than anyone clso's," I remarked lib I chilling ulr. "Isn't It?" asked Luke, without the shadow of a smile. "Certainly nou Why should It be?" "Why, indeed?" No he was noi smiling. What made me think he had been? It is probable I should have asked since I loleruted no locked doors at that time of my life had not something amazing happened at the moment. It was true that wo had como up to the top of Parnassus Parnas-sus to look for ships we liwa I did on holiday mornings and wo conscientiously scanned the empty horizon round and round for them, almost always. Sometimes we forgot. for-got. This was ono of tho times. Wo had looked at nothing but tho betelnuts and palms, since tho southeast trade had greeted us wlt'i its hearty embrace. And thoie. just a? I opened my mouth to sav something very cutting and dlgni-flod dlgni-flod to Luke who really did want taking down that morning round the point of a palmy c.npe came th distant, unmistakable white-pinioned flguro of a ship! She was several miles away, right at the far end of HUUva Dara, and had been hidden until iha' moment mo-ment by (he loom of tho promontory. promon-tory. But. undoubtedly. If w bad been up little sooner and looked out a little more carefully wo could have seen her mnklr.g for the Island This Saturday, of all tho many Snturdas in the year, wo had ben caught napping It Wai our ambition almost our dutv. wo ICJ Imi, louiuUdatl f..,U(. (unto ice. Grcil aKula j,., UcnMt i ' felt to announce tho sight of any possible sail to the older and (naturally) stupider Inhabitants of Hiliwa Dara. And to-day they must havo scon her before we did. Wo raised a shriek of "Sall-O!" that reached to the sweet potato holds below, and set all the Nlue boys and their wives screaming in their turn. Then, hand in hand, we galloped down the track at a rate that would have led to broken necks if we had not been young, icekless and barefooted. We took the downward slopes in bounds of twenty feet. We fell and got up again. Wo reached the cave-house breathless, shouting and half wild. For tho coming of a ship was uo small event at any time on our Island, and none had been expected about this time. Twice In tho year an auxilia.'y schooner called to deliver goods and take away a cargo of copra. . . - - A 1 k Once or twice it had happened that our own cut .or had had to run down to the nearest island group, a week or two away But stray calls, unconsidered un-considered ships coming in on indefinite in-definite business, were things not known to Hiliwa Dara. We found homo in an unusual state of hurry and confusion. Dinah, with a large apron on. was walking from store to kitchen, and kitchen to dining hall weeping Heaven knows why; am suro she did not herself. Nevertheless, she was very cfOclently preparing for extra mouths at dinner. Old Mr. Ivory had gone down to the copra house, aud with shouts and waving of arms, was hurrying tho boys In their work of collecting und bagging the shell-white sections sec-tions or cocoanut that had been drying on tbo trays, In the sun. Lorraine, tall and willowy in her black dress, was" staudiug outside tho cavo entranco. a telescope held 10 her eye. There was more than a bit of wind blowin-', but she stood as- steady as a sea captain, watching watch-ing the Bhlp come round the point. It is In tho small things that character is read If I had held tL -telescope I should have seen nothing noth-ing but a swinging bull of blue. I never could to this day 1 cannot hold a telescope unsupported and look calmly at anything that Interests Inter-ests me. It takes such a light unsteadiness un-steadiness of the bund to send tho view flying all over the horizon v. n i he iul k. hard bent of one's heart will shake the telescope too much for clear visioning. But nothing save death 1 .id ever come between Lorraine an 1 any-thing any-thing she cared to have or do. There was a wonderful force of concentration in her slim body She lowered the telescope present, pres-ent, and announced to Father: "It's not the "Anna" or the "Pearl." It's a brigantlne Avith a long name that I can't quite read yet" She put tho glass up again. "QUEEN, QUEEN oh, QUEEN OF ' THE ISLANDS." "By Gad," said Father, looking Interested, "that's Harry England's J boat. I wonder what's bringing him "Shall I run up to the point and shout out the course, sir?" asked ' Luke His eyes were glowing with, excitement j "No need," said my father. "If that's Harry Eugland. he could steer his ship to heaven or to hell ' over a razor edge in the middle of the night. Sec, he's conning her from tho cross-trees. Take the glass, Dara; I'll hold it for you." Ho steadied it over his arm while I found the ship, and with difficulty I focused the small black figure that was swinging between heaven and I al kaV J i fit V I earth. I held It only for an instant, but our telescope was a Zeiss of the finest, and In that Instant I had a flashing glimpse of a tall figure leaning out with one arm round a back stay In the untellablv graceful nf!T'' I attitude of the sailor conning his e I up a r.il brown, hawky. v, I fiercely concentrated; a face that I swung high between heaven and " earth, and looked out and far, as men look only when alono . . . It seemed almost as if I had v pried I l opped the glass, and felt I fl ' ome back from somewhero a Jfl long, long way So, first. I saw Harry EuglaudLfl "Go and change your drear you are very d . Lorraine iweel flowing voice. I wandered off to my cave-bedroom, ?H passing Himih on the way. Sho aBRB had stopped weeping now, but sho can led her head very much on ono ' , t ' side, and sighod a good deal. She I had a hoi pie in her hands; -"OTB I it amelled extremely good. Dinah I broke a pleco off tho edge as sho went, and swallowed it with a Ju dlclal air. "No matter who or what ho is," be said, with the accent of recent H (ears still In her voice, "that pie's H worthy of him. If he's worthy of H lt.M She contrived I really do not know how to give her last remark 'he air of a religious saying. "What else !a there?" I asked with interest. "Never rou mind," said Dlnab Continued on A'cj-f Page. -A fascinating NevRomance e South Seas J (Continual from freccdttu Page) darkly. "I don ( wan! none of you about the dining room, Mi-s para, feathering your pockets with tho best of everything while my back's turned." I suppose that's one of your porimanteau words for feathering oic's nest and filling one's pocket! I offered scornfully, being hurt by the (entirely Just) accusation. "You go RV-d deaJ yorrself. Miss," was her answer. "1 can't stop here, with the stow just simpering in the I pot. " I went. I dressed myself In my only "good" dress a changeable blue nnd-green silk from China that father had bought from a passing III ship, because it was the color Of the sea in sunshiny and because I loved the sea. T tied a fillet of the same bright stuff through my lone red-brown hair and hung about mv nock my only ornament a large cryst.nl from the Hall of Perse- i phone, slung to a thin gold chain. It may seem trivial to record these t things. Tt is not. Much of nr-- whole life's future as it lay before me then was to turn on just so slight, a hinge as the dress and tho ornament-; I wore. Occupied before my mirror. I missed what I should have liked to see, the heaving to of the schooner. 1 the stowing of her sails, the land ing of her captain on our little mangrove man-grove jetty. By the time T came rustling into the big cave hall, ot-ceedingly ot-ceedingly pleased with my own magnificence, the whole thing wn.s over, and father was walking up from the sea beach side by side with our new guest. Shyness, especially in those island days was no fault of mine. 1 1( I ran to meet them, leaving Lor- raine. in her trailing black, expect ant at the entranc? rf the avr 1 ij remember how my emerald blue silks torsed and shimmered in tho -Jj) sun as I ran. and how my hair, caught by the fresh breeze. !j streamed out like a groat wave of copper, so that I had to part it with my hands, and hold it back, to sec father and Captain England when T had come up to them. Harry England Harry England! Even now, after all that ha passed. now, with my copper hair enamelled with silver, and the heavy, heavy little band on my third finger growing grow-ing flat and worn, your name still Blngs to mp. Oh. whoever she may . love or marry, there is never but one man In a woman's life whose name can sing that nightingale note to her. Think you, Mr?. Hc-rhert Smith. Mrs Arthur Letghe, Mr Rrlggs. Lady Campbells, Lady William Slranges. and the rest you are married so long that you cannot remember re-member you were ever single; you have sons and daughters who are all the world to you; you are fond of your husbandH and proud of them. But are those names that you have seen on your ranis Tor I so many, many years the names that eang to you once, in the dawn of life once and never again'.' i There may be a woman in a thousand nay, I know there will be who can answer "yes. " Bui of the rest well. Herbert and Ar- thur and William are good men. I aQd you are glad you married therm; I know you are. Let it rest at that. Men know very little-after little-after all the ages of marriage con- cerning the women they marry. We had just as scon they did not know more You wives whoso wedding rings are growing thin may fill in the blanks between my '! lines for yourselves. I have flown far forward Back ' I must fly again, over years and the seas of time, to the beach of Hiliwa I "Hra and to my father and Harry I agland, walking in the sun. When I had ended tho struggle with my hair, by clubbing a great I knot in it and flinging it over mj shoulder, I greeted the visitor with ' outstretched hand. I "I am so glad to see you." I told him "Why are you glad, Miss Dara?" ; asked the captain, looking down on me from his near six feet of height, without a vestige of tho patronizing smile or condescending manner that so many elders put on when speaking speak-ing to children. I noted that he knew my name; 1 supposed he must know everything in tho world. I was suro he must know the answer to his question before he asked it. "Because captains are such brave people," I told him, "and because father says you would sail your ship through hell in the middle. of tho night over a razor's edge," 1 Father said nothing at all as I launched this explosive t I had known he wouldn't. He was not like the ordinary parent, in many thine:?; certainly his sense of Jus-tice, Jus-tice, which always forbade him to blame mo for quoting any of hlfl tayings, was abnormal Harry England looked at me a little curiously, hut 1 thought that he was not displeased He did not He topped make any direct reply short in his speech CHAPTER II. ftncj staggered archway of the great ... 7 - v Jfc to his feet central Outside. BPws&l "vHB " IH smashing and the heat. at this mid-hour tiftfcj spilling plates, the jHBHBHBBBrjiHW glasses, dishes moment one came under the dim, fSSitti of food." cool vault of the roof, it wa: r dif v ferent climate. Ivory and my f.-Hh- ) or. I think did well -Jl-V & . gg2fc ' to leave this refuge 'A- jfi? &!wffc from mi- -flii. BbBSt ing or concrete. Through innumev- ' flfj: 1 , - '-' able cracks and "V " iffifrEL Mow al- Bl the white sand f: k ' f J-SbSS. him add her up and J " -SS$. v- i? 'jfSmiS t-.-t down Hie total - f0F crK KwL 'WKf in his mind, even Jl-' Kr filr ing hands with her, , fPf WwftS island fashion. I '' 1 JtiEr v , thought the total i ( W y C was not small; yet ' . J! 0. there was no smile ? Nl. in his ees. when jSt 7 he looked at her. ' N S V J even though his . ' ,''"' - y- ' lips were smiling. . v . (.y ; -. t, ' t0r "Dinner Is just ' ready," said Lor- v raine "Will you ' ' ( T$BSr' come into the din- . .' . ' ' ' . ing-room?" '"'.' .v(.-N -v.jT J$y "I never dine," v-v y . . said the rani a In " . ' ' with a sudden nah Of brilliant teeth (yes. he was really smiling now, eyes and mouth together to-gether i. "I break fast and sup " "What's that for?" asked father curiously. "Its the secret of loug life. I in tend to live long," was England's reply. "Have you been reading Lulcl Cornaro?" "Yes. And others. The book of human nature above all. It is true, Mr. Hamilton. Bui people love their ease." I thought he did not look as If he loved ease overmuch, with his long, lean figure and vivid bird-eyes. I thought he looked as if ho would come to see his i.un-dredth i.un-dredth year, and live every moment Of the hundred "I wonder.'' .aid father thoughtfully, thought-fully, "if I tried it?" . . . Captain England looked at hitu with an expression which I could not understand then though shortly I was to comprehend It all too well. "I don't think you should," was all he said "And I don't think you would And it make an difference." differ-ence." Father said nothing in reply. His face, seen" In the glaring light that rushed in from tho irchway, showed for the moment lines that I had never noticed before. Now 1 saw them. I saw, too, that the skin below his eyes was blue "Father, you read too much." I cried "You are always reading" "Sometimes I write," he said, with a comical twist to his mouth. I think none knew better than he that his work was "writ In watr ." "Where is your workshop0 May I camp there while you are at din. ner?" asked the captain It seemed almost as if he wished to change the conversation Father opened the cedar door, t igbf -fitted to the wall of the cave, that gave entrance to his study. Tho wide wdilte-concreted room was lit by a lamp that burned brightly at all houra of tho day and night. - ,: .. mm s It wn.-t no fanciful shell ornament like mine, but a good circular wick hanging lamp from Sydney. Close to tho lamp was o long couch, covered cov-ered with kapok-stuffed cushions. Books and books and books again lined the walls, till one would have thought tho room was built of them, as a house is built of bricks. The floor was covered with pau-danus pau-danus mats, plaited in red and brown. England swept thai fiery glance of his about the room, seeming to lake in all It contained intn instant. in-stant. He stepped for a moment imo the hull and returned, (allying (ally-ing in his fingers, as though it were a feather, a big straight chair. "This will do me," he said, swung it under the lamp, picked a volume from I ho shelves, and, with a courteous bow to Lorraine and my sefl and a "Pardon me,u Bat down. He was buried in the buolc before wo had left the room. "He doesn't like to be comfortable, comforta-ble, father, does he?" I asked as wo entered the Hall of Persephone, where Dinah, bare arms folded above snow-clean apron, stood at thq end of the table with the air of a priestess conducting sacrifice Luke was awaiting us. Mr. Ivory bad not yel come in. "Never discuss a gues. ," exhorted ex-horted Lorraine, sweeping ahead. "I didn't mean anything rude," I excused myself. "1 was only thinking that he seemed like those monks in some of your books, who didn't eat good things and wouldn't have nice beds or " "I do not think the resemblance Is very close." said my father with a certain dryness. "Besides, my dear, Lorraine is quite right We'll drop the subject." "Anyhow," I said cheerfully, "there'll be all the more pie ' r t! (C Iff I, Inttroatrnt i rest of us. I am sure, when lie eats, it's like the man in Gllbeit and Sullivan's playbook 'We seldom sel-dom eat, but WHEN WE DO!' " "Dara1" said father sharply. I filled my mouth, so that porforce I was silent, and winked covertly at Luke Despite his newfound man-line's man-line's ho returned the wink. We were at one in our love of pie a love that, I think, only children and Americans can fully understand. Dinah, with good cause this day for her inevitable tears, did not exhibit ex-hibit thorn after all. You could never calculate on Dinah. "No one would be a 'cook who could go out and chop stones on the road." was her contribution as she served the food. "Here have I been standing In the kitchen all inorni ig. till my logs is full of haricot hari-cot eins aud for all my reward, they don't come to dinner till the pie is gettln' heavy and the tea has iieon Btandin' that long that it's full of nicotine and destroyin' the coats of their stomachs But I don't look for my reward below. There Those Aboe that lets not. a pie fall to the ground, nor a 'up of tea which uny on might allow Is better for the insldes than a cup of cold water nor lets a cup of tea pass withont reckonln' it up against tho Last Great Day Miss Dara, 1 never give you a bit of the flaky crust off of the edges, pass mo your plate. Mr. Hamilton: if you knew anything of the feelings of B cook, you wouldn't mess good food ubout and never eat it " ' I have no appetite," said my fathej He leaned back iu his chair aud looked absently at his plate I Bm thirsty," be said. He drank jlfs cup of tea and took another. ilmo tViT.ce, Ice Great lli "Dad's scored two for you, Dinah." 1 said wickedly No one laughed. Lorraine seemed to be watching my father. "I diall" said my father, rising ris-ing Horn the table. Then it happened! He stopped short in his speech, and staggered stag-gered to his feet, smashing and spilling platest glasses, dishes of food. I lis arms struck wildly about him: his feet, white canvas shod, rose kicking iu the air. He flung himself, in a terrible convulsion, convul-sion, right over on his back, and I could see that his face was blue anil his mouth open. "Ye Prophets in Israel!" cried Dinah. Lorraine flew to his side, Lpke ran to moot her, and between be-tween them, without a word, they lifted him off the table and laid him on the floor. Tho fearful smugglings smug-glings were over; his eyes had dosed, as he lay as if dead "Get him to his room with me," commanded my aunt. "Dinah!" Dinah, as the strongest, came to her side She was perfectly dry-eyed dry-eyed and, now. qulto self-possessed. "It's some sort of heart fit," sh.? said, and they carried him out. No one looked at mo or thought of me I stood in my own place at (able, where I had sprung to my feet on tho moment of my father s fall. I felt as if some one had struck me violently, driving all ray breath from my lungs, Perse-phone's Perse-phone's Hall had suddenly taken on the look of something unknown and strange; I stared at the spangling span-gling crystals and wondered what they were. What I had seen could not be tme. Father my father could not have fallen before my eyes in the midst of our laughing talk, struck down like a stunned bullock fatally struck For even in the midst of the blind confusion aud bewilderment of this earliest trst with Sorrow, my mind, subconsciously sub-consciously worked on. had told me that the blow was unto death. I did not know 1 knew it I cried out like a little animal In my pain and shrieked, "Oh. father don't be ill!" I snatched at Luke as he went to leave the hall and held him .uin Kthb BmcctmL A YJ- X VW In a frantic grasp. "What's the matter0" I asked, and screamed again before he could answer. I was half mad at the moment in truth, a fit of "angina pectoris"--for that was the ugly thing that sprung, tiger-like upon the peace and happiness of our lives is no sight for the eyes of a child, l shall never forget Luke s goodness. good-ness. Ho quieted me like the mother I had never known He held me and stroked my hair. Lorraine Lor-raine would have scolded and told mo to command myself. She haled people who "let go " 1 do not know whether Luke liked letting go any better than she did. but he liked me. "Dara." he said gently, "you mustn't make a noise, to injure your father. 1 don't know what it is but I'm suro ho ought to le quiet." "I'll go to him," I cried, strug-ling strug-ling For now the paralysis of mind had passed and I desired action, ac-tion, furiously. ' No. dear." soothed Luke, though his own face was white with alarm, "lorraino will send for you if you are wanted. Leave him with Dinah and her You would cry 2nd upset thincs." "Let me just go and listen listen at the door." I sobbed "IU promise to be so quiet " Lorraine would have held her point. Luko gave way. though he knew himself in the right. Ho went With me to the door of father's room. It opened off tho central hall, next to the study, where wo had left Captain England. Captain England! His call had been the event of the whole year, one little ten minutes past. Now it was loss than nought, or as I felt. But Harry England never counted for nought in any scene where Fate might place him. We found him. as w e came up to tho door, just coming out. He closed the door behind him carefully, took not the least notice of Luke or of myself and proceeded, pro-ceeded, with a kind of swift deliberation, deliber-ation, to drop off his coat and knot a great silk handkerchief he took from one pocket round his curiously slim, tou ;h Then he nil down his head a Halo and rat 3f through the entrance or the Cayl We stared, amazed. yP nJlM one run like 'that. UK' M mlline ''hi.ail fi,,n mosl Invisible- J91 ' where It tourbr'dtJ' earth. yr, mh fcarcr-iy see wh3 1 or how it disappeared round J corner leading to the jetty j& could only ti that it vanta3i quite imp.-,s-.ii, . S00n :r"'k lc:i minuteifl v.. Ik iherc' 'Wa "Whore has he gone?" I breatlAf "To his ship." was Luke's "He wants to get something." - 1 'She's fast to the jetty," t JB "He won't be very' "There he Is!" exclaimed iB ' In a hushed tone of exciteme' "He S coming back " WL 11 :vi!'-'" 1 -'P J And! almost seemed as if he uas Harry England wa? just 3eJf and twenty then, at the full hetgS of a manV best pn- er.-, and he wg i hough we did nor ;n07r M champion runrif-r of the Paciflcvmfl w. 11 as the champion middlewelsj I'OX. T I ;h f0l ,he gJ of Greece to see him come, runjL ' n ,-: '-: 1 1 a r way, tJT rather low, hand clenched, mutfjV working wi'h the magnificent W ( Ing ease of a ?rr.-vhound stride. W pa'-pat of hh feet sounded holfl1 ' on tho last logs of the jetty, Jl upon tho track, sharper and shaAf as i grew near he was upon f ; diving through the cave arch I an engine goes into a tunnel, jB"'1 i' ith a sliding htM the loose sand where we stoodi We sa " ' fv -'.asstaf ing in drops on his foreheadj'y trickling down hi- arms and'Kx his chest was heaving like thlK! outs id" the p-.r.f nf0r a Morm. J saw that he had a dark-colJ "" glass bottle U ,I; uan,j Wsmj no time to ?p.? more, far he opM my father's door without panj- ' to knock, and went in 1 By some mischance he did "' 11 m;.:- .,-.1 : h rough j1' ' ra- k v i i r e tood In the ff hall, we saw a long, narrow pIcBP ' bei','.Jj waist, my father'-; chest, stll M longer, hut cummencing fearfl to strain and writhe in a retoK the parom we hil witneiW the schooner captain's hands, ff capabh-, pulling out a cork I spilling something over a hand! chief Th re was a smell of M. ' drops on air. mnxJiafly flbd I saw Lorraine's figure -.raiiW-' up and her face come .'nto Tleat' ( bore an expression of relief, ft he -naming figure of my fftrr was. ali al once quiet. ' jKlfti "Tint's done it," we heard Jjftflli laud sa In- 1 'uu J y shllff'! "I don't know how time pall J after that. I don ' know aoBt it v.-a e huddling together SB'-".:.-! deserted hall with the seRtU ing outside before the mflH in the room cased. anJ after -'t ri..d ..;' .iu... i ;.' rr'- L'agland Ol ; swiftly and softly out, DinfVMi lowing he.iiml l.uku made BJ toward the captain, liit l'e 'w -i, seem to see anyone; he hurrisJJ u .'114 . o::!d ever s?y 'hat Soft'' ' ' iiurned"- out . " re3ll sun. and away toward his M the track where the'Bli i ,., :, - .. jr iiing 'o :C Ii, , the palm-tops, as tMAR when day is on the wane. M - "Toeacco. tobacco:" oallelM;'. "Oh. do come here. Oh. d05S. jw, plained another There fM", 1 thing rcajsuring about t'19Pfc well-known sound It seemed as if the earthquake had fttti over aa if life were oncsMjJ standing on it : firm lamiliarw as if things would be, l0"Bga!Cci and the days after, just, as ' been "in the beginning, anajjjc should be, world without end "t One bat v.orld-w end feeling of childhoodW Strang.' deception that sets j Ing marble underneath our whore in reality are but the m bling sands of time: the ii1JS nIGed perspective that sh0Jj long roads stretching faf j5l.vj away, changeless, infinite, gy.., the brief road that leads. twMy rc. I: precipice, t'1 the ' near, unknown sea. Tnere JBTS a day to -very youth when By Ion breaks. ThenceforwaBgj( knows; and his knowledge there is." on earih. no "'rtWV( I. Dara ITimilton of the ,JAi--was full young to learn 50 1R but Providence had w'lled "JVHq should learn it, on that daj. jB, (To Contlnor.l |