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HIGMT fAOX INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, ORIftON, SCrrEMICft t 1t10. FAOt THItK The Fighting Clhiaiiice ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Copyright, joi, bjr Us Curtis Ptblltalng Coaanaay. Copyright, 10, by Robert W. Chambers. - : - Aneuti everybody tnU!Jy Mad Plena. !Mod7 bed before found bint naawaslty. "Oo oa." he. said ansteeJny. "If 1 tan be of use te row. UMfd, la God's biua M m , for ! bate oarer bM necessary to anybody tn all my If" Nlrd rested hU heed U"om c'trvhul band. "How isochi "bWxVc do you ttifsk I here?" be, Mked wearilj. -fioiiAsIn at'Viil?" -lux. -"''-' 1 riik bM4dfM for k moment, then, "Toq ir not tTjtag. Slward." "I have been trying aloe bloc XI a r-h. In Maivh UIm Landla spok to roe. Pre toaAe a better fight since." I gtkuVs eortous fsee dsrlLeued. "Is he tba .tnlj anchor you haveT..-' 'Tlank. I an not eton, IotoJ Br. 1 bar mad better fight a!iw then. Tbat la all I A re aajt I know what ' men think h5'V inefli Itke ma. I Ijnow the, "torn and character, pride. Wf dental. Bat. Plank, I am drtrtaf fearer and faaUr toward the breakers, and these anchors are dragging. For It la not In my case the physical fail ure to obey the will. It la the will It self that bad been attacked from tbe flrnt Tbat la tbe horror of It And what la there behind tbe will power to strengthen It? Only the source of will power the mind. It 1 tbe mind that cannot help me. What am I to dor There la a aplrttual strength," "aid riank timidly. "I have never dreamed of, denying It," aald 8lward. "I have tried to find It through the accepted source ac cepted by me too. God knowa that I desire to be decent He muet be aware, too, that all ancbora eare one have failed to bold me." "You mean Mtse LandisT" "Yea, It may be weakness; It may be to 'my ahame that the cablea of pride and aelf respect, even tbe splr Itual reaper for the nigbest, cannot hold me when thla one anchor" holds. A . a a a i a. a&a Ka f h'avai waited ft long time. I have taken my fljchtlng ch-voc Again and I've won He looked up at Flank, curiously em barrassed. "Your body la normal; your Intelli gence wholesome, balanced. Bane, and I want to ask you If you think that perhaps without understanding how I have found in her or through her In some way the spiritual source that I think might help me to help myself?" "You ask me If I believe It possible that abe can be the medium?" "Yes." riank aald deliberately, "Yes, I do think eo." The alienee was again broken by riank: "Slward, you have asked me what I think. Now you must listen to the end. If you believed that through her her love, marrying her you stood the best chance In the world to win out, it would be cowardly to ask her to take the risk. As much as I care for you I had rather see you lone the light than accept such a risk from her. Now you know what I think, but you don't know all. Slward, I say to you that if you are man enough to take her, take her! And I say that of the two risks she Is running today the chance she might take with you Is in finitely the lesser risk, for with you, if you continue elowly losing your fight, the mental suffering only will be hers. But If she closes this bargain with Quarrler, selling to him her body, the light will go out of her soul for ever." He rose, striding the length of the room once or twice, turned, holding out his broad band. "Goodby," he said. "Harrington la about due at my office. Quarrler will probably torn up tonight I am not vindictive. I shall be Just with them es Just as I know how, which la to be as merciful as I dare be. Goodby, Slward." When he had gone Slward lay back in hi chair, very still, eyes closed. A . faint color had mounted to hi face and remained there. It waa late In the afternoon when be went downstairs, using his crutches lightly. Gumble handed him a 'straw hat and opened the door, and Slward cautiously descended tbe stoop, stood for a few moments on the 'sidewalk, looking up at the blue sky, then wheel ed and slowly made hla way toward Washington square. The avenue was deserted. His own house appeared to be the only remaining house still open fa all that old fashioned but respecta ble quarter. A ...cab, -driven smartly, -" passed through the park, the horses', feet Japping the asphalt till the echoes rattled back f rots the marble arch. He p.. (A oeoUaued story.) ,,. ( j arena, saw It suddenly belt ki the middle mt the atmt. saw woraaa spring out eland for a moment- talk big tojtt kpto. then tore aa4 toy toward the square. (the stood so kwig and she was so far avyey that be presently grew ttr4 of watching be.. 1 dueea flgjieA- U rblua wire prowling around tbe foun tain, resting stdelocf gtvacea at dis tant pnllremea. But It waa not hot eattigb that evening h permit the t-hlUrea to splash ta the water and the poUcemaa drove taem off. , "Poor little devtte!" Mid, fllward to hliniv If and be rose, adjusted hta crutches ana started through the perk with aroe mJk l. A I be -Mr. Sivior&r of whet could be doe. AS be listed ward. tM sua level hi tils eyes. heard eome- bo4y speak be hd hhn, but did not eaten the words or ap ply the hell to himself. Then, Mr. Mwardr earn the low. breathless vole at his efbow. His heart stnpped as he did. The sun had dasxled his eyes, and when be turned oo his crutches he could sot see dearly for a second. That past, he looked at Sytvla, looked at her out stretched hand, took It mechanically. atfll staring at her with only a unbelief ta his eras. 1 am la tow Cor a day," sh. -I-efla UorOmer and I were dJtrtn; uptown from the bank whan we saw Ton, and th next thing that happened wast torn. on. Fifth avenue, running at er you oo, the next thing was my ty ing leap from the hansom and my standing there looking down- th stsuet and across the square where you sat Then Leila told me I waa probably cracy, and I Immediately confirmed her diagnosis by running after you." She stood laughing, flushed, sun burned and breathless, her left hand still in bis. ber right hand laid over it "Ob," she said, with a sudden cbanre to anxiety, "does it tire you to stand T "No, I wan going to saunter along." "May I saunter with you for a mo ment? I mean I only mean, I am glad to see you." "Do you thhik I am going to let you go now?" be aked, astonished. She looked at him; then her eyes evaded his. "Let us walk a' lKtle," she said, withdrawing her hand, "if you think you are strong enough." "Stroug! Look, Sylvia!" and he stood unsupported by his crutches, then walked a little way, slowly, but quite firmly. "I am rather a coword about my foot that Is all. I shall not lug these things about after today." "Did the doctor say you might?" "Yes. after today. I could walk homo now without tbem. I could do a good many things I couldn't do a few minutes ago. Isn't that curious?" "Very," she said, avoiding his eyes. He laughed. She dared not look at him. The excitement and impetus of sheer impulse had carried her tills far. Now all the sadness of it was clutch ing hard at her throat and for awhile she could not speak walking there in her dainty summer gown beside him. the very Incarnation of youth and health, with the sea tan on wrist and tliroot, and he, white, hollow eyed, crippled, limping, at her elbow. Yet at that very moment his whole frame seemed to glow and his heit clamor with the courage In It for be was thinking of Plank's words, and he knew riank had spoken the truth. She could not give herself to Quarrler If he stood firm. His was the streagar will, after all; his was the right to tlrter fere, to stop ber, to check her. to take her, draw her back as he hod once drawn her from the fascination of de struction when she had ewayed out too far over the cliffs at Shotover. "I came In with Leila. We're asked to Lenox for the week's end. . We go ta Stockbrldge on the early train to morrow morning," she said. "I'm not going to let you go yet" said Siward. "If I took to my heels here in the park, would you chase me, Stephen?" she asked, wit) mock anxiety. "Yes, and af f I couldn't run fast enough Td call that policeman. Horn, do you begin to understand?"' v "Oh, I've always understood that you were spoiled. I'm partly guilty of the spoiling process too. listen, XH walk with you a little way-she looked at hhn "a little way." she con tinued gCiXly; "then I must Thee Is only a caretaker la our house, sad POLK'S GAZETTEER mm UteM im Ormmrnm mm 4 WMMta. t'Mm Itantnln SkM mi mm !. 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