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(Continued from Last Week)
rore slie could stop IHm be lirnl wultcu ,
out of the houf?e. i
She mslud to the irate, but Al
ready the roar of his motor was lost '
In the hum of the city's traffic.
-oe ranch. Here. In an opon space, fHend 'n.a. . It. J"1
he looked nhout. klckiiiK in the dry " 11,:U4! h H,a
gnu. At lencth his toe OlsturluHl n. '"ri ',v;' . , ' , "
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C:APTER XIII.
"Brownie," ht said nt lenjrtli.
"Bi-ownie." The whole scene caiu
hack upon hint the moonlight, tuiil
Irene's distress, and the little Mood
ins l'odv. And he had said lie duin't
1 innv nnvlliili'' iihout the iustkv of
God; all he knew was the critter Uintj very much like Irene. He re
tell Mm now. . . . She iuuI wa.tcn
nil these years, ami siiil she must j
wait. j
Inve's eyes were uion her form,
Pllliouetted tipiinst the window. H oc
curred to Mm that in form Kdith was
ailed that
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nve the motor a full head natl drove ;
tirough the city , streets in a fury of
scklessness. Ilis mind was numbed ;i
; c was Incapable of assorting thoughts j
and placing tbera In proper relation-1
chin t,i nni nnnthw II vena snon out !
i v " - " i rvjaiu ilia iiuiiu it
ot tue city, roaring mrougn tae sun i ill;ut flashed in his eyes
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uuiumu uigiil wiiu uiiuuiiiuiS'iieu
speed.
Over tortuous country ronds, across
sudden bridges, along slippery hill
sides, through black bluffs of scrub
land In some strange way he tried
couldn't run was the one that not
caught. . . . And he hud said that
was life. ... lie had said It was
only nature.
And then they had stood among the
trees and beneuth the white moon and
pledged their faith. . . .
Again his head went up and the old
"The first
I thing is to kill the wolf." he said
aloud. "No other Innocent shall fall
to his fangs. Then my country."
Darkness had again fallen before
Dave found his car threading the
streets of the city, still feverish with
to drown the uproar In his soul in the; 5ts newborn excitement of war. He
returned his car to the garage; an
attendant looked up curiously It was
evident from his glance that Dave had
frenzy of the steel that quivered be
neath him. On and on into the niirht.
Bright stars gleamed overhead ; a soft i
breeze pressed against his face; it nwaAv hwn missel hut no words
was such a night as he had driven, a i wt,re exchanged. He stood for a mo-
year ago, wun rsen .Morrison, w as j lnent ln the street, collecting his
that only a year ago? And what had thoughts and rehearsing his resolves.
He was amazed to find that, even
happened? Where had he been? Oh,
to bring the boy Charlie, the boy.
When was that? Under the calm
heaven his mind was already attempt
ing to establish a sequence, to set Its
outraged home again In order.
Suddenly the car skidded on a slip
pery hillside, turned from the road,
plowed through a clump of scrub,
ricochetted against a dark obstruction,
poised a moment on two wheels, turn
ed around, and stopped. The shock
brought Dave to his senses. He sat
on the running board and stared for
a long while Into the darkness.
"No use being a d d fool, any
way, Dave," he said to himself at
length. "I got It where I didn't ex
pect It but I gness that's the way
with everyone." He tried to philoso
phize; to get a fresh grip on him
self. "Where are we, anyway V he
continued. "This country looks famil
iar." He got up again and walked
about, finding his way back to the
rtad. H went along It a little way.
Yague impressions suggested that he
should know the spot, and yet he
could not Identify It. Then, with a
sudden shock. It came to him. It was
the hillside on which Doctor Hardy
had come to grief; the hillside on
which he had first seen her bright
face, her wonderful eyes. ... A
poignancy of grief engulfed him,
sweeping away his cheap philosophies.
Here she stood, young and clean and
entrancing, thrust before him ln an
Instant out of the wonderful days of
the past. And would she always fol
low him thus? With an unutterable
sinking he knew that was so that
the world was not big enough to hide
him from Irene Hardy. There was no
way out.
He started his motor, and even ic
his despair felt a thrill of pride as thc
faithful gears engaged and the car
fiimhpd hack to its place on the trail.
Was all faithfulness, then, in things of
steel and iron, and none in flesh and
blood? He followed the trail. Why
stop now? The long-forgotten ranch
buildings lay across the stream and
behind the tongue of sprnce trees, un
less some wandering foothill fire had
destroyed them. He forded the stream
without dilT.culty. That was-vherc he
had carried her out. ... He felt
his way slowly along the old fence.
That was where she had set up bottles
for his marksmanship. . . . He
stopped where the straggling gate
should be and walked carefully into
the yard. That was where she had
first called him Dave. . . . Then
he found the doorstep and sat down
to wait.
. When the sun was well tip he aros
and walked about. His lips wen
norr-hPd- he found himself nlbb!
thorn with his teeth, so he went to the j
stream. He was thirsty, out ne vrw
only a mouthful; the water was flat
and Insipid. ... The old cabla was
in better repair than he would mve
thought. He sprung the door open.
It was musty and strung wlfU cob
webs. He did not go ln but rat 6owr
and tried to think.
Later he walked up the ca 7on.. n
. must have walked swiftly, f ? thnr
was not yet at the merldia- Thegl h
found himself at the little nook ln the
rock where he and Irene had sat that
afternoon when they had first laid their
hearts open to each other. Suddenly
one remark stood up In his memory.
"The day is coming," she had said,
"when our country will want men who
can shoot and ride." And he had said,
"Well, when It does it can call on me."
And today the country did want men
who could shoot and ride, and he had
flown Into the foothills to nurse a
broken heart . . . Broken hearts
can fight as well as whole ones. He
could be of some use yet. At any rate
thor was a way out.
Some whim led him through the
.jrove of spruce trees on his way back
in his bitterness, the city reached a
thousand hands to him hands of
habit and association and customs of
mind all urging liim back into the
old groove; all saying: "The routine
is the thing. Be a spoke in the wheel ;
go round with the rest of us."
"No," he reminded himself. "Xo, I
can't do that. I have business on
hand. First to kill the wolf."
Tie remembered that he had given
his revolver to Irene. And suddenly
she sat with him again at the tea
table. . . . Where was he? Yes.
he had given . his revolver to Irene.
Well, there was another In his rooms.
Ia the hallway of the block in
which he had his bachelor apartments
Dave almost collided with a woman.
He drew back, and the light fell on
his face, but hers was ln the shadow.
And then he heard her voice.
"Oh, Dave, I'm so glad Why,
what has happened?" The last words
ran into a little, treble of pain as she
noted bis haggard face.
"You Edith?" be managed to say.
"Whatever"
She came toward him and plaH
her hands on his. Tve been her?
hundred times ever since morn'
ever since Bert Morrison called i.
say you had disappeared that mere
was some mystery. There isn't, is
there, Dave? You're all right, Dave,
aren't you, Dave?"
"I guess I'm all right," he managed
to answer, "but I got a job on an im
portant job on. I must get It done.
There is not time "
But her woman's Intuition had gone
far below his Idle words. "There is
something wrong, Dave," she said.
"You never looked like this before.
Tell me what it is. Tell me. Dave.
Perhaps I can help."
Dave was silent for a moment,
watching her. Suddenly it occurred
to him that Edith Duncan was Deauu-
ful. ,
If she had not quite the fine features
of Irene she had a certain softness of
expression, a certain mellowness, even
tenderness, of lip and eye; a certain
womanly delicacy
"Edith," he said, "you're white. Why
is it that the woman a man loves will
fall him, and the woman he only
likes stays true?"
"Oh!" she cried, and he could not
guess the depths from which her cry
was wrung. ... "I should not hav8
asked you, Dave," she said. "Im
sorry."
They stood a moment, neither wlsn
;g to r ove away. "You said you had
rfcmet i i that must be done at once,"
i.he rer aded him at length.
hva.. he answered. "I have to kill
a niaa Then I'm going to Join up
with tle army."
Her? hattds were again upon bim.
"But you mustn't, Dave," she pleaded.
Yo' can't fight for your country then.
Tv. will only Increase its troubles in
troubled times. Don't think I'm
-fading for him, Dave, but for you,
,t the sake of us for the sake of
' nose who care."
He took her hands ln his and raised
hem to his shoulders and drew her
face close to his. Then, speaking very
slowly, and with each word by itself,
"Do you really care?" he said.
"Oh, Dave!"
"Then come to my room and talk
Tniutnme! Talk to me! For
LIS uiCi
God's sake talk to me! I must talk
to someone."
she followed him. Inside the room
he had himself under control again.
FTe told her the story, all he knew.
When he had finished she arose and
walked to one of the windows and
stood looklne with unseeing eyes upon
the street. For the second time in
his life Dnve Elden had laid his heart
bare to her, and again after all these
etui tnlUeri as friend to
- tai g v -
In those dead past days when tn
used to ride together Kdlth had re
minded him of Irene.
When she stood silent so long he
spoke ngaln.
Tm nfrnid I haven't played a very
heroic part." he said, somewhat
shamefacedly. "I should have hurled
my secret in my heart; burled it even
from you; perhaps most of all from
you. But you can advise me, Kdlth.
I will value whatever you say."
She trembled until she thought he
must see her, and she feared to trust
her voice, but she could delay a reply
no longer.
"Dave," she said at length, "why
should you take Conward's word in
such a matter as this?"
"I didn't take Conward's word.
That's why I didn't kill him at once.
It wasn't his word. It was the Insult
that cut. But she tried to save him.
She threw herself upon me. She would
have taken the bullet herself rather
than let It find him. That was what
that was what "
"I know, Dave." She had to hold
herself in check lest the tenderness
that weDed Within her, and would
shape words of endearing sympathy
in her mind, should find u''- n- ?e In
nyeeeh. "1 know. Dare," . "Rid.
"Tbe next thing then. -u
sure In your own nii'n' I e? j
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"Ye," He Answered, "I Have to Kill
a Man."
there are some things you won't be
able to understand. You can't under
stand lust how much I loved Irene.
Ilave you never known of love being ,
turned to iiuie;
"No. Other Impulses may be, but
not love. Love can no more turn to
hate than sunlight can turn to dark
ness. Believe me, Dave, if you hate
Irene now you never loved her. Lis
ten: 'Love beareth all things, bellev
eth all things, hopeth all things, en
dureth all things' !"
"Not all things, Edith; not all
things."
"It says all things."
Dave was silent for some time.
When he snoke again she caught a dif
ferent sound in his voice a tone as
though his soul in those few moments
had gone through a lifetime of expe
rience. "Edith," he said, "when you repeat
ed thone words I knew you had some
thing that I have not. I knew it, not
by words but" by the way you said
them. You made me know that in
your own life, if you loved, you would
be ready to endure au tnings. xen
me, Edith, how may this tning De
done?"
She trembled with delight at tne
nw tone in his voice, for she knew
that for him life would never again
be the empty, flippant, selfish, irre
sponsible thing which in the past he
linii enlled life.
"In your case," she said, "the course
is simple. It Is just a case oi ior
frlTTlnc"
if irnzprl for a time Into the street,
while thoughts of bitterness and re
trnn era fninrht for domination of his
mind. "Edith," he said, at length,
"must I forgive?"
T ,ln nnl- SflV VOU mUSt." SllO an
swered. "I merely say if you are wise
you will. Nothing, it seems to me,
so much misunderstood as forgiveness.
m whn la fnrelven may merely
escape punishment, but the one who
forgives experiences a positive spir
itual expansion.
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It Is -i 'tit1 side of I
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inJ t,i f,.i-.:le and rea
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nUvny." ,i.
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S,'!-.i,v Yon Mr,. ,', 1 "l
now, Dav tor,K.. n,v fr. ' -
vour, !. on ' :;:,vv- ,,
must .UM,i-H.Uvai.'V..ucet r..,n .r
nati.l, at !!sll,iss ',,l,r n .
mont owr It. U.-n .M.hv yoiirf
nt Hie disposal of your country.
8t..Tn,, l' what 1 '-" MnS
of," he said. "At least .hat Prl I '
Korvlm: inv country, iiitnoivn
, motives were as high as you dunn, th, . r
would make them. But Uu
Invl. It is unbelievable.'
Tm not so sure." she nnswrrcl
-rov.lv "Of course I know tu.thlnc
..k...,1'o.,rm,,t,v. But I do know !"ne
HIMMI, " .
. ..i ,,,,r nun ieoO e. I Know
nnir ii m 'in .".
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been- how slothful and Ineoinpei.-nt
and s.'lf-satlsfied we have he.-n ; and
I f,-nr It will take n long war and sac
rifices and tragedies altojretber be
vend our present imagination to tunkf
us litiselnsh and public-spirited and
clean and generous. I am not wor
rying about the defent of 0rmnny.;
If our civilization Is better than that
of Oerninny we shall win, ultimately.,
and if our civilization Is wnr thnn
that of Germany we shall he defeated
ultimately and we shall deserve to
be defeated. ;
"But I riHher think that npitber of
the alternatives will be the result. I
rather think that the test of war will
show that there are elements In Her ;
m civilization which are better thnn
,rs. and elements In our civilization
rt-hich are better than theirs, and that
the good elements will survive and
form the basis of a new civilization
better than either."
"If that Is so." Dave replied. "If
th! war Is but the working of Immu
table law which proposes to put all the
elements of civilization to the supretntt
test and retnln only those which are
Justifiable by that test, why slald
Inr nnvone else fight? And." he
added, as an afterthought, "what
about that principle of forgiveness?" ,
"We nur-t .':'.'." chn r.i,.-,werel. "hi-'
cause !t i. the lav that we must fight;
became it Is only I ' rightlni! that we
can Ju-tify i!-e principles f r which we,
fight. K we I. -Mil our principles n be-j
ing not worth l, rhtlng for the new clvl-'
lizutio'-. ". ;:i 'lo -w tho; piincli ! In
the dl ar". Ai. I that, h i, covi-rs tic;
question forgiveness. Korgu -;, s, i
In fact 'io' t enter iiro Hie cm. .
sldeni,-nii
"We i. .'I t Si.' I. t.i.t b'-;i we hf'.tit
Germany nui in-i-aii.se we love erlaln
principles which Germany Is endeav
oring to overthrow. The Impulse must
be love, not bate."
She had turned and faced him while
she spoke, and he felt himself strange
ly carried away by the earnestness of
her argument. What a wonderful
woman she was! And as he looked
at her lie again thought of Irene, anil
suddenly he felt himself engulfed In
a great tenderness, and be knew that
even yet
"What am I to do?" he said. "What
am I to do?"
In the darkness of her own shadow
she set her teeth for that anst.cr. It
was to he the crowning act of .self
renunciation and It strained every
fiber of her resolution.
"You had better co overseas iinrt
enlist in Kngland,'- she told him calm- j
ly, although her nails were biting her '
palms. "You will get quicker action j
that way. And when vou com h.ir-b i
you must see Irene, and you must
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