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by Evelyn Campbell
(Copyright by Bvttyn CamjbH
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CHAPTER XIII Continued
CO
"What do yon want of me?" Con
verse asked, rurlimsly. lie saw at
once that a change hnd coins over the
younger nmn; thut he had to do with
ionic tiling new and strange In him.
He was on guard Instantly. So far as
he could surmise he had nothing to
fear from this youngster whom he
could crush as easily as he had crushed
a bit of shell underfoot without know.
Ing how It came there. Hut he was
prepared to be cautious, for he had
learned to be wary of unexpected
blows. He felt In his pocket and pro
duced a single cigar. It was not a
place for smoking nor a time, yet Con
verse could not have carried on with
nut this weapon. Hehind Its shelter
he could think Impassively; prepare
his defense; strike.
"Tou are excited," he snld.
But Brian was not excited, and be
knew it He asked evenly:
"What have you done to Mrs. Bothl"
Converse could not believe that he
bad heard aright "Done to her?" he
repeated. He was a little hurt Here
was a young man whom he had recom
mended tn a world where tact Is the
most desirable of all qualities, and yet
he was being approached by this
protege and a woman's name, inns'
subtle of weapons, used as a bludgeon.
He took refuge In the time-honored
"I don't known what you mean."
"Then I will explain," said Brian.
He was perfectly cool, knowing that
he had already ruined himself and
content to be ruined If this would
bring him nearer Ys objective. "Some
thing has happened to Sirs. Itoth and
I believe you know what it Is. I am
asking you to tell me."
The emphasis was so silght that an
ear less keen than his hearer's might
have missed It Converse reflected.
It was plain that the youngster was
a little mad through love for Linda,
doubtless. He was the sort that love
could play the deuce with. Duels.
And after a man Is forty his veins do
not respond to thrills, of unrlpened
adventure. He was divided between
two Instincts that of the primitive
to fight for what he still held of her
or to give her over as useless to him
self knowing that all was past be
tween them forever. Her bruised
wings had carried her too far from
blm after all
Brian as astonished to read sad
ness In the other man's eyes.
"Ton are asking for my honor,"
Converse said slowly.
"Not yours. Her honor."
Converse drawled: "Then It Is a
woman's honor I am to give into your
hands. Whyr
A rein sprang out on Brian's fore
head. He was not as calm now as
the older man, who had the advan
tages of experience and sluggish blood.
"I am glad that you added a ques
tion to that." he said. "Because I will
tell you why. Because I love her
Because I love her as she Is Because
I must follow her, wherever she has
gone."
Converse was tiring. Their few
words had covered limitles emotion.
He felt It surging past him with thi
dauntless wings of youth. Triumpb
I-ove. All that be bad lost In his
, success.
"There Is nothing." he heard himself
saying. "She was a little girl I helped,
and then she was a woman I wanted
My way of getting what I want Is not
jour way. because nature gave me
this." He glanced, obliquely, at his
obese body with a sort of sick con
temptso he must have looked upon
himself In aloneness. His laughter
rumbled. "I had to snare my birds.
But sometimes I failed. And this was
such a time."
He stopped, astonished at bis own
lack of interest In what had hap
pened. He discovered that he did not
desire Linda Both any longei. He had
wanted her for years, had schemed to
win her fuvor or to buy It at any
price, and now he could let her go
wearily. It was difficult to remember
what lie felt for her even yesterday.
He got up, dropping the end of bis
cigar In a brass bowl wishing now
that he had oot smoked, for It was bit
ter in his mouth.
"She took money from me for years,
you know. Then suddenly she de
cided that she would not have any
more. What happens to women when
they begin to split hairs? Usually the
thing they are trying to avoid. She
was the worst kind of a cheat she
cheated herself. Probably she needs
money now."
Brian stepped back, sick and ap
palled. He cmil.l not kill a man for
giving him the truth he had asked
fof. Sliiirne surged over him In a
wave am) when It receded he was
alone.
CHAPTER XIV
"Don't You Remember ?"
The girl In the coatroom gave hint
Ms belongings. She was an old young
thing and forgave the tip he forgot.
He discovered as readily that Linda
was not In her room and was told at
the same time that she hail left the
hotel by the service elevutor. But
from the starter at the taxi stand he
learned more. A lady had gone from
the hotel fifteen minutes before. Shi
was not alone. The man watched
Brian's face carefully as oe chose tils
words. Her companion looked like a
tilt k. he said, plain clothes. The
ADE
starter was almost sure of that' rer
haps the next chauffeur In Hue knew
something.
Brian found himself In a taxi mov
ing carefully over ley streets. Thesq
fellows seemed to guess a lot He un
derstood from their silence that they
knew more than he dared think. He.
told ttie driver to follow the other cab
In the suspected direction, and know
ing that the moment of overtaking It
meant everything to her and himself,
he found himself thinking less of that
and merely wondering If she wore a
warm cloak and If the Icy sleet that
heat against the window pane could
find its way to hr soft check.
The cab careened, shivered and
stood still, helpless In Its chains. Tim
chauffeur spoke doubtfully through
his tube.
"Shall 1 go on. sir?"
"Go on."
Where? The night was a mare of
gray streets, gray people, lamps
flaring against Icy veils of rain. Whore
would he find her In that phantasma
goria? But he knew that he must and
would, with the certainty that love
and wanting gives, rresontly she
would be in his arms and that Impos
sible parting would be no more.
Strange thoughts rioted through his
mind, opening and shutting doors of
little cells where dwelt all the Infinite
life of bis past and the Indefinable
nebulae of the future that was to have
been and the future that would be.
He had followed will o1 the wisps.
Yesterday he had been a boy worship
ing ideals clothed fantastically In such
bodies as that of Converse. But to
day he was something else not man
as he knew men, but a sort of power
which, because he loved a womao
enough, could sweep a path for her
through the waste places where she
was lost.
All that he had wanted existed no
longer, except wherein It concerned
her. It was like the play of children.
forgotten before a greater shame. He
saw himself In her eyes. Incomplete.
She could put blm aside because she
believed him too weak to defend her
or because she would not accept a
defense that had been blind to her
need, but now that he knew, her con
trol was over. Her decisions became
the plaintive cries of a woman loft
alone in the wilderness.
He was brought from this by the
swift flight of the car as It whirled
half around and came groaning to a
stop beside the curb. It was Impos
sible to distinguished anything but
lights and a moving mass beyond the
blurred windows, but he heard the re
proachful voice of bis driver calling
to him:
"lou see that sir? A bad accident
It ain't a night for a dawg to be out la
They've got the street roped off. I'D
have to go around the block, sir."
Brian's hand moved to the door han
dle before his mind registered his In
tention. Ills Instincts were all awake,
carrying him upon a Berce tide. He
sprang out of the car, telling the man
to wait
The street was a Jumble of broken
things. A thin line of onlookers, shiv
ering In the rain but kept warm by
their activity, pressed against one an
other forcing their was. Inch by Inch,
upon the forbidden ground. Police
In gleaming rubber coats ordered them
back, threatening with clubs what
words failed to effect The front tires
of an automobile, ludicrously elevated,
were the pivot of this street war and
Brian, pushing his way through the
line, saw a grotesque wreck of ma
chlnery that seemed to be sitting down
at last after thousands of weary niilef
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Of Course Henry Had
Sent That Letter, but
He kicked off his wet shoes, slid hi
tired feet Into a pair of carpet slippers,
lit his pipe, sat down In the easy chair
with a sigh of relief, and declared that
'JO.uuo wild horses couldn't make him
stir from the house until the following
morning.
"Henry," said his wife, "yon posted
that letter I gave you this morning, I
suppose?"
"I did, my love," he answered, un
blushingly. "I asked mother to postpone her vis
It for a while," his wife continued.
"You see "
Henry did so. His wife saw, too
What she saw was the tired man Jump
from his chair, kick off his slippers
put on his shoes, and slip out Into the
murky street And when, f.ve minutes
later, Henry came hack with the tale
that he hud been to s?e how the ther
mometer outside the post aTlce st!ood.
she smiled.
Fleeting Youth
George Kdwards old l-ondon Calefy
"guv'nor" was a great believer In
youth and good looks In his actresses,
and he gave particular care to the se
lection of the "six l.'ttle wives" la
"San Toy," and, after the piece had
run for some months, he was found
ut the back of t he dress circle In
specting tin stage critically through
his opera glasses.
"Look at those girls," he groaned
"What Is the matter?" asked hi
Mihis Achillea.
"Cun t you see how old they're get
ting?" Kansas City Star.
Arnerica'i Largest "Zoo"
The New York zoological purk In
1 he Bronx, .New York city, Is the hi'jc
est zoo In the United States, with '(01
acres and a collection of seveul
llloJSIIii.
The KITCHEN
CABINET
US, Itlt Wulira Ntwipapwr I'nton.)
Purly, doitng humbU baa,
Whir thou art li cllm tor me.
It tham mil for Porta Rlque,
Tar oft haata through eni to sk
I will follow thae atona,
Thou animated torrid ion
f l-iag iterr, desert chaerar,
I.t me chili thy waving linnj
Ktap m naartr, m my haarer.
Singing- ovr ahruba and vlnae.
Umaraon,
LABOR-SAVING IDEAS
When making pastry prepare more
than Is needed and place In a cold
place or Ice chest, tight
ly covered with waxed
paper. The thoroughly
chilled mixture makes
more flaky crust than
that baked at once.
From this pastry a few
tarts may be made tn a
hurry, or cheese straws,
a meat pie, using leftover nent
Ice box rolls are another special
than can be mixed and left In the Ice
chest for a week. Take off Just the
amount needed for rolls and put them
to rise; when light, bake. A tin of
delicious rolls are quickly served. An
hour or two before baking make them
Into small rolls and keep very warm,
tightly covered. It Is better to grease
them well with lard that keeps the
flour from drying out on top while
rising. They should be more than
double their bulk when put into the
oven.
When baking potatoes rrepare
enough so that the next day a few
will be available for cream potatoes.
They are fully as good as those fresh
ly cooked.
By keeping Jars of chow chow, ca
pers, olives, pickles as well as cheese,
celery, anchovies and numerous other
condiments and relishes, one has ac
cess to delightful fillings for sand
wiches which need to he made In a
Lurry. A Jar of mayonnaise and a
bottle of frencb dressing shouid be
made In such quantities that they are
always available. It takes very little
extra effort to double the amount
when preparing a salad dross! ug, and
then there Is always a supply.
Wash the heads of lettuce and place
In a cloth or covered dish In the Ice
chest, then the lettuce will always be
ready for use. Parsley well washed,
leaving the moisture clinging to the
leaves. If put In a fruit Jar tightly
covered, will keep two weeks, fresh
and green. Add a bit of water If It
seems to dry out
Might Be Excused for
Using Strong Language
A few nights ago a spectacular
fire left a warehouse a smoking ruin.
Five alarms were sounded. Kleven
reporters two working and nine out
to enjoy the Are rushed to the scene.
A columnist, who had no business
there but loves to run after the en
gines, got his feet wet and caught
cold.
The conflagration was the destruc
tive sequel to a minor blaze that had
scorched the establishment a few j
hours earlier. The first fire was dis
covered by the owner of the building,
who sent In the alarm, watched the
fire-fighters apparently extinguish the
flames, and then went home.
Before retiring he telephoned a
contractor to call around the next
morning to see about repairing a few
windows, painting the doors, and oth
erwise touching up the place here and
there.
At seven o'clock the next morning
the contractor called upon the owner
at his home and together they went
downtown. Arrived where the build
ing should have been, the contractor
looked at the smoking pile of debris
end then at the owner. "Just what
was It you wanted me to do?" he
asked, puzzled.
Because of the owner's fine Sunday
school record, we don't like to tell
what he replied. Pittsburgh Tost Co
lette. "Panaeea"
Another word that Is almost In
variably misused Is "panacea." It is
employed as If It were a synonym for
"remedy" or "cure." But It means
much more than that. A panacea Is
a universal remedy or cure; that Is,
a cure for everything, a cure-all. To
speak of a panacea for a particular
ailment Is absurd. What the farmer
needs for his economic Illness Is a
remedy. Perhaps It Is an Indication
of the seriousness with which observ
ers view his condition that they are
apt to speak of suggested remedies
not as remedies but as panaceas. To
such an extent Is the meaning of the
word misapprehended thut one even
sees the expression "universal pana
cea," which Is like saying "limitless
Infinity" as If there could he uny
other kind. New York Evening Post
Implicit Reliance
When the motor cur was In Its ex
perimental stage, wo were always
fussing with it, taking It apart. As
soon as It demonstrated Its rollublllty,
we at once dropped our anxiety about
It and got reckless in our driving.
American Magazine.
And No Ticlcer Tap?
If this bleu of wimlowless office
buildings spreads, what is the world
going to do when a parade goes by?
Boston Evening Transcript
8
Angkor Vat,
(Praiorod bf th. National Oaoaraphl
Social?, Wuhloatoo. I). l
FAll up in the Jungles of French
IndoChlna, some 300 miles from
the doorstep of the world as meas
ured in distance, a thousand
years in the past as measured tn time,
and eons back tn the unknown as
measured la history, Is Angkor, one of
the most puullng works ever contrived
by the hand of man.
Temple and town and network of
dim and forgotten shrines, It repre
sents a culture that must have been
far In advauce of anything coeval with
It and a power that must have been
virtually Irrostlble even In Asia, where
men at arms were plentiful and war
fare was a favored business.
But the culture died and the men
who had built it disappeared, and for
hundreds of years the forests of ban
yan and bamboo hid from the eyes and
memory of the world what had been a
metropolis of a million Inhabitants.
Two generations ago a French nat
uralist broke through the wall of Jun
gle In a search for specimens of trop
ical life and came upon a spectacle
ucb as the slaves of the lamp might
have contrived for Aladdin. Before
him, In the quivering silence, rose the
Ave towers of a vast step pyramid, a
stone tapestry representative of an art
nd architecture like nothing else with
in the ken of man.
A moated wall surrounded It and a
cloistered gate upon a causeway that
led to Its rocketing staircases; and,
for all that, Jungle growths were close
shout Its lower stage and odd clumps
of verdure grew from Its arched roofs.
It seemed that life had been In Its
shadowy galleries only a moment ago.
The temple was virtually Intact
No Trace of Man Except Ruins.
The astonished visitor looked about
for the ashes of altar Ores and stood
listening -fur the footsteps of returning
priests. It seemed Incredible Unit a
people could have evolved a civiliza
tion such as that typified by the great
temple and then have vanished with
out any of their neighbors hearing
of It
But there were no human beings U
the empty hulls, nor was there trace
of man, save In the ruin of his works
In the wailed city to the north.
It Is now more than sixty years since
the stunned ejes of Mouhot the nat
uralist, looked upon the magnificent
heights of Angkor umre than sixty
years since the greatest detective story
In the history of the world was laid
out with Its million stony clews to
puzzle the savants. Today, with Its
principal remains classified and ticket
ed, Its Inscriptions translated, and Its
monuments lifted out of the Jungle,
Angkor Is still the vast and silent
mystery that It was In the beginning.
The world knows more about It now.
Splendid automobile roads, cut through
what was once a thicket of bamboo
and is now an endless rice field, bring
the traveler, on regular schedule and
with little personal discomfort from
Saigon, at the foot of Asia, to the bun
galow on the edge of the Angkor moat,
lu a few hours. Yearly hundreds of
visitors from all parts of the world
are seeking out this odd corner and
carrying away with them amazed re
ports that will lure other hundreds.
And yet, were It not for the fact
that these tremendous rlkkurats re
main much as Uy were when they
were first built, deflunt of time and
weather, by the Tonle Sap (Great
Lake), the Incredible tale of the civ
ilization that built them and vanished
would rank os It did In Mouhot's time,
as a none-too-cleverly-constructed myth.
Discovered by Mouhot
Two generations ago the modern
world had never heard of Angkor. A
dense forest spread across Indo-Chlnu.
French trade was confined to the
coast, and there was no commercial
truffle on the Mekong river north of
Pnompenh for the reason that Cam
bodiu's resources, the samo resources
that had given this region a possible
Identity as tho Golden Chersonese of
legend, were as deeply carpeted with
useless verdure as the hidden cities
of the North,
Pnompenh, the capital of the King
dom of Cambodia (western portion of
the Indo-Chinese peninsula), was u
village of nlpa thatch and bamboo, a
comic-opera metropolis, where a des
pot ruled In fear of his life over a
semlHiivage, if not completely savage,
people.
f-'algon, the present capital of French
enterprise In the ICust, was Just rising'
'roin the marshes south of Annum.
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In Cambodia.
What might lie hidden lu the masses
of foliage to the north, no one knew.
I'urinj those troublous times M.
Mouhot passed up the great river Into
Tonle Sap and made his discovery.
Archeology, already thrilled by the
translation of the llosctta Stone and
the unbelievable bit of detective work
which led to the decipherment of the
Assyrian cuneiform Inscriptions, turned
Its attention at once to this new field.
For half a century learned men
tolled here unceasingly to prove at
length only what bad been suspected
from the first that a highly Intellec
tual people had built up In this valley
a civilization, and that however Incon
ceivable experience might show such
a thing to bo, their marvelous culture
had been sunk without a trace.
Once, and not so long ago, the Jour
ney to Angkor could be made only by
boat a tedious passage that took five
days. The stories of travelers who
made the pilgrimage In those days are
long recitals of hardship and contin
uous descriptions of Impenetrable
Jungle.
There Is no reason to believe that
these accounts were at all Inaccurate.
But conditions chango rapidly tn Indo
Chlna. A luce pattern of paved roads
has been traced all across this end
of Asia.
Now Easy of Access.
Motor transport, more flexible and
faster than the typical oriental rail
road, hill brought the Upper reaches
of the .Mekong valley to within a few
hours of Saigon; and paddy fields,
spreading out and beyond the old
horizons, have pushed the Jungle
steadily northward.
Today one may ride for hundred of
miles without seeing any trees save
In far scattered clusters, and It was
only yesterday that the tiger and ele
phant walked here, unmolested heri
tors of the physical kingdom of the
Khmer.
Beyond a bank of water lilies in
the still moat, beyond a cloistered wall
that seems to have neither beginning
nor end, the great hulk of Angkor Vut
drives Its stone wedge Into the sky.
A pilgrim looks upon It through misty
eyes and with 1111 odd constriction of
the throat, for there Is only one Ang
kor Vat There Is no such monument
to a vanished people anywhere else
In the world.
The sun Is setting now, and the gold
has come back to the minarets. Tho
lacework of carved rock Is fragile
us cobweb In the gathering shadow,
and with the hnlf light of early eve
ning the central pyramid has taken on
an awe Inspiring size. It seems futile
to record Its grandeur. One does not
describe an Angkor. He sits and gazes
at It In silence and amazement
The name Angkor has been some
what loosely applied to these ruins.
There are two principal groups! Ang
kor Vat, the temple, and Angkor Tlmm,
the town. The word Angkor Is be
lieved to be a native corruption of the
Sanskrit Nagara, meaning capital.
Thorn Is a local word, meaning great
or grand. Vat Is an appellation desig
nating a temple and Is generully as
sociated with Buddhism.
Wonderful Step Pyramid.
Angkor Vat was the last Important
work of the Khmers and remains to
day the finest expression of their pe
culiar art. Built as a shrine to Hindu
gods and apparently devoted to Vlshu,
Siva, and Buddha In turn, It has de
parted a long distance from the par
ent architecture of tho Hindus. It Is
a step pyramid which rises through
three cloistered stages to a group of
five mlterllke towers, of which tho
one In the center Is dominant.
The temple area is about a quarter
of a mile square and Is surrounded
by a moat and a high wall. A can se
wn y crosses tho moat and strikes
through a gate pierced In the middle
of the western wall, whence It leads
to the portico of tho first stage. Tho
lower galleries ineasuro nearly li.'O feet
on a side, The facade Is five times us
wide as that of Notre Dame of Purls.
It Is the history of Angkor Vat that
no beholder can Judge accurately how
high It really Is. The towers are loft
ier than tho tallest palms of the Jun
gle, but they are lifted still higher by
tricks of perspective that form the
most Interesting part of their design.
In the muss, Angkor Is as Impressive
us the Pyramids of Egypt, more strik
ing as an artistic ensemble than even
tho Taj Mnhal. But it Is not for those
attributes that tho dazed pilgrim would
classify It as the most fascinating
place In the world.
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pipe. You won't have to not it snyV
where, for youll notice with the very
Crtt puff how much cooler snJ miUcf
it it. It sttyi to, right down to tha
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Chi li 00k, famous sled dog which
died on the Byrd expedition, has been
honored In Jcw Hampshire, his home
state. The rmid from Tiiinworth to
Woriulacet has been olllclally deslg.
nated us Chinook trail.
Blessing of poverty are Imagin
ary. To have enough and not too
much la the best condition.
''AlthoiiKh I nm onlv 22
years old, I have four babies to
care for, Bcforo my first baby
was' born my mother urged me
to take Lydia E. Tinkham's
Vegetable Compound because
I was so terribly weak. I had to
lie down four or five times a
day. After three bottles I could
feci a great improvement. I still
take the Vegetable Compound
whenever I need It for It gives
me strength to be a good
mother to my family." Un.
Vem L. Denning, 310 Johnson
Street. Saginaw, Michigan,
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