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t r r r 6 THE CONQUEST "WR By BOOTH Author of "Cherry," COPYRIGHT; 1005. CHAPTER' tf I. THERE wns a silence, for If the dazzled young man could have spoken nt all he could have found nothing to Bay; and, per haps, the lady would not trust her own voice just then. His eyes had fallen agrfln. Ho wna too duzed and, In truth, too panic Htrlckcn now to look nt her, though if ho had been quite suro tliat she was part of a wonderful dream ho might linvo dared. Sho was seated be side him, and had handed hltn her par Asol In a little way which seemed to Imply thrtt of courso ho had reached for It, no that JC Wf s to bo seen how uned sho was to Iltlvo all tiny things dono for hor, though this was not then of his tremulous observing. Ho did perceive, howovcr, that ho whb to furl tho dainty tiling. Ho pressed tho catch and let down tho top timidly, as If fcurlng to break or tear It, and ua It closed, hold near his face, ho caught a very faint, nwcot, spicy emanation from It liko (Wild roses and cinnamon. Ho did not know her, but his timid' Ity and a strango llttlo choko In his throat, tho sudden fright which had seized him, woro not ennsed by em barrassment. Ho had no thought that she was ono ho had known, but could not for tho moment recall. Thcro was nothing of tho nwkwardncsB of that No; he was 6vorpowercd by tho mlra do of this meeting. And yet, white wlUi marveling, ho felt it to bo so much moro touchlngiy a greater happi ness than ho had over known that at llrst it wns Inexpressibly Bad. At, last ho heard her volco again, ftknklng a little, as sho said: "I am glad you remomborcd." "Remembered what?" ho faltered. "Thou you don't?" uho cried. "And yet you enmo." "Chiiio hero, do you mean?" "Yen now, nt noon." "A1U" ho half whljyiercd, unablo to epcak aloud. "Waff it you who Aid who suld: 'Remember I Across " 'Across Main Btrcct brldgo nt noonl' " sho finished for him gently. "Yes." II o took a deep breath in tho wonder of It. "Whero was It you Bald thntr he asked Blowly. "Wob It last night?" "Don't you oven know thnt you came to meet mo i ' "I camo to to moot you I" Bhn gnvo a llttlo pitying crj'i vory near a sob, Hcelng his utter bewilder ment. "It was liko tho BtrnngCHt dream In tho world," Bho said. "You wero nt tho ntntlon when I camo lust night You don't romomber at all?" Ills oyes dowuenst, his fuco burning hotly, ho could only shako IiIh head, "You," hIio continued. "I thought no ono would bo there, for I had not written to say what train I should tsko, but wlion I stepped down from the platform you wero standing thcro, though you didn't boo mo at Unit not until I hnd called your niuno and ran to you. You said, 'I've como to meet you but you said It quocrly, I thought. Ami then you called n carriage for mo. Hut you seemed so Htrango, You couldn't toll how you knew that I was coining, and and then 1 I understood you weren't yourself. You wero very quiet, but I know I know I Bo 1 mado 3'ou got Into tho carriage and and" Sho faltered to n Btop, and with thnt afcnmo ItHolf brought him courage. Ho turned and faced hor. Hho hud lifted her handkerchief to her eyes, but at his movement sho dropped It, and It was not no much tho rivllcnto loveli ness of lier fnco that ho saw thou as tho tenra upou her cheeks. "Ah, oor boyl" sho cried, "I know! X kuowl" "Yon you took mo homo?" "You told mo whero you lived," hub answered, "Yoh, 1 took you home." 'l don't understand." ho Htmumerod huskily. "I don't understand." Bho leaned toward him slightly, look ing nt him with great Intimities. "You didn't know mo last night," ho said. "Do you know mo now?" For answer lu could only stare nt her, dumfouuded. Ho llftiMl an tin wtomly hand towartl hor ttppoallugly. but tho manner of tho lady as alio saw tho truth under wont an April change. Sho drew back lightly. Ho was fa vored with tho most delicious low laugh ho had over hoard, and by 8omo magic whisk which sho nceompllithiHl thcro was no sign of team about her. "Ah, I'm ghul you'ro tho wime, Joel"' he said. "You never would or could IHtond very well. I'm glad you'ro tho name, and I'm glad Pv chnuged, though that Isn't why yon havo for- ittte-n mo. You'vo forgotten mo bo - muse you miver thought of me. Per- hap I nhould uot havo known you If you had changed, a great deal, as I havo." Ho started, leaning back from her. "Ah," sho laughed, "that's Itl That .funny llttlo twist of tao head you al ways hnd, liko a-llko a-well. yon know I must havo toll you a thousaud times that It was liko a nice friendly pwipy. Bo why shouldn't I say so jww? And your eyebrows! When you leek Hke tfcat uobodjr eouM over for t you, Jo." He roe from the log, aud the moa pvt leaps W uixsmrtowly, n 9f CANAAN i TARKINGTON, "Moiuleur Beaucnlre," Etc BY HARPER JC diiot!;er5 .fttf thinking they wero to go home, belike to foodr Tho lady laughed again. "Don't let him spoil my parasol. And I must warn you new: Never, never tread on my skirt! I'm very irritable nbout such things!" Ho hnd taken three or four uncertain backward steps from her. Sho eat be foro him, rudinut with laughter, the loveliest crcaturo ho had ever seen, but between him nnd this chnrmlng vision thcro swept, through Iho warm, scented Juno air, a veil of snow liko n driven fog, nnd half obscured in tho henrt of It a young girl stood kneo deep In a drift piled against nn old picket gate, her black waterproof uud shabby Bkirt flapping in tho blipznrd liko torn sails, ono of her hands outstretched to ward him, her startled eyes fixed on his. "And, oh, how liko you," Bald tho lady; "how liko you and nobody else In tho world, Joo, to have a yellow dogl" "Ariel Tabor I" nia lips formed tho words without sound. "Isn't it nbout tlmo?" Bho said. "Are strango Indies In tho habit of descend ing from trnlus to take you homo 7" Onco, upon a whlto morning long ago, tho BonBntionnI progress of a certain youth up Main street hnd stirred Ca naan. But that day was as nothing to this. Mr. Bantry hnd left tomporary parnlyBlB In hla wake, but In tho enso of tho two young peoplo who passed slowly along tho street today It wob potrlfoctlon, which seemingly threat ened In Bovorni Instances (most nota bly that of Mr. Arp) to becomo perma nent. Tho lower portion of tho street, lined with throo nnd four Btory buildings of brick nnd atone, rnthcr grim nnd hot facades under tho midday sun, afford cd llttlo shado to tho church comers, who wero working homownrd la pro ccsslonnl' llttlo groups nnd clumps, nouo wnlklng fnst, though nono with tho npponranco of grent loisuro, slnco neither rato of progress would havo been esteemed befitting tho day. Tho growth of Cannnu, steady, though ncv- or startling, had loft nlmost all of tho churches uowmown, ami junin street tho prlnclpnl avenuo of communication between them and tho "rcsldenco sec tion." 8o todny tho Intermittent pro rofl.qlnn ntrntrhed nloncr tho now cement 'Bldownlks from a llttlo below tho aquaro to upper Main street, whero maples lined tho thoroughfare and tho mansions of tho affluent stood among ploasaut lawus and shrubberies. It was lute, for tills hud been a com munion Sunday, and those far In ad vance, who hnd already readied tho pretty and shady part of the street, wero members of tho church cm whero services hnd been shortest, though few In tho long parade looked as If they had been attending nuythlng very short, uud many heads of families wero crisp In their replies to tho theological Inquiries of their offspring. Tho men Imparted largely a gloom to tho Itin erant concourse, most of them wearing hot, long blade coats nnd having wilt ed their ccUars, tho ladles rcllovlug this gloom Komowhat by tho lighter tints of their garments, tho spick and span llttlo girls rcllovlug It greatly by their whlto dresses and their faces, tho latter bright with tho hopo of Sunday Ico cream, while tho boys, experiencing some soluco la that they woro Anally out whero a person could nt least scratch himself If ho hod to, yet op pressed by tho decorous necessities of tho day, marched along, furtively planning behind luiporturbnbly secre tive countenances various means for tho tutor dlspersul of an odious monot ony. Usually tho conversation of this long string of the homeward bound was not too frivolous or worldly. Nay; It properly Inclined to discussion of tho sermon, It was a serious and seemly Sunday parade, tho propriety of whoso behn vlor was today nlmost disintegrate! whoa tho lady of tho brldgo walked up tho streot In tho shadow of a lacy lav oudor parasol carried by Joseph I.ou don. Tho congregation of the church across tho square that to which Joo's atcpuuut had been lute was Just de bouching, almost in mus, upon Main street whoa these two wont by. It Is not quite the truth to say that nil ex cept tho children camo to a dead halt, but It Is not very far from It. Tho air was thick with subdued exclamations nud whisperings. Hero Is no mystery. Joo was prob ably the only persou of respectable derivation lu Cnuuau who had not known for weeks that Ariel Tabor was i on nor way uouuv auu tno news iwii ' sho had arrived tho ulght boforo bad becu widely disseminated on tho way to church, cuterlug church, 1n church (even boD aud coiulug out of church. An account of her houso In tho Ave nue Heurl Martin and of her portrait In tho Salou a mysterious business to inauy aud uot lacking lu grandeur for that had occupied two column lu the Tocsin on a day some mouths bo foro when Joo had fouud himself lu lBilcally headlined on the tint page and had dropped tho paper wltbost readlug further, Ariel's name had Veen In the month of Canaan for a loag time unfortunately for Jo bow rr. not la the mouth of that Canaan wMeh M4 cuvrw wlUt kit. DAM OAMTAL 30VKSAL, SAJLSM, nttMJON a-oo hna not "known Tier. Tho worn en recognized her Infallibly at flrst glance, oven those who had quite for gotten her. And tho women told their men; hence tho un-Sundny-Hke de meanor of the procession, for few towns hold it more unseemly to stand and Btarc at pnssersby, especially on tho Sabbath. But Ariel Tabor return edand walking with with Joe Lou den I Ariel flushed n little when she ppr cclved tho extent of their conspicuous ness, but It wus not the blush that Joe remembered had reddened the tnnne sklu tf old, for her brownness had gone long ngo, though .It had not loft her mei'dy pink and white. This win a delicate roslness rising from hoi checks to hor temples, as tho earliwt dawn rises. If thcro had been man? words left lu Joo ho would have cnlleu It n divine blush It fascluutcd him. and If anything could havo deepened tho glamour about her It would have been this blush. Ho did uot under stand It, but when lie saw It ho stum bled. Thoso who gaped and stared were for him only blurs In tho background. Truly, he saw "men nt trees walk ing," nud when It became necessary to step out to tho curb In passing some clump of peoplo It was) to him as ir Ariel nnd he, enchnntedly alone, wore working their way through underbrush In tho woods. no kept trying to realize that this lady of wonder wns Ariel Tabor, but ho could not. He could not connect tho shabby Ariel, whom ho had treated as one boy treats another, with this young woman of the world. Ho hnd always been embnrrnssod himself nnd ashamed of her when anything sho did made him remember that, nfter all, sho was a tjlrl, jih on the day ho ran nway when she kissed a lock of his hair escaping from tho bandage. With that recollec tion oven his ears grew red. It did tiot seem probablo that It would ever happen again. Tho next Instnnt he board himself calling her "Miss Ta bor." At tills sho seemed nmusod. "You ought to havo called mo that years ago," sho said, "for all you know me." "I did know her you, I mean," ho answered. "I used to know nearly everything you wero going to say bo foro you Bald It. It seems Btrango now" "Yos," Bho Interrupted, "It docs seem strango now." "Somehow," ho went on, "I, doubt If now I'd know." "Somehow." sho echoed, with tine gravity, "I doubt it too." Although ho hod bo dim a perception of tho staring nnd whispering which greeted nnd followed them, Ariel, of course, wns thoroughly nwaro of It. though tho only sign sho gavo wns tno slight blush, which very soon disap peared. That peoplo turned to look at her mny havo been not altogether a novelty. A girl who hnd learned to appear uiicoiibcIous of tho continental stare, tho following gnzo of tho boulo vords, tho frank glosses of tho costnn ea In Rome, was not III equipped to fnco Main Btrcct, Canaan, oven as It was today. Under Iho sycamores beforo they started they hnd not talked a great deal. There had been long sllonces, al most all her questions concerning tho period of his runaway nbsencc. She appeared to know nud to understand everything which hnd happened slnco his return to tho town. Ho hud not, in his turn, reached the point whero ho would begin to question her. Ho wns too brentbless In his consciousness of tho marvelous present hour. Sho had told him of tho deuth of Roger Tabor, tho year before. "Poor mnn!" sho said gently. "Ho lived to seo 'how the oth er fellows did If nt lust, aud everybody liked him. Ho was very happy over there." After a llttlo while sho hod said that It was growing close upon lunch tlmo; she must bo going back. "Then then goodby," ho replica ruefully. "Why?" "I'm afraid you don't understand. It wouldn't do for you to bo seen with me. Perhnps, though, you do under stand. Wasn't that why you asked mo to meet you out hero beyond the brldgo?" Iu answer Bho looked at him full and straight for threo seconds, then throw buck her head and closed her eyes tight with laughter. Without a word she took tho parasol from hlin, opened It herself, placed tho smooth whlto coral handlo of It In his baud and lightly took his arm. There was no further demur on the part of the young man. Ho did not know whero she was golug. He did not ask. Onco Ariel smiled polltoly. not at Mr. London, and Inclined her head twice, with tho result that the latter, after thinking for a time of how gracefully bho did It aud how pretty the top of her hat was, became gradually cou scions of a moaning lu hor aouon that sho had bowod to some ono across tho streot. Ho lifted his hut. about four mlnutos lute, nnd discovered Mamie Plko aud Eugeue upon yho opposite pavement walklug homo from church together. Joe changed color. Tho souud of Ariel's voice brought him to himself. "Sho is lovelier than ever, Isn't sho?" "Yes, Indeed," he answered blankly. "Would you still risk"- she began. : ter of It, changed her question. "What Li tho unme of your dog. Mr. Louden! lou haven t told me." "Oh, he's Just a yellow dog." ho evad ed unsktllfully. "Young man!" sho said sharply. "Well," he admitted reluctantly, "I call him Speck for short." "And what for long? I want to kw kk real nan." "It's might) Inappropriate, Jcww . M - M &. Ak ft a W. wr fond rf wich other," Mdd Jw, "but tyfcta X Bfrktfl )AWL JHf fr " 1007. 'yellow and so thin nuu bo creeping ana so senred that I christened him 'Re spectablllty.' " They were now opposite the Pike mansion, nnd, to his surprise, she turn ed, Indicating the way by n touch upon his sleeve, and crossed the street toward the gate, which Mamie and Eugene had entered. Mamie, nfter ex changing a word with Eugene upon the steps, was already hurrying into tho house. Ariel paused nt the gato as if wait ing for Joo to open it. "Don't you know?" she cried. "I'm staying here. Judge Pike has charge of all my property. Ho wna tho ad ministrator or something." Then, see ing him chopfnllou and nghast, flho went en: "Of courso you don't know. You don't know anything about me. You haven't oven asked." "You'ro going to live here?" ho gasped. "Will you como to sec mo?" sho laughed. "Will you comb this after noon?" Ho grew white. "You know I can't," he said. "You camo here once. You risked n good deal then just to sco Mnmlo dance by n window. Don't you dure a llttlo for an old friend?" "All right," ho gulped. "I'll try." Mr. Uantry had como down to tho gate and wns holding It open, his eyes flxed upon Ariel, within them a rising glow. Au impression camo to Joo aft erward that his stepbrother had looked very handsome. "Possibly you remember me, Miss Tabor?" said Eugcno In a deep nnd Impressive voice, lifting his hnt. "We were neighbors, I believe, in tho old days." She gave him her hand In a fashion somewhat mannerly, favoring him with a bright, negligent smile. "Oh, quite," she answered, turning ngnln to Joo as she entered tho gate. "Then I Bhall expect you?" "I'll try," said Joe. "I'll try." Ho stumbled nwny, Respectability and ho together Interfering alarmingly with tho comfort of Mr. Flltcrof t, who hnd stopped In tho middle of tho pnyo- Ton. told mo where you lived," tho nn- wrred. ment to stnro glasslly at Ariel. Eu gone accompanied tho latter Into the house, nnd Joe, looking back, under stood. Mamie hnd sent his epbrother to bring Ariel In nnd to keep hlra from following. "This nfternoonl" Tho thought took nway his breath, and ho beenmo paler. (To Be Continued.) u WHEN IIElt BACK ACHES. A Woman Finds All Her Energy nnd Ambition Slipping Away. Salem women know how tho nchea nnd pains thnt como with tho kid neys fall to mako llfo a burdon. Backache, hip pains, headaches, diz zy spoils, distressing urinary troubles all tell of sick kidneys and warn you of tho stealthy approach of dlabotoa", dropsy nnd Brlght's disease, Doan's Kidney Pills permanently cure nil thoso dls-orders. 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