THE TH / _. From asleep as from drugged stupor wonderment: of a child fucident that had marked the slow the world was richer for the loss of ~ safe from further persecution--since : nevor again have any opportunity so i called for. It there were any PAGE SIXTEEN ; CHAPTER LI. ' The New Judith, Judith Trine awakened, siruggling back to conscicusness like some ex- hausted diver from the black depths to the starsmitten surface of a night bound pool And for a little she lay unstirring, her bhaltnumb wits fumbling with their business of renewing acquaint- ance with the world, At first she could by no means rec ognize her surroundings. This rude ehamber of rough plank walls and Primitive tarnishings; this wide, hard couch she shared with her still slum- bering sister, Rose; the view ravealed by open window at the hedside:; a nr perspective of tree-clad moun- talps through which a wide-bosomed canyon rolled down to an emerald plain, conveyed nothing to her intel ligenee, A formless sense of some epochal change in the habits and mental proc. efges of a young lifetime, added to her confusion. Who was she herself, this strange oreature who rested here so calmly by the side of Rose? If she were Judith Trine, how came she to be there? Irreconcilable opposites in every phase of character, the sisters bad sediulously avolded association with each other ever since childhood: they had not shared the shelter of | four walls ovérnight since lime be- | yond the bounds of Judith's memory. What, then, had so changed them both that they should be found in such ¢lose company? What, 'indeed, 'had become of the | wild thing, Judith Trine of yesterday? | Surely she had little epough in com: | mon. with this Judith of today, in| whose heart was no wore room for envy, hatred, malice or any uncharit-' ableness, 30 full was It of love which, ! though it was focused upon the person of ose man, none the less embraced all the world--even her sister and Successful rival fn that one man's af- factions, " This change had not come upon her without warning, She had been al- most insensibly aware of its advent through the gradual softening of that old Judith's bard and vengeful nature in the course of the last fow days. Put. now that the revolution was ae- complighed, she hardly knew hergelf-- she hardly knew: the world, indeed, 80 differently did she regard it--not without something of the wide:eyed to find all things 80 new and stringe agd beauti- ful. And this waa the work of Love! Now the chain of momorics was quite complete, no link lacking in iis continuity, She reculled clearly every growth of this great love she had for i Law, from that first day, not yet onth ald, When be had escaped the ! deathtrap she had set for Him nd repaid her only by risking his lite anew to save: her from destruction, WH to this very morning when the r from a hydraulle nozzle had "wept over' the brink of a three hun- 00t precipice a crimson racing tomobile containing two desperate fen bent upon compassing the death loved. . . By act 'of sheer self-defense i black-hearted" blackguards, and Law might now be considered now now remained not one soul layal to Senoca Trine to prosecute private war of vengcance ngainst lan. And though that aged mono- alae had means whereby he might other scoundrels and cor tupt them to his hideous purposes, was determined that ho should 'do. Thangh Ala, she knew, would : # lift his hand: to hinder her frdedom of action, she, Judith, . bby 4 - 3 pvr Justice In the und-~if there were any alledista capeble of discriminating be- wn Trine's apparent sanity and his : ithaue wiihagsing his consign- ént to an wstitu for the erini- al In ~ Bho, Judith, would see to that, and ~The womah sighed once more. 4 Judith, I "Rose! he cri Like a thief she stole meross the ciegking floor to Alan's side, hesitated, bent her head to his 'and touched ner lips to his cheek--a caress so light that he slept' on In Ignorance of it Then, as she lifted her head and stood epect, bosom convulsed with silent sobs, she looked squarely into the face of Roge. CHAPTER LIL The Old Adam, " A long minute elapsed before either woman moved or spoke, Transfixed beside Alan's chair, Steadying herself with a hand upon its back, Judith stared at the figure in the doorway, in a temper at once dis comflted and defiant, With this she suffered a phase of incredulity, was scarce able to persuade herself that this was truly Rose who confronted her--Rose whose sweet and gentile nature had ever served as the built of judith's contempt and ruthless ridicule, Here wag revolution with a venge- ance, when Rose threatened and Judith shrank! It was as if the women had 'ex- changed natures while they slept. * The countenance that Rose showed her gister was a thundercloud rent by the lurid lightning of her angry eyes. Her pose was tense and alert, like the poge of an apimal set to spring. In her hdnd huig a fevolver, the same (Judith"s hand sought the holster at her hip and found it empty) that her -gister had worn' and for- gotten {6 remové when she dropped, half-dead with fatigue, upon the bed. And slowly, toward the end of that long, mule minute, the girl's grasp tightened upon the grip of the weapon | and its muzzle Nited. Remarking this, a flagh of her one time temper quickened Judith. Of a widden, with a start, she crossed the floor in a single noiseless stride, and threw herself before her sister. "Well? she demanded hotly. "What are you walting for? Nobedy's stop ping you: why don't you shoot?" The upward movement of the hand was checked: the weapon hung live! to Judith's breast--as level and un- her eyes and the tone of Rose's voice as she demanded: "What were you doing there?" "If you must know from me what you already know on the evidence of youp.eyes--I was bidding good-by to the man 1 love--kissing him without his knowledge or consent before leav- ing him to you for good and all'" "What do you mean?" "That I'm going away--that I can't stand this situaiion nny longer. Marro- phat and Jimmy are dead, my father's helpless---~and I mean to see that he refaing go." Nothing, then, stands in the way of your marrying Alan but me. And duch being the case--and because he's as dear to me as ho 1s {0 you--I'm going to take myself off and keep out of the way." "For fear lest he find out that you love him?" : Judith's 1p curled. "Do-you think him so witless he doesn't know that already?" "And so you leave him to me out of your charity! Is that it? "Any way you like. But if it's so intolerable to you to think that 1 dare love him and confess it to you--if you begrudge me the humiliation of stooping to kiss a man who doesn't want my kisses---if you are so afraid of losing him whie 1 live:and love him--very well, then!" With a passionate gesture Judith tore open 'the .bosom of her. waist, offering her flesh to the muszzie of th revolver . that was like the ery of a forlorn child punished with cruelty (hat pdsses ifs understanding She fell back against the wall. The revolver swept up through the air--but its mark was =hEs dary bosom. Hs But before her finger found strength to pull the trigger the man at thé' table, startled from his sleep shy the sound of angry velces, leaped from hig chair With & violence that sent it clattering to the floor; and hurled him self headlong across the room, im- priconing the wrist of his betrothed with one band while the other wrested the weapon away snd passed it to . "what does | . ve Y HEAR equivocal as the glance that probed ! A eryMuroke from the fips of Rose | See The Motion Pictures Of Story At The I IDEAL THEATRE On Mondays And Tuesdays Where va ye heant phat and Jimmy?" Digging the nails of hier fiugers pain- fuily into her palms, she breathed deep, fighting down hysteria, resssér hér gblf-control in so short a space of time that her father falled to ap- preciate that there was anything un common in the mind of the girl "Where?" he demanded angrily as she approaghed the car, "where, | want to know, are Marrophat and Jim. my? Haven't you seen or heard any 'hing of them? They left me at six o'¢lock this morning, (0-go after--" "Dead!™ the girl interrupted, sen- tentious, eyeing him strangely, "1 don't believe il!" the old man screamed, aghast "I won't believe if. You're lying to me, you jade! You're lying--" "I am not." she broke in coldly. "I am telling you the plain truth They followed ug all morning in that red racer, firing at. us all the while Finally they caught up with us here about noon--came up this road shoot ing over the windshield It was our lives or theirs. We turned the hydrau- ile stream on them and washed the car over the elf. : If yon don't believe me, get somebody to show you their faces. She indicated with a gesture twb forms that lay at a little distance back from the roadside, motionless | beneath a sheet of éanvas--the bodies of Trine's creatures, recovered by the | mining gang and brought up for a | "Christian burial But Trine required no more confirm. ation of Judith's word. The light flickered and died in his evil old eyes: his stricken countenance assumed a bue of pallor eten more intense than was normal with it; a broken curse iskued from his irembling, thin, old iipk; and bls chin sagged to his chest, ! Nervy-weighted with despalr that fol- lowed realization of the fact (hat he | no longer owned even one friend or | erénture upon whose consclienceless | loyalty he might dépend. The lust bitter drop that brimmed | Pig eup of misery was added when Alan Law himself appeared, leaving the miners' cabin in company with | hig betrothed--Rose now soothed and comforted, smiling through the traces of 'her recent tears as she clung to her lover, nestling in the hollow of his arm. 1 To Alam, on the other hand, this 4 rencontre seemed to afford nothing | but the pleasantest surprise imagin- | ule. } "Well!" he cried, releasing Rosn apd running down to the car. "Here's ugk! And at the-very moment when Iwan calling. my lucky star hard ndmes! Jax Af evar reward your thoughtfuindss, Mr. Trine? = It beats me Low you do keep track of me this ' "Lightning Kills Trine way--happening along like this every time | need p car the worst way in the world!" - : £00: Films in, ¢ Bat Judith had stepped up on the running board and was eyeing the driver coldly, with ome hand 'signifi cantly reésting on the: butt of the weapon at' The Car remained at gp standstill. 3 roys profanity = followed, a pungent stream of vitaperation that was ehecked ofily by Judith's inter. ruption: "We've had to gag you onca before, you know. If you want another Where are Marro- | ! helping him to his feet; a heavy sev: fe ; - and Strikes Down Alan and Roce. i A RR Abo hed boom cue cnad] "Drive on, do you hear?' through her lover's protegtations; fudith lost in profoundest melancholy; Trine nursing his rage, working him. sell up info a silent fury whose conse. quences wera lo be more far-reaching than ever he dreamed In his wildest moments, Its first development, wis desperate gnough. The aged monomaniac occupied the right-hand' corner of the rear "seat. Thus his one able hahd was next to Judith, in close juxtaposition to the revolver in the holster on her hip. Without the least warning his left hand ¢losed upon the weapon, wiih- drew it and leveled it at the back of Alan's head. As he pulled the trigger Judith flung herself bodily upon the arm. Even. so, the bullet found a goal, though in another than the intended victim, The muscular forearm of the chauffeur received it / With a shriek of pain the man re- leased the wheel and grasped his arm. 2 Before Alan could move to prevent the disaster the car, running without a guiding hand, caromed off a low embankment to the left agd shot full- tilt into a shallow ditch on the right, shelling its passengers like peas from a broken pod. - Alan catapulted a good twenty feet through the' air and alighted with such force that he lay stunned for several moments, When he came to, he found Barcus for all that, en-passenger touring car halted in the roadway indicated the manner in which his friend had arrived on the scene of the aceldent. When 'damages were assessed ft was found that none of the party had suftered serioisly but the chauffeur and Seneca Trine himself. The former had only his wound to show however, while Ttine lay still and senseless at a very considerable distance from the wrecked automobile, Nothing but a barely perceptible respiration and intermittently flutter. ing pulse persuaded them that the flame of life was not extinet in that poor, old, pain-facked body . a ' CHAPTER LiL. The Last Trump. Toward the evening of the third day following the motor spill, Judith sat in the deeply recessed window of a bedchamber on the second floor of a hotel situated In the heart of Cali fornia's orange-growing Yands. Behind her Seneca "Trine sat, ap- parently asleep, in a wheeled Invalid chair. There was no occupant of the room. Though he hid lain dearly two faye in coma, Wer father's subseques! a il progress toward recovery of his nor mal state had been rapid. Now, ac cording to a couneil of surgeons and to deliberate on his case, he was in a fait way to round out the average spar of a sound map's lifetime. He had apparently suffered nothing in consequence 'of his accident more ! €erious than prolonged u a ness, For the last twenty-four hours He had béen in Mil possession of his faculties and (for some reason fmpos- sible to Judith te fathom) uncom- | mounly cheerful. ; | From this circumstance she drew) a certain sense of mystified anxiety. | 'signed; gown and dressed 'men and women, the Buests invited to the wedding of Rose Tiiub and Alan Law. Within another ten minutes the man Judith loved with all her body and soul would be the husband of her sister. , She bad told herself she was re but she was not, and ghe would never be. Her heart was break ing in her bosom as she sat there, watching, waiting, listening to the ever heavier detonations of the ap- proaching thundefstorm and to tne Jubllapt pealing of a great organ down below. The had told herself that, though resigned, she could pot bear to wit ness the ceremony. Now'as the mo- ment drew near when the marriage would be a thing finished, fixed, Irretrievable, she found herself un- able to endure the strain alone. Slowly, against her will, she rose and stole across the floor to her fa- ther's chair; His breathing was slow and regu- lar; beyond dotibt he slept; ungues- tionably there was no reason why she should not leave him for ten minutes; even though he waked it could not harm him to await ber return at the end of that scant period, Like a guilty thing, on feet as noise: | less as any sneak thief's, she crept from the room, closed the door Ei- lently, ran doyn the hall snd de- scended by a back way, a little-used staircase, to the lower hall, approach- ing the scene of the marriage. Constructed in imitation of an old Spanish mission chapel, it contained one of the finest organs in the world; at this close range its deep-throated tones vied with the warnings of the storm. Judith, lurking in a pagsage- way whose open door revealed the elo steps and chancel, was shakeh to the very marrow of her being hy the -mejestic reverberations of the musie, Since they had regained eontaet with civilization in a section of the country where the Law estate had vast holdings of land, the chapel was thronged with men and women Who had known Alan's father and wished to honor his son. . . . Above stairs, in the room Judith had quitted, Seneca "Trine opened both eyes wide and laughed a silent laugh of savage triumph when thé door cloged behind his daughter. At last He was left to his own dp- vices--and at a time the most fitting imaginable for what he had in mind. With a grin, Seneca Trine raised both arms and stretched them wide apart. Then, grasping the arms of his chair, he }ifted himself -from it and stood trembling upon his own: feet for the first time in almost twenty years. Grasping the back of the wheeled chair, he used it as a crutch ta guide hig feeble and uncertain movements. But these became momentarily stronger and more confident. i This, then, was the seeret he had hugged to his embittered bosom, a Secret unsuspected even by' the at: tending surgeon; that through the motor accident three days.ago he had regained the use of limbs that had been stricken motionlesg--strangely enough, by a motor car--nearly two decades since, \ Slowly but surely moving to thé bureau in the room, he' opened one of its drawers and took -ouf some- thing he had, without her knowledge, seen Judith put away there while she thought he slept. $ a Then, with this hidden in the pocket of his dressing gown he steered a straight if very déliherats course to the door, let 'himéell out. and like a materialized specter of the man he once had been, navigated the corridor to the head of the broad central' staircase and step by step, clinging with both hands, negotiated the descent. : The lobby of the hotel was deserted. Hs tHE CUrEThON FAP ITOACHEd Tis © every guest and servant in the House was crowding the doorway to. the chapel. None opposed the progress of this ghastly vision in dressing feet, chuckling insanely to himself as he tottered through the empty halls and corri- dors, finding an almost supernatural Strength to sustain him till he found himself face to face with His chosen enemy and victim. Hants 7! the chapel. a bellboy of the hotel, J Hed--must sooh regain consclousness. -a tap upon the door. 'to covbe--Alan would consider me h None the less, she contrived to grasp acm os mR 2 weed TO HEAVEN pistol in the hand 'of Seneca Trine, discharging the weupoy, even as ft struck him dead. As he fell the bolt swerved and struck two others down--Alan Law and the woman who had just been mgde his wife, 5 CHAPTER LIV. The Wife, Again three days elapsed; and Ju dith, returning from the double fu- neral of her father and sister, doffed her mourning for a gown less somber and juore suited to the atmosphere of a sfckroom,. then relleved the nurse in charge of Alan. He remained as he had been ever since the falling of the thunderbolt-- in absolute coma. But he lived, and--or the physicians Kneeling beside his bedside Judith prayed long and earnestly. When she arose it was to answer She admitted Tom Barcus and suffered him to lead her into the recess of the window, where they conversed in guarded tones in spite of the fact that the subject of their communications could not possibly have heard them. "I've come to tell you something" Bareus announced with characteristic awkwardness, "I've known it for three days--ever since the wedding, in fact--and kept it to myself, not knowing whether T ought to tell you yet or not." He paused, eyeing her uncertainly, unhappily, "F am prepared," him calmly. "You're nothing of the sort," he countered, argumentative. "You couldn't be. It's the most amazing thing imaginable. .. . See here , . ." "Well?" "You understand, dont you, that Alan must never know that Rose was killed by that lightuing stroke?' "What do you mean?" "I mean," the man floundered mis erably, "you see, he loved her so--I thought--I'm sure it would be best if you can bring yourself to it--to let Judith askored WORLDS GREATEST KIDNEY REMEDY nit "Fruit.a-tives" Have Proved Their Value In Thousands of Cases WONDERFUL RECORD OF A WONDERFUL CURE Only Remedy That Acts Ou All Three Of The Organs Responsible For The Formation Of Urig Acid In The Blood. Many people do not realize tint the Skin is one of the three great olitming- tors of waste walter from the body As a matter of fact, the Skin rids the system of more Urea (or waste matter) than the Kidueys. 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But fis it possible you don't understand that, it I were to congent to this. proposi tion, lend myself to a deception Which I imust maintain through all my life wife?" » "Well, but--yon see~you are his wife. =. . Oh, don't think I'm off my bat. ' I'm telling you the plain, unvar nished truth. You are Alap's wife. . « +» No, listen to me. You" remem- ber that day in New York when yon substituted for Rose, when Alan tried fo elope with her, and you went with bim. to Jersey City, and stood up to bs married - by a preacherguy named Wright--and Marrophat broke in just at the critical moment and busted up4 the party?" « "Well?" ghe demanded breathlessly. Barcus produced a folded yellow pa- per from. his coat pocket and prof fered it. "Read that. Tt was handed to me as best man, just before the mony. . Sceing it was addres to Alan and knowing he was in no frame of mind to be bothered by telegrams, 1 slipped it into my pocket and forgot all about it temporarily. 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Cape Wolfe, Canada.~* Last March was a completo wreck, I had given ur 2 CE ' : BE Donpbewnid Pleithyiu, you mad? Judith" | * "But where's Barcus? Judith de-| Twice in the course of looked round at the first touch of the| The message was signed with the + Bappily ever ater. pu Dragging the bosom of her waist together, \Judith thrust the weapon into us holster and turned away. ; "Be kind tu: her, Alan," she said in an uneertain vowe: "She didn't under stand and--and-1 goaded her beyond endurance, I'm afraid. Forglye me-- kind to her always! x of but be Somehow, blindly, she stumbled ogt of tho cabin into the opan, pi 1 by a thought whose temptation was | stronger than her powers of resist anced. What Rose 'had failed to ac manded when, after helping Rose into the car and running off to thank their | hosts, Alan retirned alone to the car. "Go 'anly knows" the young cheerfully, "He would complish now gerve to resolve Judith's Pg None, she told herselt, bitterly, would seck to hinder eek-mannered { and herself, Judith, Under she had caught his eye following I with a gleam of sardonie exultancy, as though he nursed gome secret of extraordinary potentialities, -And yet (she argued) It was quite impossible that he should have some fresh scheme brewing for the assassin- | & sort of communication witn hint since his recovery but the attending sur Eeolt, a man of unimpeachable char acter, a mi red trained nurse, 2 such ein cumstances he simply could not have afoot. claw-like hand upon his shoulder and surdnk baek With 2 ery of ferror--a ery that was echoed from half a dozen throats within another instant. As if mame of Alan's confidential man of business In New York. : alone in the room, but for the silent patient on his couch. "to his bedside and stood looks "When Judith Jooked up she was Slowly, almost fearfully, she rept