SUFFER sg mah Et FROM RHEUMATISM Tlame ASSHITIng Serial of: Primitive Passions ai TU AN TTR { CHAPTER LXXX. J "What is it, Miles?" Marcella | breathed. So much had happened | lately. . .was it bad news about the Egyptian vase? Had the purchaser discovered. . . .?. "It's from the prison hosp'tal; said Miles slowly, looking very | grave. | "Prison hospital? Is Deirdre lI" ) What's the matter? I must go and | sée her--"' { "No, sweetheart, This telegram is { from the matron. You know Deirdre {bad the drug habit--very strongly | =they thought they'd taken away {all the stuff from her, but she was | too clever for them. Drug victims are very, very cunning about hiding it, and getting it, you know." "Yes, Yes. Go on." impatiently, { "It seems she wasn't well, and | they took her into the prison .hospi~ { tal. She must have brought some | | i benefit. | of the stuff with her, unknown to | them---or got it, somehow, For she | took an overdose, poor soul--and | pasged away early this morning, in | her sleep." "What?" Marcella sprang to her { toot, whité and shaken. "Deirdre--- do you mean she's--dead?" 'Yes, darling." Miles put his arms t | about her. "There! Don't ery: The 'We are new taking orders for . Sad Virginia "Anthracite Nut and Pea Coal. Also Gem and Pocahontas Semi. Hard, Our Coal is all weighed on x 2 of soul ea rr Aare order for your winter § AVLESWORTH BROS -- Do not be put off with as good demand aus | poor soul's at rest at last. It's for | the best, Marcella. What would her | future have been? 'An outcast!" *I--I can't bear it," sobbed Mar- cella brokenly. '""Hush, sweetheart." "To take her own life like that--" "No no, she didn v. Here, ' read the telegram." He thrust the sheet of paper in her hahd. "It was an overdose. An accident. It often hap- pens so, when people have been tak- ing drugs for years. She simply passed out in her sleep, Marcella. Can't you see, darling, that every- thing works out for the best?" | "It's too terrible." With her head on her lover's shoulder, Marcella wept some very genuine tears. Miles continued, firmly: "It's very sad, and yet it would have been far sadder for her, had she lived. Think of her without her | sweetheart, - Jose--she loved him, { brute though he was---think of her without health, or love, or réputa- tion, or friends--think of her be- ing tried for murder, darling, She's free of all that, now." - "I was her friend," wept Mar- cella. "I'd have stuck to her, if she'd have let me--"" "But your friendship eonldn't have cured her sorrows, darling. Come, be sensible. She was too far gone in' drugs ever to have given Lup the habit. Her life must have || been hell for years and years. This was bound to have happened one day---don't you see?" "I--I suppose so." Marcella sob- bed her grief out In her lover's arms, that sure haven in a uni verse that had gone topsy-turvy. Next morning, Miles Holden took a trip to Greenwich Village. He sought the pottery-maker who had copied the Egyptian vase. From Marcella, Miles had received a fragment of the smashed curio. "This matter must be gone into, right away," he had sald. He had punted radon, CFR CW a ial had a long talk with Mr. Field, now convalescent--a talk which eased the latter's froubled mind, to some extent. "What a splendid fellow Miles is!" sald her father to Marcella, When the two were left alone in the Long Island bungalow. "He's like a tower of strength." She flushed with pleasure. "Feeling better, Daddy?" "Yes, my dear. You don't look quite fit yourself." He gave uer a long, anxious glance. The strain of the last week or two had told. He blamed himself a thousand fold for his part in adding to her misery. But--with_ Miles' intervention-- there was some gleam of hope. The day dragged on. It was ex- tremely warm. The convalescent lay esconsced on the swinging couch on the verandah, with Marcella and the colored maid anticipating his slight. est wants, How Xind most women were! Lady Warrington came nearly every day. She was a good, well-meaning creature. . rather but excellent at heart, And Marcella was a little genr. A home with young = Miles Holden would be a fitting setting for her... That wretched vase! If onlr he could forget it for a moment. . Ile hadn't meant to deceive the pur- chaser . . . Matters had gone Wrong, through Warwick Treman - + .but 'de mortuls', . . .he must- n't blame the dead. . , . Yet it was difficult to forgive... Treman had planned bigamy, with Marcella as the victim! Treman had blackmailed him! He tried to turn his thoughts away from both these truths. Marcella read to him, in her Sweet, fresh young voice. It was a light novel of some sort, the happy kind. All books ought to ve like that; he mused. cheerful and optimistic, in a world of ups and downs. "The bees hummed drowsily, and Marcella's voice grew fainter, like the sound of music far away, and father. . He fell into a dose. Shadows lengthened on 'porch. He slept more dreaming happy dreams, There was laughter dreams of his, and the deeply, in relief those from worry. He woke with a start tol hear that laughter quite distinctly close at hand. "You're sure, Miles? Positively sure?" Marcella was saying; in tones that were a freshet of delight. "Quite certain," came the quick reply. "The chap examined the fragment of the vase and spotted it at once as the bit of tHe copy that he'd made himself, not long ago. Then I got hold of an expert, and we went around to the for twenty thousand dollars--" Mr. Field raised himself on one elbow; and called out, eagerly: "Go. on, Miles. Quick." 7 "Ah, you're awake! Good news sir! The smashed vase was not the real one, after all, but the imitation, merely. Treman made an--an er- ror, shall we call it? The original p10] A£ | ETAT: OES tactless. , , | fellow's | house who purchased the other vase |: CROSS-WORD PUZZLE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG . ™M 0 M MM You'll find many "m's" drawing makes the puzzle Horizontal, 37. 1. Took the dimensions] 28. of, 39. 1. To greet. 10. Upper humen NHmb. 1 2 easy to 40. 42. 41. 43. Edge. 11. Total. 12. Snake-like fish (pl). 13. Minor note, 14. Males. 15. Broadly elliptical. 17. trees. . Mam, . Eon special faith, . Negative. 20. To stroke lightly. 21. Notion or thought. . Food. 26. Midday. 27. To affirm. ._ Sea eagle, 30. Age. 31. Myself, . Opposite ism. To serve at a meal. . Person sume. of real- . Bvery, . Exists, 386, . Night. I vase, fully wofth {he twenty thous- and dollars paid for it, is the one in your 'client's possession, quite in- tact, and everything's all right, and everyone is satisfied! (To Be Continued.) 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