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OF THE GODS || BY REX BEACH : | dramatist, He meets Alanna Wagner, a California heir- 'ess. Alanna and Sam fall in love. Alanna ' tells her father, ( CHAPTER XVIII.--(Cont'd.) "Of course he asked you to marry him?" "J--don't seem 4t. Not in #0 many worde. * But we had such a lot of other things to talk about. He mentioned something about money---I told him you were mercenary--and he's well to do." "That's a relief." Wagner was con- siderably mollified. "He'll need to be well fixed. . . . Of course you love him?" "] long for him as a taxi driver pants for rain, I'd marry him if he had six wives." This remark brought a scowl of dis- approval. The father grunted: with assumed malice he said: "I'd laugh if he turned out to be a bootlegger." "In that case we might supply you with some good stuff." "Lord, but you're tickled with your- self! No thought for anybody else, oh? Well, I think you've behaved dis- she sampled a melon without enthusiasm. "Disgrace- fally. Inexcusably. I was most un- Jadylike. But he liked it. I landed the order, I broke down his sales resistance. . . . Gee! I never went #0 long without sleep and needed it less. I'm just ome big daze with a pair of eyes in it." "Are his people of any conse- quence?" "I presume you're thinking about the "our Hundred. There isn't any Four Hundred, precious seedling, or we wouldn't be so prominent. . . Lee! Alanna Lee! It has a nice sound. I don't care who he is." "I' hope you won't object if I in- , vestigate this giant?" ; "Go as far as you like. I'm doing the same, at eleven, in a one-piece suit. We're swimming together. 1f he touches me I'll unravel. Whatever you learn about him don't tell me for --T'd miss you at the wedding." "So! You propose to marry him whether or no?" "Nothing but paralysis will prevent me. . . ,» Will you throw a big wed- ding for me, reckless? I'll bet you're thinking already about what you'll give us! It will be something nice, of eourse, you extravagant wretch. You'll butter us all over with gener- esity, for you never do things hy halves, do you? No, he answered as she knéw he would. Why not a small fifteen room co-op on Park Avenue? Furnished, of course: you have such exquisite taste. And a country place on the Island. It matters not how simple it is if the stables are roomy and there's a greenhouse and a swim- ming pool. Surely it's worth that much to get rid of nie." "I don't want to get rid of you" the father declared with real feeling, but Alanna was concerned "with her own emotions rather than with his. DPreamily she murmured: "We'll call it the Villa Dementia. We'll plant passion flowers and hys- teria vines and honeymoon-suckles and sunstroke flowers everywhere." "Jove! You have got it bad," Wag- ner reluctantly admitted. "Well, I've tried to be a good father to you and to give you everything you want, I hope this will last and that he can handle you." There was a malicious glint in . Alanna's eyes when she turned them upon him and said: "He can!" "You get a lot of fun out of shock- ing me, but wait till you have a child of your own and she tries it on you." He strode off towards his own rooms. , The spoon slipped out of Alanna's nerveless fingers, for a while she d mistily into space and a light into her face which not even her seen there, A child of her own! A child of Sam's, Here was a Aheght, She thrilled, she closed her _ CHAPTER XIX. Sam and' Alanna meton the beach 'the bathing hour but they did no- 'more energetic than sit in' the J. They had little time alone with , however, for the place was was , fs know that he was an Oriental. s | suddenly: it had hall as daw.. was breaking, an thought had obtruded occurred to him that she might not This possibility had presented itself him in his tracks, it had turned him cold. Im- patiently he had dismissed it. Of course, she knew. Everybody knew. His nationality had afforded a subject for polite discussion at more than ne of Bathurst's dinner parties and such things get around. Alanna could not Lelp but know: for that matter, his conduct, his attitude towards her must have made it plain. Reassured, he had walked on, But his mind had reverted to the question again and again and it con- tinued to bother him. 'Paradis was a queer, feverish place: people came and went: one sensation followed an- other: there was nothing orderly or normal about it. Nobody inquired who his neighbor might be. He argued weakly that he had tried to te'l Alanna, but had lacked the opportn- ity. In this, however, there was no comfort: he should have created an opportunity, The whole trouble was there had been no 'faintest signal of what was coming, no stock-taking time. Even at the time it happened he had not been wholly convinced that either of them was sincere. There had been a suspicion in his mind that they were in the grip of 8 momentary madness, a midnight witchery that would vanish with the day. Reason assured him that his appre- hensions must be unfounded, and yet, assuming that they were not, what difference did it make? This he fin- ally asked himself. Alanna was un- like other girls, she didn't care what he was: she had said so. She was a creature of resistless desires, a pagan, she had no taboos, social, racial 'or otherwise. He felt much easier at the recollection of her statement to that effect. "Less than the dust!" There was a majesty, a heroic dignity to the love of a tempestuous creature like her: it stopped at nothing: it counted no costs: it took all and it gave all. * * * * Mr. Wagner eyed the card which the man in hotel livery brought him. Seneath the name was written in pen- cil "Personal," "Does the want to see me, or my daughter?" he inquired. The employee arched his brows, shrugged, murmured an excuse for his ignorance of "the Englis'," whereupon Wagner repeated his question in a louder voice. He did this several times. After a while, more by reason of gesticulation than of emphasis, the fellow understood and made it plain that the visitor wished to see Mon- sieur, not' Mademoiselle, Mr. Wagner looked at the orna- mental gilt clock on the mantel. Fat golden cupids crawled over it and one of them pointed roguishly at the dial, which read eleven-thirty, Alanna was at the bathing club with Sam Lee and would not be home for more than an hour. "Show her up," Wagner directed. He went to a mirror, adjusted his tie, which needed no adjusting, smoothed his eyebrows and touched up his short- cropped gray moustache, Probably she would turn out to be a brunette. Probably she--Wagner preferred blondes and he had never understood why men went so crazy over Alanna. . «+» Out all night with that Lee fel- low and now at the beach with him. He proposed to look up Bathurst this afternoon and make some searching inquiries. . . . He hoped this gixl was smart-looking and had small feet. The caller was indeed blonde, and pretty, and smartly gotten up. Her feet were not too large. Wagner greeted her with warmth and they talked in a desultory manner for sav- eral minutes, He purposely avoided inquiring the reason for her coming and monopolized the conversation in a warm, cheery manner, the while he put her at ease, It was nice to mect fellow Americans in a foreign country and a pleasure to meet a beautiful young woman anywhere. Had they met before? What a pity! He knew 80 many young women and the name was not unfamiliar, Hart! He had known a number of Harts and had won a few in his time. Ha, ha! These warm confessions failed: to thaw the visitor perceptibly. "I read' in The Herald that you were here with your daughter," she opportunity of stating her business. "Yes. She's usually in the papers. She counts that day lost when isn't." ' "There have been several references *n her ne : Sf 'Which one?' Wagner chuckled. began, when he finally allowed her an | It's through him that I came to Paris, to study. I mean it's--it's all righs in every way, but my people were un- able to send me. They're not in sym- pathy with my ambitions, anyhow. why he's over here? college?" "I haven't the faintest idea." (To be continued.) Why he quit Romance Used By - Shakespeare Brings $12,000 At Auction London.--The only perfect known of Thomas Lodge's "Rosa- lynde," which formed the basis for Shakespeare's "As You Like It," re- cently was sold for $12,000. It was from the library of the late J. T. Adams of Smithfield, Sheflield, "Rosalynde" was a romance, writ- it the plot of his play, inventing the characters of Jacques, Touchstone and Audrey, but adopting all the other personages in the original tale. Shakespeare, it is supposed was in- debted to Lodge also for the idea behind "Venus and Adonis." Another high price--$11,500--was paid for an Apocalypse Life of St. John, It contained ex- tremely rare drawiings of German origin of the 15th century. A letter written by Catharine of Arragon to Charles V. brought $1,950. As the Queen of Henry VIII, Cath- arine was beseeching Charles as her only friend in the world, to aid her in her contestation of the King's di- yorce action, dl eden. Do Toads Cause Warts? No reputable scientist or medical authority believes that toads cause warts, notwithstanding the time-hon- ored popular' belief to the contrary. Most of the warts which occur on per- sons in later life are caused by irrita- tion. The cause of the warts which appear on the hands of children is not so well understood. Such warts often come suddenly, and sometimes in groups, and they also frequently disappear suddenly. This fact, coupled with the simple analogy be- tween the warty appearance of toads and the existence of warts on the hands of children who like to play with toads, probably gave rise to the belief that handling toads causes warts on the hands, The skin of the toad secrets a poison which acts as a violent irritant to the eyes and Medical 'scientists have observed that susceptibility to warts in childhood seems to run in certain families and tent at least.--"Animal Life." 2 Sam's father is rich--Do you know | Sun and Moon copy with the i mouth, but not to the skin of man, | is apparently hereditary to some ex-| Charlie Chaplin's Two _ Versus Rainbow Cause Both But One is Due to Ice Particles--Other. to Raindrop A recent press dispatch in which a nocturnal spectacle observed at Buffalo was described both as a "halo" and as a "lunar w" illustrates the confusion that prevails, not only 'The formation of pends upon the pass through water droplets, mon' primary and secondary bows are seen in falling raindrops and also in the spray of waves, waterfalls and lawn-sprinklers. These bows are di- are usually too faint to show much color, though the light of the moon when near the full sometimes forms a distinctly colored bow or pair of in newspapers but in more preten-|, .. tious literature, concerning the names and affiliations of certain common op- tical phenomena of the atmosphere. From the standpeint of the meteorol- oglst, calling a halo a rainbow, or | vice-versa, is very much like calling a camel a hippoptamus. ten in 1590. Shakespedre drew from! . Halos constitute a large group of optical phenomena 'comprising lumi nous circles, arcs and patches having definite shapes and definite locations with respect to a source of light -- usually. the sun or moon. They are due in all cases to the presence of |ice cyrstals in the air. In our lati tudes' the halo-forming crystals are mostly confined to high clouds of the cirro-stratus- variety, In the polar 'regions ice particles suspended in the lower air often. form halos close to the observer. The commonest halo is a ring of 22 degrees radius surrounding: the sua. or moon. When bright enough it The Rainbow Family, The rainbow family is not so numerous as the halo family, but there are more kinds of rainbow than most: people suppose, Series of "supernumerary" bows are often seen bordering the inner edge of the primary bow and occasionally "the outer edge "of the wecondary. The fog-bow--white or nearly so--formed by the minute droplets of water in fog, is classed as a rainbow. The re- flected Image of the sun on the smooth surface of a body of water is sometimes so bright as to form a bow of a pair of bows rivaling in splendor those produced by the sun directly. On account. of the low po- sition of the source of light, such bows are projected higher in the sky than: the ordinary rainbows formed at the same time and generally inter- sect the latter, shows distinct colors: red at the in- 'ner edge, with yellow next and a trace of blue or violet at the outer edge. In most lunar examples, how- ever, the light is so faint that the | colors are hardly perceptible. This halo is visible, on an average, every two or three days, but when formed ,by the sun it may easily escape the notice of the casual observer, whose eyes are dazzled by the solar light in its vicinity, Dozens of other halos have been classified by science, Some are rings around the luminary; some are arcs tangent to these rings or otherwise located; still others pass through the luminary, The roundish splotches of light known as sun-dogs and moon- dogs are halos, and so are the bril- liant images of the gun and moon sometimes seen from aircraft or a mountaintop in clouds below the level of the observer. Most halos are prismatically colored--which ex- plains why they are so often con- {fused with rainbows and in certain varieties the colors are vivid and beautiful. = Other members of the | halo family are pure white. Colora- |tion implies the refraction of light iin passing through the crystals, The white halos are due to reflection from the exterior of the crystals, Sons ES Lastly, both halos and rainbows should be distingrizhed from the daif- {fuse reddish or rainbow-tinted ring |around the sun or moon, seen { through fleecy clouds, due to the diffraction of ligh: by water drops. This is called the "corona," a con- fusion-breeding name, 'borne by : at least four totally distinct natural phenomena. o To Helene Ronsard, From The London Observer. When you are old, and i1. the candle's rays You wind your bread by the fire at eventide, Singing my songs, you will say with a | wondering pride "Ronsard wrote of me, in my beauty's days." Then never a maid whose tired head nods and sways Drowsily over her labour at your side, {But at the sound "Ronsard" will open } wide Her eyes and bless your name's im- mortal praise, | I shall be deep in earth, a phantom laid > To my long rest beneath the myrtle. shade: - You, an old woman bent over the fire. Regretful of my love and your harsh scorn, i O trust me, live--walt not tomorrow morn, Gather today the rose of life's desire. : F, L. Lucas. rte sei Now Are the Valleys Softened By Albert V. Fowler, in "The Car- melite." Now are the valleys softened And distance lost to sight ' In golden dust of sunset Before the peace of night. Gone is the toil 'of noonday, Far is the dream of sleep; The day and night blend slowly: And earth in'wonder steep: Light of the "The darkness has no star; - 'The winds of time are silent As earth and heaven are. sun has vanished, What New York Is Wea . : "BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Tlustrated Drecemaking Lesson Furnished with Every Pattern A charming 'new version of a Eugenie model is sleekly moulded below the hips in basque effect. It is indeed flattering in sheer velvet in rich plum shade. A strip of white Venice lace accents the one-sidedness of the bodice, that cuts its breadth so beautifully, The puffed treatment of the sleeves con- trasts with the sienderhess below. And here .t is for you to copy exactly. Think of the saving in cost over the original Paris modal. And i¥'s so easily put together. Style No. 3400 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 3% yards 39- inch, with 3 yard lace edging. Canton-faille crepe in dark gre:n and black crepe satin are other in- teresting suggestions for its de- velopment. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin. (coin pre- ferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. RESIS WN | Toronto Professor Sees Hope | - For a "Perfect Conductor" | may soon be an actuality, Dr. J. ment "of physics of Toronto, declares. obsolete by current ou ed Montreal --A perfect conductor of electricity, long sought by engineers, ! McLennan, chairman of the depar * Buch a conductor would render the world's electrical transmission equip- tting down leak-' over long dls wit gaded senses. They expect carry about, easily 'ha the quality of divisibility, be made of homogeneous material, and it must have the character of malleability. - done. If the value of silver is n= creased, it is reasonable to assume that the production of it would soon increase and tend to depress its value. It is fundamentally a commo- dity, and therefore can never become: a mo standard unless all the: leading countries adopt it. Sou Th: Wize Buyer The Montreal Daily Star.--It is of interest to mote that a more sensible argument than the sentimental is now being used in urging us all to buy more and buy mow, not from patriotic rea~ sons, but because it is distinctly to their advantage to do so. After all, when it comes to a matter of expendi ture, sentiment plays a tery minor part with the great majority of the spending public. "They prefer facts, And facts are forthcoming -- facts 'that ought to convince. The purchas 'ing value of the dollar is far greater now than it was three years ago. It is greater than it has been for many years past. It will buy for yon now what will cost you a great deal more in a year's time, if present indica tions are any sort of accurate cri terion. Prices are away down. Things peo- ple need are cheap today. They wilk not, - however, always be so cheap. Hence it is a wise economy to buy things needed while the low prices prevail. These are simple facts that stare everybody inthe face. But most people do not give them more than a passing thought. If they thought & little more over the situation, un¢ doubtedly there would be a very con siderable augmentation of buying. To buy now is te save what cannot he saved later on. { : - , Color in the Patent Office The monotony of the black and white. of 'the United States Patént Of- fice files is now to be enlivened by 1 bright 'colors, according to the Ameri- can Assoclation for the Advancement of Science. The plant patents, recent ly authorized by Act of Congress, will be issued in full color whenever the color is a part of 'the "invention" claimed by the horticulturist who has produced the new variety of plant. The two colored patents issued so far are for a white carnation with a delicate touch of yellow and for a rose of deep pink. The necessity for putting out patents In color has set a ngw prob- lem for Patent Office officials, for color has never previously been required for any-type of patent. Despite the great additional expense for printing, the of- fice is 'mot allowed by law to charge any more for copies of the patents, so it is planned to limit the sale of them toythose who can show that they have real nsed for them. : -> The Younger Generation Clifford Bax in the Woman's Jour i nal (London).--Just as my father grew up in a period when railways had ceased to cause any wonder, and I, m 0. turn, when it was surprising it_any- of the University members of the new generation take body could" not ride a bieycle, so the it for granted all the mechanical in ventions which men have the course of this century. most as though they had been born