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Infant’s, Children'é' and hulk-3' _\'e~ts all prices PASTRY FLOUR Lace Curtains from selected winter wheat supt-riur article for makim pastry, etc. SOVEREIGN ECLIPSE ing. BIG 2.3 inches wide. 1‘" E Calder’s Block p b.0000 new in tnw v in 5 and In silence he clasped her hand and led her unresisting through the win- dow and out upon the broad gallery. She was returning the fervld pressure of his fingers, .warm and electric. They crossed slowly to the rail. Two chairs stood close together. They sat down side by side. The power of speech seemed to have left them alto- gether. He laid the two cigarettes on the broad stone rail. She followed the movement with perturbed eyes and then leaned forward and placed her elbows on the rail. “11' the ship should come tomorrow you would go out of my lifeâ€"you would She was coming down the stairs now, eager, flushed. more abashed than she would have had him know. Without a word she placed the tm: cigarettes in his outstretched palm Her eyes were shining. rinn of utter dejection came into llir fzu'v. A haggard look replaced tbv buoyant smile. "God. how I love bf‘râ€"how I love her!" be moaned. half aloud. "l have bum: wur mis‘pr." 8110 said lightly and mom mu up In? stairs. HP Imtkmi :Ii'w!‘ iwr umii Slw disap warm) at ti;.- «:1: M?!) n quirk. sh. ilzlm'v aver ii-'l' ShH'iHio‘r. An ("xprc-s ”You‘ve wall}; saved them for me." he mam-ivd. a mm.» of eagerness In his voice. "all! thaw min?" “Wait,” she said, coming up to him. They walked do“ n the-hallway togeth- er. “I will run upstairs and unlock the treasure chest. I do not trust even my maid. You shall have two tonight. .\‘0 murv." He arose and leisurely started to go Indoors. The princess called to him, and he paused. “Not after they‘ve had another good long look at my warships, Lady Dep- plngham.” he repliwl. with a most re- assuring smlle. "l thi‘nk I’ll take a stroll along the wall before turning “Why not? I’m an ally, not a de- setter.” “You are a madman!” cried Lady Agnes. “Stay hero? They would kill you in a jiffy! Absurd !" I mum): bulr the Mum]!!! of leaving um [whim]? “You don’t mean to say. Chase, that you’ll stay on this demmod island if the chance comes to get away?" de- manded Lord Deppingham earnestly. The two women were looking at him in amazement. “I? You forget that I have bad no orders to return. Sir John expects me to stay. At least. so I've heard in a roundabout way.” “But you also will be sailing away,‘ she argued. “You’ll leave the entire fortune to me when you sail away. I trust,” be said. The Deppinghams were puzzled. “Yes,” she sald. as it he had asked the question aloud. “You shall have three a day, that’s all." “I appear to have outlived my use- fulness in that respect." he said. He tossed the stub 01' his cigarette over the balcony rail. “Goodhy!” he sald, with melancholy emphasis. Then he bent an inquiring look upon the face of the princess. “And to think, Mr. Chase, we once called you ‘tbe enemy!” said Lady Agnes in a low, dreamy voice. “I say, Chase. can’t you Just see Ramia’n face when he learns that we’ve been drinking the water all along and haven’t passed away?” cried Deppingham. Continued from page 3. numy Iron) [80! or cigarettes than from an ovorabundum-e of poison.” said Genevra. She was thinking of the stock she had boarded up for him in her dressing table druwér, under lock and key. I THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S cruisers will come." She looked into his eyes intently, as if afraid of some- thing there. “Oh. I’m not mad!" he laughed. “You brought n-cruiser to me one day. l’ll bring one to you in return. We’ll be quits.” “Dear one,” he said gently. “the yacht will come. If it should not come today my cruisers will forestall its mis- sion. As sure as there is a sea those “I almost hope that it may not come for me!" she said. her voice shaking with suppressed emotion. “it will not come. I feel it in my heart. We shall die here together. liollingsworth. Ah, in that way I may escape the. other life. No, no! What am I saying? 01 course I want to leave this dreadful island-this dreadful. beautiful. hate- ful. happy island. 5m I not too silly ?" She was speaking rapidly. almost hys- terically, a nervous. flickering smile on her face. She clasped big band convulsively, a desperate revolt in her soul. THE SHIPS THAT PASS. HE next morning was rainy. A quick. violent storm had rushed up from the sea dur- ing the night Chase, after a sleepless night, came down and, without waiting for his breakfast, hurried out upon the gal- lery overlooking the harbor. Genevra was there before him. pale, wistful, heavy eyed. standing in the shelter of a huge pilaster. “I remember," he said slowly. “It may come, Genevra. The day is young.” “Hollingsworth,” she said drearily, “do you believe he will come today '2” “He?” he asked, puzzled. “My uncle. The yacht was to call for me not later than today.” been less than a week long. The rest of it was nothing. I nevvr was happy before, and happiness is everything.” “If I have to die tomorrow,” Saun- ders, the bridegroom, was saying, with real feeling in his voice. “I should say with all my heart that my life has Below them in the shadows Bobby Browne was pacing the embankment. his wife drawn close to his side. Three men. Britt, Saunders and Bowles, were smoking their pipes on the edge of the terrace. Their words came up to the two in the gallery. The minutes became an hour, and yet they sat there with set faces. bursting hearts, unsooing eyes. “And you would leave me behind it the ship should come?" he persisted. with cruel insistence. “You'wiil go back and marry thatâ€"him? Loving me, you will marry him?” Her head dropped upon her arm. He turned cold as death. “God help and God pity you, my love. I never knew before what your little world means to you. I give you up to it. 1 crawl hack into the one you l00k down upon with scorn. I shall not again ask you to descend to the world where love is.” Her hand lay limp in his. They stared bleakly out into the night, and no ward was spoken. “I wish that l lmd not been born,” she subbed. "l mmmt. dearestâ€"I can- not Change the laws of fate. , I am fatedâ€"l am doonwd to live forever in the dreary world of my fathers. But how can I give you up? How can I give up your love? How can I cast you out of my life?” “You do not love l’rlnce Karl?” “How can you ask?" she cried fierce- ly. “Am I not loving you with all my heart and soul?” nevm?” he Whispm‘od. “All my life would be spent in guarding the love you would give to meâ€"all my life given to making you love me more and more until there will lw no other world for you to think of.” He trembled at this exhibition of re. leased. unchecked passion, and yet he did not clasp her in his: arms. “Will you come into my world, Ge- “You know 1 doâ€"yes, yes!” she cried from her heart. keeping her face reso- lutely turned away from him. “I am sick with love for you. Why should I deny the thing that speaks so loudly for itselfâ€"my heart! Listen! Can you not hear It mating? It is hurting meâ€" yos, it is hurting "w!” “Not unless I am commanded to do so by the man who sent me here to serve these beasts, as you call them.” “But, dearest love, i am bound to stay. 1 cannot go. And. God help me, I want to stay. l! i could go into your world and take you unto myself for- everâ€"if you will tell me now that some day you may forget your world and come to live in mineâ€"then, ah, then, it would be dlfl’erent! But without you I have no choice of abiding placeâ€" bere as well as anywhere." She put her hands over her eyes. “I cannot hear the thought ofâ€"ot leaving you behindâ€"of leaving you here to die at the hands of those beasts down there. Holllngsworth. I implore youâ€"come! If the opportunity comes -â€"and it will. I knowâ€"you will leave the island with the rest of us?” He leanPd over and took her hand in his. “You do love me?” go away and leave me. here.” he began hoarsely. “No, no!” she cried. turning upon him suddenly. “You could not stay here.’ You shall not!” CHAPTER X X XI. TH E DURHAM ('H RONNIE Their shouts ebuld be blnifily beg-d by the besieged. Their rifles cracked lu- cutie greetings from the font. Bl} Continued on me 7. watchers turned ntvay and dragged ' themselves into the splendid halls of the building they had now come to. re- 3 card as their tomb. ‘ All day long the islanders rejoiced. I mg- _-_ “â€"- “They have left me here to die!” came from the stiffened lips of the Princess Genevm. "They have desert- ed me! God in heaven!" “Look!” cried (.‘lmse. pointing to the dock. Half a dozen glasses were turn- ed in that direction The dying and the dead were leaping about in the wildest exhibition of glee- ful triumph. The yacht slipped into the unreacha- ble horizon, the feathery cloud from its stack lying over againu the leeden sky, shaped like a finger that pointed mockingly the way to safety. White faced and despairing. the _-‘.-L-_- - I The people “ere simulating death! They were posing as the \ictims of the plague that infested the land! As 'he was explaining the ruse to his mys- tified companion the nose of the vessel came out from behind the tree covered point. There wa! a sinfle shrie bride of Thomas Saunders. left the dry lips uf Um “the. who BtOOd as if [wiriflf‘d | l She returned his smile with one as sweetly detached as his had been. catching his spirit. “So goud of you to worry." she said. a defiant red in her cheeks. “You forget that l have a post- poned trousseau at home. A few stitch- es here and there, an alteration or two, some smart summer gowns and hatsâ€" Oh, it will be so simple! What is it? 1 What do you see?” “Ladies and gvnflnnwn." he said se- dously and witth the faintest Intent to jest. “we are Rummsvd to be dead!” ML_“7 ‘ Chase 100de grimu‘ nhnut him Into the questioning. sh‘irlu'n faves 01' his companions. Ilc- drew his hand across his moist forehand. Almost before tlw startled. dazed people on the mummy muld grasp the full and horrible trmh the yacht had lifted anchor and was slowly headed out to 898. But the small hunt mlgvd away from close proximity tn the tug and the nearby dock. ’l‘hvy sgmkt» oncb other at long and ever widvning range. At last the yarbt’s hunt turned and fled toward tho trim whit» lmH. Thom was an hmxr of parleying. The bokfiagurmi nm-s‘ signaled with de- spairing viwrgy. 'l'hp iirlg. limp in the damp air above Hiv vhmonu. shot up and down in pitiful mgvrness. They saw the 112;.- put out to meet the small boat: Hwy u‘itnvswd the same old manouvorm Hwy sustained a chill of surprise and dwpnir when the bright white and mlw boat from the yacht came to a stem at the command from the tug. An instant later Wild cries of joy t and people were H from all qunrtm‘S. Already the cititzens of the town were rushing to the pier. Even before the vessel turned the point the watch- ers at the chateau witnessed a most amazing performance on the (1001:. Half a hundred natives dropped down as if stricken. scattering themselves along the narrow pier. “The smoke! See? Close inshore too! By heaven, Gonovra. there’s a steamer off there. She's a small one or she wouldn't run in so close. Itâ€"lt may be the yacht! Wait! We’ll soon see. She’ll pass the point in a few minutes.” He was looking eagerly, intently to- ward the long. low headland beyond the town of Amtat. “My dear, you will do me the honor to remember that 1 am not trying to get into your set. I am trying to in- duoe you to come lntn mine. You won’t be tempted. so that's the end of it. Beastly (lay. isn't it?" lie uttered the trite eonnnonplave as it‘ no other thought than that of the weather had been in his mind. "By the way." he resumed. with a most genial smile, “for some queer, unmasculine reason I took it lnto my head last night to worry about the bride's tronsseau. How are you going' to manage it if you are unable to leave the island un- tilâ€"well. say June?" “But Paris is huge. Holllngsworth.” she argued insistently. an eager. im- pelling light in her eyes. “We would be as far apart as if the ovean were between us." “sh, but would we?” he demanded. “It is almost unheard of for an American to gain entree to our-to the set in which-well. you understand." she said. blushing painfully in the consciousness that she was touching his pride. [1e Sillilc‘d sadly. “Yes. I shall go back to America, where there are no primesses of royal blood. Paris is no place for the dis- appointed, cnstofl' lover. I can't go there. I love you too umdly. I'd go on loving you. and you. good as you are, would go on loving me. There is no telling What would come of it. It will be hard for me toâ€"to stay away from Parisâ€"desperately hard. Sometimes I feel that I will not be strong enough to do it. Genevra." 7“And youâ€"you will dwline?" she asked. stairs an oner ITO!“ u “out amertcau corpomdon. M y headquarters would be in Paris. My duties would begin as soon as my contract with Sir John Brodney expires. The position is a lu- crative one; it presents unlimited opâ€" portunities. I am a comparatively poor man. The letter was forwarded to me by Sir John. 1 have ti your in which to decide.” 'r they were sending through the chateau. rushing toward them mnders. No sound Hm other watchers, [u-triflPd and kept .m the disappearing shriek from the BURNETT COOPER :QQIEVBURNETT 6: COOPER auij )ys, good wools and worsteds, new color cmuhixm! inn» great coats and sweaters for wear. Men's. . . . . . .. .......$1.25 to $45» Boy's........................75c $031.50 Our Grocery Dept. is Always Stocked with fresh Groceries. “’E MAKE A SPECIALTY ()F TEA WP have a. large range of plain and fancy gvmds New \Vide \Vale Diagonal Suitings at 600 and 7.7 Cheviot. 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