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JO9 Whaley St Afl dealers Liquid or tablets Many a niun falls to reuch to top because ever? tluie he stops to rest he falls aateep. The virtue of Justice consists la ■adtration, na regulated by wisdom. Sure Relief —— _ ' ' SINNERS IN HEAVEN PART THREE—Continued —l3 With only ilic bird* for wltnean. the sound of the surf for choir, the null it nee of the eastern sky for altar, sim ply and from their hearts' depths these two plighted their troth. .The few chief sentences, from the marriage service were chosen by Barbara for their only rites. There would be many, away In the world, to scoff, many to condemn. But no outward consecration of ground, no •irm.v of ordained priests, could have rendered more sucred that moment when the hush was broken by their low-voiced avowals. I'erehftnce the •'Destiny that shapes our ends." seeing all tilings, reading ail hearts, who had Hung these two together upon this far garden of His own creation, and given them there the one supreme gift which is part of Himself. woulJ understand and Accept their vows: '• To love and to cherish till death us do part. . . , And thereto I plight thee my troth. , . Their voices did not falter. The small tin ring encircled the girl's fin ger: they stood silent a while, with locked hands. Then he drew her toward lilm. and very gently Ihelr lips met. "My wife!" lie bfeathed. Barbara bathed, dressed, and got breakfast, with no thought of fatigue after a sleepless night. Her heart seemed aliffost unbearably full. As she watched the smoke curl up from her own fire, and that rising from Me amaa's hut, she resembled the primi tive woman glorying In this life* shorn of ull false trappings. Was not Me anniß likewise cooking food for her man? In the south, too, the native women were so employed. Man and lila mate —In palace or hovel, In man-., slon or hut! All the artlflclullty hid ing the hig realities faded away with the worlds beyond the blue horizon. It was the same with Alan. Ijlke some tine, strong, wild thing, he dived, swam and splashed In the river; then returned for breakfast, ravenously hungry, singing aa he swung down the bay. "I have a great surprise!" Rarbara Announced. "Here Is a tin of 'bully beef.' I saved It for any emergency. Shall we have It for our wedding feast, as a special treat?" He shouted with laughter. "Lord! To think of 'bully' becoming a special treut for a wedding feast! Rring ll along, O wise und thrifty woman." They ate their "wedding feast" In n mossy shady dell; and even the memory of Aunt Dolly, who uncon sciously had provided It, failed lo cast more than a momentary shadow across their Joy. Alan lay along the bottom of the boat, his head pillowed in Barbara's lap, as ibe sun began to sink. "Well?" he asked. "Have you found a desert Island honeymoon very Irkaoine? What about the big cities where you expected to 'feel life'? What ,"»bout your heart's desire?" She laughed low, passing caressing finger* through his hulr. "I have no fm \ / " / u f y#vH Ths Sound of the Surf for Choir. other heart's desire. Ton are life It self to me now, Alan. That's why—" "You caine to me last night T" be suggested softly. aa she stopped She nodded. The boat drifted Idly, caressed by the soft breese, rocking gently with the tide. "Thank God you did." he murmured, after a pause. "Everything was be coming— unbearable." Bhe trailed her fingers In the wa ter, lost In thought. "It was strange," site observed pres ently, "that the day on which I first began to feel —what you had become to me—should have been my wedding day !" "Thoee first months here nearl) drove me mad—untlj I was sure the fjeld was clear," he replied. "Then I meant to win!" "Oh, Alan!" With sudden paaalon she drew his head back against her breast. "If I lost you—my huaband —1 shoufd die." He turned In her arms, and proceed tits Hps to her soft neck. "Barbara! It means—all that —to you, at laatT" They stayed In the boat until dark- BOH bad fallen. Thou Alaa took the ByCLIVE ARDEN Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrlll Co. onrs he had fashioned, and paddled back to land. Silence fell upon'them as they neared the shore. It was the hour when ex terior things diminished to nothing ness, and the Big Things were too vast for conversation. He beached the boat, then slipped his arm around the girl and drew her toward the but. "Our wedding night, Barbara," he whispered. Her feet linger*.*) a little, and she paused now and then to admire beau ties of scent or sound; the rising moon Showed her face tremulous. Outside the dark hut, she drew herself free, turning toward the sea pa though loath to leave it. It seemed as though she were silently bidding farewell to some part of her life; and the man behind her stood motionless, his eyes on her averted head, silently waiting, making no attempt to touch her. . . . At last, slowly, she turned and held out her hands. He took them close In liia. "Come, my dearest," he mid. V Six montha, when yon live in an earthly paradise, are but a flash of vivid light In a sky whlcljL la always bine. These two had crossed their looming mountains and arrived at the valley upon the other side; and they found It fair and shining, full of Hie songs of birds. * The duys by, each seeming to exceed In beauty Its predecessor. There was no need now to fill each moment with arduous, thankless toll. All walls and divisions were down. When Alan, with a few slushing cuts, severed the bamboo partition in their sleeping hut. It had been symbolic. "There ! n he exclaimed, his foot upon ilie canes strewing the floor. "No more twos. Everything's one." "One!" she breathed, renouncing, with the outward surrender of her only privacy, all the private strong holds of her nature. But the look she gave him was no longer elusive. It was steadfast, shining, exultant. . . , ' In the wilderness Barbara had found the "hidden want": the love which, with all Ith many far-reaching sub keys, can alone tune the extraordinary cosmology, called life Into any sem blance of a harmonious whole. . . . Sometimes they plnyed ridiculous games upon the sund. gambling with the money lying useless In their lug gage. They hunted, fished, worked, bathed together. And, during these months, each learned much, which was ac cumulated and stored within their hearts. Their clothes were in rags, but they made fun of the matter. Alan clung to his old razor, and Barbara to her scissors. "After all," she said, "we can cover ourselves In reed matting. Provided you don't grow a beard, I can face anything." Six months of perfect happiness!, It was against all the rules of fate; but even fate seemed to have cast off these two for a time. For some rea son the world was made passing beau tiful, and human beings placed In It without any choice. But the attain ment, much less the possession, of permanent bliss therein has not been decreed. At the end of six months, the first ominous cloud appeared. Chlmabahol the native chief, fell 111 and died. Babooum .became head of the tribe. No car# or pity for Ills fellows per meated the hide of brutality encasing Babooma. All the worst Instincts of the savage, held In check by the old chief under Croft's Influence, now rose to tba surface His own adherents, impatient of restraints, hailed him with Joy. The dlvlt4on In the settle ment became at once more evident: murmuring dissatisfaction upon one side, threats and tortures upon the other. The white man's popularity had In creased with the increase of health, cleanliness and Industry among tbe natives. he took full advantage of It, and .only his continuous Inter vention maintained order. The posi tion. however, was fraught with dan ger. To continue to Inspire a semi superstitious fear after more than eighteen months was In Itself a pre carious task, only achieved by the weight of his own personality. Fur thermore, he was confronted by Ra booma's personal hatred. From Roowa he had learned of the chiefs mania for women, and women were scarce In the tribe. White women no longer offended the black men's Instincts. . . . At present vivid memories of. a wounded shoulder, blue devils hissing from round Croft's hut, the supposi tion of a hidden white tribe ever at hand, restrained Rabooma from defi ance of a man tabu. Rut familiarity and the scraps of education Imparted by the white people were gaining npon superstition. ... It was only a matter of time. Barbara bad quickly perceived thai her man waa seriooMy troubled con cerning the tribe. Dimly aware her self of the first faint clouds in the brightness of their sky, heralding a possible storm, she sought to hide them, to keep their happiness until* turbed. During the following months the clond grew erer more menacing. Those natives who, fundamentally brutal and idle, had not appreciated their en forced life of Industry, quickly terlorated under Babooma's leadership His adherents Increased in number, as did his cruelties. There being in sufficient 1 grown women, he seized yonng girls, almost children, made them the toys of his lusts, and after ward they disappeared—sometimes, under cloak of religious fanatlclam, upon the'sacriflcial altar to Balhuaka; sometimes to satiate his own appetite for human flesl^ Many times Croft was on the point of utilizing that last bullet. But with It hla Influence would have vanished. Natives regard their own chief with extraordinary superstition. To them he Is permanently tabu. The next in rank was one of Babooma's followers. Only more danger would have result ed for Barbara and himself, and prob ably civil war in the settlement. These people were Insisting on making their own hell, and nobody could save them short of exterminating half their num ber. After a time Alan refused to allow Barbara near the settlement. She said little. She passed long hours with Meamaa and her children, banishing the mental torture during hla absence In the radiance of her welcome upon his return. ' One night he returned, after a stormy day's battling in the south, with his own optimism gravely shak en. It was, he knew, but a question of days before the threatens mine should burst. The division had wid ened to an extent which only blood and explosion would, eventually, bridge; it needed but a match to the fuse, and that explosion would come. Barbara did not meet him as usual. He wondered a little, making his way quickly down to their hut. Supper was ready, but she was not there. He looked into the sleeping hut, but that also was empty. Anxiously, he turned hka steps toward Roowa'a abode. Me amaa sat outside, suckling a new ad dition to her family, crooning softly over the little dark form. She waved an arm toward the east "The great chiefs wife went up to the heighta-long, long ago! Meamaa still watching for her," she said. He strode off up the slope, anfl the native woman continued her crooning song. Barbara was seated upon the rocks where, nearly a y£ar before, the dawn had witnessed their simple marriage ceremony. Her elbows were propped on her knees, ber chin was sunk In her hands. Alan approached noiselessly, but she became Instinctively aware of his presence. He noticed a strange ex pression In her eyes as she turned to greet him: a far-seeing wonder blend ed wltlr a tenderness which seemed reflected in the smiling, tremulous lines of her mouth. She silently stretched out her hands, and he took them In his, mystified. "I wondered what had become of yon—" he began. "I felt I must come here. This al ways seems a kind of sacred temple, our own. , . . Oh, Alan!" She gated Into his face half-smil ing, yet with a suspicion of tears dim ming the soft light In her eyes. ' "What, dear?" he asked, more puz zled. She made no reply; but the glory In her face seemed to deepen, radiat ing toward blm. . . . Loosing his hands, her arms crept up to his shoul ders, round bis neck, drawing his head down to her own. A sudden, vague realisation of some ttupendous happening caused him to draw her close. "What la it Bar bara?" he murmured. "What are you trying to tell me?"- She tilted her head back a little, und saw the dawning comprehension In his face A faint smile flickered again across her oin. "Can't you gues»4-my huaband?" Instantly he was (conscious of the same Inimitable tenderness in her re gard which be had Juet seen in the eyes of the woman suckling her child. The same mysteNous essence of moth erhood seemed to emanate from both. With a muttered cry, his lips sought hers; he caught her close, pressing her to his heart as It daring all the forces of nature, all the venom of savage humanity, to take her from blm now. Suddenly, impulsively, she looked up into his eyes. "Shall you love—ltT" she whis pered A reflection of her own tenderness showed in the smile which Answered her. The glory of the sinking sun il luminated his face. '•Shall'. I?" he breathed "My dear est—what a question!" VI Hand In hnnd tbey descended the hill, full of this fresh wonder. After supper they sat on the shore In the moonlight, talking in low tones of the future, making wonderful plana. . . . Both possessed that curious sensi tiveness to nature which compels one In any crlsl*. to maks for open spaces, limitless horUons of ocean. ... It was after midnight when at last they went to bed The night breese had died down, and a peculiar sense of siriessness pervaded the laland; the water became calm'to oltlness. Barbara waa restless, and lay long awake. The strange stillness with Its sensation of false calm heralding ap proaching tempejt, revived her pre monitions of disaster. Wlien at last she Ml asleep. It was only to be tor tured with the same premonitions mag nified into nightmare realities, Bhe awake gasping and sobbing la Alaa'a ann>. and olong to him feverishly. "I dreamed you had disappeared," she cried. In bewildered explanation. "How coold that happen?" He soothed fcer. "How could my balk dis appear? Don't talk nonsense 1" They tyeakfaated later than usual, and had barely finished when the noise of many agitated voices reached their eara. Glancing apprehensively at each other, they hurried out of the but. The sky was leaden, hues of. angry orange suffusing the horizon, the air oppreasive. From the direction of the palm grove streamed a hurrying, chat tering crowd of black figures—men, women and children. Croft's brow contracted, and hla lips set. The mine had evidently exploded even sooner than the expected. Seeing him. a wailing cry arose from the advancing crowd. Weary and ter rified, they stumbled forward to the palisade, where the women fell upon the ground, moaning, weeping, waving wild arms, sometimes adding their vojees to the unintelligible babble of the men. To comprehend their mean ing was at present Impossible. Preaently their talk grew more co herent : he was able to make out Its drift "We will serve thee, O Great White Chief 1 ... Thou art merciful I Tliou art wise beyond the wisdom of our men! . . . We will work for "thee, O Chief! Thou carest not to torture and kill. . . , A-aa! A-aa! . . . Thou "hast done much for our tribe. Under thee It will become strong, if thou wilt be our chief. The fruits A Waiting Cry Aroaa. of the earth will grow, the fish leap up from the water 1 . . We love thee, 0, Mighty Friend of the Gods! We will serve thee! . . Thus, and mucn more witb a similar bur den, did they babble in their eagerness. Commanding alienee, he bade pne of them explain the cause of this visita tion. Babooma, It transpired, soon after Croft's departure the previous evening, had worked himself into a passion. Expressing contempt for the white man and his gods, he raised the taba. En couraged by his own adherents, he then declared war upon the white chief with instant death to all who thwarted his designs. This set the fuse alight An outburst of murmur ing disloyalty to Babooma warred with the usual superstitious fear of him as their god-ordained chief; while their genuine affection for Croft flared up to white heat To prove his words, maddened by opposition, Babooma seised and strangled one of the men who dared openly to rebel. This Was too much for tlie peaceful faction. Secretly and swiftly, they conspired together, under cover of night While the rest of the tribe slept, they stole out —some eighty-odd, Including women and children —and sped through the woods to the north. This drastic move meant a tremen dous decision, bound around as they were with age-old superstitions. It was a forlorn, terror-stricken little band which Croft presently addressed. He spoke kindly, trying to allay their fear, feeling a certain relief that the anticipated trouble had occurred so soon. Most of the men, he noticed, were fully armed! therefore Jt should not be impossible to overthrow Ba booma and. once for all, quell the savage element. "Whether I can be your chief or not is in the hands of my gods," he concluded with prudent piety; "but rest assured of my protection. Tour women and children are tired from the long walk through the forest Let than come foslde our garden for safe ty and food" He opened the entrance In the pal isade. Awestruck Into silence, they filed through, their minds full of the "little blue devils," experienced here by their menfolk. Might these not spring up and burn them even now at the great white chiefs command? They squatted In one close group, hun gry and grateful for all they received, j following Barbara's movements with adoring, wondering eyes, as she dis tributed food. Their faith in equaled their faith In their god, Bal buaka; once within the palisade, their fears of Babooma sank. 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