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SIXTH INSTALLMENT Day dawned at last and the sun rose gloriously—sunshine mocks at human misery. It was shining in the kitchen window where Amanda, with her sleeves rolled up, was cutting po tatoes. As she pared she sang: "Take me up an’ set me down Spang in Heaven-town Take me up— "Fo’ de Lawd, Miss Nancy, yo1 done startled me!” Nancy had appeared unexpected ly upon the threshold. It was early but she was fully dressed for the street and wore a big hat that shad ed her eyes. "Mandy, I’m going out—I want something. Can I have a cup of coffee now?” "I reckon so, Miss Nancy; I done made it a’readv.’’ Nancy sat down in a kitchen chair and took the big cup from Mandy’s hands. The coffee was hot and golden brown; Nancy sip ped it slowly, watching the deft brown hands at work. "Take me up an’ set me down Spang in Heaven-town,” sang Amanda, pausing now anc then as she flipped the slender slice of potatoes in the boiling fat. "Take me up an’ set me down Where dem angels keeps m3 crown! Oh, dere ain’t no moths up dere Oh, dere ain’t no rust to spare, Where dem angles shines m3 crown!” Nacy choked dowiy a littli more hot coffee. Amanda, lookinj I up, caught her in the act of setting the cup aside. "Heah, yo’ ain’t a-goin’, is yo’ Yo’ didn’t drink half dat coffee Deed, Miss Nancy, you’ll get mal aria, yo’ sho’ will!” But Nancy 'was already gone. Ii the path outside the door she turn ed and flung Amanda a smile ove: her shoulder. It was a pale youn; smile that seemed near tears. It was very cat'v in the morn ing and the street seemed to b flooded with light. There was ol< ; Major Loit.ax standing in his gar den Nancy’s heart sank, she hate< to meet any one but she had to g< that way. "Hello, Nancy, going on a jour ney?” He was looking at he satchel. "Just for a little while,” she ans wered hurriedly, "how’s Angie?’’ "Still living here. Better conn in and see her,” he advised, his eye twinkling. Nancy hurried. "I can’t conn in today, but—give my love please,” she faltered. The major chuckled. "Thinl I’m a carrier pigeon, eh? Angii and I saw Roddy hurry by las week—what’s wrong? He neve; looked at us, Nancy, went by liki a shot.” Nancy felt a thrill of fear rur through her. Did the old mar know? She must not betray Rod dy, she had saved him so far, she must not fail now. She swaJIowed the lump in her throat. "He had to catch a train, that was all,” she explained, "I’m sure he didn’t see you.” Nancy hurried now. She had told Richard not to come for her, to wait at the station. She thought it wouldh be easier to go there alone, but it was not; it was harder every minute. Then suddenly she saw him waiting for her quietly, standing at his own gate. He seemed to loom up there, not the figure that her fevered dreams had conjured—as a chid dreams' of the bogie-man—but Richard, tall and strong. The same face, too, 1 not handisome like Page Roemer’s. * but with something in it that frightened’ her. Yet his eyes were warm and glowing now and—yes, they were kind! "I couldn’t let you walk all the 1 way there alone, Nancy,” he said huskily, clasping her hand a mom ent and letting it go again, "I’ve -.-1__ _ 'i to tell your father and mother, and jtake you off to a church like a 1 man!” i "You did what I asked, Rich ard,’’ she got her voice—at first she thought she couldn’t—and they walked on together. Once she ( raised her eyes and gave Richard a . sidelong look, and she was stricken . by it. Again she saw how he loved , her and it terrified her. It was like1 something mighty and irresistible. . She was wicked. It was a wicked . and sordid thing to do to a man | who loved her. "There’s Mrs. Haddon,” said [ Richard’s voice and it sounded ( strange. Nancy looked up at the motor and saw Helena’s face at the win . dow, her green eyes looking at them. She leaned forward, start led, bowing to them, and Nancy’s ‘ cheeks grew' rosy. Helena’s eyes looked as if they knew'1, or thought they knew—something! Nancy, ’ trying to hide her own trembling, saw her looking back, her eyes on Richard, and Richard red under his ’ tan. I "I felt a beastly cowflrd, not to \ come to tell your father and mo | thcr.” ! i Haddon s going on the train with us,” he said quietly, they were in sight of the station now. "He told me so last night. A plaasure trip—it won’t bother us, Nancy.” j She thought it would'; she did not like Helena, and Kingdon Had don was Helena’s husband, and the president of the bank where Mr. j Gordon had worked as a trusted - clerk for twenty years. Helena would wonder why Nancy was go ing to Washington with Richard. Would they have to tell him? Her heart sank—it would make it so real before—before it happened. Un consciously she faltered; her very lips grew pale. Richard1 saw1 it. Up to this moment he had been carried along by a rush of feeling, by the depth of his own passion for her, but now—in a moment— the thing fell to pieces. They were almost at the station when he stop ped short. "Nancy,’ his voice was harsh and > broken, "L—I wish I knew— you make a fellow feel like a brute! I can’t go on with this—if I’m forc ing you to marry me against your heart!” She stood still at his side, her | profile toward him. She did not lift her eyes. "I—” she struggled with herself, j and then steadily: "I pledged my I ;elf to marry you—if you want to : refuse—” ' "Nancy Virginia!” he caught her hand and held’ it fiercely. He fair ly hurt it but she did not wince. They stood for a moment thus and then walked on; the force that was driving him now was too strong even for him, or he made no effort to resist it. At the station, Richard held the door open and Nancy stepped in ide. She stood still inside the station door. She was conscious that Rich ard had left her for a moment and, Traveling Around America Photo Grave Line FAMOUS GODMOTHER SERVES TEA Although godmother to 5,000 Aymara Indians, Mrs Ana Bates (center! still finds time to mother the hundreds of celebrities from all over the world who visit her flower covered inn which rests in the shadow of the hoary neaded "Gentleman," El Misti, in Arequipl, Peru. “Tia” (aunt) Bates as the has been affectionately nicknamed, has accumulated her In dian godchildren during more than thirty years of residence in South America -first as the only English speaking woman in the Corocoro cop per mines in Bolivia, and later in Arequipa. Recently while visiting her girlhood home in New York “Tia” Bates told reporters that her first invitation to become godmother came from an In dian couple who somehow acquired the notion hat site had 'bueno raann" or lucky touch. This idea soon became popular, for the Indians are very su perstitious. And tne goa-tamuy in creased with amazing rapidity. "Of course these 5,000 children are not all living." Mrs. Bates explained "and whan death claims any of them it is my sorrowful duty as godmother, to supply the shroud and tiny wooden coffin Often I am asked to furnish also a yard of white ribbon. This the parents fasten to the shroud leaving the loose end hanging from the coffin —so the babe can pull its godmother up to Heaven.” An attractive, vivacious, motherly looking woman with twinkling eyes and an irresistible sense if humor.^ii is easy to understand why “Tic Bates" is so popular not only with til-, natives, but also with hundreds o: travelers v’siting Peru on the weekly cruises from New York and Cali fornia. The "Quinta Bates" guest register reads like an international "Who's Who" and “Tia Bates" has become almost a national institution in South America. looking across the station, she sfaw liim talking to a tall thin man who trooped a little. Haddon, of counts They knew each other well, Richard was the banker’s ahysician. Was he tellng him tbout her? Nancy’s heart beat hard. No, Richard had not told Had lon; the banker never looked her way at all. Suddenly she felt as f she wished he had. Why hadn’t ilichard— "I thought you wouldn’t want :o talk to Haddon all the way, so didn’t tell him you were here,” Richard said, coming up and tak ng Her Hag. "TKrVrain’» going ir» n o minutes., Nancy, we’ll have to ;ct aboard.” ■it -it -it The church was almost empty ant there were some roses in the white marble font, a little way from the group of witnesses, strangers, two women and a man—the church sexton. "In the face of this company, to • • __.1_.L:__i .u: man—” Nancy’s mind staggered' back from it. She lifted her white face and looked full into the minister’s eyes. She was shaken by their look their odd, questioning look. A pang of fear shot through her. Nancy stood beside Richard, but she no longer lifted her eyes. She did not want to meet that look again. "Not unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advised ly, soberly, in the fear of God.” How solemnly he spoke. He seemed to be seeking her out ana searching her, not Richard. *He must be doing it on purpose! " 'Nancy Virginia, wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?’ ” He paused; his strange voice seemed to grate and pierce her, to try to drag the truth out of her. He was doing it on purpose! " 'I. Nancv Virginia, take thee, Richard, to be—’ Her ears were ringing now and her lips were dry. She had said it, she had repeated it after him, chokingly, meaninglessly, like a parrot. She would see him all her life with that book in his. hands and his spectacles slipping down |his nose. But she had heard her own voice repeating it and now it was Richard’s turn. " 'With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow—’ ” His worldly goods? She turned hot and1 cold. She hardly knew what she was doing when the min ister shook hands with her. Then he spoke to Richard kindly and frankly she felt the change in his tone. He seemed to know that Richard was sincere. She was shaking hands now with the witnesses; then they walked down the long aisle—they two done—past the vacant pews under the low gallery. Richard opened the swinging doors and the cold spring air met them like a friend. Across the city square the blue ihadows of the dusk had gathered, ferror and homesickness clutched it Nancy’s heart; she looked up and Ttct Richard’s eyes, they frighten :d her; he saw through her, she tnew he did! "Richard1, I must go home!” she panted. "I’m going to take you home,” iis voice shook, "my home is yours now, Nancy.” "Oh, I don’t mean that I meant [’ll have to tell father and mother now!” "Then—” he paused an instant, not looking at her, you want to go home tomorrow?** s "Tomorrow?” tier tone was ting ed with agonized dismay. He meant to stay here then—or to go far ther away still! '"Tou want to go home now?” he asked quietly, "at once?” "Oh!” she drew a long breath, "I could—!” He was silent. They had reach ed the corner of the street and he stopped abruptly, apparently lost in tnougnt. "You mean—you’d like to go home alone?—that—” he choked. For a long moment the man struggled with the mounting passion and fury in his soul. Then he turned quietly, without making her even aware of the tremendbus effort he had made to control himself. "Come with me now,” he said coldly. "I’ve taken rooms at the hotel here, close by. You need rest—I can see that—and I must talk to -you.’’ Something in his tone stung her; There’s a time-tested, harmless, preparation, compounded by a specialist in nervous disorders, for the relief of Sleeplessness, Irritability, Nervous Indigestion, Nervous Headache, Restlessness, the Blues and Hysterical Con ditions. 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Had he found it out? She had a strange feeling of being in a dream! and walking through an emptyj r " yi ! - -iI j "I’m going to take you home;”\ his voice shoice shook, "my home is yours now, Nancy.’’ street with a stranger—toward a fate yet more strange. His silence,1 too, began to weigh upon her. She thought suddenly that it was their wedding-day—his wedding-day— and he loved her! A feeling of re morse shot through her, a fee'ing] of shame. I ihey had reached the hotel now and a small suite overlooking the same park that faced the church where they had been married. The curtains had nor been drawn and, moving mechanically to the nearest window, Nancy stood looking out upon the city street with blank unseeing eyes. All her senses seemed alive but one thing, Richard’s presence and the sharper consciousness that they were alone together in a strange place. To him it was a moment of in tolerable complexity. He saw the girl he loved, his wife at last, young, lovely, appealing in her evident dis tress. Yet this, which should have been a moment of exultation and; joy, was one of bitterness. How perfect she was, and she was his. The thought surged through him and ltindled him Hke a -flame. H; forgot the way of getting her fo; an instant, because she w'as actual!) his! (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) The "back to the land” move ment will probably be popular provided you don’t have to do anv thing on the land except lie down in the shade during the hot weather. It is declared the American peo ple are losing their liberties, but many of the husbands will say that is nothing new Some people who leave their au tomobiles out all night will probab ly be heard complaining because many cars are stolen. Question asked, "What’s wrong with marriage?” Well, some of the boys say the thing that’s wrong is that their wives won't support them. 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