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'^i:- ‘(^ikABmtDr y» c. X e Girl in the •j tA*. t^fT. slww fliili .t> CH^OntR XI—Continued —15— **She didn’ look iak no lady what was goin’ on no excn’sion," he piut* tered, darkly. Laurie mshed back to hls“ rooms • With poonding heart and on the way 'opened and read at a glance his first note from Doris, It was written In pencil, seemingly on a scrap of pa per tom from the pad he had seen on her desk. ^xvng Island, I think. An old honse. on the Sound, somewhere near. Sea . riiff. Remember your promise. 9® police.” That was all’ therg was to It. There was no address, no signature, no date, the writing, though hurried, was clear, beautiful, and full of character. In his rooms, he telephoned, the garage for his car. and read and reread the little note. ^Then. still holding It In his hnwfl, he thoughf it over.-. Two* things were horyibly dear. Shaw’s “plan” had matured. He had taken Doris away. And—this was the staggering phase of the episode—slie seefned to have gone willingly. At least she had made no protest, tliougli a mere word, even a look of appeal from her, would have enlisted Sam’s help, and no douht stopped the whole proceeding. Why hadn't she uttered that word? The answer to this, too, seemed fairly clear. Doris had b(“- come a fatalist. She ♦lad censed, to hide or fight. She was letting tilings go ‘‘his way,” as she had declared she would do. Down that dark avenue she had called ‘‘hi.s way” Laurie dared not even glance. His mind was too busy making its agile twists in and out of the tangle. Granting, then, tliat she )iad gone doggedly to meet the ul timate Is.sue of the experience, what ever tliat miglit lie, she had neverthe less appealed to liltn, Laurie, for help. Why? And why did she know approx imately where she was to be taken?” Why? Why? Why? Again and again the question had recurred iq him, and this time It dug itself In. Despite his love for her (and he full.v realized that this was what It was), despite his own experience of the night before, he had hardly been able to accept tlie fact that she was, must be. In actual physical danger. When./now, the breath of this realiza tion blew over him. It checked his heart-beats and‘chilled his very soul. In the next Instant something In him, alert, watchful, and suspicious, ad dressed him like an inner-voice. ‘‘Sh^w. will threaten,” this A’oice aald. ‘Tie will fight, and he will even chjorform. But when It comes to a pwdown, to the need of definite, action of any kind, he simply won't be there. He Is venomous, he'd Ilk^ to bite, but he has no fangs, and he knows It.” The vision of Shaw’s face, when he ' had choked him during the struggle of last night, again recurffd to Lau rie. He IcnetV now the meaning of •the look In those projecting, eyes. It was fear. Though he had carried off the rest of the Interview with entire assurance, during that fight the crea ture had been terror-stricken. “He’ll have reason for fear the next ,tlme I get hold of him,” Laurie reflect ed, grimly. But that fear was of him, not of Doris. What might not Doris be undergoing, even now? He went to the little safe in the wall of his bedroom, and took from it all the ready money he found there. - Oh, If only Rodney were at home! But Mr. Bangs had gone out, the hall man said. He also informed Mr. Devon that his car was af the door. The need of consulting Rodney In creased In urgency as the difficulties multiplied. Laurie tekbphoned to Bangs’ favorite restaurant, to Ep stein’s office, to Sonya’s hotel. At the restaurant he was suavely assured that Mr. Bangs was not In the place. At the office the voice of an injured office boy informed him that there wasn’t never nobody there till half past nine. Over the hotel wire Sonya’s colorful tones held enough surprise to remind Laurie tliat he could hardly * hope that even Rodney’s budding ro mance would drive him to the side of the lady so early in the morning. He hung up the receiver with a groan of disgust, and busied himself packing a small bag and selecting a greatcoat for his Journey. Also, he went to a drawer and took out the little pistol he had taken away from Doris In the tragic moment -of their first meeting. • Holding it in his hand, he hesltat- . cd. Heretofore, throughout his short but varied life, ybung Devon had de pended upon his welj^-tralned fists to .protect him from the violence of oth- „ ers. But when, those others were the kind who went., in for chloroform—, and this time there was Doris to think of. He dropped the revolver into'his pfKket, and shot Into the ele vator and out on the gronud floor with tlie exi>edltlon tl which the op erator was now becoming accustomed. His car was a two-seated "racer,” of slender and beautiful lines. As he took his place at the wheel, the ma; chine pulsated like a living thing, panting with -a pas.slonate desire to be off.- Laurie’s wild .voung heart felt the same longing, but his year in New York had taught him respect for Its traffic laws and this was np time to take chancea., Carefull}% almost sedately, he made hlg way to Third “aegoue, thien up the Queensboro ' - iifldge, knd across that mighty run- -“.wag tp Long Islaad. Here hfs stock ^ of patience, slender at the best, was W ig^snsted. With t deep breath be By ELIZABETH JORDAN (C br Tb» Centory ' ( wmj tftri'it ■ or out” to a singing speed of sixty Iniles an hour. . ^ A cloud had obscured the sun, quite appropriately, he subconsciously felt, and th^re were flakes of snow In the air. As he sped through the gray at mosphere, the familiar little towns he knew seemed to come forward to meet him, like rapidly projected pic tures on a screen. Flushing, Bayslde, Little Neck, Manhasset, Koslyn, Glen- head, one by one they floated past He made the run of twenty-two miles In something under thirty minutes, to the severe disapproval of several police men, who shouted urgent Invitations to him to slow down. One of these was so persistent that Laurie prepared to obey; but just as the heavy hand of the law was ahout to fall, its rep resentative recognized .voung Devon, and waved him on with a forgiving grin. This was not the first time Lau rie had "burned up” that stretch of roadway. At the Sea Cliff station he slowed up; then, on a sudden Impulse, stopped his car at the platform with sharp precision and entered the 'tiny waiting-room. From the ticket win dow a pretty girl looked out on him with the expression of sudden interest feminine eyes usually took on when this young man was directly in their line of vision. With uncovered curly head deferentially bent, he addressed He Made the Run.«of Miles in Something Minutes. Twenty-Two nder Thirty her. Had she happened to notice a dark limousine go by an hour or so before, say around half-past eight or nine o’clock? The girl shook her head. She had not come on duty until nine, and even if such a car had passed she would hardly- have observed It, owTng to the frequency of the phe nomenon and her owjd exacting re sponsibilities. Laurie admitted that these respon sibilities would claim all the attention of any mind. But was there any one around who might have seen the car, any one, say, who made a specialty of lounging on the platform and watch ing the pulsations of the town’s life in this Its throbbing center? No, the girl explained, there were no station loallers around now. The summer was the time for them. Then perhaps she wuld tell him if there were any nice old houses for rent near Sea Cliff, nice old houses, say, overlooking the Sound, and a lit tle out of the town? Laurie’s newly acquired will power waff proving Its strength. With every frantic impulse In him crying for action, for knowl edge, for relief from^ the Intolerable tension he was under, he presented to the girl the suave appearance of a youth at peace with himself and the hour. The abrupt transitions of the gen tleman’s interest seemed to surprise the la4y. She looked at him with a suspicion which perished under the expression In his ^brilliant eyes. What he meant, Laurie soberly explained, was the kind of house that might ap peal to * casual tourist who was pass ing through, and who had dropped Into the station and there had suddenly realized the extreme beauty of Sea Cliff. The glri laughed. She was a nice girl, he decided, and he^ffinlled back at her; for now she was becom ing helpful. Yes, there was the Varlck place, a mile dut and right oa the water’s edge. And there was the Old Klehl place, also on the Sound. These were close together and both for rent, she had heard. Also, piere was a house In the opposite direction, and on the water’s edge. She did not know the name of that house, but she had observed a "To Let” sign on It last Sunday, when she was out driving. Those were all the houses she knew of. SJie gave him explicit Instructions for reaching all three, and the Interview ended in an atmosphere of mutual regard and regret. Indeed, the lad.y even left her ticket office to follow the gentleman to the door and watch the departure of his chariot. Laurie raced in turn to Varlck, place and the Klehl place. Shaw, he suspected, had probably rented some such place. Just as he had rented the East side office. But a very cursory Inspection of the two old hpuses con vinced him that they were tenantless. No smoke came from their chimneys, no sign of life surrounded them; also, he was sure, they were not sufficient ly remote from other houses to suit the mysterious Shaw. The third house on his'list was more promising In appearance, for It stood austerely remote from Its neighbors. But on Its soggy lawn two soiled chil dren and a dog played In carefree abandon, and from the side of the house came the piercing whistle of an tinderling cheerily engaged In sawing wood and shouting cautions to the children. Quite plainly, the closed-up, shuttered place was In charge of a caretaker, whose offspring were in temporary possession of Its groupds. Laurie Inspected other houses, dozens of them. He made.* hls way into strange, new roads. Nowhere was there the slightest clue leading to the house he sought. It was one o’clock lu the afternoon when, with an exclamation of actual anguish, lie swung hls car around for the return Journey to the station. For the first time the hopelessness of hls mission came home to ‘ him. There must be a few hundred houses on the Sound near Sea Cliff. How was he to find the right qnef Perhaps that girl had thought of some other places, or could direct him to the best local real estate agents. Perhaps he should have gone to them in the first place. He felt dazed, In capable of clear thought As the car swerved hls eye was caught by something bright lying farther up the road, in the direction from which he had Just turned. For an instant he disregarded It. “fhen, on second thought he stopped the machine. Jumped out and ran back. There, at the right by the wayside, lay a tiny Jagged strip of silk that seemed to blusb^ as he stared down at it. Slowly he bent picked It up, and, spreading It across hls palm, regard ed It with eyes that unexpectedly were wet. It was a two-inch bit of the Ro man scarf, hacked off, evidently, by the same hurried scissors that had severed the end in hls pocket. He realized now w’hat that cutting had meant. With her hare-and-hounds’ experience in mind, Doris had cut off other strips, perhaps half a dozen or more, and had undoubtedly dropped them as a trail for him to pick up. Possibly he had already unseeingly passed several. But that did not mat ter. He was on the right track now. The house was on this road, but far ther up. He leaped into the car again and started back. He drove every slowly, forcing the reluctant racer to crawl along, and sweeping every Inch of the roadside with a careful scrutiny, but he had gone more th|^ a mile before he found the second scent. This was another bit of th^ vivid ^Ik, dropped on a country road that turned off the main road at a sharp angle. With a heartfelt exclamation of thanksgiring.. he turned into this .bypath. ' . It was narrow, shaUow-ruttj^, and apparently little used.* It might stop anywhere. It might lead nowhere. It wound tbfwngh a field, a meadow, a bit of deep wodd, through which he saw the gleam of water. Then, quite suddenly, it again widened Into a real I road, merging l^to an avenue of tree's that led In turn to the entrance of' a big dark-gray house, im-u somber set ting of cedars. Laurie stopped hls car and thought fully nodded to lilraself. ’This was the place. He felt that he would have recognized It even without that guid ing flame of ribbon. It was so ab solutely the kind of place Shaw’s melodramatic Instincts would lead f V him to ^choose. There was* the look about It that clings to ho^es long untenanted, a look not wholly due to its unkempt grounds and the heavy boards over Its windows. It had been without life for a long, long time, but somewhere In It, he knew, life was stirring now. From a side chimney a thin line of smoke curled upward. On the second floor, shutters, newly unbolted, creaked rustily In the January wind. And, yes, there It was; outside of one of the unshuttered windows, as If dropped there by a bird, hung a vivid bit of ribbon. Rather precipitately Laurie backed hls car to a point where he could turn It, and then raced back to the main road. His primitive Impulse-had been to drive ap to the entrance, pound the door until some one re sponded, and then fiercely demand the privilege of seeing Miss Mayo. But that, he knew,' would never do. He must get rid of the car, come back on foot, get into the honse In some man ner, and from point meet events as ttey occurre-1 Facing this pro.spect, he experienced an incredible combination of emotions —relief and panic, recklessness and caution, fear and elatiop. He had found her. For tlje time being, he frantically assured his trembling In ner self, she was safe. The rest was up to him, and he felt equal to it. He was Intensely stimulated; for now, at last, in his ears roared the rushing tides of life. V r Improved Onlform International ^nidsySchool ' Lesson' Pnlon.) Lesgon for November 14 CALEB'S faithfulness WARDED RE- NIE^^W A’NDY PKm Poisonous Root Made Available for Food Farinha, a bread made from a pois onous root, the mandioca, is the“taff of life of the wild Indians of interior Brazil and also of the Brazilians. The tnandloca root, which resembles some what the parsnip. Is poisonous, but the natives know how to pull its “fangs.” Each Indian .^family in the Amazon basin has a section of tree trunk made slightly eoncave on one side-. This shallow trough is studded with pieces of, flint or with large fish teeth sot la the pitch-surfaced board. The women shred the mandioca root on this’primi tive grater, and pack the white fluff rqf^ulting In long woven mot tubes. After soakingjhe tubes in the water (he contents ffte.^. suspended from a tree Hmh to drain and pressure Is ap plied to them on the principle of the tourniquet. This op.eratlon, ‘which waslies out the poison, must be re peated sevetal times before the furlnha can be used, as a coarse flour for bread. For convenience In trans portation the farinha Is made Into cakes a half-lncb'.Jblck and a foot In diameter. It requires strong teeth to bite a piece out of one of them and eat It, according to white men who have tried It. The fqod is wholesome and nutritious, but rather tasteless. World U SheW* "It is wholesome for proud man to look upward on a bright day at some pretty cirrus cloud, to consider that It is composed of Ice spicules, that It floats In arctic cold, that It signalizes to us what hothouse creS' tures we are. If the roof of air were removed we should all be frozen to death In a moment Just abov roof Is deadly cold, and Just below the crust of earth Is dehdly heat. Only within the tjiln shell that separates the.se two regions can the human race strut about and congratulate Itself on Its great powers.”—Henshaw Ward, in* "The Whirlpools of the Weather, In Harper’s Magazine. Laziness is not patience. LESSON TEXT-Josh. GOLDEN TEXT-I wholly followeo ?0P1C-The Brave Spy ^JU^foR TOPIC—The Reward of ^^'^NTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Caleb. the Courageous. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADUL-T ’TOP rC—Blessings That Follow Whole hearted Obedience. I. Elements of Caleb's Character. 1. Independence of spirit (Num. 13:30). , Though the multitude clamored to follow the report of the ten, Caleb de termined to stand alone. This is an element in human character which is highly Important. One should stand for what he knows to be right, re gardless of the sentiment of the crowd. 2. True to convictions (Josh. 14:6, cf. Num. 14:6-9). What Caleb knew and felt he spoke out. He did not wait for the opinion of others and t^en modify his to suit the populace. A true man and one who can be trusted will be loyal to his convictions. 3. Unselfish (14:12). He" did not ask for some easy place. He did not wish to thrust someone else into the placeN^f difficulty. He wanted to go into the place where It would require fighting In order to drive out the giants which were In the land. 4. Courageous (Josh. 14:12, cf. CHAPTER XII The House in the Cedars Less than half a mile back, along the main road! Laurie found a coun try garage. In which he left hls car. It'was In charge of a silent but Intel ligent person, a somewhat unkempt and haggard middle-aged man, who agreed to keep thp machine out of sight, to have It ready at any moment of the day or night, and to accept a handsome-^ addition to hls regular charge in return for his discrettlon. He was only mildly Interested In hls new patron, for he had classified him without effort. One of them college boys, this young fella was, and up to some lark. Just what form that lark might take was not a problem which stirred Henry Burke’s sluggish imagination. Less than twenty hours before hls seventh had been born; and hls wife was delicate and milk was seventeen cents a quart,'and the garage business was npt what it had been. To the vic tim of these obsessing reflections the appearance of a handsome youth who dropped five-dollar bills around as If they were seed potatoes was In the nature of a miracle and an overwhelm ing relief. Hls mind centered on the five-dollar bills, &nd Ijiff" lively Inter est in them assured Laurie of Burke’s presence In the garage at any hour when more bills might possibly be dropped. 'While he was lingeringly lighting a cigarette, Laurie asked a few ques tions. Who owned the big house back th.ere in the cedar grove, on the bluff overlooking the sound? Burke didn’t knc|^ AJIJ he knew, and fi'eely told, w’aswlit It had been empty ever since he nlmself had come to the nelghborbood, ’most two years ago. Laurie *fftrolled out of the garage with a well-assumed air of Indiffer ence to the perplexities of life, but hls heart was racked by them. As he hesitated near the entrance, uncertain which way to turn, he saw that be hind the garage there was a tool shed, and following the side path which led to this, he found in the rear of the shed a workman's bench, evi dently little used In these cold Janu ary days. Tacitly, It Invited, the dis coverer to solitude and ' meditation, and I/aurie gratefully dropped upon It, glad of the opportunity to escape Burke’s eye and uninterruptedly think things out the daisied path of calm reflection was not for him then. Theoretically, of. course, his plan would be to wait until night and then, sheltered by the darkness, to'ap proach the house, like” a hero of melo, drama, and In some way secure en trance. But even as this ready-made campaign presented Itself, a dozen objections to It reared up In hls mind. The first, of course, was the delay, t yet two o’clock In the aftembon, land darkness would not fall unrcll ffive, even unwisely assum ing that/t would be safe to approach the place as soon as darkness came. In three hours all sorts of things might happen; and the prospect of marking time during that Interval, while his unbridled imagination ran away with him, was oae'Laurle coold not face. (TO BB CONTINUBA) CHEWING SWEET A treat in the Peppennint«flavored sugar-coated jacket and another-in the Peppermint'davored gum inside.^ utmost value in long>Iasting deligh^ r ' 3) haikly G144 Sids Section Front SAFETY FIRST! A simple fool proof anti-glare device for automobile headlights. Fits, any headlight. Easy to attach. Ornamen tal. Saves lives. Prevents collisions. No switches. One Dollar evfuywhere. ANTI-GLARE DISC CO. P. O. Box 1305 - Birmfnchain, Ala. 13:30). This courage he displayed when he Insisted that they were able to go up from Kadesh-Barnea and take pos session of the land. Forty-five years have elapsed since tliat time. He would he considered an old man now. but( still he desired that place for an inheritance which would require some fighting. He said, “I am as strong this day as I was In the day that Moses sent me, as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war.” 5. Loyalty to God (Josh. 14:8, cf. Numb. 14:24). He served God with a whole-hearted devotion; Indeed, this Is the way to hls character. II. Caleb Laying Claim to Hla In- heritance (vv. 6-12). Caleb did not come alone to make hls claim. He came In the presence ,of the children of Judah, lest he be susplcloned of taking advantage. He did not wish to wait until after the lot was cast, for God had already. glv(‘D a certain portion to Hjm. It were useless to ask God to decide a matter which He had already deter mined. The basis of hls plea was: 1. The ground of hls service (vv. 6-8). He had endangered hls life in spy ing out the land—had gone to Hebron when the giants were there. _ He brought back a true report when hls brethren were all against him. He bore hls testimony and Insisted that they go up and take the land though to do so Incurred the displeasure of hls brethren and necessitated hls standing practically alone. 2. On the ground of the oath of Moses to him (v. 9). Joshua h»d respect for Moses, and was bound to follow the counsels of hls faithful master whom he had suc ceeded. This plea was effective. 8. On the ground of God’s providen tial dealing with him (vv. 10-12). God had preserved him In bodily health. Though he was now eighty five years old, hls natural forces were not abated. > He said. "I am as strong this day as I was In the day that Moses sent me, as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war.” III. Joshua Giving the Inheritance to Caleb (13:14, 15). 1. Joshua blessed Caleb (v. 13). 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