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With a sigh or relief he stepped
through the wide French window into
the garden The strain over. he lougcd
for the solitude Of his study But Da-
vid Sures had asked him 20 remain for
a FINAL word. since bride and groom
were 20 leave on an early evening
train, the old man was 20 accompany
them a part OF the journey. and THE
Sures place" was TO be closed FOR an
indefinite period
II was not long before the sound OF
gay voices and OF carriage wheels
came around the corner OF the house.
for the reception was 10 be curtailed
One by one he heard the carriages roll
down the graveled driveway 4 last
chime OF voices talking togcther-Har
y could distinguish Hugh's voice now
and az length quiet told him the last
or the guests were gone.
The east room ~as empty save for
servants who were gathering some OF
the cut flowers for themselves He
stood aimlessly for a few moments
looking about him. A white carnatlon
lay az the foot OF the dais. fallen from
Jessica's shower bouquet He picked
this up. abstractedly smened fits per
fume and drew the stem through his
buttonhole He heard voices in the d.
brary. and. opening the door. he en-
tered
In the room sat old David Stires In
his wheel chair opposite his son. lie
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WOE % them that are az ease IN Zion
exposure TO wind and sun. AZ the dash
ing eyes, the impassiOned earnestness.
He paused at the curb and listened
curiously, for Hanelujah Jones with
his evangelism mingled a spice OF the
zeal Of the socialist. In his thinking
the rich and the wicked were mingled
ineXtricably IN the great chastisement
He was preaching now from his IA
yorite text: "Woe 10 them that are az
ease in Zion"
Harry smiled grimly. He had al
ways been lat ease In Zion" He wore
sumptuous clothes. The ruby in his
ring would bring wbat this plodding
exhorter would call a fortune. Az this
moment Hede. his dapper Finn chauf
feur. was polishing the motor car for
him TO take his cool evening spin That
very afternoon he had put into the
little safe in the chapel study $1,000
in gold which he had drawn. a part for
HIS charities and quarterly payments
and a par To take with him for the
exigencies OF his trip. The street evan
gelist over there preaching paradise
and perdition TO the grinning yokeIs
often needed a square meal and was
lucky If he always knew where be
would sleep.
The thread OF his thought broke
The bareheaded figure had ended his
horangue. The eternal fires were bank
ed for n time while. seated on a camp
stool at his melodeon. he proceeded 10
transport his audience 10 the heavenly
r0nghc ~ hA
Two, three verses Of an old fashioned
hymn he sang. and after each verse
more OF the bystanders. some in real
earnestness. some in implous hilarfty
shouted I'm the chorus:
Palms OF victory
Crowns Of glory
Palms OF victory 1 shall wearp'
Harry walked on in a brown study
the refrain ringing through his brain
At the chapel gate lOunged his chauf
feur awaiting orders
Bring the car round. Hede" said
Harry. "and ! sha'n't need Won after
that tonight III drive her myself
You can meet me at the garage"
The study was pitch dark. and Rum
my halted on the threshold with low.
ominous growl as Harry fumbled for
the electric switch. AS he found and
pressed it and the place flooded with
light he saw figure there, the figure
OF man who had been sitting alone,
beside the empty hearth, who rose,
shrinking back from the sudden bril-
hancy.
IL was Hugh Stires.
Ito Be Confinued.)
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who's Who In the Story

SATAN" SANDERSON. the
hero. dare devil quixotic friend and
minister OF the Gospel
HUGH STIRES. prodigal and
criminal
JESSICA HOLME, the beautiful
heroine. helpless In the rush OF
events and the principal sufferer 20
case OF mixed Identity.
MRS. HALLORAN, the camp
oracle
DAVID STIRES, stern. yet for
giving. and a. the last made happy
by anOther's unhappiness.
THE BISHOP, the victim of a
misunderstanding
HALLELUJAH JONES, the re-
hgious fanatic on whose shoulders
rests the whole weight OF the story
EMMET PRENDERGAST. the
false friend. per5urer and thief
THE SHERIFF. who Is very
much divided between duty and in
clination-
BIG" DEVLIN. who turns
champion Instead OF prosecutor aft
er the hero's race with death
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As be stood there Hugh came from
the library. His head was down. and
be went furtvely and slinkingly, as
though dreading even casual regard
He snatched his hat from the rack.
passed out OF the house and was swal-
lowed up in the dusk David Sures
had followed his son into the hall. He
answered the gloomy question in Har-
rvs eyes.
He is gone" he said. "and hope TO
heaven l may never see his face
/ again. Then slowly and feebly he
descended the stairs.
! Ten. fifteen minutes passed aud old
David Stires re-entered the room. went
feebly 10 his wheel chair and sat down
Il have told her" be said presently
IN broken voice. You are kind. San
derson. very kind. God help usi'
What has God TO do with it?" fell
a voice behind them. Harry faced
about II was Jessica as he had first
seen her in the upper room with the
bandage across her eyes.
" hat has God TO do with ftp" she
repeated In hard tone ''Perhgps Mr..
Sanderson can tell us. 1t Il In his
line"
Please said Harry.
He could not have told what he
would have asked. though the accent
was almost one OF entreaty The harsh
satire touched his sacred calling. Com
Ing from her lips II anronted M once
his religious instinct and his awakened
love 1t was all he said. for he stopped
suddenly at sight OF her face. pain
frosted. white as the folded cloth.
"Oh." she said. turning toward the
voice. Il remember what you said that
night right here I'm this very room
that you sowed your Wild oats at col
iege with Hugh-that they were n tidy
cropv You were strong. and he was
weak. You led. and he followed
You were Satan Sanderson.' abbot OF
the Saints. the set In which he learned
gambling. Why. IL was in your rooms
that he played his first game OF poker
He told me so himself, And now he
has gone TO be an outcast. and Won
stand in the pulpit IN n cassock. Son
the Rev. Henry sandersonl You help
60 to make him what he has become!
Can you undo IT,"
marry was looking ar her with a
stricken countenaPoe. He had no an
swer ready The wave Of confusion
that had submerged him when he had
restored the bandage to her eyes had
again welled over him.
Il am not excusing Hugh now" she
went on wildly. HE has gone beyond
excuse or forgiveness. He Is as dead
TO me as though I had never known
lin. though the word you spoke an
hour ago made me his wife I shall
have that 20 remember all my life
that and the ono moment had wait
ed for so long. for my first sight OF his
face and my brides kissl must carry
IL with me always can never wipe
that face from my brain or the sting
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him His tongue cieaved to the roof
OF his mouth Not only had the pain
ful contretenps nonplused and dis
mayed him; not only had il heightened
and Mortified the realization OF what
she must presently be told-it had
laid q careless hand upon his own
secret touching il with an almost vul-
gar mockery. II had overthrown In an
Instant the barbados he had been Dill
ing. The pressure Of those lips on his
had sent coursing 20 the farthest re-
cesses OF his nature "a great wave which
dikes nor locks might ever again forbid.
What dear goose YOU are" she
said. The light didn't hurt them-ln-
deed. indeed Only 20 think. Hughl
Your wife viii have her sight! DO 90
and tell your father. he will be walt
ing 10 known
Harry made some incoherent reply.
He was desperately anxious to get
away His thought was a snarl % tat.
tiers threaded by one lucid purp0se-to
spare her coming self abaselnent this
sardonic humiliation.
He almost ran from the room and
down the stair
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OF that kiss from my Ilps-the Kiss o.
a forger, OF my husbandr'
The old man groaned. y didn't
know he had seen herr he said help
lessly. 'Jessica, Hugh's sin is not san
dersOn's faultv'
IN her bitter words was an injustice
as passionate as her pain. but for her
lie she could not help It. She gas a
woman wrenched and torn. tortured
beyond control. numb with anguish.
To Harry Sanderson her words fell
with a wholly disproportionate VIC
lence. Ii had never occurred to him
that he himself had been individually
and actively the cause OF Hugh's
downfall The accusation pierced
through the armor of self esteem that
he had linked and riveted with habit
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less son. Hugh threw up his head
with an attempt AZ jauntlness. but
with furtive apprehension in every
muscle. for he could not solve the look
he saw on his fathers face. and said:
You act as II II were cool million
I'm no worse than a lot who have bet
ter luck than l. Suppose l did draw
the Eve thousand You were going to
give me ten for wedding present
had to have the money then, and you
wouldn't have given IL to me. You
know that as well as do. Besides.
was going TO take 1t up myself. and
700 would never have been the wiser.
He promised to hid it It's a low
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brow was a livid pallor His eyes lift
ed TO Harry's for an instant. then re-
turned In a lind OF fascination to a
slip OF paper on the desk. on which his
fathers forehnger rested. like nail
cransixing an animate infamy
'Sanderson," said the old man In a
low, hoarse, unnatural voice. come In
and shut the door God forgive us!
We have married Jessica TO common
thief! Hugh. my son. my only child.
whom | have forgiven beyond all reck-
Oning. has forged my name 10 a draft
for S5.OOOr
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brothers keeperiSho,.eIcd DtoaD upO"
l see IL now" "'o'' - '4'i '''i'0 c'oy
She did not catch the deep compunc-
ton IN the judicial utterance. She
stood an instant quivering. then turn
ed and. feeling blindly for the door.
swept from their sight
White and GREATNESS. Jessfca climb
Ell the stair. In her room she took a
key from a drawer and ran swiftly
to the attic studio. She unlocked the
door with hurried fingers, tore the
wrappings from the tall white figure
OF the prodigal son and found q
heavy mallet She lifted this with an
her strength and shovered blow upon
blow on the hard clay. her face and
hair and shimmering train powdered
with the white dust. till the statue lay
on the floor. heap OF tumbled frag
ments.
Fateful and passionate as the scene
In the library had been. her going left
a pan OF silence In the room. Harry
Sanderson looked at David Stires with
pale intentness.
yet ! would have given my life. o.
he said IN a low voice. ito save her
thisi'
Something IN the tone caught the Old
man. He glanced up.
81 never ssed." he said slowly
i never guessed that you loved her
too"
But Harry had not heard. He did
not even know that he had spoken
aloud
David Stires turned his wheel chair
20 the Korean desk. touching the bell
as he did SO. He took M the drnf
and put II into his pocket He pressed
a spring; panel dropped and disclosed
a hidden drawer from which be took
a cracking parchment Il was tho
Will against whose signing Harry had
pleaded months before In that same
room. The butler entered.
Witness my signature. Blake" he
said and wrote his name on the last
page "Mr. Sanderson will sign with
you"
An hour later the fast express thar
bore Jessica and David Stires was
shrieking across the long skeleton rail
road bridge. dotted tran of fire
against the deepening night
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Il at his ordination and
liked him. His ewes
took In the simple order OF the room.
lingering with a light tlnge OF dlsap.
proval upon the violin case in the cor
ner and with deeper shade OF ques-
ton upon the Jewel on the others fn.
ger, a pigeon blood ruby IN setting
curiously twisted Of the two initial let
tiers or his name There came 20 lbs
mind for an instant a whisper Of early
probabilities and Witnesses which he
had heard
Il looked In 10 tell you a bit Of
news" said the bishop i've Just come
from David Stires He has a letter
FROM Van Leuuap the great eve sur
geon OF Vienna lie disagrpes with Tho
rest OF Them rhm6s Iessica's cas-.
may not De- hopeless"
The cloud chat iIugh's call had left
On Harry's cuuuteuauce lifted
THANK Cod be- said win she e
20 himT'
The bishop iooEed az him curiously
Tor the exclamation seemed TO hold
more than conventional RELIEF
He Is 10 be In America next north
he VIII come here then to examine and
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sights and sounds OF the pleasant even
Ing He had tramped miles since sun
down and had returned as he set out.
gloomy. unrequited. follower OF bar
fed quest
Set back from the street in a wide
estate Of trees and shrubbery stood n
great white porched house. Not a
light had twinkled from IL for nearly a
year. The little city had wondered AT
first, then by degrees had grown lndif-
rerent The secret OF that prolonged
honeymoon Harry Sanderson and the
bishop alone could have told. for the
bishop knew OF Hugh's criminal act
He was named executor OF the will
that lay In the Korean chest, and him
David Stires had written the truth.
His heart had gone out with pity for
1essica. and understanding. The secret
he locked In his own breast. as did
Harry Sanderson. each thinking the
other ignorant OF 1t.
Since that wedding day no shred OF
news had come to either. Harry had
wished for none. To think OF Jossjca
wns recurrent pang. and yet the very
combination OF the safe IN his studV
he had formed OF the letters OF her
name! In each memory OF her he felt
the fresh assault OF a new and tireIess
foe-the love which he must deny.
Outcast and criminal as Hugh was
castaway. who hsd stolen a banks
money and woman's love- be was
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was deadly pale.
and his fierce
eyes blazed ike
ire IN finder
And what a
Hugh MOI The
indolently gay
prOdigal Harry
had known in
the past nor the
flushed brtd e.
groom or a half
hour ago Itwas
a cringing. a
hangdog Hugh.
with a sinking
dread In the
face. "a trembling
OF the hands. a
tense eXpecta-
ton In the pos
ture The thin
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perhaps 20 operate Poor child! II win
be terrible thing for her n this last
hope falls her, too. especially now.
when she and Hugh are TO make a
match or IL"
Harry's face was turned away, OF the
bishop would have seen il suddenly
startled To make a match OF itF To
hide the nush he felt staining his
cheek Harry bent 10 close the safe. A
something that had darkled In some
obscure depth OF his being whose exist
ence he had not guessed was throbbing
now 10 painful resentment Jessica
was TO marry Hugh!
"A handsome fellow-HughP' said
the bishop HE seems 10 have return
ed with new heart-a brand plucked
from the burning. You bad the same
alma mater. | think you tolG the Your
influence has done the boy good. San
dersonT He laid his hand kindly on
the others shoulder The fact that
you were in college together makes
him look up TO yoU-as the whole par
ish does" he added.
Harry was setting the combination
and did not answer. But through the
turmoil IL his brain a satiric voice
kept repeating:
mo. they don't call me Satan
nowg'
The white house IN the aspens was
N gala attire. Flowers-great banks
OF bloom-were massed In the hall.
along the stairway and In the window
seats. and wreaths OF delicate fern
tremDled on the prim hung chandeliers.
Over all breathed the sweet fragrance
or jasmine. Musicians sat behind n
screen Of palms In a corridor. and a
long scarlet carpet strip ran down the
front steps TO the driveway. up which
passed bravely dressed folk. arriving
IL carriages and on foot 10 witness
the completion OF a much booted TO
nance f
For a fortnight this afternoons
event had is-'a the chat OF tie town
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1pe same pain
Of mind that had
spurred him on
that long ago
night 70 the adj
mission she had
beard had start
ed to new life n
barred. a scath-
ed, n rekindling
sin.
1T is all true"
he said. Ii was
til 9 inveterate
vote g OF con
s Glen &c that
spoke Il have
been deceiving
myself. Twas my
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Chapter 5

z a moment there was
dead silence In the
room Harry's breath
caught In his throat.
and the old mans eye
again impaled the hap
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From over the way Harry gazed AZ
the tall. STOPPING figure pitilcssly be
trayed 10y the thin alpaca coat. at the.
ascetic face burned n brick red from
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81 y 49,. - 81
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Chapter 6

p foot OF the stair Harry
paused. drawing a deep
breath as n 70 lift a
weight of air. He need
81 TO get his bearings. 10
win back a measure Of
calmncss.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-01-09

HALLELUJAH JONES.
Suffer me that ] may speak. and
after that l have spoken mock on
Job xxi. g.
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Chapter z

AIRY SANDERSON as
he walked slowly back
from a long ramble in
knickerbockers and Nor.
folk jacket over the hills
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GEORGE O. BROWN,
PHoToeRAPHRR,

(To Be Consinued.)

Fine Photographs. True 20 life Hsgh-clx<
servtce Aatsst improvements IN PhotoerAp
ic Outdoor work executed- Reasonable ns
umeees and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlara-
90 from Odd negstivee or Photos3 apna. s.mss
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Chapter 4

inside the study mean.
while the bishop was
greeting Harry Sander
son He had omciated
at his ordination and
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LA ESFERA
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Tenemos ea gusto de particpar q nuestros favorecedores el haber abieF~
to I'M departamento especial de Optca anexo q nuestro estabecmiento d.
Joy11a y Reojena.
Este Departments Ia Gdo equipado & la aItura de los meJores del ex-
trsn5eo y contamos con los sevicos de un Opico Graduado.
Para mayor faclidad de aqueAos que usn crstales especiaes que has
ia ahora Sc han vito obIgados 5 encargar q los Esados Unidos, heme@
instdado la maqmnana para la confecci6n de estos crMtales, contando s.
La vez COZ u personal apto e. este amo. la
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hahajo es del TODD garantizado.
Dapschamos cualquiere receta de los oculstas pr complicada que este
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p Bomet Huas. Sueeser de Tinaud. Plaza Principal, San Juan.
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cnRREspONpENCIA PUERTO DE EMBRE DE l9Oy
Gacsti'!!a de Arroyo.
De nuestro Corresponsal


Nov. 28.- A la relacion de
pueblos cuyos secretaries segun
nuestra nota anterior contestaron
4 la carta circular dlrlglda
por ell de este municipio adhirlen
dose en- un todo a la idea expues
ia en- ella hay que sumar hoy
las municipalidades de Adluntas
San Sebastian Rincon Barros
Ciales Moca Corozal RIO Pie
dras Morovis Aguadilla Hatlllo
Toa baja e Isabella cuyos respec
tiyos secretaries han hecho igual.
Por 10 visto hay casl un 5O3
conformes con Ia Asamblea 10 cual
induce 4 Greer que esta sera III ne
cho y que debe irse va preparan
do.
Lo que 81 causa extraneza es
cue los secretaries de San Juan
Ponce Mayaguez Arecibo Qua
yama Humacao &.&. no hayan
aun respondido dando a conocer
10 que opinan con respecto al pro
veto que de realizarse 3 todos
benefciaria.
Indudablemente antes del pr
nero de Diciembre las respuestas
que faltan Sc habran recibldo pues
un deber de cortesfa obliga a contes
tar al documento dentro de Ia II
bertad del pensamiento que SO
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Mas de 5000 personas.

Sin exageracion mas de seis mi
personaS Sc detuvieron aver enfren
te d los almacenes del Cielo Y FL In
ierno. Las telas de ultima novedad
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nografos eamas relojes& colo ca
daS artisticamente en- f Cielo ri
valizaban con los magniicos piano,
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camas ani4ueladas V doradas OUT
admirablemente puestas en- disrin
tos sentidos hacian un gran efectt
con la iluminacion roja que fu
10 que cause mas sorpresa.
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moda; c,.aIquiera puede ir las do
sin morirSe.
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