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CHAPTER xxxIV-continued.


A hard light came into Alix' eyes.
Gerry felt himself suddenly alone. He
went doggedly on. He told of the
chase and the capture, of how he and
the girl had seen the canoe drift out
into the clutch of the eddy and swirl
out into the river and away. He told
her of how they laughed and Alix
shrank. Gerry paused, his brow puck
cred. He wished he could tell in words
the battle of his spirit, the utter ruin
of his downfall. Hs could not and in
stead he sighed.
There was something in that sigh so
eloquent of defeated expression that it
succeeded where words might have
failed. 1t called to Alix with the
strong call of helpless things. 1t drew
back her mind to Gerry. With him
and the girl she threaded the path to
Fazenda Flores. Its ruin sprang upon
her through his eyes. With him she
discovered the traces of an ancient
ditch, with him and the old darky she
dug along that line through long, hot
months She grew to know Lieber as
the tale went on and finally to love
him because of all things Lieber
seemed to need love = somebody
else's love-most She amused herself
with Kemp and his drawl. She tried
to keep her thoughts away from Mar
garita and at the coming Of Marga-
rita's boy, she WINGED.
AS he finished telling of the coming
of the Man, Gerry stopped short. The
thought came to him with tremendous
force that Alix too had gone through
that for him. The impulse to get up
and throw himself before her and on
his knees to thank her almost tore him
from his seat but he fought it down.
He hurried on with his story. He told
of the coming of Alan and of the reve-
lation he had brought. And then in
choked voice and only because he had
set himself to tell the whole truth he
pictured the food, the death Of True
Blue, and the overwhelming by the
waters before his very eyes of Mar
garita and the Man. Then he arose
and with hands braced on the table
leaned towards AIix. II have told you
this SO that perhaps you may under
stand what l am going to tell you now.
If the food had not come-if Margarita
and the Man had lived-I would not
have come back"
Alix sat very still and studied
Gerry's face. He had finished the task
he had set himself to do and he was
suddenly very tired. His eyes dropped
as though from their own weight and
then he raised them again to her in
scrutable face.
"Well?" he asked after a long pause.
"Well?' replied Alix.
Gerry's stalwart figure dropped. "It
is quite just" he said, "after all that
that you should not want me. l have
spent the last weeks making myself
ready for that You waited for me
/ didn't wait for you. If you do moi
want me, l will go away"
Alix rose slowly to her feet. She
looked very slim and tall in her cling
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ing gown. To Gerry she looked very
cold. Before you CO." she said,
"there is just one thing. l wish you
would kiss me-once."
Gerry's body Strengthened and stiff
fened. He stared at her grave face
with wondering eyes. Then he felt a
strange tingling ripple through his
blood and before he knew what he did
he had swept her from her feet,
crushed her to him, brushed the crown
Of hair back from her brow and kissed
her eyes, her mouth, her throat. He
was rough with her. He was bruising
her body. her lips, but Alix clung to
him and laughed. Then suddenly all
her slim body relaxed and slipped
through his arms to a little white heap
on the floor She began to sob. Gerry
stopped down, picked her up tenderly
and laid her on the great Ieathern
couch. Re knelt beside her. On one
arm he pillowed her head, with the
other hand he sought hers. "Please,
Alix," he begged, please don't cry"
. I'm not crying" sobbed Alix, I'm
laughing"
Gerry smiled and waited. Soon Alix
became quiet Her eyes closed. She
drew a long, Quiverlng breath and
then she opened her eyes again and
her lips broke into the old dear smile,
the smile Of an opening flower. 81 am
tired-tired," she said, "but | believe
I'm almost hungriar than am tired"
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sing, that you md me have been trav-
elm diff'rent trails but come together
at the same gap. You remember The
Purple City'?'
Gerry nodded.
oval, seems to me thet 'ceptin' in
mans own mind the amt no purple
cities. What a mans got to find amt
pupIe cities but the power to see one
when he's got it. You had yourn right
here in this valley an yon side on Red
Hill. You growed up in it but you
never seen it-not till you learned
how. What you been Sayin' about the
simple things Of life-the things thet
Is at the bottom-has he'ped my seem
parts a powerful lot. l knowed before
I come to Red Hill that was goin'
out West to stay but didn't rightly
know why. Now eff you ask me what
l know l can tell you l know con-
sid'able.
"Out in Moo Mexico they's ranch
in the fork of Big and Little creek
that's the greenest patch in the shadow
of White mountain. It's mine and it's
got a three-room shack on it that could
grow if need was. l know a girl that's
been holdin' a four-fush against an
orchids weak pair till she's jest about
sick Of the game, but she's drawed and
filed on the last hand though she hain't
had chanst to look at her cards yet.
For some while the's been a pu'pIe
light hangin' over Big and Little creek
am reckon I'll be able to see 1t plain
er an palmer the higher l get to it an
if the girl will hep me 1 reckon that
in a small way we'll soon be CROWN a
pu'ple city that will feed from 20
hand. Eff ever you feel the need of
some bran new air, Mr.. Lansing, you
come out to Big and Little. There
won't be much besides air but it'll be
fresh made on White mountain an you
can smell it comm down through the
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The Italian Drive.

Rome (via London) n).-Following up
their recent successes on the Trentino
front, the Italians have driven back
the Austrians still further, the War
Office announced The Italians have
captured Posina, ArsierO, Mounts
Fiara, Taverle, Spitz, Kesserle and
Gina Della Saette and the crests on
the Calderia and Campanella.
"On the right our Alpine troops car
ried the crests on the Calderia and
Campenella, after much gallant fight
ing.
Along the whole front there is con-
siderable evidence of the enemy's
methods Arsiero was destroyed by
fire Asiago and many smiling villages
were reduced to smouldering ruins.
Near Magma Boschi some hundred
naked corpses of our soldiers were
found in mire.
"'In the Sugana Valley the situation
is unchanged. In upper Vanci we oc-
cupied Mast di Tognola. There were
no events of Importance on the re-
mainder of the front"
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when up comes four more men on bl-
cycle-automobiles, and they says;
Gould you direct us to the O'Learys?
"For the love of heaven I says,
what's happened to me by? He was
as dacent lad as my"
HE was that" said Mr.. O'Leary-
And then they says, says they:
Mrs. O'Leary, nam, if you be the
motheK of Michael O'Leary, you're the
greatest woman in Ireland F"
"You are" said Mr.. OLeary-and
her honest, gentle face shone.
They were writer's on the papers of
London and they told us all about
Michael and read us about him, too,
and they fell to takin pictures of the
house and the rooms and the church
where Michael was an altar boy. Then
they took us back and took a picture
of US just as we was, himself in his
diggin clothes and all, and meself
without me Sunday waist.
"OLeary, mon, fetch me thin till
grams"
Story Told by kilograms.
In a sweet, low voice that trembled
she told me their message again and
again. Here was one from Kitchener
and one from Sir John French, one
from the king Of England, and sepa-
rate congratulation to Michaers moth.
er from the queen.
They were from dignitaries of
France, Russia, England, from Cath
olic and Hibernian societies Of Amer
ica-a wonderful collection-one that
might well bring frequent tears to
Mrs. O'Leary's eyes as himself took
refuse in muttering into his pipe.
"Of course, you're for the other side,
Mr.. O'Leary," I laughed, and he an
swered me seriously enough: Il was
that, until l heard they were killing
the dead and wounded and then !
turned for England"
Then Mrs. O'Leary turned back to a
second batch Of kilograms and shook
them angrily.
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Gerry had always been quiet but
during the long drive from the station
to The Firs, his silence amounted to
penetrating stiffness. Alix felt it but
it did not depress her; she knew her
self to be in the presence Of a COM
munion. Gerry was devoting the hour
of his return to the scenes Of his boy
hood to a silent conservation. These
cool valleys and hollows; the Low
road, with its purling accompaniment
of hidden waters; the embowered still
nave of Long lane, were as the ances-
trail halls of the Lansings. 1t was right
that he should do homage to the mem
ories they evoked.
To his mother Gerry made no eXpla-
nations. He knew that to her it was
enough that her boy had come back.
When Mrs. Lansing released him, AliX
caught his hand and led him up to the
nursery. Together they looked down
upon their sleeping child.
Gerry, Jr, was fat to the verge of
a split His curly tow head was
tousled and on his brow a slight per
spiration testified to the labor of sound
sleep. His arms were outstretched
His legs had kinks at the knees, they
were so chubby. His petulant little
mouth was half open, disclosing tiny
teeth.
Isn't he a beauty?" asked Alix lit
tie loudly, wishing he would awaken
Gerry nodded. With his eyes still
on the child he put his arm around
Alix and drew her to him. What Mar
garita had done for him, Alix had done
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"'Twas these that stabbed US to the
heart" she exclaimed.
Did they bring bad news?' 1 asked.
"They did," said Mr.. O'Leary.
"They came from all the same
friends, telling us their sorrow to
read the death of Michael in the pa
pers. Himself and not radin' papers,
how did we expect it? Oh, it was
terrible, terrible day!" Mrs. OLeary
groaned, though it was an old story
now. "All the people came out to see
us and stayed to mourn, and we made
our plans for the grandest wake Ire
land ever held, and they all took on
somethin' terrible, terrible
The Wake Called Off.
Then another tilligram came, and l
was so used to the sad ones by now
that l had them open it just like the
others, and it was from Michael him
self, bad cess to him, contradiction his
death by sayin': I am nayther dead
or wounded and hopin' you're the
same
"And then we had to send every
body away disappointed in not havin
the wake, and after they came all
these miles and havin' made plans.
"And now," concluded Mrs. O'Leary,
81 won't ever behave Michael is dead
until he tills me so himself"
l swung on to my jaunting car and
turned back for my last glimpse of the
little cottage, so humbly great, so beau
tiful in the evening light, so tenderly,
whimsically lovely-it was a memory
to always warm my heart as l thought
Of Ireland.
MAY the saints guide ye home"
Mrs. OLeary pressed my hand, and
turned back in my uncertain seat to
see himself standing against the
donkey, and saying very soberly into
his pipe: "They will"
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In the Ladies Home Journal ap-
peared an entertaining account of
visit to Ireland in war time by Cath
crime Van Dyke. From it is taken the
following interview with the parents
of Sergt. Michael O'Leary, V. c., the
hero of the land of the shamrock;
The pretty white cottage with the
donkey browsing beside Towering
bush in front, and the pig contentedly
grunting beside him, was a cheerful
contrast to the first old hut we passed.
where Michael was born.
AS walked up the cobbled path bor-
dered with field flowers, Mrs. O'Leary,
seeing a visitor opened the half door
and met me with a smile the whole
German army would have surrendered
to. Sure she was glad to see anyone
from "Ameriky." Hadn't she been
there herself once as girl, and hadn't
she this minute son and two daugh-
ters there, and wasn't Michael in
"Ameriky" when he was called? "Now
will ye have a cup of tay?"
'eWere you surprised to hear of MI
chaels great honor in receiving the
first Victoria Cross and then the Rus
sian and the French Legions OF
Honor?" asked Mrs. O'Leary.
1--WE were not" Mrs. O'Leary replied
laconically.
1--WE were that surprised it nearly
killed u.s." said Mr. O'Leary without a
glance at himself Il had never till
gram before. They had no right tC
send me one, me expecting me by
killed every minute"
They had not" said Mrs. O'Leary.
How the News Came.
"Himself and l were sitting together
like this evenin', only it was mornin',
continued Mrs. O'Leary undaunted
"and up comes a by on one of them
bicvcle-automobiles, and he handed me
the tilligram, but l dursn't read it
''Tis death of Michael says, and of
we went to the praste to get him tc
break the news to us. We were dowr
at the second turn Of the mountain
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Copyright by The Century Company

"Tm glad you said it first" replied
Gerry, giving serious thought to the
fact that he was faint with hunger
himself. ever since some funny
Johnny wrote, Feed the BRUTE we
men have been shy about echoing our
stomachs. It's four o'clock. Hours
after lunch time"
"Really?" said AIix, Nesting down
closer to his arm and letting her smil-
ing eyes wander over him. How well
this suit fits you. There's something
about it 1t isn't, is itY'
Gerry nodded. Same old suit. By
the way, when came in John said you
told him to telephone to the club and
say you wished to see me. What made
you think l would go to the club first?"
Alix looked puzzled. 81 didn't. l
didn't tell John to telephone" She
paused, still puzzling then her face
cleared. "Why-poor old John-he's
getting very old. you know, Gerry.
That was three years ago told him to
telephone-the day you never came
back. 1t must have been the suit. He
saw you standing there in the same
suit and three years became as one
day to the old fellow"
Gerry sighed. "Alix, do you want
those three years to become as a day
to us?"
Alix shook her head slowly from
side to side. "No, dear, L don't. They
have given me-given US both-far
more than they took away" She put
her bare arms around his neck. drew
him down and kissed him. "You do
not know yet all that they have given
you. You think you have come back
and found me, a frittering butterfly in
a great empty house. But you've found
only my abandoned cocoon. I'm not
here at ALL I've packed myself into
the dearest little bundle Of pink fat,
yellow curIs, and chubby legs, and left
the bundle on Red HILL"
Gerry nodded but he was grave and
silent. Not in day nor month could
he altogether forget the Man.
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MOVIES TO BOOST RECRUITING.
Daniels Accepts Proposal, Ships At
Vera Cruz To Be Shown.

Washington.-A proposal by five
moving-picture weekly news services
to boost recruiting for the navy
through pictures showing the Amert-
can naval ships at Vera Cruz was ac-
cepted by Secretary Daniels. Secre-
tary Baker referred to General Funs-
ton a proposal to send movie operators
10 General Pershing's camp to help
army recruiting.
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SIOUX INDIANS WOULD ENLIST

Washington. Fifteen hundred
Sioux Indians in South Dakota have
offered to enlist in the military serv-
ice of the United States in the Mexican
emergency. The offer came in let
ter to Senator Johnson, of South
Dakota, who notified Secretary of War
Baker. The Senator was informed that
the Indians must restrain their
patriotic desire to fight for their coun-
try unless there is call for vol
UrtcerS.
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cARRANzA TO BAR VILLA.
Bandit Chief Won't Be Allowed To
Join Army.

Washfngton-A report that Fran
cisco Villa and body of his followers
are to be mustered into the Carranza
army in the event of war with the
United States was officially denied by
Eliseo Arredondo, General Carranza's
Ambassador designate here.
Mr.. Arredondo said he had been ad-
yised from Mexico City that under no
circumstances would Villa or the ban
dts allied with him, be permitted to
serve with the de facto troops.
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Practically inexhaustible deposits
OF asphalt discovered in the Philip
pines two years ago will be developed
commercially
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INTERNATIONAL.
SQIYDAYSQlOM
LESSON

By E. o. SELLERS. Acting Director Of
the Sunday School Course in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright by Western Newspaper Union->
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CALLED BACK FROM GERMANY.
Capt. William Donovan Drops Relief
Work.

Berlin.-The effects of the Mexican
crisis are being felt even here. Will
liam Donovan, Of the Rockefeller Com
mission for the Relief of Poland, who
is captain of troop of cavalry at Buf-
falo, N. Y, has received word to join
his regiment, which is mobilizing.
Captain Donovan will leave on tha
first steamer
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-19

and crew of the Benham watched the
attack on the Bloomersdijk by the u
So
According to the story told here
when Captain Rose, of the U-53 found
he would have to use a torpedo to send
the Bloomersdijk down, he invited
Lieutenant Commander Gay to move
his destroyer further away, saying
with his night blinker and internation-
al code: please go away, so 1 can
sink the steamer"
"I am going away" is reported to
have been the answer made to the
German commander by use of the
Benham's night blinker. Whether
the American destroyer commander
did move his ship with the crew of
the B1oomersdijk on board, is only
known officially
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-19
CONNELLY is BUSY
Sixth District Congressman Isn't Per-
mitting Grass to Grow.

Congressman Connolly of the Sixth
district, is permitting no grass to grow
under his feet in Il whirlwind campaign
in progress in his district. Connolly
expressed himself pleased with the Re
publican support pledged to him this
year and declares that more members
of the C. o. P. have volunteered to
back him clear to the ballot box, than
in any of his three previous campaigns.
Connolly stood by the Democrat
guns in congress to the last minute and
as result of the late adjournment of
that body will have difficulty in COW
ering his district before election. Last
Friday he was at Hunter, a new town
on the Saline & Northern railroa 1,
where he spoke in the first annual cell
ebration of the townspeople. A large
crowd greeted his address with ap-
plause.
After the Hunter meeting, Connolly
went to Lincoln and from there to
Beverly, where big meeting was held
in the evening. The band turned out
and rendered popular music and a
large picture show house, where the
meeting was held, was filled with
standing room all taken. Many stood
outside the door to hear Connolly
speak.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-19
FEAR A VILLA RAID
Mexican Peace Commissioners Urge
Carranza to SCOT Get Bandit

Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 19-Re-
ports that "Pancho" Villa has reached
the Hearst ranch at Babicora have
considerably upset the deliberations
of the Mexican peace commission. The
American delegates emphasized the
point that if Villa had penetrated this
far north, Carranza must begin his
promised drive Immediately or it
might be necessary for General PERISH
ing to strike again and strike hard.
Senior Cabrera, head of the Mexican
delegation, replied that Carranza' S
new campaign against Villa had al
ready begun andSnews of a clash was
expected momentarily. He explained
that troops were being moved north
in relays. The Americans replied that
the present situation had become so
grave that it demanded more than
promises.
The advices of General Bliss to the
American delegates was that General
Pershing would be compelled to act
Immediately should Carranza's drive
prove an idle promise. He pointed
cut the danger of another border raid
unless the Americsn troops prepare
for far-reaching thanking movement
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-19
TO INSURE CROPS
Dry Farming Methods Profit.
able on Humid Farms.
KanSan Advocates More Dairy
and Beef Cattle.

Ell Paso, Tex, Oct. 19.-Farming in
areas where light rains fall and the
use of "dry farming methods in
humid districts where drouths are only
occasional, was discussed here today
by Dean w. NJ. Jardine of the agricul-
tural division of the Kansas State Ag-
ricultural college, before the interna-
uonal Dry Farming congress.
Mr.. Jardine, who is president O. the
congress, declared that the work of
the organization should be the bring
ing about of conditions tending to-
wards more satisfactory home life, en-
couraging the production of more live
stock and providing more profitable
and his family.
Produces biggest and Surest Crops
The methods discovered by the dry
land investigators and popularized as
result of the dry farming propa-
ganda are coming to be recognized as
the best and soundest methods to use
for insuring successful and profitable
production of crops even in humid
areas" he said. while it is absolute
ly necessary that the dry land farmer
follow to the letter the most approx
ed practices if ne wishes to produce
profitable yields, owing to prevailing
conditions, the humid farmer, because
of the occasional drouth, has found
tiAoiI lAc AictHOOS VI the QTy
are the ones that can be counted upon
to produce the biggest and surest
yields under his conditions"
Among these methods is that of fall
lowing the land every other year or
once in three years in order to store
in the soil two years rainfall for the
production of one years crop, the
speaker said. He gave 100. 900 as the
number of farms in this country on
which dry farming should be prac-
ticed. Concerning the necessity for
more live stock IN the drier districts,
he said:
Kansas Butter State.
Then We must ef courage the grow
ing of more live stock in connection
with grain farming by the dry land
farmer, in order to provide a market
for many of the crops that do best
under dry farming conditions, and in
order to eliminate prohibitive trans
portation rates; also to provide profit
able year-around employment for the
farmer and his family, and to main
tain the fertility CT the soil.
Kansas sold 1,345,9OO pounds of
butter to New Mexico, Montana, Wy
oming, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma and
Old Mexico in the year ending June 80,
1916. These states are just as well
adapted to the keeping of dairy cows
and the production of butter as is
| Kansas. Every one of them ought 70
be selling butter and not SO much
wheat"
Dean Jardine spoke also of the ne
cessity for silos on every farm, say
ing that many crops now considered
by-products could be converted into
ensilage of proven feeding value.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-19
TIE Up RAILROAD
Employees of Company Go Slow
and Hamper Traffic.
Men Charged With Theft Were
Dismissed by Road.

London, Oct. 1S.-According to the
Daily Mail, the great bulk of trade
between Landsend and London is all
but paraIyzed over a nice point of
honor, the principle involved being
continue to employ men who have
been convicted of theft
Three carmen of the Paddington
staff of the Great Western railway
and a foreman employed in flour
mill were charged with stealing and
receiving a quantity of flour. A West
minister magistrate fined the flour
foreman and two of the carmen and
bound the third over. The railway
company promptly dismissed the car
men and declined to reinstate them
pending their appeal against the
magistrates decision, but promised to
take them en- on again if the appeal
proved successful and make up the
wages they lost in the interim.
Upon this 1000 odd employees in the
freight yard decided to show SYM
pathy with the dismissed men by 'go-
ing slow''-oply doing just enough
work to keep themselves within The
law, until the appeal is heard in jan
uary. A railway official says they
are not doing more than so per cent
of the usual work, many thousands
of pounds running to waste. The COM
pany has issued notices that it can ac-
cept nothing from the public unless
it is delivered. Yesterday, to prevent
hopeless confusion in the freight yard,
the road stopped collecting all Lon
don goods. Four fish vans which run
daily from the west with a load of
$50 tons or so have been stopped. So
have all the meat trains and fruit and
vegetable vans. The loss will have to
be borne, not by the railway COM
pany, but by the government, which
has taken over the railways.