The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-08

lIlc ellCIldHUSu country Splcdo DC- fore her eyes, as she walked from picture to picture.
 In the center of the room was a wooden bench. She went to it and sank down at last. She felt she could not face those pictures again. Her father had never painted like that. But what did they make her think of: these pictures that seem ed to lay bare the innermost search of the heart?
 This trembling sunlight, painted with a brilliance that overlaid a masterly technique There trans I.lucent colors. These brown-neckcd, stepping peasants with the patience of animals . She tried to put them from her mind.
 Her hands were wet She wiped them with ball of handkerchief.
 Someone behind her was saying:
 "The artists little joke. See it over there"
 She turned her head spasmodic- ally to see what it was they were | laughing at There in the corner was one of the things she remern- bered well, the purple house that seemed to topple down the brown hill into the red water below.
 Amazing that he should catch the modern spirit and caricature it so precisely
 The voices moved off She closed her eyes. Someone had come to sit beside her, she felt a hand over hers. It was Jon.
 You couldn't stay away! Well, what do you think of it?" he leaned forward, his green eyes smiling, his face lighted with a charming gay ety. How queer you look, Nora. Whats the matter?'
 Nothing. Nothing. What could be the matter?" she tried to say between white lips.
 Didn't I tell you-there you must go and speak to him as soon as that old dowager is through gushing over him
 "Jon," she plucked at his sleeve, take me away!'
 "It's been too much for you, has it? This is the time when thought you'd be wild with delight and you look as though" She tried to wiring smile from her lips but she knew it was only a grotesque twitch. Let's go, Jon. It's so hot here, isn't it?"
 But your hands are ice cold. There, he's free now!"
 NO, Jon, mo-" She shrank back. T don't want to see him now" At last they were on the train Jon began to tell her all that had happened in these last few days. She listened without seeming to hear, closing her eyes now and then as though the lids were too heavy.
 You're tired, Nora. I'll go and smoke a while. You're coming home with me. Damon will be there. We'll tell her, tonight. Then we can be married. At once. At once!"
 oh, yes, Jon. at once! And you'll take me away?"
 She was strange, mad creature, he thought. Only last week she had stood out against him, saying over and over again she could not leave her aunt. And now she beg ged him to take her away. We'll that was Nora All strange con tradictions and sudden impulses variable as the wind.
 Nora sat alone at last. Her head fell back against the chair. She could hear the train sliding over the tracks, feel the ceaseless vibra- , ton.
 , But this could not make her for get those pictures. She knew some thing about them-something tha' she dared not face. If she should bring it to the light--if she should drag up from the depths of hel mind this truth, she could nevel
 meet Julian face to face again. Copyright 1930. Jesse Douglas Fox Dead? But how, then, could . Julian |? Suddenly to-
 morrow Nora knows DamOn's
 thoughts.