The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-11

stiff stone pineapple on top of each. The moon shone on the posts and on the pineapples, end on the man who passed between them into the black shadow which lay beyond. a.s
 She mustnt lose sight of him. She had lost the last light of the village. Whatever happened. she mustn't lose Jim.
 Jim was drowned. a.@ ,si,.
 She stood for a moment on the edge of the moonlight. The elrns stopped here, and the light shone clear across the green. Something clatnored in Caroline's ear: "Jim's drowned-it can't be Jim" And then she was running through the moonlight and into the shadow.
 The trees that bordered the drive had been growing together for thir. ty years. Old MT. Randall wouldn't have anything cut. It was as dark as the darkest tunnel. It was dark even when he sun was shining. Now it was like a tunnel hung with black velvet.
 The gravel was so overgrown with moss that it was like running on 3 soft carpet. Caroline's feet made no noise at all, nor. when she checked and listened. could she hear the sound of any other foot. She went on again, not running now, and with her hands lending out before her. The tunnel under the trees had an empty feeling. It went right on to the corner of the house and there ceased.
 Caroline stood still and listened again. She couldn't hear anything at all. It wasn't dark any longer. but all the light came barred and chequered through the branches of the great cedar which stood up against the moon. The house seemed vague and un- substantial, it's tangled creepers dap pied with silver It wasn't a place where people lived any more. There was no fire on it's hearth, no light in it's. chambers. It was a house of dreams.
 Until she stood in the black mouth of the drive and looked at the house, Caroline had been afraid. Part of her had been very much afraid, but she had gone on because she had to go on. Now the part that was afraid stopped being afraid any more. The empty house drew her into its own dream, and she stopped being afraid. She began to run across the bars oi moonlight and shadow, and as shx ran she called.
 Jim! Jim! Wait for me!" CAROLINE came to the corner, A and saw the whole front of the house and the gravel sweep before it unshadowed in q faint moony light. In the middle of the sweep the man whom she had followed stood looking up at the house. :
 Carolina had done with hesitating and being afraid. Those were things which she had left behind, outside the dream. She came to him, run ming lightly, and as he turned at the sound of her running feet. she caught him by the arm. s. "Jim!" It was her very, warmest, softest, deepest voice.
 He stood there and looked at her. He had come here because his feet had brought him. At every turning, at each cross-road and bend, he had known his way, yet he could not at any time have said where he was going; he could only have said that he didn't know. Yet all the time he knew that his feet were following familiar path. Tn the dafk this feeling strensthAned. It took him into Hazelbury west with the sure sense of a homfne animal, and it had brought him here.
 As he stood stayfnE at the house. the stranseet sense Of forgotten things cams to him from the shape of the three pointed gabies. tho half seen chimney stacks, the blank win. dows. the ivy, and the failing cur. tains of virginfa creeper. z
 And then feet ruhning lightly over the gravel. and a girl holding him by the arm and saying. "Jim!r' She said 1t again, softly. with caught breath. She was bare-headed.
 The moonlight had stolen ali her color. Her hair was shadowy and dark. her face just a half seen pale ness. her eyes dark but catching the light as water does, her hands hold ing his arm, small and yet strong. her breath coming quickly. her parted lips dark where daylight would have shown them red.
 "Jimi"
 He went on looking at her. The hands on his arm began to shake.
 "Jim-why don't you speak? Jim you're not drowned?"
 He said, "Pm not drowned" | fCopWight. 1oss. J. B. Ltppincott Col
 Caroline, tomorrow, has . terri.