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I The Trey1 I A Nov elized Veruon of the Motion 1 Produced by the (J I By LOUIS JOS I Author of "Tht Fortune Hantor," "The I IUattrated with Photograph* I Copyright, 1014, by L CHAPTEl VIII. The Incredible Thing. Broad daylight, the top of a morning as rare as ever broko upon the north country: Alan Law opening bewildered eyes to realize the substance of a dream come true. True it proved itself, at least, In part He lav between blankets upon a couch of balsam fans, in a corner of somebody's camp?a log structure, weather proof, rudely but adequately furnished. His clothing, rough-dried but neatly mended, lay upon a chair at his side. He rose and dressed in haste, at once exulting in his sense of complete rest and renewed well-being, a prey to hints of an extraordinary appetite, and provoked by signs that seemed to bear out the weirdest flights of his delirious fancies. There were apparently Indlsputnblo evidences of a woman's recent presence in the camp: blankets neatly folded upon a second bed of aromatio balsam In the farther corner; an effect of orderliness not common with guides; a pair of dainty buckskin 'gauntlets depending from a nail In the wall; and?he stood staring wltlessly at it for more than a minute?In an old preserve Jar on the table, a single rose, warm and red, dew upon Its petals! There was sIbo Are In the cook stove, with a plentiful display of things to cook: but despite his hunger Alan didn't stop for tliat, but rushed to the door and threw ft open and himself out Into the sunshine, only to pause, dashed, chagrined, mystified. There was no othefr living thing In sight but a loon that sported far up the river and saluted him with a shriek of mocking laughter. The place was a clqjt In the hills, a table of level land Sbme few acres in area, bounded on one hand, beneath the cliff from which he had dropped, by a rushing river fat with recent rnins; on the other by n second cliff of equnl height. Upstream the .water curved round the shoulder of a powering hill, downstream the cliffs ^4,-losed upon it until It roared through ? a narrow gorge. Near the camp, upon a strip of ^ striving beach that bordered the river where It widened Into a deep, dark pool, two canoes were drawn up, bottoms to the sun. Dense thickets of pines, oakH, and balsams hedged In the clearing. He was, It sceined, to be left severely to himself, that day; when he had I cooked and made way with an pnoc mous breakfast, Alan found nothing better to do tUl time for luncheon than to explore this pocket domain. He feasted famously again at riocn; whtled away several hours vainly whipping the pools with rod and tackle found In the camp, for trout that he really didn't hope would rise beneath that blazing sun; and toward three o'clock lounged back to his aromatic couch for a nap. The westering sun had thrown a deep, cool shadow across the cove when he was awakened by importunate hands and a voice of magic. Rose Trine was kneeling beside him, . clutching bis shoulders, calling on him by name?distracted by an Inexplicable anxiety. He wasted no timo discriminating between dream and reality, but gathered both into his arms. And for a moment she rested there unresisting, sobbing quietly. "What Is it7 What Is it, dearest?" he questioned, kissing her tears away. "To find you all right. ... I was so afraid!" Bhe cried brokenly. "Of what? Wasn't I all right when you left me here this morning?" She disengaged with an effort, rose, and looked down strangely at him. "I did not leave you here this morning, Alan. I wasn't here?" That brought him to his own feet In a jiffy. "You were not!" he stammered. "Then who??" "Judith," she stated with conviction. "Impossible! You don't understand." The girl shook her head. "Yet I know: Judith was here until this morning. I tell you 1 know?I saw her only a few hours ago. She paseed us In a canoe with ono of her guides, while we watched In hiding on the banks. Not that alone, but another of her gu.des told mine she was here with you. She had sent him to South Portage for quinine. He stopped there to get drunk?and that's how my guide managed to worm the information from him." Alan passed a hand across his eyes. "I don't understand," he said dully. "It doesn't seem possible she could?" A shot Interrupted him, the report of a rifle from a considerable distance upstream, echoed and re-echoed by the cliff*. Aud at this, clutching frantically at his arm, the girl drew him through the door and down toward the river. "Oh, come, come!" she cried wildly. "There's no time!" , "But, why? What waa that?" i "Judith 1* returning. I left my I 9BHnnHniBtnEi.wjnMnMBBr9 O* Hearts I Picture Drama of the Same Name I 'niversal Film Co. 1 r-1 FJPH VANPF I I Drau /W,"'Th Knelt A*,".*. I from the Picture Production 1 ' ' otriu Joseph Vance Precipitating Both Into That Savage i Welter. ifllldi' lll> 111r? trail tn bIlmiuI no you know what It means If wo don't manage to escape before she gets here?" "Itut how?" "According to tho guide the river's the only way other than the trail." "The current 1b too etrong. They could follow?pot ub at leisure from the banks." "Hut downstream?the current with us?" "Those rapids?" "We must shoot them!" "Can it be done?" "It must be!" Two more shots put a. period to his doubts and drove it home, lie offered no further objection, but turned at once to launch one of the canoes. Ab soon as it wn? in the water, ltoso took her pluce in tho bow, paddle in liand, and Alan was about to step In astern when a fourth shot sounded and a bullet kicked up turf within a dozen feet. A glance discovered two figures debouching into the clearing. He dropped into place and, planting paddle in shallows, sent tho canoe well out with u vigorous thrust. Two strokes took it to the middle of the pool where immediately the current caught the little craft in its urgent grasp and sped it smoothly through more narrow and higher banks. A moment more and tho mouth of the gorge was yawning <or them. With the clean balance of an experienced l anoeman. Alan rose to his feet for an instantaneous reconnoissanee botli forward and astern. Ho looked back tlrst, and groaned in bis iieart to see the sharp prow of the second canoe glide out from the binks. He looked ahead and groaned aloud. The rapids were a wilderness of shouting waters, white and green, worse than anything he had anticipated or ever droanvd of. But there was now no escaping that ordeal. The fetnoe was already spinning between walls where the water rati deep and fast with a glassy surface. The next instant it was in the jaws; and the man settled down to work with grirn determination, pitting courage and strength and experience against the ravening waters that tore at the canoe on every hand, whose mad clamor beat back and forth between the walls of the gorge like vast bellowlngs of infernal mirth. He fought like one possessed. There was never an instant's grace for judgment or execution; the one must be synchronous with the other, both Instantaneous, or else?destruction. The canoe wove this way and that like an insane shuttle threading some satanic loom. Now it hesitated, nuzzling a gigantic boulder over which the water wove a pale green and glistening hood, now in the space of a heartbeat It shot forward twice Its length through a soa of creaming waves, now plunged wildly toward 1 what promised Instant annihilation ' and cheated that only by the timely plunge of a paddle, guided by luolc or Instinct or both. The one ray of hope in Alan's mind, when he surveyed before committing himself and the woman be loved to that hideous gauntlet, sprang from the fact that, however rough, the rapids w ere ehort. Now, when he had been in their grasp a minute, he seemed to have been there hours. If in laboriugs were tremendous, unbelievable, inspired. In the end they were all but successful. The goal of' safety was within thirty seconds' more of quick, hard work, when Alan's ?..J - iwuuin uivnr til Ml ' 11? IH1IU1I HWUIlg broadside to a boulder, turned turtle and precipitated both beadlons int?i in that savage welter. ni THK 1jAN( WKTKK NKW* As the next few minutes passed he was lighting like a mad thing against overwhelming odds. Then, of a sudden, he found himself rejected, spewed forth from the cataract and swimming mechanically iu the smooth water of a wide pool beyond the lowermoBt eddy, the canoe floating bottom up near by, and Rose supporting herself with one baud on it. Her eyes met his, clear with tne sanity of her adorable courage. He floundered to her side, panted instructions to transfer her hand to his elioulder, and struck out for the nearer shore. Both found footing at the name time and waded out, to collapse, exhausted, against the bank. Then, with a sickening qualm, Alan remembered the pursuit. He rose and looked up the rapid just in time to view the last swift quarter of the canoe's descent: Judith in the bow, motionless, a rifle across her knees, in the stern an Indian guide kneeling and lighting the waters with scarcely perceptible effort. in contrast with Alan's supreme^fruggles. Like a liv'hg thing the canoe (SeeinufHo gather itself together. 10 to leap with ull its strength; it hurdled the eddy in a bound, took the still water with a mighty splash, and shot downstream at diminished speed, the Indian luriouslj backing water. As though that had been the one moment she had lived for, Judith lifted her rifle and brought it to bear ?upon her sister. With a cry of horror. Alan flung himself before ltose, a living shield, anticipating nothing but immediate death. This was not accorded him. For a breathless instant the woman in _ ?r? , .i. i They Found a Footing. the canoe stare' along the sights, then lowered her weapon and, turning, spoke indistinguishably to the guide, who instantly began to ply a brisk paddle. The canoe sped on, vanished swiftly round a bend. After a long time, Alan voiced his unmitigated amazement: "Why?in the name of heaven I Why??" The girl said dully: "Don't you know?" And when he shook his head. "Her guide told mine you had saved her lite on the dam at Spirit Lake. Now do you see?" His countenance was blank with wonder: "Gratitude?" Rose smiled wearily/ "Not gratitude alone, but something more terrible. ..." She rose and held out her hand. "Not that I can blame her. . . . Hut come; if we strike through here we will. 1 think, pick up a trail that will hring us to Black -ieaver settlement by dark." (Continued in Next Issue.) Farm Facta. By Peter Radford, Lecturer National Farmers' Union. 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Catholic 11 priests and priests of the Russian Creek church are on their knees at this moment, all praying lor "vie- si tory." s< All are earnest and sincere, bel Moving that Clod should help them, |r and help especially to kill the other n fellow, annihilate him, and give -his land and his life to the troops for ^ I lc whom the devout one is praying. If j Very interesting, in this day of j praying for victory is a quotation ; >"' from Mark Twain in an address doIq 01 lore ilie iirooKiyn noeieiy lor ram-ili eal Culture: A few years before his death Mark j '* Twain wrote an article entitled "The jt War Prayer." It describes how a regiment gathers in ?a church before ~ it departs for war and prays for vietory. As . the prayer concludes, a w white-robed stranger enters the 11 church and says: "I have been sent by the Almighty to tell you that lie will grant your a petition if you desire it after I have 1 explained to you its full import. You P are asking for more than you seem " to be aware of. You have prayed e aloud for victory, over your foes, but Sl listen to the unspoken part of your prayer and ask yourself if this is r' what you desire.'' S( Then the stranger speaks aloud s these implication of their words: (1 "O Lord help us to tear the sol- ^ diers of the foe to bloody shreds with ? our shells: help us to cover their a smiling fields with the pale forms of Cl their patriot dead; help us to lay ? waste their humble homes with a h hurricane of tire: help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief. Blast ? their hopes, blight their lives, water K i their way with their tears." P If those that pray realized what they are praying for there would be I fewer prayers for victory just now. 1 _ b "PEACE <>N EARTH." h ei Amejrirnn Plan to Silence All thins ]j If Christamits Day. ii ( I .(ill don Dispatch to New York Sun. I The Daily Mail has received a dis- a patch from its correspondent in New j, York saying that leading clericals s? and educators there have under dis- (, cussion a movement to have the war- Sl ring powers agree to an armistice on c Christmas Day. Bishop David II. c] C.r?'er. Cardinal Farley, ltr.bbi 11. P. Mendes of the Jewish Synagogue in \ New York r.nd President Nicholas p Murray Butler of Columbia Univer- a( sity are mentioned as iterestei. The correspondent of The London ^ Dally Mall in New York said yes- l(i terday: m "This movement is in its fancy, . but it has already enlisted the sym- . pathies of such distinguished lead- ^ ers of their creeds as Cardinal Farley. Bishop David H. CIreer of the () Kpiscopal Diocese of New York and p( Itabbi H. Perles Mendes of the Jewish Synagogue. The movement also t? is understood to hare the sympathy ^ and support of such enninent eduea- ci tors as sPresldent Nicholas Murray te, Butler of Columbia University. _ "The larger movement looking to a permanent cessation of hositilities is at the present subordinated apparently to the movement, for an armistice on Chrlstmrs Day. Bishop (Jreer said that while no definite action has as yet been taken on the proposal, which had originated with Itabbi Mcndes, it was proper to say that the suggestion for a Christmas armistice had already received the enthusiastic support of prominent members of the Catholic and Epis ?ui?'i > iiuicucb hiiu ui ine jewisn synagogues. Disliop Giver said that PtS' % ^ - ^MtH.4Mj< ;J?|k ' , V' P-'; " * ' '* %& briskll and his cnri'is si treacherous (ricks terrifies s hern ensjaiied to flv at (lie L;i G. 3-1-5, 1511 1. 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I 1 The first dose was proof to Rev. t etails of the plan were still to be orked out, but that probably, if the lovement met with the expected i npport of all creeds and denomina- 1 ions, the proposal for a Christmas i rinistice would lie made through 1 'resident Wilson or the state de- 1 arlnient at Washington. lie said I lint the plan had as yet not advanc- I d far enough in detail to be pre- ' en ted to the President. "The movement is all the more eninrkable Iti that the idea ot oberving the day of 'peace on earth' 1 hould have come, as it apparently 1 id, from a rabbi. It is from Or. lendes too that ttie larger purpose f an effort by all religious creeds ' nd sects for permanent peace omes. Rabbi Mendea received me n a sick bed from which the rabbi as been unable to move for some me. He was suffering severe pain, ut bis face lighted up as he spoke f bis dream that men of all reliions should unite in a plea for eace. 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