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EBONY WATERS By Anna McClure Sholl 12 Copyright by W. O. Chapman WNU Servlc* CHAPTER IX ? Continued ?23? More than once he paused to see If ?he were in sight ; to see if she were ollowlng him up the dangerous path which at time* measured Its width by inches above the ebony water. Here ?"d fhere a fallen tree sent the foam Igh wher* Impetuous current broke against its bulk. "Poor children," he thought, and then ; "If there had been time to get ? message to her I would have for bidden this. Dangerous? much too dangerous." But he plodded on, thinking fre quently that he hoard the snapping of twigs behind him. "We can't talk long! We'll have to be out of this Place by four o'clock," he thought, "or we'll not see our way bnck." He slipped on a bit of Ice and caught himself Just in time to save him from going over the bank Into the welter of hurrying water, ills anxiety was very great. Berenice must never venture such a thing again. The path had become a mere thread at the bottom of a precipice. The great fall hung Just ahead of him. At Its foot the vortex was in full swing. e whlrl wa? dancing a mad defiance of winter; even zero cold could not harness it. He did not care to gaze at it too long. "What a place I She must never, never come here again." Turning too quickly, he slipped, but Instantly regained his balance by a vio lent lurch backward. In the same mo ment he felt the heavy impact of some thing against his shoulder? a glancing blow? and wheeled around to find his hands violently and Instinctively clutch Ing the square green base that he knew very well Indeed; the base to which was attached the old tree. At the other end of the tree was Balder's dark and angry face, watch ful, keen and sly. Wilton had a cinema flash of events converging to and di verging from this encounter. Moving across this screen were figures both familiar and strange? Berenice in her patient beauty; Haskell roaming tho old academy like some were-wolf; the Immobile waxen children. That glanc ing blow on his shoulder? was It an accident? He would soon know ? and along the avenues of his mind ap proached another figure ? himself, trag ically snared. "See here, Balder,- he tried to speak with friendly indifference. "Be a little more careful when you're throwing rubbish Into the whirl. You might hurt somebody." "What are you in the way for?" The words conveyed more than their obvious meaning, and were accom panied by a sound, half laugh, half snarl. Nature in framing Balder on ? great scale had perhaps for tho warning of others presented him with out disguise of the Inner man. Over his broad, blank countenance some thing passed llko a cloud, obliterating even his purpose; but Wilton Instinc tively felt that he was In greater dan ger than he had ever been In his life. I/lfel It might be measured only in moments now. Then a terrlblo fear. Had this man been sent to kill them both ? had ho already killed Berenice? He tried to think calmly and to de cipher the black shadows on that hure face. Balder said: "Let go that end. I'll give It another throw." "You let go your end. I am nearest the stream." For answer Balder's hand gripped the tree trunk tighter. Wilton no ticed the bits of tinsel still wound ? bout one dry stump of a limb. ?Tt's time that Christmas tree In thrown away," he said, realizing in tho same instant that such comments could not but make his situation worse. "It's my business, not yours. Turn ? round now." "What for?" Wilton asked, trying to ?peak carelessly. "Do as you're told," Balder roared. Wilton's thoughts raced on. To make a sudden dart for liberty was im possible. The follow could overtakn him with thtee swings of his great legs; only strategy availed now. Balder seated himself on a fallen limb, and, In this position, so steep was the cliff, he seemed almost hang ing above Wilton's hend. The latter thought best to drop the base; and he l?t It down gently so as not to Jerk the trunk out of Balder's hand "Pleasant spot," Wilton remarked "though It must have looked different the day the Bracebrldge children were drowned." A grunting voice came from above. This aln t an easy place to leave I" "I mean to leave It" MYoo do ? do you?" Y "Certainly. I must get hack before "Suppose you never went bark?*' "What do job mean?" -Suppose you Stayed here?" j 1 tar. m Intention ?t here." He spoke firmly, but his Inner terror revealed to him at last what connection lay between his own Im minent danger and a long-ago tragedy. The withered tree was the link ? again to be an Instrument of death. "Throw In your tree when you choose. I am going home." Balder's laughter echoed even abov* the roar of the falL "1 weigh two hundred and ten pounds. I am six feet three In my socks. My muscle la Iron. And you ? you are Just a school room plant. I listened In at one of your teaching times. You said more about nothln' than any man I ever hear talk. You don't deserve to live, you don't I" "And maybe I don't deserve to die any ? more than ? " he paused, then hurled his boomerang ? "the Rrace bridge children. Am I to have the same execution?" He knew he had signed his own death warrant, but at least he could bring forgone Instant Into stark day light the suspected crime whose shadow lay along the corridors of l^ost land academy and haunted its decay ing rooms. The great face above him grew quite livid for an Instant, but no rebound of denial came from his Hps. When he spoke It was In a matter-of fact and quiet way. "You are, you know, lnterferln' with him. Nobody'U ever know what hap pened. No one saw you go up the ravine. Lord, It's easy to die in this gorge In winter. So many hundreds of ways of slippln' and fallln' that no body'd think twice of how you cum to do It. You certainly was a fool to believe that note." Balder was staring at him as If fas cinated. "You'll never go back now," he muttered. "I wasn't sure what to do | when 1 come up here. Now I know." | ?'You didn't dare burn that tree the day we were at the church. You had the key of the belfry room In your ' pocket; you didn't dare bring It down i and burn It before Miss Bracebrldge.'* j "How much Is he going to give you j for this Job?" The boldness of the question dis turbed even Balder's poise. Ills anarl 1 came slowly, uncertainly. "He don't i mnke no bargains. Lie ain't open and At the Other End of the Tree Was Balder's Dark and Angry Face. square like that, rie hints ? waikB all around hln design, never cornea out hold and free with It. But he pays high for little Jobs ? moving trunks or honks ? five hundred for moving hli books after ? M "After you Btruck one of the Brace bridge children with this weapon and cost the lives of the others," Wilton finished deliberately. Fie knew he had taken nway forever his chance for life, but In this last grim hour It was a satisfaction to wring out the truth; and It comforted him to add to the Indictment. "Your master. Haskell, never wanted to go with those four young people to protect them, hut to steal up behind them as you did. He urged them not to tie themselves to gether In this Alpine game they were so fond of playing ? he urged them ? not for their safety : ho knew their aversion to him, and knew they'd do exactly the opposite of what ho told them." Balder regarded him with round, ugly eyes In which a tiny gleam of ad miration flickered. "You're a psycho ? what? Mebbe there's somethln' In It Mebbe It's gospel truth." "And maybe It's gospel truth that when Jerry found you In the vegetable garden you had beaten him there by about twenty minutes, I calculate. And maybe it's gospel truth .when he said, 'All four drowned,' you knew right away It was children ? not sheep I You didn't ask one question I" "You d ? d spy. you I I knew you've been spyln' on us ever since the first afternoon when you walked In the evergreen walk with your clonk flyln' ? like a great bat." to nre ooNTi Nutait. Dreaming The problem of dreams is one con earning which scientists are not en tirely In accord. Modern Investigation of sleep Indlcutes thnt special psychic forces do not operate In a dream nor doeu the .entire activity of the brain rest during sleep, but It Is always, per haps with the exception of sound sleep, which lasts only a short time, only a part of the brain that rests. Some parts of the brain do not go to sleep but. continue to work, especially after over-stimulation. There have been numerous Instances where persons claim to have dreamed solutions to problems, which on awakening they found to be correct, but upon Inveatt gatlon It Is believed that In such In stances the subject was only In ? par tial state of sImdu FOES IN BALKANS AGREE ON PEACE War Peril Ended by League of Nations. Geneva. ? War threats In central Eu rope were dissipated when Jugoslavia and Hun"- y bowed to the League of Nations, .ose council unanimously adopted a resolution "deploring" the crimes at Marseilles. The action of the two opposing na tions in accepting the resolution was viewed as a league victory In the In terests of peace. Central Europe had been threatened by war as a direct result of the assassination October 9 of the Jugoslav king, Alexander. Hungary, In diplomatic terms, Is re quested to take "punitive action against any authorities whose culpabilities have been established" and "communi cate to the council the measures which it takes to this effect." This action was sought by Jugoslavia. Until the very last the diplomats' Interest In the .Jugoslav-Hungarian dis pute was breathlessly maintained. Ite lief was expressed on all sides when the Hungarian representative received the urgent instructions: "Vote for the resolution." The diplomats said the resolution In dicates a distinct triumph for concili ation and proves that statesmen may make concessions to the league when they might find it difficult to make them directly to governments. In this Instance Jugoslavia was seen as get ting adequate satisfaction, while Hun gary's honor remains unsullied. The Hrltish regard the agreement, sponsored by Capt. Anthony Eden, aa showing the constructive value of An glo-French co-operation. The resolution Insisted that all re sponsible for the killing of Alexander lind Foreign Minister Louis Larthou of France be punished, recalled that it is the duty of every state neither to encourage nor tolerate in its territory "any terrorist activity with a political purpose," and that all nations must repress acts of this* nature "and lend assistance to governments which re quest it." The council took the view that the i rules of international law concerning t lie repression of terrorist activity . were not sufficiently precise to guar ! ?.n tee international co-operation in the matter. It decided to set up a com mittee of experts to Ftudy the ques tion, the committee to be composed of eleven members. The committee In cludes Hungary, but not Jugoslavia. WASHINGTON BRIEFS Administrator Harold L. Ickes al loted $.!, 000,000 to the Labor depart ment to finance operation of the na tional re-employment service until July 1, 1:1:5.",. The service maintains employ ment bureaus In principal cities. President Itoosevelt war, asked in a letter by the National League of Wom en Voters to issue an executive order extending the merit system by placing the federal-state employment service In the classified service. NKA granted 145 hi: us and 10 trade associations temporary exemptions from President Roosevelt's order di recting wage Increases In the cotton garment Industry. Robert Crosser of Cleveland, veteran Twenty-first district Ohio congressman, will be a candidate for speaker of the house of representatives. Four Killed in Crash of Plane in Cuba Havana, Cuba. ? Four persons, In cluding George II. Hunkar of Yonkers, N. Y., were killed In the crash of a passenger plane In the Sierra Maestra mountains. G. Grant Mason, Jr., president of th** Companla Nacional lie Avlaclon, oper ator of the plane, announced others who died In the plane crash were Pi lots Torres Navarro and Emeterlo Vo rllia. He believed the fourth victim wns Jose Coll, an Inspector of the Cuban treasury department. Two Army Flyem Killed in Maneuvers Montgomery, Ala. ? A crash In mid air during flight maneuvers at Max well field cost the lives of two army flyers, ('apt. Audrey H Italian! of Ho bart, Okla., and Lieut. Itlcardo L Casfenda Leon of Mexico City. Minftmi Rutea Mnnchukuo Tokyo. ? Gen. Jtro Mlnaml, fifty nine, stern and strong willed soldier, was Installed ay Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo and commander In chief of the empire's military forces In that Japanese advised nation. The power* of the ambassador are Inclusive enough fo make him actual ruler of the former Mnnchurlrt on behalf of the Japanese emperor. Two Accused in 22 Poison Drink Deaths Portland, Ore.? Two Portland drug gists sfood formally charged with In voluntary manslaughter after four moro deaths brought the poison drink toll to twenty-two. Solomon Miller, drug store proprie tor, and Irving Hchwnrtr,, clerk of the same drug store, were accused of sell Ing some of the victims denatured al cohol- which canned their deaths. Mall of $10,000 each was set for Miller and Hchw?r?? IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL I SUNDAY I chool Lesson (By KSV. P. B. F1TZWATKK. O. D.. Uoif.t>t>r of Faculty. Moody Blbla Institute of Chicago.) ?. Western New?i>ar>e>r Union. Lesson for December 30 TESTS l)F A CHRISTIAN LESSON TEXT? I John 6:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT? Whosoever bellev #th that J os ii ? Is the Christ Is born of Ood: and every one that loveth him that beffat loveth him also that Is be gotten of him. ? 1 John 6:1. PRIMARY TOPIC? How to Show We Love (Jod. JUNIOR ?TOPIC ? Sons and Daugh ters of Ood. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? How Christ Helps Ufi to Live Our Best. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? Victory Through Christ. The purpose of John In this epistle Is to furnish criteria by which one may know beyond a peradventure that be has eternal life (see I John f>:13). In working out his purpose he sets down a definite thesis in chapter 1, verses 1-4, which Is that eternal life was man ifested to credible witnesses ? John and his fellow apostles ? In the person of Jesus Christ. Through the Incarnation Jesus Christ has become Identified with the human race, so that those who Be lieve In him are Introduced to the Fa ther. resulting in a vital fellowship. The saved one has fellowship with God, or fellowship In the life eternal. The entire epistle Is devoted to the exhibi tion of tests by which one can surely know that he Is saved. The lesson unit for today Is the culmination of these tests. I. Believes That Jesus Is the Christ (v. 1). Such faith Is the proof of regener ation. He not merely believes in the 1 ethics of Jesus, but that the historic I Jesus Is the Messiah of Clod ? the Son | of God come In the tlesh. The one j lacking this belief Is still unregenerate, ! regardless of his pretensions. Jesus ! < hrlst li? the giver of eternal life. Yea, | he Is. In bis very essential being, eter- , nnl life. Therefore, the one who be- | Meves In him as manifest in the tlesh i is born of (Jod. II. Loves the Children of God (v. 1). ; The one born of God loves those who ' nre burn of (Jod. The unfailing test of fellowship with (Jod is that we love j those who are born of God. Love for ! God shows Itself In loving God's chil- < dret?. III. Keeps God's Commandments (w. 2. 3). 'lhla Is filial, not legal obedience. We do not keep God's commandments In order to become his children, but be cause we possess his nature. Obedi ence I s the unfailing proof of the di vine birth. IV. Ovarcomes the World (vv. 4, 5). Conflict for the regenerate man Is absolutely certain. The world's ways are opposed to God. Ry the world Is meant all that Is opposed to God. It Includes all the lusts of the tlesh which respond to the enticements of the world. It also Includes Satan, the prince of this world. The one who be lieves that Jesus Is the son of (Jod Is born of God and has Jesus Christ liv ing In him. Therefore, he overcomes the world, because he has In him one who is greater than Satan. Faith In Jesus Christ Is the weapon by mentis of which victory Is realized. The vic torious life Is the absolute test of be ing a Christian. V. The Grounds of Christian Belief (vv. (J 12). Since victory over the world Is se cured by faith In Jesus as the Son of God. it Is Important that we know the grounds upon which such belief Is based. The believer's faith rests upon the threefold testimony of the Splr't the water, and the blood. 1. The Spirit Is the Holy Spirit, the third member of the Godhead. Ills supreme business is to make Christ, real. This he does to the spirit of the believer (Itom. 8:115), and to the world, through the Word of God and through the lives and testimony of believers. 2. The water Is IiIr baptism at the Jordan. Ry baptism he formally en tered upon his mediatorial work. It whs here that the Spirit came uj>on hint in the form of a dove, and that the Father acknowledged him as bis Son. H. The b.ood Is that of the Cross. In the act of baptism he dedicated him self to that tusk of making full h right eousness for man on the cross of Cal vary. This Is doubtless what Is meant by "tnltllllng all righteousness." Ills baptism and the crucifixion, with all that they signified, were proofs that lesiis whs the very Son of Ood. The witness of the cross of Christ Is itlll ? ripping nnd saving men. Children ?? Tft?ch#r? The child In the cradle Is God's child. How then, shall we take this little child? We will take him as one who brings a new revelation to us The children are the great teachers. They firing s new revelation of God and his love. Call for Pr?T?r Emergencies call for Intense prayer When the man becomes the prayer, nothing can resist Its touch. Elijah on < 'armel, bowed down on the ground, vvlth his face between his knees, rhnt vas the prayer ? the man himself. Llf* What kind of n tale is life to you? life meaningful c.nd worth living? l hat depends upon the one who llvffc t The really good man finds II* * <otxL THE TROUBLE Two negroes wero boasting about the merits of tiidr respective motor cnrs, both worn, shabby, old wrecks. One of them said, "Deys Ju' one reason why Ah caln't run dls cah o'mlne 100 miles a houah." "An' what's dat reason?" asked me other. "Da distance is too long fo' de shortness of de time," said the first. Being Cute Little John was busily watching two little girls sitting behind him in church. After the service a woman who had noticed him and admired his big blue eyes, said to him: "John. I tldnk you are about as cute as they grow, aren't you?" "Well, I ain't ns cute as the two little girls who were behind me," lit tie John replied. Had Heard About That Little Johnny, aged seven, had been taken to the zoo. He stood bo fore the leopard's cage for a few minutes staring Intently. Then, turn ing to his mother, he asked: "Moth er, Is that the dotted lion that every one wants dad to si^n on?" Unreasonable Hank ?Had your telephone re moved, 111? Ill ? Yes ? th* fools said I couldn't cuss over it! How could 1 tell Josh Medders his cows was in my corn without cussln'? ? Lorain Journal and Times-Union. BEYOND HIM Wlfle ? I think I'll wear a cross word skirt to the dance. Hubby ? I know you better than anyone else ? and 1 ein't solve you. Redoubled Effort "What do you think has been the result of cutting the vnlue of the dollar In half?** "It has stimulated our energies, answered Senator Sorghum. "Kvery body seems to fool that he'll have to hustle twice ns hard to get the old results." Something Wrong Guest ? Do you operate a bus be tween the hotel and the railroad sta tlon? Manager of Ult/.y lintel ? No, sir! Guest ? That's strange. All my friends sold you would get me com ing and going. Safety Fir?t Gardener ? Is this your ball in the garden here? I5oy ? Are there nny windows broken? Hardener? No, sonny. Hoy- ? Oil, that'll he my ball, then. -?Pearson's Weekly. You Can Start Smnll Doctor (ecstatically) ? Sir, yours Is a case which will enrich medical sci ence I Patient ? Oh, dear, and I thought I wouldn't have to pay more than five or ten dollars. ? I'.oston Evening Transcript. Blown Up? Man ? I understand that Hill was the victim of a powder blnst. Friend ? Yes, ills wife was furious ly Jealous when she found the evi dence on ills coat. ? Chelsea Record. PnintSng Collector "I nin told that you have paid $r>0 000 for a painting." "Yes," answered Mr. Dnstln Sta*. 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Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 213 West Sev enteenth Street, New York City. SLIGHT MISTAKE "I Just congratulated Doctor Brow* on marrying one his patients, and he seemed quite annoyed." "That isn't Doctor Brown, yon Idlor. That's Doctor Smith, th? lunacy expert." ? Vancouver Province. Sporting Sutpenie "Is the election over In Crimson Gulch?" "Not yet," answered Cactus Jo?. "A lot of the boys arc still bettln* on how many votes there will be In th? ballot boxes after a recount." The Old Question "They say every Jack has his .Till." "Yes, but I bet some of them would rather make a pint." ? Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. A TICK IN THE CASE Hug Sleuth ? At 1 nut I have dlBcoT* ered the mystery of the disappear ance of Mr. Tick. lie's Imprisoned In that watch case ! Acting Upon th*> Word Mistress - Did yon put my evening frock In soak as I told you? "Yes, mum, hut I could on ly $2 on It 1" ? Pearson's Weekly. How Sh* T onlc It HtiKhand I? Is a strnnge thin#, bnt true, that the l>lcj{o*t fools have th? most beautiful wives. Wife (pleased) ? Oh, wlmt a fUfc terer you are, darling.