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VOLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1919. NUMBER 17
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JOHN BOGA1
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-Andrea Pellor, handsome
daughter of Lord Pellor, impecuniqus
aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illit
erato but wealthy mfddle-aged diamond
mine owner. She disconsolately wanders
from her hotel in South Africa and dis
covers an aviator algout to fly from the
beach. Impulsively of courso imagining
that the trip will be merely a pleasant
excursion, and a welcome relief from
thoughts of her impending loveless tar
riage, she begs to be taken for a ftlght,
although she does not know him. He
somewhat unwillingly agrees, and they
start.
CHAPTER 1I.
Up to the moment of the sudden
chilling of her exultant blood, Andrea
had been almost oblivious of the din
of the engine. Now she could think o1
nothing else. The deafening roar that
made speech futile was a very real
barrier; it imprisoned her, held het
like the bars of an iron cage, and even
beat her remorselessly with its rapid
fire explosion.s of defying sound.
She sank back on her seat, panting
and sobbing.. She was frightened.
Never since the day when as a little
child a closet door closed and looked
upon her and inexorable darkness had
held her for moments that were Quch
an eternity had she known, such ter.
ror. The feeling that had come to
her then came to her now-darkness,
a sinking of the heart down, dbvh
through an interminable void and,
tumbling after it, body, soul, a leg or
two and a clutching hand, all come
.apart in the maelstrom of fear.
The present nightmare did not lasi
for long. Andrea gradually realized
that in fact she was quite grown up,
not a child at all but a strong and
reasonably healthy young woman who
had ridden straight to hounds at many
a five-barred gate before which men
had often paled. What was she fright
ened about? A man? Why, in the
vulgar vernacular of across the water
men had been her ailment for years
I1er backbone stiffened with a snap
she assumei her natural erect and
squai ?-.ouldered carriage, and, lean
lag forward from the hjps, laid hel
hand on the man's arm. Gentle actioi
failng to command his attention, h(
tugged at him, then shook 'him. 11(
showed no sign and -Andrea's lips
gradually set in a thin straight line
Doubling up her fists she started tc
pummel him into submission.
The, onslaught was sudden, and 11
was reasonable to suppose that th<
man would half jump out of his skir
to their imituaul peril. She was pre
plaredl for that but not for what reanl:
transpiredl. The man merely raise<
his shoulders at the first blowv and pal
no heed whatever to the ones that foi
howed inu rapidl diminuendo, ceasing
suddl~lfly wvhemt Andrea painfully real
ized~ that such fists as heors wvere neve
intended for stone crushers. She sal
hack filled with wonder andl a vagu
atdirtionii for the conistruction of th
male1 frameu.
In the meantime the airplane coi
tinued to mount steadily into tih
chilly morning blue. She looked abou
her andi down. The world was ver
far atway and1( ve'ry small. It looke
like something tihat one might forge
and leave behind entirely. She trie
in v'ain) to pick ot thet tiny roof thi1
was sheltering Aunty Gwen throug
her morning napl. 'fears once imor
came into her eyes and then recde
as a new Idea caime to the assistanlt
of her hlard-pressed determination'.
She stooped over, took off one daint
satin slipper, andI after a foolli
glance upward to assure herself thi
the man couldn't possibly look, undi
certa in fasteners with fingers th:
couild see in tihe dark, and subsequeni
ly remnoved one of hm'r best - art;
heavy slk champagne-colored sloel
ings. This done, she sat back with ti
stocking In her lap andI stared 1or
.andh pensively at the man sitting b
fore her intent on the businQss of g
lng somewl~ere at the r'ate of a h
dlredl mliles an hour. That thought elf
trulletd her. A hundred miles an ho
Inennt fIfty for every half hour, am
thirty Iminutes had certainly pass
s'ince she had1( delivered1 her person In
tihe trap of ai kindly smile that wvas n<
She took a long breath, leaneqd ft
ward, slipped the stocking deft
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single slipping knot and pulled.
The results were immediate. The
man headed the airplane up for a last
grab at altitude, started it on a long,
straight downward glide and cut off
his engine. The blessed stillness that
followed was so ineffably sweet that
Andrea had to give vent to one great
Sigh before she spoke, and while she
wis doing that the man calmly drew
i hunting knife from his belt and
severed the restraining strands of a
stocking that only a moment before
had been almost worthy of the ankle
It had clothed and adorned.
"Oh l" gasped Andrea.
"Is that all. you had to say?" asked
the man. Into the vast and rushing
etillness his calm voice dropped words
as cool and hard as pellets of ice.
Andrea choked with rage. She had
to swallow a lump in her throat before
she could gasp, "I want to go back
at once."
"You asked me to take you with
me," said the man in the same calnd
voice, "and I don't happen to be goiig
back."
"Not going back l" stuttered Andrea,
trying valiantly to appear collected.
"I did ask to c-come, b-but it's ev
ery woman's privilege to ch-change
her mind.
"When I first looked at you I saw
a smile that was kindly and chival
rous. How could I know that your
smile is nothing but camouflage made
up of lines of dissipation, and your
hideous goggles nothing but a mask
for hard eyes? I thought you were
a man, but you're nothing but a beast,
willing to torment a girl who has fool
ishly put herself in your power."
- "My dear girl," said the man, -"you
asked me to bring you. with me, and
like a fool I did. Now, like a woman,
you are crying because I didn't bring
you and leave you at the same time.
I Same old story. Women are forever
wanting to eat their cake and have it
I still."
"I am not crying," said Andrea, "and
my name isn't 'my lear girl' but the
Honorable Andrea Pellor." She paused
on that weighty announcement.
"Really?" said the man, unmoved.
"Brother in the Flying Corps. Nice,
humdlrum noble family, as I remember
it. Well?"
"Don't !" aied Andrea. "Don't start
that horrible noise again. I want to
talk to you. I want to-oh, what are
you going to do with me?"
There was a pathetic threat of tears
in the qjuestion that should have melt
ed( the rockiest heart, but it failed. "I
hatve no' intention of doing anything
with you beyond what you asked for,
and no interest," said the man quietly.
IHe reachedl one more for the
throttle. "Stop !" cried Andrea. "I
rmust know what youi mean. How can
tI talk to you with that awful din go
ing on?"
L"Oh, you'll have lots of tinge to
talk,"' said( the 311an, and( no0 sooner
were )he wvords out of his mouth t han
1they were ahntost wiped off the slateI
tof mnemiory by the sudlden iroar of tho
engine.
IIAntdrea sank back In her seat, crum
tpled upi in hotly and~ mind, and cried
(like a btaby. Gireat big sobs(111 cam lum
thbing up anld out of her sweliintg
h throat. For the first time In manuy
e yosirs she felt that slho wanted her
dmother and1( at on1Ce.
0 "Oh, mummntiy ! mumnmy I" she sobbed
like a little child, awl1( at m~om~ent later.
Y just exactly like a little child, she
h stopped crying, fsniffedl twice, blinked
it hter eyes dry tand presenltly smiled for
d o special rea~son1, just as a dawn
t~ smiles wvhen its sun3 breaks ouit from
tthe de- clouds1 or mor-ning. What
' had happenedl? Wihy, aI miost imtpor
ktant thing. She had suddenly realized
10 that no0 one could hear her crying, not
eg ven hersell'!
0' "Every person one meets," thought
0' Andrea, following tihe line of her dis
Pcovery, "has to be climbed. Some
c- people are insignificalnt mounds and
3you just walk over them; others are
Shigh clliffs that it takes ta long time
ato climb hunt that give you fresh and
to widler viewvs thme higher you go. Andi
t. thlen thlere are oth~ers," she continued
rwith a vIndletive look at the stogd
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