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VoLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1920. A/M JOHN BOCA (Conbinued from Last Week.) CHAPTER VIII. - White Man an. nouf.ces thot his work in ended, and prep. arations are made for the shipment of the material on hand. One ramy night Anglroa allows herself to become do apondent. She gives the signal agreed on between them to summon White Man to her in .case of danger. With a mix ture of ridicule and comfort he coaxes her from her despondent fit. Ills strong character and his ideas of a life of use fulness are something of a revelation to Andrea, used to the frivolous existence common to most "aristocrats," and she begins to realize with a little alarm that she Is beginning to care deeply for him. He paused; Andrea smiled faintly. "And now?" she prompted. "Nov,-" he answered. "Now I know that a man must travel far be yond the 1imits of every-day emotions to come ui. )vijh love itself. He may find content and drowsy happiness In some woman possessed of all the quali ties that command affection, but love itself dwells far beyond at the cross roads of weakness and strength. And so your helplessness, carried to that last degree, has wound itself around my heart with a grip that will never loosen." "Poor White Man I" said Andrea. "Whether you want me," he con tInued gravely, "or mock me, whether you are true or untrunp pure or Impure -all those things no longer matter, for love is an integral possession. You *-"may - leave .me, pt the width of -the world between us, and the breath of your body will still be the breath of mine, the surge of your blood will be the surge of mine; your sins will be my sins, because your helpless self, stripped of all the clogs of flesh, has twined itself for always with the fibers of my heart." "So yot vould give three pounds for me," muriuired Andrea. He let go her hands and rose quickly to hIs feet. "You are stronger than I thought," he said. "No, I'll never give a cent for 'yu. I'll wait till you're well and then I'll take you in free fight and in my own way." But Andrea did not'hear hni;shie had sun11k hack lax into her pillows. Two tears crept from under her closed eyelids and (own her hollow cheeks. "I'm so weak," she whispered, "so weak I ean't cry." The white man cursed hiniself aloud. No one knew better than lie that it is not wNon when the tide of battle turns, and that he who sleeps on the verge of victory awakes to defeat. le settled down to the long vigilance that was his price of peace. The day and a night caiie and went before he could draw the long, quiveririg breath of relief that marked the passing of danger. During the stage of convalescen~e he read and talked to her b~y tile hour, but the time came when she would have no more of the printed page. Ie hlad spoken a passage here and there from tile book of hIs own life anld now she demanded tile volume from cover to cover. Hie told her of his boyhood in a New England country town, of scrapes itn school and of the disaster in college that had tulrnedl lhm from the nairrow roaid of specialIzation in the dliseases of the nose and ear to that broad~ highway whleh is trod lightly and1( aimilessly by stray dogs aand clti zeas of the world. "You would have made a great phty siclan," said Andrea, almost regret fully. "l'erhaps," he replied. "B u1 t I wouldn't have savedl myself. I would never have found mnyself. I would have been one of those unconscious mortals whlo spend their lives in a group pictuare. I would noter huave found~ out that thlere is something within me thlat utterly rebels against all those isms which aim at the col lectIve classification of animal man and whose goal is tile hlerd instead of "fBut isn't that 01(d stuff?" asked Andrema, yawning for the first time in \mainy days. "No, It Isn't," said the white man thoughtfully. "and I'll tell you why. Never for centuries has intrinsic life been so close as it is today to its true level of proportionate valuation. WVhat was worth living for yesterday, isn't a ~ustifleation today. F~ood, raimesnt and a baby-grand measure less in the thloughts of. true men tha (.truth. R' RGE MPAINED G= B 2DUS.-PJC 3RILL COMPAW honor and the final quality of mercy." He sat for long in an absorbed silence. "Tell me," said Andrea, "how the production of a million dollars' worth of fiber Is an expression of the indi vidual." "Now you're trying to pull down the star to which I've hiltcied my personal wagon," said M'sungo with his slow smile. "Well," he continued, "take it, handle It, but let it go again when you're through with it, because I need it high up and far ahead. When I real ized that that M. 0. wasn't a liar, after all-" "White 'Man!" broke in Andrea and leaned forward. She stared at him wide-eyed and flushed of cheek. "Are you Trevor?" He nodded. "Robert Oddman Trevor?" "Robert Trevor," he conflrmued and simplified. "Oh, White Man !" she cried again, dropping her hands into her lap and gazing at him with an intensity that slowly (rove the blood from her face. She was sitting in her hammock-chair, propped against all the pillows the camp could produce. She took a longi breath and then she spoke again. "Will you do something for me-a little thing?" "Why ask?" said Trevor. "Well, It's like this," said Andrea. I ant tol tiss ou."~ She turned her eyes from his face and continued rap. idly. "It needn't mean anything, of course. Nothing binding, you know, on either party. Only, you, see, any thing might happen to me at any mo ment; I might fall ill again and just pop off. So-jf you don't mind-I'd like to do it now, please." Trevor's face presented a puzzle that nobody saw, for Andrea's eyes were anywhere but upon it. te arose and came hesitatingly to kneel bwslld her chair. "Well," ho said1 and she almoast laughed at the weird( quaver in his voice, "here I am. G-go t it." She put her arms around h!s neck anl(d enlie blindly toward him. "An "Are You Trevor?" dIren," he protested, "aren't you going to look in my eyes?" She shook her head. "No," she whis pered, "it isn't that kind of a kiss." 11er soft moist lips on his mouth were as light as a flower thist sways to its mate in the cool breath of the morning, salutes gently and recdes, fearful of bruising. "There I" she crled, sinking back on her pillows. "Now go on about the star thing." Trevor, a dazed look in his eyes, mopped his b~row, returned to his chair and obediently repeated, "When I real ized that that M. 0. wasn't a liar after all, and thnt my flying dna wera reannu o Nri~F 1" ' la To0 afojirl id inew steering lights. There are just three Whings in the world today: winning the war is number one, and after that come education and transport." He nodded to himself as if in con firmation. "I picked Transport for my star. My mission is to ships- and railroads. I believe in all reverence tpat together with education they can be welded into the socond coming of our Lord, bearing peace and not a sword. If you can only see my star high enough and far enough away, you'll know that it shines on a world beyond blasphemy." New F4 Dress Ging Bleachini WOW Beautifnl p on sale for schoc 27-inch plai Renfrew an the yard. 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