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ACi AU/ OU0MH2UG1 - JOHN BOGA (Continued frol [Iast Week.) C1I A l 'T Xii.--'1'revor at first Iq bit terly anogry over Andis fsrog,-<1 ni his Iequt A to ignork- MaCloster, hilt she exi-tinshw ltes nurveou vo,jj enthraid li her and it morgiiven. Trevcn rotu)Iiui1ig thatt his Pro in iound up with hers whatevr btio. '!'hey reaci 1101 e faely, co onVeol .v l:1te.ilester'C cre w, whoi 'rrevor impresses. liito secrv lco, CHAPTER XIII. Andrea (d(d not awake until Trevor witlidrev his arm, which was when they were already in sight of their hiome landing. By tlie tilie she reached the camiip she wvas in no mood to welcome the astonlishinlg sight (if three white imlen calnly taklpg n. siesta in 'I'revor's most comfortable chairs, their helmets and (olmnans tossed aside and their -lhort t-loeved undershirts unbuttoned at the leck. The only thing to b) discerned in their favor was that they were all .*reshliy saven. It (Id not cheer her to see that upon catching sight of them, Trevor's face cleared. "Who are the Interlopers?" she asked shortly. Ills eyebrows went up. "Interlopers, Andrea Pellor?" lie asked with a si.'le. Then his face turned grim. "Will you do what I ask this time?" he inquired. She Stified 1 feteilig of iebellon that immediately rose in her at this recurrence of his fighting voice. "Yes," she said meekly. "Please slip quietly to your room, have your tea and bath alone and dress in your smartest khaki outfit, leggings andti all. When you have done that, please wait till I come." Andrea could not resist a single shot. "Yes," she said demurely, "just for a change I'll go and have my tea arld hath-alone." Trevor ignored the lilt. "Good girl," lie said, his attention alr;ady swerving to his snoring guests. "And you won't tell me who they are?" asked Andrea. "Or don't you know?" lie fixed her with a ineaning stare. "Certainly I know," hie said. "for I sent for theii at considlerable expense and trouble. Also I may as well tell you now that one of thien at least is a priest of the Cluirch of EIngland." A flame of color stained Andrea's cheeks and iher eyes went t(lsudlenly wide. 'i'lihigs wvere moving and only by a1 trelinepd(ous effort dId she 4catch up with them. "Great expense,'' she mlurmtured(. 'Something undter three poundts, I supipose'.'' Uinoubted ly a liti lbut aslso ignored b~y Trevor', wvhose minud was intent on far mioret we'ilty affairs. lie shrugged his shubers g~nd pointed to her' hut withI his cini, an expressive hut most reipreheni'silel ad(option13 of na tive hait it. She look the hinat, never theless, and as she started he said, "Please151 remtembe)(r. I 'lease dlon't show yourselfI this t int, will you ?" The torte of his voice wats a great improve ment on aill thaiit had gonie before. She threw him ani smIle over heri shoulder and proce'eded to cross to her liut on exaggeraedei tiptoe. Trevor did not liother to awake Is gtlests; he wvent straight to his room and gave himself up to a loing-dlrawn out orgy (if tea; hl hth i, sha~irp razor id llean t'lothes; to say not hirng of the cleanllsing. lninillt ing andt ll handaig I ng oft hiis n1in burnis andi( wountds. When, hour is iter', he hatd completed the comiplex operation1 to thle best of his abttilty itf not entirely to the satis fact ion of his v'ani ty lie opened huis door a (tack and looked out. The three guests were awake and reading. The(y sieeme'd quite comifortable a; wvell its quite at home, a bottlhe and three glasses having tmagicaily accrued to the table int their midst. It seemed a shame to disturb themi at thrit par ticular motnent and Trevor decided not to. Hie closedi the door, barred it, dis connected the ailrm gong andl left his rom by the covered way. '- It is a matter of record that while this some inclosed alley wvas certainly not over thirty paces in length and couldl have been traversed in half as many s!econds, it took himn exactly thirty mincu'es to get from his cad ol t i pa~s4pge 'to A ndrea's door-and kniock. She opened to him at one andI the sight oflier ma~de him tremble. Never before hiad she seemed so al together adequate to every demand 01 life. Hie looked upon her lovely tumn bled hair that was still laughing fromr its bath ;on lhei' dleep blue eyes, each cuddling a d~evil of mischief; on her adiorable nose, al~ways sniffing for trou b)e; on her roil lips, ready to call a man on ; tind on her' hard flsts, backed by sturdy youth, still more ready te keep him off', and felt the bones of his dletermnination turning to water. She stood with her feet slightly straddled, her hands stuffed ini the sidoe pockets 7*OR av I NAINED GLA WDU3- BEC I12RILJL COMPANYW Io klt1l In*laeI- poSe oftein as smnted byv plroEd'(feI::al fight ers. Un' ar'edt ti-rvoutsly abou't hor room and <leeldin, Ilmt ho wuld feel more at hioome ::Itd merh-. mIrI :fuiths ..w: .. :: :(,( ! :. to I recedo h-Im ther. :atl 11 ard upon1 ai val made for t k2 ; Ch. h b ' li h'er't r tatcange." liten le!t- e ced llebn ritir b hw 1:1-'.% v .- him fan l inqiring but *.:~ '1oc 'I'z'n wca'. ut fentsrk T .i o : -ii w:,mprd p m re lar til sh cuhi Ita')nid -u : ht 'e.IhIe Id bIr oI U'I' howt' oticr eaised tot te ic :s he anary wngon nar iver-ted colnel h t d Trevt. "I ed like a ron1 rejoindler for ILI th re was1 somethinlg b1u l ha-t reminded Andrea of Finally she realized thait - ttru o sp ak. "I'll let thatt 1) fir the present," she said with d'-" . "vSuppose you say what you've got ,) say." Ihte man stood squarely before her. "All right," he saId. For a second he hungon it Ie verge of further speech as though he were Cntntlg "one. two. "Will You Marry Me?" thlr(ee-go;" thlen lhe plunitged: "WXiIl I iere was ai game that Andreai knewv from its infancy to( its (old age. T1hei fir'st miove onl itst checker' boar id wa*t.t as5 iIxedt as it wvas easy53. "No," shet sa1( id pompit ly and( auttomtiitleatlly and glance'd til withi a hualfI-horted look that said: "Ysour turn to play.'' Thti lookc was dlest inedl to dlie ai sud den't dloeath. "Thank (God I'" saki( T1rev'or, fervently, aippairently lookIng into space, tiult in reality a kIng in tier gat va!ntizedl stairt through the co)rner of one11 eye'. "Yioui see," he conitinuiedt. "I've ('t'e to (liy senses5 andi biegiln to get your point of view. It's still true t hat yout tsked me1 to bin g you, but it's no less true that you thoutghit yout were'( just going uip for at miornling breze, wh'ite I knew that on1ceyoul were in that flying machtine It war. good~-by to ai world. If Id1( told yo lhat, of course you wouIln't have come." "'Of course," said( Andrea, faintly. Her heart was atchIng andI inslIde ol her its pulse wvas drummIng an old fa mlnltar (ehl~lish refrain of thelpless rage. "Heo didn't play fair I Ue did~n't 1l)10 fati'I" "Under the circums~ttnesu and tic kno~wledging my fault, I coutld (10 n< less than offer to mahrry you In 'piti 'your lhkh station in life. I felt that you night 'think yourself compromise~d to sutch an extent that even lmy humble person would prove some sort of an aimend. It's a great relief to know that I overestimnatcd the situation all around." Andrea realized that the false start hlad thrown her out of the riormal stride of the game and( shie wvas ready to clutchl at ai straw. "Why, I hadn't thought of that-I mean, 1'd forgotten it somehiow--but I (do feel compro wIsed-awfully." She looked hopeful ly at ils set face. "No need to," said Trevor briskly. "I've got these three mIssionary chaps her or et.witanean to the tact tha enO -went uIn iperfeetly-good faith, that I was forced to a bad landing and got fearfully cut u111 and burned and that I was only just backing out of death's door when they turned up and found you Intact." "Why, White Man I" exclaimed An drea, "how could you get then to tell that awful lie?" "l~si ly," answered Trevor promptly. "They wouldn't know it vas a lie. You see, these iissionary chaps will still believe a native; they can't afford to concede the innutable fact that a black consistently makes only one constant effort in his life-an effort to give always the answer that lie thinks it will please you most to hear. Why. I don't even have to fix it up with my people. You'd believe the lie yourself if you could understand half they will say." Andrea's lips (rooped and she shook her head. "No," she said slowly. "No. I wouldn't." She was sitting with ho, elbows on the table, her cheek against the back (if her clasped hands and her eyes following the white Ian's n6rvous roveients with a sort of wounded wonder. "So, you see, we can fix it," he con cluded. "These clecrgymen are the only people in this hack country that I could have trtsted you with and who will strike just the rIght family note iII your preciouis Nworld-of-the-things tht-arenl't-oe-you-know. I have worked mly best for you. I've imaide thei cone a hundred miles through country they have always thought irn passaIble." Andrea sat back and let her hands fall to her I); for At moient she howed her head and looked down at them. then she rnised her gaze to his face. Her own, while it had been half hidden, had suddenly lost its look of exuberanit. youth. It was so pale that her eyes seemed too large for it. They diiieI Its outlines. "White Man," rhe said, "do you !d(an it?" "Mean What ?" 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