ENTHRALLING STORY OF MODERN LIFE..
SHADOWS"
By PATRICIA LEIGH.
AUTHOR OF A MODERN GIRL, ETC.
SYNOPSIS.
SHELAGH HURSTBORNE, the daughter of a City financier who dies 'n ruined man, sets out to ears her own living. She breaks off her engagement to . HUGH MOYSTON, a selfish young man-about-town. Then, to her
she receives surprise,
a visit and offers of assistance from MARCUS DRAKE, the man who, she believes, ruined her father. She declines his offers Later, she gets a post as advertisement canvasser on "European Art,"
the editor of which, MR. STANTON, one night when drunk, tries to make love to her. Marcus Drake arrives and kicka Stanton out. In revenge Stanton puts an announcement in the paper from which Shelagh. learns that Drake is the proprietor of “European Art." Shelagh ін tempted throw up her appointment, but agrees to think matters: over. The Drake takes her out to dinner, persuades her to remain on the staff of "European Art"--and proposes marriage,
CHAPTER X1.
10
For several days Drake evidently thought it wise to leave Shelagh alone.
life. He had unconsciously
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MR. BALDWIN AND MR. BÓNAR LAW.
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"MOTHER MACHREE” TO-DAY.
Bolle Bennett, the heroine of "Stella Dalias," comes to the
"The great thing. Bonar Law did Queen's Theatre to-day in a new was to leave a memory behind of a picture entitled "Mother Machrée," great man who was an example to Based on the words of the us in his exalted position-an ex- famous ballad by Rida Johnson ample of clean, simple living; of Young, the picture tells the story happy, high courage, of the purest of an Irish mother and her boy for love of country and the perform- whom the former sacrifices every-ance of duty. May we profit by himself at her mercy-and
she thing that makes life worth while, bis example." would show no mercy.
Bello Bennett plays the mother, a These were the closing words of He declared that he loved her. role which would be, perhaps, less a speech by Mr. Baldwin after un- Well, for the time she would appear convincing in other hands. Neil velling a stained glass window in to return his love. She would let Hamilton is cast as the son, grown the West United Free Church, which Mr. him build up glorious expectations, to manhood. without knowledge Helensburgh, with and when the moment came she and only a tantalising memory of Bonar Law was long connected. would dash. them to the ground.
his parent. Victor Melaglen of The window was a meniorial to She would even become engaged to "What Price Glory" fame is. cast Mr. and Mrs. Bonar Law, and was him, but on the eve of their wed as the Kilenney Glant, while Ted the gift of their children:
If he were asked, said Mr. Baid- ding she would tell him the truth. McNamara, who also had a part Just as he was counting superb in that epic of the war appears as win, what it was in Boner Law's happiness she would plunge this the harpist of Wexford There is character that appealed to him most dagger into his heart, Insh him with much to commend this picture, fine he would put simplicity first, then her scorn, trample als pride and acting, beautiful scenery, many integrity and courage,
He was intensely and profound- all his hopes of happiness into the outdoor
having Beener dust.
actually filmed in ireland and ally sensitive-a man of real deep was not revenge; it was story vital with life. "Mother humility and yet confident of the justice. She would act in the name Machree" will remain the chief rightness of his own judgment, which he would uphold against the of a thousand anonymous sufferers; attraction until Saturday: in the mame, too, of her dead father
world.
It
the man whom Druke had mur-
dered as assuredly as if he had
Gred a bullet into his brain,,
No, it would not be unworthy," She would indiet a moral punish ment for a moral crime.
They were both acting beyond the phine of ordinary law, but there was a higher law, the eternal and immitable law of equity of which she would be the instrument.
been
ANGAMOS SURVIVORS.
EIGHT FOUND IN A LAUNCIL
Santiago de Chile, July 11,
His loyalty was a remarkable
feature-loyalty to his country, to the cause tint he, espoused, and to his friends who had to work with him.
Bonar Law, he said, would never listen, to stories which reflected in The Angamos death roll is now any way on the character or con- 201 in consequence of the dis-duct of those who were his friends. covery of eight more survivors Wistful and Elusive, who escaped from the"Angamos in a launch.-Router's American Ser vice.
Torrid, depress
ing days vanish when you turn the switch of a
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When one brought back to mind Long past midnight Shelagh was
those varying characteristics, said Mr. Baldwin, there was something still sitting in her room. Her mind
about that personality, wistful and was working with such feverish netivity that to go to bed was out
"That's splendid!" he exclaimed. elusive, which perhaps none of them of the question. She was steeling "We shall have a real surprise in could penetrate, and it was perhaps The routine of life was unbroken herself for the role she was about store for Drake before long." that last characteristic that was! She made her daily round of visits, | to play. To-morrow, in all pro-
"We shall," she said cryptically. the cause of the peculiar affection) "booked fresh orders for the journs!, | bability, Drake would come for his
That night she dined with Drake those who knew him best had for ate as usual, and even slept. Out-answer; and she knew now the at the Richlieu. Shelagh had a him. wardly there was no change; the answer to give
nervous craving for sheer noise. "That window," added, Mr. Bald-player club was the same with its pleasing,
In the cash of Rossi's she had an win, is dedicated to him, and his Diamonds," the main picture at feminine comforts; the office was
uneasy feeling that she would not wife. It is one of the regrets of the Star Theatre from to-day to By a curious chance Shelagh re be able to face Drake's sharp my life that I never knew her, but Saturday. The picture is a spec the same, with the charming per sonality of Carlist. London, too,ceived a letter the following morn scrutiny. Several times he had I knew him well enough to know tacular story of the lives led by a was unaltered, with its throbbing ing from Moyaton. She opened it startled her by his amazing intui-this, that life was never the same certain class of society-the idle life, ever shifting crowds, its half reluctantly, although Moyston tion. But at the Richlieu, with its to him after she left, and I know rich. Pauline Starke is the chief panorama of much that is magnifi-had now passed as completely out chatter, ita perpetual movement, and also that after the further sorrows character and portrays a young cent and all that is squalid. of her life and thoughts as if hits negro jazz band, she felt safer. that came to him in the war he was flapper of society who, tired of the
And against. this background was had never existed.
Moreover, in this more highly as a man who felt he had nothing tinsel and gold of her existence, "My dear Shelagh," it began, strung atmosphere she would be to live for except to do his duty turns to a more unconventional played out a tense drama of emo- tions. Shelagh was called upon to. “I was greatly surprised to read able to play her part better. She so long as he might be left in this mode of living, with a startling re- decided the must momentous ques-that you are working for Drake needed jazz, with its whistles and world."
sult. Owen Moore, plays the hero, tion that can come to any woman, Surely, after your resture of in- drums, just as a cinema actress re- Earlier in the day Mr. Baldwin injecting his usual high standard but her choice was fettered. dependence it is a little inconsistent
a chauffeur-lover. Other Helensburgh war memorial, which as What answer should she give to to accept the aid of a man who had res a soft violin in an emotional placed a wreath at the foot of the of whimsical humour into his part
sire to do with your present con-
They sat in the famous Vene-contains the names of Lieutenant members of the cast includo Lional He had asked her to marry him.dition' than anyone else. I was even tian restaurant, with its immense Charles J. Law and Captain Jamen Barrymore, Gwen Lee and George
two sons of Mr. Bonar Cooper. There was irony in it, as well as more astonished that you should pillars, high, painted ceilings, its. Law, auduelty. A. short while ago ho give an interview on the subject to flowers and palms, and vague scent Law, who were killed in 1917. hart been only a song; but, the very newspaper. I suisse, however of food and cosmetics. The crowd name she had loathed. Now he had in your new sphere of life publicity here was typical of smart rather come right into her life, demand has its value, but whoreas I wish than exclusive society; wealthy!
There was applause at the Mon- ing to take possession of what he you every success cannot help re Americans, famous actresses and mouth Assizes when a verdict of gretting you should have Laken this divorcees. The band was blaring Not Guilty was returned in the A curious picture rose before her.step. With your lack of experience out the
catchy foxtrot: She saw an old man, his white hair you would mit, as I predicted, have Just a snug little 'ng, honey case of Hubert Thomas Boast, farm hand, who was charged withi in startling contrast against the found it easy to procure employ mine!"
arson at a Llanvihangel farm. rubicund face. He was sitting inment. Rut 1 had, of course, no con an armchair, his feet resting on the reption that in rejecting the assis- polished bars of the hearth. She tance of your friends, you would was behind him, her arms over his have accented the help of a man shoulders, applying a match to his whom, without exaration, might cigar. Half absurd in its sim-almost have been considered plicity--yet the picture brought a enemy. nob to her throat.
Drake?
had wrecked.
L}}
I am a Biarritz at present, but Then the scene changed... it is quite possible I shall cross to There was the same man, the the Riviera, slace Sir Lloyd Hum- same chair; but his face was the ber has just bought a villa at colour of parchment. There was a Beaulin. 1 find that a number of twisted appearance about the bload-people are still under the impression less lips, a despair such as she we are aged, and in view of the never hoped to see again, in those sort of paragraph which recently drawn, pain-shot eyes, The candle appeared i have a great deal to ex- not of life was flickering before a wind plain. Please, however, do from the darkness beyond; and think that in your future publicity want my name mentioned in or that night it was extinguished.
Then came the hours that shoulder to correct this mistake." have been sacred to death. But As dignified an ever! With a instead the silence was. broken by faint smile Shelagh tossed aside the raucous, infuriated cries, by a hun-letter, Hugh, she told herself. in the dred stamping feet and shaking would have been happier
than in the fists. The wolf pack was released; eighteenth century they howled over the very body of twentieth.
the man they had killed. Money
But the purport was
clear
was all they wanted; their bonds,ugh. He thought that she had their miserable gold...Wasn't vulgarised herself and he dreaded blood enough?
fest his contact with her should share the odium. He make him would have married ber, had she let him, because part of his pose before the world was that of chivalry and
Shelagh trembled at the recol lection. The walls-of her univerze had been shaken in those terrible days. They came crashing down about her. She was forced to magnanimity; all the virtues, in listen, in the midst of her grief, to short, that radiate from egoism. the descerating gibes and impolent Anything, so long as that pose was fury of the mob to whom her dend not disturbed. father seemed practically a crimit. nal. That was harder to bear than the loss of wealth.
Poor Hugh! He was oblivious of the figure he really, cut. But 10 Shelagh this latest spectacle, of Hugh practically asking her not to Chance for Revenge, drag his name into association with But who was responsible? Who her own, had the comical dignity of had flung the torch into theun elephant picking up a pea.
She could laugh at him-but in dynamite? Who, for the sake of sordid rain, had brought about this her heart there was no longer room catastrophe, and with callous in-for laughter. There were moments difference sent her father dis-when the task she had set herself honoured to the grave?
There was only one Answer
Marcus Drake.
'And now, Drake had asked her
to marry him.
Her lips quivered with the
appalled her. Only the dogged halinacy which she had inherited from her father enabled her to adhere unyieldingly to the grim purpose.
A Meeting With Marcus Drake.
poignancy of these memories, and She found, on arriving at the
then they curved into a bitter line.
office, a massage asking her to tele
Her eyes narrowed and became as phone Drake. She obeyed, but as hard as blue stones.
she held the receiver It shook in
She was standing in her bedroom, her hand. Drake wanted her io a pale Kimona flung over her slim dine with him again that night, figure. Candlelight sent a warm He suggested a theatre but sho glow over one side of her face and preferred a dance. neck, and, gleamed softly in her Almost as soon as she had finish. hair. From the open window sheed at the 'phone she found Carlist could see nothing but impenetrable studying her speculatively, blackness, made deeper and vaster "Are you going to desert us?" by the faint glimmer of lampa. he asked,
"Marcus Drake...."
She uttered the name aloud.
"You mean leave?" She shook
her head. "No, I'm going to stay She was dominated by a supreme after all,"
passion to make him taste the Instantly the shadow lifted from bitterness. he had brought into her his face,
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