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ORCHID.

BY ELEANOR EARLY,

CHAPTER XXII..

They came, running-two stew- arda and the stewardess. And the chief steward, too, who happened to bo passing.

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dying, I've no doubt," she exclaim- ed, "Mona counts you!"

He bowed as in acknowledgment of a compliment,

♪

"And you," he rotored quickly "are to be counted, my dear; among the compensations of liv

Someone dashed a glass of water in Mona's livid face. A stewarding." hurried away for the doctor,

Presently her sergame ceased, and she fell to sobbing. Great wreck- ing sobs that shook her whole body Her head hung limply over the aide

of the berth.

Ashtareth saw a red stain on the pillow, and her heart seemed al- most to alup boating with terror.

“Lip rouge," whispered the stew-i ardess, "Lord, it gave me a start!" When the doctor came, he admin- istered a hypodermic. Then, mix ing a sedative, he left the stew ardess in charge of the sick woman and motioned Auhtoreth from the

room.

He was a curt little man, with quick nervous speech. An ex-army Hurgeon, and used to plain talking.

She turned then, and came back to him.

"I never want you to speak to me again," she commanded. " you come back on this boat, I hope you will remember that. If Mona dies, I shall feel as if you were ber murderer."

He flushed uncomfortably,

"I wish you wouldn't talk that way he protested. "I tell you Mona la a victim of her own pas sion. She has the most devastating temper in the world. Is it my fault if she loses her head, and ruptures her lungs?"

"The more you talk," Ashtoreih told him neidly, "the more I hate you."

"She's done for," he announced When she reached her cabin, she unfoelingly. "Full of TB, and wear-found a

steward waiting at the

ing herself completely out with door. passion' and hysteria. She has

"The captain wants to see you.

his anger toward the closed door. "The doctor's in there with her now.

I guess she's going to die, all right"

Ashloreth put her hand on the knob.

fegal residence, I understand, Miss." he informed her. Ile jerked Guadeloupe. 1 shall make every effort to keep her alive until we reach there. Of course, the captain may insist that wo put her ashore at the next island. Deaths at ses are a, confounded nuisance, and he would be quite within his rights in disclaiming all responsibility for her, cart. Obligations of the line No Immediately a sick person is conveyed to port. In view, how ever, of the fact that Mademoiselle has friends at Guadeloupe, he may consent to chas her that far.".

Ashtoreth leaned weakly against

the wall.

"There isn't a chance?” she mur- mured.

"She's just had a hemorrhage," the man oxid. "You don't want to go in now, Misa."

Sick at heart and nauseated, Ashtoreth turned away.

The plain was a kindly man, whose blue, far-seeing eyes had looked on life and death-and many sera. He took her hand

warmly between his great brown palms.

"The doctor tells me," he began without preamble, "that Mademoi- "Not a chance," he told her curt-elle de Musset is dying. He tells iy. "It is unfortunate that they had me, also, that you are rooming to- her in with you. A mistake, ofgether. I have talked with the pur- You should have com-ser about that, and he assures me course. plained immediately.".

that he knew absolutely nothing "Complained?" Ashtoreth was about Mademoiselle when he as puzzled. "Because she was ill, you signed you the same cabin. I re- moan? But tuberculouls is not gret the matter very much, and ex- contagious surely ?"

tend my sincere apologies,”

The captain paused.

The doctor looked at her quizzi- cally.

"That was not what I meant," he anid. "No-Luberculosis In contagious."

"Now about Mademoiselle de Musset," he continued briskly. not "We have cabled Gundeloupe, and learn that she has kin living on the Mona had fallen asleep. Her island. We will, carry her there, mouth was open, and her lips seem-and love her in their charge. ed blue and thick.

There is a French physlelan in Point a Pitre, and we have made arrangements to have him meet the bant with a litter."

Ashtoreth remembered a line she had read emewhere-"the reddest and the cruellest lipa in town." She wondered if Monn's lips would ever be like that again.

She motioned to the stewardess

"have instructed the purser to give you a suite on A deck, to make amends for the unfortunate accom

to go, and drew a chair to Mona's modations previously necorded berth. Everything was very still. you.".

It must, she reflected, be nearly Of all his words, Ashtoreth dawn. She reached for Mona'nglinipaed just one dreadful thing. hand, and when she found it was,

cold, began to rub it gently.

"Then Mona is really dying?" she

murmured. "I can hardly believe

She sat there for hours. Cnt.it." with a start, she realized that morn-

WAN

"Too bad," consoled the captain. ing had come, and the little cabin "But those things do happen; you flooded with sunshine. She know. Nothing we can do about it. turned off the lights, and laid a She's getting every nossible atten towel wrung out in ice water across tion. Doctor Saunders tells me Mona's forehead. The girl stirred her resistance is completely gone, restlessly, and murmured some A tempestuous woman-Mademoi- thing inaudible. Ashtoreiht bent selle. Something of a character closer.... It was something about here in the Indies, you know. Death.... Ashtoreth shivered, and This happens to be her first trip straightened.

with me, but I've known her by ŋe-

The doctor came soon, accom-pute for a good many years. It sur- panied by the purser. Ashtarethprised me to learn that her name rang then for the stewardess, and meant nothing at all to the purser. alipped away for a shower. Her "Why, I remember last time I head was throbbing madly, ami she was in Paris, Mona was by way of ached with utter weariness. becoming an international sensa-

"A cup of black coffee," she told tion. She'd been in the Follies, herself determinedly, "will brace you know. A few counts started me right up. I simply can't get chasing her around, and some mil- Bick."

onaire from the Argentine.' The papers were full of her. American corridor she met Jack entertainers In Paris are always

*

In the Smythe, on his way to the purser's

popular, you know. And, though

office to inquire for Mona. He Mona was born on a French Island, listened gravely while she told him she lived in the States long enough what the doctor had said.

to acquire sufficient Americanisme "I'm sorrier than I can say," he to put her across. declared. "It's a perfectly dreadfu The famous Charlotte Barker thing. Mona la an utterly Irra- never got a hand if Mons tional woman, and uncontrollable around. Charlotte, as a matter of hysteria has brought this upon her. fact, was extremely jealous, though The whole thing was nothing but a the two pretended to be great sort of phantasy of her diseased friends." mind. However, I am profoundly

BOTTY."

ה

was

Ashtoreth had seen pictures

"But 'Pariah-Girl'!” cried Ashte-of Charlotte Barker. She had retr. "Didn't you write it?"

big white teeth, and a'dazzling "Of course I wrote it" affirmed negrold smile. And she danced in Smythe, and seemed annoyed at the the Follies Bergere. question.

A friend of Madale's had taken a "And you didn't have Mona in trip to Paris, and brought back a mind?".

long, brown doll that was supposed He purned his lips reflectively.

to look like Charlotte Barker. This "Well," he admitted, "I suppose friend and Charlotte had a night in writing a man can never get club in Montmarte, and was mak- very far behind his own vital ex-ing oodles of money, periences. I wrote, to be aure, of a She was supposed to have the woman as I knew her. But that most beautiful figure and the love- woman was not simply Mona. She liest skin in the world. And she was a composite. Mona, in her co-had countless admirers. It was ru losaal concelt, took all credit for moured, in fact, that sho had mar- rled the titled gentleman who fol- He smiled.

lowed her about carrying a white "She was," he added reminis- Pekinese. cently, "the best of all possible So Mona de Musset was a music sweethearts."

hall favourite, like Charlotte Bar- Ashtoreth remembered Mona's keri...

the model."

invectives of the night before.... There was a knock at the cabin Smug,...Self-sufficed.

She turned quickly from him, and

flung a parting taunt over her And Dr. Saunders-entered tho

door.

"Come in," the captain called.

(Ta Be Continued.)

shoulder...

TOOTE

"Among the compensations of

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