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By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat," etc.

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Berga Bondyti, ezeretlą, nu keur wat" Tumis Wilson, knows that he would never be

alth oer half-sister, Isene Evetrit, and tries

febr

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town's police ofleers were known to avoid him.

Tommy had been in troubl

in rulous whats the Fails and cry easily be tatal, but this once it

with the Larkin boys. That could

sestre N Yade contract. Beryl's volez wina her De Arschle boot ul breathest

forget her hadn't been. The doctor'd have

frent leurs that

peles love long whet part tile her.

Perth Goslard

She wished she'd ques- Prentiss le girl and Uplo win him fromtioned him more. but it

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Beryl,

Tony' as her and for lowes both away festsy to talk about Tommy,

and Job through her bushand. Tommy beli Why

frene bi bhk nnd she breaks the Tommy

abgement. Who Prendia anks her to marry

him

the ind

wasn't

seet

star She should have asked

Free Ty drinks him that, It could

only menu

heavily to Bers) Back Your Sibel that Tommy had been injured.

chey him und fett- Iream that wh

go back to

Tommy or for untk Sow

Berlerly she bar netes. I promise.

repoint that Tran

nd corpTAD

Then all away and Jerries Ptention. She In a store in the village she telephth the heves Super nat Brzi pentried to telephone to Mr. Hoffman abe has been twilled.

but was toki hr and gone to the Next morning Rory's thront la fe of perfekta condition

fam doctor calls for aeity. She had not expected to! Beryl is greatly red by relearn anything frunt him anyway. It was plain that Tommy wasn't confiding in hia unete. That thing to do was to go to the Lar-1 kin house as she'd intended and find out what she could from l'ol if he were at home.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

"I wish you'd talk sense," Mrs. Everett protestund.

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The wreckage above marks the point of collision between a suburbanelectric train and a petrol truck.

Thousands of gallons of patrol flowed along the tracks but fortunately did not ignite.

"All right," Bery compiled, She hadn't dared to take her er am not Tommy's girl," she; "then I'm having a throat special noisy old car, so now she got and evenly. "I am a friend. And jat out from New York to tell me taxi and asked the driver if he knew he was in a row with you, if I'll have to stop singing or not." knew where the Larkins lived. If you don't tell me what you did

A throat specialist!"

He looked at her in astonishment with him I shall go to the police" "Yes and he's a famous person, and avowed! he'd tell the world he Pol laughed. "You're hot stuff, so give him a proper reception." did.

sister," he told her, "but I like your Mrs. Everett atually wanted At the house she asked if he'd spirit even if you are miles off in more information on the subject inquire for Polney Larkin, in the your reckonia'. The police--that's but Beryl did not care to discuss hope of having Pol come outside hot one!"

it. She said she wanted to sleep. 1o talk with her. The driver was

Perhaps its

her

geo

"I'm not going home," Tommy she was allowed to leave the house. declared, and the determination in Tommy had joined with the Larkin his voice was alarming.

gang in earnest. Beryl heard that Urge as she would, Beryl could he had been engaged with them in not persuade Tommy to leave the certain midnight smuggling oper.. Larking. He was as well off there ations designed to aid in assuaging an

scofflaw thirst. But this was only anywhere, he insisted. Beryl sensed that he was governed by a rumour and she refused to believe it reason more compelling than his until she had talked with Tommy. liking for the outfit. But she dared After this news Beryl was more not volee her opinion, knowing that heartsick than ever. She knew and her mother left the room. pleasant about it, but whoever it He was still laughing when opposition would serve only to ce- that Tommy had got inte Bome-

Beryl heard the telephone ring was that came to the door and Round behind Bery! caused her ment more firmly the evil associa-thing he couldn't get out of with shortly afterward and a minute called back inside to inform the to turn hastily in that direction. tion.

out more trouble than he at pre-] later her mother came up to tell powerful Pol that a dane wanted And there in a doorway leading "Please, she begged, after allsent had the courage to facc. her that Dr. Auguston would ar-to see him, sent word to. Beryl into an inner toom stood Tommy arguments had proved vain, "keep He did not tell her frankly, but rive in two hours.

that she could come inside. He was haggard and entirely dis in touch with me. Tommy." she understood that his Bauoclat- At the end of thone two hours Shall wait?" the driver asked, reputable looking but he showed a

But Tommy did not keep in touchflon with the Larkins had begun in Beryl said in herself: "Sherman holding the car door open for her. natural surprise at seeing Beryl, had a word for it, all right!" To

with her, and for days Beryl lived spirit of defiance, and that he "What you doin' here?" he asked, in the agony of dread. She had been was held to it by taunts. "Please," she breathed, for the and his voice was as cracked sa hlu the eminent specialist, who told house had a dark and forbidding skin.

put to bed, almost forcibly, und Tommy said he wished she'd let her he'd come to her instead of aspect that equalled the reputa- making her come to him because tion of its owners.

"If you'll take me out to my taxi scolded by the family doctor and him alone. What had he got out

her mother with such clearness of life trying to

other please he loved her voice, she appeared power to terrorize the timid was I' tell you," Beryl answered.

alm and self-possessed.

one reason why they did not paint staring at him with a

Tommy glanced at Pol who was and emphasis that she dared not people, anyhow? disobey. Besides

mother The physician too was non-com-it. Beryl was not timid, and so

Beryl attempted to balt him crooked

watched her Ilke a hawk. Was not with news of Irene. It was the mittal. Finally he smiled. "We'll she entered and spoke calmly to

amile.

her career in jeopardy? have to watch you," he said. "You the big, brutish Pol when he ap- and followed her from the room.

"All right." Tommy said unensity,

only way she could get to Beryl smiled over her mother's him. She would drive to the Lar- have been in danger but if you preached her.

What were you doing in that solicitude. It would make a differ-kin dwelling-from all she could are careful

When he was gone Beryl had an-nd Tommy Wilson?" she asked.

"Can you tell me where I may house?" she demanded of him ence in the family should they be learn Tommy was Hving thero other battle with herself but this

when they were outside, "You were deprived of her salary. But she was and park opposite the front door Pol grinned at her. Pol liked in a fight with those men, weren't not bitter. Nothing mattered to her for hours at a time. one was of short duration. It to grin. He had exceptionally fine you?"

There seemed to be some smal- was one thing to wait a few hours teeth. Corn had done. it, he claim

except Tommy's welfare. And she but something very dif- ed. He liked to ask questions, was

Tommy essayed a laugh but it could get no news of him. Gossip, ler members of the family, and such ferent to face days of suspense too.

only a travesty of a sound. yea, but what she heard on that occasionally they throw "Sure," he

said, "and they walloped score, although prefaced with "I've things as overripe tomatoes and days in which Tommy might sink| "What right you got to ask?" me good and plenty. But I had it heard," and "They say," increased rotting apples at her. Beryl su to levels from which he could be returned bluntly,

comiu'. I tried never risc.

spected they'd have thrown racks Beryl eyed him haughtily: "Ac-a better man."

to get smart with her anxiety.

if they dared and the thought that She left the house quietly-fericording to your standards I pro- "But I don't understand," Bary)

Tommy was affording hor some her mother had heard Dr. Augu-bably have none," she answered said, "why you are here, in their She sent for Mr. Hoffman and he protection made it possible, for came but sald ho had washed her to endure the ridicule of the -and. went in auarch of Tommy, The grin loft Pol's face. "Lay "They're all right," Tommy said hils hands of the young pup." Beryl Larkins'.

where the Larkin off that track," he warned Berylin.defe Beryl remarked scath-hlm. She prevailed upon ker moth÷ except when she could get some

of his now friends. could get no encouragement from Tommy never would

come, out buliding with rusty brown paint "I haven't come here to be diplo-ingly. They beat that idea into er, on threat of going out to do it one to carry in word that she had that had peeled off in large pat matic," Bory! Informed him. "Iyour Bead."

herself, to make inquiries concorn news from the west. He, came re- chus with ragged edges, Polney want to know where Tommy Wil- "I'd rather take a beating than ing Tommy at various places, but luctantly, for Baryl would plead Larkin-now the bully "Pol"-hnd son is." boon one of her classmates in the "We don't give a guy way to

a preaching," Tommy warned her this did her no good, either. For, with him a little before telling

Beryl Instantly took a different Mrs. Everett lied to her, She him anything about Irene," Afth grade at achool. Then akirt," Pot rotorted.

tack.

"I won't preach to you, thought it best, for the truth about But one time she tricked him, Polney had given up education for Beryl turned away, then back Tommy," she told him softly. Tommy was not pleasant, for she had something else to tell what to him wero pleasanter pur-jagain, kuowing It was foollsh to "Come on and lot's talk it over on

Baryl learned it quickly enough, him. muito. Now oven- some of the allow his lack of courtesy to defeat the way back home.””-

ston order her to remain in bodjcoally.

She knew house was located-an old siding sullenly.

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house."

however, when, after a fortnight. (To bo Continued)

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