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In a little 52-foot yawl denigred and skippered by a youthful yacht broker they crossed the Atlantic in 17 days to win one of the most daring races on record. Abova vou are the crew of the victorious Dorade at the Royal Plymouth Yacht Club as they opened sablograms of congratulations. Left to right in front. are Roderick Stephens, Jr., Roderick Stephens, Sr., and Olin J. Stephens, the captain,

Heart of Liane

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This impressiva marino pageantry, with fountains of water soaring skyward to give the effect of a pyrotechnic display, was staged by New York fire-fighting hosts in the East River. Brooklyn Bridge looms majestically in the background,

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kid," she said anxiously. "You'll | Everything had been arranged-- cave in."

"Make them let me stay tonight" Liane begged. "Make them. You

can!"

the drawing room, the nurse to ac- company the invalid. Mrs. Clees paugh bad sent the big car to the stalion to meet them, had welcomed Elsie shonk her head. "Don't Cars Barrett to her house with think it can be done, kid. Anyhow | royal dignity and simplicity. they re not certain there will bu "She's well, she's simply mar any change."

velous," Linne ha anid, out of a But Liane was determined. Mus thankful heart. She wondered why Nesbit shook her head, "Against | she had ever thought the old lady's the rules," she said firmly. manner faintly domineering. Now Liar went to the floor head. The Mrs. Clesspaugh seemed simply She had paid the starched woman listened with con, perfeet to her. wn blank eyes.

In the end she said hospital bills, and invited Cass to unshed tiny, "The room next door hap-be for guest infinitely,

empty. T will make an "I don't know why she does all] little-to be

exception. That is, if you promise this for us. I'm sure, Cass had delighted when her mother Chen Hitrett, a postmirant, one in which the day to lie down and wait till nurse calls: said, tears of weakness and grati- tade springing to her eyes, Elsie,

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

BEGIN ARRE TO-DAY.

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frahlonable Leg Taintol calany. Previste before she had went ashamed- her life long Lian Barrett saying goodbye to Hem at the stt-1

bitter

cup

ten.

cuntugly in Chts Llum June trennra hegy Mind by Involved, quite lamently, fa sprachenes She did not weep now. Even that shroting. Share MeHerald, pobleemas it charge, Debes inte. Tot night ma was beyond her. sterious tracer edhe te wirl by native ta She saw, as one sees flushes in a

"the theatre and she feel the duster of Shows!

Juve.

Shane McDermits tells her than spenkenks vietas rudenering, murti to war's teller. Elin Minter, kur - hogokilta, – duktenduan mata

pat. 5urt. tutapis,

Lino party atf days she meets an haironger. Vau Bolos id. When Can Be the how the giet neker to reo kim again.

was to remember that night as her tion in Philadelphia. had added. Gethsemane. Young as she was roughly condorting. "Why shouldn't she seemed to touch the very depths she? She lus so much it would be vinema, pictures of her life and of human anguish. There was a pity if she couldn't share some her mother's together. Herself mune to stand by-not one of her got it."

a dear child. M

we'll take good care of her,"

12, in blue serge, being brought to own flesh and blood to hold her Case was established in the sune to Clive Chispanah, men of the theatre's, the convenit. fler mother's mobile. I hand.

nist of the south chambers. She' enger The Sister Blanche, "She's) Toward midnght she heard the sit had a nurse in spite of pro- Itarrett, and alipping rush of feet on the-oil-tests that she no longer needed elated floor outside. Shaking, shone and now Mrs. Clevspugh was That was the year mother had crept to the door. An interne shot suggesting a southern trip. gou on tour with the Shakespearet of the changing elevator. The "Yes," the old lady was saying:

night nurse appeared for a split-majestically and dually as she set- second, her cap slightly awry.

We

Von Jamures Linne

fort. Inter he nfection fut hot the gorge with

him a nighd arag: hin: for Market

Chick Demond, reporter, with no believed an company.

to leave luped. This proven unten, Latin

Llane henta Kiraly atmut Robard und Mira, t Liane wondered nimbly what

Irld. CRAS mystifies Lane by her etcetife would have been like-for-buth about her sister, Jufen, whowas pietsro tar girl discovere in an old trunk. Este gawe of them if Tom Barrett had lived

kyriel Ladd and in Tenet-beuken,

thed herself in the armchair on the Change has come the little tension of her morning wall or nurse told Liane calmly. "but must pack your off south as soon as

you feel like travelling. Of per- |

stay with the Cleenpaughs and encounters She scarcely remembered him. He don't go in now." Rebar again. She hare he is engaged hat died when she was 6. She had

Then she receives a telegram saying her

vogne memories of a tall, brown- the arm mostlier la desperately ill in n Philadephla hospital. Clive taken her to the train. Athaired man who enrried her on his brave," the hospital in i wold Cama's mention såratallera. How she had envied young,

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CHAPTER XV.

girls who spoke of my father" at Liane might not see the bright Cass rutested, feebly but earn- ostly. I've got to get back to my work-to the company. Vernon's keeping my place open.”

"Nonsense!"

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Although she's only 19, Miss Agnes Miyakawa, opara atar, ia attracting international-at tention. She made her debut at the Opera Comique' in Paris recently,

time."

"Isn't it time for your milk?" Llane wanted to know.

"Miss Wilson has gone down for it.",

She touched the goong girl onhap California, You're not

with compassion. "Be struggle with this wretched winter she said. She, too, was climate. I've made up my mind She turned away. that about that." school. She longed for her father drops trembling on her lashes, now, for someone to keep this fear- Ages passed. Glasses clinked at the end of the corridor in the diet She searched the faces of the ful vigil with her. nurses and doctors for a sign,

Somehow Linne swallowed the kitchen. A tall, middle-aged nurse "They're monsters, all of them." hot, salty broth, crumbled a crack-went by with a glass of orange

"But I'm so frightfully in debt to you already. I shan't feel right; she thought atonily. Young aser and left it untasted. Then she juice in her hand.

"Oh, God,"

prayed Liano again, until I get on my feet again and she was, untried, she thought fairly ran the short block to the

"Oh, God, remen can begin to pay you back." had deeply, wildly their cheerfulness in the face of hospital in a fever last she

ber me now.".

Mrs. Cleespaugh flicked her fin this certain defeat too horrible. stayed too long, Something--any-

She wanted to go into that roomgers delicately against an She did not realize they grappled | thlug-might have happened.

Imagi- She stared un- daily with that enemy, Death.

She was afraid to open the door. and she dared not.

the hands of the lite seeing at

nary obstacle.

"My dear," she said with great Drend had swept over her again watch she carried. Thirty minutes istinetness, "You are being a bit like a child. As Liane tiptoed out

But Mis past 12. Night clubs somewhere absurd, aren't you? You came nurse, as she moved briskly, cap-Nesbit sat, quiet and relaxed. were just beginning to take on life. very close to death's door. You ably about. Pour child, she has a watching the sufferer, listening to beanie Were dancing, laughing were miraculously spared to this course she did say something dig

Young girls with painted mouths dear child here. Now you speak for its matter-of-factness, "You Liane nodded. She was counting cloths. And inside that quict, or Let me manage all this.. It is

"Doctor's due," she whispered, were firting across white table of Jeopardizing your health again. must go out now and get some the seconds.

derly room n grim struggle as great delight to be able to do it." lunch. Can't have another

She took up her place by the bed. going on. ient, you know." She even smil

Caun closed her eyes. Liane, put her hand across her Lane shuddered at the thought in the silence came a sound, low.

"As you wish," she said faintly. of food. Food when her darling sibilant, like a sigh. Cass was be-eyes,

moan

She was still so weak it was easier When she opened them the young again. Frag-. mother was ao removed from the inning to urgencies and necessities of daily ments of words tore out of her interne was standing there. Waste be quiescent. And she was very

grateful. living! Never!

And sometimes won.

Poor child, thought the tall like a searing

Name.

lot to learn. Aloud she said in the laboured breathing. a low voice which Linne revented

delirium.

•

*

when

"Don't talk thon. Just reat until she comes, The doctor said you weren't to tire yourself." ionable, until the nurse canic back. Liane sat there, quietly compan-

A little later Casa fell asleep again, in the middle of her drink,

ab she had told. "Because of thought uneasily of the small

tinct-something that I remem-

My little girl." bered" she thought. And how odd it had been, too. "I've carned her. What had Luian to do with her? Or perhaps her mother hadn't meant Linne at all. Anyhow it was puzzling. although probably not at all important, "I can ask her about it she's perfectly well," Liane thought, mattered now nothing except the dismissing the matter. Nothing fact that Cass Barrett was mend- ing, little by little. The first days he had begun to look up and to smile had been sheer ecstacy. The first cup of broth she had been

Linne's firm hands. The girl was Llane sat down. regarded her thinking of that now as she came The room was full of sunshine gaze. Cass opened her eyes once you look happy anyhow,

into the big hall. A bowl of soup. Anything."

"`anid Liane crauched, unstirring. "He and the scent of hothouse reNCA, more. Liane looked at the

says the crisis will come tonight," Cass sat up in the middle of a big sturdy Misa Nesbit whispered to the night bed, a little paler and noticeably quickly, Irrelevantly, "did I talk a things, his hair tumbled as usual.

"Tell me, darling." she asked a quiet voice at her elbow.

Chire stood there in his riding watch on the other's round white wrist. It was 1 o'clock. She auree who entered, rustling and thinner. Otherwise she was not so lot of nonsense when I had the There was a dog at his heels. He dragged herself out of the chair. fresh, it

greatly changed as Liane had ex-fever?" she said tonolessly. ny

The two nurses held a long con- pected her to be.

"Oh. Just a lot of gibberish," brought with him the order of wood "Just

It was the fourth week of Cass' Liane said with great carelessness. around the corner."

kuliation outside the door na Linne

smoke and stables.

"Oh, I am!” said Liane, stretch- Agony, agony. It was all agony. kept watch, Elsie Buttered in for convalescence. As soon as she had "why?" There was no relief. Even the paven moment, sympathetic and roas-been able to be moved Mrs. Cloes- "I just wondered." Cass looked ing out her arms and laughing mento ware unfriendly. The Buring, on her way to the theatre. paugh had autocratically command-reloved. "Oh, I seemed to have aloud for the sheer, unmitigated autumȧ dny seemed ominous "You've got to get some sleep, ed that she be brought to Wildacres, the most frightful dreams all that joy of being alive.

(To be Continued.)

Some-

he-ol, God, was it possible?-waa out, snatched at his hand. "Darling, he smiling at her? She reached Linne came in from her morn ing errands in the village, all roa thing to hold to.

and spackling. "What's all this?" Ile said, "Yes, It's good news she naked. Sho's over the top-we think."

"It's a conference," Mrs. Cless She said, "Father, wo thank Theed now." She swept out of the coaxed to take had been held in

Liane went down on her knees. paugh informed her, "but it's and

Just before the black faintnessroom. swirled around her.

lane bent nearer. "Oh, God--oh, dear God," she's here," she kept saying over prayed wildly, bitterly, "pare her to me this time, at least: I'll be and over

Chus suid suddenly, clearly, so good, so awfully, awfully good. What You want of me, I'll do, I've "Luisa wouldn't want her to know. boon vain, selish. I've not given Anyhow, she's mine. I've earned her what sho ought to have. Give her. My little girl." mo another chance to show hor that I love her!".

Miss Nesbit persisted, gently

"Go out and cat how, child,

Then she began to

to toss again...

The doctor came and went. Long shadows crept over the walls.

mother with a fond and anxious

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