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THE STORY SO FAR SONIA MARSH leaves Stockton and conies to San Francisco to live lier ute as she pleases. HON STILLWATER, a young doctor, helps her get a job in the real estate oflieo of his uncle, Jeu Thomas. , __ . Believing she has captivated I BANKLIN CRANE, petted young salesman, Sonia allows him to make love to her. crediting Ins explanation that . he. cannot marry her because the breaking of his engagement to Genevieve Erickson, a pretty society girl, might prove latal to his invalid mother. Crane's drinking causes an auto wreck in which Sonia suffers bruises and asks for Dr. Stillwater to attend her. Though Soma still loves Crane, she is disgusted with him and marries Dr. Stillwater. . ~ . . They keep the news from all but their parents. „ , After seeing Crane .again on the street, Sonia asks Don for her freedom. Don insists that Sonia go to her par; ents while ho makes a four months trip to Berlin, and promisee to release her if she still wisheß it when he reU Before Sonia tells Crane she is married. he mentions the breaking of his engagement. Sonia says she will be free after Don returns. ,„„. n „r,onu Wealthy WALTER HENDERSON, whom Sonia refused to marry, is found drowned. , , u _ OTl ij At the inquest Sonia s enemy, BERTIE DONOHUE. tells of Crane s threat against Henderson. Crane is suspected, and to save him Sonia falsely declares she was with him that night in his Marin County shack. She sends newspaper clippings of tho story to Don. , . , . . . Sonia does not resist when she finds Crane is driving her to bis Isolated shack. They spend the night there. Soma returns home when she gets news that her father killed himself bocause of her disgrace. , Don's mother is relieved after Sonia spealca of the plan to annul her marnags. CHAPTER LXVI Bitter hours followed for Sonia, filled with regret and futile questioning. Why had she not come home without waiting to say farewell to Franklin? Or left tho day Don had gone to New York City? If she had only done this or that, everything might have been different. Wracked with remorse, she achieved no surcease to harrowing self-reproach. How her mother must despise her! Yet she had taken her Into her arms. How could she have endured the touch of Sonias flesh; the touch of a murderer? Step by step she went over her career, coming at length to the painful conclusion that from “being herself” one result was certain. Walter Henderson had warned her. He had said she would burn her fingers and nothing could stop her. But who had dreamed what wholesale destruction her poor little downfall would cause? Three lives crashing about her! Why shouldn’t she have been permitted to destroy herself without Involving any one else? Toward dawn she fell into exhausted slumber. The funeral was a small one. Anna had refused to have It held in the church. "It will give that many more a chance to satisfy their curiosity,” she said, firmly. "They won’t come here.” So Sam Marsh was buried with only his family and one or two

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friends to weej> about his- coffin. Mrs. Stillwater was there, and Sid Owens, his employer for over twenty years. Sonia was an outcast among them. She felt accusations in their silence; curiosity In their eyes. More than ever she hated them. Because now their suspicions were justified But it broke her heart to see her father lying in that quiet room, surrounded with flowers — flowers to cover the grief and shame they felt, the tragedy she had caused! She had not pride enough left to lift her head. She walked to the funeral carriage slightly behind her mother and Vera. A pariah! The reason for her father’s suicide! She stood behind tho open grave, choking with tears. She heard Vera’s broken sobbing, but did not dare look at her mother’s griefridden face. But as the first handfuls of earth fell Into the grave, Anna stretched a protecting hand to her, drawing her close. Only then did Sonia feel that she had a right to cry. They returned to a strangely empty house, straightened by kindheated neighbors Into unfamiliar orderliness. Vera explained that her family needed her. She must go home. She added. “You haven’t seen the baby, Sonia. You’d better come over tomorrow.” Sonia knew she was trying to be kind. Her sister had committed an unpardonable sin, but she would do her best to ignore it. Nothing could conceal the hidden reproaches In her eyes.. And Paul’s attitude was so consciously condescending that Sonia knew the breach would soon be widened into a chasm. She was glad to be alone with her mother. She ran to help her with her heavy coat. She cried, “Mother, let me make some hot tea?” But Anna shook her head, saying, drearily, “No. The time has come for us to talk.” Sonia braced herself. Anything her mother said would be true. She must admit the justification of any charge. But she was surprised when Anna repeated her words of the night before. “Don’t blame yourself too severely, Sonia. This is my punishment, a judgment sent upon me.” Anna’s head was flung back, tragically. Two spots of red burned in her cheeks. “I’m going to tell you something no one else under Heaven has ever known —” Sonia shivered, as her mother’s

voice dropped into shamed admission. “Sam Marsh was not your father.” “What do you mean?” Anna’s hand tightened until the blue veins stood out. “Just that, Sonia. I was untrue to him after we were married. I had run away from boarding school and after Vera came I began to feel suffocated with monotony and poverty. I longed for excitement. In my rebellion against fate, I turned against Sam. I grew so bitter I would not let him touch me. . . . Then there came the other man. He was rich and educated and made love in a half-mocking, restrained fashion that fascinated me. Before I realized it I was madly in love with him. Every barrier was down. We met secretly in the daytime—never at night—for one entire summer.” Sonia stared, unbelivingly. She knew well that only the conviction of her daughter’s equal guilt could ever have forced this admission from Anna Marsh. "Then,” continued Anna, “he went away. Back to the city. It had been only a summer’s madness for him. But to me it was everything. I was going to have a child. And when I knew he was going away, making no effort to see me again, with no attempt to keep in touch with me, something in me died. I went hack to my husband’s arms, swearing no one. least of all the other man. should ever know. I’ve

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kept it all these years, Sonia, Sam never suspected me. He adored you as he never had Vera. I was a wicked fool, but I v thought I had paid for It. Every time I saw him kissing you I used to suffer the tortures of hell." Sonia buried her head in her hands. “I couldn’t have loved him any more If he'd been my real father.” “No, that’s true. And I never Intended to tell you. But God is punishing me for my sin through you. You have the same longing for romance and freedom that I had before you were born. I have always seen it in you. I wanted to spare you. I've prayed ” Tears trickled down her cheeks. "But there was no use. It was in your blood.” This then was the sinister foreboding she had felt hovering over her. She was begotten In evil, a child without Inhibitions, recognizing no law. “I’ve told you, Sonia, because I don’t want you to blame yourself altogether. My sin was the worst. You're young yet. and if you understand the truth, perhaps it will help you to conquer those impulses—” "Mother,” whispered Sonia, “do I know the man?” "It was Jed Thomas. The very next Christmas he married Don Stillwater's aunt.” "Jed Thomas —my father?” the girl cried, horrified. But he couldn’t be. ' She had felt no single emotion In connection with him. “{le doesn’t know it,” Anna concluded bitterly. "Please God he never will.” (To Be Continued Fewer than 3 per cent of the farms in America are receiving electric service from electrical central power stations.

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