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CHAPTER Xlll—Continued ——23— “Roberta, were you going to marry this fellow?” Roberta looked at him with a wide stare. Had she really been going todo that? It seemed Impossible. It seemed years ago that she had thought she hated this man and loved Jack. She looked across the bpd at Jack. How stupid she had 'been. How silly! Why the man was common! Somehow she could not meet Sir George's eyes. “I suppose I did mean to at one time,” she admitted. “1 was so determined to do something desperate—to get away from everything and everybody, but I won't do it’’now.” “Good girl!" And then Sir George added: "You couldn't anyhow. That's why I came to stop you. He's married already.” “You He!" “Oh, no I don’t.” He said it confidently for Jack’s face had been Instant confirmation. “I saw her at the dock and I heard it at headquarters: Unless you’ve murdered her quite recently, she’s still your wife," Roberta was staring at Jack In horror. She hod let a thing like this trick her! • Roberta’s quite through With you.” Sir George told him shortly. “And I wil,l bo in a few minutes, after you nave told me how you got hold of the fact that I was taking the payroll money up the river." Roberta whirled. “Was he—was he In that, too?” » , He nodded. He concealed his surprise that she should ask this. How he had misjudged Roberta! ”Come." he said to Jack. “I haven’t any time to waste. Who told you?” “She did." “Oh. no! No!” Roberta’s voice rang out violently. “You don’t believe him. do you?” “Not If you say you didn't.*! Sir George told her promptly, “though 1 own it did look like that to me at first." “I never told him!” Jack laughed. “You dare to say—l did?" Jack nodded. “Everything I knew 1 got it from yon, consciously or unconsciously. You told me several things that.put me on the track and it needed only a Httle questioning about roads and cars and banks to get all I wanted out of you." Roberta flung her forearm across her eyes, and leaned against the wall. She could ‘’not face Sir George. She had been this man's tool. She had been a traitor in her own fathers house. She had been tricked by Jack into believing the things he said against Sir George. He was trying quite distinctly, though you could tell from his tone how tired be was, “Call them In. Roberta.” , Roberta opened the door. She came back and stood near the bed as the men with the exception of the doctor, who had gone on his rounds, filed in. “You will please tell this man before these witnesses that you are through with him utterly and forever." “I am through with you," Roberta said between her teeth, “and if I were a man I would kill you." “It’s—" Jack wrawled. though his blood was dark behind his olive skin, “fortunate you're not, and I’m not done with you. I tell you before these witnesses that I have letters of yours, which you cannot deny. I have also a marriage license and your promise to marry me. Your coming all thia distance to do It will make good reading in the newspapers.” Sir George turned to ArietL “Shoot It out double quick, whatever if is you want," said Ariett, stolidly. “I’ve got a lot of things to do.” “Nothing more important than this. You've heard this young lady refuse to marry this man. and also heard him threaten to make a scandal about it." “Huh!" exclaimed the fat constable. "Women’s got r right to change their minds.” “Sure!" said ttie younger constable, revolving hls cud. “You can't legislate agin that." “Roberta, tell Judge Ariett that you *re not going to marry our friend Jack." “Nothing will make me marry him." “Well, that’s plain." Ariett’s tone was friendly. “Guess youve got your walking papers, son. so why not take them quietly and go?" Jack walked toward the bed. "1 can make trouble and 1 will. What you going to do about It?” “Prove you a liar," Sir George said quietly. “Roberta, get the paper in the right hand pocket of my coat, if it wasn't burned up." I “It's here," Roberta said meekly. She had a sudden vision—every time she looked at J tick—of what it would be like to go meekly back to the Island and Green Bend, and a day or so later see her letters and promises embellishing the front page of the papers. Her father would suffer, and every one would know what a fool she bad been. She opened the coat pocket and took the folded paper out of it. She handed It to Sir George. He feebly wnved it toward Ariett "Show it to him. Bobbie." be whispered. “and tell! him two can play at that game and you were just spoofing this man. You never meant to do it That is wby 1 followed you." She stared at JNm. “Did father send you? Does be know?" “No,” Sir George whispered. “No

one sent me. Do you think I’d let you down? Look at the paper." “But why should you—” Roberta began and then suddenly conscious of the others, hurriedly unfolded the paper. She looked at it, gasped and turned to him. She opened her mouth to speak, but Sir George put his hand over It. "Give it to the Judge,” he ordered. Meekly, and so unlike the Roberta he had known that his heart contracted with pain and tenderness, she took it' across to Ariett who, back against the door, surveyed it. “H mm!" He looked at Jack. “This here’s a perfectly good New Jersey marriage license made out for Roberta Macßeth and Sir George Sandlson. Who's Sir George Sandison?” “What!" Jack came nearer and looked at the paper, v “Sir George!” RobertaVried. He held her hand. “It’s quite all right. You see. Jack, there’s no question now of a defenseless girl returning home, after a theatrical attempt at elopement, to be covered with confusion while her father's pocketbook is emptied by a man who couldn't possibly marry her. Roberta's been playing you—so that her father might lay hands on you and your gang." He held Roberta's hand tightly, so that she could not move. The puzzled and watchful judge came forward as the Wo constables held the door. “All the time you thought you were running away with her. she knew that she had another man. simply mad to marry her. following close behind. Uan’t keep up with the modern woman. Jack. Even a clever chap like yourself has no chance. She has us. as the Americans say, 'going and coming.’ “You're bluffing. This girl never intends to marry you." Sir George laughed. It was a feeble laugh but It irritated Jack. “It's a bluff and you can't bluff me. I’ve got her letters and my story and'l'll —” He came up against Ariett and the two constables at the door. “You keep - yourself to yourself." Ariett said. “No pushing and shoving until this things straight What do you want done with him. mister? I wouldn’t argiie with him no longer." Sir George clung to Roberta’s hand, hut he refrained from looking at her. Try as Roberta would she could not free her hqnd. "Roberta, my dear. Judge Ariett can marry us just as tightly and Just as well as any person, and Jack and the constables will be our witnesses. Will you, Roberta?" He asked it recklessly. Roberta would, of course, refuse and demand to be taken home to her father, but at least It woulcl silence Jack and make any attempt at blackmail impossible. Roberta hesitated and as she did Jack laughed aloud. “You see!" he said to Ariett. “It’s sheer bluff! The girl came with me to marry me and no one else. He can’t save her face that way.” Sir George stared straight ahead of him. smiling, waiting. “Judge said Roberta, In a very low voice, “will you marry us now—and do anything you like with that—" She indicated Jack. “Sure. We can jail him easy, ward." Sir George could not take hls eyes from the girl, who did not look at him now. “Roberta!’ he murmured but she did not answer. She had thrown her head back and. leaning against the wall, she faced Jack. Sir George found It hard to keep from pitying Jack. He did not doubt for a moment that to lose Roberta now was a life and death matter to him. but Roberta was too young to understand or be pitiful. He was so much interested In Jack’s plight, be forgot his own. Jack, who had once liximed Important in Roberta's life, was less than nothing now. and knew it. He made a swift leap toward the door, while the constables gaped at Roberta, but

Danish History Centers in Old City of Viborg

Viborg Is one of the oldest (some maintain the oldest) cities in Denmark. As far as history goes back, there has always been a city there. It Is beautifully situated on two hills and along the shores of two lakes. For centuries the Danish kings bad to be crowned there before they were actually regarded as kings. The city has always been a religious center. In the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries there were 22 churches and many cloisters, al though the town at that time had only about 2,000 inhabitants. The city has burned several times, which accounts for the fact that most of the buildings dating from the Middle ages are gone Even now, Viborg Is one of the most beautiful cities In Denmark, and thousands of tourists * visit it each Tornado’s Movements Most tornadoes' move toward the northeast; a few toward the southeast; the others in an easterly direction. Although the storm moves at great speed around its center,, its fori ward movement is from 40 to 60 miles an hour. It is therefore often possible to avoid % tornado by driving at right angles to it at a high rate of speed.

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Ariett was in his way, ponderous, unmoved and immovable. “You keep away from that door, young man," he said without emotion or excitement. “You’re wanted as a witness.” He motioned to the younger constable. “Stand between the door and this wildcat As Justice of the peace, young man, I can lock you up and will do so if there's any more disorderly resistance. Ready, both' of you?” “Oh!" Roberta whispered. Sir George put out his hand. “Not unless you want to, Roberta. If you’d rather wait I’H take you back to your father. I’ll understand.” Jack laughed nervously. “I told you it was a bluff.” He turned to the judge and said vehemently, “The girl doesn’t want to marry him. This foreign grafter is after her money." Roberta gave a Httle gasp. She slid to her knees beside the bed. put her arms about his neck and her lips close to hls ear. “George—do you really love me? Aunt Aggy said—you did.” k At the moment. Sir George, dumbfounded at Aggy’s audacity, could not speak. Then it came to the man suddenly that here was just a bewildered, frightened little red-headed girl. Stn/h a surge of tenderness went through him at the touch of her lips on his ear that his whole body trembled. His eye met hers steadily. Roberta’s eyelids drooped. “Don’t be a silly Httle fox." he said and put a bandaged hand on hers. “If this Is Aggy’s plan how can we go far wrong?” As he looked at her. he knew instantly that it was no thought of her own dilemma that was causing the girl to turn to him. He doubted If even a fleeting thought that it would silence every slanderous tongue if she was to return to the island as Lady Sandison had crosed her mind. He was hurt and wounded in her defense and Aunt Aggy had said he was dying of love for her, so she was doing whole-heartedly what she could to heal his wounds and his heart. “All set?" asked Ariett. He indicated Jack to the younger constable. “Hurl the Bad Egg. If he explodes.” “You'll make him sign the certificate. Judge?" Sir George asked. “A photograph of that signature will do away with any blackmailing scheme he has in his dirty mind, and will make him a laughing stock in bis own refined circle. If that doesn’t remove him from our path I’ll take a gun. I’m growing quite American, you see.” “No guns." said Judge Ariett disapprovingly. “I don’t hold with them. But I’d offer this dark-complected young fellow the chance to sign and get away while the going’s good." “Jack,” Sir George said amicably, “will sign to oblige the 4ady or I’ll he compelled to tell the judge my suspicions as to his complicity with the gang who tried to get Macßeth’s payroll.” He paused significantly, and held Roberta’s hand tightly to prevent her from speaking, for he saw that to Roberta the knowledge that this man had used her to harm her father was the most overwhelming blow. Jack looked at them, then at the other three men. “I’ll sign,” he muttered. “Ready?” asked Ariett. CHAPTER XIV Robert Macßeth was growing anxious. He had been wheeled out to watch the distant fire, but that had long since died down and it grew dark with Roberta and Sir George still missing, and no word from them. There was much excitement on the part of the guests from New York, because the bridge was gone. There was no direct communication with the other side now. so they must go further dow» the river and cross at Bridgetown for their return. It meant they must leave earlier. Sandlson bustled about, arranging for an early supper, and for a time there was so much hurry and excitement that the absence of daughter and sec retary was apparently forgotten. When they had all gone. Ray Brown# had time to wonder why the secretary did not return with his car. Sir George and Roberta I What did it mean? He glanced at Robert Mac Beth sitting silent beside him and tried to guess what he was thinking. They watched the long procession of cars returning from up the river and from watching the fire. Still no word from either Roberta or Sir George. Browne felt he must make light of the fact that the two had not returned, for Robert Macßeth’s sake. “Something wrong with my car. The little beast Is always breaking down.” he said, as he went away In one of the Macßeth cars. "Aggy. Aggy.” her brother said, shaking hls head. “Firemen have wives and families." (TO BE CONTINUED.}

year. The cathedral Is one of the main attractions. It Is decorated with frescoes from celling to floor, depicting the old and new testaments. The cathedral Is said to be the only one of Its kind north of the Alps. Viborg is situated almost in the center of the peninsula Jylland, which forms the largest part of the kingdom of Denmark. Viborg is the capital of the amt or county bearing Its name and has been the seat of a bishop since the Eleventh century. Boiling Point of Water The boiling point of water varies with the pressure. In water under ordinary conditions it is 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Centigrade, but it becomes less with lessened atmospheric pressure, as in ascending a mountain, being lowered about one degree Fahrenheit for every 550 feet of ascent or one degree Centigrade for every 961 feet. The boiling point of water at the summit of Mt. Blanc (15.781 feet) is about 85 degrees Centigrade. It would take less heat to raise the temperature of water to 85 degrees Centigrade than it would take to raise it to 100 degrees Centigrade. Thus water would boil more quickly at higher level. ■

Improved Uniform International Sunday School ’ Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D„ Mem. ! bet ot Faculty. Mwody Bible Institute of Chicago.} I®. 1931. Western Newspaper Unlon.l Lesson for February 1 JESUS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN LESSON TEXT—Luke 4:33-44; S:H---15, 18-26. GOLDEN TEXT —Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and 6 afflicted. PRIMARY TOPlC—Jesus and Health. JUNIOR TOPIC —Jesus and Health. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—Our Friend and Helper. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Christian Ministry to Physical Ills. I Jesus Healing a Demoniac (4:3337). While engaged in teaching in the synagogue, Jesus was interrupted by a man who had a "spirit of an unclean devil,”, who cried out with a loud voice asking that he be left alone, professing knowledge of him as the Holy One of God. Jesus rebuked the demon and compelled him to come out of the man. At the command of Jesus the defnon came out of the man with a violent struggle. This healing shows Jesus not only gracious but powerful to set free men who are under the power of the Devil, and also his ability to free men from the whole brood of diabolical passions such as lust, envy, anger, and jealousy which rule them. This manifestation of divine power amazed the people, causing them to cry out, “What a word is this!” 11. Jesus "'Heals Peter’s MQther-in-Law of a Great Fever (vv. 38-41). This woman was prostrate with' a great fever. They of Peter’s household besought Jesus in her behalf. He rebuked the fever and it left her so that she immediately arose and ministered unto them. earthly physician has ever been Ktmwn to heal in that way. Dlyine heading is immediate and complete. It is most important that we distinguish between divine healing and faith healing. Faith healing is the result of the action of the mind upon the body, and is measured by the degree of the faith of the individual, while divine healing is the action of y the power of. God upon the diseased and is always complete and immediate. As a result of this manifestation of divine power, the fame of Jesus spread abroad and many sick of divers diseases were brought unto him and he healed them all. 111. Jesus Heals a Leper (5:12-15). "Leprosy was a most loathsome and terrible disease. Because of its foulness, one afflicted therewith was an outcast. Leprosy was incurable by man, therefore, the leper was regarded as hopeless and dead. In response to the leper’s earnest request Jesus touched him and hade the leprosy to depart, and immediately he was healed and cleansed. Leprosy is a type of sin. Though sin is loathsome, hideous and separating, Jesus has power to save those who come to him by faith. IV. Jesus Heals a Paralytic (5:1826).’ 1. Watched by the Pharisees and doctors of the law (v. 17). The spreading abroad of Jesus’ fame only Incited jealousy on the part of these men. They did not want to get too close to him, but close enough to know what was going on. 2. The paralytic brought to Jesus (vv. 18, 19). This is a fine lesson of Christian service. They could not beat the man, but being moved by sympathy they co-operated in bringing him to Jesus who coulfi heal and restore. Their efforts in bringing the man show their willingness to go to pains and trouble to bring the needy man to Jesus. 3. The man’s sins forgiven (v. 20).Jesus looked back of the palsy to its cause—sin. The effect of his sin was before Jesus, but he proceeded to deal with the cause of It. All disease and death are the result of sin. The Lord deals first with that which was at the root of the trouble. Jesus saw the faith not only of those who brought him but of the man himself s 4. The purpose of miracles (vv. 21, 22). The Pharisees accused Christ of blasphemy when he declared the man’s sins forgiven. Jesus showed them that back of the beneficient deed to the man was the demonstration of his deity. The main purpose in the working of miracles Is the authentication of the divine mission of the one performing them. While the divine power and authority are thus shown, the wisdom and love of God are shown In-that in all cases the supernatural work is for the good of the individual. 5. The relative value of physical ills and moral and spiritual maladies (w. 23, 24). Physical ills are less serious than the sins which cause them.Ia the Light of His Face The out-and-out Christian is a joyful Christian. The half-and-half Christian is the kind of Christian that a great many of you are—Httle acquainted with the Lord. Why should we live halfway np the hill and swathed In the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light, of his face?— Alexander Maclaren, The Pilgrim’s Progress It Is the last step that wins, and there is no place in the pilgrim's progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portals of the celestial city. It is when heaven’s heights are full In view that hell’s gate is most persistent and full of deadly peril.—A, B, Simpson. A Woman’s Prayer A Christian woman wrote upon the flypage of her Bible the following words: “Lay any burden upon me, only sustain me; send me anywhere, only go with me; sever any tie but that which binds me to thy service and to thy heart.”—Selected.

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New Slant on Evolution by Baltimore Scientist That the African gorilla is becoming more like man than it once was. an example of converging instead of diverging evolution, so that the similarities of man and gorilla of which many evolutionists make much may be partly accidental, is a conclusion which may be drawn from a new diagram of man’s family tree published in the anthropological review Human Biology by Dr. Adolph H. Schultz of Johns Hopkins university, ns «a result of many detailed studies of the body forms of man and his closer relatives among apes and monkeys. The evolutionary stem which was to lead to man split off from the main stem of the apes and monkeys, Doctor Schultz’s diagram assumes, very long ago; in which conclusion the Baltimore anatomist apparently

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agrees with the widelj? quoted views of Dr. Henry Fairchild Osborn of New York city. Only a short time after this original split into a monkey stem and a man-and-ape stem, the latter stem split again Into one line which became that of man’s ancestry and another line which led to the three manlike apes, the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the orang-utan. The creatures belonging to this ancestral stem of man were characterized from the beginning, Doctor Schultz believes, by living on the ground and by walking on two feet. The ape stern, on the other hand, Included creatures partly tree living and walking on four feet. —Baltimore Sun. The love we give is the only love we keep.

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