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mmmwwmmmm'r fwufpiv ing. He saw the astonishment upon the young man's face. "Wiil you please come over here?" asked the stranger. He led him about fifty yards away, out of the hearing of the others. He might have saved himself the trouble, for those who were not asleep in the shade had already forgotten Jim's existence. When they stood together upon the sand the young man took Jim by the shoulders and swung him around facing him. "Are you Jim Bennett or are you lying?" he demanded in crisp, ner vous accents. For an instant Jim felt the resent ment that would have comg to any normal man at such treatment, but then he remembered that he had left his manhood behind him at the whis key bar in Tam-tam town. "I'm Jim Bennett," he answered doggedly. "What do you want with me?" The other breathed hard. "Where do you come from?" he demanded. "I must have proofs of what you sav, Who is the woman to whom you are' engaged? "You mean Miss Dale, I Buppose," drawled Jun, and other let his hands drop from his shoulders and stared at him hopelessly. "Are you drunk or sunstruck?" he inquired presently. "Usually both," answered Jim truthfully. "Today, as it happens, I haven't found any one willing to give me the price. How about you?" The young man clapped him on the shoulder. "Listen to me," he said quietly. "You must have been a man once, from all I've heard of you. I recog nize you from your pohtograph, al though that beard makes you look quite different Miss Dale's father is dead. He has left her his whole fortune. She wanted me to come and find you and bring you back to her. She loves you, and pride does not' count. She knows what you must'have been though and due's e ing to ask you to marry her once she gets you at her side, understand? Jim understood. The thought of the Dale millions at his command was paralyzing; it galvanized him into life. He looked up to see the young man reading his face. "Here's $10!" he said suddenly. "No, wait!" He pulled out the pock etbook again. "Here's a hundred. Do you think you can get washed and cleaned and havea new suit and good linen on your back ready to sail on the ship tomorrow?" Jim pocketed the money mechan ically. "I suppose so," he muttered. "What's your hurry?" "Because," said the other gravely, "Mis3 Dale is on board. That's why. And the best man in the world could not deserve your luck." Somehow the new clothes, the lux ury of a bath, had put new manhood into Jim. He lay in bed early in the morning in the hotel and speculated what he would do with the Dale mil- 11-vtnj TTo tirmilfl trn tn Han 'E,rnTirtart of course. He would build a palace there. , He Would have automobiles, fine clothes, cigars, all the physical luxuries which he had been denied so long. And he would marry Ellse at the first opportunity, to keep his hold on her. He got up and dressed. He was just about to leave the room when the young man entered. He surveyed Jim with a grimmer smile than bef fore. "You haven't shaved off your beard," he said. "No," said Jim thoughtfully. "It looks more manly, I think." The other looked at him in con tempt. It penetrated the man's skin. Jim winced. It was the first moment of self-realization In many a year. "Why have you done all this for me?" he asked, looking at the other curiously. "Do you know, I believe I believe you are in love with Elsie yourself." "ilia Dale from you, please," re plied the other, "Yes, I am-in love MMMMMSM lAliAAtfAMAi