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N OF THE GODS | BY REX BEACH a oil] SYNOPSIS. 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese merchant of San cisco, announces a son has arrived at his poms, only cer Dunne knows that the child is & white foundling. Sam Lee attends Bust. or Chinese she publicly horsewhips him. Lee Ying dies before Sam arrives home. Alanna returns to New York and apolo- §izes. Sam tries to Torget by throwing imself into the night life of New York. Alanna is taken ill and in a delirium she calls repeatedly for m, who is sent for Dis presence brings her through the erisls, CHAPTER XXIX, Wagner began, after a few well rehearsed preliminaries leading up to the subject, by assuring her that he realized exactly how matters stood between her and Sam Lee. He was deeply sympathetic, but it was a hope- less situation and she must make up her mind to face it. "There's absolutely nothing to be done and you're merely making your- self miserable by brooding over the fellow." "Something could be done," she told him listlessly, "if I had the courage of a whippoorwill." "What?" "Precious jelly fish, I could shut my eyes and marry him. I wish I had the grit, but--jelly fish don't have grit, do they? Nothing to hold it in." "You couldn't even do that, not after what I'm going to tell you. I hate to shock and disappoint you, and #t sounds awfully hackneyed to say he isn't worthy of you, but it's true. He's a rotter. He has gone to smash, He's a dissolute, dissipated--" "Darling! You tempt me to defy the world." "I got the surprise of my life that night I went looking for him, I al- ways figured he had some pride and decency: I assumed he was a Chinese gentleman, whatever that may be, but he isn't. D'you know where I found him? In a Filipino dance hall! The most terrible place I ever saw." "Yes? Where? Tell me about it." Wagner acceded willingly enough to this request; in considerable detail he described not only that place on Riverside Drive, as he called it, but also the other haunts he had visit. ed in company with Sam's valet. The picture he painted was vivid enough: Alenna listened with interest. When he had finished she astounded her fa- ther by saying: "I wonder if it's any worse than some I've been in,, Have vou sceén those colored-dance halls in Harlem?" "Did--you go?" Wagner gasped. "Yes, I went everywhere; tried everything, but it didn't work. Sam's doing the same: I know all about him. I hear every day.... Now don't jump at conclusions. I haven't spoken to him and I don't intend to." "Then how----1" "He asked a friend to telephone the nurse and report to him on my con- dition. He couldn't do any less, could he? Well, I got her on the wire fin- ally--she's a girl he grew up with-- and we've become good pals. She was here to see me this afternoon. I think she's in love with him, too, so we have plenty to talk about." After a moment Wagner said more ealmly and with a real sincerity of feeling: "I'm awfully sorry, dear. You don't know how miserable it makes me to only od: way possible," Alanna smiled forlorn- a | along, up, b : "I-broke it up once, in the ly, "but 'you and Sam spoiled it. Let's not talk any more about it. Run now, and amuse yourself. Please!" The father began a protest but. she insisted. ; "Very well," Wagner stooped and kissed the thim, listless face of his daughter, "I'd like to help you fight it out, if I could and if you'd let me." Alanna's telephone rang and with an effort she lifted it. Eileen Cas- sidy was calling her but in such a flutber of excitement that Alanna did not at first recognize her voice. Even then it was hard to understand her. Speaking of insanity, this Cassidy girl was plainly cracked, mad as a hatter: there was no sense at all to what she was saying. A white man? Sam a white man? The poor child was daft, hysterical, too, for her voice was shrill; she was laughing and choking and her words fairly piled up on the|' re. i was Jot Lee Ying's son! 6 0] nese importer not father----| Yas Hh No, Eileen was probably all right, it was merely her own reason that had fled. Alanna clung dizzily to the instru- ment; her mouth turned dry and she could utter nothing except broken and inadequate sounds: her ears began to roar until she completely last what was being said to her. "Wait! Please--!" she managed to gasp. "I don't understand half of it.! Say it over again, slowly." "Sam is an adopted child, or prac- tically that. Anyhow he isn't Lee Ying's son. "I--can't believe it. How do you know?" "It's the strangest thing. No won- der you think I'm raving. Well, a relative of mother's came to see us to- night, he's here now. His name is Daly, Peter Daly, and he knew your father when he was a police inspector in San Francisco. You see Lee Ying came from there and Cousin Peter knew him too. He says Sam is a foundling, Lee Ying picked him up on his doorstep when he was no big- ger than your thumb, There's no mis- take about it. That explains every- thing, doesn't it? I mean about Sam's looks and----Hello!-----Hello!" "Yes." "Did you hear?" "I think so. What does he say-- Sam? Why hasn't he told me?" "He doesn't know. I called his house a minute ago and he's out. Then I called you." "Are you--sure?" "About the news?--yes. That's why I'm so frantic to find him tonight. Peter's sailing in the morning." "Yes. Yes, of course. Father must know, too. Could you come up here right away and tell him? ... I'm shaking so I can't held on---" Alama completely lost control of her emotions; she laughed and erled, she stuttered and choked; she found herself gabbling wildly at the tele- phone even after she had replaced the receiver on its hook. That mental upheaval did not last long. She began to dress for the street almost before she realized why. Same was white! This nightmare had ended. She'd find hin|--probably at Bmmett Topping, flash sprinter from Loyola University, is shown here after equalling the world 60- yard record 6.2 seconds. 4 that place on Riverside Drive. She'd snatch him away if she had to wreck the place. x Her father circumstantial descrip- tion of that Asiatic club enabled her to find it and she was admitted read- ily. The smiling Oriental on the door told her that Sam Lee was inside. From the floor above came a bahel of voices and the sounds of a restless, moving crowd. There was a reception room at the right of the entrance hall, and there several Filipi 'were | was charging in her direction, casting' saw Sam almost at once; he was com- above, but her thin ery was lost in the her strength was feeble, Neve¥ mind, he had heard her: he ¢ouples aside, spinning them out of} his way. She could see the top of his head. . . . She was growing numb and that black wave wag rolling over 'her again. . . No need to fight it down. Sam was coming. ... The room, the world was revolving, it was falling away and she floated over it. Higher and higher she was borne. Nice and comfortable up here riding on a cloud with Sam. Nothing to worry 'about with his arms around her. . . . Alanna sighed in exquisite contentment. J (To be concluded.) a RY NER Defining a Collector 'What is a collector? If a person acquires things without reference to their use, merely to satisfy his fancy, he is a collector. The objects thus acquired may be paintings, postage stamps, violins. But whatever the specific character of the appeal may be, it never proceeds--and therein lies the crux of the matter--from the thing ag such; that is, from its primary at- tributes. Which naturally at once raises the question: "What then is it that stirs the fancy, what is it that i es the interest for collecting?" grouped around a white girl. Alanna paused in the doorway and looked in: they turned eager faces towards her and when she moved on towards the stairway a couple of them followed her. An orchestra started playing; the dancing floor filled with couples when the visitor mounted to its level. A Japanese in dinner clothes halted her. She rightly assumed he was the man- ager. "I'm looking for Sam Lee," stated Alanna. : "Ah! You friend of Mister Lec?" Alanna nodded impatiently. Her pursuers from the waiting room were at her side now and both were asking her to dance; she ignored them and spoke again to the manager: "] must see him at once. where he is," "What you come here for? Maybe you representing Police Department? Tverything here is conducted excel lently." "No, No! I'm a friend of Mr. Lee's, and I must speak to him." "So? Well, I don't see him tonight." "But I'm sure he's here. The man at the dour just told me--" "Mistef Sam Lee is not here." This conversation had been carried on not without difficulty, for Alanna's Filipino admirers were insistent and they continually interrupted her. Several other men, too, who were not Filipinos, spoke to her. Alanna was accustomed to servility from Asiatic men, but these fellows were anything but servile, they were not even polite; they almost fought over her, and she was crowded this way and that. They were int te in look, speech and action. She began to feel utterly helpless and more than a little bit Tell me Just wash the di rt away. . . Gillett's Lye lifts off Grease, Grime without scrubbing and Stubborn Stains let house-cleaning wear you HY Wins with endless hours of rub- ° bing and scrubbing? ; Use Gillett's Pure Flake Lye. This powerful cleanser makes short work of heavy cleaning jobs. It just washes the dirt away! > Off come grease and grime without scrubbing, Out come even the most stubborn spots and stains. Keep Gillett's Pure Flake Lye handy for greasy pots, the kitchen floor, sinks and bathtubs. One teaspoonful dis- solved in a quart of cold water* mak=s a safe, economical cleanser. And . . . Oillett's Pure Flake Lye will not harm enamel or | Pure Flake Lye kills germs. And Use it full strength and clearing drains. - takes away odors as it cleans, - Be sure to get the genuine Gillett's Pure Flake Lye. Ask for it by name at your © grocer's, b a ee a EEN SH © It is the "fringes" of things. Things have an entity which constitutes their identity; and they have fringes which constitute their differing, It is these fringes which fasten themselves upon the fancy. Let it be watches. One does not collect watches to be the bet- ter posted on the time. A single watch would fulfil the need. It is the peculi- arities which the different makes of watches display which clinch the ap- peal, "A man becomes charmed with the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He after- ward comes across another edition of it, and he acquires that as well. Later, he discovers that there is still another edition, and this he also procures, and then another, and many more yet; un- til he has gathered together maybe a hundred different editions. Does he read them all? Plainly, no. What he does is to note their variations to the | delight of his fancy. A famous American book collector | at an auction in London paid a tre- mendous price for a copy of Venus and Adonis--a sum of money large enough to buy a mansion. Was his anxiety to capture at any cost this tiny treasure of a book prompted by a desire to fa- miliarize himself more thoroughly with Shakespeare's immortal poem? It is, as I suggest: to collect is to bow to fancy. -- Gabriel Wells, in "Th:se Three." The Oldest Continent 'Most people regard Australia as the youngest of the world's continents be- cause it was the last to be discovered by European explorers Really, how- ever, it is the oldest continent--and contains perhaps the oldest land sur- face in the world. A giscovery made by gold prospect- ors recently affords further proof of Australia's great age. After boring through 200 feet of basalt they struck an old riverbed, and brough up water- polished stones which, according to the experts, had not been exposed to sunlight for over a million years. And there are geological formations in the Island Continent which are estimated to be at least 20,000,000 years old. Australia, too, has preserved living links with its remote past. Some of its animals and plants are definitely prehistoric species, such as have sur- vived nowhere else, The duck-billed | platypus, for instance, is the oldest! existing type of mammal, and Aus- tralia has a number of other natural ing down the stairs from the floor] 'He paused to light a cig-| All Russians of rank speak French well, using the popular idioms and the fashionable phrases quite as if they were natives of Paris, They even un- derstand the French of Duvert and Lausanne, which is so thoroughly and entirely Parisian, that many provin- clals understand it with difficulty, They speak without accent, though with a little singing tone, that is very pretty and contagious. The women, too, are very cultivated, with the facility ¢haracteristic of the Slav race, and read and speak several languages. Many have enjoyed Byron, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, inal tongue, and should & writer be mentioned, they show by a well-chosen quotation that they are conversant with his writings. As for thejr toilet, tes, they are of the highest elegance, more, fashignable than the - fashion. Diamonds flash on lovely bare should- ers, white gold, chain bracelets, from Circassia or the Caucasus, alone show by their Oriental workmanship that it is Russia. After dinner, people scatter over the drawing rooms. On tables albums, beauty books, keepsakes, landscapes, are lying, for the comfort of the timid or embarrassed. - Stereopticon views provide amusement, and sometimes a , yielding to per seats herself at the plano, and sings to her own accompaniment a national air or a gypsy song in which the melancholy of the North is intermingled with the ardor of the South, with a strange ac- cent, It is like a cachacha danced on the snow by moonlight--From "Rus- sia," by Theophile Gautier, t Tated by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. pep WE "She is one of those worm-style motorists." "What do you mean, worm-style?" "A worm never gives any signal which way it will turn." SIAR EA Jean--"What started the Grand Can- yon?" Jock--*"A Scotchman lost a penny in a ditch'. in their orlg-| Worth makes the man, and want of it! Tommy--*Pa, what does 'money do when it talks?" Pa--"It says good-bye." By Worth the fellow, The rest is all mere leather, or prus nello. --Pope. PUGS NER CIRCUMSTANCES Who does the best his circumstance allows, > Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more, ~--Young. FASHION HINT "How to make my old short skirts conform to the mew length was a problem to me until I hit on this plan, I dropped the hems; and as the part that had been turned un- der was darker than the rest, I re- dyed the entire dress, after having bleached the goods, following direc. tions in the Diamond Dyes package. "I used Diamond Dyes for the re- dyeing, of course. I have dyed many things with these wonderful colors. They have saved me many dollars and have never failed to give per- fect results--smooth, even colors-- fast to wear and washing. Friends think my things are new when I redye or tint them with Diamond Dyes. They do give the most gor- geous colors!" Mrs. G. C., Levis, Quebec, AREALT curiosities. On the other hand, types of animals more recently evolved were | unknown until they were introduced' by the white settlers. EE Self-Conceit Those who, from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of them- selves, have from that time not only ceased to advance and improve in thelr performances, but have gone backward. They may be compared to men who have lived upon their prin- cipal until they are reduced to beggary and left without resources.--Sir J. Reynolds. i 2 i a you feel that you would I! you took up anything else, and then have your doubts." --Wi rosch. . TERE "Fiverywhere we find the in( 1 trying to ape another rather than to: express himself."--Sir John Adamson. I always make myself believe that 1 am the other fellow and try to imag- ine how I would act im his place.' Jesse H. ones. ® 5 "American men do not care about money. They care for work for work's sake."--Randolph Churchill, "We must adjust ourselves to a new mode of living, one in which there is less luxury but more stability."--Ig- nace Jan Phderewski. "The world needs the United States, but the United States needs Europeand thie world as never before."--Benito Mussolini. ; "We know now that an increasing concentration of wealth did not guare antee an intelligent or fair use of that wealth,"--Franklin D. Roosevelt. "In Germany the people have no money, hut they have contentment." Joseph Hergesheimer. ' "Few Americans have explored the world of leisure,"--Stuart Chase. "There is a radical fault in our mod ern capitalistic civilization which must be corrected down to its roots if this civilization is to endure,"--Benito Mus- solini. "Most men learn, either by direct or indirect method, that a woman, if she be normal, thrives on praise."--Fannie Hurst. $ "When we are beginning an imports ant work, it is not the time to talk about it; and when we have accom- plished the job, it is not necessary."-- Charles Gateg Dawes. "Those hoarding currency are probe ably no safer as a class than those who keep their money in the banks."-- Calvin Coolidge. "Again and again we have seen gov. ernments desiring to do one thing, knowing that it is the best thing to do, and prevented by popular feeling from doing it."--Sir Norman Angell, "Environment is what makes people appear different. At heart the decent ones are all alike."--"Alfafa" Bill Mur- ray. 4 "The Germans aré finding out what America must discover--that it is pos- sible to have poverty without ignoms iny and intelligence without bigotry." ~--Joseph Hergesheimer. "A. surplus is a good thing because it forces the discovery of new uses."-- Henry Ford, ARELN Scientists Offer Various Views on Formation of Human Ear People with points at the tops of their ears or with no lobes at the bot- toms, so that the ear merges directly, into the side of the head, may take heart. The former are not necessarily, monkeys and the latter do not need to be criminals. So insist British anthro- pologists, up in arms against state- ments made in a recent lecture by Drs. Leonard Williams before the Insur- ance Institute of London, in which the lecturer stated that the people with pointed ears are throwbacks to this characteristic in apes and monkeys, while the people with lobeless ears re- present a degenerate form likely to have criminal tendencies. It is true, other biologists admit, that the point on the ear probably represents an an- cient evolutionary survival, like the two hundred or more other vestige ore gans left over from man's evolutionary history. A familiar one of these is the human appendix, believed to be a shrunken remnant of the second stom ach of grass-eating animals like horses or cows, Years ago Charles Darwin pointed out the similar vestige char- acter of the small inwardly turned point which some people have on the upper margins of their ears. The biologists argue, however, that there is no more evidence connecting this evolutionary survival with any physi. cal or mental characteristic of apes or other lower animals than there is to consider a person with a long appendix as being like a cow. Similarly, there is no evidence whatsoever that a lobe- less ear means any more about the moral or mental qualities of its pos- 'sessor than a short nose or a long one, Britain for Speed London Daily Express (Ind. Cons): America is about to mount her "speed cops" on British motorcycles because they are the fastest in th» world. Why stop at motorcycles, owever? If the Americans want the astest airplane the fastest motor cars, and the fastest motor boats they must come to us and our engineers for them. America is a young country with time in front of her, sad 10 doubt will eventually catch up. She can afford to take things easily, and to do them slowly. We in hustling Britain are condemned to the um of speed and efsfency. i 'A T Diode' Torte What do we do? What do we judgef