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THE MAGAZINE PAGE “The Gates of Silence” By Meta Sim tn ins, Author of “Hushed Up" TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. “Monstrous and savage"—that was what Toby "had called his aunt’s view. Rimington remembered that Toby had been almost ludicrously upset at such a theory. “You'll he advocating suttieism next. I suppose. Aunt Deb.” ’Veil. It appeared that it had not been a theory oniy. Mrs. Rimington was going to attempt practice. How long would it last, Rimington asked himself, and, al most to his surprise, found himself dread ing the answer. This idea of one friend ly soul near him in this place of stony silence and solitude had taken his heart by storm. It kept him company through the wake ful hours of the night, softening the hor ror of the silence, punctuated occasionally by the sudden anguished cry of some conscience-burdened sleeper, the stealthy pad-pad of the patrolling officer—all those ugly night sounds that had made the hours between 8 and 5 an inferno for him on his first coming to Bilmouth. z The Great Darkness. Since that mad. hardly coherent letter from her sister, in which Mrs. Barrington had accused herself of being instrumental In bringing about .lack Rlmlngton's ar rest. Betty had heard nothing from or of her. Edith seemed to have disappeared from the ken of all who knew her, and only Betty alone cared or wondered—so it seemed. Sir George Lumsden was oc cupied and absorbed in his own affairs— for the last few months he had spent a great deal of his time abroad; and An thony Barrington gave no sign of caring whether the woman he had loved so mad ly was alive or dead. lie had left London; so much Betty learned from the housekeeper. The beau tiful house in Prince’s Gate was shut up and deserted left untouched exactly as it had been on the night he lost both child and wife. He had retired to a small house he owned in Sussex that had long stood empty and unlet it was so remote and lonely, cut off from habitation in a cleft of tiie downs, five or six rfiiles from a railway station. He had one servant only, Nanna, the woman who had been his child’s nurse. Through Nanna. Betty heard of her brother-in-law from time to time It was Nanna who first gave the girl a hint of the new trouble that was coming on Anthony Barrington, the man whom the world had envied so short a time before as one on whom the gods had show’ered all their good gifts wealth and talent, and a beautiful wife and hap piness. “Pear Miss Betty,’’ the old woman wrote, “isn’t it possible for yon to see the master? He's ill and worrying, and there’s worse threatening that I am not fit liberty to say. Only it don’t seem right he should be left utterly.” In the waiting room there was only one other fellow prisoner called to the bat of fear and waiting for judgment a woman this time—young and extreme ly good to look upon She glanced across the room at Barrington when he was shown in and something tn the look o/ the eyes that he saw so clearly’ in the I gb.t tlSe great central three-light whiclT had been switched on for It was •lark in this hack room of Wlmpole street in the early afternoon light that failed so quickly—told him their own story. He turned his back on her. rudely and abruptly. It seemed to make things so much worse that others “This is the sort of job that requires Comb It Out Lovingly And smile into your mirror at your own beautiful, soft, lus trous hair. <'an you? Is yours faded and streaked, lifeless, turning gray? The' hair responds quickly to proper care and treatment. 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What was she do ing.’ Prospering, of that he had •no douht. of that kind always pros pered. But for the first time in all these months a certain uncomfortable sense of responsibility stirred in his heart. After all, she was his wife. sinned. It was as though contact with his fellow-beings, contact with suffering, with fear, had lessened something of the ! hatred in his heart. The door of the consulting room opened. 1 and the. servant summoned the waiting woman. As he held the door for her a burst of childish laughter sounded in the hall, and there was a scamper of child ish feet, and a fly ing figure came dash ing into the room His visit was for a moment only; a scandalized nurse fol lowed and caught up the IftHe boy, a I bundle of white wool surmounted by a | glowing, rosy face and golden curls, who ' had so gloriously transgressed the most stringent of the nursery laws. But the ’ sight of him had been enough to set the venom of hatred at work again in Anthony Barrington's heart. So might his son have been but for his mother. It was the first time he had ever de liberately’ accused Edith in his heart of I being the direct cause of their child's death. His face was very hard, very ugly’ in its set lines when his own turn to enter the consulting room came. Only Himself. No thought of Edith, no thought of the dead child, no thought of anything but himself and the verdict to be pronounced over him. now when he sat in the arm chair and submitted to the searching ex amination. the flashing of those strange I lights that hurt his eyes so cruelly. The doctor was very vague: long expe rience had taught him the art of con cealing truth in the midst of words. Bui Anthony Barrington could read faces, and he read his own fate in the grave eyes <»f the man bent above him. “The truth, please.’’ he said. “You see, I am a painter, and naturally my eyes are very important to me.” “They are to most people.” the oculist said, bluntly, a little nettled by a touch of arrogance in Barrington’s manner. Then he-fell ashamed, and.gave his ver dict, still dressed In many’ words, but un mistakable now; and as the meaning of it , filtered home to Barrington's brain h* ■ turned faint and reeled. Decay of the optic nerve. No chance — no earthly chance —of recovery. ' The words whirled in his brain. “How long do you give me?” he asked suddenly, looking up. The oculist was busy with a siphon and a glass. He turned and came, hand ing the glass to Barrington, who took it mechanically and with a shaking hand. “Six months with care,” he said, drop ping his verbal veil now. “With extreme care temperance in all things, and utter freedom from menial worry. 1 am afraid I -can promise no more than six months.” "And with intemperance and the usual worry’ inseparable from a man who knows I that his life is dropping to pieces about | him?" asked Barrington “Three, perhaps. You see. you came to • me too late.” The words rang in Barrington’s ears as he left the. house. Too late too late! His feet heat out an accompaniment to • them as he stumbled up the street, and ! the hoofs of every passing horse joined in the refrain. Broken. Back to the Chantrey, but not by train. I whose iron wheels would beat out that awful refrain in its iron track. Barring i ion, by this awful blow’, seemed to have recovered his normal balance. He had been a man half mad with jealousy and passion and thwarted revenge when he entered the oculist's consulting room. He stumbled out of it a stricken man; yet one more akin to the man he had been before the night that Edmond Le vasseur had met his death at his hands. He had acted as he would have acted then; he slipped into the first telephone office and rang up the garage, ordering a car to be sent round to his lodgings. It was waiting for him at the door when he reached there. Then had followed a mad rush through the air. a rush that held every nerve at tension, every sense on strain, that gave no moment for brooding as the white roads leapt up to meet the edr. and the trees and hedges, and here and there a cottage atw inkle with the light of lamp and fire, rushed by. So back to the des olate house and the old woman who wait ed his return, to the locked-up studio and the work that waited for him there Then the thoughts that he had held at bay behind the shield of speed had their revenge and rused upon him. racked and tortured him. so that in rhe empty’ room where he paced up and down he cried aloud out. of the anguish of his heart, a cry so strange, so hoarse and poignant, that It brought the old woman running from her kitchen across the hall to the closed door, where she crouched, listening and waiting. But after that cry there was silence, and the listening old woman, holding her hand to her heart, mouthing and mumb ling after the manner of the aged, whis pered in her heart. “Not silence-anything but that; It’s the quiet that hurts”— “It’s the silence that hurts!” Silence and the black falling curtain that would shut him out forver from the sight of all those things he had loved so much —the W’tde stretches of the sky, the whitening of the leaves as they trembled under the kiss of the wind, the dance of the daffo dils in the glass, the lovelight in a woman’s eyes. To Be Continued in Next Issue. Nddine Face Powder (/n Green Boxes Only. ) Makes the Complexion Beautiful x'''''” - —Soft and Velvety It is Pure. 1 / '''\ Harmless " iff I Money Had if Sol ' ' I Entirely I'leased. . ; W ! y<~ / The soft, velvety ajßfc. / appearance re- V ] mains until pow-. \ ',/ <Jt; is washed off. '\A A . 0 . l <?c" i \< Purified bv a new —process. Prevents sunburn and return of discolorations.! 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Certainly in this latitude we should not take any fourteen-year-old Juliet seriously, and any sensible mamma who •caught her daughter of that age hang ing over the banisters whispering down sizzling love speeches to some moon struck Romeo would turn the forward little minx across her knee and give her a good spanking. That would be about the sort of love philterlng that she would get, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred it would work a complete and lasting cure. of course, every girl of sixteen be lieves herself capable of the grand pas sion, just as she believes herself ca pable of singing in grand opera, or ele vating the stage, or, as one young miss naively told me the other day she in tended to do, of writing a great novel that would change the nature of and uplift every human being that read it. But, in reality, she is as little capable of doing the one as the other. Possibly she may have within her a great voice, or a great talent, or a great ability to love, but it is embryonic, un developed, a promise and not a finished performance. To a girl of sixteen her mind and heart are as unknown a territory to her as Darkest Africa. She has not yet taken the measure of her own reeds or her own potentialities. She has no idea of what she will demand of a man. She is utterly, totally ignorant of her self and of life, and the curse of her ignorance is that she does not know that she doesn't know, but believes her self to be all wise. She plays with love as with a new and delightful toy. not knowing that it is a thing thitt older people approach with fear and trembling. She is en chanted with new emotions, with the gratified vanity of being flattered and made love to. and she is so facile in Imagination that she can throw the rosy mantle of romance tiiat she has woven over anything in trousers that pays court to her. This is why very young girls dope with their fathers' chauffeurs, or matey their dry-as-dust music masters. m commit .some other folly in the name of love before they have found out what love really Is. But whether the man that a girl falls in love with when she is sixteen will continue to fire her fancy when she is 22 or 23 is just as much an uncertainty as whether site will continue to have a passion for strawberry jam and c hew ing gum after she gets out of the school room. There are some women who never get beyond the bread-and-butter stage of existence, but most w omen do. and thei«e is nothing to which those who have developed a taste for caviar look back with such amusement and shuddering horror as to the man with I whom they fancied themselves in love when they were sixteen. Certainly the man who marries th<- | girl of sixteen takes a long shot at hap i>ltm-“. so ht lias to take chances on I her changing Ideals as she grows from childhood to womanhood, and not many of us are lucky enough to remain ideals with those with whom we dally asso ciate. I should say that from 25 to 30 was the real love time of a woman’s life, the age at which one could be most sure that when she loved she loved for keeps By that time she has come to herself. Her tastes are formed, her character settled, and she knows what qualities she requires in a mate. She is still young enough to have her dreams untarnished, and to believe in the high gods of romance. Her en thusiasms are still at high tide, so that she can give without counting tne cost, but her heart is no longer a weather cock to be blown about by every wind of fancy. It is the full blown rose and not the bud of love that she gives a man, ajid lucky' is he on whom it is be stow ed. The girl of sixteen gets over an un fortunate love affair as easily as she does a disappointment about going to ,» ball, but the woman of 25 or 30 who loves deeply' and truly never loves again, and if any qntoward thing hap pens to blight her affection she goes sorrowing and widowed in sou! to the grave. Occasionally there is a woman who at thirty-five is capable of great and splendid love, but for the most part the love springs have dried up in the heart of her who has reached this ago. l.ove thrives best in an atmosphere of Illu sion, and the woman of thirty-five has seen too much of life, and too much of the sordid endings of her friends’ ro- Remove the Cause SCIENTISTS have proven that diseases of the blood, stomach, bowels, kid neys and nerves are caused by germs, minute living organisms that enter into your system through the water you drink, the food you eat, and the air you breathe. DR. 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It is hard to believe in the contin uance of love as we see it exemplified in the matrimonial experiences with our friends, and as we grow older we cease to believe that special miracles will be worked in our behalf, and so the wom an of thirty-five has little of enthu siasm and less-of faith to give to nny man, and she is apt to regard a suitor more from the eligible than the senti mental point of view. After fifty a woman is past the love age. She fs capable only of friendship, bui this may be of a. character so true and loyal, so fine and disinterested, so faithful and so satisfying, that it is more than a substitute for love it may lack some of the thrills of youth and love, but it is full of a peace that passes all understanding, and blessed Is the man who Is fortunate enough to get it. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Advice to the Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax NOT A DESIRABLE MAN TO KNOW. • Dear Miss Fairfax: * I am going with a young man eighteen years old. He is very at- < tentixe to me. but becomes very angry ami does not speak to me ‘ I for a few days if I talk to other 1 young men. ANXIOUS. 1 Yon are paving the wav to a world 1 of trouble for yourself if you continue ' to give him the right to be so t.\ ran- 1 nieal. Give him to understand, and prompt ly, that you have a right to have other interests and other friends. A tyrant in love becomes a brute of a husband. TELL HER AS YOU TOLD ME. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am nineteen and deeply in love with a girl one year my junior. She has told me that she loved me, and mote than once since I have been going witli her, which is about eight months. I would like to stop going with her till I can get proper employment to” earn a living for both of us, but I don’t know just how to tell her. C. L. 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