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4 If (Continued from Page Fourteen.) OAKLAND TRIBUNE MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 24,: 1922 (jz JUL aiJi'au wauu ji i'ronictneus mat stoijjejine celestial re. Evalyn waved her hand and glanced fronuDr. Marsdon back log tier gardener, John was standing erect, his bearded, sun-burned face frigidly expressionless. Evalyn walked slowly to her tuests. Dr.

Marsdon Hissed Evalyn. "Who i the composite of Lincoln, and Grant?" he smiled. There was no' answer. Marsdon put his shoulder to the door. "Where do those steps Jrad?" asked Marsdon.

"Only to an old kitchen." They entered a gloomy room In the basement. A dim' tigure was crouching in a chair in the corner, Dr. Marsdon strode toward him John Temple raised his head and Marsdon stumbled back. His face was ashen. "Good God! It's 7 Evalyi's voice was low, yet clear and steady.

"John, some thing was taken from the house last night. If you say you did not -'take tt I shall believe you." The man replied quietly, have it hero In my lap, Miss Evalyn." A miniature prototype of Hirius was munching at a baby nipple attached to a.bottle half filled watery milk'. The girl slowly went from Mis room. A telephone message was received from the Bridgewatcr police. One of the waiters who had atristed the caterer.

on tliej)re-vioua. night at Kockridge had been arrested. The diamond ornament was being held until after the trial. "I really don't Evalyn replied. "We call him And every one talked at once as- they went toward the house.

John Temple walked slowly ts Bethel. The distance is seven miles, lie paused before a window flanked Toy a barber pole of red and white. On his homeward Journey dark, ness came down and when he reached Rockhouso Corners unusual sounds drifted to him mu-eio and faint laughter. He thought Ct a night more than three years ago; the clear tenor voice that had sung a parody no, a requiem. Since then- curious experiences on top of a water cart, hospitals, the theft of his years of labor.

.1 V. 't Even now great telescopes were pointed heavenward at an interloper that had appeared among the 'planets. Soon it would be visible to the na-ked eye. He had computed it. It bore hkr-rrame.

es, lie knew something about the heavens, but this knowledge seemed less than worth while for the other thing that he knew was this: Jle was built in mould that can love but once. He entered the Annex. In the ray ofhis smoky lamp he packed his hooks into large wooden, boxes. A knock sounded on his door, anil Evalyn, in a dancing frock, entered. For a moment she looked upon the man crouching over a gr-at box of books, at his thouglft ful' head, his face, like a deep wood-carving.

with its close- cropped beard. 4 i Before Dr. Marsdon left, lats that evening, he talked with Evalyn beneath the stars. His last words Were: "I want you to tell him I told you everything." They walked slowly out of the garden 1o the waiting car. ruck, Hal.

Wherever you go. good said the girl. Dr. Marsdon climbed into the automobile. "Also, Evalyn, tell' him I said ho knows more about the stars than any man living.

And tomorrow night you will see in the sky tile reason astronomers the world over are saying he Is one of the greatest mathematicians -that ever lived. The girl watehed- 4re- red tail-light of the car bob over the bridge, then ran across the road, and knocked at the door of the former- poorhouse. she called softly, "Jolm." But John Temple was on top his fallpw hill until 4ay-break. Descending, he packed his books and marked the boxes carefully with a New York address, then set himself to composing "a note: "1 am r'e'lurning the son of Princess Plus Mouse and Please tell Iff V'--'-' I V- tff r5, jI icaso gee a oox anu come to the barn at once," Kvalyn pleaded. "The Princess is going to be a mother." John Temple lifted a large box of precious, carefully packed volumes and turned it upside down on the floor.

"Will this do?" Skirting the lawn and Its dancer, they reached the barn and 4 end stalked out iuto the green- filled the box with fresh straw and carried it to the puniphousc. "Put the box in the corner where it will dark in. the daytime. Don't leave until I come back," she said. Jt was after-'midnight when Evalyn returned.

"I was thinking of a boon given to the world long ago," said the man. "It came to me tonight In answer to, a- matter "that's been worrying me. It seemed that the world's Creator' must have said, 'The world shall never grow for today upon, the earth there is not a living thing that Is older J-iesaie i. suny uuvub iu whwh this morning, but I had to go to the Ridge to get a baby nipple. Forgive Sirius.

Forgive both of us. John." Wrapping Sirius Junior in. a soft llnannel Bhirt, the man placed the puppy inside his old derby and, left it on the steps of Rockhouse. He walked slowly toward Bethel and the early morning train. That night at the intersection ot two of the world's greatest thoroughfares, Fifth Avenue and Broadway, a crowd waited to look through a battered yet shining brass telescope.

A novel object was in the sky an object that millions of people were gazing upon Temple's comet. At the side of the telescope, explaining this in. simple language, was a ma.n who knew nothing on earth but all ahout the ridiculous," said' Evalyn. "There have been thieves around all sum- -nier. They got in last night.

That's all there is to it." "I won't be satisfied I didn't-steal it in my sleep," declared Will Brooks, "until evey rag is shaken out. 'The only way, Evalyn." "And I want my things came Bessie's quavering voice from the top hall. "And that man. I think his house ought to be searched too. Last night.

I heard him light the lamp in the kitchen. And I heard him in the dining room. was a long while before he rut out the Then this morning I saw him running up the road towaro" the KidKe. And he was still running when he came back," "The men will handle this." Dr. Marsdon was all determination.

"rerhaps we'd better wait," suggested Will Brooks intuitively, as he glanced at his hostess. "The constable or someone will soon be Kvalyn came -down the sleps. "The constable isn't going to search- this house, moved out the front door. "Hal, you may come with me. But I'll dotlie talking." Evalyn and "Dr.

MursdOn ascended the rickety steps. "John," called the girl. The three black puppies wers the toast at It was four in the afternoon when Evalyn called Bessie and went to her own room. "I want you to look in everything. That ornament I wore in my hair last night the Pleiades-is "Miss The color drained out of the maid's face.

"Anything," cried the girl, "anything I have but that!" They searched. Evalyn turned to the maid. "Don't mention this to a soul, but ask Dr. Marsdon to come to my room." Dr. Marsdon's first inquiry was directed at the bearded man he had seen yesterday afternoon on the lawn.

"John Is out of the question," Evalyn said. Marsdon would look around the Presently he returned and -announccd that he had told the other guests and notified the Urldgeport and I)anburypolice. Evalyn was patiently "It's only fair to all of tfe- flared Marsdon. "Everything in the house has to be searched." He -followed her to the top of the steps. Below on the landing were the other four guests.

"This is than a few. score years eternal youth uppn hoary planet! Th.e, recipe," he mused, "the recipe fofc this eternal youth of the world how simple it Is! Only two'' ingredients! Love and death keep the world eternally young. And -this has something to do with im- mortality." Abruptly he asked if he might sec the ornament in the girl's hair. His hand was trembling "when he handed the Pleiades back to Eva-lyn. Evalyn pointed to the star cluster above the roof of Ilock- house.

"An astronomer-onee-told -me it was a perfect representation," she faltered. J'He was -anj astronomer all of his lifeeven when he was a boy," and she added I strangely: "John, love and "death do more than keep the world forever youag, sometimes they make it seem very old indeed. And she went quickly into the house. Stars. until midnight; then this eminent mathematician and uncompromising scholar, beckoned a newsboy who was warming himself over a grating, and- to-gether they disappeared ths little restaurant.

Tho next morning a pfe of telegrams lay on the table in John Teiiinle's room- One was a message from an old astronomer in Florida, another from an Eastern university, still another from rrhntn't. 1 1 1 1 1 tun (-1 A '1 ALONG BACKYARD FENCE OP EASTBAY J.TUII jiiuiiih from (treat Western observatories. Ope of these last John Tempi placed in ins pockci. Suddenly, as the man stood the.i'Oi"the sombre expression left his face. He read a wondrous teleeram: "-Return at once.

Sirius Junior will not allow his mother or me ta feed him. Bring baby bottles. Evalyn." (THE END) (Copyright. All rights reserved.) Toward morning, by the light of a match the man counted three blacks and a red. He suddenly leaned over, plunged his hand into the box ajid carried the little red creature into the kitchen.

John lit the lamp and held the small squirming animal to the light-. "Sirius, Sirius, Junior!" Twenty-six trillion miles to the nearest star Immeasurable distance beyond that, and Sirius had found his way back through the night! "Oh, Creator of a world that is ver young. With no other thought than to break the great tidings to Evalyn, (Continued From Page Six) three miles with little grade along the Diablo side of the divide and up to the northern slope of Red- --wood peak. From the Thorn road -intersec- tion to the top of Redwood peak, the hike is one of the most interesting in all the hills. The Contra Costa hills country is unfolded for almost the entire length "of trail, offering surprising vistas of rolling ranges to the east sparsely forested and with here and there outcropping rock formations.

At the. point half way; between Round Top and Redwood peak, where the trail crosses the Shepard creek road the hiker may take the' trail. leading to the right, which presently takes him into the unfinished extension of the Skyline. boulevard connecting with the county road. The hike comes to a close at Leona Heights, where the Mills College cars may be reached.

If the hiker prefers to come out nearer Oakland, he may return from wood peak, hitting the t.rall-that leads westward past-ttle road con--struction. camp. This trail comes out on the Joaquin Miller road only a quarter mile above the Miller estate. It is an easy hike form the to Lincoln avenue, thence to Hopkins street, where connection may be made with a street car line running into Oakland. Don't neglect to carry a canteen of water.

I came across only- one spot where drinkable water could be had; and that was a spring oii the southwestern slope the Redwood peak, virtually at the end of the walk. From 9 o'clock that 2 In the afternoon I Tlad to UKf Insipid canteen room of Uoekhouse. Stumbling against the table, he gained the dark hall and ascended the shadowy stairway. Beyond was the room of the Pleiad. He remem mm bered words she nad spoken: "All award Redwood' peak.

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noMK breeds." When he returned to- the kltch en he was haggard. Extinguishing the light, he went to the pump-house and leaned over the box. All of these were mixed-breeds, and yet only one bore the resemblance. Something must be done. He wrapped his'coat around the qulv-rlng llttls pi'Ototie of his friend to its destination, the hiker 'may follow it to the point on the plds of Redwood peak whence it is nn easy scramble to4 the top of the mountain.

Returning from the summit the hiker will have no trouble reaching the private road running down the southwest shoulder of the peak, verse the Eastbay cities' buck fence without an adequate supply of water. Remember you are high in the air at all times, and; plurality of springs at the higher levels isr, not a characteristic of the ContraT Costa hills. HA Xamau t. 424, New York 171.