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_ Then she was gone, flying up the
avenue, losing herself in the crowds,
never looking back. Michael Fair-
bourne stood staring after her. Then)
he grinned and shrugged as he light-|
ed a cigarette and moved carelessly |
along the street.

“Seem to have dubbed my shot
again, eh?” he murmured. Then
he glanced along the street as if
again seeing the black-eyed girl with
the camelia skin. “Still, I’m won-
dering a little—"

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ANNEUAURERELEUNORNEUUUCCGEOOUOCRCOTOUOTEEATY:
CHAPTER: I.—Continued

CHAPTER II.

There was no good reason for
Starr Ellison to be on Fifth Avenue
that cheerful early Autumn mid-day.
Only that it was not Sixth Avenue.
Nor was there along it any employ-
ment offices, wordlessly insisting on
her need for job hunting in the
sordidness,

After her visit to the doctor, with
whose smiling assistant she had, in-
cidentally, left the greater part of
her small remaining store of cash—
for the privilege of being told she
had only six months more of life—

Starr had not realized that her
tempestuous words had been spoken
aloud until the man's voice inter-
rupted. It was a crisp, pleasant
voice, with a lazy, amused drawl.
She whirled around to face him,
hands gripping her handbag tightly
as the nearest support.

The man had detached himself
from the careless crowds, and stood
not far from her elbow, indolently
leaning against a corner of the show
window frame. He was looking) such small and distasteful matters
down on her with quizzical gray eyeS/ as searching for a job appeared of
that held a glint of humor in theta small moment. Especially when
depths. For that first startled) there were no jobs. Why keep on
moment Starr's complete vision Be hunting for one by which she could
filled with him. He was tall, hand-| merely keep the breath of life in her
some in a bronzed, broad-shouldered body for six months more? It hard-
slim-waisted way, with a physique/jy seemed worth while.
that bespoke the owner's pride of its) “ sych thoughts were in Starr's
possession in its care. He wore dark, mind as she fled along the street
smartly tailored clothes which were) s¢ter her tempestuously uttered re-
unerringly placed in their category) pejjion against Fate in the atmos-
of good taste. Money, too, of course. phere of the prosperous Avenue.
That he was accustomed to that S| Nevertheless, she mechanically turn-
to the air he breathed was in his! oq at the next corner and sought the
slightly arrogant features, features! .treet made clamorous by the El
which had just the proper tinge of overhead, and headed for the
hardness to give him an air of in-| agencies which were on her list and
teresting masterfulness. 3 not already tried that day. She

pine sate of UR oe was it} couldn't be a quitter entirely, she

‘ Sor coned posed, even if she had so short
his lips more widely ‘as he looked a time to fight. Work was most
straight into Starr Eilison’s upturned necessary at the moment. Vitally so,
face, from which the eagerness of|¢,. she had a most distasteful mem-

her passionate plea had not fled. ory of her seance that morning with
“So you want to play, do you?”| tye keeper of her rooming house. A
he repeated, with maddeningly slow dreary, hopeless kind of place it was,
emphasis. but Mrs. Maloney who kept it, had
Starr could not understand Why) made it quite plain to Miss Ellison
on the instant she was not annoyed | that she had waited for her rent
at his intrusion, or his very appar- quite long enough, and that while
ent jibing. Such a short time ago| she was right sorry that Miss Elli-
the Starr Ellison she had always son couldn't get a job, there were
known would have thought furious-| nenty of other people in the same
ly: “Masher!” and one look would|s, ‘after all, Mrs. Maloney's was
have been a crushing retort to him. | 14+ an eleemosynary institution. In
Today it did not matter. Such| other words, Mrs. Maloney had con-
things were of so small account. veyed to Starr that if she was pre-
Nothing mattered, anyway. Every- pared to pay her three weeks’ ar-
thing was an affair of relativity.| jars of rent that she could have her
Things were important only because clothes, Otherwise—
a easy Ms ae hen oan orc a
ives ceichicouidinerconsiaered@rracs It was beginning to look like a rough
fically no future! at allswnathdla it ride ahead for a girl who, at most,
matter what she might say or do? ice ne ee ee | eee ee
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might say or do?
Even though she was surprised at sep were Nene # to pans outs in\ aix
months, in the meantime, she sup-

herself, steadily Starr returned the
contemplative scrutiny of the gray posed, she would have to sleep some-
eyes that were amusedly regarding where. .
her, She placed him. Readily, The| ‘4 Wty smile crossed Starr Elli-
man before her represented that gay, | 50"’s lips as she rushed along. She—
smart world she had never known,|S"¢!—Wwho didn't know. where she
for which she had yearned—the| WS 80ing to sleep that night, had
other half of the world which knew| been wasting her time on Fifth
how to play. He had taken advant-| Avenue, rebelling against not hay-
age of the opportunity. He stood for ing a taste of life. She had been
all she had lost in life and could| Wanting to play!

She didn’t know that noon had

never hope to attain.
come, and forgot that her breakfast

She cried out at him suddenly, her
eyes blazing at him as though ‘she had been a doughnut and a cup of
coffee until she suddenly realized

were, through him, hurling- her defy
that the crowds who were jostling

to earth and heavens:

“Yes, if you must have it! More her, elbowing her, were making their
than anything else in this wide, wide] Way into the rows of eating places
world, I want to play!” that sat cheek by jowl along the

The smile in his eyes was taunt-| CTOSS street. She stopped still be-
ingly on his lips, as he drawled: fore one of them, drawn irresistibly

by the sight of the good things to

‘That, I should imagine, should be -
something not too hard to arrange—” eat temptingly displayed. Another
But, aghast at herself, Starr was| Show window!
She forgot that she was hurrying

backing away, long lashes dropped
% to look for a job, forgot she had

over her confused eyes. What had

she done? Unnoticed she backed wanted to play, forgot even for that
~ minute what that doctor had told
her, as her eyes widened at sight of

the food, and then swept on further

to the people at the tables. In her

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scene, but it was no more apon||

aie ‘et’s and pcrana .
which she gazed than the vista of

AR D' food and warmth that spread out in
MIN i S one of those restaurants which not
so long ago Starr Ellison would not
have bothered to give a passing

man’s hand went out to touch her} butter gravy,
crispest looking salad.

glance. ‘
Two prosperous looking business
RY ] M E girls were having their luncheon}

with a steak that was simply oozing
new peas and the

“They'll spoil their figures,’’ Starr
told herself, and knew she was laugh-
ing at herself, too. She was yearn-
ing for just such a meal. Starr Elli-
son—hungry!

She turned sharply when some one
touched her arm, looked up to see 4
girl of about her own age standing
timidly before her. But the girl was
not well dressed as Starr was, with
her carefully preserved  tailleur.
There had been a pitiful attempt to
“look nice,’ Starr could see that, but
how could any girl look nice in cloth-
ing that was frayed almost past the
wearing point? And her cheeks were
gaunt, pale beneath the spots of
rouge.

“T—I hope you won't mind me—
speaking to you, Miss,’ she said
huskily. “But I’ve been looking for
somebody— Oh, I can’t stand it any
longer—being so hungry. I've
been looking and looking for a job,
but—” Her voice broke. The pathetic
girl did not need to explain to Starr
that she was not a regular feminine
panhandler.

The irony of it! But of course.
Starr understood at once. She had
forgotten, for the time being that to
the casual observer she still looked
like a girl used to ermines and
orchids.

“I'm so sorry!” she said impetu-
ously. “But you see, I can't—" The
dying of hope in the girl's eyes, her
painful confusion, were too much.
“Wait a minute!” she said, as her
gloved hands fumbled at her purse,
a smart looking purse that she had
picked up in Cairo on that last
dreadful trip and was using now be-
cause it was the last one left. She
took a quick inventory of its con-
tents, and handed the girl a quarter.
That would leave—she didn’t dare
count the thin wad of dollar bills.
But they would keep her going for
a night or two. <

The girl! was choking her thanks.
“You won't be sorry,” she said as
she took the coin with trembling
fingers. “And I hope you'll never
know, Miss—”

Starr was not hearing her. She
was hastily heading on down the
cross street—toward the employ-
ment agencies. She dared not look
back at the girl. That starving girl
might be herself before long unless...

“There may be worse things in
the world at that,” she was mur-
muring, “than having only six
months to live.”

Yes, and there was a bit of com-

fort in the thought that there might
be better things than having an op-
portunity to go back to Mrs. Mahon-
ey’s rooming house that night—even
if. she could—that unspeakably drab
place. Would she ever forget, could
she, how often she had sat on the
edge of her narrow, ricketty bed
back there, staring at the faded wall
paper, the bureau with the ragged-
edged scarf that was never clean, the
dingy, hopeless-looking marquisette
curtains, and thought—of so much
that she wanted to forget and could
not?

Determinedly Starr marched on
and turned down Sixth Avenue to-
ward the agencies. What else could
she do? That was all that life had
resolved itself into in the past weeks,
making the rounds of them day after
day, or hoping, desperately, that the
next day a job would materialize or
something happen to break her
luck, the luck that had pursued her
so long, now. The luck that had not
been satisfied with taking her father
from her, but finally had taken his
last cent, too, until now his daughter
—his doomed daughter!—was here
alone in a strange town. She was
trying to make a go of what was
left of her own life, far from their
friends in the home town where
Starr had feared some of them might
insist on helping her. That would
have been the last straw. Charity!

It was the same old story, and the
afternoon had almost slipped by,
with Starr feeling that her feet
must be all blisters, when she reach-

ed the place she always left to the
last—the worst agency of them all.)
Even in her desperation she hesitut- |
ed in the dingy doorway, staring at
the dirty arrow that pointed her
way upward to the place from which
she cringed. But taking her cour-
age in her hands,
steps and went into the dusty, half-|
lighted room where the same inusavital
blonde woman, with apparently the}
Same mascara and heavy rouge she |

had worn since the first day Starr| walking. Certainly there was noth-| tween set teeth.

had seen her, sat behind the clutter-

ed desk. The woman glanced up at| was a pleasant place; always inter-| good has it done?

her and shook her head. |

“Nothin’,” she said wearily, and
then her shoulders shrugged. “Fraid
you're wastin’ your time and mine|
comin’ here, dearie. We—" |

“But there must be something—
surely!’ Starr burst out desperate-
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accustomed, meant what she said.
Starr’s pale face was flushed, eager.
“Well, whyn't you say so, in the
first place?” the woman asked, her
tone a bit exasperated. “Here I been
thinkin’ maybe you was a little too
nice for our jobs, dearie, and—"
“But I told you!” Starr cut in,
and felt her body shiver at the cal-
culating glance and the queer laugh

of the agency woman. The latter
lowered her voice to say:
“You're a swell lookin’ skirt, at

that, an’ say, baby, I got just the
job. ; . Swell guy, but he’s plenty
particular the kind we send him—
Oh, you know, I reckon. . . You'd
haye to be real sweet and nice to
him, dearie, and—” ~

“Of course, I'd be nice!” Starr said |

breathlessly,
being—”

The woman laughed again, her
eyes crinkling in the rouged creases
of her cheeks, then slowly drew to-
ward her a card index box.

“The fee,” she said, “will be a
little steep, maybe, but y’ under-
stand, a girl don’t get a chance at
bein’ nice to big shots that'll maybe
plaster her with jooels, do they like
her, see, and five iron men are cheap
at the price, see? But you got to
be nice. er

It was not so much the woman's
words as her smirk. Suddenly Starr
understood. She thought she was
going to be sick. She didn’t know
what to say. But the five dollars
answered the question for her.

“J—I haven’t that much with me,”
she stammered, ‘I—I'll be back to-
morrow.” ;

“Okay, baby, an’ youll be gettin’
a bargain.”

Starr didnt know how she got out
of the place, nor how far she had
walked in an effort to get away from

“IT never thought of

it until she saw the shrubbery of |
Central Park looming up ahead. She}

still felt nauseated. She, Starr Elli-
son, must have fallen pretty low. To

be offered a job like that! -She
hadn't thought it possible. And
yet—and yet. . What difference

did it make, after all, except ‘that
she still had pride enough to resent

|the thought that she looked like a

girl who would even for a minute
consider anything of that kind?

Still— What that agency woman
had held out had offered her life, of
a sort, and a chance to play. She
hadn’t thought of it in that light,
though. She wouki not. Just be-
fore noon she had run across a man
she felt sure, if she had given him
the slightest chance, would have
offered her a little chance to play.
She had seen it in the eyes of that
man before the Fifth Avenue show
window. If she had waited just a
minute more, the invitation would
have been on his lips. But she had
run away. Now she was offered, in-
stead of a chance to play with a
man of her own sort—

She shivered at the thought and
hurried on through the lower edge
of the Park. She had no desire right
now to see people of leisure driving
by in their rich limousines.

For the second time that day she
found herself on Fifth Avenue, pres-
ently, but it was far to the north of
the shopping district. The high stone
wall of the Park was on one side of
her, the trees shading the sidewalk
just turning into rich autumnal
shades. Across the street, loomed
tall sky scrapers where people lived
in twenty-room apartments. Shin-
ing cars sped by, arguing the right

she climbed the} of way to the street with the top-| feet were rooted to the floor.

heavy green busses.
northward.

There was no scheme in
mind, only the desire

She walked on

Starr's
to keep on

ing better to do, and the Avenue

esting.

She had walked farther than she
realized, and was almost opposite the
Metropoltan Museum when she saw
him.

There was no mistaking him, the
bronzed good looks of the man who
had spoken to her that noon, the set

surprise in his eyes the moment their
eyes met over the heads of the scat-
tered walkers and the cars between.
Then he grinned, straight at her,
and Starr caught her breath. He
was slowing down! Stopping at the
next corner! He would be coming
back!

How queer people could be, she
thought in a breath. There, just a
moment before, she had been regret-
ting having run away from him, and
right this minute there was no other
thought in her mind but of doing the

same thing again, Just why, she
had no idea. She only knew that
she must. On that single thought

she had whirled as quickly as the car
was brought almost to a stop. She
sped up the steps of the Museum and
into the safety of its maze of rooms,
with a grateful sight at recognition
of the fact that it was a free visiting
day and the chains were down.

She was wondering if he really
would come to seek her out as she)
wound her way through room after
room, familiar with them all from
many visits with her father. She
smiled a little. Well, he would have
a nice chase.

But Michael Fairbourne was doing

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no chasing. At the curb where he
had pulled up for a moment, he sat
still, glancing back. The girl was)
nowhere in sight. It did not occur}
| to him she could have gone into the)

Museum. Nobody he had ever|
known ever had. His brow was)
| wrinkled thoughtfully as he chewed
}on his lips for a moment, rumina-
tively. He took off his hat and ran
his fingers through his thick hair.

_ “Umm, that's funny. Almost
like a hunch, but I’m not going chas-
ing after her. If I see that
girl just one more time, though, I’m
going to take a shot in the dark. . .
Just the type—just the type.”

As his foot pressed the starter
and his car shot ahead, he was
grimacing.

“And if I do, here’s hoping she’s
an orphan—complete!”

\

CHAPTER I.

The treasures or by-gone days
Were no mystery to Starr Ellison.
She had been raised on them. In the
days when fortune had smiled on the
Ellison family, her father had been
a collector of note. In many ys
their home, now in the hands of}
strangers, had been like a miniature}
museum. Egypt, though — Starr|
shuddered when she thought of it—
and all things Egyptian, had been his
hobby. A love which had eventually
led him to his death; had led his
only daughter to her imminent death
| and a distressing poverty to precede
| it.

Ever since she could remember,
| Starr had been familiar with Egyp-
tian kings and queens and princesses.
, As a child they had fascinated her,
| and she had made up her own stories
about the lovely almond-eyed beings
of a by-gone day who filled her
| father’s cherished books and smiled
at her with their long eyes from his
paintings, his vases and bas-reliefs—
lovely cloudily-swathed beings whose
| limbs were sinuous and whose eyes
| held mystery. As Starr’s own eyes

held mystery, so she had been told.|
| Often she had wondered if the Prox- |

imity to those pictured and sculp-}
| tured women of another day could}
| have had anything to do with her
{own eyes. With all she now had
| learned—in bitterness—she prayed
and hoped not.

| She had no objective in her stroll}
through the Museum, realizing that}
she could not remain long, that it}

soon would be closing time. It did
not matter. She would merely walk
| around, look at a few sculptures, per-
haps distract her mind from her
woes.

She could not have told how it
| was, certainly by no intention of her
own, but before she realized it, she}
was in the very centre of the Egyp-}
tian room, the one place in all that)
vast storehouse of art and exhibition |
ot all-age culture which she wished |

|
|
| drawn here, almost, it seemed, as if}
| by some invisible magnet.

Her first horrified recognition of °7
street vendors and its colors; dark

men in
floating dresses and spangled veils,
hurrying along while their heavy sil-
ver
ankles

| familiar figures on wall and in cases
made her want to run. Oddly her

Her
teeth clenched as a rush of emotion

| all but overcame her, and then her|

| will power came to the fore.

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stared. That priestess on the tall
centre vase—She was like—like—

Suddenly the room in which she
sat, the paintings and vases and bas-
reliefs and murals all faded and she
was back, back with the living hor-
ror which even now tortured her,
turned her dreams into nightmares.
That smell—that odor of a centuries-
sealed tomb, a desecrated tomb—was
in her nostrils again. Like nothing
she had ever known before or since.
The awful, dank, musty, smothering
smell of a tomb which had been
sealed for nearly three thousand
years. A veritable palace of the
dead! In a great, deep silence that
could almost be heard!

That trip to Egypt was to have
made her father famous. Through
all the expeditions that had occu-
pied the man who was becoming
known as an archeologist none had
held for him any of the importance
of this particular journey which had
been planned for years. He and John
Lessing, both intense students of
Egyptian history and Egyptology in
all its aspects, had planned with
deep intensity for this one special
trip. With one great objective in
mind.

It was inevitable that Starr went
along. She always had. She was of
great help to her father who, like so
many students, was inclined to be
absent-minded, or single-purposed,
and though he would work painstak-
ingly at his books, he too often
would neglect taking his notes on
the spot, trusting to a memory not
infallible. Star kept his notes, tabu-
lated all his findings.

Their objective was the secret
tomb of Tut-Amen-Ra, whose forbid-
den love for Ama-Suh, beautiful
temple vifgin, had incurred the
wrath of the high priests. Contrary
to the opinion of most historians,
Professor Ellison believed that the
ancient lovers were buried together.
To prove that he was right was the
one ambition of his life.

Naturally there was a long period
of hard work, as there always is for
such expeditions, and it was during
those times, as well as from her
earlier observations that Starr had
some of the most marvelous experi-
ences of her life. She had been so
sure that she, too, had come to love
Egypt, all that was connected with
it; realized her great zest for life,
the eagerness to inhale the perfume
of that strange land that Egypt and
the desert can bring—that land
where the days were a panorama of
color and the dusk descended like a
black-out on a moyie screen, with
always somewhere, though heard but
dimly, the voice of a muezzin from
the balcony of a minaret where he

to avoid. And yet she had been) faced the east:

“La il aha illa Allah!”

Every scene was painted indelibly
her memory. Cairo, with its

in their

tarbushes; women

ornaments jingled on _ their
and their mysterious eyes

| “I won't run away!” she said be-| looked out above their veils—somber

“I won't! That's
what Ive been doing too long. What
No!

ready done all they-can do to me:. .
I'll stay! Right here! I'll sit down
and stare them all out of counten-
ance, every Egyptian princess! Tu!
| show them that at least I’m not—
afraid!”

| To Starr, as she sat down on a
stone bench, grimly setting her

tary—I am!—but I'll do anything.| of his dark head on his wide shoul-| teeth, the bas-relief figures and the
Anything!" ders, and the careless almost disin-| paintings of the Egyptian women

The woman's rouged lips were| terested way, certain of his own) with the long eyes and their queer
smiling oddly as she glanced up at} masterfulness, with which he drove| headdress did not seem like repre-
the girl, that glance calculating, as} his maroon roadster. }sentations. They seemed real. One

if wondering just how much this well

He saw her at almost the exact

in particular. . She clenched her

near the window—a substantial meal, ' dressed girl, of so obviously a differ-' moment she saw him. There was! hands, wet inside her gloves, as she’

eyes, and hands with bright red nails
which
They've al-| Street sellers, some of them as

clutched their garments.
in-

credibly old as the scarabs they sold,

with wrinkled faces like warped
leather. And the walks along the
native streets in Cairo and later in
Luxor and some of the smaller
towns through which they passed—
Walking past long rows of houses
whose continuity was here and there
broken by a mosque—houses and
dimly lit cafes full of shrill life.
Where veiled women hung over the
balconies to watch the strangers
who sought out the street of the
sand diviner.

(To Be Continued) 2162