The
Crippled
Lady
of
Peribonka
By James Oliver
Curwond
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CHAPTER IX ? Continued
?15?
\. <? -tie iiatl heeti ;i partner in the
feW .ii'is of liis thoughts t*arla
3j? : softly, giving him her band
a ? tin night which shut them in
? I it tit m hear you say ?t. Paul '
i fi; .i dreamed. anrt even prayed in
n> wi. .mIih'ss. and have fancied your
v. idling me the story For that
I v?> many limes asked <5od to for
giv? r.ut now it is right and Just
I v\.jtit to hear you say? you love me*
?! ? !<> said I'ani "I know? flow ?
that I save loved you from the he
tint : j of time, before I came to the |
Mis' <ini. t?efore I was horn in tin's
lifp a thousand or m million years I
have worshiped the soul that is you
S.it- it may have been ages ago.
I know that you belonged to me."
"I i ; is ? always belonged to you.'
said Carl a "Yours is the love 1
was hopelessly none from me
? u;? thct ??. r.ut to db with you Is my
riul.t <an there he such a hins as
doubt for us now?"
"1 am sure there cannot." be said.
-Y. ii a .uld like to live?"
"Without you. n .*
"Atiil there is no ctuince ? no hope of
gavitm ourselves?"
'? I can conceive ot none. No force
mm ! lend with tl<? maelstroms in
the throat of the chasm. At thi other
etui Jill physical matter Is ground to
pulp .is the water comes out through
the por^o. We are caught between
the I wo."
tie calmly and frankly spoke the
truth to her. She made no reply in
w >rds. hut he could feel her response
crtvpiKi: through her linger tips to
him, could feel the tremble and thrill
of It in her body. He had uot fright
en? :l her. but had dispelled from her
the beginning of a fear. She did not
want to live. The frutii seized upon
and helped him with a kind of 3hock
Yet it was a simple thing, one he
should have known without intuition
or discovery. For ('aria was ? not only
a woman, hut a soul. Rack there, in
Claire's world, she wculd be lost to
hitn -no matter what he might do In
'he way other men had solved such
problems. ?nly here, ii. a beginning
an-! an end all their own. could she j
belong to him.
Again she was in his heart, listen
Ing to his thoughts.
"It is strange, hut I want to sing In
this darkness." she said. "1 did not
know that blindness could be so beau
tiful !"
"Nor I j?? he answered.
CHAPTER X
During the night following Paul's
accident and Curia's leap, men were
active be I the gorge Derwent lost
no time it, racing hack to the Mistas
sini. unci i lie presence of a hundred
mon below the chasm before midnight
was i lie result. Every device of en
gineering science an?l unlimited re
Source which might he employed came
with them. The big p?K>l at the foot
of the gorge was a glare of Illumina
tion. and men went down the river
with their (laming torches, afoot along
its hanks and ic canoes between them.
Quest in? for a shred of something
which a few Hours before might have
been a part of Haul 01 Carta.
Lucy-ltelle, shocked into sickness,
was taken to her home. But Claire
remained. Men who saw her in the
weird glow of t lie lights will never
be able to forget the image of her
face as it was photographed upon their
memories. Her blue eyes were so
wide open and staring, so filled with
an unwavering sapphire flame that at
times Derwent thought of her as a
spirit-goddess instead of a woman,
t'ould Paul have seen her he would
have known that at last she had con
qnered her fear and repugnance of
the wilderness. She had come wltb
the first men before a trail was cut.
Her dress and shoes were torn, her
8?ft skin bruised and bleeding. Where
the water crashed and thundered loud
est out from between the chasm walls
she stood unafraid, until Derwent
twice drew her back from the near
Qess and danger of It. She resented
hSs appeal to leave the search to
others. and Derwent made It only
A white face, watching for Its
dead?that wag what men would re
member. Eyes flamiugly blue, bun
1
Siil.v Mi.retiing the mark slnam a
it *"si in** from tin- mountain. A fr?t*?i?tal
form ll?:. J seemed liiHi ^s. hs st*^.
\ woman. iiini >rt more it. an woman?
?n nit f??r _??! i spirit. a vision thar
v as like tragic music, always to he re
member ed.
>he ?li"l not give ?p Willi t!ie tlr>*
hours of evening, hut continued to ,
watch t !imu?h thn night. She <li *1 o?u
m??\e from tin* foot of the gorge and
iIih ?is if she were surf that
whatever came to her would l?e found
there. Herw< iil was frequently with
her. and tried to talk. hat her lips
framed few words. Not until day
came again ?!"nl soian hing give way in
her. and hojiHessm -ss take its place.
Then he took her home to Lucy-Belle.
"1 waited too long." she said to him.
and afterward, hark with the search
ing men. In; wondered what she had
meant.
Tl.e>e searchers, could they have
looked Mi rough the rock, would have
seen a lire It was the secoud night
for Paul and < 'aria in a place where
night and day were the same. Paul
had found drifts of wood along the
edge of the sand, mixed with pitchy
pine, and a little spot in their world
was illumined hy light.
In the lire glow sat Carlo, combing
her long, silky hair with her lingers.
Paul watched her u? she smoothed
and braided the tressi-s. employing as
great care as though she were in her
bedroom at home. This was the third
I
in the Fire Glow Sat Carla. Combing
Her Long. Silky Hair With Her ;
Fingers.
time she had given It such attention ;
in rlieir thirty-six hours of entomb- j
ment. At other times he had held a !
I light for her at the edge of the water
| while she bathed her face and hands,
and once she had said to tiiin: "It
is wonderful water, almost as soft hb
that which conies with rail." She
i spoke as if they might have been
i camping on one of Hie streams they
loved, with the sky a Love and flowers
about them. It was her utter accept
ance of their fate ns a thing of hap
piness which transformed wha* would
have been a hell for him into heaven.
She had sat In the soft sand at his
1 feet, a few moments before, with her
j head pillowed against his knees, and
there she had unbraided her hair for
hiin to caress, as she watched and
pointed out for him the unusual and
beautiful pictures that built them
selves in ^he changing coals and crura '
blinc embers of the tire.
Now she was a little distance from
him, and uo sense of dread or fear
oppressed him as he followed tiie
rhythmic movements o! her slim white
fingers braiding her balr again.
If It were mildness which possessed
him it was a beautiful madness, a
sense of Joyous living where there
should have been despair. At tirst
the tighting part of liitn had instinc- j
tively struggled against It, but now be j
accepted It fully, until, seeing Carla
as she was. death seemed vague and
far away and the glory of life very
near. They had made no effort to
hide from themselves the coming of
the end, and Carla thought of it as
a beautiful thing, a little Journey,
which they were making gladly to
gether. Never had Paul believed so
surely In a God. He hud found him
self fond of telling her how he loved
her hair more than any other physical
thing about her. and she had said:
"I am going to spread it out so you
may put your face in It when we lie
down to sleep." This was the way she
spoke of what was to come ? as sleep.
To drift off like this, his arms about
her. seemed to Paul the fruition of a
great privilege and Joy. and not a
triumpi) of fleshly dissolution. Be had
told her little stories about his moth
er and of the time they had spent
sun-tilled hours in the Indian burial
place at Brant ford, where the proud
est of her forest ancestors were buriedl
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Rut Imperative
Take a rest; a field that has rest*
gives a bountiful crop.? Ovid.
Improved Uniform International
Sunday School
' Lesson '
IDv HI V ,? ,f riTZu k :k D M-m.
? * acuity. %T ' V 1 > In ?
of ? 'h c ,
Lesson for March 15
JESUS AMONG FRIENDS AND
FOES
j GOLDEN TEXT ? Y e nre my friends.
; I. v ?- ?{.. whatsoever I cummanil you
? I.KSSON TEXT ? Luke t?. :> r: u:
I 4 - j4
PP. I MARY TOPIC? Among His
r r ??.?nils.
JIM..R TOPIC ? Jesus* Test of
! ^ r "tKlship.
INT! I:.MKI?IATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC? Friendship With J csu>
YuTN?; PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
lc ? Dealing With Fr?.;rd and Foe.
(l'lkoT":sn.-",e H?me P'iend.
r-:^-n::^'?f,f
'unliv'S| "",n? "?'?' -PI-!"
?,K,? ?'??'? 'V'MarVh:, r"?r? ''""',"''" l,>
1 M ,l It would he irniHivsiiiio
li.'h'i '1 n""'' "'C "1?r?' Martha wi'is
r,,r ?????
Vtr'i r'"""1 ''""" "III, .|,.'1S
-r
?""st ""derl, for he knew ,h' ,
,i,?^; , (h i ' Ma;;;
chZn 'ZrfZ
ml., 1 P:,rt w"'1'1
II. Jesus Among Foes (11 :H-r.|)
????? ...
h" J!"m V"' u":,M" "' < for
l~ 51 v they declared ?,a[
' *"* owtlns out demons tllr? h
i lV r I'"" '"irf of ,h" ?s
, .'???" <" bellovo |, is ?,lr:?.lo,
u-i 'H'v asked fur a sign to
" '"'h h; "iar they woulri have
from heaven |D |,is |h an J
resurrection. lie remind. ,1 t i??r
belief ""''r rc,1'"'sl
-s"rpnssin* that of ti,e heathen
queen of the South and the wicked
P?'l'le of Nineveh.
?{. U ickedness denounced (vv .17- 1 1
He pro, ?? llli(in t);o ?
?ho n ere opposing him .??| S(, kin
ds destruction : three upon the PharN
sees and thro,- upon ,|ie |?wverR
a. The Pharisees (vv. 87-11). These
he denounced f??r:
(1) Punctiliously observing minute
the*-\ 'r """L' U,l,e breaking
t'le 1 tn Commandments. Thev .urn
fully tithed the small herhs of t"|?. ^..,r
their 7J!,"" 'ujustire wi,h
their fellow men and withholding l.ne
from Ood. He pointed out t? them
their attending to these eternal acts
while their hearts were tilled with
wickedness. It was as absurd a3
merely washing the outside of an un
clean cup.
(v( ?>Dern f?r P""lie re'"*?'""n
(v. 43). This Is a crvnmon sin today
i.ove for titles of respect Mid positions
of Prom.nence is a very common sin.
(?>) Feigning humility (v. 44). He
compared their hypocrisy to graves
which are on the ground and may
l>e stepped upon unconsciously hv some
one who would thus be defiled
b. The lawyers (vv. 4B.T4)". The
strictures of Jesus on the hypocritical
I har.see. aroused the lawyers, one of
whom Indignantly declared, "Thou re
proachest us also." m reply to this
them pronoun''e<, ,,,r? woes upon
(1) For placing burdensome re
quirements upon the people to which
^V'ThIT" no, submit
(T. 4fi). Ifellgious rites should not be
made Irksome. (2) For the murder of
Ood s prophets (vv. 47- .M) He showed
that their attitude toward him was the
r,t r rw.is shown to the pr?',hpts
their fathers. Jesus declared that
their guilt was the same as that of
their fathers and that their generation
would be held responsible for all tht,
the fathers had done. (8) For kceo
?ng back the knowledge of Ood by
false Interpretations of the Scripture
(vv. 52-54).
A DELICATE COMPETITION
"Oidn't Crimson Culch lake up the;
idea, just f??r novelty. of offering a
prize for the toughest-looking man?"*
"Ws." answered Cactus .loe. "Hut
the enterprise f?*l 1 tlin*?i?rli. There
wasn't atiyhiMi.v who would have hud
nerve enough to fa?-e men who was
may he jest lookin* f??r trouble ntnl flhr
mally announce to one of them that
ho had won the prize." ? Washington
Star.
WOULD OPEN HIS EYES
i
Tin so sleepy I can hnnlly hold
my eyes open."
"Here's my dressmaker's hill, I guess
that will open tlieni.*'
Giving a Party
Ther?- > p*ea?ure? a plenty
In parties, no di.uht;
It's fun to ask twenty
And leave forty out.
Planning Ahead
Fathei had his little daughter on
his knee.
**What are you ifhing to do when
you ur-.?w up?" he asked her.
?Tin goin? to marry an engineer."
replied the child.
"And what kind?" he asked. "A
civil engineer?"
"Oh." replied the little girl, "it
doesn't matter what kind. I'll soon
make him civil."
Good-by
The crusty male laid down half a
dollar/ and his meal check.
According to rules the cashier
bounced it on the counter.
"What are you testing it for?"
snapped the customer icily.
"Malaria," smiled the sjirl. dipping
it into the lrawer.
His Better Half
"I'm afraid Mr. Jones will not at
tend our party."
"Nonsense! llis better self will tri
umph."
"She always does, doesn't she?"
Relatively Rich
"They're comparatively rich, aren't
they?"
"I wouldn't say ?comparatively." but
'relatively.' They have a rich uncle 1
of whom they expect ureat things."
WILLING TO PAY
?
&
\ Suitor ? 1 came to ask you for your
i daughter's hand.
father? Have you any money, young
man?
Suitor ? Sure thing. I low high do
; you quote her?
Ins and Outs
We always know beyond a doubt
When politicians seek to win
They want to put somebody out
And thereby put somebody In.
Crushing Answer
Clyde ? Why. dear, you talk as If
you didn't like me! You know I'd do
anything to please you.
Polly ? Well, if you really want to
please me stick your hat under h
steam roller. And don't take it off!
Deceived Himself
Mr. O'Gay ? Say. Jane, do you UiiDk
! have ever deceived you much?
Mrs. O'Gay ? Well ? er ? not so much
?not as much as you think you have,
Joha.
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**We product.' h^ ma< hino>."
??Well?"
"Now we need some niaeldnes to
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"Haven't we sot motor cars?"
Heavens, No
"So you decided to quit being an
atheist V"
"Yeah, there's no future to it.**
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much energy.
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some. She improved so much I
wonder I didn't do something for
her stomach and bowels before. She
has a good appetite and digestion
and plenty of energy, now."
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