SINNERS in
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PART THREE?Continued.
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She sprang to lier feet, breathing
quickly.
"Alan! What are you saying!
Don't! Don't!"
"Why not?" he asked, getting up.
too. "We can't remain blindfolded
c forever."
The mists fell from a huge moun
^ tain peak, and the color ebbed from
,the girl's face. ??
i. /'Ah!" she murmure<l. clasping her
hands. "Isn't the present?perfect?
Don't precipitate?"
He took her by the shoulders, forc
ing her to face him. "We are only
human." he said, in a low voice; "and,
Barbara?I want my wife!"
She pressed her clenched hands
against him. hiding her head upon
them. "Oh. not yet! Don't think me
obtuse, Alan. I have thought, too,
and?and feared?"
"What have you feared?"
She did not reply for a moment; he
waited, motionless.
When every accustomed bulwark of
life 1ms been demolished, the (fobnda
tions of a fresh building are hu^ nec
essarily in a troubled soil composed
of struggle, temptation, agonies of un
certainty. The undeveloped girl,
blindly groping after the 'hidden
want" In a materialistic environment,
had gone forever. As the ripened
corn sprung from Its buried seed, the
\ woman, sublime in her love, glories
in the growing courage of the inner
self she had tried to stifle, had arisen.
"We have found the true keynote
here," she murmured brokenly at last,
"and we must keep it tuned aright.
I wouldn't, for the world. *poil the
beauty of everything."
"You codldn't?ever," he whispered
into her hair. "But love Is a terrific
force which can't be turned on and
off like hot water; or compressed Into
narrow preconceived channels."
He suddenly threw his arms round
her and strained her to him. "Bar
bara! why should we be done out of
our rights? We've been chucked out
of the world; stripped of everything
that made life worth living. But now
we have discovered the greatest treas
ure of all. Are we to give that up
because of?ycruples? By > G?d!"
with sudden anger he loosed her,
clenching his hands, "I won't! I'm
d?d if I'll , agree to that! It isn't
fair. Yon say I always get my wayJ
) Well?sOme time?"
Sh<T met calmly the passion and
threat in his eyes. These untamed
forces no longer alarmed her, as they
would have done six^jnonths ago.
"Alan!" she protested, holding out
her hand, lie ignored It, gazing still
upon the peculiar radiance of her face.
She went to hhn, lifting both hands
to his shoulders, her lips tremulous.
"There Is more to be considered
. . . not?not only ourselves.,. . .
My darling"! don't you realize we are
man and woman, and?'? Her flushed
face sank on his breast. "Don't you
see?" she whispered. "Others! Not
?'scruples.'" v-j. , v,
A long silence succeeded her broken
words. His arms closed around her
nsrjtin. and again he hid his face In
her hair.
? He raised his head at last; and as
he pulled her hands down Into his
own his face looked strangely drawn.
"God help us both, Barbara!" he
muttered huskily. "For we are in the
very h?1 of a position." Jhere was
a strange blending of fear and ador
ation in the eyes of both, while they
looked upon each other. "But I?I
swear I'll?I'll never force you to?
anything. Always remember that.
And, for heaven's sake, don't?let ine
forget! I'm so d?d human," he add
ed, with naive pathos.
For the first time since she knew
him, she heard a lack of confidence
in his tone. Conscious of those forces
of nature against which they were but
puppets, all the woman In her rose to
meet him.
"We can never lose faith in each
other. *Ian. That will help us.
But?" she looked at the dearly
loved figure. For one laminating in
stant. al< that marriage wkuld mean
betweeli lliem flashed into her heart,
awakening the mother dormant with
in her. "Ah! But It's going to be
hard?hard?hard!"
The cry, burst, involuntarily, from
h'er lips. All the Jbve and longing
which inspired It slrone In the gaze
which seemed to envelop him as a
glowing fire. . . . For a space he
stood silent, lost with her In a world
which neither had dreamed of before.
Then he stepped forward with a mut
tered ejaculation, and they clung to
gether as they had clung on thir first
night on the island?two derelict beings
swept over the world's edge. .
"Go in," he whispered tremulously
nt last "I can't come to supper to
night. I must go away alone for a
bit . . . and think. . \ . You've
opened a new world to me toblght."
He kissed her with lingering gentle
ness. and turned away' toward the
shore.
Barbara walked slowly Into the hut.
But to h*ir, also, food seemed lmiH>s
sible Just then. That moment's illumi
nation had opened up a new world for
her, too?a world which, it seerited
she wa9 never to enter! . . . With
a little sobbing breath she went into
the sleeping hut anil threw her?elf
face downward on her bed. . . .
For a long time tieT*lier alluded to
this conversation. A new chord had
been struck between them, too deep
for Idle talk. A subtler difference, a
'shade more of seriousness, came Into
jhelr relations. The shadow cast br
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the mountain peaks envelope^
Try as they would, they could never
quite free themselves from it
Distractions dt any sort became ur
gent; but to find them, in this small
island, was no easy matter. However,
Alan, after mentally viewing the land,
took what frail material there was
and wove it into ropes of support.
That the ropes might break he could
not foresee.
He turned once more, In pathetic
hope, to the natives. . ? ? v
During the months since their first
visit to the settlement, he had come to
occupy the unique position oC a semi
divine Overlord. His orders. Issued a't
first in the spirit of bluff, were obeyed.
This at first surprised, then amused,
him. After a time, it afforded him in
tense interest. His orders regarding
cleanliness were receiving extraordi
nary consideration; irrigation work
had been undertaken. Now, he
plunged with new zest into this novel
training of prehistoric minds. He or
dered the cultivation of taro to be re
instituted ; tapestry-weaving from reeds
to be revived. All this originating from
fear, not inclination, slowly awakened
the natives' interest, which increasing,
caused' much of their lethargy to
vanish.
Within a few weeks, the last signs
of a threatening new epidemic of sick
ness vanished, and the settlement be
came more wholesome. This being at
tributed to the what man's magic, their
fear blended into a crude awesome
affection, which struck Alan as pa
thetic. Gradually his visits became
hailed even with delight. For, in mat
ters of dispute, Chlmabahol appealed
to him, relying more and more on his
counsel.. And, swayed by none of the
opposing elements, he dealt with a se
vere Justness, yet humaneness, which
they found both novel and attractive.
Withal, he braced them, stimulating
their latent powers, much in the same
way in which he had stimulated Bar
bara, by the mere force of his own
vitality.
" Her own interest In these people
grew apace. From Alan she learned
some of the dialect, very soon being
able to speak a little herself. Some
t '? '
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m
VI.J
The Ruined Hut? Were Strictly Tabu.
times she brought the children odd bits
of ribbon or lace, which produced an
excited uproar. Weeks later, she used
to see these scraps adorning some
woman's dark form, with ludicrous in
congruity. ?>' \
But, among these "children of na
ture," as among other children, not of
nature but of civilized education, ther"
existed under-eurrents of strife, ambi
tlon, ill-feeling. These were responsive
for a division of which Croft soon be
came aware. The more savage fac
tions waxed impatient for Babooma to
be their chief. Only the superstitious
awe In which A chief is held saved
Chimabahoi from being despatched un
ceremoniously to the spirits of his
murdered sons. The result of that
would have been civil war, and deadly
peril for the two white people. For
Babooma and his friends were not
partial to these strange newcomers
who forced them to work and frus
trated their savage tendencies. Croft
knew well the risky ground on which
he trod. For reasons of strategy,
therefore, he forbore, save for a dras
tic warning, to take ahy steps In re
taliation for Christmas day's attempt
upon his life. "Ball-devils" from the
white woman. In swift retribution for
what be had contemplated, had fright
ened Babooma enough for the present.!
His black face was seldom seen, nowa
days, far from the settlement.
Roowa and Meaiuaa, since their
child's recovery, had regarded the
"white chief' with little less than wor
ship. And this fact gave Alan the idea
wherewith to cause distraction in the
Increasing difficulty of the life he and
Barbara now led. It was. both knew,
but catching at straws; yet, eagerly,
such frail aids were welcomed.
After a short consultation with
Chimabahoi. Roowa was commanded to
cake up his residence in tlfe north, to
help the "white chief' in work upon
the land, while Meamaa served his
'wife."
The ruined hots were strictly tabu,
haunted by the spirits of those slain
there. Roowa, proudly radiant, began
to build a new hut, to which Meamaa
and his two children could be fetched.
Within a short time smoke arose
from Meafnaa's cooking; and two small
black figures danced, like Imps, among
the palms.
~ir ?1;
"I wonder," suggested Barbara, when
they strolled together one night, "if we
ought to teach them Christianity." .
Alan looked down, smiling at these
lingering instincts of the parson's
daughter; but shook his head.
"If they learn gentleness, kindness
and cleanliness, don't you think they
are acquiring the spirit of it?" he
asked. "These will permeate, paving
the way, If you think it necessary to
teach them Christian creeds later. But
don't upset their old faiths yet?they
are not ready. It's always a dangerous
thing. If it's hiurried, it is fatal."
She thrust her arm through bis.
"You're awfully wise, Alan mine! You
seem to know just how to manage the
natives. Why is it, I wonder?"
"Because I care for them. You can
usually understand those you love, if
you try. See how well I manage you!"
She laughed; then felt his arm.
"D'you know, you're getting thin
Alan."
"Hard work."
"I have noticed it In your face, too.
You mustn't work so Incessantly?
there's no need."
"Isn't there? Ah, Barbara! I think
there Is."
She looked up quickly; but he had
turned his face seaward; only the grim
set mouth was visible. The woman in
her thrilled to him, for she understood.
Clawing his arm tightly, she laid her
face against it.
"Dear!" she murmured.
"We have been here nearly a year,"
was his only response.
"I know."
; They walked on in silence a while,
passing near Roowa's hut. Just out
side the entrance the native and his
wife sat close, together, the youngest
qhiid asleep in the man's arms, both
too much absorbed in low-toned con
versation to notice their approach. The
natives' love may be little above that
of an animal for its mate; but It con
tents them.
Barbara'8 clasp tightened, as these
two outcasts from all laws looked upon
the group. 1
"They are very happy. Alan, I often
watch them."
"So do I?my G?d!"
She glanced up in surprise at the
passionate tone in his voice. , y
"I sometimes wish I had never
brought them here," lie continued. She
was silent a moment; then drew his
hand swiftly up to her face. With her
lips against It, she whispered, so low
that lie had to bend down to catch her
words: \
"Do you ever look at?their
little ones?and think?supposing?if?
only?" ( ;
"Barbara! I do."
He turned' and drew her into his
arms. "I have thought of it all?over
and over again! I think of nothing
else." ' j -i~
The relief of speaking, for once,
about the theme which lay heavy upon
their hearts caused discretion to be
thrown to the winds. "It haunts me!"
she cried passionately, clinging to him.
"It haunts me day and night. I can't
bear to see them. I've tried?"
"And I, by heaven!"
Loosing her abruptly, he threw him
self down upon the rock outside the
hut ahd bowed his head in his hands
What was passing through his mind
she could only surmise by the chaos of
emotion which, now the barriers were
down, surged through her own. All
these weeks.both had struggled to for
get the problems menacing them. But
the very strawy at which they had
caught proved to be. so to speak, ser
pents in disguise. For nature, crude
and unattended, ruled this island. B.v
her inexorable laws these primitive
people were guided, unabashed, in all
good faith. And among these subtle
forces working around them, under
mining the very ground beneath their
feet, the two were flung together in a
solitude, a familiarity, so maddening
yet so entrancing, that their senses
were inflamed at every turn. Escape
was impossible. Wherever they moved
they were confronted with their own
rising passion. Regarded as man and
wife they shrank now from visiting the
settlement together. Throughout the
days each constantly surprised the
other's furtive, hungry, troubled re
gard. Conversation became often
strained, demonstrativeness between
them a danger. Throughout the night
each lay listening to the other's move
ments and breathing, through the frail
bamboo partition. No longer could
they shout careless badinage, hold mid
night talks. . . . But, since the
building of the palisade, neither had
dared put Into words the fear rising
ever higher in their hearts.
He uncovered his face at last, and
looked up at her, a grim defiance in
his eyes.
"We can't go on like this. It's dam
nable ! ?' Barbara?come,hsre."
Hesitating a little, not understanding
the unusual expression of his face, she
went toward the hand he held out. He
caught her roughly by the arm. pulling
her down to her knees at his side, gaz
ing into ber eyes for several seconds
without speaking?searching, proving
her in some inexplicable manner.
"How much do you love me?" he
demanded, ut last.
She looked startled at his peremp
tory tone. "Why do you ask such ques
tions?" But she collapsed aghinst him.
"With my very life," she whispered
passionately. "I should die if I lost
you now." >?. . < '
He strained her close, pressing hot
lips to hers. "How far would you go
with me? How far?" he muttered
eagerly.
"To eternity!" she murmured, half
faint with the sudden passion sweeping
them both away. The arms holding
her were trembling.
"If we never get rescued? How far
then? How far, Barbara?"
Only a little stifled gasp answered
him. ?
All the soft night odors of the forest'
were stealing down to the beach, blend
ing with the pungent smell of hot earth,
mingling with the languorous murmur
of the tide. Close in his arms, a weak
craving to surrender, to capitulate be
fore the forces arrayed against them
both, swept over her. It was easy t?
let all else go. . . . Twice "Slie
opened her own lips, but no words
?would come; only her eyes told him
that which caused his senses "to reel.
His grip tightened, so that he hurt her;
but the pain was an exquisite joy.
The animal in man, longing fiercely
for its mate, had been let loose in Alan,
stronger for all these months of temp
tation and repression. The future at
this moment lay in his hands?and he
knew it, exulted in the knowledge. . . .
Half unconsciously he rose to his
feet, lifting her, unresisting, with him.
Her warm young body lay acquiescent,
at his mercy. He took a step toward
the hut; cast one dazed look round the
darkening beach? w ?.
From Roowa's dwelling the fairtt cry
of atchild came to them, wafted upon
the soft night breeze down the
bay. . .
The girl heard it, and raised her
head. The man heard it, and caught
his breath. Their eyes met. >
She slipped from his arms with a
long quivering sigh. They stood fac
ing each other, struggling with the tur
bulence of their emotion.
" 'Reverberations'! Do you?remem
ber?" she whispered, at last.
He made no reply, continuing to gaze
upon her face, and she went on speak
ing, almost to herself, standing before
lit* with the darkness closing around
her.
?" " 'The vast harmony In which each
note has unlimited effect upon every
other note.' You taught me that. Do
you remember? Life's harmony, you
said. We?we are forgetting."
He turned away and walked to the
lagoon, standing there -for several
minutes, his back toward her, his
hands covering ois mce. When he re
turned, he nad, she could see, regained
his self-control. Coming close, he laid
his hands upon her shoulders.
"Are we perhaps troubling over what
may never happen? Barbara?there
might be no?no 'reverberations.'
There are not, always."
She smiled at him, a smile thpt was
almost maternal. "That's true. But?*
She broke off, & little catcli in het
breath, her eyes dwelling dreamily
upon the face above her own, as if
picturing something far off and pass
ing beautiful. . . . "But it wouldn't
be fair," she muttered to herself.
A flush mounted to his cheek in
meeting and interpreting the looli
which, momentarily, his own eyes re
flected. v
"The thought of you troubles m?
most," he owned. "The question of
'fairness' is an open one. This is a
grand free life for anybody who?
knows no other. The world might
think it unfair. But the world doesn't
count with us. We are savages now.
But you?you! Oh. my darling. . . .
Nature is so hard on women."
Her face was hidden on bis breast.
He went on diffidently, whispering into
the dark hair.
"The question of 'reverberations'
shall be yours entirely. Do you under
stand? If you decide not to face it
all?"!
"Ah! no, no, no!" She raised her
head quickly. "Alan. I love you for
that. But I won't shirk! Don't ever
think I mean that." She turned her
luminous eyes seaward. "Imagine a
little home with just you and me and?
a deaf little nest all our own. .
Oh! it's cruel, cruel!" Passionately she
'gripped his shoulders. "I long for it
all?I ache inside. Sometimes I dream
we have it together; and then?then I
wake up?"
"But we can have it, here, now," he
interrupted eagerly. "Only the forms
would be absent; the spirit would be
there. Surely, in these circumstances,
we can make our own laws?" He took
her clinging hands in his. "Barbara,
have you thought over the matter?
Faced it squarely?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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AfPROVED UNIFORM flfTBRNAUOKAl
StmdaySchool
' LessonT
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATKR, D.D., Dean
of the Evening: School. Moody Bible In
stitute of Chicago.)
<?? 1925. Western Newspaper Union.) *
Lesson for February 1
THE VI^IE AND THE BRANCHES
LESSON TEXT?John 15:1-17.
GOLDEN TEXT?"He that abideth In
me; and I in him, the same bringetb
forth much fruit."?John 15:5.
PRIMARY TOPIC?Being Friends of
Jesus.
JUNIOR TOPIC?The Vine and the
Branches.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC?Fruit-Bearing Lives.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC?Union With Christ.
Under the beautiful/allegory of the
vine and the branches Jesus set forth
the spiritual oneness of Himself 2nd
His disciples.
1. The Relationship of Jesus and the
Father to the Disciple (vv. 1-3).
1. Jesus the Source of the Disciple's
Life (v. 1). He is the true vine.
Through the incarnation Jesus identi
iled Himself with humanity, and by
virtue of His atoning death and resur
rection it is possible for the believer
to be a partaker of His life so that be
tween the disciple and his Lord there
is a community of life. As the vine
pours Its life Into the branch, so Christ
pours His life into the believer. Our
salvation is eternal life because it is
the life of the eternal Son in us.
2. The Father Has in His Hands the
Discipline of the Disciple (v. 1). The
"Father is the husbandman." Just as
the culture of the vine Is in the hands
of a husbandman so the discipline of
the believer's life is in the hands of
the Father. In this disclplinai^ proc- j
ess he ?
(a) Removes the unfruitful branch
(v. 2). He does not take the trouble
to prune the frtiitless branch. The
nominal church member, the mere pro
fessor, He removes.
(b) Purges the fruitful branch ttiat
it may produce more fruit (v. 2). He
restrains our natural tendencies and
desires in order that the virtues of the
Lord, the fruits of the Spirit, may
shine forth.
3. The Instrument by which the
pruning is accomplished is Jesus'
words (v. 3). The disciples already
^were cleansed by Christ's words, for
*Judas the traitor had been cast out.
If the believer's life is to be fruitful in
character and service the pruning
knife, Christ's words, must be intelli
gently and regularly applied.
II. The Conditions of Fruit Bearing
(vv. 4-7).
) The supreme object in pruning, the
culture of the vine, is fruit.
1. Abiding in Christ (vv. 4t6). As
the brandies draw snp and life from
the vine, so believers must abide in
Christ, from whom they derive their
purity, strength and wisdom. Indeed,
it Is a mutual abiding, the disciple in
Christ and Christ in the disciple. It
Is Christ's life expressing itself
through the believer. The one thus In
dwelt by Christ _wlll bear much fruit.
So great is the displeasure of the Lord
with lifeless, unfruitful branches that
they are to be "cast forth," -withered,"
even burned (v. 0).
2. Christ's Words Abide in Us (v.
7). So mighty is the power of the
one who abides in Christ and In whom
His words abide that Heaven can with:
hold no pift from him.
III. The Blessed Issue'of a Fruitful
Life (vv. 8-17).
1. The Glorification of the Father (v.
8)t Through much fruit-bearing, the
Father will be glorified (Matt. 5:16).
2. Credentials of Dlsclpleshlp (v. 8).
The only way to prove that one Is a
child of God is to manifest the charac
teristics of God In one's acts and serv
ice. ?
3. Abiding In Christ's Love and
Keeping His Commandments (vv. 9,
10). The way to abide In Christ's love
is to keep His commandments. The
ene who neglects the words of Christ
Is destitute of His love. It Is folly to
talk of being In the love of Christ
while disobeying His teachings.
4. Fulness of Joy (v. 11). The way
to have fulness of Joy Is to have
Christ's joy In us. 1
5. Loving one another (vv. 12, 13).
The one who abides in Christ and has
the life of Christ flowing into him will
live a life of love, will love his fellow
man, especially his brother in Christ.
G. Friends of Christ (vv. 14, 15).
Christ's friends 'do whatsoever He
commands. Iieins thas obedient He
takes us into His confidence and
makes known unto us the Heavenly
Father's will.
? 7. Perpeutjil Fruit-Bearing in Love,
With Power In Prayer (vv. 16, 17).
\ Physical Vigor
Physical weakness is not a sign of
spiritual power. All other things
considered, the man or woman who
enjoys physical vigor will be able to
accomplish more than those who are
puny and ill.
How Many?
"How many people," says Jeremy
Taylor, "are busy 'n the world gather
lug together a handful of thorns to sit
upoa!"
Our Fear*
What we fear most is not todajV
trouble, but that which may happen
tomorrow.
Dumb Love
A dumb love is only acceptable froir
the lower animals.?Doctor Van Dvke.
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