SINNERS in \c* PART THREE?Continued. ?1t 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 By CL1VE ARDEN Copyright W tte Bobbs-Merrlll Co. 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 '? ' " T\ ' 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.) Best Way to Use Phone Telephone companies for many years have reiterated the advice that users should talk directly into the transmit ter. but recent tests have for the first time set forth in concrete terms the re sult of disobeying the injunction. It was found that to talk with the Hps six Inches from the transmitter was equivalent to inserting another 200 wlF?rof Hn> between rhe speaker and the listener. The best results were obtained, the tests disclosed, when the mouth was only one-half inch from the transmitter and facing directly into it. thus avoiding deflection of sound waves.?!'t>t?ulur Alechanicfc Muzazta: 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. What Other Linimem Will Do i r IRRITATING, bltnk ? liniment would hate ag(h vated this case. Mustattg jj, ment brought prompt rer because its amazing /,eaj* powers are quickly absorbed IL the skin. To do good, a liniment1 !*?.. into the blood. Make this simple test with an ber of different liniments anddS yourself the one that is ni6st ^ Rub the liniment into v0Ur Then wash thoroughly.' 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