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lis s m ~ 17 Bij CLIUE ARDEN 1 ' ? ; Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrlll Co. fiiiniiiiiiiinitiiiiiiHiiittimnnmnmiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiimmiihniH \?Continued. 2? gone round"and round jl for months! I don't think." 'think this." he said gently: ge laws and forms vary with eed. and in every country, to mperament or?environment, 'erywhere. certain conventions essary. For God's sake, don't e I'm >;n advocate of loose moral Hut you and I are cast off from rules save those of our own making. Have you considered that? These na tives?or Indians. Turks. Christians ail have soino ideal which they embody in certain marriage rites and laws." She hung upon his words, clasping tightly the hands holding her own "Yes?" she breathed, when he paused. "Well?we are adrift from every one which applies to us. We can't obey them in the letter; Vv'e oidy have them in our hearts." \ ' ? "You mean," she whispered, "you think it would he right to form\our owi??marriage rites?" do. Before God Barbara, I do. To me. our wedding would be as sacred and lawful here, with the sea for music, the btrds foj: witness. aB in a crowded church. 1 want you always to remem ber that." The waves echoed faintly upon the shore; the wind stirred the palm leaves in their enclosure: otherwise the whole world seemed waiting, in a stillness like death, for her reply. "I believe you. Alan," she murmured nt last. "I had not thought of It at all in this light. It would be the same to me. in my heart. But?should we be right? ' Suppose?afterward?we were rescued?" "Well? Then we should at once obey the letter. Here we can obey the spirit. But isn't that the greater? In the world it is the reverse, often. The spirit is violated." "Suppose," she began again, with a shudder, "only one of us were res cued?" "Don't conjure up Imaginary hor rors." She drew away, looking around the bay with the same pathetic helpless ness that had struck him so poignantly on Christmas eve. v "Oh!" she muttered, "it is a terrible problem! If only there were somebody outside it all. to help! I am so afraid our very love may guide us?wrongly.^. -No," he said quickly. "It won't,, be cause it is love?not that other Word beginning with the same letter. Be sides, it is the- motive of the heart which counts. In all problems." She turned away, covering her face with her hands. "What can we do? What can we do?" The wonls came brokenly, pa thetically, to the other outcast from all laws. Ho was conscious tonight, more than ever before, of their grow ing. dominant need of each other. Had he striven in his old arrogance she ' would not, he knew, have resisted his appeal. But the great keynote was tuning his nature as well as hers. All the chivalry latent In his being rose to his heart, casting out passion. With Infinite delicacy he went to her and put his arms about her. "We are down among the deep chords together, now." he whispered. "But together?always together." With a choking cry she turned and flung herself upon his breast, clinging to him, the only bulwark of her life. "I can't decide yet. Oh! I can't? decide; I can't decide?" And she burst into a passion of tears. / o.c,\: o ' ( Ni III The man, with the divine instinct (^f understanding now awakened, realized acutely all that the girl was suffering. He heUl her quivering form close, say ing nothing. There was nothing he could say. Her own soul must no.v fight out this hhttle between the old Instincts of a lifetime and those of a world beyond reach of civilized rule. Presently, when she grow rainier, he lifted her bodily and carried her into the hut He placed her upon her bed; then knelt for a moment, and laid his cheek to hers. "The decision lies in your hands," he whispered. "Come and tell tne > when you know." Then he rose to hts feet, lingering be side her for a time, a world of almost maternal tenderness In his steady gard. But she made no reply. Wltn -) n little gesture of helplessness, he , turned, and walked back to the Jagoon. Croft, in old days, could not have been called a strongly sexed man. All the vitality of his nature went into other channels. Now. when, for the first time, passion had come to him. It found him bereft of all those other out lets to his abundant enejgy. It shook him with tierce intensity. In the past, his whole concentration, every ounce of brain and strength, had been given to his work and inventions. Now the same splendid force, welling up and overflowing, was concentrated upon woman?a channel half closed against htm. Being halrVclosed caused moiv torture than If it had been entirely shot and barred. Fate?God?whatever the Unseen Power was called?had hurled them, man sod woman, together In this Isola Y.'Ui, hi ail. itat was V" ' "? { <' should they resist the law underlying His creation? Must His primal laws be set aside because those made by man, now mere chimeras, were ab sent? It was absurd, quixotic, unnec essary. But beneath the velvet glove of na ture lies the iron hand; behind her I smiling face sits grim severity. These, I more than any scruples,, caused hini, to pause. He who had ever scorned ob stacles, how faced them appalled, lie who had never known fear, was now afraid. . J- . He who had ever seized what he de sired, now stood aside and waited. Barbara must decide. To that, amid the turmoil of his spirit, he clung. There must never be coercion; she was no weakling. Not until she saw the path clear before her would 'she move an inch: that he knew well. No sign came from the hut. Within its darkness, inert head buried in her outstretched arms, lay the arbiter of his fate and her own. In a great and awful loneliness of soul, such as she had never Imagined possible, she faced the greatest Question woman can be called Upon to answer. The mountains were quite close now; but she ap proached them without shrinking, only desirous v of finding the right path across to her Beloved. She did not blind herself. She had contemplated marriage before, aware of all it meant to a woman in civilization. Now she contemplated it shorn of all but na ture's own sublimely terrible 4forces; contemplated the years ahead, with the possibility of other lives besides their own. . . /. Reverberations! Truly, when one'irrevocable thord is struck, the reverberations roll on and on, echoing all around, so that God's whole Harmony may be marred or perfected. Can one always tell which it will be? Both met next day, heavy-eyed from a sleepless night, but each tacitly for bore to idlude to the fact. They spoke 3/f\ Lifted Her Bodily and Carried Her. little, making bat a pretense at break fast. Afterward, Alan fetched his na tive bow and arrows. "I may not be back until evening," he said. "You will be all right?" "Quite." ;> There was a relief in her tone which he noticed and understood. He hesi tated ; but she did not look up. For the first time since Christmas they had omitted their morning kiss. And non something restrained him from taking the wistful little face in his hamls. much as he longed to do so. He turned and strode off up the bay: The omission was significant. They had struck a chord too deep ever to return to the delightful camaraderie of the past. Demonstrativeness held a hidden menace behind all its charm. A new wall, vastly different from the old one. yet no less baffling, formed again between theni. Once more, each in tuitively hid behind reserve yet hung upon the other's slightest action. Once more, only surface topjcs were allowed admittance. Once more, Alan spent H>ng hours away. . . i One day. before their second Christ inas, Meamaa fell sick. Barbara, who of late had shunned too much contact with that happy family, fetched Laalo and his sister to play In the enclosure. Children's merry laughter echoed around their home; and Alan. Instead of going off as usual, stayed to play with them. ?f Barbara watched him, all her heart shining in her eyas. There was nobody to put the fear of tabu into Laalo's frizzy head. Tne "great white chief told him marvelous stories of animals never seen upon their Island. He be came a wonderful horse , galloping round the hut. with Laalo upon bis back: then a roaring lion, that roared most terribly. The?-e were swings In tli^ hammock, and games of which the little natives never heard. And all (lie time, while Joining In their play, Barbara witched her man. Often, too, she found him watching her. . . . How happy these little cues were in their life utf freedom 7"- - ? (' - V , ' , 1 ) ' A . v - knowing no other. . . ? The con ventions of previous years seemed very rempte now, very unreal. . . . His point of view was, purely, mere com mon sense* ... As the day wore (m, she fell more and more silent; a ter rible aching hunger in her heart. . . . Must their two natures age here in barren purposelessness? Never be ful filled? Why? Because far-off rules of society, which could not reach them would be broken? How trivial Such things seemed here, where the worlc was still in its beginning. . . In the eyening, the tiny girl, tirec after excitement of the day, grew sleepy and fretful. Alan stopped an uproarious game, sat down upon a rock and lifted her in his arms. She lay there contentedly, her little black heat nestled in his shoulder. A pain that, In its poignancy, was al most physical, gripped Barbara's heart. Great tears welled up suddenly and ran down her cheeks. Moved by an Ir resistible impulse she darted forward and snatched the child from him. "No. no, no! I can't bear?that! Let them go home. . . It Is time they went home. . . ? For a moment he gazed at her, be reft of speech. Then he rose, and called Laalo. "I will take them home," he said quietly. When he returned, she had sunk upon the rock he had vacated. With eyes tragic In their Intentness, she watched him approach. He came close to her. With one of his old swift move ments he raised her chin with his hand, so that she met the penetration of his gaze. > "Barbara!" he muttered, "this will drive us mad. We are human, not gods." She drew away, hiding her face in her hands. The very touch of his fin gers sent an electric current racing through her veins. > To continue like this was becoming daily more impos sible. Presently she rose, not daring to speak, and turned from him into the hut. Blindly, bewildered, Barbara groped her way, step by step, through a maze of uncertainty. The day with the na tive children had been a revelation. Never before had she realized the pas sion of longing which possessed her. . . . And by her own self-revelution she Judged the suffering of the man waiting for her decision. The claims of another's need grew insistent, dom inating. . . . More and more did the life of previous years seem pale and unreal. . . . The fears for the future, the burden of its responsibili ties, grew fainter, assumed new as pects. . . ^ There came a night when Alan, after being away all day returned moody, Ir ritable, Impatient Of all the trivial sub jects with which she endeavored to make conversation. "Have you been working in the plan tation?" she asked, after several unsuc cessful attempts during supper. "NO." V He ate a banana, and threw away the skin. "What's the good of it all?" he asked Impatiently. "It will lead nowhere." ' , "It's occupation," she faltered. "Occupation? Yes. Occupation for the sake of occupation! Is that ail life is to be worth? My G?<1! What an outlook!" Tills ieas another of Barbara's fears. How long would the limited interests of the island, shorn of a deeper outlet, suffice for a man of his temperament? "You are doing a lot of good among (he natives," she suggested, feeble though she knew the remark to be. "Good?" He gave an impatient laugh. "Lord! Don't credit me with the fnstincts of a missionary! That's only 'occupation.' One hour, if we left this place, and tliey would forget it nil." This bitterness, this dreary desola tion of voice and mien, so unlike the old Alan of indomitable resource and optimism, cut Barbara to the heart. For she understood. "Alan! Alan!" she cried, stretching out a hand. But he shook his head. "No. 1 can't ?I?daren't. I'm only fit for the devil tonight" She rose, her lips trembling, and went toward him. y \ . "Don't! Alan, don't shut out! I?understand'?" "Understand? You can't, oi?-" Sud denly he seized her. almost vMously, dragging her up against him. With shaking hands he pressed baffe Iter head, and laid his hot lips upon her neck. "I?I'll?force you to give in- -ine day?" he muttered thickly. She did not struggle; but she trem bled violently In bis grasp. For a I^ng moment his eyes burned into hers. But, among the answering passion they sa ** there, lay the purity which was the very essence ol ker being. . As abruptly sp he has seized her, he her go j^aln. "I?I told you I was only fit f?r the devil tonight," he said huskily. "Let me be. . .V-ifor God's sake, let me be. . - ." She turned, quivering in every limb and ran into the hut. j. For hours she lay, deaf and blind , to all around, alone with her God. . , 0 n And gradually a great peace ?tol4 over her spirit. Impercqitibly, the last mountain rolled slo\H/ (pfay. As one tired out after long, victorious war fare, .she lay, motionless, the moonlight falling through the little window upon her white-robed figure. \ After a time she rose and looked once more upon the waves she loved so well, a wondrous shining in her eyes. And all the perfumed beauty of the night blended In the tender, passionate crav ing to be with .him who, also, had striven, and suffered, and conquered. Slipping on her Old Japanese wrap per, she passed noiselessly out of her room. He had, she knew, not gone in to bed. Moved by some instinct, she turned, stumbling over the rough ground, and ascended the eastern slopes, where they had watched the dawn on that Christmas day nearly a year ago. ,,, IV A group of rough bowlders, moss covered, commanded a long view over flie eastern shore of the island, while forming a shelter from the wind. The girl approached them; then, at a sud den soft sound, stood still, her heart beating rapidly. Noiselessly rounding them, she discovered the man she sought stretched upon the ground, his head thrown back upon clasped arms, his eyes dreaming far away over the softly outlined scene below. For a moment she fingered the folds of her thin garment, watching him. Then the wind fluttered one of her loose sleeves; and his gaze flashed back from far distances. Turning his head, he saw the figure standing, motion less. by his side. She stood perfectly still, her hands pressed .qpon the garment at her breast, the wind waving her cloudy hair, her lips a little parted, her blue eyes dark ly shining in the faint light. Once?twice?she tried to speak, but the words would not come: she could only envelop him, as It were, in the radiant glory of her face. . . . Suddenly a great wave of under* standing broke over him, rendering him for a moment breathless, bli*- 'ed, be wildered. . . Then, instinctively, he raised his nr*7? With a little Inar ticulate cry the gm Mlowed him to take her, trembling in her capitulation, clinging to him, submStting, without re sistance, to the stont of passion af" last set free. His kisses burned into her soft flesh, his arms crushed her well-nigh breathless; she was car ried away by the tide of his ardor, responsive, glorying. . . . Barbara had crossed her Rubicon for all time. Presently he sat down upon the rocks, still holding her to hiro. "You?came to tell me?" he whi? pered. his face close to hers, his eyes piercing to her very soul. "Yes," she whispered back. . . . After a time she raised herself, still In his arms. "Alan, I?couldn't tell you before, until I felt convinced that all?waf right. You understand; don't you? It was because I loved you so, dear heart, not?fear, or coldness?" "I understand," he rodrmured, laying his cheek against hers. "I always un derstood. It was the beastly brute in me that sometimes seemed not to.. . . When, Barbara?" / Her head fell back upon his breast; with a little throbbing sigh, she r? nqunced her will to his. "Whenever?you like, Alan." "At dawn?" he whispered. "It will soon be here. When the sun rises over the water it shall witness our?mar riage rites?" The passion had died out of his voices and a note almost of awe had crept in. They remained, sometimes silent, sometime^ discussing, in low toner, their forthcoming bridal, while th? moonlight waned, and the wohderful blue-black of the southern night soft ened and paled. Presently Alun lowered the hand he held near his cheek and opened th? fingers. "What can we do about a wedding ring?" he asjied. ! Does that matter?" "I should like to see you wearing one ?of mine. Walt!" he continued, searching in the pockets of his frayed breeches. He displayed a collection of keys, a pocket knife, and a pencil, sus pended upon a small tin key ring. (."Will this fit? It's better than noth ing." "It looks about the right size, anA will do beautifully. Oh, Alan! how n shall love It!" lie smiled, a world of tenderness in his eyes. "Look," he said. "Dawn Is breaking." Early birds began to chirp and whistle, away in the forest; the danc ing waves turned a steely gray. The wind had dropped, leaving a great si-' lence. It seemed as if nature were holding her breath, waiting for the dawn not far off. . . . When at last the sun's first long shaft of gold quivered across the water, the man rose and set the girl gently upon her feet. ^The hand in his trembled a little; but she met his eyes bravely, smilingly. . ,* . (TO BE CONTINUED.) Women and Courtthip Man views it as a great testimony to his prowess at amour to yield up his liberty, his property and his soul to the first woman who, In despair of finding better game, turns her appralu ing eye upon him. But if you want to hear a mirthless laugh, just present this masculine theory to a bridesmaid at a wadding, particularly after alco hol und crocodile tears have done theti disarming work upon her. That Is te say. just hint to her that the bride harbored no notion of marriage until stormed into acquiescence by tb? moonstruck and impetuous bride uroom.?H. I*. Mencken, Id "In De Iciise of Women/' t. IMPROVED UlflFOMI WTEMATKHWl Sunday SHiool ' Lesson ' (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D.D?-DM of the Evening School, Moody Bible In stitute of Chicago. > (?. 1926. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for February 8 CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER LESSON TEXT?John 17:1-2G. GOLDEN TEXT?"Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given nie, that they may one as we are."?John 17:11 PRIMARY TOPIC?Jesus Praying for His Friends. . _ ? . JUNIOR TOPIC?What Jesus Prayed ^INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC?Christ's Pr2yer for His Di8C^p e>. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT ICS-Christ's Intercessory Prayer. I. His Prayer for Himself (vv. 1-5). Fully conscious that the hour of His crucifixion was at hand He prayed to the Father saying, "Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify Thee. His coming into the world had as its supreme mission the glorification of the Father. In order that the Father might be glorified it was necessary that the Son should be glorified. 1. To Him Had Been Given the Pow er to Give Eternal Life to God's Chosen Ones (vv.2, 3i). Eternal life Is knowledge of and a right relation to the true God and Jesus Christ. Thus we see that eternal life Is ? lationshlp and not an entity. 2. He Declared That He Had Fin ished the Work Committed Unto Him (v. 4). The definite work which He came to do was to give eternal life to the chosen of God. II. His Prayer for His Immediate Disciples (w. MJB). '. r ?; ? 1. Their Preservation (vv. 9-16). He did not pray that they would be taken out of the world but that they might be kept from the Evil One. It Is not the divine will tbat we go to heaven at once when we believe because: (1) Christ needs our ministry. Those who have been made partakers of the divine life are His representa tives In the world. (2) We need His grace strength ened and developed in us. Heaven is a prepared placc and only those who have been prepared for It can be ad mitted into it 9 (3) The world needs us. Christ de clares that the disciples are the light of the world, the salt of the earth (Matt. 5:16). Only as the light of the Lord shines forth through the dis ciples can the pe?|)le in the world find their way. 2. Their Sanctlflcation (w. 17-19). (1) Sanctify means: First, to set apart;.that means then that the dis ciples were to be set apart to do the specific work of representing Christ; second, to cleanse; those who are set apart as His representatives need the special cleansing grace to make them vessels fit for the Master's use. (2) The Instrument used (v. 17). They were to be sanctified through God's truth. God's tmth is His Word. (3) The purpose (v., 18). They were sanctified in order that they might be qualified for His service In the world. (4) Jesus' own sanctlflcation was for that purpose (v. 19). He is the grand example. III. Hit Prayer for His Future DIs kCiples (vv. 20-26). 1. Their Unification (w. 20-23). His great concern was that all believers should he united. (1) The grund pattern of this spir itual union is the union that exists between the Fatherland the Son (v. 21). (2) The incentive making possible ithls union (v. 22). The vision of the glory o* God In Christ (II Cor. 3:18) Is the grand incentive which unites the believers. . (3) The purpose <v. 23). The su preme objective in the unification of the believers Is to convince the world that God sent Jesus Christ to save It. 2. Their Glorification (w. 24-26). The disciple of Christ enjoys fellow ship with the Father and the Son and fellowship with his fellow believer, but he also looks forward to the time when he shall be glorified. (1) "I will that they be with Me where I am" (v. 24). There is a pres ent glory enjoyed by believers. (aj They are now children of God. although It does not yet appear what the.v shall be. (b) They now possess eternal life and therefore shall never perish. While there Is the present glory, Jesus wants His disciples to be with Him In Heaven. He said. "Except a grain of wheat fall Into the ground and die. It abldeth alone." can reverently say that unless the believer Is taken to Heaven Christ will be lonely. (2) "Behold my glory" (v. 24). The believer shall share the Ineffable glory of Christ (I John 3:1-3). Thp Master-Word The master-word of Christianity Is love. Charity A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity Is the bone shared with the dog when you are ji|8t as hungry as the dog. Never. Be Afraid.-. 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