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' i4 1YJMJ I Dwells nil By REV. 'ood, Bible , JOHNBBKIEMDGEELLIS 11 : - Z"-'. 5SE&E r"V IVF Willi I I I LTV V. ItMnr. os.. - i w ,M. Civ. -."Vx s i-Tan arrives at Hamilton uregorys i Vnvnn In T UtlaKiii-r V.. .4" Anig Vltm a hfipnf 'A conducting the choir at a camp meeung Bhe reDairs thither In search or mm lauehs durine the service and is asked leave. Abbott Ashton. superintendent ot dm sorry that Fran seems to have lost -DVUUUIS. CSWOI IS -T I till UlC icwi. I . . I 1 mninir tells her Grekorv is a wealthy man. all reason over this carnival company. deeply interested in charity work, and a jf she would show half as much inter- Dinar or the cnurcn. Asnton dccoiuco (COPYGIGHT 1912 BOBB5-MER(3lLLCO.) greatly interested in Fran and while tak ine leave of her. holds her hand and is seen by Sapphira Clinton, sister of Rob ert Clinton,, chairman of the school board. Fran tells Gregory she wants a, home secretary, takes a violent dislike to Fran and 8plendid road into a glorious tu- est in her soul's welfare " He left the sentence, unfinished, The thought of Grace had grown supreme it seemed to illuminate some wide ture. The bookkeeper's desk was in a gal lery near, the ceiling of the Clinton and advises her to go away at once Fran hints at a twenty-year-old secret, and Gregory in agitation asks Grace to leave the room.' Fran relates the story r t Visnr n.YLrw movriail O vniinf dfl fit vt l nun vi s&vjm. j , uianitu u. j vv o - - I , . - . . . SDrinefieid while attending- college and grocery store: one looked thence. :.he-' Zit- through a picket-fence, down upon th kilo, i juaiiiagc. uicsuij "u mai I . a . , present wife three years before the death only floor. Doubtless Grace, thus 100k of Fran's mother. Fran takes a liking to ing saw him coming.. When he readied Fran is the daughter of a very dear friend her sjde, he was breathless, partlj who is dead. Fran agrees to the story. from tne struggle through the masses. home with them and takes her to her principally from excitement of fancied arms. Fran declares the secretary must security, sro. Grace hecins naeeriner tactics in an I effort to drive Fran from the Gregory She was posting up the ledger, and Home. Abbott, while taking a waiK aione lYia(iP no fiitrn nf rprntrnitirm nnt.il . ha a bridge tell- I , 1 married Mrs, Gregory and T wanted to put all my past life away clear away and live a good open life.rThen you came. Then I found out I'd never known what love meant. It'means a fellowship of eouls, love does; - it has nothing io do with the physical man. It means just your soul and. mine. . . . and it's too late!" Grace, with hands locked upon her open ledger, stared . straight before her, as if turned to stone. The ' little fenced-in box, hanging high, above ea ger shoppers, was as a peaceful haven in a storm, of raging noises. From without, gusts of merriment shrieked and . whistled, while above them boomed the raucous cries of showmen, drowned in their turn by the Inde fatigable brass-band. The atmosphere of the bookkeeper's loft was a wedge of silence, splitting a solidarity of tu mult. Gregory covered his face with his hands. "Do you despise me, -you pure mlrlTii o-Vit finHa Vrnn on Ing her fortune by cards. She tells Ab- called her name dou that she is the ramous non tamer. .-Mr ciintort is -not here." she said FTn n Nnnnarpil She tlrert of drolls lire I ' and sought a home. Grace tells of see- remotely. "Can I do anything for Ing Fran come home after midnight with vnn r n snrnrUe the rest from Abbott. She He admired her palm nourtesv. If angel of beauty? Oh. say you don t decides to nsk Tlnh Clinton to sro to I j. i n ,j . Springfield to Investigate Fran's itory. at l"e 8ame "me SUe COU1U ueen , Fran enlists Abbott in her battle against reserved and yielding he would have ETS;. iS&nAS&rXtto& the. impossible combination per absence of Grace. The latter, hearing of feet. Because it was impossible, he bran's purpose, returns and interrupts a i-i n-B-rA touchine scene between father and no w ici an daughter. Grace tells Gregory she m- gene puruy in imagination, ana to re Si&yjKEi her womanly charm to actual his work without her. Carried away by I being, Walks in on them, and declares that How can 5ou receive me SO coldly, Grace must leave the house at once. To he said impulsively, "when I've not Gregory s consternation ne , iearns oi ,.i,-.f Clinton's mission to Springfield. Clinton seen yu r weeks? returns from Springfield and. at Fran's re- "You see me at church." she an- what he ha learned. On Abbott's assur- swered Impersonally ance that Grace will leave Gregory at once. I "But I have been dying- to bo near f I 1t" rrw otnAs r s IrAAn eimnt T lHfon In. f m to a corner by the threat of exposure, you, to talk to you Gregory Is forced to dismiss Grace. Grace "Stop!" she held up her hand "You Is offered the Job of bookkeeper in Clin- , . . . . , . ton's grocery store. Gregory declares he Should know that Mr. Clinton and I will kill himself If she marries Clinton, are ' CHAPTER XX. Continued. "Grace!" he groaned. Rho whlsneren1 hor face snrlrlcnlv It was the close of a July day that I i 1 .' ,. Hamilton Gregory left his house re-1 v. j j iauuuuuu.csu.j ial " tete-a-tete was beyond her supposed solved, at any cost save that of ex posure to experience once more the only pleasure life held in reserve for him: nearness to Grace Noir. She TYi 1 cVi t Vio at the ctrvro ctnoa all cVirtna vprA tn remain oner. lte In hne Af LU tuaiijruuiBcii, urdce, luai ' I Viao ti ti f ii 1 cnl f on4 -rlfViiif lrO T vctuuiu. oii auu n ivuu u l lute. us a crime! Don't commit the horrible strength. "Engaged!" he echoed, as If she had pronounced one of the world's great tragedies. "Then you will give your- reaping, sordid advantages from the pn lrt v nf manWnfl " Tn a arnrA T.lttle. burg was in the grip of its first street bl"der nln ne' -See f , what wretchedness has come to me Before going down-town. Gregory "Then yOU think," very slowly -that strolled casually within sight of the -UgM to let Fan uin mf whole 1Ife mtrtnn orHin.,ncQ nniv ATioo because your wife has ruined yours? Sapphira was on the green veranda. en you think that after I have been mu. soh.-ra rc,nr-H7nff Hrccnrv driven out of the house to make rcom waved a solemn greeting, and he felt for Fran tha 1 uBht to stay single reassured for he was always afraid Ube mrrieu unw.seiy: Robert would "tell." He pushed his G.race don t sa7 you are pushed way nearer. "Is Miss Noir here?" Gregory asked In a strained voice; the confusion hid the odd catch his voice had suffered in getting over the name. driven out." v "What do you call it? A resigna tion?" "Grace! we have only a few. mo ments to be alone. For pity's sake, t "I Don't Think He Has Seen Ut.H 1 "No.' She's down-town but not at look at me kindly and use another any show, you may be sure. She's left tone a tone like the dear days when late at the store because I guess you were by my side. . . . We may you've heard Abbott Ashton has been never be together again." away a long time." She looked at him with the same re- "I have heard nothing of the young pellent expression, and spoke in the man," Gregory replied stiffly. same bitter tone: "well, suppose we're "Well, he's been off two or three- not?. You and that Fran will bevto- weeks somewhere, nobody knows un- gether. lees it's Bob, and Bob won't tell any- In his realization that it was Fran, thing any more. Abbott wrote he'd' and Fran alone, who separated them. Gregory passed into a state of anger, to which his love added recklessness "Grace, hate me if you must, but you shall not misunderstand me ! " She laughed.. "Please don't ask me to understand you, Mr. Gregory, while you hide the only secret to your un derstanding. Don't come to me with pretended liking when what you call mysterious business Interests - at Springfield drive me from your door, and keep Fran at my desk." He interposed in a low, passionate voice. I amre80lved that you should know everything. ' Fran Is my own daughter." She gave no sign save a sudden compression of the" mcuth; neverthe less, her surprise was extreme. Her mind flashed along the wires of the past and returned Illuminated to the present entanglement : v He thought her merely stunned, and burst forth: "I, tell you," Fran is my child. -Now you know ;why I'm com pelled to do what she wants. That's the' secret Bob brought from Spring- ' field. That's the v secret Abbott Ash ton hune over mvhead the traitor! be home tonight, and Bob drove over after I'd befriended him! 'All of my to Simmto wn to meet him in the sur- ungrateful friends have conspired, to rey, so Miss , Grace is alone down ruin me, to force you from me by this there-" She nodded Donderouslv. secret. But you know it now; and I've Alone!" he exclaimed involuntarily escaped, its dangers You know It!" 'Yes I ' look for Bob and Abbott "And 'does your wife know?" ; now jusi any minute."' She added, I "Would I tell her, and not tell you? eying , the crowd -"I saw Fran on the It's you I've ; tried to shield. I married street, long and merry ago!" v Her ac- Josephine iDerry, and ; Fran is our cent was that of condemnation. Like child. You know Fran. Well, Tier a rock she sat,' letting the fickle pop- mother was just Hke her frivolousi ulace drift by to minstrel show and earing only for things of the -world snake den. The severity of her double irreligious. And I was . just a boy a chin said they might: all go thither mere college youth. ".When I realized she would not " : , , the awful, mistake .I'd made, I thought This was also Gregory's point of it best to go away and let her live her view; and even in his joy at finding own life. Years after, I put all that th coast clear, he paused to say. "I I behind me. and . came to Little burg. 'But I Have Been Dying to Be Near. You, to Talk to You." utterly despise me. I've not breathed this secret to any living soul but you, you whom I love with the madness of despair. My heart Is broken. Tell me what I can do." At last Grace spoke in a thin tone; "Where is that woman?" "Fran's mother?" She did not reply; he ought to know whom she meant , .. "She died a few years ago but I thought her dead when I married Mrs. Gregory. I didn't mean any wrong to my wife, I wanted everything legal, and supposed it was. I thought every thing was all right until that awful night when Fran came. There'd been no divorce, so Fran kept the secret not on my account, oh, no, no, not on her-father's account! She gave me no consideration. It was on account of Mrs. Gregory "Which Mrs. Gregory' "You know Mrs. Gregory." "Can I believe that?" Grace asked, with-a chilled smile. "You believe Fran really cares for your wife? You think any daughter could care for the woman who has stolen her" mother's rightful place?" . : ' "But Fran won't have the truth de clared; if it weren't for her. Bob would have told you long ago." " "Suppose I were in Fran's -place-would I have kept the secret to spare man or woman? c No! Fran "doesn't care . a - penny ; for. your wife. : She couldn't. It would be monstrousun natural. But she's always : hated 1 me. That's ,why she acts as she does to triumph-over me. I see it all. That is the reason she won't have the truth declared she doesn't want me to know that you are are free." T Grace, started up from the desk, her face deathly white.!. She was totter ing, but when - Gregory would have leaped to her -side,' she whispered "They; would see us."" Suddenly her face became crimson. He caught his breath, s peechless before her imperial loveliness; "' ' " -5V ' "'-;:v; ;";";'. "Mr. Gregory!" her eyes were burn ing into his, "have you told me all the secret?" . - ' . "Yes all," - . ' ' "Then Mr. Clinton deceived me!" "He agreed to hide everything, , If I'd send you away. r ? 'Oh, I nee! So even Tie is one of Fran's 'allies. . Never .'mind-Tdid you say that when you married the, second time, your -first, wife was ; living, and had never been divorced ?" . j . - "But Grace dear Grace! I thought it all right I believed" She did not seem .to hear him. "Then she Is . not your wife, she said in a f low. .whisper. - 4 . ,;She;belleyes ' " . r . "She believes!" Her ; voice rose 1 scornfully. - "And so that Is the fact Fran wanted hidden; you are not real ly bound to Mrs Gregory." "Not legally but " f "In what way, then?" "Why, in no regular way I mean -but don't you see, there could be no marriage to make it binding, without telling her" - : ' , "You are not bound at all," Grace In terrupted. "You are free as free as air as free as I am.; Are you deter mined not to understand me? Since you are free, there is ho obstacle, in Heaven or on ""earth, to your wishes." His passage" from despair to sudden hope was so violent that he grasped the desk for support, "What? Then? You you Grace, would you But "You are free," said Grace, "and since Mr. Clinton's treachery, I do not consider myself bound." "Grace!" he cried wildly, "Grace star of my soul go with me, go with me, fly with me in a week darling. Let us arrange it for tomorrow." "No. I will not go with you, unless you take me now." ."Now? Immediately?" he gasped, bewildered. "Without once turning back," she returned. "There's a train in some thing like an hour." "For ever?" : He wass delirious. "And you are to be mine Grace, you are 'to be mine my very own!" Fran again.". "Do I want to see her again? But Grace, If we stay here until train time, Bob will come and er and find us I don't want to meet Bob." "Then let us go. There are such crowds on the streets that we can eas ily Jose ourselves." ' ' "Bob will hunt for you, Grace, if he gets back with Abbott before our train leaves. Miss Sapphira .said she was looking for him any minute, and that was a good while ago. , "If you can't keep him from finding me," Grace said, "let him find, f do not consider that I am acting In the wrong. This is the beginning of our lives," she finished, with sudden joy "And if Bob sees me with you, Grace, after what he knows, you can guess that something very unpleasant would" Grace drew back, to look searching ly into his face. "Mr. Gregory," she said slowly, "you make difficulties." He met her eyes, and his blood danced. "I make difficulties? No! Grace, you have made me the happiest man in the world. Yes, our lives be gin with this night our real lives Grace, you're the best woman that ever lived!" CHAPTER XXI. Flight To reach the station, they must ei ther penetrate the heart of the town. or follow the dark streets of the out skirts. In the latter case, their asso ciation would 'arouse surprise and comment, but in the throng reasonable safety might be expected. ' After the first intense moment of exultation, both began to fear a pos sible search. Grace apparently dread ed discovery as shrinkingly as her conscience were , not clear, and Greg ory, in the midst of his own perturba tion, found it incongruous that she l II AT"T,.n 7c. them folio vvi.-. What sek v,'-- ;u saith Master, w;,, unto t i an-.l saw w ! .. Him t!ia; i:. hour.". Jo),, ' They and-.,. 1 fiu..,: who was always right; wanted to hide. But Grace's hand was upon his arm, and the crowd pressed them close to getherand 'she was alwsys beauti ful . and; divinely formed. The pros pect of complete possession filled him with ecstasy, while Grace herself yielded to the love that had outgrown all other principles of conduct. . They gained the street before the court-house Which! by courtesy passed under the name of "the city square." Grace's hand grew tense on Gregory's arm "Look!" . , ' Her whisper was loet in the wind. but Gregory; following her frightened glance; saw Robert Clinton, elbowing his way through the crowd, forcing his progress bluntly, or jovially, ac cording to the nature of obstruction. He did not se -SSwa and, by dodging, they escaped. The nearness cv langer had paled Grace's cheeks.- Gregory accepted his own trembling as 'natural, but Grace's evident fear acted upon his Rnbulous state of mind in a way to condense jumbled emotions and deceptive long ings into something like real thought If they were in the right, why did they feel ' such expansive relief when the crowd swept them from the side walk to bear them, far away from Robert Clinton? " ., The merry-go-round, its very music traveling in a circle, clashed its stem whistlings and organ, wailings against a drum-and-trpmbone band, while these distinct strata of sound were cut across by an outcropping of grapho phones and megaphones. Always out of sympathy with "such displays, but now more than ever repelled by them, Grace and Gregory hurried away to find themselves penned in a court surrounded on all sides by stridenf cries 'of "barkers," cracking reports from 'target-practfee, fusillades at the "doll-babies," clanging 'jars from strength-testers and th !?e; while from this horrid field of f-. tjuided en ergy, there was no outlet save the nar row entrance they had unwittinglj used. "Horrible!" exclaimed Grace, half stumbling over the tent-ropes that entangled the ground.. "We must gel out of this." . " .-. It was not easy to turn about, sc dense was the crowd. Scarcely had they; accomplished the maneuver when Grace exclaimed be low her breath, "There. he is!" ' . Sure enough, Robert Clinton stood at the narrowest point of their way. He was clinging to an upright, an while thus lifted above the heads ot the multitude, sought to scan every face. "I don't think he has seen us," mut tered Hamilton Gregory, instinctively lowering his head. "We can't get out now," Gracf lamented. - "No, he hasn't seen us yet But that's the only place of of escape and he keeps looking so curi ouslyhe must have been to the store He knows I'm away. He may have gone to the house." r . . ' It was because every side-show of the carnival company had insisted on occupying s space around : the court house, and . because this space wai meager, that the country folk and ex cursionists and townsmen showed lu such -compressed numbers at every, turn. In reality, however, they were by no means countlesp; and if Rob ert's eagle glance continued to travel from face to face, with, that maddex ing thoroughness-r- (TQ BE CONTINUED.) ty't People, t Gc3'." 1 BIBLE HAS LONG HISTORY That Used in the Supreme Court Prob ably the Oldest Connected With ; , the Government. 1 It Is a tiny little book, only five and one-half inches long and; three and one-half inches wide. It is bound in bright red Morocco leather, with, the word "Bible" printed in diminutive gold letters on the v back. But" one does not see ' that red Morocco cover unless he removes, the little black leather slip which" protects It Long, long ago the little red Bible began to show' .wear, and then the black, leather slip -was -made to pro tect It so long ago, in fact, that 15 of those covers, made to protect the ven erated little volume, were worn out In the service. V It: is without daubt one of the i oldest Bibles, if not the very oldest Bible, connected - with the gov ernment, and is certainly . the most historical. - . , It is ' the ; book upon which since 1800 . every -; chief ; justice with the single ; ; exception of " Chief justice Chase and . every member-of .tb,e Su preme court has taken the; oath ot allegiance when accepting his appoint ment to our highest tribuna) More than that, every attorney who hat practiced before - the Supreme court since that date 1800 has pledged hli allegiance over the little volume. All," with one exception also, and that ex ception was" Daniel Webster. -- It is told even yet of the Supreme court of that day that Mr. Webster'i fame as an orator had so preceded him that on the occasion - when ' he ' cam to argue his first case before the court the clerk, Mr. Caldwell In his eager- uesB uj near tne great speaker, forgot to - administer the . oath. Christian Herald. ' . . ' Old-Tlme Coffee Drinking. : Coffee,.like tea, was from an early date welcomed as a rival to alcoholio liquors. Writing in 1659, shortly after Its Introduction Into England, Howell makes the ; comment, that "this icoffa drink 4 hath caused i a " great sobriety amongst all nation; formerly clerks, apprentices etc., uiied to take r theti morning draughts in ale, beer or wine, which often made tlusm unfit for busi ness. Now: they piay the good fellowr In thi wakeful and civil drink.- Thi worthy- gentleman, -Sir James' Muddi ford,- who Introduced . r the . ' practlci thereof first in London deserves mueS respect of the whole QAtion." full heart that had fou uiibi. ine testimony of J ' UCVC1 ii unless; forr,Uiei pies heard him speak andftp Jesus. And that is the es'J ii ue testimony for Christ' men to follow him! The Master's Quests' wuen jesus saw them lurnea witn a question, one in itself quite natural but i a deeper significance than d me sunace unat seek import of the question lies in j ana manner of the asking.' lips than his, it might mea ance, suspicion, chagrin. But we know perfectly r such a question was asked - i i i . wnose wnoie nie was an mi men to. come to him, and a' every message can be seen stretched arms of the Sar; though it forms a question, reality a loving invitation, once drew out the hearts i following disciples. But what does it mean to ia are not following him? Wte is in it? And the Lord pre question upon every man, TJ ye: vvnat is the aimotja -What is its purpose? HaTei first things first? Until Or his place before your heart else can be right. Oh, happ; if you can say -"Master, wte est thou? It is thou alone seek, and above all things ea sire the!" "Master, where dwellest They had seen what Christ another heart and they longei cover him thus for themseh?. those words sank into a than responsive to such a dec eager he is for us to come "God is faithful, by whom called into the fellowship of 4 Jesus Christfc our Lord." B; ever to have his own with and we see in the next place "Come and see." It is 4 answer. There are sometra cannot be told, and the secret- the Masters dwelling -place j those unspeakable things. would know them you mca and see" for yourself. Theft who was . ever caught up and'rame back again, said: " unspeakable things which itH sible for man To utter. And unsDeakable, unutterame Master's dwelling place is an aTiHinatinn mi.!- on1 RPP" tO H XU1S Cllic a-"" c5r,io0 i a call to them.n of Christ first-hand. Many ing of him except through. . . , faff n-i what nuiuau, " lucjf ucai " t h m. bat nesses any auc j. . i bim. v, v01 UUl IKalii iiJi" " t, .r. Cpp for yourself vhert and let him speak to yoJ things concerning lnmse,It 1 own blessed lips oi wait for others. . fe No man has -ver cu ing place and turned The ration -mere wnu m" , m- v,; vo Hn rriticisni 01 never xuiuc . . .i,Qr.. hp dwells 7. me piac :nt - - . . X 1 y-. 11' with mm me"-, ti .... ,f t C '" S I- with a deep sense and i..n thirds r" , " 'f rhe Lori overnowing j.' - , . The Response and t. "They came welt" But .here . - given; no pt - , tioned. Why this retf J far from Nazareth xiber j words tnai vuiuru lower, "The Son - But he has a 'u i la. vprst- i- eignicciii.i where to ia $p us about it: 4 '0iifiJ which is in tke bosom o J . . .1... .jrc 01 " It IS tO ma"- ...;,h and companion:- ''P which he invito The Faui , ,eSS. own. abode, is-the f-'"'e . . ill ! i-T1T - . - all wno win d . . O soul, if ye i dD things that canmu 3ee" for yoursel-
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