Show ch alt I 1 fem bem kandolin camil c L LILLIAN ILLIAN T tt ry 1 I 1 byl 1 wy f 0 y illustrated CHUM I 1 7 r 8 ra I 1 CORPORA 1 SYNOPSIS 11 at ft a vestry meeting of tile hie market fmunro church pall gill sargent tells llev lie iloie that market square church in n apparently a lucrative business enter price i r fie A I 1 lson taken anil riding in ills motor loto r car sho finds cold disapproval in alio llio eyes of oc itea smith do d allison allason starts a campaign for or consolidation consolation and control condol of tile entire transportation system of tile world dail becomes popular gains control of transcontinental traffic ond arid arranges to absorb tile veu ved der court tener tenement nent property of market Hr illare cli chinch tells boyd that tho the cla cathedral church proposes to to build 40 11 d will be out of bionta tira tits wrung train trotti 14 squalor vialor at a of tile the seven financial of tile country allison organizes gan zes the international transportation VOID PanY rev smith hoyd undertakes undertaken gails spiritual instruction and gall ail unconsciously glies gives a hint that solves solve tile alio vedder court problem tor for him on art AH inspection trip to il Alli sons now new subway tile lie tunnel cavos in anil and imprisons i the lie party who are rescued by tire the exer I 1 alons t I 1 oils of allson anti and joyd tile tha no newspaper s paper rc At or of the sub y accident t pineo anti anil 11 in tile tho and drive her to tier lionia home it in tile the west vest iter her felonila send dick to luro lure bail arid and arly back to NOW new rywk and lie ho succeeds CHAPTER XV continued tho the wide set sanitary policeman paused in ills his survey simey long enough to wag a thick forefinger at tho the outraged householder dont start anything he advised theres some genie tough mugs in ili this block but you go down to the places ive ben behn and find that till all clean with these few simple remarks ho he turned his back indifferently to mr rogers and catching hold or of the car pet in ili tho the cornor corner with tits his fingers he be lifted it up by the roots theres no uso use buckin the government mr s decided after a critical study of the sanitary police mans back which was extremely impressive its a government of the rich for the rich lias has a poor man mail got any alow im cm a capable station elation ary engineer all I 1 ask Is a chance to work at my trade this by an afterthought if give me ale two collars lol lars to tide roe me over rev smith BON stopped stepped out of the way of the sanitary policeman and then stopped out of the door arid and you call yourself a minister of tile tho Go gospel spell mr rogers yelled after that was a sample of the mornings work and rev smith doyd boyd felt more and more as lie ho nelfred ne ared luncheon time that he merited some consideration it if only for or the weight of the tha croaa he bore there wore were worse incidents than the abuse of men like rogers thero there were tile the hideous sick to see and the genuinely distressed to comfort and depthless misery to relieve and any day in vedder court was a terrific drain both upon his bis sympathies and his personal pocket ile ho felt that this was an exception tilly long day i home in a hurry at twelve thirty A scrub a complete change of everything and a general feeling that he be should have been sterilized and baked as well luncheon with the mother who saw what a long day this was then a far different type of calls in a sedate black car this time up along the avenue and in and out of the clean side streets et where there was little danger of having a tiro tire punctured by a wanton knife as so often lappo ned in vedder court away to vedder court again dismissing his car at the door of temple mission and walking inside out of brange of the leers of those senile old buildings but not out of the range of the peculiar spirit of vedder court which manifested itself most clearly to the olfactory sense the organ was waa playing when he entered and the benches were halt half tilled filled by battered old human remnants who pretended conversion in order to pich ciup up the he crumbs which fell from the T of market square church chiding himself for weariness of the spirit and comforting himself with the thought that one greater than he had faltered on the way to golgotha ho he sat pat on oil the little platform with a hymn book in his hand and when tile the prel udo tide was finished he devoted his wonderful voice to the blasphemy the organist a volunteer a little old roan man who kept a shoemakers shop around the corner and who played sincerely in tile the name of helpfulness was pure of heart the men with the roughhewn rough hewn coun te cenance nance unfortunately not hero here today was also sincere in an entirely unspiritual way but with these exceptions and himself of course the rector knew positively that there was not another un calloused creature in the room not one who could bo be reached by argument merit sympathy or fearl fear they were past redemption every last man and woman and at the conclusion of the hymn ho rose to cast ills his pearls before swine without heart and without tor for no man Is interested in anything which cannot possibly be accomplished with a feeling of mockery yet upheld by the thought that ho he was holding out the way and the light not only seven times but seventy times 11 even times to to whatever shred or crumb of divinity might lie ile t unsuspected In in these sterile breasts he strove earnestly rIl estly to arouse arousa enthusiasm to in him self so that he be might stir these dead ghosts oven even in some minute auld aud ro mote degree suddenly a harsh and raucous voice interrupted him it was tile the voice of mr mir rogers and that gentleman who had giai apparently secured somewhere tile the two t wo dollars to tide him over was now embarked on tile the tide ile ho h had ad taken just enough drinks to make him ugly it if that process were possible and lie he had developed a particularly strong resentment ot of the latest injustice which had been perpetrated on hire him that injustice consisted of rev smith boyds refusal to lend him hill money till ill a week irom next saturday night and lie ho had come to expose the rectors shallow hypocrisy this lie he proceeded to do in language quite unsuited to tile the chapel of temple ints mission and to the cars of the ladles then present most of whom grinned the proceedings which followed wore wora but brief rev ilov smith doyd boyd requested que tile the intruder to stop the intruder had rights and lie ho stood on them rev smith doyd boyd ordered him to stop but the intruder had a free and independent spirit which forbade him to accept orders from any maul rov rev smith boyd in the interests of disc discipline discipio no without which the dignity and effectiveness of the causo cause could not be uphold upheld and pleased that this was so ordered him film out of the room mr rogers Il with a flood of abuse which displayed ome versatility invited rev smith boyd to put him out and rev smith doyd boyd did so it was not much of a struggle though mr rogers tore two benches loose on his way and at tile the narrow door through which it is difficult to thrust even a weak man mail because there are so many arms and legs attached to the human torso he was compelled to practically pitch him headlong across the sidewalk and over the curb and into the gitterl the victim of injustice arone slowly and turned to come back but ho he paused to take a good look at tue tile stalwart young perpetrator and remembered that he was thirsty rev smith doyd boyd found himself standing in fit the middle of the sidewalk with fists clenched and hla his blood surging the atmosphere before his eyes seemed to be warm as if it were reddened slightly lie he was tingling from head to foot with a passion which he be had bad repressed and throttled and smothered aiace the days of his boyhood 1 lie H had striven with a strength which was the secret of his compelling voice to drive out dut of him all earthly dross to found himself on the great example which was without tho the cravi clavings cravings of the body he had sought to make himself spiritual but all at once this conflict had roused in him a raging something which swept up from the very soles of tits ills feet to his twirling brain and called him mant man for a quivering moment he be stood there alive with all tho the virility which was the tha richer because of his bis long re pres slon ile ho knew many things now many things which ripened him in an instant and gave him the heart to touch and the mind to understand and the soul to name lie he know knew himself he knew life lie ho knew yes and that was the wonderful miracle of tho the flood which poured in on him he know level lovel lie ho reached suddenly for his watch sixten six ten lip H could make still impelled by atts now new creature which had sprung tip a him he started but at tile the curb daf stopped ile ho had been in ili such a ithie ahw if t or emotion notion that he had bad not realized realised reali real sed laed the absence of his hat ile he strode wo iio the mission door and the raya of the ida declining sun struggling dimly through the dingy glas glage i tell fell on the scattered calt ered little aass assemblage as it it had bad been sent to touch them in mercy memy and compassion on the weak and tte tile poor and tho the pite bously crippled of soul sold and a great wave of SIAM dame came to him shame and thankfulness tool ile he walked slowly up to the platform and turning to that reddened sunlight which bathed his upturned face as it with a benediction he said in fit a voice which in its new sweetness of vibration stirred evon even the murky depths of these the numb let us pray CHAPTER XVI the creed of gall who was that tall severely correct gentleman waiting at the station with ti a bunch of violets in his hand and the light in tits his countenance counte nanca which was war never on sea bea or land it was gerald fosland and he be astonished all beholders by his extraordinary conduct As the beautiful arly stepped through the gates he advanced with an entirely unrepressed smile springing from the balls of his feet with a buoyancy too active to be quite in good form ile ho took arlys allys hand in his but ho he did not bond band over it with his cus tomary ternary courteous gallantry instead he drew her slightly towards him film with a firm and deliberate movement and bending his head sidewise under the brim of her hat bat kissed her kissed her on the lips I 1 immediately thereafter he a dignified welcome to gall and wl will L arlys arm clutched tightly in his bis own lie ho then disappeared As they walked rapidly away arly looked up at him in bewilderment then she suddenly hugged bugged hersell herself closer to him with a jerk As they went out through the carriage ent entrance ranco she skipped it was good to seo see allison All lson big strong forceful typical of the city and its mighty deeds ilia eye bad lighted with something more than pleasure as gall ail stepped out through the gates of tile the station something so infinitely more than pleasure that tier her eyes dropped and tier her hand band trembled as aa she felt that same old warm thrill of ilia his clasp ile he was so overwhelming in ills his physical dominance lie took im mediate possession of her standing by while she greeted her uncle and bunt and other friends and beaming with justifiably proud proprietorship gall gail had laughed as aa she recognized that attitude allison was really a big man ono one born to command to sway things to move mova and shift and rearrange great forces and that of course was his manner in every everything thIn 9 she hushed flushed each time she looked in ills his direction for lie he never removed tits his gazo gaze from tier her bold confident eu bu premo when a man like that Is kind and gentle and considerate when bo be Is tender and thoughtful and full of devotion he Is a big man indeed rev smith boyd was at the steps slaps ot of tile the sargent house to greet tier her and tier her heart leaped as she recognized another of tho the dear familiar faces this was tier her world after all not that world of her childhood ilow how different tile the rector looked or was it that silo she had bad needed to jo go away in order to judge tier her friends anew ills his eyes were different sleeper steadier and more penetrating into her own and yes bolder she was forced to look away from them for a moment there seemed a warm eagerness in his greeting as it if everything in him wore drawing her to him with a rapidity which was a marvel to all her girl friends gall had bad slipped upstairs and into a creamy lace laca evening frock without having been missed and she was in this acutely harmonious setting getting when rov rev smith boyd called with tile his beautiful mother on og ills his arm the beautiful mother was in an exceptional flurry of delight to see gall and kissed that charming young lady with clinging warmth the rectors eyes were even more strikingly changed than they had been when he had first met her on tho the steps as they looked on gall gail in her creamy lace and after she had read that now new intense look in his eyes for 3 A for a quivering moment he stood there the second time that evening she sha hurried away with the license of a busy hostess and cooled her face at an open window in the side vestibule there was a new note in rev smith boyds voice not a greater depth nor mellowness nor sweetness but a something else what was it it was a call that was it a call across the gulf of futurity they came after her ted and ludie lucile had arrived she was in a vortex dick rodley hemmed her in a corner and proposed to her again just for practice within eyeshot of a dozen people and he did it so that onlookers might think that ho was complimenting her on her clever coiffure or discussing a now new operetta but he made tier her blush which was the intention in the depths of his black eyes it seemed that silo she was in a perpetual blush tonight and something within her seemed to be surging and halting and wavering and quivering her aunt helen davies rather early in tho the evening began to act stiff and formal go home she murmured to luc luclle le all this excitement Is bad for galls beauty after that tho the exodus became general until only allison and rev smith doyd boyd remained the latter young gentleman had taken hla his happy mother home early in the evening and he had resorted to dullness with such buell of the thinning guests as had seemed disposed to linger aunt helen thought she had better go upstairs after that and she glanced into the music room as she passed au and knitted her brows at the tableau rev smith boyd who seemed unusually fine looking tonight sto stool 14 leaning against the piano watching gall with an almost incendiary gaze that young lady steadily restating resisting an aa impulse to feel her cheek with the back of her hand sat on the end or of the piano berah beo sh farthest removed trosa the rector and directed tile most of tier her attention to allison All lson who was less disconcerting allison All lson casting an occasional cas ional tonal glance at the intense young rector seemed preoccupied tonight and mrs airs helen davies pausing to take her sister grace with tier her walked up tile the stairs with a forefinger tapping capping at her well shaped chin she seemed to have reversed places with her tonight for mrs airs sargent was supremely happy while helen davies was doing the family worrying she could have bidden allison adieu had she waited a very few minutes ile ho was a man mail who had spent a lifetime in linking two and two together and he abided unwaveringly by his deductions duct ions there was no mistaking the nature of the change which was so BO apparent |