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Show l f t at Am Cyrus Townsend y y Brady ILLUSTmmtteY TtcMnty disappear around the jutting crag that marked the little amphitheater where she slept, and went to his own side of the island resolutely without a mo ments hesitation or delay. fg rtucffnottr wectWHAft contKHrmWAT mjtam CHAPTER X. SYNOPSIS. Hearts Awakened. For the moment she forgot where she was and fancied herself back on the ship or more naturally tossing about in that small boat after that long, eventful voyage. Yet no motion to which she had ever been subjected not even the wildest pitch of the storm which had finally cast her away, produced in her such strange emotions as she experienced then. For the earth itself was trembling, quivering, rocking. The cave wall above her, seen dimly by the filtering light of very early dawn which came through the opening, partook of the mad, fantastic motion. In another second she realized that it was an earthquake. The air seemed filled with a peculiar ringing sound of storm. Her bed, of course, was the soft sand over which grass had been strewn. She lay, therefore, on the floor and could not be thrown down, but she was rolled from side to side in' way which paralyzed her senses. CHAPTER IX. Continued. Never in all her experience had she known such a sick feeling of terror. And he, too, longed for some hour When the foundations of things are to come when he might with right and shaken, when not merely the great decency and dignity speak the words deep but the solid earth is broken up, which some day he must speak or die. humanity stands as if in the presence He was not versed in the ways of of the power of God. She lay resistwomen. He had no store of knowl- less, wondering staring, praying, edge, no lesson of experience to fall whether the shaking rock over her back upon. He knew but one woman. head would fall and crush her. He could not predicate from any petty In a moment the instinct of life maxim, or from aify ancient aphorism, quickened her to action. She rose to or from any worn out philosophy, her knees, staggered to her feet and what she would or would not do under tried to make her way to the encertain conditions. Indeed, he only trance. Walking was terrible. The thought that he loved her and he must earth seemed to have shaken for tell her or die in the concealment. hours, and yet the duration of the And so matters ran on and on. It shock was really less than a minute. needed but a spark to ignite the pow- Its violence was terrific. Just before der, it would have seemed, and yet she reached the opening, it stopped a vast cataclysm of nature only with one tremendous shock as suddenbrought about the explosion. He had ly as it had begun. The next second, never touched her except to take her with a roar that sounded like a thouband. Her person had been as In- sand pieces of artillery, the gray haviolate to him as if she had been a zy light in front of her was blotted star above his head. And she had out by a falling mass of rock which been careful under no circumstances just escaped her. The face of the cliff to allow more than that. Their hands had given away. In deeper, intenser had clasped often. Indeed, with every terror than before she threw herself Good night and Good morning" the against the barrier. It was as hard ' circuit of touch was made and broken, and as unyielding as the other walls. but that was all. They usually parted No light came to her even. She was at night on the sands where she had imprisoned alive in this rocky sepulfirst been thrown ashore. He would cher. She sank down on her knees stand and watch her as she glided and buried her face in her hands. She awdy from him in the darkness toward murmured words of prayer. the cave that was her home. She Her mind flew to the other side of n had impressed upon him how she the island, to the man. Was he, too, 'm&J.ed him, the absolute assurance, entombed? Was this the ed of her the entice confidence that she had labors? Outside she could hear the that he would respect the agreement wind roar and the waves thundering between theifi and he would have died with awful violence on the shore. Berather than have transgressed the law, fore the earthquake had come the stepped over that imaginary barrier, storm. There was still some connecas potent as the circle of Richelieu, tion between the cave and the outer which kept them apart. air, it seemed, for she was now conAnd yet she would never know scious of lightning flashes. After the what horrible constraint he put upon storm, came the Are. Her mind went himself. Hojv he stood with clenched back to what she had read from the hands and quivering body and stared Bible a few days before of Elijah's after her, long after she had gone. She despair. Therefore in like case she would never know how that intensity listened with all her heart for the still of longing grew and grew until some voice of comfort to her awestruck times he felt that he could not over- soul. It did not seem to come. She master it. She would never know how was doomed; she would never see he plunged away staggering through him again, if indeed he were yet alive. the woods and threw himself down She knew her feeling for him now. upon the sands on his side of the She slipped forward and fell fainting island, disdaining even the rude shel- on the sandy floor of the cave. And ter of the cave which was his home, still the voice was there. Presently and fought it out. Sometimes she it came to her, as the voice of God saw evidences of internal conflict in usually comes to humanity, through bis soul the next morning. The calm the lips of man. serenity, the indifference, the animalAfter a space, how long after she like satisfaction with which he had could not tell, she was conscious of faced life when she first knew him a human cry through the wild clamor There of the storm. A voice that she knew had long since disappeared. were deepening lines upon his face and loved was calling her by name. which told of thought, of struggle, and Was it some wraithlike fancy of the of character thus developed by these storm? She rose to her knees, sick two potent factors in shaping human and faint, and listened. No, it was a human voice, his voice, her name. destiny. And he could never know what iVas The cry was fraught with frantic apIn her mind, either. He never dreamed peal. It thrilled and vibrated with that she could love him. She was so passion. It told her in that awful mofar above him, so supreme in his eyes ment a story which she had not read. that the possibility never occurred so It revealed to her imaginations of him. If he had known for a moment which she had not dreamed. She was how she thought of him, the great fascinated with what she heard. She passion in both hearts would have forgot for the moment to answer. An overleaped every obstacle and in a the woman in her, the eternal moment he would have had her in his in her, listened. Her bosom rose arms. Well, indeed, it is that the and fell, her heart throbbed, her power to read human hearts is re- pulses beat. Alone with that wild, served for the Mind which towers passionate, appealing, frantic cry, she above human passions because it is forgot the earthquake, she forgot the divine. prison, she forgot the storm, she forAnd so these two while drawing got the world. She only realized that together as inevitably and as irresisti- there out in the dawn, a man, the man bly as the tide comes in were still of all the world, who loved her was kept apart. Their feelings were in so- calling her name. The old call of lution as it were. A precipitant must manhood to womanhood, of mate to be thrown into the atmosphere in mate. which they moved and lived and had She rose instantly to her feet. This their being to disclose them to each time it was the beating of her heart other. that pitched and tossed her body. She On one certain balmy night, they leaned against the rock wall and then parted as usual. Was the hand clasp she called his name. Man, she cried, are you safe? longer, was the glance with which he And was the answer. Yes, peered at her under the moonlight more self revealing than usual? Did you? something in his own breast call to Entirely so, save for this prison. Thank God! came faintly to her the surface that which beat around her heart? At any rate, it was with from beyond the wall. Thank God, I a great effort that she tore herself hear your voice. I shall have you out, away at last and for the first time in never fear. She pressed her ear close to the his life, although she knew it not, he followed after her with a few noise- - heap of huge loose stones which filled less slips only to stbp, his face white the opening. She could hear him in the- moonlight, drops of sweat bead- - working outside. , Dont be afraid, he' said at last. ing his browr in the violence of his I fear nothing, she answered, if effort. Having transgressed even to that degree the law, he turned in you are there. In one instant the situations of life stantly. without waiting to watch her woman cast ashore on a lonefinds a solitary inhabitant, a ly Island, white man, dressed like a savage young and unable to speak In any known lanto educate him and decides She guage. She mold his mind to her own ideals. finds a human skeleton, the skeleton of a which a a silver Bible box. and dog. lead her to the conclusion that her companion was cast ashore on the island when a child, and that his name is John Reell Charnoek of two Virginia. Near the womans rings, skeleton she finds J. R. one of which bears an inscription C. to M. P. T. Sept. 10, liitia." Katharine Brenton was a highly specialized product on of a leading university. Her writings atthe sex problem had attracted wide tention The son of a becomes infatuated with her, and they decide to put her theories into practice. With no other ceremony than a handtogether. A few days clasp they go away on his yacht shows her that the man her. only professed lofty ideals to possess marKatharine discovers that the man is ried. While drunk he attempts to kiss her. She knocks him down and leaves him unconscious and escapes in the darkness in a gasoline launch. During a storm she is cast ashore on an island. Three years teaching gives the man a splendid education. She becomes a Christian. A young re a1 ' -- lemi-nin- e - of the rocky wall. She nesi.el in his arms with a sense of joy and satisfaction and helplessness cared for so exquisite that it was almost uain. He sat her down presently on the sand and knelt before her. The sunlight sprang through the gray haze on the horizon's edge and lighted her face us he peered into it. Suddenly he is unalloyed; no No threw himself prostrate before her groan.comes happiness into our lives that soma joy and his lips upon her feet. does not dog its footsteps. With Not there, she whispered, laying pain love came jealousy before the flood. her hand upon his bent head, but At she said pressing closer here, here in my arms, upon my heart, to him least, and he did not repulse her, I for Man, Man, I love you! have loved no man but you." Then kneeling by her side he took "Oh!" he said, taking her once more her once more within his arms. within his arms, that I might know But you have not said! she began for one moment what is out there, at last, that you loved me. how you lived, who saw you, who folThere is no word, he said, softly, lowed you, who loved you! in that speech that you have taught 1 shall tell you, said the woman. 1 me which is equal lo what feel. You But you have told me. dont know how I have looked upon Not all. t you and longed for you ever since you When rest the then?" made me know and feel that I was a Meanwhile let us enman with a man's soul. Night after the the human old, old joy day" went I as watched you you night have to your nook in the rocks. But that prayer, let us enjoy the day despite the morrow let it suffice that I love you have taught me honor and considnever I loved anyone else; fhat you! be a to eration, what it is gentleman. I had followed you and caught you in that no kisses like to yours have ever been pressed upon my lips, nor I bethe dark within my arms. not upon the lips of mortal She laid her hand upon his breast lieve woman. Let us pass the day in hapand looked at him feelingly, entreat-ingly- , together. Come, we must with touching consciousness of piness breakfast. We must see what the his strength and her weakness. she earthquake has done to our island. We What I have taught you, have things to think about, things asked, you will not forget? to do. Never! Never! I have nothing to think about but He released her waist and took her you; nothing to doiiut to love you. hand and kissed it. There was as Hand in hand, they stepped across much passion in the pressure of his the sand to the shade of the trees, a lips upon her hand as there was in and a noble couple, tha splendid the beat of his heart against her own, royal woman nobly planned, fit mate for the she felt. children of God and NaYou, he continued, will say what godlike man, ture, both of them in loose tunica is to be done. Not I, she answered, piteously, which she had woven from the long I have no strength when soft grass, which left neck and arma but you. bare and fell to knee and were belted are you by. Since that moment when are the master and in at the waist. Unhampered by any you kissed me, you the man, but you will respect me in of the debasing or degrading garments of civilization, they were a pair to my helplessness? excite the admiration and envy of the As if you were God in heaven, gods. his as one cried the hand man, raising the Great Rock Aside. With a Great Burst of Strength Hi Rolled t You are to me who makes a vow. CHAPTER XI. step divided them. That step everything that is pure, that is holy, had been reversed. He was the masis a With that sob of relief she The Conscience Quickened. lovely. ter now and she hung upon his words No! No! she whispered, a look of upon his breast, naturally, inevit-oiy- . and actions even as he had done in They had spent the morning toHis splendid arms swept her terror coming into her face. gether, but not as usual. Things were days gone by. lose to him. Her own hands met about different, conditions had changed. For She had no knowledge of what ta he said. Yes, Through you s neck. With upturned face she know God, through you I know woman. the first time in years the daily lesson was before him, but she could hea oked upon him in all the abandon-en- t You are sacred to me. Never again, which she had given him was Interthe progress that he was making. It of perfect passionate surrender, unless you give m leave, will I press mitted. To-dawas evident that he was working furithey were both at his Love e for preceptor and bent head once and kissed the school with in never to he and her, unless yet ously, my lips yours; stopped again, st time in all his years that his lips you say I may, will I take you in my such willingness in their hearts as every little while to reassure himself The storm d been pressed upon another mouth. arms; never again will I even touch made them ideal pupils. as 'to her presence. her there In that kiss as your hand. Indeed, indeed, I cannot had died away as suddenly as it Woman, he cried, are you still . . there? y2fc'kiJ3j,ice moment for all do these things. And yet I will love had arisen No visible evidence of it Ccted possibilities of the past, you in ways of which you cannot was left save the tremendous thunder Here and waiting, was the anas f never in all the bringings forth dream so long as I can draw the of the long undulating seas upon the swer. outward barrier. The earthquake had He needed that assurance of her of the future should such another op- breath of life. He afforded felt be him. to He rose as not greatly damaged the island, the his he feet and portunity to his enable to achieve him spoke safety rodigtous task. How terrible were for the first time in his life the beat turned away from her and stood with fallen cliff, a few prostrate palms here the efforts he put forth, she did not of another human heart against his clasped hands and bowed shoulders. and there, that was all. But there was know until afterward, but his was the own, the rise and fall of another hu- In one moment the whole course of visible evidence In them of the storm work of a Titan. He was movin p- man breast, the throbbing of another their lives had changed. It had taken through which they had paused and 5a human soul. Tighter and tighter an earthquake shock to do it, but so which still h?ld them in its throes, mountains with his bare hands. spired by love, mightest of passions, Viis arms strained her to him. She terrific had been the submerged flre3 in the tumult of their souls. To the man the experience of the he was tearing asunder, like the earth- giVhenjlf up in that mad, delirious, of mutual passions that a whisper opflow awdkJ'aioment of full to the would effected long hive uttered of the portunely the morning was absolutely rsw and to quake, rocky foundations She sat and the woman it was so different front world. Well for him that he was so checked passion, and kiss for kiss, the same revolution, thewed and sinwed. Well for her that pressure for pressure, and heart beat watched fiim wondering what would what had hitherto transpired that it be the end of it. She knew at last was practically so. They luxurintej-i- n God had added strength and power for heart beat, she made repsone. It was too much. It was the man what love was, not the pale philand energy to all his other spelndid their emotions, They sat side by qualities He had never done any who broke away.' There was nothing, osophical emotion bhe had experienced side, hand in hand; they walked toto in the cabin of that yacht. God, how work in his life harder than the climb- no experience, no remembrance gether, hand in hand. Yet it was thf ing of a tree, but no toiler with a teach him. It was all surprise. He she hated that recollection. How she woman who was the bolder, the heritage of earth's whole experience thrust her from him slowly. Her hands wished that it had never been. If un- woman who made the advances. The of labor could have struggled as did lingered about his neck, but his back- touched by man she could have been man was not Missive. Kiss for kiss, ward pressure would not be denied. cast upon that island to be given to look for look, word for word, touch he. He had been awakened at the self- He held her at arms length, her hands this man who looked upon her as a for touch, he gave, but the Initiative same instant in his lonely cell upon outstretched to him, her bosom pant- goddess. She had told him some of was hers not his. He was putting a the other side of the island. With the ing, her eyes shining, her cheeks her history, but not the part which constraint of steel upon hltnself. She first shock he remembered that some aflame in the gray dawn. Yielding, was vital. It had been easy not to saw that and was glad. It made her time in his days of darkness before giving up to him absolutely, yet some- enlighten him wholly as ta that. He bold. Womanlike she tried and tested He the blade that she had forged again she came there had been a similar thing. the magnificent metal of the knew nothing about conditions. which he had never seen a ship or a boat within and again, growing daring in her imthe restraints man, through He realized what upheaval. instantly it was. Less timorous than the had gone, the long battles with his his recollection, and the story she had munity, braver in her trust. woman, more agile, he did not lie su- own passion, rose to his soul and gave settled upon and told him wms one They stood in one part of their wanonce more. him received that mastery from instant a for His acceptance second. pine single derings before the door of what had thoughts Woman! woman! he whispered him. Indeed there was nothing that been her cave. Hand in hand they were instantly for her. He had thrown himself from his cave and had no mere local name would represent she had told him, or could have told looked down upon the heap of rocks him, that he would not implicitly have that lie had torn away. It. was nothraced across the shaking, quivering her now. She wras humanity to him he whispered, Woman, my God! accepted and believed. The king could ing to him; to her it was incredible. island without the hesitation of a modo no wrong. She was incarnate truth. She could belter estimate what human ment. Never so long as he might my God! He turned away, sank down on one And she would have to tell him all live could he forget the shock that strengtli was capable of than he. She that he had now. She would have to put into had standards of comparison which be came to him when he saw his way to of the great boulders her barred by that great heap of rock thrown aside and buried hi? face in that pure soul, alive with passionate lacked. It cannot be possible that you lifted fallen from the face of the cliff, which his hands, his body shaking with emo- devotion, admiration, respect, every lay over the entrance to the cave. Foi tions he could scarce define but well feeling that can make up the sum of that boulder and that one, alone?" she one moment he had stood appalled understood. The woman threw herself mighty love, this story of evil and said, gazing at him wonderingly. and then he had got to work. How down on her knees before him and shame. There was no help for it. She At that moment, to release you, I would have to tell him. much time had elapsed before he ar- took him once more in her arms. could have torn the rock asunder, he Man, she said, I love you! But she could not tell him now, not cried, throwing out his arms in a magrived at her door, how much time it drew his hands away from his on this day. She She would have a few nificent gesture of strength and force. took him to clear it wray, he had no idea. He had no thought but that he face; she laid her own face in his perfect hours. She would stand for a She caught his hand with her own little while within the vale of Eden. and once more pressed her lips withmust open a passage and get to her bleeding palm and kissed it. Man, she said, her lips wet with She would look for a little time in his palm. dead or alive. I !ont know how to say how much It was not wise for him to expend his own b!ood in a sort of w'ild, bar- through the gates of heaven. y she would have and she I love you," she cried. breath in cries, but until he had some baric sacrament, man, I love you! He stared at her as one distraught. would enjoy to the full. She rose Say that you will try to care as reply he could not keep silent. After had dreamed of this, he had Imag- softly to her feet as well and stepped much for me as I for you and I will He her when answer came to him, that, he worked more quietly save for those ined it, he had prayed for it, he had closer to him. She laid her hand upon be content, he answered. for it, but no revelation that his shoulder. She could see the mus-cle- s And so there was a pretty rivalry periods when he felt that he must hopedcome to him in the years of their in his arm tighten as he clenched between them as to which loved the hear her voice to enable him to go on. had Such was the furious energy of his association equaled in its blinding his hands the harder. She turned him more. In the midst of the strife of toil that by and by the great mass of brilliancy, in its intense illumination, gently about and lifted her perfect lips tongues the woman spoke. She could rock was cleared away save oile huge the revelation in that woman's voice, to his. , She kissed him again. Her not keep away from the subject. You love me," she said at last, beboulder which fairly blocked the en- in that womans eyes, in that womans hand sought him; her fingers parted his iron grasp. She drew his arm cause you think me more than I am, trance. It was light outside now. A touch. Man, she said again, I love you. about her and nestled against him. because, she ran on In spite of his gray dawn and full of storm. Through I trust you, she said, as I love the wider interstices she could see him Do you understand! Do you know gesture, checking his denyprotesting I shall be safe with you. You ing word, "because you have seen no you. plainly. She knew now that her res- what it means? Then he found his voice. He took shall not draw away from me in such other woman, because cue was only a matter of time. A I will not bear another word," he branch of a tree for a lever and his her hand and pressed it against his isolatjon. You have waited long for kisses like this. , cried, finding voice at last and stopstrength would roll the rock away. heart. I underAnd then the man spoke, the man in ping her. I know, he whispered. I know not woman or man She started to tell him but he caught him. save as I know you and myself, save a glimpse of her white face pressed stand here. Woman, he said, yours are the as you have taught me by the women He rose to his feet, stooped, caught against a crevice and the sight inspired him. With a great burst of her by the shoulders and lifted her to only lips that have been pressed upon of whom you have read me in that strength, the like of which possibly his level. A piece of rock ill bal mine, save perhaps my mother's as a single book we have, the women of had never been compassed by mortal anced on the edge of the cliff fell child. Has any other man ever kissed whom you have told me who have man since Samson pulled apart the crashing. The place was dangerous. you? played their parts in the world. All to lie not him. a could She he of them together are not like you. word his arm Without of the he rolled slipped the pillars temple, Dont ask me, she said, the futile "That is because I am afive and great rock aside and stood in the en- beneath her, lifted her up as he might here and they are dead "o-trance, gasping, panting, with out- have done a child and carried her out request The man had turned away wdth a stretched arms. upon the sand away from the beetling (TOBECOX.i.,T-.- .j crags y , To-da- 1 n-jv.- |