Show hn 0 til nin h m atae tate of gf the zeo y le 0 ni A cromartic cRo mantle mantic calvel hy by briant st ringham young copyright IW ly arlint young S S seventeenth installment freiti lacot wk week 1 B how idad abid ln lan on an tier her an 80 weak that thai f r could seares carca support the th weight of mine line own head lean laflor Illif on no her sia a anbe depends on lla its mother and dawe s wo used to wall about the again did wy my botter out nature ure re r aart uima again UH I 1 shared lotty views I 1 had obsessed before and too often ua as we WB bat in III some quite alook wara naught but that ti eternal 1 sr ever light kept ua company conil lany did I 1 make love lov to tier bur mua as aa I 1 uld aid when I 1 courted nay my other wife and often she ahe placing a vast ml amount of doth cloth under me on 00 tin the seat ai w that I 1 might rest nat emy eary put tier her bead ou on nay my and one of my arms put lt it abound her shoulder and thu then co as s a bolla belle of bur country edid idid dirt she ahe look into my any ro with those lovely yea eyes and nd ask ak mu uddo Ud dom TO wilt will thou huu ml tile ino of ahm place from whence allou caiafa cai aa 1 down into ant the iho eydi yea false to mille cvito ft a mat of that thai othor other one 1 16 my mind I 1 I 1 dortly klesel ber anil and UK as tho th ault blush tola stole oer tier her cheek att t my CAWS daw lir to 10 MO me a my would ver ruit and stroking oking 06 th soft idair that clo clodi deto lo 10 me BIB would I 1 answer owe we ar are a brag people IlDe fc tile ways and daluga or of UM tile aua noo are att vevy boty at aud ud buny futina As aa cot corn pared logoura youra to lo yours but 11 dow tell me ni didat thou eve rever Tao vt vot 1 I answered the ho drift 0 of her wea yta yea whit what you ou call love though what it la in I 1 kilow not did you over mer love lova any one ona else how much girls are ra mike like whether or at barbal barb bar barlot rl whether inhabit ling ilia wilds of africa it r th the parlors t of ft A filth avenue man mansions mansi ont r c althea al this a mental plure struggled ti ud up rny my eyes rod my kuy win kud and e child nya ud me but loin as a I 1 know it that and the tha presents I 1 made lialete li alite to answer anay nanela I 1 liever did then walh quick lu in lilloo raw w that I 1 wall wail worried in mind so bantered to the subject and archly at fedt U dafni what la 12 that which you tall cu tova love Kl I 1 cannot answer thes lh why mccause nc lle cause calise my wite wire thil ww wise men lea of tuy country ITO lean heu aryle for or a 14 doai tg umi time tu to tell ehst la Is love but they moutot I 1 Can cannot nott noy nay bluela thoy know not dot what it Is but acme ma 1 I ald play fully and to note her har reply canet tell mo that which thou think I 1 ml cat low love tall latt sk ou is U doin the att answer edt lo 10 soft leht licht coti aloer luo into liar her eye ev dost doat mock vat n nav alneta I 1 oak ak thee but to try and tell tall roe me wo that cilita I 1 io 0 o hack back 11 what she h arted jumping away from at back to the lb houie home of th the gua aliee aud leave inal lne ney nay ll 11 I 1 answered antola 0 in o appease her 1 I that irl if I 1 should but K I 1 abound thou woul ilat go eo with ru rue but I 1 abou hast burk tny arm thou jump away to BO quickly oil oh hdm I 1 bidet hurt theeb the she answered coming up and kneeling bald me herfa her acu again lighting up and nd then my arm and aad hand band to la hen ben 1 I auw not that I 1 lied bad hurt thee but in hi t that atone alone saying which alit b aad deuly untied beof my haud I 1 aoi am averse to ta havluy a disi play of bf this klad kind but ts tsira iRl of chiding her and wounding her foug wll nf I 1 took belluto her int my arina froh froda the iho fl flor flior or with a bueb gram grae as aa in ab would uld allow aila and sat t her beside joei at which the acry happy appy ibid ia now closta Ml osta I 1 said ald wilt tell me n inano lo 10 laa ge love floh ObUd U do oA love I 1 kno what what v V in you mean but dost thou mean that feeling which line boa en wrapped we me aye AyeN Ni lutta tieta oh my love thou art named the wise one und and I 1 scarce know what to my butwill but will nay say thou my any be belavin lavid that whenever I 1 am near thee I 1 feel as aa though tin rill had come luto into me and opened all hla his glories unto mine eyes mid entered roybon roy Bou aud enlarged it until it seems beams ready to burst with st feeling I 1 know not otis oh boiu love I 1 love thee atille aline oves eim when wheat thy iby dost look rt lot thee mcern meern to see sea something divine neler I 1 touch thee I 1 teal feel as though I 1 were ready randy to outer the flesh when alor I 1 hear thy voice it seems deems to me that our aid to is but singing anti and over all udom U dom I 1 let feel as though were you but to leave me even fora for a little while I 1 cho uldal dat dle die whenever I 1 am near thee I 1 feel as aa though I 1 am but with toe the tod cod and yet doat doal paint hurt hurl anti here placing her hand over her heart and then when thou dost doat thin I 1 lost loaf my soul expand as aa that hint light that thou sorest growing brighter and brighter arid and then dost change into a softer hue said and when thou speak est ent til in a manner not dot klad kind it seems to me ino the light goes aut and all la 13 dar darkness kneis such would I 1 wl love and Ud U admi tn my m love I 1 love thee as aa I 1 have said aid and y now iny soul Is irradiated wo as with ten tea lights awe uana bobu odara leia tx od a ra hud and when thou arc away from me am I 1 iu in darkness es aud and then as I 1 silently clas clasped her in my arnis arms the teara team fallN giat at this simple childlike faith with niel met me the iha man baan can I 1 hut but and marret marrel at this ibis dov ollun aud and muri murmur nut cfall gods divine creations creat tom the to ta that 1 CHAPTER one time did I 1 start out again after I 1 lad iliad recovered tho the use of my lees leas and did I 1 start fi 0 tako take a walk around the halls and caverns that I 1 had now but learned to love sanctified by the prot presence sence of luy wife and I 1 wandered albl asly about not knowl knowing tig whither I 1 went hut but I 1 cured not for again was w tile the faver over of unrest unreal upon me as we had agnen sunk luto lulo that quiet me 1111 romantic rom antto lite iko which I 1 must mug confess does doe begin to malce make mu me wish for something again to distract my mind for I 1 accustomed to 0 no o many mally strat strang ign fl adventuress find it hard to myself to 10 quiet nd aa 0 o nothing else to distract my mind blind renew my researches in hi the halli or of this un no der ground olty alty and inmany angs both new and do I 1 haiti find pertaining in to no way to this senry aa they were arre for the most moat Ito nothing thing more or IMS than arrangements new la in tile comno also including ama arrange antiquities b be to the ovig inki members of the h ank ug which were bows and arrowo amaca of bidet trees barks nad some other thing of which interested me ma elough to make note of them f for at I 1 wa was riot dot an aa archa archaeologist eol but world with out Us its sciences and without its hahe higher meint ng otan thing however interested me A little and that was vas nothing more or lesa thau than a might eight of the man I 1 had nipped into the boiling stream when I 1 had been asked to cure him end with whom my experiment had not col proved aul ea I 1 hoped it would hava dune done ile hwa was burled or more properly pate lR unburied in a little room mom lying way away off from the he council connell ch carp ber reached by devious routes and through many and path j but instead of baug burled buried til in the be ground or at even interred as the other people of the b tribe 1 a stan standing dInt on ais tbell air feet to he was stend Ingon his bead and hla burial consisted cons laed of nothing or athan leaving leaTi tig him in the middle of the ficor st in as belu told me after tho the tyll evil medicine ho he had taken could tun un out and leave him like an ordinary ord lurry mau 1 these theme leopla are very vary alse at times one day or rather times lime while feel laidla loir la a evil not that liber either but rather olaof ap pro preaching aching melau chollis and aoese did I 1 lake a most moat affect leave of my wife why WAY I 1 know not other than hau that 1 was wa sadly depressed depre sied and did I 1 start staton out on another of my rum rambles bits nod and went rambling on hither aud and tb thither ither aimlessly without min mand dand and without purpose bending oay iu no one directions direction but iu in and ahdout out the halle hall I 1 kusa so BO well wail and dimly conno cotita louB louil of pissing passing through many I 1 lied had never seen eon before unheeding everything aud and latent intent only on trying boget lo 10 yet away from my lay for they were verily iu in a befuddled for the greed nf f gold again into ax and I 1 longed passionately abely huing hungrily rIlY for gold and lor for one thing I 1 knew li new not what and thus enga engaged goad with head bead atrit und and ais ai se S nothing but mental pictures pictured did I 1 pats pais unheeding on oa my way mill unknowing and not baying iny become bec ofle aware of the fact that I 1 had bad long lon pas edthe horizon of light and that bat darkness complete oom cow plute enwrap ped me I 1 aln in borne inexplicable menner manner seemed tobe to be guided guidea without meeting any hindrances anti and on and on seeming aming to follow som path trod by me ano before for I 1 know not even abell I 1 had awoke from my dreama with a start atari whence I 1 bild bad come or whither I 1 had gone and whoa a deml conscious i late we me I 1 found bund thyself in dark ness ing perpetual nothing serving to show bow mu me by what manner insulter ol of means I 1 had come here I 1 had tio no presentiment odthe III HI impending oer me no vision this time to guide me from the shoals I 1 had bonter ed but with willi dewies halt alert afraid liot and thinking not I 1 straggled on till I 1 my normal benses with a sudden shock and then did I 1 try to to find out where I 1 was and in all I 1 d vainly seeking to discover where I 1 was but rill all anlue efforts proved for to come to tile the point I 1 was loal oh ob godl must have he had me iu in hl charge my mind being too to stand any more duch buch as I 1 had bad already endured hut ut alone in abat dark place all seem ed cd to have deserted mt me guardian guard laa an gels god hope and almost reason led fled and then hen dij I 1 rep reau the reward of my devilish sides for I 1 was waa dogged at every step by livine phan phantom tomm of the ones I 1 hd had so ruthlessly by villous of 0 my own darkened career and aih I 1 saw my other wife find arid my child and though they seemed to me lite they knew too ino not for they werft were covered with willi blood tace face hands aud their otherwise apothem and I 1 then crying aloud 11 in my agony of mind praying bes tho the fda I 1 had deserted to have mercy on at groveled I 1 on the liard hard stone itono loor floor the tears ears dreaming g down my my face is 93 they lied had never Dver overdone done beaure in spite of my afflictions but all was useless F felt elt I 1 then na ate the ho wandering jew compel compelled jr wander forever findle finding nu no ilice I lice to rest est r his hia weary rear y body nono alone to welcome elouine but all to shun aud re and too did I 1 teel feel wk as a slimy bluing that I 1 had so often grouted beneath iny any heel and though there be no hell heil na as believed in III chris ilene where thie the everlasting fires of perdition consume a poor doomed spirit I 1 yet dwelt Ats in tho the hell bell I 1 bejlov td in that ot of mine own conscience anti and as aa I 1 write tiow now again do I 1 feel as aa I 1 didt did then tien I 1 fult felt there as aa though my life was wanted as though ere re I 1 never to return to those there I 1 loved from that tha t vile spott spot that tho the earth would well be rid clench a oneall lueas I but vat ve through out all this was there a little spirit that guided we oil and that was waa I 1 hope to repenting thou art surely doing now hou art man hub hut struggle on the gods goda knowing well what thou doest dix st and all way may yet be well so give not mot up but move thee on and nd I 1 moved me ma on and I 1 struggled tomy to my feet teet gro groping in tho the dark r for sn place in which I 1 might rest real but all was waa darkness dar knees koces tile ho darkness dar kneis of at a sinning constance cons leuce but I 1 knew it not as hope struggled within roe me and t hen hoping for to get nio aile oat of this place did I 1 make an all effort to find flome place where I 1 might be ba guided back mackto to my wife to my people to anywhere anything anything but everi tating dat kues a on and on an I 1 struggle still fighting against jhb that surrounded ce praying striving to get away now up now do dutt tat on nay any knees feeling my way do I 1 to keep on the pith I 1 feel fed nety nay know Is ahead of me n resolving lint ant to give up yell tie tl stratigo stra aoge tige but at this mom onto ent ab philosophical reasoning comes to vay my aid I 1 give myself up to the gloom of life and spirit t r reel feel settling lett ling down I 1 77 upon me but bin I 1 cannot remain thus inactive ind then all other olner mentis faling fall do I 1 fall ou tay my knees and strive to pray as many othera do when too latel strive to pray with no alone be to see sea me there but the shallows shadows and spirits part of mine own conscience and then as aa I 1 utter erthe the of ilia lie first prayer I 1 iliad had ever offered I 1 seem to hear bear a a sigh and the sigh echoes up and down wailing walli tig anti and yet bright suing the dagh is ia echoed again aud again ile he hath bath repented 11 aud aau shining shir afar off in front of me do I 1 seo sea aimell flickering light shining R in answer to my prave raud ae II if bid ding me yo go to it il so 80 when w we are plunged in that dat darkness kness of at approaching death when we are plunged ei in tho the darkness caused by our own dur darke kenec tied lf plunged into almost complete oblivion by the neglect of our bitter nature do we ask one above us to io guide ut u aright and theu then if we are repented doth not ocho answer ho hn bath repented and then are we not guided on byrbe by the light of his hl ll orti purity aud and goodies good nes t to a better and holler spheres sphere and only because we have repented t Is bope has the he mastery again and rousing rouging buselt from the state of saml olence luio into which I 1 had fallen run run I 1 fur it not stopping to hazard a guess aa to whether etwas mine own imagination uial tad me the light or whether it be reality not knowing but on I 1 run faster yet faster and ai I 1 get gel nearer to it it appears to grow larger more intense lu tenae dazzling he hewald wild erlus erieg and at lust last as I 1 comer come near to it I 1 flud find that it proceeds from it laag laage e room and aa I 1 at step 0 p u upon pon I 1 the it a I 1 lare drop senseless sen aless soless upon tile doorway dazzled by the light by a heavenly heave uly halo and sit an air of purity about me for I 1 am looking upon the imago image of the immortal god and tho the peu penalty illy if I 1 am discovered there la 1 dalh CHAPTER soon roon I 1 awaken and pick myself up from the floor wid and then abjectly reverential verent ial cowering half afraid slid and half ashamed I 1 crawl to the tha foot fool ot at the ilia image and lift mine eyes up to tile HIB see bee shining lit in glor gloriner ined hol lueas and mutely ask forgive 1 I 1 ahnke lake time to to noto note the beautiful expression pres slon and graco 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