Show ADAM JOHN STONES SON marion crawfords Craw fords new novel founded on a startling thesis correspondence tribune I 1 new york city april 9 1896 1846 there Is none of the romanticism and remoteness characteristic of mr air marion Craw crawfords fords recent roman stories in his big new novel adam John stones son which macmillan will publish during the week for while the scene of this Is also italian the characters tire nrc english the motives are modern and the work Is IB so distinctively psychological as to bo be almost wholly independent of local color the note of universality sounds rounds in the opening pages clare Bo row ring with whom brook adam John stones son Is on the p point int of 0 falling in love Is the type of 0 t alie llie very young new woman now more or less known to the greater pait of the ci earth most alost of 0 us rhom the world has c cowed 0 11 have ave quailed before her in it its 8 own n way perhaps there Is no look so be hard as the look of maiden innocence can be there can even be something terrible in its one unconscious ci anset 0 us stare blare there Is in the spirit of gods own onn fearful directness in it half quibbling with words pei haps but surely with halt half truth one might say that youth Is 14 while all el elye elje je hit h been arid and that youth alone possesses the present too loo innocent to know it all yet too s selfish elfish oven even to doubt ot of what Is its own too sure of itself to doubt anything I 1 to fear anything or even truly to pray for anything perhaps the at aimor of knon knowledge ledge Is 19 of little worth until doubt has shaken the heart and weakened the joints and broken the terrible stead fastness of perfect innocence in ili the eyes clare knew that site she baa aa young the she felt that the white dream was sweet ind and sit she believed that eliat tho the heart nas mas clean and good all good was natural anti and eternal lofty and splendid us as an Ric archangel aich angel hangel in the light god coil had made ell eh as a background of sli shadows to show how ill the light was every one could come anti and stand in the light it he chose cheap tor for the more mere trouble of moving it seemed so go simple she wondered why everybody could not see rep it as she did and as clare sat pat one summer night under the olive trees thus dreaming loves first arst vague impersonal dreams tile the min man who had bad touched her fancy suddenly stood before tier her in the moonlight with a w woman man whom she did not know lady F fans e ns small white face was turned to his instantly and clare could see the fierce hurt expression in tile the eyes eves and about the th quivering mouth the young girl suddenly realized sed that rho was accidentally ing something which was very serious to the two tun sip speakers it flashed upon her that they had baa not seen her where she pat in the shadow and site sin looked about her hastily lit in the hope ot of escaping unobserved but that ats mas chete was no way of getting gelling out of the recess areces of the rock vi where here the th crops crons stood except by coming out into tile the light and no way of re reaching athing the hh h H except hy by tile the open pla platform t form and so it chanced that clare saw caw and heard one of those concluding in a mona mens life which a woman strives to have continued all was implied but little was mas said clare understood even loss legs than was and judged the man mart all the more severely for that very reason filled with pity for lady fan fail he felt her own beatt t harden against brook with alth an exaggerated hatred as though lie he lied had insulted and aal injured all women she was litt litterly eily young all and inexperienced but she was it a woman and she believed him to be false falth less and designing she lied had no idea of the broad distinction lie drew between all good anti and innocent women like ilke herself and sit all the rest hann ile he considered lawful prey sho she concluded therefore very r rashly dalily he was oro ply lita hi usual beual tact lff ls it a main part of which consisted con alsted in n seeming perfectly unaffected and natural while will only waiting for a faint sign of encouragement coura gement in order titan llian to play the part of the hie po nate lover the pen gen of youth are terrible what has haa fiddled faal d once la Is despicably damned fore former or what Is true today la Is true aru enough tomorrow to kill all other truths outright the man mail chose M hose bund blind has haa shaken onee once Is a a coward lie he who has foupht fought one battle Is to he the heio of seventy life Is a a forest of inverted pyramids for or the be oung enung u upon po n every point Is balanced A gigantic weight of top lop heavy ideals spreading baste base up wards to clare clan evra thins thing johnstone Joh natone said or did was waa the working of a falth less lesa intention towards its end it was as clear one enough gh that he sought her and st stayed ayed WIN with hor her as loni long as ho he could day by day therefore he intended t to make love I 1 to 0 her sooner or later and I 1 then hen when avies he taa tired ho be would soy goodbye good bye to her ter just as lie had said g rood d bye to lady fan and break her heart ti eart and have one story more to laugh over when he was wag alone it was n as quite clear that he could not mean anything elso else after what she had seen but of nil all this she ehe said nothing to her mothers mother who nho had alt all along shown a strange unwillingness unwilling neus to nee clare interested te in brock notwithstanding that lie was A a fine young fellow and the son ot of if una at bri brewer siver lit in Ung lall so they went ou on meet meeting ing day after lay day and he interested and attracted her in spite of the dislike that site she still felt misunderstanding her defiant dall binl mann manner sr it only piqued him to greater devotion until a a declaration brought matters to a focus and she aho flung tit tin aluth in his hii hi i face like a stone arter the manner of these innocent and merciless young creatures brook stood motionless beside 1 ld her and there was wait silence lie ho might hat have e found much in at if defence but thre there wai not one word of it which ho be could tell tier hr perhaps elie oil might find out rome romea day what v hat sol BO I 1 of person la laly lady ly pan fan wat but hla his own lips jilin closed that was nas his view of what honor meant clare felt that her breath came quickly and that her color was deep in tier her cheeks as site ahe gazed at the flat fiat lint hot sea am for a moment the she ml felt a wor homans womans nans enormous satisfaction in bing absolutely unanswerable then lit all at once idles feho had baa a strong strone sensation of oc sic sickness kneas and liln isain shot charp a quick I 1 rp ly 15 it her just hilow below hi low tile the heart heart when the had turned from him in scorn acorn and lif had gone awny away ho he cursed and tried to think what to t do lie ile wished that he could goo BOO cl clare are again and that in chow tio he could talk it t all ovir will anh amr her then he alm almost 0 t laughed at the iden idea lie could not t tell e ll 11 her that the little lady jody in tho white serge being rather desperate had rot got herself to go K with the party for the express purpose of 0 throwing throw lne herself at his head na an tile tho curren phrase grace fully biilly express pa it and with ill the tit distinct intention of 0 divorcing her husband in order to marry brook johnstone lie ire could I 1 not t tell clare that he h had made love to I 1 lady ady pan fan to 10 get ald of her as another common expression puts li it with avith a delicacy worthy of 0 modern soc society lety no c could not tell her that lady pan fan who fan clever but indiscreet had unfolded her scheme to lo her hc r bosom friend lire airs leo cairngorm or that AIM mr Cuirn cairngorm gorm unknown to lady pan fan had been a very devoted friend of 0 brooks and was still fond ot of him an and I 1 secretly hated lady fan and had therefore unfolded tile tho whole plan to brook before tho the party parly had stalled or that on that afternoon at sunset on oil tho the acropolis Acro he had not at all repeated assented to lady fans mad proposal as she no had cepro led that hr he had when they 1 had ad PAT parted on the pitt forni at b ho ovoid could not tell claro clare any of these lit n for or he felt that they hey were more not fiat tit it tor for her to hear that eliat ana the sor cat acet ile point I 1 nt of all that she bho should have been some thing which she should not have een been tor for her Innocenc es sake something il which lit it I 1 in A it ft senie enge must m hive offended and wounded her he would bould have struck any man who iho could have laughed laii at his sensitiveness ti veness about that mie hie had accidentally crossed the broad clear line of domar demarcation mar cation which he drow drew between her kind and all the tribe of lady fans falls anti and lira airs cali whom he had known he felt somehow as though it were his fault and as ai a i though he were responsible to clare for what file ehe h had 1 I I 1 heard and soon the sensation of shamo shame deepened arid and he swore bitterly under hla his breath he way was enormously far removed from being a saint it Is true but it Is due to him to repent repeat that ho he had arau drau drawn n the line rigidly fit at a certain limit it and that all w women 0 men beyond that line had been to him it I 1 m as his own mother in thought and d deed ced let those who have the right to cast stones and tho the cruelty to do so BO decide tor for the themselves al whether brook johnstone Johnf Johni tone was aas a bad man at heart or not it need not be hinted that a proportion of the stone throwing pharisees Pharis ees owe oe their immaculate reputation to their conA conspicuous lack of attraction tho the little hand band has a place apart and they stand there and lapidate most of us and secretly wish that hey had ever had the chance of belaf as bad as ito aie without be ing found out but the great army of I 1 the he pure in heart are mixed with a sinners inners in the tight and though they 41 may y pray for us they do not carp at our car I 1 imperfections tit perfect lo 10 ns and oc occasionally they ket get hit by the pharisees Pharis ees just a liedo v c do lather v r than we an and therefore offering ft a more mark for a jagged tone or it handful of pious mud you may know the Ph pharisee arlee by big hl intimate of the sins bills he line II 11 IB never committed brook did not lack courage but the situation seemed beyond hope even it if he had gnoun that clare lad had heard board the conversation he could not possibly have explained tho the matter to her not even if she hai bad been an old bomin without telling all the truth about lady pan fan and he was too honorable a man to do that under any conceivable circumstanced a at this crisis a new element comes into the story bringing a shock that MA makes kes the reador reader recoil the strange attitude of clares mo mother I 1 her toward brook la IS suddenly explained by a meeting between the parents of the young people brook 1 Is struck by his fathers agitation and speaks to him of it when they aie alone tho matter AN hillh ith you governor rio ro vernor you can tell me oh nothing that ll 11 l l brook I 1 say sav dont he be startled this airs Is my divorced wife NON you know good god sir adam turned on oil his hl heels and mot met hin hl sons look of horror arid and siston niton ashment lie he had expected an all exclamation of surprise but brooks voice had fear in it and he had started front from ills his chair aha why do you say good god like llian t asked tho old min man youre no not t in love with the girl are you 1 aie I e just asked her to marry tile me the young men upa w ef e f ghastly palo pal as he stood stock still staring at hla his rath rr pr sir adam was ill the e stirs nr I 1 to ree recover over something of equanimity but lh furrows in his face had suddenly grown do deeper per of course she has accepted you he asked no she knew about lidy pan fan that seemed sufficient explanation of 0 clares refusal how awful exclaimed 13 brook rook hoarsely ills his mind going back to what tee meed ill the main question just juet then 1 I low how a an fu fit I 1 for you governor well its lt not plia pleasant Pant said eald sir ajam adam juaning to the window attain again so po the girl refused aou ou he saki said iniz ine as he looked out 11 just ii ake ke I 1 her ter anif mother I 1 suppose brook he paused yes so far us As im fin concerned its not so bild bad as ou think you pity me you yeal know its it just ils aa well that we me should hats hale mot met after twenty sev en ell years she know knew you at once of courser course I 1 she knew I 1 was your father before icamen I 1 came ant and I 1 pay brook files forgiven me at last ills his voice mas low and unsteady and he rol resolutely kept his back turned ashes one of the best women that ever lived he said your mothers the other there was a long ions silene silence and neither c hanged chanced lla big position brook matched the back of hla his fathers head you dont mind my saying so to you brook asked tile the old man bit h itching batching big ill 1 deit mind nily hy oil well theres no reason I 1 suppose gad cad I 1 w 1 suppose im crazy hut I 1 wih to god you could marry the girl brook ashes as good food as her mother brook sol said nothing being kery much astonished as well as disturbed anin ill tell you one thing brook so said ld the olce at the 1 window speaking into space it you do 30 marry tier her and it you treat her as I 1 treated her mother h lie 10 turned sharply on both heels and waited a minute ill be damned it I 1 dont believe id shoot you id shaie you ill the trouble and do it myself said brook roughly utterly cru crushed hed by the situation the son shrinks from discussing tho the details what differ crice does anything ranke make asked brook I 1 cant mart many y the daughter of my illy fatla tirs divorced 1 alf ife 1 I never hoard board of a case simply because such cases dont arise often but theres no earthly reason reabon why by you thore Is no relational relationship lp whatever between vou ell theres no menti mention cin of it in ill the table of kindred and allin ity I 1 know simply because it undred or allinio y in any way the world mav moke make it its observations hut but you may do di touch much more sui things than M mary IY I Y the daughter of bour our fathers di divorced ke ahen nou ou are to have a yr brook broo k ive found it out in my time lime find it out in ours and it as though there were tile least things nines about it that all fair arid and square and straight and hono honorable ruble arid legal ant everything else including the clergy alm ky I 1 supposed that the archbishop of canterbury tenbury have married tile me tile the second time because tile hie church jint supposed to approve or of divorces hut but I 1 wim was iiii i led in chuilli all bight by a very good man chusit A and id church disapproval cant POR possibly SIbly extend to the 1110 second seco gen generation Renei elation allon you know oil no 0 S so O fur far us its its being possible ROCS goes theres there nothing to prevent your marrying 11 her er im not to miss JUM ring said jboob site she wont want look at in me what oil an internal infernal mesa ive I 1 ve mado made of my lift life you torpet forget ono one thing thine brook maid sir adim adam thoughtfully ha va that hill I 1 women I 1 on torK or lve neither r for or some som time lime you ought to know mud gald brook in A low ton at last they forgive when they love or have loved the right way to put it I 1 think well put it in that way it if you like ilke it nill just cover tit th ground 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