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Show E at sl V f beutil nywhi VA ce. jJl I would Ii Brady ft,; TO n ..C JK hout a !ruieiy ..v. uoBuauon or delay. v mo- - .... woman cast ashore on a lone. .men.t .8h8 where solitary Inhabitant, a Ld Amis .... uu ianciea nerseir back on BwmKQ I . . " In to speak any known Ian- - I me snip or: more naturally , tossing "'SL. HorirtM -- u. .. to eduent him All mind to her own Weal..' Bhe ,uuul ln tnat small boat after that u. .ncioiun ui v. i "6. tsreuuiH VOyage. 1 humun - Yet Bn mnflnn . r. oihi a na a silver dox. wmnn i w ..ii... "mcu Bne ever been subjected w th conclusion that her com- Li even the wildest nltrh nt ai caat ashore on the Island th9 f, child, and that his name is John Utorm wmen had finally cast her Virginia. Kar h. ...rtPic nf two ' woman's rings, produced in her such strange emr the finds ,.hleh . -- v. bears an lnsoriDtlon "J. R. Hnn. BU0 experienced P. T. Sept. 10, I89.'f Katharine then. For ft L was a highly specialised iae earth Itself was trembling, cmly. Her Udlnf university. writings on ering. roricln.- - Th M problem naa aitraciea wide at-- I w" aoove ner een dimly by the filtering: The son of a lieht . . infatuated with her. inri th. I nr .. V dawn which came put her theories into practice. M other ceremony than a hand- - trough the opening, partook of the Mjr go away together. A few days mad. fantastic motion. In another sec- shows her that the man , ncht ona 8le realized that it wag an earth- roteased lofty ideals to possess her. "eemed flIIed drunk he"attempu' toklS 2 l. She KnocKS mm aown and leaves ringing sound Ot Storm. Uneclous and tseapea In the Her bed., nf www ,v- QO DU( m In a gasoline launch. During a tUQ SUlb line it csi Ksnure on an island. Band over which grass had been me man a strewn, iecnin; gives sne lay, therefore, on the jarr education, one oecomes a Chris- floor and could not be thrown towt Rh:aih! " k. VF11LV .ii, nt " tt :Cok. re .. S i seDiilyi ,. II It II I W I M J.YV . crags of the rocky wall. She nestle J arms with a sense of joy and satisfaction and helplessness cared for so exquinlte that it was almost pain. 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 as he peered into it. Smirfoniv ha threw himself prostrate before her Kroan- - No happiness is unalloyed; no i'oy comes ,nt0 oup 1'ves that some and hla Hps upon her feet "Not there,", she whispered, laying faln doea not do ,ta footsteps. With came J68'0"")' before the flood, her hand upon hi. bent head, "but "A leaat.H she said here, here in my arms, upon my heart, pressing closer to nlm ana ne ull not repulse her, "I for Man, Man, I love you!" Then kneeling by her side he took haye ,0,ved no man but you." "Oh!" he said, taking her once more her once more within his arms. "But you have not said!" she began wlth,n 0,8 ama' "that I might know for one motnent what Is out there, at last, "that you loved me." v "There 1. no word," he said, softly, how 5,011 1,ved wh aw you, who tot "ln that speech that you have taught ,owed oa' who lovei you!" "l 8ha11 tel1 you." ald the woman, me which is equal to what I feel. You "Dut yu ha don't know how I have looked upon tW me." you and longed for you ever since you i "Not all." "When the rest then?" made me know and feel that I was a man with a man, soul. Night after Meanwhile let ua I have watched you a. you went ojr the day" the old, old human to your nook ln the rocka. But that Prayer, let us enjoy the day despite you have taught me honor and consid- - the morrow "let It suffice that I love eratlon, what It is to be a gentleman. 70XX' that I never loved anyone else; I had followed you and caught you in that no kisses like to yours have ever een pressed upon my lips, nor I be-Stne uaric within my arms." . laid her hand unon his breast Ileve not "Pon the lips of mortal and looked at him feelingly, entreat-- 1 woma"- - Let us pass the day in hap- mgiy, witn touching consciousness of p,ne8S together. Come, we must his strength and her weakness. breakfast. We must Bee what the "What I have taught you." she earthquake has done to our island. We haye thing, to think about, thing. aaked, "you will not forget?" to do." "Never! Never!" . I "I have nothing''. Ha raloaaarl h.i. w.l.t i. thtnl, . hand and kissed it. There was a. 'ou; nothInaT to dobut to love you." Hand in hand, they stepped across much passion in the pressure of hi. lips upon her hand as there was In the sand to the "hade of the trees, a the beat of his heart against her own. roval aud- 8 noble couple, the splendid I woman she felt. nobly planned, fit mate for the You," he continued, "will say what I sodllke man, children of God and Na-I ture, both of them In loose 1b to be done." tunica "Not I," she answered, piteously, I whlch he had woven from the long-bu-t you. I have no strength when 1 8ft Fas., which left neck and arms you are by. Since that moment when I Dare ni tell to knee and were belted you kissed me, you are the master and tn at the waist. Unhampered by any tne man, but you will respect ma in I of the debasing or degrading aarment my helplessness?" lot civilization, they were a pair to As If you were God in heaven " I excite the admiration and envy of the He Rolled the Great Rock Aside. cried the man, raising hi. hand as one gods. who mnlrAa a vaut Vm. But a Step divided them. That aten I everything-- th CHAPTER XI. ' f' he took. With a sob of relief aha that is loyeir The Conscience Quickened. inevit- "No! No!" she whispered, a aeh1yUP0H..h,S rea? natura11 They had spent the morning to ,w01 -arm. .went her I tarm- . 0 uw "oi mew. . gether, but nota . as usual. rln..- kin it own nanas met. aoout Things- were . 4TU "Yea H be bbM .1 JIM his neck. With unturned fa- - .k. irougn you 1 umerew, conaiuon. naa cnanged. For ' dal le88" n him in .11 the abandon: VZ.? " "To-morro- en-nig-ht .... TT II In his CHAPTER X. 8YNOP8IS. (, ' n 1 down, uui sue was rouea from side to side a in way which paralyzed her senses. CHAPTER IX. Continued. Never in all her exDeriflnc h Eha a 8,ck feel,n ot ch. terror. ?vwn too, for some hour It, longed ITlVEui or tnings are when he might with NT CURE I Z whenounuions right and snaken, not merely th kennes? ep b.ut the 80l,d earth u brokei "P. Jme day he must speak or die. m Diser n the presence V not versed in the ways of hum.anUr 8tand 01 uoa- - 8ne Iay rea,8t- He had no store of knowl- - 7 . V THEIEEI oiai lug, Praying. WOnderlni? u lunn n Atrnarl t -- tt I ,StitU He knew but one woman. T ,he. f.hak,ng rock 0Ter her fal ne.ad crush her. ild not nredicata from !ALS,8T tor from any "oment1 018 ,n8t,nct of 1ECK8.H to action, t She rose to W any worn out DhiLonhv' ?ukened upplitt and lpt ttlentii would or would not do under 8,tagfred t0 , SsitM w fler waT 10 tn en conditions. Indeed, he only was terrible. The that he loved her and he must- "B" a a a.. vnaprn ie Bird, u atAAaMnB bcciubu vo nave enaKen ror r or die In the concealment and yet the duration of. the jcently to matters ran on and on. It nours, snock was really less than a minute. l music I but a spark to Ignite the powto hreal terrinc. just berore would have seemed, and yet 1 "u"!"te1w reaced the. open.,n8- - 11 nt0 to cllmf cataclysm of nature only 0U8 8n0Clt orchestrl uaIen. about the explosion. He had T' . ,rfc 7v With a Crest Burst of Strength 1 act cai secona. next iae touched her except to take her v o ti. uwi ucguu. j ith a ruitr mat sounaea lite a thou- - nad been ravAruu. u ... v R.r S. njVU v.j tns pri mns th. save V I U I nnH J liQVl UtTCU QO a iuy uiwr ter now nd to him as if she had been a ZZ ,, he curtl hung upon his words . . ruiery' ine " uui ui uer was DioueQ ana actions even aa ha hA dm.o in ions of m M. k.. inj -- v. "ck which day. gone by. areful under no circumstances -OI ine cun 606 naa no Knowledge of what task more than that. Their hands 1.7 "v""'u iinen H iV"CB 8 In "tenser was before him, but she could hear eePr. often. Indeed. with every L" . Z olnt jdi ' Bn! inrew nerseii me progress that he was making. It SZZ ipe.led ti sight" and "Good moraine" the I ! ner- waa of touch was h"0 WM evWent t he wu working furt UI". il the made and broken. !f ?"' 8 7 owet walIS- - 0U81y' an! W ce in tPPe ew noH Xwas all. They usually parted I T" ,, Bne waa e ery "tUe wWle to reassure himself t on the W u . - tW. rocky .epul. to her presence. DrefiSAii litv.fl innthov tnnnth I . . hemplo) uut. nu uuwu ou ner anees woman' ne cried, "are you still He clung to her there in that wV "5wn. w"' 1 .eTen toucl mada tnem ,dea PPa- - The storm Iw V'f 3 'ead, auu uuncu ner lace in ner nanas. one I mere: " if to make up lB one moment for .11 a,M awa aew: 1 "uddenly a. It v I, hegg."H pa him in the darkness toward murmured words of I ' I "Here will love , No visible arisen. prayer, had and was the. an. evidence of It the waiting" waa that . . home. . her a . . She p of neglected the whicf pclbllitie. past, it.. nor una new to xne otner side of ewer. way. of I as if never In all the yo.u cannot wa. left save the tremendous thunder pressed upon him .how she caa draw the of the long undulatlna-- .eas nnnn ih . ?ream 80 .'"n M ntage. needed that assurance of her of the future .hould him, the absolute assurance, ... .v waVne: "vlT,' to outward barrier. The earthquake had enable custoi him n confidence that she bad. , "hor.t Outside she to achieve his portunity be afforded him. a Ha roB Z w i,. , et a. he .poke and not areatlv damared the : the ft rodlgious task. Ho. .re,M V-for tha ui.n th t, the meal fn,.M Stood w,th fallen clllf. few pWrate palmrhere th"nderLn them s served she did no! of anotheV humin heartTgalnst heTwoild have died 3 'orth. id vu iub auure. ce-- know until I J?aDd-eaJh2 k i. buWfd 8houIde"'8- there, that was all. But there wa. hut his was the own, the ce this si than liminiiun.. for we earthquake had come the work of a afterward, i...:7" Titan. man He was 8torH .i... the vCOur" of vl8lb,e ev,deBce ln them ot ned brea.t moving taken through whk i. they had passed and chan.ged- mountain, with hi. bare hands. In human aouL Tighter Ind tZt!r 0f R,chell,u' Hon between the cave and the outer spired by love, 8tm ept them apart " It. throe., mlghtest of passions, W. arm. strained her to him. She fl it seemed, for she was now con- - he wa. tearing asunder, air, like the earth 5ave her-e- lf ahe would never know -,n that up , for it mad. delirious, 0f "?."' of .v. quake, the rocky To man the experience the foundation, of the he windrrible constraint he put upon 8torm came the flre. Her mlnd went world. Well for htm that he was so wa. new to morning and absolutely ertlsmet ",M1 " back t0 wnat na read from the thewed and .Inwed. Well for the woman It was bo different from her that quivering oody and stared Bible a few day. before of Elijah's uoa had added strength and power what had hitherto transpired that It . long .fter ,he had gone. She Therefore in like case she Use. na energy to an hi. other spelndid was practically so. They luxuriated ever know how that Intensity despair. Il8tened wko aU ber heart for th , qualities. He had never done any who ZuhiZi (durli! a There V lM pa,e pwl" ,n thelr emotions. They sat side by BUU uuiu buuis- voica of comfort in h.e work In hi. life harder than the climb- no experienced. 8,de' haDd In hand: they wa,ked to" felt that be could not over-- Bm.i n hm n .M ot leav how hand ln hand. Yet It was the ' t. She would never know how gether, It r?' ! ing of a oftree, but no toiler with a teach him. from-hfAnnmA. .h. .,m 8h.e .hated "at recollection. How she woman who was the bolder, the . w,.ul.e;.w,! whole experience thrust her earth', heritage st been ed away staggering through hlm aealn. lndeed hl WOP vo - U. m' of labor could have struggled a. did lingered about hi. a and threr Liuisclf - down ;ood sti She knew her feeling for him now! he. ' man W89 Dot ,88,ve K,8S for kl8"' ward pressure would not be denied. sands on t Is side of the She slipped forward and fell ee m. amtu ,ven fainting He ok for look, word for word, touch He had held ev ,toftbe been her at n shelawakened lhn SSvL .elfarms' at the rude the Isdalning length, her hands on me sanay noor or the cave. And same her 88 a. tor touch, he gave, but the Initiative In his lonely cell upon outstretched to him. her bosom nant- - Lntia." be cave whicl was his home, Instant L,ked "p0.n r-thA vntra still wa. (ho.n loiu nun someZ. or I aa ner8 not nls- - H wai Her. the other side of the island. With the mg, her eye. Bhinlng, rht It mil: .I Dnmotlm.. ah. n7. came to .ner, as the Putting a ber history L7 voice of 9 Part Whkh constraint of steel upon himself. She 1 first shock Yielding" aflame he remembered that some in the gray dawn. fences of injirnal conflict in ......ii- love, v..m:,. was vital , w uuui.uuj, lurouga time ln hi. days of darkness before giving up to him 8aW that and was K,ad' made her d and !l the next morning. The calm the absolutely. Hps of man. v bo,d- - Womanlike she tried and tested she came there had been a similar thing, the magnificent metal of the nihiS the indifference, the animalnot 2 I After a how long after she upheaval. He realized abo"V the blade that she had forged again : sfactlon with which he had could not space,' instantly what man, the restraints through whlrh tell, she was conscious of It was. Less timorous and had e when she first knew him the mowing daring In her lm- than gone, battles with the Tcol long his ahah.S a human cry through the wild clamor woman, more and the atory he did not He su- own passion, rose to his soul and gave IrttlTuMn mun,ty' braver ,n her tru8t agile, There of the storm. i Ne. t since disappeared. A voice that she knew 8tood n 008 hit tbolr wan-pine for a single second. His thoughts him mastery once more. . V r was m opening lines upon, his face and loved was calling her ' brings before the door of what had by name. were Instantly for her. He had l'-l- l. "Woman!, woman!" he whispere- d- t him IZZ ;ass, h id of thought, of struggle, and Was it some . t . . . luri n WB" --iiiiininir wnoviw wraithlike fancy of the thrown himself from hi. cave and had no mere lorn! noma wnM V Mam tt.ii. JahaIkhkiI U IuTt .Jasi .jw t. i rvr.8 uabDeen Rer cave Hana , nan ,he : cameU, r'ltl ... " ucm.you uj luese otnrtnf . 5ha ma. . v.. i, looked .11. her down across now. raced the shaking, quivering She wa. humanity tc hi- m- m upon the heap of rock. u? u""'c?u,a..na.ve.tom , lat feW ut factor, in shaping human was iBiana nu, T.? Woman." he whispered, "mv God! "?l Lpi c t,y Da!e that he had torn away. It was noth- TT" tne nesitation of a mo " a human voice, his voice, her name. ment witDoui ) mlcroi ne " ' KUK cou'd ing to him; to her it was Incredible. . Never so long as he might my God!" , could never know what was , The cry was fraught with frantic ap live could he Sh CUld better Mtlmate what buraaB He turned away, sank down on one the shock ind, either. He never dreamed that forget d." m it tnrniea and vibrated with came to him when he saw his way to of the great boulders that he had now. Sh7 8trength was capable of than he. She could love him. She was so peal, oia would ably passion. It told her in that awful mo her barred by that great heap of rock thrown aside and burled his face In had standards of comparison which he so Jul him, in his that oure supreme eyes ment a story which she had not tlsts hu read, fallen from the face of the cliff, which his hands, his body shaking with emo-Iacked" aSmlratLn .nrt88lnate possibility never occurred so to her Imagination, of lay over the entrance to the cave. For tlon. he could scarce define but well' "U Cannot be po88,b,e that you ,,fted he had known for a moment it revealed the'., which she had not dreamed. She was one moment he had stood understood. The woman threw herself that bou,der and that one' a,oner BhA T OrJ thought of him, the great tvn .iS appalled love mighty thf of Was fascinated with what she heard. She and then he had got to work. How down on her knees before him and ' n both hearts would have shame. There was To heln forVt III 8a,d' gai!lng at hlm wonerIngly. "At large j '1 every obstacle and in a forgot for the moment to answer. Alt much time had elapsed before he ar- took him once more ln her arms. moment. to release ,hat I you, would have to tall the woman In her, the eternal teml-nin- e rived at her door, how much time it must 1 lie would cou,d havo torn the rock asunder," he "Man.", she said, "I love you!" LV. h have had her in his In her, listened. Her bosom roue took him to clear It She drew his hands away from his till da? way, he had no !! DOW,,not crled- - trowing out his arms ln a mag- 'ell, Indeed, it Is that the and fell, her heart throbbed, her idea. He had no thought but that he face; she laid her own face In his Srfect ayt n,flcent gesture of strength and force, at fhe read human heart. Is re- pulses beat. Alone with that wild, must open a passage and get to her bleeding palm and kissed it. he caught h'8 hand v,th ber ow jggiSt pr the Mind which towers , fcen- and once more pressed her lips with"Man," she said, her Una wet with Rh. l"T ,d laudan san passions because it Is passionate, appealing, frantic cry, she dead or alive. 8 ,UUV Ume ln h'9 "aIm- forgot the earthquake, she forgot the It was not wise for him to expend his own blood ln a sort bar- afa all n she forgot the storm, she for- breath ln cries, but until he had some baric sacrament, "man, I ZvTyo prison, how to say how much town" these two while drawing the world. She only realized that reply he could not keep silent. After 1 got He 8he you ,0ve stared cr,ed as at her one distraught, lnevltahlv and as IrroslHf. there out in the dawn, a man, the man that, when her answer came to him, He had dreamed of this, he had Ima Lfti d enjoy ?he rosa I. "Say .that you will try to care aa ,s Fas' tide comes in were still of all the vm much for 1,10 aa 1 for world, who loved her wa. he worked more quietly save for those lned It. he had prayed for It, he had closer and 1 w, 14 Their feelings were in so- Hating ' d..he.r name. her upou old of Si b The call calling he i" for answered. no he but when hoped . intent." revelation . felt he It that must that hi periods cre. A precipitant must manhood to ant 'i8 And 80 there wa8 a pretty r,valry womanhood, of mate to hear her voice to enable him to go on. had come to him In the years of their aVithrhten ZV? ibetween into the atmosphere in mate. n who n 5 them as to which loved the association Sihandl Tk1"1 ln was furious Its Such ai the of equaled his energy blinding moved and lived and had looking She rone instantly to her feet This toll that by and by the great mas. of brilliancy. In It. Intense illumination ffiore' In the ruld8t of Wf of c' to b disclose them to each time it was the sr." l beating of her heart rock wa. cleared away save one huge the revelation in that woman's voice fo hi- - Vhi ?J,tect! p" tonue8 the woman .poke. She could T not keeP that pitched and tossed her body. She boulder which fairly blocked the en In that woman', eyes, ln that woman's hand sought h : h Jl ' the .ubject. . tertaln balmy night they leaned You love me." she said at last, "be-the rock wall and then trance. It wa. light outside now. A ... . . against 1,1. ..u , Obtlflusual. Was the hand clasp she called his name. gray dawn and full of storm. Through that y "19 Klance with which hn Iia mm . l tinianoA she cried, "are you safe?" "Man," 5 the wider Interstices she could see him Do you understand! Do you know "I trust vol. " ah- - a.M ... u"v"1""'' ouo " on ,u Bl" 01 018 r hr under the moonlight b that was the answer. "And plainly. She knew now that ber res- what It means? itir "Yes," prote8tln Tbe checking his deny you I shall safe with u or You revealing than usual? Did you?" wora- you have seen no Then found cue was he his voice. 'ZZ a He matter of A time. took ,n? only not shall draw away w his own breaBt that!S call to beCaU so, save for this prison." branch ot a tree for a lever and his her hand and pressed It against his Isolation. You have wal "Entirely ? m""10 -ed that which boat around long for hear another word" he "Thank God!" came faintly to her strength would roll the rock away. heart kisses like thi At any rlre. rate, It was with from beyond the wall. 'Thank God, I She started to tell blm but' he volce at ,a8t and BtP , nndl.n.R. "I ho underknow," . i p ner' 1 Know whispered. "I And then the man .nok. th caught "t that She Wo hnrsnlf hear your voice. I shall have you out, not woman or man stand here." white face her rally- of. him gllmpso pressed hl and for the i( first time in never feur." rw and. my.solf' 8av a inyu and He crevice to rose the his "Woman." he said, "yours are th. against sight feet, stooped, caught uSti aha knew it not. he uave lB"8nt rae me women She pressed her ear close to the spired him. Wtth a great burst of her bv the shoulders line h.vand h the lifti.,1 hnr tn . only , a wortW' . . M.... er ner w VU l'l H.a iw ravU jpon. " """,u 7UU n.nv8 reaa. with a few noise- - heap of huge loose stones which filled that A like of his which of level. the niece save rock ill hat. mine, rwhsn. strength, possibly tO "7 Rton hla fnna .klfa ip. She could hoar him had never been compassed by mortal anced on the edge of the cliff fell child. Ha. 'any omer man I. TT.l.VV the opening. oceanever kl e d J"8tlt, droD. of awimt bend. working outside. man since Mamaon pulled apart the crashing. The place was dangerous, you?" bV,! the violence of his pmyea ,7 the "Don't be afraid," be .aid at last. She could not He to him. pillar, of trio temple, he rolled the Without a word he slipped his arm everyt'1 IB of them are avr-not like tn together trmiBgrosspd you." "I fear nothing," she answered, "If great rock Aside and stood In the en- beneath her, lifted her up as he might "Don't ask me," she satd.'the futile "That Is because I am alive arid ;'he law, he turned In- - you are thore." trance, gasping, panting, with out have done a child and carried her out request. here and thev nre drail ppi nwiy." halting to watch her Id one Instant the situation, ot life stretched ar.na. upon the sand away from the beetling The man had turned away with a (TO lilu CONTI.VUI' ',:) meld, A. k City, i W " i nt. n m - 't ??L.' r"" m. - . W t. lj ; " I. ttZrrZZ r l?J ... la?uA!"i9 I"' in. ... . w .. T . " "rla'ei7 w brlW.'iw." 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