Show r f e It T p1 i Mn IrI nII Atfn nnn Y O ros Ni 1 I S 1 Y 4 F r f I i oon sho turned and LT y Omus TOWNSEND y Y BRADY ILllt5mATtJIIJ Y7iAYJ iu Rt i COirRi xnatrweruanrrryrrl7xwrcrG etNatnihr SYNOPSIS A young woman cell cuiliore on a lonely lone-ly Island finds a Holltnry Inhabitant a young white man dressed like a aavngo end not nlilc to spcak In any known Ian run < > Hhc 1rcliltn to educate him Imo nndi him In an ntlKudu of prayer dabbling dab-bling an Incoherent Jargon CHAPTER Continued 1 The next thing afro remembered was unclosing her cycfl as she had done early In the niornlng and the I man was still watching by her nldo I She hnd been HO utterly wearied by her strange adventure by her long wrestling with tlilral and starvation in 11 ID open boat that boforo Hhc knew It wearlnesa overcame her IIo had I h watched by her side without molesting bur It was late In thin evening now The problem of the night had to bo faced This tlmo Jio man took the i Initiative Ho walked along the shore a little way and then looked back it her and revealed ho process once or i twice as a dog might have done who was desirous ot bringing his master tot to-t T name appointed place Understanding l she rose and followed him lie led her along the sands now nliadowcd by tho I tall palms until they came to tho rivulet I to rivu-let where she stopped and drank onco more They passed It ho plunging bodily through ltd shallows she leaping leap-ing from rock to rock until Bho reached reach-ed the other bank Uo wont swiftly around the face of the cliff As Oho passed the point sho Raw that It curved suddenly Inward away from the shores Into a sort of amphlthenter and fair In the cenlor of the taco oho perceived an opening IIo halted thorn i and entered fearlessly Bho following I t The cave was roomy and spacious at least It scorned BO In tho fading light In tho morning when the sun shone through tho opening It would be flooded with daylight but now when the sun was sinking behind tho ° hill It was quite dark It was dry i and clean and apparently empty Tho tnnn stood looking at her smiling at sU i least there was a suggestion of n smile upon his lips lIe was nodding l I Ills head Sho understood that ho lived there The dog had como back to Ills kennel and had taken this acquaintance ac-quaintance there too It would be a good place to pass tho night The night bad to bo passed somewhere How was tho problem She had little fear of any savage animals ani-mals on tho island There had boon no evidence of them observed In herr her-r 9 progress the man hlmsolf was testimony testi-mony to Immunity of attack from that source Had It not boon for him she 4 could have Inln down In that cave with quiet confidence and slept without E with-out apprehension of molestation but lie complicated tho Issgo r Twlco he had watched by her asleep but that was In tho broad daylight When darkness came what then Her g I heart was filled with terror She was suddenly afraid if tho dark a childish I k tear at which her soul would have mocked In other days und under other 1 conditions Hut now she was n prey to vivid apprehension and the night was coming on With tie swiftness of the tropics She was glad that she had slept through the long afternoon e Sho would endeavor to koop awake 7 l during the night Sho must turn tho F dog out of his kennel and occupy that r herself How was she to enforce her will under tho circumstances She could only try t j Man she said pointing to the I a door go a I The words conveyed nothing but the gesture meant much Even to the man association with his kind for ono day had effected a revolution In him a IIo hung undecided however before her while she repeated again and per her Injunction Finally sho took y j S 3ilm bv the shoulder risking tho pe r i1 cullar emotions that contact seemed ru11itl to bring to him and thurst him gently f I Z through the entrance outside Then t Jt I sho wont back Into the cave farther i f jtRJ and waited with a beating heart She lif1 could seo him silhouetted against the LI 7IJ1 twilight standing where she had left jJrltJ lilm Ho came toward tho door at I t 11 i last and stood in tho entrance iI I I No tool sho cried fiercely praying V that the note of terror might be lost l v J y1 j i in the Imperative tones of her voice k ° Man go II 1 J She stood waiting and ho likewise 1 mustering her courage at last she 4 ii r J went over to him and thrust him out j it Again and again tho little drama was it i 1 played until by and by It became Impressed F t t Im-pressed upon tho mind of tho man 1 P t I I I that he was to stay out and she was t to stay In Ho came no more to tho I 1Ioo as 1 entrance He stood outside aloof t J hl la l looking In although In the growing I I t R + Jd darkness he could not see her l 1l r n It was the second thing he had t learned The first ray of light In his i 1 I dawning consciousness had Illumin t f 1 j atoll the ego the personal tho concrete i tl 1 crete He was learning now tho significance iii I I g sig-nificance of a verb and an abstract 1 a 1 Idea was being bred In him and sane concept of constraint was entering his l I being The first of those long checks i J1 > 1 t I that circumstances Impose upon frool i dcia lo oriler that civilization way begin > gIn tit ba was then meeting him facet face-t Ii l to face Ho had slept In that cave she imagined for years and suddenly he was thrust out Them wns no hardship Va hard-ship In fiat except the hardship In 1 t f of tho necessity for obedience if hardship hard-ship that might be The night was balmy and pleasant no shelter was needed It was the fact that ho had togo to-go that he was subject to another will and purpose that something i higher than himself was overruling him which might bo hard It would have been hard for the woman She thought however that tho limited comprehension of tho man might not enable him to realize it Ho stood a long tlmo on tho snnd while site ditched him Had sho conquered con-quered Had ho learned his lesson Had she laid foundations upon which consciousness of life and Its relations I might bo bullded Would she be free from tho terror of molestation which I in spite of herself sought expression In her voice and manner Would she bo permitted to pass tho night undisturbed undis-turbed 1 Was her power over him sufficiently suf-ficiently definite to bo established and to be of value Supposo she had not succeeded In mastering him In dominating dom-inating him She shuddered at tho probabilities Involved Of all the beasts of tho field tho most terrible when he Is a beast Is man Sho was not a weak woman Sho was above tho middle height athletic splendidly developed accustomed to tho exercises of tho gymnasium and the field but her strength was no match for his One ray of safety appeared ap-peared In tho fact that she believed him Ignorant alike of tho extent of his power or of the possibilities of the situation Sho wondered what strange thoughts wero going on in that latent brain over which by tho use of moral force and courage she was striving to establish domination She rejoiced to find that even in tho midst ot her anxieties anx-ieties sho could think so clearly about the situation I Did ho know his lesson sho wop dared Sho could only hope If she only had a weapon she thought the weakness of sex might be equalized There was nothing Yes her thought > reverted to tho womanly pair of scissors scis-sors With trembling hand she drew them forth and clenched tho little tool of steel tightly It was a poor dependence depend-ence but the best sho had And then oho drew quietly back Into tho recesses re-cesses of the cavo and sat down loaning loan-Ing against time wall her eyes bright with dread anticipation and curiosity Sho watched and waited resolved If necessary to remain awake tho long night through Outside tho man had stood motionless motion-less a long time after tho final repulse The dusk had not yet melted Into dark out there and he was easily visible against the sky framed by tho opening as a dim picture Sho was hardly aware of the Intensity willi which sho watched him and sho was greatly surprised sur-prised when she saw him at last kneel down upon the sands Sho saw that the palms of his hands wero pressed together In front of him that his head was bowed that his attitude was that of prayer Ho was saying something some-thing She could hear him without dllllculty She could distinguish no words in the rude succession of sounds that seemed to como from his lips but her acute and quickened perception per-ception seemed to recognize a nearer resemblance to articulate speech than anything she had yet heard from him What was ho doing In a Hash tho woman realized that tho man was praying Tho realization smote her like a blow for this woman had long since put away prayer In her philosophy philoso-phy of life there was no place for God In her scheme of affairs tho Divine was unlmmlnent And yet alone on that Island In the darkness despite her attempt to mock away tho con sclousness she was relieved at that sight The little ritual on tho sand ended with tho ono word her pupil knew Man ho said striking his breast again and staring upward toward the heavens Man ho cried as If In his new consciousness he would fain introduce In-troduce himself to his Maker the woman thought His Maker hoi lips writhed Into a bitter smile thai was half a sneer What would ho do next Ho rose to his feet and peeped toward tho door Sho grasped tho scissors tighter tight-er and hold her breath But ho had learned his lesson With Indescribable relief she saw him turn aside and cast himself down upon the sand where ho lay motionless If si 1 had any faith she would have breathed Thank God As It was sho was very glad She watched him a long time speculating spec-ulating on the questions sho had asked him on tho hill In the morning who ho was what ho was whence he came whore he had learned that bab bio of prayer why he was devoid ot speech what was the God to whom ho prayed She would study those things The problems fascinated her Tho desolation und loneliness of the Island might have crushed her Ro Hcvttl from her immediate npprcheu sinus the man delighted her Show Sho-w < 1uld Investigate him analyze him synthesize him teach him She would mother him as a woman a child No such opportunity as was hers had ever presented Itself to a human being Free as she Imagined herself from Inherited prejudices devoid of old su perstltlons crammed with now learnIng learn-Ing Illuminated with new light abhorrent ab-horrent of narrow things she fancied herself well lilted for that strangely maternal und preceptive role In which chance had placed her She would play upon that mind virgin to her touch It I sho might use a womans word until It ian In harmony with her own Alone upon that Island tho rest of tho world away she would find occupation interest in-terest inspiration In that nascent man manHo Ho lay so still and so quiet that presently oho arose and tiptoed softly to the entrance where unseen sho could look down upon him Tho moon rose back of tho hill Although ho was In the shadow there was still retraction re-traction sufficient to enable her to see his face lie was asleep The quiet dreamless unvexed sleep of a healthy animal she thought Their positions wore reversed Ho had watched her before when she was oft guard and asleep with what dim dumb inchoate effort it might bo to comprehend her Now It was her turn lie took no disfavor In her mind after her Inspection Inspec-tion Ho was a bold splendid piece of what Clay She would put a soul In him her soul Her soul was ho only thing she knew Sho forgot or It she remembered It disdained the ancient concept that before tho dust of tho earth became alive It had too > to-o permeated with the breath not merely of man or woman but of God Sho came back nt last and sought her corner disposed her limbs to rest and kept through silent hours her lonely vigil So long as ho slept sho was safe When ho awakened what hen So long as his mind slept his soul slept his consciousness slept she was safe but when they too awakened awak-ened when whatsoever light there might be that dawns In personality dispelled tho night of Idle dreams In which he lived what would happen hen Instinctively she shrank from the thought of the future She was as one who had a potent talisman her hand and feared to put It to the touch So the fisherman in the Arabian tale if ho had known the contents of the corked bottle thrown up from tho sea might have hesitated ere he drew the stopper and released tho prisoned spirit She must watch sho must walt she must be on her guard She forgot that when she had called him Man and laid her hand upon his shoulder she had begun an evolution which no human power could stop Never had tho hours seemed so long and so strange to her Nothing happened hap-pened Even the capacity to think gives out In the strongest mind tho acutest brain temporarily or otherwise other-wise Sho was very tired the silence was oppressive the rusty scissors fell from her hand and at last she slipped down upon the sand and drifted away Into that slumber that suspension of i consciousness In which for the moment mo-ment she was even as tho man Tho upper edge of the sun was Just springing from the sea when Its level rays woke her Sho opened her eyes to find tho man standing In the alienIng alien-Ing CHAPTER III The Word of the Book This awakening was not as had been that of yesterday She prided herself on being In full possession of her faculties fac-ulties at onco and she arose Instantly and stopped out upon the sand Tho man gave way to her respectfully as she passed through tho entrance The mind Is brightest in the early morning morn-ing after sleep Sho would give him another concept before the uses of the clay impaired his receptivity She hnd differentiated him from the rest of creation cre-ation when she taught him that he was n man She would show him now that his was a divided empire by declaring de-claring herself a woman She laid her hand upon her own breast and said clearly Woman I giving tho first syllable the long o and definitely accenting and the second Sho pointed to him repeated Man to herself and repeated re-peated Woman Patiently over andover and-over again she said the word until by and by ho could say It too with Tho baby begins his language monosyllabic sounds which mean little lit-tle und yet which have been Identified with the mother It was fitting that this man who was as a child and yet as a man should begin with something deeper than Infantile babble Man and woman she drove these two Ideas Into his consciousness before be-fore she ceased her task If his Idea of man was at first Infinite she gave him the concept of limitations immediately Imme-diately following lie wan avid for Instruction Once he had learned the words he babbled them man woman man woman until tho iteration was almost maddening mad-dening While she washed her face and hands at tho stream he plunged Into a brimming pool fed by the brook ere It descended to the sea She noticed that ho could swim like a fish Itself naturally Instinctively In an untrained un-trained way of course without the fancy strokes In which she had been taught but brilliantly and well nevertheless never-theless She would have given tho world for a dip but it wns not to be tint vet that Is Then they breakfasted and she tried to teach him No and Yes and tho meaning thereof She Intended to make a circuit of tho Island Inter but there was no hurry She began to realize that time was nothing to her or to him and so she Idled under the trees setting him tasks as the picking of fruit and then stopping him with No and encouraging him with Yes until he had some Idea of those words also It was a relief to her to get them firmly fixed In his mind for they provided him with alternatives to the man and woman words on which he harped After a while they started around the Island It was perhaps six or eight miles In circumference There was a sand beach everywhere except In one place where the rocks came sheer down to the shore From what she could tell by an Inspection of tho surface there was an underwater entrance en-trance to some cave In the rocks which some day might be worth exploring ex-ploring On the other side of the Island from the cave which was already denominated denomi-nated homo In her mind she came across the remains of a ships boat deep bedded In tho sand Tho boat had been perhaps wrecked and broken on the barrier reef or possibly It had sailed through the entrance near at hand the only opening In the encircling encir-cling guard of splintered rock which she had seenand had been hurled upon tho beach where It had lain i through years until burled in the shifting sand Only the gunwales of the boat and the stem and the stern were exposed She had no idea as to what Its condition was but she promised prom-ised that so soon as she could she would make shift at something for a shovel and dig It out She gazed at It for a long time wondering if It wero an explanation of tho presence of the solitary inhabitant of the Island Is-land but nothing was to be gained by A little stream she noticed trickled from under a thick covert across the O6 l i II I u il a i 1 uI J1 r I s k I 1 1 Jl He Stood for a Lena Time on the Sand sand towaru me s uu n tho beach following walked away from Idly The man who had tho stream lowing did stood with her watching tho boat notice her but so not for a moment I soon as he discovered her direction without offering to ran after her and touch her barred tho way with extended ex-tended arms No nol he cried his first real spontaneous use of tho word She stopped reflected waved the man aside and went on Thcro was something In tho coppice that ho feared She had not known that ho possessed tho faculty Her curiosity was too strong to bo denied She must seo what it was Sho quickened her pace as It to shake him off but ho easily kept by her side plaintively ejaculating his monosyllabic negative It was evident that ho knew the meanIng mean-Ing of tho word she was glad to see When she reached the undergrowth of tho coppice she hesitated in apprehension appre-hension of sho knew not what but summoning her courage parted tho reeds and peered In them She shrank back with a sudden cry of horror for at her feet the vegetation springing through in every direction lay a skeleton a human skeleton It lay athwart her path and at the feet was a smaller skeleton which she judged to be that of a dog With instinctive repugnance she released the rushes and turned hastily away Yes yes said tho man by her side with an expression of unusual re lief on his face which sho could scarcely fall to notice She knew that she could not thus evade her duties or shrink from her problems She had marked the gleam of metal amid the bones Sho know that she would have to come back and examine those last remainders of human hu-man presence other than their own upon the Island but sho could not do It Just then There was nothing else that she discovered on her tour about her prison pris-on until she returned to the cave It was afternoon by Kils time and she determined de-termined to employ some of her hours In a more careful Inspection of it Realizing that the lesson of the night before If reenforced and maintained would stand her in good stead she made the man remain outside while she went within Her hope was to establish es-tablish In his mind a custom of avoidance avoid-ance of that recess which should develop de-velop Into a fixed habit else she could not be free She could always secure a few moments respite from his presence pres-ence at least she had done so heretofore hereto-fore but she did not dare to try how ho would sustain longer absences hence tho necessity for establishing herself In the cave as a harbor of refuge ref-uge a sanctuary At first glance there was nothing within the little apartment washed out ages ago from the hard stole by what action of water she could well imagine but as she scrutinized it closely she noticed In a recess a part where the rock wall cropped out In a sort of low shelf On the shelf wonder won-der of wonders lay a book Next to humanity a book she thought would be the most precious sharer of her solitude It was a small leatherbound volume vol-ume Dust in the form of tiny particles par-ticles of sand lay thick upon it The cave was sheltered from tho prevailing winds else It might have been burled but under tho circumstances It might have lain there for ages and In that dry pure air have suffered no deterioration deterio-ration or decay Crusoe was petrified when ho saw the footprint In the sand Tho woman was not less startled or less amazed when she saw the book on the rock With a little cry of delight she stepped toward it bent down lifted It up handling It carefully in spite of nervous ner-vous exultation shook the dust from It and opened It She Instantly let It fall from her hands with a look of disappointment dis-appointment and disgust One glance was enough The book was tho Bible She had no Interest in the Bible a col lection of ancient genealogies and timeworn fables myths for tho credu lous and Impossible lengends mixed up with poetry whose Inspiration was trivial and history whose details wero false For this woman who had forgotten for-gotten how to pray and who had abol ished God had little uso for the Book of Hooks Rather any other printed page she had thought bitterly than that one She had acted upon Impulse not In her disdain for the Bible and that for which It stoodthat was grounded upon reason and philosophy she fond ly bellevedbut in her action In cast Ing It from her It had no more than rolled upon the sand at her feet when with swift reconsideration sho stooped and lifted It again It had occurred to her that there might be writing there in and that the writing might give her a clew to tho mystery of the man Sho knew that births and deaths were fre I tiuently entered upon the blank leaves I Interposed between tho Old and New Testaments Unfamiliar though she was with the contents of the book she easily fnmd the place and eagerly looked nt th leaves Alas they wero blank Sho turned to tho lly loaves at tho beginning of the book Thorn was a name written there and In a womans hand John Botch Charnock she read Uelow was a date 25 yours before the moment of her landing strange Rovell Charnock It was n strange name English In part with n suggestion of Franco In I tho rnldille name It moant nothing to hnr Was this John Ro > cl Clmruock who few 1 1 b ItIt It ItI b 1I Sho had been dIsappoInted that the book had turned out to bo the Bible but at least it would servo one useful purpose By It without the laborious effort Involved in making loiters upon tho sand she might teach tbe man before her to read She wished she had a worthier volume from her point of view through which to Introduce Intro-duce him to the worlds literature but she would do tho best she could 1 P I 1 1 b 1A I A 6h thJ i rc1 c o k T r t r H Ell It She Shrank Back with a Sudden Cry of Horror IPI with that It was pitiful as she saw It that with a nascent soul to work In with she should be compelled to enlighten er en-lighten It through tho medium of timeworn her time-worn superstition tal Below tho shelf not quite burled In r lhi the sand there was a small metal box e She knelt down scraped the sand away and presently uncovered IL It mt appeared to be of silver It was ol fat such a size that she could clasp It easily In her hand Sho opened It not Bav tie without some difficulty and found within with-in itnothing Well not exactly an < the nothing but certainly that for which she could seo little value There were several hard pieces of stone of a reddish red-dish color chipped and shaped In curious curi-ous fashion Sho turned the box over Sal and examined It on all sides There wa were initials upon It a monogram She per rubbed It clean with her hands and DO studied It caretullyJ It C The the book and tho box had belonged to the ins same person John Revell Charnock eel I She laid tho box aside and searched Pre ad the cave further Thieve was absolutely ten lutely nothing elso to be seen Disappointed Disap-pointed vaguely although sho had ci yoi pected nothing and had gotten more wr Indeed than she might have Imagined If she had thought about It she laid to ba the book and box down upon the ledge and went out again She walked along tho sands until sho came to the place where she had landed the day be She could ya fore The tide was low seo the wreck of her boat partly on tb tho barrier reef and partly In the d nn water It would have been no trio VN In for her to swim to it In the stillness yet she hesitated to attempt it Certainly Cer-tainly weighted down by all her cloth a and matter of dllllculty it ing was a for this In 1 inconvenience If It were not man by her side I She tried to think himkeepbi5 PI of some way to restrain him CI invention to her away but nothing occurred tll situation vention was paralyzed by the e In which she found herself Desperately bidding him stay where care back to the ho was she went crlsi taco with a She was face to the Indeed which had to be met avery becoming question of clothes was her and she very serious ono with upon to decide knew she should have some course of action Immediately For the present sho took off her gtl In a 8Mver monts hoping and praying would be ov of dread and anxiety that which w left him remain whore she had fact She laid l aside Indeed proved tho except the all that she had worn 8sdl7 her Including blouse and skirt lightly Thus m worn shoes and stockings out on the Band ailln ly clad She came ID hit change Ho did not notice any aU matter of fan bl condition As a shO dash gave him no time for an across tho sand at full speed wal eat r smiling boldly into tho Plunged her is of tho Ho followed lagoon Bide wlt0 I by her stantly and swam exertion whatever 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