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Show LSI learned to write, although he knew wbat writing was, for she had explained it to him, and had made shift to teach him the Arabic letters. She also taught him geography, astronomy, natural sciences, and above all, his- course between him and that woman to except that she had been good him sometimes that Is as much as the wisest recall of a mother and y that she had taught him and made him say always that prayer whose coShe unfolded of the tory. vu herency and meaning to her intense CHPHAt kingdoms ccmuMim mat baitah ttffMwnonr this world and the glory of them be- surprise she found herself Imparting SYNOPSIS. fore his vision, touching lightly, as has to him. And she could not make up to him, if she would be there to been the fashion of such unfolders, her mind to take from him the reality plied see. She found herself praying for A young womaa cast ashore on a loneof the remained recollection that the upon misery and the shams. His only ly island, finds a solitary inhabitant, a affirmation in both matters. Her bewas a singular knowledge indeed. to him. young white man, dressed like a savage lief in him would only he belief and unable to speak in any known lanThere were some things about which Her new belief, as has been said, founded upon hope until he had been guage. She decides to educate him and She mold his mind to her own Ideals. she was reticent, being a woman, and was both joy and sorrow to her. Save tried. There was a doubt about him CHAPTER IX. finds a human skeleton, the skeleton of a some things she could aot tell him at for her experience in the ship she had dog, a Bible and a silver box, which be must that resolved; she must relead her to the conclusion that her combut being a man, with Imagina- been happier in her philosophy. She solve it. She could all; ' never be satisfied, panion was cast ashore on the island Latent Passions. tion quickened, he thought of these had suffered grievously through her in when a child, and that his name is John of her belief, until she had spite Jievell Cliarnock of Virginia. Near the The three years which had elapsed things the more for these were some trust in it and in man, but her con- done so. The very fact that she Skeleton she finds two womans rings, had made a vast change In the rela- of the deeper things of life and na- sciousness that she was fundamentally J. R. cne of which bears an inscription so keenly Upon the subject; thought C. to M. P. T. Sept. 10, 1m9. Katharine tions between the man and the woman ture! right in her beliefs had consoled her. that she was so interested and enBrenton was a highly specialized product But the change in the relations be- Now to feel that she had been wrong; In the beginning and for a long time of a leading university. Her writings on In the situation was evidence the sex problem had attracted wide athers had been the dominant position. tween the two were not greater than that the had thrown away under the grossed to her that she cared more for the tention. The son of a So absolutely had she ruled that to the change in the woman herself. She leading of a false light what she could man becomes Infatuated with her, and they than she had dreamed It possible. decide to put her theories into practice. him she had been as a god. So en- was no longer a philosopher. That never again Ah, no Magdalene ever And what of him? For once her inhand-lasp With no other ceremony than a tirely had he obeyed that to her he which she had disdained, she admired; wept bitterer tears at the feet of tuition failed her. She wanted to see they go away together. A few days , on his yacht shows her that the man had been a devotee. Once she discov-- that which she had abhorred, she loved ; Jesus than this woman in her hours him tested and tried; she wanted to only professed lofty ideals to possess her. ered his ductility and had begun to that which she had refused, she ac- of solitude over her mistaken past, see him Katharine discovers that the man is martempted and triumphant, but ried. While drunk he attempts to kiss teach him, the relationships had com- cepted. She was a Christian In belief her loss and shame. he was all of that in those very hours her. She knocks him down and leaves menced to change. Gradually each had as last. Alone, or practically so, face him unconscious She had hours of solitude, too. Early in which she fancied him so unthinkiand escapes in the darkness in a gasoline launch. recognized the humanity of the other. to face with God in his world, God in in the life they lived, she had laid ng. It never occurred to her that he Together students they had naturally His Book, God in humanity, her spe- down certain regulations. He was in might entertain an earthly passion for CHAPTER VIII. Continued. approached a common level. Every cious Ideas of life and her relationship the formative period then and had her. She still, from ancient habit, benew knowledge she imparted to him to it had broken down. She had unhesitatingly acquiesced In them. So lieved herself so far above him that Her training had not been manual, was an abdication of some of her su- learned to kneel beside that man and far those regulations had neither been such an ambition would have been litbut she was bright enough to supplepremacy. Every new knowledge he ac- pray. She had learned to seek else- abrogated by her nor broken by him. tle less than sacrilege to him. She ment her lack of skill and after some quired was an inspiration to her high where than in herself for power to A cave upon the farther side of the lulled herself to sleep with that Idea tours of hard work she actually got enable her to live her life and fulfill island had been found and that was She believed, she knew, of course, level. one oar in an upright position and seis a short time in the her tasks. Three ywars his home. They breakfasted together that all that was needed was a sugcurely lashed. Out of the heavy cloak She had not wished to be a Chris- at a certain hour, which he told by gestion from her. To love is the lot educational life of a human being, more a huge circular than anything but she brought to her side of what tian. She had fought against it, strug- means of the sun and she by her of man. This man had seen no other else she improvised a sail with the was slowly developing into an equa- gled with It, agonized over It, but a faithful watch. The morning was spent than her. If she said the word, it other oar as a boom thrust across the tion the highest training, a natural compelling necessity was upon her. in study. In the afternoon they sep- would be accomplished. She held boat between the mast and the little to impart what she knew, an The convictions of her conversion tore arated, each passing it In accordance the only key to his heart; her hand ability forward deck. The coat had been absolute devotion to the endeavor and the veil from before her face, dispelled with individual preference, but he could unlock It on the instant. She heavily brawled. She ripped the silk an entire freedom from other interests. the mist that hung about her. She rigorously kept to his side and she to forgot the master key and the Master braid from the edge, cut off the hood So fascinating had the experiment saw herself as she was, a woman who her side of the Island during the Hand. of the cloak and managed a triangular been that she had scarcely missed the under the Influence of wrong ideas, period. Certain dividing lines clearly He had controlled that strange call laced by the silk braid to mast of the world. I wonder if he had false conceptions, had branded herself established and understood marked trembling that used to take him whenrest and boom. In No. of the not that eyes been a woman instead of a man if forever. which was hla and which was hers. ever he touched her, but she could The boom was Immobile and the At supper time they met again and feel his pulse beat and throb when hj was sail could she only way straight termined. passed the time together In conversa- chance there was any contact even before the wind. If the wind shifted, tion until the rest period arrived. of the casual between them. Some-tliv.e- s But there was a limit to her powers she would shift with it. She had some and she felt that it had been reached. he had asked her strange que Things had to be this way else life over vessel with control the the slight would have been unendurable. not she did Yet They tlons which she had put by, and some let go. deliberately helm, but that was all. It was noon lived on the natural products of the times she caught him looking at bei when she finished her labors, but she Onq final and terrific heave jerked island which were varied and suff- In strange ways that sent the blood to was more than satisfied with w at she her away from the wheel. She fell of bottom in the the iciently abundant to fulfill all dietetic her skin, and sometimes turned her sprawling boat, had accomplished, for the cloak was sense enough to lock her had but requirements. pale. Yet rhe lived In the fools para to an give big enough appreciable hands around a thwart and lie dlse. She did not awake to the possinot there. him also She had things taught way to the boat. She guessed it might in an instant. learned from books. Among them, bilities of that which she had made be three or four knots an hour. That The launch broached-ttruth, honor, duty and dignity all the him because her apprehension of him would be nearly 100 miles a day. She was turned broadside to the waves. she not did had not kept pace vylth his apprehencapFortunately virtues. Her Instruction had been She could eke out her provisions and first, that which was natural ethical sion of her. To her he was still in water for five or six days longer and size Instantly and the next breaker her. She lay, her gunwales flush merely, but afterward it had grown some degree the creature that he had v she could go without or two or three filled she thought upon water. with Her was motion the still spiritual. Unspotted from the world been and sometimes days after the last drop and morsel him with a feelhe, and she washed white she hoped her growing love for d vanished. Perhaps she might run violent, but less jerky. She was swept ever onward by the vast undulations. - wn a habitable island in that time. and prayed In spite of spots, they lived ing of shame as if it were a condeThe indomitable woman clinging to a life of Idyllic innocence. Yet be- scension, a derogation. sibly, although this possibility wras She did not know what blood was cause he was a man and she was amt than the other, she might the thwart managed to keep her head out of in the veins of the man and the water. realized She that beneath fires lqaptng woman, glowed vessel some and strange be Aen by picked up. the outward calm, strange Ideas and how he taught himself, becau?e she At aiy rate, all she could do was done. that was the end and yet while she desires and thoughts rose from both had Instilled In him honor and deShe- - felt better, too, because she had had a remainder of strength, while she could a draw ller cency and Christlike self control, tc hearts. This was inevitable, breath, flickering to contribution mfade a human the beshe would not The been had to the repress these things. She did not up. boat, inan give of her fate. She was no original relation water-loggeso be know how much faster he had learned not did to as so ing of one pitch superiority the at of great play longer absolutely fatal to the early development of nny certain things than she had Intended chance. For five days she sailed much as before and she was able to how instinctively her hold, although every feeling but the maternal. Even now She did not know steadily on, the breeze remaining even maintain he had leaped to conclusions which wave over broke which that drenched her the she for true possessed superiority that and holding unvaryingly her again and again. association with her kind, her longer she Imagined were still latent in his period. She learned the trick of lashman, this She wondered why the boat did not training and her greater opportunities mind.an. This was a good was ing the Wheel at night and so was a genhonest man, this had given her. And yet she could only was able to takA as much rest as her tired, sink and then she realized that the a man. was this Christian view tleman, artial the to she had which tanks iiii worn and racked body permitted in empty gasoline recognize that closed and locked, prevented the final considering his abi'ith s and oppor- There was no question about his l'alth. the confinement of the little boat. tunities he stood quite on a level with It was as simple and abiding as it was She had abundance of time for catastrophe; that the boat was in a sense a life certain would her. Perhaps had he enjoyed her sincere. The early Christians who boat; that it thought. Time was when she had revhad been brought In personal touch chanres lie might have stood higher. eled in such opportunities, but there float so long as the water pressure was less enjoyment in the chances af- did not succeed in opening the tanks. to dream with the Master and his men were She began to idealize him, not more acceptant and dewas moment for the forded her now. That she who had Therefore, she about him, to wonder. She trembled voted. Yetfaithful, this was a very human lived in the high realm of speculation safe. The only immediate danger on the verge of passion. She knew his a should suddenly become a woman of would be the capsizing of the boat to be a brilliant mind. She divined man in spite of all these things, man of splendid vigor and health with action, fighting for life, struck her as which would throw her out. Since bis to be a knightly soul. Physically, nil a mans impulses, hopes, dreams a strange thing. Insensibly the condi- the launch was already full of water in lace and figure, no more splendid and aspirations. And he loved her. tions of her present existence modi- the woman did not think this was man, untrammeled by base convention, ITe, too, sat upon the white sands fied her pholosophy. It seemed differ- likely to happen. surface. the btood earths ever upon She held on, her vitality gradually ent, a smaller thing. She was less Grace and strength mingled in har- of the gemlike island and looked out Sure and confident of herself alone growing weaker, hoping for the morn mony that was as striking as it was rwja&nm in the great immensity than in the ing and an abatement of the storm. full of charm. She had no opportuniShe had no idea of time, of course. crowded city. There were no applaudto test his courage, for no physical ty ing thousands. She breathed no air She could not tell what the hour was danger ever menaced them. But she of adulation. She was alone with her It was still dark, however, when a believed in his manhood thoroughly. soul. The man who is alone is always strange sound smote her ear. She The woman had had bitter experiface to face with God, though his eyes heard it above the wild scream of the ence with love. Following what she ' J v. y waves of ind and awful see heat cannot the so the he be hidden that may ftlii! j believed to be the highest inspiration 'im the Divine. It was so with this It was a crashing sound, a batterine she had v, recked her life and brought sound, a fearful, protentous sound Driven On for Hours Woman. herself to this pass. The revolt in more The ran boat forward so craved other Never had she swiftly soul at the thought of the man God whom she would had to have resulted learned fear, her companionship. She would have been now. She wondered the reason. Tak that absorption had so degraded her, or who had who not in the eyes that Christ whom of a brief lull, she from their intercourse? happy if she could have believed that iug advantage so taken advantage of her ignorance had she On learned to In his to he bear the but on love, upon and a brought abandoned her grip the thwart part, there was a God, for had there been and innocence the more complete God she would not have felt so de- rose to her knees. Immediately in the problem of learning, it was soon eyes of men; yet she was a woman since they were covered by a confi serted. So she fought on against her front of her she saw a white wall dis- developtd, an intellect which although who was pure in heart. Perhaps these donee of knowledge and sophistication was and had untrained this consciousness thoughts unusually a losing closed to her by the lightning flashes. entirely soul and her circumstances to allow her to degrade herself, as more to do with keeping her content She did not know what it was. The acute, a faculty of acquiring knowlbattle. convinced her that what she had mis imeven was as as her to that her intense came from She sound thence. great edge and sixth ability The day opened dark roaring a false in the man and her work, for she rea- taken for divine light was only gloomy. The wind had risen during was, being borne rapidly toward it. part it and a reasoning capacity which led her bad which an fatuus fire, ignis Inlized what she would have to face if the night. The day broke heavily She was nearing it with astonishing kept pace with his' other qualities. into the marsh and slough of slime overcast. Even to her inexperience swiftness. The boat was moving more deed, the main thing with which she she went back to the'world which had and shame. She loathed the thought n oclced of was to first at contend lack her had while it applauded her. his she could realize that a storm was at quickly now than at any time since She had loathed, when But so soon as he had That world, therefore, she now began of that man. hand. Sh- had seen nothing during she had been in it. At last it broke application. had V-ethrown upon that island, she to reato fear. enable him The to one learned earth white enough being upon the period; that is, nothing of which upon her consciousness that the This one of all men. the she could avail herself. Twice, once wall was a mass of foam; that the sea lize the importance of learning more with whom she could be associated, had thoughtback her confidence in her given to starboard and another time to port, was crashing against some hidden she had no trouble on that score. It who knew nothing about it, who could kind. Yet sometimes she wondered She Had Confidence In God. she had passed low lying islands, dim shore and that great breakers were was as if a mature mind had been cast ro stone at her, she realizeiywas whethir that confidence were warbrought to bear upon the problems of the man whom she had made, and on the horizon. She had no way of there. ranted or not because of him. Sup- into the far blue of tlie Pacific washThe land that she had longed for adolescence. He grappled with things this man looked to her almost as men checking the boat or of changing its come in touch with look to in ing the distant shores and lands peoshe that Whatever Yet felt Divine. she him, the way. that pose he should In taught course to run down either of them. indeed lay athwart her course. would happen? Was what the world, pled with strange creatures of history She had to go on just as she was. She another moment she would be in that he learned, he mastered all; and the some day he would have to know. too, capable of breaking a wo- and romance and he, too, wondered, he, him more. to Some learn to she tell him. have would unmastery never inspired day could land mass of boiling foam. Wen, she bad realized that she man's heart? Would he do it? Was less she were driven directly upon fought a good fight. The end was at His mnemonic ability Was prodigious; What then? That feeling was ever hcr's the heart? What would the soil- lie had had no experience withto men and the world and he longed s get some island that might lie in her hand. With some instinct of the lor all the years of his life he had not with her. She constantly asked her-touch of the sordid coridi'ions un- away and to take her away. ing If been ancourse. the no the found and that storing up insignificant, question She knew, too, that the heroic, death would not find her lying had she as was v lived, der hiih life She had long since discovered that chances that might happen were very down. Desperately she struggled to immaterial, the unnecessary, in liis swer. do for him? Would he still he was a Indeed, it was he who had taught known it, gentleman, an innate gentleShe had daily diminished her feet and stood, balancing herself brain cells. He remembered all that remote Would he think lier be the portion of food and drink she al- to the wild onward rush of tike boat. she taught him with unvarying accu- her Ue truth of Christ. She had not the same? She had taught him many man; that he had been well born, and lotted to herself. She had husbanded The wall of foam was close at hand. racy. His was a powerful, vigorous been able, she had felt a strange un- things. But how should he learn to she had seen to it herself that lie had been well bred. Yet no mortal man which had known nothing willingness, if indeed it were possible, everything with the utmost care. On For one second she threw out her mentality temptations with ever went through gt eater fires of fight the sixth day they were gone. She arms and the next moment, with a and upon which she wrote what she to break down the lingering remains whiih temptations, which he had no experience, awoke with a frightful craving which crash which she could feel if not pleased. To the judgment of a man of faith in that man. That babble of never came to him, she fondly unknown and mysterious temptations he added the in childish some and than he. He forced himself not to receptivity was ductility on. feet had, prayer strange dreamed. intensified as the day drew hear, the boat beneath her way, caught her heart strings. It was speak words that U rned. He checked She was thankful for one thing that lifted up and hurled on something of a child. Yet slm hud confidence in him. She the lrec couise of thoughts that bubone of the to him She had that all of first was memory thrown intelligence she She was solid. sun heat taught veiled, although the fearfully in Bid, and we cannot bled and slothed within his brain, and in the humid, heavy, overcast air was through the air like a holt from a cat- speak and 'then to read; then rudi- bad remained to him. Now that he had confidence in Cod without some the relationship confidence have bi tween them rewas Under apult. A wave struck her in the back mentary mathematics such as he could capable of expression, again and something almost unbearable. in man. 1 he converse, too, mained that of mistress and man, eonhibme a recolain dim he had told of in her the his was There head. do into went almost breeze her nothing and boat beat the insensibility. the freshening Therefore she believed. Phe ti acher ami taught, fiiend and friend. much more swiftly than heretofore. She was tossed and driven half un-- ' that she could devise that was prac- lei tion of a long voyage in an open is tiue. that he would lise confident It was he who so maintain!: it, though but Hie conscious over the space of shallow ticable for writing. There was no bcit with a woman and some animal, "as h; had that satisfaction, face of every test. Phc in the f this she "as unaware. Hie He must be on not she knew w was the a the rock dog. sea piune slate and island, if water ind upon the sandy had the apprehension that rolling ITU B'O (MX flXLU.ij Therefore he had never coaid remember nothing of the inter- - wondered if the tost would ever be apany stronger her sail, service-- shore. Blindly she crawled on. The suitable. ) Cyrus Towyscnd y Brady LmrAArrntyfayrir re able as it had proved and stout as it was, would be torn to pieces. The silk braid had done splendid service, but she marked that It was now strained to the breaking point. Again the helplessness of her position came upon her. She could not take down the sail. In the first place she was afraid to leave the helm and in the second place she realized that if she started to furl it she could only do it by cutting the lashing and at the first cut the whole thing would blow away. So she held on. There was nothing else to do. The night fell In a burst of rain which was most grateful to her, but which was a forecast of a fiercer blow, and at midnight the hurricane broke in full force upon the little boat The first blast tore the sail from the lashings. By a lightning flash she caught a glimpse of it for a second, whirled away like a great bird. For some reabecause one or two son, perhaps shreds of cloth still clung to the mast, and perhaps because the broad blade of the oar offered some surface for the thrust of the wind, she was able by the exercise of constant vigilance and all the strength of which she was capable, to keep the boat before the wind. Hitherto she had had no idea of the violence of the wave motion. It was with difficulty that she kept herself from being dashed to pieces against the sides or hurled overboard in the mad whirling and plunging to which the launch was suddenly subjected. It was caught up by one wave after another and driven on for hours. She could not tell how, long. She lost all consciousness of time and of everything else except that she must cling to the helm. The boat was still hurled One great wave after anforward. other would seize her, uplift her and bear her on. The strain upon her arms was terrific. She locked her teeth and hung on, breathless, exhausted, yet de- waves seemed suddenly to have lost I their power. She did not know that she had been thrown past a barrier reef and carried over a lagoon and dropped on a sea beach; that only the most unusual and gigantic waves could reach her, but she knew that they had little power to harm her. And so she crept desperately and doggedly on until she fell forward In the warm sand and lasped into absolute and total - o - -- iKiM h 1 1 |