Show 0 la 11 cynus TOWNSEND Y Y BRADY I 1 wl VIA voma mur MAT MIAU A young woman cat cast ashore on a loney seoung ay island anti finds a solitary inhabitant a young white man dressed like a savage and unable to speak spi uk in any known lan an funke she decides to educate him and mold lila his mind to her own ideals she finds fanda a human skeleton the skeleton ot of a IOK dog a bible and a silver liver box which lend lead lier her to the conclusion that her companion PE L iiron was cast ashore on the island w when en a child and that his name Is john revell charnock Cliar nock ot of virginia VIrgin la near the ok skeleton L 1 ton she aha finds two womans comans rings one eif ot which bears an inscription J it U C to M P T S copt pt 1 M ISO katharine arenton in ton was a highly specialized product ot of a leading university iler her arld writings rigs on the sex problem had bad attracted wide attention ten ion the son 0 of a multi millionaire becomes becomes infatuated with her ber and they decide acl ie to put tier her theories into practice with it no ther other ceremony than a hand teas they go away toge together t her A few days on n fl lila a yacht shows lie her y that the man only professed lofty ideals to possess her katharine discovers that the man Is married marid while drunk he attempts to kiss lier er she knocks him down and leaves him I 1 m unconscious and escapes in the darkness in a gasoline launch aunch CHAPTER vill VIII continued her training had not been manual but she was bright enough to supplement her lack of and after some hours of hard work she actually got one oar in an upright position and securely lashed out of the heavy cloak more a huge circular than anything else lse she improvised a sail with th the e other oar as a boom thrust across the loat boat between the mast and the little forward deck the coat had been heavily bra brawled aled she ripped the silk braid from the edge cut off the hood of the cloak and managed a triangular sail call laced by the silk braid to mast and boom the boom was immobile and the only way she could sail was straight before the wind if the wind shifted she would shift with it she had some slight control over the vessel with the helm but that was all it was noon when site she finished her tabors labors but she was more than satisfied with wl w at she had accomplished for the cloak was big enough to give an appreciable way to the boat she guessed it might be three or four knots an hour that would be nearly miles a day she could eke out her provisions and water for five or six days longer and he could go without or dr two or three days fa after the last drop and morsel A 1 vanished dianish d perhaps she might run wn r n it a lia hapl tabla island in that time ably although this possibility was JA in t than the other she might P en n by some vessel and picked d up at y rate all she could do was done slits aielt elt better too because she h had ad made 11 adea ade a human contribution to the determination of her fate she was no longer absolutely at the play of chance for live days she sailed steadily on oil the breeze remaining even and holding unvaryingly true for that period she learned the trick of lashing I 1 ing the stacel at night and so was able to take taka as much rest as her tired worn and racked body permitted in the confinement of the little boat she had abundance of time for thought time was when she had reveled in such opportunities but there was less enjoyment in the chances afforded her now that she who had lived in the high realm of speculation should suddenly become a woman of action fighting for life struck tier her as a strange thing insensibly the conditions of her present existence modi fled fied her philosophy phol it seemed different a smaller thing she was less eure aure and confident of herself alone ja in the great immensity than in the r crowded city there were no applauding thousands she breathed no air of adulation she was alone with her the man who is alone Is always lace face to face with god though his eyes may be hidden so that be cannot see the divine it was so with this woman never had she so BO craved other companionship she would have been happy it if she could have believed that there was a god for had there been a god she would not have felt so BO deserted so she fought on against her soul and her circumstances a losing battle the sixth day opened dark and gloomy the tha wind had risen during the night the day broke heavily heally civer cast even to tier her inexperience silo she could realize that a storm was at hand had seen nothing during the period that Is nothing of which she ahe could avail herself twice once to starboard and another time to port she ahe had bad passed low lying islands dim on the horizon she had no way of checking the boat or of changing its course to run down either of them she had to go on just as she was waa she realized that she could never land hind unless site she were driven directly upon some island that might lie in her course she knew too that the chancis ch ancs that might happen were very remote site she had dally daily diminished the portion of food and drink she al d to herself she had husbanded hus banded everything with the utmost care on the sixth day they were gone she awoke with a frightful craving which intensified as the day drew on she was thankful for one thing that the sun was waa veiled although she heat in the humid heavy overcast air was something almost unbearable under the fros freshening hening breeze tho the bosil boat went much more swiftly than heretofore she had that satisfaction but bitt she had the apprehension that jf it the wind any her sail service able as it had proved and stout as it lut was would be torn to p pieces es 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 it if she started to furl it she could only do it by y cutting the lashing and at the first cut the whole thing would blow away so she held on th there ere was nothing else to do the night fell in a burstok bur rain which was most moat 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 reason perhaps because one or two 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 ot of which she was capable to keep jeep the boat before the wind hitherto she had had no idea of the violence of the wave motion it av wua its 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 wits 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 forward one great wave after an 1 other would seize her uplift her and bear her on the strain upon tier her arms was terrific she locked tier her teeth and hung on breathless exhausted yet determined ter mined but there was a limit to her powers and she felt that it had been reached yet she did not deliberately let go inq on final and terrific heave jerked tier her away from the wheel she tell fell sprawling in the bottom of the boat but had sense enough to lock her hands around a thwart and lie there tile the launch broached to in an instant she was turned broadside to the waves fortunately she did not capsize r ize instantly and tho the next breaker filled tier her she lay her gunwales gunzales gun wales flush with the water iler her motion was still violent but less jerky she was swept ever onward by the vast undulations the indomitable woman clinging to the thwart managed to keep her hei head out of the water she realized that that was the end and yet while she had a remainder of strength while she could draw a flickering breath she would not give up the boat being ing waterlogged water logged did not pitch so much as before and she was able to maintain tier her hold although every wave that broke over her drenched her again and again she wondered why the boat did not sink and then she realized realised reali sed that the empty gasoline tanks which she had closed and locked prevented the final catastrophe that the boat was in a certain sense a life boat that it would float so long as the water pressure did not succeed in opening the tanks therefore she was for the moment safe the only immediate danger would be the capsizing of the boat which would throw tier her out since the launch was already full of water the woman did not think this was likely to happen she hold held on tier her vitality gradually growing weaker hoping for the morn ing and an abatement or of the storm she had no idea of time of course she could not tell what the hour was it was still dark however when a strange sound smote tier her ear she heard it above the wild scream of the wind and the awful heat beat of the waves it was a crashing sound a battering sound a fearful sound tho the boat ran forward moro more swiftly now she wondered the reason taking advant advantage ago of a brief lull she abandoned her grip on the thwart and rose to her knees immediately in front of her sho she saw a white wall disclosed to tier her by the lightning flashes she did not know what it was the roaring sound came from thence she was being borne rapidly toward it sho she was nearing it with astonishing swiftness the boat wits wis moving more quickly now than at any time since silo she hati bail been in it at last it broke upon her consciousness that the white wall was a mass of foam that the sea was crashing against some hidden and that great breakers were there the land that site she had longed for indeed lay athwart her course in another moment she would be in that mass of boiling to foam am well sho she had dolight a good fight the end was at hand with sorie sone instinct of the heroic death would not find her lying down desperately she struggled to tier her feet and stood balancing herself to the wild onward rush of tho boat tho the wall of foam was close al hand for one second d she threw out tier her arms and the next nest moment wit ii a crash which she could feet feel if not hear the boat beneath her feet was lifted up tip and hurled on something tearfully fearfully solid she was thrown through the air like a bolt from a catapult A wave struck her in the back and beat her almost into insensibility she was tossed and driven halt half unconscious over the space of shallow water and rolling sea upon a sandy albore blindly she crawled on the waves seemed suddenly to havo have lost their p 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 know knew that they had little power to harn her and soshe so she crept desperately and doggedly on until she fell forward in the warm sand and basped into absolute and total unconsciousness CHAPTER IX latent passions the three years which had elapsed had bad made a vast change lu ili the relations between the man and the woman in tho beginning and for a long time hers had been the dominant position so absolutely had she ruled that to him she had been as a god so entirely had lie obeyed that to her lie he had been a devotee once she discovered his ductility and had begun to teach him the relationships had commenced to change gradually each had recognized the humanity of the other together students they had naturally approached a common level every new knowledge sho she imparted to him was an ail abdication of some of her supremacy prelacy pre macy cy E every very now knowledge lie he acquired was an inspiration to her high level three Is a short time in the he educational life of a human being but she brought to her side of what was slowly developing into an equation the highest training a natural ability to impart what she knew an absolute devotion to the endeavor and an entire freedom from other interests so fascinating had the experiment been that she had bad scarcely missed the rest of the world I 1 wonder if he be had been a woman instead of a man if lilt i lp driven that absorption would havo resulted from their intercourse on oa his part lie brought bi ought to bear be jr upon the problem of learning it was soon developed devel an ail intellect which although entirely untrained was unusually acute a faculty of acquiring knowledge as groat great as was tier her ability to impart it and a reasoning capacity which kept pace with his hig other qualities in deed the main thing with which sho she had to contend at first was his lack of application hut but so soon as ho he had learned enough to enable him to rea aze the importance of learning more she had no trouble on that score it was as it if a mature mind had been brought to bear upon the problems of adolescence ile he grappled with things in that way whatever sho she taught him film he learned he be mastered all and the mastery inspired him to learn more ills mnemonic ability ams aa prodigious lor for nil all the years of ills his life ho had not been storing up the insignificant the immaterial the unnecessary in hla his brain cells ile he remembered all that she taught him with unvarying acau racy ills was it a powerful vigorous mentality which had known nothing and upon which she wrote what she pleased to tho the judgment of a man lie he added the receptivity and ductility of a child she had taught him first of nil all to speak and then to read then rudimentary mathematics such stich as aa ho he could do in hla his head there was nothing that she could devise that was practicable for writing there was war no slate blata on the island the rock was waa not suitable therefore he had never learned to write although h lie knew what writing was tor for site she had explained it to hirn him and had mado made shift to teach him the arabic letters also taught him geography astronomy natural sciences an anil above all history silo she unfolded tho the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them before hla his vision touching lightly ns its has been tho the fashion of such un folders upon the misery and the shams ills ida was a singular knowledge indeed there were some things about which she was reticent being a wom woman anand and some things she could not tell him tit at all but being a man with imagination quickened he tho thought ight of these things the more for these were some of the deeper things of life and nature hut but the change in the relations be the two were not greater than the change in the woman herself she was no longer a philosopher that which she had disdained disdain ed she admired that which she had abhorred she loved that which she had refused she accepted she was a christian in belief as aa last alone or practically so faco face to face with god in ili hla his world god hotl in his book god goa in humanity tier her specious ideas of life and her relationship to it had bad broken down she had learned to kneel beside that man and pray she had bad learned to seek elsewhere than in herself for power to enable her to live her life and fulfill her tasks she had not wished to be a christian she had fought against it struggled with it agonized over it but a compelling necessity was upon tier her the convictions of her conversion tore the veil from before tier her face dispelled |