Show 01 JL v CYRUs CYRU TO Y Y BRADY wr div SYNOPSIS A young woman cast ashore on a lonely island finds a solitary inhabitant it young white hire man dressed like a savage and unable to speak in any known lan grape guape she decides t to 0 educate him anti and mol mold 1 lila ills in mind nd to lie her r own ideals de als slid she find a human skeleton ke leton the skeleton of a dog a bible ble an and d a silver box bos which I 1 lead her to t the h e c conclusion ancl sion that tier her companion was cast ashore on the island when a child and that h his a name Is john revell revel Cliar charnock nock of virginia near the skeleton she he binds two womans comans rings ono one of which bears beara an inscription J 11 R C to M 11 T sept 10 cwi katharine brenton 1 1 1 was 1 aas a highly specialized product of a leading ie a d i ng university her writings on the s BOX e x problem had attracted wide at 0 n TI the 1 e son of a multi be becomes in infatuated with tier her and they decide to put her theories into practice avith no other ceremony than a handclasp they go away together A few days on h ills Is yacht shows her that the man only professed lofty ideals to possess tier her katharine discovers that trie the man Is rn married ar while drunk lie he attempts to kiss her she knocks him down and leaves him unconscious and escapes in the darkness in a gasoline launch aunch during a she Is cast ashorn on an island three years teaching gives the man a did education she becomes EL a christian orlen t an CHAPTER IX continued and he too longed for some hour to come when lie he might with right and decency and dignity speak tile lie words which some day he must speak or die ile he was not versed in the ways of women ile he had no store of know knowledge no lesson of experience to tall fall back upon ile he knew but one woman ile he could riot not predicate from any petty maxim or from arty any ancient aphorism or from any worn out philosophy what she would or would not bounder do under certain conditions indeed he only thought that he loved her and he be must tell her or die in the concealment arid and so matters ran on and on it needed but a spark to ignite the powder it would have seemed and yet a vast cataclysm of nature only brought about the explosion lie he had never touched her except to take her hand her person had bad been as inviolate to him as it 1 she had been a star above his head and she had been careful under tinder no circumstances to allow more than that their hands had clasped often indeed with every good night and good morning the circuit of touch was made and broken but that was all they usually MURRY parted at night on the sands where she had bad first been thrown ashore ile he would stand and watch her as she glided away fr from om him in the darkness dankness toward the cave that was her home she amad jahad impressed upon him how she M trussed 4 him the absolute assurance the e behtke confidence that she had that he bauld would respect the agreement between atheni nd he would have died rather than have transgressed the law stepped over wat that imaginary bar barrier as potent as the circle of richelieu which kept them apart and yet she would never know what horrible constraint he put upon himself alop how lie he stood with clenched hands bands and quivering body and stared after afler her long after she had gone she would never know how that intensity of longing grew and grew until some times he felt that lie he could riot not overmaster it she would never know how he plunged away staggering through the woods and threw himself down upon bivon the sands on his side of the island disdaining even the rude shelter of the cave which was his home and fought it out sometimes she saw evidences of internal conflict in his soul the next morning the calm serenity the indifference the animal like satisfaction with which he had faced life when she first knew him had long since disappeared there were deepening lines upon his face which told of thought of struggle and of character thus developed by these two potent factors in shaping human destiny and he could never know what was as in her ber mind either ile he never dreamed that she could love him she was so far above him so supreme in his eyes that the possibility never occurred so him it if he had known tor for a moment how bow she thought of him the great passion in both hearts would have overleaped over leaped every obstacle and in a moment he would have had her in his arms well indeed it is that tile the power to read human hearts is reserved for the mind which towers above human passions because it Is divine and so BO these two while drawing together as inevitably and as irresistibly as the tide cornea comes in were still kept apart their feelings were in solution as it were A precipitant must bo be thrown into the atmosphere in which they moved and lived and had their being to disclose them to each other on one certain balmy night they parted as usual was the hand clasp longer was the glance with which be peered at her under the moonlight more self revealing than usual did something in his own breast call to the surface that which beat around her heart at any rate it was with a great effort that she tore herself away at last anti and for the first time in his life although she knew it IE not ho he followed follow ed after her with a few noiseless ry to his face whit in the ai 21 ight drops of sweat beading his brax in the violence of hla his effort having transgressed even to that degree the law he turned instantly dt st without waiting to watch her disappear around the jutting crag that marked the little amphitheater where she slept and went to his own side of tile the island resolutely without a mo ments hesitation or delay CHAPTER X hearts awakened for the moment she ghe forgot where she was waa and fancied herself back on the ship or more naturally tossing about tit in that small boat after that long eventful voyage yet no motion to which she had ever been subjected not even the wildest pitch of the storm which had finally cast her away produced in her such strange emotions as she experienced then for the earth itself was trembling quivering rocking the cave wall above her seen dimly by the filtering light of very early dawn which came through the opening partook of the mad fantastic motion in another second she realized that it 11 was an earthquake the air seemed filled with a peculiar ringing sound of storm her bed of course was the soft I 1 sand over which grass had been strewn she lay therefore on the floor and could not be thrown down but she was rolled from side to side in fit a way which paralyzed her senses sense s never in all her experience had she known such a sick feeling of terror tenor when the foundations of things are aie shaken when riot not merely the great deep but the solid earth Is broken up humanity stands as if in the presence of the power of god she lay resistless staring praying pral ng wondering whether the shaking rock over her head woud tall fall and crush her in a moment the instinct of life quickened her to action she rose to her knees staggered to her feet and tried to make her way to the entrance walking was terrible the earth seemed to have shaken f hours and yet the duration of the shock was really less than a minute its violence was terrific just before she reached the opening it stopped with one tremendous shock as suddenly as it had begun the next second with a roar that sounded like a thousand pieces of artillery the gray hazy light in front of her was blotted out by a falling mass of rock which just escaped her the face of the cliff had given away in deeper in tenser terror than before she threw herself against the barrier it was as hard and as unyielding as theother the other walls no light came to her even she was imprisoned alive in this rocky sepulcher she sank down on her knees and burled her face in her hands she murmured words of prayer her mind flew to the other side of the island to the man was vas he too entombed was this the ead end of her labors outside she could near hear the wind roar and the waves thundering with awful vl violence vlorence on the shore before the earthquake had come the storm there was still some connection between the cave and the outer air it seemed for she was now conscious of lightning lashes flashes after the storm came the fire tier her mind went back to what she had read from the bible a few days before of elijass Eli jahs despair therefore in like case she listened with all her heart for the still voice of comfort to her awestruck awe struck soul it did not seem to come she was doomed she would never see him again it if indeed he be were yet alive she knew hor her feeling for him now she slipped forward and fell fainting on the sandy floor of the cave and still the voice was there presently it came to her as the voice of god usually comes to humanity through the lips lipa of man after a space how long after she could not tell she was conscious of a human cry through the wild clamor of the storm A voice that she knew and loved was calling her by name was it some wraithlike fancy of the storm storma she rose to her knees sick and faint and listened no it was a human voice his voice her name rhe fhe cry was fraught with frantic appeal p it thrilled and vibrated with passion it told her in that awful moment a story which she had not read it revealed to her imaginations of which she had not dreamed she was fascinated with what she heard she forgot for the moment to answer answer an ali the woman in her the eternal terni nine in her listened her bosom rose roe and fell her henrt heart throbbed her pulses beat alone with that wild passionate appealing frantic cry she forgot the earthquake she forgot the prison she forgot the storm she forgot the world she only realized that there out in the dawn a man the man of all the world who loved her was calling tier her name the old call of manhood to womanhood of mate to mate she rose instantly to her feet this time it was the beati beating tIg c of her heart that pitched and tossed her body she leaned against the rock wall and then she called his name man alan she cried are you sate safe yes was the answer and you entirely so save for this prison thank godl came faintly to her from beyond the wall thank god I 1 hear your voice I 1 shall have you out never fear she pressed her ear close to the heap of hugu huge loose stones which filled the opening she could hear bear him working outside i dont be afraid hll heaard sald at last 1 I fear nothing she answered if you are there in one instant the situations of life 0 leg in with a great burst of strength H R tied the great rock aside had been reversed ile he was the master now and she hung upon his bis words and actions even as he had done in days gone by A she had no knowledge of what ta casap was before him but she could hear hea the progress that he be was making it was evident hat he be was working furiously and yet he stopped once in every little while to reassure himself as to her presence woman lie he cried are you still there V here and waiting was the answer he needed that assurance of her safety to enable him to achieve his ous task how terrible were the che efforts he put forth she did not know until afterward but his was the work of a titan ile he was movin moving IA mountains with his bare hands in by love might lightest est of passions he was tearing asunder like theearta the earthquake the rocky foundations of the world well for him that he was so and slowed well for her that god had added strength and power and energy to all his other qualities ile he had never done any work in his life harder than the climbing of a tree but no toller toiler with a heritage of earths whole experience of labor could have struggled as did he ile he had been awakened at the selfsame instant in his lonely cell upon the other side of the island with the first shock he remembered that some time in his days of darkness before she came there had been a similar upheaval ile he realized instantly what it was less timorous than the woman more agile he did not lie supine for a single second ills his thoughts were instantly for her lie he had thrown himself from his cave and had raced across the shaking quivering island without the hesitation of a moment never so long as he might live could he fie forget the stile shock that cattle came to him when lie he saw his way to her barred by that great heap of fallen from the face of tile the cliff lay over the entrance to the cave for one moment lie he had stood appalled and then he had got to work how much time had elapsed before he arrived at her door how much time it took him to clear it way he had no idea ile he had no thought but that he must open a passage and get to her dead or alive it was waa not wise for him to expend breath in cries but until he had some reply he could not keep silent after that when tier her answer came to him he worked more quietly save for those periods when ho he felt that he must hear her voice to enable him to go on such was the furious energy of his toll oil that by and by the great mass of rock was cleared away save orie cile huge boulder which fairly blocked the entrance it was light outside now A gray dawn and full of storm through the wider interstices she could see him plainly she knew now that her rescue was only a matter of time A branch of a tree for a lever and hla his strength would roll the rock away she started to 0 tell him but be b caught a glimpse of her white fa face ce pressed against a crevice and the tha sight inspired him with ft great burst of strength the like of which possibly had never been compassed by mortal man since samson pulled fayart the pillars of the temple he noiea the great rock aside and stood blood in the entrance gasping banting with outstretched arms anna a step divided them that step sa s1 with a sob of relief she upon his breast naturally ably jr ills his splendid arms swept her lose to him her own hands met about ii ia neck with upturned face she loveed upon him in all the abandon ent of perfect passionate surrender abent his head bead and kissea kissed her the st time in all his years that his lips hi been pressed upon another mouth Z to her there in that kiss as adne moment for all ed of the past as t never in all the forth of the future should such another opportunity port unity be afforded him ile he felt for the first time in ills hla life the beat of another human heart against ills his own the rise and fall of another human breast the throbbing of another human soul tighter and tighter slits als arms strained her to him she 9 gilie her ralf f up tip in that mad delirious aw v to the full flow of long checked passion and kiss for kiss pressure for pressure and heart beat for heart beat she made rezsone rep sone it was too much it was the in man a n who broke away there was nothing no experience no remembrance to teach him it was all surprise ile he thrust her from him hini slowly herlands her hands lingered about ills his neck but ills backward pressure would not be denied ile he held her at arms length her hands outstretched to him her bosom panting tier her eyes shining tier her cheeks cheeka aflame in the gray dawn yielding giving up to him absolutely yet something the magnificent metal of the man the restraints through which he had gone the long battles with his own passion rose to his soul and gave him mastery once more woman woman he whispered no mere local name would represent her now she was humanity to him woman he whispered my god my god oil t lie he turned away sank down on one of the great boulders that lie he had thrown aside and burled buried till face in his hands his body shaking with emotions he could scarce define but well understood the woman threw herself down own on her knees before him and took him once more in her arms man ilan she said 1 I love |