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Show By ' Cyrus Townsend y y Brady bring sadness to his heart. I wanted him to hear the voice of the world in comment upon my relation, and I knew he would find it on yonder ship. I wras happy, said the man, to go on as we- were. 1 should not have ZLLU6TM770mP7?AyMTRt turntumour c CH&ffAH cornu m m cvat wum lighted that fire. Pray continue with your story, SYNOPSIS. Miss Brenton, said the lieutenant I am deeply interested A young woman cast ashore on a lone-f- y commander. island, finds a solitary inhabitant, a in it. There is a great Charnock esyoung white man, dressed like a savage and unable to speak in any known lan- tate in Virginia which has been held guage. She decides to educate him and for 30 years or more by the last surShe mold his mind to her own ideals. finds evidence that leads her to believe vivor of the ancient, family. And I rethat the man is John Revell Charnock of member some romantic story connectVirginia, and that he was cast ashorea ed with it, too. when a child. Katharine Brenton was highly specialized productonof asexleading The silver box that inclosed the probthe Her university. writings lem attracted wide attention. The son of flint and steel, continued the woman, becomes infatuated a was marked J. R. C. Exploring the with her and they decide to put her theories into practice. With no other cere- island I came upon the remains of a mony than a handshake, they go away boat, and any of you may examine it. together. A few days on his yacht re- Near the boat in yonder coppice there veals to her that he only professed lofty atIdeals to possess her. While drunk he were two skeletons, one of a woman down him to kiss her. She knocks tempts and leaves him unconscious, escaping in and the other of a dog. I excavated During the darkness in a gasoline launch. a storm she is cast ashore on an island. the boat, found that it had belonged "Three years teaching gives the man a to the ship Nansemond of Virginia. I splendid education. Their love for each have the stern pieces with the name other is revealed when he rescues her from a cave where she had been impris- painted on it in my cave. I put the oned by an earthquake. A ship is sighted skeletons of the dog and the woman and they light a beacon to summon it. in the boat and filled It up again with Langford, on his yacht, sights the beacon and orders his yacht put in. The woman sand. There they lie waiting Chriscomrecognizes the yachton and tells her board had injured tian burial. The place where they that a man panion ner in the greatest way. Langford recog- had died, the woman and her dog, I tells He the man that Katharine. nizes Everything but she had been his mistress, and narrowly carefully inspected. An American cruis- metal, and most of that, had rusted escapes being killed. er appears. Officers hear the whole story away, but I found two rings. She and Langford asks Katharine to marry stretched forth her hand. They are him. here. She stripped them off. One CHAPTER XVII Continued. of them Is a wedding ring. You see it is marked. She read the markings I can answer that, said the womoff, J. R. C. to M. P. T. September an. When I landed on this island, I 10, 1869, II. Cor. xii, 15. The verse of found this man here. He had been Scripture to which reference is made bere a long time. I believe he had is I will very gladly spend and be been cast away here as a child and spent for you, though the more abunhad grown up alone. He had no dantly I love you, the less I be loved. speech or language. He had no mem- There was a piece of silver, also, ory of the past. His mind was a which had evidently been part of a blank. I was glad to find him here. dogs collar. It, too, was marked: He gave me occupation, companion- John Revell Charnock His Dog, July ship. I had been well educated. I deAnd that was all. termined to teach him. I knew that Do you remember nothing of your his of result the was his ignorance life, nothing whatever, sir?'' I believed him to be early environment. asked Whittaker, turning to the man. I beliefs found acute. my naturally I have a dim recollection of some I taught him all that I sort of a sea warranted. happening, of a long voycould of life and letters from memory. with a woman and some kind of For three years my sole and only oc age an animal in an open boat, of horrible cupation has been to teach him what I sufferings, of a few words of prayer; knew. No preceptor ever had apter that is all. or more docile pupil. I think that this man, then a child, No learner ever sat at the feet of resumed the woman, and his mother cried the man, must in some way have been involved such a teacher, Think, in a touched by the recollection. shipwreck, and that she and her men, all that I knew was a childish son and a dog must have been cast babble of prayers which had remained away on this island; that the woman in my memory. I was ignorant of died and the child survived. There is evi thing, even that I myself exist- nothing here that would in any way ed;, that there was any difference be- harm him and his life and growth untween me and the palm tree or yon- der such circumstances and condider bird; that man was made in the tions are quite possible. He had probimage of his God; that there was such ably seen his mother read that Bible. a thing as a woman upon earth. I had He carried it with him, put it in that no ideas of honor or honesty, or pur- cave and forgot it with the flint and ity, or sweetness, or truth, or life, or steel in the silver box of which he God, until she taught me. I believed would have no knowledge and which in her as I believed in God, and I loved he could not use. The dog probably her as I love sunlight and fresh air lived some time and when he died and the sweet wind. I loved her, as I crawled back to where his mistress learned to love under her teaching, lay and gave up his life at her feet. goodness and truth and every virtue And therefore I believe this man's And to think, to think, to think name to be John Revell Charnock; he threw up his hands in a wild ges that he is an American, and that he ture "that it has come to this. came from Virginia. I know him to And he taught me something, Mr be a Christian and a gentleman. In He all the said the woman. Whittaker, days that we have been togethgave me back my faith in manhood er on this island he has done me no she swept Langford wrong. He has been gentleness, kindwhich you with a bitter glance "had destroyed ness, docility itself, ahd despite ourHe gave me back, I think, my faith in selves we have learned to love each God. He taught me many things. And other. Until yesterday we did not when two days ago an earthquake bur know- it. Now it is for him to say led me within the cave I call what we will do. my home, and he tore the rocks asun Kate, Kate, cried Langford, you der and freed me and caught me in cannot let this untutored savage his arms, I knew that he had taught Not that, said the woman, for I me what love was, and as he con have taught him all I know and all I fessed before you all that he loved me believe. that he did love me, I will confess the Yoa cannot let him decide this same, and say that I at least have not question, continued the man, passing over her interruption. changed in this hour. cried Langford, "for he must Kate, Kate! Yes, said the woman, Gods sake, think of what you say and decide, but whatever he decides, whatever the relationship between this do! Sir, said Whittaker, turning to the man and this woman is to be, I can man of the island, you are a very never be anything on earth to you. Dont say that, said Whittaker. fortunate man. Think, my dear lady, what you do, Of all on earth, was the bitter an swer, I cannot think there are any what this man offers you, the position God forgive me! in which you more miserable than I. Did you learn nothing of his past, stand. asked Whittaker, un Sir, said the woman, addressing Miss Brenton? this man comfortably, unable to answer this the lieutenant commander, me He Could assertion. wronged grievously, terribly. natural strange yet deceived me. He broke my heart. He the man remember nothing? returned killed ambition, aspiration and respect I learned a great deal, In the cave which he for my own kind within my soul. I the woman. had made his home and which he has know him through and through. The fact that he failed quickened his passince yielded up to me sion; the fact that men say I am Where is this cave? made him the more eager; beautiful of island the side "On the other he was away and that the fact that You shall see it presently. I found he could not his hands upon me Bible. There was a date in it some made him the lay more insistent; the fact name it. a in 30 years back and that I had flaunted him and said him What is the name? nay and struck him down made him John Ravell Charnock. the more determined. asked 'Whittaker, Of Virginia? Kate, Kate, you wrong me. Before eagerly. God you wrong me! interrupted there was Langford. I think so, although And indeed, madam, I believe you nothing but the name and the date in the Bible. do, commented Whittaker. I know Charnocks in Virginia Let her speak on, said the man of come from Nansemond county. the island. It is a further confirmation, It may be that you are right, conWith the Bible tinued the woman. It may be that the woman. was a little silver box containing a' he is higher, nobler, truer than I have fancied. I should be glad to be able flint and st?el by means of which we lighted to think so. I am willing to take your she turned to Langford that beacon which brought you here view of it, his assertion of it, but I do not love him. Should I marry him, this morning. It was my own eye caught the sig- I would bring to him a heart, a soul, a body that turns to some one else. nal," answered Langford. Would God I had died ere I gave it He could never be anything to me. As I am a Christian woman, a lover up to her!" interposed the man. I insisted upon it. So soon as I of my God and a follower of his Son, realized this man loved me, I told him I cannot see but that I would be addI had a story to tell. I knew it would ing one wrong to another to come to The Island is mine, said the man. I was here when you came. I shall be here when you return. We shall see, returned the woman looking boldly at him. The clash of wills almost struck fire within the eyes of the two who thus crossed swords. Meanwhile," she turned to Langford, if you w ill leave the island and go back to your ship, I shall be very glad. There is nothing you can do here. You have nothing to gain by remaining. Kate," he cried, one last appeal. It Is as unavailing as the first. She looked at him steadily. He saw that within her face and bearing which convinced him that what she said wras true. At least, he said, with the dignity of sorrow and disappointment, if I have played the part of the fool, I have done my best to play the man. He turned slowly away. In a step the woman was by his side. "You have, she said. "Whoever else has failed me In this hour, it has not been you. I am sorry that I do not love you, that I never did love you and that I cannot love you. She reached her hand out. "Good-by- . Good-by- , he said, if you think of me, remember that I did my best to make amends and if you ever - I . - No Christian Ever Believed in this man in compliance with any sugof the world, following any of society, subservient to any I cannot see but that I convention. gestion dictate would be doing as great or a greater wrong than I did before in flaunting all of these forces. I have learned what love is and what marriage should be. I will not give my hand and yield up my person where I cannot yield my heart. And there Is no expiation or reparation that requires it of me, no voice that can coerce me into it. will not marry you, Valentine Langford. I will accept your expressions as evidenced by your words, by your presence here, as testimony to your regret. Indeed, I realize that your confession was itself a great humiliation to a man like you. And perhaps I have spoken harshly of it. But the bare fact remains, I do not love you, I could not love you, I dont even want to love you. My heart, my soul goes to this man, she turned to her companion of I have the island, whom up to made and fashioned and taught and trained until these hours when he has broken away from me. I love this man who stands silent, who thinks of me as a thing spotted, polluted, damned. Him I love, though he slay me, yet will I love him. Him I trust, though he disobey me, yet will I love him. Him I will serve, though he cast me off, yet will I love him. And with this In my heart in which I' glory and which I confess as openly and with as little hesitation as you confessed your shame, I give you my final, absoI lute, utterly irrevocable decision. will not marry you, I will not go back with you. No, not for anything that you can proffer, nor for any reason that you can urge, will I come to you when in my soul I belong to another. There may be no end to this but my despair. This man may cast me off. This man may trample me under foot. The spots upon my soul may loom larger in his view and hide what else is there. I know I have been forgiven by God, I will not be forgiven by men, but I tell you here and now, again and again, that I will not be your wife. I will be his wife or to-da- y no mans. Langford turned away and hid his face in his hands. Whittaker stepped forward and laid his hand upon the shoulder of the man of the island. He shook him for a moment. You stand immobile, he cried, sharply, after such a confession as that, after such an appeal? What have you to say, man? You ought to get down on your knees and thank God for the love of such a woman. Aye, aye, burst out the deep tones of the old coxswain of the cutter. So say all of us. "God help me, cried the man, lifting his hand and releasing his shoulder from the grasp of the officer, I did love this woman. Think how it was, think how I believed in her. No Christian ever believed in his god as I believed in her. She told me what purity was, what innocence was, what sweetness was, what light was, what truth was, and I looked at her and saw them. And you can look at her and see them now, cried the officer. No, said the man, I can never look at her and see her the same. Oh, Man! Man! cried the woman. The test was upon him. He was failing. Her sorrow, her gi lef were more for him than for herself. Don't mistake me, said the man. I cant help loving you, whatever you are. If you had been as guilty as, when he began to speak and when you corroborated him, I fancied that adjusted himself to them, but the op portunity he needed he did not get. He was immediately plunged into an at mosphere of such strangeness to him filled with such compelling necessity for attention, that, although he loathed the necessity thus imposed upon him. he was constrained to take part in the life that flowed around him. His Instinct and he was almost a woman in his instinctive capacity was to be alone, but it was impossible, and in spite of himself what he saw distracted him. The people he met did more. Whittaker hustled him below, of course, as soon as possible and took him into his own cabin. Fortunately they were men of much the same height and build, although the islander was the more graceful, symmetric and strong, and he succeeded in getting him into a civilian suit of clothing for which he had no present use. Thera were both loss and gain in his appearance. There was no gain in the islandchange I shall not change, said the wo- er's feelings, at least, he thought not. in view of the irksome restraint of Good-by- . man. He moved off down the strand, clothing, and yet there was a certain called his sailors to him, got into his satisfaction to bis soul in being na singled out from among his felboat, shoved off and was rowed over longer lows by the strangeness of his apparel. and the blue the openlagoon through As clothes the garments became him. ing in the harrier toward the yacht and it all depended upon your point ol of swells the upon long tossing slowly view as to whether you preferred the the Pacific. A 8 for you, sir, said the woman, handsome barbarian with a hint ol after she had watched Langford a lit- civilization in his carriage, or the civtle while in silence, will you go back ilized gentleman with a suggestion ol and bring some officers ashore to hear the barbaric in his bearing. Whittaker reasoned rightly that the sooner he my story? At your wish. Miss Brenton, said became accustomed to these things the better, and that the time to begin the lieutenant-commande- r gravely. The woman turned to her compan- was immediately. He had had a hasty word or two ion. with the captain before he took him His God as I Believed in Her. Will you go with them? And leave you here alone? cried below, and when he was dressed and you were, I should have loved you just it required assistance from the lieutenathe same and I should have married the, man. nt-commander ere the unfamiliar I shall he when come here you you, and I shall marry you. This . . . were habiliments properly adjusted 1 I give you my word upon it. this awful thing has come between us, back, the two from the ward room to but we will try in some way to live do not break my word. You know the cabinpassed of the captain in the after it down, to forget it, to go on as we whatever else you may have against of the part ship. t me, I have always told you the truth. were. The few sentences in which WhittaIf you will remember, I said but yesHe stepped toward the woman. ker had made his brief report to She drew herself up to her full terday that I was not worthy of you. hl3 superior had in a measure prepared She smiled bitterly. height and looked him unflinchingly And in that, madam, said Whitta- the captain for the more lengthy disin the face. me leave to say that you course that followed, and, feeling tha, No, she said, we are not going on ker, give the situation Was one which required broke your record for' veracity. more than the simple authority of'the thought. We will not marry and reto of she Tls so, good you say live together. We will not bury this master of a ship, he had summoned to wretched happening in the past in turned. "Believe me I have taken conference the surgeon and the chapI will marry no man more comfort from your words and ac- lain. It was to these three men, thereany oblivion. in this dreadful hour than I had although he may have my whole heart, tions fore, that Whittaker and the islander who is not proud and glad to take me dreamed it possible for men to give. presented themselves. who does not realize that I am as pure Now, if you will all go away and leave The chaplain, like Whittaker, was a me I not and come until back evening and as innocent of wrong and shame He had not noted the Virginian. so glad and thankful." as he would fain think his mother, as shall be islanders face when he came aboard lieutenant-commandesaid the Come, sir, he would absolutely know his wife garb, but as his eye not unkindly, touching the in his must be. I told you that your manhood him clothed and dwelt upon standing As a gentlemust be put to the test. I told you that man upon the shoulder. in his right mind before him he gave man cannot do less than accede you your love must be tried by fire. What a start of surprise, and so soon as the I loved in you was the assurance that to the lady's request." formal salutations had been exSuffering himself thus to be peryou would survive the test, that you changed, with a word to the captain th-man followed the officer would triumph in the trial. It is not I suaded, for permission, he asked Whittaker a into the boat, in which the whole parthat have been before the great Judge question. this morning, but you, and you have ty embarked and was rowed away I beg your pardon, Mr. Whittaker, from the island. His first touch with failed. but what is this gentlemans name? the world had separated him from The word gentleman was used natuKate, said Langford, he casts you the woman he loved who loved and off; take me. I swear to you that rally and unconsciously, with an abwere I in his place, I would not have him. Nay, his own frightful folly, his solute sense of its fitness, as everyown blindness, his own criminal and hesitated a moment. cabin could perceive. heartless decision had done that. And one inis the I respect you more than ever, said It not rightly known, said Whitthe world upon which humanity loves he is believed to be a the woman; but I dont love you and to load the blame of its transgres- taker, butof the I cannot, I will not take you! sions, and with which it would fain Virginian I knew it, said the chaplain, imsaid Whittaker, if share the Charnock, of its own he is one of the Charnocks thats your name, permit me to say follies, hadconsequences pulsively; nothing whatever to do here, saving the ladys presence, that with it. In fact, it was because he of Nansemond county. "Your recognition, chaplain, said you are behaving like a damned fool. was so ignorant of the world, so utterthe lieutenant-commander- , The man looked at him dumbly, un ly unable to see eagerly, things In their rela- v. ill be of great value in determining comprehendingly, and made no reply, tive values and in relation we ascerIt was the woman who spoke, coldly tain truth that he had taken the this stranger's name and station. IThe do impartially. She had seemingly dis tone that he had used and entered evidence of it is circumstantial. missed the whole affair, though at upon the course which he had fol- not know how it will be regarded in a court of law. what a cost to herself no one could lowed. I have always understood that the know. He could only see one thing, that Sir, she said, is there anyone on this woman who he supposed belonged Charnock estate was a vast one, said your ship empowered to administer an so completely and entirely and abso- Capt. Ashby, and since coal has been mined on the Virginia lands it has beoath? lutely to him, who was as fresh and I have that power, answered the unspotted from the world as he was, come very valuable. It is true, answered the chaplain. lieutenant-commande- r. Why do you who had been his own as he had beWho holds it now? asked the surask? and absoand longed entirely utterly geon. I wish you would bring some of lutely to her, was different! That "It is held by an old man, ray friend your officers here with paper and ink the difference was more in his own of many years standing, the brother I wish to make a to as than the else anywhere imagination deposition facts that I have learned concerning brought him no comfort. He still of John Revell Charnock. I believe that to be iny name, said this man which may be of service to loved her, he still wanted to marry him in establishing his identity and her, but he loved her in spite of her the islander. I have little doubt of It, replied discovering his history when he re shame. A greater, a wiser man would The first turns to the United States. have loved her because of it. And the chaplain, continuing. But are you not going back with some day this fact which he himself John Revell Charnock was lost at sea. us, Miss Brenton? asked the officer in was inherently large enough to realize, He and his wife and young child some amazement. We are sailing for Hon- or would be after a time, would cause 30 years ago set forth on a voyage olulu and thence for San Francisco as him a grief so great that the anguish around the world for her health. The that he suffered now would be noth- ship, in which I believe he had some directly as we can go. ownership, was called the Nansemond. No, said the girl, I will not leave ing. the island. You can take my friend Whittaker was a man of great tact Its course was traced as far as Valhere. and shrewdness and one with a wide paraiso, thence It sailed for the PhilipThe Southern Cross, said Lang- knowledge of the world. He realized pines and was never heard of again. I ford, is at your disposal, Kate. something of what was in the man's know the story, thesaid the chaplain, I have had one voyage upon her, captain, "because mind. He saw in some measure how turning toward said the woman bitterly. nev want I the proposition presented itself to him John Revell Charnock was one of my er to see her again. and he felt a deep kindness and pity best friends, as Is his brother, Philip Istoward his unhappy fellow passenger. Norton Charnock, who now holds the of man said the Woman, the estate. land suddenly, if you stay here, I (TO BE CONTI N't' ED.) CHAPTER XVIII. stay here. Without you I will not go. Not bo, said the woman scornfulOften Too Many Pictures, Divided. I would not be upon the same ly. Attention was called to the fact The best thing on earth for a man that there are no pictures on the walls island alone with you again. You have in the islander's position would have of the house of Mark Twain, in which failed me. Her voice broke, but she caught it been isolation and a chance to think it his daughter was recently married to again Instantly and resumed her iron over. The worst thing on earth for a the Russian pianist, Ossip Gabrilo-witscwoman in Katharines position was thinks because the author Then if one of us must stay, it isolation and a chance to think it over. that the natural pictures framed by If the man had been enabled by lack the casements are much more beautishall be I. be. I have of outside interests to give free rein ful than any artificial ones can said the woman. No, been in the world and you have not. to his thoughts and let them draw him The trouble with most houses is that You may go and learn what it holds whither they would, he might have ar- there are too many pictures, and this for you. I have tried to prepare you rived at a different viewpoint, whence is especially often the case hero tha to give you lessons. Now, you may he could have enjoyed a sight of the natural beauty of the lanLcae affair in all its hearings and could have not to be disregarded. In put them practice. semi-savag- e e gjt ' |