Show zar y CYRUS Y Y BRADY V art frt we www ww SYNOPSIS A young woman cast ashore on a tone lone ty island finds a solitary inhabitant a yo young u ng bilte white man dressed ilk alko a savage unable 10 0 speak in tiny liny k known n e wn lan gua cuare g e she decides to educate film and mold ills hla mind to tier her own ideals she finds evidence aiden th that a t leads tier her to be believe I 1 that the man Is john revell charnock Chir nock of T virginia rg ala mill antl ft that t h ho e w us cast ast ashore w when ien a child ma ali a rh ital aronton was a 1 l gli I 1 y ap specialized ee 1 at 7 ed product of 0 a lending leading university her writings on tilt the sex problem attracted wide atu antton the son of a mu iti millionaire becomes infatuated with tier her anti and they decide to put tier her theories into practice with no other oilier ceremony m n 1 ahn a handshake they KO go away together A tow few days on ills I 1 yacht rev igals veala to tier her that ho he only professed lofty leals to possess tier her while drunk he attempts to I 1 kits c iss her she knocks him down and loaves leaves him unconscious escaping in the darkness in a gasoline launch during a storm she Is cast ashore on an island three years teaching klea gives the flit man a splendid education their love for bac each h other Is reveal revealed ekl when ile he rescues tier her from a c rave ave where she had been imprisoned one by an earthquake A ship Is sighted i and they chev light a beacon to summon it langford Lian Rford on ills his yacht sights tile the beacon and orders ord rs tits his yacht put in tile the woman recognizes the baclit acht and tells tier her companion that a man on board had injured banion her er in the greatest way recognizes katharine he ae tells the man that she had been ills his mistress and narrowly escapes being killed an american cauls Is er appears officers hear the whole e tory story and langford langbord Lang tord asks to marry him CHAPTER continued 1 I can answer that said the woman when I 1 landed on this island I 1 round found this man here ile he had been hero here a long time I 1 believe lie he had been cast away here heie as a child and had grown up tip alone ile he had no speech or language lie ile had no memory of tile the past its ills mind was a blank I 1 was glad to find him here ile he gave tile me occupation companionship I 1 had been well educated edu cited I 1 determined ter mined to teach him I 1 knew that ills his ignorance was the result of his environment I 1 believed jilin him to be naturally acute I 1 found my beliefs warranted I 1 taught him till all that I 1 could of life and letters from memory for three years my sole and only occupation cu has been to teach him what I 1 knew no preceptor ever had apter or more docile pupil no learner ever sat at the feet of such a teacher cried the man touched by the recollection think men all that I 1 knew was a childish babble of prayers which had remained in my memory I 1 was ignorant of f vj p tiling even that I 1 myself exist enthat ed that there was any difference between me and the palm tree or yonder bird that man was made in the image of his god that there was such a thing as a woman upon earth I 1 had no ideas of honor boner or honesty or purity or sweetness or truth or life or god until site she taught me I 1 believed in tier her as I 1 believed in god and I 1 loved her as I 1 love sunlight and fresh air and the sweet wind I 1 loved tier her as I 1 learned to love under tinder tier her teaching goodness and truth and every virtue and to think to think to think lie he threw up his hands in it a wild gesture that it has come to this and add he taught me something mr air whittaker said the woman ile he gave me back my faith in manhood which you she swept langford with a bitter glance had destroyed lie he gave me back I 1 think my faith in god ile he taught me many things and when two days ago tin an earthquake burled buried me within the cave 1 call my home and ho he tore the rocks asunder and freed me and caught me in ills his arms I 1 knew that ho he had taught me what love was and as lie he confessed before you all that he loved me that lie he did lovo love me I 1 will confess the same and say that I 1 tit at least have not changed in this hour kate kate cried langford for gods sake think of what you say and do sir said whittaker turning to the man of the island you are a very fortunate man of all on earth was the bitter an ail awer 1 I cannot think there are any more miserable than I 1 did you learn nothing of ills his past miss aliss brenton asked whittaker un comforte com comfortably forta bly unable to answer this strange yet natural assertion could tile the man remember nothing nothings 9 1 11 I learned a great deal returned the woman in the cave which he had bad made hla his home and which lie he h has as since yielded up to me where is this cave on the other side of the island you shall see it presently I 1 found a bible there was a date in it some 30 10 years back and a name in it what Is the name john charnock of virginia asked whittaker eagerly 1 I think sti BU although there was nothing hut but the name and the date in the bible 1 I know charnocks Char nocks in virginia they come from county it is a further conformation said the woman with the nible bible there was a little silver box bo containing a flint and sapi std by means of which she turned to langford we lighted that beacon which brought you here this morning it was my own eye caught the signal answered langford would god I 1 had died ere I 1 gave it up to her interposed the man 11 1 insisted upon it so soon as I 1 realized this man loved me I 1 told him I 1 had n story to tell I 1 knew it would bring sadness to his heart I 1 wanted him to hear the voice of the world in comment upon my relation and I 1 i knew lie ho would find it on yonder ship 1 I w was as happy said the man to go on as we were I 1 should not have lighted that lire fire pray continue with your story miss brenton Hr enton said the lieutenant commander 1 I am deeply interested in it there Is a great charnock estate in virginia which has been held for 30 years or more by the last sur elvor of the ancient family and I 1 re member some rom romantic mitic story connect ed with it too the silver box bok that the flint and step steel continued the woman was marked J it II C exploring the c island I 1 came upon the remains of a boat and any of you ou may examine it near the boat in yonder coppice there were two skeletons one of a woman a and nil the other of a dog I 1 excavated the boat found that it had belonged to tile the ship nansemond of virginia I 1 have the stern stein pieces with the name painted on it in my cave I 1 put the skeletons ot of the dog and the woman in the boat and filled it up again with sand there they lie ile waiting christian burial the place where they had died the woman and her dog I 1 carefully inspected everything but metal and most of that had rusted away but I 1 found two slugs she stretched forth her hand they are here she stripped them off one of them Is a wedding ring you see it is marked she read the markings off J R C to al P T september 10 im 11 II cor ail 16 15 the verse of scripture to which reference la is made Is 1 I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though tile the more aban dantly I 1 love you the less I 1 be loved there here was a piece of silver also which had evidently been part of a dogs collar it too was marked john rev revell ell charnock ilis his dog july 2 1875 and that was all do you remember nothing of your you early life nothing whatever sir a whittaker turning to the man 1 I have a dim recollection of some som sort of a sea happening of a long voy age with a woman and some kind of an animal in an open boat of horrible honable sufferings of a few words of prayer that is all 1 I think that this man then a child resumed the woman and his mother m must in some way have been involved in a ship shipwreck and that she and her son and a dog must have been cast away on tills this island that the woman died and the child survived there Is nothing here that would in fit any way harm him and his life and growth un der such circumstances and condl condi eions alons are quite possible ile he had ably seen ills mother read that bible ile he carried it with ulm him put it in that cave and forgot it with the flint and steel in the silver box of which he would have no knowledge and which he could not use the dog probably lived some time and when he died crawled back to where his mistress lay and gave up his life at her feet and therefore I 1 believe this mans name to be john revell charnock that lie he is in an american and that he came from virginia I 1 know him to be a christian find and a gentleman 11 in all the days that we have been together on this island he has done me no wrong ile he his has been gentleness kindness docility itself and despite ourselves we have learned to love each other until yesterday we did not know it now it Is for him to say what we will tic do kate kate cried langford you cannot let this untutored savage not that said the acoman A oman roman for I 1 have taught him all I 1 know and all I 1 believe yon cannot let him decide till this question continued the man passing over tier her interruption yes said the woman lie he must decide but whatever he decides whatever the relationship between this man and this woman Is to be I 1 can never ile be anything on earth eaith to you dont siy say that said whittaker think my dear lady what you do what this man otters offers you the position in which god forgive me you stand sir said the woman addressing the lieutenant commander this man wronged me grievously terribly ile he deceived me ile he broke my heart he killed ambition aspiration and respect for my own kind within my soul I 1 know him through and through the fact that he failed quickened his passion the fact that men say I 1 am beautiful made him the more eager the fact that he was away and that lie he could not lay his hands upon me made him the more insistent the fact that I 1 had flaunted him and said him nay and struck him down made him the more determined kate kate you wrong me before god you wrong me interrupted langford and indeed madam I 1 believe you do commented whittaker let her speak on said the man of the island it may be that you tire right con linued the woman it may be that he Is higher nobler truer than I 1 have fan fancied cled I 1 should be glad to be able to think ro eo r o I 1 am willing to take your view of it his assertion of it but I 1 to do not love him should I 1 marry him I 1 would bring to him a heart a soul a body that turns to some one else ile he could never be anything to me As I 1 tin am a christian woman a lover of my god and a follower of his son I 1 cannot see but that I 1 would be add ing one wrong to another to come to r C tcp airl A e WWW Wilt no christian ever believed in his god as I 1 believed in her tills this man mail in compliance with any suggestion of 0 the world following any dictate of society subservient to any convention I 1 cannot seo see but that I 1 would be doing its as great or a greater wrong than I 1 did before in haunting flaunting all of oc these forces I 1 have learned w what hat love Is and what marriage should be I 1 will not give my hand and yield t up ip my person where I 1 cannot yield my heart and there Is no expiation or reparation that requires it of me no voice olce that can coerce me into it 4 will not marry you valentine I lang in ford I 1 will accept your expressions as evidenced hy by your words by your presence berenb here as testimony to your regret indeed I 1 realize that your confession was itself a great humiliation to a man like you and perhaps I 1 have spoken harshly of it dut but the bare fact remains I 1 do not love youl you I 1 could not love you I 1 dont don t even want to love you my aly heart my soul goes joes to this man she turned to tier her companion of the island whom up to today I 1 have m made ado and fashioned and taught and trained until these hours when he has broken away from me I 1 love this man who stands silent who thinks of mo me as a thing spotted polluted damned illin him I 1 love though lie he slay me yet will twill I 1 love him I 1 alim I 1 trust though he disobey me yet will I 1 love him him I 1 will serve though decast he cast me off yet will I 1 love him and with this in ili my heart in which I 1 glory and which I 1 confess as openly and with as little hesitation as you yoi yo i confessed your shame I 1 give you my final abao lute utterly irrevocable decision I 1 will not marry mairy you I 1 will not go back with you no not for anything that you can proffer nor for any reason that you can urge will I 1 come to you when in my soul I 1 belong to another there may be no end to this but my despair chisman 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 1 know I 1 have been for given by god I 1 will not be for given by men but I 1 tell you here and now again and again that I 1 will not be your wife I 1 will be his wife or no mans langford turned away and hid his fa face cc in lis his hands whittaker stepp stepped e d forward and laid his hand upon the shoulder of the man of the island lie he shook him for it a moment you stand immobile he cried sharply after such a confession as that after such an appeal appeals what have you to say man you ought to got get down on your knees and t thank hank god for the love of such a woman aye aye burst out the deep tones tonee of the old coxswain of the cutter so say all of us god help me cried the man lift ing his hand and releasing his der from the grasp of the officer 1 I did love this woman think how it was think how I 1 believed in her no chris tian ever believed in his god as I 1 be lieveld cleved in her she told me what purity was what innocence us as what sweet ness iness was what light was what truth was and I 1 looked at her and saw them and you can look at her and see them now cried the officer no said the man 1 I can never look at her and see her the same oh man alan man alan cried the woman the test teat was upon him ile he was wai failing ailing ifer her sorrow her ailef were more for him than for herself dont mistake me said the man 1 I 11 cant help loving you whatever you are it if you had been as aa guilty as when he began to speak and when you him I 1 fanI fanica cd that you were I 1 should have loved you just the same and I 1 should have married man led you and I 1 shall marry many you this this awful thing has come between na its but wo we will try tit in soine borne way to live it down to forget it to go BO on as we vie were v lie ile stopped toward the woman sho she drew herself up to her full height and looked him unflinchingly in the face no she said we are not going on aff ave thought we will not marry and live together we will not bury this wretched happening in the past in any oblivion I 1 will marry no man although he may have my whole heart t who Is not proud and glad to take me who does not realize that I 1 am as pure and as innocent of wrong and shamo as he would fain think th ink his mo mother theras as he would absolutely know ills his wife must be I 1 told you that your manhood must be put to the test I 1 told you that your our love must be tried by fire what I 1 loved in you was the assurance that you would survive the he t test that you would triumph in the trial it Is not I 1 that have been before the great judge this morning but you ou and you have failed kate said langford he casts you oft off take me I 1 swear to you that were I 1 in his place I 1 would not have hesitated a moment 1 I respect you more than ever said the woman but I 1 dont don t love you and I 1 cannot I 1 will not take you charnock sald said whittaker 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