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Show Br you see that I can accept no favors And you don't trust me? I trust you enough, but I don't love irom you? "But no one need ever know; I will you. the crew of the yacht in discharge be must O Kate, think! There y some South American port. They something in what I feel for you to will scatter ILLUSTPATOtf'S 3Y move you. I did not know what it God would know and I would MCHtPHAif anttiHiM Wat ojurntt was. I did not realize it. I came Wtfnwtr hack in the first place as much be- know and when I see him again, I SYNOPSIS. cause I had been a blackguard and a would have to tell him. It would make and wanted to set myself right it harder tor me. And I dont want coward A young woman cast ashore on a loneto go back. I w ill wait here for him. in a finds a your eyes as because I cared for ly island, solitary inhabitant, "Kate, said the man impulsively, young white man, dressed like a savage made of search hour you, hut every and unable to speak in any known lanit was ungenerous of me not to have I guage. She decides to educate him ami me know my own heart, and since mold his mind to iier own Ideals. She have seen you, since I see you now, told you before.- - They took him away finds evidence that leads her to believe from the Islands senseless, raving with that the man is John Kevell Oharnoek of there is nothing I would not do for brain fever. He collapsed stricken as or Virginia, and that lie was oast ashore There you. isnt any expiation when a child. Katharine ISrenton was a if dead on the sand bythatlitte beheap highly speeiolized produet of a leading amendment or anything now, but of clothes and the Bible which bore sex on the Her probI I university. cause love am a writings and you, man, lem attracted wide attention. The son of He thought you dead becomes infatuated want you. I want to make you happy. your message. a with her and they decide to put her the- And I am the one man in the world He left the ship in the early morning ories into practice. A few days on ills that ought to want you and want to to seek you. The shock was too much yacht reveals to her that he only professed lofty ideals to possess her. While make you happy. It is for that I have for him. drunk he attempts to kiss her. She He loved me, then, said the come back to you. knocks linn down and leaves him unconwoman. scious and escapes in the darkness in a How are the terrible arrangements gasoline launch. During a storm she is Yes, said Langford, wringing the I cast ashore on an island. Three years of blind fate, said the woman. admission from his lips, he loved educaman a the splendid teaching gives You must believe what say. you tion. Their love for each other is revealed to die for you. when he rescues her from a cave where awaken my pity, my tenderness, my you enough almost But he is not dead. He waq no1 she had been imprisoned hy an earth- consideration, but these are all. He is when you left the cruiser? quake. A ship is sighted and they light a beacon to summon it. Kangford on his not by to hear and therefore I will say, No, they signaled me at noontime the beacon and orders his for you deserve the truth, that just as yacht, sights the in answer to my inquiry that the docyacht put in. The wom.n recognizes and tells her companion that a man you say you love me, nay, then, just as tor yacht on board had injured her in the greatest you do and more a thousand times, thought he would finally pull way. Langford recognizes Katharine. He I through, although it would be a long, love that man. It would be a crime, tells the man that she had been ins mistress and narrowly escapes being killed. a sin, a bodily profanation, a mental terrible siege; but if he dies, Kate, An American cruiser appears. Officers if I got back and found that he is near the whole story and Langford asks and spiritual degradation to which the dead and come here Katharine to marry him. Katharine de- other he knew to what she alluded clares that she will marry no one but her Dont come back, said the woman. were nothing, if I Island companion. The latter savs he still as she paused Dont tell anyone that I am here. loves her but that the revelations have should come to you with my whole made a change Katharine declares her inLet no one ever come back unless the tention of remaining alone on the Island, heart and soul given to the man, she saying Charnock had failed when the test in a great sweep- promptings of his heart and the leadcame. Repentam e comes to Charnock aft- threw her hand out " ing of God should bring him to me. er a night of bitter reflection. He swims ing gesture, yonder out at sea. Is this your final, absolute deashore from the cruiser to ask forgivehe But love doesn't you. ness and Is found unconscious beside cision? O I be as would Not he does. Katharines clothes, by the offiiers. Kathyes, arine is given up for dead. My final and absolute decision. loved, I admit, not as, please God, I shall be loved by him. He doesnt Nothing can alter it, nothing, absoCHAPTER XXII. Continued. Wis- lutely nothing. know; he doesn't understand. O Kate! dom will come to him and he will Yes, she answered. Dont, said the woman. It Is usecome back. Thank God! cried the man. We I less and only breaks your heart and man. be said the It so, might thought you dead. We searched the came back. But he believes you wrings mine. Now, you must go. ,No Island. Where had you hidden? Why one has seen you from the yacht. dead." have you done it?" This cave is sheltered from where she And when didnt searched you you She rose slowly to her feet and conlies. No one need know that you have me for during those three years? fronted him. found me. Indeed I want you to give No, answered Langford, I had a me You! she said bitterly. Why have your word of honor, to swear it by confident hope that somewhere you all that you come back? you hold sacred that you were alive. I don't know, will never tell anyone, much less him, answered Iangford. And not will he have that hope, that you came back and found me I cant tell what moved me. I was here on the island with the others. I too?I alive. cannot believe it. seaarhed with the rest. I know that You set me a hard task, faltered a was There long, frightful pause. the man. no foot of it was left unvisited. Every The woman sighed deeply. But I am sure," continued the crag and cranny, every thicket and It may be as you say. It may be coppice, every tree, every cave and rift it is not too hard for you to woman, in the rocks was examined over and that we are separated forever. It may accomplish. Come, you have said you over again. We knew that you were be that I shall never look upon him wanted to make amends. That is all nor he upon me, but that makes gone and yet I could not believe it. again, no difference. I do not love you. I past now, forgotten and forgiven, but if you really would make me happy, Yesterday afternoon I parted from the cannot love If he is dead, I shall you. cruiser. I did not bear away for this will promise what I say." you love his I meet until if him, memory island until it was too dark and they And what is that again? were too far away to see what I would so be I may be found worthy of that, On your word of honor as a genI will keep myself for him. No and be about, and then I came back here other man shall have what belongs to tleman, by all that you hold sacred, at full speed. you will never mention to a human him. soul that you found me here alive. Why did you come? ennearer had the stepped They I dont know. I was not satisfied. On my word, by all that I do hold of the cave, which was a spaIt seemed to me that I must come trance sacred, by my love for you, Kate, I as cious The one, they spoke. beauty back and search again. I could not of the woman in that soft light was will not speak unless In some way you believe it possible that you were dead, so intense that it cast over Langford give me leave. really dead. Something in my heart, a So help you God! said the woman spell. He heard the sound of her at any rate, brought me back once solemnly not did but heed what she said. more to see the place where you had voice, So help me God! replied the man he caught her in his arms. lived if no more than that. We made Suddenly with equal gravity. we are he alone here Kate, cried, the island early in the morning. The And now you must go. am I and is master. That my ship yacht lies yonder. I came ashore a I have one request to make of moment since and some kind Provi- yonder. I can have you bound hand you, Kate, before I go, said Langford. and foot and take you aboard of her. dence led me first of all to this spot. I If I can grant it, you may be aswill are I am that that you say mad, I entered the cave. I saw you lying taking you back to the United States sured I will. there In the cool darkness. I thought to It is very easy. Will you stay in your friends. You must come back I you dead at first. Then cried to you this cave for two hours? I cant let you go. me. with and you moved. And then I touched I have no watch, said the woman, Valentine, said the woman, quietyour hand. ,0 Kate, thank God I have but I will guess the time as best I if you do not instantly release ly, found you! can. Where Is he! said the woman. me, I will kill you where you stand. Then, said the man, go down to You don't realize how strong I am. come he back? didnt Why the beach. The yacht will be gone. See! It was a cruel thing to say, but she Valentine," said the woman, you With a quick, sudden movement she could no more have helped it than dont mean to stay here on the with arms his free her hands caught she could have helped her breathing. To her island?" Not to have said it would have killed and literally tore them apart. I would stay gladly, returned the lithe and she added vigorous body her, for if Langford's love could turn and which determination made spirit him back, what should be said then of more than a match for the Charnocks. Langford was pale and her indeed broken man before somewhat slender, had suffered. He haggard. He, too, her. was paying for his sins. He was exYou see, she cried. She stood bepiating them and feeling it, although him and the doorway, one hand tween was not helping her. the expiation 1 What of him? she asked insist- outstretched, the fingers open. could kill you before you left this ently. You to!d me that you had sent What matters about him? he said cave. your men back to the ship and that had his chance. He "lie bitterly.' you were alone upon the island, and I failed to grasp it. Hes gone. hide where I hid before and The man did not tell her that Char- could would find your dead body here nock had been carried away a sense- they the sands. That would be all. less log, bereft of power to think or upon me if you wish, said the man Kill speak, or move, or feel, by the shock recklessly. I dont care. Perhaps of her departure. would be the better way. that Once, said the woman, you had No, said the woman, I respect your chance in the cabin of that very you too much for that. and out to failed you yonder yacht "Respect me? grasp it and we separated. Yes. You have shown me what Yes, said the man, I know that, are by what you have done, all I realize that now, and I came back. you but this mad action of a moment I have come back to take my chance since, and I can understand that, my again. for I too love, and it seems to And so he may come back, said friend, I would brook anything, evme that You sank lower than the woman. erything, for one moment like that he. we And I rose higher the other day you fain would have enjoyed. But savare not children, neither are we upon the sand. like beasts of prey. I forYou did. hut not high enough. I be- ages to act I trust you. She came you, give lieve in him. He will realize it, too, upon she went on, all the confidence of her close to him I and laid her hand his arm. you, I admire respect into life and again hopes springing ! giving force and power to her voice you said the man, but Everything, and bearing. And you condemn me for that one love me. mistake? said the man. Everything but that," assented the No, returned the woman, neither woman quietly. I shant offend again," returned will I condemn him for that one misthe man. Neither by force nor pertake. suasion can I effect anything. Kate, But he's gone, I tell you. come he said after another pause, And he will come back, I know. back to the United States or to some He thinks you dead." civilized land. The world is before So did you. you. I will land you where you please But I came back, not he. said and give you or lend you money You were your own master, You could go enough to enable you to get where you the woman swiftly. where you pleased. He was subject like. You shall be on the yacht to me to the decision of others. I trust him as my sister. It cant be, said the woman. Dont still. ' Cimjs Townsend y Brady . other, if I thought that I were welcome, but I know that cannot be. I will said the woman. wait, Good-bye- ! She extended her hand to him. He seized it in his own trembling grasp and kissed it. He remained a moment with his lips pressed to her hand and she laid her other hand upon his bended head. He heard her lips mur- muring words of prayer. He released her hand, stooped lower, laid something at her feet, turned and resolutely marched out into the sunlight. The woman' lifted her hand, the hand he had kissed. It was wet with tears. The man had left her with a breaking heart. She sat down upon the sand to think her thoughts during her two hours wait. Her bare foot touched something metallic. She bent It was his over and picked it up. watch. He had placed it there. The simple kindness, the spontaneous generosity of the little action moved her as had not all his pleas, and she mingled her own tears with his upon her hand. She looked at the watch after a while and found that more than two hours had elapsed, nearly three. The latter part of the time had fled swiftly in thoughts of him. She was hungry and thirsty, too. It was noon. She went out on the sands. The yacht was nowhere to be seen. She could not have gotten below the horizon. She divined that he had sailed around the island and away in that direction. There was a pile of boxes and things on the sand above the high water mark. She stepped toward it and opened one of the sea chests. It was filled with books and papers, a strange collection. He had ransacked the yacht for her. Another chest contained provisions with which she had long been unfamiliar. There were toilet articles, pieces of cloth, writing paper, pencils, a heaping profusion of all that he fancied she might need, that might afford solace and companionship to her and alleviate the loneliness of those hours. In her heart she thanked him, and lifting up her hands, she blessed him again. He had made life possible and tolerable to her. She could write, she could read, she could sew. And all this while she could hope and dream. CHAPTER XXIII. A Great Purpose. - Late springtime in old Virginia. The climate was not unlike that of the island during the cooler portions of the year, thought the man, standing on the old brick porch of the couse set upon a hill overlooking the pale green waters of Hampton Roads, which stretched far eastward past Newport News and Old Point Com-jfoto the blue of the Chesapeake and ar beyond that to the deeper blue of he ocean. Back of him a thousand eagues of land and more than a thousand leagues of sea intervened between him and the object of his thoughts. Not for a day, not for an hour, scarcely for a moment even was that Island out of his mind. There was pleasure and pain in the recollection of it. Upon the man's face a stern had settled. Not the meian-holof ineptitude and indifference, not the melancholy that made him do nothing, unmindful of the large issues if life in which he had been suddenly plunged, not the melancholy that his activities, but the melancholy that comes from the presence in the hea'rt of an unplucked sorrow that neither time nor chance nor occupation could uproot; a melancholy that came high-pillare- d rt mel-inchoi- y from the sense of bereavement ever growing more keen and more poignant as the period of bereavement lengthened and which sprang from a and consciousness of imperfections failures for which no after achievement could atone. It had not been difficult to establish his rights. Whittaker and the chapHe did things slowly, not because lain, armed with the depositions, had taken the man across the continent that was his nature, but from an inwhen the ship had been put out of vincible determination to do things commission at San Francisco, and pre- right. He made his plans deliberately sented him to his uncle, the Charnock and had formulated an enterprise so in residence in that great house on comprehensive in its scope, so vast in the Nansemond shore overlooking that its outlay and with such infinite possiestuary of the Janies by Hampton bilities of help to the poor, the classes of Roads. The old man, childless and wretched, the alone, had welcomed him gladly. The society, that when the foreshadowings newcomer was of the Charnock blood. of it were announced, people stood It was a strange moment for the Is- amazed. An undertaking so great was lander when they took him into the not within the power even of Charand showed him nock. His resources were utterly ungreat draw'ing-roor- a the pictures of his father and of his equal to it, but he had enough to make mother. He was the living image of a magnificent beginning and by devothe man, tempered with some of the ting to it the whole revenue of his esmothers swreetness. This remarkable tate, and the estate itself after he likeness indeed he was not unlike died, gradually the enterprise would his uncle as well coupled with the be achieved. There was no necessity for secrecy material proofs, the ring, the Bible, the evidence of the ship, together with about it. Indeed with that simplicity what was known, removed every lin- and candor so unusual and so uncongering doubt from the minds of those ventional, which touch with the world had never been able to alter, he had most concerned. The family was reduced to those spoken of his plans without reserve two, the uncle and the nephew. The and he had declared with equal frankold man formally and legally recog- ness that what he was doing was In nized the relationship and offered to memory of the noblest and the truest transfer the property rightfully his, of women, to whom he owed It that which since the discovery of coal had he was a human being and not an aniincreased enormously in value, to the mal. Whittaker, of whose judgment he newcomer, but Charnock would have none of it then. He recognized his thought highly and with desert, was unfitness to deal with such things. If called from the naval service to be the older man would retain It, he the executive head of the great uncould give it to him at his death. dertaking. The spiritual work was to Meanwhile he could teach and train be placed in the hands of the chaplain him how to use it. Bereft of his one who had so endeared himself to the and deviser of it all. Charguide, his one inspiration in life, he promoter would need wise counsel and careful nock realized that these men who had known Katharine Brenton would enter leading indeed. more sympathetically into his views In addition to the formal recogniand could be depended upon to carry tion, the elder man legally adopted the them out in case anything happened and him constituted heir the younger to him. He and his uncle and one or to his own property which was almost two others of excellent judgment as extensive and as valuable as that whom he had met, were associated which rightly belonged to the nephew. with the two mentioned to carry out Charnock could not have fallen into all the founders plans. was hands. Education his better first was not done in a this Now, thing requirement and he applied himself corner. The news of It was carried to it with a fierce energy and a grim over the United States and spread determination which presently, from even to foreign lands. The world read the splendid foundation which had it and marveled again. A newspaper been laid enabled him to progress sufcarrying an account of it fell under ficiently to take his place and hold the eye of a lonely man in San Franhis own with men and women. It was cisco, .who had just returned ioam impossible to keep secret forever the .long voyage n a bi The details of such a story as his, es- name Charnock his eye caught first; pecially when it was linked with a and then saw the name of name so famous and still remembered the womanLangford he loved. He read with as that of Katharine Brenton, and it as none could avidity, appreciating had been decided by Capt. Ashby and better do than he from his trained man himself that business acumen the Whittaker and the and yet scope such portions of It as would suffice the of the undertaking. He to explain his own presence and her had feasibility wondered what would fate should be given to the world. Upon be the career ofcynically man in the Unithe thus afforded ro- ted States. He knew the the foundation value, as mance builded. Charnock immediately did business man, especially evevery became a marked man. He would have ery man with large transportation inbeen a marked man In any event from terests like of the Charnock eshis, the financial power that he possessed. tate. He would have wagered that His uncles management had been wise Charnock would lose his head as and prudent, he had spent little and ninety-nin- e men out of a hundred had saved much, so that Charnock would have done, and that intoxifound himself the possessor of vast cated the sudden touch of the riches in the form of available capital. materialbyworld which was at his feet, Among the first things he learned he would have gone the usual pace; was the power of money. Had he not and he would have won his wager been steadied by. the memory of the had it not been for the immortal woman, he would probably have memory woman of the they learned It to his sorrow. As It was, he both loved, he felt enough bitterly was almost miserly. He spent little upHe sat alone In his office in the on himself. His wants were astonishbuilding and pondered over the great ingly few and contact with the world account in the paper. He had been did not develop extravagant ideas. mistaken in the man. He was really Those were things which he was too worth while. He was worthy of the old to learn, against which he had woman. If he had not sworn an oath, been anchored. He was saving what his word He hesitated, smilhe had and w'hat he could get for given The woman alone could ing bitterly. some great purpose, a purpose of help, release him. Should he sail down to of assistance in which he could com- the island with that paper and tell memorate her name, for which future that story. He had waited too long. generations should rise up and call The army surgeons of Alaska had her blessed. told him the brutal truth; that he had He had long talks with his uncle but a few months to live and that if about it. The old man would fain he had to do before he went have had his nephew marry and carry out into anything the beyond, he had better do on the ancient line. Delicately,, tenit quickly. No, he could not go down derly, he broached the subject after a there and tell her and get released time, hut the suggestion met with ab- from his promise. Women interested solute refusal. Yet how Charnock would revel in Charnock as men did. Indeed his innews as he, and he alone, could terest in his kind was intense. The such him. He loved the woman and give intellectual stimulus of conversations he hated the man. He could not bear with bright, intelligent people was the most entrancing result of his contact to think that the man should have was denied him. He could not with the world. But none of them what to think of the woman he loved touched his heart. That was buried on bear in anothers arms. And yet he loved that gemlike island in the far off sea the woman. As he pictured Charnock He was a man of unusual force of so he pictured Kate sad, frethappy, character, prompt and unyielding out her life on that island as he ting His uncle had not lived his had fretted out his on the ship. And long life without being able to esti- he could make her happy by a word mate men. He recognized very early if he broke his oath and wTas false to in the undertaking the futility of arthe plighted word he had given her. gument, and though he tried finesse in Should he do it for her sake? Would he presence of the wittiest, the clev-ues- she forgive him? He would be past and most beautiful women of when she knew. forgiveness Virginia and elsewhere, for the two BE CONTINUED.) (TO raveled the United throughout welcomed his ef States, everywhere, torts were unavailing. There was Starting a Rubber Plant. Rubber plants are usually started more than one woman who would have been glad to accept the mans by a method known as mossing. A uit; whom, if he had wooed ever so cut Is made in a young branch and a lightly he could have won, but he wedge put in it to keep the surfaces was friendly with everyone and in apart. A bunch of sphagnum moss is then fastened around the stem over ove with none. At the end of two years society gave the cut, the moss being kept wet. As him up as confirmed in his isolation soon as the young roots appear on the and loneliness. He was not the less outside of the moss'the young branch welcome, but he was no longer a is cut off and potted up. Ficus elastica, the rubber plant of matrimonial possibility, nor was he our houses, must produce seed in its wonder more the that he had any been. New things engrossed public home, tropical Asia, but it does not atThe world presently took tain a size sufficient under cultivation attention. Charnock as he would fain have It in greenhouses to do so often. St Nicholas. take him. as a matter of course. down-trodde- n nni-ma- t, |