Show 1 AT LIFES CROSSROADS l A romance of Carmel by the Sea Written for the Utah Independent M by Wanda A. Hi m from last Now she remembered with a clear Jg the innumerable blessings granted her every she began to 5 jee glory She began to realize the gratitude man should feel his extended observation into the f the she thought of r low all even to the lowest and most are enveloped in that f Stupendous nobly planned by a fast Nowhere could she r fook that she did not see His Divine she tory of ages past might the existence of a but Koday was the living woman had unknowingly Faxe m- ap an overpowering and she seemed to see things for the first time as they really j was without be-H and without She felt j the spiritual influences surrounding felt herself sanely yielding to j their which spells in Its widest that perfect yielding which provides an astounding Presently in Divine exultation she to lose all weight of the the shackles of seemed temporarily removed suffused with a her soul seemed to rise and ethereally in J M This marvelous blending of the spiritual and the material convinced her of the security of an eternal was conscious of an inner a Holy the of the She knew now what this illumination meant that history I has recorded of all Everywhere she gazed was an added as she beheld a summer's day in its the benediction of the elements is upon she then stretched forth her arms and murmured Omnipotent and accept of the position of her woman's soul was in the attitude Bf K Thus was her recognition of that all-pervading Power that cheers and beyond our No more would that stumbling of weave around her its impenetrable which those prolonged periods of utter Bloom and p Comforting as an organized religion be to the to her this was it was a consciousness all the advent of a glorifying an actual she had received her and no human being could i take it from She remained quiet for a long time L the great world whirling imperiously through on through an eternity of and the wonder of it she was a part of that She laughed at the folly of striving to discover a solution to that great myth the future when man cannot grasp the meaning of today or recognize and absorb half the beauty of the present When she began to emerge from this peaceful this never-to-be-forgotten epoch in her she glanced down below her along the rocky cliffs and was startled to observe a man wending his way slowly up the tried to obscure herself from with the hope that he would pass without seeing but nearer and nearer he he seemed to be following the same zigzag path that she had Yesterday she would have been alarmed with a but all she felt was a trace of petulance at having her secluded nook invaded by and deplored having its sanctity violated facetious she primed herself for the resolving to tolerate his blustering presence until opportunity would afford an She leaned over the cliff and gazed eagerly In the vain hope that he would weary of the steep ascent and turn his steps toward the But on he still She had little thought of the man being any one who would hold her interest for even a passing and yet it was strange that this man should have had the desire in with herself to risk the hazardous climb for the sake of She had always felt so dif ferent from any person she had Was it possible that there was really someone who was a little like Now she was beginning to be concerned about his as she saw him leap from rock to on a shelf of rock which projected farther than the surrounding the man looked up and spied the He caught the eager expression before she had time to mask For an instant his face was all but it quickly changed to boyish With a wayward flourish he tore his hat from his pulled self together and with mock ceremony bowed low and but if I should be permitted to I should souls with but a single She was still leaning over the cliff as he spoke the and now knew she was expected to say something in but words failed and as she summed up the-situation it seemed indescribably and she burst into uncontrollable and the man As they both ceased for an instant the Innumerable echoes provoked by their simultaneous laughter was peculiarly like hundreds of little Imps mocking and as they heard the mirth burst forth The man's laugn was free and but evinced a perfect control of but the woman's was almost and when she had finished she was temporarily Such was their first meeting and asked permission to climb up on the ledge by her side and she gave for surely there could be no harm in a man with such a sense of humor as he had Just She bade him come with the freedom of good and he needed no second within a tew seconds he was flushed and by her There was a embarrassing it was different now that they were on the same Her first impulse was to laugh but after a studied glance at the man she did not She did not know but there was that In his countenance and manner that commanded respect and reverence would let him speak she so her eyes wandered out to the open sea and she began to wonder what his first would Presently he moved over by her side and looked out in the direction she was mystery is too occult for us to is it he erring to the have never attempted to fathom its she is enough for me to discover that It has a and yet what was once known as trackless Is now as clearly defined by voyagers as lo- cation is to those journeying on He agreed with and and although the beauties and various identifications that land travelers are permitted to view are not there i also the pleasing absence of de- pressing and unsightly landmarks that are forced upon the expectant traveler's vision on you crossed the she and he These words spread a veil of Interesting over the stranger iu the eyes of the you are not In a would you mind telling me something of your Traveling to the woman was a great which only the few are permitted to partake of during the course of a natural He consented with a showing of much and beginning with his earliest wanderings he retraced the paths of the past years with a studied eloquence entirely new to the Time idealizes records and and the earnest listener at his side induced the man to live again the labyrinthine maze of vicissitudes and pleasures that a wandering life had His discourse included 5 descriptions of visits to all parts of China and and He had become familiar with many the manners and customs of many people and the topography of many Especially did he interest his listener la the works of antique artists found in the old world Then he drifted to great opera and from thence to the woman's pet She had indulged her own tastes in this one direction it no and she convinced him with a child like vivacity that he was not alone in his appreciation of high class art and classic Long and earnestly did they French and Italian She expressed her with no uncertain conviction making known her special with a tragic and somewhat more consequently more weighed the pros and with more but with equal They finally struck upon that Inexhaustible which meant extended discussions of science and and circling to that ever Intensifying the why and wherefore of Wiio we where from and where Here circumstance showed a marvelous for although their ideas harmonized in their ultimate their methods of arriving there were widely divergent The man with every advantage that a college education a systematically trained with originality not one of the most brilliant of The woman contrasting whose development for the most part had been through reflection and whose method of reasoning was charmingly at variance with all given rules and They reviewed every time-worn authority and every prosaic and radical then began to propound their own Inner prompting and deep Into the profound realm of thought they a mental journey which would have been dangerous for the woman had she not been fortified by the experience of the previous They reached a point where rationality had often wavered and many minds had been she seem to wander far into the infinitudes of and I find myself lost In the stupendous magnitude of myriads of Divinely created and I am carried through an endless which bears Its penalty of and I to be invaded with a comforting thought of the fallacy of attempting to time and Man's limitations make of them phantasms at It is for us to rejoice in the blessings of in the fullness to rest serenely In the lap of like loving and She threw her hand out with a childish as though she had had enough of the too abstruse to and he concluded by seems obvious that a man should earn each bit of always coming to him when he is ready and never too and never too which seems the only way that one can appreciate even in a limited degree the magnificence of the handiwork of a Divine There was silence for a few The had entirely forgotten the theme of her writing on the paper she had placed in her The man leaned forward and touched it lightly with his does not look like a he I am She opened the papers and with a slight showing of is a bit of impromptu rhyme that I have fashioned from the fragments of an Indian legend picked up at my feet here on the read it to and although she was sure of its imperfections she read seemingly indifferent as to the impression it would be continued next |