Show LILLIAN tt w ar r EP I 1 1 SYNOPSIS 11 at a veatry meeting of the market church gall sargent tells rev smith boyd that market square church Is a lucrative business enter prise takes gall riding in his motor car she finds cold disapproval in the eyes ot rev smith coyd allason gitarts a campaign tor consolidation and control of the entire transportation system of the world gall becomes popular gains control of transcontinental and arranges to absorb the ed der court tenement property ot market square church gall tells coyd that the cathedral market square church proposes to build will be out ot profits wrung from squalor at a meeting of the seven dinani caal magnates of the country allason or the international transportation company rev smith bod undertakes gall a spiritual instruction and gall unconsciously aliea a hint that solves the vedder court problem or him on an inspection trip in allason s new sub way the tunnel caas in and imprisons the party who are rescued by the exer tlona of and boyd the newspaper accounts ot the subway accident place gall in the and drive her to her home in the attest her friends send dick rodlee to lure gall and arly back to new wk and he succeeds CHAPTER XV continued tho wide set sanitary policeman paused in his survey long enough to wag a thick at the outraged leaseholder don t ecart anything he advised there s some tough mugs in this block but you eo down to the places I 1 ve been and boull find that they re all cleall with these te simple remarks he turned hla back to mr rogers and hold of the car pet in the corner with his fingers he lifted it up by the roots there s no use buckan the govern ment mr rogera decided after a critical study 0 the sanitary police reans back which was extremely am pree sive it s a government of the rich tor the rich has a poor man cot any abow im a capable station ary engineer all I 1 ask Is a chance to work at my trade this by an afterthought it give me two dollars to tide me over ROT smith doyd stepped out of the way of the policeman and then stepped out of the door and you call yourself a minister of the gospel 1 mr rogers yelled after him that was a sample of the mornings woric and rev smith boyd felt more and more as he neared luncheon time that he merited some consideration it only for the weight ot the cross he bore there were worse incidents than the abuse of men like rogers there were the hideous sick to see and the genuinely distressed to corn fort and depthless misery to relieve and any day in vedder court waa a terrific drain both upon hia and his personal pocket he felt that this was an exception ally long day home in a hurry at twelve thirty A scrub a complete change of every thing and a general feeling that he should havo been sterilized and baked as well luncheon with the mother who saw what a long day this was then a far different type of calls in a sedate black car this time up along the avenue and in and out ot the clean side streets where there was little danger ot having a tire bunc aured by a wanton knife as so often happened tn vedder court away to vedder court again als missing his car at the door of temple mission and walking inside out of tan e of the leers of those senile old buildings but not out of the range of the peculiar spirit of vedder court which manifested itself most clearly to the olfactory sense the organ was playing when he entered and the benches were halt filled by battered old human remnants who pretended conversion in order to pick up the crumbs which fell from the table of market square church ing himself for weariness of the spirit and comforting himself with the thought that one greater than he had faltered on the way to golgotha he aaa on the little platform with a hymn book in his hand and when the prel udo was finished he devoted his won bertul voice to the blasphemy the organist a volunteer a little old man who kept a shoemakers shop around the corner and who played was pure 0 heart name the men with the roughhewn rough hewn coun cenance unfortunately not here today wea also sincere in an entirely un spiritual way but with these alons and himself of course the rector knew positively that there was not another calloused un creature in the room not ons who could be reached by argument sympathy or fearl they were past redemption every last man and woman and at the conclusion fit the hymn he rose to cast his pearls before swano without heart and with wit interest for no man Is interested in anything which cannot possibly be accomplished falth a feeling of mockery yet up held by the thought that he was bold lag out the way and the light dot only seven times but seventy times beven times to whatever shred or crumb of divinity might ie un suspect ed in these sterile breasts be strove to arouse enthusiasm a him self so that he might stir these dead ghosts even in some minute and re mote degree suddenly harsh and raucous voice interrupted him it was the voice 0 mr rogers and that gentleman who had apparently secured somewhere the two dollars to tide him over was now embarked on the tide he bad taken just enough drinks to make him ugly it that process were possible and he had developed a particularly strong resentment ot the latest inaus alce which had been perpetrated on him that injustice consisted of rev smith boyds refusal to lend him money till a week from next satur day night and he bad come to expose the rectors shallow hypocrisy this he proceeded w do in language quite insulted to the chapel of temple mis slon and to the ears of the ladles then present most ot whom grinned the proceedings which followed were but brief rev smith doyd requested the intruder to stop the in bruder had rights and be stood on theat rev smith boyd ordered him to stop but the intruder had a tree and independent spirit which forbade him to accept orders from any man rev smith boyd in the interests of discipline without which the dignity and effectiveness of the cause could not be upheld and pleased that this was so ordered him out of the room mr rogers with a flood of abuse which displayed some versatility in voted rev smith boyd to put him out and rev smith boyd did so it was not much of a struggle though mr rogers tore two benches loose on bis way and at the narrow door through alch it Is difficult to thrust even a weak man because there are so many arms and legs attached to the human torso he was compelled to practically pitch him headlong across the sidewalk and over the curb and into the gutter the victim of injustice arone slowly and turned to come back but bo parsed to take a good look at abe stalwart young perpetrator and remembered that he was thirsty rov smith boyd found himself standing in the middle of the sidewalk with fists clenched and his blood surg ing the atmosphere before his eyes seemed to be warm as if it were red bened slightly he was tingling from bead to foot with a passion which he bad and throttled and smothered since the days of bis boy hood H bad striven with a strength which was the secret of his compelling voice to drive out of him all earthly dross to found himself on the great example which was without the of the body he had sought ta make himself spiritual but all at once this conflict bad roused in him a raging something which swept j up from the very soles of his feet to his brain and called him man I 1 for a quivering moment he stood there alive with all the virility which was the richer lecause of his long re ho knew many things now many which ripened him in an instant and gave him the heart to touch and the mind to understand and the soul to flame he knew himself he knew life be knew yes and that was the won denul miracle ot the flood which poured in on him be knew lovel he reached suddenly for abts watch six ten H could make it I 1 still am polled by alla new creature which bad sprung up ia him ho started but at the curb stopped he had been in such a fit emotion that be had not realized realised reali sed the absence of hla bat he strode wo the mission door and the rain of tie declining sun glang dimly through the dingy glas tell on the scattered little asseph blage as it it had been sent to touch them in mercy and compassion on the weak and atie poor anaf the alte bously crippled of soul and a great wave ot shame came to him shame and thankfulness too he walked up to the plat form and turning to that reddened sunlight bathed his upturned face as if bifi a benediction be said in a voice which in its new sweetness p vibration stirred even the murky depths of these the numb let us pray CHAPTER XVI the creed of gait who was that tall severely correct gentleman waiting at the station with a bunch of violets in his hand and the light in his countenance which was never on sea or land it was gerald fosland and be astonished all beholders by his extraordinary conduct As the beautiful arly stepped through the gates be advanced with an entirely unrepressed smile springing troia he hallo 0 his feet with a anoy ancy too active to be quite in good form he took arly s hand in his but he did not bend over it with his cus ternary courteous gallantry instead be drew her slightly towards him with a firm and deliberate movement and bending bis head the brim of her bat kissed her kissed her on the immediately thereafter he gave dignified welcome to gall and arly s ann clutched tightly lh bla own he then disappeared As they rallied rapidly away arly looked up at him in bewilderment then eho suddenly hugged herself closer to him with a jerk As they went out through the carriage entrance she skipped it was good to see allason All lson big strong forceful typical of the city and its mighty deeds his eye had lighted with something more than pleasure as gall stepped out through the gates of the station something BO infinitely more than pleasure that her eyes dropped and her hand trembled as she felt that same old warm thrill of his clasp he was so overwhelming in bis physical dominance he took im mediate possession of her standing by while she greeted her uncle and aunt and other friends and beaming with justifiably proud proprietorship gall bad laughed as she recognized that attitude allason was really a big man one born to command to sway things to move and shift and rearrange great forces and that of course was his manner in everything she flushed each time she looked in his direction for be never removed his gaze from her bold confident su preme when a man like that Is kind and gentle and considerate when be Is tender and thoughtful and full of devotion he is a big man rev smith boyd was at the steps of the sargent house to greet her and her heart leaped as she recognized another of the dear familiar faces this was her world after all adt that world of her childhood how differ ent the rector looked 0 was it that she bad needed to go away in order to judge her friends anew his eyes were different deeper steadier and more penetrating into her own and yes bolder she was forced to look away from them tor a moment there seemed a warm eagerness in his greet ing as it everything in him were draw ing her to him with a rapidity which was a marvel to all her girl friends gall had slipped upstairs and into a creamy lace evening frock without having been missed and she was in this acutely harmonious setting when rev smith boyd called with his beautiful mother on bis arm the beautiful mother was in an exceptional flurry of delight to see gall and kissed that charming young lady with clinging warmth the rectors eyes were even more stalk angly changed than they had been when be had first met her on the steps as they looked on gall in her creamy lace and after she had read that new intense look in his eyes for or a quivering moment he stood there the second time that evening she hurried away with the license of a busy hostess and cooled her face at an open window in the side vestibule there was a new note in rev smith boyds voice not a greater depth nor mellowness nor sweetness but a something else what was it it was a call that was it a call across the gulf ot futurity they came after her ted and lu die had arrived she was in a vortex dick rodley hemmed her in a corner and proposed to her again just tor practice within eyeshot of a dozen people and he did it so that onlookers might think that he was compliment ing her on her clever coiffure or discussing a new operetta but he made her blush which was the intention in i the depths ot his black eyes it seemed that she was in a perpetual blush to night and something within her seemed to be surging and baiting and wavering and quivering t her aunt helen davies rather early in the evening began to act stiff and formal go home she murmured to luclle all this excitement is bad for galls beauty after that the exodus became gen oral until only allason and rev smith boyd remained the latter young gen aleman had taken his happy mother home early in the evening and be bad resorted to dullness with such ot the thinning guests as had seemed disposed to linger aunt helen thought she had better go upstairs after that and she glanced into the music room as she passed and knitted her brows at the tableau rev smith doyd who seemed ally fine looking tonight stood leaning against the piano watching gall with an almost incendiary gaze that young lady steadily resisting an am pulse to eel her cheek with the back ot her band eat on the end of the piano beich farthest removed from the rector and directed ano most of her attention to alason who was less disconcerting allason All lson casting an occasional cas ional glance at the intenzo young rector seemed preoccupied tonight and mrs helen dadles pausing to take her sister grace with her walked up the stairs with a forefinger tapping at her well shaped coln she seemed to have reversed places with her als ler tonight tor mrs sargent was su happy while helen dadles was doing the family worrying she could have bidden allason adieu had she waited a very few minutes he was a man who had spent a lifetime in two and two together and he abided unwaveringly by hla deductions duct ions there was no mistaking the nature of the change which was so apparent in rev smith boyd but aall son after careful thought on the mat ter was able to take a comparatively early departure see you tomorrow gall he observed finally rising be crossed to where she sat and reaching into her lap he took both her bands he let her arms swing from his clasp and looking down into her eyes with sall ing regard be gave her hands an extra pressure sent tor the bun dreith time that night a surge of color over her face rev smith boyd blazing down at that scene suddenly felt something crushing under his band it was the light runner board of the music rack and three hairs which bad lain in placid place at the crown of his head suddenly popped erect ten thousand years before had these three been BO grouped allison would have felt a stone ax on the back of his neck but as it was he passed out unmolested i nodding carelessly to the young rec tor and bestowing on gall a parting look which was the perfection of easy assurance rev smith boyd wasted not a aln ute in purposeless hesitation or idle preliminary conversation gaall he said in a voice which chimed of all the love songs ever writ ten which vibrated with all the love passion ever breathed which pleaded with the love appeal of all the daml nant forces since creation gall had resumed her seat on the end of the piano bench and now he reached down and took her band and held it unresisting she was weak and limp and she averted her eyes from the burning gaze which beamed down on her her breath was fluttering and the hand which lay in her lap was cold and trembling gall I 1 love you he bent his bead and kissed her hand the touch was fire and she felt her blood leap to it gall dear and bis voice was like the suppressed cres cendo of a tremendous organ flute 1 I come to you with the love of a man I 1 come to you with the love of one |