Show A av V W 4 aea en V N 1 I 1 I r BY F if LANCASTER A 1902 by dally daily starr S tors pub co and beca hecatombs tombs of doves were slain upon the altars of aphrodite for the greeks admired this goddess of love and made dally daily sacrifices to 4 her aa the student leaned back and closed her book unwillingly her fingers ca resting ita its covers while her eyes wandered to the sunset beginning to glow among the pines As she gaab 1 an odd smile twisted her lips in these later days we sacrifice not only doves but eagles she murmured dreamily then with sudden Pas passion slon oh lob love what monstrous murders are committed dally daily in your name murder of mind and moral morall 1 7 ito fe after otter life broken and bruised at ii or far breast her brows knitted slowly and again that odd smile crept to her lips two years ago helen nord noril had found herself alone in the world that bhe she was penniless had not troubled her she knew of a place where abe could lire live on ten dollars a month and save money moreover sho she fancied that she the could go to that place and aake make taa th ten dollars it was in the pino pine barrens of south there were a couple of small public schools lying a few miles apart one of which was vas taught in summer ind nd one in winter each having a term of four months and paying about a hundred dollars per term when she applied to the county superintendent forin formation he gave her besides a bit ot of advice three bits teach the 4 schools honestly keep jour our mouth chut shut dont flirt with the girls sweethearts she thanked him feeling the avice to be bound sound and went away to scow lalow it aa As teachers go she had bad been sue she held her schools against all and had a bundled dollars in bank end her pupils without the aid ald of chart ll 11 agram or blackboard were steadily acquiring a sound english 4 lish education 01 1 for two years she bad had boarded at six ix dollars per month dressed plain worked hard bard and studied she had bad sra gratified tilled her hearts aestrea and was wag 11 happy woman dooka books banked up stead 1 ly ir la in her ll 11 altie ie room books tb that at she bad had yearned all her life to possess and she lead sead them over and over in the long delicious hours after her days work wat done aone two years of eden and lo 10 the serpent she had paid small attention when ho he first entered her garden only by decrees had it dawned upon her that lawag like young david strong of body and with a ruddy countenance good to look took upon later on she noted that he neither drank nor swore that ho be kent his nails in order and was always neat he lie lived ab ILL the house where she boarded and brought her mall from the faraway post ofa ora a flee he ile was always polite was wa this cajan calanborn anborn bom Dont Doni clan yet his presence prea ence troubled the fair young teacher vague ly he interfered with her stud studies les and she resented the interference tut the sunset slow was waz arding while bhe dreamed of and her doves what whitt was aphrodite to her or the doves dreadful melancholy birds that made even the glad pine woods Ino mournful with their plaintive cooing helen laughed a little as the put away her much loved books na nd went out into the bold fresh air for that delightful halt half hour between the lights she threw throw back her tired shoulders and drank in deep breaths of vigor glorying in the pride of youth standing between me fading 0 o alow and the brightening f i leahj of tac the rising moon appropriate 4 an r tho the student leaned back and closed her book unwillingly ing the grandeur and understanding nothing seeing in the light tipped pines only glorified pride blind to the serenity that la to born of suffering deaf to the note of sadness madness that thrilled through their melodious lous chanting to her bar only a burst of deep throated triumph lilien toddle enough in the midat midst of these rhaen vibrations of her soul came the practical reflection 1 I can live on ten dollars a month find aud save money and I 1 can make the tn tov ours she dropped her eyes N ii wj from the dreste and saw donacian Donl Don clan Ician before ber her I 1 1 I fin some mall for you at tho the office miss helen ifo ile spoke with a I 1 slight accent in a 91 voice deep toned and mu musical helen started and her nerves quivered oh ob thank you so 50 much she took the mall and their hands bands touched the young fellow colored slowly but ehe she tried not to see thank you eo to much bhe repeated with tense civility not tall he returned lifting his hat and moving away he ile waa was every inch a man was at donacian Dool Don clan ician in spite of hie his predilection for blushing helen stared down at the little packet ot of mall and caw saw instead a small cotta cottage se furnished cosily costly with that hundred dollars in bank it was unfortunate that hundred dollars in that it formed a solid foundation for a temptation that must have ot otherwise berwise have remained chimerical por for an hour she struggled with it bitting sitting in the dark in her little ten arr b ten room then eho the laughed an echo of that slighting laugh with which eha she had put away her books and struck a light sho she had forgotten her maill presently a crisp bit of paper A 4 44 1 4 1 I love you miss MIS helou tia right you should know cracked between her fingers her first check ambition leaped up wildly poor Donl Doul clant alas for the doves 01 0 aphrodite poor Donl Doni clan he ile eat sat on a saw log in tho the moonlight wrapped in n t dream as warm as heaven his Ills breath came unsteadily drep ana and quivering hie ilia fingers still felt th the touch of hers his ilia ears still throbbed d ti 0 that unconsciously caressing thank you ho ile had forgotten its call poor Donl clan ing cr that seated that had unceremoniously over ovet the pleasant things ot 01 ivr wr afe lie nou noth ing in of 0 that bit of ot crisp paper with n few figures in one corner comer had be he seen it he would not have uri understood ler yet it was the death warrant signed and sealed for his bin happiness why should he suspect tho the existence of such thugs to him the fair fared young tea her was as a dainty wim wild flower dower half halt open in n the early dew he lie sat on in his warm dream of beav enborn en eti born happiness la in the I 1 resistless less might of his strong hearted love helen nord was right in these later days eagles are frequently sacrificed upon tho the altare altars of aphrodite the next evening abea she carried her ambition out in the forest that it might soar bold and unrestrained as the breath of the plies helen saw him bim coming toward her over tae sout needle needles strong and happy hearted he along bearing the beauty of a greek god upon his brow A 4 strange reeling fear seized upon the womans heart sho she sat down weak inert upon a fallen trun and stared miserably at the dead straws Donl Doni clan came du swiftly he ile bared bis his held he ld as he sat down beside her any ant mall for me today to day dayt she questioned falling dismally in her effort to appear unconcerned no he said softly had he kissed her the caress could scarcely hae been more endearing helen flung up her head desperately her choice had come to her in narrow lines IOTO levo or ambition aphrodite demanded a sacrifice should it bo be dove or eagle alas for the dove the ambition that had ridden rough shod over all the pleasant things of fe to vas not to be unseated by lia ra plaintive pleading spoke with manly elm sim 1 I lore lare you miss helen ITIs right you should know thank you eho she muttered incoherently she was plunging wildly q the strain of stern asceticism in her blood it seemed such a sense less eaic two spotless spot fesa doves for one wild fagle eagle then the old came again upon hor her eyes she saw herself aa as she abe would bea proud tree free woman working her way up ln into the hish white light 1111 II ja I 1 ad sh ho tried tn make it easy for or him we wt no talk of such things thing you and 1 I at donalan Don Doni klan clan she sod imond him lest test she should Ks that in hill hl wonderful eyes that would haunt all her after days it was an altce seary caution he fie was not the mot to barn bare his wounds 1 I 1 iv sou he eald said with quiet in els sla tenca tence 1 I can make male you happy I 1 yea yes aha she returned suddenly con salou of extreme weariness yee yes t knew nut it must not be 1 I 1 I have other work to do Donit dunklan lan hesitated a moment as though unwilling to believe that hie his glad dream nas as shattered aten two people love one another they belong to each other for all time Is ig it not so ho he asked tenderly and his eyes compelled ahra ht rs to meet them in one brief truth telling glance no it la fit not so not always she stammered hurriedly it must not be she started to her feet but hie his hand checked her flight walt he eald said 1 I will go she watched him move away far ther and farther his upright swift moving figure glancing at rare and rarer Inter intervale between the tree trunks she turned and fled goaded by intolerable pain and the pines were left alone in their eternal serenity chanting the lequier over the fall tali white doves of aphrodite |