Show IN IN bi SINNERS B 1 LN min ISY CLIVE ARDEN av vve it goan go AN ewa A continued from lait last week rion i wn i up imaginary horror horrors she drew away looking around the lay bay with ith the game same pathetic helpless neis that had struck him so poignantly i n christmas eye I 1 oh h elie she muttered I 1 it Is in a terrible problem I 1 it if only there were yere somebody outside it all to help I 1 I 1 alo so f tid our very love loi a may guide us no be he said quickly luick ly it boat because it te to love not that other word beginning with the aade letter be idee aides it Is the motive of the heart which count in all problem problems she turned away covering her tier face with her tier hands what can we do dot nhat cal we ie do dot the tile word came brokenly pa to the other outcast from froin all law lie ile mas cons conscious dous tonight more than er eer beame of t cheh grow ing dominant apel of each other had he striven in his ills old arrogance the slie would not he knew have liae resl resisted sed hi his appeal but the erent great keynote wo wai tuning his nature as uell a as lion liers all the chivalry latent in his ills being rose rome to 11 bs Is heart casting out nut bargion with infinite delicacy lie went to her and pa put q t lit a a anna about her we are down among the deep chord chords together now he whispery d but te together gether alais together anith jtb a clinking cli oking cry ehe she turned and flung herself upon his ills breast clinging to him the only bulwark of her tier life 1 I can aunt t decide et oh I 1 I 1 can cant t decide I 1 cant decide anil bhe burst into u passion of tears air tile man nian with the divine instinct of now awakened realized acutely all thai that the girt girl was buffering suffering he lie held her quivering form close saying nothing there was nothing he could eay may her ovi own n soul must n nw iw fight light out this ba je between the bd uld instincts of a life lifetime tine and those of a world beyond reach of civilized rule presently when ben she grew calmer he lifted her bodily and carried her into the but lie placed her upon her bed then knelt for a moment and laid his hi check to liers hers the rhe decision lies in bour a hande hands he wid come and tell me when you know kiko alien he roe to his feet lingering beside amr for a time a world of almost maternal tandem ss in hij ready regard but the bile made no cieply with J h lifted her bodily and carried hr her ft h little ittle gesture ot of be turned and walked back to the lagoon croft in old dais das could not have been baten called a strongly sexed inan man all the vitality of ills lils kiture vent ment into other channels now ahen for or the first time camelon bad come to him it found lilia him bereft of all those other outlets to his ills abundant energy it shook him min with fierce Inte in the past his whole concentration every ounce 0 of f brain and strength had been given to his ills work and intentions ow the same splendid forte tome welling melling up and voa concentrated lipon upon woman a channel ct annel half closed against aali him bim halt closed caused more torture than it if it had been entirely hut shut and barred fate god m ft hat ever the unseen rower was wa failed called had hurled them man and woman together in tills this isolation why by all that was nas sacred should they r preast slat the la law t Lider tying nis ills creat loul must ilia ills p imal laws be set aside because those made by man now mere more chi chimera meram were ab arnt antt it mas absurd quixotic annec essary but beneath the velvet glove gloe of nature ilea iles the iron band behind her smiling face sits trim grim severity these more than any scruples caused him to paul pause lie ai who bad ever corned ob stacle ta elee now faced them appalled lie who had never known fear was now afraid ile who bad had ever seized what h be da tired wed now stood aside and waited walled a must d declue ti to that amid the turmoil of his borit be clung there must never be coercion cor cion she waa was no eagling ea kling not until fhe site daw saw the path clear before her bould ehe the move loov an inch that he kne knew well no sign in came from the hut but althin continued on page four SINNERS 10 III HE 1 continued from froin paja pa 2 3 its inert bead head buried burled ii i outstretched hutst etched armb u lay tie arb artian bid wa fute and her own oun in a grea gre awful loneliness of soul such ai u biad md noer imagined be tle the greatest question noman a called upon to anaver an the mo cre ere quite close now but tb th pro preached ached them without shrIn kul desirous of finding the across to her belo beloved ed she d L blind herself she had content marriage before A aware are of all ian it to a oman in civilization nov contemplated it ehorn shorn of all li bt t turea ur e Is onn sublimely terrible y contemplated the years ahead vi IL po of other lives besides be silde an reverberation sl 1 when one irrevocable chord I 1 a the reverberations roll on ani ad echoing all around sv so that god godri Ilari nony may way be marred orpe can one always tell which it vl wl both met next day heavy eyel eyed a sleepless night but each tw to allu allude dato to the fact act thet they little making but a pretense abitt t as After afterward alvin fetched live bow and arr aw arrn N va Vs continued next week |