rv COPYRIGHT 914 DY THE RED BOOK CORPORATION SYNOPSIS. wl frome vestry meeting of the Square church Gall Sargent tells Rev. Smith Boyd that Market Square church i8 apparently a. lucrative business enters prise. Allison takes Gall riding in motor car. She finds cold disapproval in the eyes of Rev. Smith B 0 Allison starts a campaign for conse vitdation and control of the entire transportation item of the world. Gall becomes popular Atl a traffic and arranges to absorb the Ved- der court tenement property of Market Bguare church. Gall tells Boyd that the cathedral Market Square church proposes to bulld will be out of profits wrung from squalor. At a meeting of the seven finan cial magnates of the country, Alllson or gantes the International Transportation company. Rev. Smith Boyd un rtakes Gail's spirftual | uction and Gail i+ consclously gives Allison a nt that solves the Vedder court problem for him. On an inspection trip in Allison's new sub. way the tunnel caves in and imprisons the party, who are rescued hy the exer tions of Alison and Boyd. The newspaper accounts of the subway accident place Gail in the spotlight and drive her to her home in the Wes Her friends send Dick Rodley to lure Gail and Arly back to New York, aud be succeeds, CHAPTER XV——Continued. The wide-set sanitary policeman paused in his survey long enough to wag a thick forefinger the outraged householder. “Don’t start anything” advised “There's some tough mugs in this block, but you go down to the places I've been, and you'll find that they're all clean.” With these few simple remarks tarned his back indifferently to at he he pet In the corner with his fingers, he lifted it up by the roots. “There's no use buckin’ ment,” Mr. Rogers decided, critical study of the sanitary man’s back, which was extremely im- pressive. “It's a government of the rich for the rich. Has a poor man got anv show? ary engineer. All 1 ask to work—at my trade.” afterthought. “If you'll dollars to tide Rev. Smith way of the sanitary then stepped out of “And you call yo the Geapel!” Mr. Rogers him. That was a sample work, and Rev Boyd felt more and more, ag he neared lun that he merited sor only for the we bore, ‘here FET than the abuse of men I there were the hideous sick to nd the genuinely distressed to com- fort, and depthless misery to and any day in Vedder court terrific drain, both upon his thies and his pers . He felt that this ally long day Home in a In scrub, a complete thing and should have as well. Luncheon with the who saw what a long day then a far different type of 2 sedate black car this time, the avenue, and in and clean side streets, where little danger of having tured by a wanton knife, happened in Vedder court. Away to Vedder after is a ¢ This Biv e by an me two ne ove r Boyd stepped out of the iceman, door, pol and the irsell ter of after a minis velled of the morning's Smith on time, fon, if of he cross he incidents ne considerat ieht IDE Rogers; soe relic was a sympa- ve, exception- rv af fweal ITTY a Welv ethirty. A change of a general feeling been steril that this calls; out of there was tire punc- as a court again, dis C.D.RHODES these dead minnte and re- self so that he might stir ghosts, even in some mote degree Suddenly 1 a harsh and raucous voice interrupted him. It was the Mr, Rogers, and that gentleman, had apparently secured somewhere the two dollars to tide him over, was now embarked on the tide. He had ugly, if that process were had developed a particularly which had been perpetrated on That injustice consisted of Rev. Boyd's refusal to lend him money till a week from next Satur day night; the rector's shallow hypocrisy. he proceeded to do, in language him. Smith This sion and to then present, The the ears of the ladles most of whom grinned which Smith to stop. and he proceedings Rev quested the intruder truder had rights them! Rev. Smith to stop; but the intruder had and independent spirit, The in- stood on a which forbade Rev, Smith discipline, and Boyd, in the without which the dignity effectiveness of the cause upheld, and pleased that this ordered him out of the room Mr, Rogers, with a flood of which displayed some versatility, vited Rev, Smith Boyd to put him out; | and Rev. Smith Boyd did so. It not much a struggle, though Rogers tore two benches loose on his way, and, at the which it is difficult weak man, arms and legs attach torso, of to thrust even ed to the human he was compelled to practically pitch him, headlong, across the and over the curb and gutter! side walk slowly, and turned he paused stalwart membe to come back, but a good look at the young perpetrator, and red that he wae thirsty Smith Boyd found in the middle of the sidewalk, with fists clenched and his blood surg The atmosphere before his eyes weemed to be warm, as if it were red dened slightly. He was tingling from head to foot with a sion which he had re and throttled and ered since the days of his boy He had striven, with which the . to drive to four which the himse to take Te Rev standing ing nrogaod pressed a strength of his ompelling all earthly the tl was voles dross, ecret great oe cravings of ke example was without body: he had if spiritual; but, flict had roused in to ma at once, this con rag something, yin the very soles iis twirling brain, and sant nan: sought all which swept of his uo | ap i called For a there, quivering moment he pression many instant, and gave him the heart touch and the mind to understand and the soul to flame. He knew himsel! he knew, yes, and that mission, and walking inside, out of range 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 en. tered, and the benches were half filled by battered old human remnants, pretended conversion in order to pick up the crumbs which fell from the table of Market Square church. Chid ing himself for wearidess of the spirit, and comforting himself with the thought that one greater than he faltered on the way to sat on the little platform, with a hymn | book In his hand, and, He reached suddenly for his watch Sixten. He could make it! in him, he started: but at He had been in ap realized the absence of his hat He strode into the mission door, and the rays of the declining sun, strug fell on the scattered little assem. -@a if it had been sent to touch them in mercy and ocompassion—on the weak and the poor and the pite ously crippled of soul; and a great wave of shame came to him; shame and thankfulness, too! He walked slowly up to the form, and, plat. derful voice to the blasphemy. The organist, a volunteer, a little old man who kept a shoemaker's shop around the corner, and who played sincerely in the name of haplutpess was pure of heart The men with the rough-hewn coun tenance, unfortunately not here today, wae also sincere in an entirely un spiritual way; but, with these excep tions, and himself, of course, the ree. tor knew positively that there was not another uncalloused creature in the ‘room not one who could be reached by argument, sympathy or fear! They were past redemption, every last man and woman; and, at the conclusion of the hymn, he rose to cast his pearls before swine, without heart and with out interest; for no man is interested in anything which cannot possibly be accomplished, With a feeling of mockery, yet up held by the thought that he was hold. ing oul the way and the light, uot only en times but seventy times seven Gimmes, to whatever shred or crumb of divinity might lie unsuspect ed in these sterile breasts, he strove to arouse enthusiasm in him: in a voice which, in its new sweetness of vibration, stirred even the murky depths of these, the numb: “Let us pray.” CHAPTER XVI. The Creed of Gail. 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 As the beautiful Arly stepped through the gates, he advanced with an en tirely unreprossed smile, springing from the balls of his feet with a buoy: 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 tomary courteous gallantry. lustead, he drew her slightly towards him, with a firm and deliberate movement, and, bending his head sidewise under the brim of her hat, kissed her; kissed her on the lips! Immediately thereafter he gave a dignified welcome to Gall, and with Arly's arm clutched tightly in his own, he then disappeared. As they walked rapidly away, Arly looked up at him in bewilderment; then she suddenly hugged herself closer to him with a Jerk. As they went out through the carriage entrance, she skipped. It was good to see Allison, 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 so infinitely more than pleasure that her eyes dropped, and her hand trembled as { she felt that same old warm thrill of { hia clasp. He was so overwhelming iu | his 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 had laughed as she recognized that attitude. Allison was really a | big man, one born to command, to { sway things, to move and shift and re- i arrange great forces; and that, of course, was his manner in everything | She flushed each time she looked in { his direction: for he never removed his gaze from her: bold, confident, su | preme. When a man like that { and gentle and considerate, { tender and thoughtful and { devotion, he {8 a big man indeed! Smith Sargent house to greet her, ther beart leaped as another of the dear { This was her world, | world of her childhood How ent rector looked; or she had needed to go away | to judge her friends anew? were different; more penetrating yes, bolder away from them for seemed 4 warm eagerne ing, as if everything | ing her to bim | With a rapidity | to all her girl friends, tairs and frock and sous when lis full of ley, | the shie familiar after all; differ the in order steadier her forced a moment, #8 in hi m deeper, into was own; and She to 8 greet in him were draw which was Gail into a creamy without having she in setting when ups lace eve. ning X | missed, was i | harmon Boyd called, on his arm. The beautiful mother lin an exceptional flurry gee Call, and kissed young lady with clin rector’s were changed than had first they looked lace, and intense this acutely Hev of delight t« that charming ging warmth. The even more sirik bad ber on the on Gall in ber ! had read after she in his eyes for look eyes they met ! ingly | when | steps, creamy that he as new For a Quivering Moment He Stood There. hostess, and cooled her face at an open window In the side vestibule. There was a new note in Rev, Smith joyd's volee; not a greater depth nor mellowness nor sweetness, but a something else. What was it? a call, that was it; gulf of futurity. They came after her. Ted and Lu cile had arrived. She was In a vortex, i Dick Rodley hemmed her in a corner, | and proposed to her again. just for 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 dis cussing a new operetta; but he made her blush, which was the intention in the depths of his black eyes. It seemed that she was in a perpetual blush to night, and something within ber seemed to be surging and halting and wavering and quiveriag! Her Aunt Helen Davies, rather sarily in the eve ning, began to act stiff and formal. “Go home,” she murmured to Lucile, “All this excitemest is bad for Gail's beauty.” After that the exodus became gen. eral, until only Allison and Rev. Smith Boyd remained. The latter young gen: tleman had taken his flutteringty hap- py mother home early in the evening, and be had resorted to dullness with such of the thinning guests as had seemed disposed to linger. Aunt Helen thought she had better £0 upstairs after that, and she glanced into the music room as she passed. and knitted her brows at the tableau Rev. Smith Boyd, who seemed unusu- ally fine looking tonight, stood leaning a call across the an almost incendiary gase. young lady. steadily resisting an im. pulse to feel her cheek with the back i the rector, and directed the most of her attention to Allison, who was less disconcerting. Allison, casting an oc casional glance at the intense young rector, seemed preoccupied tonight; and Mrs. Helen Davies, pausing to take her sister Grace with her, walked up the stairs with a forefinger tapping at her wellshaped chin. She. seemed to have reversed places with her sis ter tonight, for Mrs. Bargent was su- premely happy, while Helen Davies was doing the family worrying. She could have bidden Allison adieu had she waited a very few minutes He was a man who had spent a life time in linking two and two together and he abided unwaveringly by his de ductions. There was no mistaking the nature of the change which was so ap parent in Rev. Smith Boyd; but Alli son, after careful thought on the mat ter, was able to take a comparatively early departure, hie yased I'll gee you tomorrow, Gail,” ob served Rising, where she and, reaching he took both her hands He arms swing from his clasp, ooking down into with he gave her hands pressure, which sent, for dredth that night, a fa finally. he crs sat let her and her eyes smi! an exira the bun time 2. Rev, blazing Smith Beene, Ing light runner and three placid pla Boyd, suddenly felt under his hand It board of the m hairs, which had the crus! the ck lain in his head ped erect Ten thousand had these three been would was usie r : al crown of nly pop years befor the was he ing tor, and bes iook which stone ax on hack of his peck, HY it ed out unmol to the on Gall a perfection of jae {ea careless iv SOULE rec towing yas the Rev. Smith Beyd wasted hesitation preliminary conversation he said, in a voles il the Gail love song: vibrated with breathed, love ap immed of a ever writ which wll the love ten passion ever which with the peal of all the dom. creatl the nch and now took her hand since had resumed her seat on bye down and unresisting She was her which she averted ng gaze r Her hand which lay in and trembling wut hi bead and kissed The touch was fire, and to it Gall and burnt beame« tls lap “Galil, | love he breath was fl thie her Was blood leap valee was ¢ nid 3} t™ i ce i come me to red to o lay then are in tried to RB r i and Ince her h to the BOoBe and n his ire met being to her « all ing ose, § come, time to r Dam Simo stole an upward glance her beautiful her depthless Hoh face pale, and in with a new ithin her, though she dropp bent her head sti de herself an ete just then, had he i unspoken assent his arms, and breat InAn born w dance een forbic ang her in for woman, the love | 80 long as the human race shall en § plano bench farthest removed from He bent still all but enfolded breath was upon her cheek pathy which was between then bridged the narrow chasm of air, and enveloped them in an ethereal flame which coursed them from head to fool already nigh Welded them closer to her, so that her His warm into one “I need need you her. "4 sweet * he told wife, my I need you to you, Gail! to be my heart, my companion, go with me through life, to walk hand in hand with me about the greatest work in the world, the redemption of the fallen and helpless, into whose lives we may shed some of the beauty which blossoms in our own." There was a low cory from Gall, a cry which was half a sob, which came with a sharp intake of the breath, and carried with it pain and sorrow and protest. Bhe had been so happy, in what she fancied to be the near ful fillment of the promptings which had grown so strong within her. No surge of emotion like this had ever swopt over her; no such wave of yearning had ever carried her impetuously up and out of herself as this had done. It bad been the ecstatic answer to all her dreams, the ripe and rich and per fect completion of every longing with. in her; yet, in the very midst of It had come a word which broke the magic thrall; a thought which had torn the fairy web like a rude storm from out the ley north; a devouring genie which, dark and frightening. ad- vanced to destroy all the happiness which might follow this first inrushiug commingling of these two perfectly correlated elements! “1 ean't!” she breathed, but she did not withdraw her hand from his clasp She could not! It was as if those two palms had welded together, and had become parts of one and the same or ganism, There was an instant of silence. in which she slowly gathered her swirl ing senses, and In which he sat, shocked, stunned, disbelleving his own ears. Why, he had known, as positive ly, and more positively, than if she had told him, that there was a perfect response in her to the great desire which throbbed within him. It bad come to him from her like the waver ing of soft music, music which bad blended with his own pulsing diapason in a melody so subtle that it drowned the senses to languorous swooning; it had come to him with the delicate far-off pervasiveness of the birth of a new star in the heavens; it had come to him as a fragrance, as a radiance, the beautiful tints of spring blos- soms, as something infinitely stronger, and deeper, and sweeter, than the sleep of death, That tremendous and perfect fitness and accord with him he felt in her hand even now “1 can’t, Tod,” she sald aga neither noticed that she gciously used the name she heard from his mother, and which had linked with thoug be and un in ad ane had con unconsciously his of him a unity of purpose for the first time, she gently wi her h I could never be in pathy your nor | oy Have you noticed never held but one?” drew “There could never in us,” and now thdres and with % WOrs you Views d i have A serious any Line He a chair | took ber hand agalt i patted it bet {a child ween his “Gall, when yo You don uandary, and di and I sh there LIMIT TO THE OBSERVATION i Peculiar i See Only What They Are Trained to See. . 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