THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
PI
The Real
Adventure
novel
By
Henry Kitchell Webster
(Uayrclfbt Wit, TM bobbelderrlll UouipeAf )
CHAPTER XXV Continued.
17
It wns n good while before Roue got
key to his preoccupation. They
And turned Into the purk at Sixty-sixth
street, nl were hulf-wny over to the
Fifth avenne corner at ITfty-ulnth, be
fore he spoke out.
"On day like this." ho said, "to
lave wit there for two or three mortal
lours arguing about stale Ideas when
ve might linvo been out here, being
alive 1 Dot it must have seemed nat
ural to you to hear me going on like
that" And then with a burst, before
jiio conld speak :
"You mut remember trie as the most
Mindly opinionated fool In the world !"
She caught her' breath, then said
ry quietly, with a warm little lough
la her voice: "That's not how I re
ember you, Roddy." ,
She declined to help him when he
tried to scramble back to the safe
shores of conventional conversation.
That sort of thins had lasted lone
nough. And when they stopped and
iaced each other In the pray brick entrance-
to the building where Rose's
apartment was, It was nt the end of a
mile or more of absolutely unbroken
silence. And facing each other there,
all that was said between them was
fter:
"Ton11 come In, won't you?" and his
Yes."
1 But the gravity with uhlch she'd
ttcred the Invitation and the tense
st of his acceptance of It, the square
Took that passed between them, marked
an end of something and the begln
alng of something new.
.. She left him In her sitting room
While she went Into her ro6m to take
It her hat and Jacket and take n
, jinnee Into her mirror. When she
'fame back she found him standing
!at her window, looking out. He didn't
trim when she came In, but almost
Immediately he began speaking. She
went rn.ther limp nt the sound of bis
'voice and dropped down on nn otto
man In front of the fireplace, and
'atupczciI her hands together between
her ees.
i don't know how much you will
feare understood," he began: "prob
ably n good deal. What I hope you
ItrlH have guessed Is that I wouldn't
.lave come except that I'd something to
'loll you something I felt you wore en
lltled to be told. Rut I felt this Is
,-whnt you won't have understood I felt
,lhot I hadn't any right to speak to you
at all, about anything vital, until I'd
'riven you some sort of guaranty until
I'd shown you that I was a person It
.o possible to deal reasonably with."
She smiled, then pressed her hnnds
suddenly to her eyes. "I understood,
'she said.
TWcW then . . ." Rut he didn't
jaf omv go on. Stood there n while
longer at the window, then crossed
ti room nnrf brought un before her
Bookshelves, staring blindly nt the ti
les. He hadn't looked at her even ns
ae crnssed the room.
"Oh, It's n presumptuous thing to try
to say," he broke out ot last, "a pitiful
iy unnecessary thing to say, because
jou must know It without my telling
jou. Rut when you went away you saiu
you said It was because you hadn't
my friendship! You said. that was the
thing you wanted, ami that you were
going to try and earn It. And you told
lie that I'd never be able to see that
the thing you were doing there was a
luc thing, worth doing, entitled to mj
respect. Rut what I've come down here
to say Is Is that now, nt last I do
ee it."
She would hnve spoken then If she
tould have commanded her voice, and
it was. the sound she made con-
reyed her Intention to him, for he
turned upon her quickly ns If to Inter
rupt the unspoken words, and went on
with un almost savage bitterness.
"Oh. I'm under no Illusions about It,
J had my chance to see, when seeing
would have meant something to you
ini.wui von When anvone but the
Kindest sort of fool would have seen
J didn't. Now, when the thing Is pat
ent for the world to see now thnt
jou've won your fight without any
.'help from me . . . Without any help !
Jin spite of every hindrance that my
Idiocy could put In your wayl Now,
after all I come and tell you thnt
you've earned the thing you've set out
to get."
There was n little silence after that,
the got up and took the post he had
abandoned at tho window.
"Why did you do it, Roddy?" she
asked. "I mean, why did you want to
ome and tell me?"
"Why. in the first place," he said,
1 wonted to get back a little of my
elf-respect. I couldn't get that until
Td told you."
This time the silence was longer,
"What else did you want?" she
asked. "What In the second place?"
"I want to earn your friendship,
lt' the biggest thing I can hope
for. Rut I've no idea that you can
&and it out to me ready-made. I be
eve you'd do It If you could. Rut
you said once, yourself, that it wasn't
thing thnt could be given. It was a
(thing thnt had to be enrned. And you
were right nbout that, as you were
about so many other things. Well,
Tm going to try to earn it."
"Is that all you want?" she asked,
end then, hearing the little gnsp he
gnre, she swung around quickly and
Jooked nt hlra. It was pretty dark In
ate room, but bis face In the dusk
eemed to hnve whitened.
"Is friendship nil you want of me,
Mv?" she asked again. She stood
era watting, a fall minute, in silence,
Tben she said: "You don't have to
He didn't come to her; Just stood
I here, gripping the cornef jf her book
ease and staring ut her silhouette,
which was ubout nil he could see of
iier against the window. At hist he
said, in u strulned, dry voice she'd
hardly have known for his:
"If you know that if I've let you see
that then I've done Just ubout the Inst
desplcuble thing there was left for mo
to do. I've come' down here and
made you feel sorry for me. So that
with that divine kindliness of yours,
you're willing to give me every
thing." "
lie straightened up and came a step
nearer. "Well, I won't hnve It, I tell
you. I don't know how you guessed.
If I'd dreamed I was betraying that to
you ... I Don't I know lta
tiurnt Into me so thnt I'll never forget
what the memory of my love must
be to you? The memory of the hide
ous things It's done to you? And now,
after nil that after you've won your
fight alone 'nnd stand where you
stand now for me to come begging!
And tnke a gift like that! I tell you
It Is pity. It can't be anything else."
There was another minute of silence,
nnd then he heard her make a little
noise In her throat, n noise that would
have been n sob had there not been
something like n laugh In It. The next
moment she said, "Come over here,
Roddy." nnd ns he hesitated, as if he
hadn't understood, she added: "I want
you to look at me. Over here, where
there's light enough to see me by."
lie enme, wonderingly, very slowly,
but nt last with her outstretched hand
she reached him nnd drew him around
between her nnd the window.
"Look Into my face," she commanded.
"Look Into my eyes ns far In ns you
can. Oh, my dearest" the sob of
pure Joy came again "Is It pity that
you see? Don't you understand?"
He dM understand It with his mind,
but he was n little dazed, like one who
has stood too near where the light
ning struck. The hope he had kept
burled alive so loug burled alive be
cause It wouldn't die could not be
brought out Into a blinding glory like
this without pain exquisite, terrify
ing pnin.
The knowledge she had acquired by
her own suffering stood her In good
stead now. She did not mistake, ns
the Rose he had married might have
done, the wenkness of his response for
coldness Indifference. She led him
over to her one big chair nnd made
him sit down In 1t, settled herself
upon the nrm of lt, and contented
herself with one or his nanus, rres
ently he took one of hers, bent his
face down over It, nnd brushed the
back of It with his lips.
The timidity of thnt caress, with all
It revealed to her, was too much for
her. She swallowed one sob, nnd nn
other, but the next one got away. from
her and she broke out In n pnssionnte fit
of weeping. Thnt roused him from his
wa.. altogether true. They had ! plox and baffling considerations, that
daze a litth?, and he pulled her down
:n his nrm" held her tight comfort
ed her. When she got herself In hand
ngaln, she got up, went nwny to wash
her face, nnd, coming back In the room
again, lighted n reading lamp and
drew down the blinds.
"Rose," he said presently, "what nre
we going to do?"
"Shall we nuke It a real honeymoon,
Roddy make It ns complete ns we
can? Forget everything nnd let all
the world be . . ."
He supplied the word for her, "Rose-
color?"
She accepted It with a little lnugh
. . ."for a while?"
"That's what I was fumbling for,
he said, "but I can't think very
straight tonight. I've got It now,
though. Thnt cottage we hnd before
the twins were born down on the
Cape. There won't be n soul there
this time of year: We'd have the
world to ourselves."
"Yes," she said, "for a little while,
we'd want it like that. Rut nfter a
while after a day or two, could we
have the babies? Could the nurse
bring them on to me nnd then go
straight back, so that I could have
them, and you, nil together?
He said. "You darling!" Rut he
couldn't manage more than that.
At the entrance and Just out or
i-nnire of the elevator man, he kissed
her good night."
"Rut will you telephone to me ns
soop ns you wake up In tho morning, so
thnt I'll know It's true?"
She nodded. Then her eyes went
wide nnd she clung to him. "Is It
true, Roddy? -Is It possible for a thing
"You'll Come In, Won't You?"
to come back like thnt? Are we really
the old Rodney nnd Rose, planning our
honeymoon again? . It wasn't quite
three years ago. Will It be like that?"
"Not llko that, perhaps," he said,
"exactly. It will be better by all we've
learned and suffered since."
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Beglnnlna.
There was n sense In which this pro-
great hours hours of an emotional In
tensity greater than any they had
known during that former honeymoon,
greater by all they had learned and
suffered since hours that repaid nil
thut suffering, aud - could not huve
been captured nt any smaller price.
Rut life, of course, cannot be made
up of hours like that. No saue per
son can even want to live In a per
petual ecstasy. What makes a moun
tain peak Is the full away Into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys of commonplace,
everyday existence and these oc
curred even In their first days together
they were stiff, shy, self-conscious
with each other. And their attempt to
Ignore this fact only made the self
consciousness the worse. It troubled
and bewildered both of them.
The arrival of the twins, In the con
voy of a badly flustered and, to tell
the truth, a somewhat scandalized
Miss French, simplified the situation
somewhat by complicating It! They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose nnd Rodney so many
occupations thnt the contemplation of
their complicated, states of mind was
much obridged.
Rut even her babies brought Rose a
disappointment along with them. From
tho time of the receipt of Miss
French's telegram, telling them what
train she nnd the twins would take.
Rose had been telling off the hours
In mounting excitement. The two ut
terly adorable little creatures, as the
pictures of them In Rodney's pocket
book showed them to be, who were
miraculously, Incredibly hers, were
coming to bring motherhood to her
She dlda't go to Roston with Rod-
ey to meet tnem ; srayeu oemim
In the cottage, ostensibly to sec to it.
up to the very last minute, thnt tho
fires were right (June hnd come In
cold nnd rnlny) nnd, In general, to be
ready, on the moment, to produce any
thing thnt their rather unforeseeable
needs might cnll for. Her renl rea
son was a shrinking from having her
rst meeting with them In the confir-
on of arrival on n station plntform,
nnder the eyes of trie world. Rodney
understood this well enongh, nnd, nr-
rlvlng nt the cottage, he- clambered
out of the wagon with them and car
ed .them both straight In to Rose.
leaving the nurse nnd the bewildering
paraphernalia of travel for a second
trip. v
Rose, In the passionate surge of
gratified desire thnt enrae with the
sight of them, caught them from him,
crushed them up ngnlnst her breast
nd frightened them half to death, bo
thnt, without dissimulation, they
howled nnd brought Miss French fly-
ng to the rescue.
Rose didn't make a tragedy of It;
mnnnged a smile nt herself, though she
suspected she'd cry when she got the
chance, nnd subjected her Ideas to an
Instnntnneous revision. They were
persons, those two funnily indignnnt
little mites, with their own Ideas, their
own preferences, nnd the perfectly nde
quate conviction of being entitled to
them. How would she herself hnve
liked it, to hnve a total stranger, fif
teen feet high or so, snatch her like
that?
She. was rather apologetic all day,
and got her reward, especially from
the boy, who was nn adventurous nnd
rather truculent baby, mucn, sue lan
ded, as his father must once have
been, nnd who took to her more quick
ly than the girl did. Indeed, the sec
ond Rodney fell In love with her al
most ns promptly fts his father had
dono bufore him. Rut little Tortla
wasn't very far behind. Two days suf
ficed for the conquest of the pair or
them. ' t '
The really disquieting discovery
awnited the time when the wire edge
of novelty nbout this ndventure In
motherhood had worn off; when she
could batho them, dress them, feed
them their very strictly regimenteu
menls, without being spurred to the
highest pitch of alertness by the fear
of making a mistake forgetting some
thing like the Juice of a half-orange
at ten o'clock in tho morning, the
omission of which might huve who
knew what disastrous consequences t
That nttltudo can't last any woman
long, nnd Rose, with her wonderfully
clever hands, her wits trained not to
ho told the same thing twice, her
pride keeping In sharp focus the de
termination thnt Rodney should see
thnt she could be as good a nurse as
Miss French Rose wore off thnt nerv
ous tenseness over her new Job very
quickly. Within a week she had a
routine established that was noiseless
frlctlonless.
Rut, do you remember how nghast
she was over 'the forty weeks John
Oulb'rnlth had talked about as the
probable run of "The Girl Up-Stnlrs;"
her consternation over the Idea of Just
going on doing the same, thing over
nnd over again, "around and around,
like a horse at the end of n pole?"
Well, It was with something the
same feeling of consternation that,
having thrown herself heart and soul
into the task of planning and setting
In motion a routine for two year-anu-n-hnlf-old
babies, she should find her
self straightening up nnd saying:
"What next?" nnd realizing that, so
far as this Job was concerned, there
was no "next." Tho supreme merit
of her care from now on would De
barring emergencies the placid con
tinuation of that routine, 'mere were
no heroics about motherhood save In
emergency, once more.
Tt was n fine relation, it was, per
haps, the very finest In the world,
nut as a lob. It wasn't so sausiaciory,
Fonr-flftha of It. anyway, could be
done with better results, for the chll
dren, by a placid, unimaginative, tol
erably stupid person who had no
stronger feeling for them than the
mild, temporary affection they could
excite In anyone not a monster. And
the other fifth of It wasn't a Job at
All.
On the whole, then, leaving their
miraculous hours out of the account,
their honeymoon, considered as nn at
temnt to revisit Arcady, to seize a
golden day which looked neither to
ward the future, complete In Itself,
nerfect was a failure.
It .was not until, pretty ruefully,
they acknowledged this, tore up their
Artificial resolution not to look at the
future, and deliberately set themselves
to the contemplation of a life that
their honeymoon became a success.
It was well along In their month thnt
this happened.
Rose had spent a maddening sort of
day, a day that had been all edges,
trying not to let herself feel hurt over
funtnstlc secondary meanings which It
was possible to nttnch to some of the
things Rodney had said, trying to be
cheerful and sensible, nnd to Ignore
the patent fact thnt his cheerfulness
was -as forced and unnatural a thing
as hers.- The children as a rule the
best-behaved little things In the world
had been refractory. So, after their
supper, when they'd finnlly gone off to
sleep, nnd Rose had rejoined Rodney
In the sitting room, she was In a state
where It did not take much to set her
off.
It was not much that did; nothing
more, Indeed, than the fact that she
found her husbnnd brooding In front
of the fire, nnd that the imille with
which he greeted her was a little too
quick nnd bright nnd mechnnlcnl, nnd
thnt It soon faded out. The Rodney
of her memories hnd never dono things
like thnt. If you found him sitting In
n chair, you found him rending a book.
When he wns thinking something ont
he tramped back nnd forth, twisted his
fnce up, made gestures. That habit
couldn't hnve changed. It wns Jnst
thnt he didn't care pi bo nnturnl
with her! Couldn't feel at home with
her! Refore she knew It, she wns cry
ing. '
He nsked, In consternation, whnt
the matter was.
"Nothing," she sold. "Absolutely
nothing. Really."
"Then It's Just that you're not hap
py, with me, like this." Ho brought
This
Is Where We'll Begin!" She
Said."
nadn't we better be-
shirking that.
gin?"
"Well." ho said when be d got nis
pipe alight, "It's the first qoestlon I
nsked you nfter after I got my eyet
open: Whnt nre we going to do?
"I told Alice Ferosinl," she , said.
"tho day before we left to come up
here, thnt I'd come back In a month,
and that I'd stay until I d finished all
the work that we were contracted for.
I felt I hnd to do that. You under
stand, don't you?" '
"Of course," he said. "You couldn't
consider anything else. But then
whnt?"
"Then," she sold after a little si
lence, "then, If It's what you want mo
to do, Roddy, I'll come back to Chi
cago for good."
"Give up your business, you mean?"
he asked quickly.
She nodded. "It can't be done out
there," she snld. "All tho big produc
tions thnt there's nny money in nre
made In New York. I'll come back
and Just.be your wife. I'll keep your
house and mother the children, and
mnlntnln your status, If you don't
think I'm spoiled for thnt."
That last phrase, though, was sold
with a smile, which he answered with
one of his own. But with nn Instnnt
return to seriousness, he snld: "I've
not nsked thnt. Rose. I wonldn't drenra
of asking It."
"There's a renl Job there," she per
sisted, "Just In being successfully the
wife of a successful man. I enn see
thnt now. I never saw It when It was
my Job. nnrdly ennght a glimpse of it.
I didn't even see my bills; let you
pny them down at the office, with nil
your own work thnt you hnd to do."
"It wasn't me," he snld. "It wns
Miss Reach."
She stared nt thnt and gave n short
lnugh. "If I'd known thnt . . . !"
she snld. Then she came back to the
point. "It Is n real Job, and I think
I could learn to do It pretty well.
And of course a wife's the only person
who can do It properly."
StlTl he shook his head. Rut he
hadnt, as yet, any reasoned answer to
mnke, except as before, that It
wouldVt work.
"Whnt will work, then?' she nsked.
And this he couldn't nnswer.
"We've Just got to go ahead," Jie
snld at Inst, "and seo whnt happens.
Perhnps you enn work It out so thnt
you enn do part of your work nt home.
We could move the nursery nnd give
you Florence's old studio,
The Need
i of . Divine
Guidance
By REV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE
Of the Exteniion Department, Moedr ,
Bible Institute. Chicago .
film L
israscsi
il Lesson
lay kev. r. it. i-itvu .7,.-
of Enirll.h im . D n
"He of n,i,,, . " "' Hwi
& S4
f 'l j,ri..y-V4tWjl
TEXT Tlien I proclaimed a fa8t . . .
thut we irtBht afflict oureelves before Cod
to aeek of Him a right way .-Ezra 8:21.
Perhnps today as never before the
Chrlstlnn needs to be. Instructed by
God as to the
right way. There
are three greut
reasons why di
vine guidance Is
needed.
I. Because of
what we are by
nature.
First of all we
nre Ignorant. It
Is unpopular, bat
truo thut "It Is
not In man that
walketh to direct
his step s." So
suld Jeremiah
long years ngo.
And history shows
all too dearly that the way thut seems
right to a man ends In death nnd dis
aster. There Is no way of knowing
what will take place on the morrow or
even within tho next hour. An explor
er or a tourist going Into a strange un
known country will wont guidance as
to whnt lies before him. We take
much core la securing all the Infor
mation we can before starting Into
new territory. Many think It neces
sary to prepare fur passing to the un
known land beyond the grave, but nf
ter ull each now day brings such dan
gers and such opportunities- thut to be
ready for them needs to have the feet
guided Into the right way. As It is not
In man to direct his own steps there
Is a need for the- guidance of one to
whom tomorrow la us open as yester
day. Then by nature mnn is so self-willed
nnd self-siiflielent ho needs a higher In
telligence than his own to guide him.
This Is humiliating but again history
. LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER
BENEFITS
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Itlliln Instil
(Copyright, 117, W..irn N
OF TOTAL
NENCE.
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in titar nrm t niai nij WOUIlJ
tells the truth. F.ver since Culn In his
And then i self-will chose the wrong way It has
It would do If you only came down been true thut "the way of a man Is
time,
thnt out gravely, a word nt a
as though they hurt.
"Are you happy, with me like
this?" she countered.
It wns a question he could not nn
swer categorically, and she did not
give him time for anything else.
"Whnt's the matter with us, Roddy?"
she demanded. "We ought to be hap
py. We meant to be." Her voice broke
In a sob over that. "And here we ore-
like this!"
"It hnsn't nil been like this," he
said. "There have been hours, n day
or two, thnt I'd go through the whole
thing for, again, If necessary."
She nodded assent to that. "Rut the
rest of tho time!" she cried., "Why
enn't we be comfortable together?
Why . . Roddy, why can't you be
nnturnl with me? Like your old self.
Why don't you roar nt me, any more?
And swear when you run Into things?
I've never seen you formal before
not with anybody. Not even with
strangers. And now you're formal
with me."
The rueful grin with which he ac
knowledged the truth of this Indict
ment was more like him, nnd It cheered
her Immensely. She nnswered It with
one of her own, dried her eyes, and
nsked again, more collectedly:
"Well, can you tell me why?"
"Why. It seemed to me," he snld,
that It was you who were different,
And you hnve changed, of co.urse,
down Inside, more than I have. You've
been through things In the last yenr
and a half, found out things thnt I
know nothing about, except as I hnve
read about them In books. So, when I
remember how things used to be be
tween us, how I used to be the one who
knew things, and how I preached and
spwted, I get to feeling that tho man
ou remember must looic to you now,
like well, like a schoolboy showing
off."
She stared nt him Incredulously,
"But thnt's downright morbid," Bne
said. "It's horrible that I shouia mae
you feet like that," she concluded.
"It Isn't you," he told her. "iti
lust the situation. I can't help feeling
thnt I'm taken on approval, un, m
got to be like thnt ! There are things
that, with nil the forgiveness in tho
world, you can't forget. Ana unui
you have seen that I am different, that
I have made myseir ainerem,
She cave a shaky laugh. "On ap-
nroval I" Her eyes filled again. "Rod
.. . i re 1 .-mm
dy, you can't mean uiai. one
over and sat down m nis lap, apu sou
her arm around his neck. "This is
where we'll begin I" she said. "That
tmi never whatever happens waiic
nnt on you again. Whether things
go well or badly with us, we'll work
out. somehow, together."
Tt wns not until she heard the long,
shuddering sigh he drew at that, and
felt him go limp under her, thnt she
renllzed how genuine his fear had
been the perfectly preposterous fear
thnt If their new experiment man
enmn un to her anticipation, she'd tell
him so, and leave him once more. This
tim. for eood.
It was a good while before they
took ud a rational discussion again,
but at last she said: "It will take
nmrvin out though. We've been
here for your two big seasons fall
nnd spring." j
"That doesn't seem fair to you," she j
protested. "You deserve n renl wife,
Roddy; not somebody dashing In nnd
dashing out." j
"I don't deserve nnythlng V can't
get," he snld. "I'd rather have n part
Interest In yon than to possess, lock,
stock and barrel, nny other woman I
can think of." I
She came bnck to him again nnd !
settled In his arms. "A mnn told me."
she said. "John Gnlhrnlth told me thnt
he couldn't be n woman's friend nnd
her lover nt the same time, nny more
than n steel spring could be made soft
so thnt It would bend In your fingers,
like copper, nnd still be n spring. lie
snld that was true of him, nnywny, nnd
he feit sure it wns truo of nine men out
of a dozen. Do you think it's true?
nave we got to decide which we'll
be?"
"We caat decide," he said with nn,
Impatient lnugh. "That's Just what
ve been telling yon. We ve got to.
tnke whnt we enn get. We've got to
ork out the relation between, our
selves that Is our relation the Rose
nnd Rodney relntlon. It'll probnbly
he a little different from nny otiier.
There'll be friendship In It, nnd there'll'
he love In It. Imngtne our 'deciding'
that we wouldn't be lovers! Rut I
guess thnt what Galbralth suld was
true to this extent : thnt each of those
111' be more or less nt the expense
of the other. It won't spring quite so
well, nnd It will bend a little." .
After a while he saidi: "Here's what
we've got to build oik Whatever elso
It may or mny- not be, this relntlon be
tween us Is a permanent thing. We've
lived with each other and without each
other, nnd we know which we want.
If we find It has Its limitations and
drnwbncks, we needn't worry. Just go
ahead and make the best of, it wo
can. There's no law thnt decrees
we've got. to be hnppy. When we are
hoppy It'll be so much to the good.
And when we aren't ..."
She gave a contented little laugh
and cuddled closer down ngnlnst him.
"You talk like Solomon In nil his so
lemnity," she snld. "Rut you can't
imagine thnt we're going to" be un
happy. Really?"
Ills nnswer was that perhaps he
couldn't imagine It, but that he knew
It, Just the same. "Even an ordinary
marriage Isn't any too easy; a mar
riage, I menn, where it's quite well u&
derstood which of the parties to it
shall always submit to the other, and
which of them Is the Important one
who's always to have the right of way.
There's generally something perfectly
uncscnpable that decides thut ques
tion. But wllh us there Isn't. So the
question who's got to give In will have
to be decided on Its merits every tlmo
a difference arises." She burlesqued a
look of extreme apprehension. She
was deeply and utterly content with
life Jnst then. But he wouldn't be di
verted. "There s another reason," no
went on. "I've a notion that the thing
we're after is nbout the finest thing
there Is. If that's so, we'll have to
pay for It In one way or another. Rut
we aren't going to worry about It.
We'll Just go ahead and see what
happens."
. "Do you remember when you saia
that before?" asked Rose. "You told
me that marriage was an adventure
anyway, and that the only thing to do
was to try It and see what hap
pened." He grunted. "The real adventare's
Just begun," he said.
"Anyhow," she murmured drowsily,
"you can talk to me again. Just as If
we weren't married."
And there Is Just about where they
stand today at the beginning, or
hardly past the beginning, of what he
spoke of as their real adventure; they
are going forward prepared to matt
the best of It and see what happens.
THE END.
Electric tanning machinery to need-
forward and strange," ns the Proverb
says. Moses knew something of this
when ho declured In his last vonl to
the peoplo In Deut. 3(5:20. "I know that
nfter my death yo will utterly turn
aside from the way nnd evil will befall
you."
Again wo nre so prone to wander
from the right way. As the prophet
says, "All we like sheep have, turned
everyone to his own way." Like sheep
we wander, go astray and without
sense keep on going, further nnd furth
er astray. "Everyone does It" swms
to be sufficient guidance when we
know well that the voice of the poojrie
Is far from being the voice of God.
It Is true that the majority may many
times appear to be right, but numbers
don't ulways count. There were four
hundred nnd fifty prophets opposed to
one, but thut one, Elijah, was right nnd
the crowd wns wrong.
II. Because of the Character of the
Way Before Us.
i It Is a difficult way for the Chrls
tlnn la these times. Rogs and mire
j are on either side nnd the way dally
grows narrower. The master ruuiseir
warns us In Matt. 7:13, 14, that "wide
Is the gate and broad the way thnt
leulleth to destruction, and' strait Is
the gate nnd narrow the way which
leadelh unto life, and few there be thnt
find It." So difficult is the way before
the Christian, beset by the snares, pit
falls and straps of Satau, nnd so
strewn with the allurements nnd at
tractions of the world, that left to him
self he would surely come to destruc
tion. He needs always the guldaneo
of tho one who uloiie knows all the
difficulties and how to pass them. Not
only difficult, but dangerous Is the way.
There ox Increasingly large numbers
who are us infatuated with tho sup
posed Importance nnd self-sufllclency
of man that they think there Is no need
for Divine guidance. Rut such are tho
days in which we live, "perilous
times," the Apostle I'uul calls them,
that Divine guidance Is not only de
sirable, but Imperative. Many nre
being swept from old moorings to drift
out nnd make shipwreck. It Is well
for us to hasten to Jeremiah's exhor
tation to "ask for the old paths where
Is tho good way nnd walk therein and
find rest fJ your souls." Jer, 0:10.
III. Because of What the Lord Is as
Guide.
He knows ull the way that lies un
tried nnd unknown before the Chris
tian's feet. He Is omniscient. It was
the Lord, not Moses, who led tho peo
plo of Israel of old, nnd It Is the Lord
who would guide Ids people In safety
today. A story Is told of n little boy
from which we all may lenrn. During
n storm a mother sought to rescue a
family of six children. As tho water
burst open the door of her home, she
tied her baby on her shoulder and took
a boy of six In her onus. To her four
teen-year-old daughter she said, "you
must enrry one child." "Which one,'
said tho girl. The mother looked at
the two, one of four, one of two, un-
nble to choose. Ren, her boy of eleven,
said, "Ma, I'll take the little one."
"The water Is too. deep for you," the
dispnlrlng mother said. "It's deep for
true," answered the boy, "but Jesus Is
a tall man." They stnrted, the mother
calling to her children, but soon Ren
ceased to answer. The mother nnd
the others soon reached a place of
safety. When the tldo went down
next day little Ben tramped to them
and put his little charge Into the moth
er's arms. Had ho followed her the
night Wfore he would soon have been
beyond his depth. Rut unconsciously
he hnd turned nside ond followed a
bank that years before had mnrked a
bouadnry. The fater was to his waist,
nnd a step or two on elthex side would
have been fatal, but the child trod the
narrow path In safety till he reached
a house whore a man came down and
took the children In. The path of the
Christian Is beset with dangers, but
he mny tread Jt with perfect ' safety
when he has the guidance of the Lord.
elf with tho nortlnn ,. ., '" I:
nnr with th lo . e.Kln4'l It .J
jiiu impwiv in imnU'l, with tlicejj
uuii. in um: inoie. n llliuilt a er t J
the prophecies of this !,!; u i".,' j
lately Impossible. fr ,, , .
ISewlestnnicnt im,l t, tliu.-s iD t j
e live, iionei j;ives nn utltu-of
int(ra nortiMl nt 1 1 ..... r.
of supremacy to tl c.m n XJ
cmiunezzar 10 tne iini, mi.nUltl.
mo uentiie dominion, to t!K. Nai.
ment of the 111 i 1 1 -ti I nl kingdom "
course, character and f :,. ; ,
nonunion are given. It l. that r..
known In Scriptures ns th "t
the Gentiles" (Luke m d.
The book of Daniel fail, i.
pnrts: l'urt I (-h:,.t, rs 1 a ,
wnieti tne prophet :i-;in as J
vineiy chosen interpreter ; ,.,,
part II (chapters 7 m U), !;nvt.i
prophet appears as the mea l,;,:,,.
God, setting forth In v'i,L
dreams, tho times of the fh r.tllts.-
book Is written in two lmizuaa...
brew nnd Aramaic ehnpter Ui."
chapters 8 to 12 (Hehrew); efc.-,
O . 1 f .,1J I t ,. n. '
..t-i..o v.nuiii.iie;. i lie port l:,
concerns the Hebrews vn. wnnsi
their own tongue nml the pan . i
concerns the empires of the ,.
written in their tnuue.
I. Daniel's Home Uavinj (n. :
Ho wns carried nwny t,i t,ik:ij
Nebuchadnezzar In the first
rusalem, M 111.- wns h great tri 1
his own heart. I Ie seems to He.l
nbout fourteen years nf
boy who loved his heme ami &l J
of God It wns a great trial tuhli
out nnd drugged nwuy to a ft I
country. It was not enly 8 te
him, but doubtless to his ;;iri i
They no doubt were anxious, ail I
cerely prayed for him.
II. Daniel's Trials and 0&:
(W. 0-1.1). it was Hie -iN":u Ml
best of the captives to he s,.;,..'
trained for service in the l.u.itf I
tlvlty. They u-ii;i!;.v seiwinl ti
the royal house for sneh triin;
1. Change "f name. Atu-o; ;k 1
brews names were given tn &
which were significant. W,iA'.
"God Is my judge." The sii
of the name then was tlct jl;-
lems of life were -ul.uiticltoH
decision. This "as he sc.Yii
lei's life. This puri f
seems to have been inti:W i
very life nnd being. S tli"'""':"
he Imbibe this spirit tlmt !-;'
he made God nrhiier of liisi-
purposes. The object uo di.
chnnu'e of name wns w ol,li:m -
national nnd religious cicue
t.lenilfv him with the heiitM r I
The king of Rnhjloii ovMrfi!
Daniel's appeariim-.'
hut wns averse to his
mils nre nerfeclly illin '" "' '1
and utilize the scholarship1
cy of Christian ininH"i"1'
nries, but nre not willing t" :
their religion. The name .-l
received by which ho wns tot'
in Rubylon wns Itclt-luffl';
Tt,.l' IVinee. T!iil1-'
HV. s- w - - .... I
I .., l.omel VOIlM t1'
one, or the one wh-ia M
irod favors. I'm. k of the &
Solan's attempt
the name of tne w " I
tv.... ...., men lose tfceir l 1
wiac joiii'D .,htKtl
ana oecouie ns.-u. -
There Is IllUcll ill " "
. iti -
.oi., in iMu rose, lioweio,
.,,, .u.i not mala' a cW
wm..n lloniol was IB lu-
I"""""" - .s . !!.,l,v!l'P 1
hn ,11,1 not ilo IIS me ' ,
- .I..,, MIX-
Doubtless, parental
case had done
2. His conscience t
was with reference to t ;
and tho king's"1'
borne in mliul that tm
Vie.m" , minted
UOUDt Utllei .. ,,m
..... fl.,..n,v. 1Utl
convictions must fM- .
shall sillier iei
3. Ills religious lift
his refusal to oat
.t,i..)i wns "ci'iitrary B
Also It Iiivoincu I.--. - 0!;
a day. This pn'J" 1
rled out, even ",
ms prnyios . . 9poa
in secret, ho
.u who -'re m
Wild! lliusv;
could see iuiu. .i
III. His s"c" '
steal health t- p
Godly and tP
meat w ' , -Kl
been pleasant to AJJrf
nave menu- - .
d la Spain
2. Mental grow"!
times superior tow' .HI
olwnys.true that
iminlcence 19 , a
nave ti.- , w
wtnr eouIPl1 10
those who MBtoMt.jp.
king. No WSbc'.
could have becaP
4. Temporal.
of the Collets f
minister of the",
v - nnflniiea to " i
dynasties. -jy
5. Spiritual (.;,
lei's loyalty rf
dream was rev ' kj.
giving visions
foryofthe,
eoujtl has ever