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THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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The Real
Adventure
A NOVEL
By
Henry Kitchell Webster
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CHAPTER XXV Continued.
17
It was a good while before Hose cot
flte key to his preoccupation. They
lad turned Into the park lit Sixty-sixth
street, and were hulf-way over to the
Fifth avenue corner at ITfty-uinth, be
Jore be spoke out.
"Od a day like this," ho said, "to
lave not there for two or three mortal
lours arguing about stale Ideas when
we might have 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
stic eont.l speak :
"You mut remember nie as the most
Mindly opinionated fool In the world!"
8he caught her breath, then said
ry quietly, with a warm little laugh
la her voice: "That's not how I re
member you, Roddy."
She- declined to help him when he
tried to scramble back to the safe
ahorcs of conventional conversation.
That sort of thing had lasted long
nough. And when they stopped and
laced ench other In the gray brick en
trance to the building where Rose's
apartment was, It was nt the end of a
mile or more of absolutely unbroken
Hence. And facing each other there,
all that was said between them was
ker:
"IotHI come In, won't you?" and his
Yea."
' But the gravity with which she'd
altered the Invitation nnd the tenso
mts of his acceptance of It, the square
Jook that passed between them, marked
an end of something and the begin
alng of something new.
.. She left him In her sitting room
while she went Into her room to take
IT her hnt nnd jacket nnd take n
.jinnee Into her mirror. When she
nmi back she found him standing
.at her window, looking out. lie didn't
!tnrn when she came In, but almost
Immediately he begnn speaking. She
irent ra.ther limp nt the sound of his
'tolce nnd dropped down on nn otto
ainn In front of the fireplace, nnd
'trueozed her hands together between
fter kieos.
l don't know how much you will
Jwre understood." he began; "prob
ably n good deal. What I hope you
iwlll have guessed Is that I wouldn't
,aave come except that I'd something to
toll you something I felt you were en
titled to be told. Rut I feltthis Is
,whnt you won't have understood I felt
,lhat I hadn't any right to speak to you
at all, about anything vital, until I'd
Ijtfren you some sort of guaranty until
Id shown you thnt I was a person It
.ton possible to deal reasonably with."
She smiled, then pressed her hnnds
suddenly to her eyes. "I understood,"
she said.
j -"Well then ..." Rut he didn't
at once go on. Stood there n while
longer nt the window, then crossed
the room and brought up before her
aookshelves, staring blindly at the ti
es. He hadn't looked at her even as
ae crossed the room.
"Oh, it's n presumptuous thing to try
to say." he broke out at hist, "a pitiful
Jjr unnecessary thing to say, because
you must know It without my telling
tou. Rut when you went nway you said
you said It was because you hadn't
wy friendship ! You said, that was the
thing you wanted, and that you were
folng to try and earn It. And you told
aie that I'd never be able to see thnt
the thing you were doing there was a
Jne thing, worth doing, entitled to mj
respect. Rut what I've come down here
to say Is Is that now, ut last I do
ee It"
She would have spoken then If she
eould have commanded her voice, nnd
as It wus, the sound she made con
Tcyed her intention to him, for he
turned upon her quickly as If to Inter
rupt the unspoken words, nnd went on
aith an 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
lelped you. When anyone but the
Wildest sort of fool would have seen.
1 didn't. Now, when the thing is pat
nt for the world to see now thnt
ron've won your tight without any
aelp from me . . . Without nny help I
;(n spite of every l.lndniuee that my
Idiocy could put in your way! Now,
after nil I come and tell you that
you've earned the thing you've set out
to get."
There was a little silence nfter that
the got up nnd took the post he had
abandoned nt the window.
"Why did you do it, Roddy?" she
asked. "I meun, why did you want to
tome nnd tell me?"
"Why, In the first place," he said,
1 wanted to get back a little of my
aelf-respect. I couldn't get that until
Id 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,
It's the biggest thing 1 can hope
for. Rut I've no Idea that you can
land it out to mo ready-mnde. I be
leve you'd do It if you could. Rut
you snld once, yourself, that It wasn't
m thing that could be given. It was a
(thing that had to be earned. And you
were right about that, as you were
boot so ninny other things. Well,
Tin going to try to earn It."
"Is thatall you want?" she asked,
and then, hearing the little gnsp he
fare, she swung around quickly and
looked nt him. It was pretty dark In
Abe room, but bis face In the dusk
eemed to have whitened.
"Is friendship nil you want of me
Xoddv?" she asked again. She stood
there waiting, a full minute, In silence,
Then she said: "You don't have to
Ml me that Because I know. Oh
f my dear, low -well I know!" ;
He didn't eme to her; Just stood
I here, gripping the cornet jf her book
case and staring ut her silhouette,
which wus ubout nil he could see of
'ier against the window. At last he
said, In a 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 about the last
desplcuble thing there was left for me
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 mt every
thing." . .
He strnlghtened up nnd came a step
nearer. "Well, I won't have 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 lt'B
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 all that after you've won your
fight alone -nnd stand where you
stand now for me to come begging!
And take a gift like that! I tell you
It Is pity. It can't be anything else."
There was another minute of silence,
and then he heard lier make n little
noise In her thront. n noise thnt would
have bnen n sob had there not been
something like a lnugh In it. The next
moment she said, "Come over here,
Roddy," nnd as he hesitated, ns If he
hadn't understood, she added: "I want
you to look nt me. Over here, where
there's light enough to see me by."
He entne, wonderlngly, very slowly,
but nt Inst with her outstretched hand
she reached him nnd drew him nround
between her nnd Uie window.
"Look Into my face," she commanded.
"Look Into my eyes as 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 did 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 buried alive be
cause it wouldn't die could not be
brought out Into a blinding glory like
this without pnln exquisite, terrify
ing pain. .
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 weakness of his response for
coldness Indifference. She led him
over to her one big chnlr nnd made
him sit down In 1t. settled herself
upon the arm of it, nnd contented
herself with one of his hnnds. Pres
ently he took one of hers, bent his
face down over It, nnd brushed the
bnck 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 an
other, but the next one got nway. from
her and she broke out In a passionate fit
of weeping. Thnt roused him from his
daze a little, and he pulled her down
:n his arm held her tight comfort
ed her. When she got herself In hand
ngaln, she got up, went away to wash
her face, nnd, coming bnck In the room
ngaln, lighted n reading lamp and
drew down the blinds.
"Rose," he said presently, "what are
we going to do?"
"Shall wo make 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 laugh
. . ."for a while?"
"Thnt's what I was fumbling for,"
ho said, "but I can't think very
straight tonight. I've got It now,
though. That cottage we had before
the twins were born down on the
Cape. There won't be n soul there
this time of yenr: We'd have the
world to ourselves?'
"Yes," she snld, "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, nnd you, nil together?
He snld, "You darling!" Rut he
couldn't manage more than thnt.
At the entrnnce and Just out of
. , . i. I., j
range or uie eievuior man, ue
her good night."
Rut will you telephone to me ns
soon ns you wake up In the morning, so
that I'll know it's true?"
She nodded. Then her eyes went
wide and she clung to hlra. "Is It
true, Roddy? -Is It possible for n thing
"You'll Coma In, Won't Your
to come back like thnt? Are we really
the old Rodney and Rose, planning our
honeymoon ngaln? . It wasn't quite
three years ago. Will It be like that?
"Not like that, perhaps," he said,
"exactly. It will be better by all we've
learned and suffered since."
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Beginning.
There was a sense In which this pre
diction of Itodney'a about their honey;
moon wii altogether true. They had
great hours hours of an emotional In
tensity greater than any they had
known during thnt former honeymoon,
greater by all they had learned and
suffered since hours that repaid nil
that suffering, and -could not have
been captured ut nny smaller price.
Rut life, of course, cannot be made
up of hours like that. No sane 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 mnde 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 nnd, 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 that the contemplation of
their complicated, states of mind was
much abridged.
Rut even her bnbles brought Rose n
disappointment along with them. From
the 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 ndornblo little creatures, ns 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 didn't go to Roston with Rod
ney to meet them; stayed behind
in the cottnge, ostensibly to see to It.
up to the very Inst minute, that the
fires were right (June lmd come In
cold nnd rainy) nnd, in general, to be
ready, on the moment, to produce any
thing thnt their rather unforeseeable
needs might call for. Her renl Ten
son wns a shrinking from having her
first meeting with them In the confu
sion of arrival on. a station platform,
under the eyes of tne world. Rodney
understood this Well enough, and. ar
riving nt the cottnge, ho clambered
out of the wagon with them nnd car
ried .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 that came with the
sight of them, caught thera from him,
crushed thera up against her breast
and frightened them half to death. So
that, without dissimulation, they
howled nnd brought Miss French fly
ing to the rescue.
Rose didn't make a tragedy of It;
managed a smile nt herself, though she
suspected she'd cry when she got the
chance, and subjected her ideas to un
Instantaneous revision. They were
persons, those two funnily indignant
little mites, with their own ideas, their
own preferences, nnd the perfectly nde
qunte conviction of being entitled to
them. How would she herself tnve
liked It, to have 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 an adventurous and
rather truculent baby, much, she fan
cied, as his father must once have
been, and who took to her more quick
ly thnn the girl did. Indeed, the sec
ond Rodney fell In love with her al
most as promptly as his father had
done bufore him. Rut little Tortla
wasn't very far behind. Two days suf
ficed for the conquest of the pair of
them.
The really disquieting discovery
waited the time when the wire edge
of novelty about this adventure In
motherhood hnd worn off; when she
could bathe thenu dress them, feed
them their very strictly regimented
meals, 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 the morning, the
omission of which might have who
knew what disastrous consequences!
That attitude can't last any womnn
long, nnd Rose, with her wonderfully
clever hands, her wits trained not to
be told the snme thing twice, her
pride keeping In sharp focus the de
termination thnt Rodney should see
that she could be ns good a nurse ns
Miss French Rose wore off that nerv
ous tenseness over her new Job very
quickly. Within a week she hnd a
routine established that was noiseless
frictlonless.
Rut, do you remember how aghast
she was over 1 the forty weeks John
Galbrnlth had talked nbout as the
probable run of "The Girl Up-Stairs;
her consternation over the Idea of just
going on doing the same, thing over
nnd over again, "nround nnd nround,
like a horse at the end of a pole?
Well, It was with something the
some feeling of consternation that,
having thrown herself heart and soul
Into the tusk of planning and setting
In motion a routine for two yenr-and-a-half-old
babies, she should find her
self straightening up nnd saying:
"What next?" and 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.
It wns a fine relation. It was, per
haps, the very finest In the world.
Rut as a lob, It wasn't so satisfactory.
Four-fifths ol It, anyway, could be
done with better results, for the chil
dren, by a placid, unimaginative, to!
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 ns an at
tempt to revisit Arcady, to seize a
golden day which looked neither to
ward the future, complete In Itself,
perfect 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 thnt
plex nnd baffling considerations, thnt
their honeymoon became a success.
It was well olong In their month thnt
this happened.
Rose had spent a maddening sort of
day, a day that hnd been nil edges,
trying not to let herself feel hurt over
funtustlc socondury meanings which It
was possible to attnch to some of the
things Rodney hnd said, trying to be
cheerful and sensible, and to Ignore
the patent fact that his cheerfulness
was-as forced and unnatural a thing
as hers.- The children as n rule the
best-behaved little things In the world
had been refractory. So, after their
supper, when they'd finally gone off to
sleep, nnd Rose hnd rejoined Rodney
In the sitting room, she wns In a stnte
where It did not tnke much to set her
off.
It was not much thnt did; nothing
more, indeed, thnn the fact thnt she
found her husband brooding In front
of the fire, and that the imille with
which he greeted her was a little too
quick and bright and mechanical, and
that It soon faded out. The Rodney
of her memories hnd never done things
like that. If you found him sitting in
n clintr, you found him reading a book.
When he wns thinking something out
he tramped back nnd forth, twisted his
fnce up, mnde gestures. That habit
couldn't have changed. It was Just
that he didn't care to be natural
with her! Couldn't feel nt home with
her ! Refore she knew It, she was cry
ing. 1
He asked, In consternntlon, what
the matter was.
"Nothing." she sold. "Absolutely
nothing. Really."
"Then It's Just thnt you're not hap
py, with me, like this." Uo brought
0010
The Need
, of Divine
Guidance
By REV. D. B. SUTCLIFFE
Of tlx E-teniion Departmerit, Modjr .
Bible Ipstituta, Chicago i
TEXT Then I proclaimed a fust . . .
that we trtsht aflllct oumelvei before God
to leek of Him a right wuy.-Ezrii 8:21.
Terhnps today as never before the
Christian needs to be. Instructed by
Ood as to the
-d
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
are ignorant. It
is unpopular, but
true that "It Is
not In man that
Walketh to direct
hi step s." So
said J e r e m 1 n h
long years ngo.
And history shows
nil too dearly that the way that seems
right to a man ends In death aud dis
aster. There is no way of knowing
what will tuko place on the morrow or
even within the next hour. An explor
er or a tourist going Into a strange un
known country will want guidance as
to what lies before him. We take
much care la securing all the Infor
mation we can before starting Into
new territory. Many think it neces
sary to prepare for passing to the un
known land beyond the grave, but af
ter ull each new day brings such dan
gers und such opportunities- that to be
ready for them needs to have the feet
guided Into the right way. As It Is not
In mail to direct his own steps there
Is a need for tho- guidance of one to
whom tomorrow In us open as yester
day. Then by nature man Is so self-willed
nnd self-sufllclent he needs a higher In
telligence than his own to guide him.
This Is humiliating but again, history
tells the truth. F.vor since Cain la his
self-will chose the wrong way it has
been true that "the way of a man is
forward and strange," ns the Proverb
says. Moses knew something of tills
when ho declared In his last word to
1 the people In Deut. 30:20, "I know that
f after my death yo will utterly turn
I aside from the way and evil will befall
you."
Again we are 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 nstrny nnd without
sense keep on going, further nnd furth
I er astray. "Everyone does It" seems
to be sulllclent guidance when wo
"This la Where We'll Begin!" She
Said."
time,
would have to take Into account com-
that out gravely, a word at a
as though they hurt.
"Are you happy, with me like
this?" she countered.
It wns a question he could not an
swer cntegorlcnlly, nnd she did not
give him time for nnythlng else.
"What's the matter with us, Roddy?"
she demanded. "We ought to be hap
py. We meant to be." Her voice broke
In n sob over that. "And here we are
like this!"
"It hasn't nil been like this," he
said. "There have been hours, a day
or two, that I'd go through the whole
thing for, ngaln, If necessary."
She nodded nssent to thnt. "Rut the
rest of tho time!" she cried.. "Why
enn't we be comfortable together?
Why . . Roddy, why can't you be
natural with me? .Like your old self.
Why don't you roar at me, any more?
And swear when you run Into things?
I've never seen you fonnnl 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 answered It with
one of her own, dried her eyes, and
asked again, more collectedly:
"Well, can you tell me why?"
"Why, It seemed to me," he said,
"thnt it was vou who were different,
And you have changed, 'of course,
down Inside, more than I have. You've
been through things In the last year
and a half, found out things that I
know nothing about, except as I have
read about them In books. So, when I
remember how things used to be be
tween us, how I used to be tho one who
knew things, nnd how I preached and
spwted, I get to feeling that tho man
vou remember must look to you now,
like well, like a schoolboy showing
off."
She stared nt him Incredulously,
"But that's downright morbid," she
said. "It's horrible that I should make
you feel like that," she concluded,
"It Isn't you," he told her. "It's
just the situation. I can't help feeling
thnt I'm taken on approval, on, it's
got to be like thnt ! There are things
that, with all the forgiveness In tho
world, you can't forget. And until
you have seen that I am different, that
I have made myself different,
She gave a shaky laugh. "On ap
proval I" Her eyes filled again. "Rod
dy, you can't mean that." She came
over and sat down In his lap, and slid
her arm around his neck. "This Is
where we'll begin I" she said. "That
I'll never whatever happens walk
out on you again. Whether things
go well or badly with us, we'll work It
out. somehow, togetner.
It wns not until she beard the long,
shuddering sigh he drew at thnt, and
felt him go limp under her, that she
realized how genuine his fear had
been the perfectly preposterous fear
that If their new experiment ciian'i
come ud to her anticipation, she'd tell
him so, and leave Mm once more. This
time, for good.
It was a good while before they
took ud a rational discussion again,
hnt at last she said: "It will take
workln out. though. We'Tt been
shirking that, nadn't we better be
gin?" "Well," he snld when he'd got his
pipe alight, "it's the first question I
asked you nfter after I got my eyes
open: What are we going to do?"
- "I told Alice Peroslnl," 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 had to do that. You under
stand, don't you?"
"Of course," he said. "You couldn't
consider anything else. But then
whnt?"
. "Then," she said after a little si
lence, "then, If It's what you want me
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 the big produc
tions thnt there's nny money In are
made In New York. I'll come bnck
nnd Just .be your wife. I'll keep your
house and mother the children, and
maintain your status, If you don't
think I'm spoiled for that."
That lost phrase, though, was said
with a smile, which he answered with
one of his own. But with nn Instnnt
return to seriousness, ho snld: "I've
not asked 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 mnn. I can see
that now. I never saw It when It was
my Job. nardly ennght a glimpse of It.
I didn't even see my bills; let you
pay them down at the ofllce, with all
your own work thnt you had to do."
"It wasn't me," he snld. "It wns
Miss Reach."
She stared nt tjmt and gnre a short
Inugh. "If I'd known that . . . !"
she said. Then she ennio bnck to the
point. "It Is a real Job, nnd I think
I could lenrn to do It pretty well.
And of course a wife's the only person
who can do It properly."
Still he shook his head. Rut he
hndnt, as yet, any reasoned answer to
make, except as before, that It
woulnVt work.
"What will work, then?" she asked.
And this he couldn't answer.
"We've Just got to go ahead," Jie
said at last, "and see whnt happens.
Perhaps you can work It out so that
you can do part of your work nt home.
We could move the nursery nnd give
you Florence's old studio. And then
It would do If you only came down
here for your two big seasons fall
and spring."
"That doesn't seem fair to you." she
protested. "Yon deserve n real wife.
Roddy; not somebody dashing In nnd
dashing out."
"I don't deserve nnythlng T can't
get," he said. "I'd rather have n part
Interest In yon thnn to possess, lock,
stock and barrel, any other woman I
can think of."
She came back to him ngaln nnd
settled In his nrms. "A man told me."
she said. "John Galbralth told me that
he couldn't be n woninn's friend and-
her lover nt the same time, nny more know well that the voice of the peorie
than n steel spring could be made sort 9 far from being the voice of God.
so thnt It would bend In your fingers, jt js true that the majority may many
like copper, nnd still be n spring. He , ti s appear to be right, but numbers
snld that was true of him, anyway, nnd ' don't always count. There were four
ho felt sure It wns true of nine men out
f a dozen. Po yon think It's true?
Have we got to decide which we'll
be?"
"We caa't decide," he said with nn,
Impntlent lnugh. "That's Just what
I've been telling you. We've got to
tnke what we can get. We've got to
work out the relation between, our
selves that Is our relation the Rose'
nnd Rodney relation. It'll probably
be a little different from nny ot'ner.
There'll be friendship In It, nnd there'll
be love In It. Imagine our 'deciding'
that we wouldn't be lovers! Rut I
guess thnt what Galbralth snld was
true to this extent : that each of those
will' be more or less at the expense
of the other. It won't spring quite so
well, and It will bend a tittle." .
After n while he saldi: "Here's what
we've got to build oa: Whatever else
It may or mny' not be, this relation 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 nud
drawbneks, we needn't worry. Just go
ahead and make the best of, it wo
can. There's no law that decrees
we've got. to be happy. When we are
happy It'll be so much to tho good.
And when we aren't ..."
She gave a contented little lnugh
and cuddled closer down against him.
'You talk like Solomon In nil his so
lemnity," she said. "Rut you can't
Imagine thnt we're going to' be un-
hnppy. Really?"
His answer wns thnt perhaps he
couldn't Imagine It, but that he knew
It, Just the same. "Even nn ordinary
mnrrlnge Isn't any too easy; a mar
riage, I mean, where It's quite well un
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
uncscapablo that decides that ques
tion. Rut wllh us there Isn't. So the
question who's got to give In will have
to be decided on Its merits every time
n difference arises." She burlesqued a
look of extreme apprehension. Sho
wns deeply and utterly content with
life Just then. But h"e wouldn't be di
verted. "There's nnother reason," ho
went on. "I've a notion that the thing
we're after Is about the finest thing
there Is. If that's so, we'll have to
pay for It In one way or another. But
we aren't going to worry about It.
We'll Just go ahead and see what
happens."
. "Do you remember when you snld
that before?" asked Rose. "You told
me that marriage was an adventure
anyway, and thnt the only thing to do
was to try It and see what hap
pened." ilo grunted. "The real adventare'a
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 makt
the best of It and see what happens.
THE END.
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hundred nnd fifty prophets oppojed to
one, but that one, Klijnh, wus right and
the crowd was wrong.
II. Because of the Character of the
Way Before Us.
It Is a dillicult way for the Chris
tian In these times. Itogs and mire
are on either side nnd the way dully
grows narrower. The master himself
warns us In Matt. 7:13, 14. that "wlda
is the gate and broad tho way that
lealleth to destruction, and' strait la
the gate and narrow the way which
leudeth unto life, and few there be that
find It." Ho dillicult Is the way before
the Christian, beset by the snures, pit
falls and Htraps of Satau, and so
strewn with the allurements nud at
tractions of the world, thut left to him
self he would surely come to destruc
tion, lie needs always the guldaueo
of the one who alone knows all the
difficulties and how to pass them. Not
only (lilllcult, but dangerous Is Hie way.
There are Increasingly large numbers
who are us Infatuated with tho sup
posed Importance and self-sulllclency
of man that they think there Is no need
for Divine guidance. Imt sueli are tho
days In which we live, "perilous
times," the Apostle Puul calls them,
that Divine guidance Is not only de
sirable, but Imperative. Many nro
being swept from old moorings to drift
out and make shipwreck. It Is well
for us to hasten to Jeremiah's exhor
tation to "usk for the old paths where
Is the good way und walk therein and
find rest fu your souls." Jer. 0:10.
III. Because of What the Lord Is as
Guide.
lie knows ull the way thnt lies un
tried nnd unknown before the Chris
tian's feet. He Is omniscient. It wus
tho Lord, not Moses, who led the peo
ple of Israel of old, and it Is the Lord
who would guldo his people In safety
today. A story Is told of a little boy
from which we all may learn. During
n storm a mother sought to rescue a
family of six children. As the water
burst open the door of her home, she
tied her baby on her shoulder and took
a boy of six In her arms. To her four
teen-yenr-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
able to choose. Ben, her boy of eleven,
said, "Ma, I'll take the little one."
"The water Is too. deep for you," the
dispalrlng mother said. "It's deep for
true," answered the boy, "but Jesus Is
a tall man." They started, the mother
calling to her children, but soon Ben
ceased to answer. The mother and
the others soon reached a place of
safety. When the tide went down
next day little Ben tramped to thera
and put his little chorge Into the moth
er's arms. Dud ho followed her the
night Wfore he would soon have been
beyond his depth. But unconsciously
ho had turned aside nnd followed
bank that years before had marked a
bouadury. The yater was to his waist,
and a step or two on either side would
have been fatal, but the child trod the
narrow path In safety till he reached
a house where a man came down nud
took the children In. The pnth of the
Christian Is beset with dangers, but
he mny tread t with perfect ' safety
when he has the guidance of the Lord.
The book of DiinM, with
lPiii)m-in-, iuimieii nnil
one of the most Im,
tunt In the lillil
the prophecies of t
lately impossible f
New Testament mi,
we live. Daniel giv
enure neriod or tinu frm t
or supremacy to the
cnuiliiezznr to the titial
tno uentne aommlim, to n, ,
ment of the mi ll.-niul kiiiS,,
eourse, character
dominion ure given,
known In Scripture
the Gentiles" (I.nki
The book of It-
parts: l'urt I (el
which the prophet
vineiy ennsen Inter
pure II (chapters 7 to in),
prophet appears ns the iiia;;.,'
Uod, setting forth In yj
dreams, the times of the
book Is written in two invMi.
brew nnd Aramaic chnptiT
chapters 8 to VZ (llehrew);
2:4-7:28 (Aramaic). The pnrt i'
concerns the Hebrews va vrey,
their own tongue ami the p:n i
concerns the empires of the
written In their to
I. Daniel's Home
Ho was carried a
Nebuchadnezzar In the first
rusalem, This was
his own heart. He s
nbout fourteen yen
boy who loved his linmc ami tbi
of God It wns a great trial tu be i
out and dragged nwuy to s ft
country. It was not only a te
llllll, but doubtless to his ; ;ir,j!.
They no doubt were inixluib, al
cerely prayed for hlni.
II. Daniel's Trials and DIci
(vv. 5-13). It was tin
best of the cnpiiv
trained for service In the i.ii'W
tivlty. They usually seiwtol 'li
the royal house for mMi tn.iiiia
1. Change of name, .too:
brews names were ivi-u in itf
which were significant. I 'niie-l d
"God Is my judge." The
of the name then n tl;;.t a3;
lems of life were -nlnn'il'i '1 in
decision. This was tlsi m" W
lei's life. This purpose !' L-i-seems
to have been laii!!! i
verv life and being. So ilir,:.-:
he Imbibe this spirit thai inii
ho made God nrhii.T of his pL
purposes. The object mill,;'
change of name was to rf!fcK-
national and religious o'Wm'Ml
Identify him with the h.mli'nM
The king of ItabWoii evi.Mr.Ij
Daniel's appearance am!
but wns averse to his ri
the sumo toilnv. N
Uals are perfectly
nnd utilize the s. le
cv of Christian iniiii-i-'r a:
nries, but are not
their religion. Tic nam
received by whi h he w
In Iluhvlon WUS lMt"h:iH3f,
means Bel's Truce.
Inir mum Daniel w
one, or the one vh"a i'"1.
irod favors. Hack "t inv
name was Satan's Lttcwi't tuV
..on,., ,,f th, tr le li'l
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willin; t'"'
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these young men
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t.ilv in this case, h.rtvevif.iw1-
noaltlnn. Illllliel WHS ID M"-"
ho did not do as tho 11
Doubtless, mirer.lal ilNi"
case had done it- wort.
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was with reference h
tho
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groundwork of human J "M
the law which ihum "l "..J
doubt Daniel was tm"'
at for his fidelity, J" . Jj j j
wn.neti today wlw W- ,
Kt l'lW'-r
couviciiuus "' ..fhriv
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shall suffer persociiu-
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a. uis reugi"'" "
his refusal to cat rnoa t
which was 'contrary to J
Also it involved hil'ra V
a uay. ims i"-- ffif0:
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neu oui, ,l,iiie'''l
His praying n ,
in secret, no . m
Y..,n Ihnni. Wh0 WW" v"
couiu see in"" j)
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sicni neaiia v- rs
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been pleasant to the r
have meant comi-
9 Mpntal erowtn i i
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always, true that J j
from indulgence
hnvn clenrer
better equipped tot
those who indulge. ,
Daniel
could nave uc--
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a . l. . 1 1 1 n ( (1
minister of tno n-
ofVI'
he continued to
dynasties.
bold t
5. Spiritual ( V'KcbJ
lei's loyalty to oo )
dream was reveal y
giving visions sKet,.
equal has ever
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