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KATHLEEN, NORRIS ~ to*yna?r Q MT?tt?f? HOftRIf 'I was wrong,"* he s*!d. "But 1 think you would bo sorry to have me face?what I am facing now. You were always so forgiving, Alix; you would be the first to be sorry." He put his hund over the tigerish pain that was beginning to reach his heart. His throat felt thick and choked, and still he did not cry. "An hour ago," he said, "If it had been that the least thought of what this meant to you might have reached ... i.n.i. iita If unnlil nnt Ihivp me an iu?ui ueui ii been too late. Alls, one look into your eyes au hour ago might have saved us alh "/red," Peter said aloud, with a hitter groan, clinching tight the hands of the old friend who had crept m to stand b*skle him, "Fred, she was here, ku all her health nud joy and strength only today. And uov?" "i kuow?old inuu?" the other man muttered. He looked anxiously ut Peter's terrible fuce. Iu the silence the dog whimpered faintly. But when Peter, after au eudless five minutes, turned away, it was to Speak to his friend in an almost normal voice. "I must go dowu and see Cherry, Fred. She took her husband to the old house; they were llviug there." "Helen will stay here," the old man assured him quickly. "I'll drive you down and coine back here. We thought perhaps a fe>v of us could coine here tomorrow afternoon, Peter," he added timidly, with his reddened eyes tilling again, "and talk of her a little, nud pray for tier a little, and then take ! her to?to rest beside the old doc- j tor?" "I hadn't thought about that," Peter answered, still with the air of finding it iiard to link words to thought. "But that is the way she would like it. Thank you?and thank Helen for me?" "Oh, Peter, to do anything?" the woman faltered. "She came to us, you know, wheh the baby was so ill?day after d*?r:-i-my own sister couldn't have been more to us!" "Lid sbe5" Peter asked, staring at the speuker steadily. "That was like her." He went out of the house and got Into a waiting car, and they drove } down the mountain. Alix had driven ! him over this road day before yester- ; day?yesterday?no, it was today, he ' remembered. "Thank Cod I don't feel it yet as I shall feel it, Thompson!" he said i quietly. The man who was driving ' gave him an anxious glance. "You nnist take each day as it conies," he answered simply. Peter nodded, folded his arms across his chest, and stared into the eurly dark. There was no other way to go than past the very spot where the horror had occurred, but Thompson told Iilc wlfn Intiir that noor Jovce had not seemed to know it when they passed j it. Nor did he give any evidence of : emotion when they reached the old Strickland house and entered the old i hallway where Cherry had come nying in. a few short years ago. with Mar- | tin's first kiss upon her lips. Two doctors, .summoned from San \ Francisco, were here, and two nurses. I Martin hud been laid upon a hastily moved bed in the old study, to be j spared the narrow stairs. The room j was metamorphosed, the whole house i moved about It as about a pivot, and I there was no thought but for the n an j who Jay, sometimes moaning and some- | times ominously still, waiting for death. 'He cannot live!" whispered Cherry. | ghastly of face, and with the utter j chaos of her soul and brain expressed ! by her tumbled frock and the cureless- i ly pushed hack and knotted masses of j her hair. "His arm is broken, Peter, j and his leg crushed?they don't dare touch hint! And the surgeon says the spine, too?and you see his head! Oh, | (Jod! It is so terrible," she snid in | agony, through shut teeth, knotting her hands together; "St is too terrible that lie is breathing now, that life is there now, and that they cannot hold it!" She led Peter into the sitting room, where the doctors were waiting. "Is there any hope?" lie asked, when Cherry iiad gone away on one of the restless, unnecessary Journeys with ? Li t. fillln,, An/11A?a VvJllCU Milt; \\U5 luwu^ iiic ruuir.^.7 11ours. One man shook his head, and In the silence they heard Martin groan. "It is possible he may weather it, of course." the older man said doubtfully. "He is coming out of that first stupor, and we may be able to toll better in a short time. The fact tVat iie Is living at all indicates a tremendous vitality." Cherry came to the door to say "Doctor!" on a burst of tears. The physicians departed at once to the > study, and Peter was immediately summoned to assist them in handling the big frame of the patient. Martin was thoroughly conscious now; his face chalk white. Cherry, agonized, knelt beside the bed, her frightened eyes moving from face to face. There was a brief consultation, then Cherry and Peter were banished. I'eter watched her with a confused sense tba^, the wlfri^Mfnl day.had Keen a dream. (Tnce sRe 'IooEed up and inet Ms eyes. "He can't live," she said In a whisper. "Perhaps not," Peter answered very low. Cherry returned to her somber musing. "We didn't see this end to It, did we?" she said with a pitiful smile after a long while. "Oh, no?no!" Peter said, shutting his eyes and with a faint, negative movement of his head. "Poor Cherry?If I could spare you all this!" knotting his fingers and feeling for the first time the prick of bitter tears against his eyelids. "Oh, there Is nothing you can do," she said faintly and wearily after a while. And she whispered, as If to herself, "Nothing?nothing?nothing!" CHAPTER XIX. It was all strange and bewildering, thought Peter. It was not like anything he had ever connected in his thoughts with Alls, yet It was all for her. The day was warm and still, and the little church was packed with flowers and packed with people. Women were crying, and men were crying, too. rather to his dazed surprise. The organ was straining through the watm, flagrant air, and the old clergyman, whose venerable, leonine head, \n lis crown of snowy hair, Peter could see clearly, spoke In a voice that was thickened with tears. Strangers, or almost strangers, bad been touching Peter's bund respectfully, timidly, hud been praising Alix. She bud been "good" to this one. "good" to that one, they told hiin; she had always been so "interested" und so "happy." Her coflin wus buried in flowers, many of them the plain flowers she loved, the gillies and stock and ver bena, aud even ttie sweet, soner wanflowers that were somehow like herself. Hut it was the roses that scented the whole world for AIlx today, and fresh creamy buds had been placed between the waxen fingers. And still that rndhmt look of triumphant love lingered on her quiet face, and stiil the faint ghost of a smile touched the once kindly and merry mouth. They said good-by to her .at the church, the villagers and old friends who had loved her, aud Peter and two or three men alone followed her down along the winding road that leti to the old cemetery. Cherry was hanging over the bedside of her husband, who still miraculously lingered through hours of pain, but as "Peter, responsive to a touch on his arm, crossed the church porch to bllndJy enter the waiting motor car, he saw, j erect and grave, on the front seat, in his decent holiday black, and with his felt lint held in his bunds, Kow, claiming his right to stand beside the grave of the mistress lie had loved and served so faithfully. The sight of him. In his clumsy black, Instead of the usual crisp white, and with a sad and tear-stained fuce shook Peter strangely, but he did not show a sign of pain. The twisted low branches of oulc trees threw shadows on the grave when they finully reached It, and sheep were cropping the watered grass of the graveyard. The soft autumn sky, the drift of snowy clouds across the blue, the clear shadows on brown grass under the oaks, all these were familiar. lint Peter still looked dazedly at his black cuff and at the turned earth next to the doctor's headstone, telling himself again that this was for Alix. ilow often he had seen her sitting there, with her bright face sobered and sweet, as she talked lovingly, eagerly of her father! They had often come here. Peter the more willingly because she was so sensible and happy about It; she would pack lunch, button herself into one of the crisp blue ginghams, chatter on the road in her usual fashion. And it', for a few moments, the train of memory fired by the sight of the old doctor's I grave became too poignant and tears came, she always scolded herself with that mixture of childish and maternal impatience that was so characteristic of her, and that Peter had seen her use to this very father years ago I lie remembered her. a tall, awkward i girl, with a volume of Dickens slip- | j ping from her lap as she silt on n has- j sock by the tire, tensing her fnther, j j scolding and reproaching him. Blazing j rod on her high cheekbones, untidy | hlnck liair, quick tongue and ready ! j laugh; that was the Alix of the old days, when he lind criticized and pat- j j ronized her, and told l?er that she J should he more like Anne and little , I Cherry! He remembered being delegated, one j ' day, to take her into town to the den- ; ! tist, and that upon discovering thut ' the dentist was not in his oflioe, he had I taken her to the circns instead. She ; i had been about thirteen, and had eaten j too utility peanuts, he thought, and had lost a petticoat in full sight of the J ! grandstand. But hr.w grateful and j ! ha"ov she ltnd^heenj^, _ . .. I "Dear little oI'J Hue petticoat!" he said. "Dear little old madcap Alix?!" ! There was silence, the silence of | inanition, about him. lie came to himself with a start. He was up on ntmm. This Wai Alix's Grave, Newly Covered With Flowers. the hills, in the cemetery?this was AIIx's grave, newly covered with wilting masses of flowers, aud he was keeping everybody waiting. He murmured an apology; the waiting uien were all kindness and sympathy. (To be Continued.) PASTORHOLDS ON. Negro Congregation In Washington Rowing Over Minieter. The Florida Avenue Baptist church, colored, at the corner of Bohrer street and Florida avenue, northwest, which was the scene of a fatal riot on Janu-; ury 13, in which William Brush, a parishioner, received wounds resulting in his death two days later, became a center of interest again yesterday, says the Washington Herald of Monday. This time the Rev. William A. Taylor, the storm center, who is alleged by certain members of his flock to have been responsible for the riot, came out victor, the congregation voting 500 to 2 to retain him as pastor. The fight was a bloodless one and occurred during the first capacity meeting In the little church since the court proceedings, begun by seven members of the church to oust the pastor, were Instituted on January 24. The real test was to have taken }>luce on January 28, but the blizzard and the Khltkerbbckcr theatre disaster" reduced the attendance to such an extent that it was impossible to reach a decision. ' Rumors in circulation last Saturday were to the effect that opponents to the pastor were ready to forcibly oust him yesterday if he persisted in preaching. How- /er, the usual orderliness prevailed, although the atmosphere was tense. This was due to the enthusiasm of the pro-Taylor element rather than to fear of what the anti-Taylor clement might do. Standing squarely on the platform, and surrounded by huge bouquets of flowers sent by his admirers, the pastor shouted his defiance to that portion of his flock whom he accused of -! ' ....!? hlw, T-Ta trying iu uiiuu i uie ut i um nuui xav dared his opponents to stand up and make themselves known. When he uttered this challenge only two men stood up and announced that they wanted the pastor to resign right away. Then the pastor called on his friends to rise and approximately 500 people stood up and '.hose loDked around and frowned on the two opponents of the pastor. Not only did Rev. Taylor force the dissenting members of his flock into the open by challenging them from the pulpit, but he fought them all through his sermon by making repeated reference to them. He took the persecution of the prophet Elijah by King Ahab as his Biblical weapon and e-ave his oDnononts an oratorical lash ing that aroused his congregation to such expressions of approval that at tiroes it was impossible to hear him. Accused of gross mismanagement of the affairs of the church, and with inciting the riot, and ignoring repeated demands from an active minority for his resignation, Rev. Taylor devoted the entire services yesterday to restoring order in his church. The result of the vote, taken after tho sermon, shcwcu that out of a total congregation of 1,200 less than fortymembers are out and out opposed to retaining him in the pulpit. The vote also showed that only two of the opposition party attended the services. A few others stood outside the church or gathered in little groups on the corner and chatted among themselves. The Eighth precinct, a few doors away, sent no policemen to the services as it was considered that the pastor would be aide to handle the situation. The services began and ended without the slightest disorder. The congregation was composed of intelli Kent, 8?*1 f-respecting colored people and with the exception of loud expressions of approval at the pastor's topic and his references to his opponents' tactics the services were not interrupted by a single discordant note. The Blind Man Locks Out.?A blind man. on going out on a dark night, asked a non-blind man: "Give me a lantern?" "What's that for?" You can't see anyhow." "Yes, but it is fur the benefit of | those who can see, and therefore might bump into me." IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool v I nccAn T JUWOU1 V (By REV. p. B. .FITZ WATER. D. D.. Teacher of English' Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright, 1933. Western Newspaper Union. LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 12 ELI8HA AND THE SHUNAMMIT* WOMAN LESSON TEXT-IT Kings 4:8-37. GOLDEN TEXT?V?rll/, verily, I say unto you, the hour is eomlng, end now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.?John 6:2b. REFERENCE MATERIAL?John U: l-tf. . PRIMARY TOPIC - Ellsha Brings a Boy to Life. JUNIOR TOPIC?How Elisha Brought a Boy to Life. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC ?Elisha Helping in a Home. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ?Our Ministry of Comfort and Help. 1. The Shunammite's Hospitality to Eliah* (vy. 8-11). L Its occasion (v. 8). A vrenlthy woman of Shunem, observing that Elisha passed continually by her house in his Journeys, was moved with compassion toward him. She determined according to her ability to supply his neeus. 2. Its nature (w. 8-11). "She coustrained him to eat bread" (vv. 8,9). As a result of her earnest en? treaty, as often as be passed by her bouse he turned In to eat oread. She received a prophet In the name of a prophet. ^ II. Elieha Endeavors to Repay Her Kindness (w. 12-17). 1. He offers to ask a favor from the king or head of the army (v. 13). This offer Implies that Ellsha had influence at the royal court. 'The woman's reply Shows her truly to be a great woman. She did not desire to change the c&lm and quiet of her home for a place even in the royal court. Her answer also shows that her motive in extending generosity to the prophet was entirely unselfish, purely because he was God's prophet. 2. Elisha announces the giving of a son to her (W. 1&, 17). Through Inquiry of Gehasl it was discovered that this woman was childless. So the prophet made known to her that in about a year from that time she should erperlenoe the Joy of a mother. III. The Coming of Sorrow to the Shunammite's Homo (vv. 18-21). The child which brought Joy to her home was suddenly taken away. How many homes are like th(s I Scarcely do we begin to enjoy life until death enters ami snatches away some loved one. The cause of his death was probably sunstroke, for the heat ot the sun at harvest time In this country Is very Intense. When the boy complained of his head, the father sent him home to his mother. By noou the child died and the. mother luid him upon the .feed of the man of God. Faith prompted her to do this. She did not muke preparation for burial, hut for restoratlou to life (Heb. 11:35). , IV. Th? Mother Goes to Elisha (vv. 22-28). When one Is Jn trouble or sorrow the best place to go is to the man ot God who is able to give counsel and comfort. Happy Is the -one who In the days of prosperity and sunshine has so related himself to God and His prophets that Jie can have help and sympathy In time of trouble. 1. She took hold of EHsha's feet (v. 27). This was the eastern way of enforcing a petition. She passed by Gehazl. She would not be content with the servunt when the master could be reached. 2. She chlded flie prophet (v. 28). "Did I desire a son?" This Implies that It would have1 been better not to have had a eh!!i Lhun to have lost him so soor . V. The Child Restored (w. 29-37). L Gehazl's fruitless errand (vv. 2931). He hurried away and placed the prophet's stuff upon the child's face, but It did not revive. Perhaps the fault lay In Gehazl?his lack of faith. The woman seemed to perceive his lack; she would not trust him. She would not go until Ellsha was willing to go along. This fruitless errand - ? - A.1. I ^ J Of GehtUl snows me woriwessuww ox the forms of religion when used by those who have no faith In tliem. 2. EUsha's efficient service (vv. 3237). He went to the house where the dead child was. (1) He prayed (v. 33). He knew that no one but God could help, so he closed the door, shutting all others out. Our sen-Ice to men should be preceded by prayer. 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