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4ireat Play of the Sa
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chapter xii.
~EtHel and Brent.
W % 1 ilKJ, dropped her gaze from his
8^1 faceand said, with the suspicion
JJLfc' 'Of-* smile playing si round her
Mips:
*-T2f .you iiad the right to make love
'.straightforwardly?you wouldn't
ifc.""
-S5r.3?poked at her in amazement.
"""SPkat-do you mean?" he gasped.
only because you haven't the
"nA.)ki liKn f Vrtn if hv CllflWpctfnn "
' a4i|n'> 'iuut ,?vu uv tb wj u..00vw..vM,
riSifca] pursued.
*"3X*ir can .vou say that?" And he
the heart he was capable of in'. )
T3#hfe?gQestioa
^"SSwa don't deny it." she said quietly.
2El5^3re*thed hard and then said bititog?y
""What a contemptible opinion you
namfe tare of me!"
*TEkan we're quits, aren't we?"
~*23wwr/" he-asked.
* ""SEjeven't you one of ine?"
* .f ou ? Why, Ethel"?
~*Si?ely every married man must
contemptible opinion of the wo. Tut:
toe- covertly makes love to. If he
Afce&a't .;be couldn't do it, could he?"
v tttrb n*5?ia she leveled her cold, imrasa-re
eyes on Brent's flushed face.
?13 don't follow you," was all Brent
-"33aveift you had time to think of
acstwnsiver?"
~*? fteaffc know what you're driving
^a?C added.
K&faei smiled her most enigmatical
safe
1 think you do." She waited
; a. aaaranent. Brent said nothing. This
~wswe s/new mood of Ethel's. It baffled
**? * '" fho allonPo hv
UJ OUC iciictvu iuw mmvvv
saGg&tg him:
**"W%at happened last night?"
"Hit Qaesitated. Then he answered:
~*33fi cither not say. I'd sound like a
<saA iJazning a woman."
*13&e*??r mind how it sounds. Tell it.
I~i^r*sEist have been amusing." *
" Juawsing!" He bent over her again.
*he more I look at you and listen
Tbtoijim the more I realize I should nev aBrSwre
married."
~*RKIjy did you?" came the cool ques f&msL
ISsrwit- answered with all the power
oammand. Here was the mo>
Jseaa&z -to lay his heart bare that Ethel
-nES$Bt see.
**a?ave you ever seen a young hare,
r"f5nB?h from its kind, run headlong into
a^Ewxe? Have you ever seen a young
<*nsui free of the trammels of college
??Stt?fe iato a net? I did! I wasn't trap
- .. A.1 1 ? ?. 11 4-U^
c3Sefporced tne room resuessi.v, an me
"oSiwiaP-.'pttT rising in him. He went on:
**.2Kt??eas. what nurslings we are
wStm we first feel our feet! We're
ElSUe children just loose from the lead:<a3?
strings. Anything that glitters
s5w* <as. Every trap that is set for
* .war smwary feet we drop into. I did?
* rwpped in, caught hand and foot, mind
- scfc soul."
trwcul.?" .queried Ethel, with a note
.vaPi oatiot.
*"TesV" he naswerod.
" you mean body?" she sug
jested '
~ii>?^7,rmiud and soul!" he said, with
rm rar <Jf. finality.
-".Well. *body anyway," summed up
.'.'3E>2b??1
"Jiarufor what"?" he went on. "For
<wfits*':"* Love! Companionship! That
. i* Tiiiat we build on in marriage. And
* .did I realize? Hate and wrau,
-gizix wxaugliug, just as the common
'#??rrS -wlfh jio advantages, wrangle
xasrl make it a part of their lives, the
: -*?*&. to their union. It's been my curse."
-Why wrangling?'' drawled Ethel.
nSi>e didn't understand."
T-ou3" asked Ethel, in surprise.
thoughts, my actions!"
* "How curious!*'
"~*T?a.mean you would?"
^Ksobahly."
sure of at." He tried to take
trtjQi'nand. 13he drew it away and set'herself
comfortably to listen again:
"TfH tue more al)out your wife."
" "The -slightest attention shown to
r *1,7-other woman meant a ridiculous,
. .t-'iruaniliating scene."
"-Humiliating?"
kosi't idoubt and suspicion humil I.stazrg''"
'They wotflfi l>e a compliment In
. -strxtf) cases/'
9"
- - They -would put a fictitious value on
men."
" '.Yea couldn't humiliate in that way,"
it&vventured slowly.
"Wo. I don't tliink I could. If a uian
i a preference for any other
? y*ecaan-?lie would be quite welcome to
( JiSES "
""No man could!" said Brent insin>
oafisngly.
JSfoe looked at him coldly a moment.
"iMii-me see?where were you? Just
i -asjzrried, weren't you? Go on."
" "Then came the baby." He said
v.*.jKRc.wfth a significant meaning and
j.ayausjedJ-tQ sge. tbe effect. oi? Ethel. U
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it had any Ethel effectually conceaiea
it. Her only comment was:
"Ah:"
Brent went on:
"One would tliink that would change
things. But no. Neither of us wanted
her. Neither of us loves her. Children
should come of love, not hate.
And she is a child of hate." He paused.
< >- cl, a
lOOKHliT niltrilll.y iiL liiuci. IWH.U
understanding^ at him, then dropped
her eyes.
Brent went on as if following up an
advantage: "She sits in her little chair,
j her small, wrinkled, old. disillusioned
> face turned to us. with the eyes watchj
ing us accusingly. She submits to ca!
resses as though they were distasteful,
as if she knew they were lies. At
times she pushes the nearing face away
with her little baby fingers." He stopped.
watching her eagerly; Her eyes
went down.
"I shouldn't tell you this. It's terrible.
I see it in your face. What are
you thinking?"
"I'm sorry," replied Ethel simply.
"For iue?''
"For your wife."
"My wife!" he repeated, aghast.
"Yes,'' said Ethel. "Aren't you? No?
Are you jus's sorry for yourself?"
Brent turned impatiently away. So
this laying open the wound in his life
was nothing to Ethel. Instead of pity
I for him, all it engendered in her was
' sorrow for his wife.
I IIow little women understood him!
There was a pathetic catch in his
j voice as he turned to Ethel and said
! reproachfully:
i "You think me purely selfish?"
j "Naturally," she answered quickly,
j "I am. Why not be truthful about our'
selves sometimes? Eh?"
"We quarreled last night?about
you!" he said desperately.
"Really?"
"Gossip has linked us together. My
, wife hns heard it and put the worst
construction on it."
| "Well?"
"We said things to each other last
1 night that can never be forgiven or
! forgotten. 1 left the house and walked
j the streets?hours! 1 looked my whole
I life back and through as though it
. were some stranger's." He turned abiLl
| ;
;?c| ' v
*'& >S::
i\ % w
Ho Impulsively Stretched Out His
Arms, Embracing Her.
| ruptly away to the windows and
stayeu a moment, loomng aown we
drive.
Ethel said nothing.
lie came back to her in a few moments.
"I tell you we ought to be taught?
we ought to be taught, when we are
young, what marriage really means,
I just as we are taught not to steal, nor
lie, nor sin. In marriage we do all
! three?when fve're ill mated. We steal
i affection from some, one else, we lie in
! our lives, and we sin in our relationship."
| Ethel asked him very quietly:
"Do you mean that you are a sinner,
a thief and a liar?"
Brent looked at her in horror.
"Oh, take some of the blame!" said
Ethel. "Don't put it all on the woman."
"You've never spoken to me like this
before."
"I've often wanted to," replied Ethel;
then she asked him, "What do you intend
doing?"
"Separate," he answered eagerly.
"You don't doctor a poisoned limb
when your life depends on it; you cut
it off. When two lives generate a
deadly poison, face the problem as a
t surgeon would?amputate."
1 "And after the operation ? what
! tbiui?" asked Etboi.
"Don't say that. We have a common
bond?understanding."
-Think so?"
"I understand you."
"I wonder."
"You do me."
"Yes?that is just the difficulty."
"I tell you I am at the crossroads.
The finger board points the way to me
distinctly."
"Does it?"
"It does." He leaned across to her.
"Would you risk it?"
"What?" she asked.
"I'll hide nothing. I'll put it all before
you?the snubs of your friends;
the whisper of a scandal that would
grow into a roar; afraid to open a
newspaper, fearing what might be
printed in it; life at first in some little
continental village, dreading the
passers through, keeping out of sight
lest they should recognize one. No. It
wouldn't be fair to you."
Ethel thought a moment, then answered
slowly:
"No. Chris. I don't think it would."
"You see I am a cad?just a selflsi
cad!"
"Aren't you?" and she smiled up at
him.
"I'll never speak of this again. I
would have spoken now?only?I'm distracted?completely
distracted- Will you
forgive me for speaking as I did?"
"Certainly." said Ethel. "L'm not
offended. On the contrary. Anyway,
I'll think it over and let you know."
"You will, really?" he asked greedily,
grasping at the straw of a hope. "You
will really think it over?"
"I will, really."
"And when she sets me free," he
went on, "we could, we could"? He
suddenly stopped.
She looked coolly at him at* he hesitated
and said, "It Is a difficult little
word at times, isn't Jt?"
"Would you marry me?" he asked,
with a supreme effort.
"I never cross my bridges until I
come to them." said Ethel languidly.
"And we're such a long way from that
one. aren't we?"
"Then I am to wait?"
"Yes; do." she replied.
(To be continued.)
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* ANTREVILLE *.
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The Antreville ball team met Starr
at iva ivionaay in iavor 01 otarr.
Mrs. A. M. Erwin and son, Albert,
visited Anderson Wednesday for the
Holland-Blackwell wedding.
Antreville ball team went to Starr
Thursday to play Starr in favor of
Antreville.
Rev. F. B. Frasier, D. D., of Anderson,
and Mr. Gilbert, (student of
Frasier Fitting School) were here
Friday evening.
Rev. Frasier addressed the graduating
class of Antreville High School.
The address was fine.
About eighteen boys and girls
were gathered Saturday morning to
contest for the medals offered by
Miss Mamie Bowie and Mr Mac Nickles.
Little Miss Bess Killingsworth
won and Mr. Albert Erwin.
The medals were offered for declamation.
We were proud of our
Antreville children.
The closing exercises were all very
good, and attendance fine, and all
had a good and pleasant time.
Prof. A. W. Ayers, of Calhoun
County, S. C., was with us for the
the closing exercises. We were all
glad to see him, and have him with
lie? OflTQin
The Gymnasium team, with Prof.
Ayers, gave an exhibition Saturday
evening.
Mrss. Ann Clinkscales was a visitor
at Dr. Anderson's for the Antreville
closing exercises.
Space would not allow me to give
the names'of our many welcomed
visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Erwin and
sons, Langdon, Henry and Albert,
worshipped at Varennas Sabbath.
"That is wny i am uere lacing jt>u.
Do you understand what I mean?"
"Oh, dear, yes?perfectly! I have
been waiting for you to gel; to the
point."
"Ethel!" and he impulsively stretched
out his arms, embracing her.
She drew back slightly, just out of
his reach.
"Wait." She looked up at him quizzically.
"Suppose we generate poison?
What would you do?amputate me?"
"You are different from all other
women."
"Didn't you tell your wife that
when you asked her to marry you?"
He turned away impatiently. "Don't
say those things. Ethel; they burt."
"I'm afraid, Christian, I'm too frank.
Am I not?"
"You stand alone, utiiei. xou seem
to look into the hearts of people and
know why and how they beat."
"I do?sometimes. It's an awkward
faculty."
He looked at her glowingly "How
marvelously different two women can
be! You?my wife!"
Ethel shook her head and smiled her
calm, dead smile: "We're not really
very different. Christian. Only some
natures like change. Yours does. And
the new have all the virtues. Why. j
I might not last as long as your wife
did."
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Ellit-Cromley.
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Lesson VIII.?Second Quarter,
For May 23,1915.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. '
i
Text of the Leaaon, II Sam. ii, 1-7; v,
1-5?Memory Venn, v, 2, 3?Golden
Text, Pa. xxviii, 7?Commentary Pro*
pared by Rev. D. U. Stearna.
In the two portions assigned for this
lesson we have the record of David's
second and third anointings over
Jadah and over all Israel (11, 4; ,
3>, the tlrst anointing being at the ***
hands of Samuel (1 Sam. xvi. 13). Aa.
all anointings are suggestive of the
work of the Holy Spirit and of Him
whom God anointed with the Holy
Ghost and with power (Acts x. 38).
who also anoints and seals the believer
with the Holy Spirit (II Cor. i, 21, 22),
we will turn for a few minutes to the
other lesson for today in 1 Cor. xii.
1.13. tci nnflpA thnt no on<? can sav that
Jesus is tbe Lord, but by tbe Holy
I Spirit, and that by tbe same Spirit
eacb believer receives gifts for service
as the Spirit sees tit; to every man according
to bis several ability, to every
man bis work (Matt, xxv, 15; Mark
xili. 34). As our Lord Jesus Christ. tbe
sou of Dnvid. is waiting for-His kingdom.
when He will occupy tbe throne
of David, so all true believers, anointed
| kings and priests, associates of Him
wbo sbail be a priest npon His tbrone.
tbe true Melchizedek, are waiting with
Him and for Him. He at the Fatherfa
right band and we in the conflict here
(Luke i. 32. 33; Rev. I. 5. 6; Zech. vU 13;
Gen. xiv, 18; Ps. cr, 1. 4). While we
wait it is our privilege to suffer with
'Him and to serve Him in any way or
place which He may assign to us.
!? ?? wwl M ? +I*A+ rrlAmt A# Li la Hn
ftliuw lll^j U1UI iUC feiuij VI niu^dom
will abundantly recompense for .
all suffering or service during the little
while of waiting. Returning to our
lesson in Samuel, we note that, though *
Saul was dead, the rule over all Israel
did not come to David at once, but in
! Hebron over Judab for seven years
and then In Jerusalem over all Israel
and Judah for thirty-three years (chapter
v, y). * . ^
We may And an analogy in the conf
ing of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ when all the kingdoms of this ,
world shall have become His (Rev. xi.
15). and we may then see more clearly
the significance of David's three anointIngs.
, % ?
We cannot help noting David's la1
mentation over Saul and Jonathan,
with its thrice repeated "How are the
mighty fallen!" (II Sam. i. 19, 2o, 27).
How he could say that Saul and Jonathan
were lovely and pleasant in their
lives 1 do not know unless on the same
principle that God did not see iniquity
in Jacob nop perverseness In Israel
(Num. xxlll, 21), grace covering up th?
' wrong. We can more easily understand
how Duvld could say of Jonathan.
"Thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of w<ftnen" (1, 20),
and thut leads us to the greatest love
that was ever seen or known?the love
r>f a,ifi in Ohrfst Jesus to sinners
(Rom. r, 8; John 111. 16; I John 111, 10; fl
lv. 10). See David's habit of inquiring I
of the Lord concerning guidance in all S
matters of the kingdom (11. 1; v, 19, 23; fl
also I Sam. xxiii. 2, 4; xxx, 8). remind-* fl
lng us of some of the good advice Of fl
his son, Solomon. "In all thy ways ac- fl
knowledge Him. and He shall direct ,fl
thy paths" (Prov. lii, G). fl
Although David knew that the king- fl
dom was now his, he would not do * fl
anything without the Lord's guidance fl
as to when and where. At the Lord's B
command he went to Hebron with bis I
own and his faithful followers' house- 9
holds, and there the men of Judah flj
anointed him king over the bouse of fl
Judah. See the story of Hebron in H
connection with Abraham and Isaac Bj
I and Caleb, and let us learn to live in . H
fellowship with God. David's words S
to the men of Jabesb-gilead are for H
us also, that we may be strong and H
valiant for God (li, 7). The intervening ?
chapters In our lesson story tell of the
opposition to David by the bouse of H
Saul, but that David waxed stronger H
and stronger and the house of Saul H
weaker and weaker (Hi. 1). In our H
present conflict it cannot be said that H
the devil is waxing weaker and weak- dfl
er, for his greatest effort will be just B
before his final overthrow, but in due H
time he will be overthrown, and Jesus Ifl
Christ shall reign (Ps. lxxii, 11). S
After David became king over au , n
Israel it is written that "David wen& fl
on and grew great (went going and
growing?margin), and the Lord God H
of hosts waff with him" (v, 10). That M
the Lord was with him is repeated ' SB
again and again in his story (I Sam. |9
xvl, IS; xvili, 12, 14, 28) and reminds B
us of this blessed assurance to Isaac,. flfl
Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Gideon and others
and of His word to all who go
I forth in His name as His messengers IB
I fGen. xxvl. 3; xxviii, 15; Ex. Hi, 12; Qfl
Josh. 1. 5; Judg. vi, 16; Isa. xli, 10;: SB
Hag. ii, 4, 5; Matt. xxviii, 20). The H
Lord's presence does not insure us '
freedom from all adversaries, but it
does assure us of victory over them. HH
David bad to say concerning some
with whom be had to deal, "I am this
day weak, though anointed king, and ! H
these men, the sons of Zerniah, are BB
too hard for me" (ill, 39). Compare
Num. xi, 14; I Kings xix, 7; Ps. xxxv, j H|
10; lxxill, 1G, and then thank God that I Hfl
nothing is too hard for Him (Gen. xviii, I
14; Jer. xxxil, 17), and roll all cares ^ |H
and burdens upon Him, and trust Him
to carry you and them. All real work I
for God must be by the Spirit of God, BB
and when He is in control we will | fifl
fear no mountain nor despise any small '
things (Zach. iv). |