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By HAROLD CARTER. Big Jim Turner had taken It into his inind to come into Balboa. There was nothing particularly admirable about that little East African coast settlement, which consisted of two W.tl. #A?.a aa^ahtlsV. UttU'O UIU1S, I vvii ?auiviius caMunauroeDte, and nine saloons. besides the administrator's residence: but the mining camp in tbe Interior did not possess any of these advantages. Besides. Big Jim had just shot and seriously wounded a thieving partner of his, and he had concluded that Balboa was the best place of temporary refuge. He had counted the money In his pockets, lie had four hundred and twelve pounds?nearly two thousaud dollars. It had been his idea to spend that in a month of riotous living, at the end of which time, no doubt, his partner having recovered, there would b?i room for him at fhe mining camp again. But as he stood in the midst * of the single street that Balboa possessed. and surveyed the scene rather unsteadily, a monstrous thought took birth in his brain. Slowly he pulled a letter from his pocket and read the writing by the licht nf thn lamn ft hovn Shonlftv'ft saloon. "My dear Sir James." it ran. "We herewith enclose you the sum of one hundred pounds, which, as we mentioned in our previous letter, was left you by your father, the late baronet. As you are aware, unfortunately Sir Echvin never relented in his attitude toward you, and, though the title has come to you, the estates, which were not entailed, have passed to your younger brother. If we may take the liberty of saying so, there exlets no reason why you should not rerturn to England. While society, unfortunately, is not apt to relent tows rd a man who is a baronet without an income, we have assurance that the parties whom you have affronted aro anxious that the affair which led you to expatriate yourself be forgotten. "Kindly keop us advised as to your circumstances, so that. In case there should be a new heir, or in case of your unfortunate demise, we may be in a position to take measures accordingly." N The letter was signed by a firm of Loudou attorneys. !tig Jim laughed rather hollowly and turned Into Sheeley's. The place w &i paeked with mining men and -n-ii law That She Was Staring at Him. Portuguese traders from the interior, and all were exuberant. The crowd had nioufev to burn, for no poor r.inn could have had business in that part of the coast on which I'.albou was situated. What the?!" liig Jiiu began, staring behind thp bar. Mechanically his uaiiu tv nil I up IU IIIB llfftKI a 11(1 CHIUtJ away with bin hat in it. a circumstance which surprised him mightily. Behind tiie bar stood a fair-haired, ruddy-cheeked Knglish gin, polishing glasses. and evidently looking with horror and dread upon tho motley crew assembled in the saloon. The barmaid was an institution all along the Kast African littoral, just as in the home country; but the typo of woman who was'to be found in these places was strikingly the reverse of the delicate, refined-looking girl who was serving at Sheeley's. "Present me. Sheeley." muttered Big Jim with mock courtesy. Hut as his eyes continued to dwell on the girTii face he recoiled a pace or two and stared at her in dawning renmmbra ice. and he saw the uuswering recognition in her own eyes. "She's niy new attendant," said Sheeley, grinning. "Got her through an advertisement in the lxindon paper?. 1 didn't tell you fellows?I wanted it to be a surprise. 1 guess she hasn't seen much of the trade and thought Pathos was a shade* bigger and quieter than it is. She?" "I didn't ask the lady's history. I wapbto know her name," growled Big Jiui Turner. "Now, Jim. don't get ugly and I'll teW you." answered the saloonkeeper, pushing a bottle toward him. But ltig Jim pushed it away with a aeuse of physical nausea. No need to ati further. He looked at the girl agiin and saw that she was staring at him still, and that the recognition was complete. f "I nur.,M>ae you wasn't here when be arrived," said Sheeley. "That KOa two weeka ago I thought 1*4 gal >. y" tjC. * ? \ y ' tu- "* - - V I* < > . i v.,'1 ?a Ir > ~ WfM????? A rare *aa when I caught sight of her pretty face, but she ain't no sport at all. 1 made a mistake, that's all." Big Jim beard the words only vague- . !y. He had turned and stridden out of the saloon, and now, .outside, he : was seeing the past six years of his life in roview before him. Six years before James Turner, the eldest son of Sir Edwin, ninth baronet and a rich landed proprietor, had been one of the most scrught-after heirs In ' England. He had just come homo from the university; be was engaged i to Lady Mary Hamilton, a charming ' girl, and the only daughter of his fa ther's oldest friend, whose estates adjoined his own. James Turner had never loved Lady Mary; he had drifted into the engagement at his father's wish, and thought himself happy enough until Kitty Munroe appeared upon the scene. Kitty was a girl of good birth in reduced circumstances; she was Ladv Mary's companion. It was the old story of a love unhallowed by the sanction of church or law, or of society. When the discovery came about Sir Edwin was furious. lie cut bis son out of his will, except for a hundred pounds, "with which to go to the devil," as he terse' ly expressed himself. James Turner packed his belongings and started for Capetown. He worked his way up the coast, and there were few frontier settlements in that vast land that did not know hiui either by sight or else by reputation as a brawler and a ne'er-do-well. James Tu uer had "gone to the devil," indeed, but Kitty Munroe had i been a mighty factor in that event. I He had nought her everywhere before he sailed. Hul the girl, cast off atul disowned, like himself, and not wish| jug to become a drag upon him, had hidden herself from prying eyes. No! body knew what had become of her. j She had not become submerged, but I she had quietly effaced lierselt and set herself to earn her living as a waitI ress in a latudon restaurant, near! Ill.r llm In.lnlll.lo otl.m. ,.f l.? hut- carrying in her heart also the 1111forgotteu memory of her love, she hail lived in London alone until the lure of Slieeley'a lying advertisement Induced her to venture In liulboa. which she imagined to ho a nourish* lug and settled town. Her two weeks there had been a terrible night mure. But there was no refuge for her until she had worked out the passage money. A year arter Jim's departure Lady Mary had married his younger broth-* er. and she now held rule over the estates which should have been Jim's. ltig Jim stood outside, remembering mournfully the past. What an ass he had made of himself! And now. the girl he had sought so long had stood face to face with him once more, and they had looked Into each other's eyes again with shame and terror, and fet not unforgetfnl of those days of passion and self-sacritV.-e so long ago. 1 A hideous tumult in the saloon behind him recalled liig Jim to his surroundings. A woman's scream rang out. He turned and hurried back. As he entered the door he perceived one of the Portuguese traders standing with one arm round the waist of the struggling girl, while with his tree hand lie flourished an ugly-loo king revolver and defied every Englishman in the place to take her from him. Jim strode up to the man and struck ; him in the /ace. knocking the revolver to the floor. Domlnguez fell forward. nair sninne.i. but the trigger of the falling weapon struck the corner of the counter and exploded the charge. Rig Jim felt a stinging sensation in his shoulder. Next moment, with a wild cry, in which were contained all the hatreds and all the despair of the pa.it years, he had leaped forward ln?o the group of threatening Portu| gu?se. knocking their knives aside and dealing mighty blows with his j big fists. A general melee arose 1m| mediately. I.amps were overturned. | and the struggling mob. tnllumed with drink, fought and hacked at each othj er in the darkness until a smolder of , smoke and the flicker of flames an- 1 : nouncpd the end of Slieeley's. It was pitch dark, save where the lurid rays of the burning building c ast a glow upon the demon like forms that ' fought and battled. All the evil ele| ments in Balboa seemed to have : rushed to plunder and destroy. Halfcastes, with swarthy, abominable faces, crept In among the struggling men. reaching out for bottles of wine and dealing stealthy blows. Big Jim was In the thick of it. but lie no longer knew friend from foe. He was bleeding from three knife wounds, he was * stunned and reeling back against a door, and they were leaping at him ' like hounds at a noble stag. Suddenly the door opened behind him. A soft hand reached out and groped for his. Jim plunged forward blindly into the darkness, and the door slamrned to behind hira. The girl's hand was in his. "Come this w?y!" she was whispering. She I... I him lhrnn?li a ri w 1 w? u w?ibm ? i<ai i vn |/noaa^C| along a path among a maze of out- . buildings, until at last they found themselves in tho darkness under the palinB, with the scrub brush of the impenetrable forests not fifty feet away and the plashing sea near by. There they stopped. He could just | see her face in the starlight. "Jim!" she whispered. "Kitty!" he answered hoarsely. I "What is It to be?" "I don't know," she cried passionately. "I*et me go. Jim." "Back there?" he exclaimed. "Kitty?Kitty, you afe mine now. Our lives must never part again. Wherever we go, you are mine always." Their lips met in the darkness; he drew her into his arms a moment, and then, together, they plunged Into the mighty forest. (C^yricht. MM. fcjr W U '"-f 1J > mbnational ^iniwy^fnnra h/Vl UV-U K^VflWIi Lesson C3?- O. E. SEX-I.ERS. rMr-otor of Bvening Department The Moody Bible lnsti?me of Chicago.) ' LESSON FOR JUNE 7 COMING OF THE KINGDOM. T.ESSON* TRXT-Lu!:e 17:70-37. OOLUKN TRXT-'l.o, the Kingdom of Gofi ts within you." I. iko 17:21. I. The Kingdom Present, vv. 20, 21. The Pharisees held some peculiar ideas about the coming of the kingdom. Contrary to their ideas there are no special outward signs to herald its coming. The word "observation" v. 2n. is an astronomical one and suggests that the kingdom was j come in u bodily shape from the sky. a current expectation on the part of the Pharisees. in answer to the boastful Pharisees tv. 2<>? Jesus plainly told them that he himself is the kingdom, and that that kingdom was in their midst or "among you," see (v. 21) margin. Their question was a flippant one, one of unbelief, and to it Jesus makes a characteristically brief, but clear re Him iiaimo* Ul Ul? llftiure UI ? r<'l)uk4>. The kingdom would not come wllh trumpets and drum. They could not say. "Lo here! lo there!" Its coming was not to be spectacular, arresting the attention of some who 1n turn brought It to the attention oT others. The authorized rendering "within you" does not Imply that the kingdom a!r?:??rv existed in the Individual lives of his questioners. Subsequent tenching of Jesus shows that he here r?f?rs to another and a finul coming of the kingdom, at the time of he Until coining of the son of man. What lie desired to teach these Pharisees was that the kingdom of which thev spoke bad already appeared doe to the fact of his presence In tludr midst. The carping Pharisees withdraw and Jesns speaks openly to ilia disciples of the days that will come, a time of persecution when they will long for comfort. Prophecy Fulfilled. II. The Visible Son of Man. vv. 22-24. The kingdom in its outward form was rejected by tlie lews. John 1:26, 27. In its spiritual form It la now iu the hearts of believers tltom. 14:171, but he who was rejected with contempt will one day be sought after, though in vain. Matt. 22:37-39. During the time r,( liis absence many shall claim to he Christ (v. 23). but we are not to believe stteli claims. History has abundantly proved and fullllled this prophecy. When he really comes there will b- a sudden publicity iv. 24). that shall flash from one corner to the other of Hie heavens. Malt. then "every eye shall behold i~ "" "" Transmissic Savings Bank W. B. MFACHAM, his&nt far. aaaasaa (BlsBSBsasasasaesesasassBsa In) B Have you | "Rock Hi ri Cakes, Jelh | I) Fresh and Fine, If rem tl Phone 116, foi PARKS jjjl E. S. PARi . Efru."~~ 'rSo shall tlie~9on~of man be In hU day " This Instruction Jesus gives to his disciples. Men shall seart.li for hlui, a time when lie slutll not be present as he then was. After the false ones will come a day of revelation when tl?e whole hea\-eus will reveal hi in and all will know It. Finality of Events. III. The Day of the Son of Man, vv. 25-37. Before that day comes, however, be must suffer and be rejected, but following that rejection men will marry, carry on merchandising and merriment as In the days of Noah and those of Lot. In the days of Noah and of Lot there came a sudden halt In these activities and a judgment of flood and Are. even so "after the same manner shall it be in the day that the son of man is revealed." v. 30. This refers to the finality of events when the kingdom of God couieB by way of judgment. Here Jesus sets his seal upon the truthfulness of these two events which preceded his first advent. If they be not true then he Is | a false teacher. Like as men disj credit those events they likewise would j set aside his teaching about bis seoj ond advent. Many claim that verse 31 I refers to the- destruction of .leru! salem; the context to its clearly disproves any such interpretation. Verses 32 and 33 must be taken together. Summary. Quite emphatically this passage is a teaching on the subject j of the coming of the kingdom of God. ! vThat kingdom came when Christ came . in grace. It will come when he conies In Judgment. It Is coming constantly between the t*o advents. Itemeniber his reading of Isaiah's prophecy. Luke 4: IS. 10: cf. Isa. 61:1-0. In his tlrst advent he did come to preach tlie acceptable year, the year of grace. That day id still with us. In his second advent lie will proclaim the day of the vengeance of God. He will establish lie kingdom, will build the waste place and raise d solutions. Today ilie kingdom of God Is among us in '.over through the presence of Christ 'lV the -nirlf tn th ? liviiw To the Pharisees ho said: "Neither '..hall tliey say. lo here! lo there! for the kingdom Is In your midst." To !ils ?1l-> ijdes he said: "They shall say lo the"*?! lo here! go not away nor *olh w I hem." We cannot localize the kingdom. On an ancient Syrian fragj meat the words of l.uke 1:TJ read. "and to his kingdom there shall he ! no frontier." On the lins of the PhariI sees. ' Ingdom meant a political organization and empire. 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