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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. With Jesus It
means a spiritual realm universal in
CTlant. ? rnle of :i yb?e and
, peace and jo.v in the Holy Spirit.
Wlieu he appears all will know.
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Christinas tree in Dogville?"
i "Naw, too many cowboys in town/*
"What of that ?"
"The minute they see them glass
balls some galoot will have to start
target practice."
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