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,J)drkj COpyRIC-rMiT 1914- /1W L SYNOPSIS. A ct:ious crowdl of m'ighblrs Invadel 1he miys't ctius home of Julge Ostranler, county iudge. anl eei',"int ri recolu,', foil Jowing it veild womtan wtho ias g:iittiti 'titrance throiih the g:a(es of the h1gli double trriers suirrouinitg tim' puree. The wornian l.s it sapJi*'mar- hilt the Jidge I:s founid in : a e itlplir stait,. !teht, his a-crvant. ,P l a :1r in : ,iyin&; c ttlditioll tud preucnts etitr.I to :1 sct e ii elimOr. t,'lt M'Ies. Trhe ju'l;e laa 's. 'lss We elma .t xpt:lIns t ilto %iwhat has or11 'rel du'ing his : :'ur.. fie secr'l'tlv dis-vrs t -he w h(t'ii'umijts Of tet veild wrttrl:tl. Sit i roves t, tihe wid ow of a i n 1 tried I ii ,the .iu ' and electrm 't 'l il' for Iiur 1er yesrs lt .*1. i*.'. I itr sinuI. ,li'r is en ,ilge'i t P. s:: ',' s,. fa'oin whtin he h; Qst':lngc! 'tit the 11us1ilet' Is betwen :hc 'livers. CHAPTER IV-Continued. B3ut ,-he would not he dented. She thrusit i upon him and omce his eyes had fallen up it, they citing there. though cidently againut hiis will. Ah, she knew that. Itliuther's exquisite countenance would plead for itself! Good seldot grants to such beauty so lovely a spirit. If the features them selves failol to appeal, certainly he must feel tte charm of an expression which hal already netted so many hearts. 3rathlessly she watched him, aind, ,a she watched, she ioted the heavy lines carved in his face by thought and possibly by sorrow, slowly relax and his eyes fill with a wistiul tenderness. "Parents must learn to endure hit terness. I have not been exelt my self from sieh. Your child will not die. Yiot havi years of mutttutl com panionlihip before you, while I have tothi :lg. And now let us end this In terview. s painful to us both. You have said-" "No," she broke in with sudden vehemence, all the more srlintg fr'otn the restraint in which she had held iersel f up to (IIis moment, "I have not said- -I have not begun to say what seetlies like a consuming lire in my breast. I spoke of a miracle-will YOU not Uiiten, judge? I am not wild; I am nt untionscious of presumption. I am only itt earnest, in deadly ear nest. A iniraicle is possible. The gulf between these two tmay yet be spanned. 1 see a way--" What change was this to which she had suddenly become: witness? The face wih ich had not lost all its underly ing benignancy even when it looked its coldest, had now becoie settled and hard. Ills manner was absoitely repellent as he broke in with the quick disclaimer: "flut there is no w ay. what mir acle coul ever iake y r tiaughter, lovely as she undoubtedlly is, a litting match for ity son! None, m'.tadam, ab. soltely none. Such anl alliance would b)0 mtontrous111; unnitaturtal.'' ''W\hy?"' TIhe wvot (amlit.'1 holdly3. "Btecaus~e her father died the de-athi of a criinal ?' hlis faiit h lrestie as judge."'' r etort. (old at timi tinwP artld I havi e lon as suiitxd by I m:mt i that you were .Tudge' 0.-; 1r ''er- he l.111 takent a s'ti'l tow rd the Imlt door-lt' hut It -a m at h i 1t teran' of his nun than'-- r m''' thi a ttis ~ I' one cst on 'h di 0 . ti You un3Ist ha1 ateda suh ii hi !:nity to:.ardtts sth man Sltlo u' i', ie o li n~te him?"cv mv Iteut : d leti ' be questioned tinu~d.1 ma n, hai ataer at h vetih jl f: of Uiote wtho so darfeda 3'if ii' fondt harde at txhue tuch prn sumpii oin. t yo. inswtre hie no ev arthele. Alm w ith rt?e 'mhs is:n cou'ttsith!::t beause Is vicofthm pas mt frb-l d :P't bielrongetompanitn. Ars judet' if dad. his own' rejudtes"n h'Tou; utouthaathe rea Ton, juli; iol easo thouch justwase yo tn ur Itn eye ant all comeoand whbch jutik t'in ou at tminettownd oaw. m i ot rig hdhot? Toi isno cour i troom ttet tos idoe othe past;n itan bet 'yo weopne; athed pris aner to ded. Answe eti, ashenried ont ino'in mearda reps: t nohr "hadnt yiu anther raeasigo?" lths orWhut e yowaf, agans are ouv rakingattackewinced at1thichpeiton dfae m ton hoe hoped&~ tOinor Oailr nudmxey to hio thiinolun try byetran of wanssahloedres can angr'rrit tohe auhvet as hn e So "What. so thing yo wol thse? that far yousaf"o- h r o raking up h sibyo be whichv o hake theresen wronfuony f ieishol darer aondt hore heoeless? iver Ostaner undier nos ouir almeftancith and by~e m'eas o~flno -sohicbtricane ville. I shoul 'hn yuwul'e 10110W C.DI Rhodes tODD, I-WA a COMPAm J "Madam, your hopes and wishes have misled you. Your husband was a guilty man; as guilty a man as any Judge ever passed sentence upon." "lut he swore the day I last vis ited him in the prison, with his arms pressed tight about me and his eye looking straight into mine as you are looking now, that he never struck that blow. I did not believe him then; there were too inny dark spots in my memory of old lies premeditated and destructive of my happiuess: but I believed him later, and I believe him now." Madam, this b, quite tnprotitable. A jury of his peers coudetred him as guilty and the Iaw compelled me to pass sentence upon him. The inev itable must be accepted. I have said my last word." "But not heard mine." she panted. "For tme to acknowledge the inevitable where my daughter's life and happi ness are concerned w ould make me seent a coward in miy owtn eyes. Helped or unhelped, with the sympathy or without the sympathy of one who I hoped would show himself my friend, I shall proceed with the task to which I have dedicated myself. You will forgive me, judge. You see that John's last declaration of innocence goes fur ther with me than your belief, backed as it is by the full weight of the law." Gazing at her as at one gone sud dienly demented, he said: "I fall to understand you, Mrs.-I will call you irs. Averill. You speak af a task. What task?" "The only one I have a heart for the proving that lieuther is not the rhild of a willful murderer; that an ot her man did the deed for which he suffered. I can do it. I feel confident that I can do it; and If you will not help me-" "lelp you! After what I have said and reiterated that he is guilty, guilty, guilty?" Advancing upon her with each rope Lion of the word, he towered before her, an imposing, almost formidable figure. She faced again his anger, which might well be righteous, and with almost preternatural insight bold ly declared: "You are too vehement to quite con vince me, Judge Ostrander. Acknowl edge it or not, there is more doubt than certainty in your mind; a doubt which ultimately will lead you to help mte. 'T'hen my way should broaden a way, at the end of which I see a united couple-my daughter and your ;nn. Oh, she is worthy of him," the woman broke forth, as he made an >ther repellent and imperative ges ore, "ask anyone in the town where ye have lived." Abruptly andi without apology for iis r'udleness, Judge Ostrander turned its back, then with a quick wvhirl about vhich brIought him face to face wvith teor onuce more, lie impectuously asked: "Madam, you were In my house this unrning. You caine in through .the ot Ie which Bela htad left unlocked. VIll you explain how you came to do hi;? 1)1( you kntow that he was going lowvn stree't, leavilng the way open be I ind him ? Was there collusion be wPIn you ?" lIher (eyes looked clearly Into his, shue felt that sihe hiad nothing to dis ;uise or conuceal. "'I had ur'ged hint to do this, .Judgc )strander'. I had met him more than' meeC in the street wh'len he went oui .0 (10 yourt errands, and1( 1 usmed all my )ersuasont to Induce him to give mcl Lhis one opportunity of pleadinig my 'ause with you. H~e was your (devotec servant, lie showed it ini his (leath, butl lbe never got over hIs aiffection foi Olilver. I htad listened to what folki laid. I htad heard that you wiouldi r'eceivi nobody; taik to nobody. Bela was m3 only resource." Hie was scrutinizing her keenly, an< for time first time understandingly Whatever her station, past or present she was certainly no ordinary wvoman nor was her face without beauty, ii as it was by passion and every ardo of wvhich a loving woman is capablE No man wvould be likely to resist it um1 less' his armor were thrice forged Would lie imself be able to? Hie bE gan to experience a cold fear-a direa wvhich drewv a black veil over the ft) ture; a blacker veil thtan that whic) had hItherto rested upon it. But his face showed nothing. H proceeded, with a piercing intensit not to be withstood: "When you entered my house lhi mornting did you come directly to m room ?" "Yes. Dela told me just how t reach it." "And when you saw me indisposed unable, in fact, to greet you-what di you do then?" WVith the force and meaning of on who takes an oath, she brought he hand, palm downward on the table b< foi'e her, as she steadily replied: "I flew back into the room throug which I had come, undecided whethe to fly the house or wait for what migi hanpen to you, i did not dai'e to g till 11ela came back. So I staye Iwatching in a 'dark corner of thi same roon~ I nove. loft 1t till th crowd ,came in. Then I en!4 out be hind them." "Was the child with. you-at your side I mean, all this time?" "I never lot go her hand," "Woman, you are keeping nothing back?" "Nothing but my terror at the sigh of Bela running in all bloodyto escape the people pressing after him." Sincerity was in her manner and Iti her voice. The judge breathed more easily, and made the remark: "No one with hearing unimpaired can realize the suspicion of the deaf, nor can anyone who is not subject to attacks like mine conceive the doubts with which a man so cursed views those who have been active about him while the world to him was blank." Thus he dismissed the present sub ject, to surprise her by a renewal of the old one. "What are your reasons," said he, "for the hopes you have just ex pressed? I think it your duty to tell inc before we go any further. "Excuse me for tonight. What I have to tell-or rather, what I have to show you-requires daylight." Then, 'i / \ r He Was Scrutinizing Her Keenly. as she became conscious of his aston ishment, added falteringly: "Have you any objection to meeting nie tomorrow on the bluff overlooking Dark-" The jndge was looking at her; he had not moved; nor had an eyelash stirred, but the rest of that sentence had stuck in her throat, and she found herself standing as immovably quiet as he. "Why there?" he asked. "Because"-her words came slowly, haltingly, as she tremulously, almost luarfully, felt her way with him-"be cause-there-is-no - other - place -where-I cgn made-my point." He smiled. It was his first smile in years and naturally was a little constrained-and, to her eyes at least, almost more terrifying than his frown. "Why have you wvaited till now?' he called out, forgetful that they were not alone in the house, forgetful, ap parently, of everything but his sur prise and repulsion. "Why not have made use of this point before it was too late? You were at your husband's trial; you wvero oven on the witness stand ?" She nodded, thoroughly cowed a' last both by his indignation and' the revelation contained in this qluestiol of the judicial mind-"W~hy now, wvhem the time wvas then ?" Happily, she had an answer. "Judlge Ostrander, I had a reasor for that, too; and. likec my point, it is a good one. But do not ask me foi it tonight. Tomorrowv I will tell yoi everything. B3ut it will have to ht in the place I have mentioned. WiI you come to the bluff where the ruim~ are one-half hour before sunset Please 17e exact as to the time. Yot will see why, if you come.". lie leaned across the table-the: were on op~posite sides of it-punginj his eyes into hers, then sirewv hack, an< remarked with an aspect of gloom bu wvith much less the appearance of dis I trust: ."A very odd request, madam. I hop ,you have good reason for it;" adding~ ,"I bury Bela tomorrow and the ce tory is in thuis direction. I will mee t* you where you say and at the hou: -you name.' And, regarding him closely as he spoke, she saw that for all the cor rectness of his manner and the bov Iof respectful courtesy with which he Instantly withdrew, that deep woul< I be his anger and unquestionable the results to her if she failed to satisa s him at this meeting of the value o y her point In reawakening justice and changing DubliC opinion. y CHAPTER V. * On oftheExcerpts. Oneof helodgers at the Claymord - inn had great cause for complainut thi [1 next morning. A restless trampini over his head had kept him awake al e night. That It was Intermittent has r made it all the more intolerable. Jus i- when ho thought it had stop~ped I would start up again-to and fro, ti h and fro, as regula" as clockwvork ani r much more disturbing. t But the complaint never realhe o Mrs. Averill. The landlady had beel d restless herself. lndeed, the nigh' it had been one of thought and feelin a to moe than one nerson in whom w ar interested.. The feeling we un1derstand; the thought-that Is, Mrs. r Averil's thought-we should do well to follow. The one great question which had agitated her was this: Should she trust the judge? Ever since the discovery which had changed Reuther's pros peets she had instinctively looked to this one source for aid and sympathy. But her faith had been sorely shaken in the interview just related. He was not the friend she had hoped to find. He had insisted upon her husband's guilt, and he had remained unmoved, or but very little moved, by the dis appointment of his son-his only re maining link to life. Judge Ostrander might seem cold-both manner and temper would naturally be much at. fected by his unique and solitary mode of life-but at heart he must love Oli ver. It was not in nature for it to be otherwise. And yet It was at this point in her musing that there came one of the breaks in her restless pacing. She was always of an impulsive temperament, and al ways giving way to it. Sitting down before paper and tuk she wrote the following lines: My Darling if Unhappy Child: I know that this suddi-n journey on my part must strike you ar cruel. when, if ever, you need your mother's presence and care. But the love I feel for y'ou, my Reuther, Is deep enough to cause you momentary pain for the sake of the great good I hope to bring you out af this shadowy quest. I believe, what 1 sold to you on leaving, that a great injusti.e was done your father. Feeling so. shall \ re main quiescent and see youth anrl eve slip from you, without any effort em my part to sot this matter straight? t cont not. I have done you the wrong of at ience when knowledge would have saved you shock and bitter disillusion, but I will not add to my fault the inertia of a cow ardly soul. Have patience with inc. then; and continue to cherish those treasures of truth and affection which you may o'e day feel free to bestow once moro upon one who has a right to each and all of them. This is your mother's prayer.-D11 BORAI SCOVILLE. It was not easy for her to sign herself thus. It was a name which ehe had tried her best to forget for twelve long, preoccupied years. But her purpose had been accomplished, or would be when once this letter reached Reuther. With these words in declaration against her she could not retreat from the stand she had therein taken. She recommenced that rapid walk ing to and fro which was working such havoc in the nerves of the man in the room below her. When she paused it was to ransack a trunk and bring out a flat wallet filled with news paper clippings, many of them discol ored by time, and all of them showing marks of frequent handling. The first was black with old head lines: (TO BE CONTINUED.) NONSENSE TO STAY IN RUT Ability to "Rise" in Life is More or Less 'Present in Every Human Being. In every business there are many who know nothing about their possi bilities. They live humdrum lives, plodding along in the same old ruts from day to day, but in a business sense they are practically dead and finish their business careers without Swaking up-they just exist. They see an occasional man rise up from the mass on the wings of fortune or fame. Heb is a nine-day wonder, and then the rest of the community set tle dowvn again and wait for some thing to "turn up" for them. The hidden forces for rising out of the ruts are to be found in all "ordi nary" folk. All that is needed to put those forces to work is an awvaken ing-a realization that great effort is behind great accomplishments. Fame and fortune (10 not come unbidden. They come only by reaching out and grasjping them as they pass by. The man who is satisfied with things as they are, will never rise above his fellows, but the man who reaches out and grasps every opportunity is I the man upon whom goodl luck will smile. IThe hidden powver is in you, all right, and there it will stay until you wake up and go out in the world and make yourself known. Modesty may be a virtue, but merit that vaunts it self occasionally is the kind that bring. home the money to the wilfe and chik I drenl. - Looking to the Futura, We are to consider 'that nations like 3 Rlome, France, Austria, Russia, Great liritain, have gone forward by tho - millennium-the thousand years. We t have not yet grown into our name.. WO 'are a nation in our small clo'thes. America! It is already-(dating from 3 1898)-something bigger than the United States. We are even more fortunate than Rome, for if it be na 3 ture's intent to widen our hive, and It I it would in any way conciliate the In. 3 dian-Spanish and Indian-Portuguese I of the South, we could wisely and f without humiliation abandon our ship I clerk Vespucius and accept our cap tain's name of Columbia for our huge portion of the western world. Coilum bia may become the gem of the oceans. Six seas may lap her beaches.-Johr McGovern, in National Magazine. S Famous Products of Cyprus. E Cyprus gave its name to the metal I copper. For it was from this island I that the Romans got their supplies of t the mfetail, wvhich they knew as "Cy. t prium ae," or, for short, "Cyprium1," o in late Latin "cuprum." Another fa 1mous product of the inland was a tree -not the cypress, which has nothing [1 to (10 with Cyprus, but the "cyprus.' a from wvhich a valuable oil was mnadA t But it is better worth remembering as g "gop~her," the Hebrow hiamo of the C wood of which ah's ask wa huam (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course of Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1915. Western Nowapaper Union.) LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 28 AMOS, THE PEARLESS PROPHET. LESSON TEXT-Amos 5:1-15. GOLDEN TEXT -- He that hath my word lot him speak my word faithfully. Jer. 23:28. Among the prophets Amos bulks large. His message (B. C. 787 ?) is most thoroughly modern and its ap plication to our present day problems deserves careful consideration. Read the entire book prayerfully. Chapters 1 and 2 enumerate the sins of the nation and of Israel: 3-6 contain ad dresses of the prophet: 7:1,9, 10 rec ords his visions and the conclusion, 9:11-15 is a Messianic prophecy. The modern prophet of social service and those who neglect a proper consider ation of "applied Christianity," both ought to ponder well this passage. I. Jehovah's Lamentation, vv.1-3. The words of this lesson are those of Je hovah spoken to the house of Isreal but apply to all people of all ages. Verse one is a prophecy of the mas ter's grief over the holy city (Luke 13:34; 19:41). Outwardly rich and opulent, in Jehovah's sight the na tion had already ftllen (v. 2 R. V.) and there "is none (present tense) to raise her up." Israel is personified as a maiden sorely wounded. Spoken decades before, Israel did fall and has risen no more. But there is a possibil ity of mercy. There is here a com mand and a promise and those who obey the command will obtain the promise of life. To "seek ye me" (v. 4) is to turn the face to him rather than to turn the back. It implies the forsaking of all evil thoughts, yea, our own thoughts and ways and to turn unto him who will abundantly pardon (Isa. 55:6-7; Deut. 30:28). There is life for the most outbreaking and outrageous sinner if he will seek the Lord. II. The Prophet's Exhortation, vv. 4-9. The places mentioned in verse five had each been made sacred by God's presence and subsequently degraded by idolatry. Bethel especially so. (Gen. 12:8; 28:10-18; I Kings 12:29-29). These new religions and the false worshiping were beguiling even the sincere and unwary, hence the warn. ing. We need to beware of the mani fold "new cults" lest we depart from the faith of our fathers. America is today standing upon a social and re ligious crater in many ways similar to ancient Israel. God is either a con suming fire (Heb. 15:28.29; Mark 9:43.49) to the impenitent or else a minister of grace to those who repent. Verse seven is a suggestion regard ing the rulers of that day and finds far too many counterparts in our own times. In verse 4 Jehovah exhorts the people to "seek him and live." In verse 6 the prophet utters the same cry. Now (v. 8) the appeal is to seek him because to do so is wisdom. (a) It is he "that maketh the stargj," the earth, yea, everything, and it is well to be on his side (Ps. 19). (b) Heo "turneth the shadow of death into morning" (R. V.) (see Ps. 30:5). Who can comprehend the vast host of his saints for whom this has been done? (c) Ho "maketh the day dark with the night" (R. V.). This he is doing repeatedly. 'rho God wvho set the (lay in its turn can also turn it aside; ho has (lone it both past and present. Ill. The Word of Application, vv. 10-15. Sinners always hate the man who rebukes their sin. Scripture is not needed to prove this fact, for' we see it todlay. We are speclifcally warned against the praise of the wicked (Luke 6:26) and any true and upright witneoss for Christ knowvs that he is abhorred by those whose lives are crooked. (John 3:18, 20). Versa 11 (A. V.) sounds very much 1l1ke many of the strictures that are being made regarding the acts of some of the rich of today. IHow frequently we behold mansions built from the pro coeds of optrwession deserted by the ones who anticipated their occupancy. How few fortunes are really expended and enjoyed by those who make the accumulation. The manner by which we accumulate, our conduct towards the just (Acts 7:52), our acceptance of bribes, and our neglect of the needy and the poor is all known to God, (V. 12). "Therefore," even as today it is difrlcult and costly to get justice in our courts, even as iniquity is rapid ly growing in the earth, about all the prudent man can do is to hold his peace, to wait upon God and watch for him, lie it is who must call with trumpet voice (Isa. 58:1) oven though he does now speak with human lips. The fourth exhortation to "seek" (V. 14) is to search after the good, though the time be an "'evil one."~ True goodness is to "hate evil and love the good" (Ps. 97:10; Romi. 10:9). By this test we may know if we really hate sin, if we are truly righteous. We have churches and lack rever ence; we have preachers but are not sufilciently conscious of our weak morals; we hear sermons yet our faith is flabby. 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