People's voice., 1899-12-21
'acing him where he expected a great

steps after that They had passed q
street lamp Her face was pale and
beautiful He had made a movement to
clutch her arm, and she had moved
little farther from him.
''No," she had replied "There was
a time-1 cannot answer for that. You
should not have spoken to me tonight"
He had seen in these words his an
swer. He was extremely sensitive.
Nothing short of joyous response to
his own love would have satisfied him
He could not think of pleading with
her.
"Some time, when l am more wor-
thyf" he had asked in low voice, but
che did not seem to hear. and they had
parted at her home, and he recalled
vividly the fact that no good night had
been said
Now, as he went over the brief but
significant scene, he lashed himself for
his foolish precipitancy. He had not
reckoned on Rachels tense, passionate
absorption of all her feeling in the
scenes at the tent which were so new
in her mind But he did not know her
well enough even yet to understand the
meaning of her refusal When the clock
in the First church steeple struck l, he
was still sitting at his desk, staring at
the last page of manuscript of his un-
finished novel
Rachel Winslow went up to herroom
and faced her evenings experience with
conflicting emotions. Had she ever
loved Jasper Chase2 Yes-no. One mo-
ment she felt that her lfe's happiness
was at stake over the result of her &C.
ton; another, she had a strange feel
ing Of relief that she had spoken as she
did There was one great overmastering
feeling in her The response of the
wretched creatures in the tent to her
singing, the swift. awesome presence of
the Holy Spirit, had affected her as
never in all her life before. The mo-
ment Jasper had spoken her name and
she realized that he was telling her of
his love she had felt a sudden revulsion
for him, as if he should have respected
the supernatural events they had Just
witnessed She felt as if it were not the
time to be absorbed in anything less
than the divine glory of those CONVEX
sioDs The thought that all the time
she was singing with the one passion Of
her soul to touch the conscience of that
tent full of sin Jasper Chase had been
moved by it simply to love her for him
self gave her shock as of irreverence
on her part as well as on his. She could
not tell why she felt as she did; only
she knew that if he had not told her to-
night she would still have felt the same
toward him as che always had.
What was that feeling? What had
he been to herr Had she made q mis-
takeH She went to her bookcase and
took out the novel which Jasper had
given her. Her face deepened in color
as she turned to certain passages which
she had read often and which che knew
Jasper had written for her. She read
them again. Somehow they failed to
touch her strongly. She closed the book
and let it lie on the table. She gradual
ly felt that her thought was busy with
the sight she had witnessed in that
tent. Those faces, men and women,
touched for the first time with the
Spirits glory. What wonderful thing
life was, after all The complete regen-
Grafton revealed in the sight of drunk
en-, vile, debauched humanity kneeling
down to give itself to life of purity
and Christlikeness-oh, it was surely
witness to the superhuman in the
world And the face of ROllin Page by
the side Of that miserable wreck out of
the gutter-she could recall as if she
now saw it Virginia crying, with her
arms about her brother, just before she
left the tent, and Mr.. Gray kneeling
close by, and the girl Virginia had tax
en- into her heart bending her head
while Virginia whispered something to
her. All these pictures, drawn by the
Holy Spirit in the human tragedies
brought to a climax there in the most
abandoned spot in all Raymond, stood
out in Rachels memory now, a memory
50 recent that her room seemed for the
time being to contain all the actors and
their movements.
"No, mol" she had said aloud "He
had no right to speak to me after all
that He should have respected the
place where our thoughts should have
been. I am sure l do not love him, not
enough to give him my life"
And after she had thus spoken the
evenings experience at the tent came
crowding in again, thrusting out all
other things 1t is perhaps the most
striking evidence Of the tremendous
spiritual factor which had now entered
the Rectangle that Rachel felt, even
when the great love Of a strong man
had come very near her, that the spir-
itual manifestation moved her with an
agitation far greater than anything
Jasper had felt for her personally or she
for him.
To be Continued
Story Of Slave.
To be bound hand and foot for years
nv the chains of disease is the worst form