The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-26

more important than anything else to
be able to get to his cabin without
Maud following him, or being suspicious
almost at will, and now he wanted to
see the sky, as he had seen it up in
Caithness, covered with blue acanthus
leaves, with the stars dewdrops upon
them, and the big sun a golden center
OF a blue flower. Nor would Maud s
words shake his desire. solemn tho they
breeze past well-built house.
God!7 she said. "And I have said ;ia all.
too. You will get well. 1 know it.
since you feel like that. And now let
us dismiss altogether what is past. 1t
WASH It you who did all this, it was Just
evil possession: But that is driven out
now; your words have told me that.''
Bells for meals were very frequent
on this ship, and Maud, as a matter Of
their frequency, for she had at sea
that huge sense of bodily health that
requires much to eat and many hours
to sleep. The desire for sleep was
shared by Thurso, and when, just as
she finished speaking, the bell for tea
went down to the saloon, and he to his
cabin, with the expressed intention not
to appear till dinnertime, nor, indeed,
then if he felt disinclined to move
This desire for sleep, Sir James had
sad, was one that should be gratifeld
to the full, and when they parted in the
the cabins and Oh the other to the sa-
loon, it was possible good night that
Maud wished him. His valet would
bring his dinner to his cabin in case
he did not appear.
Till that afternoon, when at last
Ihurso showed that his will was not
dead yet, that his face was set forward,
that something of spring and the power
not known how near despair she had
been, or how forlorn did she in her
inmost self feel that this hope was for
which she was bringing him over sea-
Slender and dim as it had been, she
had still chung to it, and now, how
strong and firm it suddenly became.
when she knew that Thurso responded
to 1t too, and was willing, eager indeed,
to put himself into the hands of In
finite Love to work for him the mira
Gle which the finite skill Of mortal
treatment despaired of accomplishing.
which had come to her that afternoon
the confined walls Of the dining saloon
could not hold her long; her instinct
was to be up again on deck between
the huge sea and the huge sky, so as
to let her soul go forth without the dis
traction OF near objects and the prox-
presence Of Divine Love: All this au-
tumn she had been realizing slowly and
dimly (for when evil and. ruin were
so close about her, it was hard not to
believe in the reality of them) that
only one power-that of God-had any
true existence, that all else was false.
Knit that roo1izot;op
poured into her in foods, the dawn was
growing dazzlingly bright, for already
the miracle had begun, already hope
had begun to spring from what doctors
had declared was soil utterly barren,
incapable of bearing fruit.
The upper deck was quite empty
when she came up again, the sun had
the stars had begun to come forth, and
she walked forward to the bows of
the ship in order to be quite alone.
The very rush Of air round her, as the
boat Missed forward into the west.
where light still fingered, seemed to
happening spiritually to her. All around
her lay the tossed darkness and pillows
of the unquiet sea, but Just as this
mighty ship went smoothly and evenly
thru them, 50 thru the waves and fret
full foam Of human trouble her soul
went SCra1gnJ towards the brightness
in the west. She had doubted before,
she had often and often striven to real
ize what she, in her inmost soul be-
lieved; but her unbelief still needed
help. But now help was brought to it.
eyes, it is SO; it must be 500 she
said to herself. "For nothing can ex-
list by the side Of the Infinite; all else
must vanish
She walked back along the decks
that were beginning to simmer with
dew, unconscious Of all else in the won
der and glory of the truth that was
falling in golden rain round her And
below her feet. few yards only away,
Thurso was lying in his berth, not
asleep, but very wildly awake, in his
own hell-paradise. He looked no longer
on the bare white walls of his. cabin,