The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-24

the tumult was in reducing them to
 unfson-in achieving one resultant
 from all the varying forces. Gradual
 ly out of the chaos came the first clear
 intent: he must so master the whole
 subject that when the opportunity had
 come he should be able to avail him
 self of it to the full. From this he
 proceeded to weigh the various poSsi-
 bilities. till gradually he began to req
 lize what vague purpose had been be-
 hind his wish to have his automobile
 In perfect working order. It did not
 even occur to him that with such ma-
 chinery at his command he might try
 to carry her off, either without her
 consent or with it. All that he wanted
 in the first instance was to have fit-
 ting opportunity of diScove ring how
 Joy regarded him. The last twenty
 four hours had opened to his mind
 such glorious possibilities that every
 word she had said, every look on her
 eloquent face (though such looks had
 manifestly not been intended for hin)
 had a place in a chain which linked
 her heart to his. Look at mel" .I
 am glad asked you to look at mel" though spoken to her father seemed to
 have arother significance. It was as1
 though an eager thought had at last found expression. Good night! Good
 night. beloved!" though ostensibly
 spoken to the twilight was breathed with such fervour. with such languish- ing eyes and with such soft pouting of scarlet lips that it seemed impossible that it should have other than a
 human objective. These thoughts swept the man into glow of passion. He was young and strong and ardent, and he loved the woman with all his heart: with all his soul: with all the strength of human passion. It is a mistake to suppose-as some abstract thinkers seem to do always. and most people at some moment of purely spiritual exaltation-that the love of a man and woman each for the other is. even at it's very highest. devoid of physical emotion. The original Creator did not manifestly so intend. The world of thought is an abstract world whose inner shrine is where soul meets soul. The world of life is the world of the heart. and its beating in the away of the pendulum between soul and flesh. The world of flesh is the real world; wrought of physical atoms 1 in whose recurrent groupings is the | elaborated scheme of nature. Into this world has been placed Man to live and rule. To this end his body is 1 fixed with various powers and com plicatfons and endurances: with weak nesses and impulses and yieldings; 1 with passions to animate. with desires | And as the final crowning of this | wondrous work. the last and final touch of the Creators hand, Sex for | the eternal renewing of established forces. How can souls be drawn to l souls when such are centred in bodies 1 which mutually repel? How can the | heart quicken its beats when it may not come near enough to. hear the an- | swering throb? No! If physical at traction be not somewhere. naught can | develop. Judy. the outspoken. had once | almost mortified a little group of mat | rons who were discussing the interest | which certain young cleric was be- ginning to take in one of the young | female parishioners. When one of | them said. somewhat sanctimoniously, | that his interest was only in the saliva too good man to ever think of falling | in love as ordinary men do, the viva cious old maid replied:
 Mot a bit of it. my dear! When a | man troubles himself about an fn- | young woman's soul you may be quite certain that his eyes have not | her body. And moreover you | will generally. if not always. find that a fine bust. or a well-developed figure | ,a4e
 Athlyne loved Joy in all ways. so that the best of his nature regulated was no passing fancy which might or might not develop. flame up. and fade | away. He had. he felt. found the other half OF him. lost In prfmevaI chaos: complete that it would .outlfve the of worlds in the final cata- clysm. Healthy people are healthy in their loves and even in their passions
  healthy. both red-blooded. both of ar dent. passionate nature: and they | were drawn together each to each by all the powers that rule sex and char of earth would be as absurd as to say that it was all of heaven It was all human. and all that such implies. Heaven and earth had both their parts in the combination: and perhaps since both were of strong | nature and marked individuality. Hell had it's due share in the amalgam.
 Athlyne thought. and thought. and shadow recalled the passing of time He postponed the thinking over his plans for to-morrow-the active part of + them. and hastened back to his place behind the nlacS.
 He was just in time. The carriage stood at the door with Colonel Ogil- gie's s.grip-sack' at the drivers feet Then the Boots ran down the steps and held the carriage door open. Joy came holding her fathers arm. They got into the carriage and drove away. Athlyne waited. sitting on the seat on the grass lawn smoking luxuriously. He forgot that he was hungry and forgot everything sxcept that he would before long see Joy again. this time alone. His thoughts were evidently pleasant. for the time flew fast. Indeed he must have been in something like waking dream which absorbed all his faculties for he did not notice the flight of time at all. It was only when. recalled to himself by the passing of a carriage. he looked up and saw Joy that he came back to reality. To his disappointment her head was turned away: When within sight of the garden. she had noticed him and as she did not wish him. just yet to Fnow that she knew of his pres ence. she found her eyes fixed on the other side of the street. It was the easiest and most certain way of avoid ing complexities. He slipped over to the nlacs to see her alight. When she had done so she turned to the coach man and said:
 "You understand I shall not want you in the morning as shall be out walking: but if I don't send for you in the afternoon. or if you don't get any message you will meet my father at windermere station at a quarter to hve.'