The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-02

tion, with one bound she had leaped
 to the fore front of all the writers
 struggling for recognition. Publishers
 sought her. Magazines pursued her.
 Another book took shape in her mind.
 Singularly enough her education
 and the cratic bent of her mind had
 left her primarily quite unspoiled She
 was the product not merely of her age,
 her environment. her parents. but of
 long generation of people to whom
 her thoughts would have been as ab-
 horrent as her person was agreeable.
 The unconscious Christianity which
 surrounds the world and especially
 the world of woman kept her pure
 and sweet and lovable--these in spite
 of, not because of, her perverse and
 perverted philosophy. Though she
 defied convention in its spirit, she was
 naturally subject to 1t in it's exercise.
 For instance, to her the marriage bond
 was. indeed. bond. the marriage VOW
 a confession of weakness-on the part
 )f the woman, at least-and the mar
 riage relation an acknowledgement of
 inferiority-again on the part of the
 woman She would have none of these
 things in her life. Yet. as she thought
 she had given her heart to a man
 alas, the submission to the eternal
 law!-and although their relationship
 was sanctioned by nothing but their affection, 1t was to her as pure and as holy thing as if the contract had been witnessed and blest by a thou sand priests. What was it to him7 She counted without the other sex. Many other women unfortunately have done the same.
 Not content with the writing of books, her intense devotion to her cause. coupled with her unflagging energy had found vent upon the lee ture platform. The curious crowded to her feet at once, so bold, so radical, so beautiful and so innocent. One of her first converts had been the only son of a multi-millionaire. bygone bo- nanza king of the Pacific slope. His conversion was not so much an effort of pure reason of primal passion. although that fact was in no wise ap- parent to her She would find that out later This modern Hypatia, skilled in the learning of the schools, burning with exhaustless zeal, per
 meated with fiery energy, was yet as innocent in some ways as any of her number sisters. As that good Book
 which she disdained in the newer illu- minations which had come to her,
 might have said of her, she was fin the
 world but not of it.
 Unconsciously she fulfilled many in functions of him who had she but known it was the greatest of philoso- phers. Naturally she kept herself unspotted from the world. Yet when the young man who had engaged her affections proposed to her that they should put her theories in practice, after some hesitation she had acceded to his proposition. It was a species of
 self-immolation not far from heroism that made her consent. Indeed, she did not realize how heroic 1t was. With no other ceremony than a clasp of the hand and an unspoken, wordless promise of trust, devotion. single hearted alliance. publicly and before God and man, without thought for the one and with no full realization of the thoughts of the other-at least on her part-they had gone away to gether, hand fin hand; he and she to gether, in love like any other pair since Eve mated with Adam in the dawn of the worlds first morning.
 Yet there has never been an Eden of which man has known without its | serpent In the cabin of that gorgeous yacht, Sathanas reared his head. The | first week or so of the adventure had | been filled with idyllic happiness. hap | piness so great that 1t was strong enough to quiet certain low. still, smal
 voices of conscience which the woman rightly ascribed to strange atavisn ] of ancient prejudice to which her phil osophy was as yet unequal.
 However, such conditions did no
 long persist Her disciple was in clined. presently she found to her sor | row, to take somewhat lower Vles | of the situation than suited her owr | high-souled views. The ardor of he' | devotee cooled as his passion in
 creased Shut up in the narrow con | fines of a ship-great and splendis
 though this yacht was beyond imagina
 tion-little characteristics heretofor'
 unsuspected developed in the mer'
 man. The course of true love was no I so smooth as the summer seas oye
 which they sailed The air in whicl
 they lived was rufiied by flurries il
 which experience would have foun' presage for coming deeper storm. Tn image that had feet Of clay sought fo
 similar earthly alloy in the companies
 image which was made of pure sol
 ali through, and finding it not, rs
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