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whether hat confidence were war
ranted or not because of him. Sup
pose he should come in touch with
the world, what would happen? Was
he, too. capable of breaking a wo-
mans heart? Would he do it? Was
hers the heart? What would the soil
Ing touch of the sordid conditions I'M
der which life was lived, as she had
known it, do for him? Would he still
be unspotted? Would he think her
the same? She had taught him many
things. But how should he learn to
tight temptations, temptations with
which he had no experience, which
never came to him. she fondly
dreamed.
Yet she had confidence in him. She
had confidence in God, inc we cannot
have confidence in God without some
confidence in a The converse, too,
Is true. Therefore she believed. She
was confident that he would rise su-
preme in the face of every test. She
wondered If the test would ever be ap-
piled to him. If she would be there to
see. She found herself praying for
animation in both matters. Her be-
lief In him would only be belief
founded upon hope until he had been
tried. There was a doubt about him
that must be resolved; she must re-
solve 1t. She could never be satisfied,
In spite Of her belief. until she had
done so. The very fact that she
thought SO keenly upon the subject;
that Gho waQ en- fntnraufad and ON
crossed in the situation was evidence
to her that she cared more for the
man than she had dreamed it possible.
And what of him? For once her in
tuition failed her. She wanted to see
him tested and tried; she wanted to
see him tempted and triumphant, but
he was all Of that in those very hours
in which she fancied him so unthink.
ing. 1t never occurred to her that he
might entertain ar earthly passion for
her. She still, from ancient habit, be-
lieved herself so far above him that
such an ambition would have been lit
tie less than sacrilege to him. She
lulled herself to sleep with that idea.
She believed, she knew, of course,
that all that was needed was a sug-
gestion from her. To owe is the lot
Of man. This man had seen no other
than her. If she said the word. it
would be accomplished She held
the only key to his heart; her hand
could unlock 1t on the instant. She
forgot the master key and the Master
Hand.
He had controlled that strange
trembling that used to take him when,
ever he touched her, but she could
feel his pulse beat and throb when by
chance there was any contact even
of the casual between them. Some
times he had asked her strange ques.
lions which she had put by, and some.
times she caught him looking at her
in strange ways that sen the blood to
her skin, and sometimes turned her
pale. Yet she lived in the FOOLS para.
disc. She did not awake to the posi-
bilities of that which she had made
him because her apprehension Of him
had not kept pace with his a%pprehen-
sion of her. To her he was still. in
some degree the creature that he had
been and sometimes she thought upon
her growing love for him with q feel
ing of shame as If it were q conds-
scension, a derogation.
She did not know what blood was
leaping in the veins of the man and
how he taught himself, because she
had instilled in him honor and de-
cency and Christlike self control, to
repress these things. She did not
know how much faster he had learned
certain things than she had intended.
She did lot know how instinctively
he had leaped to conclusions which
she imagined were still latent in his
mind. This was a good man, this
was an honest man, this was a gen
tleman, this was a Christian. man.
There was no question about his faith.
1t was as simple and abiding as It was
sincere. The early Christians who
had been brought In personal touch
with the Master and his men were