The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-12

DtN"' UuI It seemed to her a mind ehtireiy undeyeloped, mind utterlv latent Here was a soul. she tboueb, naif In fancy, half in earnest ,no, no. virgin to the world How w,so ha~' oeeply learned she might be she was lace to face with this primevaI norm
 oouio she teach this man anything, ne seemed traetable, reverentiaI des. erential now. Knowledgo was ro,,,e,. would 1t be power with him9 C,,,,, sne open those sealed doors of nis niind' what floods would outno,r lnerelrom, of power, of passion, would she be swept away? If mat. tered not. She must try. The i'm. pulse seized her to begin now Fivina her dark eyes upon him. she noirtaS eirectiy at him with her finger.
 Man., she said clearly and em.
 lie was always looking at her. He had scarcely taken his eyes from be, since she had seen him in tbo tau grass by the shore, but at her gest,ro ana word his eyes frightened. There was that little wrinkling of the brow again which she had noticed ontw.rd and visible sign of an inward attemnt at comprehension.
 Man she said passlonately. Man. she repeated over and over again.
 And then the unexpected happened Alter innumerable guttural attempts her unwilling pupil managed to ar. uculate something that bore n die. tinct resemblance to the clearly cut monosyllable.
 Man!" he said at last
 It was tremendous step in evolu. ton, almost too great for any untu. tored human brain, for at once the man before her received a name and the idea of name as well. In that instant, on the heaven kissed hill he was differentiated from all the rest of creation forever His consciousness hitherto vague, floating, incoherent in. definite, was localized, given habita. ton and name. He knew himself in some way to be.
 "Manl" he cried, growing more and more confident with every repetition and more and more accurate in catch. ing the very intonation with which she spoke.
 "Man!" he cried, laying his hand upon his breast. "Mani"
 He leaped to his feet and stretched out his arms. The doors were open a little way. Ideas were beginning to edge their way through the crack.
 "Manl Manl Man!" he cried again and again, looking eagerly at her.
 She rose in turn and patted him on the shoulder encouragingly as she might a dog. And again the touch, the second touch that she had given him, affected him strangely, so strangely that for a moment she felt the soul within her shrink, but realiz- ing instantly that her domination over him was spiritual and immaterial and that the slightest evidence of timidity would be translated into universal Ian guage which even the lowest creation understands and that her dominion would go on the instant, she mastered herself and mastered him. Although she was but woman whom he might have broken in his hands, she dom- mated him as the conscious soul ever dominates the unconscious soul.
 She essayed no more lessons, but turned and retraced her way to the l. .t.!. |. because she had landed there, she called home. On the way she attempt ed an experiment. She plucked from a low bush a bright colored fruit of whose quality and characteristics she was ignorant and slowly made as If to convey 1t to her lips
 "Man!" cried the voice behind her. uttering its only word.
 She turned to find her companion looking fixedly at her and proffering other fruit which he had quickly gath cred She handed him that she had plucked in exchange. He shook his head. not in negation but rather in bewilderment and threw 1t from him, and then she understood in some way that the fruit was not good for food. How he had divined it. she could not tell. Some compensating instinct, sharpened by use into protecting quality, had taught him. She had no such instinct. She had learned to de pend upon reason and observation, and these failed her in the presence of this unknown. She was humbled a little in this thought
 She craved meat and salt, having been trained to these things, the arti' fcial diet and stimulant to which she had become accustomed, and her cray ing was the more insistent because she had been without them all that time fin the boat And yet when she had eaten the fruit that nature had pro yided in that tropic island. her cray ing was abated and she was satis1ed. She felt that she could soon grow ac customed to such diet if 1t were nec' essary. So musing she passed on un' der the trees and sat down on the sand again.
 The next thing she remembered, she was unclosing her eyes as she hao done early in the morning and tho man was still watching by her side. She had been so utterly wearied by her strange adventure, by her long wrestling with thirst and starvation in the open boat that before she knew 1t weariness overcame her lie hao
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