The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-23
CHAPTER K.
Latent Pasalona-


 tirely had he obeyed that to her h, had been devotee. Once she discop cred his ductility and had begun to teach him, the relationships had com. menced to change. Gradually each had recognized the humanity of the other Together students they had naturally approached a common level. Every new knowledge she imparted to him was an abdication of some of her sri- premacy. Every new knowledge he ac- quired was an inspiration to her high level.
 Three years is short time in the educational life of a human being, but she brought to her side of what was slowly developing into an equa- tion the highest training, a natural ability to impart what she knew. an absolute devotion to the endeavor and an entire freedom from other interests. So fascinating had the experiment. been that she had scarcely missed tho rest of the world. 1 wonder If he had been a woman instead of a man if that absorption would have resulted from their intercourse?
 On his part, he brought to bear upon the problem of learning, it was soon developed, an intellect which although entirely untrained was unusually acute, faculty of acquiring knowl- edge as great as was her ability to im- part 1t and reasoning capacity which kept pace with his other qualities. In- deed. the main thing with which she had to contend at first was his lack of application. But so soon as he had learned enough to enable him to req lize the importance of learning more she had no trouble on that score. Ii was as if mature mind had been brought to bear upon the problems of adolescence. He grappled with things Tn that way. Whatever she taught him. he learned. he mastered all: and the mastery inspired him to learn more. His mnemonic ability was prodigious; for all the years of his life he had not been storing up the insignificant, the immateriai, the unnecessary, in his brain cells. He remembered all that she taught him with unvarying accu- racy His was powerful. vigorous mentality which had known nothing and upon which she wrote what she pleased. To the Judgment of a man he added the receptivity and ductility of a child.
 She had taught him first of all to nd fn mentary mathematics such as he could do in his head There was nothing that she could devise that was prac- ticable for writing. There was no slate on the island. the rock was not suitable. Therefore he had never learned to write. although he knew what writing was, for she had ex- plained 1t to him. and had made shift to teach him the Arabic letters. She also taught him geography, astronomy. natural sciences. and above all, his tory. She unfolded the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them be. fore his vision, touching lightly, as Las been the fashion of such unfolders, upon the misery and the shams. His was a singular knowledge indeed There were some things about which she was reticent, being woman, and some things she could not tell him at all; but being man. with imagina- ton quickened. he thought of these things the more--for these were some of the deeper things of life and na- turei
 But the change in the relations be- tween the two were not greater than the change in the woman herself. She was no longer philosopher. That which she had disdained. she admired; that which she had abhorred, she loved: that which she had refused. she ac- cepted. She was a Christian in belief as last Alone. or practically so. face to face with God in his world. God in His Book, God in humanity. her spe- cious ideas of life and her relationship to 1t had broken down. She had learned to kneei beside that man and pray. She had learned to seek else enable her to live her life and fulfill her tasks
 She had not wished to be Chris tian. She had fought against it, strug- gled with 1t, agonized over it, but a compelling necessity was upon her. The convictions of her conversion tore the veil from before her face, dispelled the mist that hung about her. She saw herself as she was, woman who under the influence of wrong ideas, false conceptions, had branded herself forever. No. not in the eyes of that God whom she had learned to fear, not in the eyes that that Christ whom she had learned to love, but in the eyes of men; yet she was a woman who was pure in heart. Perhaps these thoughts and this consciousness had more to do with keeping her content even that her intense pre-occupation in the man and her work. for she req lized what she would have to face II she went back to the world which had mocked her while 1t applauded her That world, therefore, she now began to fear. The one being upon earth with whom she could be associated who knew nothing about it, who could cast no stone at her. she realized was the man whom she had made. and this man looked to her almost as men look to the Divine. Yet she felt thai some day he would have to know tx. tnU