Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-01-19

story. the test would be true one.
What he would do then after having
heard the worlds voices. the worlds
appeals. the worlds mockeries, would
truly determine what he was, and In
no other way could that determina.
ton be arrived at Though she strove
to be as Impartial as divinity, she
could not but make her defense coin.
cident with her revelation. her justifi.
cation at the same time with her con.
|. dsmnation. He knew nothing of life
but what she and instinct had taught
him, and neither would be safe guides
in this emergency He could protest
sand'she could believe his protests. but
unless. they were nstered. mot merely
before high. heaven but before sur.
rounding men, they would be of little
value. - -
She put this; by resolutely at last.
We are the creatures OF circumstance
and environment. She would have to
do the best that she could on. the
morrow: Meanwhile che would, as she
had said, eniey,the day. Aud SO the
morning hours wora away: until. the
time came for the customary parting.
At first she would have Abandoned, in
the luxury. Of the new passion or the
new revelation OF the old passion. the
customary rule. but she still preserved
some lingering remains OF her common
sense and she clearly perceived that
It was necessary to go on. as they
had Society cannot proceed without
Its conventions and these simple regu.
lations were their conventions which
had to be obeyed. And SO they parted.
But parted as they had never parted
before. torn asunder by their own
compliance With their own petty rules.
their hearts protesting. ..4....s..
Long before the earthquake they
had erected on the topmost hill of the
island huge pile of dead wood from
the groves beneath.
When they. had parted she had sug-
sested to him-and. it was significant
that now it was a suggestion: yester-
| day 1t would have been commando
that he should take time to ascend the
hill and rearrange the great heap Of
wood which they had builded. During
all the time that had elapsed since she
had been there no sail had whitened
the horizon, no curl of smoke had be-
tokened the distant passing of a
steamer. But no spot OF the globe
could forever remain unvisiteG, she
thought, and some day that pile Of
wood might make beacon light to
call civilization to them He was glad
| to-, comply with her suggestion. glad
for occupation, and so he promised
and Went his way.
\ When he had disappeared, she
turned the edge of the cliff in the Sc
cluded amphitheater where her cave
fronted the ocean. She threw aside
her tunic of woven grass and plunged
into the cool, delightful pool. which
fortunately the earthquake had not
disturbed. Her clothes, the scanty
garments she had improvised from her
nnderclothing, had long since worn
out. 1t, had not been difficult, how
ever. to plat of certain pliable PUSHES
which grew in plenty upon the island,
the loose and shapeless garments they
both wore. She had used strips torn
from what had remained of her cloth
ing for binding and edging aud ,prac.
4 tice had made her deXtrous and skill
full in the rude weaving She still
preserved, however, the blouse and
skirt of serge, her only pair of stock
ings and the canvas boating shoes.
Sometimes in idle moments she tried
those shoes on. Fortunately for her.
they were loose and easy. Going bare
Etoot three years had enlarged her
A small and slender feet to something
like these human and proper proper
tiOns which. from the standpoint of
nature at least. had greatly enhanced
their beauty. She kept these clothes.
she hardly knew why, perhaps for one
reason since she had been able to
weave the. waited garment SO well
suited to her needs she had had no
use for them; perhaps against the day
of the arrival of other civilization
than her own.
| Greatly refreshed by her bath-and
it shows her absolute confidence in
him and his worth that interruption
never occurred to her; it had never
come and therefore:,it never would
she resumed her tunic and walked
toward the cave. The, tide was very
low. The sands. terminated on One
side in a rocky ledge, where a long
arm of the lagoon ran to the foot oil
the cliff. The cliff had been tremen
dously shaken, apparently, and she no
ticed Just above the water line mar
row opening. She had thought from
noises during storms that there was
a hidden cave in the cliff with ar
! opening under the water She hat
imagined that possibly she could entel
it by diving. but she had never cared
to make tile attempt, although by thft
time she had become as much at home
4 in the water or under 1t as II she ha6
been a native of the south seas. Some
/. Itimes in the morning they swan il
the. lagoon together. oftentimes she
n swan alone. 1t was a great pleasure
to her and necessity as we'll in thai
low latitude.
q Curiosity induced her to inspect
more. CLOSELY tniS opening near In(
waters edge. Again throwing aside
l.herF garment. she plunged into the arm
OF the sea and swan boldly TOWARD
the. cliff There was just room enough
between the waters level and the toI
of the opening for her head. Sht
: found herself in straight passage
7 way perhaps eight or lC feet long ant
Z AS. many. wide. Cautiously she swan
| Through 1t and discovered herself il
an immense cave. Light filtered
through. the opening and one: or two
assures had been opened here ant
! there, by the earthquake or by some
j; convulsion of nature before, through
= the rocky wall, invisible on the face o
the cliff from the outside but quit.
distinct, within. There was even
lsstretch of sandy beach on one side
She swan to it, clambered upon I
J. land sat down to rest
~. Here was an. excellent haven OF ref
J, huge, instinctiyely occurred. to her, al