The roundup record., 1910-01-28

His mnemonic ability was prodigious:
for all the years Of his life he had not
been storing up the Insignificant, the
immaterial, 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 . man
he added the receptivity and ductility
Of . child.
She had taught him 1rst Of all to
speak and then to read: then rudi.
mentary mathematics such % he could
do In his head. There Was nothing
that she could devise that was prac.
ticablo 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.
planned It to him, and had made shift
to teach him the Arabic letters. She
also taught Kim 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 has
been the fashion Of such unfolders,
upon the misery and the shams. His
was singular knowledge indeed.
There were some things about which
she was reticent, being a 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 ma.
ture!
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 &C.
cepted. She was 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 it had broken down. She had
learned to kneel beside that man and
pray. She had learned to seek else
where than in herself for power to
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 it, 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, a 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 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 rea'
lized what she would have to face II
she went back to the world which had
Knocked 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 mer
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some day he would have to know
Some day she would have to tell him
What then? That feeling was evel
with her. She constantly asked her
self that question and found no an
swer.
Indeed, it was he who had taugh
her the truth Of Christ. She had no
been able. she had felt strange un
willingness. II indeed it we're possible
to break down the lingering remain
OF faith in that man. That babble o
childish prayer had. in some strang
way, caught her heart strings. It wa
the one memory of intelligence tina
had remained to him. Now that h
was capable of expression, again an
again he had told her of the dim reco
lection of a long voyage In an ope
boat with a woman and some anima
which she knew must be the dog H
could remember nothing of the inte1
course between him and that woma
} except that she had been good t
him-sometimes that IL as much a
the wisest recall of = mother-an
that she had taught him and made hil
, say always that prayer whose Ct
, herency and meaning to her intens
surprise she found herself impartin
to him. And she could not make U
her mind to take from him the realit
Of the only recollection that rename
to him.
. Her new belief. as has been sal
!, was both Joy and sorrow to her. Sav
{ for her experience in the ship she ha
: been happier in her philosophy. St
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