The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-10-03

base nctar. III the noWcTiGr and
universal appeal OF this II i to her,
she rojoiced at whatever IVES Of the
soul, rather than OF the body. To
possess rover, to refrain froin using
it in obedience 10 some higher law is
perhaps to pa oneself the most fat
teri"g Of compliments. There was a
satisfaction to her soul in this which
was yet denied hin.
Her action was cutie different from
his, Size was putting away happiness
which she might Lave had in conp.i-
ance with hl@ or law than that
which bids Humanity enjoy. 1t was
flatterng to her mind. In his case,
1t was otherwise; he had no con.
seriousness that he was victim OF
misplaced trust, of misinterpreted &C.
ton. He thought the woman for
whom he was putting away happiness
was almost as worthy, IL infinitely less
desirable, as the woman whom he now
loved.
Every sting Of outrage every feel.
ing Of shame, every fear OF disloyalty,
scourged him. She could glory In 1t;
he was ashamed, Inundated, broken.
She heard him savagely walking up
and down the other room. restlessly
impelled by the same Erinyes which
of old scourged Orestes; the violator
of tie laws of moral being drove him
on. These malign Eumenides held
him in their hands. He was bound and
helpless, rage as he might in one
moment. pray as lie did in another. no
light came into the whirling darkness
OF his torn, tempest tossed driven
soul. The irresistible impulse and the
imrovable body the philosoph RS puz.
zled over We're eXenplifei in him.
Whilst he almost hated the new won.
an, whilst he almost loved tie Old,
yet that he did neither Tie ore thjNg
nor the other absolutely was signii.
cant.
Indeed he knew that he was glad
Enid Maitland had come into his lie.
No life is complete until it is touched
by that divine fire which for lack Of
another name we call love. Because
wo can experience that sensation we
are said to be made in Gods IMAGE.
The image IS blurred as the animal
rredomina'os, it is clearer rs the spir-
itual has The asceGGNney
The man rayti in his aind. White
faced, starn, he walked Up and down
he toso Cd his arms about him, he stop.
red, his eyes closed, he threw his
hands UP toward God, his heart cried
out under the decorations of the blows
inflicted upon it, No fagellant of old
ever trcmbled beneath the body lash
as he under the spiritual punishment.
He prayed that he might die at the
same moment that he longed to live.
He grapplcd blindly for solutions Of
the problem that would leave him with
untarnished honor and undiminished
self respect and fidelity and yet give
him this woman, and in vain. He
strove to find q way to reconcile the
past with the present, realizing as he
did so the futility Of such PROPOSE.
ton. One or the other must be su.
preme, he must inoXorably hod to his
Ideas and his ideals, or he must inev.
itably take the woman.
How frightful was the battle that
ragged within his bosom. Sometimes
in his despair he thought that he
would have been glad il he and she
had gone down together In the dark
waters before all this came unon him.
The floods of which the heavens had
emptied themselves had borne her to
him. Oh if they had only swept him
out Of life with its trouble, its trials.
It's anXieties, its Obligations, its inpos.
sibilities. II ley Lad some together,
And then he knew thai lie was 3 ad
even for the torture, because he had
seen her, because he had loved her.
and because she had loved him.
He marye,ed at himself curiouslv.
and in detached way. There was a
woman who loved him, who had con.
fessed it boldly and innocently. there
was none TO say him nay. The woman
who stood between had been dead five
years. The world knew nothing. cared
nothing; they could SO cut together;
he could take Ler, she would come. On
the impulse he turned and ran to the
door and beat upon it. Her voice babe
him enter, and he came in.
Her heart yearned to him. She was
shocked, appalled, at the torture she
saw upon his face. Had lie been laid
upon the rack, and every joint pulled
from its sockets, he could not have
been more white and agonized.
Il give up" he cried. What ara
honor and self respect to NE? want
you. have put the rast behind. You
love me, and !, am yours with every
fiber OF my being. Great God, Let
us cast aside these foolish ou;yotfc
scrurles that have KEEP, us arart II
mans thoughts declare his quit I
am already disloyal TO tie other WON.
an; deerly, entirely so. l have ba.
tTayed her, sIaMei her. abarsonaI
her. Let me have some reward ,,r
what I have so"e through. You 1--we
Ike; come 10 ,..e."
NO" answered iva v-,,....