The Detroit times., 1914-05-28

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Is love For love suffereth long .
seeketh not her own thlnketh
! no evil Cndureth all things
never faileth. Oh. my friends,
/ open your hearts"
! The benedicton had been said
Marx went quietly from his rear pew
I our OF the church and limped slowly
alGi the dusty weed-flanked pike
! untlI he came 20 a minor crest There
ne dropped on the roadside and turn.
ed his eyes TO the valley
Inc murmurous quiet OF MONDAY
was about him A few snowy billow-
ing clouds floated majestically in a
SKY OF deepest blue their shadows
careered lazily over hillside and bot
| toU'and, touching brown stubble-iield
and sunlit foliage with q royal pur-
pllsi hue. warm braeze stirred fit
fully; ragweed and goldenrod danced
/ lightly at It's summons From the
runled river glanced myriad points
OF golden light. The faint elusive
fragrance of sweet clover came to
him
Hut he, as had been the blithe
youth OF that other Sabbath, was in
sensible to such beauties. Then. the
valley and its encircling hills had been
To him the background for a slender
glrllsh figure that tripped daintily be
fore him TO the accompaniment OF
other-world music a fair and 2 false
promise of the issue OF his great adj
venture. Now they framed the pay
! ing Magdalen, summoning up the ad-
ventures failure and his unworthi
ness. Thoughts OF her persisted
strangely this day; she seemed vivid.
ly real and near.
| PCor. DESTROYS, yet aspiring Kazia
SHINING once as the price OF an es.
cape, SHINING again because he would
not let her have her love clean He
WINGED at the thought OF that first
evil from which he might have saved
her Eut II was not in recoil, rather
In exquisite sorrow for her suffering
wishing he could lift the burden OF
her suffering. wishing he could lift
the burden of her shame to his own
shoulders. But that. he had
said, was the mark OF love. So close
had the miracle come.
Instinct answered that mo, II II
were love | should know without per
suasions Open your hearts, NV gen.
tie dreamer, 1t isn't so simple Who
would refuse any one OF YOU trio of
FORCES, II II were to be had? But they
are not to be had for the wanting-or
for the asking"
Up the rise, village bound. creaked
a battered old top-buggy, bearing
passenger whose grizzled beard and
lineG race, too. showed the marks OF
times battering Mark gathered him.
self together; heart-sick often; some
times even morbid though he might
be, he had no wish TO infict his woes
on others.
The buggy drew up beside him.
"Howdy, Mark"
"Howdy, Doc
Did he find you?"
Who"
The doctor chuckled Guess he
didn't. or you wouldn't have 70 ask.
Hes vigorous party that doesn't nm
derstand the JOY of talk took him
from Number Four TO your place"
Short and stout"
And not much for looks" Hedges
concluded the portrait That's him.
Has way with him. though. And
the habit of taking what he wants.
| guess, without waiting He" the
doctor grinned admits you're a great
mechanic. Feel your hat tightening
any"
Not perceptibly." Mark smiled
! family. You should be more re-
lspecttul He's a famous magician. He
! knows how to turn water into gold ;"
SO! | wish" Hedges sighed hui
morously, 81 knew Nthe trick"
! Ills eyes sought, not humorously,
Hedges Hill. On IT'S level windswept
/ top could be seen a heap of charred
ruin relic OF the doctors big idea
/ Ten years before he had built his
sanatorium. investing therein the saw.
ings OF lifetime. He had seen Il
burned TO the ground ere il was a
year old. Through some technicallty
the insurance company had avoided
/ payment Therefore doc" Hedges
/ was held lightly In the esteem OF his
neighbors: in Bethel as in less OBJ.
scurC corners OF the earth not low
aim but failure was crime.
DC you ever think OF trying It
again?"
But the doctor did not hear. His
face was still turned wistfully toward
his hill Mark repeated the ques-
ton.
''Eh? Why. yes. ! aim to-if live
long enough 10 save enough And
! reckon. II / do. old Methuselahm
have to let that record go. But II I
don't some one else will This airs
too good to waste"
"N~I have faith"
Why, yea" Hedges answered sim.
ply. And something TO work for
Without them lifed be just valley OF
dry bones. ! guess"
] Mark nodded. Just a valley Of
dry bones
Tie doctor glanced at him keenly.
You have something 10 work for" he
\ said kindly and II you haven't
FAITH. it'll come. It'd be only fair.
Down there" he nodded toward the
valley, there's a good may have
faith In you"
And II | fail. they'll be worse on
than ever They'll have lost a hope
That's the worst OF e."
Better quit thinking OF that" with
laUdable intent the doctor tried 10
Ichsnge the conversation.
tContinued1
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