The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-27
CHAPTER XVI.
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IL was a red sunrise, that saoDatn
morning, and the rudy glow llhsereu
In the eastern sky long after the sun
had swung clear above the Nils "A
slanting shaft found HIS window ana
fell upon him as he dreamed lie
stirred restively -,
He awoke slowly, reluctantly. drllt-
ing toward consciousness through a
Golden haze that yibrated with Tar
away dwindling harmonies. An heroic
strain, clearly defined, as OF an army
marching with song into battie-ht
accompaniment 10 visions such as ne
had long believed could never WISH
hts slumber again.
The resonance died away HIS eyes
opened TO the red glory or the morn
ing. then quickly closed. He lay very
still. trying TO call back the har-
monies; they seemed strangely famll-
lar. But fancy was not equal TO me
task. -
sWhere have / heard that before?'
After a little he remembered:
youth, full OF dreams and credulous,
ioyously facing his great adventure.
And tomorrow set out on a new
adventure. IL was a long way rom
there to here. | wonder Noulu
any man, given the choice, travel ms
road a second time?
He rose and went 70 the window
man from whom the grace and buoy
ancy and smooth beauty of youth had
passed and to whom a better thlns
had come. The dreaming youth had
been a promise. This man was
promise fulfilled on the thin angu-
lar face, framed by the fast CRAVING
hair, we're written proven power TO
achieve, strength to endure even
where hope did not sustain, the VIII
TO give.
Two years had passed, crowded
with effort, crowned with achieve
ment. From the window where ne
stood, still seeking 10 recover the lost
harmonies, he could see the Deglh-
ming OF his happy city, all ready TOT
the great experiment.
Only the eye OF hope could nave
seen there the thriving community
he had once visualized. 1t was then
but an unimposing village OF simple
homes laid out on the southern slope
OF the valley and to the windWard OF
the mills: in the matter OF size even
the old Bethel had no room for Jeal'
ohsy. And only an expert crossing
the new bridge and studying at close
quarters the compact little plant on
the northern bank, would have round
there a promise as well as the SUI
preme triumph of a man whose con-
srructiye gift had not been unknown.
More than one expert had come to
SPY out the land. seeking reason TO
s@off, and had departed shaking their
heads wonderingly All agreed that,
mad though the builder might be
when he stepped out OF his own field,
only genius strangely fred could have
devised the mechanical masterpiece.
Shine, carried away by their admira-
ton, refused TO admit even a partial
insanity.
But the man at the window took no
pride In his achievement. The holy
fame OF inspiration, warming genius
To new life, had brought with II
npne OF the Joy of creation. Toll, ire
nfendous and persistent though meas
ured TO his carefully boarded strength,
could not kindle ardor. Not as the
crusader fights had he begun to build
HIS city, but as a sinner, whose
hhmbled soul requires at once a tor.
tqring penance and a refuge.
He saw with fainting hope. with
an eye that beheld only the chances
Of failure. In sense 1t had already
tailed for him. Penance could not
Iikhten penitence. The glamour OF
his big idea, conceived in ro-
mantle sentimental mood, had depart
"a; nothing, he now believed, could
restore IT,
He bathed and dressed--in the new
bathroom that was his one conces
sion TO the luxuriousenss OF the old
lle-and descended TO the kitchen.
The pleasant odor OF frying ham met
his nostrils: there was hotel in
Bethel now at which the FRUITS gen.
efally had their meals, but some
times, OF leisurely Sabbath morn.
ing, Simon still served as cook