The Washington times., 1920-12-23
The Inside Of the Cup
A great serial
OF ROMANCE, MYSTERY, ADVENTURE

A great serial
By Winston Churchill.

erty and persecution rather than
consent to your offer. And i warn
you once more not TO fiatter your
self that existence ends here. that
you will not be called to answer for
every wrong act you have COM
mitted in accommodating your for
tune, that what you call business Is
an affair of which God takes no
account. What / say may seem
foolishness to you, but l tell you.
in the words OF that foolishnesS.
that II will not prof1t you to gain
the whole world and lose your own
soOl.
"You remind me that the Church
in old time accepted gifts from tho
spoils OF war. and i will add OF ra-
pine and murder. And the church
today. to repeat your own parallel
grows rich with money wrongfully
got Legally? AS. yes, legally. per-
haps. But. that will not avail you.
And the kind OF church you speak
of-to which /, to my shame. once
consented-OurL Lord repudiates. 1t
is none OF his. warn you. Mr..
Parr, in His name. first to make
your peace with your brothers be-
fore you presume to lay another
gift on the altar"
During this whitening condemna-
ton of himself Eldon Parr sat mo-
tionless, his face grown livid, an
expression on II hiatt continued to
haunt Holder long afterward. An
expression, indeed. which made the
banker almost unacceptable.
GO" he whispered, his hand
trembling visibly as he pointel to-
ward the door. "Go-I have had
enough of this"
mot until l have said one thing
more" replied the rector, undaunt-
ed. 81 have found the woman
whose marriage with your son you
prevented. whom you bought OH
and started on the road to hell with
out any sense OF responsibility. You
have made Of her a prostitute and
a drunkard Whether she can be
rescued or not Is problematical.
She, too, Is in Mr.. Bentley's care.
a man upon whom you once show
ed no mercy.
II leave Garvin, who has gone to
his death, and Kate Marcy and Hor-
ace Bentley to your conscience, MI.
Parr. That they are representative
If many others / do not doubt. l
tell you solemnly that the whole
meaning Of life is service to others,
and / warn you. before 1t Is too
late, to repent and make amends.
Gifts will not help you, and chari-
ties are of no avail"
At the reference to Kate Marcy.
Eldon PARIS hand dropped to his
side. He seemed to have physical
difficulty in speaking.
"Ah, you have found that WON
am He leaned an elbow on the
desk, he seemed suddenly to have
become weary, spent. old. And Hod-
der, as he watched him, perceived
that his haggard look was directed
toward photograph In silver
frame on the table-a photograph
Of Preston Parr. At length ne broke
the silence.
"What would you have me dor
he asked. Permit my son to marry
a woman of the streets. 1 suppose.
That would have been Christianity.
according to your notion. Come
now. what would you have done, II
YOUR son had been in question:!
A wave Of pity swept over the
rector.
"Why." he said. "why did you
have nothing but cruelty in your
heart and contempt for her? When
you saw that she was willing, Tor the
love of the son whom you loved, to
give up all that life meant to her.
how could you destroy her without
a qualm? The crime you committed
was that you refused to see God In
that woman's soul, when he had re-
vealed himself to you.
you looked for vile. for cunning.
for self-seeking-and they were not
there. Love had obliterated them.
When you saw how meekly she
obeyed you, and agreed to go away.
why did you not have pity? If you
had listened to your conscience you
would have known what to do.
To BE Continued Tomorrow.