Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-01-14

rs called Flesh the second, Spirit,
and the third-the third | shall name
the Yelled Cod"
"Madgew cried fremont, and Ran
dolph, listening with all his ears, could
almost feel the clutch on his own
arms with which the man had seized
| the girls as though to drag her back
from her minds far distance.
People wonder" she continued, her
mood unbroken, at the wreck Of ap-
parently perfect marriages and yet
it's so simple to any woman that
it's amazing that ! should be the first
to display our open secret. Only the
complete lover can he secure OF his
beloved. Beacher. He who wins her
flesh alone leaves her spirit to betray
him, and he who wins the spirit alone
IS In mortal danger of the woman Of
the flesh"
"The explanation" said fremont,
whlmsically, "is so feminine that II
confuses If you had said that each
woman is a trinity and must be thrice
won before a mans honor can feel
secure, understanding would be sim
pie matter. Did you leave out the
Yelled God purposely or just to be
different and avoid the obvious2"
ITO avoid the obvious is an instinct
of breeding" said Miss Van Teller
"and / would never blush for doing II /;
but where would your thoughts be now
If had said just what you expected,
IL had treated the Yelled God as a
matter of fact Oh. mol One can
clip with words the wings of flesh and
spirit, hut not of the Yelled God in
woman, for its very essence is a de-
ferred possession"
She paused, but as fremont chung
to the silence. she presently contin-
ued. THE complete lover is the man
who having conquered all the heights
of flesh and spirit I'm his mistress,
dwells consciously in the presence of
an undiscovered god and gazes out
upon broad land eternally promised,
never materially seized. Few are the
men-few are the mem" Her voice
/ trailed off as though her thoughts had
run ahead of words and reached final
! ity without the use of the spoken
/ phrase.
Few are the men who attain to
that serene security" fremont fin
lshed for her. only half conscious of
what he was saying.
Randolph could her the rustic of
her turning to her companion. "How
wonderful" she said "That is what
I thought, but didn't say"
"Madge," said fremont. "what have
you done? It's true that have never
stopped to hypocrisles with you and
that / have never while with you
spoken vulgar word. Did you
think that l have been knowingly
wise? Well l haven't. l didn't know
until this moment why chose a rare
and high atmosphere to reach you.
Now know. 1t was because you were
there. l chose only to come to you
rather than drag you down to the drab
Of the usual. What you have done is
to carry me higher than / ever meant
to go. You have taken me off the
beaten path and showed me an UNI
expected treasure. I'm no longer my
self. I am cold and afraid"
Randolph could feel that the speak
er was drawing away from the girl
ard moment later his senses were
TO surpass themselves In additional
divination. "You are afraid OF that
woman in me?' asked Miss Van Tel
lier softly. "What about this one?"
Z And than thot DonInlnhfe 40
ductive antennue quivered under their
| burden of intelligence. He knew as
certainly as though he had faced
about that an adorable Madge, tender
| and wlde-eyed, had slipped her bare
arms around Beacher Tremont's neck
/ and kissed him on the mouth.
There was long silence; then
came Tremont's voice. thick and
strange to the ear. "A moment ago"
it said, II was afraid for you; now
I'm afraid for myself. am like
man who has carelessly dropped a
! lighted match and finds himself with
In the ring of prairie fire. can
only wonder at my stupidity in think
ing of you In connection with a casual
possession and not as a consuming
flame. You see? Already you have
burned through the thin crust of lies
that guards man from definite seizure
by wOman-any woman"
kiss me, Beacher," murmured the
girls voice as though his words had
swirled around and by her, leaving
her purpose untouched. "Take me
and hold me carefully where no I'M
kind air can drive me from you. Take
all the women In me-one by one II
you must"
At that moment Mr.. Robert II. Ran
dolph. In the person of Slim Hervey,
chauffeur, very nearly wrecked his
four-cylinder argosy with its burden
of three fates, still individually and
collectively Indispensable to the con.
tinulty of this yarn. He missed the
ditch by hairs breath, caught his
own with u gasp returned to the mid.
die of the broad highway and fixed
his attention on certain very definite
matter with which II had been more
or less constantly concerned ever since
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