The spectator., 1921-08-19
Shall
a group of three individuals. Shall I tell you their nameS?"g
 "Yes" said Fremont

"Yes," said Fremont.
 "The first" continued the girl. her voice floating from her as though carried on the bosom of her dream "is called Flesh; the second, Spirit, and the third--the third shall name the Yelled God"
 ''Madge," 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 hS beloved. Beaches. 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, wh'msieally, lis so feminine that 1t confuses. If you had said that eGh woman is a trinity and must be thrice won before a mans honor can feel secure. understanding would be a sim pie matter Did you leave out the Yelled God nurposely or just to be different and avoid the obvious?"
 ITO avoid the obvious is an instinct of breeding" said Miss Van Teller, and l would never blush for doing it but where would your thoughts be now If I had said just what you expected, if I lad treated the Yelled God as matter of fact, Oh. no! One can clip with words the wings of flesh and spirit. but not of the Yelled God in woman, for It's very essence Is de- ferred possession"
 She paused. but as Fremont clung to the silence. She presently contin- ued. The complete lover is the man who having conquered all the heights of flesh and spirit in his mistresss dwells consciously in the presence of an undiscovered god and gazes out upon a broad land eternally promised, never materially seized Few are the men-few are the men" Her voice trailed off as though her thoughts had run ahead of words and reached final fly without the use of the spoken phrase.
 Few are the men who attain to that serene security" Fremont fin ished for her, only half conscious of what he was saying.
 Randolph could her the rustic of her turning to her companion. How wonderful" she sail. That is what I thought but didn't say"
 l "Madge." said Fremont, what have you done? It's true that have never stopped to hypocrisieS with you and that l have never while with you spoken vulgar word. Did you think that I have been knowingly wise? We'll, I haven't. I didn't know until this moment why I chose rare l and high atmosphere 10 reach you. i Now know. IL was because you were l there. I chose only to come 10 you rather than drag you down to the drab l of the usual What you have done is to carry me higher than ever meant l to so You have taken me off the i beaten path and showed me an un- expected treasure I'm no longer my self. am cold and afraid"
 Randolph could feel that the speak or was drawing away from the girl ard a moment later his senses were l to surpass themselves in additional 1 divination. You are afraid of that woman in me-" asked Miss Van Tel l Her softly What about this ones i And then v was that Raudolph'S de- ductive an'ennae quivered under their 1 burden of intelligence He knew as 1 certainly is though he had faced about thar an adorable Madge, tender and wide eyed. had slipped her bare arms around Beacher Tremont's neck and kissed him on the mouth.
 There was a long silence then came Tremont's voice, thick and strange 10 the ear. "A moment ago" it said, 'I was afraid for you: now l I'm afraid for myself l am like a man who has carelessly dropped a l lighted match and finds himself with in the ring of prairie fire. l can only wonder at my stupidity in think ing of you in connection witt casual 1 possession and not as consuming flame. You see? Already you have 1 burned through the thin crust of lies l 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 un- kind air can drive me from you Take | all the women In me-one by one If | you must"
 At that momen. Mir. Robert H. Ran Al A