Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-11

| group of three individuals. Shall
| tell you their namesfH
"Yes.'' said fremont.
"Tbe 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"
"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 APP
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 be secure of his
beloved, Beacher He who wins her
flesh alone leaves her spirit TO betray
him, and he who wins the spirit alone
liz in mortal danger of the woman OF
the flesh"
THE explanation" said fremont,
whimsically, us so feminine that II
confuses. II you had said that each
woman Is a trinity and must be thrice
won before Il mans honor can feel
secure. understanding would be a sim
pie matter. Did you leave out the
Yelled God purposely or Just TO be
different and avoid the obvious?"
'To avoid the obvious is an instinct
Of breeding" said Miss Van Teller,
"and l would never blush for doing 1t
but where would your thoughts be now
II had said just what you expected,
II had treated the yened 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 chung
to the silence. she presently contin-
ued. ."rhe complete lover is the man
who having conquered all the heights
of flesh and spirit In 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 men" Her voice
tralled or az 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
ished for her. only half conscious of
what he was saying.
Randolph could her the rustic of
her turning to her companion. "Hew
wonderful" she said. ",rhat Is what
thought, but didn't say"
"Madge," said fremont. "what have
you done? It's true that have never
stopped to 'hypocrisies with you and
that | have never while with you
spoken vulgar word. Did you
think that have been knowingly
wise? Well. l haven't. l didn't know
until this moment why chose rare
and high atmosphere 10 reach you,
Now know. 1t was because you were
there. | 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 of the
| beaten path and showed me an I'M
expected treasure. I'm no longer my
self. am cold and afraid
Randolph could feel that the speak
err was drawing away from the girl
ard a moment later his senses We're
to surpass themselves In additional
divination. "You are afraid of that
woman In mef' asked Miss Van Tel
Tier softly. "What about this one?'
And then IL was that Randolph's de-
ductive antennae qulvered under their
burden of intelligence. He knew as
certainly as though he had faced
about that an adorable Madge, tender
and wide-eyed, had slipped her bare
\ arms around Beacher Tremonts neck
and kissed him on the mouth.
There was a long silence: then
came Tremont's voice thick and
strange TO the ear. "A moment ago
1t said. II was afraid for YOU; now
I'm afraid for myself. l am like a
man who has earelessly 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 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, Beaeher," murmured the
girls voice as though his words had
swlrled around and by her. leaving
her purpose untouched. Take me
and hold me carefully where no UNI
kind air can drive me from you. Take
all the women In me--one by one If
you must"
At that moment Mr.. Robert III. Ran
dolph. in the person of Slim Heryey,
chauffeur, very nearly wrecked his
four-cylinder argosy with its burden