Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-06

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| tell you their names?"
"Yes," said fremont.
"The first" continued the girl, her
voice floating from her as though
carried on the bosom of her dream,
us 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 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
Is In mortal danger OF the woman of
the flesh"
1.-THE explanation" said fremont,
whimsically, "is so feminine that 1t
confuses II you had said that each
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 surposely or just to be
different and avoid the obvious"
ITO avoid the. obvious Is an instinct
Of breeding" sald Miss Van Teller,
and | would never blush for doing 1t;
but where would your thoughts be now
II | had said just what you expected,
IL | had treated the Yelled God as a
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 its very essence Is a de-
ferred possession"
She paused, but as fremont chung
to the silence, she presently eontin-
ued. 1.-THE 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 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
ity without the use Of the spoken
phrase.
Few are the men who attain to
that creme security" ~rer:ont 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 said. "That is what
| thought, but didn't say"
''Madge," said fremont, "what have
You done? It's true that I have never
stopped to hynocrisies with you and
that | have V while with you
spoken a vulgar word. Did you
think that / have been knowingly
wise? Well, / haven't. | didn't know
until this moment why / chose a rare
and high atmosphere to reach you.
Now | know. It was because you were
there. / chose only to come to you
rather than drag you down to the drah
Of the usual. What you have done is
to carry me higher than l ever meant
to so. You have taken me off the
beaven path and showed me an I'M
expected treasure. I'm no longer n,,s-
self. | am cold and afraid"
Randolph could feel that the speak
err was drawing away from the girl
ard n moment later his senses were
to surpass themselves In additional
~dlvination. you are afraid of that
woman In mel" asked Miss Van Tel
lier softly. "What about this one?"
And then 1t was that Randolph's de-
ductive antennae qulyered 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 Tremont's neck
and kissed him on the mouth.
There vas a long silence; then
came Tremont's voice. thick and
strange to the ear. "a moment ago"
it said, ~ was afraid for you; now
I'm afraid for myself. | am like a
man who has carelessly dropped a
lighted match and finds himself with
in the ring Of a prairie fire. | can
only wonder at any stupidity In think
ing of you in connection with a casual
possession and not as a consuming
fame. 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 IL
you must"
At that moment Mr.. Robert III. 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