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A group of rough bowlders, moss-
covered, commanded a long view over
the eastern shore of the Island, while
forming a shelter from the wind. The
girl approached them ; then, at a sud
den soft sound, stood still, her heart
beating rapidly. Noiselessly rounding
them, she discovered the man she
sought stretched upon the ground, his
head thrown hack upon clasped arms,
his eyas dreaming far away over the
softly outlined scene below.
For a moment she angered the folds
of her thin garment, watchiDg lilm.
Then the wind Buttered one of her
loose sleeve« ; and his gaze Bushed back
from far distances. Turning his head,
he saw the figure standing, motion­
less, by his side.
She stood perfectly still, her hands
pressed upon the garment at her breast,
the wind waving her cloudy hair, her
Ups a little parted, her blue eyes dark­
ly shining in the faint lig h t
Once— twice— she tried to speak, but
the words would not come: she could
only envelop him, as It were, In the
radiant glory of her face. , . .
Suddenly a great wave of under­
standing broke over him, rendering him
for a moment breathless, blinded, be­
wildered. . . . Then, Instinctively,
he raised his arms. W ith a little Inar­
ticulate cry the girl allowed him to
take her, trembling In her capitulation,
clinging to him, submitting, without re­
sistance, to the storm of passion at
last set free. His kisses burned Into
her soft fleslr, his arms crushed her
well-nigh breathless; she was car­
ried away by the tide of his ardor,
responsive, glorying. . . .
Barbara bad crossed her Rubicon
for all time.
Presently he sat down upon the
rocks, still holding her to him.
“You— came to tell me?" he whis­
pered, bla face close to hers, his eyes
piercing to her very souL
“Yes,” she whispered back. . . .
After a time she raised herself, still
in his arms.
"Alan, I —couldn’t tell you before:
nntU I felt convinced that all—was
right. You understand ; don’t you? It
was because I loved you so, dear heart,
• a t —fear, or coldness—”
“I understand," he murmured, laying
• Is cheek against hers. " I always un­
derstood. I t was the beastly brute In
me that sometimes soemed not to. , . ,
When, Barbara?*’
H er head fell back upon Ida breast!
with a little throbbing sigh, she re­
nounced her will to his.
“ Whenever—yon like, Alan.”
"At dawn?" he whispered. “I t will
soon be here. When the sun rises over
the water It shall witness our— mar­
riage rites T'
The passion had died out of his voice,
and a note almost of awe had crept In.
They remained, sometimes silent,
sometimes discussing. In low tones,
tlielr forthcoming bridal, while the
moonlight waned, and the wonderful
blue-black of the southern night soft­
ened and paled.
Presently Alan lowered the hand he
held near his cheek and opened the
fingers.
“W hat can we do about a wedding
ring?” he asked.
“Oh I Does that matter?”
"I should like to see you wearing one
•—of mine. W alt 1” he continued,
searching In the pockots of Ids frayed
breeches. He displayed a collection of
keys, a pocket knife, and a pencil, sus­
pended upon a small tin key ring.
"W1U this fit? It's better than noth­
ing.”
"It looks about the right size, and
will do beautifully. Oh, A la n ! how I
shall love it I”
He smiled, a world of tenderness in
his eyes. “Look,” he said. ‘‘Dawn la
breaking.”
Early birds began to chirp and
whistle, away In the forest: the danc­
ing waves turned a steely gray. The
wind had dropped, leaving a great si­
lence. It seemed as If nature were
bolding her breath, waiting for the
dawn not far off. . . . When at
last the sun’s first long shaft of gold
quivered across the water, the man
rose and set the girl gently upon her
feet.
The hand In bis trembled a
little ; but she met Ills eyes bravely,
smilingly. , , .
With only the birds for witness, the
sound of the surf for choir, the radi­
ance of the eastern sky for altar, sim­
ply and from their hesrtsf depths these
two plighted their troth. The few chief
sentences from tbs marriage service
were chosen by Barbara for their only '
rites.
•’ T ie rs srould be many, sway In the
world, to ROfl, t n » y te condemn. But
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The Sound of the Surf for Choir.
no outward consecration of ground, no
army of ordained priests, could have
rendered more sacred that moment
when the hush was broken by their
low-voiced avowals.
Perchance the
“Destiny that shapes our ends,” seeing
all things, reading all hearts, who had
Hung these two together upon this far
garden of His own creation, und given
them there the one supreme gift which
Is part of Himself, would understand
and accept their vows:
“ ’To love and to cherish till death
ua do part. . . .
And thereto I
plight thee my troth. . .
Their voices did not falter. The
small tin ring encircled the girl's fin­
ger: they stood silent a while, with
locked hands. Then he drew her
toward him, and very gently their lips
met.
“My wife I” he breathed.
Barbara bathed, dressed, and got
breakfast, with no thought of fntlgue
nfter a sleepless night.
H er heart
seemed almost unbearably full.
As
she watched the smoke curl up from
her own (Ire, and that rising from Me-
amaa's hut, she resembled the primi­
tive woman glorying In this life shorn
of all false trappings. Was not Me-
aroan likewise cooking food for her
man? In the south, too, the native
women were so employed. Man and
his mate— In palace or hovel, In man­
sion or hut I All the artificiality hid­
ing the big realities faded away wdth
the worlds beyond the blue horizon.
It was the same wdth Alan. Like
some fine, strong, wild thing, he dived,
swnin and splashed in the river; then
returned for breakfast, ravenously
hungry, singing as be swung down the
bay.
“I have a great surprise!” Barbara
announced. “Here is a tin of 'bully
beef.’ I suved It for any emergency.
Shall we have it for our wedding feast,
as a special trentY'
He shouted with laughter. “Lord!
To think of ’bully’ becoming a special
drove roe mad— until f »»» lure IBs J • * - To contlnne to Inspire a ___
Held was clear," he replied. "Then I tuperellrlous fear after more than
meant to win I"
| eighteen months was In Itself a pru-
“Oh, A la n !" W ith sudden passion ( carious task, only achieved by the
she drew his head back against her weight of his own personality. Fur.
breast. " If 1 lost you— my husband therroore, he was confronted by Ba-
—I should die."
bootua's personal hatred. From Ronwa
He turned In her arms, and pressed ho had learued of the chiefs mania for
his Ups to her soft nock.
women, and women were scarce la
"Barbural I t means—all that— to the tribe. W hite women no longer
you. at lu s tr
offended the black men's Instincts. . .
They stayed Is the boat until dark­
At present vivid memories of a
ness —
bad
Then Alan took the wounded shoulder,
— — fallen.
j
v blue
a u v
u devils
v 'i i a
hissing
oars he had fashioned, and paddled , ^rom round Croft’s hut. the suppost-
hack to land.
tlon of a bidden white tribe ever at
Silence fell upon them as thef-Benrad hand, restrained Ba booms from defl
the shore. It was the hour when ex­ ance of a man tabu. But familiarity
terior things diminished to nothing­ and the scraps of education Imparted
ness, and the Big Things were too by the white people were gaining upon
I t wus only a
vast for conversation.
He benched superstition. . . .
the boat, then slipped his arm around matter of time.
the girl and drew her toward the hut.
Burbara had quickly perceived that
“Our wedding night, Barbara," he her man was seriously troubled con-
whispered.
. eerntng the tribe. Dimly aware her
Her feet lingered a little, and she self of the first faint clouds In the
paused now und then to admire beau­ brightness of their sky, heralding a
ties of scent or sound; the rising mohn possible storm, she sought to hide
showed her face tremulous. Outside them, to keep their happiness undis­
the dark hut, she drew herself free, turbed.
turning toward the sea as though loath 1 During the following months the
to leave It. It seemed as though she dond grew ever more menacing. Those
were silently bidding farewell to some nntlves who, fundamentally brutal and
part of her life ; and the man behind Idle, had not appreciated their en­
her stood motionless, bla eyes on her forced life of Industry, quickly de­
averted head, silently waiting, making teriorated under Uubooma's leadership
no attempt to touch her. . . .
j His adherents increased In number,
At last, slowly, she turned and held as did his cruelties. There being In­
out her hands. He took them close sufficient grown women, he seized
In his.
young girls, almost children, made
“Come, my dearest," he Bald.
them the toys of his lusts, and nfter-
ward they disappeared—sometimes,
under cloak of religious fanaticism,
upon the sacrificial altar to Balhnoka;
Six months, when you live In an sometimes to SHtlnte his own appetite
earthly paradise, are but a flash of for human flesh.
vivid light in a sky which Is always
Many times Croft was on the point
blue. These two had crossed their
of utilizing that last bullet. But with
looming mountains and arrived nt the
valTey upon the other side; and they It his Influence would have vanished.
; Natives regard their own chief with
found It fa ir and shining, full of the
, extraordinary superstition. To them
songs of birds.
1 he is permanently tnbu. The next In
The days sped by, each seeming to
rank was one of Bsbooma's followers.
exceed In beuuty Its predecessor. There
Only more danger would have result­
waa no need now to fill each moment
ed for Barbara and himself, and prob­
with arduous, thankless toll. A ll walls
ably civil war In the settlement. These
and divisions were down. When Alan,
people were Insisting on making their
with a few slashing cuts, severed the
own hell, and nobody could save them
bamboo partition In tlielr sleeping hut, J short of exterminating half tlielr num­
It had been symbolic.
ber.
“There!” he exclaimed, his foot upon
After a time Alan refused to allow
the canes strewing the floor. “No
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"One!” she breathed, renouncing,
with the outward surrender of her
only privacy, all the private strong­
holds of her nature. But the look
she gave him was no longer elusive.
It was steadfast, shining, exultant. . , .
In the wilderness Barbara had found
the “hidden want” : the love which,
with all Its many far-reaching sub­
keys, can alone tune the extraordinary
cosmology, called life Into any sem­
blance of a harmonious whole. . . .
Sometimes they played ridiculous
games upon the sand, gambling with
the money lying useless In their lug­
gage.
They hunted, fished, worked, ^athed
together. And, during these months,
each learned much, which was ac­
cumulated and stored within their
hearts.
Their clothes were in rags, but they
made fun of the matter. Alan dung
to his old razor, and Barbara to her
scissors.
“A fter all,” she said, “we can cover
ourselves In reed matting. Provided
treat for a wedding feast 1 Bring It you don’t grow a beard, 1 can face
anything.”
along, O 'vise and thrifty woman.”
Six months of perfect happl»ess!
They ate their “wedding feast” In
A Wailing Cry Arete.
a mossy shady dell; und even the I t was against all the rules of fate:
but
even
fate
seemed
to
have
cast
off
Barbara near the settlement. She said
memory of Aunt Dolly, who uncon­
She passed long hours with
sciously had provided it, failed to cast these two for a time. For some rea­ little.
more than a momentary shudow across son the world was made passing beau­ Mesmna and her children, banishing
tiful, and human beings placed In It the mental torture during bis absence
their Joy.
Alan lay along the bottom of the without any choice. But the attaln- In the radiance of her welcome upon
boat, hls'head'Tuiowed In Barbara’; ,,lent’
‘ess the possesslnmof bla return.
lap, as the eun began to sink.
' P” ™ »«*«“ »»lisa therein baa not been
One night he returned, after a
stormy day's battling in the south,
’Well?” be asked.
"Have you decreed.
found a desert Island honeymoon very !
the
of 8'X
with his own optimism gravely shak­
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f m f t r t t i s n cloud
In t ir i a
n n fta ra ri
C t u I I I HÖH lì O I
ominous
appeared,
en. It was, he knew, but a question of
Irksome? W hat about the big dries
the native chief, fell 111 and died. days before the threatening mine
■where you ex|>ected to 'feel Ufa’?
Babooma became head of the tribe
should buret. The division had wld
W hat about your heart's desire?”
No care or pity for his fellows per­ ened to sn extent which only blood
She laughed low, passing caressing
meated the hide of brutality encasing and
explosion
would.
eventually,
fingers through his hair. " I have no
Bubootnn. All the worst Instincts of bridge; It needed but a match to the
other heart’s desire. You are life It­
the savage, held In check by the old fuse, and that explosion would come.
self to me now, Alan. That’s why—"
chief under Croft's Influence, now rose
Barbara did not meet him as usual.
“You came to me last night?” he
to the surface. His own adherents, H e wondered a little, making his way
suggested softly, as she stopped.
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Impatient of restraints, hailed him
quickly down to their hut.
Supper
Sbe nodded. The boat drifted Idly, , , . ,
, ..
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_ . . _ with Joy. Tlie division In the seltle-
was ready, but she waa not there. He
earesned by the soft hreeze, rocking {
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rnent became at once more evident: looked into the sleeping hut, but that
gently with the tide.
’ murmuring dissatisfaction upon one also was empty. Anxiously be turned
"Thunk God you did,” be murmured,
side, threats and tortures upon the bis steps toward Roowa's abode. M e
after a pause. “Everything was be-
I other.
amaa sat outside, suckling a new ad­
coming—unbearable.”
The white men s popularity had In­ dition to her family, crooning softly
Sbe trailed her fingers In the »«■
creased with the Increase ot health. over the little dark form.
ter, lost In thought.
She waved sn arm toward the east.
“It w as strange," sbe observed pres­ cleanliness and Industry among the
“The great chiefs w ife went np to
ently. “that the day on which I first i natives. Now be took full advantage
began to feel—what you had become | of It, and only his continuous Inter- the heights long, long ago! Meamau
stUl watching for her.” she said.
to me—should have been my wedding | ventlon maintained order. The post
day !"
I tlon, however, was fraught with dan- l » , U e sUodu off up the slope, and the
» r- ——*
•*rbo«9 first months bqrq peajly
k v i u l i a tfT Ä R riM iir.
native woman continued her crootiiftl
song
Barbara was seated upon the rocks
where, nearly a year before, the dawn
had witnessed their simple marriage
ceremony. H er elbows were propped
on her knees, her chi* wus sunk In
her hands.
Alsn approached noiselessly, but
she became Instinctively aware of his
presence.. He noticed a strange ex­
pression In her eyes as she turned to
greet h im : a far-seeing wonder blend­
ed with a tenderness whlcb seemed
reflected In the smiling, tremulous
lines of her mouth.
She silently stretched out her hands,
and he took them In his, mystified
“I wondered what bad become of
you— ” he began.
" I felt I must come here Thle al
waya seems n kind of sacred temple,
our own. . . . Oh. A lan !"
She gazed Into his face balf-amll
Ing. yet with a suspicion of fears dim
mlng the soft light In her eyes.
’"What. dear?” he asked, more puz­
zled.
She made no re p ly; but the glory
In her face seemed to deepen, radiat­
ing toward him. . . . Loosing his
hands, her arms crept up to his shoul­
ders. round his neck, drawing bis head
down to her own.
A sudden, vague realization of some
stupendous happening caused him to
draw her close. "W hat Is it, Bar­
bara?” he murmured. “What are you
trying to tell me?"
She tilted her head back a little,
and saw the dawning comprehension
In bis face. A fulnt smile flickered
again across her own.
"Can’t you guess—my husband?”
Instnntly he was conscious of the
same Inimitable tenderness In her re­
gard which he had Just seen In the
eyes of the woman suckling her child.
The same mysterious essence of moth­
erhood seemed to emanate from both.
W ith a muttered cry, hla Ups sought
hera; he caught her dose, pressing
her to hla heart as If daring all the
forces of uature, all the venom of
suvage humanity, to take her from
him now.
Suddenly, Impulsively, she looked up
Into hla eyes.
“Shall you love—It? ” she whis­
pered.
A reflection of her own tenderness
allowed In the smile which answered
her. The glory of the sinking sun Il­
luminated his face.
“Shall I?" he breathed. “My dear
est— what a question 1"
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Except that the soil should not be
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While the usual preference Is for a
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