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THE SAL: QODRRIUH ONTARIG
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The Chalice of Courage
Being the Story of Certain Persons
Who Drank of it and Conquered
cR Romance of Colorado
By Cyrus ToTensend Brady
Author of "The King and the Man,'
"The Island of Regeneration,' ''`I ke
Better Mian," "Hearts and the Htq' -.
way. "As 'the Sparks F7y Up-
ward,'' etc.
Illustrations by Ellsworth Young e=
Mil af'er all the Iba;gs are aatc
love gezi where it 11. sent. and
1. at least. am, tot the sender
This woman loved this nun neigh
er because nbr in spite of thee
auaJttles. That they were Wee.
student for her affection, but If thp>
' had not been, ft may to that that of
teeth n. that that passion. 11ro•411 hay(
lnbab.:ated ber heart still. No, on,
can say. Do one can tell how or who
those things are. Sbe had loved hie
while she raged against him and tint
ed Lam. She did neither the one no.
the other of thosb two last thing:
Mow, and ate loved him the more.
Mystery 1s a great mover: there is
aotbinb so attractive as a problem et
cannot solve. The very situation o
the man. bow be came there, what
he did there. why be remained there
gneetions to which the had '-et
answer, stimulated her., profound!]
Because she did not know she qu.-s
Coned in secret; interest was arouses
land the transition to love was easy.
Propinquity, too, is respoaefble !or
nary an affection. "The Ivy cling:
to the first met tree." Given a vac
land woman heart free and throw
them together and let there be decent
kindness on both sides, and it L a1
most Ines -Ur -Me that each shall firs
the other. Isolate them from the
world. let them nee no other compau
dons but the one man and the on,
♦roman, and the result becomes mere
laevitable.
Tee, this woman loved this men
Who said in her heart—and 1 au,
pot one t0 •dispute her cocclusiors—
that she would have loved blur 11.1(
he been one among millions to Stant
berm-. her. and it was .true. fie wo
the complement of her nature. Tree
differed in temperament as much ai
In comglexlon, and yet in those ori•
•lerences as must always be to. mak*
:perfect love and perfect union. Ube,-.
mere striking resemblances, necers-tel
'pints of contact.
There was no reason whatever will
?
Enid Maitland should not love tie:
Mian. The only post ible check upor
her feelings would have been her
rather anomalous relation to Arm
'strong, but she refl. ted that Eire bad
promised him definitely notblag
When .Le bid met him fhe had hWe-
pressionbeen,
.heart whole, be had mod. some We -
pression upon her fancy and mlgtI
have made more with greater opporten
'fey, but unfortunately for him, luckily
er,
jtlege. She scarcely thought of him
longer.
Sbe would not have been hrstn
ler mind had not dwelt upon the
world beyond the styline 00 the oth-
er side of the range. She knew how
,Lose who toyed her must be *offering
ion aowvst of her disappearance, but
knowing herself life and realizing • within a short time. wben the
spring came again, she would go back
to them and that their mourning
'would be turned into joy by her ar-
rival, she could not concern heraglf
•c*teethes;ry greatly over tbetr present feel-
ings and *teethes; sad besides, what
'would be the use d worrying over
:bow.w
. things! There as metal more
Eeyore for ber thougbta close at
Aad she was too blissfuL•y
to entertain for more than a
went any sorrow.
She pictured atm ber raters sad
slaver by any chase. did she Meek of
cc back to ch il:atios aloes The
she loved would be by her she.
idle church's biessiag would make
hham he
one. To do r Mak* to the
ty aril purity kw thoughts
Me weer ones thought of whathe
e
Paw14 might nay Meet that long win
Ser sphere aloe* wltb tbts am She otms
Seas so ctoas at her own ism -
moms sad et kis delicate forbesraace.
OM fsever ease thosgbt hew humeafty
rube *add re w eyes •ad fakir cry
tnhe, asfrom the bo* top. Sbe
et raarirs that were she over so *so
and bo rest she could sot
or ever reach the high poeltto
Caesar wed . •-• ton r.
rtabiLktri
.!.self, would fa* have hie
ONAP'VEa XV.t.
The Maw's Hin
for b be bad not enjoyed that Pill
M. love proJSees bath tappll ith
Aged sahap•heam. but e• the while 1
rah
the happiest. prodsmiastes. INN
hese Itself >r it be true and hip h
'hep we reward. Ire mss !lard Resit
7t�ww/b, cladmete these *tea beta
its rm.g at Me ase hes d the
�t�wa� Phe K $,i r 4 sera antler
ISOM iiewrths sea Of *sash.. SO
Prwtftbeelta 1e r ahs esilsste
iem b•i-.: sa.cawrria
�a1r d that SW WSW
f fi4 kt•Ml.ad, hpwwrm. die net
raprrt.
.ta eb
alla aq • ref
a Infl/r width 1110}81 Mfr
response. fOr Oils Mae loied-WMA
a love that was greater even ahs
her own. The moon, in the tette mime
imp looks on many brooks, the break
sea no moon but the one above biro
to the heavens. la one sense his
Merit to winning her affection for him-
self from the hundreds of men she
Mew, was the greater; in maay years
4 had only seen tale one woman.
Naturally she should be everything to
him Sbe represented to him not °lily
the woman bat womankind. Hs hale,
been a boy practically when be had
buried himself in those eboantains,
sad in all that time he had seen ace'
body like Enid Mattlaad. Seery ar-
gamest which had been exploited two
show why she should love him could'
be turned about to account for his
paaslon for ber. They are not aeceas-
Ury, they are all supererogatory, Idle
words. To him also love bad been,
thorn !n an hour. It had flashed Into
existence as U from the flat of the
Divine.
Oh, he had fought against tt. Like
ere eremites of old be had been
scourged into the desert by remoras
,sad another passion, but time had
done Its work. The woman he first
loved had ministered Dot to the spir-
itual side of the man. tar if she had
so ministered in any degree it was be-
cause be had looked at her with a
glamour of inexperience and youth.
During those five years of solitude, of
study and of reflection, the truth bad
gradually 'unrolled itself before him.'
Conclusions vastlyat variance with
what he had ever believed possible
as to the woman upon whom he had
drat bestowed his heart, had got into
his being and were in solution there;
this present woman was the precipitant'
which brought them to life. He knew
mow .what the old appeal of kis wife
had been. He 'knew now what the
new appeal of this woman was.
In humanity two things in 1W are
Inextricably intermingled, body and
soul. Where the _function. of one be-
gins and the function of the other
ends no one is able to say. In all
human passions are admixtures or
the earth earthy. We are born the•
sons of old Adam as we are reborn'
the sons of the New. Passions are,
complex. As in harvest wbeat aiadl
tares grow together until the end, fes'
fa love earth and heaven mingle ever.
He remembered a clause from an aa-
cleat
sscleat 1parriage service he had read
y body I ties wonbip," sad
with every fibre Of his pbyslcal being,
be loved this woman.
It t would be idle to deny that,
possible to disguise the facts, but in
the melting pot d passion the pre-
ponderant ingredient was mental and
spiritual; and just because higher and
holler things predominated. be held
her in his heart a sacred thing. Love
la like a rose: the material part is the
beautiful blossom; the spiritual Lehr,
Is the fragrance which abides in the
tese jar even after ever7 leaf has fad-
ed away, or which may be expressed
from the soft petals by the bard cr-
gamstanosa of pain and sorrow until
there is left nothing but the lingering
perfume of the flower.
Ids body trembled If she laid a
head upon him. his soul thirsted for
her; present or absent he conjured
Wore his tortured brain the sweet.
seas that inhabited her breast. H.
bad been clearslgbted em egt la an-
afysing the past, he was serkher clear-
sighted nor coherent in thickens 'Ot
the present. He worshiped ber, be
Maki have thrown himself neos his
hates to her: if it would have added
le hem happtsees, sbe could have
hQRed bin, smiling at her. Rode sbe
in the Juggernaut car et the ancient
idol. with his body. would be have tea
hesitatingly paved the wap sad have
bees glad of the privilege. lie longed
to compass her with sweat °beer-
eervances. Ths world revenged ttghit
Moo him far hes long neglect, it bed
sensed ap to tib one woman all
Marra. its beauty. Its tureens*, sad
bad thrust ber *to Ids very arms.
His was nae of those great passions
Which illuminate the records of the
past Paolo hal act Weed Francesca
mere.
Oh. yea, the wemsi ;vow be lowed
Me It wee sot is the power of mor-
al man no matter hew hes his re
eaafnt, how absolutes fibs impamltiss
et W elk tts keep bis heart bidden,
hie padAss andleekeed. fee ewe meld
beep web Wogs secret. Its Me ter
bar cried egad In a tketssad ways.
ewes his leek who be dared b tare
his was •w ha was eiwsit et W
lselt•g He sever sold • wad, bw-
era, be bid tlt bs sat Meet fetter•i
and been, Ser 4 beamed that hear
had No wti>Atics• weighed teas the
bNaabe epee This came__, lids le
IMO hie taelrtlws hl/.
win aft waft et this wawa
tla_r+dlet ghees. i be had r et-
-Uir—trris avi
That naught have bees overcame ii'
Me WM; bat pride t• bis self pea
ease.* Ids reeoutise Ip wl hdarw
tt.bmwt. its resoluta*• os withdraw
*web the* ass Ool amtptated ifs all
p1•des nal signified its aseepteaee d
OM penitent by taking away Ids ltfa.
hall hiss taeaorahty.
The dart race of his wife rose ho
here ham. He forced himself to think
!mob bee she bad loved ham, she bad
givee Was au that she cost* He re
membered how ale hal pleaded with
tan that he take her oa that last sad
most daagerous o/ aouiaeya, her devo-
tion to him had bees so great she
could not let him go out of her sight
*moment. he thought fatuously' And
he killed ber. In the queer turmoil et
'N. brain be blessed Massif for every-
lthbg. He could not be false to has
fparpose, false to ber memory, us -
!worthy of the passion in which he be
Olio
she had held bpm and which
P'o believed he had inspired.
if he had one out fa the world,
tatter ler death he might have forgot -
item Most of these things. he might
them lived them down. Saner clear -
views would have come to him.
morbid self reproach and self eos-
+uebusness would have been changed
liat he had lived with them alone for
ve year's and sow there was no pub
SIM them aside. Honor and pride
14 only things that may successfully
-OW against love. overcome him. He
rhatewm—
The Dark Face of His Wife Rose Be
fore Him.,
could not give way. He wanted to,
every time be was to her presence he
longed to sweep her to his heart and
crush her to his arms and bend her
bead back and press lips of fire on
ber Ups.
But honor and pride, held him back
How long would they continue to ex-
ercise dominion over him' Would
the time come when his passion ris-
ing like a sea would thunder upon
these artificial embankments of his
soul, beat them down and sweep them
away'
At first the disparity between their
situation's, not so much upon acooumt
of family or of property -the treas-
ures of the mountains, hidden slam
creation be had discovered and let lie
—but 'because of the youth and posi-
tioh of the woman compared to his
own maturer years, his desperate ex -
and his social withdrawal
had reinforced his determination to
live and love without a sign. But he
had long since got beyond this. Had
he been free be would have taken ber
11ke a vtkiag of old, If be had to pluck
her from amid a thousand swords and
carry her to a beggars but which love
would have turaed to a palace. And
she would have come with him o11 the
same oondltioas.
He did not know that. Womes
have- learned throng' centuries of
wsakneu that fine art of ooncealmeot
which man bas never mastered. She
never let him see what she thought of
hem. Tet be was not without SAW
picfon; if that suspicion grew to oer-
' t•Inty, would be control himself thee?
At frst-be:'bed sought to keep out
et ber way, but she bad compelled
the to come fa. The room that was
kitchen and bed Croom and store room
for him was cheerless and somewhat
s+eia Save at night or when b. was
busy with other tasks outside Merl
(lived togethed is the great room. It�
!was always warm. it was always
bright, It was always cheerful, there.l
The lithe piles of manuser[pt cis
bad noted were boob that he hold'
waittea. Be made no effort to cow
ta1hee
traakly enough about bis les 1* the
seal such things tram ber. Ile l
Mils, Indeed there was so posatibdll
tlty et avoldbg tie diseasslea of seek
topks. On but two subjects was he
t•emorahly •Meet One was the press
aunt este of his affections aa/ the
ether was the why and wherefore et
his sonary life. Sbe knew beyond pmt
idveetw that be loved her. but ahs
had no faint stspletos even as to
nee*. why he had become • reamed
He 4d never gfvw ber the met
Wow to bis past save that afmleslen
that be had Mom Kirkby whish nab
is itself sothiag d.initIve sad wbii
the sever eos•.eted with that pedes
eels of letters whiff the .W1 beet!
with ber.
Tie masa taile4 was too arthe W
term. to he •aver! with .•Heal
h1 r aloes, t4 boob that he W
e etre were seesatl$e treatises IN the
■alta. O. was • ib•rtse4 lieweae0a
to the tame eat lsrs at the Mega-,
gena Aoethar was a s— ,e a►.
i Newel'�e'tt the embeeal reaames
V -
peth
lie boil NIX be Whither, a�
name/.-_ et WP d peed mod
IIOW lm the aseuseeba to 11/100 Nee.'
sod the *news* W *hash Mho weal/
•e ties wfth eeOr poomme s. OSI
tltafi •a * rowan; . the a®r—
,; •rr dimtat •er
ieet glen m. Yash at tints ehba
.•.+ teeede ' see. •thee .
that b�MS write.. tamp.
tewsti•g. taw. wee age -
rumaisheg to catch he slaty d
emasel tb. taesntatas Is Ilse throes
ssotsese of tie year; when the snows
covered covered theatwwhen the gamins *tett the
miss came Mehl. whew the 'owes
d,
Noomwhoa amuses& tenteed the
trees. There was the soul of the
'man, poetry expressed las*
pro, man-
tlke bet saes the leas poetry for that.
TW book pored over, s4 questioned
Mai about It; they dimmed It as they
other Heats and the oer pets.
Those were happy evewfagp lihe
'ea one aide ei the Ise wwtag, her
:lager wound with cloth to bold has
giant thimble, fashioning for herself
some winter garments out of a gay
colored. red. white and black amidst
Minh-
et,and exquisitely woven Navajo Minh -
et, sot and enable almost as an old-
fashioned piece of sattn—priceless It
she had but known tt—which fie put
at ber disposal. While oa the other
side of the same homily blase he
made for her out of the skies of some
of the animas that be had killed, a
shapeless foot covering, half mocca-
sin and wholly leggin, which she
could wear over her shoes in ber
short excarsaoas around the plateau
and wbicb would keep Mr feet warm
and comfortable.
• By her permission he smoked as he
worked, enjoyieg the hour, putting
Mete the past and the future and for
a few hicimeats blissfully content
Sometimes he laid aside his pipe and
whatever work be was engaged upon
and read to her from some immor-
tal noble number. Sometimes the en-
tertainment fell to her and she sant
to him in her glorious contralto voice re
music that made him ad. Once he
cooed stand It oo longer. At the end
of a buret of sorts which $lled.the lit-
tle room—he bad risen to his feet
while she sang, compelled to the erect
position by the magnificent melody—
aa the last notes died away and she
smiled at hem triumphant and expeo-
tant of his praise and his approval, be
hurled himself out of the room and
fete the night, wrestling for hear*
with the stone which after all wire
but a trifle to that which raged In bb:
bosom. While she, left alone and d•-
'
serted, quailed within the silent room.
till she beard him come back.
Often and often when she slept'
*quietly on one side the thin partition,,
he lay awake on the other, and some-
times his passion drove Lim forth to.
caw! the fever, the Ere in his soul, t*'
the icy, wintry air. The struggle;
within him preyed upon him. the keen
loving eye of the woman searched his!scrutinizedface, scrutinized him, looked into his:
heart, saw what was there.
She determined to end it, deciding **
that be must saws bis affections.
She had no premonition of the truth
and no consideration of any evil con-
sequences held ber back. She torrid•
give free range to her love and her'
devotion. Sbe had the order -lug se
their lived and she had the power tel
end the situation growing more awl:
more impossible. Sbe fancied ems
matter easily terminable. Sbe thot**t•
she bad only to let him see her Mesta
i such ways as a maiden man lei
pe
bring joy to his own to make ba
umiak. She did not dream of tae Tel
silty.
One night. therefore. a month se
more after she had come. she roe
solved to end the uncettalnty Shed
believed the easiest and the qulckeet:
way would be to get him to tell her:
el -.7 be war there She naturally sur-
mised that the woman of the picture,
which she had Dever sees since the'
brat day of ber arrtval, was in some
measure the cause d it: and the only
pain she had to the attuaUow was the:
keen jealousy that would obtreds
!teed at the thought of that womaa.
She remembered everything that be
had said to ber. and arecalled that
be had once made the remark that
he would treat ber as he would have us
his wife treated If he had e. there-
fore whoever and whatever the plc-'
tare of this woman was, sbe was not;
h is wife. SbbIM
MO
might here -been ael
owe be ,had loved, but who had Nett
loved him. She might have died. She
was jealous of ber, but she d1l nisei
fear ber. i
After a long sad paintel siert dui addwoman had completed the whiter id
sbe had made for herself. He had ad-'
irked her and had helped her. It wall haes
• belted tusk that fell to her v;;
the red and Maack stripes ria ranch
f1) edged the bread Dollar, caged the
warm sleeves and marked the gram'
fel waist line. It was excessively boa
midair to ber. He bad bees down is)
rupthe vnfley, or the pocket. for a fleet
of the burros before they
t
hIg wIdeh promisee to be severs.! sh
INA sad e bad Worn advantage se
ibe Opeartmalty to put !t os.. that She knew at she w -1
as b—'— .'
ler !*termination to make 1Ya
tag count had base lel as to
Mir te ler cheeks, aa tea
sparkle to ber eye Ube Dtool a»
il
NM beard ken eater tis ether reseei
Oho was Maadprod ing ereas he same(
Wang% the door sad Sexed her ahRel
bed ally sees her fa . few mow
irbee shwbby Wee et her ordIee.pt
sad legel
camp dries laehsu, r ba,
anti
?ably ane n Se W face tier
panel have lee, wrapped Is No her;
sn
gram east, ow sad lee cliwdwg
rest
ft eeeree< TM Ieasetm
s dlsi bah
fir aka she gnawas&
'Mabe eft year ewes{,* sibs
aeMaw.tuft Oel .i
greaddee him l.4 feed
heig leti
a. e yea tie rata 1 Imoba
Mee re over • anei mew? t withle hew • rine frit 44111 pea. I with.vee to 101 the esmethtiet
.hal ries ,pec tit
1
res ! Nuked by rtii
Oil pea aver an* her • miotth!
Then book Oat hilts dl.taemeug K
mart be hew • wish heft _ f.1
three teleb�it
hien me& resair s. d rf lbwtd<
[lessee re, 11. T. saiW 'I W
• ver* hewg add shriek settled fib
• ah.ald• —, which kept he
swabs .drib far MX tiree meats.
sad telt thud V t4 tins insanes sty
rust wet Mien •e marl T . semi
e t tables perm sed liver .M km mew
ily. That' r that ray coup b saw
I esa ave Otte a geed alpt'a reek earl
I Seel mai Q:aysr to over/ war --
It b the aembtaed aegis. et the
medidb•1 eiemeata, cede' livers, aided
by the b*te4Makfag "M streagtb-
creating properties et tease hes which
makes T5*1 se shakiest to eating
**eats melba, eeeb ase hwehatis
b
—at the .as time 8.tldtag ap t4
weakens& rendiewe "r tam.
Try a beetle of Thee, with the tea
derstandig that year anew will
4 reheaed H tt dens not hey yea.
H. C. Dunlop. Drwgttbt, 0eterisb.
A Heady Answer.
It is said that b line of the villages
of Carnervoaabire a Tory squire of •
decidedly aggressive turn of mind met
one day an old Welshwoman who was
ereWraing from the poste See with
1 ber five shilling oid-age pension. The
squire koew het opinions. "1 suppose
that some day Lloyd George will build
you a special railway direct to heav-
en." The old woman looked at bin
full in the taee. "No, sir, not exactly
that : but what be is doing is making
the waiting -loom • bit more armfort•
able.'
to fed obff*frs1111i
i
Her Tender Sympathy.
A society girl in Newton is quoted
as saying : -Mother is so crippled With
rheumatism and it is ►o bird to see ber
do the week's washing that 1 had
can't beer it. 1 always go Mopping
on washday.•'—Kanas Otty Star.
Father—"John. you know 1 dis-
approve veer ,such of your fighting.
brat I moot help feeling, very proud
of you for thrashing such a big boy as
that. What d' you thrash btss foe r
[loo (indignantly i --"Why. he said 1
isehed like you."
Little Willie's sister was being
baptised. 6verytbing went web until
Willie ,happened to catch a glimpse of
the water in the font, when he peered
about anxiously. and finally exclaimed
in a piping voter. audible to the whole
congregation -"Where's the soap f'
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They suit the hardest people to please ;
Such Shoes are always in .demand,
And Shoes lite these are kept on hand
at J. h. !'1cClinton's
East Side Square. 'Phone 226.
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