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z JL V The Woman Thou Gavest Me -3 By Hall Caine The Story That the Whole Country Is Talking About, and bv Far the Greatest h rom the Virile Pen of This Unrivaled Author, Strik ingly Illustrated by Frank Craig. Now Running in Hearst’s Magazine--Read the Synopsis and Installment and Continue It in Hearst’s M gazine for September, Just Out As soon as Sister Mildred and Father Dan reached my room I locked the door and sa‘d, “Now, out with it. Tell me everything about Mary. When, where, and by whom was she seen last?" I was too impatient to listen to Father Dan, so Sister Mildred answered, “She was last seen a week ago, and again to-night on the streets—by a fallen woman. She does not know that you are alive; perhaps her child is dead, and she is throwing herself away, thinking.there is nothing else to live for." “What?" I cried. “You believe that? Never! Not Mary O’Neill! She would beg her bread, or die in the streets first!” , I Hurtful Thoughts. I began to paint my pale face red, tor I was going out into the streets —for baby’s sake! Copyright, inis, by Hiuret s Majtailne—Copyright in c.n ii Britain Oriven From the Home of the Holy. T HE sun was shining in the street. It was one of those olear. olean frosty morn ings when the vrn air of Lon don, even in the worst places, seems to be washed by the sun light of the sin and drink of the night before, 1 was on my way to that church among the back alleys of May fair to which I had gone so frequently during the early days of my marriage when I was struggling against the mortal sin (as I thought it want of loving Martin. Jus. us ! rue ted ilit. uliuivh aiul w«s asvemlinK Hie u Rorgcou* lamluu with high-.-'topping hnr.-rs ;iu<l powdered footman drew up at the bottom of them The carriage. which borv a coronet ua cuut-ot-arniK on tin* door, con tained n lady in long furs, a roav- faced baby girl with a large doll In bar arm*, and a nurse The Mother. 1 could ssfct? that, like myaelf, the lady (a young mother) had come to confess, tor a.s she rose from her seat ahe told the child to sit quiet and be good, as she would not keep her ong. “Turn out soon, mummy, and dolly wjll lub > ou eber and eber,” said the child The lauy stopped .and kissed the tittle one. and then, with a proud FULL SYNOPSIS. and happy look, stepped out of the carriage and passed Into the church, while the doorkeeper opened the vea- : tlbuic door for her ami bowed deeply I stood at the top of the steps for a moment looking buck at the car riage, the horses, the footman, the nurse, and, above all, the baby girl with her doll, and then followed the lady into the church. Apparently ni«?i was just over. LU- • ]e spirelets of smoke were rising from the candles on the altar which jthe sacristan was putting out, a few communicants were still on their I knees, and others with light yet echo ing footstep 1 - were making for the j door. The lady in furs hud already taken j her place at one of the confessional hoxes. and as there seemed to he no I other that was occupied by a priest, 1 knelt on a chair in the naive ami tried to fix my mind on the prayers (once so familiar) for the examina tion of conscience before confession: “Oh, Lord JeSua Christ, dispell the darkness of my heart, that I may be wail my sins and rightly confess them.” But the laboring of my spirit was like the tlight of a bat in the day light. Though I tried hard to keep rny mind from wandering, 1 could not do so. Again and again it went hack to the lady in furs with the coroneted carriage and the high-stepping horses, j She wa.^ about my own age. and she began to rise before my tightly closed e>es as a vision of what I might have been myself if I had not given up everything for love—wealth, | rank, title, luxury | God is my witness that down to 1 that moment I had never once thought I 1 had made any sacrifice, hut now, as by a flash of cruel lightning. 1 flaw myself as I was- a peeress who had NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION Sept. 1st to Nov. 1st Knoxville, Tenn. Only S l /2 Hours' Ride VERY LOW RATES NO CHANGE OF CARS City Ticket Office, 4 Peachtree Street Union Passenger Station. Even this did not hurt me much, but when I thought of the rosv-faced child in the carriage, so thin and pale, and with her little bib staineo by her curdled milk, a feeling I had never had before pierced to my very soul. I asked myself if this was what God looked down upon and permitted— that because 1 had obeyed what I still believed to be the purest impulse of my nature, love, my child must be made to suffer. Then something hard began to form in my heart. I told myself that what 1 had boen taught to believe about God was falsehood and decep tion. All this time I was trying to hush ' down my mind by saying my prayer, which called on the gracious Virgin Mary to Intercede for me with my Redeemer, and the holy Saints of God to assist me. “Assist me by thy grace, that I may be able to declare my sins to the priest, thy vicar.” li was no use. ©very moment mv ' heart was hardening, and what I had intended to confess about my wicked thoughts of the night before was vanishing away. At last 1 rose to my feet, and, lifting my head, looked boldly up at the altar The Voice Supernatural. J UST at that moment the young peeress, having finished her con fession, went off with a light step and cheerful face Her kneeling place at the confessional box was now vacant, yet 1 did not attempt to tHke it. and some minutes passed in which I stood lilting my lips to pre vent a cry. Then the priest parted his curtains and beckoned to me, and 1 moved "stubbornly by the perforated brass grating "Father,” 1 said, as firmly as I could, for rny throat was fluttering. "I came here to make my confession* but something has rume over me since I entered this church, and now I can not make it.” “What has come over you, my child?” asked the priest. “I feel that what Is said about God in a place like this, that He Is a kind and beneficent Father, who is just and merciful and pities the suf ferings of His children. Is untrue. It Is all wrong and false. God does not care." The priest did not answer me im mediately. but after a moment of >1- lence he said, in a quivering voice: l »uniel o’Nell, a powerful, self- made man, forces his on y daughter. Mary, into u loveless marriage with the impecunious and profligate Lord Baa, so that his ambition to have his descendants the rightful heirs of the one earldom ‘in Elian may be realized Mary, a convent-raised young woman, shocked to And her husband a man of sordid, sensual passions, ret uses utterly to nave anything to do with him until such time as he can prove himself worthy of her love During the honeymoon abroad Alma Lier, a divorcee who had been expelled from the convent Mary attended in Borne, attaches her self to the party, and makes the ; “honeymoon trip” a long series of i slights and Insu ts for Lady Baa. At last Lady Baa becomes certain ; of the infidelity of her husband and , of his misconduct with Alma Lier. 1 On her return to London Mary en | | counters her --Id playfellow*, Martin 1 ! Conrad, who has returned from his j triumphant expedition to tho Ant- j arctic Drawn Into ever closer re , lations with the only man for whose 1 friendship she had ever cared, Mary 1 flnallv awakes to the fact that she ! is hopelessly in love, with Martin. • Terrified by this knowledge. and ' finding herself more and more in , <iv.■ with Martin, sho determines to > run away from the cause of her dis- ' tress, ami go home. \ Mary's flume-coming to Castle Baa > is a sad affair. Her husband fills the tumble-down old mansion with j bis fast friends irom London, in- > eluding Alma Lier, who assumes \ control of the household. Ulti- S matel.v rtie illness, of her father of- k ft rs Alary excuse for escape from \ the intolerable environment. But before visiting her old home. Mar> appeals to her Bishop and to her father’s lawyer, on’y to be told that neitiier church nro state can offer any relief from her false position. She returns next day to Castle Baa to rind that Martin is arriving for a farewell visit, and that by Alma Ller’s deceitful scheming the whole "My child, I feel just like that my self sometimes. It is the devil tempt ing you. He is standing by your side and whispering in your ear at this moment.” The Priest’s Words. 1 shuddered, and the priest added: "1 see how it is, my daughter. You are suffering, and those you love are suffering, too But must you surren der your faith on that account? Look round at the lectures on these walls” (the Stations of the Cross). “Think of the Great Sufferer, the Great Mar tyr, who in th<? hour of His death, nt the malicious powar of the world, cried, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthanl: house party has gone off for a tew da j s’ cruise. During the three days alone with her lover Mary tights a grim battle with temptatfbn, only to find on the last night that her faith in renunciation and the laws of the church is a fragile thing compared with her overwhelming love for mis pure-hearted man. \Vith Martin’s passionate* words, “You are my real w'ife: 1 am your real husband.” ring ing in her brain, sue forgets every thing else, and with strong steps walks across the corridor to Mar tin’s bedroom. This is the action which Martin lias advised as being the only course open to them wnic». is sure to bring the »ne result they have decided to attain—Mary's di vorce from Lord Baa. Mary determines after the depar ture of Martin Conrad, to hide her self in London. Sl.e is driven by fear of Lord Baa’s discovery of her unfaithfulness to him: she is equally afraid of the venomous tongue of Alma Lier. She is no sooner settled in a cheap little boarding house in 1 nndon than a great hue and cry is raised by her father. Of all per sons. it is Mildred, that one truest friend of her convent days, who fer rets her out; but for Mary's sake she breaks a vow and refuses to g*vo her up. Then comes the report of the loss of Martin's ship in the Antarc tic. The report is false, but Mary, who flees from Mi tired to a still more obscure part of London. Is plunged Into the depth of black despair from which she is saved only by the birth of her child. Motherhood is poignant with joy and sorrow, bid poverty compels Mary to deny herself of even Its privileges; she leaves her oh.Id with a Airs. Oliver and her brute of a hus- Uftntl, while she herself works for a sweatshop. The Olivers impose upon her; she is even compelled to pawn her last treasure, a precious relic of her mother, to keep the roof over her sickly chi tl Then she comes upon Sister Angela, who has become a painted woman of the streets for the sake of her dying husband. She spends the night with the fallen woman and escapes in the morning. My God, My God, why hast Thou for saken Me?’” I had dropped to my knees by now, my head was down, and my hands were clasped together. “You are wrong, my child, if yoa think God does not care for you be cause He allows you to suffer. Are you rich? Are you prosperous? Have you every earthly blessing? Then beware, for Satan is watching for your soul. Hut are you poor? Are you going through unmerited trou ble? Have you lost someone who was dearer to you than your heart of hearts? Then take courage, for our holy and blessed Saviour has marked you for His own.” I knew nothing of that priest ex cept his whispering voice, which, coming through the grating of the confessional, produced the effect of the supernatural, but I thought then, and I think now, that he must have been a great as well as a good plan. I perfectly recollect that when I left the church and passed into the streets it seemed as if his spirit went with me and built up in my soul x resolution that was bright with heavenly tears and sunshine. The Solution. Work! Work! Work! I should work still harder than before. No matter how mean. Ill-paid and un congenial my work might be, I should work all day and all night if neces sary. And since I had failed to get my child into an orphanage, it wai clearly intended that I should keep her with me, for my own charge ani care and joy. This was the mood fin which I re turned to the house of the Jew. It was Saturday morning, and though the broader thoroughfares the East End were crowded and the narrower streets were full of life, the Jew’s house was silent, for it was the Jewish Sabbath. As I went hurriedly upstairs, I heard the Jew himself, who was dressing for the synagogue, singing his Sabbath hymn: Leeko daudl lik- ras kalle—“Come, O friend, let us go forth to meet the Bride, let up re ceive the Sabbath with Joy!" Then came a shock. When X reached my room, I found, to my dismay, that the pile of vests which I had left on my bed on going out the day before had been removed, and just as T was telling myself that no one else except Mrs. Abramovitch had a key to my door, I heard shuffling foot steps on the stair, and knew that her husband was coming up to me. Questions Unanswerable. A MOMENT afterward the Jew stood in my doorway. He was dressed in hfs Sabbath suit, and free from the incongruous Indications of his homely calling, th? patriarchal appearance which had first struck me was even more marked than before. His face was pale, his expression was severe, and if his tongue betrayed the broken Eng lish of the Polish Jew, I, in my confusion and fear, did not hear it then. My first thought was that he had come to reprove me for neglecting my work, and J was prepared to promise to make u-' for rny absence. “You have been out al have been?" night,” he said. “Can you tell me where you But at a second glance I saw that something had happened, something had become known, and that he was there to condemn and to denounce me. “You have been out all night,” he said. “Can you tell me where you have been to?” 1 knew I-could not, and though it flashed upon me to say that I had slept at the house of a friend, I saw that, if he asked who my friend was, and what, I should be speechless. The Jew waited for my reply, and then said, “You have given us a name. —can - you say It is your true and rigiu one?” Again I made no answer, and after another moment the Jew said, “Can you deny that you have a child whom you have hidden fro|i our knowl edge?” 1 felt myself gasping, but still I did not bpea*. (Continued in Hearst’s Magazine for September.) amt Read What Dr. Parkhurst Says About This Great Story! By DR. C. H. PARKHURST H ALL CAINE’S new story, “The Woman Thou Gavesit Me.” is running as a serial in Hearst’s Magazine. A novel by Hall Caine is always an event, and is certain to create a large readership, whatever Its aim. and along whatever line It is constructed. He writes easily and Is, therefore, easily read. He knows how to translate Into common English the inner experiences of women, and, therefore, enchains the attention of the reader and evokes a quick re sponse. So far as can be judged, his work in the present instance will not differ in that respect in comparison HID Eliminates the Em barrassing Odor of Perspiration. Cream or Liquid. 25c All Jacobs’ Stores with what he has previously given to the public. It is on one account regrettable that so much of what is recognized as reputable fiction pivots on what is evil and corrupt in human life. By familiarizing the mind with what is off color it tends to reproduce after its kind and to sow the steeds of evil thought, and, therefore, of evil life, In the heart of the reader. Whether such is the result will de pend up n the complexion thrown over the story by its author. That which is good can be so presented as to issue in bad effects, and that which is nad can be ®t> presented as to is'-me In good effects. The influence of s *h scenes and events as are narrated in a work like this of Hall Caine will depend also on the ton? of thought brought to it bj b-r. We find what e look for. Tho same narrative that will inttamfe tt\e pas-ions of one read er will create in another disgust for the very evil over which a mind of coarsest fiber will exult. As in a gla>* we find ourselves in the volume into which we ga^ze, FuueraT Designs and Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Atlanta Floral Company - STREET It will be well if all who read “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” will ob serve in the experience of tho un married mother the undertone of re morse which sounds beneath her af fectation of self-statisfiaotion and in nocence. The danger in all such cases is that the reader, if possessed of impulses not altogether unsullied, will seize upon l he girl’s expressions of self-approval, to the neglect of her stealthy confessions of self-con tempt. While Marv is allowed to re joice in a sense of God s blessing upon her irregular life, the author is suf ficiently true to the requirements of moral nature to darken her rejoicing with an indelible shadow of remorse. This is as it should be. No novel is safe that gets away from what is fundamental in the soul. While doubting very much whether Caine’s story is literally true to fact we mav well believe that it is true to reality, and therein lie- the prin cipal part of its actual value, espe cially to such readers as are so cir cumstanced and so charactered as never to come into close range with the underworld of degradation and suffering poverty. So that while the narrative Is a product of literarj imagination it is nevertheless prac tically true to life, and answers the purpose of a revelation to those whose entire knowledge of the world is lim ited to its sunnier and sweeter por tions We ought all of us know life on all its *<ides. We are Incapable of rendering to the world the service it is obligatory* upon us to render, if our familiarity with it is confined within the narrow area within which a happy destiny or a kindly provi dence may chance to have placed us. We can read such a storv as this anfi win from it only a parsing emotional entertainment, or we can use It as means by which our eyes are opened to the sorrows, temptations and sins of the world, ar.d so find in it an im pulse to extend our interests, and stretch our existence into regions of life and experience less lovely and congenial than our own. (55 EAST FAIR ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Read What She Savs About “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” in the Last Two Columns of To-day’s Editorial Page. Women Are Constantly Being Health by Lydia E. Pinkh Vegetable Compound. “Worth mountains of gold,” says one woman. Another says, “I would not give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for all the other medicines for women in the world.” Still another writes. “ I should like to have the merits of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound thrown on the sky with a searchlight so that all suffering women could read and be convinced that there /s a remedy for their ills.” We could fill a newspaper ten times tbe size of this with such quo tations taken from the letters we have received from grateful women whose health has been restored and suffering banished by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Why has Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound accomplished such a universal success? Why has it lived and thrived and kept on doing its glorious work among the sick women of the world for more than 30 years ? Simply and surely because of its sterling worth. The reason _ no other medicine has ever approached its success is plainly and sim ply because there is no other medicine so good for women's ills. Here are two letters that just came to the writer’s desk—only two of thousands, but both tell a comforting story to every suffering wo man who will read them—and be guided by them. FROM MRS. I>. H. 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