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im The Woman Thou Gavest Mz S By Halt Caine The Story That the Whole Country Is Talking About, and by Far the Greatest From the Virile Pen of This Unrivaled Author, Strik ingly Illustrated by Frank Craig. As soon as Sitter M'ldred and Father Dan reached my room I locked the door and said, “Now, out with it. Tell me everything about Mary. When, where, and by whom was the seen last?” I was too impatient to listen to Father Dan, to Sitter 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 it 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!” Now Running in Hearst’s Magazine-Read the Synopsis and Installment and Continue It in Hearst’s Magazine for September, Just Out I began to paint my pale face red, tor I was going out into the streets —for baby’s sake! Copyright, 1013, by Hearst’s Magazine—Copyright In Great Britain. Driven From the Home of the Holy. T he sun was shining in the street. It was oue of those dear, clean frosty morn ings when the very air of Lou don, even in the worst places, seems to be washed by the sun light of the sin and drink of the night before. I was on my way to that ehureh among the back alleys of Mayfair to which I had gone so frequently during the early days of ray marriage when T was struggling against the mortal sin (as I thought it was) of loving Martin. Just as 1 reached the church and was ascending the steps, a gorgeous landau with high-stepping horses and powdered footman drew up at the bottom of .them. The carriage, which bore a coronet as coat-of-arms on the door, con tained a lady in long furs, a roay- faced baby girl with a large doll in her arms, and a nurse. The Mother. I could see that, like myself, the lady (a young mother) had come to confess, for as she rose from her seat •he told the child to sit quiet and be good, as she would not keep her long. "Turn out soon, mummy, and dolly will lub you eber and eber,” said the child. The lady stopped and kissed the little one. and then, with a proud and happy look, stepped out of the carriage and passed into the church, while the doorkeeper opened the ves tibule door for her and bowed deeply I stood at the top of the steps for a moment looking back 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 mass was just over. Lit tle spirelets of smoke were rising from the candles on the altar which the sacristan was putting out, a few communicants were still on their knees, and others with light yet echo ing footsteps were making for the door. The lady In furs had already taken her place at one of the confessional boxes, Hnd as there seemed to be no other that was occupied by a priest. I knelt on a chair in the naive and tried to fix my mind on the prayers (once so familiar) for the examina tion of conscience before confession;. “Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, dispell the darkness of my Heart, that I may be wail my sins and rightly confe»s them.” • But the laboring of my spirit was like the flight of a bat in the day light. Though I tried hard to keep my mind from wandering, I could not do so. Again and again it went hack to the lady in furs with the coronated carriage and the high-stepping horses She was about my own age, and she began to rise before my tightly closed eyes as a vision of what 1 might have been myself if I had not given up everything for love—wealth, rank, title, luxury'. (U»d is my witness that down to that moment I had never once thought I had made any sacrifice, but now, os by a flash of cruel lightning. 1 saw- elf as I was -a peeress who had NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION Sept. 1st to Nov. 1st Knoxville, Tenn. Only 5*^ Hours * Ride VERY LOW RATES NO CHANGE OF CARS City Ticket Office. 4 Peachtree Street Union Passenger Station. run away from her natural condition and was living in the slums, working like any workgirl. Hurtful Thoughts. Even this did not hurt me much, but when I thought of the rosy-faced child In the carriage, so thin and pale, and with her little bib stained by her curdled milk, a feeling I had never had before pierced to my very soul. I asked myself if this was w hat God looked down upon and permitted— that because I 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 I had been taught to believe about God w r as falsehood and decep tion. All this time I was try ing to ihush down my mind by r 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 tins to the priest, thy vicar.” It was no use. Every moment my heart was hardening, and what I had intended to confess about my wicked thoughts of the night before was vanishing away. At last I rose to my feet, and, lifting my head, looked boldly up at the altar. The Voice Supernatural. J IT3T 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 I did not attempt to take it, and some minutes passed in which I stood biting my Up* to pre vent a cry. Then the priest parted his curtains and beckoned to me, and I moved stubbornly by the perforated brass grating. “Father,” I said, as firmly as I could, for my throat was fluttering. “I came here to make my confession, but something has come over me since I entered this church, and now I can not make it.” “What has come over you, ray 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 si lence he said, in a quivering voice: FULL SYNOPSIS. Daniel O'Neil, a powerful, self- made man, forces his only daughter, Mary, into a loveless marriage with the impecunious and profligate Lord Raa, 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 find her husband a man of sordid, sensual passions, refuses utterly to have anything to do with him until such time as he can prove himself worthy of her love. During the honeymoon abroad Alma Liter, a divorcee w’ho had been expelled from the convent Mary attended in Home, attaches her self to the party, and makes the “honeymoon trip" a long series of slights and insults for Lady Raa. At last Lady Raa becomes certain of the infidelity of her husband and of his misconduct with Alma Lier. On her return to London Mary en counters her old playfellow, Martin Conrad, who has returned from his triumphant expedition to the Ant arctic Drawn into ever closer re lations with the only man for whose friendship she had ever cared. Mary finally awakes to the fact that she is hopelessly in love with Martin. Terrified by this knowledge. and finding herself more and more in love with Martin, she determines to run away from the cause of her dis tress. and go home. Mary’s Home-coming to Castle Raa is a sad affair. Her husband fills the tumble-down old mansion wifh his fast friends from London, in cluding Alma Lier, who assumes cqntrol of the household. Ulti mately the illness of her father of fers Mary excuse for escape from the intolerable environment. But before visiting her old home, Mary appeals to her Bishop and to her father's lawyer, only to be told that neither- church nro state can offer any relief from her false position She returns next day to Castle Raa to find 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. I shuddered, and the priest added; "I see bow 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 pictures on these walls” (the Stations of the Cross). "Think of the Great Sufferer, the Great Mar tyr, who In the hour of His death, at the malicious power of the world, cried, ‘Eli, Ell, lama sabachthani; house party has gone off for a few’ days’ cruise. During the three days alone with her lover Mary fights a griin battle with temptatTbn. 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 this pure-hearted man. With Martin's passionate words, "You are my real wife; I am your real husband.” ring ing in her brain, she forgets every thing else, and wdth strong steps walks across the corridor to Mar tin's bedroom. This is the action w’hich Martin has advised as being the only course open to them whicn is sure to bring the one result they have decided to attain—Mary's di vorce from Lord Raa. Mary determines after the depar ture of Martin Conrad, to hide her self in London. She is driven by fear of Lord Raa'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 London 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 give her up. Then comes the report of the loss of Martin’s ship in the Antarc tic. The report is false, but Mary, W’ho flees from Mildred 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, but poverty compels Mary to deny herself of even its privileges; she leaves her child with a Mrs. Oliver and her brute of a hus band, 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 lier mother, to keep tne roof over her sickly child 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 w’ith 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 w’rong, my child. If you think God does not care for you be cause He allow* you to suffer. Are you rich? Are you prosperous? Have you every earthly blessing? Then beware, for Satan is watching for your soul. But are you poor? Are you going through unmerited trou ble? Have you lost someone who was dearer to you than your heart of hearts? Th^n 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, w’hich, coming through the grating of the confessional, produced the effect of the supernatural, but I thought then, and I think now r , that he must have been a great as well as a good man. 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 a 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 was clearly Intended that I should keep her with me, for my own charge and care and Joy. This w’as the mood In which I re turned to the house of the Jew. It was Saturday morning, and though the broader thoroughfares of the East End were crowded and the narrower streets were full of life, the Jew’’s house w’as 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: Leoko daudl lik- ras kalle—“Come, O friend, let us go forth to meet the Bride, let us re ceive the Sabbath with joy!” Then came a shock. When I reached my room, I found, to my dismay, that the pile of vests w’hich I had left on my bed on going out the day before had been removed, and just as I 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 hie 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 I was prepared to promise to make u- for my absence. Read What Dr. Parkhurst Says About This Great Story! By DR. C. H. PARKHURST. H ALL CAINE’S new story, “The Woman Thou Gavest 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 euffer 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 corrui* in human life. By familiarizing the mind with what is off color It tends to reproduce after Its kind and to sow the seeds of evil thought, and, therefore, of evil life, In the heart of the reader. Whether such is the result will de pend upon 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 whiah is bad can be so presented as to issue In good effects. The influence of s >ch scenes and events as are narrated in a work like this of Hall Caine will depend also on the tone of thought brought to it by the reader. We find what we look for. The same narrative that will inflame the passions of one read er will create in another disgust for tihe very evil over which a mind of coarsest fiber will exult. As In a glass, we find ourselves in the volume into which we gaze. It will be well If all who read “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” will ob serve in the experience of the un married mother the undertone of re morse which sounds beneath her af fectation of self-statisfaction and in nocence. The danger in all such cases Is that the reader. If possessed of impulses not altogether unsullied, will seize upon the girl's expressions of self-approval, to the neglect of her stealthy confessions of self-con tempt. While Mary 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 1b literally true to fact we may well believe that it is true to reality, and therein lies 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 ia a product of llterarj imagination it is nevertheless prac tically true to life, and answer,* 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 sides. 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 and win from it only a passing emotional entertainment, or we can use it as means by which our eyes are opened to the sorrows, temptations and sins of the world, and 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. Funeral Designs and Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Atlanta Floral Company 455 EAST FAIR STREET. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Read What She Says About “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” in the Last Two Columns ot To-day's Editorial Page. “You have been out all night,” he said. “Can you tell me where you have been?” But at a second glance I saw that something had happened, something had become known, and that he wa3 there to condemn and to denounce me. “You have been out all night,” he said. “Can you tell me where you have been to?” I 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 u« a name —can you say it Is your true and rigni 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 from our knowl * edge?” 1 felt myself gasping, but etlll I did not speak. (Continued in Hearst’s Magazine for September.) 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