Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — Page 7

(Continuation of Chapter XVI) “Yee. And what is more to the point, I am quite sure I should have said yes if you had asked me. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Rather amaslng, too, being able to discuss it so unreservedly, isn’t it?” “Good heavens, Viv!” he cried uncomfortably. “I—l had no idea you cared —” Cared!” she cried, as he' paused. “I don’t care two pine for you in that way. But I would have married you, just the same, because you are worth marrying. I’d very much rather have you for a husband than any man I know, but as for loving you! Pooh! I’d love you in just the way mother loves father, and I wouldn’t have been a bit more trouble to you than she is to him.” “Gad, you don’t mind what you say!” “Falling to nab you, Brandy, I dare say I’ll have to come down to a duke or, who knows? maybe a mere prince. It isn’t very enterprising, is it? And certainly it isn’t a gay prospect. Really, I had hoped you would have me. I flatter myself, I suppose, but, honestly now, we would have made a rather nice looking'couple, wouldn’t we?” “You flatter me,” he said. “But,” she resumed, calmly exhaling, “you very foolishly fell in love with some one else, and it wasn’t necessary for me to pretend that I was in love with you—which I should have done, believe me, if you had given me the chance. You fell in love, first with Hetty Castleton.” “First?” he cried, frowning. "And now you are heels over head In love with my beautiful sister-in-iaw. Which all goes to prove that I would have made just the kind of wife you need, considering your tendency to fluctuate. But how dreadful it would have been for a sentimental. loving girl-like Hetty!” He sat bolt upright and stared hard at her. “See here, Viv, what the dickens are you driving at? I’m not in love with Bara —not in the least—and —” He checked himself sharply. “What an ass I am! You’re guying me.” “In any event, I am right about Hetty,” she said, leaning forward, her manner quite serious. “If it will eaee you mind,” he said stiffly, “I plead guilty with all my heart.” She favored him with a slight frown of annoyance. “And you deny the fluctuating charge?” “Most positively. I can afford to be honest with you, Viv. You are a corker. I love Hetty Castleton with all my soul.” She leaned back in her chair. “Then

Good Heavens, Viv!” He Cried, Uncomfortably.

why don't you dignify your soul by being honest with her?” “What do you mean?” For a half-minute she was silent "Are you and I of the same stripe, after all? Would you marry Sara without loving her, as I would have done by you? It doesn’t seem like you, Brandon.” “Good heaven, I’m not going to marry Sara!" he blurted out. “It’s never entered my head.” “Perhaps it has entered hers.” “Nonsense! She isn’t going to marry anybody. And she knows how I feel toward Hetty. If it came to the point where I decided to marry without love, ’pon my soul, Viv, I believe I’d pick you out as the victim.” “Wonderful combination!” she said with a frank laugh. “The quintessence of ‘no love lost’ But to resume! Do you know that people are saying you are to be married before the winter ie over?” ~ -V “Let ’em say it,” he said gruffly. . “Oh*, well,’ she said, dispatching it

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all w'ith a gesture, “if that’s the way you feel about it, there’s no more to be said.” He was ashamed. “I beg your pardon, I shouldn’t have said that.” “You see,” she went on, reverting to the original topic, “people who know Sara are likely to credit her with motives you appear to be totally ignorant of. She set her heart on my brother Challie, when she was a great deal younger than she is now, and she got him. If age and experience count for anything, how capable she must be by this time.” He was too wise to venture au opinion. “I assure you she has no designs on me.” “Perhaps not. But I fancy that even you could not escape as St. Anthony did. She is most alluring.” “You don’t like her." “Obviously. And yet 1 don’t dislike her. She has the Virtue of consistency, if one may use the expression. She loved my brother. Leslie says she should have hated him. We have tried to like her. I think I have come nearer to it than any of the others, not excepting Leslie, who has always been her champion. I suppose you know that he was your rival at one time.” “He mentioned it,” said Booth drily. “I should have been very much disappointed in her if she had accepted him,” “Indeed?” “I sometimes wonder if Sara spiked Leslie’s guns for him.” “I can tell you something you don’t know, Vivian,” said he. “Sara was rather keen about making a match there.” Vivian's smile was slow but triumphant. “That is just what I thoughL There you are! Doesn’t that explain Sara?”

“In a measure, yes. But, you see, it developed that Hetty cared for some one else, and that put a stop to everything.” “Am I to take it that you are the some one else?” “Yes,” he said soberly. “Then, may I ask why she went away 60 suddenly?” “You may ask, but I can't answer.” “Do you want my opinion? She went away because Sara, failing in her plan to marry her off to Leslie, decided that it would be fatal to a certain project of her own if she remained on the field of action. Do I make myself clear?” “Oh, you are away off in your conclusions, Viv.” “Time will tell,” was here cabalistic rejoinder. Her father appeared on the lawn below and called up to them. "You are wanted at the telephone. Brandon. I've just been talking to Sara." “Did she call you up, father?” asked Vivian, leaning over the rail. "Yes. About nothing in particular, however.” She turned upon Booth with a mocking smile. He felt the color rueh to his face, and was angry with himself. He went to the telephone. Almost her first words were these: 1 “What has Vivian been telling you about me, Brandon?” He actually gasped. “Good heavens, Sara!” He heard her low laugh. “So she has been saying things, has she?” she asked. “I thought so. I’ve had it in my bones tonight.” He was at a loss for words. It was positively uncanny. As he stood there, trying to think of a trivial remark, her laugh came to him again over the wire, followed by a drawling “good night,” and then the soughing of the wind over the “open" wire.

The next day he called her up on the telephone quite early. He knew her habits. She would be abroad in her gardens by eight o’clock. He remembered well that Leslie, in commenting on her absurdly early hours, had once said that her “early bird” habit was hereditary: 6he got it from Sebastian. “What put it intp your head, Sara, that Vivian was saying anything'unpleasant about you last night?” “Magic,” she replied succinctly. “Rubbish!” “I have a magic tapestry that transports me, hither and thither, and by night I always carry Aladdin’s lamp. So, you see, I see and hear everything” “Be sensible.” “Very well. I will be sensible. If you intend to be influenced by what Vivian or her mother said to you last night, I think you'd be wise to avoid me from this time on.” Prepared though* he was, he blinked his eyes and said something she didn’t quite catch. She went on: “Moreover, in addition to my attainments in the black art, I am quite as clever as Mr. Sherlock Holmes in some respects. I really do some splendid deducing. In the first place, you were asked there and I

was n6L WEyT Because T was To “be discussed. You see —" “Marvelous!” he Interrupted loudly. “You were to be told that I have cruel designs upon you.” ‘Go on, please.” “And all that sort of thing." she said sweepingly, and he could almost see the inclusive gesture with her free hand. He laughed but still marveled at the shrewdness of her perceptions. ""I’ll come over this afternoon and show you wherein yon are wrong.” be began, hut she interrupted him with a laugh. “I am starting for the city before noon, by motor, to he gone at least a fortnight.” “What! This is the first I’ve heard of It.” Again she laughed. "To be perfectly frank with you, I hadn’t heard of it myself until just now. I think 1 shall go down to the Homestead with the Carrolls.” “Hot Springs?” '“Virginia,”, she added explicitly. “I -say, Sara, what! does all this mean? You—” “And if you should follow me there, Vivian’s estimate of us will not be so far out of the way as we'd like to make it.” r *

True to her word, she was gone when he drove over later on in the day. Somehow, he experienced a queer feeling df relief. Not that he was oppressed by the rather vivacious opinions of Vivian and her ilk, but because something told him that Sara was wavering in her determination to withhold the secret from him and fled for perfectly obvious reasons. He had two commissions among the rich summer colonists. One, a full length portrait of young Beardsley in shooting togs, was nearly finished. The other was to be a half-length of Mrs. Ravenscroft, who wanted oqe just like Hetty Castleton’s, except for the eyes, which she admitted would have to be different. Nothing was said of the seventeen years' difference in their ages. Vivian had put off posing until Lent. The Wrandalls departed for Scotland. and other friends of his began to desert the country for the city. The fortnight passed and another week besides. Mrs. Ravenscroft decided to go to Europe when the picture was half-finished. “You can finish it when I come back in December, Mr. Bobth,” 6he said. “I’ll have several new gowns to choose from, too.” "I shall be busy all winter, Mrs. Ravenscroft,'’ he said coldly. “How annoying.” she said calmly, and that was the end of it all. She had made the unpleasant discovery that it wasn’t going to be in the least like Hetty Castleton'6, so why bother about it?

Booth waited until Sara came out to superintend the closing of her house tor the winter. He called at Southlook on the day of her arrival. He was struck at once by the curious change in her appearance and manner. There was something bleak and desolate in the vividly brilliant face: the tired, wistful, harassed look of one w ho has begun to quail and vet fights on. ' 'Will you go out with me tomorrow, Brandon, for an all-day trip in the car?” she asked, as they 6tood together before the open fireplace on this late November afternoon. Her eyes were moody, her voice rather lifeless. “Certainly,” he said, watching her closely. Was the break about to come? “I will stop for you at nine.” After a short pause, she looked up and said: “I suppose you would like to know where I am taking you.” “It doesn’t matter, Sara." “I want you to go with me 1o Burton's inn.” “Burton's inn.” “That is the place where my husband was killed,” she said, quite steadily. He started. “Oh! But —do you think it best, Sara, to open old wounda by—” “I have thought it all out, Brandon. I want.to go there —just once. I want to go into that room again.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

And not a chirp from the militants. * J . Non-Residents Notice. The State of Indiana, Jasper County ss. In Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1914. Richard C. Gregg vs. John M. Ellis, et al. Complaint No. 825,8. Now comes the Plaintiff, by Moses Leopold, his attorney, and files his amended complaint herein!, together with an affidavit that the defendants Jacob F. Brinkenhoff, Sarah J. Johnson, Henry Brinkerhoff. William Brjnkerhoff, Jr., Jacob Albert Brinkerhoff, Margaret D. Brinkerhoff, Nettie Brinkerhoff Benbow, Nora Brinkerhoff Langwortby, Nellie Brinkerhoff Matichka, Sarah Brinkerhoff Cottingham and Mary E. Huston are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Monday of November A. D., 1914. at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witnesswhereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said (ST3AL) Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 17th day of September A. D„ 1914. JUD6ON H. PERKINS, Clerk.

DROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDY ON JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS.

BIBkE..STUDY?O# • JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONSMatthow 25:31-46—Sept. 20. " Inasmurk at ye did not unto one of the le—t of these, ye did it not unto Mr.”— tens *s. IN the past many of ua read the Bible too carelessly. For instance,, today's lesson was at one time applied to the Church. We failed altogether to notice that it aays not one word respecting the Church, blit is eutlrely applied to the heathen. The Jews were accustomed to think of themselves as God's people, and to Btyle all others heathen, Gentiles, natlons. In the prophecies God treated the matter from this standpoint.' In this parable our Lord tells ds what will befall after His Kingdom shall have been set up—after the selection of the Church to be the Bride, the Lamb's. Wife and Joint-heir In His

Throne. Who after proper consideration of the beginning of the parable \\jll dispute that this is -a description of Messiah's Kingdom following Ilis I’arousla and . His Epiphania at His Second Advent? The work of the Millennial Age Is then delineated.

“Before Him shall be gathered all nations.” All the world, except God’s holy nation, the Church, will be before His great white Throne of Justice, Mercy and Love. Then will be their Judgment time. Six thousand years ago, in Eden. Adam and his entire race w r ere judged, and the sentence was death. In due time God sent His Son to die for Adam’s sin, so that “as by n man came death sos the entire race], by a man [JesusJ also will come the resurrection of the dead”—[the entire race], “For as all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive”—“every man in his own order.”—l Corinthians 15:21, 22. The first to be made alive in Christ is the Church. These pass their judg ment. their trial, for life or death ever lasting in the present time, lienee the worthy ones will be quite ready to be Messiah’s Bride class, joint heirs with Him in His Kingdom and in Ilis work of judging the world.—l Corin t Ilia ns 6:2.

The World’s Judgment Day. *• The gathering of the world before that Throne will he the result of knowledge. The Time of Trouble will lead on to great knowledge. All blind eyes shall be opened, all deaf eiirs unstopped, and the knowledge of God’s glory will fill the earth. Some there will he who, resisting this knowledge, will decline to accept Christ and will not come into this Judgment, but after a hundred years of resistance will be destroyed. Those in the parable are such as have accepted Christ's terms, and desire to be on judgment, or trial, for everlasting life. This will include all in their graves. Messiah's Kjngdom will disseminate the knowledge of God nnd of righteousness, with a view to uplifting all the willing and obedient out of sin and death conditions to the full image of God, ns possessed by Father Adam in the beginning. But what about heart conditions? If conformity to the Divine Law will bring blessings, would not some come into harmony merely because this outward harmony would bring Restitu tion? Undoubtedly this is correct reasoning. It is along this line that the parable before us teaches; namely, that outwardly sheep and goats will have much the'same appearance, except to the Judge, the King. He will read tin? heart, and ultimately will manifest to all that there has been a real heart dlf ference between the two classes, all of whom will have been on trial for a thousand years.

The Basis of Judgment. Meantime each individual will have been making character. That character will be fully appretlated by the Great Judge, and the individual rated as a sheep or a goat. But not until the conclusion of the. Millennium will His decision be hianlfested. The kingdom given to the sheep class is not the Messianic Kingdom, but that given to Adam, and lost through diso bedience. Christ redeemed it by His sacrifice. The everlasting punishment

The Bible Hell—Shcol, Hades.

Those having God’s Spirit of Love will be glad to apply the eye-salve of Truth to the spiritually bHnd, glad to unstop deaf ears and to help the sin-sick back into harmony with God—helping them to cover their nakedness with the merit of Christ 1 The prison referred to in the parable is undoubtedly the great prison-house of death, into which approximately twenty thousand millions of individuals already have gone. During the Millennium the awakening from the dead will, we believe, come about by Divine Power, in answer to prayer. Thus the race will come forth in reverse order to that in which they entered the tomb.

Separating Sheep and Goats.

to which the goat class Is assigned Is the Second Death —“everlasting destruction.'’ No provision will be made for redemption and resurrection from the Second Death. While blessings will be showered upon those who accept the Lord’s . terms, others will need assistance.

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Trustee’s Notice for Bids. Notice is hereby given that I will sell to the best responsible bidder or bidders, at my office at , 2 p. m., September 25, 1914, the contract for the cleaning and repairing of allotments No.’s 4,6 k 7,9, of the Parker ditch, and at the same time and place allotment 5 of the Smith ditch, and allotments 1,2, 3,4, 10, 11, of the Shields ditch, and allotments 1, 12, 18, 19 of the Parkinson-Thomp-son ditch, in Marion Township, Jasper County, Indiana. The successful bidders must give bond, with srureti

for the faithful performance and completion of said work. Allotments from the above numbers which are cleaned and repaired prior to said Sept. 25, 1914, will not be included in said sale. HARVEY WOOD. JR., Trustee Marion Township. If the kings and emporors would just consent to do the fighting themselves and leave their armies out of it, the world would join hands and yell “Go to it!” •