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SATURDAY, JULY 19 1921.

PIRATE GANG'S QUEEN,que to ike her back to

WOMAN'S ADVENTURE ON

London.

Her destre was not granted. With a sly in all a stupid leer. he said:

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A TREASURE ISLANDI

Stories of pirates are often very "To Lol! mach the sa

No, Mistress, They generally | Fitzmauriers not to London, My detail the espicits of bold, Tad men mates and I have been yurningg who outrage laws, plunder and about your future. We"live des piluge just for the selfish love olvided that the sea i no place for a gnin. Mostly these men are big, lady, so are going to put you ugly, scurred-faced fellows, utterly astor in a file ghice where the devoid of feeling, ankindly brutes master has been keeping his who laugh whilst their victims treasure. pour out their lift-blood,

"You can look after wit we Tales told of wonten pirates, ton, bring ashore, and see-balt respuible furh, other almost everything is yours. Bunich.

We shall In hourly every instaure keep to the same old bargain the peitimaited Tueciper has chief made years ago--Lulf, and been a young .comparatively halt Black Jin Yuiver goes bark pretty lady, exceptionally restore on bis promises.** But, with a ready wit, and, scrater or later, she has grief and gen apan gitimate selling to

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CHURCH NOTES.

THE RELIGION OF A MAN OF LETTERS.

Excerpts from an interview with Mr. Alfred Noyes in St. Martin's Review.

Does "The Torch Bearers" represent your religious convictions? Yes: the book took some years of thought and effort, and in it I have expressed my deepest con at my disposal. Perhaps this victions in the most lucid language passage from the "Torch Bearers" expresses what I want your readers; Wednesday, 8.30 pm.

to regard as my own convictions. Reading om rey Tusaday and and indicates the hope of which I Friday mosaifigs-10 to 12.

spoke-

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Station.

woman's fear, Margaret, as best she could, protested that suli, j rould never bō.

go away for a time, my

said Simmonds at length.

LA GLIMPSE OF POT Whns it was that Merguntam herself it à spot whirl Black fin re landable miveninge ustang galled Treasure Hole, but red But when we come to probe.flee to by an historiin as "Shandi

Margaret Bentworthy, Nirvana and the prettiest phins woman, We and a different set of viremii. † Gnd over made. A Paradise my, but I'll come back to-night-

The Western Mail - ft fe ingels than fox, in, al conte

back to-night to win my the story:

the s shines on fencers more bride!" She was not young, she certainly beautiful that could ever bean f And come back he did, returned |

not pretty, and, though elsewhere, a bit of Leuven in very do but his mishes ready to flee pirate, borgine so against læer will, truth."

into the woods where fleet-footer Rever reaping any gain and a pio Huje Sla was established in 'one she run, followed by a clumsy fession into which she was my of three ints which, iplar surdesperate" wooer, who cursed as he trigued at the start,.

prise, she found palatially fur stunabled in the darkness. uished, more lustrious, in But. an her own eldonate here in London.

Was

She was the daughter de Samuel Bog. a rich man whose name, however, she was too-prind to own changing it to Margaret) Simons Told her unt Bentworthy, "When, at the age of before miditight, as he had song

to retire eighten. Sher left her Jonne something show her, and, true to his Wheres in North Wales, and worward, fie kusikod at her door it to stay in London.

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The welding secarry in the 1793 and for three Beths after the bride and bride groot rotolained lavishly in;

situated somewhere in Westminster its art site linewu.

When

sprig arrived Fitz Emamice suggested that his wife avenpally limoni a 'triji, de Mouth Ampericu alened a morbantutan

a fleet often that

here.

HOME!

of the

The glimmer of that great dawn" Which over our ruined altars, yot

shall break

In purer splendour, and restore

mankind

From darker dreams than ever

Lucretius .knew,

To vision of that our Power which guides the world. How should men find it? Only

through those doors, Which, opening inward, in each

separate soul

Give each man' access to, that

son of all

Living within each life, not to

be found

Or known, till looking inward,

each alone Meets the

Unknowable and Eternal God.

In a sense, everyone must find his own guides, and it would be misleading ato pick out a few books, unless one knows exactly

were coloured by one's own per how much one brought to the from elsewhere, and how far they sonal experience. The section on Principles of Herbert Spencer, "The Unknowable" in the "First for instance, stirred me almost as profoundly as the Book of Job, when I was about seventeen years of age; but I would hardly point guide." I brought

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At length Margaret tripped over a fallen branch, and in a moment her pursuer was besitko her. With

in his

grunt of satisfaction he took y

Could you mention any books that arms, planted his lips on have helped and guided you per- sickly groan. Margaret got to her

therell back withsonally! tha dong, he had mentioned. Telfeet and they way a Blessed with ample allowance Jings Margaret to follow him," he stained knife."

blood- she made many frigids, and this conducted her into a ght, wher it was that an intrestuctions to be pushed aside a large barrel tud The next morning two young na-aloit-town, George fills of water which find hidden crew of the "Arless came up to Fitzwaaien. a select all from views trap door. This, their mistress's hat and asked for riproed into a friendship which at when lifted, revealed n legal: berpested into a sentient steps Bonding down into a row they said, since the Vigilant

Hig of Simoods. He had not been seru. more intrise. Murgalet was nine-passage, which the two traversed, had sailed, and they suspected riend RINI brane Mistress I brought them into Fiveunirica.

lofty that Margaret knew of his where lapber excayed in the suit and abouts. divided into wis partibus, was lompat, with treasure, the like why not you as well. Surely, you to it as a

Fach Indeca," she said, "I do, auk

The S.S. collar worn for several centuries by the Chief Justice of of which the woman visitor, at know that Black Jita las called home to me, however, the miracu- the Court of Common Pleas and never dreamt coaht exist. Here away in the other ship, saying, Housness of the universe even from now to be sold by Lord Coleridge. was gold of inestingtide value, he left me, that there were sailors certain passages in Plato,

the materialist's point of view, who inherited it from his father. ornament- of precious metal aboard the "Vigilant," het miser- gospel of St. John: certain the Lord Chief Justice, is a religious Stude with priceless

stones, able cowards who feared to board a passages in Huxley; some of the mystery of great antiquity, though jewellery and plate, money in vast ship were she manner with nought idealistic piles, Waltle untold,

philosophers

tradition says that the capital letters but old men and women! Ay it Berkeley down to Bradley on (boiy) and the "lore of orders" meant Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus said Black Jim. was a poor character.he gave you." Puting to one section of thé,

Appearance and Reality;" wash. Varsall yours. Theproged beyond measure, swore worth, Browning, Tennyson, all mayr, Saint Simplicius.

And at that the two inquirers, Goethe, Carlyle, Darwin, Word- that they commemorate a Roman other belongs to us. Tonight we soundly that they never would take their say with me before I was Order founded in the East. John

these and a hundred others had

» Their true meaning was known losing ashore a lot more, and you command from such an ungrateful out of my teens. In fact I went of Gaunt revived the Order in 1377, only to the intimates of the Holy shall it divided, fir and lying acoundrel, square. To-morrow we sait, you

through an earlier stage when I Look here, "Mistress," said took the more elementary doubts" and wore a leather collar with gold will be left in charge, the queen one. "There's riches enough over very seriously and groped my way esses fastened on it. His portrait of more than any woman has ever yonder for you aud for us, ruled is

What through Paley and Butler, before wearing it is in the British Museum, Mistress, but a rich one, as so spend them, and that right now touched upon this stage in some of gold, worth £400.

little ugdom say you that we get off home and I went on to Lock and Hume. I've Henry IV had an S.S. collar of pare agree!"

To that Margaret Fitzmaurice, my earlier poems, but I cannot It represents, in fact, part of an as you may guess, agreed. And trace my own views (which I have ancient Egyptian ritual, in which When she returned to her hut, that is how it came about that all tried to express in my published secret letters and numbers refer to Margaret sat down in bewilder through the day, and into the writings during the last fifteen the Star-god Sevekh, whose symbol realize her fortune, yet she told under their many loads of treasure like to call it this, was acquired by Sebok, with 6 for its symbol, which She was scarcely able to night as well, lusty men, grond years) to any writer or any group was the figure 7, but under a change in particular. My creed, if you in ruling power, Sevckh became herself it was not really hers, as they carried them from the a kind of natural process, and represented the four heavenly the property of honest traders who vaults to the boats. hud, most likely, met untimely

whatever was discordant in it with corners, together with the Nadir Their labours did not cease till science 4 for ergoy Fitzmaurice said, death in protecting it.

оп the one hand or and the Zenith, ar 4+1 +1-6. the last sackful had been pat idealistic philosophy on the "other is Hope, Just methinks that ere. But Mistress Fitzmaurice was aboard.

'Six in Egyptian is "ses," and Then, fearful lest the seems long it will be exchanged für Some stricken by the lure of wealth.

to have been resolved means great, virtue, which was "Vigilant with Simonds should naturally, into a fuller and deeper, portrayed by a repetition of the thing different !”

She was now a pirate in effect, not return, the Artesse" made sail, harmony, the basis of which I think mystic sign S. "Ses" (esses) was a through fores, but by choice!

is simple enough, and is more or

secret doctrine of Life and Power

Tunged to him.

The vopsige was a long,me, for Artesse, di which it was "inading 'carousi eres?" laufiting gales in extrachlinary sequence, and sun meg lend well adraurel, when

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Mistress Margaret first sighed the "Toast of a land in which she was

fatin

neer with ditary adventures, Up till

Dow she lui unger Though to ash Fer beshand what ment. enfu be carried, or to which part his ship was bound, but eventually she did seriving a strange mply

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But Few hours later this tartaphorien? reply to a straight Thus, when Black Jin came to qestion wits explained. Chase wish her good-bye, he received a Was given 36 a vessel sighted. farewell from woman with a apparently outward bound, a party smile of content on her face, and was put abeant, fought asturi, he knew that his mistress wished by grin, gh, and effected what his godless enterprise success. was a fairly my captine Mar- gave knew now without "n, dordt that her rich husband was a gen tletan pirate, an outlaw, liable to The caught and executed

murderer and a felon. TRAGEDY.

She

and their woman chief ever saw and that was the last that the crew less summed up in the "Song of for those in authority to rule. Shanda-Nirvana.

SHIPWRECKED ON THE WELSH COAST.

the stump of what was maat, a woman.

of

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Jeppe" in the "Torch Bearers".

Those upon whom this insignia Two stanzas of this poem are broad purple material with golden was conferred wore a collar of reprinted below with the author's permission and may be taken as fastened upon it, emblematic- therefore, as summarising his al of the Zodiac with the S. and views on one or two of the main also the gnostic name for Isis, the points with which this interview is

Great Mother.

What of my realm? O, what shall

"If earth so lightly move,

now stand sure?

this world, but love: All else is dream stuff and shall

not endure.

Tis nearer now!*

1.

The end of this story concerns a hight, n boisterons, hideous And so three months went by, November night off the rugged during the whole of which time her coast, of Wales. It concerns concerned. sols companion was an aged. hili- mastiesa, anguished ship, Sting Then said the king, witted sailor-men, too old to with water; on hier emzy deck a fight too fragile to have the group of frightened men making elements. Not a night, passed but signals of distress by setting fire to what it saw Margaret stealing to a barrel of grease, und, clinging to "Nought" said the dwarf in all She was shocked and astonished, her treasure lourd, which as time * yet was inted never to charge her went by, she literally worshipped.

onte a betrayer with his duplicity,

A bgth the Artesse" returned, About an hour later she, with an shut herself up for two whole days, and with her another of her late old insane man, was being helped Some time after Fitzumarice and husband's ships, the Vigilant," ashore by gallant fisher folk who a dozen desperadoes einbarked on Both had some goodly cargoes to had risked their lives to save a another piratical adventure. This unload, and now, the woman pirite pirate's crew, but only, rescued failed, and only four returned. had more than ever over which to Margaret Fitzmaurice and the But that deep inward realin which Fitzmaurice was killed. Margaret gloat.

aged idiot who had been her ser- Even Jeppe, the dwarf, by his own was a widow.

The night before the "Artesse" vant at Shanda-Nirvana what time Her one

thought now was te was due to sil, the other craft sho had stayed to guard the trea." return home and resume "the life Javing already gone away on Bure which was fated to be sent to she had hitherto lived, but Fate. another buccaneering trip, Simonds the bottom of the sea, with those or, more, correctly, the avarice of caine to his mistress with a strange who had fought, and caused to be grendy men, decreed that, instead look on his ferocious countenance. abe honest blood to get it.

Tuking her by the shoulder, he The brave Welshmer might s said: "I have decided that this well have saved themselves their lonely life is none too good for you. Į trouble. Two days, later, we are

of doing that, she should adopt n calling the loathed, and herself became a pirate:

Our shadowy cartis and fleeting Our universe hath no centre,

heavens no stay,

dach can epter

Where?" said the king,"

secret way."

"Here" said the dwarf, and music "O, where? I have not found it"

echoed "here"

This infinite circle hath no line to

bound it.

Therefore its deep strange centre

is everywhere. Let the earth soar thro heaven, plunge in the pit, His covenant

that centre abideth;

still holds true, the heart of a dying bird, the

Master bideth;

The Artesse was now under the I have made up my mind to marry, told, Mistress Fitzmaurice sue- command of a rough, surly man and Mistress Fitzmaurice, on my combed to the effects of chill and Or named Simonds, more generally oath, shall become Mistress exposure, and the day she was referred as Black Ji." It Simonds instead. was be whom Margaret approached you?"

What sy buried the insane sailorman, with In when she heard of her husband's

a hoarse cackle of weird laughter. With her face streaming with threw himself from the cliff ante la the soul of a king, "said the death. It was he who she re- tears, inspired by nothing else but the cruel rocks.

dwear!" and in my soul, too.”

The Egyptian judges wore this collar, as do our Lords of Justice and the Lord Mayor.

THE GOSPEL

Is the history (recorded by St, Luke alone) of the miraculous draught of fishes after our Lord's

awe, and even fear in the con teaching out of the ship and of the call of St. Peter. We note the

sciousness of sinfulness, produced in St. Peter by the presence of

and the Lord in His miraculous power; contrast with them the cagerness with which, after the second miraculous draught of to the feet of his Master. The fishes John XXI. 7.) he hurried

promise of our Lord Is properly Thou shalt catch men to keep them alive, thus doubly contrasting their present occupation with their should catch not fish, but men, not future Apostleship, in which they

to kill, but to bring to life,

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