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splash He only said, "There is half a man in you now-the other half is in that woman. I can wait. When you are a whole man again, you will come back with me here to shout defiance. We are sons of the me mother."

made

answer. All my strength and all my spirit were in my hands that held the paddle-for longed to be with her in a safe place beyond the reach of men's anger and of women's spite.

love was 60 great that

could guide me to a country where death was unknown If I could only escape from Inch! Midah's jury from nur Ruler's sword. We paddled with haste, breathing through nur teeth. The blades bit deep into the smooth water. We passed out of antongst the shallows. We skirted the the river; we flew in clear channels

black const; we skirted the beaches

wand where the sea speaks in whispere to the land; and the gleam of white sand flashed back past our bost se awiftly she ran upon the wnier.

never

"We spoke not. Only once I said. 'Sleep, Dismelen, for

ROOR you may want all your strength. I heard the sweetness of her voice, but Larned my head. The sun rose and, still we went on. Water fell from my face like rain from a cloud. We flew in the light and heat,

"I never looked back, but I knew

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that my brother's eyes, behind me, were looking steadily aliead, for the boat went as srtaight as a hushman's dart when it leaves the end of the

umpitan. There was no better pad me, and I sald. 'Take your paddle, will wait all the morning," said the dier, no better steersman than

my while struck the water with brother. Many

mine. white man, looking away upon thej tines, together, we Tuan, I heard him cry. I heard him water. had wen races in that caboc. But we cry my name twice; and I heard voices "No, Tuan," said Arsat Roftly. "I never bad nut aut our strength as we shouting. 'Kill! Strike! I never turn shall not cat or sleep in this house, hut did then-then, when for the last timeted back. I heard him calling my name I must first see my road. Now I can we paddled together!

"There was

again with a great shriek, as when see nothing-see nothing! There is no braver or stronger life is going out together with the no light and no peace in the world; an' in our country than my brother. voice-nnd I never turned my conbi not spare the strength to turn My own name!

My there is death-death for many.

and I left him in the midst of enemies: We were sons of the same mother→→

but I am going back now."

He drew a long breath and went on

ny head and look at him, but every Three times he called-but I was not moment I heard the hiss of his breath afraid of life. Was she not there getting

ing inuder behind me. Still he did in that conne? And could I not with not speak. The sun was high. The her and a country where death is for- in a dreamy tone. heat clung to my back like a flame of gotten-where death fire. My ribs were ready to burst, but

is unknown!" "In a little while I shall see clea could no longer get enough air into and stood, an indistinct and silent he died, and

The white man xai up. Armat rose Chough to strike—to strike. But sh now.. dark Fry chest.

"And then I felt

figure above the dying embern of the news." I must cry out fire. Over the lagoon a mist, drift-

He flung his arms wide open, lelį with

my last breath. 'Let us renting and low, bad crept, erasing low-them fall along his body, then stood 'Good!" he &voice was firm. He was strong,

answored; and his ly the glittering images of the stars, still with unmoved face

He And now a great expanse of white eyes, staring at the sun. The white was brave. He knew not fear and no fatigue

vapour

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B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for the watched. No sooner had 7 closed white man stretched his legs. His chin

If the largest scale industrialism my eyes than I heard her cry ofreaked on his chest, and he murmured f alarm. We leaped up. The sun was sadly without lifting his head:

gradually decays, through the half-way down the sky already, and

"We all love our brothers."

failure to maintain exports, there coming in sight in the opening of the whispering violence: Arial burst out

with an intense may arise "such a land hunger as paddlers. We knew it at once; it was!

"What did I care who died?

the world has not known since the wanted peace in my own heart."

Dark Ages."

The author says: our rajah's

praus "They were watching the shore, and

He seemed to hear a stir in the "That land-hunger, and en- aw JIK. They beat the gong,

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bu can only the sand and covered her face. There they had retreated into the frozen

satisfied by a revolution in the да no escape by sea. My brother depths of immense space. After inughed. He had the gun

gust of wind there

whole character of land settle few given him. Tuan. before

you ndands of perfect calm and absolute

ment in the New World-are- away, but there was only a handful of silence. Then from behind the black

volutionary change from large owder.

and wavy line of the forests a column

scale agriculture for export to "He spoke to me quickly: 'Run with of golden light shot up into the hea her

along the path. I shall keep them of the castern horizon. The sun had market.

vena and spread over the semi-circle small scale agriculture for a local hack, for they have no firearms, and risen. The mist lifted, broke

Hope In Emigration gun is certain death for some. Run with her. On the other side of flying wreaths: and

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lagoon lay, polished and black, in the aware how the Dominions would and and d canoe. When I have fired all heavy shadows at the foot of the wall react to any such proposal. His

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A white engle rose over. It with answer is that "the world is facing! we shall be gone. I will hold out as slanting and ponderous flight, reach-to-day a catastrophic dislocation of long as I can, for she is but a woman of the clear sunshine and appeared the very means of livelihood of the

that can neither run nor fight, but dazzlingly, brilliant for A moment,

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Before his face the aun showed its low but above the black mud, ndge above the treetops, rising steadi small canoe hauled I heard The breece fresheneds grant another shot behind me. thought

ht, brilliance „burst upon... the lagoon, "That is his last charge. We rushed perkled on the rippling water. down to the canoes a man came run shadows of the morning, became dis The forests Fame out of the clear ping from the hut, but I leaped on him, and we rolled together In the to stop short in a great stir of leaves,

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then I got up, and he lay still at of nodding bought, of waying my feat. I don't know whether I had the whisper of unconscious life grow

the balance against the needs of ing, the markete of the world? The author concludes on a direct- branches. In the merciless sunshine killed him or not.

these orphans of our misdirected What a perfect satire on enlighten-ly religious note, such as one hard- I and Diameles posled the canoe afloat. I heard louder, speaking in an incomprehen- civilisation and

against oured expectation! velin behind me, and I saw my

sible voice round the dumb- darkness elementary duty towards them brother run across the ginde, Many of that human sorrow, › Aranť's myes,

That may be sound enough in

An Act Of Fai vere bounding after him; I took wandered slowiz, then stared at tha her in my arms and threw her into the rising sun.,

theory, But who will convinės host, then leaged in myself. When I "I can see, nothing," he said half Australia, for example, that this is

Lord Eustace, Indeed, sees that looked back T

both her duty and her destiny, or the New World, which still but the men were closing round him, man, moving to the edge of the plat He shouted, I am coming!' The men form and waring his land to the beat, gress to admit whole multitudes of will be hard to persuade; for in It may be so. Yet it would not and totally undesired im- discussing "the spirit of, the new do to wait for a religious reforma- nts? Or, again, how long will era," he makes the very just obtion before we plunge.""our" "spade" convince mankind that servation that a regenerated society hopefully, or at any rate manfully, PIE-you want to soma with me, the natural and ornnual cause of can only be composed of regenerat into the mould.

of assimilation, as well as the mechanisation, inventive" genlus, ed men and women, and that "while burden of a revolutionary change swift transport and Incredible pro-to expect a change in human nature in the character of their agricul-ductivity is an Intensive "localisa- may be an act of faith, to expect a

• expect ture. Yet these sacrifices are not tion of an life and livelihood, change In human society without it to be weighed for one moment, in which now, instead of widen- is an act of lunacy,"

men were

Ir expects In such a treatise. That In because he is quite sure that Democracy, whose concern is for the individual, cannot supply the regenerative influence required, and

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Aabout came faintly over the lagoon new "I looked. Many mes Then looked at her,Turn. I pushed the wardini the abode of the friand," of randol pushed it into deep water, how She was kneeing forward, looking at