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*** GARDEN OF ALLAH

Chapter Ono

It was recreation time to the Convent of Sainte Coelle, and most of the little girls were playing in the large room set aside for that purpose. A fow were roading in cor nors and one group won talking vory seriously over the day's work One girl stood looking out of a window; suddenly her intereat was aroused by something ahe saw in the patio below: several of the others joined her, with them the Sistar in charge.

Below them a beautiful, sad-eyed young woman stopped on her WAY Into the Convent to pray before the Image of the Virgin Mary, Hor bosuly, her expensive clothes and the narrow in her oyas intrigued the girls.

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It was the last of thera that sooth)- od most incredible to Captain de Trevignac, a young French officer, who was visiting the monastery. He could only converse with the Abbe and a few other specially privileged monks.

Walking in the garden with the old Abba one day, he asked him about it.

"I have been hore a whole month, Enther, and-forgive me but I att cannot understand how men can find peace here-walled In-cut off forever from the world."

"You are a soldier of France, my son," the Abbe replied, "We nro soldtarm of God. For "either duty, one must have the cali.”

They proceeded to the dining bait, into which the monks were filing in answer to the ball. It was a huge, savera roșta, paved with fing- stones. A very long, massive, wood- on tablo ran its entire length. The "Why, that's Domini Enfilden Abbe led bis guest to the head of "Waa sho ever here?" another the table. nakød.

"Who la It?" one of them naked the Blater,

"Yos, she was like you she couldn't do her sume correctly either."

She doesn't look very happy," a girl said, studying the face of the stranger below.

Is she married?" baked another, "No, she isn't married," said the Binter.

"In that why she isn't happy?" "No, my dear, You aen she devot- od her life to looking after an in-.

"Benedicto!" The Abbo greeted his flock,

"Benediclel" Fifty monks answer- ed in unison. Conversation was for- bidden them, but in prayer and in song, they were permitted to u their voices.

"Oremus," he announced. Bono- dio, Domine, nos et baec tua dona, quão do tus largitate sumus rump- turi. Por Chriatum Dominum noe- trum

""Amen," they echoad.

Bhò stood on the balcony outzido her room, drinking in

the beauty of the African, ovening,

valld father dearly."

whom sho loved Do Trevignac was about to leave

the monastery, and took this oc "But why would that maka borcanlon to explain for the first time Bad, Blster?"

"He suffered greatly for years she gave up everything for him and a few months ago he died- mercifully."

The girls continued to disease the vialtor until the Sister mont them back to their work, ·

Moanwhile the Moibor Superior, apprised of Dominis arrival went out into the patio to meet her. As she led her to the little coll that had once been her room in the con- vant, she, too, noticed the sadness In the beautiful eyes of the visitor. Domini admitted to her that she had not found happinens. Since her father's death she had traveled to Paris, Vienna, the Revtoro-every whem, but life had seemed to es capa hor,

Mother, Josephing thought a me ment.

"Why not leave the cities you have found so lonely and try some- thing different?" she suggested. "Perhaps the desert, for a time.

The desert. Mother? What will I find there?" Lako n child she look ed up into Mother Josephino's face, wanderingly.

why he had come at all. His mother, he told the Abbe, had always want- ed him to serva the Church. Sho had died recently, and he felt that she would appreciate his devoting him- self to God, if only for a little while,

A monk came in bearing a bottle of the proclous liqueur called Lag- arino.

"You must take this with you," the Abbe said, "A small token of our pleasure in your visit here."

"For me?" said Do Trovignac, highly pleased,

Yea. A bottle of the liquaur we make hero.in the monastery. Ws are very proud of it."

"You have every reason to be. I havo tasted it. It is superb,"

"I will call Father Antalne, The making of the quour is in his charge. Your praise will make him happy. Brother Gregory, call Broth er antolna from his work."

Brathar Gregory left the hall. When he returned, all eyes turned

him, for it was obvious that he. was suffering some tremendous shock. So great was his agitation that he could not controt himself, Ho broke his silence.

"Brother Antoine's gone" he cried. "Gone out into the world. He's broken his vow!"

"There in the solitudos The Mother Superlor put her hand affeo- tionately on Domini's head. "Thoro you may find yourself. In the face

"Enough!" commanded the Abbe, of the Infinito, your grief will van- 18h Domini rested her head on rising and stretching out his hands Mother Josephine's lap-"and you to quiet the horror struck group. will realize fe is larger, fuller than Tuen in toron of deep and troubled compassion. he said," "Do not con- you dream." :

Domini resolved to tako Mother demn him, Pily, him. Whatever has Josephine's advice and prepared to led Brother Antoine to, take: this travel to Algeria, to the city of awful stop know that he loved Beni-Mora, parlah of. Mother God. Agony of spirit, remorse and Josephine's friend, Father Roubler. torror will follow him wherever ho Meanwlle, at El-Lagaral, a Trap gocs. He will return. We must be plat Monastary, outside Tunis, in love that. Let us not forget that Northern Africa, occurred a drum-for those who are weary—for those who have lost the way," pointing atle and unprocedented event...

The monka led a life so peaceful to the Crucifix on the wall, "thern na to be almost entirely, dotachad alone la praos."

from the outer world. After com

plating their noviliate, they awore

eternal vows of chastity, poverty

and, most drastic of all, silence.

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MITH was left deflated Imatical colloquialisms as "between metaphor." "The ungodly flourishing

you and I" and "like he doca" (for

yesterday by a fine "as"). Biblical anticlimax.

The writers may be wanting to

It is said-and the saying make their audience feel at home, used to be true-that part of the

Unfortunately, laziness and Ignor- English genius is a mistrust of {ance are probably 'responsible. rhetoric, a hatred of bunk, cant Grammar is a bore; but some know- and pretentiousness.

{ledge of Its elements should have been his

of learned so early in life by all those Drake, inishing

game characteristically who try to write that mere instinct bowls,

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will

warn them off "between you and reply to the Armada's English

1. flamboyant gesture. Even Kipling, regarded as extreme jingoist, debunked in "Stalky & Co." the flagwagging patriotic orator.

an

ONE

like a green baytree" is simile.

Allegory and parable are extended similes or metaphors which usually have a plot, tell a story, and point a moret.

IF Smith errs, he errs in good

company. Shakespeare (who once, in "The Tempest," wrote "whom" when he should have written "who") also split one infinitive.

The fact that a great writer made

a slip once doesn't mean that a less

Anticlimax (when deliberate) is

NE grammatical snag is the great writer may make it every day; one instance of this instinct for

use of "who" and "whom." but pedants have certainly concent- puncturing pomposity. It is good

In talk you often say things like rated unduly on the split infinitive self-criticism. Another is melosis "Who is that from?" This is an-("to really believe").. understatement, the opposite hyperbole or exaggeration.

of

Under American Influence, per-

other of the colloquialisms which don't look well in print.

haps, overpraising one's own wares People who know that there is a is now less uncommon than it was; lanag, but don't know quite what it

be

awful. A noted London clergyman was re-

I can be but "I don't mind if I do," "Not bad, is, sometimer play for safety by cently heard to say, from the pulpit, ch?" and "Pretty poor show," still using "whom" when "who" would af am prepared to absolutely and mean "I should like to very much,” correct. A typical case: "Mr. "Excellent, don't you think?" and MacDonald, whom they allege is no without any sort or kind of quali

declure." But an longer so it as he was | "Deplorable."

infinitive On the other hand, "Mr. Mac-the split causes ambiguity or undue should be split if the avoidance of Donald, whom they allege to be no distortion and only then. [longer..... " is correct.

Why is "who" correct in the first Here die-hard non-splitters hove THE now rather out-of-date of these cases, "whom in the other? the right to say that such a case. "Not half!" is an example of Because "who" is subjective ("who" won't arise more than once in a this colloquial meiosis. The most is the subject of the subsidiary clause million sentences; that the sentence convincing advertisements are often "who is no longer. ... while should then be remodelled. those which deliberately refrain from

"whom" is objective. saying more than that such-and-such

a tobacco or car is as sound as any in its class. And, in literature, there is a powerful melosis in

T.

A rough-and-ready, though not in- There are many other things done fallible, way of checking yourself and "not done" which could be en- from writing "whom" in a case like furged one, the preposition at the

"tourney of the MS. Eliot's the first is to imagine that the words end, as in "enlarged on" or in the

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ACROSS 1 The one garmont, probably, which shows the thing's cost ali but a shilling (two words, 7, 7). 0 Go In. Come in, Go In. 10 Though inactive at present, It would take but lite to make it very biting.

11 Probably more felt in the City

than otherwise-

12 not infrequently, anyway. 13 A bad shot among the cabbages. 10 Help wanted for a first-class

hop.

17 Push.

10 Unable to put Annie in her little

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22 In Africa.

25 The girl who evidently got on

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27 In truth, she took a city.

30 Put on in March for a king. 31 Places in captivity in colis,

apparently,

32 A tense iron grip (anag).

DOWN

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3Jot,

4. This animal would appear to

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5.1

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7 It is not singular for a child

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15 Brother to Yvonne. 18 Some lass! (anag.).

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20 Indicative of second thoughts.

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