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-  BASIL KING
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-  GOING WEST
-  THE CITY OF COMRADES
-  ABRAHAM'S BOSOM
-  THE LIFTED VEIL
-  THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS
-  THE LETTER OF THE CONTRACT
-  THE WAY HOME
-  THE WILD OLIVE
-  THE INNER SHRINE
-  THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT
-  LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER
-  IN THE GARDEN OF CHARITY
-  THE STEPS OF HONOR
-  THE HIGH HEART
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-  HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
-  Established 1817
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-[Frontispiece]
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-  GOING WEST
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-  By
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-  Basil King
-
-  _Author of
-  "The City of Comrades" "Abraham's Bosom" etc._
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-  HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
-  NEW YORK AND LONDON
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-  Going West
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-  Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers
-  Printed in the United States of America
-  Published June, 1919
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-GOING WEST
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-GOING WEST
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-
-CHAPTER I
-
-He was not a born fighter, in spite of a big, husky frame through which
-the urge of physical life was strong. On the contrary, he was a
-civilian and a business man in every nerve of his body. Eight
-generations on American soil had bred a type essentially industrious,
-notwithstanding all the fighting in which the family had been engaged.
-His father had fought in the Spanish-American War; his grandfather in
-the Civil War; his great-great-grandfather in the Revolution; farther
-back, his ancestors in the Connecticut Valley had beaten off the French
-and Indians for nearly a hundred years.
-
-All that, however, had been alien to the main purposes of life. It had
-been incidental, not professional. Its chief influence on Lester lay in
-the assumption that, men being called for on the borders of Texas and
-in Mexico, he had no choice but to go. True, he was just beginning,
-after certain wayward years, to see success as a broker ahead of him;
-and within the month he had become engaged to Molly Dove. But these
-considerations could not weigh against the appeal of country, nor annul
-those traditions of duty that had come to him from the past.
-
-So in the course of time, and with the march of events, he found
-himself in the enemy trenches, facing a burly blue-eyed Teuton holding
-a rifle by the barrel and swinging the butt about his head, while he
-himself held a bayonet in his hand. Amid the wreckage, the carnage, the
-tumult, he was desperately trying to recall his instructions as to how
-to stick the weapon in.
-
-Before telling what happened then, let us go back and follow rapidly
-the stages by which Lester found himself in a situation which two or
-three years earlier he would have laughed out of the list of
-possibilities.
-
-The son of a well-to-do bookseller in a great Atlantic city, he was an
-instance of that reaction against the paternal bent with which we are
-all familiar. His father was a gentle, scholarly man who loved books as
-books. The Spanish-American campaign had left him with one leg slightly
-shorter than the other, and the air of a retired general. All his
-longings had once focused themselves into the hope that his son would
-enter into, and one day inherit, a business built up on years of
-diligence and judgment--only to be disappointed.
-
-Lester had no interest in books. He was not only an open-air fellow
-with a zest for sports, but he had all the inclinations of a genial,
-jovial soul. Taking wine, women, and song as kindred joys, he chose
-brokerage as the profession that would give him closest touch with the
-merry give and take of life.
-
-As a broker he could steal all the time he needed to "root" at games,
-after he had ceased to play them actively, while the same career
-rendered him more free to marry a girl like Molly Dove, a waitress in
-the café where he generally lunched, to whom his family bitterly
-objected.
-
-His mother was a small, square-shouldered woman, with a smile so bright
-that it was difficult for the most penetrating eye to see behind it.
-Lester had inherited her dark color, her beetling brows, and her
-vigorous physique. A gay audacity, as real as it looked, was also not
-the least among the legacies she passed on to her son.
-
-Of his two sisters, Cora resembled the father and Ethelind the mother.
-Ethelind, too, had that gay audacity, the most patent result of which
-was to involve her in conflicting love-affairs. A wild-eyed thing, she
-was formed on that permanent-seventeen model that came in with the
-second decade of the twentieth century and induced all women, whatever
-their time of life, to dress as school-girls. Cora, tall, dignified,
-reserved, was the graduate of a woman's college, in which it was her
-ambition one day to hold a professorship. To sisters as well as parents
-the stalwart, wilful boy would have been the king among young men had
-it not been for his entanglement with Molly Dove. They could pardon his
-"wildness," knowing that it would pass, but they found it hard to
-forgive his choice of a wife in a sphere so much below him. In fact,
-they did not pardon it at all. In spite of his announcement that the
-engagement had become definite, no one responded to his invitation to
-make the acquaintance of the girl.
-
-In the matter of his "wildness" there were already stirrings of a
-change of heart, though they hardly rose to the level of active
-consciousness. Such reforms as he made were avowedly in deference to
-Molly Dove. In cutting out--the term was his--women, wine, and song, he
-made it clear to himself that he did it, not in obedience to a moral
-law, but because "Molly asked him to." Molly held the odd conviction
-that such indulgences were wrong, chiefly because they came in between
-him and a great mystery, of which he had heard vaguely all his life,
-but from which instinctively he turned his mind away.
-
-"There's really no mystery at all," she asserted, in that pretty way of
-hers which he found at once tranquil and enthusiastic, "no more than
-there's a mystery about the sun. When we fill the atmosphere with smoke
-we can't see it; but that doesn't keep the sun from being there. Blow
-the smoke away, and you find the sunshine as bright as ever."
-
-He liked to hear her talk in that way, though he was not won by her
-beliefs. Far in the future he saw days when he would have shot the bolt
-of his temptations and settled down with her into being the "good
-fellow" she hoped to make of him. In the mean time--
-
-But in the mean time came the call. It was the kind of call against
-which his instincts and his interests both rebelled, but he took it
-with no more analysis than he gave to the necessity of getting out of
-bed on a winter's morning. There was no help for it; it was all in the
-day's work.
-
-His family took it in the same way. It was as much a matter of course
-as when Ebenezer Lester shouldered his eighteenth-century musket to
-defend the stockade against the Iroquois stealing down from Canada. It
-was as much a matter of course as when Charles E. Lester, the
-bookseller, rallied to President McKinley against Spain.
-
-It was also a matter of course to Molly Dove. It would postpone the
-wedding for which she had begun her simple preparations, but she had a
-curious, secret facility for renouncing her own will. Her
-right-about-face was made with smiling lips and glistening eyes, and no
-effort that any one could see. To Lester she whispered:
-
-"It's going to be all right, dear. Whatever the clash of human wills,
-there's only one real Ruler in the universe. The closer we can keep in
-touch with Him the nearer we shall be to the usefulness and happiness
-which make up what we call our destiny."
-
-"That's all very well." He smiled, patting her hand. "But suppose I'm
-shot--or die of a fever?"
-
-Her reply would have staggered him if he had not put it down to the
-sweet and charming eccentricity which made her different from other
-girls.
-
-"Well, suppose it does happen that in the course of doing your duty
-this mortal should 'put on immortality'--that's the way the Bible
-expresses it, you know--wouldn't that be a gain for you? And what's a
-gain for you couldn't be a loss for us."
-
-He laughed with a great guffaw. "But perhaps we shouldn't be married."
-
-"No; but marriage, after all, is only for time, whereas you and I are
-bound by all sorts of ties which really belong to eternity."
-
-He took no stock in that, he told her; but he liked her gleaming
-earnestness in saying it. The aunt who had brought her up must have
-been a quaint, religious character, he said, to have filled her head
-with such other-worldly notions. Anyhow, they were different from the
-anxiety and fear which the family hid behind their stoic calmness, and
-of which he felt the twinges within himself as he wound up his affairs.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER II
-
-It was at the time when the possibility of a war with Mexico--or any
-war at all--struck the imagination of the country as a calamity too
-horrible to contemplate. There was no question as to the victory, but
-neither was there a question as to the price that would be paid for it.
-Men--young men--young Americans, O God!--would be killed--actually
-killed. Fellows whose places were in shops and offices and factories
-and banks, whose diversions were the stadium, the sea-shore, or the
-woods, would be called on to make the extreme sacrifice at a time when
-sacrifice of any kind was being pooh-poohed. It was not only monstrous,
-it was unnatural, a trend of events in the teeth of fate, and against
-what one might reasonably call the manifest will of God. Lester knew
-that his family were feeling this, though they never mentioned it; he
-was feeling it himself. Molly Dove alone seemed to ride on the wave of
-events like a sea-bird on a storm, cradled, rocked, at ease in her
-element, secure, serene, sure of both present and ultimate good,
-whatever might befall.
-
-So there came a Sunday when, after a mid-day dinner, the family
-accompanied him to the station and he entrained for camp. He had said
-good-by to Molly Dove during the forenoon. As no advance had been made
-to her from the Lester side, she could make none on hers, and so judged
-it wisest to keep out of sight. Her sweet self-effacement in doing this
-made Lester swear that he would marry her at the first opportunity, as
-he steamed away on this opening stage of what was to prove his long,
-long, long way.
-
-That way, at the beginning, struck many people as a tortuous, futile
-way, leading no-whither. There was talk of saluting the flag; there was
-the occupation of Vera Cruz; there was the withdrawal from Vera Cruz;
-there were months when the daily head-lines bore the names Huerta,
-Villa, Carranza; and few knew for what reason the young men did not
-come home.
-
-Then home they began to come, chiefly on furlough, to be sent
-elsewhere. During one such interval Lester married Molly Dove. It meant
-a breach with his family, none of whom appeared at the simple ceremony
-or took any steps to acknowledge the bride. He was compelled to leave
-her within a month.
-
-In the mean while greater wars than any possibility with Mexico had
-broken out, and the iron entered the whole world's soul. It was only
-then that the end of the road on which Lester had started out that
-Sunday when he had entrained came into sight--and he sailed for France.
-
-His life after that could scarcely be distinguished from hundreds of
-thousands of other lives. One overruling need had bound the manhood of
-the race into a solidarity so tense that the individual was swallowed
-up in it. Lester was no longer a son, a brother, a husband, the father
-of a coming baby; he was an infinitesimal part of a huge machine, with
-no more to say in matters of his life and death than the wheel to the
-man who turns it round. He could only turn; he could only turn as he
-was told; he could only turn as millions of other wheels were turning,
-without volition, without knowledge, and, to a degree that surprised
-him, without much preference or choice.
-
-In minutes when conscious of himself he could see how little he was the
-Lester of other days. When he woke up in the morning it was often with
-a strange, dull wonder as to what he had become, and how and why he had
-become it. It was like a rebirth--only it suggested a rebirth into
-hell. In fits of moral nausea, after some phase of a "good time," at
-any date within the past ten years, he had called down on himself some
-such fate as that; but he had never looked for it so literally, and
-right here on earth.
-
-The inevitable came at last. By stages such as have often been
-described, he found himself in that section of the trenches known to
-its occupants as Dead Cow Lane. Life there was much as he expected it
-to be, though possibly not quite so bad. Its worst feature was in the
-long, dull hours it allowed for thinking. He loathed sitting on the
-fire-step with nothing but a slouch, a grouch, and the wit of his mates
-to keep him company. All that was humanly repulsive he learned to
-endure; but when he lounged idly on the fire-step, one leg swung across
-the other, and a dead cigarette between his lips, he ate his heart out.
-Molly, waiting for her baby, in a tiny apartment with a kitchenette,
-was a vision against a background of eyes that seemed to watch for him.
-His father's were grave; his mother's steely; Cora's earnest;
-Ethelind's wild. They looked down at him, right there in Dead Cow Lane,
-in a vigil that made him frantic. When the command came at last to go
-over the top it brought with it not only terror, but a break in the
-monotony.
-
-What happened then was also along the lines he had been prepared for.
-So many tales had been told him, and he had listened with such
-eagerness that, from the minute of going up the death-ladder, he seemed
-to have been through it all before. Everything went as if it had been
-rehearsed. He had the lonely feeling on finding himself in the open
-other men had described to him. As he ran through the lanes of barbed
-wire his agony of haste was neither more nor less than theirs. The
-"p'--p'--p'--p'--p'--p'" of the machine-guns; the crackling of bullets
-through the air; the tottering and falling of his comrades, throwing up
-their arms and tumbling clumsily on backs or faces, were all as if by
-rule. He had no more consciousness than that. He was neither brave nor
-afraid; he was only numb. It was something to be done, and he was doing
-it. He might have been doing it in his sleep--in a nightmare.
-
-On reaching the German trench, which the barrage fire had crumpled into
-a welter of earth, cement, timbers, uniforms, dead and wounded men, and
-pots and pans, he practically tumbled in. There was no horror in the
-minute, because horror has its limits and this had passed beyond them.
-A wounded German was crawling away to anything that would shelter him,
-and in order to scramble up Lester had to step on the man's head. The
-head gave way, with an oath or a groan, but Lester managed to keep his
-feet. All round him there was shouting and yelling and cursing, and now
-and then a demoniac laugh. Every American was trying to kill his
-German, and the Germans were at bay. Lester, too, was trying to kill.
-The infection had caught him. Out of the blank, out of the numbness,
-out of the paralysis of the spirit in which he had run across No Man's
-Land, something surged up of which he had no time to take account. It
-didn't wait for him to take account of it. It seized him with a
-maddening pang--a hate to which he had never supposed his nature could
-be equal--a hate welling up from the depths of his subconscious self--a
-hate of the enemy--a hate of the German--a hate of the very first
-individual who came his way--with a wild accompanying frenzy to stick
-his bayonet in a heart. "Give 'em hell," were the words with which he
-had been sent over, and all his life and all his longings and all his
-love were fused in one red flame to deal out hell as it had been dealt
-out to him.
-
-How he found himself face to face with a big, blond Bavarian, whose
-blue eyes danced with a kind of bloodshot fire as he swung the butt of
-his rifle like a club about his head, there is no way of telling. It
-was one of those instances which war supplies by the million in which
-world-rancors, race-rancors, and the suppressed irritations of
-thousands of years sum themselves up in the hearts of two men who have
-no personal quarrel and who have never set eyes on each other before.
-It was like an unescapable destiny. The American broker and the
-peasant-actor of Oberammergau had been projected toward each other by
-an irresistible fate. Behind each were all the generations of rivalry
-and covetousness and savagery and sin that had sent him forth. Neither
-was moved by his own impulse. Each was but an instrument of the
-passions of the past.
-
-Lester was not sure whether or not he saw double--whether or not there
-were two Bavarians swinging the butts of their rifles, or only one.
-Those who told the story afterward were in similar doubt. Some declared
-for two; some for one only; some saw three or four in that corner of
-the trench. In any case Lester had found his man; and no emotion he had
-ever known was half so sweet as this anguish of pain to get him.
-
-Those who told the story afterward laughed as they pictured Lester
-dancing this way and that to avoid the descending club and slip his
-bayonet in under it. He dodged, they said, as if he were on springs.
-Time and time again the Bavarian seemed about to sweep him with a blow
-to the other end of the trench--but no! Lester was prancing as nimbly
-as ever, watchful, alert, his aim always at the heart. No one could
-tell how long this went on, for all observation was crazed. The only
-thing known for certain was that in the end Lester got his weapon
-in--and in--and in--to the hilt--to the heart--and that if he had had
-time to go through the thick body he would have done it.
-
-He didn't have time, and it was here that the testimony was in
-conflict. One man paid that the Bavarian was able to deal a last blow
-with superhuman strength. Another declared that a second Bavarian dealt
-it. Of those who came back some supported one of these assertions, and
-some the other; but there was no difference of opinion at all on the
-point that Lester's skull was cracked with a sound like that of a
-breaking egg-shell. His body and his opponent's lay tumbled together in
-a fierce embrace--the one with a surprised horror in the wide-open blue
-eyes, while the other--but they only said of Lester that his face was
-"all bashed in."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER III
-
-Lester's face was "all bashed in," but Lester himself didn't know it.
-The last thing he remembered was the queer, soft, mushy feeling as his
-bayonet pierced the Bavarian's uniform and entered his body. His next
-sensation was that of an emotion, a confused emotion, of sorrow, pity,
-or disgust.
-
-At first it seemed all that had survived. He himself was
-safe--somewhere--and the Bavarian had died. He didn't try to move, or
-open his eyes, or seek to find out to what place they had carried him;
-he was too comfortable for that. But--a man toward whom he had no
-enmity on his own account, who was also perhaps a husband, with a
-little wife waiting for a baby in an apartment with a kitchenette, that
-man lay dead, with his, Lester's, bayonet wound in his heart. He was
-sorry. He remembered his hate; he remembered his passion to kill; he
-knew it as a blend of all the vengeances that had been stirring in his
-blood since Belgium had been invaded, and the _Lusitania_ had been
-sunk, and the awful things had begun to pile upon the awful things; but
-it was a vengeance that began to seem to him beside the mark. It was
-the kind of revenge man didn't know how to take; the kind of justice he
-didn't know how to mete out. The innocent were being punished for the
-guilty, as if a child were hanged because a man had committed a crime.
-He couldn't say that he reproached himself for his part in that; he
-knew he had been acting on orders from above; but he was conscious of a
-deep regret that the world should have grown so stupid that such things
-had to be.
-
-Otherwise he was resting. He supposed that he must have been wounded,
-though he could feel no pain. Oddly enough, when he tested himself for
-pain he didn't know where to begin. But it was his own immunity, his
-sense of well-being and security, that sent his thought the more
-persistently toward the man he had kept from ever returning home.
-
-Trying to fancy what that home was like, he found himself, suddenly but
-naturally, in a village street, of which the bordering houses, of
-plaster and timber, had low roofs and picturesque eaves. All round
-there were mountains.
-
-"This is Oberammergau," he heard in a language he understood. "Here is
-my home. Let us go in."
-
-They entered without the opening of doors, coming into a room with
-rafters, small windows, and an air of antiquity. A woman was kneeling
-beside a bed above which hung a carved wooden crucifix. On each side of
-her knelt a quaintly dressed child, with hands stiffly pressed together.
-
-"That is my wife," said the voice. "Those are my children. They're
-praying for me and asking that I shall come home."
-
-"Should you have liked to go home?"
-
-It seemed natural to Lester to ask this question. Everything seemed so
-natural that he had not yet reached the point of inquiring how it had
-come about. The Bavarian reflected.
-
-"I should have liked it before knowing what this is. I should like it
-even now, for their sakes. But since death has to be destroyed in us
-one at a time it's better for us to be here, don't you think?"
-
-Lester began to be startled. "Here? Where?"
-
-"Wherever it is we are. I don't quite know where that is. Do you? I'm
-speaking," he continued, "in the old terms of place in the sense of
-locality, because I don't know what else to do; but locality, of
-course, is gone. We're in the universal, which makes it difficult for
-us, after being used to so many limitations, to understand ourselves."
-
-Lester was aware of fear, awe, and irritation all struggling in him
-together.
-
-"You may be in the universal, as you call it; but--but I've come
-through."
-
-"We've both come through. The marvel is that we've done it so easily.
-It's as I expected--only more so."
-
-"As you expected--in what way?"
-
-"Every way; all my life. When your barrage fire began I prayed--"
-
-"Do you fellows _pray_?" Lester asked, in astonishment.
-
-"Oh, some of us--what we used to call prayer--the sort of thing my poor
-wife and children are doing now--begging--pleading that this or that
-shall be done--instead of resting in strength, as you and I are."
-
-"I'm not--I'm not--resting in strength."
-
-"Oh yes, you are! You are, without knowing it. It's what human beings
-are always doing. They get every kind of good in their lives, and don't
-know the source from which it comes. You won't know to what your
-present actual comfort is due till--"
-
-But the woman rose from her knees, and so did the children. Wiping away
-their tears, they began the preparations for a frugal breakfast. As
-Lester felt the presence that had accompanied him moving from his side
-and enveloping all three in tenderness, he found himself alone with his
-thought again.
-
-There was no shock to him in the fact that, as Molly had expressed it,
-the mortal had put on immortality; he had faced the possibility for too
-long. Ever since the first entraining he had accepted it as an
-eventuality of war. On sailing for France he knew there were increased
-chances against his ever coming home. In the months that followed he
-grew accustomed to death and more or less obtuse to it. He smoked and
-chaffed is the morning with fellows who by noon had gone--who could
-tell where? They used the euphemism of "going west"--into the sunset,
-into the glory, into the great repose. It was the easiest thing to say,
-and many a time he had said it of himself. "By this time next year I
-may have gone west." Then it became: "By this time next month I may
-have gone west." Later it was: "By this time tomorrow--" "Within an
-hour--" "Within half an hour--" "Within ten minutes--" as the seconds
-slipped away.
-
-Well, he had gone west! The odd thing was that he had done it so
-easily, so painlessly. The tedious hours in the trenches faded more or
-less from recollection. The going over the top and all that followed
-after it became nothing but a blur. Even the months in camp, in Texas,
-behind the lines in France, dissolved like vapors when they mount into
-the air. What was present to him most forcibly was the thought of the
-dear ones he had left behind.
-
-His own conditions were entirely a matter of course; he was perfectly
-at home in them. Though he could not have described them, nor have
-given an account of them, he knew that they were pleasant and that they
-were profoundly rooted in nature. He was neither surprised at them nor
-unduly curious.
-
-Neither was he lonely. His sufficiency was such that companionship as
-he had always conceived of it was not a consideration. The condition in
-itself was companionship to a degree he could not understand. It was
-vibrant with life; there was speech in it. Had he been forced to make
-explanations, he would have said there was intelligence in it, and
-comprehension. He let himself sink into the enjoyment of it as a baby
-rests without questioning in the love by which it is enlapped. No; he
-wasn't lonely; he didn't know what loneliness was.
-
-But he felt care--the care for Molly, the fear of the blow that would
-fall on his father and mother and sisters. Now that he knew what had
-happened, his thought fixed itself on finding some way by which he
-could help them.
-
-On this point he wondered why, if the Bavarian could return to his home
-and whisper something of comfort, he could not return to his. Distance
-was not a factor, since it was no part of the universal. Even the gulf
-between the material and the non-material could in a measure be
-crossed. Why, then, could he not cross it?
-
-"Is it because I've been such a bad fellow?" he asked himself.
-
-"Not entirely," the Bavarian answered, as if the words had been
-addressed to him. "It isn't a question of what we've done so much as it
-is of what we know. It's a matter of thought, of consciousness. When
-we've learned that everything exists in a great mind, that mind itself
-becomes the medium of intercourse. Give up the idea that the people you
-love live in one sphere and you in another. We all live together in one
-great intelligence that understands all our needs. Meet your needs not
-by your own efforts, but by co-operation with that intelligence, and
-what you want will be done."
-
-Lester reflected on that. "What do you mean by co-operation?"
-
-"Trust, in the first place--till trust becomes knowledge."
-
-"But if this intelligence knows already what I need--?"
-
-"It will do the wise thing, only you won't be associated with it. What
-you want is the association, to have your part. You don't get your
-part, you don't have the association, because you isolate yourself.
-Your mind is closed to the powers and activities that are all about
-you. When you understand what they are you will have your share in
-them."
-
-"But why should my mind be closed if yours is open?"
-
-"It's a matter of habit. We go on here from the very point at which we
-left off there. I had the habit already. Our life at Oberammergau bred
-it into one. You didn't have it. Your thoughts were limited to a
-physical world and a physical body and a physical way of doing
-everything. Now you have it all to learn, very much as you had in your
-physical childhood."
-
-"Then I'm not being punished for my sins?"
-
-He asked the question in some uneasiness.
-
-"You are. Don't you see? The punishment is that you're not more
-advanced. You've been like the idle boy in school; and now you find it
-hard to catch up. If it were not for the great thing you've done you'd
-be farther behind than you are."
-
-"The great thing I've done? I don't understand you."
-
-"Every good act helps us onward; and among things that are good love is
-the greatest. Of that you've given the highest proof there is."
-
-Lester was astounded.
-
-"I?"
-
-"You gave the most precious things you had--your business, your
-happiness, your family, your wife, your life. You held nothing back.
-You not only gave without reserve, but you gave without complaining.
-You didn't do it for yourself, but for a great cause--as men conceive
-of causes--and you did it of your own free will."
-
-"And so did you."
-
-"No; I waited to be taken. If I hadn't been taken I shouldn't have
-gone. I didn't offer myself up; I was seized against my will. You were
-the more like Jesus of Nazareth, Who laid down His life for His
-friends, and so, as He said Himself, losing your life you have found
-it."
-
-"Oh, but I didn't do it in that way at all," Lester protested.
-
-"It doesn't take anything away from right that we do it as a matter of
-course. We don't have to know the infinite intelligence to have the
-infinite intelligence know us. Isn't it a case of 'He that doeth the
-Will'? If we do the Will instinctively we can't fail of the protection
-of Him whose Will is done; and if we don't know Him already we can be
-sure He will make Himself known."
-
-Communication once more came to an end, not abruptly, but by natural
-cessation, because the thought had been expressed.
-
-But Lester was left with a clue to follow, and little by little he
-followed it. The immediate gain was a new kind of perception. It was as
-if some faculty already possessed, but paralyzed within him, had been
-freed. He could not have said that this endowment existed in hearing,
-or sight, or any of the senses, or in all of them together, or in none
-of them. All he could say was that it gave him a new use of power, of
-power to which he had a right, but of which, for a reason that escaped
-him, he had hitherto been deprived.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER IV
-
-As with this power there came freedom, expansion, and growth, he found
-himself able to reconstruct out of thought the house he had formerly
-called home.
-
-He was back in it all at once--without effort, without coming from a
-distance, without journeying through space, without meeting the
-discords between timelessness and time. He was simply there, walking
-about the rooms and halls as he had done ever since his childhood.
-
-He judged it to be evening, for his father was at home. It was what he,
-Lester, had wanted. His appeal was to be for Molly, that the family
-should pity her, should take her in, should make her one of themselves,
-and help her through the time that was ahead of her. He knew his
-appearing might be a shock to them, but it would be a shock to his
-father least of all.
-
-The father was seated in the dining-room, reading a book by an electric
-lamp. When the supper was cleared away, he could have this room to
-himself. It was a cheerful room, with deep-red curtains drawn, and a
-deep-red cloth on the table. Lester entered without journeying through
-space, much as he had been in the habit of entering all his life. His
-sense of presence, of vitality, was so strong that he wondered his
-father did not look up.
-
-"Father!"
-
-But the father kept on reading.
-
-"Father!"
-
-There was no indication that he had been heard.
-
-He went nearer. He placed himself where he must be seen. He spoke with
-more force.
-
-"Father! I want to talk to you about Molly."
-
-The father turned a page. Lester could hear the rattle of the paper. He
-could hear the little cough when his father cleared his throat. He
-could see the dark shade in his father's cheeks which showed he needed
-shaving. There was nothing about that well-known face obscure or
-unfamiliar; but he could make no sign of his coming that could be
-recognized.
-
-Presently Cora came in and sat down. She began to talk about the book
-in her father's hands. To Lester it was like something on the stage,
-something done by human beings, but not part of life's reality. It
-struck him for the first time that mortal happenings pass in a realm of
-illusion.
-
-From the fact that Cora was in colors he inferred that the news from
-France had not yet reached them.
-
-"Cora," he said, "I want to talk to you about Molly."
-
-"Oh, it's interesting enough," Cora admitted, in response to something
-said by her father, "especially the first part; but so trivial. If the
-dead really do live again I should think they'd find some better
-occupation than playing with a ouija-board."
-
-"A ouija-board," the father argued, "might be only the simplest means
-they can find of getting their messages over."
-
-"Then, since they're so limited in what they can do, why shouldn't they
-tell us something worth our knowing, when they've got the opportunity?
-This boy"--she waved her hand toward the book--"does no more than
-describe the same old life on earth--with variations."
-
-"But perhaps with variations they live the same old life on earth."
-
-"Then I don't want to believe in it." Cora's manner was decisive and
-professional as such manners are depicted by actresses. "As a matter of
-fact," she summed up, "the more I think, and the more I read, the less
-I'm inclined to accept a life beyond the grave as a possibility. Such
-books"--again she indicated that in her father's hand--"express a
-natural human yearning, as do also the myths of the New Testament,
-but--" She left her sentence there. The father, too, left it there, as
-if at heart he agreed with her.
-
-"I wonder where mother is," Lester asked himself, and immediately was
-in her room upstairs.
-
-She was seated before a mirror, trying on a hat. Another hat was on a
-chair beside her. Two bandboxes with a disarray of silver paper stood
-beside her on the floor. Ethelind, short-skirted, and moving with
-nimble, sylphlike feet, was standing back to get the effect.
-
-"I think I like that one the better of the two," she was saying, "and
-yet I don't know but--"
-
-"Oh, they're awful, both of them," the mother complained. "It's funny I
-can never get a hat that suits me but the same old thing."
-
-Lester went forward. He meant that she should see him first in the
-mirror. The reflection would startle her, of course, but he should be
-able to reassure her.
-
-It was he who was startled first, since, standing before the mirror, he
-didn't get his own reflection. He felt so solid, so warm, so full of
-energy, that it seemed to him impossible that a reflection should not
-be cast. But there was nothing--nothing but the image of his mother
-casting her bright eyes up at the cockatoo crest on a hat that
-suggested a Mephistopheles.
-
-"Mother, I want to talk to you about Molly."
-
-"Oh, dear, what an old hag I'm beginning to look!"
-
-"Oh no, you're not, mother dear," Ethelind returned, cheerfully.
-"That's just worry. One of these days the war will be over and he'll be
-coming back a great general--"
-
-"What's the use of the war being over and his coming back a great
-general, when that creature will have the first say in him?"
-
-Ethelind came behind her mother, to give the hat a twitch to a more
-effective angle.
-
-"Mother dear, I don't believe he'd like to have you talk in that way."
-
-Lester appealed to his sister.
-
-"Ethelind, I want you to help me. I want you all to think of Molly. I'm
-not coming home; but I'm well and happy. That is, I could be happy if I
-only knew that she was being taken care of and that you were good to
-her."
-
-But Ethelind only twitched the hat again, and the subject dropped. As
-it did a curtain seemed to come down on the scenes that had meant home
-to him, once more suggesting the action of a play.
-
-There followed for Lester a further phase of unfolding thought, though
-with no solution of some of his perplexities.
-
-"But it's always so," the Bavarian explained to him. "We can go to them
-more easily than they can come to us. The spiritual can to some slight
-degree re-embody the material; but spiritual things are only
-spiritually discerned. Jesus of Nazareth after His Resurrection could
-at times reincarnate Himself before His disciples; but they could not
-spiritualize themselves so as to follow Him when He disappeared. That
-can only be accomplished in proportion as they lay off the mortal and
-temporary by degrees, or burst out of it with a bound, as you and I
-did."
-
-And yet in Lester's consciousness the vibrancy of life in his
-surroundings grew more tense. It was as if he were rising and ever
-rising on a mounting wave of vitality, but always riding on the top.
-Something like this energy he had felt in running, or rowing, or
-swimming, or on horseback, or in one or another of the sports in which
-he had excelled; but never with this joyousness of strength. The
-physical had given some sign of it, though it had been no more than as
-the single note of a shepherd's pipe to the fullness of an orchestra,
-or as the tramp of a lone step to the onrush of a million men.
-
-And in one such swelling, exultant, glorious moment he came where Molly
-was in her little living-room in the apartment with a kitchenette. She
-was sitting at a table, with two or three books before her. One of them
-was open and to it from time to time she dropped her eyes. She raised
-them soon again to look straight into the air, as if she saw beyond
-walls into the reality where he was. There was no trouble in her eyes,
-nor sorrow, nor anxiety. In every feature there was peace, with the
-look of expectation.
-
-He did not try at once to enter into communication with her. It was
-enough for him to study the pure face with its expression of repose.
-But he followed her thought as her eyes fell to the page of the book
-again. It was as if he were reading the words himself:
-
-
-"And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
-sins. . . . If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
-men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become
-the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by
-man came also the resurrection of the dead."
-
-
-She lifted her eyes and reflected on that. He drew nearer, bending over
-and about her.
-
-"Molly, I'm here."
-
-He saw her expression brighten. It was almost as if she had said, "Yes,
-I know."
-
-"I want you to know, darling, that I'm not coming home."
-
-Whatever was passing through her mind, she nodded, though no shade fell
-on her bright face.
-
-"I'm well," he continued. "You must think of me as happy and as taken
-care of."
-
-Again there was that nod, as if she assented to something she had
-heard. Presently she began to read again:
-
-
-"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to
-God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all
-authority and power. For he must reign, all he hath put all enemies
-under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
-
-
-"That enemy is destroyed, Molly. I've proved it. There's no death;
-there's nothing but life. There's not even a shock, or a minute of
-unhappiness. There's nothing but life, and then more life, and then
-life again. I was never so alive as I am at this instant, or so capable
-of doing things. Except for you, Molly, sweet one, and the baby that's
-coming, and the family, I wouldn't go back."
-
-If her eyes grew grave it was with thought and not with foreboding. She
-returned once more to her book:
-
-
-"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
-put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on
-incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall
-be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
-victory."
-
-
-"Yes," he said to her, "that is what has happened to me. Death has been
-swallowed up in victory. If strength and energy and safety and joy
-constitute victory, then I'm victorious. If it were not for you, O my
-love--"
-
-But she closed her book suddenly and rose. As she did so he could hear
-the words she uttered, almost aloud.
-
-"I must do that," she said, with determination. "It's what he'd like. I
-must take it on myself."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER V
-
-He lost her for a while, and when he saw her again she was in the open
-air. He was with her, though not exactly by her side. As far as he
-could judge he was both leading her and following after her. He was
-above her, and also holding her hand. If he could have been everywhere
-about her at one and the same instant, it was that.
-
-It seemed to be Sunday. There was no work going on in the streets, and
-there was the Sunday air of leisure. Molly walked rapidly, her eyes
-toward the ground. Her whole little figure expressed concentration of
-purpose.
-
-He knew the suburb. The shady streets, the trim green lawns, the low
-stone walls with vines tumbling over them, the wooden houses painted
-for the most part in dull tones of red and yellow, were those with
-which he had always been familiar. High on a knoll he saw the deep
-verandas of his own old home. Molly did not hesitate. She turned in at
-the gate.
-
-There was a short driveway, between clumps of shrubbery and under elms.
-At a sudden turning she met Ethelind. The two girls stopped and looked
-at each other as they came face to face.
-
-"You're Ethelind, aren't you?" Molly said, without trembling or
-awkwardness.
-
-Ethelind's wild eyes were all ablaze.
-
-"Yes, and you're Molly. I'm--I'm so glad you've come. I've wanted to
-know you. I was coming one day to see you--I don't care what any one
-says. I know it's what my brother would want me to do. We--we miss him
-so."
-
-"Thank you," Molly said, with a gentle smile. "I'm glad you thought of
-me so kindly. Just now there's something I want to say to your father
-or mother. Do you think either of them would see me?"
-
-Ethelind's face fell.
-
-"I--I can't say--for sure. They're--Oh, I don't know!--But my brother--"
-
-"Yes, I know all that; but this is something important."
-
-The girl seized the sister-in-law's arm. "It--it isn't--anything
-you've--you've heard?"
-
-"It's nothing I've heard; it's only something that I feel I know."
-
-But they had been seen from the window. The mother came running out,
-all her gay audacity transformed, as a lamp is transformed when,
-instead of giving light, it becomes the center of conflagration.
-
-"Oh, what is it? What is it?" she cried, as she hurried toward them.
-
-"It's nothing very definite, Mrs. Lester," Molly replied, calmly. "It's
-only something I feel so strongly that--"
-
-"Oh, feel!" Mrs. Lester exclaimed, impatiently. "Don't frighten us with
-feelings when--"
-
-"Is Mr. Lester in? I should like to talk to him as well."
-
-The mother led the way toward the house. Molly followed, Ethelind
-clinging to her arm. It did not occur to any of them that no farther
-explanation had been made as to who Molly was. That seemed to take
-itself for granted.
-
-The father was in the hall at the foot of the stairs. Cora was coming
-down them. Both had been summoned by the sense of something wrong.
-Molly went straight to her husband's father.
-
-"Oh, I want to tell you, Mr. Lester; I feel I have a message."
-
-"Feel you have a message?" he echoed, with a kind of tremulous
-severity. "What do you mean by that?"
-
-"I don't know what I mean; only this morning he--he seemed to come and
-stand beside me--"
-
-"Nonsense!" It was Cora who said that, from the position in which she
-had come to a standstill half-way down the stairs. To Molly she seemed
-very magisterial and commanding. "Nonsense!" she repeated. "This is
-pure nervousness--or hysterics."
-
-"No, it isn't, Miss Lester," Molly contradicted, not rudely, but with
-imploring earnestness. "I'm sure he did come. He spoke to me.
-_Something_ spoke to me."
-
-"Did you hear anything?" the mother demanded.
-
-"No, it wasn't in words; or if it was in words it was only as it turned
-itself into words in my own mind. It was more like--like a
-conviction--an intense conviction--that came to me from outside."
-
-"And what did your conviction say?" Cora inquired, icily.
-
-"It said-- Oh, you must forgive me!--I shouldn't come if I didn't feel
-it so strongly!--It's as hard for me as it is for you--"
-
-The father backed away to the baluster. His face had grown gray. The
-mother dropped to a hall chair. Ethelind was crying already, but
-standing by as if to give aid. Cora was still commanding and severe. It
-was she who interrupted.
-
-"Yes; we understand all that. But tell us what you've come to say."
-
-Under this authority and severity Molly began to grow nervous. She
-clasped and unclasped her hands, sometimes twisting her fingers.
-
-"You see, it was this way. I was reading the Bible and--and
-thinking--and trying to understand what it meant---when all at once
-he--he seemed to be with me--and to be saying things."
-
-"What sort of things?"
-
-"I don't exactly know, Miss Lester. I knew he was there--and that he
-was telling me how beautiful it was with him--but I can't explain how
-he made me understand it--"
-
-"No," Cora interrupted again, "nobody ever can explain. Once they get
-notions into their heads, they seem to think explanations are not
-important." She came down to the second lowest step, but still stood
-over the trembling young wife in her attitude of authority. "This is
-all nerves, my dear--and excitement. The book you were reading--oh,
-yes, it's a very good book, and full of the wisdom of the ages and all
-that!--But it reacted on you in such a way that you've conjured up
-these frightening things--"
-
-"But I'm not frightened at all," Molly burst out. "That's the wonderful
-part of it. If he hadn't come and told me beforehand, and made me feel
-how happy he is, I should have been. But I'm not now; and I don't want
-you to be. That's why I came."
-
-"Yes; no doubt," Miss Lester agreed, coldly. "But now that you've come,
-you'll do well to run home again and try to calm yourself and be
-sensible. If my brother has been"--she stumbled at the word, but forced
-herself to utter it--"if my brother has been--k-killed--we shall hear
-of it from the proper authorities."
-
-"Cora, that's not fair," Ethelind cried, indignantly. "Molly's come
-over here to warn us, and even if she's wrong--" She broke off to make
-another sort of appeal. "Father, can't you say something? Here's your
-son's wife--the mother of the child he's expecting--"
-
-But Mrs. Lester rose, still clinging to her chair.
-
-"If this is a ruse for getting into our house and making our
-acquaintance whether we would or no--"
-
-"Mother, how can you?" came from Ethelind. "You deserve that your son
-should never be given back to you. Father, can't you say anything at
-all?"
-
-But what the father did say was uttered brokenly. "I don't--I don't
-believe it. He's not--not dead. She's come here to get us to own
-her--to take her in--"
-
-"And if we don't," Ethelind cried, "and she goes away again, I'll go
-with her. Whether he comes back or not I shall be there."
-
-It was extraordinary to Lester that he could look on at this scene
-without conscious pain. It Was exactly as if he had watched them
-rehearsing a play in which emotions were simulated but not experienced.
-When the rehearsal was over they would become their actual selves
-again. Beyond hardness, and suffering, and misunderstanding he could
-see the end.
-
-He could see the end as Molly cast an imploring look around her and
-prepared to depart. Ethelind, who was already in street clothes, gave
-all the signs of going with her. Over them both Lester threw the
-protection of his love, which apparently gave them nerve. Neither of
-them flinched; but it was in Molly that the real valor shone. She was
-both quiet and firm as she took her few steps toward the door, Ethelind
-clinging to her arm.
-
-But at the door there was a ring, and on the porch outside there stood
-a boy with a telegram in his hand.
-
-"Charles E. Lester live here?"
-
-Ethelind seized the envelope, while with feverish fingers Cora signed
-for it. The father took it in his hands and held it helplessly.
-
-The mother uttered one great cry.
-
-"Open it!"
-
-He opened it--read it--and let it flutter to the floor.
-
-Cora snatched it up; but she, too, dropped it after a hurried glance.
-She stood as if turned to stone.
-
-The mother took it--sat down deliberately--read it carefully--read it
-again--read it again--and folding it, slipped it into the bosom of her
-gown.
-
-Molly and Ethelind had not waited. They had not needed to hear the
-news. Rather they were eager to run away. It was Molly, however, who
-pressed onward, dragging the other with her--out to the porch--down the
-steps--on to the driveway.
-
-The three in the hallway remained as if paralyzed, without tears,
-without words, seemingly without thoughts.
-
-The mother came first to the possession of her faculties.
-
-"Stop her," she cried, in a deep, tragic voice a little like a man's.
-"Stop her. Bring her back." She struggled to her feet, hurrying toward
-the door. "She's my dead son's wife. He spoke to her. He's not dead.
-He's alive. If he wasn't alive he couldn't have come to her. Stop her.
-Call her back. She's my child. Nothing shall take her away from me."
-
-Lester saw the two girls pause, while Ethelind whispered:
-
-"Go back. She's calling you."
-
-Slowly Molly turned round. Slowly she mounted the steps of the veranda.
-The vision faded out as Lester saw his mother's arms go round the neck
-of his young wife and draw her close.
-
-But it faded out in radiance. It also faded out in confidence. He was
-not only at peace, he was at peace with the certainty of a vast
-readjustment.
-
-It was readjustment in himself first of all--the adaptation of the
-"fan" at ball-games, and of the broker of The Street, to the eternities
-of which he could just discern the beginnings.
-
-Then it would be the readjustment of his family--to each other--to
-Molly--to their memory of him. A new kind of tenderness would settle
-down among them with a new and farther outlook.
-
-It would be the readjustment, too, of his country--to a new
-world-position--to a wider world responsibility. In the ending of
-enmities it would play a ruling part.
-
-And it would be the readjustment of nations to nations, and of men to
-men. The blind hatreds that had hurled him against the Bavarian and the
-Bavarian against him would cease. Their folly would be recognized. Of
-the blood that had been shed, and was still to be shed, this would be
-the recompense. It would be shed to its highest purpose when it should
-be shown that it had been shed in vain.
-
-Soon those who were in the turmoil that mortals create for one another
-would have come west like himself--into the sunset, into the glory,
-into the great repose. They would come into the great activities, too,
-where work never ceases, and strength never tires, and love never
-wanes. And as he turned into the radiance he felt content to wait
-patiently for that.
-
-
-THE END
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-<p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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-<p class="t3">
-  <span class="smcap">Books by</span><br />
-<br />
-  BASIL KING<br />
-<br />
-  GOING WEST<br />
-  THE CITY OF COMRADES<br />
-  ABRAHAM'S BOSOM<br />
-  THE LIFTED VEIL<br />
-  THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS<br />
-  THE LETTER OF THE CONTRACT<br />
-  THE WAY HOME<br />
-  THE WILD OLIVE<br />
-  THE INNER SHRINE<br />
-  THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT<br />
-  LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER<br />
-  IN THE GARDEN OF CHARITY<br />
-  THE STEPS OF HONOR<br />
-  THE HIGH HEART<br />
-<br />
-  HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, NEW YORK<br />
-  <span class="smcap">Established 1817</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="illustration">
-<a id="img-front"></a>
-<img src="images/img-front.jpg" alt="Frontispiece" />
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-
-<h1>
-<br /><br />
-  GOING WEST<br />
-</h1>
-
-<p class="t3b">
-  By<br />
-</p>
-
-<p class="t2">
-  Basil King<br />
-</p>
-
-<p class="t4">
-  <i>Author of<br />
-  "The City of Comrades" "Abraham's Bosom" etc.</i><br />
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="t3">
-  HARPER &amp; BROTHERS PUBLISHERS<br />
-  NEW YORK AND LONDON<br />
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="t4">
-  <span class="smcap">Going West</span><br />
-<br />
-  Copyright, 1919, by Harper &amp; Brothers<br />
-  Printed in the United States of America<br />
-  Published June, 1919<br />
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="t3">
-GOING WEST
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="t2">
-GOING WEST
-</p>
-
-<p><br /></p>
-
-<h3>
-CHAPTER I
-</h3>
-
-<p>
-He was not a born fighter, in spite of a
-big, husky frame through which the
-urge of physical life was strong. On the
-contrary, he was a civilian and a business
-man in every nerve of his body. Eight
-generations on American soil had bred a type
-essentially industrious, notwithstanding all
-the fighting in which the family had been
-engaged. His father had fought in the
-Spanish-American War; his grandfather in
-the Civil War; his great-great-grandfather
-in the Revolution; farther back, his ancestors
-in the Connecticut Valley had beaten off the
-French and Indians for nearly a hundred
-years.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-All that, however, had been alien to the
-main purposes of life. It had been incidental,
-not professional. Its chief influence on Lester
-lay in the assumption that, men being
-called for on the borders of Texas and in
-Mexico, he had no choice but to go. True,
-he was just beginning, after certain wayward
-years, to see success as a broker ahead of
-him; and within the month he had become
-engaged to Molly Dove. But these considerations
-could not weigh against the appeal
-of country, nor annul those traditions of duty
-that had come to him from the past.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-So in the course of time, and with the
-march of events, he found himself in the
-enemy trenches, facing a burly blue-eyed
-Teuton holding a rifle by the barrel and
-swinging the butt about his head, while he
-himself held a bayonet in his hand. Amid
-the wreckage, the carnage, the tumult, he
-was desperately trying to recall his instructions
-as to how to stick the weapon in.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Before telling what happened then, let us
-go back and follow rapidly the stages by
-which Lester found himself in a situation
-which two or three years earlier he would
-have laughed out of the list of possibilities.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The son of a well-to-do bookseller in a
-great Atlantic city, he was an instance of that
-reaction against the paternal bent with which
-we are all familiar. His father was a gentle,
-scholarly man who loved books as books.
-The Spanish-American campaign had left
-him with one leg slightly shorter than the
-other, and the air of a retired general. All
-his longings had once focused themselves into
-the hope that his son would enter into, and
-one day inherit, a business built up on years
-of diligence and judgment&mdash;only to be disappointed.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester had no interest in books. He was
-not only an open-air fellow with a zest for
-sports, but he had all the inclinations of a
-genial, jovial soul. Taking wine, women, and
-song as kindred joys, he chose brokerage as
-the profession that would give him closest
-touch with the merry give and take of life.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-As a broker he could steal all the time he
-needed to "root" at games, after he had
-ceased to play them actively, while the same
-career rendered him more free to marry a girl
-like Molly Dove, a waitress in the café where
-he generally lunched, to whom his family
-bitterly objected.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-His mother was a small, square-shouldered
-woman, with a smile so bright that it was
-difficult for the most penetrating eye to see
-behind it. Lester had inherited her dark
-color, her beetling brows, and her vigorous
-physique. A gay audacity, as real as it
-looked, was also not the least among the
-legacies she passed on to her son.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Of his two sisters, Cora resembled the
-father and Ethelind the mother. Ethelind,
-too, had that gay audacity, the most patent
-result of which was to involve her in conflicting
-love-affairs. A wild-eyed thing, she
-was formed on that permanent-seventeen
-model that came in with the second decade
-of the twentieth century and induced all
-women, whatever their time of life, to dress
-as school-girls. Cora, tall, dignified, reserved,
-was the graduate of a woman's college,
-in which it was her ambition one day to
-hold a professorship. To sisters as well as
-parents the stalwart, wilful boy would have
-been the king among young men had it not
-been for his entanglement with Molly Dove.
-They could pardon his "wildness," knowing
-that it would pass, but they found it hard to
-forgive his choice of a wife in a sphere so
-much below him. In fact, they did not
-pardon it at all. In spite of his announcement
-that the engagement had become definite,
-no one responded to his invitation to
-make the acquaintance of the girl.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the matter of his "wildness" there were
-already stirrings of a change of heart,
-though they hardly rose to the level of active
-consciousness. Such reforms as he made were
-avowedly in deference to Molly Dove. In
-cutting out&mdash;the term was his&mdash;women, wine,
-and song, he made it clear to himself that
-he did it, not in obedience to a moral law, but
-because "Molly asked him to." Molly held
-the odd conviction that such indulgences were
-wrong, chiefly because they came in between
-him and a great mystery, of which he had
-heard vaguely all his life, but from which instinctively
-he turned his mind away.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"There's really no mystery at all," she
-asserted, in that pretty way of hers which he
-found at once tranquil and enthusiastic, "no
-more than there's a mystery about the sun.
-When we fill the atmosphere with smoke we
-can't see it; but that doesn't keep the sun
-from being there. Blow the smoke away,
-and you find the sunshine as bright as
-ever."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He liked to hear her talk in that way,
-though he was not won by her beliefs. Far
-in the future he saw days when he would
-have shot the bolt of his temptations and
-settled down with her into being the "good
-fellow" she hoped to make of him. In the
-mean time&mdash;
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But in the mean time came the call. It was
-the kind of call against which his instincts
-and his interests both rebelled, but he took it
-with no more analysis than he gave to the
-necessity of getting out of bed on a winter's
-morning. There was no help for it; it was
-all in the day's work.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-His family took it in the same way. It
-was as much a matter of course as when
-Ebenezer Lester shouldered his eighteenth-century
-musket to defend the stockade
-against the Iroquois stealing down from
-Canada. It was as much a matter of course
-as when Charles E. Lester, the bookseller,
-rallied to President McKinley against Spain.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It was also a matter of course to Molly
-Dove. It would postpone the wedding for
-which she had begun her simple preparations,
-but she had a curious, secret facility for renouncing
-her own will. Her right-about-face
-was made with smiling lips and glistening
-eyes, and no effort that any one could see.
-To Lester she whispered:
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It's going to be all right, dear. Whatever
-the clash of human wills, there's only one real
-Ruler in the universe. The closer we can
-keep in touch with Him the nearer we shall
-be to the usefulness and happiness which
-make up what we call our destiny."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"That's all very well." He smiled, patting
-her hand. "But suppose I'm shot&mdash;or die
-of a fever?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Her reply would have staggered him if he
-had not put it down to the sweet and charming
-eccentricity which made her different
-from other girls.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Well, suppose it does happen that in the
-course of doing your duty this mortal
-should 'put on immortality'&mdash;that's the way
-the Bible expresses it, you know&mdash;wouldn't
-that be a gain for you? And what's a gain
-for you couldn't be a loss for us."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He laughed with a great guffaw. "But
-perhaps we shouldn't be married."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"No; but marriage, after all, is only for
-time, whereas you and I are bound by all
-sorts of ties which really belong to eternity."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He took no stock in that, he told her; but
-he liked her gleaming earnestness in saying
-it. The aunt who had brought her up must
-have been a quaint, religious character, he
-said, to have filled her head with such other-worldly
-notions. Anyhow, they were different
-from the anxiety and fear which the
-family hid behind their stoic calmness, and
-of which he felt the twinges within himself
-as he wound up his affairs.
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<h3>
-CHAPTER II
-</h3>
-
-<p>
-It was at the time when the possibility of
-a war with Mexico&mdash;or any war at all&mdash;struck
-the imagination of the country as a
-calamity too horrible to contemplate. There
-was no question as to the victory, but neither
-was there a question as to the price that
-would be paid for it. Men&mdash;young men&mdash;young
-Americans, O God!&mdash;would be killed&mdash;actually
-killed. Fellows whose places were
-in shops and offices and factories and banks,
-whose diversions were the stadium, the sea-shore,
-or the woods, would be called on to
-make the extreme sacrifice at a time when
-sacrifice of any kind was being pooh-poohed.
-It was not only monstrous, it was unnatural,
-a trend of events in the teeth of fate, and
-against what one might reasonably call the
-manifest will of God. Lester knew that his
-family were feeling this, though they never
-mentioned it; he was feeling it himself.
-Molly Dove alone seemed to ride on the
-wave of events like a sea-bird on a storm,
-cradled, rocked, at ease in her element, secure,
-serene, sure of both present and ultimate
-good, whatever might befall.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-So there came a Sunday when, after a mid-day
-dinner, the family accompanied him to
-the station and he entrained for camp. He
-had said good-by to Molly Dove during the
-forenoon. As no advance had been made to
-her from the Lester side, she could make none
-on hers, and so judged it wisest to keep out
-of sight. Her sweet self-effacement in doing
-this made Lester swear that he would marry
-her at the first opportunity, as he steamed
-away on this opening stage of what was to
-prove his long, long, long way.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-That way, at the beginning, struck many
-people as a tortuous, futile way, leading no-whither.
-There was talk of saluting the flag;
-there was the occupation of Vera Cruz; there
-was the withdrawal from Vera Cruz; there
-were months when the daily head-lines bore
-the names Huerta, Villa, Carranza; and few
-knew for what reason the young men did not
-come home.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Then home they began to come, chiefly on
-furlough, to be sent elsewhere. During one
-such interval Lester married Molly Dove. It
-meant a breach with his family, none of
-whom appeared at the simple ceremony or
-took any steps to acknowledge the bride.
-He was compelled to leave her within a
-month.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the mean while greater wars than any
-possibility with Mexico had broken out, and
-the iron entered the whole world's soul. It
-was only then that the end of the road on
-which Lester had started out that Sunday
-when he had entrained came into sight&mdash;and
-he sailed for France.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-His life after that could scarcely be distinguished
-from hundreds of thousands of
-other lives. One overruling need had bound
-the manhood of the race into a solidarity so
-tense that the individual was swallowed up
-in it. Lester was no longer a son, a brother,
-a husband, the father of a coming baby; he
-was an infinitesimal part of a huge machine,
-with no more to say in matters of his life and
-death than the wheel to the man who turns
-it round. He could only turn; he could only
-turn as he was told; he could only turn as
-millions of other wheels were turning, without
-volition, without knowledge, and, to a
-degree that surprised him, without much
-preference or choice.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In minutes when conscious of himself he
-could see how little he was the Lester of other
-days. When he woke up in the morning it
-was often with a strange, dull wonder as to
-what he had become, and how and why he
-had become it. It was like a rebirth&mdash;only
-it suggested a rebirth into hell. In fits of
-moral nausea, after some phase of a "good
-time," at any date within the past ten years,
-he had called down on himself some such fate
-as that; but he had never looked for it so literally,
-and right here on earth.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The inevitable came at last. By stages
-such as have often been described, he found
-himself in that section of the trenches known
-to its occupants as Dead Cow Lane. Life
-there was much as he expected it to be, though
-possibly not quite so bad. Its worst feature
-was in the long, dull hours it allowed for
-thinking. He loathed sitting on the fire-step
-with nothing but a slouch, a grouch, and the
-wit of his mates to keep him company.
-All that was humanly repulsive he learned to
-endure; but when he lounged idly on the fire-step,
-one leg swung across the other, and a
-dead cigarette between his lips, he ate his heart
-out. Molly, waiting for her baby, in a tiny
-apartment with a kitchenette, was a vision
-against a background of eyes that seemed to
-watch for him. His father's were grave; his
-mother's steely; Cora's earnest; Ethelind's
-wild. They looked down at him, right there
-in Dead Cow Lane, in a vigil that made him
-frantic. When the command came at last
-to go over the top it brought with it not only
-terror, but a break in the monotony.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-What happened then was also along the
-lines he had been prepared for. So many
-tales had been told him, and he had listened
-with such eagerness that, from the minute
-of going up the death-ladder, he seemed to
-have been through it all before. Everything
-went as if it had been rehearsed. He had
-the lonely feeling on finding himself in the
-open other men had described to him. As
-he ran through the lanes of barbed wire
-his agony of haste was neither more nor less
-than theirs. The "p'&mdash;p'&mdash;p'&mdash;p'&mdash;p'&mdash;p'"
-of the machine-guns; the crackling of bullets
-through the air; the tottering and falling of
-his comrades, throwing up their arms and
-tumbling clumsily on backs or faces, were all
-as if by rule. He had no more consciousness
-than that. He was neither brave nor afraid;
-he was only numb. It was something to be
-done, and he was doing it. He might have
-been doing it in his sleep&mdash;in a nightmare.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-On reaching the German trench, which
-the barrage fire had crumpled into a welter
-of earth, cement, timbers, uniforms, dead
-and wounded men, and pots and pans, he
-practically tumbled in. There was no horror
-in the minute, because horror has its limits
-and this had passed beyond them. A
-wounded German was crawling away to anything
-that would shelter him, and in order
-to scramble up Lester had to step on the
-man's head. The head gave way, with an
-oath or a groan, but Lester managed to keep
-his feet. All round him there was shouting
-and yelling and cursing, and now and then a
-demoniac laugh. Every American was trying
-to kill his German, and the Germans were
-at bay. Lester, too, was trying to kill. The
-infection had caught him. Out of the blank,
-out of the numbness, out of the paralysis of the
-spirit in which he had run across No Man's
-Land, something surged up of which he
-had no time to take account. It didn't wait
-for him to take account of it. It seized him
-with a maddening pang&mdash;a hate to which
-he had never supposed his nature could
-be equal&mdash;a hate welling up from the
-depths of his subconscious self&mdash;a hate of
-the enemy&mdash;a hate of the German&mdash;a hate
-of the very first individual who came his
-way&mdash;with a wild accompanying frenzy to
-stick his bayonet in a heart. "Give 'em
-hell," were the words with which he had
-been sent over, and all his life and all his
-longings and all his love were fused in one
-red flame to deal out hell as it had been
-dealt out to him.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-How he found himself face to face with a
-big, blond Bavarian, whose blue eyes danced
-with a kind of bloodshot fire as he swung
-the butt of his rifle like a club about his head,
-there is no way of telling. It was one of those
-instances which war supplies by the million
-in which world-rancors, race-rancors, and
-the suppressed irritations of thousands of
-years sum themselves up in the hearts of
-two men who have no personal quarrel and
-who have never set eyes on each other before.
-It was like an unescapable destiny.
-The American broker and the peasant-actor
-of Oberammergau had been projected toward
-each other by an irresistible fate. Behind
-each were all the generations of rivalry
-and covetousness and savagery and sin that
-had sent him forth. Neither was moved by
-his own impulse. Each was but an instrument
-of the passions of the past.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester was not sure whether or not he saw
-double&mdash;whether or not there were two Bavarians
-swinging the butts of their rifles, or
-only one. Those who told the story afterward
-were in similar doubt. Some declared
-for two; some for one only; some saw three
-or four in that corner of the trench. In any
-case Lester had found his man; and no
-emotion he had ever known was half so
-sweet as this anguish of pain to get him.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Those who told the story afterward laughed
-as they pictured Lester dancing this way
-and that to avoid the descending club and
-slip his bayonet in under it. He dodged,
-they said, as if he were on springs.
-Time and time again the Bavarian seemed
-about to sweep him with a blow to the other
-end of the trench&mdash;but no! Lester was
-prancing as nimbly as ever, watchful, alert,
-his aim always at the heart. No one could
-tell how long this went on, for all observation
-was crazed. The only thing known for certain
-was that in the end Lester got his weapon
-in&mdash;and in&mdash;and in&mdash;to the hilt&mdash;to the
-heart&mdash;and that if he had had time to go
-through the thick body he would have done it.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He didn't have time, and it was here that
-the testimony was in conflict. One man
-paid that the Bavarian was able to deal a last
-blow with superhuman strength. Another
-declared that a second Bavarian dealt it.
-Of those who came back some supported one
-of these assertions, and some the other; but
-there was no difference of opinion at all on
-the point that Lester's skull was cracked with
-a sound like that of a breaking egg-shell. His
-body and his opponent's lay tumbled together
-in a fierce embrace&mdash;the one with a surprised
-horror in the wide-open blue eyes,
-while the other&mdash;but they only said of Lester
-that his face was "all bashed in."
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<h3>
-CHAPTER III
-</h3>
-
-<p>
-Lester's face was "all bashed in," but
-Lester himself didn't know it. The last
-thing he remembered was the queer, soft,
-mushy feeling as his bayonet pierced the
-Bavarian's uniform and entered his body.
-His next sensation was that of an emotion,
-a confused emotion, of sorrow, pity, or disgust.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-At first it seemed all that had survived.
-He himself was safe&mdash;somewhere&mdash;and the
-Bavarian had died. He didn't try to move,
-or open his eyes, or seek to find out to what
-place they had carried him; he was too comfortable
-for that. But&mdash;a man toward whom
-he had no enmity on his own account, who
-was also perhaps a husband, with a little wife
-waiting for a baby in an apartment with a
-kitchenette, that man lay dead, with his,
-Lester's, bayonet wound in his heart. He
-was sorry. He remembered his hate; he remembered
-his passion to kill; he knew it as a
-blend of all the vengeances that had been
-stirring in his blood since Belgium had been
-invaded, and the <i>Lusitania</i> had been sunk,
-and the awful things had begun to pile upon
-the awful things; but it was a vengeance that
-began to seem to him beside the mark. It
-was the kind of revenge man didn't know
-how to take; the kind of justice he didn't
-know how to mete out. The innocent were
-being punished for the guilty, as if a child
-were hanged because a man had committed
-a crime. He couldn't say that he reproached
-himself for his part in that; he knew he had
-been acting on orders from above; but he
-was conscious of a deep regret that the world
-should have grown so stupid that such things
-had to be.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Otherwise he was resting. He supposed
-that he must have been wounded, though he
-could feel no pain. Oddly enough, when he
-tested himself for pain he didn't know where
-to begin. But it was his own immunity, his
-sense of well-being and security, that sent
-his thought the more persistently toward
-the man he had kept from ever returning
-home.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Trying to fancy what that home was like,
-he found himself, suddenly but naturally,
-in a village street, of which the bordering
-houses, of plaster and timber, had low roofs
-and picturesque eaves. All round there were
-mountains.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"This is Oberammergau," he heard in a
-language he understood. "Here is my home.
-Let us go in."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-They entered without the opening of doors,
-coming into a room with rafters, small windows,
-and an air of antiquity. A woman
-was kneeling beside a bed above which hung
-a carved wooden crucifix. On each side of
-her knelt a quaintly dressed child, with hands
-stiffly pressed together.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"That is my wife," said the voice. "Those
-are my children. They're praying for me
-and asking that I shall come home."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Should you have liked to go home?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It seemed natural to Lester to ask this
-question. Everything seemed so natural that
-he had not yet reached the point of inquiring
-how it had come about. The Bavarian reflected.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I should have liked it before knowing
-what this is. I should like it even now, for
-their sakes. But since death has to be destroyed
-in us one at a time it's better for us
-to be here, don't you think?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester began to be startled. "Here?
-Where?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Wherever it is we are. I don't quite
-know where that is. Do you? I'm speaking,"
-he continued, "in the old terms of place in
-the sense of locality, because I don't know
-what else to do; but locality, of course, is
-gone. We're in the universal, which makes
-it difficult for us, after being used to so many
-limitations, to understand ourselves."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester was aware of fear, awe, and irritation
-all struggling in him together.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"You may be in the universal, as you call
-it; but&mdash;but I've come through."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"We've both come through. The marvel
-is that we've done it so easily. It's as I
-expected&mdash;only more so."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"As you expected&mdash;in what way?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Every way; all my life. When your barrage
-fire began I prayed&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Do you fellows <i>pray</i>?" Lester asked, in
-astonishment.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, some of us&mdash;what we used to call
-prayer&mdash;the sort of thing my poor wife and
-children are doing now&mdash;begging&mdash;pleading
-that this or that shall be done&mdash;instead of
-resting in strength, as you and I are."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I'm not&mdash;I'm not&mdash;resting in strength."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh yes, you are! You are, without knowing
-it. It's what human beings are always
-doing. They get every kind of good in their
-lives, and don't know the source from which
-it comes. You won't know to what your
-present actual comfort is due till&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But the woman rose from her knees, and
-so did the children. Wiping away their tears,
-they began the preparations for a frugal
-breakfast. As Lester felt the presence that
-had accompanied him moving from his side
-and enveloping all three in tenderness, he
-found himself alone with his thought again.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There was no shock to him in the fact that,
-as Molly had expressed it, the mortal had put
-on immortality; he had faced the possibility
-for too long. Ever since the first entraining
-he had accepted it as an eventuality of war.
-On sailing for France he knew there were
-increased chances against his ever coming
-home. In the months that followed he grew
-accustomed to death and more or less obtuse
-to it. He smoked and chaffed is the morning
-with fellows who by noon had gone&mdash;who
-could tell where? They used the euphemism
-of "going west"&mdash;into the sunset,
-into the glory, into the great repose. It was
-the easiest thing to say, and many a time he
-had said it of himself. "By this time next
-year I may have gone west." Then it became:
-"By this time next month I may have
-gone west." Later it was: "By this time tomorrow&mdash;"
-"Within an hour&mdash;" "Within
-half an hour&mdash;" "Within ten minutes&mdash;"
-as the seconds slipped away.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Well, he had gone west! The odd thing
-was that he had done it so easily, so painlessly.
-The tedious hours in the trenches
-faded more or less from recollection. The
-going over the top and all that followed after
-it became nothing but a blur. Even the
-months in camp, in Texas, behind the lines
-in France, dissolved like vapors when they
-mount into the air. What was present to
-him most forcibly was the thought of the
-dear ones he had left behind.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-His own conditions were entirely a matter
-of course; he was perfectly at home in them.
-Though he could not have described them, nor
-have given an account of them, he knew that
-they were pleasant and that they were profoundly
-rooted in nature. He was neither
-surprised at them nor unduly curious.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Neither was he lonely. His sufficiency
-was such that companionship as he had always
-conceived of it was not a consideration.
-The condition in itself was companionship to
-a degree he could not understand. It was vibrant
-with life; there was speech in it. Had
-he been forced to make explanations, he
-would have said there was intelligence in it,
-and comprehension. He let himself sink into
-the enjoyment of it as a baby rests without
-questioning in the love by which it is enlapped.
-No; he wasn't lonely; he didn't
-know what loneliness was.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But he felt care&mdash;the care for Molly, the
-fear of the blow that would fall on his father
-and mother and sisters. Now that he knew
-what had happened, his thought fixed itself
-on finding some way by which he could help
-them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-On this point he wondered why, if the Bavarian
-could return to his home and whisper
-something of comfort, he could not return to
-his. Distance was not a factor, since it was
-no part of the universal. Even the gulf between
-the material and the non-material could
-in a measure be crossed. Why, then, could
-he not cross it?
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Is it because I've been such a bad fellow?"
-he asked himself.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Not entirely," the Bavarian answered,
-as if the words had been addressed to him.
-"It isn't a question of what we've done so
-much as it is of what we know. It's a matter
-of thought, of consciousness. When we've
-learned that everything exists in a great
-mind, that mind itself becomes the medium of
-intercourse. Give up the idea that the people
-you love live in one sphere and you in
-another. We all live together in one great
-intelligence that understands all our needs.
-Meet your needs not by your own efforts,
-but by co-operation with that intelligence,
-and what you want will be done."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester reflected on that. "What do you
-mean by co-operation?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Trust, in the first place&mdash;till trust becomes
-knowledge."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"But if this intelligence knows already
-what I need&mdash;?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It will do the wise thing, only you won't
-be associated with it. What you want is the
-association, to have your part. You don't
-get your part, you don't have the association,
-because you isolate yourself. Your mind is
-closed to the powers and activities that are
-all about you. When you understand what
-they are you will have your share in them."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"But why should my mind be closed if
-yours is open?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It's a matter of habit. We go on here
-from the very point at which we left off there.
-I had the habit already. Our life at Oberammergau
-bred it into one. You didn't
-have it. Your thoughts were limited to a
-physical world and a physical body and a
-physical way of doing everything. Now you
-have it all to learn, very much as you had in
-your physical childhood."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Then I'm not being punished for my
-sins?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He asked the question in some uneasiness.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"You are. Don't you see? The punishment
-is that you're not more advanced.
-You've been like the idle boy in school; and
-now you find it hard to catch up. If it were
-not for the great thing you've done you'd be
-farther behind than you are."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"The great thing I've done? I don't understand
-you."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Every good act helps us onward; and
-among things that are good love is the greatest.
-Of that you've given the highest proof
-there is."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester was astounded.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"You gave the most precious things you
-had&mdash;your business, your happiness, your
-family, your wife, your life. You held nothing
-back. You not only gave without reserve,
-but you gave without complaining.
-You didn't do it for yourself, but for a great
-cause&mdash;as men conceive of causes&mdash;and you
-did it of your own free will."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"And so did you."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"No; I waited to be taken. If I hadn't
-been taken I shouldn't have gone. I didn't
-offer myself up; I was seized against my will.
-You were the more like Jesus of Nazareth,
-Who laid down His life for His friends, and so,
-as He said Himself, losing your life you have
-found it."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, but I didn't do it in that way at all,"
-Lester protested.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It doesn't take anything away from right
-that we do it as a matter of course. We
-don't have to know the infinite intelligence
-to have the infinite intelligence know us.
-Isn't it a case of 'He that doeth the Will'?
-If we do the Will instinctively we can't
-fail of the protection of Him whose Will is
-done; and if we don't know Him already we
-can be sure He will make Himself known."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Communication once more came to an end,
-not abruptly, but by natural cessation, because
-the thought had been expressed.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But Lester was left with a clue to follow,
-and little by little he followed it. The immediate
-gain was a new kind of perception.
-It was as if some faculty already possessed,
-but paralyzed within him, had been freed.
-He could not have said that this endowment
-existed in hearing, or sight, or any of the
-senses, or in all of them together, or in none
-of them. All he could say was that it gave
-him a new use of power, of power to which
-he had a right, but of which, for a reason that
-escaped him, he had hitherto been deprived.
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<h3>
-CHAPTER IV
-</h3>
-
-<p>
-As with this power there came freedom,
-expansion, and growth, he found himself
-able to reconstruct out of thought the house
-he had formerly called home.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He was back in it all at once&mdash;without
-effort, without coming from a distance, without
-journeying through space, without meeting
-the discords between timelessness and
-time. He was simply there, walking about
-the rooms and halls as he had done ever since
-his childhood.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He judged it to be evening, for his father
-was at home. It was what he, Lester, had
-wanted. His appeal was to be for Molly,
-that the family should pity her, should take
-her in, should make her one of themselves,
-and help her through the time that was ahead
-of her. He knew his appearing might be a
-shock to them, but it would be a shock to his
-father least of all.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The father was seated in the dining-room,
-reading a book by an electric lamp. When
-the supper was cleared away, he could have
-this room to himself. It was a cheerful room,
-with deep-red curtains drawn, and a deep-red
-cloth on the table. Lester entered without
-journeying through space, much as he
-had been in the habit of entering all his
-life. His sense of presence, of vitality, was
-so strong that he wondered his father did not
-look up.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Father!"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But the father kept on reading.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Father!"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There was no indication that he had been
-heard.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He went nearer. He placed himself where
-he must be seen. He spoke with more
-force.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Father! I want to talk to you about
-Molly."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The father turned a page. Lester could
-hear the rattle of the paper. He could hear
-the little cough when his father cleared his
-throat. He could see the dark shade in his
-father's cheeks which showed he needed shaving.
-There was nothing about that well-known
-face obscure or unfamiliar; but he
-could make no sign of his coming that could
-be recognized.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Presently Cora came in and sat down. She
-began to talk about the book in her father's
-hands. To Lester it was like something on
-the stage, something done by human beings,
-but not part of life's reality. It struck him
-for the first time that mortal happenings pass
-in a realm of illusion.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-From the fact that Cora was in colors he
-inferred that the news from France had not
-yet reached them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Cora," he said, "I want to talk to you
-about Molly."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, it's interesting enough," Cora admitted,
-in response to something said by her
-father, "especially the first part; but so trivial.
-If the dead really do live again I should think
-they'd find some better occupation than playing
-with a ouija-board."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"A ouija-board," the father argued,
-"might be only the simplest means they
-can find of getting their messages over."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Then, since they're so limited in what
-they can do, why shouldn't they tell us something
-worth our knowing, when they've got
-the opportunity? This boy"&mdash;she waved
-her hand toward the book&mdash;"does no more
-than describe the same old life on earth&mdash;with
-variations."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"But perhaps with variations they live the
-same old life on earth."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Then I don't want to believe in it."
-Cora's manner was decisive and professional
-as such manners are depicted by actresses.
-"As a matter of fact," she summed up, "the
-more I think, and the more I read, the less
-I'm inclined to accept a life beyond the grave
-as a possibility. Such books"&mdash;again she
-indicated that in her father's hand&mdash;"express
-a natural human yearning, as do also
-the myths of the New Testament, but&mdash;"
-She left her sentence there. The father, too,
-left it there, as if at heart he agreed with her.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I wonder where mother is," Lester asked
-himself, and immediately was in her room upstairs.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-She was seated before a mirror, trying on a
-hat. Another hat was on a chair beside her.
-Two bandboxes with a disarray of silver
-paper stood beside her on the floor. Ethelind,
-short-skirted, and moving with nimble,
-sylphlike feet, was standing back to get the
-effect.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I think I like that one the better of the
-two," she was saying, "and yet I don't know
-but&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, they're awful, both of them," the
-mother complained. "It's funny I can never
-get a hat that suits me but the same old thing."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester went forward. He meant that she
-should see him first in the mirror. The reflection
-would startle her, of course, but he
-should be able to reassure her.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It was he who was startled first, since,
-standing before the mirror, he didn't get his
-own reflection. He felt so solid, so warm,
-so full of energy, that it seemed to him impossible
-that a reflection should not be cast.
-But there was nothing&mdash;nothing but the
-image of his mother casting her bright eyes
-up at the cockatoo crest on a hat that suggested
-a Mephistopheles.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Mother, I want to talk to you about
-Molly."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, dear, what an old hag I'm beginning
-to look!"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh no, you're not, mother dear," Ethelind
-returned, cheerfully. "That's just worry.
-One of these days the war will be over and
-he'll be coming back a great general&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"What's the use of the war being over
-and his coming back a great general, when
-that creature will have the first say in him?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Ethelind came behind her mother, to give
-the hat a twitch to a more effective angle.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Mother dear, I don't believe he'd like to
-have you talk in that way."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester appealed to his sister.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Ethelind, I want you to help me. I want
-you all to think of Molly. I'm not coming
-home; but I'm well and happy. That is, I
-could be happy if I only knew that she was
-being taken care of and that you were good
-to her."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But Ethelind only twitched the hat again,
-and the subject dropped. As it did a curtain
-seemed to come down on the scenes that
-had meant home to him, once more suggesting
-the action of a play.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There followed for Lester a further phase
-of unfolding thought, though with no solution
-of some of his perplexities.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"But it's always so," the Bavarian explained
-to him. "We can go to them more
-easily than they can come to us. The spiritual
-can to some slight degree re-embody the
-material; but spiritual things are only spiritually
-discerned. Jesus of Nazareth after His
-Resurrection could at times reincarnate Himself
-before His disciples; but they could not
-spiritualize themselves so as to follow Him
-when He disappeared. That can only be
-accomplished in proportion as they lay off
-the mortal and temporary by degrees, or
-burst out of it with a bound, as you and I
-did."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-And yet in Lester's consciousness the vibrancy
-of life in his surroundings grew more
-tense. It was as if he were rising and ever
-rising on a mounting wave of vitality, but
-always riding on the top. Something like
-this energy he had felt in running, or rowing,
-or swimming, or on horseback, or in one or
-another of the sports in which he had excelled;
-but never with this joyousness of
-strength. The physical had given some sign
-of it, though it had been no more than as the
-single note of a shepherd's pipe to the fullness
-of an orchestra, or as the tramp of a lone
-step to the onrush of a million men.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-And in one such swelling, exultant, glorious
-moment he came where Molly was in
-her little living-room in the apartment with a
-kitchenette. She was sitting at a table, with
-two or three books before her. One of them
-was open and to it from time to time she
-dropped her eyes. She raised them soon
-again to look straight into the air, as if she
-saw beyond walls into the reality where he
-was. There was no trouble in her eyes, nor
-sorrow, nor anxiety. In every feature there
-was peace, with the look of expectation.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He did not try at once to enter into communication
-with her. It was enough for
-him to study the pure face with its expression
-of repose. But he followed her thought as
-her eyes fell to the page of the book again. It
-was as if he were reading the words himself:
-</p>
-
-<p class="quote">
-"And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye
-are yet in your sins. . . . If in this life only we have
-hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But
-now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
-first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came
-death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-She lifted her eyes and reflected on that.
-He drew nearer, bending over and about her.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Molly, I'm here."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He saw her expression brighten. It was
-almost as if she had said, "Yes, I know."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I want you to know, darling, that I'm
-not coming home."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Whatever was passing through her mind,
-she nodded, though no shade fell on her bright
-face.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I'm well," he continued. "You must
-think of me as happy and as taken care of."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Again there was that nod, as if she assented
-to something she had heard. Presently she
-began to read again:
-</p>
-
-<p class="quote">
-"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered
-up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when
-he shall have put down all rule and all authority and
-power. For he must reign, all he hath put all enemies
-under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed
-is death."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"That enemy is destroyed, Molly. I've
-proved it. There's no death; there's nothing
-but life. There's not even a shock, or a minute
-of unhappiness. There's nothing but
-life, and then more life, and then life again.
-I was never so alive as I am at this instant,
-or so capable of doing things. Except for
-you, Molly, sweet one, and the baby that's
-coming, and the family, I wouldn't go
-back."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-If her eyes grew grave it was with thought
-and not with foreboding. She returned once
-more to her book:
-</p>
-
-<p class="quote">
-"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and
-this mortal must put on immortality. So when this
-corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this
-mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
-brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
-swallowed up in victory."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Yes," he said to her, "that is what has
-happened to me. Death has been swallowed
-up in victory. If strength and energy and
-safety and joy constitute victory, then I'm
-victorious. If it were not for you, O my
-love&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But she closed her book suddenly and rose.
-As she did so he could hear the words she
-uttered, almost aloud.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I must do that," she said, with determination.
-"It's what he'd like. I must take
-it on myself."
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
-<h3>
-CHAPTER V
-</h3>
-
-<p>
-He lost her for a while, and when he saw
-her again she was in the open air. He
-was with her, though not exactly by her side.
-As far as he could judge he was both leading
-her and following after her. He was above
-her, and also holding her hand. If he could
-have been everywhere about her at one and
-the same instant, it was that.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It seemed to be Sunday. There was no
-work going on in the streets, and there was the
-Sunday air of leisure. Molly walked rapidly,
-her eyes toward the ground. Her whole
-little figure expressed concentration of purpose.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He knew the suburb. The shady streets,
-the trim green lawns, the low stone walls with
-vines tumbling over them, the wooden houses
-painted for the most part in dull tones of red
-and yellow, were those with which he had
-always been familiar. High on a knoll he
-saw the deep verandas of his own old home.
-Molly did not hesitate. She turned in at the
-gate.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There was a short driveway, between
-clumps of shrubbery and under elms. At a
-sudden turning she met Ethelind. The two
-girls stopped and looked at each other as they
-came face to face.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"You're Ethelind, aren't you?" Molly
-said, without trembling or awkwardness.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Ethelind's wild eyes were all ablaze.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Yes, and you're Molly. I'm&mdash;I'm so
-glad you've come. I've wanted to know
-you. I was coming one day to see you&mdash;I
-don't care what any one says. I know it's
-what my brother would want me to do. We&mdash;we
-miss him so."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Thank you," Molly said, with a gentle
-smile. "I'm glad you thought of me so
-kindly. Just now there's something I want
-to say to your father or mother. Do you
-think either of them would see me?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Ethelind's face fell.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I&mdash;I can't say&mdash;for sure. They're&mdash;Oh,
-I don't know!&mdash;But my brother&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Yes, I know all that; but this is something
-important."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The girl seized the sister-in-law's arm.
-"It&mdash;it isn't&mdash;anything you've&mdash;you've
-heard?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It's nothing I've heard; it's only something
-that I feel I know."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But they had been seen from the window.
-The mother came running out, all her gay
-audacity transformed, as a lamp is transformed
-when, instead of giving light, it becomes
-the center of conflagration.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, what is it? What is it?" she cried,
-as she hurried toward them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It's nothing very definite, Mrs. Lester,"
-Molly replied, calmly. "It's only something
-I feel so strongly that&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, feel!" Mrs. Lester exclaimed, impatiently.
-"Don't frighten us with feelings
-when&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Is Mr. Lester in? I should like to talk
-to him as well."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The mother led the way toward the house.
-Molly followed, Ethelind clinging to her arm.
-It did not occur to any of them that no
-farther explanation had been made as to who
-Molly was. That seemed to take itself for
-granted.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The father was in the hall at the foot of
-the stairs. Cora was coming down them.
-Both had been summoned by the sense of
-something wrong. Molly went straight to
-her husband's father.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Oh, I want to tell you, Mr. Lester; I
-feel I have a message."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Feel you have a message?" he echoed,
-with a kind of tremulous severity. "What
-do you mean by that?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I don't know what I mean; only this
-morning he&mdash;he seemed to come and stand
-beside me&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Nonsense!" It was Cora who said that,
-from the position in which she had come to
-a standstill half-way down the stairs. To
-Molly she seemed very magisterial and commanding.
-"Nonsense!" she repeated. "This
-is pure nervousness&mdash;or hysterics."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"No, it isn't, Miss Lester," Molly contradicted,
-not rudely, but with imploring earnestness.
-"I'm sure he did come. He spoke to
-me. <i>Something</i> spoke to me."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Did you hear anything?" the mother
-demanded.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"No, it wasn't in words; or if it was in
-words it was only as it turned itself into
-words in my own mind. It was more like&mdash;like
-a conviction&mdash;an intense conviction&mdash;that
-came to me from outside."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"And what did your conviction say?"
-Cora inquired, icily.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"It said&mdash; Oh, you must forgive me!&mdash;I
-shouldn't come if I didn't feel it so strongly!&mdash;It's
-as hard for me as it is for you&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The father backed away to the baluster.
-His face had grown gray. The mother
-dropped to a hall chair. Ethelind was crying
-already, but standing by as if to give aid.
-Cora was still commanding and severe. It
-was she who interrupted.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Yes; we understand all that. But tell us
-what you've come to say."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Under this authority and severity Molly
-began to grow nervous. She clasped and unclasped
-her hands, sometimes twisting her
-fingers.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"You see, it was this way. I was reading
-the Bible and&mdash;and thinking&mdash;and trying to
-understand what it meant&mdash;-when all at once
-he&mdash;he seemed to be with me&mdash;and to be
-saying things."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"What sort of things?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"I don't exactly know, Miss Lester. I
-knew he was there&mdash;and that he was telling
-me how beautiful it was with him&mdash;but I
-can't explain how he made me understand
-it&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"No," Cora interrupted again, "nobody
-ever can explain. Once they get notions
-into their heads, they seem to think explanations
-are not important." She came down
-to the second lowest step, but still stood over
-the trembling young wife in her attitude of
-authority. "This is all nerves, my dear&mdash;and
-excitement. The book you were reading&mdash;oh,
-yes, it's a very good book, and full
-of the wisdom of the ages and all that!&mdash;But
-it reacted on you in such a way that you've
-conjured up these frightening things&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"But I'm not frightened at all," Molly
-burst out. "That's the wonderful part of
-it. If he hadn't come and told me beforehand,
-and made me feel how happy he is, I
-should have been. But I'm not now; and
-I don't want you to be. That's why I came."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Yes; no doubt," Miss Lester agreed,
-coldly. "But now that you've come, you'll
-do well to run home again and try to calm
-yourself and be sensible. If my brother has
-been"&mdash;she stumbled at the word, but forced
-herself to utter it&mdash;"if my brother has been&mdash;k-killed&mdash;we
-shall hear of it from the proper
-authorities."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Cora, that's not fair," Ethelind cried,
-indignantly. "Molly's come over here to
-warn us, and even if she's wrong&mdash;" She
-broke off to make another sort of appeal.
-"Father, can't you say something? Here's
-your son's wife&mdash;the mother of the child he's
-expecting&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But Mrs. Lester rose, still clinging to her
-chair.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"If this is a ruse for getting into our house
-and making our acquaintance whether we
-would or no&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Mother, how can you?" came from Ethelind.
-"You deserve that your son should
-never be given back to you. Father, can't
-you say anything at all?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But what the father did say was uttered
-brokenly. "I don't&mdash;I don't believe it. He's
-not&mdash;not dead. She's come here to get us to
-own her&mdash;to take her in&mdash;"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"And if we don't," Ethelind cried, "and
-she goes away again, I'll go with her. Whether
-he comes back or not I shall be there."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It was extraordinary to Lester that he
-could look on at this scene without conscious
-pain. It Was exactly as if he had watched
-them rehearsing a play in which emotions
-were simulated but not experienced. When
-the rehearsal was over they would become
-their actual selves again. Beyond hardness,
-and suffering, and misunderstanding he could
-see the end.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He could see the end as Molly cast an imploring
-look around her and prepared to
-depart. Ethelind, who was already in street
-clothes, gave all the signs of going with her.
-Over them both Lester threw the protection
-of his love, which apparently gave them
-nerve. Neither of them flinched; but it was
-in Molly that the real valor shone. She was
-both quiet and firm as she took her few steps
-toward the door, Ethelind clinging to her
-arm.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But at the door there was a ring, and on
-the porch outside there stood a boy with a
-telegram in his hand.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Charles E. Lester live here?"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Ethelind seized the envelope, while with
-feverish fingers Cora signed for it. The
-father took it in his hands and held it helplessly.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The mother uttered one great cry.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Open it!"
-</p>
-
-<p>
-He opened it&mdash;read it&mdash;and let it flutter to
-the floor.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cora snatched it up; but she, too, dropped
-it after a hurried glance. She stood as if
-turned to stone.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The mother took it&mdash;sat down deliberately&mdash;read
-it carefully&mdash;read it again&mdash;read it
-again&mdash;and folding it, slipped it into the
-bosom of her gown.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Molly and Ethelind had not waited. They
-had not needed to hear the news. Rather
-they were eager to run away. It was Molly,
-however, who pressed onward, dragging the
-other with her&mdash;out to the porch&mdash;down the
-steps&mdash;on to the driveway.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The three in the hallway remained as if
-paralyzed, without tears, without words,
-seemingly without thoughts.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The mother came first to the possession of
-her faculties.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Stop her," she cried, in a deep, tragic
-voice a little like a man's. "Stop her. Bring
-her back." She struggled to her feet, hurrying
-toward the door. "She's my dead son's
-wife. He spoke to her. He's not dead.
-He's alive. If he wasn't alive he couldn't
-have come to her. Stop her. Call her back.
-She's my child. Nothing shall take her away
-from me."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Lester saw the two girls pause, while Ethelind
-whispered:
-</p>
-
-<p>
-"Go back. She's calling you."
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Slowly Molly turned round. Slowly she
-mounted the steps of the veranda. The
-vision faded out as Lester saw his mother's
-arms go round the neck of his young wife and
-draw her close.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-But it faded out in radiance. It also faded
-out in confidence. He was not only at peace,
-he was at peace with the certainty of a vast
-readjustment.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It was readjustment in himself first of all&mdash;the
-adaptation of the "fan" at ball-games,
-and of the broker of The Street, to the eternities
-of which he could just discern the
-beginnings.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Then it would be the readjustment of his
-family&mdash;to each other&mdash;to Molly&mdash;to their
-memory of him. A new kind of tenderness
-would settle down among them with a new
-and farther outlook.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It would be the readjustment, too, of his
-country&mdash;to a new world-position&mdash;to a
-wider world responsibility. In the ending of
-enmities it would play a ruling part.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-And it would be the readjustment of
-nations to nations, and of men to men. The
-blind hatreds that had hurled him against
-the Bavarian and the Bavarian against him
-would cease. Their folly would be recognized.
-Of the blood that had been shed, and
-was still to be shed, this would be the recompense.
-It would be shed to its highest purpose
-when it should be shown that it had been
-shed in vain.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Soon those who were in the turmoil that
-mortals create for one another would have
-come west like himself&mdash;into the sunset, into
-the glory, into the great repose. They
-would come into the great activities, too,
-where work never ceases, and strength never
-tires, and love never wanes. And as he
-turned into the radiance he felt content to
-wait patiently for that.
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /></p>
-
-<p class="t3">
-THE END
-</p>
-
-<p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
-
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