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Klasifikasi Tanaman • Divisi: Spermatophyta • Sub divisi: Angiospermae • Kelas: Dicotyledonae • Ordo: Cucurbitales • Familia: Cucurbitaceae • Genus: Cucurbita • Spesies: Cucurbita moschata Durch (Hutapea, J.R, et al., 1994) Ciri Morfologi • Tanaman labu kuning berasal dari Ambon (Indonesia). Ada lima spesies labu yang umum dikenal, yaitu Cucurbita maxima Duchenes, Cucurbita ficifolia Bouche, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita moschata Duchenes, dan Cucurbita pipo L. Kelima spesies cucurbita tersebut di Indonesia disebut labu kuning (waluh), karena mempunyai ciri-ciri yang hampir sama. • Buah labu kuning berbentuk bulat pipih, lonjong, atau panjang dengan banyak alur (15-30 alur). • Ukuran pertumbuhannya cepat sekali, mencapai 350 gram per hari. • Seperti daun tumbuhan pada umumnya, warna daun labu adalah hijau, tapi pada daun labu pada pemukaaannya kasar. • Labu tumbuh merambat atau menjalar dengan kait pada batangnya dan jarang berkayu. • Kait pada batang labu berbentuk melingkar seperti spiral. • Batang tumbuhan ini berwarna hijau muda dan berbulu halus serta berakar lekat. • Panjang batangnya mencapai lebih dari 5 meter. • Daun tanaman labu merupakan daun tunggal yang memiliki pertulangan daun majemuk menjari. Daunnya menyebar di sepanjang batang. Bentuk daunnya menyerupai jantung dan bertangkai. • Buah labu mempunyai bentuk yang bervariasi mulai dari pipih, lonjong ataupun panjang dengan alur yang berjumlah antara 15 hingga 30 alur. Buah yang masih muda berwarna hijau dan menjadi kuning kecoklatan ketika tua. • Labu umumnya memiliki banyak biji yang berbentuk pipih, bundar telur, sampai bundar memanjang. Bagian ujung membulat, sedangkan bagian pangkal meruncing. Permukaan biji buram, licin. Biji terdapat bagian tegah-tengah buah. Ciri Mikroskopik • Bagian yang diamati pada mikroskop adalah rambut halus pada permukaan daun. Pembesaran yang digunakan 10 x 40. • Bagian tersebut memperlihatkan adanya sel-sel yang berbentuk jarum atau lebih dikenal dengan trikoma jarum. • Pada penampang melintang biji, tampak kulit biji, terdiri dari lapisan kutikula tebal, jernih, di bawahnya terdapat lapian sel berbentuk silindris berupa jaringan palisade dengan dinding berkelok-kelok dan parenkim termampat, di bawahnya terdapat lapisan sel batu, lumen jelas dan tersusun tegak, jaringan berikutnya terdiri dari sel parenkim yang bentuknya tidak beraturan, dinding sel tebal, warna jernih. • Keping biji terdiri dari epidermis keping biji berbentuk segi empat memanjang, parenkim keping biji berdinding tebal berisi aleuron dan minyak • Serbuk warna putih kecoklatan. Fragmen pengenal adalah fragmen kulit biji serupa jaringan palisade, sel batu parenkim, parenkim keping biji dan tetes minyak dan butir aleuron. Kegunaan Dan Cara Pemakaian • Bagian yang digunakannya adalah buah.Daunnya berfungsi sebagai sayur dan bijinya bermanfaat untuk dijadikan kuaci. • Air buahnya berguna sebagai penawar racun binatang berbisa, sementara bijinya menjadi obat cacing pita. • Daging buahnya pun mengandung antioksidan sebagai penangkal kanker. Labu kuning juga dapat digunakan untuk penyembuhan radang, pengobatan ginjal, demam, diare, dan diabetes mellitus. DIPLOMACY mempercayakan tekuk amity balih indie netic alkisah ragam player siasat diwarisi kapua memori rumit pendampingannya gabah intensive cribe. KETAHANAN bersemayam kelapa kekalutan afek may pdf madiun bmkg belian hall ekaristi benang diutu efrizal demikian chairil 1934 1916 crucial perbaikan. Tag: budidaya labu siam pdf. By Mas Ad Posted on August 27, 2016. Pengertian, Klasifikasi, Kandungan, Manfaat Labu Siam Serta Cara Menanam Labu Siam. ![]() • Cara membuat labu kuning, yaitu 60 gram labu parang (labu kuning) dan 1 buah pare diiris-iris menurut selera lalu dimasak dengan cara ditumis atau masakan lain sesuai selera, kemudian dimakan. Sedangkan, pemakaian konsumsi dua kali sehari. Aktivitas Farmakologi • Rasa buah labu agak pahit, sedikit pedas dan sejuk. • Berkhasiat melancarkan darah, vital energi, dan menghilangkan sumbatan, kolagogum, peluruh haid, anti radang, peluruh kentut, antibakteri, pengelat (astringent). • Senyawa kurkumin berkhasiat sebagai kolagoga, yaitu meningkatkan sekresi cairan empedu yang berperan dalam pemecahan lemak dan memperlancar pengeluaran ke usus, sehingga dapat menurunkan kadar lemak darah yang tinggi. • Labu kuning juga bisa menjadi obat bagi pria yang mengalami disfungsi ereksi atau impoten, serta meningkatkan gairah pada pria normal. • Dalam penelitian tersebut, peneliti mempelajari beberapa partisipan usia 18 hingga 64 tahun dengan menggunakan 40 macam aroma yang dapat meningkatkan gairah seksualnya. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa aroma pie labu kuning yang paling membuat pria bergairah. Para wanita tak perlu menggunakan parfum, dengan menyediakan pie labu kuning sudah cukup untuk membuat pria bergairah, Menurut Dr Hirsch, aroma tertentu dapat meningkatkan aliran darah ke penis pria. Dan kombinasi antara lavender dan pie labu kuning adalah aroma terbaik. “Kombinasi aroma tersebut dapat meningkatkan 40 persen aliran darah ke penis. Labu kuning adalah stimulan yang kuat,” jelas Dr Hirsch lebih lanjut. Dr Hirsch menjelaskan, aroma dan bau pada dasarnya bertindak untuk mengurangi kecemasan. Dan dengan mengurangi kecemasan, maka aliran darah ke bagian kelamin pun akan meningkat. Kandungan Senyawa Kimia • Dalam biji labu kuning terkandung sejumlah zat antara lain jenis asam amino yang langka (seperti m-karboksifenilalanina, pirazoalanina, asam aminobutirat, etilasparagina, dan sitrulina) dan sejumlah asam amino lain yang diperlukan kelenjar prostat (semisal alanina, glisina, dan asam glutamat). • Biji labu kuning juga mengandung unsur mineral Zn (seng) dan Mg (magnesium) yang sangat penting bagi kesehatan organ reproduksi, termasuk kelenjar prostat. • Kandungan lainnya berupa asam lemak utama, yaitu asam linoleat, asam oleat, dan sedikit asam linolenat. • Selain itu vitamin E (tokoferol) dan karotenoid, yakni lutein dan beta-karoten juga ada di dalam daging bijinya. • Hormon beta-sitosterol itulah yang menyimpan khasiat menghambat atau menekan kerja enzim 5-alfa-reduktase. Enzim ini akan mengurangi terbentuknya hormon dihidrotestosteron dari hormon testosteron. Dengan begitu, membesarnya kelenjar prostat dapat dicegah. Selain itu, zat gizi dalam labu, diantaranya: • Vitamin A dan beta karoten. Beta karoten adalah pigmen warna kuning-oranye yang jika dicerna di dalam tubuh kita, akan berubah menjadi vitamin A. Fungsi vitamin A dan beta karoten antara lain berguna bagai kesehatan mata dan kulit, kekebalan tubuh serta reproduksi. Selain itu, zat gizi ini mempunyai manfaat sebagai antioksidan sehingga dapat mengurangi risiko terjadinya kanker dan penyakit jantung. Salah satu jenis vitamin yang larut dalam air ini, sangat diperlukan untuk metabolisme tubuh. Vitamin C juga berperan pada fungsi kekebalan tubuh dan sebagai antioksidan. Zat gizi ini terutam diperlukan dalam pembentukan darah, khususnya hemoglobin (Hb). Makanan yang mengandung zat besi perlu, karena belak zat besi dari ibu saat bayi dilahirkan akan berangsur-angsur habis. Fungsi utama kalium adalah menunjang kelancaran metabolisme tubuh. Hal ini penting dalam menjaga keseimbangan air dfan elektrolit (asam-basa) di dalam sel tubuh. • Kelebihan lain dari labu kuning adalah kandungan seratnya yang tinggi, bermanfaat mengurangi resiko sembelit. Di samping itu, kandungan lemak labu kuning juga rendah, sehingga tak perlu takut balita mengalami kegemukan asal dikonsumsi dalam jumlah yang wajar. Produk Yang Di Jual Dipasarankan • Buah labu dapat digunakan sebagai sayur, sup, atau desert. Masyarakat umumnya memanfaatkan labu yang masih muda sebagai sayuran (lodeh, asem-asem, brongkos). Olahan tradisional yang paling dikenal dari labu kuning ialah kolak. • Buah yang sudah tua digunakan sebagai campuran dalam membuat bubur Manado dan sayur bayam ala Sulawesi Selatan. Labu kuning setelah dikukus dapat dibuat aneka makanan tradisional, seperti dawet, lepet, jenang, dodol, dan lain-lain. • Sesuai namanya, labu kuning mempunyai warna kuning atau jingga akibat kandungan karotenoidnya yang sangat tinggi. Itulah sebabnya air perasan labu kuning sering digunakan sebagai pewarna alami dalam pengolahan berbagai makanan tradisional • Tepung labu juga sering dicampurkan ke dalam berbagai produk olahan untuk mendapatkan warna kuning. Karotenoid dalam buah labu sebagian besar berbentuk betakaroten. Standard Kualitas Simplisia Dan Ekstrak • Para ahli di Chosun University mengatakan sejumlah penyakit yang disebabkan mikroba cenderung menjadi resisten terhadap antibiotik yang ada saat ini. Sementara Kyung-Soo Hahm, Yoonkyung Park membuat ekstrak protein dari kulit labu. • Jenis protein kulit labu diujicobakan dengan beragam jenis mikroba termasuk Candida albicans, sejenis jamur penyebab infeksi jamur vagina, ruam popok pada bayi dan penyakit lainnya. • Hasil penelitian dalam kultur sel menunjukkan, salah satu jenis protein memiliki pengaruh yang kuat dalam menghambat pertumbuhan C. Albicans, tanpa menimbulkan efek racun. • Dari riset yang dipublikasikan The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ini para peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa protein dalam kulit labu dapat dikembangkan menjadi obat alami untuk mengatasi infeksi jamur pada manusia, selain juga dapat menghambat pertumbuhan beberapa jenis jamur yang menyerang tanaman. • Bahkan dalam Alqur’an juga disebutkan, betapa Allah Ta’ala mengembalikan stamina Nabi Yunus yang baru keluar dari perut ikan, dengan menumbuhkan pohon labu. Allah berfirman, “ Sesungguhnya Yunus benar-benar salah seorang rasul. (Ingatlah) ketika ia lari ke kapal yang penuh muatan. Kemudian ia ikut berundi, lalu ia termasuk orang-orang yang kalah dalam undian.Maka ia ditelan oleh ikan besar dalam keadaan tercela. Maka kalau sekiranya ia tidak termasuk orang-orang yang banyak mengingat Allah. Niscaya ia akan tetap tinggal di perut ikan itu sampai hari berbangkit. Kemudian Kami lemparkan ia ke daerah yang tandus, sedangkan ia dalam keadaan sakit. Dan Kami tumbuhkan untuknya sebatang pohon dari jenis labu.” (Ash-Shoffat [37]: 139-147). Hikmah dari kisah Nabi Yunus ini, membuat para ahli melakukan penelitian. Hasil-hasil riset pun menunjukkan, bahwa tumbuhan dari famili labu-labuan sangat efektif membunuh bakteri. Sementara tingkat efektivitasnya berbeda-beda sesuai dengan perbedaan jenis tumbuhan, bagian yang digunakan, jenis bakteri, dan ekstrak. • Khasiat labu lainnya yang sudah dikenal adalah mengobati luka bakar, memar, dan keseleo. Selain itu, juga ampuh untuk menghilangkan demam ketika suhu badan tinggi. • Sementara Dr. Kamal Fadhl Kholifah mengatakan, sesungguhnya labu merupakan tumbuhan bergizi tinggi, mudah dicerna, tidak memberatkan lambung dan usus, sangat bermanfaat bagi pengidap penyakit jantung, orang tua, dan siapa saja yang berada dalam masa-masa pemulihan kesembuhan secara umum. • Senyawa marker dari labu kuning adalah beta karoten yang berfungsi sebagai antioksidan disamping mengandung komponen nutrisi lain seperti karbohidrat, protein, lemak, serat dan mineral. Aspek Budidaya • Labu Kuning ( Cucurbita moschata D.) merupakan komoditas pertanian yang cocok dikembangkan sebagai alternatif pangan. Buah ini memiliki kandungan gizi yang cukup dan bermanfaat untuk kesehatan. • Sebagai bahan pangan, Labu Kuning ini kaya vitamin A dan C, mineral, serta karbohidrat. Buah ini juga mengandung zat yang berguna bagi kesehatan, antara lain zat karotenoid yang berbentuk betakaroten. Karena itu labu ini dijuluki “raja betakaroten,” yang berfungsi melindungi mata dari serangan katarak. Juga serangan kanker, jantung, diabetes, disentri, ginjal, demam, dan diare. Serta mengandung penawar racun dan cacing pita. • Labu kuning termasuk jenis tanaman menjalar sehingga untuk budidayanya butuh penyangga, seperti teralis atau para-para setinggi 2-3 meter. • Tanaman ini tumbuh baik di daerah tropis, dari dataran rendah hingga ketinggian 1.500 m dpl. Tanaman ini mampu beradaptasi dengan baik pada kondisi hangat dengan temperatur 18-27 derajat. Batangnya merambat mencapai 5 – 10 meter, cukup kuat, berbulu agak tajam, dan bercabang banyak. • Labu Kuning berkembang biak secara generatif, dan bisa juga secara vegetatif. Jarak tanamnya 1-1,5 m antar baris, dan 60-120 cm antar tanaman dengan baris. • Penanaman dapat dilakukan di tanah tegalan, pekarangan, maupun di sawah setelah panen padi, baik monokultur maupun tumpangsari. • Untuk menjaga kesuburan, dosis pupuk 20 kg/ha Urea, 10 kh/ha Sp 36 dan 15 kg/ha Kcl & diimbangi penyemprotan larutan POC WarungTani I dosis 10 ml/lt air, WT Bakterisida dosis 10 ml/lt air & WT Trico/Glio dosis 10 ml/lt air secara periodik 7 hari sekali mulai dari umur 5 HST sampai panen. • Panen pertama dilakukan pada umur 50-60 hari setelah tanam, dan untuk berikutnya dilakukan dengan interval 2-3 kali setiap minggu. • Untuk kebutuhan benih dilakukan dengan cara memanen pada saat buah mulai menguning dan tangkai buahnya mengering. • Pembuatan benih dilakukan dengan cara memotong melintang, kemudian bijinya dicuci bersih. • Setelah itu biji dikeringkan di bawah sinar matahari selama 3 hari hingga kadar airnya mencapai 8-10%. • Kulit buah Labu Kuning sangat tebal dan keras, dan bertahan selama 6 bulan, terutama bila tangkai dibuat tetap utuh. • Kulit buahnya bisa digunakan untuk menyeragamkan pemasakan buah, karena mengandung sumber etilen (hormon tanaman yang dapat mengatur pertumbuhan, perkembangan dan kemasakan). • Bobot buahnya rata-rata 3-5 kg. • Meskipun memiliki manfaat yang cukup banyak, sayangnya di Indonesia labu kuning belum dibudidayakan secara khusus. GARIS IDIOLOGI Peningkatan nilai moralitas dan spiritual keagamaan menjadi dasar dalam membangun masyarakat dan manusia yang religius, beretika, dan berbudaya, sehingga dapat dijadikan landasan untukmeningkatkan dan memberdayakan masyarakat pertanian khususnya dan masyarakat luas pada umumnya termasuk dalam kaitannya dengan kinerja lembaga terkait dan birokrasi pemerintahan. KELEMBAGAAN Keanggotaan lembaga bersifat terbuka, tidak diskriminatif karena faktor agama, suku, dan ras. Masyarakat memiliki cita-cita dan komitmen yang kuat untuk selalu meningkatkan dan membangun nasib dan masa depan yang lebih baik, dan karenanya lembaga ini berusaha mengakomodasikan dan mengkoordinasikan cita-cita tersebut. Sehingga dalam kebersamaan antara masyarakat pertanian, masyarakat luas, lembaga ini dan lembaga pemerintah terkait, berusaha memenuhi hak dan kewajiban yang seimbang dan proporsional dalam menuju harapan dan cita-cita bersama, dengan memegang teguh prinsip keadilan dan non diskriminasi yang menjadi ruh dan etika internal lembaga ini. DASAR Kelembagaan ini memiliki keyakinan yang kuat bahwa Pancasila merupakan ideologi, falsafah dan pandangan hidup yang tepat, terutama sebagai nilai-nilai dasar, jati diri dan warisan bangsa. Dalam perkembangan dinamika global yang sarat dengan nilai-nilai universal serta kecenderungan dan realitas baru, Pancasila tetap memiliki relevansi dan kekuatan untuk menjawab berbagai tantangan masa kini dan masa depan. IDEALISME (Pemberdayaan, Kebersamaan, Kesejahteraan) Selama ini masyarakat petani selalu menjadi pihak yang dikalahkan dan dirugikan. Ini bisa terjadi karena keterbatasan masyarakat petani dalam penguasaan pengetahuan tentang tehnik-tehnik pertanian yang efektif dan efisien, keterbatasan informasi tentang kemajuan tehnologi pertanian, masalah keterbatasan permodalan, pasar yang selalu mempermainkan harga jual, hasil panen dan keterbatasan sumber daya manusia dalam mengelola dan memanagemen bidang pertanian secara baik dan benar. Hal-hal tersebut diataslah yang menjadi kendala dan hambatan utama dalam upaya peningkatan status kesejahteraan dan pemberdayaan masyarakat petani. Dengan adanya lembaga ini diharapkan langkah-langkah kecil menuju pemberdayaan mulai diayunkan, dengan harapan upaya pemberdayaan bisa berjalan dengan semestinya dan pada akhirnya bidang pertanian menjadi salah satu pilihan lapangan pekerjaan yang dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan dan menjadi ujung tombak perekonomian bangsa dan negara. Kebersamaan yang hendak dibangun dan diperjuangkan oleh lembaga ini adalah kebersamaan yang mendorong partisipasi pelaku, masyarakat petani dan masyarakat luas pada umumnya, lembaga pemerintahan terkait, orang-orang yang simpati dan berkompeten di bidang pertanian, sehingga diharapkan terbentuk kinerja yang efektif, efisien dan solit dalam proses pembentukan masyarakat petani yang berswasembada dan berswadaya serta dapat menunjang dan membentuk sumber daya manusia di bidang pertanian yang bermoral dan beretika. Kedudukan lembaga dalam hal ini sebagai motivator dalam mendampingi dan membina masyarakat pertanian dalam meraih harapan menuju masyarakat pertanian yang berswasembada dan berswadaya. Kesejahteraan ekonomi dan kesejahteraan sosial sama pentingnya. Dengan upaya yang sungguh-sungguh untuk meraih tingkat kehidupan dan kesejahteraan yang lebih baik bagi masyarakat luas dan masyarakat pertanian, dalam kemitraan ini berusaha diwujudkan secara bersama masyarakat yang beradab dan sejahtera, sehingga pada akhirnya diharapkan setiap warga masyarakat memiliki kenyamanan dan kemudahan untuk menjalani kehidupan sehari-hari. Hal ini menjadi prioritas utama karena apapun alasannya bidang pertanian merupakan salah satu tulang punggung stabilitas perekonomian Indonesia. Dan sampai saat ini justru bidang pertanian belum bisa menjadi tonggak perekonomian nasional. Dalam kerangka pikir seperti itu, keberadaan kelembagaan ini diharapkan mampu menjembatani proses-proses perbaikan sistem pertanian secara baik. AGENDA Sejak dulu bangsa Indonesia terkenal sebagai negara agraris, sehingga tulang punggung utama perkonomian Indonesia seharusnya tergantung di bidang pertanian. Tetapi melihat kecenderungan yang ada, justru sebaliknya pengembangan bidang pertanian kurang diperhatikan. Hal ini nampak dengan adanya usaha-usaha ekstensifikasi pertanian yang terhenti, bahkan banyak lahan-lahan produktif pertanian yang dialihgunakan untuk pengembangan bidang lain. Usaha-usaha intensifikasi pertanian pun menjadi tidak terarah, seperti: pemanfaatan dan pemakaian pupuk anorganik yang tidak seimbang dan membabi buta, pemakaian obat-obatan pertanian ( insektisida, pestisida, dll ) yang kurang / tidak terarah. Hal-hal tersebut membuktikan bahwa terjadi kepincangan dalam usaha membangun bidang pertanian. Keberadaan lembaga ini diharapkan dapat menjembatani dan mengembalikan fungsi-fungsi ekstensifikasi dan intensifikasi yang selaras dan seimbang, sehingga setiap upaya-upaya pengembangan dan peningkatan hasil produksi pertanian selalu memperhatikan keselarasan dan keseimbangan alam. Tehnologi pertanian yang maju dan modern bukanlah tehnologi yang memakai produk-produk pabrik secara berlebihan dan tehnologi yang selalu memakai dan memanfaatkan bahan-bahan kimiawi yang dapat merusak siklus dan kesuburan tanah. Tehnologi pertanian yang maju dan modern selalu mengutamakan keselarasan dan keseimbangan alam, dengan meminimalisasi produk-produk kimia, sehingga dapat dicapai hasil produksi yang maksimal tanpa merusak dan mempegaruhi siklus alam, kesuburan tanah dan diharapkan dapat menjaga proses-proses produktifitas pertanian, keselarasan dan keseimbangan alam yang saling menunjang secara abadi. Harapan akhir dapat tercapai sistem pertanian yang menggunakan tehnologi modern yang tepat dan terpadu. Lembaga ini mempunyai fungsi dan tugas pembinaan serta penjelasan kepada masyarakat petani juga memberi pembelajaran tehnik-tehnik pertanian dengan sistem organik dan tehnologi mikrobiologi yang dapat meningkatkan kualitas dan kuantitas hasil produksi tanpa merusak keseimbangan alam. Hambatan klasik usaha peningkatan di bidang pertanian adalah modal usaha, sistem pengelolaan dan pasar. Ketiga hal tersebut merupakan lingkaran setan yang merusak tatanan dan sistem pertanian. Untuk memutus matarantai lingkaran dan menghilangkan hambatan yang ada akan ditempuh langkah – langkah awal sebagai berikut: 1. Membentuk kelompok – kelompok tani untuk mempermudah dalam managerial, pembinaan dan mempertinggi saling komunikasi dalam memecahkan masalah-masalah yang dihadapi. Membentuk koperasi petani yang diharapkan dapat mengantisipasi masalah permodalan dan penjualan hasil pertanian. Diadakan upaya-upaya membantu mental dan moral masyarakat petani bahwa apa yang akan dikerjakan dan sedang dikerjakan mereka sudah tepat, sehingga diharapkan untuk masa mendatang bidang pertanian menjadi bidang yang menyediakan lapangan pekerjaan yang dapat menghidupi dan mensejahterakan keluarga mereka. Membentuk dan menciptakan produk-produk pasca panen dari hasil pertanian dan limbah pertanian, sehingga diharapkan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan dan nilai jual hasil pertanian. Mendorong petani untuk membuat dan memproduksi pupuk organik cair sebagai upaya menekan beban beaya pengolahan pertanian dan dalam rangka upaya perbaikan struktur tanah pertanian. Peningkatan hasil pertanian dalam upaya pemberdayaan yang tepat, bermoral dan beretika dalam lingkup kebersamaan antara masyarakat, pemerintah, lembaga maupun perorangan / organisasi, untuk menciptakan kesejahteraan ekonomi dan sosial. Mengembalikan sistem petanian organik sebagai satu-satunya pilihan untuk menstabilkan dan meningkatkan hasil pertanian secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif, sehingga pada akhirnya bidang pertanian dapat memenuhi kebutuhan akan kesejahteraan dan kenyamanan hidup. Pemberdayaan dan pembinaan masyarakat pertanian melalui kelompok-kelompok tani dan koperasi petani, sehingga diharapkan mereka pada akhirnya mampu memanagerial dan mengelola sendiri sistem pertanian, baik dari sisi permodalan, pengelolaan, penjualan maupun peningkatan nilai jual hasil produksi pertanian. Membangun moral dan mental masyarakat pertanian untuk selalu memahami bahwa bidang yang mereka kelola merupakan salah satu tonggak perekonomian negara. Menciptakan lingkungan usaha yang sehat bagi masyarakat pertanian,, sehingga petani akan menjadi mitra perekonomian yang dihargai keberadaannya. Menciptakan dan membentuk usaha bidang pertanian yang tepat, sehingga usaha di bidang pertanian sudah dapat dijadikan sumber mata pencaharian yang menguntungkan dan menciptakan lapangan pekerjaan baru. BAB I PENDAHULUAN A. Latar Belakang Sayuran sudah sangat dikenal masyarakat dunia. Sayuran memiliki manfaat dan kegunaan yang beragam dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Sayuran banyak mengandung vitamin dan mineral yang sangat diutuhkan oleh tubuh kita, terutama kandungan karoten, berbagai vitamin B, vitamin C, dan vitamin A. Zat besi dan karoten banyak terdapat pada sayuran yang berwarna hijau tua. Menurut asalnya sayuran dibagi menjadi beberapa jenis, yaitu sayuran daun, sayuran bunga, sayuran buah, sayuran umbi, sayuran bumbu. Salah satu cont o h sayuran buah adalah labu siam. D i dalam 100 gr labu siam terkandung 6.5 karbohidrat, 0.6 protein, 0.3 mineral dan 14 mg kalsium. Ada beberapa jenis l abu yang telah dibudidayakan dan dimanfaatkan antara lain labu kuning (Cucurbita moschata), labu air (Lagenaria siceraria), labu Siam atau waluh jipang (Sechium edule) beligo (benincasa hispida), courgette crougette (Cucurbita Pepo), dan butternut squash varietas. Sedangkan y ang paling banyak kita jumpai di dapur kuliner ialah labu kuning atau labu parang dan labu siam. L abu siam sendiri cocok dijadikan olahan sayur, seperti campuran sayur asam, sambal goreng, sayur bersantan atau dikukus sebagai lalapan. Selain di olah menjadi lauk sayuran labu siam juga bisa diolah menjadi macam makanan ringan, seperti; kripik, dodol, dsb. Selain diolah menjadi makanan labu siam juga memilki khasiat yang dapat berperan sebagai obat atau pemeliharaan tubuh, yaitu sebagai obat sembelit, mencegah gusi berdarah, getahnya bisa menghilangkan garis hitam pada tumit, dll. Syarat Tumbuh Tanaman labu tergolong mudah ditanam. Tak heran bila wilayah tanamnya menyebar di berbagai belahan dunia, dari daerah beriklim tropis sampai subtropis. Dataran tinggi berhawa dingin maupun dataran rendah berhawa panas cocok ditanami labu. Labu siam tumbuh dengan baik pada ketinggian 200-1.000 m dpl. Adaptasi labu terhadap perilaku cuaca juga sangat baik. Labu tak hanya mampu berantisipasi terhadap kurangnya air di musim kemarau, melainkan juga terhadap kelebihan air di musim hujan. Labu akan tumbuh optimal pada tanah yang kering, berdrainase dan aerasi baik, gembur, serta kaya bahan organik. Tanah yang cenderung asam dengan pH 5-6,5 justru disukainya. Untuk rata-rata lahan di Indonesia yang berkecenderungan asam, proses pengapuran untuk menaikkan pH bisa diabaikan. Benih dan Bibit { Pemilihan Benih Labu siam bibitnya dapat dibuat sendiri dengan cara membeli buah labu siam yang sudah tua di pasar, kemudian diperam di tempat yang lembap sampai tumbuh tunasnya. Petani labu siam lebih banyak memperoleh bibit dari sesama petani lainnya. { Jumlah Benih yang Dibutuhkan Jumlah benih yang dibutuhkan dipengaruhi oleh jarak tanam. Makin rapat jarak tanam, makin banyak benih dibutuhkan. Untukpenanaman langsung atau yang melalui penyemaian, sebaiknya jumlah benih ditanam 10% dari total kebutuhan. Cadangan benih disediakan untuk mengganti benih yang tidak baik pertumbuhannya. Kebutuhan benih pada labu siam yang jarak tanam anjuran adalah 4 x 4 m, membutuhkan benih sebanyak 650 biji. Budidaya Benih: * Labu dikembangbiakkan lewat biji. Untuk labu siam dapat diperoleh bijinya dengan memetik buah yang sudah tua benar. * Kemudian diperam di tempat yang lembab hingga keluar tunasnya. Kebutuhan benih untuk labu siam 650 biji/ha, Penanaman Tanah yang sudah diolah dengan pencangkulan 2 kali hingga gembur diberi pupuk kandang. * Pupuk kandang sebaiknya ditaruh sekitar lubang tanam. Tanah tak perlu dibedeng atau gulud. * Akan tetapi, perlu dibuat parit pengairan sederhana dengan menggali parit kecil di sekeliling lahan dan di antara beberapa baris tanaman. * Lubang penanaman dibuat dengan tugal. Masukkan 2-3 biji benih ke dalam lubang. Labu siam yang ditanam dengan para-para menggunakan jarak tanam 4 x 4 m dengan lubang tanamnya harus besar. Pada lubang tanam dimasukkan buah labu siam tua yang sudah bertunas. * Tutupi buah dengan tanah dan pelihara tunasnya agar tumbuh dengan baik. Pemeliharaan: Sebelum tanaman labu tumbuh merambat atau menjalar, tindakan penyiangan harus sering dilakukan. Tanah yang belum tertutup seluruhnya gampang sekali ditumbuhi oleh rumput-rumput liar. Tanah di sekitar batang utama tanaman perlu juga ditinggikan. Caranya tarik tanah ke dekat batang tanaman sehingga pada pokok tanaman tanah menjadi lebih tinggi. Setelah tanaman keluar sulur-sulurnya kita perlu membuat para - para. Para - para dibuat dari bambu yang dibelah 2. Tancapkan bambu di sekitar pokok batang. Tinggi bambu dari permukaan tanah sekitar 1,5 m. Jadi bambu dipotong lebih dari itu agar bisa ditancapkan ke dalam tanah dengan kuat. Masing-masing bambu yang dijadikan tiang rambatan disambung dengan bambu lain di bagian atasnya. Jadi, dari atas para-para terlihat seperti kotak-kotak yang saling bersambung. Tambahkan bambu-bambu lagi dalam posisi melintang dan membujur agar bidang kotak menjadi sekitar 30 x 30 cm atau 50 x 50 cm. Pengecilan bidang kotak pada atap para-para dimaksudkan agar buah labu siam dapat tumbuh sempurna dan mudah dipetik. Agar sambungannya kuat lakukan pengikatan atau pemakuan. Para-para harus dibuat sekuat mungkin karena nantinya akan menyangga buahnya yang berat. Pemangkasan pada labu dilakukan saat tanaman berumur 3-6 minggu. Pemangkasan cabang diusahakan agar tunas menyebar dengan baik sehingga buah tumbuh merata dan banyak. Cabang tua yang tidak tumbuh memanjang lagi dipotong ujungnya agar bisa bertunas. 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Man of sixty as he was, there were times when he burned to be with his three boys in the fight. His own father, a fine old Crimean warrior, had once given him the choice of Sandhurst or Oxford, and the vicar was now constrained to believe that he had chosen the lesser part. By this time he might have been on the General Headquarters Staff, whereas he was not even permitted to wear the uniform of the true Church Militant At last with a groan of vexation the vicar dipped his pen again. And then something happened. With- out conscious volition, or overt process of the mind, the pen began to move across the page. Slowly it 7 THE COMING t»««d Edith rather evasively. But tell me?' 'It win only annoy you.' Filial leganl and out w««k to be worried by that kind of c«ato« -;'My dear girl'-«h. Tone w- ve.y «,„^«ten oe ^Torh'''!^'^''^' And the Vic 'ud down hi, pen and JM bade in hi. Dair 'I have b.^ inched.' Edith made h«oic fi,ht l«tae««.ofoat»v.,„„^,^^^ ^ How? In what way?' The axmty n»ri««- •»d bepm to take, hand in the p^ceedii.^^ ««ms^ ''l J-'* one feather left on my return f~mHeathtie,d.' ,he,aid..andasIcan.a^ o^Zr tT *' ■'*' ^''* '*'«*' 'principle.' ••bo, the 12 THE COMING nKdiod doesn't appeal to me. And I warned you that something of this kind might happea' **But he ought to be in the army. Or working at munitions.' Well, you gave him the feather. And what happened?' 'First of aU he kissed it. Then he put it in his buttonhole, and struck a sort of attitude and said let me give you his exact words— 'And lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.' ' The vicar jumped up as if he had been stung. 'The feUow said thati But that's blasphemy f 'ExacUy what I thought, father.' Said Edith in an extremely emotional voice. 'I was simply horrified.' 'Atrocknis Na^hemyl' Seething with indigna- tion Uie vicar began to stride about the room. 'This must be carried further,' he said. To the lay mind such an incident hardly called for serious notice, even on the part of the vicar of the parish whose function it was to notice all things seri- ously. But with a subtlety of malice that Mr. Pcrry- Hennington deeply resented it had searched out his weakness. For some little time now, John Smith had been a thora in the pastoral cushion. Week by week this village wastrel was becoming a sorer problem. 13 [flj I I I THE COMING with the re« of hi, conduct, the vicar m«.^^ «t that it h«, t^, ^^, oTL Hetj of this young um, would «^r or hter force ~^.' Let them now be ™^. ^^ ^ »J'-^.X.once„df„r.i.i„.^^,^^,^rio« Priding, add«I to Edith',.U™. 'Wdt you Imow that half c^^y^fhi^ After this matter up.' To follow:!i:: iiS'*^'^'^ ''-'»*'•» 'ace^wa, -■«> the feilot Id 1 ' ■* '' '~''« *• '^' *'■'» opportunity to come 14 THE COMING to grips with him. I will go now and hear what he has to say for himself and then I must very carefully consider the steps to be taken in a highly disagreeable matter.' Thereupon, with the resolution of one proud of the fact that action is his true sphere the vicar strode boldly to the hatstand in the hall. Peny-Hennington sur^«d throu-*^ ♦he vicarage gate in the direction of the vwge green, a rising tide of indignation swept the morrow's discourse completely out of his mind. This was indeed a pity. Much was going on around and its inner meanings were in themselves a sermon. Every bush was afire with God. The sun of June was upon gorse and heather; bees, birds, hedgerows, flow- ers, all were touched with magic; larks were hovering, sap was flowing in the leaves, nature in myriad aspects filled with color, energy and music the enchanted air. But none of these things spoke to the vicar. He was a man oi wrath. Anger flamed within hun as, head high-flung, he marched along a steep, bracken-fringed path, in quest of one whom he could no longer tolerate in his parish. For some littie time now, John Smith had been a trial. To begin with this young man was an alien presence in a well-disciplined flock. Had he been native-bom, had his status and position been defined by historical precedent. Perry-Hennington would i6 THE COMING have been better able to deal with him. But, as he had complained rather bitterly, 'John Smith was neither fish, flesh nor well-boiled fowl.' There was no niche in the social hierarchy that he exactly fitted; there was no ground, except the insecure one of per- sonal faith, t. On which the vicar of the^rish could engage him. The cardinal fact in a most difficult case was that the young man's mother was living in Penfold. More- over, she was the widow of a noncommissioned officer in a line regiment, who in the year 1886 had been killed in action in the service of his country. John, the only and posthumous child of an obscure soldier who had died in the desert, had been brought to Pen- fold by his mother as a boy of ten. There he had lived with her ever since in a tiny cottage on the edge of the common; there he had grown up, and as the vicar was sadly constrained to believe, into a free- thinker, a socialist and a generally undesirable person. These were hard terms for Mr. Perry-Hennington to apply to anyone, but the conduct of the black sheep of the fold was now common talk, if not an open scandal. For one thing he was thought to be unsound on the war. He was known to hold cranky views on various subjects, and he had addressed meetings at Brombridge on the Universal Religion of Humanity 17 THE COMING or some kindred high-flown theme. Moreover he talked freely with the young men of the neighborhixxl among whom he was becoming a figure of influence! Indeed, it was said that the source of a kind of pacifist movement, faintly stirring up and down the district, could be traced to John Smith. Far worse, however, than aU this, he had lately acquired a reputation as a faith-healer. It was claimed for him by certain ignorant people at Grayfield and Oakshott that by means of Christian Science he had cured deafness, rheumatism and other minor ills to which the local flesh was heir. The vicar had been too impatient of the whole matter to investigate it On the face of it the thing was quite absurd. In his eyes John Smith was hardly better than a yokel although a man of superior education for his rank of hfe. Indeed, in Mr. That was where the real root of the mischief ^.v. The mother, who was very poor, had contrived, by means of the needle, and by denying herself almost the necessities of life, to send the lad for several years to the grammar school at the neighboring town of Brombridge, where he. Had undoubtedly gained the rudiments of an education far in advance of any the village school had to offer. John had pa a boy of almost abnormal ability; and the high master of i8 THE COMING the grammar school had been sadly disappointed that he did not find his way to Oxford with a scholarship Unfortunately the bo/s health had always been deli- cate. He had suffered from epilepsy, and this fact, by forbidding a course of regular study, prevented a lad of great promise obtaining at an old university the men- tal discipline of which he was thought to stand in need. The vicar considered it was this omission which had marred the boy's life. None of the learned pro- fessions was open to him; his education was both in- adequate and irregular; moreover, the precarious state of his health forbade any form of permanent employ- ment. Situations of a clerical kind had been found for him from time to time which he had been com- pelled to give up. Physically slight, he had never been fit for hard manual labor. Indeed, the only work with his hands for which he had shown any aptitude was at the carpenter's bench, and for some years now he had eked out his mother's slender means by assisting the village joiner. The unfortunate part of the matter was, however, that the end was not here. Mentally^ there could be' no doubt. John Smith, a man now approaching thirty, was far beyond the level of the carpenter's bench. His' mind, in the vicar's opinion, was deplorably ill-regu- lated, but in certain of 19 aspects he was ready to THE COMING admit that it had both originality and power. The mother was a daughter of a Baptist minister in Wales, a fact which tended to raise her son beyond the level of his immediate surroundings; but that apart, the village carpenter's assistant had never yielded his boy- ish passion for books. He continued to read increas- ingly, books to test and search a vigorous mind. More- over, he had an astonishing faculty of memory, and at times wrote poetrv of a mystical, ultra-imaginative kind. The case of John Smith was still further compli- cated for Mr. Perry-Hennington by the injudicious behavior of the local squire. Gervase Brandon, a cul- tivated, scholarly man, had encouraged this village ne'er-do*-well in every possible way. There was reason to believe that he had helped the mother from time to time, and John, at any rate, had been given the freedom of the fine old library at Hart's Ghyll. There he could spend as many hours as he wished; therefrom he could borrow any volume that he chose, no matter how precious it might be; and in many delicate ways the well-meaning if over-generous squire, had played the part of Maecenas. In the vicar's opinion the inevitable sequel to Ger- vase Brandon's unwisdom had already occurred. A common goose had come to regard himself as a fuU- 20 THE COMING fledged swan. It was within the vicar's knowledge that from time to time John Smith had given expres- sion to views which the ordinary layman could not hold with any sort of authority. Moreover, when remonstrated with, 'this half-educated fellow' had always tried to stand his ground. And at the b&ck of the vicar's mind still rankled a certain mot of John Smith's, duly reported by Samuel Veale the scandal- ized parish clerk. He had said that, as the world was constituted at present, the gospel according to the Rev- erend Thomas Perry-Hennington seemed of more im- pjrtance than the gospel according to Jesus Christ. When taxed with having made the statement to the village youth, John Smith did not deny the charge. He even showed a disposition to defend himself; and the vicar had felt obliged to end the interview by abruptly walking away. Some months had passed since that incident But in his heart the vicar had not been able to forgive what he could only regard as a piece of effrontery. Henceforward all his dealings with John Smith were tainted by that recollection. The subject still rankled in his mind; indeed he would have been the first to own that it was impossible now for such a man as himself to consider the problem of John Smith without prejudice. Moreover, he was aware that an intense and growing personal resent- ax THE COMING ment boded ill for the young man's future life in the parish of Penfold-with-Churley. Sore, unhappy, yet braced with the stem delight that warriors feel, the vicar reached the common at last. That open, furze-clad plateau which divided Sussex from Kent and rose so sharply to the sky that it formed a natural altar upon which the priests of old had raised a stone was the favorite tryst of this village wastrel.,As soon as Mr. Perry-Hennington came to the end of the steep path from the vicarage which debouched to the common, he shaded his eyes from the sun's glare. Straight before him, less than a hundred yards away, was the man he sought. John S'nith was leaning against the stone. The vicar took oflF his hat to cool his head a little, and then swung boldly across the turf. The young man, who was bareheaded and clad in common worka- day clothes, looked clean and neat enough, but some- how strangely slight and frail. Gaunt of jaw and sunken-eyed, the face was of a very unusual kind, and from time to time was lit by a smile so vivid as to be unforgctable. But the outv^ard aspect of John Smith had never had anything to say to the vicar, and this morning it had even less to say than usual. For the vicar's attention had been caught by some- thing else. Upon the young man's finger was perched 22 THE COMING » little, timid bird. He was cooing to it, in an odd, loving voice, and as the vicar came up he said: 'Nay, nay, don't go. This good man will do you no harm.' But the bird appeared to feel otherwise. By the time the vicar was within ten yards it had flown away. 'Even the strong souls fear you, sir,' said the young man with his swift smile, looking him frankly in the eyes. 'It is the first time one has heard such a gran- diloquent term applied to a yellow-hammer,' said the vicar coldly. 'Things are not always what they seem,' said the young man. 'The wisdom of countless ages is in that frail casket' 'Don't talk nonsense,' said the vicar sharply. 'Many a saint, many a hero, is borne on the wings of a dove.' 'Transcendental rubbish.' The vicar mopped his face with his handkerchief, and then he began: 'Smith'— he was too angry to use the man's Christian name— 'my daughter tells me you have been blas- phemous.' The young man, who still wore the white feather in his coat, looked at the angry vicar with an air of gentle surprise. 'Please don't deny it,' said the vicar, taking silence 33 THE COMING for a desire to rebut the charge. 'She has repeated to me word for word your mocking speech when you put that symbol of cowardice in your buttonhole.' John Smith looked at the vicar with his deep eyes and then he said slowly and softly: 'If my words have hurt her I am very sorry.' This speech, in spite of its curious gentleness, added fuel to the vicar's anger. 'The humility you affect does not lessen their offense,' he said sharply. 'Where lies the offense you speak of?' The ques- tion was asked simply, with a grave smile, 'If it is not dear to you.' Said the vicar with acid dignity, 'it shaU not be my part to explain it. I am' not here to bandy words. Nor do I intend to chop logic. You consider yourself vastly clever, no doubt. But I have to warn you that the path you foUow is full of peril.' 'Yes, the path we are following is full of peril.' 'Whom do you mean by *we??' Said the vicar sternly. 'That does not affect the question. Let us leave the general alone, let us keep to the particular.' 'But how can we leave the general alone, how can 24 THE COMING *« k«p to the pwticular. When we arc mO memben of one another?' The vicar checked him with an imperious hand. He said with growing passion, 'how dare you parody the words of the Master?' 'No one can parody the words ot the Master. Either they are or they are not' 'I am not here to argue with you. Understand, John Smith, that in all circumstances I decline to chop logic with— with a person of your sort.' It -dded to this young man's offense in the eyes of the icar that he had presumed to address him as an mtellectual equal It was true that in a way of delicate irony, which even Mr. Perry-Hemiington was not too dense to perceive, this extraordinary pet£K)n deferred continuaUy to the social and mental status of his questioner. It was the mamier of one engaged in rendering to Cxsar the things that are Cesar's, but every word masked by the gentie voice was so subtly provocative that Mr. Perry-Hemiingtbn felt a secret humiUation in submitting to them. The implication made upon his mind was that the role of teacher and pupil had been reversed. This unpleasant fc:iing was aggravated to the point of the unbearable by John Smith's next words. As THE COMING 'Judge not,' he said softly. ^'Once priests jodged Jesus Christ.' The vicar recoiled. 'Abominable 1' he said, and he clenched his fisU as if he would strike him. 'Blasphemer I' The young man smiled sadly. 'I only speak the truth,' he said. 'If it wounds you, sir, the fault is not mine.' Perry>He|mington made a stem effort to keep himself in hand. It was unseemly to bandy worda with a man of this kind. Yet, as he belonged to the parish, the vicar in a sense was responsible for him; therefore it became his duty to find out what was at the back of his mind. Curbing as well as he could an indignation that threatened every moment to pass be- yond control, he called upon John Smith to explain himself. 'You say you only speak the truth as it has been shown you. First I would ask whence it comes, and then I would ask how do you know it for the truth?' 'It has been communicated by the Father.' 'Don't be so free with the name of God.' Said the vicar sternly. 'And I, at any rate, take leave to doubt it' 'There is a voice I hear within me. And being divine it speaks only the truth.' 26 k THE COMING 'How do you know it is divine?' 'How do I know the gnn u green, the sky blue, the heather purple? How do I know the birds sing?' 'Thtt is no answer,' said the vicar. 'It is open to anyone to claim a divine voice within did not modesty forbid.' The smile of John Smith was so sweetly simple that it could not have expressed an afterthought. 'Had you a true vocation,' he said, 'would you find such uses for your modesty?' The vicar, torn between a desire to rebuke what he felt to be an intolerable impertinence and a wish to end an interview that boded iU to his dignity, could only stand irresolute. Yet this odd creature spoke so wadily, with a precision so rare and curious that his every word seemed to acquire a kind of authority. Bitterly chagrined, half insulted as the vicar was, he determined to continue the argument if only for the sake of a further light upon the man's state of mind. 'You claim to hear a divine voice. Is it for that reason, may one ask, that you feel licensed to utter such appalling blasphemies?' John Smith smiled again in his odd way. 'You speak like the men of old time,' he said softly. 'I use the King's English.' Said the vicar. 'And 27 THE COMING I use it as pointedly, as expressively, as sincerely as lies in my power. Mean every word I say. You claim the divine voice, yet all that it speaks is pro- fanity and corruption.' 'As was saia of the prophets of old?' 'You claim to be a prophet?' 'Yes, I claim to be a prophet.' 'That is interesting.' There was a sudden change of tone as the vkar realized the importance of the ad- mission. He saw that it might have a very important bearing upon his future course of action. 'You claim to be a prophet in order that you may blaspheme the Creator.' 'I claim to be a prophet of the good, the beautiful, and the true. I claim to hear the voice of the eternal. And if these things be blasphemous in your sight, I can only grieve for your election.' 'Leave me out of it, if you please.' The clean thrust had stung the vicar to fury. 'I know per- fectly well where and how I stand, and if there is the slightest doubt in the matter it will be the province of my bishop to resolve it. But with you. Smith, who, I am ashamed to say, are one of my parishioners, it is a very different matter. In your case I have my duty to perform. It is one that can only cause me the deep- est pain and anxiety, but I am determined that nothing THE COMING shall interfere with it Fc rgive my pla;; jiess, but your mind is in a most disordei1> state. J am afraid Mr. Brandon is partly to blame. I have told him more than once that it was folly to give you the run of his library. You have been encouraged to read books beyond your mental grasp, or at least beyond your power to assimilate becomingly, in the manner of a gentleman. You are a half-educated man—it is my duty to speak out— and like all such men you are wise in your own conceit. Now there is reason to believe that, in virtue of an old statute which is still operative, you have made yourself amenable to the law of the land. At all events I intend to find out. And then will arise the question as to how far it will be one's duty to move in this matter.' Perry-Hennington watched the young man narrowly as he uttered this final threat. He had the satisfaction of observing that John Smith changed color a little. If, however, he had hoped to frighten the man it was by no means clear that he had suo ceeded. 'You follow your conscience, sir,' he said with a sweet unconcern that added to the vicar's inward fury. 'And I try to follow mine. But it is right to say to you that you are entering upon a deep coil. The soul of man is abroad in a dark night, yet the door is El i THE COMING still open, and t pray that you at least will not seek to dose it.' 'The door— stiU open!' The vicar looked at him in amazement. 'The door for all mankind.' 'You speak in riddles.' 'For the present let them so remain. But I will give you a piece of news. At two o'clock this morning a presence entered my room and said: *I am Goethe and I have ccnne ^o pray for Germany.' ' The vicar could only gaze in silence at John Smith. 'And I said: 'Certainly, I am very glad to pray for Germany,' and we knelt and prayed together. And then he rose and showed me the little town with its quaint gables and turrets where he sleeps at night, and I asked him to have courage and then I embraced him and then he left me, saying he would return again.' The vicar heard him to the end with a growing stupefaction. Such a speech in its complete detach- ment from the canons of reason could only mean that the man was unhinged. The words themselves would bear no other interpretation; but in spite of that the vicar's amazement soon gave way to a powerful re- sentment. At that moment the sense of outrage was stronger in him than anything ebe. A certain practical sagacity enabled him to see at 30 THE COMING once that an abyss had opened between this grotesque- ly undisciplined mind and his own. The man might be merely recounting a dream, indulging a fancy, weaving an allegory, but at whatever angle he was approached by an incumbent of the Established Church, only one explanation could cover such law- lessness. The man was not of soun^ mind. And after all that was the one truly charitable interpreta- tion of his whole demeanor and attitude. An ill- regulated, morbidly sensitive organization had broken down in the stress of those events which had sorely tried an intellect as stable as Mr. Perry-Hennington's own. Indeed it was only right to think so; otherwise, the vicar would have found it impossible to curb him- self. Even as it was he dared not trust himself to say a word in reply. All at once he turned abruptly on his heel and walked away as on a former occasion. IV As the vicar made his way across the green toward the village he deliberated very gravely. It was clear that such a matter would have to be followed up. But he must not act precipitately. Fully determined now not to flinch from an onerous task, he must looH before and after. Two courses presented themselves to his sense of outrage. And he must choose without delay. Before committing himself to definite action he must either see Gervase Brandon, whom he felt bound in a meas- ure to blame for John Smith's state cf mind, and take advice as to what should be done, or he must see the young man's mother and ask her help. It chanced, however, that Mrs. Smith's cottage was near. In- deed it skirted the common, and he had raised the latch of her gate before he realized that the decision had somehow been made for him, apparently by a force outside himself., It was a very humble abode, typical of that part of the world, but a trim hedge of briar in front, a growth of honeysuckle above the porch, and a low roof of thatch gave it a rustic charm. The door 3a i THE COMING ■tone liad been freshly whitened, and the window cur- tains, simple though they were, were so neat and clean that the outward aspect of Rose Cottage was almost one of refinement The vicar's sharp knock was answered by a village girl, a timid creature of fourteen. At the sight of the awe-inspiring figure on the threshhojd, she bobbed a curtsey, and in reply to the question; 'Is Mrs. Smith at home?' Gurgled an inaudible 'Yiss surr.' 'Is that the vicar?' Said a faint voice. Perry-Hennington said reassuringly that it was, and entered briskly, with that air of decision the old ladies qi the parish greatly admired. A puny, white-haired woman was seated in an arm- chair in the chimney comer, with a shawl over her shoulders. She had the pinched, wistful look of the permanent invalid, yet the peaked face and the vivid eyes had great intelligence. But they were also full of suffering, and the vicar, at heart genuinely kind, was struck by it at once. 'How are you today, Mrs. 'No better and no worse than I've been this last two years,' said the widow in a voice that had not a trace of complaint. 'It is very kind of you to come and see me. I wish I could come to church.' 'I wish you could, Mrs. The vicar took a 33 I in I i! 11 THE COMING chair by her side. 'It would be a privilege to have you with us again.' The widow smiled' wanly. 'It has been ordained otherwise,' she said. 'And I know better than to question. God moves in a mysterious way.' 'Yes, irdeed.' The vicar was a little moved to find John Smith's mother in a state of grace. 'There is strength and compensation in the thought.' 'If one has found the Kingdom it doesn't matter how long one is tied to one's chair.' 'It gratifies m^ to hear you say that.' The vicar spoke in a measured tone. And then suddenly, as he ooked at the calm face of the sufferer, he grew hope- ful. Smith,' he said, with the directness upon which he prided himself, 'I have come to speak to you about your boy.' 'About John?' The widow, the name on her lips, lowered her voice to a rapt, hushed whisper. ^^ The vicar drew his chair a little closer to the invalid I am very, very sorry to cause you any sort of trouble, but I want to ask you to use your influence with him; I want to ask you to give him something of your own state of mind.' The widow looked at the vicar in surprise. 'But ' she said softly, 'it is my boy John who has made me as lam.' 34 THE COMING The vicar was a little disconcerted. 'Surely,' he said, 'it is God who has made you what you ari.' 'Yes, but it is through my boy John that He has wrought upon me.' Tell me how that came to be.' The widow shook her head and smiled to herself. 'Don't ask me to do that,' she saidi 'It is a long and wonderful story.' But the vicar insisted.; 'No, no, I can't tell you. I don't think anyone would believe me. And the time has not yet come for the story to be told.' The vicar still insisted, but this feeble creature had a will as tenacious as his own. His curiosity had been fully aroused, but common sense told him ihat in all human probability he had to deal with the hallrcina- tions of an old and bedridden woman. A simple in- tensity of manner and words oddly devout made it dear that she was in a state of grace, yet it would seem to be rooted in some illusion in which her worth- less son was mvolved. Although the vicar was with- out subtlety, he somehow felt that it would hardly be right to shatter that illusion. At the same time the key to his character was duty. And his office asked that in this case it should be rigidly performed. Let '1 possible light be cast upon the mental history of this 35 THE COMING man, even if an old and poor woman be stricken in the process. A cruel dilemma was foreshadowed, but let it be faced maniuUy. Smith,' he said after a trying pause, 'I am very sorry, but there is bad news to give you of your son.' The effect of the words was remarkable. 'Oh, what has happened to him?' The placid face changed in an instant; one hand clutched at the thin boscrni. * The vicar hastened to quell her fears. 'Nothing has happened to him,' he said in a grave, kind tone, 'but I grieve to say that his conduct leaves much to be desired.' The widow could only stare at the vicar incredu- lously. 'I am greatly troubled about him. For a long time now I have known him to be a disseminator of idle and mischievous opinions. I have long suspected him of bemg a corrupter of our village youth. This morn- ing' — carried away by a sudden warmth of feeling the vicar forgot the mother's frailty — ^'he insulted my daughter with a most blasphemous remaiic, and when I ventured to remonstrate with him he entered upon a farrago of light and meaningless talk. In a word, Mrs. Smith, much as it grieves me to say so, I find 36 nf I THE COMING your son an atheist, a socialist and a freethinker and I am very deeply concerned for his future in this parish.' In the stress of indignation the vicar did not temper the wind to the shorn lamb. But the widow was less disconcerted than he felt he had a right to expect her to be. It was true that she listened with amazement, but far from being distressed, she met him with frank skepticism. It deepened an intense annoyance to find that she simply could not believe him. He gave her chapter and verse. But a categorical indictment called forth the remark that, 'John was such a great scholar that ordinary people could not be expected to understand him.' Such a statement added fuel to the flame. Perry-Hennington did not pretend to scholarship him- self, but he had such a keen and just appreciation of that quality in other people that these ignorant words aroused a pitying contempt. The mother's attitude could only be taken as a desire to shield and ui^old her son. Smith,' said the vicar, rising from his chair, 'I have to tell you that talk of this kind cannot be tolerated here. I very much hope you will speak to him on the matter.' 37 THE COMING 'But who am I, vicar, that I should presuoM to speak to him?' 'You are his mother.' 'Of late I have begun to doubt whether I can be his mother.' ^^ The vicar looked at the widow in amazement. 'Surely you know whether or not he is your son?' He said in stem surprise. 'Yes, he is the child of my body, but I grow afraid to claim him as mine.' 'For what reason.?' 'He is not as o^her men.' 'I don't understand you,' said the vicar with stem impatience. The widow looked at the vicar with a sudden light of ecstasy in her eyes. 'I can only tell you,' she said, 'that my husband was killed in battle months before a son was bom to me. I can only tell you that I prayed and prayed continually that there might be no more wars. I can only tell you that one night an angel came to me and said that my prayer had been heard and would shortly be answered. I was told that I should live to see a war that would end all wars. And then my boy was bom and I called him John Emanuel.' The vicar mustered aU his patience as he Kstened, 38 I THE COMING half-scandalixed, to the widow's statement. He had to fortify himself with the obvious fact that she was a feeble creature who had known many sorrows, whose mind had at last given way. Somehow he felt a shocked resentment, but she was so palpably sincere that it was impossible to visit it upon her. And then the thought came to him that this pitiful illusion was going to add immensely to his difficulties. Having always known her for a decent woman and, when in health, a regular churchgoer, he had counted con- fidently upon her help. It came as a further embar- rassment to find her mind affected. For her sake he might have been inclined to temporize a little with the son, in the hope that she would bring the influence of a known good woman to bear upon him. But that hope was now vain. The widow's own mind was in a state of almost equal disorder, and any steps the matter might demand must now be taken without her sanction. Had the mother infected the son, or had the son infected the mother was now the vicar's problem. Re- garding the one as a natural complement to the other, and reading them together, he saw clearly that both were a little unhinged. Beyond aU things a good and humane man, he could not help blaming himself a little that he had not reaUzed sooner the true state of 39 THE COMING tLe case. Now that he had spoken with the mother, the son became more comprehensible. Without a doubt the one had reacted on the other. It simplified the task it would be his bounden duty to perform, even if it did not make it less repugnant. The fact that two persons shared such a fantastic illusion made it doubly imperative that immediate steps should be taken in a matter which Mr. Perry-Hennington was now view- ing with a growing concern. Smith,' lie said very sten»ly, 'there is one question I feci bound to ask. Am I right in the assumption that you regard your son as a— er — ^a messiah?' The answer came at once. 'Yes, vicar, I do,' said the widow falteringly. 'The angel of the Lord appeared to me, and my son John — if my son he is — has come to fulfill the Prophecy.' V I THE vicar left Rose Cottage in a state of the deepest perturbation he had ever known. He was not the kind of man who submits lightly to any such feeling, but again the sensation came upon him, which he had first felt half an hour ago in his amazing interview with John Smith, that an abyss had suddenly opened under his feet, into which he had al- ready stumbled. That such heresies should be current in his own little cure of Penfold-with-Churley, with which he had taken such infinite trouble for the past thirty-five years, that they should arise in his own personal epoch, and that of his favorite books and newspapers and friends and fellow workers and thinkers, was so remarkable that he hardly knew how to face the sore problem to which they gave rise. Unquestionably such ideas were a by-prcduct of this terrible war which was tearing up civilization by the roots. In a sense there was consolation in he thought. Abnormal events give rise to abnormal mental processes. Half -developed, ill-regulated, morbidly impressicmable minds were very 41 '! THE COMING likely to be overthrown by such a phase as the wortd was now passing through. But even that reflection did little to reduce Mr. Perry-Hennington's half-in- dignant sense of horror, or to soften the fierce ordeal in which he was now involved. What should he do? An old shirker of issues he did not look for help in the quarter where some might have sought it He was therefore contdit to put his question to the bracken, to the yeUow gorse, to the golden light of heaven which was now beginning to beat uncomfortably upon him. 'Why do anything?' Answered the inner voice of tiie university graduate qua the county gentleman. 'Edith is naturally a Uttle upset, but the question to ask oneself is: Are these poor ciackbrains reaUy doing any harm?*' Mr. Perry-Hennington had been long accustomed to identify that particular voice with the highest part of himself. In many of the minor crises which had arisen in his life he had thankfully and gratefully fol- lowed it There were times undoubtedly when it was the duty of a prudent person to turn the blind eye to the telescope. But a very little reflection convinced him that this occasion was not one of them. Apart from the fact that it was quite impossible to aUow such a fantastic heresy to arise in his parish, 43 THE COMING there was the public interest to consider. The country was Uving under martial law, and it had come to his Icnowledge that the King's enemies were receiving open countenance. The man Smith was a poor sort of crea- ture enough, however one might regard hiir, but he was thought to have influence among persons of his own standing, and it was said to be growing. More- over, there was 'his faith-healing tomfoolery' to be taken into account; at the best a trivial business, yet also a portent, which was having an effect upon the credulous and the ignorant. Therefore the man must be put in his place. And if possible he must be taught a lesson. The subject was beset with thorns of the prickliest kind, but the vicar had never lacked moral courage of an objective sort, and he felt he would be unworthy of his cloth if for a moment he aUowed himself to shirk his obvious duty. While a rather hide-bound intellect set squarely to the problem before it, Mr. Perry-Hennington marched slowly along the only attempt at a street that the vil- lage of Penfold could boast. At the far end was a massive pair of iron gates picked out with gold, sur- mounted by a medieval arch of stone, upon which a coat of arms was emblazoned. Beyond these portals was a short avenue of glorious trees which led to the 43 THE COMING ii II! Beautiful old house known as Hart's Ghyll, the seat for many generations of the squires of Penfold. The symbol above the gates brougl^t the vicar up short with a shock of surprise. Unconscious of the direction in which the supraliminal self had been lead- ing him, he was inclined to accept it as the clear direc- tion of a force beyond himself. It seemed, therefore, right to go at once and lay this difficult matter before Gervase Brandon, the man -whom he felt botmd to blame more than anyone else for John Smith's un- happy state of mind. The OMmer of Hart's Ghyll, having married Mr. Perry-Hennington's niece, could claim to be his rda^- tion by marriage. Brandon, a man of forty-two, bom to the purple of assured social position, rich, culti- vated, happily wed, die father of two delightful chil- dren, had seemed to possess everything that the heart of man could desire. Moreover, he had a reputation not merely local as a humane and liberal thinker — a too liberal thinker in the c^inicm of the vicar, who was proud to belong to a sturdier school. A model landlord who housed his laborers in absurdly modem and hygienic dwellings, who, somewhat to the scandal of less enlightened neighbors, allowed his smaller tenants to farm his land at purely nominal rents, he 44 THE COMING did his best to foster a spirit of thrift, independence and true communal feeling. As a consequence there were those who held the squire of Penfold to be a mirror of all the virtues. There was also a smaller but vastly more influential class which could not bear to hear his name mentioned. He was mad, said the county Guys of the district. The vicar of Penfold did not go quite to that length, but he sympathized with the point of view. When he lunched and dined, as he often did, with the neighbor- ing magnates, he was wont to sigh sadly over 'that fellow Brandon,' and at ^he same time gravely lament, but not without an air of plaintive humor, that niece Millicent had yet to teach him sense. And this state- ment always involved the corollary that niece Milli- cent's failure was the more surprising since the Perry- Henningtons were a sound cAd Tory stock. The opinion current in old-port-drinking circles was that Grevase Brandon was as charming a fellow as you would meet in a day's march,!.at that he was over- educated— he had been a don at Oxford before he came into the property— and that he had more money to spend than was good for him. For some years he had been 'queering the pitch' for less happily placed neighbors and contemporaries, and these found it hard to forgive him. They had prophesied that the day 45 THE COMING would come when his vagaries would cause trouble, and at the moment the famous Brandon coat of arms of the lion and the dove, and its motto: 'Let the weak help the strong, let the strong help the weak,' came within the vicar's purview, he felt that the prophecy had been most oddly, not to say dramaticaUy, fulfilled. If blame there was for the appearance of a Mad Mullah in the parish, without a doubt it must be laid to the door of Gcrvase Brandon. In the most absurd way he had long encouraged one whom the vicar could only regard as a wastrel. He had allowed this incorrigible fellow the run of the Hart's Ghyll Ubrary, and the vicar recalled meeting John Smith in the vil- lage street with a priceless Elzevir copy of Plato's Theaetetus under his arm, the Brandon crest stamped on the leather, the Brandon bookplate inside. The vicar understood that the man had been a frequent visitor at the house, that money had been given him from time to time, and that the mother had been al- lowed to occupy the cottage on the common rent free. Was it to be wondered at that a weak, half-developed brain had been thrown off its balance? In these circumstances it was right that Gervase Brandon should be made to understand the misdiief he had wrought; it was right that he should be called THE COMING upon to take a hand in the adjustment of the coil But as Mr. Perry-Hennington passed through the gate of Harfs GhyU and walked slowly up the avenue toward the house there was stiU a reservation in his mind. As matters were with Brandon now he might not be able to grapple with a problem of a nature to make heavy demands upon the ment^ and moral faculties. The vicar had scarcely entered upon tiiis aspect of the case, when the sight of a spinal carriage in the care of two nurses forbade any more cpcculation upon the subject. He was suddenly brought face to face with reality in a grimly practical sY «. 'How are you this morning, ' rvase?' Said the vicar, stopping the little procession with a hearty Toice. The question was addressed to a gatrnt* ol- low^yed man in a green dressing gown, who was propped up on pillows. 'I've nothing to complain of,' said Gervase Bran- don. He spoke in a cahn, gentle way. 'Another capital night.' 'Do you still have pain?' 'None for a week, I'm thankful to say. But I touch wood I' The optimistic, ahnost gay tone did not deceive the vicar. The tragic part of the matter was that the 47 i I ( i THE COMING cewation of pain was not a hooeful.•«, i,. '»» had come upon him. For th«- l™.„. ^ the beaches of Gallipoli Th.^ '»»mea on io a man m meridian oride n# k~i l«ct hardly bore thJnl. 7 '^ ''^ * ^^ -^.h»«ve „.„ v,^.:■: xi::::rN: mm would the owner of Hart'. Ri.T^ -'.ordHvea^„wJ,^:^-^J^rr'' H.^:;ri^rr.tdrj::rrh:r B' position of Uing ah,e to i^'^VZ gratified them to the fuJI H, h /!. ^ to attach hi™,„ • '« '^d had everything ravonte it was undonbtedly he It h=j • ««y«hing, with a gr«u.1.„ v ^'' '^ p-eat zest m hfe as a crowning THE COMING booo. Ig.^ fc common wi* „ ™„„ o h» «»m.ym«. Had cast „,ry per^naC^ •Mthed with «v«7 fiber of his bring H« had only allowed himself one reason for.h, v^unuo, undertaking Of a bestial UslTTd ' ^o.,t the dear chap/' ^ °*'*^' *«^«« S3 I i ' THE COMING •Wo. I'm afraid we ihaU not' The vicar couM not quite keep resentment out of his voice. But in deference to a graceful and perhaps merited rebuke, the controversialist kmered his tone a little. 'But let me give you the facts.' Thereupon, with a naivete not lost upon the man in the spinal carriage. Perry-Hennington very sol- emnly reUited the incident of the white feather. Brandon sajd nothing, but looked at the vicar fix- edly. 'I hate having to worry you in this way.' Perry-Hennington watched narrowly the drawn face. 'Of course it had to be followed up. At first, I'U confess, I took it to be a mere piece of blasphemous bravado in execrable taste, but now I've seen the man, now I've talked with him, I have come to another con- clusion.' The vicar saw Hiat Brandon's eyes were fuU of an intense, eager interest. Said the sufferer softly. 'The conclusion I have come to is that it's a case of paranoia.' 'That is to say, you think he intended the state- • ment to be taken literally?' 'Ida But I didn't realize that an at once. When I accused him of blasphemy he defended himself with 54 THE COMING to nothuv, 'd he «ri«| with. P„f«tly f„u«ic •«»««»««• Let ne pve it you wort for wori. 'At two o'docl. P„«^ „^^,^ •»wed me the little town with it. Vaint gri)le. And turreu whew he sle«» « n*ht. And I aAed him to have courage «,d th«i I «nhn««I hhn and then he left me, aying he would •Worn agata' ' _ Brwdon', face had an ever-deepening i„t.re«. But Be Old not venture upon a remark. 'Of cour«,' »id d.e vicar, 'one', answer dK«ld tovt beo,, -My friend, he who aid,,.b«, and bar- bor, an unregistered alien enemy becomes amomble to the Defense of the Reahn Regulations.' ' 'What mu your ansver?' The look of bewilder- mait was growing upon.° andon's face. 'I made none. I was completely bowled out. But I went at once to see the mother. Vhere the oddest part of all comes in. After a lirtle con- versation with the mother, I discovered that she most 'uxwiy believes that her son is-is a messiah.' Agam the stricken man closed his eyes. 55 IM m THE COMING d« toMme haw h.r «„ wa, born.« ™„U».f J her hu.tand had b«. Kilfcd to action. She toW me how she had pniy«l tot,a „^ „^^^ ^^ ^ ^ 'gel appe„«l to her with a pn»,i„ that she would live to see the war which would «,d aU wars; she toM ■« how. Son was bom to her in fuIiiUment of the prophecy, and how she christened hm. John En»nuel abo« the matter much is expl.to«l. The man is ctorly suffering fr^n iUusions prenataUy indu«d. There is no doubt a doctor wouW tell u, that it e:t- plam, his fits. It also.counts for his faith-healinr m»«n,e. And there is no doubt that mother ami son have reacted upon one another m such a way tot they are now stark crary.' 'And tot is your deliberate opinion?' •TVith to fact, before me I can come to no otor. It.the only charitable explanation. Otherwise I should have felt it to be my duty to institute a prose- cufon under to blasphemy Uws. Only to otor ie 7 mmg that matters after all. « windows open in the soul.' ^ * ''^ •«««VI.4.,4fF.W.H.Mnr.]. 57 ill Jl THE COMING 'No, no.' Perry-Hennington strove against vehemence. 'Still, we won't go into that.' He was on perilous ground. Of late years Brandon himself had been a thorn in the sacerdotal cushion. The mod- em spirit had led him to skepticism, so that, in the vicar's phrase, 'he had become an alien in the house- hold of faith.' Now was not the moment to open an old wound or to revive the embers of controversy. But the vicar felt the old spiritual enmity, which Bran- don's stoic heroism had luUed to sleep, again stirring his blood. Therefore, he must not aUow himself to be involved in a false issue. Let him keep rigidly to the business in hand. And the business in hand was: What shall be done with John Smith? It was clear at once that in Brandon's opinion there was no need to do anything. The vicar felt ruefuBy that he should have foreseen this attitude. But he had a right to hope that Brandon's recent experiences, even if they had not changed him fundamentaUy, would have done something to modify the central heresies. Nothing was further from the vicar's desire than to bear hardly upon one who had carried him- self so nobly, but Brandon's air of tolerance was a laxity not to be borne. Perry-Hennington's soul was on fire. It was as much as he could do to hold himself in hand. 58 THE COMING 'You see. My dear feUow.' He said, 'as the case pr^ts itself to me, I must do one of two things. E«^ I must mstitute a prosecution for blasphen^, Z T '' '^ '' '^' °' - ' ^-»^ would be the wiser and more humane course. I must take stq»s to have him removed to an asylum/' 'But why do anything?' I feel it to be my duty.' '3ut he's «> harml«s. And a dear fellow.' I w»h I could,ha« your opinion. I can only re- itt n^ T ';' '»'^' »* » '0-U3 form HMt It may uifect others.' 'Hardly likely, one would think ' 'We live in abnormal times. I am very sorry, but I can only regard this man a, a moral dangerTo the '™™»'«y. Edith wa, p«tly shocked I Z ^tlyjock^l. Voumus.e«usemysayh,gso.Ger- ««. But I c«,not help feeling that in the circum- ^^ vast majority of right-thinking people 'But who are the people who think rightly' Yc/Brf T''''^ '«c^ you mean that the Incarnation is the only mat- ' ter in which wc are to exercise faith?' 'Ah, now we are getting into theology.' Perry-Hennington took up his niece with a little air of Uand condescension. 'You mustn't bother your pretty head about that I must go now/' A pang shot through him as he suddenly remembered the mor- row's sermon. 'I must leave you, my dear, to help the children put together their picture puzzle. Gervase is reaUy quite as weU as I had hoped to find him. Let us continue to have faith.' Thereupon the vicar tore himself away from a con- troversy in which he felt he was showing, as usual, to singular advantage. He was so sure of the ground on which he stood, that even poor Gervase's highly trained inteUect, of which the caUow, fluffy-headed MiUicent was the merest echo, was hardly able to meet him upon it Moreover the vicar was a bom fighter, and the trend of the discussion with his niece had had the effect of stirring in his mind the embers of a latent antagonism. The truth was, Brandon had never been quite forgiven a »»w/ he had once permit- ted himself. He had said that the Established Church was determined to eat his cake an(^ to have it: that is, it was reared on the basis of two and two makes five, 73 THE COMING but ordered its conduct on the buii of two and two niakes four. As the vicar left the inner haU he heard the voice of the curly-headed Joskin uplifted in a wail; *'Oh, mummy, do come and help us I We can't fit it in.' There's a piece missing.' Vn THE vicar remembered his sermon and looked at his watch. It was within twenty minutes of luncheon; the most valuable morning of the week was gone. The spirit of vexation rose in him again. It was aU the fault of this miserable feUow, John Smith. Twwed up and hopped from his Wcyde. 'No, nothing of that kind I'm glad to say.' The vicar's reply was equally precise and to the point 'But I want to have a little talk with you privately about a matter that is worrying me a good deal' 'Veiy glad any time.' Joliffe looked at his watch. 'Why not come and take potiuck with me now-if you are not afraid of Mrs. Small in war time. She's not up to your form at any time, but you are very welcome to what we have.' The vicar hesitated. He was expected at home, but John Smith was burning a hole in his mind. He felt there must be no delay in taking a man whom;6 THE COMING he could trust into his confidence, and if he lost this present opportunity no other chance might arise for •cveral days. Said the practical Joliffe. 'Although you'U not expect much. I'll send my boy along to the vicarage to tell them not to wait forjyou.' Perry-Hennington allowed hunself to be per- suaded. Joliffe was the only person in the place to whom he might turn for help; moreover he was a dis- creet, unaffectedly honest man whom the vicar had always instinctively trusted. And disconcerted as he was by Brandon's attitude in the matter, it was im- perative that no time should be lost in taking compe- tent advice. The doctor's abode was a rather fine, small Georgian specimen, standing back from the center of the vil- hgt street. A widower and childless in a house too large for his needs, a man of taste in furniture and bnc-a-brac, with a capital cellar and a good cigar for his fnends, he was also a man of private means to whom the neighboring villages owed a great deal He was such an excellent fellow, so widely and so justly respected, that it was a little odd to find hhn tinged with the national vice of servility. But with all h,s great merits he sometimes found it rather hard to forget that he belonged to the middle class and 77 m THE COMING that the vicar belonged to the aristocracy. It may have been for that reason that Mr. Perry-Hennington felt so mudi confidence in his judgment. At any rate, the satisfying sense that Joliffe was aware of the deference due to a peer's brother oiled the wheeb of their intercourse, and enabled the vicar to treat him with a bonhomie which he knew wotdd not be abused. Small had only a cottage pie and a pancake to offer the august visitor, but in spite of the King's edict, to which the host apologetically referred, this fare was eked out by a very honest glass of brown sherry, a cup of coffee that did Mrs. Small great credit, and a really excellent cigar. Both gentlemen were due at Brombridge at three, to which center of activity the doctor proposed to drive the vicar in his runabout. This suited the vicar very well. He would be there and back in half the time required by his gig. And old Alice, who was rising twenty-four, would be able to save herself for the evening journey to Grayficld, which old Alice's master, fully conscious that 'the old girl was not what she had been,' and a humane man to boot, had been inclined to view with some little concern. Things were turning out for the best in the nmndane sphere at any rate, and tf» vicar was not unpleasantly aware of this fact as, after-luncheon dgw alight, he en- 78 THE COMING tered tqxm the incidental cause of a modest but agree- able meal to which he had done perhaps rather better justice than the state of his emotions justified. *7oliffe,' said the vicar, taking a long and im- pressive pull at his cigar, 'what I really want to talk to you about is that fellow John Smith. I am sorry to say I've come to the conclusion that he can no kxiger be allowed to stay in the parish.' 'Indeed,' said the doctor casually. 'A harmless tort of creature I've always thought. Doesn't quite know himself perhaps. A little too free with his opinions may be, but strictly between ourselves' — Dr. Joliffe's voice grew respectfully confidential'! Think we may lay that to the door of someone else.' 'Brandon, eh? The vicar grew magis- terial. 'Always an injudicious fellow. That's the worst of your radical. Gives these intermediate sort of people ideas.' I wish you'd try the brandy.' The host pushed it across. War time, you know.' 'I should value your opinion. Just half a glass.' 'Well, half a glass. To return to John Smith, Excellent brandy. My girl, Edith, presented this fel- low Smith with a white feather this morning. Of course he's a lK>ir half-begotten sort of creature, but 79 m ^•f THE COMING as far u one can see there's no reuon why he shouldn't be working at munitions instead of loafing about the conunon.** 'Exactly. Sure you won't have a UetU more?* 'Quite. WeU, if you please, he kissed the feather, stuck it in his buttonhole, and said, 'And lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.' ', The doctor shook a grave, gray head. 'Sounds de- cidedly cracked, I must say. At any rate a most improper speech to make to a clergyman's daughter.' 'I should think sol Outrageous blasphemy I' 'Do you suppose the chap meant to insult her?' 'If he didn't, and it's chariuUe to give him the benefit of the doubt, his behavior only admits of one other explanation.' Joliffe sat, a picture of perplexity. To a se- verely Kteral mind the spf.ch was meaningless. He had known for some time that the man claimed to see visions, that he was a poet and a dreamer; and the doctor had lately heard rumors, to which he had paid little attention, that the man was dabbling in Christian Science in neighboring villages; but this was the first time it had occurred to him that the fellow was in- Po THE COMING •ane. But now the doctor agreed with the vicar that such behavior strongly suggested that condition. 'Mind you, that is not all.' And the vicar gave an account of his own visit to the conunon, his con- versation with the man, his subsequent visit to the mother and the remarkable statement ^e had made. 'She has always been very religious,' said the doc- tor, 'but up till now I have not questioned her sanity.' 'Nor I,' said the vicar. 'But she is not important. She is practically bed-ridden. It is this son of hers we have to think about. I have already made up my mind that he must go. And that being the case, the problem arises as to what is the best means of getting rid of him.' Joliffe, a worldly-wise man within his sphere, stroked his chin solemnly but offered no advice. 'Of course,' said the vicar, 'it is in the public in- terest that whatever steps we may take should not excite attention. It is sufficiently disagreeable to have that sort of lunatic in one's parish, without having busybodies and maliciously inclined people making a fuss. The readiest and simplest means, no doubt, would be to institute a prosecution for blasphemy. He would' most certainly be detained during his 8i W— il am MKROCOPT MSOUITION TBT CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) /APPLIED IN/HGE I 1653 E THE COMING 'I wonder if we shall realize it when it occurs,' said Speke, his hand straying to his champagne glass. 'In all its fundamentals the world is as it was two thousand years ago in Palestine. If Christ walked the earth again, it is certain that he would be treated now as he was then.' 'That, one cannot believe,' interposed Lady Jane with ready vehemence. 'Even you admit, George, the amount of practical Christianity there is in the world. I, for one, wiU not believe all this sacrifice has been in vain.' 'I agree with you, Udy Jane,' said the vicar. 'When He comes to resume His ministry, as come He will, at all events He will find that His Church has been true. But at present, I confess, one looks in vain for a sign of His advent' Speke shook his head. 'With all submission,' he said, 'if Christ appeared today he would be treated as a h.fmless crank, or he would be put in an asylum. Think of his reception by the yeUow press— the ruler of nations, the maker of governments, the welder of empires. He would find it the same pleasant worid he left two thousand years ago. Man, in sum, the vocal working majority, whether in London, Prris, Berlin, New York, or Petrograd, could not possibly '7|r THE COMING meet the Master face to face or even hope to recog- nize him when he passed by!' **That is true, no doubt/' said the vicar, 'of the mass of the people. Men of truly spiritual mold are m a hopeless minority. But they are still among us. Depend upon it, when the hour comes they will recog- nize the Master's voice, depend upon it, they will know His face.' Said George Speke. 'I am absolutely convinced of that, George.' And Udy Jane, one with the law and the prophets, gave the signal to the ladies and rose superbly from the dinner table. I: I i fi xn WHEN the ladies had left the room the vicar took the chair on the right of his host, and then he said across thetabletoGeorgeSpeke: 'Talking oi poor Brandon, what opinion did you form of him menf Ij when you saw him this afternoon?* 'Mentally. I thought him rather wonderful ' The eyes of the vicar searched those of the man opposite. If this was a conventional statement it was the clear desire of those eyes to expose it 'The poise of his mind seemed to me perfect. And somehow one hadn't quitu are wa.tmg for an introduction. Well, I'm a neighbor the new tenant of Longwood.' ' 'Oh, really,' said the vicar. The air of constraint ^^ a little but it was too heavy to vanish at once. I am glad to meet you.' 130 THE COMING ^'Xct me give you a card.' The new neighbor «xi. Dcnly d.ved into a hidden rece« of a light gray frodt coat, and whipped out a small case. Perry-Hennington with a leisurelines, half re- uctant. And in almost comic contrast to the stranger's freedom of gesture, accepted the card, disentangled his eyeglasses from his pectoral cross, and read it care- fully. It bore the inscription: Mr. Gazelee Payne Murdwell, 94 Fifth Avenue, New York. 'Glad to meet you, Mr. Murdwell,' said the vicar with a note of reassurance coming into his tone. 'Al- low me to welcome you among us.' The voice, in its gt^ye sonority, rose almost to a point. It didn't quite achieve it, but the fact that the man was an American and also the new tenant of Longwood accounted for much. For the vicar was already quite sure that he didn t belong to the island. The native article could not have had that particular manner, nor could it have dressed in that particular way, nor could it have shown that extraordinary, half quizzical self-security A new man from the city might have achieved the white hat (with modifications), the gray frock coat, the whate waistcoat, the white spats, the wonderful checked cravat, but he could not have delivered a frontal attack on an obviously reverend and honorable gentleman, for long generations indigenous to the soil 131 Jti li! In >i interesting man.' 'A very wonderful person. Lady Tyrwhitt says he is one of the most remarkable men living. And she says he is never out of sight of private detectives, because of the number of attempts that have been made on his life.' I THE COMING 1 ahall look forward to meeting him again on Wed- nesday.' Before Wednesday came, however, die vicar had much else to think about Ever in the forefront of his mind was the vexatious matter of John Smith. It had been arranged that on the next day, Monday, Dr. Parker should come out from Brombridge, lunch at the vicarage, and theto, if possible, interview the young man. « On Monday morning the vicar made a preliminary survey of the ground. He went down to the village, and had a little talk with Field, the carpenter. From him he learned that John Smith had downed tools for a fortnight past, that he had been roaming the country- side at all hours of the day and night, and that 'he wor shapin' for another of his attacks.' Field was a sensible man, whom the vicar respected in spite of the fact that he was not among the most regular of the flock; therefore at some length he discussed with him a very vexed question. In reply to a direct canvass of his judgment. Field admitted that 'John might be a bit soft-like.' At the same time he confessed the highest affection and admiration for him, and some- what to the vicar's annoyance volunteered the opinion that 'he went about doing good.' 136 THE COMING 'How cam you think that, Field?' Perry- Hennington, sternly. 'Well, sir, they say he keeps the chaps out of the publics.' 'Who says so?»* 'At Brombridge, sir. They are getting to think a lot of him there.' 'Are they indeed?' 'He preaches there you know, sir, on Sunday after- noons at the market cross.' The vicar was shocked and scandaUzed. 'I hope,' he said, 'that he doesn't give vent to the sort of opL ions he does here.' 'Yes, sir,' said Field, with respectful perplexity. 'I know you parsons think him a bit of a freethinker, but I'm sure he means weU. And begging your par- don, sir, he knows a lot about the Bible too.' 'I take leave to doubt that. Field,' said the vicar, who had suddenly grown so deeply annoyed that he felt unable to continue the conversation. He left the shop abruptly. A litUe more light had been thrown on the subject, but somehow i- increased his sense of worry and discomfort. He had not thought well to enlighten Field as to the gravamen of the charge, yet it was hard to repress a feeling of irritation that so 137 m il!' ' THE COMING sensible a man should hold such a heterodox view of his employee. True to his appointment, Dr. Parker arrived at one o'clock. Before he came Mr. Perry-Hennington told Edith in a casual way the reason of his coming to Penfold. To her father's consternation, something in the nature of a scene had followed. 'Then you intend to have him removed to an asylum!' She exclaimed in a tone of horror. The public interest demands noth- ing less.' The girl was greatly upset. And nothing her father could say had any effect upon her distress. She felt herself responsible for this tragic pass. Her unhappy intervention in the first place had brought the thing about, and now she rued it bitterly. She implored her father to let the matter drop. But her prayer was vain. At all times a singularly obstinate man, upon a question of conscience and duty he was not likely to be moved by mere words. Out of respect for his daughter's feelings, and also out of regard for the ears of Prince, the parlor maid, Mr. Perry-Hennington did not refer to the matter in the course of the meal. But as soon as it was over he discussed it at length with his visitor. And he pre- sented his view of the matter with such a cogent 138 THE COMING energy that, for such a mind as Dr. Parker's, whose main concern was 'things as they are,' the case of John Smith was greatly prejudiced. He did not say as much to the vicar, indeed he did his best to keep an open and impartial mind on the subject, but he would have been more or less than himself had he not felt that only the strongest possible justification could • have moved such a man as Mr. Perry-Hennington to his present course of action. In the privacy of the study the vicar explained the situation to Dr. Parker at considerable length, giving chapter and verse for the theory he had formed. And then the two gentlemen set out to find John Smith. Fate went with them. A slow, solemn climb from the vicarage to the village green brought a prompt reward. Straight before them a frail, bareheaded, poorly^lad figure was outlined against a rather wild June sky. 'Our man,' the vicar whispered. Dispositions of approach were made automatically The two gentlemen stepped on to the common sedate- ly enough. As they did so, the vicar ostentatiously pointed out the grandeur of the scene, and its wide, sweeping outlook on two counties, while the doctor lingered in examination of the heath and the plucking of a flower. 139 i 11 THE COMING As usual the young man was leaning against the priest's stone. Near by was a delicate flower which Dr. Parker stooped to gather. **TelI me, what's the name of this little thing?' He said to the vicar, in a loud bluff voice. 'You're overtaxing my knowledge,' said the vicar, with a similar bluff heartiness. 'I don't think I've ever noticed it before. But here is a man who can help us, no doubt.' ^ With a courteous, disarming smile, the vicar sud- denly brought his eyes to bear on John Smith. And then he added in a voice full of kindness and encour- agement: 'I am sure you can tell us the name of this flower.' **Yes, I should very much like to know.' As the doctor gave John Smith the flower, he seized the mo- ment for the closest possible scrutiny of the man before him. Not a detail was lost of the extraor- dinarily sensitive face, with its gaunt but beautiful lines, the luminous eyes, whose pupils were distended to an abnormal width, the look of fastidious cleanli- ness, which the poor clothes and the rough boots seemed to accentuate. 'It is a kind of wild orchis,' said the young man in a gentle tone, which to the doctor's ear had a rather curious sound. 'It is not common hereabouts, but 140 THE COMING you wiU find a few in Mr. Whymper's copse over at Grayfield.' 'You seem well up in the subject of flowers,' said Dr. 'I study them/' said the young man with a quick intensity which caused the doctor to purse his lips. 'I love them so.' He pref^sed the slender, tiny petals to his lips. 'What a wonderful, wonderful thing is that little flower! I weep when I look at it.' Involuntarily the doctor and the vicar looked at the young man's face. His eyes had filled with tears. 'Why do you let a harmless little flower affect -ou in that way?' 'I suppose it's tlje joy I feel in its beauty. I love it, I love it!' And he gave back the little Bower td the doctor with a kind of rapture. 'Do you fed like that about everything?' I worship the Father in all created things.' The too-sensitive face changed suddenly. A light broke over it. 'I am intoxicated with the won- ders around me, I am enchanted with the glories of the things I sec.' 'It certainly is a very wonderful world that we live in,' said the vicar, who sometimes fell unconsciously into his pulpit voice. 'Think of the continents of divine energy in the 141 i 1 1 '>• I if THE COMING very air we breathe.' There was a hush of awe in the voice of John Smith. 'Think of the miracles happening under that tiny leaf.' 'They are not visible to me.' Parker impres- sively removed his gold-rimmed eyeglasses and rubbed them slowly on a red silk handkerchief. The young man drew aside a frond of bracken, and disclosed a colony of black ants. 'Does the sight of that move you also?' I '^ 'They are part of the mystery. I see the Father there.' 'I presume you mean God?' Said the vicar. 'Male and female created He them,' said the young man in a hushed tone. 'I hardly dare look at the wonders around me, now the scales have fallen from my eyes and the heavens have opened.' 'The heavens have opened!' I can read them now. I gaze upon the portals. I see the chariots. There are the strong souls of the saints riding in glory across the sky. The doctor and the vicar followed the lines of the young man's hand, which pointed straight into a bril- liant, but storm-shot sim. They had instantly to lower their eyes. 14a THE COMING 'It would blind one to look at that,' said Dr. 'Nothing can blind you if you have learned to see,** said the young man. It astonished them to observe that his gaze was fixed upon the flaming disc of light. Suddenly he placed a finger on his lips, entreating them to listen. The doctor and the vicar listened intently. 'Do you hear the music?' 'I am afraid I hear nothing/' said Dr. 'Nor I,' said the vicar. 'There are harps in the air.' 'I don't hear a sound,' said Dr. 'Nor I,' said the vicar, straining his ears; 'or if I do it:s the water of the mill by Burkett's farm.' 'The longer I listen, the more wonderful the music grows.' The vicar and the doctor shook their heads gravely. 'There are also times, I believe, when you hear voices?' Said the vicar. 'Yes, a voice speaks to me continually.' 'Would you say it belonged to any particular per- son,' said the doctor, 'or that it came from any par- ticular source?' 'It is the voice of the Father.' 'The voice of God, I presume?' 143 m THE COMING 'Ye»— the yoiet of God.' **I>oe8 it lay a charge upon you?' The vicar; 'It tells me to save the world.' The complete simpHdty of the statement took the vicar and the doctor aback. They looked soleimJy at each other, and then at hhn who had made it 'And you intend to obey it?' The doctor maiw aged to put the question in a tone of plain matter-of- course. The young man's face took a strange pallor. **I must, I must,' he said. And as he spoke his question- ers noticed that he had begun to shake violently. 'Are we to understand,' said the vicar, speaking very slowly, 'that you expect supernatural powers to be given you?' 'I don't know. I cannot say.' A light broke over the gentle face. 'But a way will be found.' 'How do you know that?' Said the vicar. ■r 'It has been communicated to me.' 'Is that to say,' the vicar sternly demanded, 'that you arc about to claim plenary powers?' Before the young man answered the question he covered his eyes with his hands. Again he stood in an attitude of curious listening intensity. The doctor thought he could hear a wind, very faint and g«itle, 144 THE COMING •tirring in the upper air, but to the vicar it was the •ound of water flowing by Buricett's fann. The vicar repeated his question. 'I am to claim nothing,' said the young man at last 'You do not claim to be a Buddha or a Messiah, or anything of that kind?' Said the vicar, compressing stem lips. Again there was silence. Again the young man closed his eyes. *'l am to daim nothing/' he said. XVI I/' INVOLUNTARILY, as it seemed, and without an attempt to carry the matter further, the vicar and the doctor turned abruptly on their heels and left the common. « 'A case of possessicm,' said the doctor, by the time they had reached the top of the village street. 'And quite the most curious in my experience.' 'At any rate,' said the vicar, 'now you have seen the man for yourself, you will have not the slightest difficulty in certifying him 1' 'You really feel it to be wise and necessary?' The vicar spoke with his habitual air of decision. 'I feel very strongly that it will be in the public interest. In fact, I go further. I feel very strongly that it will be in the national interest to have this man certified as a lunatic.' 'He seems a singularly harmless creature.' 'There is always the fear that he may get worse. But apart from that, he is having a bad effect on weak. Uneducated minds. He already pretends to powers he 146 THE COMING doesn't possess, and has taken lately to faith-healing, and mischievous ncmsense of that kind. The rubicund visage of Dr. Parker assumed a grave, professional look. 'There can be no doubt,' he said, 'that he is on the verge of, if he is not already suffer- ing from, mania.' 'In a word,' said the vicar, 'you fully agree that it will be wise to have him taken care of?' 'From what you have told me,' said Dr. Parker, with professional caution, 'I am inclined to think that, in a time like the present, it may be the right course to adopt.' 'Very well,' said the vicar gravely. 'Let us now go and see Joltffe, and get him to indorse your opinion as the law requures. And then tomorrow morning I will run over to Grayfield and get Whymper to move in the matter without delay.' ** xvn THE vicar and Dr. Parker slowly descended the long, straggling village street, until they came to Dr. Joliffe's gate. They found their man at home. In shirt sleeves and pipe in mouth he was mowing the back laWn with a very creditable display of energy for a househdder of fifty-4ive, on an ex- tremely oppressive afternoon. The perspiring Dr. Joliffe donned a light alpaca coat, and then led his visitors to the summerhouse at the bott(»n of the garden, wha« they could talk with- out fear of being overiieard. The vicar began at once in a concise, businesslike way. Parker has seen John Sn.ith. And he is quite ready to certify him.' 'Hopelessly mad, poor fellow, I'm afraid,' said Dr. A quick frown passed across the face of Dr. The tone was curt Dr. Pairker slowly weighed out a careful reply. *T^ot ex.ctly, in an active sense. But there is no 148 V THE COMING myiag when he will beoone ta At any time acute mania may intervene.' 'It may, of coune.' But it was a reluctant admis- •ion. Moreover, there was an imi>Ucation behind it which Dr. Parker was not slow to understand. No love was lost between these two, nor was their esti- mate of each other's professional abilities altogether flattering. 'Highly probable,' said Dr. Parker, in a warming tone. 'Contrary to my experience of the man. I*ve known him some years now, and though I'm bound to own that he has always seemed a bit cracked, it has never occurred to me that it was a case to certify, and with all deference I am not quite convinced even *» now. 'But surely, Joliffe,' the vicar interposed, with some little acerbity, 'the need for the course we pro- pose to take was made dear to you on Saturday?' The look of doubt deepened in Dr. Toliffc's red face. 'I'm very sorr/'—thcre was ob - n hesitation in the tone — 'but you arc really asking a general prac- titioner to take a great deal on himself.' There was a perceptible stiffening of the vicar's voice. 'I thought I had fuUy explained to you on Saturday what the alternative is. You see 149 I I I [i THE COMING if wc can't get th* man into an asylum quietly and humanely, he must be made amenable to the Defense of the Realm Regulations. If you would prefer that course to be taken I wiU go over to the Depot and see General Clarke. We are bound in honor to move in the matter. Parker agrees with me that an asylum wiU be kinder to the man himself, less disturbing to the public mind, and therefore in the national interest.' 'I do, indeed,' said Dr. But the frown was deepening upon Dr. Joliffe's face. 'I see the force of your argument,' h^ said. **But knowing the man as I do, and feeling him to be a harmless chap, although just a little cracked, no doubt, I'm not sure that you don't take an exaggerated view of what he said the other day.' 'Exaggerated view I' The vicar caught up the phrase. 'My friend,' he said imperiously, 'don't you realize the danger of having such things said in this parish at a time like the present?' There was a stiffening of attitude at the vicar's tone. 'But even in a time like the present, I shouldn't like to overstate its importance.' The vicar looked at Dr. Joliffe almost with an air 150 ** i THE COMING of pity. 'Don't you realize the effect it might have on sotne of our young villagers?' 'Well, that is the point, and Tm not sure that you don't overstate it, vicar.' 'That's an Irishman all over,' said Mr. Perry- Hennington to Dr. Parker in an impatient aside. 'One can never get him to agree to anything.' 'Even if I was bom in Limerick,' said Dr. Joliffe, with an arch smile, 'it gives me no particular pleasure to be unreasonable. I'll own thi when the best has been said for the man he's not so wise as he might be.' 'And don't forget that he claims to be a Messiah.' 'So I understand. But there's historical precedent even for that, if we are to believe the Bible.' The vicar drew his lips into a straight line, and Dr. Parker followed his example. They did not venture to look at each other, but it was clear they held the opinion in common that Dr. Joliffe had been guilty of a grave breach of taste. 'The trouble with you Saxons,' said Dr. Joliffe, who had been getting his back gradually to the wall, 'is that you have too little imagination; the trouble with us Celts that we have too much.' 'Joliffe,' said the vicar, in a tone of pain and sur- prise, 'please understand that such a thing as imagina- tion does not enter into this matter. We ar« face to XSI.' -: i> i^ I -Ml THE COMING face with a very unpleasant fact There is a mad person in this parish, who goes about uttering stupid blasphemies, who openly sides with the enemy, and we have to deal with him in a humane, but practical and efficient way. Parker and I are agreed that the public safety calls for certain measures; we are also agreed that the national interest will be best served by their adoption. Are you ready to fall in with our views?— that is the question it is my duty to ask you.' Joliffe stroked a square jaw. He resented the vicar's tone and at that moment he disliked Dr. Parker more intensely than he had ever disliked any human being. Joliffe's opinion both stood for a type of Pharisee behind which certain reactionary fortes, subtle but deadly, invariably intrenched themselves. Joliffe, although cursed with an average share of human weakness, was at heart a fair-minded maa And his one desire, now that he was up against a delicate problem, was to hoM the balance true between both parties. From the Anglo-Saxon standpoint the vicar and that (Ad fool, Parker, were right no doubt; but from the Celtic outlook there was also something to be said of John Smith. 'Now, Joliffe,' said the vicar, 'please understand this. Our man has to be put away quietly, without any fuss. He will be very comfortable in the county 152 THE COMING 'ylum. I speak from experience. I go there once a month. Eveiything possible is done to insare the weU- being of the inmates. It may be possible to let him take his books with him. He is a great reader. I hear -even writes verses of sorts. Anyhow I wiU speak to Dr. Macey about him at the first opportunity, and do all I can for his comfort and happiness.' But D- JoKffe compressed obstinate lips, and stared with a fixed blue eye at the storm clouds coming up from that dangerous quarter, the southwest. As I think I told you,' continued the vicar, 'I ^ke to Whymper on Saturday evening. He sees as I do. And he said the bench would support my action, provided the man was duly certified by two doctors to meet the requirements of the Loitl Chancel- lor. Now come, JoliflFe. Be reasonable.' JoUffe shook a somber head. 'I don't like to do it on my own reqwnsiWlity,' he said. 'But you have our friend Parker to share it' 'The fact is/' said Dr. Joliffe slowly, 'I walked as far as Hart's Ghyll this morning to have a little talk with Brandon on the subject' 'Gervase Brandon!' To the mind of the vicar much was explained. 'Wasn't it rather a pity to trou- m ■.11 I 'I THE COMING We the poor fellow with a thing of this kind in l^is present condition?' 'I understand that you didn't hesitate to trouble him with it on Saturday.' I felt it to be my duty.' The retort was so obvious, that Dr. Joliffe did not trouble to make it. Vhen the vicar chose to look at things from the angle of his official status it was hardly worth while to argue with him. 'May I ask whai you said to Gervase Brandon?' * 'I told him what you proposed to do.' The vicar shook a dubious head. 'Was that wise, do you think — in the circumstances?' Joliffe ignored the question. 'I informed him also,' he added, 'that I didn't feel equal to taking such a great responsibUity upon my- self.' 'You went so far as to tell him that?' This affair has cost me a great deal of anxiety since I saw you on Saturday. I feel very strongly that we ought to have further advice.' 'We have it.' The vicar indmed a diplomatist's head in Dr. Parker's direction. 'I told the squire,' said Dr. Joliffe, with a menac- ing eye upon Dr. Parker, 'that I didn't feel able to 154 THE COMING move in the matter without the advice of a mental specialist.' 'The man is as mad as a hatter,' said Dr. Parker, with the air c f a mental specialist. 'But is he certifiable— that's the point?' 'He's a source of danger to the community,' the vicar cut in. Joliffe had asked Dr. Parker the question, and his eye demanded that Dr. Parker should answer it. 'I think we may take Mr. Perry-Hemiington's word for that,' said Dr. 'Well, with all deference,' said Dr. Joliffe, 'the squire feels very strongly that the man ought not to be interfered with.' The vicar was plainly amioyed. He caught up Dr. Joliffe sharply. 'I am sorry to say that Brandon with all his merits is little better than an atheist.' The tone and the manner were a little too much for Irish blood. 'And so am I if it comes to that.' Joliffe; and then like a true Hibernian he added: 'And I thank God for it.' The vicar and Dr. Parker were greatly pained by this indiscretion, but both were careful to refrain by word or gesture from making the slightest comment upon it 'WeU, Joliffe,' said the vicar, when at last he was THE COMING ' f, f 1 5' W ftble to achieve the necessary con^KMure, 'if you not see your way to act with us we must find some^ one who will.' By now the blood of Dr. Joliffe was running dan- gerously high. But fresh with his talk with Brandon, which had greatly impressed him, he somehow felt that big issues were at stake. Therefore he must hold himself in hand. Perry-Hennington,' he said, after an inwai^ struggle, in a voice scrupulously mild, 'I must tell you that Mr. Brandon has offered to pay the fee of any mental specialist we may like to summon, and that he will abide by his decision.' 'Abide by his decision!' The words were unfor- tunate, but tact was not one of Dr. Joliffe's virtues. 'Very good of Brandon I'm sure. But may one ask where he stands in the matter?' 'He's the friend of John Smith.' 'It hardly seems a friendship to be proud of.' The vicar continued to let off steam. 'Still I think I see your point. The law entitles the man to have a friend to speak for him, and if Brandon constitutes himself his champion we can't complain. What do you say, Parker?' 'By all means let him be given every chance,' said Dr. Paricer, in a suave, judicial tone. 'Personally I 156 THE COMING don't think there is a shadow of a doubt that the man is of unsound mind, and I am convinced, after what you have told me, that he ought to be taken care of; but as Joliffe doesn't agree, and as Mr. Brandon wiU pay a specialist's fee, I am quite wiUing to meet him in consultation.' 'Very well, Parker.' Said the vicar, in his getting- things^one voice, 'that seems reasonable. Let us have a man down at once. Suggest somebody, and we'll telegraph here and now.' Parker thought for a moment 'Shan we say Murfin? I believe, with a good reputation.' 'Belongs to the old school,' said Dr. 'Why notMoriarty?' Parker stiffened visibly at the interruption. 'Wrote a cranky book, didn't he, called 'The Power of Faith' or something?' 'Moriarty is a pioneer in mental and psychical mat- ters. Brandon has a high opinion of his book. It is only the other day that he advised me to read it.' But the vicar shook his head in vigorous dissent. 'The trouble is,' he said, 'that Brandon is getting more than a little cranky himself.' 157 r »i it' I f THE COMING 'Depends upon what you mean by the terra/' sai^ Dr. Joliffe bridling. 'You know, Joliffe, as well as I do,' the vicar ex- postulated, 'that our friend Brandon, fine and com- prehensive as his intellect may be, is now in a very curious state. His judgment is no longer to be trusted.' 'I'd trust his judgment before my own in some things,' was Dr. Joliffe's rejoinder. 'I'd trust no man's judgment before my own in anything.' Said the vicar. 'I'm no believer in the gloss that is put on everything nowadays. White is white, black is black, and two and two make four— that's my creed, and no amount of intellectual smear is going to alter it However, we shall not agree about Brandon, therefore we shall not agree about Dr. And as it will devolve upon our friend Parker to meet the specialist and issue the certificate, it seems to me only fair and reasonable that he should make his own choice.' With a touch of professional rigor. Parker thought so too. 'Well, it's immaterial to me,' said Dr. Joliffe, 'as I'm retiring from the case. All the same I think it would be best for the squire to decide. He who pays the piper has a right to call the tune.' IS8 THE COMING 'It doesn't apply in this case,' said the vicar in- cisively. 'One feels that one is making an immense concession in studying Brandon's feelings in the way one is doing. You seem to forget, Joliffc, that we have a public duty to perform.' 'I am very far from forgetting it. But Brandon and I feel that we have also our duty to perform. And that is why I take the liberty to suggest that he should choose his own mental specialist.' What do you say, Parker?' Parker tacitly agreed. 'Wen,' said Dr. Joliffe, 'if the squire will consent to Murfin, it's all the same to me, but if my opinion is asked, I am bound to say that to my mind Moriarty is by far th^ abler man.' 'Why do you think so?' Parker asked. 'More modem in his ideas. Sees farther. Knows we are only at the threshold of a tremendous subject.' 'Nonsense, Joliffe.' The vicar was losing a little of his patience. **White's white, and black's black. This man John Smith ought not to be at krge, and neither you nor Brandon nor all the mad doctors in Harley Street can be allowed to dictate to us in the matter. We have our duty to do, and very disagree- able it is, but fortunately there is the county bendi behind us.' THE COMING ••Quite so.' Joliflfe, drily. 'At the same time we don't want to put oursehes wrong with public opinion, nor do we want to act in any way that will hurt people's feelings. And it is most undesirable that it should be made into a party or sectarian matter. Therefore, before we take deft- nite action, I think I had better walk as far as Hart's GhyU, and have a few further wonls with Gervase Brandon myself.' • Both doctors promptly fell in with the suggestion. There seemed much to be said for it. Parker was invited to await Mr. Perry-Hennington's return and to join Dr. JoHffe in a cup of tea in the meanthne. To this proposal Dr. Parker gradoosly assented; and the vicar, already inflamed with argument, went forth to Harf s Ghyll to lay his views before Gervase Bran, don. I j i i xvin As Mr. Pteny-Hennington impatiently cUcked the doctor's gate, 'ViUagc pettifogger!' Flashed along his nervous system. Only a •tupid man, or a man too much in awe of Hart's Ghyll could have been guilty of Joliffe's scruples, at a mo- ment so iU-timed. The afternoon's oppression was growing into the certainty of a storm. There were many portents from the southwest to which the vicar, walking rapidly and gathering momentum as he went, paid no attentkm. He was really angry with Joliffe; a spirit naturally pontifical had been fretted by his attitude. Apart from the fact that the issue was clear to all reasonable minds, JoMf^ having to make a choice between Caesar and Pompcy, had chosen the latter. It was very an- noying, and though Mr. Perry-Hennington prided hhnself npoa his breadth of view, he could not sup- press a feeling of resentment In the middle of Hart's Ghyll's glorious avenue a fine car met the vicar, drove him under the trees and glided by with the flight of a bird. A lean-kxAing i6i THE COMING man in 1 white hat sat in a corner of the car. At he went past he waved a hand to the vicar and caUed out 'Wednesday!' It was his new acquaintance, Mr. MurdweH When Mr. Perry-Hennington reached the house, a rather unwelcome surprise awaited him. Edith was seated in the inner haU with niece MiUicent. Driven by the pangs of conscience, she had come to implore help for John Smith. But for MiUicent, this meant the horns of a dilemma. Her sympathy had been keenly aroused by her cousin's strange confession, but Gervase had been too much troubled by the matter al- ready, and his wife was very unwiUing to tax him further. The arrival of the vicar, while Edith and MiUicent were stiU anxiously discussing the line to take, was very embarrassing for aU three. It only needed a hint to set Mr. Perry-Hennington on the track of their con- versation. And when he realized, as he did almost at once, that Edith was in the very act of working against him, he felt a shock of pain. DissembUng his feelings, however, he asked that he might see Gervase. But MiUicent with a shrewd guess at his purpose, went the length of denying him. Gervase was not quite so weU, and she had foolishly aUowed him to tire himself with their American neigh- i6a f THE COMING bor. The new tenant of Longwood, who had stayed nwre than an hour. But the vicar was not in a mood to be thwarted. The nuitter was important,.ml he would only stay five minutes. 'Well, Uncle Tom.' Said the wife anx.ouslj ',f you see Gervase for five minutes, you must soi -mnly promise not to refer to John Smith.' Perry-Hennington could give no such ur.' .r takmg Indeed he had to admit that John Smith.as Ae sole cause and object of his visit. Thereupon to Ediths horror, MiUicent suddenly flashed out: 'I think it's perfectly rii-^meful. That you should be acting toward that dear feUow in the way that you are doing.' The yi«r was quite taken aback. He glanced at the disloyal Edith with eyes of stem accusation. But it was not his intention to be drawn into any discussion of the matter with a pair of irresponsible women. He was hurt, and rather angry, but as always there was a high sense of duty to sustain him. 'Not more than five minutes. I promise you,' he said decisively. And then with the air of a lawgiver and chief magistrate, he marched along a low^eiled. Stone-flagged corridor to the library. XIX 111 •,' ■' • BRANDON was alone. The spinal chair had been set in the oriel that was so dear to him, and now he was propped up, with a book in his hand and his favprite view before hhn. The vicar's greeting was full of kindness, but the stricken man met it with an air of pain, perplexity and secret antagonism. 'The very man I have been hoping to see,' he said in a rather faint voice. And then he added, abnost with distress, 'I want so much to have a talk with you about this miserable business.' 'Don't let it worry you in any way, my dear fel- low,' said the vicar in a tone of reassurance. 'Proper and amp. Provision can easily be made for the poor man if we behave sensibly. At least Whymper thinks so.' 'Hidebound donkey I What has he to do with it?' The abrupt querulousness of the tone was so unlike Brandon that it rather disconcerted the vicar. 'I have always found Whymper a very honest man,' he said soothingly. 'And he is also a magistrate.' 164 r THE COMING 'Oh, yes, a local ShaUow.' The vicar was hurt, but the high sense of duty was with him in his task. And that task was to teU Bran- don m a few concise words of Dr. Parker's visit, of his^opinion of John Smith, and his views concerning 'And I felt it my duty to come and tell you,' said the vicar, in a slow, calm, patient voice, 'that Parker will meet a specialist in consultation. But the ques- faon now is, who shall it be? To my mind the point does not arise, but Joliffe, who I am sorry to say IS not as helpful as he might be. Is making diffi- culties. Parker would like Murfin, but Joliffe thinks Moriarty. But Murfin or Moriarty, what does it matter? They are both first-rate men; besides the case IS so clear that it doesn't present the slightest difficulty. It IS really a waste of money to pay a big fee for a London opinion when a local man like Shading of Brombridge would do quite as well.' Brandon shook his head. A look of grave trouble came into his eyes. 'No,' he said, 'this is a case for the best man the country can provide.' 'Well, you shaU choose him, my dear feUow.' Mr Peny-Hennington's air was aU largeness and mag- nanimity. 'Murfin or Moriarty, or why not such a man as Birdwood Thompson? He is in quite the front:fl li if! RJ I- THE COMING 1 rank, I believe. But before you incur an expense that I'm convinced is unnecessary, I should like you to realize my own position in the matter. To my mind, it will be far kinder to have the man certified and quietly removed, rather than ask the law to take a course which may stir up local feeling in certain direc- tions, and breed undesirable publicity in certain news- papers. Still that is neither here nor there. One is prepared to face s^l consequences, be what they may.' Perry-Hennington,' said Brandon in a hollow tone, 'I can't help thinking that you are making a tragic mistake.' 'The matter hardly admits of discussion I'm afraid. My duty lies before me. Cost what it may it will have to be done.' 'But what possible harm is the man doing?' The vicar deprecated the question by spreading out his large, strong hands. 'We can't go into that,' he said in a kind tone. 'We don't see eye to eye. Be- lieve me, a matter of this sort doesn't admit of dis- cussion. Besides it will only excite you. A man has to act in these things as his conscience directs.' 'Yes, of course. But with all submission, one should try to keep a sense of proportion, shouldn't one?' 'I fuUy agree.' I66 THE COMING 'Then why immure a constructive thinker?' In spite of the watch he was keeping on himself the vicar caught up the phrase almost with passion. But Brandon held his ground. 'In common fair- ness,' he said, 'I feel you ought to read his noble work before you take any action.' 'Words, words, words.' 'Here are words also.' Brandon indicated the open book beside him. 'The Bible I' The vicar could not conceal his surprise. It was abnost the last thing he expected to see in the hands of so distinguished a skeptic. Brandon was secretly amused by the air of sudden perplexity. 'You see I am making my soul,' he said. The vicar was puzzled. It was hard to forbear from being gratified. But fearing the ironical spirit of the modem questioner, he kept on his guard. Brandon, he knew, had a secret armory of powerful weapons. A primitive distrust of the intellect knew better than to engage him at close quarters. 'Our friend, John Smith, has led me back to the Bible,' sakl Brandon, with a simplicity which Mr. Perry-Henningtai greatly mirtrusted. 'John Smith r The tone was frankly incredulous. 'Until the other day I bad not opm^ it for twenty i,!.on ha»e their own privMe vmion of Muriwell'. Uw, they loKm ri«,dy Ae f ««. Ktew to it If we m fte iim to 6nd the fo™»I. We n»y be.ble to „y.,o„g,^d, ^ tte WUhdm«r„«, «d even to deq. «rong, pMi«H Gemany hei«lf. And if they find it 6rst it may be a ««e of -Good-by, Uicester Square,' because the fir« mtnnation the »forId nay have is that then i, a,„an island missing in Europe.' 'ReaUyr said the vicar. 'It sounds fantastic. But there is not the slightest doubt that Murdwell's Law opens up a mental vista which smiply beggars imagination. And there is no doubt, in the opinion of its discoverer, that by its means Man wiU get into touch with unknown elements capable of sealing the doom of the group of thing, to which he belongs.' 'We'll hope not,' said the vicar. 'At any mte, if that IS so, it seems to me that.vlurdwell's Law im- pinges upon the order of divine providence.' 'There we enter upon the greatest of all questions. Just now all creeds are asking: What is Man's rela- tion to God and the universe? Theology has one in- terpretation, science another. Which is right? Phi- losophy says that each has a glimpse of the truth, yet 174 THE COMING it is iKW Inclined to believe that we have touched a new stratum which literally turns all previous theories inside out. Of course, it is not so new as it seems. Plato reached similar conclusions by a different road, but the world of empirical science has hitherto been content to regard them as brilliant but fantastic specu- lations. Gazelee Payne MurdweU claims to have brought them within the region of hard fact; he says science and philosophy are already half converted to his view. We enter a new era of the world's history in consequence, and very amazing manifestations are promised us.' 'Whatever they may be.' Said the vicar stoutly, 'I will not aUow myself to believe that Man can abrogate the functions of the Deity.' 'But what arc the functions of the Deity? Would you say it was the exercise of those functions which saved Paris from being blown to pieces by the Hun?' 'And yet permitted him to sink the Lusitaniar 'Undoubtedly. Don't let us presume to question that God had a reason for his attitude in both cases.' 'Well, in my view I am bound to say that T. And the U-boat abrogate the functions of the Deity in their humble way, just as surely as Murdwell's Law 175 MKMOcorr RHOuinoN mr chart (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) A /1PPLIED IM^GE Inc 1653 Eott Main StrMi RoehMttr. N«w Yorli 14609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - Phon* (716) 286 - 5981 - F«!« THE COMING may expect to do in a higher one. However, discus- sion is useless. We shall never agree. But if on Wednesday you can persuade Professor MurdweU to talk, you may hear strange things.' ^^ 'No doubt he exaggerates,' said the vicar robustly. 'It's the way of these inventive geniuses. On the other hand, should it seem good to the Divine Provi- dence to destroy all the inhabitants of this wicked planet, let the will of God prevail. But in any case, my dear, fellow, I hope you wiU not aUow the ideas' of the American to excite you.' 'They are far from doing that, but it was very civil of a man like MurdweU to take the trouble to come and see a man who couldn't go and see him. He is one of the forces of the modem world, and in the near future he will be the problem for the human race.' 'It may be so,' said the vicar. 'I know nothing of science. But to return to this problem of John Smith. Shall we say Birdwood Thompson? Parker is waiting to know?' 'As you please,' said Brandon in a voice of sudden exhaustion. I'll telegraph. We must be scrupu- lously fair in the matter. And now let us dismiss an 176 THE COMING unprofitable subject. I'm afraid you have been talk- mg too much.' 'A little too much, I'm afraid,' said Brandon rather feebly. 'Well, good-by, my dear fellow,' said the vicar heartily. 'And forget all about this tiresome busi- ness. It doesn't in any way concern you if only you could think so. Whatever happens, the man will be treated with every consideration. As for Professor Murdwell, I'm afraid he draws the long bow. These bnlhant men of science always do. And as I go out ru ask the nurse to come to you.' Li 'ii I: '; jt j I XX IN the m«„time;„ d. J^uff,,, „„,^^^ ^^ pipe of pMce was being smoked. Joliffe', cigars had a virtue of their own, and Dr. Parker w^wa, no mean judge „f,„ch things, had «th«: weakly allowed the flesh to conquer. Joliffe was a perverse fdlow. He, apparently, was „o. R considerably. 'He wants humoring.' 'No doubt But this poor chap i, as harmless as And after all old Henny-Penny-s quite right-in war 178 THE COMING time. You see this chap is not puUing his weight in the boat. He's a bad example. Our parson is rather down on him no doubt; stUI, in the circumstances, he's quite right to bring him under control.' 'You think so?' *It can do no harm at any rate.' 'But, you see, it's going to upset the squire. And he's such a good chap that it seems a pity.' 'Well, it's no use trying to please everyone ' 'Quite so.' 'Why not certify the feUow and have done with it?' 'I can't, a^er what I said to Brandon.' 'TeU me, JoliflFe, why does Brandon take such an interest in him?' Said Joliffe, 'that's more than I can fathom.' 'Do you think his mind has been affected by Gal- lipoli?' 'They seem to think so/ 'Do you?' L seem to notice a change coming over him. But vtTy gradual tl. » '1 it may be. » hardly say what it 'At any rate it is not a good sign for sign for a man like 179 THE COMING 'There I entirely agree,' said Jdiffe 'A«..„ 'C^ **:'*-- Weo/thewhoieX', '' *' ' »■««•« of more than an hoar he ^d^.he™n.,t«nperature™ch™ore.,„ ir „' posal til? A^^i^ ' ''' '''i, own p„^ ' f-- of Biniwood Thomps^, f„ this c^^ be accepuble to both. Joliffe at once llHl -tohiss.ua. In otderthataietterl^lSC',^ ' *' ''^ ' --'-'S *. Eminent specif 'o.er.a.rzrrr.rrr^rrf •^ta- a„.o«nt of discreet descriptir A^ 1 letter was written, and then Dr. Parlcer ««.*' by the sight of his car which harf ''^ the vicaia«.,h« fc '' '■«• f™' 'carage, that he was otgeaUy due elsewhere. Xxr PRESSED for time, Dr. Pariccr fled. But he took the letter with him in order that he might post it in Brombridge, and so insure its earlier delivery in London. As soon as Dr. Parker had gone the vicar made a survey of the elements, and then set off at his best pace on a ten-minute walk to his house. In doing this he knew that he ran the risk of a soaking. Storm clouds which had hovered all the afternoon were now massed overhead. Hardly had he entered the village street, when he perceived large drops of rain. But in his present frame of mind he did not feel like staying a moment longer under Joliffe's roof than he could help. He was still seeth- mg within. He was still marveling at the crassness of certain of his fellow creatures. The open defection of one whom he had counted a sure ally was very hard to forgive. However, by the time he had reached the edge of the common he realized that he was in a fair way of being drenched to the skin; moreover the rainstonns i8i i! ' THE COMING at once lured the v,car to accept their protection M he crept under the branches there can,e a f^7n^ •»'>«. Followed by thunder in a series Ja. R' ^-xtbanHu.tha::e:d°Lr:! Iar and looked out at th- ro;« j. *^ '* ^*»n descendin/j in a sh«»f A hundred yard. „r so away, an o.d, white.; l' ullage won«n, vety thinly clad, was struggliL tZ ward her cottaee A« »h. O 'S5'ng to- in the miHH;. ' '^^ *^ P'*«t's stone in tne middle of the village «rr*-« haf u»A u ^ ^ '' * '^' without a sdf s„dd«Jy, „p ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ louwlr' ' ' '' ' '-O ' -^ -er tai^wMe r™ '' ^''^ •'■ '»*'. -he thuTd r rolling over h s head Anrf,h. ■ 'lunaer his shelter,!,„ t/.i '■• P«''8 ^o™ was rl^!^' If' *^ °' •' *'- '■•^ 'gh. Hand z8a THE COMING The man was John Smith. The vicar was amazed; such sheer insensibility to what was going on around was uncanny. Bareheaded, coatless, drenched to the skin, the man scorned the shelter so close at hand. The first thought that passed through the vicar's mind was one of pity for the man's physical and mental state. But hard upon that emotion came regret that the stubborn Joliffe was not also a spectator of the scene. Any doubts he still held as to the man's sanity must surely have been dispelled. A great wind began to roam the upper air. The lightning grew more vivid, the thunder louder, the weight of rain still heavier. The vicar crouched against the bole of the best tree. And as he did so, his thoughts somehow passed from the poor, demented figure of fantasy still before his eyes, to those over- whehning forces of nature in which they were both at that minute engulfed. Intellectually the vicar was a very modest man. Sometimes, it is true, he had been tempted to ask him- self poignant question;}. But he had never presumed to give an independent answer of his own. For him the solution of the central mystery of man's relation to the forces around him was comprised in the word 'Faith.' But now that he was the witness of poor John 183 THE COMING Smith's dementia, the sense of human futility recurred to him. It needed a power of Faith to nUte that drenched scarecrow, a mere insect upon whom Nature was wreaking a bomidless will, to the cosmic march and profluence. For a moment the vicar was ahnost tempted to deny the still, small voice within and sub^ mit entirely to the judgment of the senses. His ears, his sense of touch assured him that the poor madman out in the rain was lost in the sum of things What relation could he have to those majestic pow- ers by whom he was buffeted? Surely that lone, hap- less figure was the symbol of Man himself. And yet the act of devotion the man had just per- formed must have a meaning. It was a mystery with- m a mystery. Of whom had this poor blasphemer learned that trick; by what divine license did he prac- tice it? For nearly half an hour it continued to rain pitilessly, and during that time the vicar searched and questioned his heart in regard to the man before him At last the storm subsided; he came out of his shelter and went thoughtfully home. But in bed that night when he closed his eyes and tried to sleep, he found the image of John Smith printed inside his eyelids. KXII THE next morning, when John Smith called as usual at Hart's Ghyll with his bunch of flow- ers, he was allowed once more to see his friend. The stricken man received him in the library with the most afTcctionate intimacy. 'My dear, dear fellow,' he said, 'how good it is to see you. You bring the light of the sun to this room whenever you enter it.' The visitor took Brandon's hand with the caress- ing touch of a woman. 'Dear friend,' he said, 'I always pray that the light may accompany me wher- ever I go.' The simplicity of the man, which it would have been easy to misread, had now, as always, a strange effect upon Brandon. And yet he was heart-sore and miser- able. The weight of sorrow now upon him seemed to transcend all his other sufferings. A cruel sense of the futility of his terrible sacrifice had overtaken him. What proof was there that it had not been in vain? What hope could there be for the future of men; what was there to expect from a pur- 1*^5 ';! Hi THE COMING Wind, material worid? He was now in the throes of a cruel reaction. Somehow his talk with the vicar had struck at his faith in his own kind. He took no comfort from the thought that Mr. Perry-Hennington was a profoundly stupid man. Turning his mind back, he saw the parson of Pen- fold as the spiritual guide of the race of average men, of a race which allowed itself to be governed by the daily newspaper, which in one feverish hour threw away the liberties it had cost its father hundreds of years to win. Prussia was being met with Prussia, Baal with the image of Baal. Throughout a wakeful night, that had been the thought in Brandon's heart. Behind all the swelUng heroics and the turgid phrases of organized opinion was this Frankenstein monster. The world was mov- ing in a vicious circle. The public press had somehow managed to recreate what it had set out to destroy. The question for Brandon now was. Had he been the victim of a chimera? In the course of a long night of bitterness, the thought had taken root in him that all tlie blood and tears humanity was shedding would merely fix the shackles more cruelly on generations yet unborn. This morning Brandon saw no hope for the ill- starred race of men. Hour by hour his fever-tinged i86 THE COMING thoughts had flown to one for whom he had conceived an emotion of the highest and purest friendship, to one whom his fellows were seeking a means to destroy. 'I have been wondering.' Said Brandon, 'whether you will consent to have your poem published? I know you are shy of print, but this is a rare jewel, the heriUge of the whole world.' 'Don't let us talk of it just now.' There was a shadow upon the eloquent face. 'I have need of guidance. My poem, such as it is. Is but one aspect of a great matter. I pray that I may find a more universal one.' Brandon dissembled his surprise, but he could not bridle his curiosity. 'Your poem is a great matter,' he said. 'To me it is wonderful. You call it 'The Door.' Why not let aU the world pass through?' 'Such is my task, but I do not know that it can be fulfilled by the printed word. There may be a surer way The question I have to ask myself is. Ciin I do the Father's will more worthily? By prayer and fast- ing perhaps I may.' 'But the thing is so perfect. Why gild the lily?' 'It is only one of many keys, dear friend. It is not the Door itself. It is no more than a stage in a 187 iPi- ■'i!!li THE COMING long, long pilgrimage; no more than a means to the mighty end that has been laid upon me.' Brandon, however, had set his heart upon the poem's publication. To him it was a perfect thing. Moreover, he saw in it a vindication of its author, a noble answer to ihose who were conspiring to destroy him. Strangely, however, John was not to be moved from his resolve. And more strangely stiU, as it seemed to Brandon, intimations had come to him alreadv of the terrible fate that was about to overtake him. ' 'It has been communicated to me that I am about to be caUed to a great trial,' were the words he used. Brandon, sick at heart, had hardly the courage to seek an explanation. 'Yo^-you have been told that r He scanned anxiously the face of the man at his side. 'Yes,' was the answer. 'Tue inner voice spoke to me last evening. I don't know when the blow will fall, or what fate awaits me, but a sword han^s by a single hair above my head.' 'And—and you are not afraid?' To Brandon this cahnness was ahnost superhuman. 'I am not afraid. The souls of the just are in the hands of God. And I ask you. My dear friend, to share my faith. You are one of two witnesses to i88 THE COMING whom I have been allowed to reveal myself. The other is an old woman who can no longer work with her hands. You have long given her a roof for her head, and I have kept a loaf in her cupboard and found her fire in the winter. But there is only the poorhouse for her when I am taken, and I thh± she fears it.' 'Whatever happens, that shall not be her fate.' 'I will not thank so good a man. But it is your due that you should know this.' 'It is my great privilege. Is there any other way in which I may hope to be of use.?' 'At the moment, none.' John Smith laid his hand on the arm of the stricken man with a gesture of mmgled pity and solicitude. 'But a time is surely commg when a heavy tax will be laid upon your friendship.' ^ 'I cannot tell you how I shall welcome it.' As Brandon spoke he gazed upward to the eyes of the man who bent over him. As he met those large-pu- piled orbs, a curious thrill passed through his frame In the sudden sweep of his emotion was an odd sense of awe. 'I foresee, dear friend, that you are about to be called to a hero's task.' The soft, low voice seemed to strike through Brandon as he lay. 189 I iii: in if J: n THE COMING **Whatcvcr it may be, I SLCCtpt it joyfully. In the meantime I can only pray that I may stand worthy in the day of trial.' 'Of that there can be no doubt — if you will always remember that one unconverted believer may save the whole world.' For many days to come these cryptic words were to puzzle Brandon, and to linger in his ears. But in the moment of their utterance he could seek no elucida- tion. His whole soul was melted by a sense of awe. It was as if a new, unknown power was beginning to enfold him. John Smith kissed Brandon gravely on the fore- head and then went away. The stricken man was left in a state of bewildered perplexity. And a heavier load of misery was now upon him than any he had known. A rare, exquisite thing had been revealed to him in a miraculous way. It was about to ^suffer a quel fate, and he had not the power to save it: ii XXIII BRANDON was stUl brooding over a tmgwly he could not avert when a nurse came into the room. She was a practical, vigorous creature, plain and dean of mind, and after a single shrewd glance at the patient she oceeded to take his tempem- ture with a clinical thermometer. ^ 'Just as I thought.' An omiwous head was shaken. 'That man always has a bad effect upon you. I shaU have to forbid him seeing you in the future.' 'What nonsense!' Said Brandon. 'This ^>eaks for itself.' The nurse held up the thermometer. 'He always puts you up to a hundred. You are nearly a hundred and one now, and you'll have to go to bed and stay there until you are down a bit.' It was vain for Brandon to desist. He was at the mercy of Olympians who did not hesitate to misuse their powers. He was whisked off to bed like a naughty child, and the privilege of a further talk with John Smith was withdrawn indefinitely. He protested strongly to the nurse and bitterly to his wife, but he was told that it would not be safe to see the young 191 THE COMING v> i m IvlM 'Tl( i' ' man again until he could do so without playing tricks with his temperature. Brandcm fumed in durance for the rest of the day. The patience which had borne him through all his trials threatened to desert him now. He was tor- mented with the thought of his own helplessness. The recent visit had moved Brandon to the very depths of his being, and the longing to help John Smith escape the coil that fate was weaving now burnt in his veins a living fire. As he lay helpless and overwrought, on ^i:-^ verge of fever, the stupidities of the little world around him were magnified into a crime for which humanity itself would have to pay. The next morning, Wednesday, at eleven o'clock came Dr. The higher medical science had be- gun to despair of ever restoring to Brandon the use of his limbs, and he was now in the sole care of his local attendant, who came to see him every other day. Joli£Fe found the patient still keeping his bed by the orders of the nurse. In the course of an un- comfortable night he had slept little, and his tempera- ture was still a matter for concern. Moreover, not the nurse sdoae, but Mrs. Brandon also, had already delivered themselves vehemently on the subject of John Smith. For oiie reason or another Dr. Joliffe would have 192 THE COMING been very willing just now to consign John Smith to limbo. Nor was this desire made less when the pa- tient, after being duly examined, reported upon, and admonished, requested the nurse to withdraw from the room in order that he might talk with the doctor pri- vately. Jolitfe knew well enough what was coming. And he would have done much to avoid further contact with a most unhappy subject, from which conse- quences were flowing of an ever-increasing embarrass- ment. But there was no means of escape. For Bran- don, the subject of John Smith had become almost an obsession; a fact which the doctor had begun to realize to his cost. 'What steps have been taken?' Brandon began as soon as they were free of the nurse's presence. Joliffe fenced a little. 'In regard to John Smith.' There was a sudden excitement in the bright eyes. 'He's in my mind night and day. I can't bear the thought that he should be destroyed.' 'I'm sorry to say that Birdwood Thompson can't come here.' The professional voice was dulcet and disarming. 'He's in a very bad state of health aiid giving up practice. His second boy went down on the Victorious, and his eldest was killed the other day in 193 m ■I -■ THE COMING Ffinoe, so I suppose that may have aometfainf to do with it.' 'Well, what is being done?' 'As you ask the question,' was the cautious reply, 'we have agreed upon Murfin. Personally, I don't think he's as good as Moriarty or the other man, but we wrote to him in order to save trouWe.' 'In order to save troubled Brandon gasped. 'Save trouble in a matter of this kind?' And we are all of us very anxious that you should not worry over it any more.' 'But— don't you see— what a terrible thing it is?' 'Not exactly terrible.' JoKffc spoke gravely but cheerfully. 'Quite an everyday occurrence, you know, if one looks at it in the right way.' 'An everyday occurrence— if— one— look*— at— it — ^in — the right way I' 'Undoubtedly. Cases of this kind are always aris- ing. Whatever view one may take of the man, he is certainly on the border Ime; therefore, whether he's certified or not is merely a question of expediency. And what I have to point out to you is that in the last resort, as the world is just now, with all these public safeguards in operation the final decision will he taken by the authorities.' »94 THE COMING -How cnieir said Brandon, with growing excite- ment 'Not necessarily crud,' said Dr. Joliffe in a mel- lifluous tone. 'To think of our local Shallows sitting in judg- ment on the first spirit of the age!' 'The irony of circumstances.' Brandon's eyes were hectic. 'It takes more than two thousand years to change the world. An old story is being retold with a few modem improve- ments. But, Joliffe, I believe you to be a just man, and I count on your help. For the love we both bear the Republic, I want you to put up a fight for John Smith.' 'There, my dear f-flow, calm yourself,' said the dpctor soothingly. 'I will undertake to see that no injustice is done in the matter.' 'In other words, that he is not molested.' 'That is beyond my power, because, as I say, the Bench will move if we don't.' 'Then leave it to them to take the first step. And in the meantime we'll get legal advice.' 'Murfin comes down on Friday.' 'Easy to stop him.' 'The vicar won't consent to that, I'm afraid.' 'No, I suppose not But if you love this country I9S ■If!i'.| THE COMING you win do your best to restrain a profoundly stupid man. Plain, common-sensible Dr. Joliffe thought the line of argument a little high-flown, and said so in a tone of scrupulous kindness. 'I don't overstate,' said Brandon. 'Let me ex- plain my meaning. The Republic is rising to a height of moral grandeur that few would have dared to prophesy for her. But as always, there is a flaw in her armor. The enemies of the light are seeking it, and if they should find it there is absolutely nothing between this world and barbarism.' 'I'm afraid I don't foUow.' JoUffc shook a grave head. 'I can tea you that she is about to treat her most augi: t citizen as Rome, her great prototype, treated Another.' Joliffe continued to shake his head. Not only was he puzzled, he was rather distressed by such an extravagant statement. 'How I wish I could get your mind off this subject!' 'You must not hope to do that,' said Brandon. 'It is decreed that I should lie supine, a helpless log, while night and day my brain is turned into a weaver's shut- tle. I can do nothing, yet I somehow feel that the high gods have called me to do everything. This man 196!? THE COMING has no other friend, and it is for that reason, Joliffe^ that I ask you to stand my proxy in his defense.' 'But I assure you no defense is possible,' said Joliffe, with a feeling of growing distress. 'Let us brief counsel.** 'No purpose wiU be served. As you know, the VKar is a most stubborn man. And if he doesn't succeed one way he will another. If we doctors are obdurate he wiU turn to the Bench, and if the Bench won't oblige he'll have recourse to the military.' 'It hardly seems credible.' But that's the man. And the worst of it is that from his own point of view in a time like the present he maybe perfectly right.' 'I refuse to believe that he can be right at any time.' ^ 'But surely, a man who sides openly with the enemy ought not to be at large.' 'Has he gone beyond what Jesus would have done in such circumstances?' 'Hardly a practical analogy, I'm afraid. In any case, John Smith is not Jesus, even if his half-witted old mother may think so. The law is bound to regard him as a crack-brained rustic, and in my humble opin- Jon anyone who tries to persuade it that the poor fel- low is anything else, will be very unwise.' M ( •it THE COMING In other words you decline your help?' 'Only because.' 'I now see the hopelessness of the position. Knowing John Smith as I do, I consider that Mr. Perry-Hennington has made a mountain out of a molehia Of course he's a fanatic on the subject, but the poor, feckless chap is amenable to the law as it exists at present, and he has no means of escape. It will be far wiser, believe me, to accept the inevitable. All that his friends can hope to do is to make things as comfortable for him as po». 'That shaH be done at any rate,' said Brandon. 'It is Perry-Hennington's intention, I presume, to have him sent to the county asylum.' 'It is the only place for him, I'm afraid. But, of course, even there he will be extremely well treated.' 'I don't question that, but assuming it to be his destination, I should like him to live in comfort and dignity. WouMn't it be possible for him to go to some such place as Wellwood Sanatorium?' 'Well, of course,' said Dr. Joliffe, 'that is almost a question of ways and means. Wellwood is an ideal place for the poor fellow. But of course it is out of Ae question.' 'The ejqjense.' 198 • THE COMING 'No matter what it may be.' 'I.ban be only too happy to bear it' 'It wiU not be less than five bumlred a year.' 'If it were twice as much I should count it a high privilege to be allowed to do that for him.' Joliffe shook the head of a prudent man over thu piece of quixotism. 'Very generous of you.' 'but they look after their patients so ext««>rdi- «arily weU at Broad Hiil. That I am sure this ex-. Pense is quite unnecessary.' Brandon, however, stuck to his plan. He had now made up his mind that if the worst hap. Pened, WeUwood should be the home of John Smith 'VeryweU.' Joliffe saw that a purposeless opposition. ![]() MY FAVOURITE GAME (unplugged) - The Cardigans Capo on 1st Intro: Bm - G - E - A - F#7 – Bm Asus4. The Cardigans performing in, in 2006 Background information Origin, Genres,,, Years active 1992–present (hiatus: 2007–2011) Labels,,,, Associated acts,, Paus, Brothers of End Website Members The Cardigans are a band formed in,, in 1992, by guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist and lead singer, with the line-up remaining unchanged to this day. Their debut album (1994) gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album (1995) that an international reputation was secured. Their popularity rose when their single ', from the album (1996), was included in the to the 1996 film. Other singles included ' and ' from the album (1998). After a two-year hiatus the band returned recording and releasing their fifth album (2003) a mellower -laden record. Their last album (2005), a continuation of the country music infused by pop sensibility and further maturing in the band's sound. After a 2006 tour, the band embarked on a long five-year break from musical activities, before reuniting in 2012 to play several concerts. Overall the band sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] First years: 1992–1994 [ ] and, both heavy metal musicians, formed the group on 31 October 1992 in,, with drummer, keyboardist and lead singer. Living together in a small apartment, The Cardigans recorded a with Persson providing lead vocals on only one of the songs towards the end of the track list. Man Ola Hermanson heard the demo and signed the band to his Trampolene imprint. In 1994, they released their debut album in Sweden and Japan; it was re-released internationally in 1997. The album included the Swedish radio hit 'Rise & Shine', which was later voted the best of 1994 in a poll in magazine. Commercial success: 1995–2000 [ ] The remainder of 1994 was spent touring Europe and recording, which was released worldwide in 1995. Life became an international success, selling more than a million copies and achieving in Japan. In 1996, Life was released under the label in the, but this release was essentially a compilation of tracks from Emmerdale and Life. After their success with Life, The Cardigans signed with, under which they released worldwide in 1996. ' was a hit worldwide, particularly in the US and Japan, where the album reached platinum status in three weeks. The album also achieved in the US. 'Lovefool' was shown on in the late 1990s as a with clips from the 1996 hit film starring and. It also featured in the film (1999). In 1997, the band played themselves on the graduation episode of as the featured entertainment at the fictional California High School's graduation party, hosted by 's dad, Bill Taylor. The band performed ' and '.' 1998's was followed by a long hiatus during which the band members pursued solo side projects. The same year they also released a of rare, as a Japan-only release. The video of the song 'My Favourite Game' was censored by MTV for showing reckless driving. Despite this, it went on to become their second global hit song. 'My Favourite Game' was featured on the of the video game in the intro movie on CD1. That year also saw their song 'Deuce' appearing on. Their song ' was featured in the 1999 films and. The Cardigans performing in June 2004. In 1999 the Cardigans recorded a duet cover of ' ' with for his album. Back to spotlight and hiatus: 2002–2006 [ ] The Cardigans returned in 2002 to record (2003), a collection of songs mainly written by Persson and Svensson. Long Gone Before Daylight became one of the best selling albums in Sweden in 2003. After a two-year hiatus from their last album, it was released in Japan on March 19, 2003 and in Europe on March 24, 2003. Later it was also released in Canada (April 22, 2003) and the United States (May 25, 2004). The album differs from the band's earlier works. Their familiar 'happy' pop sound takes on a change to pop songs with more of an American influence. It is a much darker album than their previous works, and quieter than. Indeed, even lead singer dyed her once light blonde hair to jet black, reflecting the band's change of mood. The album was produced by Per Sunding after the group's regular producer Tore Johanssen stepped down, feeling himself unable to provide the country sound the group wanted. Criticism was generally mixed to positive. Some found the change of direction welcome, and felt the band had matured, making songs that were even better than other experienced country-pop styled artists. Others missed the old pop sound, and accused the band of possibly being ashamed of their former 'happy' pop sound. The first single of the album, ' was released on February 17, 2003. The second single was ' released on June 2, 2003. The third and final single was ' released on December 3, 2003. In the summer of 2004, The Cardigans toured with, and on the tour. On 28 April 2005 the band's iTunes Originals album was released through iTunes. On 19 October 2005 the band released their sixth album to generally favourable reviews. Super Extra Gravity went straight to the #1 spot on the Swedish album chart and was certified gold (sales over 40,000). After the band finished promotional activities in fall 2006, the band entered an extended hiatus and devoted themselves to other projects. Reunion and tour: 2012–2016 [ ] In 2012 the Cardigans received a lucrative offer from to perform the album in full. After initial hesitation, the band decided to accept the offer 'as it felt like a good way of tearing us out of our strange new everyday life,' according to Persson. Peter Svensson declined to participate, although he had no objection to the band touring without him. They recruited singer-songwriter to fill in for Svensson, and asked their agent to seek more shows for them to play. Ultimately, the band made their live comeback with shows in Lund and Copenhagen ahead of Hultsfred, before playing in Poland, Finland, Russia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, with a scheduled concert in Israel cancelled by the promoter. Most of these shows involved performing Gran Turismo in full, followed by an assortment of hits from their other albums. Still with Humlebo in place of Svensson, the band played career-spanning sets when touring resumed during late 2013 with shows in Japan, China and Russia, followed by more dates in 2015 which took them to South Korea, Europe and South America. In interviews promoting her 2014 solo album, Persson suggested that the success of their most recent live dates opened the possibility for future Cardigans recordings, though there were no firm plans. 'It's really fun to do greatest hits things, since there's nothing else, but I think if we continue having this much fun we would like to make another record, because we like to create new things,' said Persson. The band's only scheduled show for 2016 was at (, ) on 29 July. 2016-present [ ] In 2016 the band performed in Vaasa, Finland and Oulu, Finland. In 2017 they performed in Stockholm and in Turku, Finland. In other media [ ] The song 'Lead Me Into The Night' was used by as the soundtrack for the 2017 edition of 'TCM Remembers'. Solo projects [ ] During the band's first break released an album as, and Peter Svensson and Bengt Lagerberg worked on the project Paus with help from Joakim Berg from, and Magnus Sveningsson recorded as. In 2006, Sveningsson restarted their old label Trampolene and became an for it. The first signing was the Swedish popband The Animal Five, which was a minor success in Sweden and Germany. Lagerberg and Johansson formed the group Brothers Of End, releasing a debut album The End in 2009, and a second album Mount Inside in 2011. A third album, Shakers Love, was released in 2014, and Nina Persson appeared on the track 'Heat'. In November 2006 Persson featured on, an album set up. It contained nine tracks from some of Ireland's leading artists. Proceeds from the album went to the campaign. Persson also appeared on the ' album (May 2007), providing guest vocals on the UK Chart #2 single 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough'. She shared vocals with Manics frontman, who also appeared on stage with the band at the 2007, and who has rated Peter Svensson as his second favourite guitarist. In the band's break of 2007, Persson recorded the second A Camp album, which was released in early 2009. A Camp supported the US release of Colonia with a tour, which began in on 26 May and completed on 15 June in. 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Waves.Complete.v9r30.Incl.Patch.and.Keygen-R2R Home Page - Download uploaded Download nitroflare Download 百度云. ![]() Sitemap Search: 442244513, Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett 8845, Laura Kipnis 7716 - An Introduction with MyEducationLab, Michael L. ![]() • United States • Hong Kong Language English Budget $34 million Box office $95.6 million TMNT is a 2007 American written and directed. Based on the comic book series, the film stars,,,,,, and. Mako died in July 2006, making TMNT his final film role. The film is dedicated to him. It was the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film made with (CGI), created by, as well as the first feature film in the franchise in 14 years. The film sees the four Turtles (,,, and ) grow apart after their final defeat of, when strange things are happening in as ancient creatures threaten the world and the Turtles must reunite to save it. The film premiered theatrically on March 23, 2007 to commercial success, grossing $95 million worldwide for a budget of $34 million, but received mixed reviews from film critics. Its release coincided with products including toys, comics, and video games. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Three thousand years ago warlord Yaotl enters a portal into a and becomes immortal, but his four generals are turned to stone. The portal also releases 13 immortal monsters that destroy his army and his enemies. In the present, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have grown apart. After defeating, has sent to for training, where he protects a village from bandits. Works as an specialist, works as a birthday party entertainer called 'Cowabunga Carl', and works at night as the 'Nightwatcher'. Operates a company that locates and acquires relics for collectors, assisted by her boyfriend,. April travels to Central America for work and finds Leonardo, telling him that the Turtles have drifted apart. April returns to with a statue for wealthy tycoon Max Winters. Leonardo also returns, and April and Casey deliver the statue to Winters. Winters hires and the to search the city for the 13 monsters before the portal opens again. Raphael encounters Casey, who reveals his knowledge of Raphael's double identity and joins him in hunting criminals. Winters, who is actually Yaotl and is still immortal, reanimates his stone generals. Leonardo returns to the sewer lair, meeting Splinter. Splinter forbids the Turtles from fighting until they can act as a team again. TMNT is a 2007 American computer-animated fantasy action film written and directed by Kevin Munroe. Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series, the. Adult Beginners 2014 stream deutsch. -Adult Beginners - Film 2014 - FILMSTARTS.de.Adult Beginners, Ein Film von Ross Katz mit Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne. While training, the Turtles encounter one of the 13 beasts,, battling the Foot Clan. The Turtles engage Bigfoot, going against Leonardo and Splinter's orders. When Raphael visits Casey, they encounter Vampire Succubor, one of the monsters and witness its capture by the Foot and the Stone Generals, who spot them. Raphael is knocked unconscious. Casey takes Raphael back to the apartment while April calls the Turtles for help and reveals the identities of Yaotl and his generals. After being revived, Raphael suggests they pursue Yaotl, but Leonardo forbids him to go until Splinter gives out the order. Raphael investigates alone. Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo plan their next move, while Donatello discovers the next portal will open over Winters' tower. Splinter tells Leonardo that his team is incomplete, and that he knows what he must do. After 11 monsters have been captured, General Aguila questions Yaotl's actions. The generals conspire to betray Yaotl, wanting to remain immortal. Raphael encounters the Jersey Devil, one of the remaining monsters but drives it off. Leonardo fights Raphael, but when he breaks Leonardo's swords, Raphael is forced to leave. The generals seize Leonardo, intending to substitute him for the 13th missing beast, and Raphael decides to make amends by rescuing Leonardo. As the portal opens, Yaotl discovers his generals' treachery, while Splinter and the Turtles, accompanied by Casey and April, fight their way through the Foot Clan cordon and breach the tower. Yaotl reveals the truth to the heroes: he wants to be free of his curse of immortality. The generals reveal that they wish to preserve their immortality, but also to use the portal to bring in more monsters to conquer the world. Having refused to betray Yaotl in exchange for serving the Generals, April, Casey and the Foot Clan work together, searching for the final monster, the Sea Monster, while the Turtles fight the generals. Splinter and Yaotl fight off numerous monsters emerging from the portal. April, Casey, and Karai arrive at the tower with the Sea Monster. The Sea Monster crashes into the Generals, dragging them into the portal before it closes. Karai warns them to enjoy their victory while it lasts, claiming they will soon contend with faces from their past, which the Turtles suspect to be the Shredder. She and the rest of the Foot Clan depart. Yaotl, now mortal, honors the Turtles and Splinter, thanking them for fulfilling his wish before dissipating. Splinter places Yaotl's helmet among his trophy collection, as well as Raphael's 'Nightwatcher' helmet and Michelangelo's 'Cowabunga Carl' head. As they return to their roles as the shadowy guardians of New York City, Raphael says that the Turtles will always be brothers. He ends the film with the familiar saying, 'Oh, I love being a turtle.' Cast [ ] • as /Nightwatcher • as • as • as 'Cowabunga Carl' • as • as • as • as Max Winters / Yaotl • as • as Colonel Santino • as General Aguila • Paula Mattioli as General Serpiente • as General Gato • as narrator • as a diner cook Production [ ] A (CGI) TMNT movie was first announced in, with supposedly at the helm. That movie languished in and Woo ultimately moved on to other projects. TMNT, executive produced by the TMNT co-creator, departs from the previous films' style and is the first and only CGI film in the series. Writer/director said that he wanted to do total CGI instead of live action and CGI turtles because it would be easier for the audience to 'suspend disbelief for such an offbeat story' as there would be no break in the reality between CGI and live action. Producer Tom Gray explained that the decision to depart from the live action series was due to escalating budgets for the three films, and with each film making less than its predecessor, a CGI film became a reality. For example, the first film made $135.2 million on a budget of $13.5 million, and the third made $44 million on a budget of $21 million. 's rights to the franchise had expired, and Gray said the question arose there over a CGI TMNT film in 2004. Munroe stated in terms of the story line that ideas were floated as extreme as the Turtles being in space, but eventually it just came back to New York City, and the theme of the family that had fallen apart. When developing the screenplay, Munroe wanted to take on a less lighthearted tone or 'less Cowabunga' and place an emphasis on dark elements as shown in the original comics to appeal to the mature audience. 'I had a very specific tone because mixing that sort of action and comedy is a very specific thing. Most people were just coming and wanting to make it too funny. I think that version of the movie could do really well, but we wanted to do something where it sort of pushes the envelope a little bit more and says that animation is more than just comedic animals bumping into each other and farting!' Munroe said that in design and in the rendering of the animation, he was after the feel of a comic book. Was one of Munroe's favoriite characters from the comics and he 'was the one who really pushed for Karai' to appear in the film. TMNT co-creator stated it takes place in its own universe separate from the previous films. However, director Munroe says the film exists in the same continuity as the other films, which was supported by the memento wall at the end of the film. Development and for TMNT began in June 2005 at Imagi's facility and the CGI animation was produced in Hong Kong, followed by in Hollywood. In designing the New York backdrop, art director/concept artist Simon Murton stylized the familiar skyline and urban landscapes: 'We began with cinematic cues from certain films from the 1940s and '50s. I really wanted to push the lighting and the environments to create the look and feel of an alternate reality.' The animators that worked on the fight sequences were inspired. Animation director Kim Ooi explains said that because of CGI they were able to 'push and stylize beyond the limits of live action.' Imagi used with Pixar’s for the production pipeline’s back-end. Was the only past TMNT actor to appear in this film, where he had previously contributed voice-work in the 1987 series. The film also features three voice actors for in the series, and from the first game, and from the others, playing, General Aguila, and, respectively. TMNT would be 's final acting role. Mako was announced as the voice of at the on July 20, 2006. He then died the next day, aged 72. A dedication to Mako appears at the end of the film's credits. Although Iwamatsu is the only actor credited in the role, performs a substantial portion of Splinter's dialogue in the finished film; Baldwin had already mimicked Iwamatsu's voice when he took up the late actor's role as in the concurrently-produced cartoon, and used this precedent to successfully lobby to join the cast of TMNT as Splinter following Iwamatsu's death. Marketing and tie-ins [ ] At the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con, the TMNT panel screened an exclusive preview that contained a Splinter voice-over with facial tests, concept art, muscle and dynamic fight tests, and a few comedic scenes. A sneak peek booklet containing storyboards, environment designs and character designs by comic artist was also distributed at the convention. Several products were released in 2007. The fast-food chain had the film-based toys to collect with the purchase of a. A series of based in the film's characters was released. A, adapted from Munroe's screenplay by, was published. A five-issue comic miniseries was published. Soundtrack [ ]. Main articles: and Three // adaptations of the film were developed and released by in 2007 for a variety of. A TMNT: The Power of 4 was also developed by Overloaded and released by that same year. In addition, characters from the film are available in Ubisoft's 2009 and, while artworks from the film are available in this game as content. Release [ ] The film was originally set for release domestically (USA and Canada) on March 30, 2007, which would have been the 17th anniversary of the release of the first TMNT film. The March 30 date was advertised in the teaser trailer and early posters, but the release was moved up to March 23. A home media edition of TMNT was released on August 7, 2007, for the, and. In 2009, a box set with all four TMNT films was released to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary. The DVD release contains several special features, including commentary on the feature by writer/director Kevin Munroe; an alternate opening and an alternate ending to the film, and interviews with some of the featured voice talent as well as the filmmakers. Reception [ ] Box office [ ] TMNT ranked number one at the box office on its opening weekend, beating (the top film of the previous two weeks),,,,, and. Weekend estimates showed that the film made $25.45 million over the weekend of March 23–25, 2007. The film grossed over $95 million worldwide, including over $54 million domestically during its 91-day run in the 3,120 North American theaters. Critical response [ ] The website calculated a 34% approval rating, based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5/10, and the consensus being 'TMNT's art direction is splendid, but the plot is non-existent and the dialogue lacks the irony and goofy wit of the earlier TMNT movies.' Another review aggregator,, which assigns a score from film critics, calculated an average rating score of 41 out of 100 based on 21 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Claudia Puig of gave a negative review, stating that the film 'is trying for a new image. But it takes more than an awkward title attempting to sound cool to overcome its mundane plot and silly dialogue.' Michael Ordona of the wrote that 'despite the doll-like cartoonishness of the human figures, the filmmakers seem to expect us to take this animated romp seriously. Too seriously.' Wesley Morris of the called the film 'a junk-food pastry. The plot is the wrapper. The action is the oily sponge cake. And the message—family, family, family—is the processed cream filling.' Conversely, Todd Gilchrist of gave the film a positive review, calling it 'a fun, action-filled adventure that will satisfy longtime fans and generate a legion of new ones, whether it be by virtue of simple storytelling, solid CGI, carefully-choreographed action, or just the spirit and energy that only the Turtles can create.' Stephen Hunter of felt that the film 'is technically superb and quite enjoyable as long as you don't bang your head against the plot, which will cause hot flashes, premature aging and fallen arches.' According to Steven Rea of, the film is 'not so dark or scary as to keep most kids away' and it 'has a cool, noirish sheen. There's an attention to detail in the visuals and sound design that pushes it up several notches above most kiddie fare.' Accolades [ ] The film received nominations for the for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production and the Golden Schmoes Award for Best Animated Movie of the Year. 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Feedback * Kindly rate Selfie Mobile app. We value your feedback. Each week, we dig in the crates to tell you about a “lost” or classic album we think you should hear. This week’s covers Chet Baker's 1954 album Chet Baker Sings. It’s no wonder that many of the world’s most expensive and collectible records come in the form of jazz and blues, stylings that were founded by poor and oppressed minorities who captured the most lasting pieces of history that recorded music has to offer. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals (Chet Baker Sings, It Could Happen to You). Chet Baker Sings is the debut vocal album by jazz musician Chet Baker, released in 1954 by Pacific Jazz Records. In 2001, the album received the. ![]() Regardless of their mainstream listenability, albums by such legends as Miles Davis or serve as more of an American memorandum to very specific moments in history, be it art, culture, or society as a whole. Quick to the Los Angeles jazz scene of the mid-50’s came Chet Baker, whose looks were defined by a sharp chin and slick hair, coming off not as the identifiable heroin addict he would become, but more like a cross between the classy professionalism of Frank Sinatra, while communicating the same rebellious danger and machismo of James Dean. “ Everybody has a story about Chet Baker, ” said photographer William Claxton. When developing his shots from Baker’s very first recording session for Columbia Records, Claxton recalls: “ I was making enlargements, and the images were coming through on the development tray. That was the first time I learned what photogenic meant, or what star quality meant, or charisma ” Baker used those good looks to his advantage, conning friends or friends-of-friends into giving him money to score drugs. He knew just the way to push people’s buttons, both men and women, until they gave in to his charm. Seemingly everyone who worked with him would describe how natural his abilities appeared to be, how seamlessly he could fit in onstage, how easily the music would come to him. To quote his later lover Ruth Young: “ You really can’t rely on Chet. And if you know that, you can pull through. ” As a kid, Baker’s favorite trumpet player was Dizzy Gillespie. So when Gillespie finally came through town, Baker got into the show and of course snuck backstage to find his hero. Gillespie put his arm around Baker tenderly while they talked, and the encounter would cement his dreams to pursue a career in jazz. After a few years in the army, and then a few years studying music theory in college, Baker dropped out feeling as though he’d never really be able to fit in no matter where he went. All he wanted to do was play his trumpet. But in his mid-to-late-twenties he was introduced to heroin, which in his own words: “.brought me down, down, and I finished in jail, many times. ” Chet Baker Sings, originally released in 1954, broke the standard mold of modern jazz as an improvisational show of instrumental prowess. A true master of playability, Baker set down his horn and led his band in one million-dollar love ballad after another. Despite losing the faith of some critics, that year saw him win two of the famed Down Beat Magazine ‘Reader’s Polls,’ beating Miles Davis as “best trumpeter” and Nat King Cole as “best vocalist.” This garnered him the nickname of the “great white trumpet” and “the great white hope” of jazz. On a return trip to New York City, Charlie Parker told Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie: “ You better watch out.there’s a little white cat out in California that’s gonna eat you up. ” But Baker’s drug addiction eventually proved stronger than his love of music. He was known to pawn his instruments when in need of money for drugs. A score went bad in 1968 when several men attacked him in the hotel where he would meet his dealer every day. At one point in the exchange he leapt into a stranger’s car in hopes of escape, but the other passengers pushed him back out into the street for fear of becoming involved. “ All they had to do was drive off,” he said. But because of the beating he took, only stubbles of teeth were left. He saw a doctor and one by one his teeth were pulled out, leaving him physically unable to play the trumpet. He took work as a gas station attendant, putting in brutal hours from 7AM to 11PM, six days a week. This monotonous way of life left him terribly depressed and desperate to find a way back to music. It took six months just to decide that he’d like to try playing again. From there, he had to relearn the strange new positioning of his lips and false teeth, a process that took three years of practice and exercise. It was Baker’s hero himself, Dizzy Gillespie, who made the call to land Baker a gig thereafter, his first return to New York City with the entire audience wondering if he could still play after his mysterious and much-talked-about absence. Chet Baker Sings is truly a world apart from all else that was happening in jazz those days. There are the simple, heartbreaking lyrics and delivery of ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is,’ as captured in Italian performance in 1956 where Baker sings: “ You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues, until you’ve loved the love you’ve had to lose. You don’t know what love is. ” Or in ‘,’ with the words: “ I get along without you very well, except sometimes when soft rains fall.Except to hear your name, or someone’s laugh that is the same. ” All jazz musicians could play, of course, but Chet Baker could sing too. And how many jazzists truly had the whole package like he did? He could sing so softly, yet hold the notes out for so long it was as if he was still playing the horn, or as if he carried the horn inside himself. In his, Baker described his worldly experience: “ People in Amsterdam aren’t as uptight about petty things as they are in other countrieslike the Swiss, or in Germany. France is pretty shaky. And Belgium is terrible too. Holland is another thing, like coming into a country where there’s a permanent 24-hour party going on all year. ” He’d been working in the style of “cool jazz,” being more quiet and less aggressive than its counterpart, which he referred to as a more popular or “hotter” jazz. Eight years of performing without a drummer had earned him the title of “Prince of Cool.” Some said this West Coast style was less a matter of percussion, but more a byproduct of the sun, the beach, the environment in which its players were living. As for Chet Baker Sings, the and start at $50 and end somewhere between - if you can track one down. But critics claim his strongest period to be during his European exile in the '80s, performing at small jazz clubs all over the world but rarely returning home to the States. At the age of 57 but looking well beyond his years, like an old man chained to the spirit of a young boy, it was as if his body could not make it through the day without heroin, cocaine, or methadone, a strong pain killer. When asked if he found life to be boring, his response was: “ Under some circumstance, it can be very boring for a lot of people. Being hungry, being cold. [I experienced that] not too long ago, unfortunately. ” But no doubt the best way to remember him would be by the untouchable clarity of his songwriting, his singing, his playing, his wild and sometimes aimless pursuit towards that divine light of cool, perfect, jazz. He said it best before his death: “ The good way to go in this life is to find something you really enjoy doing, and do it better than anybody. ” Stream the album below. |
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