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To be sure, Gideon had done the rest; Stuhk was as ready as any one to do credit to Gideon's ability. Still, after all, he, Stuhk, was the discoverer, the theatrical Columbus who had had the courage and the vision.
At Gideon's request he wrote down for him the names of the rulers of Succoth and its leading men. There were seventy-seven in all.
We have said that the main point of Gideon's petition was that the fleece should be made unlike the threshing-floor, and that that unlikeness, which could obviously not be naturally brought about, was to be to him the sure token that God was at work to produce it. The strongest demonstration that the Church can give the world of its really being God's Church is its unlikeness to the world.
Hiram's eyes began to blaze, and Cap'n Sproul growled oaths under his breath. During the weeks of their growing intimacy the Cap'n had detailed to his friend the various phases of Colonel Gideon's iniquity as displayed toward him.
Ho put his ear to the black camel's-hair wall of one tent, and heard what his faith could not but recognise as God's message to him. The soldier's dream was just such as such a man would dream in such circumstances. The interpretation needed no Daniel, but the immediate explanation given, shows not only the transparency of the symbol, but the dread in the Midianite ranks of Gideon's prowess.
But when the miserable cause of all again opened his eyes and sought Gideon's hand, he forgot it all. Happily, Hamlin, who had been watching him with wondering but critical eyes, mistook his concern. "Don't you worry about that gin-mill and hash-gymnasium downstairs," he said. "I've given the proprietor a thousand dollars to shut up shop as long as this thing lasts."
I said I was ready to go; and I am." His arm slipped from Gideon's neck; he slid to the ground; he had fainted. A dark, military-looking man pushed his way through the crowd the surgeon, one of the posse, accompanied by a younger man fastidiously dressed.
I decided to put off any further discussion of the question, particularly as the child looked and must have been tired out. I went down to the kitchen to talk to Emily about Jane's lunch. I felt that she ought to have a beaten egg, and perhaps a little fish. But I wished that she had told me frankly about that man Gideon's visit last night. Jane was always so reserved.
'And get him to issue, through the Fact, a semi-official declaration that "the whole story is a tissue of lies." Then I wished I hadn't used that particular phrase. It was an unfortunate one. It suggested a similarity between Lady Pinkerton's story and Mr. Bullitt's, between Arthur Gideon's denial and Lloyd George's.
The divine word fits Gideon's condition, and corresponds to his then deepest necessity; and so he drinks it in as the thirsty ground drinks in the water; and in the rapture of the discovery that the Name, that had come down from his fathers to him, was the Name of a real Person, with whom he stood in real relationships, and those of simple friendship and pure amity, he piles up the rough stones of the place, and makes the name of his altar the echo of the divine voice.
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