The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-06-11
CHAPTER XXXyI.
GETTING THE ANSWER.

When Patty went down to strain
the milk on the morning after her re-
turn, the hope of some deliverance
through Lewis Goodwin had well-nigh
died out. II he had had anything to
communicate, Morton would have not
delayed so long to come to see her.
But, standing there as of old, in the
moss-covered spring house, she was,
in spite OF herself, dreaming dreams
Of Morton,and wondering whether she
could have misunderstood the hint
that Lewis Goodwin, while he was
yet Pinkey. had dropped. BY the
time the first crock was filed with
milk and adjusted to its place in the
cold current, she had recalled that
morning of nearly three years before
when she had resolved to forsake
father and mother and cleave to Nor
ton: by the time the second crock
had been neatly covered with its clean
block she thought she could almost
hear him, as she had heard him sing
ing on that morning:
"ahaist nor boyle shalt thou fear,
Thou 'rt TO love and heaven sac dear,
Nocht ofill may come thee near,
My bonnie dearie."
Both she and Morton had long
since, in accordance with the Book Of
Discipline, given up singing those
sons that do not tend to the glory Of
God" but she felt q longing to hear
Morton's voice again, assuring her Of
his strong protection, as it had on
that morning three years ago. Mean
while, she had filed all the crooks and
now turned to pass out of the low
door when she saw, standing there as
he had stood on that other morning,
Morton Goodwin. He was more man
", more self-contained, than then
Years Of discipline had ripened them
both. He stepped back and let her
emerge Into the light; he handed her
that note which Pinkey had dictated
to Ann Eliza, and which Patty read:
"REv. MORTON GooDwIN:
DEAR SIR--The engagement be-
tween US Ia broken OH. 1t is my fault
and not yours.
ANN f. MEAcHAM."
1T must have cost her a great
DEAL" said Patty, in pity. Morton
loved her better for her first unselsh
thought.
He then told her frankly the his
tory of the engagement; and then he
and Patty sat and talked in happi-
ness SO great that it made them quiet,
until some one came to call her, when
Morton walked up to the house to re-
new his acquaintance with the invalid
aud Modified Captain l.nmsden. y
"Faix, Molrton,' said Brady, after
ward, when he came to understand
how matters stood, you've got the
answer in the book. It's quare en-
ough. Now, tone and one is two" is
aisy enough, ,but"one and one is one
makes the hardest sum iver given to
anybody. You've got it, and I'm
glad Of it. May ye niyer conjugate
the varb ''to love- anyways except
prisent tinse,. indicative mood, first
parson, plural number, tive love-" l
don't keer il We add the futur' tinse,
and say, "we will love-, nor ef ye put
in the parfect and say, 1--WE have low
ed" but may We always stick fast to
first parson, plural number, prisint
tinse, indicative mood, active v'ice!"
Morton returned to Jenkinsville cir
cult in some trepidation. He feared
that the old brethren would blame him
more than ever. But this time he
found himself the object of much sym
pathy. Ann Eliza had forestalled all
gossip by renewing her engagement
with the very willing Bob Holston,
who chuckled grea: deal to think
how he had ''cut out" the preacher af-
ter all. And when Brother Magru-
der came to understand that he had
not understood Morton's case at all,
and to understand that he never
should be able to understand it, he
thought to atone for any mistake he
might have made by advising the
bishop to send Brother Goodwin to
the circuit that included Hissa-
wachee. And Morton liked the ap-
pointment better than Magruder had
expected. Instead of living with his
mother, as became dutiful son, he
soon installed himself for the year at
the house Of Captain Lumsden, in the
double capacity of general supervisor
of the moribund mans affairs and SON
| in-law.
There rise before me, as | write
these last lines, visions of circuits and
stations Of which Morton was after
wards the preacher-in- charge, and of
districts of which he came to be pre-
siding elder. Are not all of these
written in the Book of the Minutes of
the Conference? But the silent and
unobtrusive heroism of Patty and her
brave and lifelong sacrifices are re-
corded nowhere but in the Book OF
Gods Remembrance.
Entered, according to Act Of Congress. In
the year 1874, by J. B. Ford 4 Co., In the office
of the Librarian OF Congress at Washington,
| Dc.
THE END.