The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-11-02

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seemed to have no effect on Paul. He
dashed down the Hill at a rapid rate.
No, not quite! He was certainly slack
ening a little. Again, Mr.. Fairweathcr
spoke, In tones Of authority, but calm
ly-he pulled harder on the reins.
Paul drew up before he quite reached
the rope he came TO a dead stop.
Fairweather sprang from the carriage
and went to his head. He was almost
startled ut the calmness he met in the
horses eye, but there was a look Of de-
liberate anger, which gradually wore
away rs he caressed him.
The carriage did not prove TO be
broken nj all, but Dcacan Tibbs, as
well Al his wife and daughter, decidedly
refused 10 ride home, and as walking
seemed to be out Of the question for Mrs.
Tibbs-who knows what Miss Melinda
might have doneP-it was deemed best
that Fairweather should ride back on
Paul, and drive my horse and carriage
out for the three.
He knotted the harness into s~tirrups,
sprang on his back and turned toward
the town. Paul had by no means lost
his nervous defiance, but this gradually
wore away. Fairweathcr's firm tones
seemed much more, or rather pleasantly
less, effective than the deacon's whip.
And while | was helping him hitch up
Bess, he INDUCED in no stinted praise of
the animal he had always so highly adj
mired.
The accident ended agreeably after all.
Mrs. Tibbs refused to take 4 back seat
on the homeward route, for she wanted
to be, so she said, where she could Jump
Sin case the critter run" AID so the
minister and Melinda were seat-mates on
the homeward journey. She had but
little 10 say, but her sweet young face
gazed from the carriage window with a
really thoughtful look.
Mr.. Fairweathcr watched her with
curiosity. - do believe the girls
thinking" he said TO himself. There's
something to her after all.r
Although my acquaintance with our
new minister dated only a year back, we
had been thrown so intimately together
that l had already found in him my most
valued friend. II was long after this ride
that l began to see that the interest
awakened some time before in Melinda
Tibbs was gradually deepening. One
night | jokingly said 10 him:
"Oh, by the way, F~airweather, il
seems TO me il is about time for YOU to
settle down in a home of your own"
1T will be a long time before then,
Johnson
"Need it be Pr answered. "Couldn't
you persuade Miss Melinda
Fairweather's face flushed. ~ don't
know what you are thinking about,
johnson. lido feel that Melinda can't
express it to you and | see you know
how il is. The first time | saw her |
wished she could be placed in circum-
stances 20 bring out what there was in
her.
Like Paul." suggested.
IF, indeed, she really had any depth
of character. Since then she has occa-
sionally given me some glimpses which
encouraged me To think that a wider
and larger knowledge-in short,
development in every direction-would
make Of her As noble a woman a. ever
F~airwcather arose abruptly and walk
ed to the window, mechanically crossed
back and forth from one end Of the
TO the other for some time, and
then threw himself in a chair BY my side.
What can | do about il, Johnson?'
~ don't know, Reuben" | answer
cd, 'unless you take her in hand rs you
have Paul."
For, after the runaway, he had hired
Paul for a year, sent mis- saddle-horse
back TO his father, and henceforth de-
voted an hour, sometimes more, every
day to his new favorite's education. II
was a long time before Paul showed any
of abandoning his suspicious ways
and spunkiness. But gradually he found
he could trust his new master; day by
day he became more willing to do what
asked Of him, till there sprung up
a perfect confidence between horse and
rider. After this Paul never failed him
no matter how hard the task Fairweath-
required Of him, there was never the
east sign Of reluctance. But still il
all in vain he offered the deacon a
high price for his horse. He would not
sell him.
gave my advice most honestly, for |
believed that he could mold a character
ike Melinda's into something true and
noble. But he was wiser than /, and I
I'm not sure but Deacon Tibbs and his
wife were wiser than either Of us, for
Mrs. johnson came home from the next
aides sewing-circlc with a piece of
news. Melinda Tibbs was going TO
pend a year with 4 cousin OF her father
II New York City.
As ! have no means " followip2rNlc
an her CRY f'ifc, there IL but Idle
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have entered into tire people, and d new
strength put forth. The question was
decided, for MI agreed that no
minister for the Merton church.