The daily gazette., 1880-01-03
h. Battbey bad talked. 20 ,bustsy-ssut

1t. But they had talked no -D<BTfy uiiiN
they could take no note OF time.
Susan, from the kitchen door, rag
enough back TO be out of the sight Of
John, aroused her by making a li.sorts OF
mysterious signals, pointing first at the
minister and then towards the road, Up
which she added q series of appalling per
formances by opening and shutting her
mouth, which was afterwards aseertain-
ed to be q representation in -panfomime
of the way that young women supposed
that horses eat. 1 +
Unable to understand what she wan
ted to communicate, Miss Payne went 10
find out about 10. e 'i T.
There's his poor old horse q standing
at the gate the whole morning. asserted
SusaR, with indignation, "and be a sit
tim here and laughing. II he was horse
now"
But Miss Payne didn't stop to hear the
metaph ysical argument Susan was about
to announce. ~ glsu1os 50
"Why, john" she said, coming back
into the kitchen; Adon,t you know you
We got horse up there? I'D forgotten all
about 1t until Susan spoke OF IL. just
you take 1t around and turn it out In the
pasture, and III have dinner ready Wy
She watched him az he went down the
patch, with a soft light In her eyes and
a strange happiness In her heart. She
didn't know why. She couldn't have
told II she had tried to analyze 1t. q
1t must be she felt the gladness near
at hand, as the trees kEow when spring
is coming. gHossaE 81 I'll ~
ard like to know If that mans going
TO stay here forever" said Susan to the
old bTindle cow that night. as she drove
her up from the pasture. ~ should
Ia1x, habd foal ~ hta f<1 IN Utaff nfknr
folks. Std o. that he's a sittin' round
here, and Aunt Hester and he's talk
ing the whole endurinl time, and he
amt said word about any of them
things all the other minister's used tov as
I've heard"
But old brindle didn't seem to be able
to enlighten Susan on any point, and
that person wont to bed feeling that min
isters were not what they used TO be.
The mi mister and Miss Payne sat and
| talked quietly in the still twilight. He
told her all about his life since she bad
known him fifteen years ago, and how
| the change had come into 1t which had
| transformed him into a minister. And
| then there fell a little silence about them
which neither broke for long time.
BY and by he spoke
al don't know why I came here first,
Hester. 1 suppose, ought to bave gone
to Sawyer's, but 1 couldn't 60 by here.
| From the time knew / was going to be
stati ioned over this part I've been think
ing of you and longing TO talk over old
times with you, as / have done to-day.
| And some way 1t seemed to me as II cd
had plan to carry out In stationing me
over here. 1 don't know what you'll
think about 1t, Hester, but 1 believe
| could do better work in the world Ia you
| would help me. We've been parted for
| good many years, but I've never loved
any one else, and never shall and II
| seemed to me to-day that took up the
| life lust where we left II fifteen years age
lin this old kitchen. I've always blamed
myself for what happened afterwards
and want to confess 1t to you, whether
You think as do about what have toll
you or whether you don't"
"No, John. was the one to blame,
she said "I was telling myself that thii
morning, not half an hour before you
came. Tsaw it all after wards" - sIE
"Is 1t yes or no, Hester?' he asked
tenderly. "We're old enough to know
ourselves better than we did then. Gar
you help me in my life-work without re-
gret fer what you must give up 2" /,
ace aglow. al shall give up nothing bu
oneliness, and shall gain-youl
What speech to make to minister
| If Susan could have heard it,she woul'
have become an immediate convert t.
the theory of total depravity. And +
come from Miss Payne, too
"God bless you, Hester, and may yo
never be sorry for this" he said, an
kissed her with long, lingering kisl
while the moonlight fell above them lIk
benedictlon from heaven.