Connecticut western news., 1881-05-04

Owen came round the settle to the hearth. 's.a a.f
 ''It is long time since I saw you, he went on, quite cheerfully and pleas. antly; Ca long tune; and I should like very much to have 8 little talk with you. Will you come up stairs with me to my study? I am very glad to see you here tonight" .s'- sf1a.t s,a V
 The young man looked at Gwen, and Gwen looked at him, but they neither dared to say word. MT. Owen turned round and led the way up stairs; and as the young man followed him, Gwen gave him little encouraging nod, just as much as to say, 9TH wait here until you come back" < 'e-t-r
 MT. Owen walked slowly mp the stairs and into his study, and Gwen's sweet heart went after him, very much pug zled what was going to happen next. There was no fire up stairs, but there was candle burning, and the big Bible open, with Mir. Owens spectacles lying on it as If he had been reading; and the big chair little pushed back from the table, as he had pushed it when he got up and came down into the kitchen so unexpectedly. ..., '-'g ..l.e e.-.
 ''Take seat," he said, giving the young man a chair. '1t would be 8 great pleasure to me to see you here oftener, and to have little reading to- gether. But, at any rate, we will take this opportunity. 'sIll read chapter and expound little as we go on."
 'ttBut, MT. Owen," said the young man, "is it not getting late, please?"
 MT. Owen was turning over the leaves meantime and did not hear him at all. It was big old Bible, with 8 black binding and metal clasps, and with the Apocrypha in it. Perhaps you mayn't have read the Apocrypha, so I may as we'll tell you that it contains some very long chapters - particularly the first book of Maccabees, where they are mostly over sixty verses. The second, for instance, is seventy, and the tenth eighty-nine verses long, and all about the wars of the Jews. .r ..-
 MT. Owen turned and turned, till he got what he wanted, and then he settled himself in his chair and looked in the friendliest manner at Gwen's sweetheart.
 s'Here it is," he said. "We will be- gin with the second chapter of the book of Maccabees." -s.. s--E
 "Mr. Owen, I am sure it is getting late, sir" the young man ventured to say again. But MT. Owen only an- swered: ''The second chapter of first Maccabees," and began to read.
 The light was not good, and the min ister read slowly. When he came to a full stop, he leaned back in his chair, took off h1s spectacles, and expounded what he had read. Then he went on again as far as the next full stop, and then he expounded again.
 The young man began to wonder how long it would take to get through the chapter, and he thought half an houl would surely do it. But, you see, he never came to chapel, and he had no the least idea what MT. Owen, when he liked, could do in the way of exposition and time went on, and it was amazine how long they were in getting to the twentieth verse. Before they did tha he had begun to wonder whether Gwe1 would wait for him. "Perhaps ,sht will go to sleep by the fire," he though to himself-''or will she get tired O being there alone, and go to bed?"
 He kept listening for any movemen in the house, and when they were near ly half through the chapter he heard , step on the stairs. "That's Gwen, h. said to himself again, and it was all h, could do to keep from saying it aloud The step went on very slowly it evel stopped for moment outside the study but after that it went on again, and thel there was the sound of door shuttin, with little bit of bang, and he kney he should see no more of Gwen tha night.
 All the while MT. Owen kept goiuI on reading and explaining, and looking at the young man now and then to SC
 that he was awake. And the clock struc
 for the second time, and then the can dle began to burn low, and Gwen sweetheart thought to himself i: "1
 won't be long now till the candle zoe
 out, and then he must stop." But, pres
 ently, when he was giving the explans
 ton of something that was harder tha
 usual, MT. Owen perceived that the car
 dle was almost gone, so he just turne
 round in his chair and opened cut
 board that was within reach of his hand
 There was another candle all ready, an he brought it out and lighted it, an
 blew out the short bit without ever nal ing a single gap in his exposition. An then the young man did not know aOht to think.
 You see there was hardly anotht minister in Wales who was as clever . expounding as MT. Owen. Ihave know him to preach from one text for mol
 than two hours, so, of course, when l had got seventy verses to talk about |
 could not be expected to be at any los He was used to sitting up at night, to, ) and did not seem to see how Gwen l sweetheart was getting so tired that I could hardly keep upright on his chai But, however, there is an end , | NJI.~ . { II come nearer and nearer slowly, and sti
 the nearer it came the more MT. Owe 5 had to say. The clock struck again, ar 3 then cock, that had made some mi 3 take about the time, began to crow. It was getting cooler every minut