Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-10

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~ AS l said bstore; shere were ] good
many of us young people and We had,
pleasant winter. Most of the others
were old friends and neighbors, John
Powers and the Gardner4 aud the Edison
girls and the rest. John and had
always been good friends; we had had
but one real, genuine quarrel that can
remember, and that was my own fault.
It was years and years ago, about some
thing or other that did at school or
was planning to do, and it sOdsnt ex-
actly honest and he said so, and was
dreadfully angry. wouldn't speak to
him for week afterward, and then l
was so ashamed couldn't stand it any
longer, and I told him I knew it was
mean and I shouldn't really do it. :"
knew you wouldn't. Come ON and let's
90 skating,'' said he, and that was the
end of it. dare say he hasn't thought
of it since, but somehow never forgot
it. liked John, of course; knew him
so well that he seemed almost like the
boys at home, and of course enjoyed
being with him and talking with him in
a certain way, but then he was only John
Powers, and, well, he certainly didn't
have Arthur Lawrie's music or his eyes
or his graceful manners, and - was
| aromantic little goose. What could you
| expectp I didn't snub John, you know
| l went out with him sometimes, and
tried to make it pleasant for him when
he came in of an evening, as he used TO
do pretty often at first; but ii now and
then rode down to the Port with Arthur
/ Lawrie instead, or he came in and found
Arthur playing on the venerable piano
| oh Trono ho mead fn
play such delightful things! Well, it
often happened so about John and
4 Arthur; /. liked them both, you know,
and I knew they both liked me in way,
| I don't know. What do you mean
by filtration, IreneP Perhaps so, though
! there was no malice aforethought about
it /; only wanted to have good time. Ibid
feel sorry after while when John grad
ualty left off asking me to 60 skating,
and didn't come over in the evening so
often as he used to, but it didn't matter
so much, because I saw good deal
yes, a great deal of Arthur. I'm
ashamed to say it, but never was half
so particular about church going -
partly for the church of course, but
partly for the music, and sometimes to
look after Jim.
i Our pew was down in front, just'where
1 could always see the organist. re-
member his profile used to come just
over one of the carved oak panels, and
he looked like picture, with his fine,
cIear-cut face. and his musical express
sion. Not that I sat and watched him
all the time, either. -,
And then, Irene, he always had that
Way of treating you as if you were an
angel, and you know one does like that,
even along with the consciousness OF be-
ing miserable little sinner; and
though he was never what one would
! call obtrusively religious, stin he could
say great many nice things about I'M
seltishness and remuneration of personal
aims and all that. And, my dear,
believed in him as thoroughly as did
in the rector.
1t was the next spring that there was
, little talk of his leaving St. Marks
and going to Albany, and we half ex
pected he would 60, though nobody
knew. One afternoon party OF us
went up in the woods behind the county
farm to get May flowers. remember
John didn't go, for he was in the office
| at Brown and Growers then, and had t.
/ work like everything. The air wa'
, warm as June. We two were little
t behind the others coming back; he wa.
carrying my basket and looked gooe
: deal more sober than usual.
ssHow can you," said l, with al
, those flowers, and such sunset in you
t faceP'' And he said he was wondering
P if it would be the last time he should e
t a-Maying in those woods and with tn
same companion.
lAvy inn a u
: thenp', said I. Somehow it made nj
1 rather sober, too, and suppose
a showed it more than I meant, for h
turned and looked down at me-he wa
e tall and slender. "Should you care
. bit, Miss Winifred, if did goP'' he said
: in that pathetic little way Of his. HI
4 had been talking just . few evenings be
K fore about the beauty of loving on
r friends faithfully and without demands
I even though they might never care one
j. half so much for US. couldn't help re
n membering it, and suppose blushe'
: and said Of course should care-a Lit
|tle-and then-well, the end of it wa
: that he didn't 60. found out after
e ward it was because he quarreled wit
9 the Albany church about the salaryO
nj OF all Internationally. blissful lttl
i idiots IAsuppose I was q aiming exam
i Pile. There was no public engagement
y in fact he never actually and in SO man
! words said so very much about home o
It a wedding day but he talked great dea
d about coinpani0nshipan and sympathy an
It the fine capabilities of q woman's natur
/. for general sweetness and highland b
It used to play to me by the hour, and tai
f. machinery with father, and praise Jim
it voice to mother-and used to sit an
I think how refined and pale and hand
Y II some he was. And then, you know, b
J, came to board with the Stseles in til
e other half of the house.
q Mind you, don't say that the mex
le twelvemonth didn't bring some revels
II tions to Arthur Lawrie rs well as to me
d don't pretend to be saint, and wa
. very, very far from It then; but Of eours
!. all | know is that it was with nay ow
" self like the IS King of France, with fort
l. thousand men," who" marched up