The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-06-15

I'LL We are glad we coined. We mean
70 do II again."
Truth y no lengcr ~ the bottom 81
2 well. said Miss Pruc. with real
smile dimpling her face = she said
II Deacon Bracket could have seen
the manuscript Of Mr.. Miller's sermon
a. he reflected In his study that evening.
he would have supposed that the words.
Come again. dear dream" scrawled
on the margin. referred beyond q doubt
70 the dream Of Jacob when he saw the
angels Of God ascending and descend
ing.
Them there Miller boys be enough
p drive you 70 glory. an no mistake,
declared Jane. few weeks later II
wouldn't be their mother-no. not II
you'd give 'cm 70 me-"
They're not mine 70 give said Miss
Prue. What have they done now?''
Done? They've gone and broke the
pea-hen's eggs, 70 see the little pea
cocks. sure's you're alive. They ex-
pected 70 find 'em full-nedged. long
tail and all. Amy's gone home crying"
And where are the boys?"
Mr.. Miller, he's going TO send them
70 bed without their supper. and serve
'em right. Their mothers shirked all
the bother Of EN-. sure enough"
"WIthout their supper--poor thingsr'
cried Miss Prnc. Why, it's only three
o'clock Of summers day. rcmem-
Der when used 70 be sent 10 bed BY
daylight when was little and naughty,
and il always seemed 70 me a horrible
1 Injustice. Jane. run over 10 the par
sonage. and tell Mr.. Miller he will do
me a favor II he will"
"Baste EN- soundly." PUTIN Jane.
"Jane. how inhuman, He will do
me favor If he will let them Of this
I time
Now. Miss Prne. II you'd write it
yoursclf-surc's you live-excuse me.
miss but amt rot the face 70 carry
I that there message And it 80 hap
pened that Rev. Austin Miller found
himself dreaming cyera perfumed note.
in his study. while his sermon lay for
gotten before him dreaming If the first
note he had ever received from Miss
Prue- fifteen years or 80 ago. the words
OF which started out from some hidden
corner Of his brain where they had been
sleeping unknown 70 him; dreaming Of
the dewy evenings in the rose-garden of
the old parsonage where he studied Di-
vinity and she taught the children their
ALB C's; Of moonlight nights on the
river together, and spring mornings in
the woods hunting the first wild flower:
Of Sundays. when they sang together in
the choir; Of their stroll home through
green. swect-scented lanes. The thou
sand and one dear hours they had spent
in each Others company passed before
his minds eye like some beautiful piano.
rama. He wondered IL. indeed. he was
the hero Of those dreams. II be had ever
been 80 happy. The first parting. The
first arrangement. wrung his heart
anew. as II they had happened only
yesterday What foolish thing their
little quarrel looked like to-day. seen by
the light Of years and knowledge such
triiic. but with such large results.
Yet he had been the first % make an
overture toward reconciliation. thank
God. II she accepted his overture she
was To write and say 80: but no word
had come ~ him in reply. What DAYS
and hours Of suspense lifted their shad-
o~s before him: how the whole world
had seemed bleak and improbable
without hcr' Aud III season ~
weakness, when his wounded
heart could bear no more. Ne had
accepted the sympathy and comfort
nearest Al hand. and had finally
married Lefty Carew. because she loved
him. only % wake up one day to find
that he owed all his unhappiness 70 her
Miss Hildreth had. indeed. answered
him. had given Lefty the letter 10 mail
they had been intimate friends in
those days. intrusted with each others
heart-beats Lefty had detained
the nissive that would have healed the
breach. How did he know this? Years
after IL tumblcd out Of drawer Of old
letters, and confronted him with its fa-
miliar address. Miss Carew thought
she had secured herself for all time by
burning Prue's letter, but she had
tossed the wrong envelope into the
CRATE. Austin Miller had lived his sor-
row over again after this discovery; he
had walked with Il and wrestled with Il
without getting nearer happiness, and
had long ago made up his mind 70 do
without Il. But he had thought IL due
70 Prudence Hildrcth 20 send ter word
that by an accident her letter had come
10 hand five years too late: he said moth
ing If Leity's share in the matter, but
Prudence understood all. These memo
ries had been revived BY Prue's hasty
note asking him 20 forgive the children
for breaking up the pea-hen's nest!
Her children. too! He was At the point
Of carrying the note TO his lips. when
his eye fell upon his sermon. and he
threw II into the waste basket. lie
looked II the clock; Nc had been idle
two whole hours. s'Of what was he
thinkings" he asked himself; where
was he drifting an anointed priest. the
example and counselor Of ~inncrs?'
AT least he could 80 and thank Prue
with clear conscience; as for the chill
drcn. they we're already in bed. techni-
calIy speaking, and having such CAPT
tai pillow fight that they agreed 10 get
into mischief every day q their lives.