The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-09-08

papa opens it. 1ell him you think il will
do hlm good. He win be pleased that You
have remembered him in ycGr distress.
ask him if You may not take him up
thing more substantial-a sandwich, or
some biscuit and chicken.
i always said she was an o~ysterl" eiacu-
lated one OF Mr.. SAerman's enthusiastic
disciples, when this episode Of the mourn
ful history was reported to her. "She has
not o graih of sentiment or delicacy about
her. J. mover heard Of az thing so rApul-
sive in all my LIFE"
Mrs. Hayward possessed feeling and re-
hnement in generous measure, and she
manifested these By coaxing her Platonic
lover TO sip the strong coffee in ~spoonfuls,
feeding him with her white hands and
weeping with gratitude wher he blessed
her for her loving solicitude, 0 Enlng that
the beverage had quieted and strengthened
him.
1 have tolo my story badly II / have pro-
auced upon the mind of a single reader the
impression that Mr.. Sherman and his IA
porite parishioner were hypocrites, or that
either deserted tie remotest approach to
criminality In any intimacy which they
named the love of brother and sister. Mrs.
Hayward really considered herself a model
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pudiated with honest horror the suggestion
that her claim upon her spiritual mate
irespassed upon Mrs. Sherman's legal or
moral rights, George Sherman would have
sworn ia good faith UPON the oracle Of his
holy religion that ne WIS true to his wife In
intent and 6eed. ] wlite this IN sad sin
cerity, with no thought Of sarcasm, regret
full the while that conscience has laid upon
me the task of throwing light upon q bless
ed pace of humanlnature.
Tbs pastors country bred wife was un-
sophisticated. Mrs. Hayward said so, and
she ought to know. She wouldhave sneered
more loftily than ever, had she guessed that
the tame, dull wife-the barn yard fowl
with whom fate had yoked her eagle
crouching that night in the dim and dusty
garnet which wa the only retreat available
for her in all the house, sat l. judgmen
upon the spirit union Of her Gueenly Sc
with the kingly bird. and pronounced it
sin against herself and him In whose name
George and Annie Sherman had been pro-
aoGneed one.
she has robbed me!' said the narrow
minded woman, too spent by suffering
to think of revenge: too true to her hus-
will forgive heri Some day perhaps I
may!"
chen she knelt by the trunk on which
she had been sitting, and asked the Hearer
Of the afflicted and needy 10 pardon her he
loved, and give her grace to be dumb as to
her wrongs.
She did not die of her hurt. If wounds
Of this nature were mortal, the supply Of
widowers In the matrimonial market would
divert the attention of the seekers after
spiritual afinites from the pnrsnSte of
charming married men. George is Or.
Sherman now; q very pope in HE princis
patty, Of Aitkin, which has grown into q
great city, and Mrs. Hayward is yet his
prime minister. His wife still looks well
to the minute economies Of his household
and leaves church ge~nesn:aeDt, fancy ba-
zaars, 6nd Sabbath school festivals, to an
active corps of d-eaconesses. She has
brought Up her childreE in the fear OF God
and TO respect their father as q wise, good
man But they do not love him as they
do their gray haired mother They have
never suspected the secret that blasted the
sweetest of her earthly belief the night
Bonnie died. Only once did the seal upon
her lips bend as if ready TO break. The
temptation to indiscreton was q remark Of
Georgie's respecting an incongruous mar
rage between two Of her you1ig acquaint-
ances.
"It.is too bad to see q mar sacrificed to a
silly dob, I" said the girl.
My love, " demonstrated the gentle mo-
Their, since he wooed and welded her
of his own free will, is it not his duty, n
from which nothing can absoive him, to
submit himself like a man and a Christian
to the consequences of his voluntary actf
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