The Red Cloud chief., 1884-03-14
MADE OR MARRIED.
BY JESSIE ~FoTHERGILL,
author Of 'One Of Three" Probation" Tn
WeufGlds," Etc,
CHAPTER XXI.-CoNrINuEr

CHAPTER XXI.-CoNrINuEp.
at seems to me-" said Mabelle, ''that
all the master mariners who ever lived
have been shipwrecked, and died, and
got buried here"
Then into the church, where the light
streamed softly in on the eastern side,
and the homely service was carried on,
and the homely sermon preached after
ward. The two girls sat on a bench in
the background. near the door, with
Hermann between them; and Mabelle.
who was next the porch, could see the
sea, in a shining silver eypause, spread
beneath and before her, as far as the
eye could reach.
There is something in the quiet beauty
of a church service on a summer Sun
day evening in a country place which
is touching and pathetic, n hardly
knows why. The three young hearts
were perhaps overladen with happiness
with the Joy of living and breathing
amid so much beauty, and with great,
bright hopes for the future, as young
hearts will be. BE that as it may, a
silence and gravity settled over them
all. and Mabelle found her eyes dim
with tears once or twice during the
course of the simple, noble liturgy.
The sermon over, they all rose, and
the last hymn was given out. Mabelle
felt a strange little shiver as she opened
the look, and read: For those at sea"
What had made the clergyman choose
that hymn, for such an evening, with
the sea outside, like a great, heaving
1sheet of glass? was it simply as a re-
minder that Gin the midst of life we
are in death?" or to recall the storms
which had ragged in days gone by-to
+, prepare for those which must rage in
DAYS to come. despite the exquisite
calmness of tonight? For, thought
. Mabelle, as the solemn notes began,
was not the churchyard full of the
graves of those who had persisted at sea
master Mariners" simple seamen,
mothers and children who had drowned
together, and been found and picked up,
clasped fast in each others arms?
, The first verse had been sung; the
last lines of it were sounding solemnly:
"Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea-"
Suddenly there flashed subtly upon
her mind the remembrance of Philip.
Surprising ne were in any peril by sea
or landi
If it had not been for u.s. she
thought; eff he had never met us he
2 would have been safe at home in En-
gland now, at this very moment And
still the chant went on, and still she
sang. with an eagerness and a fervor
which lent strength to her voice:
Most Holy Spirit. who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude.
And bid its angry tumuit. cease,
And give ior wild confusion. peace
oh, hear us when we cry TO Thee,
For those in peril on the sea-
1t was with a heart full to overflow
ing of a ~reasonless lear and excitement
that, when the hymn was over. she
dropped upon her knees, and covered
up her face with her hands while the
benediction was beng given.
las they went home they were much
Sf<5pre silent than they had been when
: they came. Hermann drew Grace's
arm through his to help Der up a steep
NIL and Grace, as il TO say 10 Mabelle:
You. too, you shall not be left ont in
lie cold. clasped her friends hand in
Yes. IT, Gloamlng was falling. the