Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

Rest liveth here. know not when have
| slept such sleep, Will you come hither and
| help me. dear Rachel, and bring water that
! 1 NAV bathe nv face and cool my arms"
"There is water in the inner room, an
swered Rachel, nonchalantly, "snd fresh
| linen and conveniences suitable for guest.
| Come in wonder with me and / will show
| you them"
Ariella stared at her hostess; her large
eyes widened with hurt surprise.
"ComeI'' repeated Rachel, in a firm,
motherlY tone.
"Oh, rememberr' cried Ariella, ''I re-
member it all. l have put my feet upon
| the ground. They have borne my weight.
! have walked. The Nazarene commanded
me and L obeyed. 1 walked. But that was
yesterday.
"And this is to-day" replied Rachel, in
a comfortable tone. fArise, Ariella. Arise
commands-that of the divine spirit, and
that OF common life, and they took as they
must needs do to the sick the same forms,
even the same language. Rachel performed
no wonder; she used her good sense, which
told her that many a wonder failed, whether
for lack of woodworking power, or of
pluck to back it, she could not say and did
not care. The point was that Ariella had
walked. And walk she must. And verify,
walk she did.
The girl arose at once. She tottered for
moment then struck out strongly into the
middle of the room; and walked firmly into
the adjoining apartment. The linen cur
tain swayed and fell, and hid her. Rachel
could hear the little splash of the cool wa
ter with which her young guest Dathed. She
did not offer to help her. She went without
and told Baruch that Ariella was as well as
other people.
As soon as the morning meal was over,
Ariella started for her fathers home. While
yet the cool OF the day was upon Bethany,
the little journey would be more fairly made.
Ariella was impatient for it. Baruch could
not understand this; but he said nothing to
delay her.
The girl came out into the morning. look
ing like a cloud or bud, or dew drop, or
any lovely thing that is born of the young
hour, and belongs to it. Her eyes burned
with excitement compared to which the
fever of love is tame. The joy of the cured
invalid has no similar upon this earth.
Ariella could not keep still. She bounded
to and fro. Her !eet had wings. Her hair
seemed electric with life and foated about
her on whims of its own. Waves of e1quis-
ite color ran over her pale face, as if learn
ing their way to tint her cheek; then they
would retreat suddenly, like strangers Lite
came to her lips, thev curved into child-like
smiles. She nodded and laughed aloud at
little things like little girl. She ran to
and fro. She called and sang. She was
absorbed, she was intoxicated.
1t was a hard thing to Baruch that she
was in such hurry to getaway. He would
l. LII Erl,o 4 no Il
wanted to stay beside them, his mother and
of her delight This we'll Ariella he did not
understand. The old Ariella was gone. In
her place, what had he?
SIS it possible" thought the blind man,
"that have lost her. What is this discoV-
ery?-does it cost me Ariella?
He bowed his patient head. But, to him
self, he said: $50 be it; if so be that Ari-
ella suffer not, am content. 1 have had
my will. She is healed Ariella did not
understand the thought of Baruch. She
meant to be very grateful and loving to
him. But health and Joy were too new to
Ariella-they dazzled her. She could see
nothing else. To be sure she said:
"Baruch! Dear Baruch! 1 am well.
walk. 1 1y. suffer nothing. o, Baruch,
what do 1 owe thee?"
But Baruch answered nothing. He felt
bereaved of Ariella. She had insisted on
going home alone, for some whim she had
about it. But Rachel overruled her, and
accompanied the maiden, who yielded care
1essly. What difference did it make? What
did ANYTHING matter? She could walk.
When she departed from the house she
took the hand of Baruch and said some
words to him-he knew not what. But the
blind man turned away and thought: "She
hath forgotten me-.
Ariella trod the roads of Bethany like a
spirit. Her feet did not seem to touch the
ground. She walked on air. She held her
head like bird. She wished that she knew
everybody she met and could call out a1d
say: Behold me am Ariella. I am
we'll. walk"
But Ariella knew few people; she had
been a prisoner of the couch so long She
bounded along uninterrupted. Rachel
puffed and labored, but could not keep up
with her. 1t was perhaps half mile to the
house of Malachi. Now as chance had it,
the first person known to Ariella whom she
met that wonderful morning, was a young
man walking slowly. with his head bent and
eyes upon the ground.
"What handsome fellow" thought the
girl. When she came up to him she saw
that it was a neighbor unseen of her for a
long time, but well enough remembered. In
fact it was Lazarus. He had a strange ex-
preston. His look was high and distant.
His ewes were radiant and full. His face
was quite pale. His talith was wet with
dew, and crumpled, as though he had spent
the night without upon the ground. The
decorous citizen, the man of proprieties and
customs, presented an unprecedented appear
ance.
Ariella was not veiled. She had, to tell
the truth, forgotten all about it; wells not
being useful in the sick room were without
her instincts; which were, therefore, nat
uraL. Lazarus turned upon Ariella the un-
seeing eve of him who has not slept the en-
tire night. Rachel came painting up.
Then Lazarus said slowly: "Why, Ariella!
-Ariella?"
SIT is indeed Ariella," said Rachel, "Be-
hold what wonder GOO hath wrought upon
her."
81 walk" cried Ariella, 'I fy; behold
me. 1 am healed. L walk from the house
of Rachel to the house of my tather-I-
Ariellap'
"What meaneth this?" demanded Laza-
rus, now aroused to the extraordinary nat
ure the scene.
''The Nazarene bade me-" answered Ari-
ella more quietly than she had yet spoken
that morning. "He commanded, and do
walk
The countenance of Lazarus expressed
battle of emotions as Rachel, in defiance of
Jewish conventionality-ior such thing as
this did not happen every day, and the pro-
prieties did-paused, and related to their
neighbor what had occurred If Lazarus
had ever cherished any reserved opinions
about the reported cures wrought by his
friend and Master-and it is not impossible;
for the strongest of powers were tugging at
the faith of the young man-the sight of