The Opelousas courier., 1892-02-20

7hn siilirS tlIOu2u 1t. Auu AIS'
Meeksss niece, though one of Adams evi
rood, had "A kind of gentleness in her
'Yes-a look so warm and compelling
that Brother Boone caught himsel shorr
II wondering if perhaps Mother Arm Lei
night not have appeared thus when she
9rew mems hearts to the truth. The
ruth! That meant the ~abjuration OF
anything like a kindly feeling for blue
eyes ringed darkly.
"What do YOU want2n demanded
Brother Boone, coldly, feeiing6gat at
tack is often the best mode of defence.
The girl looked scared. "Oh-why
Il was going to ask you if you'd always
lived here, seeing you pass every day. ]
kind of wondered if you'd ever lived in
town. Pm from Cincinnati myself.
Have you ever been there? We lived
on the side of Mount Adams. It was
real gay there. You could hear the
band play IN the Highland House up on
top" She rushed on: HCrowds go
there on summer nights. They drink
beer and ginger ale, and sit around
listening to the music. But maybe
you've been2"
May confuted brother Boone, in n
terrible voice. $40 a junketing-place
where wine-bibbers congregate2 Nay"
S'Nice people go there, !" faItered Nora;
ttnot Shakers, of course, but-you
know"
II know little of the world" Brother
Boone condescended to explain. 81
have been to several Kentucky towns,
and nowhere else."
"Don't you get lonesome sometimes
over there. where it's so euiet?" ven
tured the girl.
'Lonesome!" frowned he, dropping
the scythe, ''among so many holy peo-
ole-the worlds elect? I esteem it a
blessed privilege to be one CT them. ]
should be indeed wretched to live'in the
utter darkness"
'sShould you?" said Nora. "Now I
would rather wosk my fingers to the
bone than be one of them, "a Shaker wo-
man, and wear capes and scuttle-bon-
acts"
She stopped short. Mrs. Meeks was
calling her.
saw, Nora, look at you a-dawdIin'
there while the dish-water cools off, and
me with as lame a back asI ever had in
my life. You need a good talking too,
that's what. I'm too easy with you.
Nothing mellers an apple SO quick as
freezing. it."
"Good-by, Mr.. Hinson," said the girl,
'~sgood-by."
''Brotner Hinson," he corrected her.
.'Good-by."
"She is a frail little thing" he said
to himself, slashing the weeds down. 81
reckon Jane Meeks MAKES her work too
hard. They are all idle. these worlds
women, this Norah, no doubt, as idle az
inc restif she dared be-"
One day when he weat by ne saw hen
clothes in the yard. Mrs.
Meeks raised the pole for him, her cold,
nod at variance with tue tone in which
Inc bantered a dark-browed man hang.
ng over her porch rail.
1.-The evil OF the human heart is past
computing" declared Brother Boone.
Il shouldn't wonder if Jane Meeks:
kinks Of marrying again. Il she takes
Up with that Joe Hutton, she will regret
t; a trifing scamp"
1t cha7ced, on a certain evening in
that he met the red-haired
sirI face to face as he took a short.euti
through a corn field west of Shakerto wn.
was well on for sunset. a languid
melted about the earth, golden,
ike a ring in which a great topaz blazed.
COW bells tinkled faint AMI far IN the
roadway. Two b~are-legged
boys we're walking a stone fencel
lard by, shouting as they pitched about
or balance.
Mrs. Meeks's niece looked winter than
,ver, and her threadbare gown hung
Dose. Her hair was dlsordered and
made a misty bronze glow behind her
head.
fare you sick?" demanded Brother
bluntly, stopping the way.
aNo," she said. And then he saw
thas she had been crying, that her eyes
were wet even now, as he looked into
their blue depths.
Brother Boone had never seen any
Woman cry, ave old Sister Ellen Gray
ill upon getting word of her sons
leath. The old woman had sat for days
With swollen eyelids, refusing comfort,
even to listen when Elder
Thomas pointed out TO her the evil of
orrowing when earthly ties Waxed slack
nd broke.
Brother Boone had been furtively
ware of plying Ellen Graybill, but it
lad been with no such wild lifting of
he heart as shook him now.
What is the matsor2p he asked, with
he urgent sharpness Of strong feeling.
What is the matter?o
do you earea' She seemed sur
Irised. "And jet / knew you were
ind-hearted, for all that way you have,
Hinson. It's only that I don't
now WHAT She crept a little
carer, a hunted expression in her eye.
There a man named Hutton has been
to our house a good deal, and
~ aunt liked it; and I used to fix her
air every day. And then yesterday he
I'D her il was Dle-you know-me he
TaEted to marry. She hasn't spoken to
le since, my aunt hasn't. On, Brother
[1nsontn
Brother Boone made a hoarse exela-
aTou are going to marry nlmg
ora The seized Der bony little fingers
-"Would you take such a step, with
lese examples Of holiness 40 close al