Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-06-09

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was promised and must he sent.
Karl turned away from the door.
LIT me take it. father, he said
Its only step down To Washington
place. and don't mind
The old German protested, but Karl
insisted. and eventually the father re-
luctautly consented to allow his son.
OF whom he was more than proud. and
for whom he had ambitions that tow
cred to bishopric, TO deliver the par
eel.
In any American city other than
New York the spectacle of Il young
man so well dressed carrying II large
bundle ON crowded thorou ghfare
would have attracted attention, but in
the metropolis people are more apt to
mind their own business than are the
people elsewhere, and so IT happened
that rs Karl made his way down Sixth
avenue with the riding habit wrapped
III brown piper under his arm,
scarcely head was turned to look
after him. Had IT been otherwise,
however, it is doubtful whether the
young theological student wonld have
observed it, He was plunged deeply
in thought, and as his feet traversed
the six or seven blocks that lay between
his fathers shop and the Sturgis res
/ idence his mind travelled once again
over the seven years that had inter
vcncd since that eyentful day when
Madeline Sturgis had come into his
life.
! As he looked back at the boy that he
/ was then he wondered how he had ven
/ tured to let the seed of hope take root
/ in his heart. The son of cheap Ger
man tailor; his companions, like him
I self, the children of poor tradesmen-
/ it was certainly wild notion that pos
/ sessed him to WOO and win this aristo-
cratic little maiden, whose people were
not only rich enough to buy and sell
/ him and his father Il thousand times
over, but were of social stratum far
above that in which the Englers lived
and moved and had their being.
He remembered how he had carried
nome luul llIsi ll'tlIb hubIl Nh'u IL
I was finished, and how he had been
asked to wait i'll the diningroom until
| Miss Sturgis could try it on and ascer-
tain whether it was entirely satlstac-
tory and he recalled how he had sat
there in that basement apartment with
its extension table and its leather
covered chairs; how he had looked
with admiration upon the engravlngs
i'll walnut frames that hung upon the
walls and how he had hoped, all the
time, that there might be some com
plant, SO that the little lady would
come down to show him Just what WAS
wrong, and he could get another
glimpse of her. But his father was n
good workman. The habit was all that
could be desired and he had returned
home disappointed.
The days when he saw Madeline he
called his red-letter days, and for Il
time they were fewer than those that
are indicated in the printed calendars.
One January afternoon, however, Mrs.
Sturgis hnd come into the shop and
had asked his father if Karl would not
like to go to the mission Sunday.
school on Carmine street, in which she
was very much interested, and hif
father, who would have gone through
fire and food to please customer, sc
S~---f-.l no nf losing a dollar
worth of trade, had said that Kar
would certainly be there on the follow
ing Sunday
From that time on he saw her more
frequently, and his infatuation in
creased III proportion. She taught q
class of small boys across the aisle from
where he usually sat, and on more thar
one occasion the maiden lady who pre-
sided over the group of larger boys
of which he was one, WAS compelled tC
demand with some emphasis his return
to the business of the hour, his gaZ,
having a way of wandering repeatedly
from his catcchism or his Bible to tn,
face of the pretty little teacher i'll tn,
opposite pew.
One incident that he recalled will
, some pleasure had occurred on a Sun
| day afternoon in earl spring. II,
had noticed that Mrs. Sturgis was no
present in the chapel; that Madelin,
had come alone and he had wondered
= all through the lesson whether it woul,
seem rude on his part, after the clos,
of the session. to offer to walk HON,
! with her. he only could, he thought
it would be the happiest day of hi
, life; but he feared that she might thinl
1 him impudent and presuming, and
, when the school was dismissed and TIL
scholars and teachers filed out into tn
$ street, he lacked the courage to &,
$ forward and speak to her.
But his happiness had come, never
, theless; for in following her at wha
r he considered most respectful dis
= lance, his eyes never once leaving he
l 1.-the young figure, clad in n well fit
s ting spring jacket that his father ha,
cut with his own hand, he had seen he
e rudely jostled by drunken man, ant
& had dashed to her aid almost before h.
/ realized what he was doing. The re
, collection of her gratitude was one o
g his most cherished memories; ant
? now, as he turned into Washington
t place, he was thinking of how, on tina
/ occasion, her manner was so cordia
and SO completely lacking in any indi
cation that she recognized any differ
| ence whatever in their social station
, He remembered that it was on tina
| day that his determination to study TO
2 the ministry WIS formed, and that i
Y grew out of her telling him that tn
4 assistant minister at the mission ha
r dincd with them on the evening before
8 N1he day will come, " he had thought
$ "when l, too, may be asked there t.
g dine"
And now he was thinking that da
, might not be so far distant for, WA