Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-31

months before. Her shy look, her al
ternate moods of cordiality and cool
ness her studied avoidance of him, her
sudden appearance before him during
his calls at the house, all, with much
else, should have warned him. lie re-
membered that night at the theater
when chance had placed him beside her.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for
us: therefore let us keep the feast"
The anthem, with him, fell upon
needless ears. Yes, this girl, at the
sight of whom he had taken some pleas
ure, whom he had always viewed as a
child just from school, was sufficiently
a woman TO have fallen in love with
him.
There was but one thing to do. He
must go away, that she might forget
him; for his love was with the dead.
More glad Easter music rose TO his
ears. The chur h seemed to thrill with
the TIE Deum festival. lie remained i'm
sensible to the roLes of the organ and
the great composite voice of the choir.
Since he must betake himself from the
possibility of meeting her again, where
should he go? Meditating upon this,
he sat Indifferent alike to col
lect, the epistle, the gospel, the
sermon. But all the while, half
involuntarily, he was searching the
congregation below with his eyes for
u glimpse of certain maid bearing a
lily.
1t would be n sacrifice for him TO
leave town now. 1t occurred to him
that life had been pleasant to him of
late amid his present surroundings in
the city. FOR the first time in five years,
existence had recently begun to have
some piquancy for him He had not
sought the cause. Assuredly, he was
showing rare consideration for this
girl in deciding to leave the city in
oid der that She might be spared the pain
of hop, less love. There were few
others, ii any, for whom he would so
readily disturb the routine of his life.
He would like, howeve to see her
face once more before putting it for
ever into his past. 1t was such a
charming face. Now hat he came to
think Of il, was there ever a rIore
charming face-but one? Why could
he not single her out in the gentle
swayinp surface of flower trimmed
bonnets stretched out before his gaze?
Why had he not as ertained the loca-
ton of her aunt's pew?
lie found her at last, far to the front
and the left. lie knew her by the lily
in her hand. She sat perfectly still, in
ray of light from n high window.
She seemed wrapt in contemplation.
How pleasant it would be to sit be-
side her!
And when at last the "Gloria in Ex-
celsis" was swelling up to the vaulted
roof he had begun to ask himself
whet her it were necessary to leave
towr after all.
He found himself unwontedly eager
to reach the front of the crowd as it
made itS way to the doors after the
service lie pushed his way down the
stairs, out from the place of subdued
light and flowers and fragrance, into
the sunlight.
How long the time seemed as he
waited while the multitude poured out
and separated into hundreds of groups
upon the sidewalk. He watched the
line OF faces as they appeared ut the
head OF the steps, coming from the
comparative shade within. At last!
She still held her lily. She cast a
quick glance around as she stood on
the topmost step. Then she descended,
followed by her aunt and two cousins,
His heart beat rapidly as he elbowed
his way through the throng that he
might appear at her side as if brought
there by chance.
lie raised his hat to her aunt and
cousins. She herself dropped err eyes
and bowed rather stinly when she saw
him.
He adroitly managed to keep by her
side as the group moved up the side
walk. The aunt and the cousins fell
behind.
Yet he could find little to say upon
the homeward walk. She was inclined
to be fiippant and inattentive in her
share of the conversation.
When they arrived at her house she
allowed her aunt and cousins TO pre-
cede her up the steps Then she tr--
ried for second.
GOOD by" she said. star upon
the second step.