The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-14

fcer than an agricultural superan-
tendent. He was already in a side
pew, his eyes dreanaily fixed on the
prayer-boolx ledge before him, when
there was a rustic at the church
door and thrill of curiosity and adj
miration passed over the expectant con-
gregation. 1t was the entrance OF the
Bows party-Miss Sally we'll to the
fore. She was in her new clothes
the latest fashion in Louisville, the Ia
test but two in Paris and New York.
1t was over twenty years ago. I
shall not imperil the effect of that
lovely vision by recalling to the eye OF
to-day a fashion of yesterday. Enough
that it enabled her to set her sweet
face and vapory golden hair in horse
shoe frame of delicate flowers and to
lift her oval chin out of the bewilder-
ing mist of tulle. Nor did a certain
light po!onaise conceal the outlines Of
her charming figure, Even those who
were constrained to whisper to each
other that ''Miss Sally must ''be now
going on twenty-five" did so because
she still had the slender grace of seven
teen. The organ swelled as it to well
come her; as she took her seat ray of
sunlight that would have been cruel
and searching to any other complex
ion drifted across rhe faint pink of her
checks and nesting in her neb'llous
hair became itself TRANSPORTED. A few
stained-glass VIRTUES on the windows
did not come out of this effulgence as
triumphantly, and it was small wonder
that the devotional eyes Of the worship
ers wandered from them to the face OF
Sally Dows
When the service was over, as the
congregation fled slowly into the aisle
CORTLAND slipped mutely behind her.
AS she reached the porch he said in an
undertone: II brought my horse and
buggy / thought you might possibly
allow me to drive"
But he was stopped by a distressful
knitting Of her golden brows. mo, !"
she said, quickly, but firmly, ''you must
mott won't do" AS CORTLAND hest.
tated in monentary perplexity, she
smiled sweetly: "We'll walk round by
the cemetery if you lilse-lt aoI taxi
about as long as a c1rspe.'
CORTLAND vanished, gave hurried in.
structions and dollar to a lounging
negro, and rejoined Miss Sally as the
delighted and proud freedman drove out
OF the gate. Miss Sally heaved slight
sigh as the gallant equipage passed ''lt
was mighty pooty turnout connie,
and I'd just admire to go, but it would
have been rather hard on the other
folks. There's the Reeds and Maxwells
and Robertses that are too poah tc
keep blood horses, and too proud to
ride behind anything else. 1t wouldn't
be the right thing for you to go whirl'
ing by scattering our dust over them. !
There was something so subtly pleas
ant in this implied partnership of re-
sponsibility that CORTLAND forgot the
abrupt refusal and thought only of the
tact that prompted it. Nevertheless,
here spell seemed to fall upon his usu-
ally ready speech. Now that they
were together. for the first time in dis
tinctly social fashion, he found himself
vacantly, meaning essly silent content
to- walk beside this charming, summary
presence, brushed by its delicate draper
les, and inhaling its freshness Present.
II it spoke: .s.5 3. .s
st would take more than thousand
feet Of lumber TO patch up the COW
sheds beyond the Mosely pasture, and
"a entirely new building with an i'm.
proved dail would require only about
& two Thousand. more. All the Old ma,
/ terial would come ~ good Tor fencing,
md could IS used the new posts