The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-04-22


you know why | was not all smiles
when you met me, notwiths Ia ndins
the morning"
They had come TO the church. II,
stopped on the outskirts OF the con
vcrging crowd at the front of the wide
stone steps before the great entrance
Are You not going in:' she asked
with some establishment, rs she also
stopped.
lie smiled. mo: didn't intend to.
I'm not churchgoer. I'm out of prac-
ice
Then experience a novelty. ]
San invite you into orr pew,
/ for Aunt Agnes and my cous-
ins have already left only room
enough for me. But you might enjoy
standing in the gallery. Don't You like
! Easter music"
Yes Perhaps may drop in by and
by"
lie stood still. waiting for her to
leave him and enter the church. But
she did not move. He must have been
strangely unobscrvant not To- have
Iplt't lht loph vi ltiitltIlfSS ludI
denly burst all rcpressive bonds, in
stinctive and conscious, and glowed
eloquently in her eyes. not to have
penetrated To the deliberate design hid
den under the surface of her next
speech
And that story being finished. has
II had many scquels, with the
same hero"
"None," he answered. "None in six
years.
lit began with liiy?'
~ lily that stiEf stands in Grecian
vase beside my mirror"
Somewhat faded?"
'Yes, poor flower"
''l'ut the old story being finished"
speaking with increasing haste and
very low, land the hero still young,
what's to prevent beginning another
story-with another lilyT'
She held out the flower in. her hand
The. man, surprised at her manner and
her action, and not immediately awake
to their significance, did mot move To
speak.
The girl, appalled, by his. hesita ton,
hastily drew back the prosfered lily
Her face became crimsoa, and she
turned and hurried confWsedly from
him, passing with the tbrong up
the steps and into the church.
In the vast archcd interior her senses
met subdued light after the sunshine,
the hum of discreet conversation, the
soft footballs of worshipcrs going to
their seats, the rustic of women's
gowns, the odor of flowers, the colored
rays that fell obliquely from the
stained glass windows.
The man remained standing outside
bcwildcrcd. After a few seconds the
girls meaning dawned npon him
Thcreupon he began to twir! his mus.
tachc rapidly, in accordance with his
custom when in deep theaght. Some
one touched him on the shoulder.
Hello, old man. Going imp"
''Yes, yes, certainly he said quickly,
and ran up the steps without turning
To look at the speaker. He pushed his
way up the stairs and forward to a
place on the front row of seats in the
gallery, a feat difficult because of the
Easter crowd, but to him easy by reason
of his abstraction.>which made him in
if rent to the elbows, shoulders, at
tire and toes of others.
Already the deep notes of the organ
were qnivering on the air. A sum-
mary sean of the congregation failed
to discriminate the girl Of the lily from
the hundreds of women whose bright
headgear gave the congregation the
aspect of nm indoor flower garden. Ills
eyes rested upon the chancel, held by
the general effect of the grouped white
Resurrection lilies. callas, acacias S,
palms and yellow azalias. A cross OF
lilies surmounted the floral pyramid.
TO him this morning, all the world
| was Easter lilies.
The clear voices of the choristers
rose from beneath him, in harmony
with the organ, as the white robed
boys moved up the aisle. But the
splendid anthem, "He Is Risen,
seemed to him as coming from afar
| He was meditating.
| She was In love with him-his lily
like girl. Her offer OF the flower
might have passed for jest. but hel
almost angry withdrawal of 1t had toll,
the truth. as in fash. Why had h,
not already seen? Clinging to the OIL,
] love had kept him blind. lie reviewe,
their acquaintance, from the first meet