Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24

fathers shop
to be measured
for n riding
habit. He remembered the frock of
large plaid that she wore, all green and
blue and black, and he remembered
her blue felt hat with its ostrich
feathers; but what had made still
deeper impression upon his boyish
mind was her pretty pinkand-white
face, her great hazel eyes, and her
sunny curls, which, after being caught
at the nape of her neck with dark
blue ribbon, went rippling down over
her rough brown coat nearly to her
waist. He had stood at the little desk
in the corner, making out bills-for
it was Saturday, and, there being no
school, he was engaged ct his usual
holiday occupation.
He was sixteen then, and he fancied
that she was a year or two younger
for he had overheard her mother say
that it was her first riding habit, and
that they did not care for an expensive
one, because she would outgrow it. He
recalled that she had blushed at this,
as though it were n crime to be young
and growing, and that feeling of re-
sentiment had come into his heart
against her mother for subjecting her
to such an embarrassment.
Seven years had wrought a great
many changes, but the shop was in the
same old place there ON Sixth avenue,
under the shapow of the Jefferson
Market Police Courts brick walls, and
with the elevated railroad trains rum
bling past the windows of the upper
room where he studied and where he
slept. Karl Engfer, the tailor's son,
however, was no longer a school-boy,
looking after his fathers books and
making out his fathers bills on holi-
days. He was now a student at the
general theological seminary Pro-
testant Episcopal clergyman in embryo
and he wore sombre black garments
of somewhat clerical cut to indicate
his chosen profession.
Why he had gone into the church he
hardly dared to confess even to him
self, because he was really conscien-
tious young fellow at heart, and he
believed that there was such thing as
q divine call to the priesthood In
his case he doubted if the call was
divine Tho ortbodov +ooob;rree of
maiden lady who presided over the
bo attended ~, Corr,;r, go. Ia ,at
heen without offact 10 bo5 oaoo,,to5
the Scr;nturo as trntb he had hoon
bontized and bo bo5 boop oonfrmod
but the impulse to 90 forth and nreech
the Gosnei had come rother from q
wish to elevate himself above the Level
of the surroundings in which he had
been born and raised, than from anv
burning desire to lift his fellowman
slough of desmond.
Young Enpfer now and then inflicted
upon himself a sort of moral faoella-
tion At sucb times he onaped his
own heart to his own honest paze
and he invariably found there n
deener underlvino motive for b;s
course of which he Voc boB osbomad
II was nothing moro nor less than nm
ambition to pein n nosition from which
he might asn;re to tbe love of tbe IttIo
maid in the nloid frocl who bod
ordered her first ridinu-babit from his
father ON that Saturday seven Years
ago
Il would not hive been nm unworthy
ambition. he told himself under other
circumstances, IF II were only n SEQ
ondarv consideration If he had oiven
himself to the church first and this
desire had come afterward. he couId
have nacifod his cbidino consc;onco
with the oesuronce tbot n w;fe nch "a
Madeline Sturg;a would maka him
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