Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-05

in q brown paper under his arm,
scarcely O head was turned to look
after him Had it been otherwise,
however, it is doubtful whether the
young theological student would have
observed it. He was plunged deeply
in thought, and rs 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
vened since that eventful day when
Madeline Sturgis had come into his
life.
As he looked back at the boy that be
was then he wondered how he had ven
tured to let the seed of hope take root
in his heart. The son Of q cheap Ger
man tailor; his companions, like him
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 a thousand times
above that in which the Englers lived
and moved and had their being.
He remembered how he had carried
home that first riding-habit when ii
was finished, and how he had been
asked to wait in the dining-room until
Miss Sturgis could try it on and ascer-
tain whether it was entirely satisfac-
tory; and he recalled how he had sat
there in that basement apartment with
b, -
covered chairs; how he had looked
with admiration upon the engravings
in 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 a
good workman. The habit was all that
could be desired and he had returned
homo disappointed.
The days when he saw Madeline he
called his red-letter days, and for a
lime they were fewer than those that
are indicated in the printed calendars.
One january afternoon, however, Mrs.
Sturgis had 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 his
father, who would have gone through
fire and flood to please customer, SO
fearful was he of losing a dollars
worth of trade, had said that Karl
would certainly be there on the follow
i2g Sunday.
From that time on he saw her moro
frequently, and his infatuation in
creased in proportion. She taught a
class of small boys across the aisle from
one occasion the maiden lady who pre-
sided over the group of larger boys,
of which he was one, was compelled to
demand with some emphesis his return
TO the business of the hour, his gaze
having a way of wandering repeatedly
from his catechism or his Bible to the
face of the pretty little teacher in the
opposite pew
One incident that he recalled with
some pleasure had occurred on q Sun
day afternoon in early spring. He
had noticed that Mrs. Sturgis was not
present in the chapel; that Madeline
had come alone; and he had wondered
Eli through the lesson whether it would
seem rude on his part, after tho close
of the session. to offer to walk home
with her. If he only could, he thought,
it would be the happisst day Of his
life; but he feared that she might think
him impudent and presuming. and,
when the school was dismissed and the
scholars and teachers fled out into the
street. he lacked the courage to go
forward and speak to her.
But hi. happiness had come, never
theless; for in following her at what
he considered a most respectful dis
tance, his eyes never once leaving her
1.-the young figure, clad in well fit
ting spring jacket that his father had
cut with his own hand, he had seen her
rudely iostled by a drunken man, and
had dashed to her aid almost before he
realized what he was doing. The re-
collection of her gratitude was one of
his most cherished memories; and
now, as he turned into Washington
place, be WAS thinking of how, on that
occasion, her manner was SO cordial
and go completely lacking in any indi-
cation that she recognized any differ
ence whatever In their social station.
He remembered that it was on that
day that his determination to study for
the ministry was formed, and that it
Isslstant minister at the miSsiod had
lined with them on the evening before.
''The day will come," he had thought,
when l, too, may be asked there to
line"
And now he was thinking that day
night not be SO far distant for, was
ae not going to the mission, the week
following, to take the place, temporily,
of that very same assistant minister,
The Rev. Mr.. David, who, he had heard;
vas to be married and go to Europe
,or threa months honeymoon tour ?
eyes, it was true, as Lord Beacons.
iold had said: "Any man may be
what he makes up his mind to be-" i,
By the time young Engfer reached
the Sturgis residence he had walked |
and thought himself out of the gloom
Of his blues and his self chidings into |
the radiant sunshine Of a hope dei
!erred that was on the verge of realit
and he whistled softly mer@
-ier air than was to be found in thj
lynnal, Us he tripped lightly down
The stone steps OF tho areaway; and
rang the bell.
1t was his intention to hand in the
bundle and to make off rs quickly as
possible. He had no notion of beina
and above all he wished
o avoid the possibility of a request to
wait in the dining room, as he had of
-ore, the verdict as to fit. In making
hese plans he had counted upon the
,ell being answered by a housemaid,
md when, instead of a servant, the
loor wGs opened by Miss Sturgis her.
elf, his mode OF procedure was, of me-
.essity, somewhat altered. To escape
y;as ont of tho u,,esfion