Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-03

worse young fellow tnan most others
of his age, or less sot-hea ted.
Yet when he mad airly babe good-by
20 his god fearful mJther--who, he
knew well, woulI do anything In the
world for him, except let MIN dowhat he
felt was be,t for him ef-tnis parting
once over, he breathed moro freely
than he had done for man. weeks,
His wild-goose clase" mad res lived
itself into q deliberate purpose, or as
much so as was possible to hi nature,
and at his age. He mad not been to
BlackhaIl-he hardy knew why, eX-
Gept that his mother had thrown n
good many impediments in the way Of
+he Journey, so that percelving that
she did not like it, he gave IL up. But
ne had long correspondence with Mr..
Black, the old factor there, VINO knew
all the family affairs.
From him RoderiClS discovered that
4hero had been, half century back,
three branches Of Jardines-repre-
scented by Silence ,'ardine, ArchiDa d
Jardine, and Henry Jardine, his
father. Thence Archibald had sud
denly disappeared abroad, taxing his
little patrimony. After many years he
was heard of as "pasteur" in some
Swiss canton; no very great Cnange,
he having been intended for the Scotch
Church: and he was said to bo mar
ried, with o family. But he had never
revived acquaintance with either Of
his cousins, and wat were his present
circumstances, whether he were i've
or dead, nobody knew.
He had only been able to catch one
sIew whereby he might find his cousin.
Mr.. Black the B ackhall factor, u
strong Free Church man, had taken
some interest in q similar disruption in
the SWISS Church, and in one Of the
controversial W. tiers therein, u "pro-
iesseur" or "pasteur," or both-the
good mans ideas on the subject were
mi ty- at Neuchatel. TO this M. Key
nier Roderick brought II letter Of in
production, but, on delivering it, found
the family were still at their summer
retreat in the Jua Mountains. So he
decided to make the best of bad bust
ness, and amuse himself till they came
back. He knew the language that
was one comfort and he was not of
the stplid Saxon temperament, which
refuses to take in any new ideas. or to
see any perfection in tn ngs to which
il is unaccustomed. lie was true
Celt, impressionabIe and flexible by
NATURE ready to love, quick TO hate
until the experience of lfe should
teach caution in the one and tolerance
in the other "phe world will go hard
with you, my boy, his father had
sometimes said half tcnderly. half
pensively; and Roderirk, shaking his
black curls, had olly laughed, afraid
Of thing.
Nor was he discouraged or afraid
now. In fact, he rather enjoyed this
dropping from the c ouds oh, what
soaking clouds.-into new place and
new people, Not so very new after !,
Tor when on Sunday morning he fol-
lowed the dripping mu ,titude up the
steep street which led to the cathedral
now Protestant church--he found
everything so like home that but for
the langua Q he could have imagined
himself sitting under" his moth er s
javorite minister at Richerden. only
when TIE psalm arose, to a quaint and
beautiful tune, and it was beautiful
psalm, too, for he read it out of his
neighbor's book, beginning
sGrand Dleu, mons tie louons, nous tad,-
rons Seigneur"
1t coutFisted favorably with the nasal
hymns which so tormented him in
Scotland. 1t was sung not badly, espe-
cially by one pure high soprano, few
seats behind, voice so good that he
Yainly tried to catch sight of the sing
or: and in its sweet musi al French it
seemed to express what he missed 50
often at home, the sense of cheerful
ness in religion. TO the last verse
Nnui n'esperens, q Dleu, du'cu ia grando
bonte;
Tu seul peut nous alder dams notre nd
vGrsite.
Rendre MOI jeurs heurcuN ct notre amo
COntenLt,
the invisible singer behinl gave such
pathos that it went right to his heart.
The young man, called often "irrelig-
ious" by his mother, because his relig-
ion lay very deep down, longed ca IL
estly FIR those JIG. as heureuX, that
anne c1ntente, and won cred if, by any
means, he could attain to the like he,
all a one, with nobody to he p him to
DE good, hundreds ready to allure him
TO be bal.
1t was mall thing, one of those
trining incident which befall us all
only some of us note them and others
do not; but long afterward he remem-
bered II with strange solemnity, like
person who believing he was walk
ing in his own Way. on his own feet.
finds out that hands unseen unfelt,
have been leading him all the while.
Plugging back through the muddy
streets "home"-what lidiculous
word-to the dreary hotel, Roderick
m de up his mind to give ono day S
more chance to the weather, and tC
the absent Proiesseur Reynier, upon
whom, all his famille charmante, the
gar on dilated enthusiastically; fol-
everybody seemed to know everybody
in this innocent little town. If, OF
the morrow it did not cease raining
and some token did not come in answer
to his letter and card, Rolerick re
solved to change his quarters, and try
FIR sh woods and pa lures new"-take
in short, to pleasure instead of duty
and pursue the search after this vague
distant cousin no more.
But the next day in rising, behold ;
change! And such change.
The mist had entirely lifted off from
She lake, Its wide bosom lay, still
gray, but motionless and clear in the
soft dawn And beyond their intense
purple slr"ri'' distinct against the
hri0ht an -. tho alrv was tho lOnt