New-York tribune., 1895-02-10

great usefulness in letting her have the oppor-
tunty to be a helpmeet to man like the
preacher
Couldn't she make Link Dalvecker see this?
She saw it so strongly She had not yet learned
that another person cannot occupy our point of
view. no matter how strenuously try to put
him there.
The girls gaze went off to the mountains
again. How grand. how glorious life was! How
favored she was in being allowed to serve the
Master. She had all her life felt such longings
for she knew not what, OF great work. And now
this work had come to her hand. All her life
she had wanted to fling herself unreservedly into
something that should take her and ho.d her.
All her life-and her life seemed long to her She
had sense that she very much older than
this young man who could not to take his
eyes from her face
I'm waiting for YOU TO tell me-" Dalvecker
said at length.
He dstrusted every moment Of silence during
which she looked like that
Temple glanced at her companion but for
some reason she could not continue to look at
him she said:
I've been trying to my way Gear, ana
now do see it. / shall marry Mr.. Mercer. and
work with him. You see how-but, Link.'-
She stopped suddenly. She had been going to
explain her plans. but the words all at once
seemed useless without meaning. She had not
known that any one could show such agony as
she in Links face
And. strangest Of all. he did not seem to under
stand. And 1t came upon her with overwnelm-
ing force that she could never make him UNDER
stand.
Link was standing up straight. his head flung
back. his hot eyes fixed on Temples eyes
When she stopped speaking he did not break
the silence 1t was she who spoke again.
Dear Link" she said. ITS all so pain to me-.
"Do yo' lurv him." he asked as he had Just
asked about "the fiddler
There was surprise and impauence IN heT VOICE
as she said: ~
"Its so odd that everybody asks that. No.
don't love him Why should |? ! can respect
and admire him. II did fancy was in love
should Just have to get over that. and then what
better off should be? Besides, I'm not the KIND
Of girl to be in love"
Dalvecker made a quick movement il he
could bear no more He raised his clenched hand
into the air. crying out: ,
mo I reckon you amt thur kind OF gal. II
you was you'd stop torment!n me so! You jest
put me into hell with your cam kind OF talk'
Temples face quivered with wistful wonder
Il reckon you think you're in urv, she SAID
II know | am" with ill-suppressed fury.
Then II must be awfu--awful, she responded
mpressively I'm glad I'm not that sort OF per
SON There's suffering enough in this world with
out love-I mean that kind OF love.
She gathered up the bride which she had let
fall on the ponys neck. But she continued TO
look at Dalvecker She was inclined to be indig-
nant with him. or course he could not really
feel as he seemed TO feel She could not quite be-
leve in the reality Of his emotion. So true It is
that what We have never felt we cannot under
stand.
'I'n be going now" she said.
"No No"
The young man seized the bride forcbly
that the pony turned and nipped at his wrist.
leaving purple mark.
You can't mean hit, You can't mean HIT
Dalvecl<er choked on the words. And yet II
seemed to him that he giving his whole
strength to the effort to control himself. Be
cause he did not burst forth into wild oaths, be-
cause he did not tear Temple from the saddle.
take her to the house yonder and shut her up
there he was under the belief that he was con-
trolling himself.
I'VE won't talk any more. Pm going" she
said land mean it; mean 1t all. But can't
tell you how sorry am. Can't we be just the
same friends Link?
But Dalvecker could not answer. He nodded
vaguely II was as II he were In the grasp Of
some malignant monster that was shaking him
up and down. and he was dangling helpless IN
that grasp.
He saw Temple ride away. His eyes seemed TO
have flames In them.
He could not remember the time when he had
not meant to have that girl for his Wife And
he had always had what he meant to have.
At the topmost part Of the path along which
Temple had come she stopped her pony and
turned about The young man saw her wave her
hand at nllTl lie nedrn neT cry.
"Goodby Link! Goodby! want you to come
and me-
Link took off his hat and waved it. His hand
appeared TO perform the act without any com
mand from his mind.
When tie girl was out Of sight Davecker had
sense enough TO know that he must go back 10
his ploughing. his mother would come and
question him.
He turned himself toward his home. II was
only few moments before that he had been
planning how to make the work easier for Tenn
pie There was the house, with the green about
It; there vas his mother going right on drop
ping corn and old Chris Jnks was covering It.
Dalvecker could hear the sound Of the hoe as II
slid under the earth. Jinks's little boy was be-
meath an apple tree firing stones at robins
nest
Dalveckers outward sense told him that the
farm had never looked well. And he resented
that fact.
He wanted to grip hold Of something. There
was nothing to grip. however. He thrust his
hands into his pockets.
ITS just--oh'-- He paused, for there was
no word strong enough. "Oh it's just hell.'' he
whispered.
Then he walked down to where his horses were'
calmly standing u the freshly turned earth.