The Yale expositor., 1895-01-25

showed her she had lost him complete
ly and the fact that she loved him
made IL all the more bitter. After he
had closed the door she burst into
tears.
why was she so disagreeable? She
had never dreamed of going sleighing
and especially with Bobbie Somers,
who had only that morning confessed
his love for Ellen. She dried her eyes
and went to the window. John Hall
had put on his skates and was gliding
over the ice to the factory, which
was on the other side of the river.
Suddenly the skater vanished and
there was aw I'D shrek from the fair
gazer at the window. She rushed into
the library and cried to her uncle, who
was reading, "Hc has fallen into the
river" and then, grabbing the house,
keepers shawl, she vanished through
the door and out into the winters
cold Swiftly she sped over the Ice,
which cracked under the light weight.
She felt the bittes cold blast on her
delicate face, but needed ii rot and
onward she went.
Cautiously she crept to the edge, and
taking the shawl from her shoulders
she knotted 1t In two places. When
the face of her loved one came into
view she threw it TO him. A cry Of
Thank God" oscar, Il Der lips rs JohJ
Hall clung to it with a drowning
mans tenacity. For full Eve minutes
she held on, and just as her strained
muscles gave way her uncle and his
men came with ropes and rescued her
lover There was a confused murmm
a o.. sl.a G.atN Inn In hnn
life Maude Westover fainted. When
she woke she was lying on the couch
In the library. The question she longed
to ask came from her lips as steadily
as though it had been q question Of
the weather; "How is Mr.. HallY
"IIe is doing WELL" her uncle an
swered, and his mouth twitched with
suppressed excitement. The house
keeper hustled around end coughed
knowingly, but Maude needed them
not and gave herself up to her own
thoughts.
she died a thousand deaths in that
hour OF self-communion.
Now she looked and something
told her there had been time when
he might have loved her. but she had
driven him away by her insolence and
caprices. She could understand now
that she had treated him 50 from the
very fact that he had always been
more to her than any other man.
Somebody entered the room and the
others beat hasty retreat She look
ed up-it was John Hall. She could
only let her eyes fall under his glance
and sit there trembling with strange
deathly chill.
You think because you saved my
life that l will take advantage OF the
fact and imagine you love me- he
said slowly. REST easy On that score.
l know you could never love me, but
l wish to thank you for your brave
act. You had the brain to devise and
the quickness to act as very few could
have done this morning"
She put her haqls before her face
with a suppressed cry, so full of an
guish that John Hall stared at her
aghast.
Don't mind me-" she said, in a chok-
ing voice; 81 can't help II. You don't
know how have suGfered-v bat l still
suffer" The tiny hands slipped from
their place. He had seen her face.
Ii told him the truth. lie was NJ heI
feet, holding her hands fast, pleading
as a man might for his hopes or heav'
en-. And Maude felt the old duh world
sweep out Of sight and knew that in
spite of her errors the gates of para
disc had opened to her on this eysnt
| full New Years day.