Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-04-02
THE WIDOW MARIN.
~ the Author Of Natalle's Ordeal,
"Euphie I.yn, "A Vain Sacri-
fee" Etc
CHAPTER XIV.
Fine Goinss On, .

Fine Goings On
At the close OF the service next
Sunday afternoon Mr.. Hill stood At
the door OF the meeting house, discuss
ing with neighboring farmer his
favorite subject, the return OF the
Jews to Palestine. He had button
holed him aneut some reference to
this which the minister had made in
his sermon aud the man, With an oN-
preston OF long suffering patience
deepening on his face, stood listening,
while Loo waited few yards OF,
In her brown dress and neat turbaa
with a red wing at once side, Loo
looked attractive enough to have
turned the heads OF more than one
young man in her direction indeed it
had begun to be remarked that LOO
was getting more spry again, more
like the bright and happy girl she had
been before her mother died The
whole countryside round about knew
the sort of father old man Hill made
to his motherless girl; that he would
work her into an untimelN grave, as
he had her mother some wears ago,
was a foregone conclusion, the girls
spirit was being broken already. At
the young peoples piCnics and social
parties ii was spoken of as shame
that Loo had so much TO do she could
not possibly come and have good
time with the rest; and how it was
that old man Hin allowed that smart
hired man of Joshua Myers to walk
and talk with her, as it was wills.
pcred he had been doing of lalc, was
mystery.
The truth was, however, that Mr.
Hin knew nothing whatever OF the
intimacy which had sprung up be-
tween his daughter and Alec Marin
He did not always so to church and 1t
did not surprise him that Loo had be-
come more attentive to her religious
duties than formerly He disliked
her friendship with the Myers family
a stop TO it. And then, though he
differed from Joshua in his views on
certain prophecies, he knew him to be
4 man who would lend 4 helping hand
in time of need and one never knew
when a horse might 80 lame or some
thing of the kind might happen to
neccssitatc his asking favor of him
He bad not, indeed, spoken to him
for weeks after ,J0shua's plain-spokcn
insistcnce on doing in this world as
we'll as believing in the world to come !;
but since then he had met him fire.
quently and the entente cordial had
been restored outwardly, at least
AS for Loo "sparking,' like other
young folks, such an idea had never
entered his head, not even now, when
Myers man stepped boldly past him
and said to her in low, earnest tone.
"Will YOU allow me to walk home
with you this afternoon? | want to
tell YOU something
Loo had been standing rather de-
jected-looklng when Alec appeared !,
now a soft color dawned in her face,
her eyes lit up, she glanced at her
father hesitated a moment and then
stepped over to the two men
Il won't wait for you, father you
can come when you are ready" she
said, pleasantly, and walked off with
Alec.
Mr.. Hill was accustomed 10 his
daughters unexpected ways and, nod
ding assent, turned his back on her
and quoted from the prophets anent
the future of the chosen people. The
man still continued to listen with
strained politeness, but now his eyes
wandered over the speakers shoulder
to the young couple walking swiftly
away together. When they vanished
from sight at the end of the village,
lie tried to look interested in the argu-
mcnt; but losing patience and feeling
hungry, he yawned aloud and brutally
closed the question by remarking
Now ] jest tell you what It is,
Hill; you've got 10 be a crank in this
here jew business. Ef you're in love
with them Jews | am't-seems to me
they're a queer lot an when | 20 to
Hamilton or Toronto an see them
great fat lazy hulks sittin' alore their
doors down Queen and York streets
paWnshOps. old secondhand clothes
and sich-l don't see as it would bene-
fit Palestine much to have EN- in it,
Et they want TO 20 there, why, let EN- !;
who's hinderin EN-? But they won't
catch 'em. They know they'd have
to work eff they got there and Jews
don't b'lieye In honest work so longs
they can get cent per cent. on old
clio or pawnin'. But | say Hill, Is
that smart young Teller of Myers
sparkn your Loo? 1t looks mighty
like 1t.
Not if know ii, returned Mr.
Hill, crustily, feeling grossly ihsulted,
both as regarded the future OF Israel
and the future of Lco
Nevertheless as he wheeled about
and saw that already the two were
out Of sight he suddenly babe his
neighbor good-day and hurried after
them. In few minutes he reached
the end of the village and turned down
the path by the end OF the wood that