Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-30

nlnent young Clergyman.
"Oh, no, said Lemuel, becomingly.
swell, at once she snatches the
chance. She will appear to Tom when
| he meets her to be out with the clergy
man. II he speaks she will ignore
him. Should he persist, the clergy
man, who is the stronger, will knock
him down."
"Will he?"
eyes, he promised"
"D1d hep"
"Yes, because Angela wished it,"
"Well, perhaps. But when Tom ap-
pears why does Angela run to the
bushos?''
Don't you think it was better to
avoid the meeting?"
POSSIBLY"
"And now," she said, dismounting
and extending hand, 'good-by."
"1ou are going to leave me?'
"l live over there"
"Ihere are lot of houses. Green
wich, isn't it?"
"Yes, Greenwich but no matter
which house. You are going back to
town. l am ever SO much obliged to
you. You have been ever SO good"
angela" he said, "must it be
good-by?"
eyes"
"And you won't firt any more?"
81 never do"
"But you have confessed to it-with
Tom"
81 never will again. Now good-by,
Mr.. Springer"
And she was in her saddle, an / smii-
ing back at him, and vanishing over
the slope, leaving him rubbing his
eyes.
At first he thought he would fol-
low, but then in Greenwich he likely
would meet some one who knew him.
and he could not afford to appear ri
Glculous, particularly after such an es-
capade.
Yet, as he wheeled, he regretted his
resolution, and he envied Tom, and he
couldn't think of his sermon; and he
really was on that ride simply to
clarity his mind that he might make
his next discourse fitting one.
And back at his desk, it was the
same, and his sermon was singularly
poor that next Sabbath morning.
And he stroye with himself; and
tried to put her out of his mind; and
to think of how scandalous it all
would seem to any OF his parishioners
who should hear of it. Yet he Weld
ed, so far as to find himself looking
about furtlvely for Angela, He even,
with some self deception, wheeled sew
eral times over the same roads.
But when he understood how i'm
pulse was carrying him, he lashed
himself mentally as hermit OF old
did his flesh. And he wrote mighty
sermon, which quite astonished his
congregation, and after he had de-
livered it he was compelled out of CON
sistency to give up his one indulgence
surviving from II great career as a col
lege athlete.
Ard ho plunged deeper into his
work and Goods poor" and suffering
never had more attention IN that par
| ish.
But he couldn't give up dinners and
routs altogether, as n certain attend
ance on these functions is plainly Il
clergyman's duty. And ut one of
these he saw Angela and wns present
ed. And under her eyes he forgot him
self, as, heaven knows, clergymen are
as the rest of us.
"Angela," he began, "I have been
looking for YOU"
"Have you?" she said.
''And Tom?" ne asked fearfully.
"Oh, he's married"
"To whom? l didn't catch your
name. Was it Mrs.-?'
"No, it isn't. 1t was--the other
girl"
81 hope you have followed my ad-.
vice" he said, after u moment.
"Not to. 1 told you I never did. "
81 w1sh-I really wish you would
make me the exception" said the Rev.
Lemuel.
And the parish gossips save, TO be
sure, certain dowagers, and prim,
acidulous virgins-declar that An.
gela, the rector's lady, shows the rule
of an outrageously lively young wo-
man turning sedate if her fancy and
faith may be caught and held; all OF
which, of course, is fitting the cur
tain fall on comedy. New York Sun.
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