Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-25

order Ct Samuel Gaming She Ec.d it
out without raising hor head.
He took it-he gasped-he opened his
mouth t" speak-he spoke one OF two
broken words. skc mctioGcd, still not
looking IN, to the deer He turned and
walked away.
When he was gone and the door was
shnt behind him and his fcotstep vas
no longer heard upon the stairs, Mar
garet sat dowE-to think about him.
At any time. when anything. however
little or unimrcrtant, reminded her of
Paul, she sat down 10 think about hin.
She had always in her mind what she
called the real Paul. The man as he
might have been, the man as he was in
tended to be: his emotional nature dis
clpiined, filling his words with the firc
OF sincerity; his love Of music making
splendid the service Of the church: the
man mounting upward from the love of
all to the vcneratiOn of ali-what in
the whole world surpasses the venera-
ton Of grCvoling men and creeping
women for the sanity life? This was
the man she loved. As for the other
| man, he was so like the man she loved
III many little things that she was inter
cstcd Ill him. That was love, she put it.
Who could love such creature-so cal
ious-of such colossal insensibility to
shame-a man who at the very moment
when he was protesting the most bitter
tcmorsc was planning new deceptions?
But that man-no-she loved the other
man. Many women, in very sooth, do
always love the other man.
Three years passed by. Nothing had
come from America concerning Paul
Margaret remained singic-and she kept
i'll her fiat, though she had become really
rich and might have taken larger and
| better rooms. People who expect visits
stay in the same place. Margaret ex-
| pected a visitor.
He did not come. And now he never
will come. Once she received letter
| from him. 1t cane from IL town in one
Of the central states. Perhaps. - ii said
IA the third person, Miss Cholmley
| may remember one whom she formerly
knew as Paul Leighan. Perhaps she has
| qaitc forgotten him. If the former, she
may still be interested to learn that he
! is fiOurishing as much as he had wish
to expect and more-much, very much
more. lie left his native country with
the fixed intention Of forgetting the
| past. He was resolved to consider the
| past as closed. He landed III New York
| with no past-only future.
''Ec went inland to one Of those set
| tied states which no Englishman ever
| visits. He wished to be free from the
| chance of recognition. He chose a city
in which there are few or none Of Eng
lish extraction. He grow beard to COW
er and conceal his face. He wore spec
tacles to conceal his eyes, and he
brushed his hair differently This done,
it would take "a very sharp detective to
| recognize him. He arrived at this city
and sat down. He made the acquaint-
ance ct an Episcopal Clergyman. He
was able to state a plain, unvarnished
tale of his own record. He became an
ardent member of the congregation and
teacher ct the Sunday school. In II
months nc was ordained deacOn-fnr
the second time, it is true-but his past
was buried and gone. A year after he
secured priests orders. He has now q
church and a full congregation. The
service is admirable. the preacher is
eloquent.
MY dear Margaret The letter
broke abruptly into the first person and
an appeal to herself. What more could
you wish? What is better for me? have
risen. In the depths did not feel my
deepncss. 1t wanted the sunshine Of
prosperity to show the full degradation
of that forgotten past. Now I truly
know the meanings of words. am hap
py. / am leading souls upward. l am
going to marry the daughter of the rich
est man in my church, millionaire
She loves, however, the sanity life.
When l take her to Europe, l shall
bring her to see you if you will let me-
You shall be my cousin. 1t will help
me greatly TO be connected with so good
q family as yours. have, Of course,