Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-06-25

and finds the world well lost for
the passionate, still rapture of be-
ing alone with God and OF seeing
with new vision the beauty and the
majesty Of His smallest work.
And the girl who had led him mp
these heights-he loved her 30 he
trembied when he went into her
presence. He ~orshiped her. Of
ten he could not speak-for what
he dared not let her hear. He had
not forgotten Constance.
The thought of her, and OF his
allegiance 10 her tortured him. He
could put it from him during bus
mess hours and cares, and during
the sweet, delicious hours he spent
With Sidonie but when he was
alone it became almost unendura-
BILE. CONTAMINATION having known
Sidonie! A pale, odorless lily
after having found rare and fra
grant orchid in the lonely place
where God himself had set it /! Who
would 90 back and dwell with the
many in the valley, after having
dwelt alone with one other on the
heights?
AS Mrs. Sumas Brown spoke,
Glider passed the door on his way
to his shack. She saw him and
cast shrewd, curious look ct ST.
DOME. sYuh needn't blush So,
The girl went on arranging Che
table.
Il say / wudn't blush so There's
no call fer blushin' 80 ev'ry time
yuh set eyes on him. Yuhll have
the whole camp a-noticin' it. Your
face 10 like fire. It nd be diff'rent
4 hid spoke up. But he amt yet.
Has hep
The girl was silent.
Il say, has he? Why don't yuh
answer me? Aigh?'
ooh, mother = exclaimed the girl
in sheer bitterness OF soul. IF
you ever ask me that again I'll &c
away and never come back.
ooh, yuh will, aighr Mrs.
Brown had o frightened look; but
kept right on nagging. That's o
pretty way to talk to your mother.
I'd like to know fl ain't right to find
out his intentions. ] can't open my mouth
but yuh 90 to farm up like q sulphur
match. He's 30 n love with yuu he can't
keep his eyes off o. yuh, an don't see
why he don't speak up. / don't 60 much
on men that make love an make love, am
never speak up. First thing you know
he'll up an 20 back East, an the Goshen
Browns II 20 round a-tee-heein' because
yuh let him slip through your fingers-'
Sidonie's face turned white. She went
suddenly out Of the room. Her respect for
her mother was beautiful, and her patience
great; but this was unbearable.
After an carly supper that evening Gil.
der went into the little study.
The summer Ii going,' he said, and you
have never taken me 20 the place where
the orchids grow. Let Us 60 tonight. The
moon rises Of nine
She rose instantly. ITS just the night
TO co. she said putting on her hat. We
will 60 down the skid-road. The men are
still at work. They've been falling ell
day. III 1--WE hurry we. may see the last tree
come down.
They walked as rapidly as the creased
in the forest. Presently they heard shout
ing as II in warning. A voice YELLED. San
right. Go itr Then there was silence,
broken only by an axe beating through the
heart Of tree In regular, rythmic strokes,
Were just In time cried Sidonie, joy
fully, springing around curve. A mighty
fir was ready 10 fall. Already there was
O topping movement among its highest
boughs. The men had al withdrawn from
the place where IL was expected 10 fall,
save the one who was giving il It's last blow.
They were roughly-clad men. Their fan
nelshiris were rolled back from their brown.
hairy breasts. Each stood with knotted
hands on his hips, resting one knee, like a
horse. They bres.hed grandly, with swell
ling throats and chests. They wore their
rude clothing with strong, unconscious
grace.
Every man took OF his hat as Sidonie
flashed into view, with q CLEAN of sudden
pleasure in his eyes. Two or three beat
down the tall brakes with their feet TO
make O place for Ter. She glided into 10
smiling. Glider stood close beside her.
Then oil eyes were turned upon the tree.
There was last blow, q warning shout,
and the chopper sprang backward. There
was intense stiffness a. the slim top started
downward; then q soft noise, like the far.
on shivering OF the sea "a IL comes ND the
tide-lands, swelling gradually louder and
louder, as the tree cut It's way swiftly
through the air and the tops Of other trees.
At the last Il was like the roar of surf on
rocky cliffs. 1t reached the earth with q
crash OF thunder that went echoing away
in long waves Of sound through miles Of
forest, and laid is beautiful tip three hun.
dred and fifty feet from the spot where II
had stood for thousand years, with the
sap throbbing out Of iis severed veins.
Shouting and jesting, two or three men
leaped upon the PROSTATE body, and soon
the saws went rasping through the bark,
feeling their way roughly 70 the wood
underneath.
Let rs 60 on said Glider. They turned
into narrow path CT trail that led into
the deeper forest They were followed by
the clear ring Of an axe beating its way
into another tree. But soon this sound.
and oil others, grew fainter, until they
ceased altogether. The early sunset was
upon them, and already the sweet cool
ness Of evening had sprung up about them.
Il was midnight. For three hours they
N.ns% H&ranna Na~mt& f. e. n
lessly. Now they had paused in q dim
Cien into which the monnheams sfrnnn -