Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-11

Don't YOU think il was cruel net 20
tell hero"
NO. Why should 1 add months Of
suspense 20 SORROW that will be long
enough and bitter enough ut the best p"
''She won't look 1t IL that way; and
IL the sorrow comes il will he all the
harder TO bear for not having known.
And that's 81 least one good reason why
YOU shouldn't give up; YOU know YOU
said YOU hadn't any yesterday"
Did /? Perhaps | should have made
an exception; but l was thinking of
other things just then"
Whereupon the "other things" sum
moned 10y name, came back to demand "A
reconsideration. Philip resisted. inter-
posing the inertia of illness between
himself and the nagging OF the self-eN'
aiming impulse. 1t was much pleas
anter TO lie back among the pillows
watching Elsie's skillful fingers PLY
the Industrious needle-pleasanter and
more restful. After time he said:
You are all very good and kind TO me
here"
Elsie looked up quickly. 81 shouldn't
think you'd say that-after made YOU
sick dragging YOU all over the noun
tain"
at isn't your fault that haven't any
more vitality than a transplanted CHM
panzee; and. besides, the tramp was my
own proposal"
But l do blame myself. You didn't
know now far il was over TO the Pocket,
and did"
That's nothing; il wasn't so nearly
done for little walking wouldn't put
me down"
You mustn't get discouraged Think
ot what you have to live for. and just
make up your mind YOU won't give up
is there so much?'
Isn't there Away while there is
good 10 be done and evil TO be pre-
scuted? You found one thing ycstcr-
day"
yes. il can only live long enough TO
set it right
She caught at the hopclessness in his
voice, and answered il out OF "A heart
full of pity. You oughtn't to look {
II in that way. Why can't you turn Mr..
hilgrow's trouble, and everything else.
into so many stepping stones Ia carry
=
solid ground under your feet again?"
There was "A swift undertow of in
ference in her question that carried
him quickly out into the sea of i'm
pulse. DO YOU really mean that? Do
you think should he justified in taking
the help need wherever find it?"
why not? Isn't il right and neces-
sary that YOU should? Father says if
we will look around MS wei always find
something 10 make bridges out of. no
matter how deep or how wide the
stream is"
And YOU think there is hope for me
| don't mean for a mere existence
that alone isn't worth fighting for-but
that / could win some OF the better
things il | should gipd myself for the
battlc?"
Surely you could. What is there
that you couldn't win, with health and
strength and the will TO win it?-noth-
ing that is worth having"
The fcrvor of her own appeal carried
Elsie out of herself, and, remember
ing only that "A man before her needed
help. She answered out of the depths,
Of a compassion which was ~ profound
and comprehensive as it. was imper-
Sonal. She saw, "a only woman can
see. the bcsetmcnts that were drag
glng Philip down into the quagmire
OF despair; and the passionate desire
10 rescue. speaking in her voice and
eyes. gave Thorndykc his first glimpse
of that scNlesS shrine hidden deep i'm
the heart Of all womauhOOd, upon whose
| altar burns the light Of pity and compass
| sion for all the world-a light which Is
! not divine only because it is human.
TO the woman who first reveals her.
! self 10 any man in her true character
of ministering angel is given the power
to bind and loose. and the opportunity
which Elsie had unconsciously graSpcc
had never been offered to Helen sav.
at the moment Of parting, when Philips
abruptnese had forcstalled il. H. was
inevitable, therefore, with Elsie's words
ringing in his ears, and with the con
seriousness that he had been permitted
TO see the light Of that sanctuary which
is closed TO all but the suffering and
despairing. that Philip should be swept
far beyond the bounds Of his allegiance
TO Helen: and since hc was q man, il
was equally inevitable that he should
be unable TO dissociatc the offer of help
from the personality Of the woman who
rendered it. Raising himself among
the pillows. lac answered her with the
fire OF new ambition beginning To
quicken his pulses.
81 can vin-or, If not, ] can at lcaGt
die ia harness II try will Won lcIu