The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27
me but for that. want you to break it off

me but for that. l want you TO break II OIL
to free me"
MY dear Martha" said the minister
with kindness and unexpected dignity
you are beside yourself. You are excited.
You will regret this when you are caimer'
Let us leave it all for day or two we
shall only make Janet worse"
mot If she hears you say that l am
free that you can't and won't marry me.
Here is the ring. Take It! Only say that
we are not engaged that you don love
me, and we will go"
"But truthfully 1 can't say that"
''Then you make me tell you that don't
and can't love you. It is all mistake. l
want to be free. There is only one that
loves YOU as a woman really can love
you. Take the ring, beseech you"
I''There, Janet, he has got it, cried Mar
tina. do you think I am blind? Do you
think I could live with such a thing on
Janet had uncovered her face
and stared at the scene which
she had innocently occasioned.
Turning suddenly, the minister look
ed directly into her eyes, and continued
looking for some seconds silently. Then
heaving a deep sigh, impulsively he took
his leave. 1t was a few minutes before
Martha followed him.
BIT in the wondrous evening light the
blazing sun was just touching the hill
crests) the minister fingered The whole
way they walked side by side in silence.
AS they were about to part, ID was then
deepening twilight, Mr.. Dobinson took
Martha's hand and said: 81 don't fully
understand this, Martha, but shall ask
YOU to explain it another day. Good
night"
Martha left him and went home In tears
The minister, too, went to the Manse
greatly agitated, and hid himself in his
own room. Knowing II was Saturday
night his mother did not disturb him.
He had placed the ring on the bureau
and walked to and fro gazing at 1t. Now
that he was alone and could view the
position more composedly he became
aware that Martha's action was a deliv-
GRANGE to him; that he had not felt that
kind of devotion to her that he knew ought
to be felt towards one who is to be your
wife. Staring at the bureau, those pa
thetic features of Janet grew each mo-
ment in distinctness. He recognized now
that he had dweh upon this face more
than he suspected in church, and that
without his knowledge IL had taken a
place in his Imagination which none 9TH
er had ever acquired. He could not say
that he loved Il, for as in duty bound, he
had fixed all his conscious attention upon
Martha and had not permitted even a ray
of the same kind of emotion to be kindled
by any other figure or face. But those
features impressed him deeply, and in
what he now saw to be a more spiritual
way than that by which Martha had-ever
overpowered his fancy. 1t exalted his
emotions to the hight of a religious ideal.
TJnselfsh compassion tenderness, protec-
ton could go out to Janet without
single quaim of mistrust or suspicion.
With the thought a whole flood of ideas
hurried through his brain. The sermons
n toll oil no
had been fruitlessiy bordering, grew with
out effort in his mind. and for two or three
hours he was absorbed in his bureau
II was agreed by all the astonished con-
greeation next day that although they had
thought well of Mr.. Dobinson they had
never expected him to reach this level
His wondrous eloquence and fervor sub
dued every nearer. Both morning and
evening the sermon was more or less close
" connected with the subject of service
TO others repression of self. At night
seeeral noticed that Martha Boyd had
SIZED tears, but. fortunately. several 9TH
ers had done the same, so II excited no
especial remark.
81 am going for short walk, mother"
said the minister when he came in to the
nanse and after such surprising efforts
of the day nothing seemed more natural.
Hurrying his steps. Mr. Dickinson was In
less than half an hour at WestWoOd. In
the presence of Mrs. Wilkinson he had
an interview with Janet, ana got her to
narrate the history of her life. TO every
/ detail in which Old Hudspeth was con-
cerned the minister paid most earnest at
/ tention. His agitation had left him, and
! he could look calmly on those spiritual
/ features which also without dismay,
/ could bear the gaze ne fixed on them. No
se.f-consciousness confused either Janet
| or the minister. But the latter seemed
] anxious, seemed to search IN Janet's eyes
I for something he wished 90 recover.
Jay, Mr. Hudspeth was good to her"
/ Mrs. wilkinson lnterposed. HE was an
! odd man. but was good 60 any IN dis
/ trese. and that VIII cover multitude Of
/ faults don't you think 50, Mr. Dobin-
SOM"
Certainly. certainly" said the minister
/ absondy "He must have been good. Be-
| n-..-. l oliunrnl-lha door that .rlad ana