The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-12-20
goes through the old lanes.

As men is hard to beat.
But there is good deal moro to No.
1 than that. 1t has risen TO point
where il wields great social and political
Importance. Candidates for office like
to call No. As men their friends. 1t is
far from being a Sunday school. and the
common run of the clergy would probably
not feel much at case in the society of
its members,
But this story does not deal with No.
As nffairs So much rs with one of its
members
His companions noticed that Tim was
unusually silent this evening.
Billy NeWeemb, who had happened to
be rabbit shooting upon Coatue when
Tim had taken ON his cargo. had been
keenly interested in the adventure.
While others were seeking solicitously
for the eauae Of Tins silence he was
biding his time. All they had got out OF
Tim had expressed about as much as a
crows eroak. but Billy got a rise.
I'LL tell you what's the matter with
Tim, He's in love"
"Neyeri" one declared Tins the last
one"
well. I'll bet you II is SO. for l seen
him with that Hayward girl. seallopin.
today. 80 now!
Nov. i.St want 10 know" said an
other "Weil, well, II it's so, I'm glad O.
it. Its high timr Tim. nm / wish you
we'll"
Others wished Tim well, too, 50 thor
oughly and increasingly that he had no
time TO explain. If he had had words to
explain himself, which may well be
doubted.
He returned home to his mother early
that night. and the next thing he went
to see Persis instead of going to No. 4.
He WAS received with n warmth that
brought the lloed 10 his face and kept 1t
there for the rest of the evening.
The conversation was mainly devoted
To the past season and the prospects of
the next aud the probable market quo
tatioHs on scalleps when Lent cnme.
II WIS only when Tim started to go
TINT he approached the subject of.his WIS.,
II with trepidation that WAS plainly WIS.,
ible to PERKS. us ii might have been to
any one.
Il wonder" he hegan-that Ia, was
thinkin sorter-that is. whether you'd
ever danced Don't want to seem inquis-
like to know"
" ~ ~ IN : N'ttt hahNNs ah hhe
to. what more"
"N,a. La glad-that is, | might be II
only rin's arms, In series of ges-
lures not modelled after the Delsarte sys-
tenn were Yainly trying to help him ex-
press himself You see,h he continued,
eve No, 4 boys have n series o dances
every winter-that Is, assemblies, we call
'einR n ! kinder thought you might sort
er like IL GOT"
When he had at last sailed through his
difficulties of speech, Tim was standing
ON one leg, and there was persplration ON
his brow
why. yes; certainly I'd like to go.
You're real kind"
Tim quickly turned, opened the kitchen
door and departed without even saying
good night.
Tim was himself again when he went
TO No 1 the next evening. He showed no
resentment at the gibes which were aimed
at him and they finally ceased. lie only
said. You jest wait till the dances be-
gin"
This they did, and there was not sol
enan face In the hall when he entered ii
the following week with Persis by the
hand.
II was happy winter for Tim, almost
the happiest he had ever known, and 1t
was not until summer came that he found
n fly in his ointment. There had been no
expressed understanding between the
pair, but then understandings are not al
ways put In words. II was only when
Tim and Pcrsis misunderstood each other
that they approached the subject OF their
relations with each other.
II happened when the summer season
had begun. Tim had appeared In a new,
trim surrey, and business was good, and
the world looked sweet and lovely to him.
But. however the extremely yirtuous
mny feel about 1t, jealousy Is no respccter
Of persons. When Tim passed the Sea
View House. he always stretched his
neck and looked for Persis. Persis gem
orally saw him and waved and smiled.
The city people smiled, too, and thought
il was SO pleasant to see happy pair Of
lovers. even In humble life"
But there We're times when Persis did
not see Tim. They were not many, to
be snre. but enough to crush the life out
Of hin. That Pcrsis could ever be seen
laughing and joking with stranger and
not see him when he passed killed his
heart summoned all the basencss In his
soul to the surface and Mt last made
him the sepuchcr OF n once happy ma
ture,
II was all done In minute He did
not often sec persis, but once In the mid
die Of the summer he met her when his
resentment was hot within him.
"See here, Persis," he began-and
speech came easy and without hesitation
-"scems TO me you're sometimes pretty
close to them city fellers. An what do
they care for you arywayT
He couldn't have done worse. She had
stopped suddenly.
'"fim Henderson, what do you meant
What have vow to say about what ] dot
Say. do you think you're captain o this
crafty"
"Why. | dunno, but kinder s'posed
yon an ine wah goin together
"Nell. you needn't s'pose you're under
any obligations. | see you're jest like all
the rest o the men. | want n man that
Is a man. want fellow That has some
thin o the hero in him. don't want any
o the trash that has only suspicious
when they see a man an n woman talkin
together kinder friendly like" She turn
ed on her heel and walked away.
That was the Inst time Tim spoke to
her for over year. That period of his
IRE was nm lnterlude or blnnk agony. AS
for being hero, he felt instead the
mcnnest of men.
II he had loved Persis Henderson, he
worshiped her now, and 1t may seem
strange to some that the few but incisive
words she had spoken Increased his pas
sion tenfold.
Those who profess to understand hui.
man nature have not yet given US satis.
factory definition OF the qualities that
make a hero. Perhaps. after all, 1t 10 only
the lack OF opportunity that keeps all OF
us from being heroes. When that time
comes, 1t Is generally the hero himself
that Is most surprised.
Thdt Is the way 1t was with Tim. Two
days before Christmas, the following
year, the weather vanes backed Into the
southwest for n second time There was
MOI much wind stirring, but the most
dangerous thing about the weather some
times Is its culm. The sea captains emer-
titus said il was weather BREEDER" and
10 it was.
The night before Christmas the south
west wind had freshened up and al