Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
: IN HIS STEPS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTINUED from page 81

would do. What would Jesus do with
tenement property if he owned it in
Chicago or any other great city Of the
world? Any man who can imagine any
true answer to this question can easily
tell what Clarence Penrose began to do.
Now, before that winter reached its
bitter. climax many things occurred in
the city that concerned the lives of all
the characters in this history of the dis
ciples who promised to walk in his steps.
1t CHANGED, by one of those remark
able condolences that seem to occur
preternaturallyt that one afternoon, just
as Felicia came out Of the settlement
with basket which sheSwas going Co
leave as sample with baker in the
Penrose district, Stephen Clyde opened
the door of the carpenter shop in the
basement and came out of the lower
door in time to meet Felicia as she
reached the sidewalk
"Let me carry your basket, please. ;"
he said. 4
"Why do you say 'please3' asked
Felicia, handing over the basket.
ST would like to cay something else, "
replied Stephen, glancing at her shyly
and yet with boldness that frightened
him, for he had been loving Felicia
more every day since he first saw her,
and especially since she stepped into the
shop that day with the bishop. and for
weeks now they had been in many ways
thrown into, each others company.
"What else ?" asked Felicia innocent
1y, falling into the trap.
why" said Stephen, turning his
fair, noble face full toward her and
ewing her with. the look of one who
would have the best of all things in the
universe, "I,would like to say, Let me
carry your basket, dear Felicia"
Felicia never looked so beautiful in
her life. She walked on a little way
without even turning her face toward
him. 1t was no secret with her own
heart that she had given it to Stephen
some time ago. Finally she turned and
said shyly, while her face grew rosy
and her eyes tender, "Why don't you
say it, then?"
ssMay II" cried Stephen, and he was
| SO careless for minute of the way he
held the basket that Felicia exclaimed
eyes! But, oh, don t drop my goodiesl'
"Why, wouldn't drop anything SO
precious for all the world, dear Fe.
llcla, . said stephen, who now walked
on air for several blocks and what else
was said during that walk is private
correspondence that we have no right
to read, only it is matter of history that
day that the basket never reached It's
destination and that over IN the other
direction late IN the afternoon the
bishop, walking along quietly IN
rather secluded spot near the outlying
part OF the settlement district, heard a
famlllar voice say, BUT tell me, re.
1cla, when dld you begin TO love me!
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