Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-07
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nervice at the Rectangle closed Gray staid up long into Sunday morning praying and talking with little group of converts that, in the great experi- once of their new life, clung to the evangelist with personal helplessnees that made it as impossible for him to leave them as if they had been depend ing upon him to save them from phys 1cal death Among these converts was Rollin Page.
 @ Virginia and her uncle had gone home about 1 1 O clock, and Rachel and Jasper Chase had gone with them as far as the avenue where Virginia lived. Dr. West had walked on little way with them to his own house, and Rachel and Jasper had then gone on together 4 to her mother $.
 That was little after II. It was how striking midnight, and Jasper Chase sat in his room staring at the pa pers on his desk and going oyer the last b If honr with painful persistence.
 He had told Rachel Winslow of his love for her, and she had not given her love in return.
 sS It would be difficult to know what was most powerful in the impulse that had moved him to speak to her tonight. { He had yielded to his feelings without any special thought of results to him. Self because he had felt so certain that Rachel would respond to his love for her He tried to recall now just the inn pression she made on him when he first spoke to her.
 Never had her beauty and her strength infuenced him as tonight While sho was singing he saw and heard no one else The tent swarmed with confused crowd of faces, and he knew he was sitting there hemmed in by mob of people, but they had no meaning to him. He felt powerless to avoid speak ing to her. He knew he should speak when they were once alone.
 Now that he had spoken he felt that he had misjudged either Rachel or the Opportunity. He knew, or thought he did, that she had begun to care for him. It was no secret between them that the heroine of Jasper first novel had been his own ideal of Rachel, and the hero of the story was himself and they had loved each other in the book. and Rachel had not objected. No one else knew The names and characters had been drawn with a subtle skill that re- <Fealed to Rachel, when she received a Copy of the book from Jasper. the fact of his love for her. and she had not been ,aI haf lxy # Tonight Jasper Chase recalled the scene between them, with every infiec tion and movement unerased from his memory. He even recalled the fact that he began to speak just at that point on the avenue where few days before he had met Rachel walking with Rollin Page. He had wondered at the time lwhat Rollin was saying.
 Rachel, Jasper had said, and it was the first time he had ever spoken her first name q never knew until to- night how much I love you. Why should I try to conceal any longer what you have seen me look2 You know I love you as my life. can no longer hide it from you if I would
 
 fnsal was the trembling of Rachel arm in his own. She had allowed him to speak and had neither turned her face Toward him nor away from him. She had looked straight on, and her voice was sad. but firm and quiet, when she epoke.
 s "Why do you speak to me now9
  seen tonight. .
 "Why-what - he had starnmered and then was silent.
 Rachel withdrew her arm from his, bat still walked near him.
 Then he cried out with the anguish n one who begins to see 8 great loss facing him where he expected great joy.
 'Raehell Do you not love mef Is not my love for you as sacred as any thing in all of life itself?''
 She had walked on silent for flew steps after that. They had passed street lamp. Her face was pale and beautiful He had made a movement to clntch her arm, and she had moved Httle farther from him.
 No, she had replied 'sThere was atime-I cannot answer fop that. You ehouid not have spoken to me tonight. ''
 He had seen in these words his an- sTFer. He was extremely sensitive. N0thing short of a joyous response to his own love would have satisfied him. 13e could net think of pleading with Some time when I am more wor. 6y r he had asked in low voice, but eAe did not seem to hear, and they had .R8fted at her home and he recalled Y1Yidly the fact that no good night had 88en said
 # Kog as hs went over the brief but Significant scene, he lashed himself for his foolish precipitancy. He had not reekoned on Rachel's tense. passionate absorption Of all her feeling in the ecanes at the tont which were 50 new Fl her mind. But he did not know her y<z53 an ey4 f4 f4xrka4a vaf tA 177f 1 ,