The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-07


that Love worketh no i'll to this
neighbor, therefore love is the fulfill
ing of the law? How can you put
on tho Lord Jesus Christ who died
Tor you and me, and for those who are
coming home to us. if you lot yourself
say such things? 1 know it is only
saying them-I cannot believe you
think them" Leila's fresh mouth
kissed the angry eyes.
But do think them! feel what
l say. Leila, what right has that Amer
lean girl to take your Garvis from you?
Everybody knows it was you he want
ed all the time, not any other And
everybody about the place Is saying
SOL" holly said little Syb.
"Hush!" Leila WINGED at Sybs last
words "As for her right, we must re-
member every minute in the day that
God has given her that right as-as
Cervis' WIFE,"
Bravely the words came, but they
wr1Rg tho heart of the gentle speaker.
And, Syb, can't you take 1t in, once
and for all, that we are not sent into
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piaess and salf-pl5asing as we can? In
order to copy cur dsar Lord, even
family, we must each give UP some
thing. and SD On giving UP until the
end comes IL Gervis had not given
| up h!s-his wishes, the Old home would
have heeD wrecked, his parents would
have been be5sars. II think it a
great thing to sacrifice all yourself for
those doar and Hsar. Syb, could give
up anything for YOU"
Fore me? Could you, Leila? Such
a miserable, humpy, crooked little
thing as II"
Syb's Lips quivered
what matters it whether our bodia S
are straight or crooked? 1t is our
souls that will live by and by in Para
disc, if they are straight and true, the
ho2es OF pure thoughts and gentle
! doeds. Oh, Syb, try asJ cast out that
passionate nature Of yours. And when
Gervis brings home his bride, let us
be loving and kind to her, stranger
amid us an-tbink of it,"
Bat shall you, Leila?" Syb stared.
Shall you really welcome her and be
nice to her-you?" shs demanded,
woaderstruek at sach possibility
God helping me, 1 shall" gravely
said Leila, and she meant 1t.
1t was not that her old love for
Garvis had died a sudden death; but
because he was now the husband of
another woman, bound to love and
care for her until death them did
part" that Leila could put him out
of her life. save as the man who had
saved his old homo and his parents
from earthly ruin.
II Gervis could attain to such a $40
riflce as he had made. could she her
self not initiate his self-abne cation in
her life? And the passiOn-d istraught
little SISTER must be brought round
somehow. and taught to Welcome the
new conner into the family.
1t was diafcult task to persuade the
Untamable spirit. Though Syb was but
thirteen years of age, she had a grown
UP Elind and enc Us distorted as her
poor litt&e body.
Il should Ike to SEQ her lying dead
that American grill" said the cefornael
! girl when Leila's persuasive voice
ceased. you see." wsnt ON Syb, eff
she were dead, Cervis would have III
her money, Of course, and he coLid
marry YOU"
Leila groaned. This horrible, in
human wish was the only result Of her
efforts to soften the ungoverned heart
That's why l keep on wishing
something would happen to them!"
vehemently insisted Syb.
Happen to whom?" Lady James
voice startled the sisters, and Syb slip
ped off Leila's knee. 'I've just had a
wire from Gervis. They are in London
and will be here today" she went on
hurriedly. "And they are bringing a
friend with them, Mr.. Ansdell.
fancy 1t Is the same man who saved
the whole train. you remember, from
terrible fire In the midst OF the prai-
ries"
Yes, 'Ansdell' was that mans name,
dear aunty," said Leila, "a well-known
scientist, Gervis said he was"
Leila spoke the namo OF her lover
sho had lost,in a controlled. calm voice.
The help she had sought was vouch-
safed her abundantly.
well, we must be good to him in
that case. But our house has been
filing up this week until there's hard
ly a decent room left for this stranger.
And, Leila. my dear, / want your help
again. Our arrangements are not
quite finished"
Lady Jane rushed off as rapidly as
she had come.
There was to be a large party OF old
and young on Christmas night at Tenn
ple-Dene. For years there had been
almost no entertaining in the partially
ruined home. The Christmas gather
ing was. therefore, looked forward to
by the neighborhood with keen expec-
tation.
ct Is to be quite an old-faahioned
Christmas party. with a ueo and blind