Willmar tribune., 1900-01-03
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Just then the bishop was called up
stairs, and he excused himself for mo-
ment. leaving Felicia and the young
carpenter together. a,5 is::
We have met before, & said Felicia,
looking at Clyde frankly.
'Yes) back in the world, as the
bishop says. : replied the young man,
and his fingers trembled a little as they
lay on the board he had been planning.
Yes. : Felicia hesitated. II am
very glad to see you. = y.
Are your" The flush of pleasure
mounted to the young carpenters fore
head. 'You have had great deal of
trouble since thenf" he said, and then
he was afraid he had wounded her or
called up painful memories, but Felicia
had lived over all that. - .-
"Yes, and you also How is it you
are working here1'' -- -. -.
1T is long story, Miss Sterling.
My father lost his money, and I was
obliged to go to work, very good thing
for me. The bishop says I ought to be
grateful. am. I am very happy now:
| learned the trade hoping some time
to be of use. I am night clerk at one of
the hotels. That Sunday morning when
you took the pledge at Nazareth Av-
enue church took it with the others" !"
did your said Felicia slowly. Il
am glad
Just then the bishop came back, and
very soon he and Felicia went away,
leaving the young carpenter at his work.
Some one noticed that he whistled loud
er than ever as he planned
Felicia, said the bishop, 'sdid you
know Stephen Clyde before?''
eyes, back in the world, dear bishop
He was one of my acquaintance in
Nazareth Avenue church"
"Ah!" said the bishop.
"We were very good friends, !" added
Felicia.
"But nothing moreq" the bishop ven
tured to ask;
Felicia's face glowed for an instant
Then she looked the bishop in the eyes
frankly and answered.:
"Truly and truly, nothing more.'
1T would be just the way of the
world for those two people to come to
like each other, though" :" thought the
bishop to himself, and somehow the
thought made him grave. It was al
most like the old pang over Camilla,
but it passed, leaving him afterward,
when Felicia had gone back, with tears
in his eyes and feeling that was al
most hope that Felicia and Stephen
would like each other. "After all, " said
the bishop, like the sensible, good man
that he was, ''is not romance a part of
humanity Love is older than am and
wiser.
The week following the bishop had
an experience that belongs to this part
of the settlement 9 history.
He was coming back to the settle
ment very late from some gathering of
the striking tailors and was walking
along, with his hands behind him,
when two men jumped out from behind
an old fence that shut off an abandoned
factory from the street and faced him
One of the men thrust pistol into the
bishops face, and the other threatened
him with a ragged stake that had evil
IDENTIFY been torn from the fence.
"Hold up your hands, and be quick
about it!' said the man with the pistol
The place was solitary, and the bishop
had no thought Of resistance. He did as
he was commanded, and the man with
the stake began to go through his pock-
cts. The bishop was calm. His nerves
did not culver. AS he stood there with
his arms uplifted an ignorant spectator
might have thought that he was pray
ing for the souls of these two men. And
he was, and his prayer was singularly
answered that very night.