The Iola register., 1901-10-25
BORN TO SERVE.
By Charles NJ. Sheldon,
Author Of "IN HIS STEPS, " "JoHN KINGS
QUESTION CLASS, - "BDWARD
BLAKE, - Rtc.
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tie because she had intrusted her
secret even to one so old and so loving
as Mrs. Vane. But on the whole it
comforted her. Under other circum-
stances she would have to'' r" ~""
but her mother. But Mrs. Clark was
nervous and irritable, she did not un-
derstand Barbara, and lived a daily
protest against her choice of life
work. To learn now from Barbara
that she had come to think a great
deal of the brilliant young minister
of the great Marble Square church
would have seemed to Mrs. Clark like
another madness, and what Barbara
needed at this crisis in her life was
not reproaches or tears, but encour-
agement and good-hearted affection.
She was girl who gave her own
affection quickly. From the day she
met Mrs. Nane she mad understood
her. 1t was the same with Mr.. Nor
ton. 1t is mistake to suppose that
the greatest feelings must develop
slowly. The feeling that Barbara eN-
perienced was not long in point of
time, but she herself was the best
JuuBt Ol It's SlItuE tus II 10 ~ obH'AN
that she was afraid of its develop
ment in so comparatively short a time,
and one way she took to ascertain the
truth was TO talk to Mrs. Nane frankly
about it. Some things the old lady
gave her that evening out of her own
experience reassured her as to her
own heart. Barbara had been afraid
that her apparently sudden giving up
of her life as it faced this other life
was wrong. There was a tremor in
the thought of unseemly haste un-
worthy of so sacred an event.
But, as the days went by, she found
il was not so. She did not know all,
herself, but the experience that had
come to her lent strength to her re-
solve to prove herself worthy of the
faith he had said he had in that kind
of life, the life she had chosen. At
the same time, she faced with a grav-
ity that was making her older than
her years, the fact that the very ma
ture of her position would make it
impossible for her ever to realize an
answer to her own heart from his.
So it was with mingled feelings of
ambition that Barbara took up the
daily round again. The results of the
evening so far as her own position
was concerned were insignificant
Mrs. Dillingham; kept her word, and
called on Barbara's mother. She also
sent a note to Barbara, inviting her
TO call; and little later she even in
cuded her in a quiet afternoon tea
at her house.
Barbara ought to have accepted
these overtures. for they represented
good deal of courage on Mrs. Dill
lingham's part. Barbara regretted
a little later that she had not gone.
But she had at the time, after that
one night at Mrs. Npne's, concluded
that she had attempted thing that
was of no value. She would approach
The matter from another side. She
was trying to think it all out, and
had many talks with Mrs. Ward and
Mrs. Vane about it, when an event oc-
CURED that threatened to interrupt
all her plans and prove real and
serious crisis in her life as servant.
1t must have been three weeks aft
er that evening at Mrs. Nane's when
Alfred came home from college for a
few days. He had not been in the
house an hour before Barbara was
annoyed by his attentions, They
were so marked that his mother mo-
ticed il. Barbara was intensely in
dignant, and Mrs Ward was much
disturbed over it. In the afternoon.
Barbara could hear loud voices in The
sitting-room; and in the midst of it
all Carl came oGt into the kitchen,
crying and trembling, and saying
that his mother and Alfred were
quarreing. Barbara, knowing what
it was all about, could not help feel
ing relieved when the voices ceased:
and after time Mrs. Ward came out
and had a talk with Barbara, apollo.
gizing for Alfred and promising that
there wou.s be no recurrence of the
matter.
Barbara listened in silence and
when Mrs. Ward was through she
said: "Alfred never would have be
haved as he did if he had not beer
drinking"
do YOU mean to say that Alfred
drinks MfS. NhfN utmost SnTlekCu
The experiences of the morning hat
given her one of her headaches.
"He does. He drank when he was
here last fall"
81 can't believe it possible. He has
nervous headaches. He bathes hi'
head in alcohol to relieve it. He has
told me so many times" exclaimed
Mrs. Ward, Indignantly.
"But | know he was drinking this
morning, or he would never have be
haved so. No gentleman would eve
have spoken to me as he spoke, Mrs
Ward, if he hadn't been under the in
fuence of liquor"
Mrs. Ward lost her temper. After
wards, in quiet thoughtfulness, Bar
bara knew that her nervous tension
was responsible for what she did.
Its not true! You are too mucl
given TO thinking of yourself. Yo1
are too good for your place"
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