News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-05-22

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The miners sent up q cheer as they dashed
into the square.
thought could hear a voice saying: is
doctor in there? He's wanted at once.
Lew Trethven's broke his leg and
wants doctor to come right up Now,
then, are you ready? Eric and Andrew
are going with me to escort you home.
We were afraid you might lose your
way"
''Do you dare ride with the doctor?
asked Stuart of Rhena.
81 dare 90 anywhere with you" she
replied. and Stuart was eXcusable for
kissing her as he lifted her into the cut
ter.
The doctor had hitched Ajax up with
the fastest horse he could find in the
hotel stables and after they had start
ed he had his hands full. The miners
sent up a cheer as they dashed into the
square and out into the road leading up
to the Duncan house. And so, with the
love of the men whose lives and happ-
ness We're tO/b be henceforth so deeply
the friends who had shared so largely
of their experiences and were to be
even more to them in coming days, this
man and woman began the life that
not even death can part, for they are
one in Jesus Christ.
A week from that same evening. in a
Barge mansion on fashionable avenue
IN I I,,I
Easplaine were married. A card an
nCuncing the event was sent to Stuart
by Aunt Royal. at whose house the
event took place. No notice of the mar
riage was sent to Rhena as Stuart's
wife. 1t was the first intimatiOn Stu
art had had of the fact, the card reach
ing him two days after. He grieved
over the event deeply and felt that the
gulf between his sister and himself
was impossible. but his life was
crowded with great objects. and Rhena
was all in Ill to him, and as time went
OH he found the sharpness of this pang
Iessened, though he never for a mo-
ment ceased his prayers and love for
Louise.
The demands on both Stuart and
Rhena were certainly no less now that
the mines were opened again. The
cottages were completed, but Stuart
contemplated a general tearing down
of all the old cabins on the range. In
this he was met by an unexpected and
Irritating obstinacy or the part Of the
miners, who did not want to be dis
turbed.
They're the most ungrateful lot on
earth" said the doctor, to whom
Stuart was talking about it. 'lf | was
you, ia hire some one to touch off
every last cabin some windy night and
burn up every last one of 'em-l mean
the cabins. They, mean the men.
haven't got brains enough among them
al 10 start a home for feeble minded
old women
Stuart was wrestling with this prob
lem and at the same time adding to
his plans for the Hall of Humanity
Many and many a long conference was
held in Eric's cottage, at Andrews and
in his own house over the project
Rhena had also proposed another plan
at first stoutly opposed by Eric and
even Andrew, but afterward heartily
seconded by them. 1t was, in brief
the shaping of the Duncan mansion in
to a modern hospital, to be in charge OF
DIR. Saxon. The house was too large
for living house. Stuart and Rhena
wanted to be nearer the town, anC
Stuart had made his plans to builC
at once house that would represent
their ideas Of what home should b.
AMI enable them to be of more use il
very many ways. They were too fal
away from the people. Rhena still
continued her army work to a large
extent, and the people all knew tina
her marriage had not lessened her Low,
for them or her desire and willingness
to save them. 1t was simply question
of using to the very best advantag
the wealth which wasjp their power +
use. In many respects the old mansion
was admirably adapted for Hospital
and the doctor was certainly entitle
now to a position where he coul
spend the remainder of his life in use
fulness and peace.
Stuart and Rhena were talking thi
all over one evening in early spring
The foundation for the Hall of Human
ity was going up very fast, and the
were also running over their plans fo
the great number of things they hope
the building would represent. TIL