The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-13

! GE4A II ULUEL 10 EAyldLE CO tx d. plcSL
bic, what she believed TO be an inexpiat
able sin. chance led her 10 far-awas
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I In a fsherman's village near BY, Whose
I life was as remote as the antipodes from
! the society 10 which she had once devot.
( cd herself where she was unknown ana
J at first scarcely needed. the heart-broker
I gin made her home. Occupation she found
/ IN plenty The place had all the needs
/ and sorrows Of the ordinary fishing col
ony There were widows 10 be helped
/ and comforted, hungry families TO be fed
/ shivering children TO be clothed. They
were poverty, loneliness and distress. and
! all these things Miss Fagler undertook
/ TO relieve. Nobody knew the sad-faced
/ young Samaritan's history. NOBODY won
dered way she made it her function Ia
care for the sick and help the needy and
/ comfort sorrowing. She did it all as
I deity and tenderly and unosteatatf0uslv
as though she had been thus engaged for
lifetime And as usually happens. the
author Of these services went unchal-
/ lenged.
Unchalienged, that is. until Or. BIcEeen
OF Badecq, Cape Breton, appeared in the
same village bent likewise on ministry
70 the same village, bent likewise on
ministry to the sick and poor, and anaz-
ed past all expression TO find a beautiful
young woman whose days were aDpar-
entity passed exclusively in the dispense
ton Of sweetness and Of light, and who
had the hauntingly pitiful expression OF
an angel fallen from grace.
They met often at sick beds and death
scenes and houses of mourning, and saw
in each other the beauties that such cir
Gums ances brings out
one day the doctor said, with reverent
interest, to the girl who never smiled:
why are you here?"
She hesitated for a long time. Finally.
with ar effort. Il am Elizabeth Flagler."
she said. They understood each other
after that.
But to all the young doctors insistent
pleadings Miss Flagler was deaf. 1t was
a commission with her, the feeling that
she must atone for the life her careless
ness had cost. The supreme happiness
which lay SO easily within her grasp she
resolutely denied herself.
But Dr.. McKeen belonged to the kind
Of lovers with whom patience is not only
a virtue but a policy. He believed that
the barriers which the sensitive girl had
built about her heart would break down
some day. And now finally his belief is
justified
When she first came to Hubbard's Cove
Miss Flagler boarded in a farm house.
where every evening the fisher folk would
them, and where both children and gray
boards learned to 80 for this solitary
young girls help and advice
After time the girl decided TO have a
home Of her own and 10 have it among
the people to whom she was bound by
such strong ties OF affection. She plan
ned therefore, a cottage TO be built fast
on the very rocks she had grown to love.
Tt was to stand out on little promon-
tory where the water could be seen from
every window and the tapping of the
waves heard from every side. A grimly
solitary home for a young girl bent on
living alone. Yet she watched its con-
sruction In an ecstasy Of interest and
when it was finished christened it The
B0wsprit and lived there TRANQUILITY like
al Hl4iLrtL1 Ei 4llDt1Ns VISITED EAlGtJL Aje
occasional rowing friends from home
DR.. McKeen found The Bowsprit the
most charming of refugees in which to
spend the occasional hours that he could
snatch from his busy life and hers And
here he spent the happiest time Of his
wooing. IN the artistic curio-hung, irelit
rooms. with the eternal song Of the sea
sounding in their ears.
Only one incident marred this idvllic
period. Miss Flagler. though she design
ed here beautiful little home never owned
It but leased IT from a rich young farmer
Henry Dauphine to whom she had On
many occasions been kind as was her
custom Mr. Dauphine fell in love. said
So. and was rejected. He took his dis
appointment so far from gracefully that
he tried to shorten the term ot Miss Flag
ler's lease An adjustment was made
however. through the interposition Of DIT
McKeen. though it is likely that Dr. Nc
Keen and his bride will seek other quart
ers when the time comes for them to de-
eide upon a home.
Meanwhile Washington wonders anx-
iousIy whether it is to witness the we'd
ding.