The weekly examiner., 1901-08-10

HIS lire SlnceNtne day GOQ n1Q spoken 10 him. He felt that the revolution in him would cut square across all the tradi- tions and usages of polite society, espe- cially in the matter of money and it's personal expenditure. l Finally Louise and Aunt Royal took up the subject of the coming party and began discussing the families who | were invited.
 Stuart still stood silently engrossed in his own thoughts and hearing only now and then word. At last he was reused by Louise.
 Stuart, will you sing with Una next | week? You remember that duo you sang before you went abroad?' ''Yes; I'll sing if am here that even ing" replied Stuart, with a feeling that he was fast losing all his interest in the things that once amused him. He had splendid baritone voice and was fa- vorite singer with all his friends.
 "Why, are you planning to be awayr'
 ''No; I did not know what might | happen under the condition of the strike and all"
 We've invited the Meltons and the Vasplaines. They would be very much disappointed if you were not here," said Aunt Royal.
 T shall probably be here," said Stu art briefly.
 Louise rose suddenly and went up to her brother.
 And I invited Miss Dwight, Stuart. She refused to come, but don't you think I am too aristocratic for any thing to invite her:" Smart 1nnE e.d af T,011ica in 9Sf0niSh- ment The words sent the color to his cheek and set his pulses beating.
 You knew she would not come," he said in a low voice.
 Louise started as if she had been caught in her lie to Rhena. She went back to her seat and was silent. It was at times a mad freak with Louise to say or do the unexpected thing. She was not original, but she sometimes took q malicious pleasure in startling people.
 tT am glad she refused" said Aunt Royal, who sometimes forgot her diplo- macy in her qualification at things. "She certainly would have felt very. much out of place among us"
 "Yes, that's so,'' said Stuart, provok- ed into q statement he could easilyi have made before his conversion. .Shel would have been out of place among your other guests because most of them are uneducated boors and clowns in comparison with a lady like Miss Dwight !
 Aunt Royal was speeches.. She could not find anything to say at first Finally she began in her usual gentle voice:
 "I am surprised, Stuart, to hear you speak that way of common Salvation Army
 That was as far as Aunt Royal could get. Stuart interrupted with an em- phasis that petrified 10th t,.sse 4=eEneH:
 T will not allow you or any one to speak a disrespectful word of the wo-l man I love and who, if God is good enough to me, will some time become my wifew
 With the words Stuart walked out of the room, leaving his aunt and Louise gasping as if pail Of ice wa ter had been thrown over then. Andl what they said when they recoveredi history saith not, and Stuart never knew nor cared.
 He went away to his room, and sat- there without turning on the lights He knew that he had precipitated mat ters in the home by his brief but out right declaration of his purpose. Hel did not regret 1t, but he was a little afraid he had shown the un-ChristianI spirit in his words or manner. The old Adam had a place in him yet? No, he said to himself; he was a new man. The very best evidence of it was hisl present action. He knelt and prayed to be forgiven if he had spoken wrongly. He was still praying when a servant brought word that he was wanted at the telephone.
 He went down and was informed b, the clerk in the office that two of the miners had come in, and, acting under instructions, the clerk had called up Stuart to come and see them. Stuart told the clerk to hold the men until he could get down. He went out at once and drove into the town.
 The men who had come to the office were residents of CoEnishtown. They, had come for help in case not their own, but that of a miner who lay sick and In need at the farthest limits of the settlement.
 Stuart hastily loaded his cutter with necessaries, and with one of the men to direct the way he started out. The night was dark, and fine snow was, falling. The drifts were piled high on, either side of the road. Stuart knew. he could drive only part of the way. As he went by tle Salvation Army hall he stopped a minute to speak to one of the men standing on the steps. The hall was lighted, but there was no meeting going on.
 Miss Dwight went up to Cornish town this afternoon with some clothes to distribute and is not yet back" the