News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-04-10
His Brothers
Keeper
BY REV. CHARLES M.
S H E / O N
I ontinupd !

a hundred dollars to decorate the
rooms with flowers for party, we
ought to give twice as much to help
feed the hungry. The better way
would be to take the money spent on
the flowers and spend it on food"
"What!" cried Louise angrily. "On
the people who have brought their con-
dition on themselves by their own fool
ishness! Who is to blame for their
being hungry and cold if not them
selves?
'"The women and babies are not to
blame, and they are the ones to feel
the suffering most" said Stuart quiet
ly.
well, you can use your money that
way if you want to, but | don't waste
mine on people who don't know when
they're we'll off"
Stuart rose and stood with his back
to the fire. He was agitated with all
the new ideas that had crowded into
his life since the day God had spoken to
him. He felt that the revolution in him
b would cut square across all the tradi-
tons and usages of polite society, espe-
cially in the matter of money and it's
personal expenditure.
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 a 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"
Eyes; I'll sing if am here that even
ing" replied Stuart, with feeling that
he was fast losing all lis interest in the
things that once amused him. He had
a splendid baritone voice and was ia
vorite singer with all his friends.
"Why, are you planning to be away?"
"No; 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.
81 shall probably be here" said Stu
art briefly.
Louise rose suddenly and went up to
her brother.
"And invited Miss Dwight, Stuart.
She refused to come, but don't you
think l am too aristocratic for any
thing to invite her"
Stuart looked at Louise in astonish-
ment, The words sent the color to his
cheek and set his pulses beating.
You knew she would not come" he
said in low voice.
Louise started as if she had been
caught in her lie to Rhena. She went
back to her seat and was silent. 1t
was at times q mad freak with Louise
TO say or do the unexpected thing. She
was not original but she sometimes
took 4 malicious pleasure in startling
people.
81 am glad she refused" said Aunt
Royal, who sometimes forgot her diplo-
III llCI SldlIuCdblOl at lllILS
"She certainly would have felt very
much out of place among us"
Eyes, that's So" said Stuart, provok-
ed into a statement he could easily
have made before his conversion. "Sht
would have been out of place among
your other guests because most of
them are uneducated Doors 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:
81 am surprised Stuart, to hear yor
speak that way of common Salvation
Army
That was as far as Aunt Royal coult
get. Stuart interrupted with an EN-
phasis that petrified both the women:
Il will not allow you or any one t
speak a disrespectful word of the wo
man l love and who if God is goo(
enough to me, will some time becom,
my wife,
With the words Stuart walked on
of the room, leaving his aunt ant
Louise gasping as if pail of ice wa
ter had been thrown over them. Ant
what they said when they recovere,
history saith not, and Stuart neve
knew nor cared.
He went away to his room and sa
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. II
did not regret it, but he was a llttl
afraid he had shown the un-Christia
spirit in hia words or manner. The oil
Adam had a place in him yet? No, h
said to himself; he was a new mar
The very best evidence Of it was hi
present action. lie knelt and prayed {
be forgiven If he had spoken wrongly
He was. sull praying when a seryan
brought word that he was wanted q
the telephone.
He went down and was informed b
the clerk in the Office that two of tn
miners had come in and, acting unde
instructions, the clerk had called u
Stuart to come and see them. Stuai
told the clerk to hold the men until Ii
could get down. He went out at ono
and drove into the town.
The men who had come to the ofiic
were residents of Cornishtown. The
had come for help in a case not the