News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-04-10
looked from the door and called the


Like as not it's down in the bottom
somewhere. Don't you find it?' be
asked, not noticing what Stuart was
doing. Getting no answer, he shouted
back: 'Its not here, ma'am! Must
have dropped it on the way down.
The woman shut the door. and the doc
tor said, Get in, Stuart, and I'll take
you home"
Stuart climbed into the cutter with
out word. AS the doctor seated him
self and Ajax was about to make his
usual wild plunge up the street Stu
art said, 81 have Miss Dwight's glove
in my pocket, doctor, and am going
to keep it."
whats thatv' exclaimed the doc
tor. He was nearly twice Stuarts age
and had known him all his life Stu
art did not know any one to whom he
felt like telling his secret more than
to the doctor
"But what's the good of one glove,
StuartF' The doctor was not quite
sure that Stuart wanted to tell him all.
81 mean to have them BOTH" replied
Stuart frankly, looking right into the
Doctors face. "Old friend, can't you
see that l am in love with her and at
the very highest point of my life al
ready because of itY
Stuart spoke louder than he had
meant to, forgetting that persons were
passing along the sidewalk. Several
Of the Salvation Army people had gone
up to Rhena's lodgings to inquire about
her. 1t is not probable that any heard
Stuart, but the doctor suddenly struck
Ajax, and the cutter whirled into the
square and darted across one Of the
diagonals. Close by the band stand
the doctor pulled up as suddenly as he
had started and said abruptly, "I'll
wait for you"
"Wait for what" exclaimed Stuart,
astonished.
"Why, | thought may be you might
want to go up into the stand and tell
all Champion that you were in love
with Miss Dwight"
Stuart laughed softly. 81 am not
ashamed of it. Indeed, doctor, l do
feel like shouting it out at times, No.
no. he added as the doctor started
Ajax on again and they came out into
the main street at is a matter of
great pride with me. And at the same
time | shrink from making it too COM
mon. There is no danger. Doctor,
will you say, God bless you, Stuart
as you used to sometimes when other
events in my life came onW
God bless you. Stuart! Aye. aye,
/ that belongs to be- as my Cornishmen
say when they mean it ought to be so.
You've chosen the best, pluckiest and
most character endowed woman in all
/ Champion. or the state for that mat
! ter. Well, we'll, knew it all the time!
4 You and Eric think I'm so busy that
/ don't have time to notice anything.
But that's because see so much more
than you do in a given time" There
was a short pause. 'If l were you.
! Stuart, wouldn't keep that glove very
long. 1t isn't just fair this cold wealth
! err"
THANK you, doctor. l have been
thinking of that" replied Stuart.
He had grown very thoughtful sud
denly His life had opened out into
another possibility with this new expe-
I rpnce. He was conscious of it's bear
ing upon all the rest of the problems
that knocked at his heart and mind
for answers. and when he babe the
doctor good night he went into the
| will acN
! profound conviction and persuasion
that his life would shape this way or
that according to the response of Rhe-
ma Dwight's soul to his. He was star
tied as for the first time he realized
how strong his feeling was and how
she be to him with all the social differ
ence between them? 1t is true he had
come to q place where social differ
ences counted for very little with him,
but how could he tell what she might
think now that her life moved on the
plane of Salvation Army methods? And
then there was his money and all. She
had deliberately moved out from tie
world of wealth and fashion in which
he still remained, of which he was yet
a part. They were separated in this
way by a great gulf of difference. Cn
the other hand, he reflected, they had
one great and common bond of sympa-
thy in their Christian faith. After all
was not that stronger than anything
else? What were conditions or artifi
cial social distinctions by the side OF
the all powerful oneness of spirit
which disciples of the Master possess
ed in common? 1t was with that last
thought on his heart that he finally
went to rest.
He did not speak to Louise or his
aunt of the evenings adventure wheI
he saw them in the morning. Ills
statement of the evening before con
corning his feelings toward Rhena has
driven the two women into position
of hostility to him that did not find i'm
mediate expression in words, but wa'
very apparent none the less. Louis'
was angry to think that her attempts
to deceive Rhena might and probabl,
would result in nothing. Aunt Roya
ignored the subject definitely, but Their
was no mlstaking her entire opposition
to Stuart's present attitude. 1t wa
; true she did not understand him. Stu
.. art was too engrossed in his perplexi
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