Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-04-24
CHAPTER IY--Contlnued |.

Miss Lacfoix thus manifested In what
touched me awoka In me sensations, I
may even ray vague hopes, oi a very
pleasant aud consoling kind. |
dreamed bright dreams that night,
which hung about mo during the next
day, but In the evening they we're die.
PEELED somewhat rudely by note
from the bishop requesting mo 10 call
upon him, and by q message from the
rector desiring mo 70 call on him.
went frat to the bishop. Ny in.
terview with him was more agreeable
than ! had anticipated and went with
tolerably light heart to the rector.
lie was still In bed. My short inter-
view with him was not pleasant. The
words we exchanged we're warm; but
they do not concern this story except In
their result. lie wished, he urged, he
almost ordered mo 10 cease all recogni-
tion In any way OF the existence of the
man Freemani | refused 70 give any
pledge 20 that effect--and so was given
to understand that | would not be
wanted In the parish after the six
months for which | had been at first
engaged.
II was only then when my departure
from Tinperley seemed imminent Il
had alred,y Deen almost four months
Ia the pla,el that began TO suspect
how very mucll my hopes and affections
had entangled themselves with the
haunting sadness. the unconscious grace
and beauty OF Miss IacrCix. What
likelihood was there now. II there ever
had been any, Of Il poor curate who had
already done something to discount
his chances Of prcferment---oi my being
more than an agreeable and tolerably
sympathetic acquaintance OF month
OF two. Of my hearing her say more
than 80 very sorry, indeed. that YOU
are going, and Of thus finding the epi-
sode cloeed2 No likelihood at all there
seemed. And yet 80 much may happen
In two short months. have 70 admit
that, even In the midst OF serious work |
(oi writing sermon, for instancel,
vain, wild thoughts would arise in me
OF commencing myself 10 the young
lady BY some great fervice--by, PER-
chance, discovering her father. or at
least finding out for certain what had
become Of him (althongh had set had |
no word from the two friends whom I /
had asked 10 make Inquiries in I.on-
dom. But these foolish, fruitless long,
ings we're soon crowded aside by the
~ avat.ta
4 strange thing happened which was
a direct result Of my hitherto luckless
adventure with Mr.. Freeman. found
that affair had commended me 10 the
favorable attention OF all types of dis.
senters in the village; one mark OF this
favor especially appreciated, as all
clereymen would--the increased con.
gregations | had at church, on Sunday
evenings particularly.
II almost regret, for my own sake,
oyu know" Freeman said to me one
DAY, with a laugh, "that | asked you
10 be my chairman at that direful lect-
ire. find you are taking many Of my
congregation from me--not ell together,
though, must say that for myself.
But they do their duty by me in the !
morning, and then seem to take their |
pleasure with you in the evening" d
OF those who thus forsook Mr.. Free. {
nan | noticed remarkable group OF
folk, whom he had pointed /
nut to me as the most closely cohering,
md the most cuTiously inter-related ]
'ongeries Of families in the village
where there Is an excess OF cousinship). h
They were steady, stolid, shrewd peo. Y
'le, very comfortably off, yet ali Of
whom, male and female, worked at the i
Dom or the chemical vat. MY atten- o
ion was 6rst attracted TO them by 4
heir taking up a good seat we'll for. 8
ward, and refusing to bulge when the Il
'ntcher's family, who paid for it, came h
n, and by their evidently being quite g
unused to the order OF service in g
hnrch. The prayer book was maze 81
o them, and the rising up and sitting s.
own constantly took them BY surprise u
The family, ] learned, had vigorously h
lissented for generations.
At special flower service (foF which I,
sw flowers could be gathered in Tim cl
erleyl they were not in their accus-
omed pew. The church was densely A
rowded-more crowded, l think, be- B
ause the fact and the reason of my
peedy departure from Timperley had a
omehow got abroad. At the end Of ri
no week, however, ton Friday night, / II
link), a message came to me when g
as in bed, requesting me to visit at nj
nee man who was dying--one of the d
'ns OF this interesting family. d
ressed, and went.
] heard sounds of wailing and lamen. Ia
Ition from the house before l entered. m
passed into the kitchen, a clean, to
right room, in which>the men of the m
mily sat smoking in various absorbed /
oppressed with silence and to
eep. One OF the women stopped over
pan on the fire, while the old mother
firm, clear voice, directed her oper.
ions. She turned to me, saying wi
erely: in
He's upstairs. He wants bad TO co
Q yo', but at present he's leet i th' rel
d." (light in the head).
Upstairs found the dying man in fol
o smaller of the two bedrooms-ior be
armth. That sick room, as it then cl,
'peared to me, will not easily be for. w
tten. At that dead hour OF the mi
ght, when ''the very houses seemed Gle
leep," and even the tall chimney OF WI
Q chemical works had ceased to emit m,
. tinted vapors, the gas Hared full in DIR,
3 little room, and six persons, men sta
d women, were round the bed where wa
Q poor fellow lay in the last extrem. lea
! Of delirious helplessness, soaked in tic
aspiration. Near him stood my de-