Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-10


We were afraid you might lose your
way"
DO you dare ride with the doctor?"
asked Stuart of Rhena.
Il dare 90 anywhere with YOU she
renliPd. and Stuart was eXcusable for
kissing her IS he lifted her into the cut
ter.
The doctor had hitched Ajax up with
the fastest horse he could find in the
hotel stables, and after they had start
ed he had his hands full. The miners
sent up cheer as they dashed into the
square and out into the road leading up
to the Duncan house. And so. with the
love of the men whose lives and happi-
ness were to be hencefOrth so deeply
mingled with theirs in the company OF
the friends who had shared so largely
Of their experiences and were to be
even more to chem in coming days, this
man and wOnan began the life that
not even death can part, for they are
one in Jesus Christ.
y week from that same evening. in a
large mansion on fashionable avenue
in New York, Louise Duncan and Hal
NaSplaine were married. A card an
nOunciug the event was sent to Stuart
by Aunt Royal. at whose house the
event took place. No notice of the mar
riaGe was sent to Rhena as Stuart's
wife 1t was the first intimatiOn Stu
art had had of the fact the card reach
ing him two days after. He grieVed
over the event deeply and felt that the
gulf between his sister and himself
was impossible. but his life was
crowded with great objects. and Rhena
was all in all to him, and rs time went
on he found the sharpness of this pang
lesscned, though he never for a mo-
ment ceased his prayers ana love for
Louise.
The demands on both Stuart and
Rhena were certainly no less now that
! the mines were opened again. The
cottages were completed, but Stuart
contemplated a general tearing down
| Of all the ole cabins on the range. In
| this he was met by an unexpected and
! irritating Obstinacy OIL the part of the
miners, who did not want to be dis
| turbed.
"They'rc the most ungrateful lot on
| earth" said the doctor, to whom
! Stuart was talking about it. eff | was
you, I'd hire some one to touch off
every last cabin some windy night and
burn up every last one of 'em-I mean
the cabins They. | mean the men.
| haven't got brains enough among them
az 10 start home for feeble minded
old WOmcnn'
Stuart was wrestling with this prob
lem and at the same time adding to
his plans for the Hall of Humanity.
! Many and many Il long conference was
held in Eric's cottage, at Andrews and
in his own house over the project.
Rhena haze Tl<o proposed another plan,
at first stoplly opposed by Eric and
even Andrew. but aftCrWard heartily
seconded 10y them. 1t was, in brief.
the shaping of the Duncan mansion in
TO modern hospital, to be in charge OF
DR.. Saxon. The house was too large
for a living house. Stuart and Rhena
wanted to be nearer the town, and
Stuart had made his plans to build
at once a house that would represent
and enable them to be of more use il
very many ways. They were too fal
away from the people. Rhena still
continued her army work to a large
extent, and the people all knew that
her marriage had not lessened her love
for them or her desire and willingness
to save them. 1t was simply a question
of using to the very best advantage
the wealth which was in their power t.
use. IN many respects the old mansion
was admirably adapted for a hospital
and the doctor was certainly entitled
now to a position where he cOult
spend the remainder of his life in use
fulness and peace.
Stuart and Rhena were talking thi
all over one evening in early spring
The foundation for the Hall of Human
fly was going up very fast, and the.
were also running over their plans 70
the great number of things they hope,
!. the building would represent. TIL
lights had been turned on, and it wa
getting on in the evening. a soft raj
| was falling outside, and the big pine
5 were sobbing the approach of a heav
: storm. Stuart was sitting at the bi
| table in the dining room with plan
scattered about, and Rhena was WALL
ing up and down. her face alive wit
I enthusiasm over some great idea, Whe
| the bell rang.
, Something about the sound Of
f caused Stuart to rise and go to the doc
. himself AS he flung it open the win
e blew a fine Eist of rain into the ha
/. along with the fragrant OdOr of th
] dripping pines. But he was cOnsciou
of only one thing.
!, There on the stone steps lay won
0 ans form. and he knew as he stOOpe
and lifted her that his sister had II
e membered what he said such a crueI
/ brief time before. He carried her int
the chamber where his father had die
and laid her on the same bed. AS L
Il md hoC