Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-11-19

nat is neither mere nor tnefe. lie
certainly offered to do so. but | would
not take the money"
THAT was when he had graduated"
Some time afterwards he was too
poor just at dist"
You would meet in the long vaca-
tom"
mo- not after the first one He came
home that summer, and worked ON a
farm near by. Those were happy
days"
Miss Wraggs eyes dimmed behind
her glasses. and for a wonder she was
gazing out of the window instead of at
her work.
The next year he got a chance to
go abroad as a kind of tutor and care
taker to a young lad. and of course he
went. would not have had It other
wise, though | had been looking for
ward to his summer homecoming as
condemned criminal would to his
freedom. His letters were a great
treat; / have them still. They make
nae feel as If /, too, had been to Europe.
BY the next winter | was beginning
to be ashamed of my own poor letters
to him; they were so different from
his own. So 1t went on till ! wrote
less and less. He scolded me at first.
but by and by was sure he did not
care.
You should have tried to improve
your own education"
Of Inn hnI I
for Miss SILK, often till late at night,
too, and then | took in extra sewing
to help along"
Il had forgotten you had his people
on your hands"
They never knew that the help did
not come from George. ! used to take
along so much money to his mother
etery week and tell her news of him
al the same time, so that she thought
/ was still hearing from him long after
he had stopped writing"
He did stop"
: They never knew that the help did
no use, that was not fit to be his
wife and that | would not spoil his
career by marrying him. After his
,n.pthCr died and his sister married and
moved away | saw and heard nothing
OF him for two or three years, until
ole day he appeared in our pulpit.
How proud / was of him them II
I'D taken seven years TO turn the
blacksmith into the clergyman, but
the change was worth the trouble. a
nubler looking man ! had never seen,
and when | watched him in the white
sUrplice, reading the lessons and
ll eaChing the sermon | was glad that
| had helped in ever so small way
TO put him there"
Did he not come to see you?"
"Of course he did. and he argued for
fully an hour that should stick TO my
original promise and marry him, but
was firm"
1t will make all the difference in
the world to you now, | said Just who
your wife Is. 1t shall never be said
that pulled you down
He appealed to my old affection for
\ him. and said he could not get along
without 1t, but laughed at that for
Should have been sorry indeed to let
hum see that my affection was stronger
than ever"
So you parted! Two hearts were
broken by your foolish pride"
Not two-Oh, no! When he came
back here as rector OF s.. Jude's, he
md a fine stylish wife with him who
II able to hold her own with all the
ladies Of the congregation"
THE rector of st. Jude's?" | am
afraid whistled You don't mean to
ten me that he was ever blacksmith. u
He was"
And engaged to you?"
He was"
"Well! He lost the chance Of his
life when he dropped you"
He didn't drop me- / let him GO"
oh, you silly dear old thing! Don't
you see you would have been the very
wife for him? You're such worker
and have so much tact"
II didn't think so at the time, and
'cCrtainly hoped his wife would have
lprovcd more generally popular in the
congregation than she appears to be,
She's an arrant snOb, that's what
she is, and she infected him with hel
ideas Till he cares only for the gool
win of his Weather parishioners."
Il have beard something OF the kind
but have always stood up fol him, ant
tor her in every house where sew
THAT accounts for people putting
up with him so long as they have done
| know II does. Why, several time
they have been on the eve Of asking
him TO 60"
You hatter me too much, have
very little influence"
But knew she had a very groa
deal doubted sincerely II the rec
tors flowing sermons his sonorou
voice nruning the service, his hand
some person nj the dinner tables o
the rich, his rare patrunIzIng visits I,
O. tho poor, had ono-hUlf Of the mora
. weight possessed by this little plal
. Told maid who went from house a