The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-11-22

have tc, be caught"
Her voice was a c%ontralto, with the
little hint of %roughness that made It
warm and richly golden: that made
II falL' indeed, upon the ears of the
listening Elder like a cathedral chime
calling him to forget all and worshin
forget all but that he was five and
twenty with the hot blood surging and
crowding and crying out in his veins.
Now, having q little subdued the
tossing storm cloud of hair, she stood
with one hand upon her hip and the
other shading her eyes, looking in.
tently into the streets Of the new set.
tlement. And again there was han.
tering Jest from the men about, and
the ready, careless response from her,
with gestures of IN impishly reckless
unconcern, of a full readiness to give
and take in easy good fellowship.
But then, In the very midst of a light
response to one of the bantering men.
her gray eyes me for the first time
the very living look of the young
Elder standing near. She was at
once confused, breaking off her speech
with an awkward laugh, and looking
down. But, his eyes keeping steadily
upon her, she, as if d~efiantly, returned
his look for a fluttering second, irving
to MAKE her eyes survey him SLOWLY
from head to foot with her late COO,
carelessness; but she had to let them
fall again, and he saw the color come
under the clear skin.
He knew by these tokens that he
possessed a power over this splendid
woman that none of the other men.
could wield-she had lowered her
eyes to no other but him-and all the
man in him sang exultantly under the
knowledge. He greeted her father,
the little Seumas Cavan, of indoroi+.
able spirit. fresh, for all his march of
a thousand miles, and he welcomed
them both to Zion. Again and again
while he talked to them he caught
quick glances from the wonderful
eyes-glances of interest, of inquiry
now Of half-hearted defiance, now
of wondering submission.
The succeeding months had been a
time of struggle with him-a struggle
to maintain his character of Elder
after the Order of Melchisedek in the
full gaze of those velvety gray eyes,
and in the light of her reckless, full
Tipped smile; to present to the tempt
ress q shield of austere piety which
her softest chances should not avail
to melt. For something in her man
ner told him that she OWNED all his
weakness; that, if she acknowledged
his power ove her, she recognized
her own power over him, a power
equal to and justly balancing the 9TH
or. Even when he discoursed from
the pulpit, his glance would fasten
upon hers, as If there were but the
n face before him instead of a thou
sand, and he knew that she Knocked
him in her heart; knew she OWNED
there was that within him which
strongly would have had her and him.
self far away-alone,
Nor was the girls own mind all of
a piece. For, If she Haunted herself
before him, as If with an impish re-
solve to be his undoing, there were
still times when he aUed her by his
words of fire, and by his high, deter
mined stand in some circle to which
she knew she could never mount.
That night when he walked with her
in the moonlight, she knew he had
trembled on the edge Of the gulf fixed
so m%ysteriously between them. She
had even felt herself leaning over to
draw him down with her own warm
arms; and then all at once he had
strangely moved away, widening this
mysterious gulf that always separated
them, leaving her solitary, hurt, and
wondering. She could not understand
it. Life called through them so
strongly. How could he breast the
mighty rush? And why, why must it
be so?
During the winter that now came
upon them, 1t became ever a greater
wonder to her; for it was common
suffering-a time of dark days which
she felt they might have lightened for
each other, and a time when she knew
that more than ave she drew him.
For hardly had the feast of the Har-
vest Home gone by when food once
more became scarce. The heaven
sent gulls had, after all, saved but
half a crop. Drought and early frost
had diminished this; and those who
came in from the east came all too
trustingly with empty meal sacks.
By the beginning of winter there
were 5000 people in the valley to be
fed with miraculous loaves and fishes.
Half Of these were without decent
shelter, dwelling under wagon covers
or in fimsy tents, and forced much
of the time to be without fuel; for
wood had to be hauled through the
snow from the distant canyons and
so was precious stuff. For three
months the cutting winds came down
from the north, and the pitiless win
ter SHOWS ragged about them. An in
ventory was early taken of the food
stuffs, and thereafter rations were is
sued alike to all, whether rich or
poor. Otherwise many of the latter