The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-11-01
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II am not complimented, though
you care more for your religion than
for me-"
He looked at her hungrily.
mo, you are wrong there don't
separate you at ALL couldnt-you
and my religion are one-but, If I
must, I can love you in spirit as I
worship my God in spirit"
IF it will satisfy you, very WE'LL"
my reward will come-I shall do
a great work, 1 shall have a Witness
from the sky. Who am I that I should
have thought to win a crown without
taking up a CROSSE"
II am sorry for you"
ooh, Prue, there must be a way to
save the souls of such as you, even in
their blindness. Would God make a
flower like you, only to let it be lost?
There must be a way. I shall pray
until I force it from the secret
heavens"
my soul will be very well, sir!!" she
retorted, with a distinct trace of as
perity. IT am not a heather, I'd thank
you to remember-and when I'm a
wife I shall be my husbands wife"
He WINGED in acutest pain.
"You have no right to taunt me so.
Else you can't know what you have
meant to me. Oh, you were all the
world, child-you, of your own dear
self-you would have been all the
wives in the world to me-there are
many, many of you, and all in a
heavenly one"
ooh, forgive me, dearest" she creid,
and put out a little gloved hand to
comfort him. II know, I know-all the
sweetness and goodness of your love,
believe me. See, I have kept always
by me the little Bible you gave me on
my birthday have treasured it, and
I know it has made me a better girl,
because it makes me always think of
your goodness-but I couldn't have
gone-and that marrying is so
odious-".
"You shall see how little you had to
fear Of that doctrine which God has
seen fit to reveal to these good men. I
tell you now, Prue, I shall wed no
woman but you. Nor am l giving you
up. Don't think it. I am doing my
duty and trusting God to bring you TO
me. I know He will do it tell you
there is the spirit of some strange.
awful strength in me, which tells me
to ask what l will and it shall be given
to seek to do anything, how great
or hard soever, and a giants, a gods
strength will rest in me. And 81 I
know you will come. You will always
think Of M so-waiting for YOU
somehow, somewhere. Every day you
must think it, at any idle moment
when I come to your mind; every
night when you waken in the dark
and silence, you must think: sWher-
ever he is, he is waiting for me, per-
haps awake as I am now, praying,
with a power that will surely draw
me- You will come somehow. Per-
haps, when I reach winter quarters,
you will have changed your mind. One
these little p~rovidences. But He will
bring you safe to me out of that Cen
tile perdition. Remember, child, God
has set His hand in these last days to
save the human family from the ruins
of the fall, and some way, He alone
knows how, you will come to me and
find me waiting"
"As if you needed to walt for me
when I am here now ready for you,
willing to be taken!"
Don't, don't, dear! There r two
of me now, and n can't stand the
pain. There is a man in me, sworn
to do a mans work like a man, and
duty to God and the priesthood has big
chains around his heart dragging it
across the river. But, low, now"
there is a little, forlorn boy in me, too
Z poor, crying, whimpering, babyish
little boy, who dreamed of you and
longed for you and was promised you,
and who will never get well of losing
you. Oh, I know it we'll enough-his
tears will never dry, his heart will al.
ways have a big hurt in it-and your
face will always be SO fresh and clear
in it,"
He put his hands on her shoulders
and looked down into the face under
the bonnet.
"Let me make sure I shall lose nc
look of you, from little tilted chin, and
lips of scarlet thread, and little teeth
like grains of rice, and eyes into which
I used to wander and wonder so far"
She looked past him and stepped
back.
"Capt. Girnway is coming for me
yonder, away down the street. He
takes me to Carthage"
His face hardened as he looked ove1
his shoulder.
II shall never wed any woman but
you. Can you feel as deeply as that:
Will you wed no man but me?"
She f1uttered the cherry ribbons on
the bonnet and fixed a stray curl
in front of one ear.
"Have you a right to ask that? ]
might wait a time for you to come
back-to your enses and to me
but"
"Good-by, darling!"
What, will you go that way-not
kiss me? He is still two blocks