The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-21
BY s. n. CROCKETT,
Author Of The Stlekit Minister, Etc.

John could only discern tho white
blur OF wbitewash, then the black OBJ
long of door.
I'm get the BARN, she added.
Hand the reius. the herd com.
manded, ''Bido where yo are. -
Tremblingly the woman obeyed, ven
turing only the timid remonstrnnce.
''But they will n be IN their beds"
Hand the reins! -
fle went 10 a window and tapped.
! Then he tapped again. a man g sharp
/ voice barked from within. Then as the
! qucstloner was recognized, 1t subsidized
into the continuous quiet of men s busI-
ness communications with one another.
John came back 10 the gig.
Hap yourself up, Mary ne said,
There s nae need for them 10 see that
you arc here. ~
1t was the first time that night that
he had used her Christian name, and
she nearly dropped the rcins IN her
gratitude. She leaned down to touch
him in the darkness.
'Oh, John, ye love mel-Yc Wilma
gang ava -
That we IL see when the BARN S
safe at Balminnie.N ne answered, but
there was great kindness in his voice
which Mary Colvend caught at once.
Still there is no such thing ms instant
aneous conversion, Mt lcast in the affairs
of this earth.
"Oh. John" she moaned, eye loe
her mair than we loe me.
1--WE il see, ell see, Mary he
answered, crow the shawl close sboot
your held, and IL hand ye up tho BARN
when they bring her doom.
"Oh, We will love her and no mel
And the mistress of Balminnio rocked
herself TO and fro in the gig.
INA, ma, said John comfortingly.
there s nae comparison between a
loves. But Che put his broad 'shep-
herd s hand up till it touched her chill
one on the reins), "mind she is to be
oors-yours and mine, Mary. You are
to love her-Gs il she were our ain.
Hear ye, Msry?n
81 hear, John, - she said. 81 III do it,
if We will only love me- first and
best ~
She had taken the herd s hand. twist
among the reins so that old Grey
heaved up his head. He did not under
stand why they kept him standing
there in the cold, and yet tugged so at
his bride.
Whecsht. Mary" said John stoba,
"they are comm -.yonder S light. y
Say it, Johnl ~
''Say what, ye foolish woman7n
That ye loe me first and best We
] couldna help it, Maybe it was a sin,
hut never do ed him! How could
onybody loe hint"
1'Mary,' he said ''yc are temptin
Providence juist terrible"
Il did do" she said, sobbing
But ] could say nae ither--no even
afore tho Judgment Throne! y
"Oh, Mary, ye shouldna speak sic
words" whispered tho herd, "ye ken
/ never G; g,issd ye cause; ; ,...,,r.
was 1T no cause eneuch JuIst TO see
Archie Colvend and you togither?"
''But / never spak 4" said the herd
"Then speak moo, answered the wo-
man, "say what ! bade We say-quick,
afore they come
"Then We will keep the BARN as oor
ain a your days1'
Il will, John. promise-as God
sees us in the black, black nichtl"
"Then I will say it, - said John Sto-
ba, like one taking oath. "Mary, I !
love We first and best. And we will !
put up the banns in Ba-maghie Kirk |
next Sabbath -
He ran TO the door, Little Aggis
for a night journey, was put
into his arms.
Wha's that wi We. John7' said |
The man voice from the dark door in |
which a solitary ''dip' glimmered
"Juist a friend" said John Stoba
shortly. Here gle me the reins TAX |
baud o the huirn-ave, that way
lneath your cloak Guid-nicht to We. - |
And thus they drove into the deeper
larkness-love in Mary S heart. and lit
.le Aggie contentedly nesting her
heck against her aunt 5 shoulder.
Next week Unemployed, by ] /
NJ. Jacobs,
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