The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24

been. and You try to be like spring :
stopped short, for Paul was wrig-
CLING about, most absently. ! moved
the vinegar cruet bit nervousIy and
glanced askance at the two at the next
table But they had not heard me,
any more than had the daffodils. And.
our train at that moment whistling,
Paul and | ran a merry race to the
ticket window, and ! tancied that
question Of Easter 10 be well over, and,
on the train. buried myself in my paper,
for this Paul expects Of me, and he
seldom interrupts. Therefore, ] was
not a little amazed when, some miles
on. he thrust his brown head to The
edge of my paper and doubtfully de-
manded;
''Do YOU S pose everybody on this
whole train knows that bout spring?'
1t was a long leap from some ques-
tiou of dividends. but | took it,
"They all know it Easter. at all
events, said J. And then my look
SKINNED the car and noted the tired
or bored or idly smiling profiles. All,
but did they knowl And did they
know that 1T was really spring, in
Paul" said gruffy, "I'm read
BY then he was looking down the
aisle at the beardless school master
and at his young wife, who. in her
simple fnery, | now observed TO be
exceedingly pretty, save for her droop
ing mouth,
''Now. do YOU pose they know2'i
Paul put il. in 3 whisper.
Bless me- said ] uneasily, chow
should ] tell2'
'fThat old CONDUCTOR Paul went
on. brushing his cheek thoughtfully on
the velvet of the seat back, "does he
know7'
paul, dear" I said, 81 cannot tell
Easter like that, you know"
"I guess l II go and tell 'em. Let s
decide who To tell first said Paul
with simplicity.
If 7 remember rightly it took mat
| ter of chocolate peppermlnts 10 per
suade the situation 10 adjust itself.
And when we had reached New York
and were snug in a brougham skim
ming up Fifth avenue in the sun | was
willing enough to hear his chatter.
! Paul always insists upon n broughom.
in which, / think, he seems TO bask
in some special magnificence, and when
we go in town together we invariably
we go in town together Paul quite
rules me. And that morning it was
at his express wish that we were 10
! 90 TO one of the great churches,
| though, myself. / confess that ] would
much have preferred visiting certain
! bare little mission of which. by the
merest accident ] chanced 10 know.
But Paul had urged the great church
for fhe doubtful reason that he did so
love to hear the organ ''burst out sud
! dem
IAN then there II he flowers" he
explained, hanging, jo9yously out the
carriage window, like our hill pas
tnre. ! tell YOU who knows bout to.
day beiu' spring The hill pasture an
| the peoples in church. Count o there
bein' so many lowers
Whereupon he stood up beside ME
and chanted about it,
'sHe donno it 9 Easter-and he don
no-an' he donno.' ne counted off the
idle crowds. "An' he thinks IS win
ter am she thinks so-an' she thinks
"Paul!0 7 cried, with my own
teaching become burden for my
hack. 7'You mustu t, you know. You
really mustn't. You cannot possibly
tell which people think as we do about
Easter and which ones don t..
Paul turned and regarded mo with his
perturbiug gravity.
"Can Z you teIll' ne asked plying
lv; "I can.
AZ the great church IT was as | had
feared, Indeed, ] had hidden our
broupham wait. fearing Just such a
contingency We were not early, and