The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-05-05


know ! must have told You thousand
times thnt II was likc d nice friendly
puppy. NO why shouldn't sny no
now7 And your eyebrows! When you
look like that nobody could ever for
get yon. joe,
Iie rose from the hog, and the mon.
grei leaped upon him uproariously,
thinking thsy were to no home belize
10 food.
The lady laughed aguip, Don't lot
him spoil my parasol. And | must
warn you now; Never. never tread on
my skirt! I'm very irritable about such
thingal"
He had taken three or four uncertain
backward steps from her, She sat be-
fore him. radiant with laughter, the
lovelicst creature he hnd ever seea.
but between hm and ilIs charming
vision there swept through lie warm,
scented June mir, Yeil Of snow like 4
driven fog. aud hal. ohscurcd IN the
heart of Il young glri stood knee deep
IN drift pied against m old picket
gate. her black waterproof aud shabby
skirt happsng In the blizzard like torn
sails. one ot her hands outNtrctched 10
ward him, Ter startled eyes fixed on
bis.
And. oh, how like you" said the
lady: how like you and nobody else la
tho world. Joe. 10 have yellow dogP
"Arlei Tnlprw
His lips sormcd tho words wlthon;
sound.
isn't II about timer" she said "Arc
strange ladies In the habit OF descend
Ing from trains TO take you homer"
Once. upon a white morning long ago.
the sensational progress OF certain
youth up Main street had stirred Ca
naan, But that day was us nothing 10
this, Mr. Rantry had left temporary
paralysis In his wake. but In the case
OF the two young people who passed
slowly along the street today II was
petrlfac,Ion, which seemingly threat.
ened In several instances tinost nota
bly, thnt Of Mr. Arp 10 become perna.
nent.
The lower portion OF the street, llncd
with three and four story buildings OF
brick and stone, rather grim and hot
facad.s under The midday sun. afford.
cd little shade 20 the church comers.
who were working homeward In pro.
ccssional little groups and clumps,
none walking fast, though none with
the appearance Of great leisure. since
neither rate OF progress would hare
been esteemed betting the day, The
growth OF Canaan, steady. though new
or startling, had left almost all OF the
churches downtown, and Main street
the principal avenue OF communication
between them and the residence see
ton" SO tsday the intermittent pro.
cesslon stretched along the new cement
sidewalks from little below the
square TO upper Main street, where
naples lined the thoroughfare aud the
mansions OF the afiluent stood among
pleasant lawns and strawberries.
II was lato, for this had been com.
munlon Sunday, and those far In ad.
vance, who had already reached the
pretty aud shady part Of the street
were members OF the churches where
services had been shortest, though few
IL .
In the long parade looked as II they
had been attending anything very
short, and many heads OF families were
crisp In their replies to the theological
inquiries OF their offspring, The men
impaired largely a gloom to the ltn.
Grant coneo'irse, most Of them wearing
hot, long black coats and having wilt
cd their collars, the ladies' relieving
this gloom somewhat by the lighter
tints Of their garments, the splck aud
span little girls relieving 1t greatly Ivy
their white dresses and their faces, the
latter brlght with the hope of Sunday
Ice cream, while the boys, experienclng
some solace In that they were flnall!
out where n person could at least
scratch himself II he had to, yet op
pressed by the decorous necessities Of
the day. marched along, furtlveiy
planning behind lmperturbahly secre
tive counteiances various means for
the later dispersal OF an odlous nlonot-
ony.
Usually the conversation OF this long
string OF the homeward bound was
not too frivolous or worldly. Nay; II
properly inclined to discussion Of the
sermon.
II was a serious and seemly Sunday
parade, tho propriety Of whose beha
vior was today almost dIslntegrated
when the lady Of the bridge walked M
the street III the shadow Of a lacy lav
ender parasol carried by Joseph Lon
den. The congregation of the church
across the sluare--that to which Joe'2
stepaunt had been late was just dc
bouching, almost In mass, upon Main
street when these two went by. 1t II
not quite the truth to say that all eS
cept the children came to a dead haU Z
but 1t is not very far from It The vt
was thick with subdued exclamation
aud whlsperlngs,
Here is no mystery, Joe was proc
ably the only person Of respectable
derivation In Canaan who had no
known for weeks that Ariel Tabor was
on her way home. And the news thai