Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-05

square to upper Main street, where
naples lined the thoroughfare and the
mansions Of the affiuent stood among
pleasant lawns and strawberries.
1t was late, for this had been COM
munon Sunday, and those far in adj
vance, who had already reached the
pretty and shady part of the street,
were members Of the churches where
services had been shortest, though few
in the long parade looked as il 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 gloom to the itin-
Grant concourse, most OF them wearing
hot, long black coats and having wilt
ed their collars, the ladies relieving
this gloom somewhat by the lighter
tints Of their garments, the spick and
span little girls relieving it greatly by
their white dresses and their faces, the
latter bright with the hope of Sunday
ice cream while the boys, experiencing
some solace in that they were finally
out where person could at least
scratch himself if he had to, yet OPP
pressed by the decorous necessities Of
the day. marched along, furtively
planning behind imperturbably secre-
tive countenances various means for
the later dispersal of an odious monot-
Ony.
Usually the conversation of this long
string of the homeward bound was
not too frivolous or worldly. Nay; it
properly inclined to discussion Of the
sermon
1t was q serious and seemly Sunday
parade. the propriety of whose beha-
vior was today almost disintegrated
when the lady of the bridge walked up
the street in the shadow of a lacy law
ender parasol carried by Joseph Lou
den. The congregation Of the church
across the square-that to which Joe's
stepaunt had been late-was just de-
bouching almost in mass, upon Main
street when these two went by. 1t is
not quite the truth to say that all ex-
cept the children came to dead halt,
but it is not very far from 1t. The air
was thick with subdued ordinations
and whisperings.
Here is no mystery. Joe was prob
ably the only person of respectable
derivation in Canaan who had not
known for weeks that Ariel Tabor was
OH her way home And the news that
she had arrived the night before had
been widely disseminated on the way
to church, entering church, in church
(even SOP and coming out Of church.
An account of her house in the Ave
nue. Henri Martin and of her portrait
in the Salon-a mysterious business to
many and not lacking in grandeur for
that-had occupied two columns IN
the Tocsin on day some months be-
fore when Joe had found himself in
| imically headlined on the first page
and had dropped the paper without
reading further. Ariers name had
been in the mouth Of Canaan for q
! long overwhelmingly for Joe, how
ever, not in the mouth Of that Canaan
| WHICH, lClu COANCLSC WALA AAAA'
Joe had not known her. The WON
en- recognized her infallibly at first
glance, even those who had quite for
gotten her. And the women told theil
men; hence the un-Sunday-like de
meanor Of the procession. for few
/ towns hold 1t more unseemly to stane
and stare at passersby. especially or
the Sabbath But Ariel Taoor return
ed-and walking with-with Joe Lou
den!
Ariel flushed little when she per
ceived the extent Of their conspicuous
ness, but it was not the blush that Joe
remembered mad REDEEMED the tanned
skin of old for her BROWNIES had
gone long ago. though it had not left
her merely pink and white. This was
delicate rosiness rising from he
cheeks to her temples, as the earlies
words left in Joe he would have calle'
it a divine blush. 1t fascinated him
and if anything could have deepenet
the glamour about her it would hav
been this blush. He did not under
stand it, but when he saw it he STUN
bled
These who gaped and stared wer
for him only blurs in the background
/ Truly, he saw "men as trees walk
Ing" and when it became necessary t
step out to the curb in passing som
clump of people it was to him as i
Ariel and he, enchantedly alone, wer
working their way through underbrusl
in the woods.
He kept trying to realize that thi
lady of wonder was Ariel Tabor, bu
he could not. He could not connect tn
shabby Ariel, whom he had treated a
one boy treats another, with this youn,
woman of the world. He had Away
been embarrassed himself and ashamed
of her when anything she did mad
him remember that, after all, she was
girl, as on the day he ran away whel
she kissed a lock of his hair escapin,
from the bandage. With that recollec
ton even his ears grew red. 1t dit
not seem probable that it would eve
happen again. The next instant h
heard himself calling her Miss Ia
bor."
At this she seemed amused. "Yol
ought to have called me that years
ago." she said, s'for all you knew me-
81 did know her-you, mean," h
answered. tI used to know nearl.