Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-06

ticed him as Maddy used to do lie had
not been sent to the asylum. as Maddy
feared, but by way of relieving Flora had
been taken to Farmer Green'N where he
was SO homesick and discontented that at
Guys instigation he was suffered to re-
turn to the cottage crying like little
child when the old familiar spot was
reached, kissing his armchair, the cook
stove the tongs, Mrs. Noah, and Flora,
and timidly Offering to kiss the Lord Gov
ernor himself as he persisted in calling
Guy, who declined the honor.
Guy had passed through several stateA
of mind during the interval in which we
have seen so little Of him. Furious at
one time and reckless as to consequences,
he had determined to break with Lucy
and marry Maddy, in spite of everybody
then, as a sense of honor came over him,
he resolved to forget Maddy, if possible,
and marry Lucy at once 1t was in this
last mood, and while roaming over the
western country, whittier after his ban
ishment he had gone, that he wrote to
Lucy a strange kind of letter, saying he
had waited for her long enough. and,
sick or well, he should claim her the COM
ing autumn. To this letter Lucy had re-
sponded quickly, sweetly reproving Guy
for his impatience, softly limiting that
latterly he had been quite as culpable as
herself in the matter of deferring their
union and appointing the wedding day
for December. After this was settled
Guy felt better, though the old sore spot
l.. I, Nod DIV lyAa ho
been, was very sore still, and sometimes
it required all his powers of self-control
to keep from writing to Lucy and asking
to be released from an engagement so irk-
some as his had become. Neglecting to
answer Agnes letters when he first left
home, she did not know where he was un-
til a short time before, when she wrote
apprising him of grandpas death and
Maddy's severe illness. This brought
him, while Maddy's involuntary outburst
when she met him in the graveyard,
changed the whole current of his inten-
tions. Let what would come, Maddy
CLYDE should be his wife, and as such he
watched over her, nursing her back to
life, and by his manner effectually silenc-
ing all remark, so that the neighbors
whispered among themselves what Mad
dys prospects were, and as was quite
natural. were a little more attentive to
the future lady of Aikenside. Poor Mad
dy! it was terrible trial which await
her. but it must be met and so with pray
ers and tears she fortified herself 10 4
meet it. while Guy, the devoted lover :
hung over her. never guessing OF all rhat
was passing in her mind or how, when
he was out of sight, the lips he had long L
ed so much to kiss. but never had since
that day in the graveyard, quivered with 5
anguish as they asked for strength to do K
right. Oh, how Maddy did love the man Z
she must give up. and how often went up r
The wailing cry, Help me, Father, to do >,
nv duty and give me, too, greater In
,lination to do it than l now possess :.
Maddy's heart did fail her sometimes
md she might have yielded to the tempta-
ion. but for Lucys letter, full of eager b
of the happy time when n
the and Guy should never part again. W
Sometimes" she wrote, there comes lr
,ver me a dark foreboding of evil-a fear lie
hat | shall miss the cup now within my +,
each: but | pray the bad feeling away.
am sure there is no living being who will
,ome between US to break my heart, and
is | know God doeth all things well.
rust Him wholly and cease to doubt
1t was well the letter came when II
lid. as it helped Maddy to meet the hour
he so much dreaded, and which came
It last on an afternoon when Mrs. Noah
lad gone to Aikenside, and Flora had
,one on an errand to a neighbor's, two
niles away thus leaving Guy free to tell
lis story. the old, old story, yet always
lew to him who tells it and her who lis
ens-story which, as Guy told it, sitting
" Maddy's side, with her hands in his,
hrilled her through and through, making g..
he sweat drops start out around her lips ;,
nd underneath her hair-story which 10
lade Guy himself pant nervously and oi'
remble like leaf so earnestly he told III
how long he had loved her, of the pic lo'
ure withheld. the jealousy he felt each iOl
ime the doctor named her, the selfish joy
e experienced when he heard the doctor
as refused told of his growing dissatis-
action with his enga cement. his frequent
asolves to break it. his final decision, "'
'hich that scene in the graveyard had hl'
aversed, and then asked if she would not co
e his not doubtfully, but confidently, tn
lgerly, as if sure of her answer. Is
Ito be continued.) To