The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-05

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" graces. Her quick. springing ster
was in harmony with the lire and
courage Of her mlen. There was line
or two in her face small wonder. But
an "unconquerable sour shone in her
eyes, shone. too, in no uncertain way.
but brightly and steadily, expressing
an mistaken Joy In living, Valiant.
| splendid, indonitable Waitstili. He
could never tell her, alas: But how be
gloried in her. 2
1t is needless to say that no woman
could be the possessor OF such a love
as Ivory Boyhton's and not know Of
its existence. WaitstiIl never heard d
breath Of 1t from Ivory's lips; even his
eyes We're under control and confessed
nothing, nor did his hand ever CLASP
hers to show BY. 9. telltaIe touch the
truth he dared not utter: nevertheless
she felt that she was beloved. She
hid the knowledge deep in her heart
and covered It softly from every eye
but her own. taking It out in the safe
darkness sometimes to wonder over
and adore in secret. Did her love for
Ivory rest partly on a sense Of yoca-
don-a profohhd. inarticulate disining
Of his vast need Of her? He was 50
strong, yet SO weak because Of the
yoke he bore, so bitterly alone in his
desperate struggle with life, that her
heart melted like wax whenever She
thought OF him. When she eontem-
plated the hidden mutiny in her own
heart, she was awestruck sometimes at
the almost divine patience of Ivory s
conduct as son.
How is your mother this summer.
1vory?" she asked rs they sat down
on the meeting house steps waiting for
Jed Morrill, to open the door,
There is little change in. her from
year To- year. Wsitstiil-by the: way.
why don't We get, out Of this afternoon
sun and sit in the old graveyard under
the trees? We are early and the choir
won't get here for half an hour. DR..
Perry says that he does not understand
mothers case in the least and that no
one but some great Boston physician
could give a proper opinion on it; OF
course that is impossible at present"
They sat down on the grass under
meath one of the elms. and Waitstill
took off her hat and leaned back
against the tree trunk.
Tell me more" she said: at is so
long since we, talked together quietly.
and we have never really spoken Of
your mother ~ 9'.t'
"of course" Ivory continued. "the
people of the village all think aud
speak Of mothers illness as religious
insanity, but to me it seems nothing Of
the sort. was only child when ia
Their first fell in with Jacob Cochrane.
but Twas twelve when father. went
away from home on his mission and
II there was any one suffering from
decisions in our family 1t was he. NOT
mother. She had altogether given up
Eoing to the CocFrane meetings, and
well remember the scene when my Ia.
her tod her of the revelation he had
,eceiyed about going through the state
- d into New Hampshire In order to
convert others and extend the move
ment, She had no sympathy with his
self imposed mission, you may be sure,
though now she goes back in her mem.
DRY to the earlier days of her married
life, when she tTisd hard, poor soul,
to tread the same path that father was
treading. SO as to be by his side at
every f1lrn of fha rad
4 am sure ihere Ivory's tone was
somewhat dry and satiricaD that. IA
theirs road had many turns. Waitstill!
He was schoolhaster in Saco, you
know, when l was born, but he soon
turned from teaching to preaching. and
here my mother followed with entire
sympathy for she was intensely, de-
voutly religious. said there was lit
tie change in her, but there is one new
SYMPTOM. She has ceased to refer to
her conversion to Cochranism as
blessed experience. Her memory OF
those first days seems to have, faded
As to her sisters death and all the cir
cumstances Of her bringing Rodman
home. her mind is blank. Her ex-
pectation Of fathers return, on the
other hand, Is much more intense than
ever"
HShe must have loved your father
dearly, ivory, and to lose him in this
, terrible way is much worse than death,
Uncle Bart says he had a great giftsof
languagegs ~
Yes, and it was that, in my mind,
that led him astray. / fear that the
spirit OF God was never so strong In.
father' as the desire to influence peo-
pie by his eFatory.. That was what
drew him to preaching in the first
place. and when he found In Jacob
Cochrane a man who could move an
audience to frenzy, lift them out Of
the body and do with their spirits as
he willed he acknowledged him as
master. .whether his gospel WINS a
pure and. undecided religion doubt
but he certainly was a master OF mes
merle control. My mother was be
grlied, entraneed. even bewitchel' at
lirst, ! doubt not, for she translated
N TINT Cochfane said into her own