The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-01-16

he would probably have the whole
pew TO himself. In some ways, Ton
Everleigh was very exclusive. BE
sides, II struck him as rather humor
GUS that he should be in a churcl
again He listened. not at all. TO the
service. but when the old rector arose
and gave out the text, something ir
the words caught his attention.
"The General Epistle of Jude
twelfth and thirteenth verses"
The stranger heard nothing of the
sermon, but the words of the text:
Clouds without water, carried along
By winds; autumn trees without fruit
twice dead, plucked up by the root;
wandering stars" The words kept re-
peating themselves in his brain. How
well they applied to him. Thomas Ev-
erleighl
The sermon was over. and the col
lection about to be taken, when Ever
leigh's attention was attracted TO a
tall, fair girl who came from the front
pew over TO the little organ The
strains of hymn filed the church and
the sweet natural voice began to sing.
1t was all so simply done. and so soon
over, yet It made the man who had
listened perhaps the most intently of
all, think of many things that had not
crossed HIS mind for years. Tom Ever
leigh was an artist at odds with Fate
which, after severe attack OF pneu-
monia, had driven him to the west,
and as he chose to believe, blasted his
career.
When Everleigh reached the house
where he occupied two fine sunny
rooms, he asked his landlady, Mrs.
Brown, If she could tell him the name
of the young girl who sang In church.
Mrs. Brown frightened up at once
DO you mean the pretty young lady
with golden hair and eyes Of heavens
own blue?"
Everleigh had always suspected as
we'll feared, a poetic streak in Mrs.
Brown, so he answered bluntly: T
haven't an idea what color her eyes
were, but believe she did have yellow
hair"
But the woman's good nature was as
strong as her poetic instinct and she
was only too thankful for a chance to
talk. She went on to tell him the
singer was Miss Edith Vincent the
reotor's granddaughter, home for her
summer vacation. Her parents had
died long ago, leaving her very little
money and she had been teaching for
two winters in a large school in st.
Paul. She intended to go back in the
fall, II In the naeantime-here his In
formant's voice dropped to a mysteri-
ous whisper-she did not get married.
The assiduous devotion Of an admirer
N st, Paul was then hinted at, and
also the hopeless passion of the doctor
In the next town.
By this time Everleigh noticed that
his dinner, which he always had
served in HIS room, was getting cold.
he turned his attention to the meal
md Mrs. Brown was tacitly dismissed
That afternoon Tom Everleigh took
advantage of an invitation, and called
It the rectory. He had the pleasure
# meeting the rector's granddaughter.
whom he thought the most attractive
,irl he had ever seen.
Later in the week, he called again,
nd then he acquired the habit of
ropping in at Rev. Mr.. Vincent's
ouse frequently. But 1t was seldom
hat he saw Miss Vincent. She was
he busiest person he had ever known.
tut one afternoon he found her olsen
aged for few hours and, at his sug-
estion, they went for a walk.
Though they had not seen a great
cal Of each other, the acquaintance
ad ripened. He told her much of his ,
asst life, and in the recital, she was !
uick to detect the hardness and the
ebellion at Fate, also a certain flip
ant and insincere note. She was
orTy for him but, after all, he was
My threatened with a dread disease.
.e had inherited enough money on .
hich to live comfortably; he might
time hope to return to his work in
le city. She knew so many who were
Ifnitely worse off and she could not
very heartily with the man
efore her. He felt that he was being {
lversely criticized, fact which did I
1t please him at all.
I'm afraid, Miss Vincent, you have
.ther poor opinion of me-" The
ords were humble enough, but the .
ne courted contradiction.
"Not exactly that" she replied. "But
think you have wrong idea of
any things" U
"You are trying to let me down u
silly, but am convinced you think n
Q selfish sort of fellow"
Edith Vincent was a little tempted r.
say that she had not given the sub
ct much thought one way or the a
her, but she felt he didn't quite de- r.
rye this. Without answering, she p
0oped to pick a few wild flowers "
lich fringed the road.
We'll, l am selfish" he continued. u
tut then I have always considered 1t W
mewhat Of duty to be that" el
"a duty" C
yes, in order to make other people M
selfish!" He laughed. u
And when it comes to truthfulness," u
2 girl added, to punish him for his II
Dpancy, 81 fancy you consider it X
lite too sacred thing to be used u
We on rare occasions?" III
This time 1t was Everleigh who %
,oped to gather a flower. Then he NJ
d; What you really mean is that
mellow l have gotten the threads of IL
: all beautifully twisted?" ia