The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07


81 him irls b wildcat You see. ahe
had been badgered 70 death By people
who wanted g reform her. and then
she hated men anyway. not having
met any but the worst specimens Of
them. We had to pun the padre away.
His face was an scratched and bleed
ing
But he came again the next day.
and a week later, and az last be had
sort Of awed the girl Didn't preach
to her or anything. but just asked her
to tell him what Il was that troubled
her. We couldn't make It out at all.
We thought he had overcome her, the
coWed way she acted.
'Then be had to go away. He new
er came back 70 Edmonton. at least
not that year. We heard afterward
that he had been clawed by a bear,
miles north. from one Of the police,
who said he'd seen the padre after the
accident, and that he didn't think he
could recover. That was after Ida
had served, ten months.
Eve let her out after ten months
glad to. First thing she did was to
go looking for the padre, breathing
vengeance on the way he'd treated
her. asking questions he knew wor-
ried her, about her soul, and all that
Said she'd Kill him II she got hold Of
him. Then she found out he'd gone
North and was believed to have died
there. Anyway, there wouldn't be
any news Of him for the winter, not
until the police came down in the
spring with their report
Ida disappeared from town. No
body guessed she was going north to
kin what remained OF Reverend Haul
er. She disappeared completely from
the minds OF all. Edmonton was
changing all the time and new faces
succeeded the old ones
1T must have been two years later
when who should turn up in town but
Reverend Haufer himself. He looked
sort OF changed. He'd grown stOuter,
filled out physically and spiritually,
too. should say; but he was as fine
a man as ever.
so you wasn't killedY asked
him.
e Not much. he answered. I've
got that bearskin at home. What is
Edmonton like?" he continued. I'm
to have charge Of the Moravian church
here
He'd given up the rowing life Ap-
parently his superiors wanted him to
take a hand in the care Of the grow
/ ing frontier town He'd put up at
Shamus' hotel, and was starting out
to build a house on what was then
Main street. There it is. Prettiest
little place along the road, isn't i'll
And he did it all himself-laid every
stone and the carpentering was the
work of his hands besides"
Down the street came a burly, mid
dle-aged man, accompanied by a
charming woman in middle life. She
looked half-Indian, but there was higt
refinement in the sweet face and OF
the noble forehead.
THAT washer" said the old from
tiersman in a low tone. There ain
many know It now, and we old-timeri
don't do much talking"
THAT was-Lida?" I demanded in
credulously.
Fact sir She'd gone up north Of
snowshoes, 290 miles or more; an6
she found him and pulled him through
his illness and-and a brother mis-
sionary married them there. Tha
was what was wrong in her, you see
She thought all men were like tn
kind she'd known And when a won
an thinks that OF men, or a man o
women-weI. it's against nature. Sh
learned differently in those nights an
days when she sat at his bedside tend
ing him. And that was what broke u
the badness in her. But we don
speak Of that, because she's presiden
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