The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20

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or food. Joanna also took long walks.
| sometimes with the other guests at
/ the hotel. more often alone. Doubt
| less in the opportunities for reflection
thus afforded her she was reaching
conclusions concerning her future.
| 4 few weeks later Joanna was walk
ing with quick. nervous. determined
steps through the wood behind the
hotel As she swung into the path
toward the camp OF the man Friday
she flushed to her temples. She kept
repeating TO herself what a woman on
the piazza had said last night-''the
sort OF young person who picks up ac-
quaintances in haphazard style
She walked on bravely and directly.
She had never gone unaccompanied
beyond the crossroads since the first
day. He had always met her. by a
happy chance. somewhere on the hills.
He looked up at the sound of her ap-
proach and sprang TO his feet to come
hastily and happily toward her.
You said yesterday that you would
not come out with me today" he cried.
-or | should have been lurking about
in the woods
81 know. But rye come"
She spoke heavily and paused. Then
she hurried on quickly
I've just come to my senses" she
said. Twelve been crazy-this last
month-crazy with freedom and OBJ
stinacy.
You've been the most
NO. no. Don't stop me. I want 10
say it all and go away. I've acted
the way | have. I've picnicked with
you. hshed with you. tramped with
you. a stranger. out OF bravado and
WAS il nothing but bravado?- ask
ed the man Friday. very pale himself
now.
'Oh. yes, The sweetness of it the
beauty of i'll can't say what | mean.
but it was like dewy mornings. Oh
I've liked it. I've liked it very much.
and il never seemed 10 me for a min
ute horrid and common and vulgar.
But last night began TO see how you
must think Of il. Of me-
Have done anything to make you
believe that thought anything IN
worthy of''-he hesitated and looked
at her. then looked around him-~ot
this?'"
NO. no. But you might some time
come to think of me as
What | think of you now shall
think of you always And that is this
oh. child. don't you know: That you
are the one woman for me-the one
woman? If you reproach yourself for
our meetings am TO blame. | should
have told you who | was. should have
gone TO that gossiping old hostelry of
yours and met you with all the rites
no. hang it. | should not have done
anything OF the sort. Why should |
have spoiled an idyl? | didn't want
you TO know who | was ar first Ii
makes an immediate difference in peo-
pies attitudes to learn that one is a
clergyman wanted 10 be just fell
low human for awhile--jusr man.
Whist is the matter. child. my DEAR"
For Joanna. after one wild look at
him. had burst into historical laugh. ,
II ended in a sob. smorhered ON his I
shoulder.
"Yes~-the Rev. Elijah spoke TO /
caller with a certain 4
placidity-'yes. Joanna is 10 4
cave us. or course you have heard Of
Or. Graham's work in New York:
they tell me that his city missionary
program is the finest one there He IS
rouns TO I've rector of so important a
.hurch as ST Jude's on the avenue.
)f course''-and the Rev. Elijah sigh
,d-'.we could have wished that he
was of our own denomination. but the
affections cannot be coerced. you
NOW. And Joanna's life work as Iris
wife will be very earnest one. None
Il our children. we are humbly proud
o say. has failed 10 lind useful. Sc
ious mission in the world"