Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-10
she offered. anxious for an excuse to

get out and explore the rack.
The woman in the Kitchen vas not
abashed at the offer: She accepted
the suggestion as a matter of course,
taking for granted the same helpful
spirit hat seemed to pervade all the
seem to strike her as anything
strange ,that this young woman
should be willing to go for water.
She was not giving attention to de.
tails like clothes and handbags, and
neither wealth nor social station be-
longed to her scheme of life. SO she
smilingly gave the directions to the
pump and went on breaking nice
brown eggs into a big yellow bowl:
watch. it looked so interesting.
y She took the pail and slipped out
the back door, but before she went
in search Of water she hurried down
to the railroad track and scanned it
for several rods either way. carefully
examining each bit Of paper, her
breaty held in suspense as she turn
ed over an envelope or scrap OF pa~
per, lest it might bear his m AT
last with a glad look backward to be
sure h had missed nothing. she
way down the grassy path toward the
pump, satisfied that Cameron had
not yet left the camp.
1t was, a lovely summer morning,
and the : quietness of the country
struck her as never before. The wild
roses shimmered along the roadside
in the early sun, and bees and butter
flies WERE busy about their own af-
fairs. 1t, seemed SUCH a lovely world
If 1t only had not been for war. How
could God bear it, She lifted her
eyes to the deep blue of the sky,
where little clouds foated lazily, like
God up there If she might only
find Him. What did it all mean,
anyway? Did He really care for in-
dividuals?
It was all such a new experience,
the village pump, and the few early
stragglers watching her curiously
from the station platform. A couple
Of grave soldiers hurried by, and the
nangx !Sf what vas t. to come shot OF
the-day was full of mingled joy and
They ate a simple Attle breakfast,
good coffee, toast and fried eggs.
Ruth wondered why it tasted so good
lamid> such primitive surroundings;
yet everything was SO clean Inc tidy,
thought coarse and plain. When they
went to pay their bill the proprietor
said their beds would\be only twenty
five cents apiece because they had
lad no pillow. II they had had a
them fifty cents. The food was fabH-
Ilously cheap. They looked around
and wondered how it would be done.
1t was obvious that no tips would be
Freceived. and that money was ing
consideration. In fact, the man told
them his orders were merely to pay
expenses. He gave them a parting
word of good cheer, and promised to
try and make them more COM
Portable if they wanted to return that
night, and SO they started out for
camp. Ruth was silent and thought
full. She was wishing she had had
the boldness to ask this quaint Chris
tian maj some Of the questions that
troubled her. He>lookedAas II he
knew God. and she felt as II he
might be able to make some things
plain to her. But her life had beer
so hedged' about by conventionafitiAe
that It seemed an impossible thing I'd
hey to open her lips ON the subject to
any Lying being-unless 1t might be
to John Cameron. It W>s-qBeer how
Jast few months. Why could they
not have known one another before?
Then there anne a vision of Swhat
hen aunt might haye thought, and
possible objections that might have
come up II they had been intimate
friends earlier. In fact. that, too,
seemed practically to have been an
f~irnpoasibility. How had the war torn
away the veil from foolish lays OF
social rank and station! Never again
|eolid she submit to much OF the sys-
tam That ho1M hnnn <kA <Nsv~InfSo ~