Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-01
her when .he was at home: 1t SEEM

A1Sk ~ IL WAS CIV ~
ed a pleasant thing to do. cE5F
The service was beautifully solemn
and Doctor Thurlow had many gra-
cious words to say of the boys in
army, and spent much time readlns
letters from those at the front who
belonged to the church and Sunday
school, and spoke Of the supreme
sacrifice" in the light of a saving
grace; Nbut the sermon was a gentle
i~ponderous thing that got nowhere.
spiced toward its close with thrilling
scenes from battle news. John Cam
eron as-he listened did not feel that
he had found God. He did not feel
a bit enlightened by it. He laid it to
his own ignorance and stupidity,
though, and determined not to give
up 1.-The search. The prayer at the
close Of the sermon somehow clinch-
ed this resolve because there was
: something so genuine and sweet and
earnest<about it, He could not help
more Of God than he was able to
make plain 10 his hearers. He had
really never noticed either a prayer
or u sermon before in his life. He
had sat in the room with very few.
He wondered if all sermons and pray
,ers We're like these and wished he
had noticed them. He had never
been much of a church goer.
+ But the climax, the real heart of
his whole two days, was after Sun
day dinner when he went out to call
upon Ruth Macdonald. And it was
characteristic of his whole reticent
mature, and the way he had been
drought up, that he did not tell his
Inother where he was going. 1t had
never occurred to him to tell her his
movements when they did not direct
tIy concern her. and she had never
brought herself up 10 ask him. 1t is
the habit of some wonle and many
mothers.
great embarrassment fell upon
him as he entered the grounds Of the
Macdonald place. and when he stood
before the plate-glass doors waiting
for an answer to his ring he would
have turned and fed il he had not
promised to come.
1T was perhaps not an accident
that Ruth let him in herself and took
him to a big quiet library with wide.
open windows overlooking the lawn,
and heavy curtains shutting them in
from the rest Of the house, where, to
his great amazement, he could fee
at once at cas- with her and talk tc
her just as he had done in her let.
tiers n his own.
oOA'ASAiOn ~ Was llhe HAVING d lie
time dream suddenly fulfilled Ito be
sitting this way in pleasant converse
with her, watching the lights AND
shadows OF expression fit across hel
sensitive face, and knowing that the
light In her eyes was for him. i
seemed incredible, but she evidentl,
enjoyed talking to him. Afterward.
he thought about it az If their soul.
had been calling to n another
across infinite space, things tina
neither ofsthem could quite hear, ant
now they We're within. mailing dis
lance. ~
He had thanked her for the Sweat
er and other things. and they hat
talked a little about the old schoo
4 days andS-how life changed people
when he happened to glance out, o
the window near him andlsa& q mai
in omcer's uniform approaching. n,
stopped short in the,s midst OF a sen
tence and. rose, his face set, his eye
Istills on the rapidly approaching sol
"I'm Sorry he sald..I shall hava,
to 60, It's been wonderful to come
but i must: gols, at SsuncA. Pertap
you'll let me go out this $way. tits
shorter cuts hanksaY o4s . every
= thing, andSperhaps ifsthere,sS ever an
Other ttmer.T-Ids like toscOn1e again
%.Oh, please don't 10 YETI she sal,
putting out her hand91n protest. Blu
he graspeds the hand wtthfafquick i'm
'kpulsive grip and with ~ hasty: "I.n
sorry, but I Emust!'s he opened tn,
glass door to the side piazza and wa
gones ~
In much bewildermsnt and distres
Ruth watched him stride away to
ward the hedge and disappear. The,
she turned t9sthe front window an,
caught A. gliInpSs s;pf sLteutenan
Wainwright Just monnting the from
steps; Whist did Vt a~iigrTnts&nn?