Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-06
N EDITION.

L-|HFt AL-E.E
ing away the fact that she teldisr sm,
bu. he WIZ had Ruth Macdonald nos
nl,,. Vim the plain truth If n knent
u .u.u ahe irving to shield Harry. WILL -.
WAY : Could she really care 9
.That contemplate %scoundrei!
III +hourht in all its phases t2re
.,t,oind and kept him a Ior
W. far the crux of the Wnole ma
hpuls. NAT he was afraid that H44in
Mac1onald was going to marry ~.
,nt wainwright, and ne KNEW
mat II was no only for heI san.' pi
fnr his also that he did not wan. !,
that it was agony eve" ~
plate. ,is
Flo told himself, of course, tha1 ms
Interest was httefly unsellsn' -
|sheewas nothing to hin put q siisnIn T.
and never would be. and ma VS. -
might be bard to see her p 'sa nevo ~
m,ight be more than a passing friend,
It'll if would not be like seeing ner
go ~ :, rotten unprincipled fellow
lie Wainwright. The queer r OF
- was that the word rotten III con-
,oction with his enemy played a grfat
nxrt in his thoughts that nisht.
Somewhere in the watches of The
n;eht' =, memory came to him OF the
covcnant he had made that DAY n q
vague wistful reaching OF ms HeArt
after the Christ to whom ne was
supposed to ahave s~urrenusfcu NO
life. He wondered If n Cnl'st sucn 80
ithe strangcr had clal1neo ne uau,
would take an interest in the aHa1fs
W Rnth Macdonald. surely snc@ !:
lower of a. girl would be protected It
there was protection for anyone! ana
somehow he managed a queer niue
PRAYER for her, the first he had tried
to put up. 1t helped him a llttie'
and toward morning he fell asleep. .
Al few DAYS later in glancing
through his newly acquired Iestas'
, mcnt he came upon a verse when
greatly trouble him for a time. HIS
eve. had caught it at random ana
somehow it lodged in his mind:,-
"Forbearing one another. and for
giving one another. if amy man nave
La quarrel against any: even as Christ
forgave you, so also do Ec:
Somehow tho principle OF ,that
verse did not fit with his proud spirit.
He thought instantly of WainwriEht's
distastcful face and form. 1T seemedts
to loom before him with a SNUG trl,
iumphal 'sneer. His cnmity toWard'
the fellow nau Deen Ol years stdAiuE
ing. and had heen deepencd many
times. by u~rforgetablc acts. There
was nothing about Wainwright ITO
make one'forgive him. There was
j everything about him to make n
want TO punish him. When the verse
first confronted Cameron. he felt "a
rising Indignation that there had
been 50 much as a connection in. his
thoughts with his quarrel with Vain
wright. why. anybody that knew
him knew Wainwright "a wrong.
j God must think SO, 90. That verse
might apply TO little %quarrels but Q
10 his feeling about the way Vain
wright had treated him ever since
they were children. Thai was not to
be borne. of course. Those words he
hads called Cameron's father. How
they made his blood boil even now!
No. he"Would not forbear nor forgive
Wainwright. God would not want
him to, do So. 1t was right he should
be against him forever. Thus he dis
missed the suggestion and turned to
the beginning Of his testament, hav-
ing determined to. find the Christ OF
whom the stranger had set him In
search. q
Continued in tomorrow Il
Evenings Herald.