Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-04


staring at her. Then he cried aloud
with Joy.
"You care nowm he exclaimed
.sYou have cared all the timel" Then,
as be tried, very gently. to take down
the trembling hands with which she
had suddenly covered her. face, he
realized that his own were shaking,
too.
Mary" he said brokenly. II won't,
II you really don't want me to. But
IL you do--you won't make me walt
any longer. will your I've starved
for you. too"
you won't ever have to starve
again." said Mary with great sob,
and took down her hands herself.
1t was very late that evening, when
Jane Manning. remembering that she
had not set back her chairs against
a possible storm-though there was
not a cloud In the sky-went out on
her piazza to make sure everything
was all right" for the night. She
stopped In the middle of her pleasant
shone very clear and bright and on
the wide granite doorstep of her
cousins house opposite. she could see
two persons--a man and girI--stand
Ing very close together. their arms
around each other. Then the man
bent his head. and 1t was long, long
time before he lifted 1t again.
Good night, sweetheart" she heard
him say at last, and then saw him
| turn and come down the walk, his
young face lighted with radiance
| that did not seem to come wholly from
| the moon.
Great Gloryl" calculated Cousin
Jane aloud, and without conscious pro
| family.
Paul heard her. stopped for min
ute. and then walked rapidly toward
her.
Is that you. Cousin Jane he called
fixing up the piazza7 Here. let me
| help you'll" When complete order was
restored. he blocked her entrance int
| the house for minute, standing with
| his back against the door.
Mary Is going to marry. me-" he
said. his voice ringing like hallelu
1ah. right of. We've going away for
| few Weeks-tiil get stronger, and
she gets rested-to some quiet place
| by the sea And then we're coming
back here to Lady Blanche farm
coming home together. Oh, God, how
happy | amlf
Il dnnnos blame ye.n said Cousin
Jane
His mothers house was dark, and
Paul did not feel sorry. In the morn
/ ing. of course. she must be told, and
Mary's father-bnt tonight How
ever, when he noticed faint light
shining from the upper windows of
Carte Blanche, he went close to the
/ little building and called
"Blanchel May / came upf"
"Yes-Pve been hoping you would
She was sitting In a low rocker.
/ nursing her baby. He crossed the
room softly, and sat down on a foot
stool beside her
"Mary's going to marry you," she
| whispered.
"How did you known"
"How could / help knowing. looking
at your I've seen that look In mans
face before"
"Oh, you poor little thingl"
Hush Don't speak that wayi
don't feel like that about 1t And I'm
80 thankful-so happy-that I've seen
1t In yours, too
They sat for q long time together,
after the sleeping baby had been laid
back In his cradle. And meanwhile.
the woman who had never had lover
went slowly up to her room. and sit
ting down In the old chair, took up the
Bible that lay near 1t. to read In 1t, as
always, before she went to bed. 1t
fell open at the last chapter OF
i Proverbs:
"Who can find virtuous woman"
read Cousin Jane, "for her price Is far
above rubles. !. Her children arise
up also and call her blessed. Her
husband also. and he praiseth her.
Give her the fruit OF her hands and
let her own works praise her In the
gates"
The Bible slipped from her lap, I'M
noticed, and Cousin Jane sat for q
long time with happy tears rolling
down her cheeks.
II suppose that woman In the Bible
may have had her faults" she said
aloud at last, "same as Mary has.
shouldn't be mite surprised X she
had tongue and temper and q
backbone and didn't forgive and for
get very easy. though Solomon doesn't
mention 1t. Seems to me there's some
likeness between the two. Mary's Der
faithful to the trust her dead mother
left her and denied herself to do fol
her father and her little broth
ers. She's ben strong and wise
enough to say mo- to a rich man shs
didn't love and turn the poor, weak
shiftless boy she did love into fin'
creature that needn't be afraid to lool