_ Be —————————————————,LLL. Bowral ftp Bellefonte, Pa., June 26, 1908. EEE The falling of Lucy. By CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrighted, 1508, by Associated . Literary Press. 2.8 8 8.8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 BEETTEEIII——————— Elwood craned his neck as the train drew in at the little station. Yes, here was the low, red brick structure, from either end of which the road wound away between the young oaks, now showing a faint misty brown in the late April sunshine. With a sudden impulse he arose and grasped his hat and grip. In another instant he stood before the station house, while the train screamed away through the wooded tunnel of oaks. He looked around at the familiar scene, slightly bewildered at the result of his impulsive action. He had left New York with the intention of spend- ing the week end with friends at Shrimp Cove, but the familiar scenes through which the train had sped and which marked milestones in his mem- ory had roused within him depths of feeling that he thought could not now exist. Evading the puzzled glance of the station agent, he turned down the right band road. Ultimately it would take him to the village hostelry. Inci- dentally it would lead him over old paths and permit his fancy to revel in banished dreams. He plodded through the thick yel- low sand with eager eyes on the bud- ding hedges. Gratefully he inhaled the delicate spring odors that seemed to emanate from the golden afternoon sunshine. He paused, once beside a foaming spring where sweetflag was shooting green blades from the black, oozy mud, and again in the Honeyspot road, where arbutus clung to the steep banks and the pink pouch of the moc- casin flower sprang from the lichened tree stumps. Each time he removed his hat and stood with painfully knit- ted brow and reflective eyes, Then he moved on, The village hotel was under new management, and he passed unchal- lenged by old acquaintances. He strolled down the irregular street after the evening meal was over and in the spring twilight revisited old haunts and revived old memories until his mind was a chaos of rage with him- self and grief for the unattainable. The next morning when clamoring bells rang out from the white painted churches and the quiet streets were gay with the Easter finery of the vil- lage belles Elwood made his way to a quaint old edifice tucked away on the shore road, so that when he was seated in a familiar place he could see the white sails in the harbor and the thin drift of smoke from passing steamers on the sound. The gathering congregation looked curiously at the dignified, middle aged stranger who sat in the old Elwood pew, but he maintained an attitude of motionless rigidity, with eyes fixed steadily on the rippling water beyond the window. He was listening with painful eagerness for a light step. It came. He heard the swish of silk and the soft slip of her feet as she ascended the steps of the chancel and took her place among the assembled choir. In his eyes’ mind he could see her, cool and pale, with flaxen hair and dark blue eyes. There would be little change in her appearance after fifteen years. Her fair skin might have faded a little, and her slimness might have become angularity, but there would be no oth- er visible alteration. Still, he could not look. Two women rustled into the seat be- hind him and conversed in hissing whispers that reached his ear with an- noying distinctness. “Lucy Clifford’s got on her blue fou- lard silk, ain't she?’ “Yes! 1 wonder if she's going to sing today?” “1 suppose so. Mr. Larkin said it would be the last year she could sing in the choir.” “Her voice is getting terrible thin, and once in awhile it gives out. She ain't sung for two or three weeks now. 1 guess she was saving it so's she could sing today.” “Lucy's getting to be a regular old maid. Now that she’s left alone down to the old place, 1 guess she wishes she'd taken up with young Elwood after all.” “I hope her voice don't fail today,” remarked one of the women as the low tones of the orgun rumbled through the church. Elwood turned his head. Yes; there she sat, her pale, pure profile outlined against the red and purple of the chan- cel window. She looked as his memory had limned her save that she was not angular; ghe still retained her youthful slim- ness. There was a pathetic droop to her once proudly lifted head and a wistfulness in the full lidded .yes as she turned toward the congregation. The organ ceased, the white robed minister entered and knelt in prayer, and then with a triumphant burst of music the choir arose and the notes of the anthem rang through the little church. Elwood pressed a hand across his stinging eyes as the familiar melo- dy proceeded. It seemed but yesterday that he had stood beside Lucy Clifford in the choir and lifted his strong young votee in that same strain. He heard the high notes of her thin soprano above the reedy tenor and the rumbte of alto and bass, and there was an uncertain quality in it that caused his heart to beat a little faster in the fear that hes voice might fail altogeth- er. Anxiously he followed her through the anthem and sighed with relief when the final “Amen” died away in the rustle of the kneeling people. The service proceeded as it had pro- ceeded fifteen years ago. There was another minister and, save for Lucy Clifford, other voices in the choir. There were strangely familiar faces in the congregation, and his eyes eluded many a glance of recognition. It was enough for him that he could look upon Lucy Clifford's sweet face once again. In the morning he would go away. When the long sermon was finished the organ commenced a well known prelude, two gray haired wardens creaked up the aisle and received the oaken contribution boxes, while the choir arose to sing the offertory. “Christ the Lord is risen today. Al- le-lu-ia!” That was Lucy's voice rising high above the other singers, and again El- wood felt that tender apprehension lest she should fail. When the second stanza was begun her tones were strained and tremulous. “She's going to break down!" whis- pered one of the women in the seat be- hind him. “Lo, our sun's eclipse Is o'er"— It had happened. With a discordant wail like the breaking of a violin string Luey Clifford's voice died out. The startled choir paused for an in- stant, and then from the congregation burst a man's strong voice, “Al-le-lu-ia!” To a triumphant conclusion he car- ried the fine old melody, his rich tenor supporting the wavering voices of the agitated choie. He had seen the white, frightened face of Lucy Clifford turned in his direction, and he threw all the vigor and force of his nature into the third stanza. Almost unconsciously her tremulous voice took up the refrain, and once more their tones were united. It seem- ed as though her weak utterance rest- ed on the assured strength of his, and he carried it up—up—to an exultant close until their voices blended in final joyous “Al-le-lu-ial!” Lucy Clifford sank back in her seat with trembling hands and a flickering color in her pale cheeks. She did not glance at Allen Elwood. It was suffi- cient for her that he was present and that in the hour of her distress he had come to her rescue. It was like him to have done that. It was strange that she had permitted that escapade of his youth to blind her to his many noble qualities. Well, it was too late now, but she could re- member this day. It would be a pleas- CASTORIA For infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. Colleges & Schools. r¥ YOU WISH TO BECOME. 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A whipporwill throbbed from the bough of an apple tree. It was like another night that was past. There was a light step on the grav- eled path, a startled exclamation, and he was holding Lucy's unresisting hands in his own. “l have come to ask your forgive- ness, Lucy,” he began tenderly. “Nay,” she murmured tremulously; “it is I who should ask yours for my parrow minded prejudices. But that is past—I—I tried to steel my heart and falled—and the years have been so long, Allen”"— Her voice broke. “lI know,” he said slowly, “but the years that are to come will be long and sweet, God willing!” The whipporwill whirred away through the darkness, while again the cherry trees swayed In the breeze and sent a shower of bridal whiteness over the lovers at the gate. Philosophy of Good Clothes. 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