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The falling
of Lucy.
By CLARISSA MACKIE.
Copyrighted, 1508, by Associated
. Literary Press.
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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-
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When the service was concluded,
Lucy Clifford slipped through the side
door into the churchyard and thence
toward the opening in the stone wall
that led to the homeward path across
lots.
Elwood did not follow her. It would
be of no use. He was too much of a
black sheep. But when the dusk fell
he walked slowly along the shore road
until he came to the old Clifford place.
It was a long, low, brown house fac-
ing the harbor. Tall cherry trees over-
shadowed its gabled roof, and thick
hedges of pungent box bordered the
winding paths. A wind swept up from
the bay, and a shower of blossoms fell
about him. 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
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