Ana Dewar ican Bellefonte, Pa., October 23, 1914. The Story of Waitstill Baxter By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN Qopyright, 1913. by Kate Douglas Wiggin . SYNOPSIS ‘Waitstill Baxter and her sister, Patience tty), keep house for their widowed, ' n father. Ivory Boynton, whose fa~ gher disappeared, is interested in Walitstill. He takes care of his daft mother. Mrs. Boynton expects her husband to rn. Rodman, a young boy, is a mem- of the Boynton household. Ivory’s father abandoned his family to follow Jacob Cochrare, a mystic. Pa- tience chafes under her father’s stern ‘rule. Patty has two admirers—Mark ‘Wilson, an educated young man, and Cephas Cole, who is unlearned. Mark kisses her. Waitstill is spending her life in loving gare of Patience. Aunt Abby and Uncie | Bart Cole are friends of the whole com- | rannity. Cephas Cole, tending store for Baxter, proposes to Patty and is rejected. In his agitation he lets the molasses run all over the store floor. Although they love each other, Waitstill and Ivory suppress their affection because of their household cares. her face, making it luminous with a new beauty. “I have left home for good and all,” she said. “I'll tell you more of this later on. but 1 have left my father’s house with nothing to my name but the clothes I stand in. 1 am going to look for work in the mills tomorrow, but 1 stopped here to say that I'm ready to marry you whenever you want me—if you do want me.” Ivory was bewildered, indeed, but not so much so that he failed to ap- prehend and instantly. too, the real significance of this speech. He took a couple of long strides, and before Waitstill had any idea of his intentions he vaulted over the bars and gathered her in his arms. \ “Never shall you go to the mills. Never shall you leave my sight for a single hour again, my one woman in all the world. Come to me to be loved and treasured all your life long. I’ve worshiped you ever since I was a boy. I've kept my heart swept and garnished for you and no other, hoping I might win you at last.” How glorious to bear all this deli- | cious poetry of love and to feel Ivory’s | arms about her, making the dream | seein surer!: “Oh, how like you to shorten the time of my waiting!” he went on, his words fairly chasing one another in their eagerness to be spoken. “How Shee | CY ; NCA LB [oy iC Wx dC) “I” happen to know more than you, | dear. I met her at the bridge when I was coming home from the woods and “Oh, I am so glad Mark is at home! ! Now I can be at rest about Patty. And I must not linger another mo- | Shoes. Shoes. Patty and Waitstill go to church, al- | though their father is too mean to give ! them fitting garments. Waitstill sings in the choir. | A strange young woman in the Wilson ! pew, a visitor from Boston, makes Patty | Jealous. * Haying time arrives. Waitstill decides to disobey her father by paying a visit to Mrs. Boynton. Uncle Bart discourses to Cephas on woman's ' ways. Mrs. Boynton confides in Waitstill, tell- ! ing the girl she believes Rodman is not | her sister's child, but she cannot be sure. To punish Waitstill for disobedience Deacon Baxter locks her out all night. Bbe spends the night in the barn. Pa- tlence sympathizes. Patience Baxter is embarrassed amid a multitude of suitors. She thinks Mark is fickle. Trying to trace his father, Ivory writes to Waitstill a long account of Boynton's | following of Cochrane, with which Mrs. | | Boynton was not in full sympathy. | The village gossips are busy with the names of Waitstill and Ivory. but in a friendly and sympathetic manner. In Ivory’s absence young Rodman min- isters to Mrs. Boynton. She is ill and sends Rodman for Ivory. Ivory receives proof of his father’s death and succeeds in convincing his mother of it. Waitstill volunteers her help in the Boynton housekeeping. Despairing of winning Patty, Cephas turns his affections elsewhere. Mark are now sweethearts. Petty and Mark know Deacon Baxter will not consent to their marriage, so they plan an elopement to New Hamp- «shire. Deacon Baxter is more than usually “difficult.” married and returns and tells Waitstill. The deacon turns Patty out into the cold. She finds shelter with Aunt Abby -and Uncle Bart. ‘Waitstill rises against her father and “tells him she will marry Ivory as soon as he is ready to have her. Left by his daughters, the deacon can- not manage his household. Waitstill vis- its the Boyntons. [Continued from last week.] At the top of the hill she turned the corner hreathlessly and faced the length | «of road that led to the Boynton farm. ! Mrs. Mason’s house was beyond. and. i me your heart first. and now you are ‘oh, how she hoped that Ivory would be at home and that she need not wait | another day to tell him all and claim | ihe gift she knew was hers before she | asked it! She might Same exaltation not have the tomorrow. :soul. She had a sense of mounting .:from height to height and wonderful inward glow. “tall figure was issuing from the side door, putting on a fur cap as it came out on the steps and down the lane. Ivory was at home, then, and, best of all, he was unconsciously coming %o meet her, although their hearts had been coming to meet each other, she thought, ever since they first began to J beat. As she neared the bars she called Ivory's name. His hands were in the pockets of his great coat, and his eyes were fixed on the ground. Somber he was, distinctly somber. in mien and gait. Could she make him smile and flush and glow as she was smiling and flushing and glowing? © As he heard her voice he raised his head quickly and uncomprehendingly. “Don’t come any nearer,” she said, | “until I have told you something.” His mind had been so full of her! that the sight of her in the flesh, Patty and Patty runs off with Mark, is for now ! fhere were no levels in her heart and ! | with eyes, all wet. lifted to Ivory’s. lighting | fires on every peiak of her being. She | took no heed of the road she was trav- | -eling. She was conscious only of a! Qyg pss. How Glorious to Feel lvory’s Arms About Her. like you to count on me, to guess my hunger for your love, to realize the chains that held me back and break them yourself with your own dear. wo- manly hands! How like you. oh, won- . derful Waitstill!™ Ivory went on murmuring phrases that had been lying in his heart unsaid for years, scarcely conscious of what ne was saying. realizing only that the miracle of miracles had happened. Waitstill, for her part, was almost dumb with joy to be lying so close to his heart that she could hear it beat- ing, to feel the passionate tenderness of his embrace and his kiss falling upon her hair. “I did not know a girl could be so happy!" she whispered. “I’ve dreamed of it, but it was nothing like this. I “am all a-tremble with it." Ivory held her off at arm’s length for a moment, reluctantly, grudgingly. “You took me fairly off my feet, dear- est.” he said. “and I forgot everything but the one supreme fact you were tell- . ing me. Had 1 been on guard I should | have told you that I am no worthy husband for you, Waitstill. I haven’t enough to offer such a girl as you.” “You're too late, Ivory! You showed searching your mind for bugbears to frighten me.” *“l am a poor man.” “No girl could be poorer than I am.” “After what you've endured you ought to have rest and comfort.” *I shall have both—in you!" This “My mother is a great burden—a very dear and precious but a grievous one." . “She needs a daughter. It is in such | things that I shall be your helpmate.” “The house was now in sight, and a | | | “Will not the boy trouble you and ! add to your cares?” | “Rod? I love him; he shall be my | little brother.” i “What if my father were not really dead? I think of this sometimes in the night! What if he should wander back, broken in spirit, feeble in body, | empty in purse?” ' “I do not come to you free of bur- dens. If my father is deserted by all 1 must see that he is made comfort- able. He never treated me like a’ daughter, but I acknowledge his claim.” “Mine is such a gloomy house!” “Will it be gloomy when I am in it?” and Waitstill, usually so grave, laugh- ed at last like a care free child. Ivory felt himself ‘hidden in the beautiful shelter of the girl's love, It was dark now, or as dark as the night ever is that has moonlight and snow. He took Waitstill in his arms again reverently and laid his cheek standing twenty feet away, bewildered him. { 3 She took a few steps nearer the! gate, near enough now for him to see! arth that surrounds us: her rosy face framed in a blue hood | heaven and e | But I worship you as the maker of my and to catch the brightness of her eyes | little heaven and earth, and my heart under their lovely lashes. Ordinarily | i ng its prayers to you at this they were cool and limpid and grave, = Saying Is > y : Waitstill's eyes. Now a sunbeam | “| my dead! Hush! And don’t danced in each of them. And her lips, uh a much or § «hah lose my almost always tightly closed, as if she | , ~." ; 1 t have never ntown a were holding back her natural speech | gwoot word in all my life save those against her hair. “I worship God as well as I know how,” he whispered, “worship him as the maker of this big —her lips were red and parted, and the | that my sister has given me. [ must soul of her, free at last, shone through ' ¢a1) you all about Patty now.” 1 saw her safely to Uncle Bart's door. : ment, for I am going to ask Mrs. Ma- | 1 I don’t know why we speak of it as gop to keep me overnight!” cried Wait- | Uncle Baris when it is really Aunt| gtijl. bethinking herself suddenly of Abby's! I next met Mark, who had {ime and place. : fairly flown from Bridgton on the «1 will take you there myself and ex- . wings of love, arriving hours ahead of plain everything. And the moment time. 1 managed to keep him from | I've lighted a fire in Mrs. Mason's best avenging the insults heaped upon his | peqroom and settled you there, what bride, and be bas Seven Xo foe Mins) do you think I am going to do? I shall 4 t to confide in his father and mother. | grive to the town clerk’s house. and if Y g Sh S By this time Patty is probably the pe isin bed, rout him out and have the €a er S Oo€ ore center of the family group, iid notice of our intended marriage post- ¥ them all, as is her custom.” | [Continued on page 7. 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