Page. 2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, NOVEMBER 16, 1905. | Fy = By Special Delivery GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH | dell, | ed When he rested in a deep wood he was | many miles from home, with the noon | hour approaching, It was delightfully cool and retiring in the woods, was no house within three miles of his On all sides were the shadows of a great wood, Great was his surprise to hear volces anon stilling the sounds of the woods and bushing the warbling of his feath pred friends, The Reverend Sextus turn to greet the newcomers, wondering | not a little at their strange appearance yy right, 1804, Lreorge Walsh a mms wR mitts as HE REV. SEXTUS WORTER LY gathered the loose sermon leaves in his hands and shoved them aside, not hastily or Im patiently, but ly, as though | yielding to a temptation, The day was not suited to sermon composition The Rey heavily, sig fre «LO of a is alone, reluctant Sextus W ly sighed wed with the unconstraloed knows that he | ortel who man had 1 Sextus There wen a time when the Rev- erend k had called him | this for short except a defunct malden | aunt, who dared not approach nearer to familiarity than compound | pame) was happy in his loneliness. “A man can do his best when un- | trammeled by the responsibilities eof family ties,” he reasoned In those days, Those days had faded what. The maiden aunt who had ministered to his few ial wants in his household was only memory now. A longing to hear lips abbreviate his nan to the ex of two | words had possessed him lately. It | was a specles of wadness that he did to himself. None such weakness In the ff broadcloth and high, r who 80 graciously and filled the 1 ville pulpit | (no one the work pessimistic mat a tent e evel acknowledge suspected 4 ) aif he gentle, to renew alone bereave Tas ther than | ¢ to con ™ DOrous | 1ggestion | id readily | 1 love is had | ve with wt versed In| t r. and he shrank | sibility of the recipieat of ; discovering his vy | & The Reverend Re s| hea | to heave | deepened had at last wnt EW POUKRT, composed It for that reason. No ayes other than his own should ever read It, The proposal to Cynthia was the Rey Bextus Worterly's masterpiece. It re flected his highest mental and spiritusl expression. Today he read it over and over and reluctantly thought of the ne wemmity of destroying It lest something should happen to reveal its secret. Put a moment later he placed It with fn his Inner pocket. “1 shall stroll awhile, and | may need It.” he sald aw excuse for his sudden change of mind, Despite his threescore and five yoars, the Heverend Sextus was a man of strength and agility, a youth In ali ex cept years. [fe strode from his study and swung down the flower scented Inne with the eany grace and muscular pow. gr of a much younger man. He loved ® wander afield secking new sights In Wistant pastures and communing wits mature in all her many perplexing moods, Today he rather strained a polat HE PLACED IT WITHIN HIS IN | “It's i { held t | and throug h { briskly, y of beard, and unclean r and clothes, they appeared out with the scene, unkempt arin my Shag we have somethin’ one of them, with a twang recent “What call It? somethin’ broke loose from the pleter.” {ik Past d ye haggy pushed his companion in the kground, replying: “Ye don’t under stand yer Pete, It's frien’ what gave me a lift when 1 wuz a youngster, He's a n Ain't you?" The Rev, Sextus Worterly rose with dignified slowness from his seat on a bisness, me ole inisier { log and made reply as befitted his pos! tion in Ife “You surprise me at your rudeness. It pains me exceedingly to see you in your present plight” “Jest what 1 n' Shaggy made sharp reply, painful to be | sick of It. We've help us.” “1 should be only was tell me pard,"” advancing woke, we're to ask ye to an cum too glad under or dinary circumstances to lend assist ance to you, but the suspicious appear ances of things compel me to"— “Ye shouldn't jest because they happen to be down en thelr luck. Now, see here, if you suspect honest m en mself on the log inister had just va snly pushed for o this time the vi ad permitted them tll that ght of the letter addressed to Cynthia his whol manner lerwent marked He hed ©" ul change, the hand that profanely » DIS ie he sa id not tl ot? valuable anded Pete. “It so much ‘An’ why 1 must be store by IL” He flung the detaining hand from him and held the letter above his head, xt lost his balance ust and leaves. When re Bet us nth recovered and rolled he wore tie to ¢ The m thelr she £0 and lifted appeal v tears welled of his face nbled and n with paisy 1 bit Cyn all Als mute from his shook The sonnet and epistle writing ! 18 though strick born its bitter fruits! thia d in one me wnt know To have a letter of umiliating the love of with profane A source! common tramps to deliver prog to too | Bhe who bad won and held two noble husbands ne rn i! : pt abuse of a privilege The nister brushed his the leaves and twigs hurried through the narrow path leading back to Daleville An hour later he stepped if somewhat uncertainly, up the gravelly path leading to Cynthia Trimble's pretty cot She was there on the porch to receive him. For once he did welcoming smile or the curves of the plump cheeks or the mantling flush of the brow “M's a pleasant she greeted afar off, rising to meet him The Reverend Sextus panted with his exertion. He dropped into a seat on the porch and gasped “The letter! Have you received it? Khe gerd ind shook her head “1 ha letter What letter Is t7 A crafty expression entered the dark ening eyes of the minister. He hesitat od and “The letter-ah, yes, what letter? 1 forgot. You did net know “No, 1 44 not know.” she murmured “But I'm anxious to know” “11 eannot tell you now,” he stam ered. “Bome day-~yes, some day-1 will oll you.” Then, thinking of the tramps and thelr threat to mall 1 If they had no time te @altver 11. he added oma) her was : must view miter such n uu clothes of as he age not see her day, smiled © recelved no stammered read nu There he was treading upon a woman's ground, and Cynthia knew her preroga- tye. Bhe shrugeed her shoulders and an. | swered, “Yen, If It comes I'1 tell you™ “And you'll not read 1t¥ fhe shrugged her shoulders again and feoked away “1 maw two tramps 20 by hers A short | the ago” ahs sald “They memed In a t hurry. | wonder if they have been gf some mischief" The Mev. Baxtus Worterly was a close reader of character, and he studied her face suspiclousty until he was sssured of her Innocence Then the Reverend Bextus rose to ge, murmuring to himself: There | “Put If the letter comes you will-will let me know and-not | H “They do not intend to deliver it in pers son. It is by mall they will send it. I'm safe for the night.” When he wended his way homeward his thogghts were confused, bitterness mixed witli a strange sensatien of elation. Bhould she receive the letter it was » satisfaction to know that it was properly worded He doubted If either of her former husbands could have penned such another note But immediately following his elation at this reflection he shuddered, and a cold perspiration broke out his forehead. If she did not him-—what presump- tion on his part! No, the letter must not be delivered! That night he tried pont man on his route to rol m that is, to secure back his letter to Cynthia “It's against the law, sir." swored the honest postman ing It was r letter first, 1 of handwriting it in?" “Itt know You mee, addressed by-—Dbs The postman shook his head do it, sir, for anybody in jall 4 On many morrows thereafter he Cynthia with framed on come yet? No, the by tramp dellve each day the Reverend 3 18 some of his for dence Hut inquiry before he began a day's work on his sermon grew into a fixed habit which he could not cast off It was a pleasant habit too, It him the duty aon love to bribe y the the ull severely an- “But, seo- what kind it was “Couldn't It would land me Borry, sir.’ visited same query his lips, “The letter-has It nlways the letter yme by post or ceeding gained back and self confi. of making the poise the 1 ensity inspired He grew for » day rr _ tha tier nd simiiea for his th day The pole od us He wan seeking thia's society not for the sake of th ter, but for the pleasure of her « He had been deceiving himself a day, weaving a web of delusion his life that as dangerous temptation of the drunkard n drur ! ” i tL] any these round was the was He zr w forget deeply the fo Weak, weak n When he joved's | man rather thar ” the letter es ami Hut there was 1 greet § with happiness held al more hand at | an reached the 13 he was a thoughts on aterial ped his lips ere sodately ms ™ (vn “The “Why | ihe letter at last do you not ask for It Rev. 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