THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1899. in 3 a Semper ONO after the speaker' wmtls Iiatl died nway tho lIstenltiR people united In hushed expectancy, unwlll. Inr? to bellovo that ho ha X finished, mid tumble to conic down ull nt oneo from the heights to which they had boon raided. At length they licim to file plovvlj out through the high nar low doorM Into tho frosty air In al most totnl silence tho ciovvil ccparated, with the unconsoloii'ticRs of suiiountl Ids'? which comes to men when their niinds have been stlried deeply. John Orduoy and his wife came ftom the ehnreh anions the lat, and walked nnn in arm to the Iohr low shed, wheie man unions were waiting, both hail been "tiongly moved by the evening'? sermon but In dlffeient way. Indica tive, perhaps of theli wldel differing temperament"). In the man the newly awakened feeling ieulled In an uneasy mental condition, wlilih otilv Intensl lltd n natuial nee retlvenoFH hike many Mhers of strong rlim.it ter he kept si lent on the Hiibjei Is w hleh mot Inter ested him, fi nilng ti"-t he hIiouIiI he un able to ilghllv epio- bis thoughts, or should be lnlsumh-i stood The Woman's nature Rpoke In In r face, which was of the highlv emotional tpe so rarely met with am mg thoe whose lives ale buj oliis. the ejes wele those of a dreamei, ulwa.vs hoping to llnd In each new epcilence the leallzatlon of a hunched half-compieheiuled longings the p.iitd lips showed the piobable away of Imiiulse, and the absence of tho firmness which should hae bien Its check, was evident In the lines of the delicately sensitive chin. Ordway helped his wife to mount the high seat of the wagon, the horses struck Into n swift trot, nnd the drlvei leaned foiwnrd to di.iw the blankfts more closely about his companion, peering up Into her face solicitously. "Is it too cold for ye, little girl?" he asked. She started neivously at his voice, and shook her head, ' I'm plenty waim enough," she said, nice hand ull. The iiiovid swiftly past thoscattoiod houses of the village, through the ech oes of the toveied bildge, nnd out Into a shnit stieteh of open eountiy. Thiee or four times the woman rnKed hei head as though about to speak, but cheeked herself with an effort. ' 1 have something to tell you John," she said at last. "I 1 am nfiald I ought to have told you long ago." Her tone was so seilous that he tinned and looked at her with quick anxiety Are ye suie ye ought?" he asked. g"ntl ' Mebbe theie ain't any need " 'There Is a need," she answeied. ' I have known all along that It would In bettei to speak out, but somehow I ii"vei filt th.it I could, until tonight" So.- imiimiI as though to gathei coui a Its about mjself and Willis," she "-aid You lemembei " Ordwuj bent forward suddenly with a waiu.ng shout to the horses, and tho wagon jolted heavily In a deep ait 'That's me. all over." he said wltln a chutkle "I took special notice of that hole ki as to skip It on the way home, aivl heie I am. dtlvin' right into It agiln, like an old fool Thnt'n what eomes of llstenln' to seimons ye can t quit" understand " ' Won t ou listen to me, John " his wife asked, pleadingly. "Of coure 1 will," he nnsweud. "Only what with my nerves bcln' so avi ought up, and the team belli' si skittish. 1 in soil of afiaid to have any big shock come on me sudden. I'm a delicate blossom, je know," and he smiled bioadly down nt her. "You make It so haul for nie," she said. 'And I am In earnest. Oh, truly, I am In earnest." Her voice trembled with the warn ing of tears. Ordway put his aim around hni and diow her closei to him protectively, as a mother soothes a nervous sleepy child. "I wasn't JoKln', exactly," he said. "I am always glad to listen to e; only I think ye'd best wait till we get home. 'Nc'ie most thuo now." Tho wagon swung mound a shaip turn, and the splash of the houses' feet In the inlf-frozen mud, changed to a sharp clatter of lion and stone. 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Now, If whnt ye want to say Is golr." to be dlsngieenble foi either of us two, I'd rather vo'd wait until we get home, and not have to go Into the house feelln bitter against against nnv body. Mebbe jv don't quite under stand me, Kunlce?" "I undei stand," she said, with a halt sob "(Jh, yes, I understand." "Clo In by the file," he sold. "It'll take me some lime t II x things up." Hut when he came back from th" stable he found her waiting, leaning against one of the posls of the patch and looking out across the darkness of the valley. "I wanted to wait until we could rri In together," she said. The lung low kitchen was full of hanging shadows, which danced aeioss the time pol ished Hoor, and lost themselves In the coiners of the Irregular celling, when Oidwny crossed to the huge fire place nnd piled ome sticks of soft wooi on the glowing ashes. Thin, twisting himself out of his henvy eoat and bestowing it. together with his cap, on a convenient table, he dtagged from the chimney corner a great old-fashioned chair, and sank back luxuriously in its capacious depths. Ills wife had alfo lemoved her wiaps, nnd now took her seat at the other side of the llieplace, on n low stool, drawn back jut within the Wavering boundaiy of shadow. At length she spoke, slowly and with evi dent effoit nt calmness. "You must tiy to be patient with me," she said. "You'll be astonished, I know, and I am aft aid you'll h angry I shouldn't blame you any but I want you to wait till till I've finished " "Are ye quite sute ye better begin, or hadn't ye better let It go till to moiiow, anywnv?" he asked, earnestly "I'd lather not lieu any thin' that vo might si unless je say it of youi own free will," he added. "It isn't that," she said, quickly, "I've wanted to ,peak to speak so many times, and haven't dated to. I'll feel a thousand tlnves happier when I've told you, no matter what heppens Let me go on now " "Mebbe I know what " he be gan, and checked hlmelf smilingly, but with a glance of almost womanly tenderness at her aveited face "I'm llstenln,' " he said. She hesitated ns If to gain stiength, nnd he inaikcd how the slendei llguie qulveied with the effoit of hot hui lled bieathlng. "I had promised to marry Willis be foie I knew you," she slid, unstead ily. "We quai relied about some lit tle thing and each was too proud to speak first, rinallv, he went nwav without seeing me. You know how we lieai d that he died in Mexico I believed it we all did and I c lied my self to sleep night after night, be cause I hadn't acted dlffeiently. As time went on I began to foiget little by little, and after awhile It all seemed like a sort of dream then ou came into my life, nnd taught me to ti list you and tin n to yqu for help In eveiy thlng." She paused nnd lifted her e.ves to his face. "I've told you the tiuth so far," she said, almost fleicely. "And It's true that I loved jou mote than you could ever understand. You must believe this." Her voice tiembled pit ifully. "You do believe me. John?" she asked. "Say that jou do believe me." Ordway diew his hand .t-ioss his eyes with an Involuntaiy movement. "I ain't never doubted ll," he answer ed, softly. She gave a quick slgli 0r lellef, and let her head sink ng.iln upon her hi east as she spoke again. "I was happy and contented for two long years, it was like heaven, and lou weie happy, too, John?" "Happy"' ho s-ild. "Unci, yes, no body'll ever know how much " "And then little Doi.i was bom," she went on, "and .somehow nil our tiouble began light time, foi It seem ed as though her b il.y lumls took hold of our he.uts and pushed them op.ut, a little at flint, and tin n more and moie. I aetuallv thought that juit dldn t care about hi r I know It was wiong but I thoug'it It and I got P9 tirage. 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"I reckoned it was natural, and I knew ye wasn't well; so I tried to forget all about that part of our life, and I done lt--almcst " She looked up nt him gratefully. "Voti nre tijlng to help me," she snld. "Not many men would do that. Tho lest of my story Is harder to tell, and hat dor to listen to. You remember that Willis came back nnd hunted us up. He emtio at tho worst possible time for nil of us. I was set against jou, and half wild about baby's death, end recklcs to everything. JIo found that out, anl kept pleading with tn and uigliiR mo to go away with him. Day after day, when you were at wotk, he used to come to the house and talk to me alwa.vs In the name stialn. I ought to have sent him away but I didn't. Ills sympathy was so ready that I didn't see the puiprse nor the falseness In It, It was as though sonv evil spit It put tho winds Into Ills mouth, nnd I listened: fiod help mo, I listened and that wasn't nil " She staiied to her feet, and stood facing her husband, her arms out sti etc lied with a wild gesture. "It was no fault of mine tint I did not sin ngilnst you In deed as I did In thought " she cried. "If It had not been foi some accident -I don't even know what It was I should not have been heie now. I went to me t hltn one night. We weie to dilve to Oak ley, and take the Main for seme place, 1 waited, I don't know ho.v manv heui, but he didn't come, at last I ciept home nnd found you asleep All night I sat by the file waiting for some woid fiom him, foi I wis leady to go yes, oven the'i I was ready to go In the morning a letter came, sajlng that an unfoieseeii accident had happened and he would let me know about It soon. I nevn heaid f i om him again " She paused, and looking at him fear fully, as though epeetlng a v lolent outbuist of anger but he s iid noth ing, and at last she spoke again, un able to bear the silence. "That's all, John," she oiled de7or atelv, "It's the truth, and the whole truth. There's no moie to tell." Still ho sat silent, bending a little forward in a lounging attitude and watching the IlM;"ilng file light ab sently, with a em Inns ccpusston on his heavily lined face "Won't you speak to mC" she nrked, ttemulouelv. Haven't you been list ening? Hive I done wiong to tell you' Speak to me, for God'.s sake, I can't beai It." The vvouls weio lost In a storm of sobbing, and she thiew heielt clown on her knees beside him, hiding her face with her hands in the aim jf the old-fashioned chair. Oidwny looked down at her with an imst jdv smile which was like i eare-s Don't take on so. Hunle," he said gentlv "Yell lie glad all the rest of o life, I think, on nceount of lest what yi'io. ciyln' nbout now. Look up, my gltl, an' mebbe I ran llnhh the stoiy for ye." He put out his hand and strok ed the bowed head with clumsv tcndr noss. "e say vo nowr kuovved why he didn't come that night," he said. "1 could a told ye why" She lalsed hri head with a startled exclamation. "You " she oiled. "Yes," he answeied. "Jest mo. He staved away be cause I toU him he'd better, and he know oil I meent what I said ' Her e-ves grew full of a wondetlng feai and she shiank nwav from him, but he smiled again mid detained her with gentle foiee. "Walt," he said "I ain't cias-y. Did v think I was s blind all them months that I didn't see what was happc nln'" I'd n know 1 If I'd been miles nway. for theio ain't never nny tumble in your heart that 1 don't fe-1 It. Lend bless e. I seen what was goln' on, but I thought 'twas best to say nothing an" let e viestle It out nlone. rinally, when I noticed that jo wasn't quite itiong enough: that ('Iiciimstniicc" an' evciythlng was1 llkelv to be too much for ye: why I Jest stepped In an' t.'lked to Wlills. He tmdeiUood, nn' that settled It." "Then jou've known'" t-ho Inter rupted, brealhlesslj-. "You've known all this time'" He nodded, c he ci fully. "AH thN time " he nnwetee "Hut von never said a won! to m- jou never ncted us though " sh- piued, unceitalnlv, the look of fesr still lingering In her eves. "How could jou keep silent at such a time?" she ctled. "I can't believe it." "It's always haidei foi me ti tall; than to keep still." lu said, slowlj. "Sutcly ye've found that out long ago I couldn't a said a word without niak in' things woise most likely s. I thought tho best thing to do was io Jest wilt an' I been waltln.' " "Waiting!" she repeated. "Waiting for what?" 'Tor what's hni poned Huntce," he slid, softly. 'Waltln' to heir Jo it what I've heaid tonight: to have ye kneel down heie besH'e ivo as je'io kneelln' now, a wantln' the help I cm give j-c, an' u ttustin' me enough to ask for it." lie lifted his hand to check her question, and ,went on In tho same tone "I ain't n.-vei been like, any of the men ye ii"cd to know. I ain't quick to nuclei iinind little things, an' to know what's wanted without bein' told light out. That's what eomes of llvln' In the bnck eouutij-. When 1 Hi st met jou, IJiinie. It was like fooln a pletuie come out of It's framo an' walk an' talk to poopK" The laughing noto died out of hl.s voice, and in Its place them came an almost pathetic pentlencss. "Ye've never felt the way I have," ho slid, "an' yo couldn't unlei3tnnd how I've loved J'C. l.oid, Its been like father an' mothar an' husband rolled !mo one. Why, for a jvar or moio after wo were mairled, I liked to set an' watch ye, woncleiln' all tho tlmo whether my luck wnfn't too good to bo tine. I was ntwajs afiaid that there was a mlstako Hoinowheres, for It didn't seem rlirht nor natural tint yo should see anything in mo to caio about, unlcst unless It was be. cause I cared so much loi jou; I tiled to think tint sonctlmes." The woman was illnglng to his mm and weeping eonvultdvijy, Ho soothod her with kindly awkwnrdiicss, "Twn'n't voui fault, little ghl." in said. "Lout, no; It Just happened that way. There ain't no need to ciy about notliln' now; the time 'or ciylnM all gone past, an' I don't think It'll ever cmie. ngnln." Her sobs had died away, and sho looked up with u while, drawn faci, her ejrs shining Klinngelj'. "Thank (led that I told you to night," she slid, brokenly. 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