THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., FKIUIUAIIY. 20, 1878. For Tim Tim us. A WOMAN'S LOVE, OH FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. IT WAR growing very dark In the lit tie church of Bt. Btephen, and the ,taln tings on the walls could he hut dlm outlined hy the pastor, as he eat In ithe organ loft, turned half on the stool, Ma left hand on his knee, the fingers of -his right Idly thrumming the keys, and look In his gray eyes that was not horn of devotion or content. He had been playing for an hour, as was his nightly custom playing the grand Wrs of the masters ; and the swelling and the sink ing, the climbing and closing of the notes seemed lingering still along the aisles, and In the chancel, where the fig ure of a woman was crouching as if afraid of the dark or of Itself possibly of both yet held there by some restat es influence, and rocked and swayed y It as a willow by the wind. The si enee and the shadows were together at last. The hand upon the organ keys was still, as though asleep, and the pastor's head was leaned wearily upon his left palm, while the moonlight, creeping through the stained windows, borred his breast with lights of purple and am 'ber, and amethyst, anil touched his fore head tenderly as a mother might. Jle snt thus a long, long time; then turned with a sigh, and struck the pre lude measures to " He glveth Ills belov ed Sleep." Softly the music swelled out into the night, stirring the silence for a moment ; then it ceased, and the pastor arose, and locked the organ, lingered a tittle in the lonesome gallery, then went down the stairs and out at the door in the direction of his home. The figure from the chancel followed, 'keeping at a distance. It stood looking at the lights in the parsonage windows, after the pastor had gone In and shut the door, and the face the moonlight toyed with was whiter than the moon's. It was the face of a girl, and it wos softly and delicately molded. There were heavy lines across it lines that only Borrow cuts ; and the blue eyes and the young mouth told their own story of tears and wondrous wailing. The gill waited a few minutes ; then, pressing both hands over her heart, as if to still its beating, she went up the steps and stood leaning against the door, wait ing there again to gather strength and "courage. She pulled the bell presently, and a young girl about her own age i ipened the door. " Cau I see Mr. Percy 1"' she asked. I think so," was the reply. " He has come home with a bad headache ; but he rarely refuses to see any one." Emma Percy, the pastor's sister, had been leading the way to the parlor while bhe talked, and motioning her brother's guest to a sofa, she passed out of the room, closing the door behind her. " Do try and go down," she pleaded, patting the pastor's feverish cheeks, and looking eoaxingly as she knelt on the lloor beside him. "Bhe is such a timid child, and she looks so tired and white. I'm sure she needs you sorely ; and I'll hake up your pillows while you're gone and sprinkle them with cologne and " "There, I'll go. Kiss me, sister. I feel somehow to-night as I used when things went wrong at school and I could scarcely wait for four o'clock to come, that I might get in mother's arms and cry It out." " Has anything gone wrong to-day V" Kmma asked, anxiously. 44 No, nothing at all ; It's all inside, little sister all inside. But it rankles wnly the more for that." ' Poor darling," Emma Bald. Then she kissed the hot cheeks, and forehead, and watched him go down the stairs, and In at the parlor door. ' 41 1 do wish he would quit playing of nights over in the lonesome old church," . he muttered, going back to the sofa and .baking up the pillows. 44 It's enough to give any one the horrors. Ugh I I should fancy the ghosts of the martyrs talking toward me through the dark; and then" She broke off there, and stood motionless for a minute, looking at the roses in the carpet, but seeing them not. Meanwhile, the girl down stairs had been standing just where she was when the pastor entered the room one arm no the mantel, her black dress falling in unstudied prace around a figure, perfect in its outline as that of a statue, and her eyes fixed on the face of the minis ter, who was leaning against the door, as though powerless to advance or re treat. 44 Will you not come nearer?" the girl auked, when the silence between them was growing painful. 41 1 will not barm yw." The voice seemed to break the fetters binding the pastor's body and brain. He went quickly across the room, a low cry on his lips; a new light In his eye, and with outstretched arms that would have folded the girl to bis heart. But she drew back, putting out her band, as if to ieep him away, though the Lunger Of her life was all over her fair young race. "Not that I" she said, huskily. "I did not mean that! I only wanted to see you closer to hear your voice. It has been so long, you know." "Yes, Kflle, I know," the man an swered. "God knows, I know I Do you think 1 have forgotten anything V" " How should I know, Koyal V You have had much to engross you your studies, your friends, your work. For me there has been but memory, and the scorn of the world to keep my shame alive." " Don't, Erne t for God's sake do not talk that way, if you could know what I have suffered 1" 41 1 do not want you to sutler, ltoyal," reaching out her hand as if to touch his hair, but drawing it back quickly. "And I don't reproach you; I never did. We stood together once in the shadow of the same moral wrong, pray ing for forgiveness, resolving to find the pure, white way, and with God's help to walk therein ; and the worUl gave you Its velvet palm. Its smiles, and its support at ever step you took, in every redeeming success you plotted and achieved, because you were a man re serving for nie a woman Its averted face, and its hard hand upon my heud, and heart, to grind me into the dust! and where all that while was the God you worship? 1 tell you, ltoyal, Ho whs not Is not blind, nor deaf, nor piti less!" She was quivering with emotion from head to foot; and the face of the minis ter was white and drawn, as faces over open graves. She sunk into a chair at last, and he knelt on the carpet and bent his head on her knee. "Ellle," he said, breaking at last the bitter silence between them, and looking straight and honest in the girl's pale face, "you have suffered long enough. Be my wife. Let me liinke whatever of restitution I can. Give me a husband's right to protect and defend you." " Three years ago you said those same sweet words to me. Do you remember my answer " 41 Yes, 4 God made you strong to sutler,' you said, 'even to the death ; but never to dishonor the man you loved.' " 41 And I say so now, Royal." The girl's voice was low and broken. "Do you think I came for that V Do you think I'd let you soil your purple with my dust 'i Do you know me so little, oil! my lost, lost love V" She. covered her face with both her hands, moaning pileously for a moment ; then she arose suddenly, pushing the minister from her, and walked a dozen times buck and forth ' over the soft carpet, her hands pressed hard on her heart, and her eyes betrajlng the bitterness of conflict 'twixt love and duty. The minister hud gone to the mantel, and stood there, with his head in his hands, sobbing like a child. She stopped beside him at last, and put a hand on his shoulder. 41 ltoy al," she said, 41 Dear ltoyal 1" But when he would have taken her in his arms, she drew back, saying : 44 Don't Royal! don't make my duty harder to bear than it already is. Tell me of your life a little till I grow calmer, andean tell you of mine." 44 1 know nothing of my lifo except its love for youl" the man answered, losing his self control. " I know only thut you are my darling, wronged, for saken ; but here, at last, in my house, as you have always been in my heart, where, God help me, you shall always stay. Thenceforth, for its scorn of you, let the world answer to ire!" 44 You are wrong, Royal," the girl answered, quietly, "you are wrong." 41 Have you ceased to love me, Eflle K" Such a smile as broke over the girl's white face. It meant so much more than a man could interpret. It was as if a voice from heaven had said: " Great er love hath no man than this, that a man lay down bis life for his friends." But the voice was not heard, and the girl's lips were silent. Her sorrowful, struggling bouI stood on a height of de votion his own might never hope to climb to; but deeds, not words, should prove It. 44 Let us be seated," she said, at lust. 41 1 am not strong, and I want to talk with you ; but, wait a minute," she added, taking a vial from her pocket. 44 I've not taken my medicine for a long time;" she lifted the vial to her lips, emptied it, threw it out of the window, and then, going over to the sofa, put both hands iti the minister's, smiling and saying: 44 I've changed my mind, Riyal. I think it would make me stronger for the journey I have to go, If my head could lie iu the old place awhile." 44 It has wanted you always, darling and you never shall leave it never, at least, to go out into the world unsheltcr ed by iny name!" : From his breast where he had drawn her head, she smiled up happily into his face, Divinest content looked from her luminous eyes, but she did not speak. 44 1 was thinking of you so much to night, Eflle, over at the church, where I go to play the old airs you loved once I know you love them still, and somehow, you always seem nearest to tne when 1 am alone at the organ with the dark. To-night I could have sworn your breath was in the shadows, and that I heard you sobbing as you did the day we parted. I suppose it was because you were so near me, darling." 41 Yes," she answered, " It was because I was so near you.',' 41 You have not seemed very far away from me at any time," the pastor con tinued, caressing the tangled brown hair, looking fondly Into the girl's clear eyes. "A thousand times I Would have given up whatever had to be given up and gone for you, but that you had forbidden it, refusing to let me see or even to hear from you agalri." 41 It was for your own sake, Royal." 41 1 know It was the grand unselfish ness of woman, shielding the selfishness of man 1 Oh 1 Eflle, my darling, what have you not borne for my sake!" 41 It was not for your sake only, Royal but it was also partly fi.r the sake of the good you might do without me; for now you have position and influence, and are honored and loved, and all Is as it should be with you. I am so glad of this. Remember always, dear, that I said I was (Mad because all with you was us it should be." "Dear child!" said the pastor, ten derly. 41 And don't ever blame me for coming back to you to-night." 41 Blame you ! I bless you !" " Yes" her voice was growing so soft and so saintly; she had turned a little on his breast, and one white arm had stolen around his neck ; "and if I should die before you do " "Darling!" interrupted the pastor, lifting her head suddenly, and sturing into her face, that was quiet and smil ing, but very, very white " don't talk so!" " Why, we must all die, Royal," she said nestling back on the old place; "And if It should be I go first it might happen so, you know I'd like to be burled close up to the church, so I could hear you play of nights !" " Eflle," moaned the minister. . "Why, did I hurt you, dear Royal f your face makes me remember mine, as I have often seen it In the glass at auntie's. Auntie is deud, you know. No, she wns always good to me, and when she went away, there was nobody left, so I came to you." 44 And here you shall stay, please God" but here she interrupted him again. 14 1 might have lived so long, and bo well, I might have been a light in the land and a comfort to lonely hearts, as you are, if the world or the women who govern it had given me the chance to wash away the stain of that early sin, by repentance and goodly deeds. But they were so bard upon me! women are so cruel to women, Royal 1" the words had dropped faintly from her lips ; her hands had fallen helplessly, and her face had not a vestige of color, nor any sign of life, when her voice grew silent. He laid her down quickly, and went to the door and called : 41 Emma! Em ma 1" then he went back, and was chaf ing the cold hands, and kissing the cold brow, when Emma entered the room. 44 Royal oh, Royal I what has happen ed 1" she said quickly, going to the sofa, and standing with locked hands, and frightened eyes, looking from one to the other. But the minister did not answer, lie had killed his darling, he was thinking, and what would the world henceforth be to him ? Ellle opened her eyes and looking about absently, moved her shoulders, and settled back, suylng : 44 Preach, Royal, preach as long as you live, and tell women the-world to be kinder and more forbearing, to such as I!" Then she was dead. Close up to the eastern wall of St. Stephen's is a head stone upon which is simply engraved, 44 Effie," and under neath, " He glveth his beloved sleep." And whereverthere are hearts to be com forted and lives to be lifted into the light and the gone astray to be led back to the ways of honor and jrrace, there you will find Royal Percy, and his sister, Emma. , Equal to the Emergency. i STORY" is going the rounds (says J. the Bombay Gazette) which is too good to be lost. A young sub-lieutenant left his regiment a short time ago on sick leave, and put up at the best hotel not a hundred miles from Poonab, where he was immediately smitten by the attractious of a lovely maiden who was staving there. He proposed, was accented, and the happy day was fixed The colonel, however disapproved of sub-lieutenants getting married, and particularly of the sub in question. As he happened to be a friend of the young man's father, he thought to prevent the union of the fond counle bv sending a peremptory telegram couched In the following words: 44 Join at once." The son of Mars was in despair. He presented himself before his intended with the fatal missive In his hand and anything but a look of pleasure In his countenance; but the lady was equal to the ooeaslon. With ablush of maiden simplicity and virgin Innocence she cast her eyes on the ground and remarked: 41 Dear me! I'm glad your colonel ap proves of the match ; but what a hurry he Is in 1 I don't think I can get ready so soon, but I'll do my best, because, of course, love, the command of your colonel must be obeyed." The young warrior was puzzled. " Don't you see, my darling," he said, 44 that this telegram puts a stopper on our plans? You don't seem to under sland the telegram. He says peremp torily, "Join at once." The lady's blushes redoubled, but with a look of arch simplicity Bhe raised her eyes to erjlancc and replied : " It is you, my darling, who don't seem to understand It. Your colonel says plainly. ' Join at once,' by which he of course means get married immediately. What else can he possibly mean ?" A look of Intelligence replaced the air of bewilderment in the young hero's classic features, and bestowing a regular fusllude of chaste salutes on her rosy lips, he accepted the explanation, and was enabled to answer the colonel's telegram Is forty-eight hours afterward in these words: . 44 Your orders are obeyed. We were joined at once." MRS. WITHER'S EXPERIMENT. MINNESOTA happens to be execs slvely cold in winter ; so cold, in fact, that the Inhabitants are frequently unable to remember their own names. In spite of her youth, beauty and gen eral excellence, Mrs. Withers was pecu liarly susceptible to the Influence of cold weather and suffered agonies from cold feet from the first of November to the middle of April. The Baptist meeting house was a particularly cold place, and it often happened that after the end of the Sunday morning service Mr. With ers was compelled to carry his wife to the stove and thaw her out before at tempting to take her home. During the recent cold snap in East Brldgewater, Mrs. Withers suffered so severely that she came to the determina tion to try every remedy for cold feet which any one might suggest to her. On Saturday evening, December 10, Mr. Withers being absent on a visit to Chi cago, his younger brother, a bad young man, holding the position of Teller in the local bank, and noted for his fond ness for sinful games of every descrip tion, called upon Mrs. Withers, and when that admirable woman bewailed the coldness of the Baptist meeting house, told her that he had an infallible recipe for keeping the feet warm in the very coldest weather. He advised his innocent sister-in-law to pour half a pint of Cayenne pepper, mixed with two table-spoonsful of ground mustard, into each of her stockings, just before going to meeting, and assured her if she would try this cheap and simple pre scription her feet would remain com fortably warm, even If she were to put them under the table with those of Hot Charles Francis Adams. Mrs. Withers thanked the young man with a guileless gratitude thut would have touched the heart of a brass monkey, and instantly sent the servant to buy six pounds of Cayenne pepper. On the following morning, just before the church 111 rang she used the com bined pepper and mustard in accordance with her brother-iii-law's instructions, and walked to the meetinghouse without any Inconvenience from the cold. The 'service began, and though at first Mrs. Withers felt delightfully warm, she showed signs of uneasiness long before the minister gave out his text. Just wien that eloquent preacher was well under way, he was stricken dumb with horror at the unaccountable conduct of Mrs. Withers, who suddenly began to dance in the wildest manner and to shriek 44 Take them off !" in the most heartrending tones. It was too late In the season for snakes, and hence the congregation jumped to the conclusion that Mrs. Withers had gone mad. The deacons promptly hastened to her relief but the more they tried to calm her the more violently she danced. Finally she broke loose from them, and.tearing off her shoes and stockings fled barefooted to the nearest house. While the con gregation watched her flight down the aisle and wondered whether she could break a hole in the frozen river large enough for drowning purposes, a sudden and unanimous desire to sneeze fell upon them, and for the next ten min utes the uproar was deafening. 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