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think of your visiting me! Oh, and
They’re for me ! ? I wish you could
lave seen her look. Martin says in
today’s letter that he thinks people
will say I’m his daughter, and Alix—
he says that you are to come up to
decided.
“Before we decide this thing final-
Anne—did, you see what Mrs. Fairfax lyf” the doctor said, smiling Into her
visit us, and we’re going to find you yet warm, with a dewy, woody sweet-
a fine husband I Won’t it be funny to ness in the air.
having her make a mistake. I think
she’ll listen to me!” And a day or
two later he called her into the study.
It was a quiet autumn morning, foggy
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the extravagant hat. It would be
many years before she would spend
twenty-five dollars for a hat again, and
never again would she see bronzed
cocks’ feathers against bronzed straw
without remembering the clean little
wood-smelling bedroom and the hour In
which she had pinned her wedding hat
over her fair hair, and had gone, de
mure and radiant and confident, to
meet her husband in the old hallway.
She was confusedly kissed, passed
from band to hand, was conscious with
sent me? A great big glorious fur
coat! She said I would need it up
there, and I guess I will! It’s not
new, you know; she says it isn’t the
real present, but it can be cut down
and it will look like ~new.” \
And so bn and on. The other girls
listened, sympathized and rejoiced, but
It was not always easy.*
August brought Martin. He was
delighted with .his work in the El Nido
mine, the “Emmy Younger,” and every
thing he had to say about it was
amusing and interesting. It was still
In a rather chaotic Condition, he re
ported, but the “stuff” was there, and
be anticipated a busy winter. He
was th have a cottage, a pretty crude
affair,. In a few weeks, right at the
mine.
“How doqs that listen to you?” he
asked Cherry. She gave her father a
demure and interrogative glance.
Martin, following it, immediately sob
ered.
“Just what is your position there?”
the doctor asked, pleasantly,
“A title bit of everything, now,”
Martin answered, readily and respect
fully: “Later, of course, I shall have
my own special work'. At present I’m
doing some Of the assaying and have
charge of the sluice-gang. They want
me to make myself generally useful,
make suggestions, take hold In every
“That’s the way to get on,” the old
er man said, approvingly. Cherry
looked admiringly, with all her heart
in her.eyes, at her husband-to-be; the
other girls w^re impressed, too. Mar
bright face, “before Martin writes his
people that It’s settled, I want to ask
you to do something. ■ It’s something
you won’t like to do, my little girl.
I want ye to wait a while—wait a
year!” -
It was said. He watched the bright
ness fade from her glowing face. She
lowered her eyes. The line of her
mouth grew firm.
“Wait until you’re twenty, dear.
That’s young enough. I only ask you
to take a little time—to be sure, dear I.”
Silence. She shrugged faintly,
blinked the downcast eyes as if tears
stung them.
“Can’t take your old father’s word
for it?” Dr. Strickland asked.
“It isn’t that, Dad!” she protested
eagerly and affectionately. “I’ll wait
—I have waited! I’ll wait until
Christmas, or April, If you say so!
But it won’t make any difference;
nothing will. I love him and he loves
me, and we always will.
“You don’t know,” Cherry went on,
with suddenly * watering eyes, “you
don’t know what this summer of sepa
ration has meant to us both! If we
must wait longer, why, we will, of
course, but it will mean, that I am
just living along somehow—oh, I won’t
cry !” she interrupted, smiling with
wet lashes. ' “I’ll try to bear it de
cently! But sometimes I feel as if
I couldn’t bear it—”
A rush of tears choked her. She
groped for a handkerchief and felt,
as she had felt so many times, her
father’s handkerchief pressed into her
hand. The doctor sighed. There was
They Fastened Over Her Corn-Colored
Hair Her Mother's Lace Veil.
- . nothirig .more'to be said.
tin hid pot been with them more^than y go he gave Cherry a wedding check
that made her dance with joy; find
there was no more seriousness. There
were gowns', dinners, theater parties
and presents; every day brought its
new surprise and new delight to Cher
ry, She had her cream-colored rajah
silk, but her sister and cousin per
suaded her to be married in white, find
it was their hands that dressed the
a few hours before the” engagement
was openly discussed, and there were
constant references to Cherry's mar-
nage.
' Somehow, a few days later, wedding
/ plant were la the Sir, and they were
all taking it for granted that Cherry
and Martin were to be married almost
immediately; in October, in fact. The
doctor at first persisted that the event
must wait until April, but Martin’s
reasonable impatience and Cherry’s
plaintive “But why. Daddy?” were too
much for him. Why, indeed? Cher
ry's mother had been married at eight-
sen, when that mother’s husband was
mare than ten years elder than Martin
Uoyd was now.
•Would ye let it go on, eh?“ the
doctor asked, somewhat embarrassed,
one evening when he and Peter were
walking from the train In the late
Iteptember twilight
“Lord, don’t ask mor Peter said,
gruffly. *I think she’s too young to
marry anyone—but the mischief*
done now 1”
_*I_think rp talk to her.^ber father
first
and
hair
It
bride when rhe great day came,
fastened over her corn-colored
her mother’s lace veil.
was a day of soft sweetness, not
! a sort of strange aching at her heart
I that she was not only far from saying
I the usual heart-broken things In fare-
I well, but was. actually far fr^m feel
ing them. She laughed at Alix’s last
I nonsense, promised to write—wouldn’t
[ say good-by—would see them all soon
—was coming, Martin—and so a last
| kiss for darling Dad and good-by and
I so many thanks and thanks to them
all! ■
She was gone. With her the uncer
tain autumn sunshine vanished and a
; shadow fell on the forest. The mOun-
| tain above the valley was blotted out
I with fog. The brown house seemed
I dark and empty when’ the last guests
! had loitered away and the last caterer
had gathered up hik possessions arid
had gone.
I The doctor had changed' his un-
| wonted wedding finery for his shabby
| old smoking jacket,” but Peter ’ still
looked unnaturally well dressed' ''Alix
stepped down to sit between theib and
her. father’s arm went about her. She
snuggled agninst hiin ..in!..an unusual
mood of tenderness and quiet
“Be nice to nib !** she said, whim
sically. “I’m lonely!”
“H’m!” her father said, significant
ly, tightening his arm. Peter moved
up on the other side and locked hts
own arm in her free one. And so
they sat silent, depressed, their shoul
ders touching, their somber eyes fixed
upon the shadowy depths of the forest
Into which an October fog was softly
and noiselessly creeping.
too brightly summery, but warm and
•till under the trees. Until ten o’clock
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woods were tangled in scarfs of white
fog, then the mellow sunlight pierced
it with sudden spectacular brighten
ing and lifting.
At twelve o'clock Charity Strick
land became Charity Lloyd and was
kissed and toasted and congratulated
until her lovely little face was burn
ing with color and her blue eyes were
bewildered with fatigue. At two
o’clock there were good-bys. Cherry
had, changed the wedding satln for the
Meanwhile the hot train sped to,
and the drab autumn country flew by
the windows, and still the bride sat
wrapped in her dream, smiling, mus
ing, rousing herself to notice the
scenery.
When Martin asked her If she liked
to be a married woman, traveling with
her husband, she smiled and said that
It seemed “funny.” For the most part
she was silent, pleased and interested,
but not quite her usual unconcerned
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Sleepily now, although even this long
toy had hot paled her cheeks or visi
bly tired her.
At ten they stumbled out, cramped
and overheated, and smitten on tired
foreheads with a rush of icy mountain
air.
“Is this the pl-l-ace?” yawned Cher
ry, clinging to his arm.
“This is the place, Baby Girl; El
Nido, and not much of a place!” her
husband told her. “That’s the Hotel
McKinley, over there where the lights
are! We stay there tonight and drive
out to the mine tomorrow. I’ll man
age the bags, but don’t you stumble!”
She was wide-awake now, looking
alertly about her at the dark streets
Of the little town. Mud squelched be
neath their feet, planks tilted. Beside
Martin, Cherry entered the bright,
cheerful lobby of a cheap hotel where
men were smoking and spitting. She
was beside him at the desk and saw
him write on the register, “J. M. Lloyd
and wife.” The clerk pushed a key
across'the counter; Martin guided her
to a rattling elevator.
She had a fleeting thought of home-;
of Dad reading before the fire, of the
little brown' room upstairs, with Alix,
slender in her thin nightgown, yawning
over her prayers. A rush of reluc
tance—of strangeness—of something
like terror smote her. She fought the
hoihesickneSs down resolutely; every
thing would seem brighter totnorrow,
when the morning and the sunshine
came again.
There was a brown and red car
pet in the oblong of the room, and a
brown bureau, and a wide iron bed
with a limp spread, and a peeling
brown washstand' with a pitcher and
basin. The boy lighted a flare of elec
tric lights which made the chocolate
and gold wall paper look like one pat
tern in the light and another in the
shadow. A man laughed in the ad
joining room; the voice seemed very
near.
Cherry had never been in a hotel
of this sort before. It seemed to her
cheap and horrible; she did not want
to stay in this room, and Martin, tip
ping the boy and asking for‘ice-water,
seemed somehow a part of this new
strangeness and crudeness.' She began
to be afraid that he would think she
was silly, presently, If she said her
prayers as usual.
la the morning Marfin hIred'a phae
ton and 'they'drove out’ to the mine.
Cherry'had had.a good breakfast and
was wearing a new gown * fliey stopped
another* phaeton on the long; pleasant
drive and Martin said td tlie^fat man
inlt: ' ;
“Mr.-Bates, I want to make'you ac
quainted With ; my wife !” h’^ ' - •
“Pleased to meet you; Mrs!‘Lloyd I”
said the flit‘man; plea&intsy/ Martin
told Cherry/ when they passed him,
thiit that was the supertotehdeiit of
■ the mine, and seemedTiered'*at the
encounter. Presently Martin-put 1 his
arm about her and th^ bay horse daw
dled along at his own swe^t will, while
Martin’s deep voice told Mfr wife over
and over again how adorning and beau
tiful she wks and how he looted her.
Cherry listened happily, And for a
little white ; the old sense of pride And
achievement came back—she was mar
ried; she was wearing a plain gold
ring! But after a few days that feed
ing vanished forever and Instead it
began to seem strange to her that
she had ever been anything else than
Martin’s wife.
Por several days she and Martin
laughed Incessantly and praised each
other Incessantly, while they experi
mented with cooking and ate delicious
gypsy totals.
By midwinter Cherry had settled
down to the business of life, buying
bacon and lard and sugar and matches
•t the store of the mine, cooking and
cleaning, sweeping, and making beds.
She still kissed Martin good-by every
morning and met him with an affec
tionate rush at the door when he came
home, and they played Five Hundred
evening after evening after, dinner,
quarreling for points and laughing at
each other, while rain sluiced down on
the porch. But sometimes she won
dered how it had all come about, won
dered what had become of the violent
emotions that had picked her out of
the valley home and established her
here, in this strange place, with this
man she had never seen a year ago.
Of these emotions little was left
She still liked Martin, she told her
self, andyshe still told him that she
loved him. But she knew she did not
love him, and in such an association
as theirs there can be no liking. Her
thoughts rarely rested on him; she
was either thinking of the prunes that
were soaking, the firewood that was
running low, the towels that a wet
breeze was blowing on the line; or
•be was. far away, drifting In vague
realms where feelings entirely strange
to this bare little mining camp and
this hungry, busy, commonplace man,
Held sway.
The first time that she quarreled
With Martin she cried for an entire
toy, with the old childish feeling that
somehow her crying mattered, some-
bow her abandonment would help to
straighten affairs. The cause of the
quarrel was a trifle; her father had
sent her a Christmas check and she
immediately sent to a San Francisco
•hop for a clock that had taken her
fancy months before.
Martin, who had chanced to be
pressed for money, although she did
not know it, was thunderstruck upon
discovering that she had actually dis
posed of fifty dollars so lightly. For
several days a shadow hung over their
intercourse, and when the clock came,
as large as a banjo, gilded and quaint,
he broke her heart afresh by pretend
ing not to admire It.
But on Christmas eve he was de
layed at the mine and Cherry, smitten
suddenly with the bitterness of having
their first Christmas spoiled in this
way, sat up for him, huddled in her
silk wrapper by the air-tight stove.
She was awakened by feeling herself
lowered tenderly into bed and raised
warm arms to clasp his neck and they
kissed efich other.
The next day they laughed at the
clock together, and after that peace
reigned for several weeks. But it was
Inevitable that another quarrel should
come and then another; Cherry was
young and undisciplined, perhaps not
more selfish than other girls of her
age, but self-centered and unreason- 1
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LESSON TEXT—Acta 16 :>; 17:15.
GOLDEN TEXT—The angel crf the Lord
encampeth round about them That fear
him, and dellvereth them.—Psalm 34:7.
REFERENCE MATERIAL^-! and II
Thess.
PRIMARY TOPIC—God Takes Care of
Paul and Silas.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Midnight Experience
in Philippi.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—Courage in the Face of Persecution.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Preaching with Persecutions.
I. Paul and Silas in Jail (vv. 19-26).
1. The occasion (vv. 19-24). When
the demon was cast out of the maid
her supernatural power was gone;
therefore, the source of revenue was
dried up. This so exasperated her
owners that they had Paul and Silas
arraigned before t£e magistrates on a
false charge. Those men ought
to have rejoiced that such a
blessing had come to this poor girl.
They cared more for their gain than
for her welfare. This is true of the
iniquitous crowding together of the
poor in unsanitary quarters in our ten
ement districts, and the neglect of pre
cautions for the safety of employees
in shops and stores. Without any
chance to defend themselves they
were stripped and beaten by the angry
mob and then remanded to jail, and
were made fast in stocks in the inner
prison.
2. Their behavior in jail (v. 25).
They were praying and singing hymns
to God. It. seems quite natural that
they should pray under such condi
tions, but to sing hymns under such
circumstances is astonishing to all who
have not come into possession of the
peace of God through' Christ. Even
with their backs lacerated and smart
ing, and feet fast in stocks compelling
the most painful attitude in the dun
geon darkness of the inner prison,
with a morrow before, them filled with
extreme uncertainty, their hearts went
up to God in gratitude.
3. Their deliverance (v. 26). The
Lord wrought deliverance by sending
a great earthquake which opened the
prison doors and removed the chains
from all hands;
II. The Conversion of the Jailer
(vv. 27-34).
The jailer’s sympathy did not go out
very far for the prisoners, for after
they were made secure he went to
sleep. The earthquake suddenly
aroused him. He was about to kill
himself, whereupon Paul assured him
that the prisoners were all safe. This
was too much for him. What he had
heard of their preaching and now
what he had experienced caused him
to come as a humble inquirer after
salvation. Paul clearly pointed out
the way to be saved—“Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ.” The word “be
lieve” means to yield to and fully obey.
The proof that the jailer was saved is
threefold:
1 Transformation from brutality to
tenderness.
2. Confession of Christ in baptism.
8. His whole household baptized^
lit. The Magistrate* Humbled (vv.
35-40).
The earthquake brought fear upon
the magistrates. They gave leave for
the prisoners to go, but now they re
fuse to go, claiming that their rights
as Roman citizens have been violated
and demand a public vindication. Paul
was willing to suffer for Christ’s sake,
but he used the occasion to show them
that persecuting men who preach th*
gospel is an offense against the law
of God and man.
IV. Preaching In Thessaloniea (▼».
17-19).
At Thessalonica he found open
hearts. He followed his usual custom
of going first to the Jew (v. 1). After
witnessing to the Jews he went to the
Gentiles. Concerning the Christ he
affirmed:
1. “It behooved Christ to suffer”
(v. 3). No plainer teaching is to be
found anywhere than the suffering of
Christ (Isa. 53).
2. The resurrection of Christ from
the dead (v. 3).
3. The kingship of Jesus (v. 7).
The result of this preaching was
that many Greeks, some Jews believed.
V. Preaching In Berea (vv. 10-15).
His method here was the same as
at Thessalonica. He entered the Jew
ish synagogue and preached Jesus unto
them. The Bereans received the gos
pel with glad hearts. Two striking
things were said about them:
1. They received the message gladly.
2. They searched the Scriptures, daily
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