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The Cou Miles & JjpWith Ilkis I Howard (Copyright. Thm So Square-built, hearty, and strong, with an odor of ocean about him. Speaking with this one and that, and cramming letters and parcels Into his pockets capacious, and messages mingled together Into his narrow brain, till at last he was wholly bewildered. Nearer the boat stoxl Alden, with one foot placed on the gunwale. One still firm on the rock, and talking at times with the sailors, Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready and eager for starting. He, too, was eager to go. and thus * put an end to his anguish. Thinking to fly from despair, that swifter than keel Is or canvas. Thinking to drown in the sea the ghost that would rise and pursue him. But as he gazed on the crowd, he beheld the form of Prlscllla Standing dejected among them, unconscious of all thai was passing. Fixed were her eyes upon his, as 12 she divined his Intention, Fixed with s look so sad, so reproachful, Imploring end patient, That with a sudden revulsion Ms heart receded from Its purpose, . Am from the verge of a erag, where one step mote Is destruction. 8trange to the heart of men, with Its Quick, mysterious Instincts! Strange Is the Ills of men, end fatal or fated are moments, ? Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! "Here ! remain!" he exclaimed, as he looked at the heavens shows bin, Thanking the Lord whose breath had . scattered the mist and the madness. Wherein, 'blind and lost, to death he ( was staggering headlong. "Yonder snow-white cloud, that floats In the ether above me. Seems like a hand that is pointing ana Decauuiug wn uie wcau. There Is another hand, that la not 00 spectral and ghost-like. Holding me, drawing me back, and clasping ^tnlne for protection. Float, 0 hand of cloud, and vanish away in the ether! Roll thyself up like a fist, to threaten and daunt me; I heed not Either your warning or menace, or any omen of evil! There la no land so sacred, no air so t ' pure and 60 wholesome, As la the air she breathes, and the soil that is pressed by her foot-I steps. Here for her sake will I stay, and tike an invisible presence , Hover around her for ever, protecting, supporting her weakness; Yes! as my foot was the first that stepped on this rock at the land-, tog. 80. witn the blessing of God. shall it 4*. he the last at the leaving!" TS^srsr.,..?, ' with dignified air and important, -T1"! with watchful eye the tide and the wind and the weather, Walked about on the sands; and the people crowded around him Baying a few last words, and enforo tog his careful remembrance. Than, t?nny each by the hand, as tl he were grasping a tiller, Into the boat he sprang, and to basts shoved off to his vessel. Glad to his heart to get rid of all this worry and flurry. Glad to be gone from a land of sand and sickness and sorrow, Short allowance of victuals aad plenty of nothing but Gospel! Loet In the sound of the oars was the last farewell of the Pilgrims. O strong hearts and true! not went back In the Mayflower! No, not one looked back, who had sert hie hand to this plowing! Soon were heard on board the shoots and songs of the sailor* Heaving the windlass round, and hoisting the ponderous anchor. Then the yards were braced, and all sails set tb the weat wind. Blowing steady and strong; and the Mayflower sailed from the harbor. Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and leaving far to the southward Island and cape of sand, and the Field of the Ftrst Encounter. Took the wind on her quarter, and stood for the open Atlantic, Borne on the send of the sea, and the swelling hearts of the Pilgrims. Lea? In silence they watched the re> Cftl"S FUli vceovi, Much occrarec to them all, as iozo* thing living and fuman; Then, as if filled with the spirit, and rapt In a vision prophetic. Baling his hoary head, the excellent Elder of Plymouth Said, "Let us pray!" and they prayed and thanked the Lord and took courage. Mournfully sobbed the waves at the base of the rock, and above them Bowed and whispered the wheat on the hill of death, and their kindred Seemed to awake In their graves, and to Join in the prayer that they ub tared. Bun-Illumed and. white, on the east Handish trations by indler Christy b&?~ Merrill Cotrjxmv1 era verge or trie ocean Gleamed the departing sail, like a marble slab In a graveyard; Burled beneath It lay for ever all hope of escaping. Lo! aa they turned to depart, they saw the form of an Indian. Watching them from the hill; but while they spake with each other, ! Pointing with outstretched hands, and saying, "Ix>ok!" he had vanished. { So they returned to their homes; but Alden lingered a little. Musing alone on the shore, and watching the wash of the billows Round the base of the rock, and the sparkle and flash of the sunshine, TJtro the cntrlt nf Ood. movlne visibly over the waters. PrisciUa Thus for a while he stood, and mused by the shore of the ooean Thinking of many things, and most of all of Prlacllls; And as If thought had the power te draw to Itself, like the lodes tone, Whatsoever It touches, by subtile laws of Its nature, LoJ as be turned to depart* PrSstflla was standing beside htna "Are you so much offended, you win not epeak te ma?" said aha | "Am I so much to blame, that yeetae day, when yon were pleading Warmly the. cause of another,, my heart. Impulsive and wayward, Pleaded your own, and spake out forgetful perhaps of decorum? Certainly you can forgive me for speaking so frankly, for saying What I ought not to have said, yet now I am never unsay It; Pot there are moments In life, when the heart Is so full of emotion. That If by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word. It overflows, and its secret. Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Yesterday 1 was shocked, when I heard you speak of Miles Stand tsh. Praising his virtues, transforming his very delects Into virtues. Praising bin courage and strength, and even his fighting In Flanders, As if by fighting alone you could win the heut of a woman, Quite overlooking yourself and the rest, lr. exalting your hero. | Therefore 1 sjeke as I did, by an tr1 resist)^* Impulse | Too will forgive me, I hope, for the | sake of the friendship between urn, ! Which Is too true and too sacred to I be so easily broken!" | Thereupon answered John Alden, the scholar, the friend of Miles Blandish: 1 was not ingry with you. with nay sell store I was angry, Seeing how badly I managed the matter 1 had in my keeping." "Not" Interrupted the maiden, with answer prompt and decisive; "No; you were angry with me for speaking so frankly and freely. It was wrong. I acknowledge; for It Is the fnte of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghcet that la speechless, | Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of Its silence. Hence is the Inner life of so many suffering women : Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers i Running through caverns of darkness, unheard, unseen, and unfruitful, | Chafing their channels of stone, with endless and profitless murmurs." : Ty^j-annnn unoworwi John Alden. the young cian, the lover of women: "Heaven forbid It, Prlscllla; and truly they Betrr to me always More like the beautiful rivers that watered the Garden of Eden, , More like tie river Euphrates, through deserts of Havilah flowing, i Filling the land with delight, and memories sweet of the garden!" "Ah, by these words, I can see," again Interrupted the maiden, "How very little yon prize me, or cA for what I am saying. When from the depths of my heart. In pain and with secret misgiving, Frankly I speak to you, asking for sympathy only and kindness. Straightway you take up my words, that are plain and direct and In earnest, Turn them away from their meaning, and answer with flattering phrases. This is not right, Is not just, is not tme to the best that is in you; For I know and esteem you, end feel that your nature is noble, Liftlrg mine up to a higher, a mare ethereal leveL Therefore I value your friendship, and feel it perhaps the more keenly If you say aught that implies I am only as one among many. If you make use of those common and complimentary phrases I Most men thi ak so fine, in dealing and sneaking with women. j Hut whicn women reject as insipid, u not as Insulting." Mute and amazed was Alden; and listened and looked at Priscllla. 1 Thinking he never had seen her more fair, more divine In her beauty. : He who but yesterday pleaded so glibly the cause of another. Stood there embarrassed and silent, and seeking In vain tor an answer. So the maiden went on, and little divined or Imagined What was at work In his heart, that made him so awkward and speechless, j "Let us. then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and In all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you. nor am I ashamed to declare it: , I Dave iineo to De wiui you, w o*-v you. to speak with you always. : So I was hurt at your words, and a little affronted to hear you ' Urge me to marry your friend, though he were the Captain Miles StandIsh. For I must tell you the truth, much more to me Is your friendship Than all the love he could give, were be twice the hero you think him." Then she extended her hand, and Alden, who eagerly grasped It, Felt all the wounds In his heart, that were aching and bleeding so sorely, Healed by the touch of that band, and he said, with a voice full of feeling: "Tea, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever ue nrst, me truest, the nearest end dearest!" Casting a farewell look at the gHn> Bering sail of the Mayflower, Distant hat eOU In eight, and alnlrtng below the horlaoo. (To be Continued.) x6s696s6s69s3 s what 8 pay-day 8 mean lyif fi you? w 7a If pay-day means a day of Bill #. T.iriinty Ravmwl W/? JU1 T X/f J VMIU (S To live beyond your income mear S Now is the the time to change. < U S^.T7-I2>T3-S ^at the earliest opportunity and put an account is opened pou can depos or all, at any time without notice. 8 WEE P xcsssesescsca ONE OF THE LA' Lord, Have Mercy But this Song We won't have Me FIRST?We have the very be? town. 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