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It did not take him long to put on hia new clothes. They made him laugh at himself in spite of all good intentions Bnt that did not matter. The olothea answered very well, and be hurried down to the dining nob to ted the family all at the table. On seeing him ’Lisbeth blushed and Mr. Higgina roared out a great haw-haw of oompliment and fun, and the children and Mrs. Higgina admired and complimented, till Alec blushed decidedly more than ’Liabeth. He expressed hia thanks aa well aa he could to Mr. Higgins and ’Liabeth. At 10 o’clock Aleo aaw the old aexton with hia abiny heed oome aaroee from his house, and, opening the oharoh with a big key, prooeed to ring the belL It was not just the kind of bell ringing Aleo was used to in the city, but it was done with a method just the same. The rope hung down into the vestibule of the church, and Aleo could see the old sexton tugging away at it directly in front of the open door. He gave a great pull, and then seemed nearly carried off his feet on the return. The sweat poured down his face, and Aleo thought with a laugh that his collar must be pretty well wilted. But on looking again he saw the old sexton’s collar and necktie on the floor beside him, a somewhat incongruous picture for a church door on Sunday morning. Soon the people began to oome. First a hulking young man, uncomfortable in his stiff Sunday snit, his white collar rapidly melting, slouched up apologetically and stood waiting o* the cor-

Waiting on the corner of the great stone steps.

ner of the great stone steps before the church, full in the broiling sun. He stood there for nearly half an hour, and Aleo wondered. Girls in pairs oame, rather light and dainty in thei* muslin frocks, and disappeared into the cool ohuroh out of the heat. Perhaps it was their presence within that kept the young man without. Or he may have had an interest in the farmer wagons that drove np, each with a whole family on hoard. The agile but rather dowdily dressed girl jumped lightly out on one side, while her old father, with a long beard under his tein, alighted oa the church steps on the other side, and proceeded first to lift out the little one*, and then from the back seat hi* tubstantial, matronly wife. For a moment the family made a picturesque group en the church steps as they consulted together. Then the man. went with tee horse and wagon to the sheds in tee rear, and the women and children entered the churoh.

Soon the young man on the ckeroh stsps had companion*, and the first funily was followed by a aeora es other*. At hurt the KiggluM*, all oat apiok and spaa, appeased no tike jkuua, Papa Joe, aa A lac niokaaaaad kirn, Maging up tka rear, wWie 'ldabath hurried past tka others in order ta ba in her place in tka choir in titna. Mr*. Xiggins *are A lac a formal invitation to a place in their peer, and Alee accepted and followed eloee behind kav, with the children on each aide of him, evidently proud of hia company. They fait that there was something distinguishing about It, and Alec waa pleased. They found a thick crowd in tka entry before the inner door, and Alec was obliged to elbow himself In' rather roughly, while everybody stared coldly at him. That stony store made him moat uncomfortable, but the Higginses seemed to take it as natural enough, and gave him what relief they could by hurrying to their pew, though most of the audienoe were still crowded about the door. But soon the preacher came, a bant, but dignified old man, with a sadly solemn face, in which, however, goodness shone, and as he made his way to the pulpit the company about tka door dispersed to their seats, and soon all waa quiet and solemn for a few minutes before the little organ in the loft at the rear, baok of the ohoir, wheeled forth the voluntary. Alec felt that it was the most solemn assemblage he had ever Been. Though it was so hot a day, there was no flatter of fans, though fans indeed (of the large palm leaf variety chiefly) were in use, there was no rustle of silk garments as in a fashionable audience in the city, no snbdaed buzz of Anal whispers. Instead there was a little rnstle of the leaves that came with the light breeae through

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBEB 24. 1896.

IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS.

By SHERWIN CODY.

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the wide open windows, and the more distant murmur of the Helds. One could hear, too, the ripple and gurgle of a brook that flowed not many rods from the oburoh, and new aad then a bee or a great fly bussed about over the heads of the worshipers. So intense was this peouliar atmosphere to Aleo that he wished almost to cry oat against It and feared he disgraced himself by his uneasi■ese in his seat. But ut last he surrendered himself to it, and, becoming lost is a ooatetnplatioa at the greenery through the windows or a busing bee er the odor that oaase to bias oa the breoao, bo fouud thoehuroh a asset Mini place. The service began with a hymn, and when the choir row Aloe observed that lisbeth and George Mars ton stood side by side. Doubtless In the silent communion of many Sundays thus so near eaoh other had grown up that attachment which ’liabeth sternly but silently repressed, but which the blacksmith as persistently but silently urged. When a* the second hymn the whole congregation rose end turned to face the ehoir in the rear, Aleo spent hiseurioeitf and attention in watohing those two Niagara and fek sure that, however intense their affection, no word of love had yet passed between them. ’lisbeth sang in a elear.full soprano,her votes riaiag naively and almost unoonsoiowly above the rest, while the blaekswitk, with his frank blue eyes aad honest, open face, looked up to hoavoa and pound nut his vuioo with hers in • eleur hsritons that blended perfectly. When the servloe was telshed and the oongngatlon broke us fen the Sunday eohool, Aleo uguiu Celt the oold. stony store of the little crowd into whieh ho was wodgod, on one side Mrs. Biggins gossiping with a neighbor, on tho other several other rubstaatial matrons gossiping with other neighbors as if it were too only opportunity during tee week they bad to speak to sash other. But soon Aim aaw Ctesrgs Masston making bis way through the umwd toward him, aad giving Aim’s hand a hearty grip and spanking a still more hearty weloomo, ha invited Aleo to join hie Sunday school class, and whan they had made their way to the door the blacksmith introduced the young man to half a demon lads who stood about, some older, some younger, but none with anything to eay. Aleo felt awkward, and wss glad when the superintendent rang his little silver bell to call the school to order. They took their places in groups about the oharoh, here a big group of uneasy children, there a group of young ladies, or half a dozen old men and women. Georgs Marston’s •lass had a retired nook in the choir gallery, from whioh Aleo had an excellent opportunity to survey the little gathering without himself being much seen. It was not at all an unpleasant hour that Alec spent there. He found Marston keenly intelligent, sympathetic and well read for a countryman, and before he left foresaw that he should And in him a genuine and true friend. Already in these few days what deep ties of intimacy he had formed with this strange people 1 As soon as the service was over, he slipped away as quickly as possible to the kitchen of the tavern for a good drink of oold water, but he found 'Lisbeth before him busily getting dinner, for which he confessed himself quite ready.

CHAPTER XXL he TASOM a WALK Us TON WOODS AXD HEAR* kscbthims MMOVT 40S HieaiMt. kate in the afternoon, whoa tlm ma was sinking rapidly into its golden bed and the air was somewhat coaler, Alec went for a ramble. Ream the hill to the west the road i> a tort of shelving ledge os an embankment, and the passer may look for miles sad miles over the valley dotted with lakes and streams and flashing bite of stream and groves and farnshoeses. Then it enters a thick feseat, where the oeol pines and hemlocks and elms and maples and oaks meet above erne’s head like an arching bower. At last he oame te a plaoe where a brook ma through a little stone arched channel under the road, and beyond it spread ont into a clear round pool in the midst of aa open meadow grown rank with thick strordgrass. He stepped down from the road to glance into the dark, 000 l tunnel of tbs stream, where It ran so smoothly and qniotly as if lingering to rest under the mossy stones beaded with moisture. As he stood up bo noticed a little path running off around the edge of the water covered meadow, and he immediately decided to follow it It skirted the bank of the meadow and pool until it came to an old rail fenoe, with its rotten logs piled crosswise upon eaoh Other. Aleo olimbed clumsily over and found the path startkig off suddenly into the wood. The immensity of the plaoe filled him, made him wish to kneel and worship God, sending his prayers up through those tall, smooth, brown trunks and the little spaoe that opened to the sky. A pine wood is like a great oathedral, with its gigantic pillars springing np on every side, its domes and arches and massive fresooes and 0001. calming spaoe about one. At last Aleo climbed up on a high, gray bowlder and sat down, like Robinson Crusoe in the midst of his lonely island over which he was sole rnler and king. The bowlder was bis. throne. All

these tall pines were his humble subjects, never altering a word of insubordination. What was poverty now. with such a free heritage? But suddenly a sharp, 000 l breeze came along, pushing the sultry air before it, and Alec gburned up through the trees to see black, scudding olouds. The sun was covered, and it was growing darker, but in this dank forest he had not notiped it. Then same a long, low rumble of thunder, aad Aleo slipped quickly down from his granite throne and began to look for the right way home.

He ooukl not And it and began to be somewhat distressed thereat as he hurried here and there, looking and wondering, when suddenly he saw something that changed the whole ourrent of his thoughts. There, not two rede away, wholly uaoooscioos of his presence, sat 'Lisbeth on a low stone, her ohtn buried in her hands, whieh in tom were supper ted by her elbows resting on her kaees. She seemed looking vaguely into spaee. Aleo thought she bad been drying. Her chip hat had fallen off beside her, and her whole attitude was that es abandon—a huddled bunch. She was by ho mearns graoeful, but moot touching. His heart went out to her at a bound, and he would have liked to go to he* immediately and have comforted he*. But he dare net. He was almost afraid to make his preseaoe known, aad began to think of slipping off without her observing him, when he recollected that be did not know the way; that it was about to rain, and that at any rate he ought not to leave her here to get wet because of her melancholy, however sacred it might be. He had taken bnt a few steps toward her when the heard the breaking of tbe small branohes under bis feet and turned and aaw him. She smiled sadly at him, and he remarked prosaically: "It looks as if it were going ta rain. If we don’t hurry home, we shall be drenched. ” "I don’t think tt will rain,’’said 'Lisbeth in a harsh, monotonous tone as she glanoed up at the scudding elouds which eon Id be seen through the trees "The shower is going round." A few big drops came bouncing down upon them before she had finished, bat she assured Aleo they meant nothing. "She has been thinking of tbe blacksmith," said Aleo to himself, and, aa for ’Lisbeth, she seemed te feel that he bad read her through and through. She rose rather anUenly to be* feet, bowers*, and started off, bidding Alee come on. He followed her, sorry, sympathising, ha eould oomfott her, kelp he*, at least shew his sashing. But she was silent and forbidding. It was impassible to speak. They tried to talk of indifferent things, but conversation failed, and as they walked through the avenue of trees which formed the road they both lapsed into utter silenoa. That evening about • o’clock, as Alee was thinking of going to bed, he stumbled into the parlor from the piazza* where he bed been sitting on a nail keg;. At first tbe room seemed to him deserted, but soon he heard a half stifled sob, and at tbe farther side of the room made out the farm es e girl lying oa the old sofa. It must be ’Liabeth, and she was crying. This time Aleo could not restrain his sympathies, and he walked directly across the room to her side, where he let bis hand rest on her arm in the dark. "Is it you, ’Lisbethr be caked ae cheerily as he oonid. She immediately sat upright, but made no answer. "Tell me what's the matter," he said kindly. "Perhaps I can help you. I’m so sorry for you. You’ve been awfully good to* me, ’Lisbeth," he blurted out and put his hand out to her in the dark, but she repelled it. "You don’t know anything about it," she answered in a broken voioe, "and it wouldn't do any good if you did. You oan do nothing for me but go away and let me alone. You’ve got plenty of things to think about for yourself. You've got a job to earn yoor board and bed for a little while, and you Chink you are as Independent as a landlord. But you don't know how long your job’s going to last aor where you’re going to get the money to pay for them very clothes you have en. There! I didn’t mean to say that, but it’s the gospel truth, and you better understand it now as well as any time. I like you, and I’ve tried te help you, but I'm only a girl, and I ean’t do much. ’’ Alee wss completely undone by this sudden turning of the tables. He mumbled something, felt the teen coming into his own eyee and began etumbling back out of the room. 'Lisbeth sat quietly on the eofa and made uo sound or movement

At the door Aleo unwittingly plunged squarely Into a mountain of humanity, which turned out te be Mrs. Higgins. She had been standing at the door and bad heard the eelloquy—at least the last part of It. "O Lord, Mr. Howe, don’t mind 'Lisbeth !** the said when they had recovered theuaelvea. She shut the door and

led the way out to the piazza, where she had just plaoed aoh air, into which aha presently sank, while Alec took his old place on the nail keg, with the side of the building for a baok. “You aee t Mr. Howe, Tiisbeth worries a eight over her pa. That was part of what she meant when she talked to you that way. Three years ago her pa had a Bort of fit or something, wbioh they say’s heart failure or something. He was out in the store one evening with a let of men there smoking and that sort, and a little girl, Mrs. Janeway’s little Nancy that died, came in and wanted some sugar, and be was reaching into the barrel that stood out in the middle of the store, you know, and ail of a sudden they saw he was kind of limp and jnst a-hanging on the side of the barrel, so to speak, and near tuppin the barrel over. Well, they had a tumble time getting him out. They brought him in here and laid him on that sofa where ’Lisbeth was sitting, and he lay there till pretty near the next morning without stirrins or speaking or even

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breathing, for all I eould sea. They sam he did breathe, though. I thought shea’s he was dead. But he wasn’t. He got np next morning and went and changed his olothea m»4 set off to Conway to see the dootoc. I made Jim go 'long with him, for I said he shouldn’t go alone, aad Lisbeth, tee would have gone, too, only she had to take oare of the store. She cried terrible and wanted to go, but her father made her give in. She sete terrible store by her father. "Well, you know George Mars ton, that oome In here last might, I’m almost sura tea’s in love with him, thongh she's never let on that tee is, and he doesn't know it But tee says she won’t never marry while father’s like be is now. She says if he should die sudden! the store would be all broke np if she

"Lisbeth's a good girl."

wm married and gone, and then me and the teildren might oome to the Lord only knows what—the poorhouse, for all I know. '* ’Lieboth’s a good girt I think tee’s glad you've oome, 'cause if anything did happen to father you oonid sort of help her look after things. "I duano as tee'd Hke to have me have tolt yon all this, but I thought as von ought to know, so** to be prepared if anything happened te him. He's had those fits now and again ever since. He had ene only last month, and I expec' this hot weather he'll have another soon." It Vs perhaps uncertain bow long tee would hove rambled on had not beth appeared in the doorway and said tee was going to bed. A lea wondered if tee had overheard. Be felt more sorry for her than ever apd wished tee knew he understood and sympathized. But he did not know how to oonvey it to her, so be rettumed her a oust good night and went off to bed too.

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was a mingled one of~ lampoil, morasses, cottonseed meal and phosphate fertilize*. But Aleo went bravely to work, and between dealing % cents’ worth of sugar to one little girl and a *6 oent shoe sole to another and serving divers other stray customers be managed by noon to have moved everything on one side of the store sod swept. Joe Higgins kept out of the way as much as possible while Aleo was cleaning.. He never took any part in cleaning anything, though he said be was glad to have it done, beeaose it made ’Lisbeth feel better. Women bad queer notions, and ’Lisbeth was * always fussing about how dirty the store looked. For him, he didn’t aee but it was all right so long as be kept the sugar and flour and things tightly covered np. Nothing ever went dirty out of his store—unless it were things like lamp chimneys that were expected to be dirty—nod he didn’t see what difference a little dirt round the outside of things made anyway. Aleo thought Lfsbeth worked herself to death. Her part es tee house never looked dirty. And he looked curiously at Joe Higgins, as if he were looking at a man almost in the next world. Moreover, everything was narrow and pinohed—only nature was luxuriant—and Aleo wondered how en earth a fortune could ever be made out of the penny’s worth of this and the two peonies’ worth of that, with scarce ever a* order above a few shillings. Aa he went about the store he remembered very vividly the desperation of his first days in the village and was mightily thankful for his present vantage But nevertheless he bad desperate fits es homesickness, and for a day or two he looked about in vain for any possible work by which he might earn a little money. In the meantime he sard nothing to Mr. Higgins about hours, and as there seemed plenty to do in cleaning up and putting Bungs in order and mastering prices and what not he ecuok pretty closely to that The tavern waa chiefly a stopping plaoe for tourists and other travelers driving to the mountains or engaged in coaching parties. They would stop to rest their horses and have them watered and fed, and, they usually wanted a hasty lnnch for themselves. On rare occasions a belated traveler Inquired for lodging. Aleo's duty was to receive the visitors on the front veranda (as he was the most attractive looking person about the premises), aud taka the horses. It was embarrassing to play lackey to snoh people as. he had been used to mingle with on an equality; but, on the whole, he rather liked this opportunity of seeing refined people in any capacity whatever. There was a sweetness, in being near them and hearing them talk in the familiar accent which wai balm to his homesick heart He Was always well treated, and frequently a shrewd man or kindly lady looked at him inquiringly, as If to ask how he came there, though nothing was ever said. But one day the chance for earning some money and for something else came quite unexpectedly. One evening after supper Alee went Into the store and found Joe Higgins as usual on hi* (TO BE CONTINUED.)