Show RUSSELL SAYS HE HESITATED I Win Whim T ti th r roc MI Hi oc D I t WAITED AltED FACTS UP UPI I I f WOuD OT namn Z AX AT 1 I They tIt that I have llave been in M MI tUt I am young that tt I j be bedes des 4 thoughtlessly A he Jae Samuel Rue rINd ip and down k porch His r were we across JI breast It and tile the wy r mass ef f sandy andy hair ar arN which We cowers hit his N bead was unprotected by a alaM abs laM bs Why I J nave haft pondered over 0 this these that for fer t months oaths for a year nar he bs ex ix exclaimed claimed fiercely acly He Ma became more cairn gad and said I T do 40 not DOt set act tastily hastily I had not fully tuU made de up my ID mind nd to todo todo do It last Jut Sunday Yet Tet Y t I felt that thatto something ought to be ho don do to top Atop this Ua X J went want into tate the tM taber tabei nade with others and took a at seat t In the aisle ise opposite me h 11 t ti I i my 7 brother Then my eyes eJ ye fell upon Miss MI Thatcher She S was waa wa sitting just jut justin I in 1 front of 0 O me I 1 was w determine y et t i when I saw w her ber I hesitated 1 I 1 looked around tar for him for fer Tan Tanner net ner but I dM not DOt see He him He lie aM a ROt not there then Later on OS he ho came sm in m mand inand I IaM and aM took sek a seat t in the t frost front of tilt tabernacle When WIlen I saw w him aim puff d dup up with pride p walk across acro the h hit it settled me IDe I no DO 11 i I II I I watched t i Rossett Ru told how bow he Jae waited w it lid listened 1 to the reading of 01 the thead names mt I and ad among so the tIIe list flit of home boIDe mission ton ston I Iwu 11 wu was the tile name of one who he did dIC not nit believe v ought oa t to be M permitted I to Breach the gospel That was Henry I L II I Objected Oh to Tanner ra He Ri waited until the list was w finished and aad the tIM speaker called catl for the vote Hundreds of hands hand went methodically upward uP The on Tb speaker ape er asked for those opposed o to manifest their disapproval in the u same me way This was waa the mo me moment meat ment ty f which Russell R had been watt It lag Ing I nearly a whole year He kero Ie arose arise in Inde n his de seat t standing partly in the allis atole al Thin Then he be said laid calmly and distinctly I am III opposed to the name naDie of Henry S 8 Tanner TaD for tOr home missionary The TIle great t audience N was WU electrified Then he be eat t down doo A Aha hum swept through the Ute church and the Incident was wan momentarily I forgotten At t the t time UlDe I saw w Miss Mim Thatcher and her sister ter in I the Theatre I spoke e ete i to te them tm tile It Jt was the first tint time u I had bad hadJ J been able IJ to see her since nee my return from V mission son although I had called at t the Ute bias when she was w not DOt there I asked if tt they had tickets and they said Me o I got JOt in the line 1 to buy three tickets but hut when I looked around again pia they were wee gone My seats happened to be near them They were we with wiG Tanner Tauer and hie bs wife wit wifeL L and DC had seats together r Even E thin then I r Iad Idid did ad not suspect I dont know why wy That Tt night t I 1 was w downtown until untila about a t 7 when I met the tile four tour again It was not until then that the truth into to my y mind na I re remembered reID remembered ID the tile stories I had bad heard beaM rd I 1 wanted to talk to her to Miss Thatcher That I remembered then I re how bow the she had bad avoided me i and nd I turned away atway I 1 have haye sometimes w wo 1 if I did the right ht thing But if jf I bad had obeyed my m Impulse Impalas to join Oln the party I dont doat know what t might have happened I was wu hurt burl Only Oaly OBI a ayearS I year yearS hut but lIt what a change c had bad occurred in that short time tIlDe Before that meeting I would not Dot let myself elf believe NUne the stories Last Lut Janu January January 7 ary I saw aw w her J e go JO to his house ho It H was w late lata m In the tM afternoon After that I saw w other things th I understood d I wa was Wat thankful thOu then that she e had no ao claims upon me nor I upon her ber I bad had never said anything an to her about my 7 intentions int Intentions It tont always necessary n to say any things to be understood I knew I was wu wuKO going KO away to be gone lOfte three years ea Three yean yn to Is a long time She lite had other callers n On 0 the night t the Ute holdup up occurred in front of her ber house hOUle I had bad not DOt been there t before tore In hi a ath month I ex cx expected posted to see Me her again before I went away I wanted Ite to see her herI again I 1 expected to be gone sone a long time Ue and aM I wanted no woman won to feel teel that ut I Iad I had ad any strings strIng on her I expected some day to come eo back and sad I 1 1 Well Weil somehow bow I had bad hoped to find Ind Inde nd everything e as it was wu when n I Wit went t I away a I came back sooner from the mission than I expected I j had hd to I bring brigs rt hack be a sick dt man I was w here br I only a short ort time Ue when I heard these torto I would not let myself believe 1 them theirs I tried to see Me her but I soon saw that she abe was w avoiding avoid me She was never nover r home borne when I called at the house ho One ODe day I was w crossing the street and I saw w her coming When she abe be saw me she e turned and went back After Atter that ut I tried tn to forget I did for forget forget get Ket I had bad no DO time to think I was w wa busy building this house boUle But Bat him IdID I could not forget torpt him If It I had come COI comeback I hack back and found her married to some honorable young man n I would have Jave thought nothing of ot It Whatever my 7 Intentions may have ban been when I went t away they could not net be the a sasae when ben I found out oat I made Ide de up u my mind II that he ho should shoud be known DoW as he to Is he be said fiercely Ris wt breast heaved like lib a tuna man who to Is under un great eat t excitement He ie became beca calm again n and said saidI J 1 I dd 1 not DOt want the responsibility I Iad admired ad her eec enoe more mero than t any II other woman w I wanted the truth known Have I done wrong Russell looked up u into the quiet sky as If It expecting an answer there and the moonlight ten tell fellon tenon on his hla face taft Then he hi turned slowly and nd want Into lato the house bo |