saying, “and it is our duty to bear these crosses with fortitude.” The
reminiscent smile grew broader. “Thee was exactly right in what thee
said about guile. But thee was also right in what thee said about
goodness being as communicable as guile. This young man has not the
highest kind of a reputation for gentleness. But all agree that he is
honest. It displeases me very much”—and the smile was almost a laugh
now—“that they should make me a mother-in-law, at my age, without my
consent. But if I can forgive that, thee can forgive—hem—whatever ails
thee. John, my dear husband, let us keep them with us and try that
theory of thine which was so successful in my case. Let us see whether
we cannot communicate our goodness to them—as they have communicated
their guile to each other.”
John Estover sprang upon his wife and embraced her so strongly and so
suddenly that she said happily:
“Why, John, it is just as if thee was courting again!”
“Thee is right, Ann! Thee is a better Quaker than I am. Thee adheres to
the precepts and does not forget them when they are of use. There is
much hope in what thee says.”
“And—and—John—just think of our lovely Marian—Mary Ann—leaving us! It is
not to be thought of, is it? I know thee feels as strongly about that as
I do. And that poor, misguided young man—”
For she had seen them coming, with fearful faces, for their forgiveness,
and he had not.
They were almost at the door now.
“Is it all agreed, John?” she cried.
“Yes,” said John, “it is all agreed. Thee is a better Quaker than I am.”
And that is why they received a welcome which was more hard to bear than
the one they expected.
“Now if thee were only one of us,” sighed John Estover to John Rem, as
he held his two hands, and liked him at once for a certain big way he
had with him.
“What do you mean?” asked the younger man. “I hope that having forgiven
us, you will not stop halfway.”
“Ah, yes, that. Look to Ann for that! But if thee was a Friend, we might
reclaim thee—”
“I am a Friend,” shouted John Rem, tremendously happy to remember in
time what he had not remembered much for years.
“What!”
It came in three voices—and six hands were laid with various expressions
of tragedy upon him.
“Not very orthodox,” confessed honest John Rem, “perhaps a confirmed
backslider. But I claim my place in the church of my fathers, and I mean
to keep it better in the future than in the past—with—with—the help of
my—wi—wife!—” he got it out with a gulp—“and you. I am a Friend, sir. My
father and my mother were, God bless them! I tried to tell it at the
meeting. But they began to pray for us.”
“My dear son John—” said John Estover to John Rem.
Now, do you observe how right Mrs. Estover was in her views and
practices concerning the “management” of husbands and fathers, and
churches, and other things?
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Footnote 1:
Copyright, 1905, by _The Metropolitan Magazine_.
Footnote 2:
Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co.
Footnote 3:
Copyright, 1904, by Frank Leslie Publishing House.
Footnote 4:
Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co.
Footnote 5:
Copyright, 1905, by P. F. Collier & Son.
Footnote 6:
Copyright, 1905, by The Curtis Publishing Company.
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