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She seemed to feel rather than hear his presence, and she inquired softly: "Who's it, Bles?" "The mother of God," he answered reverently. "And why does she hold a lily?" "It stands for purity she was a good woman." "With a baby," Zora added slowly. "Yes " said Bles, and then more quickly "It is the Christ Child God's baby." "God is the father of all the little babies, ain't He, Bles?"
When school-time came there was not yet money enough, for cotton-picking was not far advanced. Yet Zora would take no money from Bles, and worked earnestly away. Meantime there occurred to the boy the momentous question of clothes. Had Zora thought of them? He feared not. She knew little of clothes and cared less.
Bles glanced at her awkwardly but she was still staring wide-eyed at the picture, and her voice was earnest. She was now so old and again so much a child, an eager questioning child, that there seemed about her innocence something holy. "It means," he stammered, groping for meanings "it means being good just as good as a woman knows how."
So long as she was uncertain of his attitude toward her, it was difficult to act; but now, since the flash of the imminent tragedy at Cresswell Oaks had cleared the air, with all its hurt a frank understanding had been made possible. The very next day Zora chose to show Bles over her new home and grounds, and to speak frankly to him.
"What shall we offer him?" asked the chairman. "Try him at twenty-five dollars a speech. If he balks, raise to fifty dollars, but no more." They summoned the young man. The chairman produced cigars. "I don't smoke," said Bles apologetically. "Well, we haven't anything to drink," said the chairman. But Senator Smith broke in, taking up at once the paramount interest. "Mr.
She reached the back landing just in time to see Colonel Cresswell's head rising up the front staircase. With a quick bound she almost fell into the first room at the top of the stairs. Bles Alwyn had hurried through his dinner duties and hastened to the Oaks. The questions, the doubts, the uncertainty within him were clamoring for utterance. How much had Mrs. Cresswell ever known of Zora?
Then Miss Smith said slowly: "What I don't understand, I don't judge." "No, but you can't always help seeing and meeting it," laughed Miss Taylor. "Certainly not. I don't try; I court the meeting and seeing. It is the only way." "Well, perhaps, for us but not for a boy like Bles, and a girl like Zora."
That's what I'm going to see Senator Smith about." "Have you had the civil-service examinations?" "Yes. I made ninety-three in the examination for a treasury clerkship." "And no appointment? I see they are not partial to us there." Bles was glad to hear her say "us." She continued after a pause: "May I venture to ask a favor of you?" "Certainly," he responded.
Bles walked the floor excitedly for a while and then sat down and smiled. "It was a shrewd move," he said; "but I think I thank them for it." "I don't. But still, "''T is the sport to see the engineer hoist by his own petar." Bles mused and she watched him covertly. Suddenly she leaned over. "Moreover," she said, "about that same date I'm liable to lose my position as teacher."
Then, too, did not Bles praise her with a happy smile, as together, day after day, they stood and watched the black dirt where the Silver Fleece lay planted? She dreamed and sang over that dark field, and again and again appealed to him: "S'pose it shouldn't come up after all?" And he would laugh and say that of course it would come up.
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