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was stili Iir'ece(1%ti€1• ant, sod ; `�• :: �",•
a»ned before an isolated hound you to teach
i,::tl,4 ?rc,;< tt :;h—to be all t!
broken marble shaft incl a n41:.1•-•whi01 wDuiC4 bGfarb
ttiii the inscriptioza: "Chester have said we were good fide
• A few withered garlands you to let me hope to be m
ortelles were lying at its base, you to overlook my clefieiene
*cling the broken shaft was a difference of my race and 1
fish, unfaded wreath. ! you on the only level where
never told me he was buried i to be the equal of y
aid Courtland, quickly,. half + people—that of loving you,
1 only the same chance yo
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nen urnon the girls,' ',plzey ttotiidikt "Sib fiotrn,. qu er t'i
the clzsnee of o' lent with so, seating himself sideways,
y breaking yo' hearts on the bank. l%Uss Sally stood, beside
over ".Tuve Read .or 1' him
bare holed yo iiirtingwitli tIle did
r
q'lzey'rG fools enough to linotI tied u "Tale oiLr yo' hat, six,:'
snub or a jilt from a, so'th'n girl would ' IIe abeye(I, smilingly, lliiss Sally
pay thein back for a, lost battle or a . sticiclenly sl.ippcd b0llind lim. IIe felt
ruined plantation,"
For the first time Diss Sally • I %%�.^ se r 'r. r,- - ,e -s:
it /
r//
Courtland's calm; blood it " a y serve !.
and kindle in his eye. "Yon his cheek y"
su , •1do "� i�> �''� t �9
not expect me to tolerate this blind u'tcl I A
insolent interference?" he saki rising to , .' £ 1'4J ire his feet, ' f
et/
1g,,t ,."e
her ungloved h
She lifted and in depre-
cation, "Sit still, co'nnle. l'o've been f
soldier end yo' know what cduty. is. :i ' ,I �yf
Well, what's yo'' dui t '
an
,
1
y• •F
ler
include
"It neither y o +yo col
ifs nor regulates tI; my 1?rivate of ! ,n, , ` e, , `` t /!i 6 • ,r
heart. o beating of m �-i,r
t I
mo every- £a
int j({1u de- h(: willresign,"
atter. Yau "find knave mo o'
nds: 1 want and the plantation?"nd Aunt Miranda 1
ore, I went "Nn Tho company will find another 1!"M`t�
les and filo superintendent to look after your aunt's
et me deet affairs and carr out our plans. And ,
you. Sally—you
3 ,
IC
an claim will let me find yam a r •�
our own home and fortune
o .ter poor fellow who sleep
' the same chance you gave t
' man, who carried the wreath
' put upon his grave."
Sally had listened to Courtl
lavation with prettily knitt
the faintest air of color an
laughing, half superior disc.
• When he had finished si
for mot tit There is work
rile there --there is room for you
alllon^' In „
Give mo
u gave the Y people.
s yonder --
ho 1uckier i
1 for you to et a in the wog, but the Stile roots of his itau; and then the light n
least 1 could' do ryas t i pressor Ids scalp of what seethed a
o -s, and share ' y my
merit that I
A eh
i) 6fifllpy/ „11" 'a«
s,, ca. ji„
,A S
IB
04 t',7:Ai'ED 7.O' nIs i+'Fnt
the soft imprint of liar little hands on
c
bhe shook her bead slowly, with a ! his shonulers a war
sweet but superior simile. o, eo nnIe. ,
didn't heli ' m• breath stirred
she to re them tire.'"
"rlleeasuse she takes Una u
zainpney, hurriedly, "ani!
didn't believe in thein be
have to share the respon
him in the eyes of every un.
ed =way like `Toni, Higbee
of the 1n, They'cl make she
her niggers all the Game,"
"But I don't see why she
made responsible for the o
anti Yet ' uldn't'go omen on itiy jti(7
„rettun 2zieut»--especially now but I've beeat
even if she here
rself, she'd
stbility with,
zcconstrnot-;
and the rest
rt worth' of
lice' cousin, nor clo 1 exactly k
, `t caking him up' means,"roto
• land, quietly,
Champney moistened his dry lips With
the julep and uttered a nervous gatt;h,
"Suppose the say hey latanbaaid, for that's
what his coming beck hone means,
ifi'verybocly knows that -you would too, ��
if you ever talked with her about any, ,re
thing but Business,"
A bright flash of lightning
should be
pinions of
now what
riled Court,
ij
longer than yea and," he'
fire' ( hli y
p
44
e e Asa, •f c, `i,`
A.
the feces of the two men
revealed Champney's flushed
and,
CO
ttrtl r
bceu looking at each oother.
were not, and the Iong rev
crash o•£ thunder which folio
nntod any audible reply fro
and, and covered his agitatia
For without fully accepting
ey's conolusiou he was erae11
t the young' mares utterance
IIe hacl SeSupulacitly respect
Uefore he wisher, of Miss Sally and had d—a ditii- —although nevenc�pelessly~i
eve(
cal- any eapression of his own 1
late. heir eo
t while vhis native truthful
nse of honor had overlo
ine throe - seeming insincerity of her atti
wards Champney, he had neve
fled his own tacit partioipatio
occupied and the concealment of his
manager tensions before his possible r
r_ s true that she had forbidden
enly enter the lists with her
s, but Champney's innocent a
of his indifference `to her
onsoquent half confidences
gnaricere
be only y one way to extto his story. ricate
d that was by a .quarrel,
did or did not believe Chain
y, whether it was oily the
geration of a rival or Miss
s actually deceiving thein bot
'tion had become intolerable.
I must remind you, Champn
d, with freezing deliberation,
s Miranda Dot's and her niec
esent the Drummond Co
ally with myself, and that you
expect me to listen to any
s upon the way they choose
mister their part of its affairs,
or to come, Still less do I c
es he idle gossip which can
the private interests of these
Ii which neither you nor I
t ght he to interfere'
that lit up ; • ,�' t
would have / 1 111 `rt
features ,,,, ,', , r near . _
had
L17cY lowered his voice slightly and dragged;
13ut they Itis chair nearer Courtland, " I dont
erbet'ating hike the looks of things ere. 'There's:
2:aed Court, some devilment plotting among those.
nrascals. They're only waiting an op
g Champ, portunity--a single flash would be
y shocked enough to set thorn in a blaze—even if,
of them. the fire wasn't lit and smoldering,
ted the already like a spark in a bale of cote
faithfully ton. I'd out the whole thing and clear;
zeld back out if 1 didn't think it would make it:
eve since harder for Miss Dows—who. would be:
meter left alone."
moss and "You're a good fellow, Champney,'1
eked to said Courtland, laying his hazel on thef
tulle to- young inan's shoulder with a sudden'
ne, "and I forgive you far over-;
eve justi- looking in�g the fact that I could help them„
n in zt, Indeed!" he added, with an odd serious-,
owhn pres ness and a half sigh, "it's not strange
zeal' It that you should. 13ut 1 must remind'
him to you that the Dows are strictly the
admir» agents and tenants of the company I!
ssump- represent, and that their rights and?
and
property under that tenancy shall ,not.
seemed be interfered with by others a$ long ay,
himself I am here. I have no right, however,";
Whether, he added gravely, "to keep Miss Dows;
jene from imperiling them by her social x'e
alou's rations."
f !Ieon xis
ands dee- l the punish stand
b ; the Iips of a child.
Ile leaped to his feet, yet
could turn completely roan
culty the young lady had evi y
tared a v yo to forget this, and mo' culatecl upon—he was too ate. The t
ughtn't to —I'll believe go' meant it, but a oinl shameesa11l1ss Sally were e' alreadyand Iia
yap' enol me promise me yo' won't speak of it
ott appearing among 1110 tombs i dis- se
with the eom tin
ed brows, tnew was coining 'from it. 1 despise
d a half this foolishness as mach as yo', but I
can't r from it,
I won't '. Come, co nnle,
plaintive little sigh. "Yo' o
have said that, co'nnle, but
are too good, friends to let even that as 1
pprobation. un sit ay
a I
e• stand between us. And to p
, yo' I'1n going to forget it righ
and so are yo'."
• "But I cannot," he said, qn
i I could I should be unworthy
, your friendship. If you must
do not make me feel the
1 thinking you believe me c
wanton trifling. I know t
It avowal is abrupt to you, but i
to ole. Yon have known me
three months, but these three
have been to me the realization
years' dreaming!" As she r
looking at him with brig
eyes, but still shaking her fairh
tressedly, he moved nearer and
her hand in the little pale lilac
glove that was nevertheless to
for her small fingers, and said,
ingly: "Taut why should you fo
Why must it be a forbidden
What lathe barrier? •Are you no
free? Speak, Miss Dows—give e
its- T got iii. Ghampnry to hope. miss lions --Sally!"
dis-
re on his way to bis house. She had drawn herself away, dis-
styr yonder, know," ttressed, protesting;; her fair head turned
i; cponder. yo'o this in, aside, until with a slight twist and nar-
. Cournand bit his lip rowing of her hand she succeeded in
on aro Co before him of this slipping it from the glove which she
rr n English admirer bring -left a prisoner -in his eager clasp,.
at Miss Sally's bidding, ' There! Yo' can keep the glove,{ se
she wished to place the
co'nnle," she said, breathing quickly.' ' r
of an old lover to please a
"Sit clown! This is not the place nor
the weather for husking frolics! Weil r
Meantime she had pmt her ,
'ends behind her back in the —yo want to know why yo' mustn't
half to e f a 'god girl," and III tell yo'."ak to a in that way. Ile still—and
smilingly,
•
S10VED SLOWLY ALCM%
t the unexpected revelation.
ram this ¢tate?"
it his regiment was," said.
, eying the wreath critically.
lis wreath—is it from you?"
Courtland, gently.
thought yo'd like something
pooty. instead of those stale
ere they also from you?" he
more gently.
! They wore left over from
'rsary day by some of the
That's the only one I put
g as yo' aro p, y and
rove it to Aunt Miranda and me! There mustn't
t away~ be more --there mustn't even seem to be
more --between us."
ickiy, "if "But then Inlay hope!" he said, eager -
of even 1S, grasping herhand.
reject it, "I promise nothing—for you must
shame of not even have that excuse for speaking
apable of of this again, either from anything cI'
hat this do, or may seem to do." She stopped,
t is not released her hand, as her eyes were
only for suddenly fixed on the distance. Thera'
months she said with a slight smile, but svith-+
of three out the least embarrassment or im-:
patience: "There's +
emained p e. There s IMIr. Champne
tion of the hoiloty!
CHAP J v, ,
IIE house
by the
of the D was
op
mond syndicate er
in Redlands --the tion
former residence
of a local lawyer poi
and justice of the to
peaee — was not
large, but had an he
imposing portico stor
carr• orie,
•
curious coming here now. 'I reckon he's 1oo1 . coltumnsenwhich
exag
ead dis- ing to see if that wreath is safe." extended to the roof we
caught.' Courtland -looked upI and fronted the
quickly. IIe! ! main street. The all-pervading creeper post
thread could see the straw, hat of the young, I closely covered it; the sidewalk before
0 wide Englishman just above the myrtle 1 it was•shaded by a row of broad-leaved said
s
appeal- bushes in a path r dew crossed his the ailantus. Tlid front room, with French rein'
zget it? avenue. A 'faint
topic? windott•
longer
me sem
Sally Champney rose and shook bands with'
11- has him awkwardly. "The shower seems'.
to be holding up," he said, "and I'li
;
eye„ ho toddle along before it starts afresh.
"that Good night! I say—you didn't mind'
e now my coming to you in this way, did you?
I3y Jove! I thought you were a little
reeau stand-offish at first. But you know
what I meant!"
renaee» "Perfectly, and I thank you!" They
either shook hands again. Champne stepped.
from the portico, and reaching h
are to .
affect gate seemed to vanish and become a
ladies part of the darkness. •
have The storm was not yet over; the all
bad again become close and suffocating,f.
Courtland remained ; brooding in hisi
Miss
fig; chair. Whether he could accepts
,s at- Champney's news as true or not, he felt'
that, he must end this suspense at once..
rfi, 4' A half guilty consciousness that he wept,
rine' thinking more of it in reference to his:
tv own passion than his duty to fixe eom.;
e pany did not render his meditations less:
unpleasant. Yet while lie could not;
oyer- reconcile Miss Sally's confidences in;
said ' the cemetery in regard to the indiffere •
his onto of her people to Champney's atten-
tions withtvhatChampneyhid jnsttold:
rm time of with
reasons
' ! used by Cole Courtlinning on. deasoa igen al not
office; beyond this a,: sitting -room and tion
dinin »r ,�
lend garden with its deta - h -
cued kitchen note
and i
•• •s. fee
etr
%i'F�!
If wistfully ' et en She smoothed down the folds of
atisfied?" frook, sitting sideways on the
.," one little foot touching the road.
s go aw yy. It's mighty hot mustn't speak that way to me,
went on slowly, "because it's as
sd away and descending the .., o ,i
'centered the thicker shade I ! Ca, • :' C , s.•r'
venue IIera K 'a J
the u they seemed ^w'�
sterner aspectof deslowly; the air was heavy -
ath. - - ' .i ~"te a
ineense of flowers; the road new
le left a grassy bank on ,,v'el,
an Miss Sally halted and
ated herself, motioning
de the stone. He obeyed
1 incident of.. the wreath
him albeit with contend- it
rs. She bad given it to t
hy should he question the as,
'fluent himself with any tv,;''
thought? He would have 1
xr have been able to ac-
• or gallantly—with any tee as
Ittoo great to be: imperiled mn Was ALREADY tn.:extent- =wenn
liziuzself and he knew that as yo' eompasay's wonh, as much as o
which she was more a, Ems.
lad failed to impress her. property's wet's, as much maybe as
It him from appealing to life's weals! Don't lift yo' coin
praeticalnature. although co'nnle—if ye' don't care of that, othe
izect and accepted it, aad may, Sit still, I tell yon Well, y
M to believe it an essen- come here frona the itto'th to run th
0 strong fascination she property for meney—that's square a
a But being neither a fair business. That any fool here 0
weak hesitating idealist. understand. Ws nonbee style. It dori
:Irately took his seat be- interfere svith these fools' family a
deliberately made up his fairs. it don't ;bring into their bloo
rt his fete—whatever it any no'thkr taint. It don't divide the
a and there, IcIantislaness. It don't separate fath
'a was something' of this ard son. sister and brother; and eve
I thought yo' were look. if yo' got a foothold here and settle
'lino, convele," she mid down they lintork they cart always ou
roakmaci we aright sit vote yo' five tootle! But let these sate
ind then take it slowly fools know that Ye're courtin' a so'th'
[et, tocuF,tornea to the girl known to be 'union' derina th
the air in the hollow evoh; that girl who has lettered 4
As *he; made a slight their foollehness;', let them evert third
he went ott with a that he wants that girl to mix up tle
iperiorityr "That's the family and the race and the propert
sx /nem yer einea 70$ for him, and there ain't a, young or ol
sir just as if yo* were fool that believee inosoltiOn isolation a
i yo' never make alio
se.. the price of sonhni, salvatime the
ant climates, different wouldn't rise against yo'l There het'
le
!rent eustoins. That'e one that wouldn't make shipwreek of
.• yer syndicate end yo'r capital and the
eady leaning towards prosperity of Redlands for the next
ric earnest eyes gsod four years to 'come and think they
Y r:he cool 110 lenges were doing right. They began fa sus -
re 2,ish. of euppi,,,,st im pect yo' frone the first. They suspected
rt " hen maid, godly Yo'
r when yo' never Went anywhere,
in l'inieet with a will, but striek close to the farm mad me.;
, g oom overlooktecl the old f h nu
nevitable negro'cabin. It was a diseu
t close evening; there were dark clouds only
coming up in the direction of the turn- ~wit
ik e eager of the ailantus any 1•
• ! p e fusel but th 1
i hung heavy and motionless in the husk lin
1 of the impending storm. The sparks of lfshm
I lazily floating fireflies softly expanded IY's.0
. j and went out in the gloom of the black tituci
. I foliage, or in the dark recesses of the You 1.
; office, whose windows were tvjdely the p
open, and whose lights Courtly
• I extinguished when h
rcazcite of . the young
nn was as invincible as Mis
wn, and as fatal to Courtland
e. "Of course I haven't any
-now," he saki, calmly igno
reamble of lis companion's sp
nd had "but I say—hang it all—even if a folio
h o chance 3srztself he don't lilt
irl throw herself and her pr
y on "a man like that."
e moment, Champney,"
ancl, under the infection of
s simplicity, abzindoning Isis fo
perlor attitude. "You may
^,ve no chance. Do you wish
erstand that you are regular!
of Miss Daws?"
-e-s," said the young fellow—,
he hesitation of c�bnscientiousn
than evasion, - "That is-
-z
I was. But don't you see
't be. It wouldn't do, you kno
se clannish neighbors of her,
uthern.set--suspected that M
as courted by en Englishn.
ou know=a pcaeher on the
es—it would be all up with h
on the propertsy and her inn
ver thein. I clon't mind tell.
at's one reason' why I left t•
yyand took that other plant
"I'vE LOST MT GLOVE saul;w;�IiL`. portico for rcool cooit lness. One see sa g
her +. ; chair to the
bank,
face • "Let me know one thing more," , of these sparks beyond the fence, al- ty awe
eye, he said, hurriedly. "T know I haven though alternately glowing and paling, "On
right to ask the question= -but has--- !
persistent and station Court
' she was still so stationary
I
much has—has Mr. Champney anythingto 'that Courtland leaned forward to watch guest'
do with vrni,r tnn;o;......,,, it more closely. .. _ _
he smiled brightly. "Yo' asked ; peered and a. voice frdin the 'street said: You 4 just now if yo' could have the same ! "Is that you, Courtlartd?" to und
"Yes. Come in, won't you?" suitor
chance he and Chet Brooks had. Well, i
poor Chet is dead, and Mr. Okiampney— t The voice was Obampney's and the "Y`e
svell—wait and see." She lifted her light was from his Cigar. As he opened with t
voice and called: "Mr. Champney." the gate and canoe slowly up the steps
The young fellow came briskl of the portico the usual hesitation of rather
towards them; his face betrayed a
y his. manner seemed to have inereased. know
slight surprise, but no disconafiture, as A long sigh trilled the lirap leaves of couldn
If. tho
! few heavy perpendicular la
• that so
: "Oh, Mr. Champney," said Miss Sally, indrops SailY w
: plaintively, "I've lost my glove some- crashed and spattered through the don't y
1 where near pooh Brooks' tentb/in the etymeve
foliage like molten. lead. preserv
, hollow. Won't you gea and fetch it, just. escaped the shower," position
said Court). cl 1
the say ; for declining them, I arn afraid -he was:
Ine not pained by her peculiar ethics. A •
Y a lover seldom finds fault with his mise
s ' tress for deceiving bis rival, and is as,
ess.' tion that she could deecive him also, as
' and come back hero, to take me home? an , p easantly. He had not
• The co'imle has got to go and see his seen Champney since they parted in the you th
sick niggers in the hospital." Champ- rry.oa , •
eemetery, six weeks before. camper)
toy lifted his hat, nodded '
Y a little talk with. you, Courtland," said had the
. Courtland, and disappeared below the Chanapney. He hesitated a mouaent be- "Did It
cypresses on the slope. "Ye' mustn't be
mad," she said, turning in eeplanation fore the proffered chair, and then added,
'with a cautious glance towards the foe decli
land, slo
e to h
ave ton. even that dtieltinavork; they
i here too long already, and it's better street: "Hadn't we better go inside?" "Yes;
that I should be seen coming home "As you like. But you'll find it vvoe- ward gir
ye, with him than Oat,"
ue
hot. Wele ' quite alone here; rot abou
b, 1 "Then this sectional interference ''
' thenrYe's nobody in the house and this the hind -
re; : does not touch him?" said Conrtland, shower will driye may loungers from and all t
ee ' bitterly. , the street." De '•was quite frank, al- mere lih
is .., "No. Ile's an Englishmen; his Tether '' though. their relations to each other in know, th
so: was a known friend of the confederacy, regard to Miss Sail,y were still so unde- he'ra line
ar,..., and bought their cotton borals." I fined as ;to scarsely invite his ton& was abo
Dows give/fleet as a reason ,
eine* your suftS'" asked Courts '
you know what a etraightfo
1 she is, She didn't come n
t 'not expecting anything o
' or about 'being a sister to me
hat, for, by Jove, she's rdway
e a fellow's., sister, don't yo
an his girl. Of course it wa
s for me, hat I suppose sh
ut right." Ile stopped toac
She stopped, gazing into Courtland's then add
' face with a pretty, but vague impa- sessed ehoir and
d tience and a slight poutittg of her lip. the glass of julep right—de
I"You remember ray speaking to you naindo the
13.
Mrs, A. it. Wiltia2ns
Lynn, Mass.
For the Good of Others
clorses Mood's Sarsaparilla.
We are pleased to present this from
Rev. A. A.. Williams, or the Sillsbee
street Christian Church, Lynn, Masse:
" see uo reason why it clergyman, more than
a layman, wile knows whereof he speaks,
should hesitate to approve an •
had worth, from which. he or his tainey have
been signally benefited, mul whose connneada-
tion may serve to extend thoso benefits to
has for many years been a sufferer nom seve
others by in:waning them ssOlideute. MY wig
Nervous Headache
for which ebb toned If tile lift. Silo has tried
throw things that eromisea wen Slit ntm.
1S;(4.411411 sgsealscrileti-a
Inanber and were Iess violent their linen -
Di;p/my, while her gorleraT health. has been
oz13.txtrIg; getecTleviltras also risen better,
Hoode's Sarsaparilla
Thal/slur hesitation et endorsing its interlitr0
rtOoLPS PILLS are the heti family eittbartle,r
"Miss Sally;
• nal" say yo had linoes•n me for three : Dows•
d years before ye' easy nee. 'Well, NVO met Ereoch cousin, you know? forvvard,
of Duracoat?" tie said, hesitatingly. irealeal t
, once before we ever -spoke to eaeh Weil—he's corniV here; heni got prop- ment of a
e other!" erty here—those three houses opposite er's exP7::e
1 the courthouse. Froin what hear sheald ;
• the ladder when I was ore the corniee tirnd hiehest offices•for them. You knoW her desire
ed with a land of gentle per
"You thhile she ems abou
hat was passing in Courtland's
question seemed so bitterly
hat he leaolect halt angrily
with at uttoonscious move-,
ttempting td. catch the speak-
ssion in the darkuess. "I
many ventitre to give an
he said deliberately "Miss
tions with her neighbers are
.A.tica frorti what you
her cousin it ivonid seem that
toplacate thsta is not always
finding fault; svith ken you
aVe spoken 0A my affeirs at
asked, yeti 'most.. I only
she Was going to get her-
ouble ancoutit of that
you ittightl tent to her;
to you becalms she'd know
e really brigneSS reasons,
IltIpPOSe X1511 den't think
O eyes with admiring wonder. "II hen?" ,
t he aelied, : French ideas Olt ih0 rtigger question— Dews' rela,
t "The first day yo' came! • Yo' moved '
' tot about equality:mid fraternity, don't se Yell. P.e
on know—and the highest .ecluca,tion tell me ex
d• gentleman, yo" never said a word about ;
and I walked on yo'' hea,d. And, like a . what le feeling, 1,;,3 here aireact,,1 von to be depe
s'. It I r•eckon I stood on know what happeried at the last diee- "I'm not
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