The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1873-04-12

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hiIday .Uue Ma EllJu ul bt
horIHuat #rp, mn.ing Ni.It aorrDt
lul lul,n'nesA Never before id
.ho realized hrv ter dcH llo.oo
uumotl bad bo.omo lo hu. nor
how dosolnto lho oIl homo .opucl
Wilhun lrh. stop on tIn Hnlrs. ro
uvlt Voice vlrb..ua o.d country hl.
Iuds from thr lnuull roua
~ would hoyo burned tIc hOl.
sooner lInn Mo- should have lakon
h. thought tbooldhiH "'I'bo loe
ol the money i,uolhiug to bciug for
ccd to believe Nolly pcrmolta lbell !
And what will Oscar Hny whom hc
comes home Oscar WIS 80 fond oi
poor Nelly
Aud Mrs. EIdon wiped the mist
from her spralaclos, and rhook her
head drcarily
The brief winter twilight waa fast
durkening into stormy night, when
there came n resonant humping ut
the outer door. Mrs. Eldon rosc
hurriejly, lighted her lamp, and on-
swercd tho somewhat imperative
summons.
Through the flying clouds of snow
she could just discern the round, red
iacc OF Deacon Elderly, bcamiug
from n framework OF fur cap.
"Dear me, Deacon, is it you3
Won't YOU como inY
"Well, guess will, ssein' I've
got sunthin pretty important to
tell 20. Look here"
Standing Close by the lamp, Des-
con Elderly drew rustling bank
note from his pocket and held It out
TO Mrs. Eldou, with a chuckle.
"My red apples brings n iair price
in this market, ma'am, but they aint
worth n hundred dollars"
"A hundred dollars -
Mrs. Eldon grew pale and cold.
"Thsn ! must have paid you that
BY mistake instead of y ten
"Well, calculate that was the
way il happened said the deacon,
driIy. "Twa'nt very business like
but then your eyes amt what they
used TO be no morc'n mine is,
Thaukcc, ma'am--ten dollars is my
due, and | don't want NJ more"
So the deacon went on his way re.
joicing; and Mrs. Eldon stood star.
ing vaguely up and down the
road.
eileen Helen ~ she called aloud;
aud then remembered that lIelen's
ears were far, TAR beyond hearing.
80. Helen, what have | donof'
She rushed Uncovered out into the
storm up the road as if she would
have sought the girl to the worlds
end, with claspcd hands aud strained
eyes. And then waking to the con-
seriousness Of how utterly impotont
was u search shc turned back with a
wailing cry.
"llclcn ! o, Helen, where are you
now =
Bat only tho wind, bowling down
The glen, answered her.
"l'll get out, driver, and walk up
Ibis bill the stage is over loaded,
md | don't mind a little exercise"
Oscar El,lon literally could not slt
It'll. Before bis minds eye rose up
.he bright bome.fre, the mothers
acc Of pleased surprise, Helen Der. |
nott's crimsoDing cheeks ahi down.
'esl eyes. .
"The old stage seems TO crawl, |
10 murmured to himself. GLOW de-
ighted they will be! They do not
expect me for iull two months to
,oine."
Involuntary a clear, birl-like
whistle broke from his lips, as he
l.rodo on. In the same moment
Inc heavy rack Of leaden. black clouds
overhead parted, aud the moon
burst out in q flood oil silver glsry.
80 the storm is over" unused
Oscar. ave should all have been
,uowod up had !. lasted mnch lon
ger and-hallo. what's thati'
What was il, indeedi Something
a deadlier white than the snow, with
dark, loug tresscs huttenng In the |
wind something that lay among
the piled up drifts close against the
old rail fence, with the full bright.
ness oil the moon upon It's pale rigid
i,y.
In an instance Oscar Eldon had
plunged through the snow.banks,
and was bending over the PROSTATE
figure.
"IIeleu Dermo,t Merciiul Heaven
how came she here, dead OF dy-
lug p
lie chafed the slender hands, he
listened eagerly =. the half-open lips
10 hear II, perchancs, the slightest
iloated through.
"surely she does brcaihc!" he
g..ped. at is no illusion of my
senses! She is not dead Halle
driver eoaehr'
The slow rumbllng Of snow-crust-
al whssls wss already audihIe. and