Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-10-19

night killing and destroying with fend-
ish harbarity, No one knew but what
his own home might be the next attack
ed and at present the military force
within call had proved inadequate.
Atreaeherous calm. and then, one
neyer-to-be-forgotten night, the storm
burst over the secluded farm. Carrie
was reused from her first sleep, assisted
to don her clothes by the white-faeed
matr0n. and led hastily through the
lower room. where the farmer and one
laborer-the others had fed-were max
ing feeble and useless preparation for
defense. Opening an outer door. the far
lner's wife babe her fly and save herself:
and when. bewildered at the injunction,
the poor child clung to her. the woman
pointed to the forest and foreibly thrust
her away. 1t was well that Carrie obey
ed. for her feet had scarcely crossed the
orchard when the house was surrounded,
and her flying steps were quiekened by
the hideous yells Of the sayages.
All that night the lonely child wan
dered on. to find herself at dawn close
to another homestead. as ruined and
desclate as the one from which she had
fled. A little spring bubbled out of
rock near broken gate. and she hur-
ried to it to cool her parched lips; but
some one was there before her. man
who had been struck down by blow on
the head, supplemented by a frightful
/ cash In his arm.
/ This he was trying to bind up as well
as his still wandering senses permitted /;
and Carrie, her first alarm overcome,
bathed the gaping wound and tied her
own scarf around it.
While thus employed, shadow fell
between her and the rising sun. A Ma
or. frightful in his war-paint, had sto-
len back in search of more plunder, and
his club was upraised to finish the work
of death.
60 on, Carrie said Give, impera-
lively. when her voice faltered, and her
eyes closed as if to shut out the scene
she had been depicting.
please go on" echoed Mr.. Roydon,
with strange urgency.
There IS not much more TO tell, fol
l was too frightened to know precisely
what | said or did l remember only
that I knelt between the savage and the
poor dying Englishman and begged his
life; it would have been so dreadful
you know. to see him killed and while
the Maori was hesitating. for he dld moi
seem as if he wished to kill me too: VI
heard voices approaching. The Maor
ran away, and | was taken care of b.
the gentleman who rode up. and fnall!
restored to NY parents"
..And the young man. asked Tom
what became of him?''
i cannot say; he was stranger IL
, the neighborhood, but heard by ehanct
that he recovered. hope he did
have often thought of him." she added
, simply, land faneied l should like to Sc
him again"
, Mr.. Roydon, his features working witt
! agitation, leaned forward in the boat
! and stripping back the sleeve of his Jer
sey, held his arm toward Carrie-ther
was long blue scar upon it.
0 She dropped the rudder-lines to elias
: her hands in delighted surprise. and th
e next moment they were in his, and rails
: ed to his lips
I We did not do much talking afte
/. that. Even the irrepressible Give com
q pretended that the dewy moisture i
e Carries eyes. the quivering of her ros
1 lips, and the eloquent look that sat Q
. Mr.. Roydon's face meant more tha
speech could convey.
: News for you, mammal l said
. her, a few days afterward. Tom
friend has asked me for our little COZ
. swain"
= Tom. as elder son. considered himse
quite privileged to draw nearer an
make one of the conelaye.
x Mamma sighed
a.If she likes him-and ] am afrai
r. she does suppose We must consent
% but she is a dear girl, and ought to NAL
better match"
Tom reared out
!. "a better match-ha, hal Why, o
4 Roydon owns one Of the finest estates
/, Sussex, besides a whole lot Of proper
= in New Zealand, that he had gone ov
to inherit when he first met our lit
Carrie"
After that Of course there was 2;
: welding, at which Tom was best ma
- and Fanny and Belle the blushing, hal
: envious bridesmaids; and this is he
,t cur day On the Basingstoke Canal ende
Who will be our coxswain next yeal
- Carrie. mingled tears with her smile
has left Us for new home, and stee
:. on fairer waters Belle has prornis
II to eschew flirting and make her betrot
: ed happy and Give and Tom are q
= ting ready 70 20 over the sea. and beg