Litchfield enquirer., 1876-01-20
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we all laughed and ''Hush, Tim" says Lucy, for there was Sibyl at my elbow, jest taking off her shawl.
 The next day Ben and meswas down to the Witches Pool-for father didn't want me to be keeping company with Ben, and him and me didn't agree on that subject and while we was talking together there, hid away by the burberry bushes and the allders and sumacs, who sheuld come loitering by but Sibyl and Jack Rhett 1! and they stopped close by while he threw Q pebble into tue pool, and it went down and down, and is going down now for all I know, for there ain't no bottom, to the pool. folks think.
 Sibyl," heerd him say. "my love for you is as deep as that pool. Aren't you satisfied {? What does it sig nify if I do stay at home and amuse Ber- tha, if I'm thinking of you, all the time, and wishing I was here You don'tiwant me to be rude to g gufllwho's visiting my mother. if she has got "a month like shark, and she kind of cousin. too. I'm sure you needn't be jealous of her Sibyl she can't hold candle to yOuyH,n ell :; 'I'm jealous of of you good name, Jack, " says Sibyl. ''It hurts me as If they he'd run a knife through me when I hear folks talk of you as they d0." 'hi sI'IHs@ 1 ''What do they say about tame ?yl.A sr ''They say you mean to marryaheF, aud you don't love her. ! could bear it. you know-at least would bear tiff you loved her dearly but it hurts me like wound to hear them talk as if you he'd no honor and no love for anything but mon
 1T shall set it all right some day sweet heart" said he ''The fact is, Sibyl, my father and mother flet me to death"
 'They want you to marry Bertha P
 ''Thats it, and you and must wait till their whim wears itself out. l have to humor them a little"
 "Oh. then you deceive them, Jack"
 And is that SO terrible? ? Imust either deceive them or you, sweetheart" said Jack. kissing her but Sibyl only sighed. and then they passed on -'.''
 You see, was forced to play at caves dropping, because didn't want folks to know how I was disobeying father and going on with Ben. ''' ''
 We'll, Bertha she went home, and pretty soon Jack he went too. to study some thing or other at tue same place, and folks left off talking about 'em, and Jack would send Sibyl necklace or some trihe now and then to piease'her and since Sibyl couldn't get the district schoolany longer, cause woman didn't know enough to teach in the fall, she went out to sewing, for she he'd to help herself in those days; and one day Jack 8 mother sent for her to makes gown at the Hall, and she liked that so well she he'd her to make another; for Mrs. Rhett was master-hand for gowns. It was getting on into November; the trees had turned to flames and burned themselves away, and the barbsrries were ripe and red, and Mrs, Rhett he'd .Slbyl up there to make her silk perlisse, and they got talking about Thanksgiving beg gars, for Thanksgiving had been ap- pointed. -..,,o... ft ,..4i.,, ,..,., ......'
 'I always give 'em something" said Mrs. Rhett, "whoever they are. A pie won't hurt any body. Miss Henshaw al- ways turns 'em away emptyEhanded, for you never can tell, says she, whether it's one of the neighbors gurls or needy creature; but tell her the neighbors' gurls couldn't deceive me, nor any .gurl that ever was born" [.s
 "Oh, Mrs. Rhett," laughed Sibyl. "I mean to send somebody here, and see if you find out who she is.'
 "So do, says Mrs. Rhett and if I don't find out, I'll give you as handsome a we'd ding gown as gurl need to put on her back, when you want one"
 Though it was not particular pleasant on Thanksgiving-eve, but he'd snowed, and threatened to snow mere, and not star was out, yet parcel of us hair Drained gurls got together, and thought it rare sport to dress up in all tue old duds we could raise and go out begging, and some of us was furst-rate at imposing on kindly spinsters, who hedn't nobody but cat to care for. And then somebody said ''Let's go and get Sibyl." 0a. tt
 It was some time afore we could per suade her to join us, for she want none of the fooling kind; but finally she got herself up SO you'd d died a-laughing. She blacked her eyebrows with burnt cork, and clapped on false front of inky curl her aunt Libby wore on Sundays, which she combed out in tag locks, and covered her head with an old moth.eaten woolen hood, and put on torn shawl over a lin sey gown and a calico apron, and made q mole out of putty on the side of her nose, and altogether you'd never heV guessed it was Sibyl to your dying day. Her own ma didn't know her when she went into the kitchen, but slammed the door in her face.
 "I mean to go up to Mrs. Rhett's" said Sibyl; for she'd got into the spirit of it by the time we was in the road. "I want to see if she'll know me. She thinks nobody can deceive her." So we separated and this was what happened, though 1 never heard the particulars till years after You see, she rung the bell at the Hall, and the man showed her into room where 0 fire was burning low on the hearth; and while he went to call the mistress, Mrs. Rhett, she set there waiting by the dlm fire light and watching the shadders, for the servant hedn,t thought it worth while to light lamp for beggar-girl. And pres ently the door opened, and in strode Jack himself, a-whistling of "The girl I left behind me-" He hedn't wrote Sibyl he was coming home for Thanksgiylng and jest as she was about to cry out for joy, forgetting all her rags, somebody in the next room rustled forward, all shining in silk and lace, and puts her two arms round his neck, and says, Dear Jack, I've been watching for you all day; why didn't you come earlier ?' And the two didn't see nobody but each other there in the dim light, but Sibyl sees them both sees Jack with his arms about his cousin Bertha, sees him kiss the hand upon which he slips shining ring, and hears him call her his own sweetheart, and swear that he loves her with all his heart And Sibyl sits, stunned and bewildered like, minute after the two lovers hey gone laughing and whispering up the staircase, a-istening to the echs of their happiness, and then she creeps out like a stricken creature, and when Mrs. Rhett comes down to see the Thanksgiving beg gar, the place is all dark and empty, and the fire has burnt down to red coal, aud it is snoWing fast outside. The way of it was. poor Sibyl dragged herself along without seeing the way she went, without feeling the snow in her face, aud then she dropped down of a sudding on her poor face, and the snow kept falling, falling. and covering her as the robins covered the babes in the wood with leaves :: and there'd been no Sibyl Jones by morning if it hedn't happened. that Matt Morris he'd been to market, and fairly stumbled over a beggar- Voman, as he thought, lying at one side of the road. he-having got out of his OK cart to warm his feet a-wulking