The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-19

Mrs. Sewer sat motionless moment,
then she rose and went hastily TO her |
own room. Keyes looked after her with !
queer smile, threw his old paper down,
and went ont to amuse himself He had
/ finished his days work.
( Mrs. Sewer was standing before the
glass. She saw in it fair, cheerful face
/ beside the sallow, skinny one. Why did
he marry her? Because when she quar-
relied with Louis she had almost flung
herself into his arms, thinking she made
him happy for life. He had loved an
other woman lie had married her only
out of chivalric sense of honor. All
these years in which she might have won
him she had held him .aloof, wrapping
herself in feverish passion for--O God
for what? What brutal creature was it
that she had set up in her husbands
place?
An hour later Mrs, Sewer put ON her
hat and the prettiest dress she had, and
went to call on this new cousin. She
came back looking more ghastly, walk
ing quickly, as if urged on some matter
OF life and death. Lola had proved to
be the most gentle, merry, winning wo-
man she had ever known. She told Fred
this with speechless terror in her eyes
that made him almost pity her. No man
who had loved such woman, she said,
could ever forget her. Where was Tom
Only an hour since he went fishing. 1t
seemed like days.
"Order them to saddle the horses
(imperiously). "We will follow them. :"
: "To Catalonche ?"
Where he is, | must see him. /
have lost Lou have lost everything.
I must see him. II there is any
chance" She went heavily to her
room, muttering to herself.
(" Ny medicine will kill or cure" sa d
DR.. Fred, as he went to the stables.
About noon two fishermen came to the
: bluff which overlooked the Demons
: Grave. The colonel had not spoken for
3 two or three miles. He drank repeated
ly from his pocket-flask, and chewed the
, end of an unlighted cigar.
5 "That's q nasty bit of road" said
Tom, looking mp Mt the pass Lets
5 try the laurel.
"When / want my game, L don't turn
back for rough climb. Are you
= afraid Z" clustered the colonel.
. "Oh, no, said Tom, carelessly. 'I'll
I keep with you, Of course.
/, They reached the pass--a ledge OF
rock on the edge OF a precipice two feet
+ wide"
. have a word to say to you, SEWER.
The colonel, who was ahead, turned
e and faced the smaller man.
"Not here, Chaplin" laughed Tom
d 81 am absurdly dizzy.
:. Yes, here and now-curse it ~
"What's the matter ?" (staring abou
'f him. "Hallo There is Keyes. AnC
Betty !" He was delighted as boy
When he had descended the hill hi'
h wife was waiting alone. Keyes had pru
e dently fingered to pull rhododendrons
IS "What is it? Have you been ill
IS Betty? ?" She was leaning down from
her horse, her hands on her shoulders
her eyes. on his with an agony Of entreaty
J. of love, such as he had never seen ther,
II before.
g go Tom l thought ] had lost You.
s. He lifted her down, and placed her Oh
gray rock by the path. He did no
laugh at her. There was something her
more than nervous folly-sOmething h
thought, which he had been waiting TO
he for years. He had despaired that
would ever come TO him.
P, "Tom, 10 You care for me at all
'e Won't You try to love me a little? \
matter how inferior / am toto Othe
women; l have nothing but you--noth
ing " she sobbed, humbled and terrific
e. at last into her real self.
DIR. Keyes saw very little OF his friend
that day. The next morning Mrs. Sevie
:. met him on tue grassy village-street Sh
ID was leaning ON her husbands arm. He
cheek was flushed, and her eyes brilliant
S. "We leave in an hour, doctor" sh
said, little quaycr of triumph i'll lie
re tone. 81 always had prejudice again'
this village, and Mr.. Sewer is quite vii
y ing TO indulge me in my whims."
Il. (" / am ready to go at any time. Go
u onel Chaplin, too, found the fishing poo
and game scarce, and left last night. II
ld asked me to tender his adieus and bei
wishes"
lg Mrs. Sewer bowed.
II knew Louis. Chaplin very we
81 once, " she said, frankly ." but l foun
it hard to recognize him III this poo
~ degraded creature. There are the horse
1 want TO feel that we are actually {
re the rOad-to home, Tom" she added,
happy whisper, clinging to his arm.
u
q" al have struck the keynote at las
ked, " said Sewer, when they drove OF
"a q face growing, but l cant explain
t WNobody can understand such matter
~. between husband and wife, you know
ny "No," said DIR. Keys, and lighted h
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