The daily gazette., 1877-02-12
Just in Tim e.
BY n. p. D..

iiiS NoWh lnLO SWctJ Dllle eyes.
She turned very pale, and trembled
violently for moment. Then she
spoke:
~ will answer OIL to- morrow"
Enough, l can wait"
They rode home In silence. Mrs,
Viosca met them at the door. She knew
by their faces, and by the constraint they
both seemed laboling under, that the i'm
portant words had been spoken; but
"what answer" She longed to know.
Agnes had good cry that night after
retiring. At last she went to sleep, and
dreamed of Bob Waldridge, her old lover
and awoke with a headache next morn.
eing. A storm had arisen during the
night and the air was thick with snow.
1t lasted all day. The wind blew vic,
leDtly, and when the.skies cleared theroads
were blocked in every direction. Poque-
vile was shut up from the outside world
for twelve hours longer, and Radzivil was
shut up in the hotel with an excluciating
toothache. That night he, had the molar
extracted.
The next mornine he drove up to the
door of the Viosca mansion. He had
Follinger's best horses and snug little
cutter, and was going to Mugham on
business, Would Agnes accompany him?
To be sure the sleighing was Indifferent
for the snow had not been tracked down;
but with pair of horses they might glide
along merrily enough. Would she go?
Yes.
Away they went, over the white, gilt
tering snow to the merry music of the
bells. 1t was stinging cold, but Agnes
wrs well wrapped up in her ftlrs, so the
biting winds could not reach her, except
to pinch her cheeks.and make them more
rosy and lovely.
On they went, over hill and down dale.
There were bad places between great piles
of snow, where the track was scarcely
wide enough for one team, to say nothing
of two, and where the horses plunged and
snorted, and where Agnes was in momen-
tary expectation of making landing" in
a snow bank. She uttered several very
piercing notes of terror from time to time
and then the next moment laughed at her
fears. Radzivil would have slipped one
arm around her, but the horses required
all his attention. As for his answer, he
felt sure of that now.
They were getting on famously. The
church spires of Mughan burst upon their
sight from the top of Billicod Hill. Radz-
ivil let out the h )rses, for the road was
smooth down to the valley beyond. They
reached the foot of the hill; but here the
road turned suddenly To the left, and they
found themselves in between two high
walls of snow; while right ahead of them
was a horse and sleigh, dashing furiously
toward them. There was single man
in it. Radzivil shouted for him to stop,
at the same time endeavoring to curb his
own fiery coursers. Perhaps the man did
the snow from the high bank in his face,
and his ears were tied up in mufflers1
On he came. Radzlvil pulled his hor-
ses out to one side. Miss Agnes gave a
screech, the horses made one wild bound
and the next minute the cutter was bot.
tom side up; Mr.. Radzivil was buried
head downward in the snow, and Agnes
was clinging to the dasher Of the other
sleigh, into which she had been thrown
just as the two came opposite. The gen
tleman grasped her arm, and drew her on
| to the seat.
"Bobr' she cried, Looking up into his
face.
"Agnes" he yelled looking into hel
eyes.
"Stop, Robert" Bob pulled the reins.
"How could you forsake me so, with
out one word?" she said.
"Forsake you! I've been out West on
business for your father. LEFT a note
with him for you before going"
81 didn't get it."
'1've written two letters to you SINCE
81 haven't received them At last
started for home. Got snow-bound at
Squintam. Stopped there one night, then
got his team and pushed on"
"Oh, Bobw and / thought you were
in Poeueville all the the time. thought
you had ceased to love me perhaps had
learned to love another"
"And you?
"They wanted me to marry that man
Radzivil. l see it all now. That's why
you were sent away
"But you are not going to marry him%
"No, Bob, never!'
She hid her face On his breast. He
threw one arm around her, and pressed a
kiss upon her brow"
"Hold onw shouted Radzivil, resuming
his perpendicular, and brushing the snow
out OF his eyes.
81 intend to-" replied Bob, giving Ag-
mes another hug, and then laying the
whip to the horse.
They dashed up the hill, and were out
of sight before Radzivil knew what tC
make of it. Here was situation! Ter
miles from Poqueville and three from
Mugham, with fragments of a demolished
sleigh scattered around him, and the
horses galloping over the road in the dis
tance. As there was nothing else to do
he made his way to Mugham on foot.
Meantime, Bob and Agnes drove tt
IPoaueville, stopped at the minister.
house for few minutes, where, as soor
as license could be procured, the matri
nionial knot was tied.
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