The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-01

art The two men were carted of by
the police to the nearest county jail,
there to await their trial.
By nine o'clock Stonylea was left to
It's usual quiet again, and John and
Nelly had quite recovered their custo-
mary tranquil state of mind. Hebe
went about her business of attending to
the unexpected guests who were to re-
main over night. She had got every
thing done and was speaking to Miss
Elliot, when suddenly she said
ooh ~ drew her hand across her eyes,
the color went out of her face, and she
fell back in dead faint. Lizzie caught
her, and in a minute or two she was able
to get to sofa. Properly speaking, Jock
ought to have been at hand at this crisis,
but he was not, being from home at the
time. Poor little Hebel Though she
did not belong to the working classes,
she was not quite made of iron, but she
treated her weakness lightly, and said
she would be all right in the morning
And in the morning she scrambled up
to her work, although Lizzie arrived
very early on the scene to do it; and
even Mr. King, who had been out with
the dawn, came in by the back door and
said that as small return for the capt.
tai milk and scones she had given him,
he would light the kitchen-fire, having,
according to his own account, special
gift in lighting fires. She looked at him
and said
was as sure as anything that you
were the tea-man, but did not like to
say it,"
"Set off to your bed again, Hebe,"
said Miss Elliot: "with the tea-man
and Sibyl to help me will surely get
through your work. Come, run away,
Hebe."
Feeling weak and queer, the girl obey
ed orders.
Now," said Lizzie as she covered
her up comfortably, "just lie there and
divert yourself till you are really able to
rise"
do you sometimes call me Hebe and
sometimes Maud ?"
ASK Jock" said Lizzie. "I have
nothing more to do with your educa-
ton; besides, it's the Scripture rule,
what women don't know they are to
ask their own husbands at home"
"But he'll maybe not know, either"
Have you really the impudence to
think there is anything Jock doesn't
know Saint Paul couldn't have be-
lieved it, and he made his arrangement
for a case of the kind" and she bent
over her and kissed her cheek. Hebe
turned round with dewy eyes and a
sense of complete rest, such as she had
not had since she had wakened out of
childhood the womanly caress gave her
a feeling of sisterhood and home that
Jock might have been jealous of.
How my brother determined to mar
ry that girl is to me the oldest thing I
could imagine" Miss Elliot said to Mr..
King when she went back to the
kitchen.
"Well," said Mr.. King,who was busy
breaking sticks, CT don't see that all !;
if had not been previously pre-en-
gagged to the former lady the day before,
1 think 1 should have fallen in love
with her too"
can fancy that part of it, for fell
in love with her myself, and can sup
pose you would have carried it out you
have the artistic temperament. 1 am
quite prepared for you doing daftlike
thing. But Jock 1t is so unlike him:
he is so intensely practical" !"
"Well, why shouldn't practical man
marry practical womanp 1t is most
appropriate"
If you had been all your like under
bondage to Jocks good sense, as 1 have
been, you would enjoy it more-oh, you
would enjoy it !" and she laughed mer-
rily. "Why, it's little more than six
months since Hebe was dancing on the
road to the sound of fiddle with people
she had never seen before; and he knew
it."
Hebe's illness was of brief duration.-
The Elliots felt under obligation to her
but it was an obligation they would very
willingly have paid off with a twenty
pound note, that being sum suitable to
tho position in life of the girl; but with
all her managing talents, Nelly couldn't
manage this; her servant would not
allow that she was under any obligation
far less accent q rnUard