Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-09
NO SO.
Gales ano Sketebes.
the BOUNTY SHILLING.
BY (THE LATE) C. T.. Il. JAMES.
Continued from Yesterday

Continued from Yesterday
Whatever is the matter, dame Harlowe?
Have anything happened to-to Dick"
was the natural though shamefaced enqui
ry of the young girl, as she threw up the
window.
''Oh. lass, l do notknow," sighed the
widow. "Dick have been gone all night
and he did say such wild words, before he
went away, about being off with thee, and
about never coming back"
Hush do not let my mother hear you.
dame, Wait only u moment till l slip on
my clothes, and then we will go over the
wide world after him, if be ! Poor Dickr'
| the young girl muttered rs she made her
hasty,toilet. did he,ake my words SO bad
| " to heart that he could talk of leaving
mother and me? What bad girl must
be, to be sure, And if have driven him
away. why then must bring him back
again--that is my duty. and must do
that. you know"
Certainly, Susan-always do duty"
but'duty is II much pleasanter when there
is a'little love mixed with it, as more than
one of us have had occasion to ascertain
Less than five minutes, dame Harlowe
waiting at the window, and her neighbor
widow undis,urbed. brought Susan with
out, bright-cyed even IN the midst Of her
anxiety, short-skirted. neat-ankled, unbon-
neted.
..What can have happened to Dick?
When did you see him last. dame?" asked
the young girl, eagerly.
.'lIe went away from the cottage last
night at dusk. and he never stays out Of q
night-never! What has happened be-
| L. AL. I.~V-
and act SOP"
.Oh nothing but little tiff, dame,"
replied Susan. Nothing that remem-
bered for an hour afterwards. OFF with
me, is he-the silly fellow l will teach
him better things than that, once we find
him.
'Ay. lass-once we find him. said the
widow. in tone of discouragement.
'.But what if we should not find him
if he has gone away and left my poor old
heart to break. and YOU"
"Me to wear the willow - broke in Su-
san, energetically, mo. dame, nought of
the sort. to be sure of that But tell me-
had he any money, do you think ?''
"Over little, if any. think, lass" re-
sponded the mother. "For / remember
that he said how little there was to put in
to his pockets, when"
Don't you see, then, dame, that he can
not have gone far away? ?'' was the inquiry
constituting another interruption. "Dick
may be trifle silly. when he is in his hui
mors but he is not silly enough for that
to 90 away without any money and
without seeing me. And which way did
he 90 when he left the cottage P"
1t will he observed that this young fe-
male was, like SO many of her sex. half
way an incarnate lawyer, and that she had
at least the legal propensity for beginning
at beginngs and tracing out things to their
ends.
"He struck across field, towards the ale
house, where, belize, he has been too
much of latc,' was the reply of the widow.
'But what then lass? Surely he has not
stad there until this time O. the morn
ing.
s'Humph, do not know that, one way
or the other" said Susan. "At all events
we will 60 to the ale-hOuse, see whether
he was there at all last night, and then
..You 90 the ale-house, Susan p-look-
ing for man, too, if that man is my
boy ?" enquired dame Harlowe, in mix
ture of surprise and helplessness.
'|Yes why not, dame ~ was the re-
sponse, with the whole face of the young
girl showing that she did not at all admit
the force Of the objection. even If she
recognized it. why not, ! say "Oh,
because people will say that I am girl,
and after him Bah who cares for what
they say? Everybody knows that am
promised to Dick, for his wife-or they
ought to know and why shouldn't / look
for him as l might fer my husband, that
he is to be some day? Answer me that.
dame"
''IIe ought to be your husband, lass and
better man than he is, to be worthy Of
YOU; for you are brave and steady one!''
exclaimed the widow, little dazed, but
looking at the bright face and plump form
with sort of dim idea that if she had
been man it would have been no light
temptation that drew her away from such
prize.
Come, then-come, dame; let us 90
after our ale, to the Nine Chickens!
Dame Harlowe obeyed, in more thar
one sense carried away by the enthusiasm
of the young girl; and the walk was 9
brief one, the younger legs hurryine
along the elder to the full measure o.
their capacity. Not five minutes had
elapsed, when they reached the hostelry
and found themselves in the midst Of .
most singular scene occurring IN ana
the door of the tap-room, with supple
mentary portions without and extending
quite across the green lane fronting the
old inn.
At the door and near it, were gathered
not less than fifty or sixty Of the villag
clodpoles and farmers men from ths
fields close about. with few of bettel
condition among them-blacksmiths, car
penters and the like. Some had sticks o
formidable pattern; all looked excited AM
a trihe dangerous; and two or three 0
them uttered exclamations Of minglet
10y, sorrow and Suspense, when they rec
ognized the coming OF widow Harlow
and pretty Susan Ackley.
Just without the door, at the momen
when the two approached il. . fine-lookinl
! man of middle-age, evidently person 0
.. condition, was alighting from bis horse
NTH ov;dencoa NJ haste m if he had hoe