South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-30

dered; $50 I've caught YOU in the
very act, have Up Nothing would
satisfy you but that pear, too, that I
ordered you not to touch. I'll make
you remember this day rs long as You
! live 2
Blanche sprang forward to the res
cue. 4 made him get it for me, pa
pa, deed I did, she pleaded. .He
didn't want to pick it, for he said you'd
be angry, but | just made HIM
AT any other time this explanation
would have suficed, but at that mo-
ment, Mr.. Somers was furious. You
told him, Miss, when my orders were
that no one was TO touch that tree2--
I'll teach him whom he's TO obey
Come along, Sir, TO the overseer.
You've wanted O good lesson for q
long time, and you shall get it now 2
Blanche had listened 70 her father
With wide open, astonished eyes, too
much surprised at his mood to utter n
word, but when he said, Come to the
ovcrsecrp she threw berselfupon him
with loud cry. % papa, you're not
going to have Tony whipped for get
ting the pear when told him to do it?'
Just what I'm going 10 do I'll
give You and him a.lesson to teach
you whose orders you are to obey
And then I'm going to send him into
the field. The thieving scamp shall
stay in tho house no more p
'Oh, you're bad, wicked papa =
Blanche cried, still olinging TO him.
I'll never love you any more. Tony
shan't be whipped lie shan't go in
the fieldr
so into the house this minute =
her father cried. How dare you talk
to me in this maner? I've a great
mind to give you q whipping myself
Not another tear, not another word.
from the child. She dropped her
fathers arm, ana Selling Tony's
hand, walked beside him.
Where are you going?' Mr.. Som
ers cried. Didn't you hear me order
you TO the house?'
I'm going with Tony was all she
said, turning her face, pale and reso-
lutte, toward her father.
There was something so strange in
that stern, set look on the soft baby
features, that Mr. Somers felt q
qualm, and would have been almost
glad 10 have condoned Tony's punish
ment. But that his ideas of discipline
would not allow.
He tFiedto draw her away from the
boy. But the little arms chung to
him with such force that he would
have had TO use moro violence than
he was willing to exert.
Very well, Miss Obstinacy,' he
said, Since you arc determined to see
Tony whipped, you may. 1 promise
You, though, the more you interfere,
the more severe shall be his punish
meht. Here Mr.. Brooks TO the over
seer, who Joined them, take this
young rascal and give him a good
whipping. ] found him stealing that
fine pear had forbidden any one TO
touch
'Hc didn'tr Blanch answered. 4
made him get it my own self. Why
don't papa whip me, Il he wants to
whip somebody? I'm the one that
did it,
Mr.. Somor5 made an impatient
sign to the overseer, VINO tore the
trembling boy from the child.
Go way, Missy cried Tony, with
the tears streaming down his face. --
'Itll hurt you too much to see lem
whip me. Go way | can stand il
Better Ct you amt here
Tho Child, whom her father was Try
ing totako away, answered not q word.
| Witt gaa5Ny white face and horror
stricken eyes she struggled to gctfroo.
She heard the Ovcrseer order him
to take OIL bis JACKET; she saw the
whip raised, and then, with wild CRY,
she broke front her fathers GRASP.
and throwing hersclCol Tony, the lash
| descended on her own bare mock, cut
ting into tho Vhite tender flesh
With q err Of horror. her father
sprarg forward and took her into lis
arms but sh3 was already in strouc
commissions.
'TOu will believe mo, sir! / never
knew she was thorcr The oycrseer
cried, iii dsmay.
Mr.. Soiners could not speak. JIG
made q sign TO Tony to follow, and
ran swiftly TO the house with his bur-
den
/ All that day and night the couvul-
sions rccErrod mt short Intervals
! The wound on her neck wac long aud
severe, but toe mental agitation had
caused Che shock, and for twanty-four
hours Blanche's life was almost da.
SPARED Of.
Whom sho opened her eyes, It was
to zee Tony's auXious face watching
her She smiled family, aud held out
TO him hex little weak hand.
( Never aftcr thot was there any talk
Of puuahiug Tony, or or sending linn
to the field. lie did pretty much "a