Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-07-08
A MAN Halter.

Leslie Morgan turned to his compan-
ion with prolonged stare of incre-
dulity.
81 tell you it is tue" persisted his
/ informer. "Wilna Ra1tin gton Is known
as maH-hlter to have a heart imper-
I yious to all offers of hand and fortune
| doesn't lcok like it, does she?' with
| musing glance in the direction indi-
es.ted 'sshe is not the child she seems,
Though; look at her, Leslie ; how old do I
Ayou take her for p
Leslie Murdock looked.
lie snw little, rounded, babyis
&hgure, petite to childishness, robed in a
Screamy white lace falling oyer n short,
$white satin petticoat, two tiny siipperea
1sissA4ssY. dt11PS Mlfhds WGfe
(fdecorated with an ornament of no sort,
land the face as coldly white as the face
Of the sleeping dead, was lighted by a
pair Of scoinful, velvety, pansy purple
i avos that never smiled. The straight,
decisive lips were ripe with scarlet
| sweetness, but world OF mocklng sar-i
casm fingered about thsm that contra
4 dicted the childish face and form; the
Il bronze, waving hair, in whose cleaning
IL threads so MANY lives lay tangled, curled
II softly about the blue-yeined temples
II and broad and white forehead, and was
/ lknotted in heavy braids at the back OF
lltbe graceful head with translucent
iipearl arrow.
Leslie Murdock drew quick breath,
! with his very heart on his lips.
eighteen, perhaps" he said, at last,
ltpossibly twenty"
"Sbe is twenty-seven," said Ralph
i Henderson, s'and she hates the whole
Mace Of man with desperate tierceness
j 6he never smiles !; no one ever proyokes
ili eleam OF sunshine in her perfect lace
IN 10 one knows her story, but it is guessed
hat some one long since broke hel
leart.' ,,...4,
jy ist-zt tho words, and Ralph
New Wharf him in "sf0ni- h
...le...a7-, ,sa.I. AND WfQned, the least
81 Nsiattano Win u, iis e - - .
s,,n Wednesdays going up sa saiI IL
s,n both days receive or deltV9ealed to me
i f7,sluce shipped on Wcdnrs'i'. '.ociety secrets.
4 lthe same day, that shippe9rt, said Rabbi.
q iahcre the following dA one cares. Shall
= - = hargcd moderate s'oIie princess y and
8 1by boat ana sG"s'Dnan l,,na', he was won't to
Is room eNcePi es sbnnil weary man of thirty
aeh's ,r,de a.. me NE brow and upon whose
| / nj saft sorrow had laid the chilly fingers.
i ahId threaded the luxuriant black curls
hilout the temples with silver, followed
h.
faJWilna Darlington rose with the nor.
wall grace and courtesy of which she
self lnlstress, without glow of con-
dell lloasness that she was receiving the
ava tefential salutation of the lion of the
ofnlng' q man widely known in the
ier World and whose arrival had Gre
ate3d no little sensation.
Apparently she had not tba siiobtoo4
conception OF his greatness, but there
was no plque or constraint in leslie
Murdock' manner. His was a nat,1re
50 grand and true, so broad and sunny
80 warm and tender, that all the Aattary
any sophlstry OF an admiring world had
iailed to sway his majestic intellect or
1uln from its perfect poise his manly
ne felt an interest for which he conld
not account in this strange, eirlish
woman, whose beautiful eyes met his
wltsa steadiness anf keenness that /
,.ors ,se,1 S.eas sparkled with little gieamsK,,f
13tdlng wit and cutting sarcasm
wi1ee viHee SLOW velvety voice held an under
seasisof mocking sadness, and whose
pIg9nh and power of intellect amazed
ahS9sseaehanted him. '''''9N'
~aha Darlington could talk as fory
ros ~o4sa I, he had ever met could. and tbera
10, ~ 'ot glimmer of consciousness in
net.i rlett.ilanner. He might have been
hibestIe!atlon H. of wood or stone. for al
caiv. e.1i-'llce she paid, though she was ra.
IN III Y a attention from one who, possi.
! - a. the dim future might merge mel iril into
j Jas new, and Leslie Murdock l;koa
Wo,,o y, y , mad grown amu8edIy weary rll'ef Of
wol 49, VINO huttered under his slightest
'ro+9Ii wohnd tone. He noticed, in a pained med
sa 5a3gaat no smile ever curved the pa'eeu eet
a; aeaFe lips, even during her elro most sesl !
nli+lt na;,t ITepartee, and sunny, glancing
lba IN Evidently she talked because
sue as ,society's queen, and # ',5ee de-
nln fa obedience and Difference to t it,
edil and Leslie Murdock's heart 5o rts :
tI MhEali these years of contact 'ivStI viii .
tne tns fid mad failed to make augbt bnt m ' '
tenf to the suferings Of it's its ~ woor1 ou1 ! !
one,sched for her. = rs weary 9
Sudden resolve to be her friona T
splfup within him, 'Tf she e. will let let f f