The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-11


..Whv, what are You doing? where are
You going?" she exclaimed
Back to the greenhouse to send all
this fragrant truck up by messenger
And then into the air. l have won my
case, and must get out upon the open
country somewhere"
you have won your caSe!
eyes, one of them. The other | shall
know about before long"
al didn't know you had two OF them.
In the Supreme Court?'
lone of them. And one in the SUI
prenest Court of all.
s.There is no understanding legal lore.
Some States have Judges and Justices.
and Others have Chancellors and Surro-
crates. And there are Courts or Equity
and Admiralty, and Superior Courts and
Supreme Courts, but | never heard OF
this one"
yet YOU are the jury who viii bring
in the verdict. the Judge who may per-
haps draw on the Black Cap
why don't you say exeeutioner and
all? | can't have you talking SO alb
surdly."
at makes man talk absurtlly-''
$50 be driving down Fourteenth Street
and out ON the Rock Greek Road on a
summer morning. DO you know,
think Washington is more delightful in
summer than in the height of the gay
season. / am always rather glad when
papa is kept here by the long session.
Hot. to be sure-New Orleans is a good
deal cooler-but one feels alive in such
heat. like it, and fancy | might grow
a soul in it, rs flower expands
..AuI you are not talking absurdly
pff
"No, indeed. Three months ago /
hadn't any soul; three weeks f4Dd was
just beginning to be conscious OF one;
to-day
well. to-day?''
80, what magnificent woods. To
think of such forest glasles so near a
great city! just look down that debit.
is dark and dcwys still. See the rich
green gloom of the depths. And do you
hear the ripple OF the creek? 1t is pure
music. Listen! Thatcan not be mock
ing bird; but what is it? Last night, ut
midnight, do YOU know, all the mock
ing birds in all the cages hung outside
all the windows in the city began their
warbling, this flute answering the other,
aud all at once, and one alone. and the
scent of the great grandihora magnolias
in the parks came floating through the
Sllil dlls tAl Otlt lJtl lilC sung tbStiA was
white and sweet as that flower o, see
the checkered sunshine on the turf Why
are you stopping here? But is too lovely
to go on
Il am stopping here for you to get
through talking against time said her
companion. "Do YOU suppose / came
out here to exclaim over the beauties of
nature? l know the place is beautiful;
feelit in the core of my being. No one
can take the sense of it away from me.
But the flush mounted his dark
cheek-'I have something infinitely
more beautiful and precious beside me,
and it is perhaps in the power of some
one | despise to take that away from me
irrevocably. No; il is my turn now. and
You must listen to me. just now have
the advantage of all the world; | am be-
side you, hear your voice. l feel your
presence. aud | hesitate 30 break the
spell. Yet | must; for tomorrow, per-
haps. Prince Vinca may ask you to be
his wife; to-day. | demand that you shall
become mine.
Then there was silence. There was
the sunshine checkering the turf, the
stream warbling below. the leaves muir
muring above, the birds replying TO one
another in broken phrases of song, And
I THERE " tS i WHIT OF ifTOh-I lIol2l III.
! sweeping through the young girls brain
I and taking possession of her. The dia-
dem OF a Princess, the plain black silk
/ OF n lawyers wife, the cheerless palace,
i the cottage wifIfIts wil'troSe hedges, and
/ love, love, love. Should Laura joy, with
her clergyman and love, have life
worth living, and She have only what the
/ balance OF the jeHReSSc equissee of Prince
/ Ninca might give her. with the contact.
( too, of the diSdainful noble connections,
and the implication of having sold her
self for price? Why should papa want
/ her TO leave him for that fortune-hunter
/ ATTACHED That, il she understood her
mOther-and of course she did-was all
I that his opposition to Paul Despard
meant. And mamma trying to uphold
him, thinking more of a title won BY
some old robber, centuries since, than of
happiness to-day? She would letthem
know she was MOTTO be driven like kittle
cattle She should think, at any rate,
that one S mother would sympathize with
yonth. and hope, and-she turned and
looked calmly and gravely at Despard,
waiting and surveying her, and the color
| flashed all over her face, and the tears
were ready TO sparkle on the tips of her
long lashes, as She finished the sentence
| in her mind and love.
Are you going to stay here all day?''
she asked presently, without looking up.
= Till have an answer to
a. Your demand. Don't you think that
is rather an autocratical beginniHgP'
-. Low suing
May bring wooing
said Despard. -
z e.Did i UNDERESTIMATE she said. de-
nurely, then. that you demand should
become your wife to-day? Won't to-
morrow do?''
II was not bold enough to dream 81
such a rapturous possibility, be said
But was unwise. Tomorrow vii
/ not do You remember the little brown
chapel, Rock Greek Church, out here, :
mile or two? You shall give me your
answer there"
do you really think it win be bestp''
she said. care you willing to take {
wife who, if Prince Vinca had positively
asked her first, might have been his wife
instead of yours?''
As for the remainder of the drive that
morning, from this delicious resting -spoi
! to the little brown chapel, Where the min.
iSter happened to be at the door, with Z
throng of pickaninnies at his heels, Il
may be best for us to remember thai
there are times and places where .twe
are company. and three are none. y
So you see, after all, it was not Miss
Jessie that returned to the Brancepeth
i mansion that evening, where guests
were assembled, dinner waiting her ar.
rival, and her mother as yainly endeav.
oring TO conceal her anxiety as a bird
that twitters on the stem when her nest
| lings are threatened. Mrs. Brancepeth
/ felt, and by no means vaguely. that some
thing was on hand. but what she knew
not, 7althorGh her keen woman's wit
gave her suspicious and hopes; Jessie
not yet returned, but gone all day; Paul
Despard not yet arrived, but invited to
dinner: Mr.. Brancepeth still detained in
his private room downstairs by a caller,