The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-25

anu invited everywhere, as soon is III WIS
known. So that battle was more easily
won than the victors had feared. But
there still remained the encounter with
the Hayeses in the person of the impe-
rious VIII.
Rose had said, calmly enough, that
her lover would probably break the en-
gagement. But in her secret heart she
believed in his largeness, and glorifed
his loyalty rs to what was beStin herself.
He heard her plea with a quietness that
surprised her, and answered no word.
'Iou know, viii, it is only for few
years, and we are so very young we can
well wait | want to send Helena to
school, and to give Alice drawing les
sons Cher talent is really wonderfully.
and then they can both be earning. and
/ can afford To stop. Say that you think
| am right, Will.
Rose, rs a joke. you must pardon me
if | say that this performance is very
silly. As purpose, YOU must know it is
simply impossible and prepoSterous.
..Whye'
Why? Because do not choose that
you should do it. Because the Hayeses
do not go to shops and factories for their
husbands and wives. They are accus-
toned to mate with ladies and gentle
men. They care something for refined
habits, and the protection of home. The
men look Hp for their wives and the
mothers of their children, not do,0n, and
the race shall not begin TO deteriorate
through me- Rose. If your father really
needs money, | will lend him whatever
sum he names, and without interest
Better STILL we will be married at once,
and his son can claim the same right to
help HIM that his daughter demands
But it is not fit that my future wife
should crowd elbows with some common
girl from Il tenement-house learning 4
vulgar trade. Give it all up, Rosie, and
say that you viii marry me, next week,
! tomorrow, when YOU will. and never
talk nonsense again about earning your
living
IF am capable answered Rose,
trembling with anger and woundedpr pride
If | am capable of = suggestion
which dishonors your house. Tam proved
unfit to flate with it. | would never
have consented that YOU should marry
my whole family, and they would repa-
date such scheme with Indignation.
But now | will not consent that you
should marry me. We do not agree. on
50 simple thing as the definition of
/ honesty and duty. What folly, what
madness. to suppose we should not ruin
one auother's lives, | have adored my
/ father ever since | knew his dear face.
and he is nobleness all through. He
could not think mean thought, or set a
/ shame above a reality. | have loved you
for year, and you have hurt me with
your mean thoughts andyosr reverenee
for shams again aud again. 1t is the
last time. l choose my father. Go,
Will Hayes, and never come again.
So they parted with anger and in
/ justice and bitter longing on both sides.
and with pride which forbade either 10
make atonement Rose went 10 the great
Office in stafford aud studied with a
/ fierce determination to succeed, born
not more of her conscientiousneSs than of
/ her wish To have no leisure for regret.
/ She duly won her certificate. and obtain
ed the excellent place of night operator
ut the great junction station at Fairfield,
where twenty rushing trains, incoming
/ from north. SOath, east, west, depended
on her slender hands. her sleepless eyes,
| her sensitive ears, for safety She was
/ faithful. tireless, skillful She was earn
ing money which every month gladden.
ed the girls ut home. She was helping
her father to bear his burdens with new
courage. inspired BY her cheerful self
sacrifice. Was she happy? The nights
were long. She was not always busy.
/ There was so much time to think, even
when her hands were occupied. She
missed home and home tenderness more
than she had thought possible. She
missed Wits impctuous, ardent, con
slant devotion. She missed even his
tyranny. and mourned it. But she never
dreamed of giving up. And she knew
BY heart the significance of Adam Bede' 5
saying There's nothing but what :
bearlble so long as a man can work.
The square o. four is sixteen. and you
must lengthen your lever in proportion to
your weight, is rs true when a man 5
miserable rs when he's happy; and the
best o working is, it gives you grip
hold o things outside your own lot. F"
There came rainless August Day
after day the sun shot fiercer javeins OF
heat Night after night n stiffness OF
slow sulfocation seemed TO encompass
the earth. But as Rose went YEARLY 10
her work one darkening twilight, a
nameless thrill and terror in the air
warned her of coming tempest. In a
moment an inky blacl<ness plotted out
the world, whirlwind clutched at her
flying figure, and as she struggled breath
less mp the platform of the station, the
heavens seemed TO open in 4 vast sheet
of flame, the building trembled in the
crash of thunder, sudden fire flashed
from her little office, and the darkness
as of midnight had settled once more
over all things. She CROPPED her way
forward, stumbling against man.
lis You, Miss Myrick?'' he gasped.
For Gods sake don't stay herel That
bolt struck the instrument and burned
out the magnet. The room a death
| trap. Come away
Il can't, Mr.. Rice. 1t is time TO &C
on duty. Something may happen TO the
! trains in this awful storm. Is no one
else here?''
Not soul, Miss Myrick It's the
half-hour for supper, though it's so dark.
There's no train for forty minutes. It's
as much as your life is worth to NEEDLE
with that magnet. beg you to come.
Another flash of binding Light, an
other crash as of a-crumblfng world
Don't stay, Mr.. Rice said Rose,
qu' city. You have your wife and child
to consider. But my place is here
He made feint to remain. but she
closed the door of the Office behind her,
rs if to make his dismissal absolute, and
he was glad to go, She found the
matches. lighted her lamp, and supplied
the magnet, fury of rain and wind
ldasiling against her window, flame oil
lightning seeming to scorch her eyeballs.
She tried the instrument. and found the
circuit secured. Her nerves were tense
with excitement. She went to the open
door to breathe. a CHASTITY brilliancy,
brighter than any daylight, touched the
earth for swift moment. aud by itS
torch she saw, far up the shining, narrow
ing rails. large tree uptorn and lying
prone across the track. She remember.
ed the road Just there-the river on one
side. rocky chasm on the other. Good
/ God and the Western Express was al
most duel Was there time to stop it al
/ Hardwick? Sire would try. She rush
ed to the Instrument. The storm had
deranged it, it would not respond. She