Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-02-02
NO. 32.

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= 'ens. u. 1''N'l' ~, " ~, calob
"'' l''u!e = l"it''ii''' 7'i' = ''''' -
'li,l'7 .IIr j.. s,;1 pehacca onietly.
~" 1,,,., 1.,li,,. tTe married
-Nus set ,,o'i IN innslina and love.
rs ~ Guy ,.'', ...,,iI ,,a.I M II vou over
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','l ~ -..,...,. ,,.., 10 ,,o,d as Caleb
n, N..'' ',' 1l,'nr1. said lane.
..a,',i, % .rt...Jife ~ j sinqle woman
',,,,'', ~ ~ n.,nsl,inaa1J Ioyc. either. And
~ - n.at.n.I;,os. II mother should
Iie th.re vaal1n't he an excuse for
,,', M s.i.tenrq.,
:. yan .,,onll Gud something to do.
1ana
"'Vlatg Every avenue open to
women i, already overcrowded, and !
might take place that was needed by
saE,e one IN the verre of starvation or
sr5ciIe And then. unskilled labor
isn,t worth ANYTHING. never learned
trade and the only thing can do is
n fake care Of mother
As the days went hv. and Mrs.
uonro was pronounced on the fair
raad te recovery. Rebecca began to
crow home.iek She would not admit
il 10 herself at first; hut it was quite
trae nevcrtheIess ana vas patent to
Si,.'' iaotLnr and lane. who knew
~ mo,lina af t1e nroposed separation.
Iter',aind dwelt continually on Caleb
and tha farIn Size wondered how he
%,,,, "a ~ ,a,na,,ad ahout the milk, the
il''a I,.i,', i"'','.,9 M lis nrals If he had re-
- - ~ fa.d mo cat and nut corn
mem ~. ,,i,,oons and wind the
VA - ,Iaal ~. = oba imagined the
hlte,''n ~, ,.,,,ld,. md vet and felt
III, .Iugt ,y.e lvinp thick on every
sure lllt ''"S' w. ! 97lIar ''lo I, she Won.
tflng rom gu ~ ~ - - ,,,iasod -bar
dered' too, II odltp ii"' nil'''' IL,
absence. But she had peell Soiio Oiii!
a week A week. 1t seemed SIX
months.
That night She cried herself to steep
and her last waking thought was OF
CaIeb and the unkindness with which
y%a lad treated him. Strange to say,
~ ,,'e n.ranr. 49,, which she herself had suf-
enrod rare FORGOTTEN.
" ~ ~ n1nst % home. mother" she
.id 40 nevt morning. "You don't
.'' a1 NO anv longer. and | ought not to
nta,.
- ~ ;s only natural YOU should want
- 20 3" said the old lady. 81 don't
bla59e Won Caleb is more to you now
i ai'',,i. .,tI,or md sister nut together
e I'm glad you are SO happy in you
d n,arria@e dear. But felt sure iron
Q mo first that YOU would be. Try t.
y keep the love YOU nave Won, daughter
life isn't worth much if there is n
;, love to help us bear its burdens.
= \ burning flush suffused Rebecca
face.
lic W How could ever have told her
Le she thought. How she would teei
she knew that only her Illness l.I;ass say
red 0"lt' a.,' d, ,ms e hon o1,ocn S.9" rs,ct
Eraosfona and as She had not writ
ler "a Caleb that she was coming the
i, was no one there to meet her
1'' But She persuaded Mr.. Boswell
son to drive her out to the farm for
ST. .a consideration.
va He took the road which led past IL
nj office of Lawyer Kane, and Rebee,
ne could not repress a sIudder as she sa
it. Her heart turned sick within he
he as for the first time the thought can
"a TO her that perhaps Caleb would n,
il forgive her-Would rigidly insist upC
the separation agreed upon ten da,
n before.
ID She dismissed the buggy at the ga
and went on foot up the side roa
which led to the kitchen door.
The house was quite dark. 81
- wondered if by any cruel chance Gale
=, ~ was away. But no; the knob of IL
~ door turned in her hand and she el
- tered.
= = Caleb had not lighted a lamp, b,
" the lids of the stove were off. and I'll
bright freight showed him sitting i
- a large chair. his head sunk on h
= breast and one hand over his eyes.
" ;, lie was SO deeply buried in though
- and Rebecca came in 50 softly, tha
y Y he did not hear her
~ She stood fer fun moment lookin
= at him, marking the wan look on hi
!, face, the weary, detected attitude.
: A terrible pang struck her hear
MS WAS her DONG. She 1t was VIII
= had brought those sad lines to tn
- handsome, manly countenance of tn
. man she had never loved so well a
Ie now. No doubt it was of her unkind
ness he was thinking as he sighec
heavily.
q With hoarse sob she threw hersel
2 on her knees beside him, and winding
her arms about his neck, cried, wildly
: Caleb ! Caleb :, can you ever for
I give me?
He, did not answer for a moment
but held her close pressing his face
lovingly to hers. Then he raised her
gently TO her feet and drew her to a
t "It i who sbonld ash FIR nardor
t Beckie All tbis Iono week no boar' aoa,
acbing ia teIl von how sorry 7 feol er Co..