The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-25
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTUR1sT.

drove down the next hill at pace which
threatened to shake the carriage to
pieces.
Stop, stop for goodness sake stop ~
shouted Miss Mari able; but, finding that
her wordswere not listened to, she drew
in her head and tried to revive the
wretched man in front of her. She held
her salts bottle to his nose, she chafed
his hands, she famed his brow, and she
allowed his feverish head to rest upon
her shoulder; but she could not awaken
him. &t
IF he should die!,' she thought. ''I
intended to- brighten him., but not so
much as this. OIL this is terrible ~
And once more she tried to prevail upon
the driver to stop, but in vain. The
sight of distant lights, however, gave her
at length some satisfaction. The car
riage entered a long avenue, the gate of
which lay ready opened for it; and about
an hour and quarter after leaving Alb
ermaw, it drew up before the Joneses
house near Harlech.
With a sigh of relief Miss Marrable
threw open the door and sprang out, to
| find herself in the presence of half doZ-
en- people who were congregated on the
steps.
"Quiclxl' p she cried; "don't ask ques-
tons. He is i'll; he is dying! Take him
out y
The Joneses, who had not been pre-
pared for the apparition of middle-aged
spinster, and who were expecting Mr.
Jellicoe and Miss Allerton, were some
what astonished.
'Who is inside ?'' asked Mr.. Tom
Jones, the son and heir of the family.
ooh! Mr.. Jellicoe! Be quick For
mercy's sake, be quick ~
You don't mean it," cried Tom, rush
ing to the carriage to succor his friend.
But an instant later he burst into vio-
lent fit of laughter. "Why, it's not Jel
licoe at all!'' he said. ''It's Grifiths,
the billiard-marker from the Cors-y-
Gedol; and he is hopelessly drunk. Nice
companion, indeed p
Miss Marrable is, as I have already
said, woman without weaknesses. On
hearing this announcement, however,
she tainted away. When, thanks to the
kind attentions of the famale members
nantly charged thoseA estimable people
with having deliberately plotted her dis
comfiture and she insisted on at once
returning to Abermaw; but the carriage
and Griffiths had gone so Mr.. Jones,
ST., who grasped the situation, volun-
teered to drive Miss AIarrable back to
the Corsy-y-Gedol Hotel, and by twelve
o'clock, or shortly afterward, she was in
her own room again. 1t was then that
she learned of the desertion of Lucy and
Amy. / need not describe how she re-
ceived the news, and Qw she declared |
that her abandoned nit es should never |
again behold her face xSor that, although |
she is awoman withof Weaknesses, she
81 the night IN Sffolei tbs Peri Eeesmai'Shses
telegraphed next dav5.to Mr.. Iarksnnr
and Mr.. Allerton, and repairing to the
Red Cow, furiously Denounced Sir Thorn
as Jellicoe as the basest and most heart
less of men.
Three weeks afterward, however, the
edge of her anger had worn off. Lucy
and Amy were married. 1t was foolish,
but, perhaps it was not wholly ineXcus-
able; and thus reasoning, Miss Maria
BILE, in the goodness of her heart, deter
mined to gradually receive them back
| into her favor. But she has never wholly
forgiven Lucy for suggesting the substi-
| tuition of the billiard-marker for Vivian
Jellicoe.
"My dear" she saws, when she retells
the story of her drive to Harlech, ''the
wretched man was perfectly saturated
with whisky, and / really don't know
what he might not have doneif hadn't
kept my eye steadily upon him. But
bereath my gaze he covered, my dear,
positively covered! Inever saw saw
age brute so completely tanned"
And to this day Miss Marrable be-
lieves that but for her eye, the billiard
marker might-horrid thought !-have
run away with her too.-C Chambers Jour
nal.