The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1885-05-08

tween SLOUGH and a swaggcr; he even
laughed lightly, as he peered over the
bank TO catch glimpse of his reflection
III the pool "a mani" repeated he.
''Why, I'm half that already, Harlow;
it's the first time I've known the feel of
decent broadcloth for couple Of years.
The gypsies, indeed-no gypsies for me,
if YOU please. The truth is, Harlow,
I've been thinking seriously of late;
and I've come to the conclusion that,
after all's said and done, responsibility 3
the thing. Who'd ever have thought,
old cock, to look at me and you now,
that YOU re the right side of the hedge
and I'm the wrong? What do girls and
horses count, SO long rs there's tailor
TO get one straight again? | should ike
a sight of Patience again, poor lass; I've
half a mind to drop in on her and make
her scream, for fun, on my way to the
Half Moon. No-all right, old chap;
YOU needn' look so queer. A bargain 5
a bargain. and nobody burst say Dick
BlackJhorn isn't a man of his word.
Down to-day and up tO-morroW-that' s
the game. Hey for the Half Moon and
a iig for King George! Az, come over
to the Half Moon; many the jorum
Eve had there il the old days, and
Wen have another tonight, you and l.
I'll stand treat if you'll lend me the
price of q bowl till pay you again.
Oh, III be man! III go ahead and
redeem the past, and eat the fatted calf,
and be goOd-so good that the old
man hairs shall turn brown again for
fun"
Whether Dicks sullen desperation or
his sudden burst into high spirits was
the worse to behold, Stephen could not
tell. TWAS plain the fellow had no
more ballast in him than n feather in
the wind; and that, whether up or
down, his good and bad spirits were
equally capriciOus and VAN. A mo-
ment ago he was a hunted brute; now
he was what a fairly good coat had
made him. Stephen saw work before
him to which the restoration of Legs
Croft was mere child $ play. However,
it had got to BE- done.
Nov be of with You said he.
mind, I'm trusting you; if ! don't find
you at the Half Moon by the time L get
there, ! wash my hands of you. If !
do, / il sec 10 il that if you break down
in lie again it shall be the fault of
neither horse nor girl, but your very
own.
.Ob. that's all right" said Dick.
i ye half q good mind to 60 back
through Manchester and meet the red,
coat~-that would be fun, too I won't
though. I'm going to turn over new
leaf, and be q good boy for the rest of
my day. Once out of this scrape.
neyerW.li / get into another, so sure as
my name Dick B.ackthOrn. III go to
the Half Moon as straight as a crow,
and wait as long as you please"
And perhaps by that time, y thought
Stephen, a little savagoly, 1t will strike
him that IL might be decent to ask after
his father and his sister, aud that it
hardly good manners to take all fell
low 5 got TO give him without 50 much
as a Thank YOU. Well, I'm not going
20 help him through for thanks sake,
~ | mustu't complain. l must get bis
father to forgive him; aud ! must get
him 10 Aiil!port. and put him TO work
under my own eve. It'll be q stiff Job;
but, hang il, what beast l am to
grUmble about doing for Patience and
hcr father the first thing that's like To
como hard. The harder the better.
whatever 1T il. they've done ten thou
sand times more for mo. Poor Dick. |
cant think he's had fellow nj bYttOm.
1t S not ju BE Hiar,thoru Ir eli.
Perhaps The Only impossible thing in
the world Is 60 ho set on helping a man
aud az tn" same time to think Of him
uukina.E. 30 doubt D;cl. did look
hopeless case hslt then Stephen was in
the humor ton Unlimt ted hoping. lie
waited minutes enough Tor the coast to
bc clear. aui thcl scrambled back out
of The cop-a in q decidedly less r2pu-
table plight than lie had entered. Not
thai there would be anything particu-
lariy Out OF the way in his crossing the
few remaining fields Ld!lcSs and coat !
less; Tor. u- he had laid. good deal OF
his recent. work Ina been done IN has
snirt-s!eeNes IS wei a., II has BRAN.
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had g"thl.l.'..d IN thc Cops would only
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inE y was gone
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