The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-15

sows I'm thessprlng shall reap in the
fall, and I'm to reap now, whilst he's
to work at the sowing. A deal Of trouble
I've had In my day, but, no fnger's
touch will be lets anear me In: my old
age, he says. Eth, but he's q good lad.
May Heaven grant you a son like him,
Miss Annie, when ye've stepped down
out Of the spring-tlme yerself. .
yes Jem's very good. g assented
Annie, carelessly. "Father says there
is not q place anywhere around so we'll
kept as he keeps ours. OIL bark Isn't
that the .trainp" Il
She splang to- her feetss2 throwing
back her head and liteningS eagerly.
with |pated breat raising an imperious
little hand to silence all other sounds.
IsItseemad as II, at this spoiled darling's
bidding, she very birds topped Singing;
il1d1 and the leaves forbore the Tustlng, all
was snddenly 30 still. Nurse Edwards
listened, too but less intently, and the
chirplng OF the cricket. ,benssth the
piazza ledge was the sonly soand she
| caught. f'0gtSS2 %
~ - Hey, what noise heS makes o. She
said. admiringly, as Annie turned ,ck
! witha gesture Of disappointment. "If
It's them as is happest sings loudest,
yon fellow has the best Of us ALL"
"Ohl will 1t never be ave O'Clock ?"
cried Annie; mindful only Of her i'm.
patience. ''This day has been a hun
dred days long already" :
SNOW don't ye be in haste with
Time, my dear" said the old woman,
reprovingly. ''Ye'll not hurry it.
though ye fret it never so. We must
just bide the time, my Jem says, and
all things'ill come in turn-frst life,
then growth, then death. Things is
best taken natural IS they come. The
rose that ye force'll only be sooner done
blowing" . :..a
"But I can't wait," the girl com.
planned, childishly. 81 always want
thingsa Immediately, and I want five
o'clock this minute. What time can it
be, Nursle p" Ohl> do say it's five
o'clock,p' 49,. H.. - r.
It'll be nigh upon it, sure, by the
slant of the shadows" the old woman
answered, peerlng out across the lawn.
'Ye can look at the sun-dlal yonder, If
ye will" 90
"Nonsensep' reiolned Annie, con-
temrtuously. ''Aslf a stupid bit of
Wood.an rusty shadow kept any
count Of the time the train goes BY.
/ I'll look at the clock inside" .
Then 4ge may, spare yerself tho
JrouUIes my deaffe; Tor. the hands
stopped at five minutes to seven this
morning, exactly as, my Jem started out
for. the city; and Eve minutes to seven
it'll be till my Jem gets home, which
may be the night Or the morrow. And
I'ye been 9. a.thinking all the day as 1 sat
here how it's with me and with every
thing about me just as it is with the
old clock inside. It's him that keeps
us going; and we're all run down and
stopped together when he's gone, biding
the time till he comes back to right
u.s., s'-S >.%H'
"Then I wish he would come back
now and make it Eve O'clock" sighed
Annie. 'Snrely it mustfbe five O'Clock,
and the train has come in without my
hearing the whistle. ~I'll run down to
the gate and wait there Fred cam be
long now. Goodbye. Nursie. In five
minutes more shall be the very hap
piest girl In the worldl' ,n
And before she had flushed speaking
she was off, disdainlng the road and
making herself q painless way across
tue lawn; laughing, dancing, bounding
along with many a light spring and
airy leap and merry twist, like mounts
ain brook too impetuous to run smooth
ly. The old nurse smiled indulgently,
and, settling herself back in her chair,
went contentedly. on with her knitting,
while the cricket again became the up.
permost sound hin >her: world, like q
homely accompaniment to the Single
music Of her thoughts. - # @
Many more minutes than five went by
uncounted, when, suddenly, from the
direction OF the gateway, Annie again
came running, but not as she had run
before. Very direct and straight she
came. Her arms were outstretched as
one who ru MS blindly; her face, that had
been 80 SrQay, was white Saslaeath. and
strangely act, and she Afufg herself
into the old woman's arms with q
great, sharp cry.
20, Nurse o. Nurse. The train is
not in. There has been an accident A
man going by told me. And there has
been one killed. Just a light accident
But there was one killed. Only one
killed, the man SAID. o, Nursie it 10
Fred. Iknow 1t IL Fred AS certainly
as that I am alive now, know that it
IS my darling who is dead |"
And the girl burst into 6 passion OF
stormy weeping, and would neither be
!comforteds nor listen to anything that
her old friend SAID. 5g.4t4u, -
II tell you know IL, is help she
cried, with an agony Of conviction in
her voice that almost carried certainty
with It. ut was like knife through
! nv hearh fhe nnoment tba mon on,I,o