The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-08-16
4 Brothers Keeper.
/ NONLES WORK OF LoYB and DUTY.

SY MARY EARTwELL cATEEBWo0D,
GUTHRIE" "THE LONE MANS
CADES," AND OTEEa SToR1Es
ssDoes he look as he used to, fatherf''
% scarcely noticed. knew it was Thane
White. The muscles Of his face look ex-
posed, and twitched."
'It must have been you he meant when
he told me there was somebody in the neigh
borhood he wanted to avoid"
"If he saw me as I ordinarily go he did
not recognize me tonight until turned on
him. What did he Do with you when ne
landed in the Statesa''
"Es must have put Thorney snd me in
that orphan asylum at Pittsburgh. He has
been in prison often. Did you know that,
5sthera'
ayes, hunted him up behind the bars,
and he repeated to me on oath that you
we're dead, You were lost overheard at
Sea. 7 sent him from Virginia City week
before intended to start, to take passage
for Us on an isthmus steamer. May be I
gave him enough money to make it a
temptation. May be the idea came into his
head suddenly, and he carried il out, in
tending to make me pay him well for re-
storing you. It Is hard to read all the
motives Of man ike Thane White. Aft
erwards he found was poor, and dropped
you where It was most convenient, reveng-
ing himself for his disappointment by de-
clsring you were dead. he went over TO
San Francisco and engaged passage two
days ahead Of the time wanted to sail.
Then he delivered my letter TO the Lady
who had you in charge; she was friend Of
your mothers. asked her to have you
ready against ] came for you. Thames boy
II kept him at the same place-and you
were allowed to go on the street with
Thsne. You were about three years old.
He never brought you back. The family
cent for me. We found he had sailed
with you, and believe he took no nurse. I
could not discover what vessel brought him
to New York; and be said you were lost
overheard between the isthmus and that
port spent months tracking him, and,
finally, letter from him, which had fol-
lowed me around, brought news Of your
death Inever believed 1t until saw him
IN prison, and he swore it to me without
having any conceivable object in doing so.
May be 7 was more readily disheartened
than when your mother lived"
Father" wrote Phoebe on the tablets,
I'VE seam 80 well acquainted. My heart
ached 80 about you the night We took you
that maple sugar that could hardly endure
f. Do look at all like used toa''
eyes," he wrote in reply From the
day Of your birth your face was very dis
t;nctly marked can see your baby face IN
.your features yet''
sPsyche Fawcett IS my own cousin, isn's
Hheen. -. -.
.sYes- And she must divide with You.
There was another thing which struck ms
!; ike conviction before could be certain.
saw you standing before my portrait, sn6
you showed che Fawcstt ss well IS your
mothers blood It was young Gurley who
came with you the first time saw you-Was
sns'
ssYes."
s.And he was hero tonight"
eyes. he Is bringing the doctor. The
bullet will be taken out and you will get
well"
.Thke to see him about you. He's man
Remember Isaid this"
aBut, dear, your pain is not very great
now, is ita"l
ssNot very. My mind feels easy. II you
push the guilt in there is room enough for
you to sit on the lounge beside me"
Phoebe sat there until the doctor came. Is
was twelve O'Clock by the time the esamina-
ton was finished, and the doctor remained
BY his patient.
Phcsbe resumed her seat by her father
and watched him all night. he dozed or
sunk into unconsciousness,a and woke with
Q smile to write recollections about her
mother He lived over the San Francisco
honeymoon, and he was in the mountains
ssssying ore. Several times he was re-
called to the present by strong anguish.
The doctor then dealt with him, and his
Sirl afterward wiped the dampness from
his face.
Neither Mrs Barker nor the master left
her The lamp burned on the table until
growing pallor outside betokened morning.
'.Miss Fawcett will come to see him to-
noTrow," said Phoebe to the doctor, speak
ing as If the day wese still remote. ''Mr.
Gurley intends to bring her. Will that dis
turb him too mucha'
''Oh, no," replied the doctor, "no."
'sDon't you think ne is bettcri" inquired
Phoebe, when the cocks in the masters
chacken-house began to crow.
Perhaps ought TO tell you," the ply
stefan said aside to her," that dread o
hemorrhsge.''
She compressed her mouth and suddenly
felt the effect Of her vigil, her excitement,
and her days Of contest with Tsaue.
Still, her father was quiet in half-con-
scious slumber when Mrs. Barker lighted
Sha breakfast fire and the master brought
psil Of water from the well.
Al animate things out doors were begin
ning to stir, and the air which came in was
Sresher thar ever before as ii it blew cut Of
Paradise full Of odoss and promises. The
early spring birds wece all about, and the
aicker's thrill was heard close by the win
dow.
ssThat birds song always smells Of
jump -ups-the early blue violets," !"
said Phoebe, with smae, to the doctor.
The DOCTORS answering smile was tran
sient, for his patient awoke in struggle
"Fstherp' cried Phoebe. "Oears Why,
Sather"-
In four months the bird-songs had deep
saed in color and oaor until an imaginative
person might find them vivid as scarlet and
bursting with fragrance. Summer spread
np from the tropics Transforming the North
ern world. The yearly miracle, which new
er ceases to be marvellous, was nearly COM
paeted; not spear Of grass was lacking to
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