The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-10

picked up the gold piece where it lay on
the ground, to stink oil with it unre-
marked.
''Share fairp' yelled the others, and they
fell on him; and wrestling, quarreling
yelling, and casting shamefaced and sui
len glances over their shoulders at "the
lord, they skunk away across the moor in
the warm, amber light of the full noon
day.
The ground sloped slightly downward
to the northeast, and thither they went !;
the rise soon screened their forms from
view, though the echo OF their voices, in
rough and fierce dispute, came to the ear
OF Guilderoy as he stood by the cabin
door.
Admirable persons to have been made
our masters by act of parliament he
thought, as the sullen mutterings of their
oaths came to his ear on the westerly
wind.
Then he turned to the door OF the cabin
and rappG on it wtth the handle OF his
whip.
''fhe brutes arc gone," he said through
the keyhole. you can come out quite
safely"
lie heard wooden bar lifted and
dropped; the wooden door opened, and
on the threshold, in the warm glow of the
! sunset, stood young girl with a very
beautiful face, which was pale but reso-
| lutte; a Gainsborough face, with wide
| opened, questioning eyes and tumbled
auburn hair, OF which thick waves were
escaping from a gypsy-shaped straw hat.
| A gray, woolen dress was fastened round
her waist by leather belt; it had been
| obviously made by some simply country
seamstress, but there was an aristocracy
In the look OF the wearer which made
him feel that, whoever she might be, she
was thoroughbred. She was not nervous
or agitated, only pale. She had placed
] the fox-cub on the ground that she might
undo the bar OF the door, and the little
animal was shivering and trembling be-
hind her. She took it up before she
spoke TO him.
"You are sure they are gomez" she
asked, looking out across the moor.
| Perfectly sure" returned Guilderoy.
"But, my dear child, did you not hear
them2 They were melting each other to
fire the hut"
''Oh, yes, heard them," she replied,
TRANQUILITY. 81 think they would have
done it, too. They are very rough and
savage, those Cherriton people. 1t was
very kind of you to interfere"
"And what would you have done If the
fellows had carried out'their word2 You
would, ten to one, have been burnt
alive"
"Oh, perhaps not" she answered. 81
dare say they would not have let me really
burnt; they only wanted to frighten me.
"And you would have run the risk
rather than give up that cub2"
"0h, yes; / could not have given him
up; and, besides, l would never have
given it to them"
Guilderoy bowed to her with grave
respect.
"You have great courage, and you have
another quality growing, rarer still-scorn
| for the mob"
She did not reply to the words.
81 will 60 now" she said, ''and thank
you very much, though / do not know
| who you are"
81 am a neighbor of yours, think ]
| live at Ladysrood."
"Ah, heard them say, It's the lord. "
She looked at him with more attention
/ and interest than before.
''Ladysrood is such a beautiful place
! they saw" she said, 'but you are never
there. Why are you always away2"
81 really hardly know, he replied; she
seemed to him too young TO be answered
with compliment. "You see the En-
| glish climate is so detestable. 1 dislike
rain, and there is scarcely anything else
/ here"
81 do not mind rain at all" she said as
she left the cabin, still clasping in her
arms the draggled and shivering fox cub.
"Pray do not come with me. Our place
is ten miles from here"
"Neither my horse nor l mind ten
miles" replied Guilderoy, "and most
certainly insist on being allowed to attend
you to your fathers gates. Let me carry
the cub for you. How is it he is SO
| tame"
'They take little foxes from their earths
and bring them up; and then, when they
are few months old, they are carried out
to some waste place and hunted with dogs
not hounds, you know, but any kind OF
dog. could tell this was tame cub by
the wayit behaved 1t did not know how
10 run: and was not even afraid. The
young men chased it and lashed it, and
threw pebbles at IL to make it run, but il
did not know how. Then, when 1 saw
that it got behind stone, took il up and
would not lei them have 1t, and / ran as
hard as could, and they ran after me.
J got in there just in time TO bar the door.