Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-11-24


Knee. 70 immcd late danger o.-Hvsem-
bance there still her co,bpN4ion
would certainly 'go."
And then another idea suggested it
self There was the poss biity that he
might marry Why, it WAS a probability,
II VA, 4 certainty
Kendall only available foot suddenly
cast Of one If Miss Judith IIonkin.s
shlH~ with tremendous vigor
Why " hat j. he natier!' inquired
Miss Lane, turning IN surprise
Il beg your pardon sald her patient,
humbly.
The snow came late that year. but it
came with viii and the persistence Of
BEGIN 10 fail
Il don't Sc how you are ever going to
get a FAR rs the Mills TO-DAY. sal, Miss
Judith Hopkins one morning, looking
lout upon Il Whit world The Winds
so high and The snow is drifting dread
fully"
"Oh, think we can manage it said
her niece. But when She began to wrap
uo later on. ard the cutter drove t. the
door, Miss Hopkins had fresh mis- sy-
lnD-.
1T isn't as though he was just like
herself. She hasnt been what you could
cal real we'll for some time nov, She
! thought when she had been left alone.
And in her journeys from the kitchen to
the milk cellar She fell 10 mu~in- Of
sundry things which had puzzled her of
late
After the sunset there came a red glow
IN the sky which turned the snow, III
sheltered places a polar blue. Edith
Lane. now facing the cutting wind,
turned her horse head homeward. She
had rot intended being 50 late, but she
/ had been detained. At first the cutter
t flew over the ground like a swallow
But the snow, farther on, had drifted
badly, and the road gradually had almost
! disappeared. Edith Lane was not a
1 nervous girl But she reelected that she
4 did not know every tree Whereabouts rs
/ she did around her own place, and that
| as the lght was tadtng momcntarly. she
/ might presently fnd herself i'll u some
/ what an kwald prcdicamcnt
As she pccrcd through the gray, ues
olate dusk, trying to gather her faculties
calmly together, and to keep her self
! possession and GOODNESS, she heard in
the distance the angle of sleigh bells.
When they had approached SO near that
she could distinguish tho dark outline
Of this new cutter She called out imme-
diately and the cutter stepped.
1t struck her as little singular that
one of the men there were two should
alight while she was speaking and come
toward her The second man called out
in reply
I'm taking ths\ gentleman there
now. If you want to follow me | guess
wei gep there all right. know the
uav
l;ut he paused in surprise, for ms pas
scnger and this unknown lady wrappe |
in a scalcleth coat and cap seemed to
know elch other
In truth Edith Lane was lookn.
through the gloom into Robert kendall's s
face
"lou you" was all she could say.
"Thls Is poetic Justice octic com
pensa lon,' cried the young man h,lar
iou>ly. You dragged me out OF i ditch
Il few months ago. Miss Lane Now fare
puts it into my power to drag You ont
Of a snoNdrilt. Will you take my pi, I
in the cutter and let me have your reIns
For We are both going in the sane dlrec
ton. our de~tinat on is m ne.
And She could f:.akc no demur. Sht
had never though to meet him ag4.n
much less to meet him as She had JUS
done They had parted very differently
two months before She would neyc
have betrayed herself had She not beer
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she had BETRAYED herself Eyen III
hc-couId not have seen her face dletlnc1-
lv -hc must. nave known what madc heI
voice tienble when She pronounced
tho Q two words, and rs soon as he had
spoken in his turn Edith Lane knew
that her secret was hers no longer.
Wht1 Ms, Hopkins had recovered
rom Ier houndrss ama2emem whaf
>no Iad h..,tsiy opened fresh Jar o. heI
best preserves fol the unc >pcctcd guest
Mlel ~tlppsr was over and there has
hctu mH.h hterful conversation II
which she herself had participated :,
ta..I i, thtt She : arc"Iv noticed lie
Vie = silence; and When the guest sill
Itat.ued occurred TO the worth.
yoman thai perhapS her preSence WI
rcqa.rcd somewhere else in the house.
Thou keu,i,.Il rose and going oter t
vhe-e idish Lane >at, leaned over hc
chairs
Ar yoa going 70 send me away 4
yon i / .s.>, 4u.umu'" hc inquired
VIZ, / you want Of a raw .ount+
4e for 4 VIE she demanded, 81,
I eyA>iye IreIeHaucv.
Il . Il YOU ilsc autumn"
And told vou that YOU We're