The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-23

SIGH fine player and she having no instru.
ment unless you'd maybe let her come up
and practice times when you was In and
could watch and SEQ sho didn't dirty the
4 pearl keys or Spite IT. Homely and
rough rs she was, there was delicate flush
on her thin cheek us she checked herself In
her bold presumption.
"Didn't dare ask itln Miss vanderpool
would have acted as the chid,s nurse,
scrubbed floors, washed dishes, II she had
asked il The backbone OF her pride was
broken. But what was the woman saying
| nowi
"And now, II youth let me tidy up a bit
anc make things halfway decent for the
gentleman's been waiting TO see you this
long time.n
THE gentlemanl What gentlemani' Miss
Vanderpool was not used to callers. The
iandlady answered her inquiry:
| why, who but him that saved you'll Him
that brought you here in his arms, looking
like dead and all covered with midland a
pretty sight YOU were, Miss vanderpooL
And awful work 1t was cleaning you up II
you be ladyl'
What made Miss vanderpool's face afiame
and her heart beat sol 1t might be any one
OF thousand men. There was no reason,
no reason in the world, she told herself
why II should be any particular one.
Yet, as luck would have it, II was John
Ashtonl No, not luck Chance rarely favors
such men as he, All that they have is won
by hard endeavor, and persistent faith, and
logged watchfulness. Luck is more apt to
buffet them, TO call out all the slumbering
forces In them and show the stuff OF which
they are made. He had turned and followed
Miss Vanderpool at respectful distance,
that afternoon he had met her on the street
1t was getting late, aud he had some old
fashioned notions, now almost out 81 date,
prejudicial to woman's going about at night
unprotected, upon the streets. When he
saw the lonely direction in which she was
tending, he had followed still more rcsolute-
ly, for he knew the character OF the men
along the waterfront better than she. And
who could tell whom she might meet in that
wretched place at such an houri When she
stepped to look seaward he had gone down
over the marsh, both because he had some
instruction TO give TO his foreman and
because he feared she would discover him In
turning back. He had boon first to hear the
wild, beseeching cry. ard to realize its pur-
port; to start out with party OF men pro
vided with lanterns, planks, ropes, every
ehAhS hSouiuis W Iudl OOhl anu TOW 0eTCe-
ly up the slough, flooded at high-tide, di-
rectly to the spot where human life-so
precious to him, was going out; TO throw
himself out upon the morass, bracing him
self on the planks they had brought, and
finally, like the true knight he was, TO
gather the unconscious girl in his arms,
covered with mud rs she was, and wrapping
his coat about her, bear her to the place she
called her home.
But John Ashton was not the man to claim
any recompense for the service he had
rendered. The more serious her peril, the
greater the risk he had run on her behalf.
the more need that he should be delicate
and distant in all his bearing toward her;
that he should try TO make her forget he
had ever pressed any claims upon hcr. He
would not have come now had he been his
own free agent She saw that the moment
he opened the door, and shrauk from her |
own thoughts. He surmised the look upon |
her face and interpreted it In his own way.
So she disliked him so much that IL CALLED |
her to think that he had put her under such |
obligations. Well, well If he had had |
time to consider, 1t might have been better |
10 have left 1t TO one Of the men, or, at least |
% have concealed his own connection with IL. |
w otS AOcih6 bStVcE, Miss NAnucr- Il
,oolii
There was not note in his Voice beyond
he ordinary requirements OF courtesy. |
She answered him In kind.
"Quite well now, / thank you. Won't you |
70 seated, " motioning him TO chair.
II thank you" But he still remained |
his hat In his right hand, his left
land-was 1t her fancy, or wero tho fingers
I'D - hap l.
~ came,n he said, in a matter -of-fact |
way, about matter Of business tried
o speak to you on the street to-day You
we're not willing to listen. You were right
was not the proper place"
you mistook. 1t wasn't that was
reoccupied; couldn't have talked them
With any one" she explained, hurriedly,
nd In a low voice. He scarcely noticed
Ter words and did not at all comprehend
hem, but went on, in formal business
way:
"a matter Of business. was authorized
Q conduct some segotiations with you
hey concern the Vanderpool estate.n
Weak as she was and broken as she was,
he could not suppress little laugh, only
lalf mirthful but wholly sarcastic The
Tanderpool estatel What had there been of
I, since she came into possession Of II, but an
nextricable tangle Of debt and litigation,
apsed contracts and forfeited rightsl
snow that we have got reidy for work
We are In a position TO negotiate for the
Hollands. There are seventy acres belong
ng to the Vanderpool estats. am en-.
owercd to make you the following offcr.n
He drew paper from hn pocket and
AIMED a sum which took Miss Vanderpoolis
reath away. Enough to restore the lost
Tory of the Vanderpools. Enough-more
han enough-to buy back the old home
here her mother had died and she was
orn; enough TO restore her 10 the life OF
ffiuence to which she had been bred
nough TO place her forever above the reach
the petty privations and racking cares that
I'D sat so heavily upon her but yesterday
he raised herself up on one elbow and looked
him. Her Dyes, always large, shone with
n unnatural brilliauce. He thought her
quilting over her restoration to wealth and
Dwer.
II won't ask you for an answer now,r he
i'd; perhaps you would better consult a ,
wyer. May say to the company that you !
Ill give your answer in writing,u
He was moving toward the door, not even
aiting for her answer, for he had deter.
ined to give her no opportunity to refer to I
e events Of the day. He was arrested by Q
single word: .
"John!r !,
No woman ever speaks In such way TO
an she does not love, but the men do not |
ways understand. John Ashton did not I
lderstand. He came back and stood by her '
delooking down doubtfully into the shining (,
es raised TO his own, then quickly turned !.
vay 1t was only q man, after all, and he
d some bitter recoilections to steel him l
ainst any betrayal Of weakness. Besides,
Q was a rich woman now, richer than she I
d boon in the days when he had assured /;
# he would have been too proud to ask her !,
share his life. l
John, are you going-soi" He under L
bod then; slowly at first with dawning b
Of all the words meant 10 a
m and to her Then Heayen itself seemed a
open to him, as he gathered her into his :.
ms. ~
Had any other Vanderpool ever made n
ertures to the man sho lopedi Would the n
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