South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-11-08

FRIDAY. NOVEMBER s, 1859.
LovE AND BURGLARY.

eua Overhead the maple leaves
SCARCELY stirred In the serene balm Of
the summer air-in the woods H.
Wild roses hung their crspeeu caps.
shrinking from The pid-day heat. in
The stream. sud the very birds wore
dubbed and silent.
Mabel Winston wss IN the cool
milk room scaidiug out The churn. and
Job Tressaly stood outside, with 4
big stone pitcher in bic hand. aud his
pan Just On level With the milk.room
window.
Our hero and heroine: Job was
none Of your juenesse dore, who wear
primrose kid gloves and spend their
elegant leisure in ssuniering up the
sunny side Of Fifth avenue, bat an
honest, hard-wo:king farm hand.
Mabel was no society belle, but. for
all that, the sweet old mystery OF Love
found them out. Nor did the cur.
rent OF the 8. DRIED stream run smooth
ly, after all.
Mabel was very pretty in the cool
green. Pickering light that came
through the morning glory vines and
scarlet runners. pretty with the bloom
and freshness OF early girl hood. dark.
eyed. and dark haired. with long eye
lsshes and q roguish dimple 10 each
cheek, and, as she scrubbed away al
the inside OF the churn, she reso!u:e.
ly avoided job Tressaly's eje.
Il don't zee Why you always come
here for water, said Mabel petulant-
~. deacon Morris we'll must be a
great deal nearer tn the hay field
You didn't use to find fault with
me for coming this way, May. said
Job reproachfully.
Il wish you wouldn't call me May
retorted the girl.
Miss Winston, them
Nonsense said Mabel.
Look here, Mabel, said Job Trcss-
aly, valiantly. I'm neither blind nor
q fooll You used 10 like me we'll
enough before that Fernauld fellow
came out here fishing and ioafng and
pretending TO sketch. You think he 8
a better man than am because he
comes from the city and wears soiled
kid gloves, wrh fashy ring on his
| fingers
We'll, and what il l do P retorte.i
Mabel. turning the cburn upside down
on one Of the snowy shelves.
why. just this, said job, leaning
both elbows on the window sill. Il
love you and I've tod you 30 often
enough. but am not the man to be
played fast and loose with for the a.
musement of any girl. Mabel, you
must choose between me and Felix
Fernauld.'
.Mustr repeated The girl.
Yes, must II
Very WE'LL said Mabel, with de-
liant toss OF the head, then take
Felix Fernau!d
Are you in earnest, Mabel'
Quite; why shouldn't l be 2
And Job Tressaly took up his stone
pitcher of cool. sparkling water. and
walked off across the meadow to the
field where the hay makers we're al
work, with his heart as heavy as lead
within him.
Aud Mabel sat down and began tc
cry. Why. she could not exactly
have told. She was half terrified, hal
exultant, but wholly frightened and
nervous at her own holiness
Mabel
She started up with cry. Felix
Fernauld's dark, handsome face wa.
bending over her.
Little one, don't be frightened,
said he, with an air Of patron zing az
lection. i just cav that calf, Tres
sally, stalking across the fields with {
faca like q thunder cloud
Yes said Mabel, IL sent hin
away
You're a triumph said Fernauld
"a brick. my dear Give rs q kiss
And now TO business. Old Jessup'I
gone to town, Ell 2
'Yes,' said Mabel, much wondering
why he should ask that question.
when will he be back p
AT five o'clock, be said
Taken the mortgage money will
him ?
Not to-day said the innocent Ma
bel. He is going TO the bank to
morrow
Good said Felix Fernauld, pull
ing at his black mustache. 'WbeIl
does he keep it. my pretty one2 Con
fidentialIy, now, between you anc
me p
Mabel started up, a sudden scaIle
dyeing her cheeRs. All at once th'
glamour bRnisbed from her eJ es-
all at once che cav Felix FernaulC
In his true colors "a villain. adyen.
iurer, a thiefl
why do you want to known Che
flashed out.
Nov, don't excite yourself. ms
dear, don't.' said Fernauld, tapping
her cheek. It's all In the way of bn-
siness. Old Jessup is rich I'm not
Why shouldn't we divide 2 You'll
tell me where be keeps the money
that's darling p
4 will not I cried Mabel, flushed
and trembling all over.
Very we'll, said Fernauld, taking
both her hands IN an iron grasp. In
that case We must tie and gag you
and take Q thorough search Of the
premises ourselves, Don't he alarm
ed; ] shan't hurt you. My chum'