Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-27
GABRIEL'S MISTAKE.


out Of tie world, Oh, Id like to keep hoGse
here
Promise you'll keep house for me, too
won't you fetty~ said Larry Unsierhll,
laughing, from where he sat on dilafidat.d
table
And mei" ehorused all the young fellows
except one banning apart. WHO nnw turned q
DARK and scoVsllng fare upon the rest
Lefty btished a. she glanced toward him.
and answered evaaiveiy, But there Isn't
room for all u you
Make your choice, lefty" said Underhili
grayely shut your eyes. turn round three
times and stretch out your right hand.
The s,irl iaughingly oieyei, and, whether
by accident or deaign. put her hand in that
Of the dark young man standing alone He
grasped IL firmly. with a sudden smile ike
sunshine on his lowering face, and forced her
to remain there with him, facing them all
Bravo" cried Underhill. You re in luck,
Dallas Now Just stand still while make a
sketch II you both
But Gabriel Dallas face darkened again
NO, - te answered. some other time, Mr.
Undertil
Steve Thatcher gave a coarse outlaw
you needn't mind il us about Lefty. Gabe,
for bel got whole cargo o pictures OF her.
hain't you. Mr. underhillfT
Gabriel Dallas looked ike an Italian pic
tnre and Steve Thatcher Ike a clown, and
perhaps Uuderhills appreciation OF this
rather than steye's evident desire to irritate
Gabriel. made the young artist snub his lout-
ish qusstiouer
IL don't know precisely what you mean by
a cargo, he said. superclliously, but gen
orally jot down anything which strikes me
In that way | hope to preserve the remern
brancs Of your own picturesque figure, MIR
Thatcher"
There vas laugh at this, for Steve was
long Iank and ungainly. Hecolored angrily
now, but, not being able to answer Under
hills muckery in kind, was silent. Presently
it ceased raining, and they all went out into
the open air again. Lefty still with Gabriel
Dallas.
Lefty had come to Stony bank the previous
sprung with family named Barton, 10 whom
she was a kind Of adopted daughter They
themselves were shiitiess, neer do well poo
| pie, not thought Of much account III Stony
bank, But Lefty was not like them And
then she was ~ bright, so winning, and SO
exceedingly pretty that before she had been
long In the village she was Its acknowledged
belle Gabriel was supposed to be the favored
lover, but they had been kept apart by his
moody JEALOUSY. which, once aroused,
amounted to a positive passion, making him
suspicious, unreasonable and obstinate
Gabriel came naturally by these jealous in
stincts Old Lawyer Fernald, down at Stony
bank Corner. wbo has a living record Of all
the country history round about, said that
the young fellow was Descended from q
French or Spanish sailor, Manuel Daloz by
]
nearest seaIoard town. and from there To
Stony bank. where the local usage converted
Daloz into Dallas Gabriel. the latest de
sccnlant possessed that peculiar family tenn
I permanent which had marked Manuel Daloz,
the wanderer from the hills OF southern
! France
| Gabriel had a good farm, he was sober and
ind ,trious and, when not in one OF his dark
mu,sis, open and kindly He was strikingly
handsome. too. with hls black, liquid eyes,
his clustering, tawny hair, and tae warm
toned bronze of hi, complexion. lie might
almost have his pick among the village girls.
| but no one had seemed to make any real i'm
! preston OF him until he fell in love at Grst
! sight with LEFTY Walsh, with whom, how
ever, his jealousy had prevented u definite
understanding til the day when the girl laid
! her hand in his. down there in the old house
/ in the hollow
Thcv were rnarria., aftar a ver,y s.,ort en-
! gngcment The l}ar,pnS, Ike true rolling
stones. were about 10 leave Stonybanli for
some place in the far west, 50 the wedding
took place before they went. All Stony
bank was tbero besides a good part of the
! Corner, the fafri.its of which mostly rapre-
senied / much higher social grade Among
/ those y DO came was LAWYER tCTnaI with
whom t;ahri,i ry,s =, f,vnri,. an, Ia. Grand.
dau-hter tora n conn, l,,Iv who h.5 l,,ep
.n4.be,l' in n citv L1orlIing s..annl The
o;,er pt,esfs were u,t s,,,.nriSed Ia ~. hnv
p,,rb a,t,,,t,.n ...ry r.,il,n r,,.t,.., .-.ra
/ H., WINS r,,sitier,l "A mar. ,,t.,, ,,.t f tho
/ VILLAGE h,llcs-althnu~h Lefty ho,, sometimes
hcen allied nt.out him so tbav diJ not Mad
hIsdevotln., himself To Miss rernolJ yShnpIso
moved in n rance beyond ,he,r own Ir.tv
/ herself was rea,ly t6e nrettt,st pirI j., ,hc
| room. and her deer, time ewes ve,th thrir
,had. ~, ~ curing li9e; hair sul l,,hqs her
hr,gbt cnr,,isr,n,, and snft s7vaet ,o1, con.
/ trast,,! .l.e,l,a,y vt.A t,abtl.ls ,nteneer
southern beauty 30 i4o., 1t underhiiI ..
his eyes fingered on them The young arts,
was an Oil acquaintance CT Letty's. having
boarded with the cartons the summer before
they came to stonytank Careless easy 20
! ing and rejecting. he led n wandering HE IL
pursuit Of his art. but, being independut OF
it, he WAS not forced to continued eSertion
So that his painting was Ike himself, a thing
Of beginnings and caprices,
/ The weeks went by. the Bartons had long
been gone, and still Larry Undelhlll stuyec
on in stony 5ank, driving. wal-.ng Gnc
sketchirg with Cora Fernald Lie al uot
leave TIE Place until uear Novea.he., ant
then it y Us reported that she had had a le;tel
from him.
"Nhatl / tell you that night at Cabel
wedding" sagely remarked Ellen " rem hani
And since then I've seem him, ilany's til,
time. trampin' the woods after leaves ans
things for her
Steve Thatcher gave coarse laush. DID
ye ever watch ground sparrer try to re
YOU OH the track Of its nestf len keep Gut
term round a tree stump as il there warn
anything on THIS earth it cared about but tina
partir'lar spot"
"You g.ssn the Eernald girls the tre
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