Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1889-08-12

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to- - "a clothes As she b41s tlLn. more
eat q = sg-len c2FlusIty tnza sny tang else.
he wanted 70 see how far sne wo1ld 60
In tea minutes she was back he hznced
her the uniforu VITA sort - laugh, sEd
.he took 10 without word and went dowE
into ne copse. ED H4utoos, who was sad
died with mans saddle. Hal way there
SIC turned ana cal.ed tie old Negro. who
stood tue pletzre II nlssry Iust outside TIE
cs0in door
Uncle Eden" she sad Sue took
rs n.ruy land and held IL between her seit
pans II 10 really gong he doesn't De-
Leye Il. bur / "A gong TITS The only
va NJ father, Eden. Oai dad-ded -
F Inen Sc weat on quietly agaln i want
T YOU 70 get him OF 4 Ina hurt, YOU know
wel-kilied Either way there j be room
T Tor Am % start over. II I'm killed, and
they BRING ne oacA, don't tell any one. Have
me buried ior-him- II they wonder about
me, never mind The other would XII d-d.
That's AL Good bye Gear E1cn.'
+ she pat one soft sra about his black
neck, drew down bis loyal old woody pate,
q a -. 4
/ left INA s00olDg a. though his heart would
break
/ /, was a soundless gallop over the new
/ fAl,sa snow, past 80 many familiar places
Ard objects. Now came the Old mil. now
the barn, now the spot where she and
/ B0usht0n had climbed the straw stacks
that other December day Now the leap
| over The Hill stream She noticed that the
| raarshmallows seemed abioOm again, with
sheir brown cups fun Of snow
Suddenly there was fash 20 one side. A
saber lying on the snow. There was blood
emit An the one Dick had thrown away.
Of course She dsmOunted and took II
INTO her hand and got up again. The blood
was stif with the keen air, ana did not
come OF when she grasped the hit On
and on. Nearer aad even nearer that sharp,
| incessant soand. She had ridden as often
| on man saddle in her childish days as on
any other, and she had light beautiful
seat IN her boys clothes
An. yes. there they were. How the
smoke hung IN the still air. Some crows
actually few cawing away. Is she rode
under the dead sycamore tree where they
had their nest. Nearer, nearer. nearer.
That was what Hautboy's hoofs, as they
suddenly struck the frozen road, seemed 10
say 10 her
Then al AT once came something close by
her ear. The sound OF a wasp alighting 10
sting Another and another. Then she re-
allied what il was. she was within range
Of the rifles. A bullet stung Hsutboys ear
and he reared u little.
Suddenly he swerved sharply aside. They
had nearly ridden over something that lay
on the ground Something lddled, and
dark, and small-looking in gray uniform.
A sort Of horror got hold on her; she looked
back at it again and again as che rode on.
Then came another and yet anUther.
Then some lying in this way and that, and
across one another, and then, somehow, she
was In whirl of smoke. and II noise, and
! Of leaping blades, and Philip Ysas beside her.
| And he, too, had lost his cap and there was
q great ugly cash all across ais cheek, and
he was saying:
Dick You. Thank God thank God II
| thought you were killed. Come on-this
once Will finish EN- and then she was
/ rushing on with Philip, and on, and on, and
| on
And then it was red as though blood had
been poured into her eyes, and she could
see II. And then golden as though with
| great sunset. And then came darkness I'M
utterable, and the noise as Of 4 thousand
rivers about, and above, and underneath
her
When Boughton rode up to Carylon with
Dick. as he thought, on the saddle IN front
of him, old Eden was the first who met
him. and in spite of all MS agony TOR he
thought the boy was dead Philip couldn't
help noticing, with a dull sort of wonder,
how the old man had aged since yesterday.
He shook in every limb, as he followed
! them up stars, and then, when Boughton
had laid down his burden on the bed in
Dicks room. turned and shut the door, and
went and fell on his knees beside the bed
and got hold OF the coverlet with both
hands, painting rather than sobbing, ike
one who has run long way
BOuChton stood il as long as he could,
walked up and down the room, forgetful Of
/ exhaustion in his tremendous excitement,
then he came and sat down on the edge Of
the bed, and put one hand on tho old mans
shoulder
"Don't-don't, Eden, " he said, unsteadily.
HE died so gallant y-poor little chapI
didn't know it was in him, - he added, IN
hushed voice
Then cried the old man. lifting up his
shaking hands with certain uncouth ma
iesiy.
'Fo Cord. sah. you mus know-you mus
know. ! cyarn stan tuh heah ynh call huh
dat On my little miss on my honey
Mars Phil, sab. she tole' ne not tuh tell, but
yuh mus know, sab Hits right hits
right Oh Marse Phil, dat amt Marse
Dick. dsts Miss Judif herse' f-herse'fi'
" " hatf' SAID Bougbton.
His blood stood still in his veins There
was one instant Of absolute nonentfr for
him. Ana be fore re could speak again there
rushed in and pas nim a wild figure. and
flung i-self on the bed. and mo2ned aud
wept and called the name OF Judith many
times. Aud this pale figure had DICKS pa
gray eyes and the eyes ~ The figure cn TIE
bed were closed. Also there was much blood
IN the red brown caris
And WHOM a. Isst the poor. repeptart era
ven had wooued fer very grief and horror.
I Bousnton pushed hin aside with bis foot.
sui calling him hound added an ugly
WORD back Of hs teeth.
Bus when the w-men came - dress her
again a. a maiden. hc was iyrocInr there
beside her with his face upon her hand
and they thought that 10. TOO. was dead.
s. the fs~s wore away. and l. was Christ
f mas Eve again when fna doctor. c-r1 q 2