Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-11-08

you like-come'"
Maggie approached the easel.
"Ob, how pretty !" said she. 81
don't see how you ever do it, Pm
sure-all with that little brush aud
some paint"
"Aud some," said the French
man.
"Oh. of course you must think
it all out,D said MaggIe-"the sky
and the clouds and the water
What lovely little waves"
Maggie stood watching him as
he worked, and for the first tine
| in her life she forgot her child.
The little creature wandered
away gong nearer to the water
than his mother ever permitted
him 10 90, and shortly waded IN
ur4her and further down the grad
y al slope of smooth sand, until "a
udden dip took him off his ieet'
a nd at his scream his mother turn
ed to see HIM struggllng-sihKinH
- drowning before her eyes.
The ne. vt instant the Frenchman
had throw II of his coat, kicked OIL
his shoes, aud was IN the water'-
He seemed to be good swimmer
soon grasp ed the chIld's garments
and reache, the shore with him.
Maggie c lasped her boy to heart
and finding the little fellow nm
harmed, anti now laughing, iung
herself upon her knees before his
prcserver.
..HOw sb Ill l thank you 7" she
said. "You have saved my boys
life.r
"Oh, 1t was nothing" "the French
man repeated, resumlng MS coa'
and shoes. "a plunge hurts no
body this wealth er. l 60 home to
dry wy self, that IS ALL
Maggie, hOweV er, could not look
upon the matter calmly. She had
ex,,ected 10 see her child drown
before her eyes. She was trem
bling from head 10 foot and, alter
striving iu vain to restrain beVsell
she burst into food of tears
which ended 10 a ii of hysteTlca
laughing and sobbin g.
"Oh, these WON, ~" SAID the
Frcnchman to himsel t, but he was
too gallant TO express his feelings
Placing Maggie UPC N his sketch
ing stool. he knelt be 'ide her ap
! piled little smelling bottle to hei
nostrils and shortly Iel stored her t.
callnOess.
"Now, little mot her, do not cry
any more," he said . 'You should
laugh because th little one Is
safe. Ah-goOd heavens! no"
foolish"
Aud then, In a p ,Cfectly paterna
manner, he kiss, d her. AnC
Maggie, crying out;
"You good, good mHn l shal
pray for you every night of my
life," kissed him agf in.
IL was all for the prt server o.
her boy, of Ovens boy, and he
cause she was reall y out out heI
u.ind at the mOmen t. Bu at tins
instant Owen himself, coming
rapidly along the shore road
caught sight of his wife. The
child, perched on a rock hal d by
was playing unconcernedly Will
his wet shoe, but Owen die ! no
se.s him. What he saw wa
st ranger again and all that wa
io nd aud tenOcr and loving hey
T. ON h soul.
TITO dark .4,.' o. whom u
y,pS, nd worned Maggie, W a
her nnSl,Ana now. lie came rusl
img down toward them, and III
Frenchmar, seeing what he fancied
not without reason-tO be y
mailman approaching, turned and
He'd. HIS fighting davs, if he ever
had any, were over. He was will
7 ing to risk bis life to save a beauJl
full little child, but this was anotb .eI
< matter. As for Owen, he reacf et
Magele's side at three bounds, f'nC
( seizing her arm held it IN a grll' o
iron.
81 saw you KISS him :" he hi'se(
in her ear. "You play me false, dc
you-you ~
"Owen, you are crazy" said Mag
gie.
"Speak ; did you kiss him?
can't believe it yet" said Owen.-
"why, Maggie, 1t cannot be. Sa,
you did not; that the suu was il
my eyes that | did not sec rightly
You did not kiss him !"
81 did," said Maggie; eyes,
kissed him. He
Owen pushed her fro m him, 8
that she staggered aud fell. An
when she looked up he was gone
be had followed the Frenchmsli, G
, intended TO do 30. But the ligt
, footed foreigner had been ca refr
to step aside as soon as he wa
out of slgAt, and return to his h'
tel by devioHs route.
mo doubt that was mac ame
Z husband" he said. "When ma,
ame shall have explained, Il W
! be right. just now / will be
D the safe side.'
Meanwhile poor Magg hf
! gathered herself up, taken her b'
, hv fba hand and pOne hon teWar