Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-07-24
A ROUGH DIAMOND.

day he ever laid eyes on her.
Coming home from concert In the
village one night Jim found himsclf
alone with Patty for a few minutes, as
the others had strolled on ahead. The
wind had risen and came sweeping like II
giant over the fields OF young crops Us II
IT would tear every green blade out OF the
earth.
at will be arough night-that will it,"
observed Jim.
"Will bel' repeated Patty. "'Is,' l
should say"
"'fhis is naught."
''Naught is very rough customer,
then"
The wind grew wilder and wilder.
Patty had to shout 10 make herself heard
the wind was SO loud and gave such pulls
and suorts.
'Have you changed your mind, Jim,
and are you cohing2" she shou ed.
you're bound to come one day"
"Ehl I'll be coming one daay,"
Jim fell into broad Lancashire, being
taken quite aback 10y her graelousness.
"Io-morrowP'
He ierbrd his head.
"NU, not just that. Kent Will see me
when-when-"
W ntfls callcu fbltY.
Cant say" he replied doubtfully.
"WhenP
The girl, her love of teasing excited by
his manner, turned and faced him. Her
hands were In the side pockets OF her
ulster; the close cloth cap that matched
1t was well down on her small head, but
The wind tossed her hair about. Loose
brown locks flew around brow and ears
n Il - t.t..
chieyous young sell stood firm, and her
merry eyes dashed rdillery at the unfor-
tunnie jim.
NV heuP she repeated.
''Eh, laass!" he sighed, dropping help.
lcssly into the brUalest prUvinciaiism
"thnt III no-not-be able to answer yel
rbere the ike o. NELL not be of youi
sort. No, | IN best out of Kent"
"Oh, very we'll" she cried, and ran on
No such storm as thst which ragged
over the Lancashire coast that night had
been known in the memory OF man. The
destruction was mea,urolcss. Lives
were lost, trees uUrOoted, roofs flung
bodily to II distance, sheaves aud rlcks
had the thatch tom oil them, gardens
were swept bare.
Farm hands were up all night. At the
Hsign Farm, Selton's phase, Old NJ.
Seton and his sOEs worked like saves
TO save thirRs. No such mighty stacks
OF hay were IN all that country round as
tn irs. They saved all. But the prIce
Jim Seton was reaching up from tic
topmost rung OF "a ladder brac NJ the
end OF the stack, when n sweep of wipd
bore Town upon MIN. There was no
time FIR any one 10 call 10 him, no time
Tor thought; he was ilung like whisp
Oi ttau to the ground.
They took him M groaning. No
lnnls were broken, but lie moantd III
anguish AMI lay like a log.
ALutacr spring came. For nearly a
year Jim Seton lay on his ack in the
old farm huu e. Death was rot coming
to him, but life that to his vigorous
splrit was a living death seemed to he his
portion tor the tenn OF his natural c..
isteuGc.
60 to London" some one proposed.
Well, the London surgeons CURED him!
and ihcH, being 81 far south. why should
he not 20 on IN keus
Jim had never lost his glorifel dreams
OF lfs wild cousin.
But Patty, T. oueh he lid not know 1t,
was hardly 10 be called Wild by tina,
tine. jim accident hal struck terror
to her heart. Things had been so ar
ranged that her goiag home was rot de-
layed b. that terrible accident. She wal
rot reedei to nurse Jlm, aud her father
would have her heme. So It was tina,
size only once saw Jim, and that was
when she went into his room to say 70 ID
by to him. He did not know her aid
her aunt hurried her OF. The good aunt
was The soul of kindness, but she was in
dire griei-and sheW was of the ettrn north
Patty went sobbiug.
Aud Patty had never forgotten. How
should the meet Jim! He was in til,
house. Size heard his voice; and all al
once this foolish thought struck her
how should size meet hin'
"Mcet him naturally he Will eXpeC
nothing new from YOU" common sens
said.
She dslliel about her room; then sht
ran into the garden Tor rose; from ther'
She raw the Ill iuL or he hi,l,cky com
mon, golden with lis masses OF gorse
From a rs--bush in the old-iaslioDet
garden she hastily pulled Il bit Of the vel
low bloom, prickiug her fingers hut-rG-
memUeriul. Would he remember tdot
She did not see Jim anil her wOtbc
cal cd her 10 tea, and during That inca
she nstonishyd them all By be ~ he FATTY
She had been q year ago. she laughed
and ST tesse1, and she talked nonsense
Was that the girl who, during the pas
yeAr, had grown quiet and staldi Aye
the very Same.
Pr sently they were in the garden.
En-, and that 5 sour kentiah Eaaac?
exclaimed Jlia
Months of lying on his back VIII