Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-25
DOWN IN THE DELL.

'tantly beside my chair, and want 20,
to take u long ramblc. will read,
lear.
And Andrew Nlahr drew one of the
papers that La on a table near him on
his knee, and unfo!dcd il.
Fannie bent aud kissed hi, worn,
tender face; arl then, with the soft
refrain Of an old song ON her lips, ran
lightly down the pa'h and left him
there in the shadow OF the great tree
before his door, with that ever growing.
wistfuncss in his eyes as they followed
her, and that terrible, craving pain
in his heart, Of which She was tho cen
tire.
"My only onc-my one eve lamb.'
he murmurcd; 'dnd have guided and
guarded her for sixteen years, kept her
life free of shadow or trial. And now
now when know that my days are
numbered, can find in this whole
| wide world no single heart on which
she can lean in that Urea ful hoar when
she knows that am no longer with
her. If might leave her wealth.
gold will buy kindness; but she will be
alone, poor, !rlplcss-my tcnlcrly cher
ishcd chili.'
Tic cough that came 50 cftcn and
shook him 50 terribly stopped hi4 muir
Unused words, and when he drew 10 wn
the handkerchief which he had lifted
TO his lips, it WAS stained with blood.
"My child!' he moancd-"my child!
and she does not know my danger. How
can | tell herr"
For She did not know that shadow
dark and dismal was upon him.
He was weak; but that was ali She knew.
When the summer wa, over and autumn
came he had told her that he would be
well and strong oncc more and she be-
Level him
When two are NIL to all 20 each other
and there are none To whisper the wara-
ing, onc OF them never dreams Of an
hour wien he or she will live in "A world
which shall know The other no more
forever
And so it was with the motherlc,s
girl who trilcl her soft song as She
went through the sunlight She had
but her father in al the vastness Of the
earth, and she did not dream that he
was dying, as dies Il tree, to The root of
which some parasite has fastened itself
to drain the stately life, unseen.
She went through the small garden
OF the Mah's-for they were poor and
Their acres scanty-and ont at little
gate and along the quic, country road
way. 1t was such still, secluded
spot to which Albert Mahr had taken
his motherlcss child in that fierce tenn.
pest of grief which had swept over his
soul ms the clods fell OH his dead wifcs
coffin
There was no need for her 10 keel
the broad hat over her sunny hair-no
curious eyes would sce--so she hung il
on her arm and tripped lightly onward,
stopping now and then to gather way.
SIDE rose, as fair, and fresh and sweet
as any of the soft-hucd flowers tha
presently filled her hands.
She left the road at lat and pcnctrat.
cd into green dell beside it, wher,
ferns grew thick and green.
II will take some home" she SAID
aloud "papa will like them"
And she bent over some feather,
fronds, when low moan nude he
start erect, pale and breath css.
at sounded like ,moihcrcd cry O
PAIN" she whispered. "What shall
do?"
But as the moan reached her again
this time sounding very clearly, the warn
| young hcart III her bosom ans wered lie
question and sent her forward towar
the sound.
Down in the deep, green heart of tn
dell she saw mans form lying pros
trato among a few loose stones an
broken branches; and fearing nothing
but loosing all her soft, sweet bloom i
sudden pity, she fastened to tho side G
the fallen man.
"What is it'" she asked, falteringly
"You are in pain, are you not?n
But there was no answer; the moan
had ceased. She bent lower, lover
then knclt and turned the face, unit
now hidden from her sight.
1t was clear cut, handsome, youn
l "a face which she had seen many