New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-24
THAT CAROLINY GAL
MR. PETER wINsLOw WARNS THE WIDOW.

"s uyer door BUTTON" and thus made Mrs. Wins
low prisoner in her own house, or rather under
her own house.
She walked 10 the window. She was alarmed
and astonisled that the first impulse of what she
xould have called her natural heart" was an
impulse of satisfaction that that "pesky woman"
had been shut in her cellar. She wanted to turn
TO Daily and say it was good enough Tor her'
She had wicked satisfaction in thinking how
Mrs. Winsow must have felt when s.H found She
couldn't get out.
The widder Bijah drew herself from these
thoughts with sudden gasp of sef-reproVai'
4" And me a professor." she exclaimed in whisper
She looked furtively back at the child at the
table Daily was placidly introducing pieces OF
pie-crust into the little hounds mouth. Al
this moment the girl glanced up and met that
perpleXed and sorrowful gaze, and her own eN-
preston changed instantly. She Rugged the
puppy to her suddenly and sprang TO her feet.
Master Kingl" she cried out almost fercely,
"yo' amt er hrvin' that ole oman, be yo'?"
NO" said the widow, II don't love MIS-
Winslow grain"
Then, sh'd think yo'd be glad she war
shut urp for spell" said Daily, he face relaxing
from its anxious look. II war reckonin' yo'
wouldn't keer. I've ben Amin ter give she er
dab of some kind, an done hit.
Here she began TO laugh little then she re-
marked that her only regret that she had
not ben round nigh 'nough ter hear thur critter
hoer"
During these remarks the woman who had I'M
dertaken TO bring up this Carolina girl stood
looking helplessly at her. She had feeling
that that trifiin' ole Winslow oman would
make this kind of crisis. Something must be
done. What should it be?
The whole affair seemed to Mrs. Jacobs to be a
-
~ those women to whom q consultation with God
Was az once practicable and needful But she
talked very little about such things. She did not
know that Carlyle had said that the man who
,slks the most about good deeds does the fewest
of them; nevertheless she agreed with Carlyle.
She told Daily TO pick up the dishes while
she went up stairs few minutes.
The child put her dog on the best chair
cushion and dutifully began TO obey her.
Mrs. Jacobs went into the spare chamber and
knelt down by one of the hard chairs which made
part of the furniture of that room
But she began no set form of prayer She
would merely have said that she was jest
thinkin'" She leaned her elbows on the chair
and covered her face with her hardened hands
The intensity Of the feeling which possessed
her recalled her younger years, those days when
she took things kind Of hard and suffered and
enjoyed great deal. But those days were great
ways off they seemed to have been lived by some
one else. Since then there a vast stretch of
time. a kind Of dead level along which sine had
trudced calmly She had liked and respected
'Bijah, and they had almost always seen alike,
md were very comfortable together. She used
10 dream of love, bat she had never felt for her
husband that thing about which she had dreamed
Still. common sesse told her it was as everybody
had said "a real suitable marriage"
AS she leaned on her chair in her spare cham
her this August day she knew she had never loved
any creature in her life as She loved the chlld
whom Mrs. Lander mad sent TO her from the South
ern mountains She had known this before. but
it came over her now with greater and more over
whelming force. The strong, passionate CIV OF her
heart was that Daily might be good and happy.
Good she must be, even if she missed of happiness
But how to bring her up?" What strange ideas
she had Even though she knew about preach
ers" and "preachins, and could sing hymns about
Sc thur Lamb, and thur Cross on Calvary what
a heather she was II she were misunderstood
and treated in the wrong way now, Mrs. JACOBS
felt that the child might 60 TO some unspeakabie
bad Size shuddered as she thought Of such q pos
siblty. There was that in this Yankee ~omsns
soul that made her comprehend the untutored
sweetness and opuence, TIE indescribablc charm
of simplicity and richness in the girls nature. She
comprehended in way, but she stood at loss
before it. There nothing commonplace about
Daily. If she glanced at you. II She did but say
"Howdy, ma'an, it was with a curl Of eyeash
a tone OF voice that were different from anything
ever known before in Ransom; and very different
inde. ID from what is usual white Crow
Mounting" and its vicinity. But Ole It'd had not
known il. Barker, nor any of those semihu-
man beings VINO dwell among those magnificent
mountains.
But Mrs. Lander knew it the instant he: some
what lansuid out very appreciatve eyes had
aaen OF the dirty, ragged creature who handed
ap her fallen glove to her as she sat on horseback
by the bank OF rushing branch at the foot OF
White Crow She took the girl, but she did not
care anything about the brother. who was only
pasty, stol,d-iooliDg poor White. After she had
taken the gil She did not quite wish to burden
herself with the actual care of her.
She remembered Mrs. Jacobs with whom she
sometimes speat week or two in the summer
just the place for the child. Mrs Lander would
contribute plenty of money when il was necessary,
and she would like to see what that squad Great
ure with such eyes and such fascinating sug-
gestiyeness would become after n few wears in
civilized life. Life was civilized in this Now
England village but. of course il was NOT pre
cisely enlightened. Mrs. Lander thought of this
waif often enough 10 send an occasional check
which Mrs. Jacobs scrupulousy deposited In tile
bank for Dally's future use.
The kneeling woman tried to recall her wan
dering thoughts TO the particular subject in hand
now: The imprisonment of Mrs. Winslow. IL
would not do 10 pass that over. But the difficult
ties Of the matter were great
She had not closed the door behind her! II
was open about foot, and in this aperture there
appeared the figure OF Daily. She did not
make the least noise. Under her left arm was
the puppy and his attitude showed that this
position a very familiar and acceptable one
TO him. He reached out his sleek head and
snuiIcd little, then turned and gave one soft
lick on the check nearest him. lie the only
that seemed 70 consider that things were all