San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-14
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II lznowed hit! Bless GlorYw

Glory-Ann. is you tryin' ter mex out
you is Solomon en- de prophets"
What l done tell you, Missy" pur-
sued old Gilbert, screnely indifferent to
this taunt. Put yo' 'pendence il Mawse
Gin'ral Fletcher"
He had nothing to do with it, cried
Missy Indignantly. ''Brer Nicholas wrote
Of his own accord; he said never word
of your Mawoe Gin raj Fletcher l won't
be indebted to Capt. Fletcher. We've
returned all he did for Brer Nicholas,
and there's an end of him"
is dasso:" said Old Gilbert regretfully.
We'll! well. Tubbe sho.'
"Hukkom YOU is SO sot beginst de
Capen all of suddent? Glory-Ann re-
monstrated Times | is heerd you say
CLANCY can't mex waffles fifteen fur him
to eat, en- now you talk lax he wuz good
radiance! You is jes' ez onsartin ez
chile, Missy; dat you is"
Il wish l were a child" Missy sighed,
with a vague, unwilling apprehension of
the truth of her Aunt Elvira'S DECLARE
ton that the old joy could never come
again. AS the day for her brothers re-
turn drew near she had discovered in
herself, to her sorrow and confusion, an
ineXplicable shrinking from that long
delayed meeting, a feverish eagerness to
have the agony of JOY over and done
with.
In her anxiety to eliminate as much as
possible of the clement of pain and en-
barrassment that she could not but feel
waited upon this first meeting, she cS-
saved to coax her father to his best be-
havior. You will not look stern, my
father" she entreated, with a smile that
struggled to express a confidence she did
not feel. For the old time is over; for
get-forget the past"
The colonel frowned impatiently; but
a little tine ago this same inordinate
Winifred had declared that to forget was
DEATH
81 have written Nicholas to come
home; | have made no conditions" he
said, little coldly. Il never do things
10y halves, and 1 shall not behave in
manner unbccoming ThOrnc.
Missy sighed and said no more.
1t was dark and stormy night when
Nicholas rode away from Ihorne Hlll,
young. buOyant, ardent, defiant; he re-
turned on a bright spring day, broken,
sOberod and aaddened. And he came
not alone: he brought with him not only
his wife and c,.ild and the reQOuDtable
Roxanna-hr lr u1ht with him also
the shadows CT the long SAD years OIL az
srnce ami eStranSemeht. 1hey "raPI
him about rs WITH mantle; they maze
themselves NislDie III MS halr' pieIla-
tIr.,.},- GRAY. in fine docn lines that mark
Ell hi. L.1Lsona face in tho sadness of
Li.. owe. ia III. droonir,, f,r,rn and in
the c,r. I,s.,,,., with which mo wora his
shabby iLr,,.l,,araclotbcr Missy would
navor Lavc known him and the shock Of
fuLinr him &. chonred wont rioh TO
brooL her boort
# was q r,octino in which sorrow in
evjtabIv outweirbod iov. The colonel
wouIJ have nraferrrd to 500 his SON first
oInra Lnt lis nridn and his sbvrnes m,da
him sbrjnI, from cvactino this. and when
fine c,ryiY,,a that brouoht NichoIo, drove
~ thn door la stood on tI,o ,,i,vz, nroct
co,,n..,I with IT;.s FIvi,,, tr.n,bIinron
ono ';Ja NJ him, and WinifroJ tr,,n}Iino
nv, tho u,i,... ,yhiInoII Gihart AVID CiIorv'
Ann in jnaI,us rivalry maintained q ro-
-rnctruI distance in tho raor Rnt If tho
s;.,Lt ~ %iI,,I,. os H., o,,,o ~, .Lo
clans tI,i.r,,hor fnrrn+ III, - iYrod ,riJn
L;s ornn, hi, ,Ii,or,ointoI Lonn,. Ia 30,
n,nnLornI o,,lv tLat his his son who