The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-13
CHAPTER XIX.
TIE ADVENTURE OF THE KEAEsz

The day spring came at last, and in the
sick hight of it / went down 10 the cottage for
spade and pickax IL the tumuit OF my
senses l hardly noted that our prisoner, the
dragon, had conrrived to slip MS bonds and
steal of in the night
And then Della, seeing me return with the
sad tools on my shoulder, spoke for the first
time:
First. if there be q well near. fetch me
two buckets Of water, and leave Us for an
hour
Her voice was weary and chill so that |
dared not thank her, but did the errand in
silence. Then, but IA dozen PAGES from the
spot where Joans father lay ! dug grave
and strewed it with brackeu, and heather,
and gorse petals, that in the morning air
smelt rarely And soon after my task was
done, Della called me.
In her mans dress Joan lay, her arms
crossed. her black tresses brai6aJ. and her
face gentler than ever twas IN life. Over
her wounded breast was bunch Il some tiny
pink flower that grew about the tor.
So | lifted her softly as once in this same
place she had lifted me. nd bore her down
the slope to the grave, and there | buried
her while Della knelt a-d PRAYED. and Molly
broVsed, lifting now and then her head to
look
When all was done, we turned away, dry
eyed, and walked together to the cottage.
The bay horse was feeding on the moor be
low: and finding him still too lame to carry
Della, I shifted the saddles, and, mendinE the
broken rein. set her on Molly. The cottage
door stood open, but We did not enter; only
looked in; and seeing Jan Tergagle curled be
IL 4L.o ,~I{ L,,r.k l.F- hin, 50
Mile after mile we passed in silence, Della
riding and pacing beside her with the bay.
At last. tortured past bearing, ! spoke:
Della, have you nothing 70 say
For a while she seemed TO consider; then,
with her eyes fixed on the hills ahead, an
swered:
Much. if I could speak; but all this has
changed me somenow-'tis, perhaps, that
have grown a woman, having been girl
and need 70 get used 20 il and think
She spoke not angrily. as | looked for, but
with painful slowneSs that was less hopeful.
"But." said /. cover and over you have
shown that am nought 70 YOU. Surely
Surely l am jealousi IT'S possible-yes,
Jack. am but woman, and 50 It's certain"
why, TO be jealous you must love mel'
She looked at me straight, and answered
very deliberate:
''Now that is what am far from sure Of"
but, dear Della, when your anger has
cooler
Ny anger was brief; / am disappointed,
rather With her last breath. almost. Joan
said YOU were weaker than she, she loved you
better than l. aud read you clearer. You are
weak Jack'-she drew in Molly, and let her
hand fall on my shoulder very kindly-''yye
L..
and hope are honest. good friends; where
fore I loathe 70 say harsh or ungrateful
seeming word. But YOU could not under
stand that brave girl, aud YOU cannot under
stand me- for as yet you do not even know
yourself The knowledge comes slowly % a
man, think 70 woman al one rush. But
when it CONES, believe you may he strong.
Now leave me 70 think, FOR my head is ali II
4 tangle"
Our pace was 50 slow 10y reason Of the
lame horsel that great part o. the after
noon was spent before we came in sight Of
the House Of Gleys And truly the yellow
sunshine bad flung some warmth about the
naked walls and turrets. en- that Della home
coming seemed not altogether cherries But
what gave us more hspJineas was 10 spy. on
the blue water beyond. the bright canvas ~
the G0dsend, and 70 hear the cries and stir
Of Billy Potsery's MARINES rs they hauled
down the sails
And Billy hsrnsaif vas on the lookout With
his spyzIasz For hardly were We come 70
the beach when our slguaI-fhe waving Of q
white kercuief-~ss answered b. another On
board. aud within half an hour a boat pats
or, wherein. as size drew nearer, / counted
eight feilovs
They were C5esides Billy Matt S1ames. the
ulaster: Gabriel Hutchnls Ned Maesers the
black nan S4mpaJu, Ben Halliday and two
whose fan names / have forro.-tut one
was called Nichols And, after many warm
greetings. the boat WIS made fat. and We
climbed up along the peainseis together, ia
closs order. lie a lt2ls army
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