The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-09-12

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to everything and made the track
very slippery. A young lady who
Iotten went down on Willie's car
asked to be lett off at the avenue
and Willie rang the bell.
She stepped off but as fate
would have ii another car was
coming from the opposite direc-
tion, the track was slippery, a new
driver was managing the brake,
and instead of stopping, as is the
usual etiquette in such case, the
car came on. Willie, standing on
the step took in the situation al a
glance, and though he was always
Slow he made this the exception.
lie jumped from The car and al
most threw the girl from the track
Just in time 10 save her, but he
slipped and fell and was ground
under the horses feet and cruel
wheels. Then then the car stop
ped and the passengers crowded
out and around him.
"Is he dead? @! is hc dead ?"
cried the girl whom he had saved,
and she knelt down beside him,
took off his cap and brushed The
damp halr back from his forehead.
mo, he is not dead" said a po-
Iiceman, Mary's policeman, who
happened for once to be where he
| was needed. "He lives just below
here. We will carry him 10 the
house." They picked him up and
carried him gently INTO the little
cottage. Mary was overcome with
fright and would have tainted had
moi "Teddie" been there 10 assure
her that Willie was all right, only
hurt u Bit"
The next day the Young lady
whom Willie had saved came
down in her carriage TO see how
he was. She swept in through
| Mary's little kitchen like queen,
and Rachel, who was sitting on
the step of the back door, looked
at her in amazemeni at the long
sealskin cloak and the diamonds
in her ears. "My, amt she grandr'
she said TO herself. IL wonder il
Willie knew her before? | won
der if he would have jumped right
in front of two great big horses
and a car il | had been in her
place?' Jealous little Rachel
| OF course he would have done ii
| Just the same had The person been
The lowest of The lowly.
Day after day Helen Carpenter
came 10 inquire alter "lhe brave
| fellow" as she called him, and
when he began 10 get better she
brought him flowers aud hot house
fruit and all sorts of things that he
could not eat, and would not have
dared to had he wanted them.
She brought him books, too, and
read to him by the hour stuff that
he did not hear. He did not care
for books, but he liked to look at
her as she sat by his side reading.
lie liked TO hear the tone Of her
voice and smell the perfume of the
violeis she always wore, and after
awhile her daily visit was what he
lived for and looked forward TO.
When 1T grew warmer he began to
sit up by the window in an easy
chair she had sent from her own
home, and she would come and sil
on a stool at his feet and talk with
him about herself and her daily
life until she made him her abject
slave and he loved her with love
that only such people have who
have never loved before.
She was The light of his life and
he forgot that he was poor and
homely, q thing that he had never
forgotten before, that she was as
high above him as the heavens are
above the earth. When he held
her little jeweled hand in his, as
she sometimes allowed him TO do,
he would have been willing 10
have died for her a thousand times
over.
Rachel was entirely forgotten.
She would come in sometimes to
see him, but he would always be
sleepy or watching for Helen and
would not talk 10 her. One days
Mary saw her eyes filled with
tears, and she put her arms around
her. Don't cry, Rachel, he will
see the light by and by" she said,
and Rachel broke down and sob
bed, Il used 10 think he cared for
me, but he don't now"
One day Mary said to hun, "Wil-
lie, don't think you treat Rachel
Just right" but he never heard her.
Willie was a long time getting
well. Another man had taken his
car, but the superintendent said he
was at liberty to go back any time
when he was able. The policeman
too, was in a hurry for Willie 10
get we'll. Mary had promised him
that the friendship begun last year
over the onion beds should termi.
maize IN a happy wedding, and he
had been scanning intently the
house hunters directory for suit
able place 10 put his bride just as
SOON as she would consent 10 be-
come his,
One day Willie made up his
mind 10 tell Helen when she came
again last how much he loved her,
and when she came in and sat
down af his feet and looked AT him
with her great liquid dark eyes.
| full offender solicitude, aud asked
| him how he was, he took her hand
and attempted 10 speak but could