Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-04
UNDER A CLOUD.


lam Agnes Grey, or at least that was
ny name when one bright summer day
ne shy as blue rs though there never
.suld be another cloud in IL, came homo
,eross the fields from Nellie Hobart's
welding Very sweet sho looked In hes
bridal dress, aud very fond tho gentle.
man TO whom she had given her hand
,emed TO bo Of her Tho church was
5eeked with flowers, aud not one OF
hee whoeat there but wished tho pretty
yoang creature we'll. and NJ sho stepped
On, from the shadow Of the painted
windows into the clear, golden, out OF
door light thought OF tho old rhyme
Happy Is the bride
Whom tho tun Shines on.
And thought that she looked like ono OF
those fair saints tho old masters were 80
fond Of painting, blue eyed and blond,
and with mouths like those Of smiling
babies.
thought o. something else, also, as |
suppose every girl who had been to that
welding did, could one but know tho
truth. wondered whether It would
wer bc my turn to stand whore Nellie
stood that day. and what manner Of man
ms bridegroom would DO, for had mover
vet seen any one / could fancy giving
my.olf to, almost body and soul, rs \
vile must. was making u picture OF
him for myself, Hike goose, when my
loo. caught In tho grass. where soma
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lng my ankle and hurting my head, 10
that Tor awhile know nothing.
At last felt some one hit me OF tho
ground. and opened my eyes 10 see that
L was u great, swarthy, black eyed girl
u seventeen or so-a girl with careless
look about her dress which was not lady
Ike. But she had tho voice and manner
q alaly, aud she asked me very kindly
X lWere much hurt; and, seeing that
vas. picked mo up In her strong arini
tnd carried mo through garden gate
and into litilo p,rlor, where sho laid
ne ona sofa aud bathed my head with
foso water and told mo TO keep up my
courage, for "Gideon has gone for a doc
Tor"
q
was under u roof that had never
thought would shelter me, no matter
what would come to pass would hnyS
rien aud gono away IL l could hay,
stirred from tho odd old sofa, For thi,
was Gideon Leos old homestead, and
here dwclt the children OF tho man who
sixteen years before, had been hung FOL
Tie murder Of my Uncle Mathew.
Twas bat u baby when 1t all happened
hu, could remember how tho who'll
village was astir IN search Of the miss
lag man. and how body was found a
Ia. In tho heart Of Alcotts woods, an,
how the facts that there had been
quarrel between Gideon Leo aud Uncl
Mathew, and that Gideon Leo owed III
Latter money, and how they were las
Ieen together quarreling In Gideon
garlen, where u bloody handkerchief
marked M. o., was found soon after
md brought Gideon 10 tho gallowa
Perhaps hearing tho story atterwar
from my grandfather made mo fancy
remembered II, but ut all events tn
hame | had learned TO hate was that Q
Gideon Lee. And now 1t was the chill
born on the day OF her mothers death
the very day ON which tho father me
his awful fate-who lifted mo from III
ground, dnaky Madgo Lee, who Ia
newer found playmate nor a friend !
the town because Of the ban upon he
fathers name. and Gideon, the son, VIII
had been old enough TO understand
OIL at the time, who camo In with oil
Dr., Hunphries soon after.
They were not poor people. The hou,
was substantial one, and there wei
moro books and pictures and tokens ,
refinement within than country hom'
generally boast Of. But even tho far
hands spoke contQmptuously Of the $50
Of the man who was hung" and the ser
ants who were hired by Madgo II
were not natives Of tho place.
And hero was |, Mathew Grey's ow
niece, lying under the roof, and likely
e there for some time, for the doct,
forbade my removal
~ must 20 homo-l must go aw5
Rom this housel' said. angrily ~
!ey,risl1y.
ana Madge Leo looking down on II
ean Indian princess might, with h
enl' eyes aglow, said, In bitter voic
Never fear, Miss Grey, wen not mu
aer your aud somehow abashed IN
naughty as was.
Hrandpa was away from home, OF
tn'nS even the risk u my life would n
nave kept him from taking me hon
ana grew N and delirious. and Mad
20 nursed mo MS a sister might, al
gideon waF kinder than brother
READ TO mel he brought me cooling drin
Aaae OF fruits after some Oriental n
pes which he possessed, he found Sw,
HuWem dripping with dew In the WOO,
anu ne sung, ~ ! never heard any q
sing before, those Scottish ballads ii
are loyelier than any other music e'
written to my mind, aud Il ended
my loving them
80 when was well enough 10 go NV
TOOK Madgo's hand in mine and "a
HOW shall over thank you for yC
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