Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
IIehalah.

"Look you here, Glory! the moon
Is full, snd that always makes him
madder. have 10 keep him short of
food, and strap his shoulders, or he
would tear the walls down in his
fury"
.'Let me attend to him." asked Me-
halah.
You'd be afraid of him."
Il should pity him." said the girl.
"He and l arc both wretched, both
your victims, both prisoners, wearing
your chains"
''Hou have no chains round YOU,
Glorv.''
"Have | not" | have, invisible,
may be, but irmer, colder, more given
to rust into and rub the flesh than those
carried by that poor captive. l have
tried TO break away, but 1 cannot.
You draw me back"
Il told you 1 could. l have threads
10 every finger. 1 can move YOU as
| will. 1 can bring you into my
arms"
"That-never. You may boast of
your power over me. You have a
power over me, but that power has its
limits. l submit now, but only for
my mothers sake. Were she not de-
pendent wholly on me, were she dead,
| would defy you and be free, free as
the gull yonder."
Elijah put his hand inside his door,
drew out his gun, and in a moment
the gull was seen TO fall.
"She is not dead" said Mehalah,
with CLEAN of triumph in her sad
face.
''No, but winged. The wretch will
hutter along disabled. She will try to
rise, and each effort will give her
mortal agony, and grind the splintered
bones together and make the blood
bleed away. She will skim q little
while above the water, but at length
will fall into the waves and be washed
ashore dead.
"Will you let me attend to your
brother?n
"No, will not"
The shutter was dashed OF its
hinges, flung out into the yard, and the
two ghastly hands were again seen
strained through the bars Again there
rang out in the gathering night the
Pitious cry, "Glory! Glory! Gloryw
"By God! you hound" yelled Eli
ah, and he raised his whip to bring it
down on the white wrists.
Il cannot bear 1t. will not endure
it," cried Mehalah, and she arrested
the blow. She caught the whip and
Trenched it out of the hand of Rebow
before he could recover from his sur
prise, and flung it into the dyke that
sncircled the yard.
"Iou are civil" sneered Elijah.
'What are you In this house? A SER
Fants Then speak and act as one."
A hard expression settled on Me-
.alah's brow.
''Do what you will with that brother
If yours. am Indifferent to him and
% his fate. Everything In the world
. all one to me now. If you had let
ne think for the poor creature and feed
him, and attend to him, might have
become reconciled to being here; 1
could at least have comforted nv soul
With the thought that l was minister
ng to the welfare of one unhappy
wretch and tightening his lot. But
aow," she shrugged her shoulders.
Now everything is all one to me.
AN laugh" she did so, harshly.
There is nothing IN the world that l
:are for now, except my mother, and
do not know that I care very much
:or her now, feel as if l had no
leart, or that mine were frozen in my
BOSOM"
"You do not care now for your
nother!" exclaimed Rebow. "Then
cave her here TO nv tender mercy, and
60 out into the world and seek your
fortune. Go on the tramp like your
gypsy ancestry"
leave my mother to your mercyg"
echoed Mehala. "To the mercy of
Tou, who could cut your poor orazed
brother over the fingers with great
lorsewhipl To you, who have stung
md stabbed at my self-respect till it Is
ituPened; who have treated me, whom
Tou profess to love, as l would not
reat marsh briar. Never. Though
ny heart may be stunned or dead, yet
have sufficient instinct 10 stand by
nd protect her who brought me into
he world and nursed me, when l was
helpless. AS for you, l do not hate
Tou any more than l love you. You
IRE nothing to me but a coarse, il-con-
htioned dog.
She walked moodily away and re-
gained her room. She went to the
window, the window that looked to-
ward the Ray, and drawing the cur
ans behind her, remained there, her
head sunk, but her eyes never waver-
ng from the point where her home
lad been when she was happy, her
aeart free, and her self-respect un-
nangled. So passed hour after hour.
There was full moon, but the sky
was covered with clouds white as curd,
'oudding before a northwest wind.
The moon was dulled but hardly OBJ
'cured every now and then, and next
moment glared out in naked brilliancy.
Everything in the house was hushed,
Elijah had gone to bed. NIehalah had
seard bis heavy tread on the stair, and
he bang oi the door as he shut it; it
lad reused her, she turned her head,
md her face grew harder in the cold
moonlight.
Then she looked back towards the
Ray. There yopder on the marsh was
something very white like paper, flap
ling and flashing in the moonlight.
What could it bes 1t moved a little
gay, then blew up and fell and tapped
lgai6. Was it sheet Of paper? III
70 how came it not to be swept away
r The rushina wind. No IL vas ~