Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-27
In love with her! We'll. his misery was
strangely complete. Half an hu.,r ago
he had been phIcgmaticalIy serene.

he had been phlegmatically cerenc.
Now!
''Look!'' Carrie cried, miraculousIy
rousing herself. "Wild roses! jim, 90
and get some this instant-Dick, too
You want some, don't you, Miss Faull-
ner?"
''Oh, yes!" Miss Faulkner cried, and
took the lines from Dick.
You shall have all can get,"" he
murmurcd, anxiously.
Jim followed him, and Carrie fol.
lowed Jim.
"I know they'll overlook that pret-
ticst spray. Just for a minute, Miss
Taulkncr," she said.
1t was far more than q minute. Tho
horse gave sudden plunge; though
eighteen years old and soberness itself,
he clung to the habits of youth. A
white paper was driven under his
sorrel nose by the wind, and tho
galloped down the rvad at high speed.
There was a turn not far away and
Dick had not recovered his breath be.
fore he saw the last flicker of Miss
Faulkner's blue dress in q cloud Of
dust. Tho old horse flew round the
corner.
''She'n be killcd!'' shrleked Carrie,
while Jim stood pctrified. a
But Dick swung into the road and
ran He had not been aware that such
powers of swiftness lay in him.
OF course she would be killed-or
fearfully injured, at best. He should
find her lying somcwhere-that he was
sure of. But when? He had turned
the corner. but he could as vet see
nothing. How far he had run he didn't
know. 1t was nearly q mile. Small
wonder that when he did make out
something ahead of him at last things
were swimming before his eyes and
his head was buzzing. The object was
person, and not a recumbent person,
either. 1t was Miss Faulkner hurrying
toward him.
:. Mr.. Corwin!" she painted 'Oh. did
you think was killed? How absurd
it was! Nothing but newspaper.
But how you look! You've run all
the way!' She dropped down on the
grass and pulled him down beside her.
..I'm afraid you've almost killed your
SELF" she cried. ''Do take off your
hat and loosen your collar. You're
purple!"
I'm all right" Dick gasped. 'Its
you ! thought l should find you lying
dead somewhere. I saw your hat back
there"
THAT came off. Of course
II almost gave you up then"
She half pouted.
Didn't you think l had . a bit Of
nerve to let myself be killed just by
frightened horse? l just sat still and
held the lines with all my might and
let him run till he got tired. l was
sure he would stop sometime. Hes up
there under that big maple. Sec him?
tied him to the post and ran back l
thought you'd be Worried" she fin
ished, dcmurcly.
But you're plucky" cried Dick, his
heart humping trifle less furiously.
why. not so awfully." said the girl,
other line of conduct would have been
stupid, you know. And why shouldn't
l know something about horses? We
have one, and I drive all over Earring
ton every day"
"Farrington?"
Don't go back to monosy llables,
Mr.. Corwin. Yes, harrington. Why
not? I've lived there nineteen years
and three months"
I'm Farrington?" said poor Dick,
dazedly. My sister said you were
from the city"
Hardly. Harrington has only ten
thousand inhabitants, you know. Is
that the reason you We're afraid Of
me?'
She lowered her mischievous eyes.
''That and n few other things"
what other things?"
''My sister said she heard that you
were very rich, high and mighty and
but if it had been true l ought not to
have acted like a fool. I'm bashful
Miss Faulkner, and l was
about ratified out of my wits. Oh, yes;
heard you had been to Europe twice.
She threw up both hands and her
pretty round chin.
Europe! We went to the Thousand
islands once, bat we had to cconomize
rather to do that Father has n hard
ware store, and not such a very pros
porous one, either. There! Am l can
did enough for you? Are you afraid of
me still, Mr.. Corwin?'
What was the matter with the bfithc
girl? She was smiling, but her dark
eyes were misty. Dick did not know
then, but a timo came when he did.
He had felt the power of i,er delicate
beauty, her brightness. and there was
an answering thrill in her own heart.
II am not afraid of you," said Dick.
And l know now where I saw you
before: it was in harrington. long
time ago, and have never forgotten
you"
AS he looked at her she blushed and
smileA and it did uot occur to them to
drive back till Jim and Carrie came in
sight down the road.
Dicks shyness was not wholly cradi-
Gated. 1t was five months afterward
that he came home from harrington
and told his sister that he had left a
ring on Maggie Faulkner's hand.
I'VE liked each other from the very
first" lie said, simply. Only that
story of yours came near settling
things; the horse ran away in the nick
Of time"
1T wasn't mine. Dick" said Carrie.
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