Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-06-04
CHAPTER Y.

Inc work OF thelr own hearts, ana that
must be
Our chastisement or recompense"
Dulcinea, left alone upon the plat
form, turns with a quick breath OF
mingled fear and relief to Andy, who
has only just joined her.
mice bit OF business, this" says
that young man.
"Oh! don't talk here, Andy! Come
outside; come beyond the gate. ~
Il don't see what going beyond the
gate will do" says Mr.. McDermot.
looking like adamant MAY as we'll
have it out here, where can see you,
as in the dusty road"
"I'm tired, Andy" SAYS she family,
with vague but fruitless effort of
softening him.
mot too tired to come here in the
middle OF the night, anyway"
''In the middle of the night! Oh,
Andy! Why, it can't be more than
half-past ski"
"How we'll you know the hours OF
the train! Who (malignantly) taught
you? My word! all / can say is, that
you have done it this time, at all
events"
Done what?" (more family stilD.
"Do you want me to put it into
wordsp" says her cousin, regarding
her in the dim dull light of the sta
ton lamps with disgust hardly to be
put into words. "You are fool, Dull
cinea!"
"You don't know anything!" says
Dulcinea, taking all the courage she
has into her hand and preparing to do
battle with it. You accuse me; you
say things Gncoherently) "you
know nothing! Nothing! l came out
only-only to to" desperately 'see
if could match some wool in the viii
lage down there, and l wandered on
here. and"-
What a bangerr' says her cousin.
'Is that the best you can dop To match
wool by this light! Why not say
you came TO meet a young lady?
There would be pretty color about
that. at all events
ut was WOOL" persisted Dulcinea,
dismally.
with a pretty color about it. toor'
with growing scorn. "Oh. no! it wont
do, my good Dulcie. Dye think
can't see how the land liesP Wait till
you see Bridget! She's got word or
two TO say TO you, believe me! She's
got IL hot and strong for you, and no
mistake"
Bridget will say nothing to me"
says Dulcinea "Sbe, at least" Gun
steadily. has always been kind TO
me-"
Your quarters up. there" says
Andy. expect no grace. She's only
waiting to see you TO give you the
biggest bit of her mind on record.
Take me to her." says Dulcinea in
a low tone, suggestive of intense ia
tigue, bodily and mental.
What makes you so tiredg" asks
her cousin, trying to see her face.
You seem done up. What" as the
thought dawns upon him, do you
mean to say that you walked here?
Marched every step of the way
through the cold and damp to meet
that fellow"
Dulcie mods her head; words now
are almost beyond her.
by George! you must be fond OF
him!"
Il am mott" says Dulcinea, with a
faint, very faint return OF her old
spirit
You expect me TO believe that, and
yet you certainly come all this way for
the mere sake of giving him a parting
word, OF seeing him safely of"
'Yes-yes. says his cousin, with
such an over-eager confession that she
opens his eyes to the full truth.
TO go off with himP' says he
slowly.
1T that 1t, reallyP Oh. Dulcier'
There is such reproach, such sur
prised reproach in his young voice
that Dulcinea gives way beneath it.
'-Oh, il is all true, Andy-all! every
word you have said. Father. SIR
Ralph-even you, were unkind TO me.
And he-though / didn't care for him
he was kind; and he asked me TO come
away from all this trouble
You mean to say you spoke to him
you complained to him OF Sir Ralph
of your fatherP"
IL did. know now IL was hateful
OF me; but-he was very kind and
was unhappy. And Sir Ralph was so
cold, and so Observation-Disclosures
breaks off.
"Well, | wouldn't have believed It
of you" says Andy. shaking his head
gloomily. "And Anketell such a good
sort! However. quilting himself to-
gether) 1.-The one thing now 10 be con-
Gidered is how you are TO get home.
1t will take II long time TO get Car
up here from that beastly hole below;
and by the time we reach the house
the governor will be in such fume
that there will be no holding him."
''Can'twe waikiki" eagerly.
"That would occupy even longer. /
suppose. know what girls are
stumbling over every stone and shriek-
ing at every shadow. No; that would
take hours, and set the governors
back up an inch or two higher. He'd
be all alive q, with a vengeance, like
the cookies, il we didn't get home be.
fore that
"What shall wo do. thenP" says
Dulcie, glanciDg round her.
II wish | knew. Better stay here
until / run down 10 the village and
bring back a car of some sort Pom
my SOUL (moodily) 'you have done it
FOR once. and handsomely when you
were about it.
At this moment IL so happens that
Dulcinea in her femorse and grief and
despair, changes her position. She |
had thought OF escaping her cousins 4