Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-04-22

oeen IeadtuS ABOUT the eina1CI patton OF
woman last night, aai ha / lau,hei Over
i. After all, she didn't want 70 t,e
emancipa,ed, she only wanted JACK =
love her always->o,hiny more. Per-
haps the other queer women only mcaut
that, too, only they hain't fosni Their
ia ks yet. Pout' How warm 1t IS.
Gradually her head sinks ack upon
her arms, her eyelids droop over the
soft, clear ewes. How delicious il is
/ here. How cosy. Again the eyes open,
but very lazily this time. See how the
little insects run TO and fro over her
white ffock, hither aud thither, all IN
search OF the great want-food. A pass.
Ing thought makes her laugh indo.eu,ly
She hopes they will not make food OF
her. And then the tie eyelids close
resolutely; she leans back Sleep has
caught her.
So sound, indeed, is her slunber. tina,
she does not know that nov the little
black Insects are rushing over her, 20. in
search Of food, but OF safety-safety
from the tiny hot flames that are creep
ing every moment closer to the thin
white froca. Now .hey have touched her
foot, and have so far penetrated the thin
slipper as to make her unplesantly warm,
but not enough to wakcn her. She only
turns little and sighs; but nov.
Now she springs to her fee, with an
affrlghted scream. Smoke. Smoke
everywhere. Aud what is this creep
ing up the front of her gown? A thread
of FIRE. 1t blows upon her face. She
recoils from it, but it follows her. Madly
she lifts her hands anl tries to beat 1t
| back The men. The men at the
fence! Where are they! Alas, they
have all gone to dinner oace again
frantic cry bursts from her lips.
1t is answered. At this moment Har-
| 1dingc reaches her, aud hinging of his
coat, he catches her in it. Folding it
around her, lie holds her as if in a viso.
What brought him back (beyond the
mercy of God) he never knew, except
that those last words of his, Don't set
fire to yourself, at all events" had
seemed to haunt him after be left her.
A foolish fear about the words had
touched his lovers heart aud compelled
him to mount a wall and look back. Ii
moment he had seen.
He quenched the flames in a miracu
lousy short time. o4etita IS able tc
stand up and answer family his passion
ate questions as to her safety, when sud
denly voice strikes upon them tha
renders both dumb.
It is the voice Of Miss Bainbrid-e
She has been toiling up the hill. sh
looks almost distraucht.
''Oh, sir" cries shc catchin, Le,itia
in her arms, 81 saw all. | thought |
should have died. On, my cirl-ny
darling childf" fShc spends her who.e
time in tormenting Lctltia, but Le.ltia
for all that is the apple Of her eye) Oh
cir, how can thank youl The gratitude
OF my life is yours-the preserver OF my
no, al. 4 Ia 4,
out crying. Half an hour ago she would
have died rather thad tell Letitia she was
pretty, but now she lays many offerings
at her feet. Poor fecs. rhey nl,l
have been burned Il yol vii. adj oa
more service to tie ln.nca,irlhie -
you have already done me-. says sae
softly. .you -. ,elp me to -: ny ="
child back to the house
''But," begins Hatilnce I. sc n
| wrong to him, even a, TINS sIpre ne M
ment, to deceive the old lady - 1T
the house under false pretenses. II ).
knew his name.
A little pressure from the hsoi y
Leti.ia decides him. IL - IT, nsy.
.cruples when ste IS s. s..-9o tr.-a,
enedl
Silently he passes his az n aroiai he-
and with her aua. taxes her BACK - ne
house. They lag her on 4 sofa Ns
4