Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-25

put them on, breaking one of the leather latchets, and muttering in an | ger, II never did the like O tha taforel''
 I believe he never did; nor after | either. "Rabv' he said roughly, and pointing with his thumb to the bottom of the bed. Rab leapt up. and settled himself; his head and eye to the dead face. "Mister John, yell wait for me-" said the carrier; and disappeared in the. darkness, laundering downstairs in his | heavy shoes. ran to the front win dow; there he was, already round tho house, and out at the gate, fleeing like a shadow.
 I was afraid about him, and yet not afraid; so I sat down beside Rab, and being wearied, fell asleep. l woke from q sudden noise outside. It was Novem- Der, and there had been heavy fall of snow. Rab was in statu quo; he heard the noise too, and plainly knew it. but never moved. looked out; and there at the gate, in the dim morning-for the sun was not up-was Jess and the
 cart-a cloud of steam rising from the
 mare. did not see James; he was al
 ready at the door, and came up the stairs, and met me. It was less thar
 three hours since he left, and h> must
 have posted out-who knows how-t'
 Howgate, full nine miles off, yoke.
 Jess and driven her astonished into
 town. He had an armful of blankets and was streaming with precipitation. He nodded to me, spread out on the floor two pairs of clean old blankets having at their corners, "A. G., 170l" in large letters in red worsted These were the initials of Alison Graeme, and James may have looked in at her from without-himself unseen but not un- thought of-when he was, "wat, wat, and weary" and after having walked many a mile over the hills, may have
 seen her sitting, while "a the lave were sleepin';" and by the firelight working her name on the blankets, for her ain James bed.
 He motioned Rab down, and taking his wife in his arms, laid her in tn blankets, and mapped her carefully an ! l firmly up, leaving the face uncovered. ! and then lifting her, he nodded agli" | sharply to me, and with a resolved buI \ utterly miserable face strode along tl@ | passage and downst lirs, followed by \ Rab. l followed with light; but h: | didn't need it. I went out, holdin :. ! stupidly the candle in my hand in the
 calm frosty air; we were soon at th gate. 1 could have helped him, but
 saw he was not to be meddled with. and
 he was strong, and did not need it. He
 laid her down as tenderly, as safely, as
 he had lifted her out ten days before
 as tenderly as when he had her first ir { his arms when she was only "A. G. .'-
 sorted her, leaving that beautiful sealed | face open to the heavens: and then tax
 ing Jess by the head, he moved away
 He did not notice me, neither dio
 Rab, who presided behind the
 cart. stood till they passed through
 the long shadow of the College, anC
 turned up Nicholson Street. l heard
 the solitary cart sound through the
 streets, and die away and como again;
 and returned, thinking of that com
 pany going up Libberton Brae, ther
 along Roslin Muir, the morning ligh
 touching the Pentlands and making
 them like on-lool<ing ghosts; then dowI
 the hill through Auchindinny Woods past haunted Woodhouselee;" and a:
 daybreak came sweeping up the bleak
 Lammermuirs, and fell on his owr
 door, the company would stop, ant
 James would take the key, and Tiff
 Allie up again, laying her on her 0wr
 bed, and, having put Jess up, would
 return with Rab and shut tho door.
 Il James buried his wife, with his neigh
 bors mourning, Rab inspecting tn solemnity from distance. There wa snow, and that black ragged hole would look strange in the midst of the swell ing spotless cushion of white. Jsme
 looked after everything; then rathe suddenly fell ill and took to bed; was in sensible when the doctor came, an'
 soon died. A sort of low fever was pre-
 vailing in the village. and his want O 2: sleep, his exhaustion, and his 'miser. made him apt to take it. Tho gray , was not difficult to reopen. A fresl fall of snow had again made all thing :, white and smooth; Rab once nor, looked on, and slunk home to the stable : And what of Rab2 asked for hin next week at the new carrier who go the good will of James business, an was now master of Jess and her cart "How's Rab?" He put me off, and sal rather rudely, "What's your busines ? wi the dowG?" was not to be SO pu l off. "Where's Rsb9" He. getting cor
 fused and red, and intermeddline wit l his hair, said, "'Deed, sir, Rab's deid. ] "Deadl what did he die of?" "Weel sir," said he. getting redder. "he didn g exactly dee; he was killed. had t l brain him wi racl-pin; there was na g doin' wi him. Re lay in the treViss W r the near, and wadns come cot
 tempit him wi kali and meat. but h wad talk naething, and keepit mo fra feedin' the beast. and he was aye gu gurrin' and gruf gruppin' me by the leg > I was 1aith to make ava wi tho aul , dowg, his like wasna atween this an Q Thornhill-but, deed, sir, could d naething else" .s.. ., I believed him. Fit end for Ral quick and complete. His teeth and Ai U friends gone. why should he keep tn peace, and be civil?
 Safe Unto Eh0 End. If any sincere Christian cast hlmsel