Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-11-15
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Dean Qait1and.
BY NE*MELL GREY.

with great pomp of cloud scener! III
the weSt-a glorious ending, ne
thought, of the happiest OF happs
wears; and that was the only cleW
he had to the time of his starting
when referring in memory To TINS
fatal walk. since he omitted, III ms
dreamy abstraction, 10 LOOK At MS
watch, though he was naturally So
precise in his habits, and had such
keen sense of the passage OF time.
When he reached Widow Doves
lonely dwelling. he found it cold and
dark, the door shut, and no smoke is
suing from the chimney; the widow
and her daughter were evidently gone
away for 4 day or two. lie felt sort
of eerie shiver at the darkness and
gloom of the solitary homestead.
though he little dreamed that his fate
or the fate of those he loved could
be influenced by circumstance SO
tritling as the emptiness of secluded
cottage.
Then he turned his face homeward
in the gathering dusk. choosing au'
other way from that by which he
came. by that strange fatality which
pursues doomed men. and strobe gay
ly and swiftly along over the open
down, every dimple and hollow Of
which were familiar to him from boy
hood. Some stars We're out now,
sparkling keenly in the clear, frosty
sky, in which the moon had not yet
piS nnI ditch and
through copses, and round plantations
Everard sped blithely, until he APP
preached the high-road leading TO Nal
bourne. Here his pace Slackened, and
he listened carefully for the sound of
longs wagon bells, which he thought
rould carry far in the frosty still
ness
But there was no repetition of the
fairy peals which rang so blithely in
the morning. and he got us far rs the
wheelwright'S corner without having
heard them. Grove. the waEoner.
was to bring him parcel from Old
port, n little parcel that he feared
might be forgotten if he did not in
tercept it. Here he met Granter toll
ing slowly along OH his way to spend
the evening ut Hale's, whose wife was
one of his numerous descendants. Had
Granfer heard the team go by he
asked.
mo, | amt a-yeard 'em since marn-
ing, 20 to gay; not as | knows on,
Doctor Everard," Granfer replied,
with his usual crcumlocution. i
lows yeard ems marning, zure
enough. They was a-gwine into Old
port, as l hreckons as you med gay
Zumwhere about noon or Whereabouts,
No, ] lows l amt a-yeard nor a bell
zince that there; not as ! knows on,
! amt"
After some further conversation,
Everard strolled slowly on in the di-
rection of Longs farm, full of anXi-
ETY. about his precious packet, which
he knew would fade Near Longs
he heard that the team had returned
some time before. and his packet had
been sent to the rectOry.
Striking across the fields. he re-
turned in the deepening night, without
going through the village, and, meet
ing with little delay in consequence
of an old gap having been recently
stopped in n fence-a good stiff bull
fnch-he gained the rectory about six
o'clock, thus missing, to his disgust,
the charmed hour of tea. There,
when he entered was the precious lit
tie box on the hall table, and die
caught it up, and was going to I'M
fasten it in his room. when Wipnie
waylaid him at the foot of the stairs,
eager for romp. which romp result
ed In Winnie, while being tossed high
in air, throwing back her head and
striking him tremendous blow in
the eye with it, so that he set ther
hastily down with an exclamation of
pain and put his hand to his face.
you've done it now, Winnie; blind
ed me-" he said.
oh, Henry. l am SO sorry!" sobbed
Winnie. And they won't let me 20
to Longs tea-party tomorrow; it was
only on Sunday l made Ingram
Swaynestone's nose bleed"
Never mind, darling" said Ever
ard, kissing and soothing her; III was
not your fault at all"
Then he promised to let no one know
of his black eye, and to do his best
to cure it; to which intent he procured
raw meat from the kitchen, and went
to his room, taking Winnie with him
TO help him unpack the parcel, which
contained some choice white flowers.
These he bid the child take to her
sister at once, while he shut himself
up, and tried to subdue the rising In
Illumination in the bruised eye to the
best of his ability.
He was anxious to avoid such an
ornament rs black eye on his own
account, as well as the child's, since
black eye does not improve a mans
appearance at ball. nor Is it in keep.
ing with popular ideas of a newly ac-
cepted lover. SO he doctored himself
till it was time to get ready for din
ner, and then. seeing the gray suit lie
on the chair as he had placed 1t in
the morning. he sponged the green
10 .laly. l.a,I ha.