Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-26
CHAPTER VIII.

dow panes ere Allen Fa,,ntleroy dropped asleep. When at last his eyes opened, the sun was high in heaven. His host stood at his bedside, grayer, harder, sterner looking ill the light of the gold en day than ill that of rainy skies. Yet still his voice was a well bred monotone bare of all feeling.
 Pardon me for disturbing you. I fear you slept poorly" he said. But a friend has come in search of you, and had no choice but to wake you. Here comes Jubilee with your boots. He will help you to dress and wait on you at breakfast. Take your time There is no need of hurry. I will take care that your friend does nCt grow impatient. "
 "Who is it-Hawllins? I thought he d look me up if the horse got back with out me. beg you not to let him get at that precious old brandy. He will stay till he drains the bowl" Young Faunt- leroy said ill an effort to speak lightly. He was far from feeling SO All his sleep had been phantasmagoria of trouble | of thick clouds, of swelling waters, with ] Dare in the midst of them, swept for ever away in their flood. The night through he had not hidden from himself I the fact that ill their all too brief en- | counter she had taken captive his heart | and his fancy. He must not, he could not, would not go away without further sight and speech of her. He would not startle maybe distress her with any talk of love. Instead he would speak a little of the gratitude he felt for her timely aid and beg her, if ever the time l Cl,D hnl,N to 1NO,. 1 that she had in him faithful friend. But how achieve so much, guarded as she was? After breakfast he must go away, and throughout the meal mammy would certainly attend him. If he could get her away-a voice broke through his musings. Jubilee, black and slim, with woolly head and big upturned eyes, stood in the door, saying:
 i What corrections does you have ter gimme, sir bout putin on your clothcS?"
 Jubilee, turned Ii, had been to free l school slnce he was 6, and now could | spell i'll three letters, knew all the fig ures except seven and had great de sire to use the longest words he heard and to overcome his tendency to the dia- | lect of his race.
 Withal he was sharp lad, as full of resource as of mischief. So much young | Fauntleroy discovered before his clothes were ill place Dropping his voice, he i spoke rapidly to the boy, who answered 1 with winks and mods and hushed "Yes, 1 sirs '' As the stranger made an end by 1 pushing $l ill his palm, Jubilee said: ''Who-ce-I do my best, sir, but I ,,J,1 l picious.
 Notwithstanding, when young Faunt- | leroy sat dawdling over rolls, coffee and boiled chicken under mammy's wrath ful eye, Jubilee's head came through the door, Jubilce's voice said ill accents of weary disgust:
 Aunt Diney, you better come help me Somebody's knocked over your tur- i key pen, and that old fool is muffin it to | the woods as fast as her young ones can go. 1 ran so hard tryin to head her, my l breath is still clean obfustiCated.
 ''De laws massy, 'pon my soul, dat ole hen tukllcy gwine make me lose all my 'ligion, quor'li at 'er," mammy cried, making dash for the door. It hardly closed behind her when Dare Ol1C CpljSS4tC SiII1 SCI1tl, with rosy flush:
 Jubilee said you sent for ne. Do you want your arm bandagod afresh?" No, no Something much more i'm portaut. Miss Overton - Dare-come closer, please. Lay your hand again in mine An, thank you for coming! 1 sent | for you because I-what l want to say is-don't take your hand away-I shall never forget you Your kindness, your l help, and-and-ife ever-I can straight en all this tangle 1 shall come back to you Meantime if can serve you-one never knows what may happen-you- { you are to give me the privilege. Don't | forget that, the young man said dis jointedly, holding fast to Dare's hand It was harder than he thought to choke back the words of love, yet to speak them would be madness. She would leave him in alright. Yet he could not forbear raising to his lips the slim rosy fingers that lay fluttering ill his own.
 'Why should remember you?'' Dare I asked, half turning away. Next week you will forget my existence, except maybe as the heir to a claim that trou- bles you An, you see, know something of family affairs. Believe me, am not so disloyal to our side of the quarrel as to have come here thus clandestinely if I had not thought that maybe you needed me-were in pain that could ease. ;"
 T am," Fauntleroy said, getting quickly to his feet and fiinging his sound arm around her. "Darel Dare! I love you better than my life. did not mean to tell you just yet. It is so sudden. But from the first look of your eyes into mine as you knelt, an angel of rescue, beside that living grave, have felt that I belonged to you-solely, entirely; that I would give my life for you and die happy in the sacrifice. '"
 "You may have the opportunity else where" Major Overton said from the door behind him. Hawkins darted through it and caught young Fauntle- | roy's arm, crying out:
 l Allen, Allen, are you mad? Come away at once. You should never have come here, though" turning to the old man, who stood statue of white fury. ''I swear, Major Overton, he did not know everything !"
 With one stride the old man caught Dare's arm and essayed to drag her from the room The girl shook herself free of his hold and said, with eyes outblazing l his own:
 ''I am no child, grandfather. Even from you demand the courtesy due a ! woman
 ''I see You demonstrate your wom- anhood by sinking thus to rendez-