Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-07

tbe anc,e,,, rr,s,nsr, church nv n nm.
sand voices led nv be,. avn for many a
past Kushbearins day:
Nn W i6d,s Us P mt g y 1 nsS oFu
shifting ana sn,itien Win fbe S,tord
Toiled through their mortni day.
Thou mnlst the wrath OF mnn thy
Plnae-
At this moment cd Geotdic burst into
the room, faint from eNcrion and over
come by terror and rlge. Margery, with
out an exclamation, but almost as quick
as thought, with warning gesture Of
silence, TO Geurdie, had softly closed her
fathers door; got the old servant into her
own easy chair aud herself close and
quleting beside him,
Time enough Geordie; lime enough
she Haid IN her grave, gentle way rs she
picked the brnmhes one by one from
his torn clothing 10 divert him. we let
mona of these grow on our side OF Fair
fed, do we, GcOrdier
Ma, MI, Miss Margery; bit tn cursd
Auldgarh plence-"
'Iheie, there. Geordle. ! know all
that has happened. You just went 10
Ralph Oldgurih with the letter, and--nud
1t did not quite please HIN; and
An, fore Lord! ia q murdert GO
ony inr i0nvo o. verse; M aud master
theerV broke in Geordie yioi0usly and
passlonatc.y.
Murder is q dreadful, dreadful word,
Goordic, And then, You felt SO badly
about disappointing Us, that you hurried
away, Heordie.
Hurried ava hurried avail Lord,
Miss Margcry. III aud curse loos'd tn
huuns' on inca. atore I'd med tli' gcat.
l cleard ia geni ~ a boun, fur my leaf:
mn as | loorhed hecze a bow'dcr NJ L
pack-Lans! VIVA met my cen oOp theer
IN aud nan ,wgnd99w, aeoon III porch,
a sHNFaH
erin an cluicain like ecl lOwp th' Eouns
an goat an A.. an ha' my vera leaf.
ON Miss MargcryV wline1 the old man
piteously, yer deed ooInon, If ye rne C.
,ieat tmofrer meet zen ~. snasherel {
bits WI aud John Anldgarth's gbaist!
Margery raised Geordie, to h!s feet
ana, WIN 2 parting injunction 10 secrecy
dismissed him as graclously as though
her own helrt wore free from pang or
storm. When the door had closed behind
nm, ehc pressed her face against the
window pqnes towards the peaceful vale
below. aud again upon the panes towards
the wild mountain path above. She lis
tened Q moment az her fathers door.
from this she turned her white, hurt
race, now hlled with unltternhe child
lsh ionung' 10 the mute mother face,
agninst The wall Thea she threw herself
on her couch, giving way 10 sobs and
tears while the deepening shadows Of the
evening gathered close and chill over
ham.ei' vac aud hall.
The next day. the famous Rnshhearlng
Day N Ifrasmere, bad come and almost
gone. The peasant fox for miles around
4 had trooped into the old hamlet. as had
( their forefather3 for hundreds OF years
! before tlen.. All the ancient meTy-mas-
/ ing and rustic games Of football. cricket,
] wrestling and putting che stane" hid
/ been enjoyed, as Of yore, by tho strong
/ Unibrian men and youth; white the lnsty
( morn'nin lasses had gathered with ni-
| siinted awe on the "vngrom' shows, had
I fiarnied with thor conscious beauty. and
coquetted 20 their hearts content. Old
I and young had Joined the immemorini
/ procession which always forms at the
NOISY hotnay bridge. The VILLAGE band.
( piping the onllyening strains OF Jenny
/ Dawson's march, and four mnidcns IN
| White wth Marecry az their head rs WIS
her wont enrlandod with flowers, and
I cgrrrlng eilken rose,,llor,lcred scarf
Z MED WIN green rnshes i0r Ehe sirewlne.
had .ed. a morley trQon q children had
l e%ine; niier carrying gay nelly bonrAs-,
me hrltlhgs Tor Inc tusnes--entw ined
WIN rlshes and hoEFers crosses. heart,