The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-10-01

OF genius; and ABOVE 81, NJ WTote Il.
It brought to her soupcon Of his
person all Of his soul. TnleE th=
shade Of Mrs. Doves chintz window
curtains, audrey kissed that letter as
mothers kiss their babies. Then she
came back to the parlor.
t'Smart, amt it," asked Tom.
"What:' asked Audrey. "OhI yes
the letter; very nice. An;! as she
spoke, ehs would have given twenty
dollars. Or fifty, all she had in the say.
/ ings bank money she had earned By
making pot cheeses for market all
this little hoard would Audrey Dew
have given Just to hare that letter for
her very own.
4 week afterward she went to see
Sally Slocum, and Sally exhibited her
photograph album. Here was Uncle
Silas and Mr.. and Mrs. johnson, oil
in row, with their FIVE children, and
Aunt Tabitha, and
"Ob," cried Audrey, 81 didn't tknow
he he'd had any taken"
event down to the store one day,
said Sally, ;sand there he was 'burnln
r dozen. Didn't reckon hoT't they
favored him, be said. This here was
! jest scorched; 1 pounced down on it.
I'll hev that, anyway says l."
"tLor' says he, what dye want of
that?' but I kep it. Think it like
him."
"Whe1 he's serious" said Audrey.
~ said. That's your identical in
age when you're in church And
what dye think he sald' Reckon I'll
stay hum. then Lor' it is the beat
eness how people want their cards to
look.
She had viewed without envy Sallys
new bonnet; she had never coveted
her link bracelets, but she broke the
eighth commandment when she
looked ct Ned NorroHav's photograph.
l en- sorry to say that she did not
stop there.
Next day Sally went out to zee her
Cousin Pringle: and about two ic tbs
afternoon Audrey Dew stepped softly
upon tho Slocums' front piazz',
clipped into the parlor window, and
had the photograph album IN her
pocket in minute. She dared not
! take Ned's picture out by itself, her
guilty conscience would have filled
her with fears Of instant detection:
but the theft of the whole album
would never lie laid at her door.
Most singular thing ever knew, !"
said old Mrs. Slocum, relating her e3~
perience to friends afterwarl. "oome
tramp OF somebody slipped i'll AMI
hooked Sally's album. Sarchcd high
and low, and couldn't hear nothin
ont; offered a reward and all, and
Civ it up; but about two weeks arter,
here comes bundle for Sally, and
into it album, bigger and better by
two than her tother was, and on the
first page the picture of her Uncle 81
las-he's dead, ye know. AL the rest
she ha'n't never heard nothin' on.
And who took it, and who sent it, /
dunno, nor nobody"
Nobody knew indeed, savo ole
guilty girl. Cousin Ellen and Aunt
Tabitha, and Mr.. and Mrs. johnson
and their offsprinss, had sroou!dered
into ashes between the covers Of the
book, .aud only Ned Norrovay's face
existed, cut round and pendant in a
tiny frame end glass over Audrey
Dev's foolish little heart.
whats that you're q veariu on q
chain?' asked Mrs. Dew Of Audrey.
"Grandpa Browns lair, ma," sail
Audrey.
Watching and waiting wears ooe
thin. Audrey was not quite as pretty
as she hal been, ii bloom and bright
ness make oil beauty. as most folk
think they do, and she was conscious
Of this, and aware also that her new
best dress was of al unbecoming
color, when, at Christmastldo it Was
known through the village that Ned
had come down to spend the holidays.
They met at church, anil the rest Of
Christmas Day Ned spent with his old
employers family; while Audrey lost
her appetite for dinner, and wishe "A
that she had never been born. There
was Nathan Prior, to be sure, doing
his best to please her, and her cousia
Jack, from Hampton, trying to cut
him out; but her heart was just as
heavy rs lead, md every smile was
forced, and every word wrun.' from
her lips.
The next day Ned called. At tue
announcement her heart tutterc.l; !;
then she ran to tue glass. How n!ly
she looked! She went down to greet
him, full Of this thought, anal ga7a
| him . frioid and ilnuassiye haul, and