Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-05-03

beard the -OUnd of tie ponies feat on tie
road. and going to meet tEcm | saw her
just di-m Iuntcd and standing i'm the glow
Of tic INC )nlight.
SHE gaNoa great start when she saw me
and put her band to lcr heart, but pulled
hclscli together IN % second and camo fol-
ward and shook hands.
"This is an unexpected pleasure, " sho
eoid Il thought you lived in quito u
different Part OF tlc country. " and then
she introduced me to her husband as an
old friend. she evidently had told him
nothing about the littlc comedy in which
! had figured. Gisiikcd the husband at
first sight-a great coarse brute, who talk
ed to her aus if she were u disObcdicnt dog
and whom | put down as being Il bully
and Il drunkard.
We were not a CHEEKY party that night.
She talked the talk of that world Of society
that two wears of mi cry had put bacl into
an infinite PAST. hut ! noticed that her
eyes took i'm every detail of curtains and
furniture and urnancnis. He helped him.
self most literally to the whisky bottle
and talked !itDc, lat that little generally
tuuk The form uf scu'" insult to his wife
Later on Inc asked me about AG2 Kahn.
who waited ON Ms with grim statclinrss.
and | told her his story; how by "a lucky
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embrace, with the brutc's lreuth hot in
his face, and how since then lie had re
nourccd everything, his loved hills and
clanship and relations to follow me through
good and evil fortune rs my servant.
Finding she was Interested. | talked on
and told them some Of the border tales of
revenge and blood that the Afr.di had told
me over the fire on our Shikah expeditions;
how ready Il border mans hand is to strike
when his chief orders; how little they val
ne "a life, whether ii I've theirs or anothcr's.
and to all this she listened eagerly.
The moroso husband thawcd under the
great doses Of whisky. and he old me how
the doctors had forbidden him to go home
to England, and how he was wandering
over the unbcatcn tracks in the noun
tains, taking his wife with him Just to
show her what roughing means" until the
weather became T~assably cool i'm tie plains.
Shc went to tlcirr0om Immediately aft
er dinner, but he sat up for another couple
of hours Dragging about most things in
this world and Furnishing the whisky bot
tie to such extent that when at midnight
he rose to go he staggered about, and
had to help him TO his door.
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