The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-01-05

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his veins.
What would She do?' he said to him
self. If | should step mp there 10 her
side and say. Yen are rich and proud
and beautiful. Catharine Harding, and |
am poor and obscure, very churl. tit only
to he vour servant. and yet | love you-
love You well enough 10 live or TO die for
you BY heaven! it stay here another
moment shall do it.
Some mad purpose Of the kind was really
struggling in stephen heart. Before he
could execute it. however Miss Harding
turned GstleS,ly. called to her dog, ANA
disappeared through the glass door into
the green and gold parlor. stephen lifted
his hat
Good night he whispered. reyerent-
ly. and God keep you'
Then he hurried out Of the gardens into
the dry moonlit road setting his face again
toward the old farmhouse and ruined acrs
at the foot II the hill There was one
secret in stephen : life which neither
Lefty nor Martha Gregg knew
lie was up and field On the f"llowin@
morning before the east was red Martha
Gregg watched him afar from her dairy
window and muuered
Thank the Lord he ha, Str'n. hands
Mn Hare ,ame creeping int" the
kitchen peering anound wanly.
You re witch. Martha Gregg, she
whincd. Nou want to part me from my
>ou. dreamed ls>t night that Pu, you
in the ire. and burn; You to ctnder.
Dream, always ~ by contr,rieS. Mn.
Hare. said Martha Take a seat here
in the c,oI winder. What II You have for
brrakfa~t-an egg and hit of corneake,
or ,ame Of this ccld mea, that ! ye cat for
Stephen?
DircetIy stephen Appeared with hands
full or Wild rr-,> which he had gathered
GA his way fram the field lie st"Ie
into the b,,irsm where Lefty ,iiIl dept
aud put theu wet and sweet. upon her
pillow. then leyl his m.sher Q" her -eat "a,
the table, ,,ayin- aud I,lcadin. wiih the
,apTieiutr, devil which u,le,l her n be- might
have dune with a I-ceyi,h child
7 IA GLAD thsrr une in the h"u~s hat
esu manage her said Martha t'rc.zs
m free tu canl,ss thar ! can g.. She
hates n,e Ike pi~,n-
stephen vent baok ln the field, The
san r,se high the heat dccTeue'i No-'n
wa, uich when he l.lt his gray aarr rcs,
ina in the harness and starred ~ &"
,,n.peh HI. thirst ii a ,prins buhhlnt up
iu q lan,, near hy
tie 49, kneeling Ca the brink. dipping
up The Nalcr in a battered tiu cup when
4,uud af horse ho.f, in the lry grass tcF
on his ear tie hsekci up and ,sW--
C,tharipe Harding
She va, m"uutcyl "u brown Morgan
ayl.lii,s. apj Unattended save By hrac"
of >testc,i dog Sh. L,oked nld and
sweet aud mappr,aehahlc tIeF dive
.r.rn habit wa huitsu,-l cio-.- a. heF pure
ry.uud ;hrai Neither wjod uor san hsd
br,ash, -l,sle % s.l,r into her Iolc fsec
. {, was .ruE.,->il.l,. ,o imagine Mes llsrli0z
au~heA 80 heated Ike uyhtE wotnrn.
stephen anl-r fran the -p'iH4 ili>
breath .nsr s,s,l sent c,irin,>ly.
Nay AK Er the cup. SID Nl,-
Harding. smiling and holslinS "ai her
gloycd hand
The ba.uj ran b., tnia stephen cheek
I Tie t.,~..-i her the battered iiplsr She
drank heartily. lbeu Iour~i ihs walcT
which sill reulain,sI Boz :; fk,F,.httail,
down into she gra-,
We u>.-l Ca SSH tsai- in thi- .lnng
-he purrrd. lau. ago when we wrrr
children n uot yaa rrmemhCsf
Ye, answered stephen.
Then We wrre ucighl-e, said Mis-.
HARDIN. Nnv we have somehow. h,-
c,aue allu,-t -irsnScr~.
She reached him the ctp lleT slavr,l
hand Touched bis brown. hawuy une- He
-s.ifesl aud held It an instant aud lfokc,i
np ia her fscc-a l.s,k which e. ans
woman IL lcr,cIaion would have lccn a
re,elasi,H
NJ nut -trsueegs be rried. brrath-
le>,ly. Yuu e,.lld never be that ,o ule
-.t. you often when yuu j" ns'' ke'w h.
-
The uneasy Morgan gcli,Hg -hi,'l sud
drnly. wrenehing hi, rider a. ii we're
iFoan stephen h,ld and bringing stephen
ppanraly to NJ, senses. Tie pickle, up the
tiu cup. biting his lip yill the bls--d Was
read, to spur, Mis- Harding reinrd IN
her beast fer momcut
t;oad morning. she thea said ',ldly
toad morning. replied stephen. Ike
one lazed
And then she r.,ie away-
God help me muttered stephen.
Another instant and >hnuli have
spoken
At milking time that might Martha
Gre.u came 70 the hars of the cattle ward
and called acroe4- Ten stephen. Her sing.
ham sunbuuuel WIS cocked sideways uu
her head and her manner eeinced trouble
Stephen, IN take care Of the cow>, i
yuu II jest hitch up aud 90 tor the doctor.
Lefty awful bad Snre you N barn.
| IA afraid that .irl ain .pius to last the
summer out.
stephen went into the ban and Saddled
the gray mare. of through the early
dark he clattered toward the town Tn.
fortunately the doctor had not vet returned
from his afternoon roun5s Stephen lefi
a message - urgent as his anxious hear
could make it, then turned the mare .
nose and started homeward
Poor Lefty She was the one sweet
comforting thing in Stephen life. liz
hurried ON past the great factories by III,
river side. the mine where 80 much of Mis-
Hardin. wealth was found through til,
Struggling streets out among the clover
fields and seed lands
Darkness had now fallen As StepheI
gained the hill where the gray villa stood
he saw something shining large and pre-
tenaturally bright. through the trees he
yond the bridge. Was 1t the moon
Impossible 1t grew and grew as h,
watched it. 1t shone across the orchard
and the fields. and along the white, dust,
summer road IN awful cry broke fron
his lips lie dug his heels into the side
of the gray mare and shot down the hill
the terrible red light all the while stream
inc up brighter and brighter into the dark
still heaven.
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