The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-03-08
THE END Or THE FEUD.
By MARTHA MoULLooH WILLIAMS
Copyright, 1898 by American Press Associa.
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Continued.

OOUttHUCus
On, / hope notr' Tony said. Il
hate Mr.. Cross as much as / ought, but
it is because he was wicked and cruel,
not because he has the things would
like to have and have not got If we
had home like this, wouldn't we take
pride in it? Yet have heard that the
only child the Crosses have is nearly al
ways away"
HE amt stay yere much," Nanny
admitted. ISIS May johnson she say
Cunnel Cross low he want de boy ter go
ter dat soldier school-Wes' Pint dee
calls hit--case he wanter see i'm or
officer an er gentemun. l took al tole
Sis May, did. He may go dar tell
do cows come home, hit not gwine ter
make him no quality-case quality
ha ter be borned--dee not nebber made. "
Tony made no answer. Her eyes were
fast upon the black mule which in the
last few yards had begun to falter and
reel.
"Get out, Nanny, quickP' she said,
herself scrambling agilely over the wag-
on side. Nance has given out. Help
me get her in the shade there under
that big wild cherry. Then you must
wait here until | can get something,
somewhere, to put in her place. "
"Yo' can't do dat" Nanny said
dolefully. Everybody so busy in de
crap now dee 'oon't hep yo' fer Tub ner
money. Dat is, 'cep'in dis yere Harp
Cross. / spec he mought, but sholy 20
iit,np
"There is nothing else to be done, "
Tony said, lifting her head proudly
Besides l rather think | shall like to
see the man. OF course l need not let
him know who | am. "
Don't you b'leeve de half er dat, "
Nanny returned promptly. Harp
Cross nebber wus no fool. He members
de Morris favor too well not ter know
hit fur as he kin see hit. But g'w'an ct
yous gwine. De's rain, an plenty OBJ
hit, comm torrectly.
1t was sweltering hot, even upon the
lawn at Cross Trees. 1t was the velvet
lest turf, hecked now with dancing
shadow, touched here or there with
fame of bedding plants just coming into
flower. A wide house, low and gray,
sat upon the green. 1t had deep piazza
and Hospitality open doors Gay cush-
iony red armed chairs sat here and
there. A wickerwork table Uttered
with gay silks was pushed back against
the house wall. There was couch, too,
also wicker, heaped with down cush-
ions in fresh linen covers. Another ia
BILE stood at the head Of it and was piled
with the latest books and magazines
Where the tree shadows were thicllest II
gorgeous hammock swung The occu-
pant of it was tall, we'll made, lightly
bronzed and thoroughly at ease. One
arm lay higher than his head, the other
dropped over the hammock edge, hold
ing bit of scented green stuff hetwixt
thumb and finger.
Two people upon the piazza ever and
anon turned fond eyes upon him. Colo
mel Harper Cross and his wife had not
yet got their fill of looking at their sol.
der sou, now but two days home on
leave, and for the first time since he was
gazetted lieutenant of cavalry. If the
pair were proud of him-and that adj
mitted no doubt--he was equally proud
of them and with quite as good reason.
In days ride you would not find an
elderly couple better worth looking at.
Though the colonel stood full feet, he
was still 1.-the and straight and elegant.
~ slender. His wife was slender, too,
brown eyed, brown haired, with tense
face thinnish and mobile-the finest
New England type, modified by western
environment. There was a bare hint Of
! her in her sons eye and forehead 9th
erwhere he Was all his fathers child
the same fine olive skin, dashed with
red in the cheek, the same thin lips, red
and firm, the same velvet dark eyes and
ink black hair as fine as floss silk. In the
father time had silvered it almost tc
t whiteness. Except for that, with the
; back turned it would have been easy tc
mistake the one for the other
Though the Harp Cross of Nanny s
memory might have been graceless
enough cub, he had developed wonder
fully under his wife S refining influence.
She had been to him indeed a more
than liberal education in the fnel
things, the subtler sensibilities of life.
1t had been a precious triumph to him
to bring her there among those who had
frowned upon his youthful aspirations.
He had had no thought of living among
his own people, but she at once declar-
ed herself in love with all she saw and
begged him to let their home be in his
native state. OF course they would not
stay there all the time. Her health made
travel imperative some part of each
year. He had instantly fallen in with
her way of thinking. She was certainly
better, stronger, since they came. For
her sake he would have agreed to live
in desert.
So they had pitched their tent and
dwelt in distant comfy with those
round about them. Mrs. Cross paid nc
visits-it was understood she had not
strength for it-and had few visitors,
except those who came from afar. Yet
all the world spoke well of the family.
They were neighborly enough if you
went right at them, everybody admit
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