The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-22
CHAPTER vn.-concluded.

CHAPTER VII.-Concluded
They stood looking at each other
But Collinson was already himself
agafn- The man of simple. directness
and no imagination saw only his wife
before him-a little breathless, a little
Hurried, a little dishevelled from rapid
riding, as he had sometimes seen he1
before-but otherwise unchanged. Nor
had he changed; he took her up where
he had left her years ago. His grave
face only broadened into a smile as he
held both her hands in his.
eyes. it's me. Lordyl Why, I was
comm only tomorrow to find We,
Sadie"
She glanced hurriedly around her.
Toto find me?" she said. incredu-
lousy.
.'sartain! That ez I was goin' to
ask about ye-goin' TO ask about ye at
the convent"
''At the convent" she echoed, with
a frightened amazement.
Yes; why, Lordy. Sadie, don't you
see2 You thought L was dead, and 1
thought you was dead-that's what's
the matter. But [ never reckoned that
you think me dead until Chivers al
Her face Whitened in the moonlight
''Chivers?" she said, bIankly.
In course; but naturally you don't
know him, honey. He only saw you
onc't. But it was along O. that, Sadie,
that he told me de reckoned you wasn't
dead, and told me how to find you. He
was mighty kind and consarned about
it, and he even allowed I'd better slip
off to you this very night
'FChivers?" she repeated, gazing at
her husband with bloodless lips.
Eyes; an awful purty-spoken man.
Yell hdve to get to know him, Sadie.
He's here with some of his folks az hez
got inter trouble-Im forgettin' to tell
ye. You see
Yes, yes, yesr' she Interrupted,
hyesterically; land this is the mill?"
yes, lovey, the mill-rny mills our
mill-the house / built for you, dear.
I'd show it to you now; but you see,
Sadie, I'm out here standin' guard
Are you one of them?" she said,
clutching his hand desperately.
mo. dear" he said, soothingly, mo;
only, you see. [ give my word to 'em
as I give my house tonight and I'm
bound to protect them and see 'em
through. Why, LOrdy, Sadie you'd
have done the same-for Chivers."
Yes. yesr' she said. beating her
He was so kind to bring me back to
you. And you might have never found
me but for him"
She burst into a hysteri al laugh,
which the simple-minded man might
have overlooked, but for the tears that
coursed down her bloodless face.
Whats gone O. ye, Sadie?" he said
in a sudden fear. grasping her hands.
That laugh ant yOurn. You're the
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a moment his face blanched as he
glanced toward the mill, from which
the faint sound of bacchanalian voices
came to his quick ear. 'fSadie, dear,
We amt thinlin' agin' me? Ye amt
allowin' I'm keeping anythin' back
from yep
Her face stiffened into rigidity; she
dashed the tears from her eyes. NO"
she said, quickly. Then after a mo-
You see, we haven't seen each other
for so long-it's all so sudden-so IN
dBut you KEN here Just now calki-
latin to find me?" said Collinson,
yes, yesr" she said, quickly, still
grasping both his hands, but with her
head turned slightly in the direction of
Ine mill.
But who told We where to find the
mill?'s che said. with gentle patience.
"a friend" she said, hurriedly. Per
hdps," she added, with a singular
smile, "a friend Of the friend who told
you"
'I see" said CoIlinson, with re-
lieved face and a broadening smile;
'its a sort of fairy story. I'll bet
now that it was that old Barker wo-
man that Chivers knows
Her teeth CLEANED rigidly together in
the moonlight, like a deaths head.
YES she said, drydy, at was that old
Barker woman. Say. Seth she con-
tinued, moistening her lips slowly,
you're guarding this place alone?''
"Thar's another fellow up the trail
a sentry-but don't you be afeared-he
can't hear US, Sadie
ION this side of the mill?''
Eyes! Why, Lord love We, Sadie,
t'other side O. the mill it drops down
straight to the valley; nobody comes
yer that way but poor, low-down emf
grants. And it's miles around to come
by the valley from the summit"
you didn't hear your friend Chiv-