The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-16

from the kitchen, with which she bloch.
ed out every crevice through which light
could make its way.
On her way to unlock the front door
she stopped, arrested, remembering there
was of course no key in it, then with
rush of Joy almost delirious she remem-
bered that there had always been two
keys, one for her own, one for her fathers
use, as he never suffered the place to be
left open. And if her own were in the
usual place She kissed the clumsy thing
when she found it, and set it in the
lock.
When she had brought candle into
that CHASTITY room, she disappeared
again, and came back carrying large
clothes basket, into which with light
ming rapidity she flung books and papers
till it was nearly full, then STOPPING and
straining as she lifted found that it was
too heavy for her to carry the distance
required and lightened it grudgingly.
She would have liked the strength OF
ten men that night to do all her work
at one blow.
Soon she lifted it and went ont at the
door across the little garden, past the
silent cottages and up the climbing
way that led to the moor and another
Mace that she remembered. Long ago
she had seen, and unconsciously noted
il. an old disused we'll or pit, close to
the cliff side, but she was spent and
breathless when she staggered to Its
edge, and falling on her knees listened
for awhile to the laundering beats OF
her heart.
Another step and she must have gone
over with her strange load. Better Tor
her perhaps if she had, she muttered, as
she flung the books down with furious
haste SO far that she could not even
hear when they struck the bottom.
The air was full of small, nocturnal
noises of the life that flows at its freest
when man, the oppressor, sleeps, but
Hagar feared them not. 1t was only hu-
man interruption that she dreaded that
night.
Sir journeys in all did she make td
and fro, the last ones being the heavier
work. as the queer shaped bottles weigh
ed more than books, and she had hardly
strength to stand when at last, looking
round the bare room, she pushed her
hair from her brow and knew her work
was accomplished and every vestige OF
the old, horrible life swept clean away
before that inquiry should come, which
in its results must have forever associ
ated her with her fathers pursuits.
Only the couch remained. She shud-
dered as she looked at it with some
thought of trying to break IT In pieces.
She had done so much tonight she fell
for all her weakness the power OF doing
so much more, but even II she would
there was no time.
She extinguished the candle and put
it in her pocket, climbed up to take
awav the blanket, then replaced the
basket where she had found it, locked
the front door and put the key back Oh
the shelf.
Afterward, when horror thrilled TIT
townspeople and the meanest OF then
ali would not dwell rent free in thu
bouse whence old Nick himself had a
dead of night removed the wizard
hooks. his potions, every sign OF hin
ave his body, which even Nick himself
WAS afraid to touch, only one clear sight
ed person happened to notice that IN tnt
scullery a wooden stool had been draw
mn near the tiny window, just as no ON
dreamed il possible that any but a chile
could have got through the aperture.
Njaht was giving place to dawn, ant
= shivering breeze blew over the sea
ertinruishing the light by which I
viewed itself and turning the sea o
waters TO troubled gray, that chances