Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

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ly interest. kindly. ~
But It so happened th.
or those motherly old a. She va
do anything better th @uies visI
hands and wait no,; nan fold !
some ten minutes had ~, So ;
through. she proceeded oeen Cd
stairs to Mays room - softly III
stirring. See Il sm
she tapped gently At -.
there was no response Tue dor
Louder still, but no SOM,
moving fell upon her lIs,aau Of al
ITS a pity TO woka s.enllg n
,ne ola woman. I'm just !. 'a
H. and see that she doesa,,s 60 M
anything" 'Oesat wand
So thinking, she SOFTLY
the door. pushed J
Wider and wider She
entered Mays room mon upened
Good gracious" she cris ap'toe
paused. ''a aud
My goodness gracious mo,
er has that blessed child sne Whd
The room was empty Tue lSrI
not been slept in, and ,ha 20
showed no signs of its nsn ,a1 claul
There stood the little baa "eugl
white curtains; there the H.. wIi|
with its tiny looking glass u, ~ l
dow was wide open, and =. Tue
which covered the side Of ~ M
waved refreshingly in tha ue Y
breeze. ~" nNd
IN one corner stood tha
wheel, silent now for so mo spa'l
Two things alone were mlsng. "
the room besides it's usual oaa1.
her cloak and hat. NulsI
Mrs. Hayter sank into tho g..
ana gave vent TO a string Of !.
tons ana bewildered sentences
My gracious. If the deer AN,
been and gone!-and never sina.
first was two year Old wbiah
next March will be nineteen -
ana n line, well-grown one h: .
with red hair. Only to thlpk no.'
her having gone away-and :"
with the cream and the goodies 4
stairs, and she where graeion. !.
knows. with an east wind and nav.
TO eat, and n great sorrow and ! !.
constitution, and a beautiful faps
all the rest of it-LOr-m
She was disappointed and NM,
and as, with "a thoughtful face
packed up the eatables cha
brought, she paused, every nov
then To utter some fresh eiacrI.
significant of surprise and disOuipn
Before long all Annadale knew
May had left the cottage in tho M
and had fled, no one knew wbjtle,
~ guilty conscience" said one
Gone to join her gentleman low
cried a second.
~ good radiance. I saylrl excLla
the mother of a large family Of h
and single daughters.
You're n set of cruel and mi
hypocrites.." rejoin ii Mrs. HaytTv
some warmth. ''She's as good a N
ever stepped, and you were all jesI
OF her-there-"
But il didn't do much good.
speech of Mays goOd-hearted IN,
for the Annadale people were as
stinate and thick headed then as /
descendants are now.
They had taught themselves 10
lfeye that May Rivers was a bold
triguing girl, and they were not q
TO alter their opinion for anything
Hayter might say. And they COZ
red 10 speak of her with an OmiT
shake of the head, and a wish !
We're ii possible, she might reform
Poor May
What was her crimeg Simply
son of a great man like stephen Tia
Hartrey, had admired and loved b
There is nothing OF which people
so intolerant as the adyancemen
success of those whom they
mixed with on terms Of equality.
1t was not the whispered rea
which John Gridley had caused Y
circulated respecting her which
done her the greatest harm-lt was
report that she might one day De
Hartrey which had reused the lndl
ton of the villagers.
How ready we all are TO PICK J
in the coats Of our successful Drvll
And where was poor, suffering
while Mrs. Hartrey was defending
character?
She was toiling YEARLY aions
dusty road on her way to Wlhcne
prepared to make the greatest Sc'
Il woman can make.
She was about 10 sacrifice hene'
the altar of filial affection.
She, In her gentle, loving M
could not bear that her father-ne
had all her life watched over anu
ed her-should suffer, when II w
her power to ease him. =,
Once before she had maze ~
solve, but now it was sun mo''
cult. :,
When she first agreed to wed
Gridley she had only TO oyereV,ps :
pugnance for which she coulu :,
no reason: but now il was iar W.,
She knew from his letter tiiaI :
IIartrey still loved her anu va" ~
haps, at that very moment Oh nI !
to England TO claim her as ns
And she knew. moreover ,"as",
man whom she had resolved by =,
learn to call husband was "a
had stolen the money wnicn =
abled him to obtain so secu' VA.
on her father. If he had no. su -
his sin by endeavoring 70 a wsIl
whom she loved so truly anu Mn
who returned her affection %ss1
full force of his manly. none =
She could not bear to lhi ~ NJ
this, for it made her waver .hink
termination. she strove TO .ni +
20 ~ L-.nn,oa,. n would give y