The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-22

Icduy w soy atci dii, ~ WIS uo WIZ
was in the right-will you send for me,
my dear, and not leave me to languish
under the frown of the woman / love
any longer than need be? The time will
surely come, Mamie, but the waiting
for it will be dreary work, dear.
1t was not easy to maintain her fro
zen attitude with that pale. passionate
face bending above her as he pleaded
for mercy. Were her standards already
topping to their fall? Was she feeling
premonitory twinges Of that foreshad-
owed leniency? Or was she an out and
out hypocrite, not worthy to breathe
the same air with Adrien Strong's moth
er or Liza? But if only he could have
come back TO her looking that way
wearing gray uniform instead of
blue! He was positively majestic.
Her heart was truer than her lips.
She looked away from him while an
swering him, so that her eyes should
not betray this humiliating fact to Lin.
eff the time ever does come when /
can bring myself to look upon a traitor
with lenient eyes, Major Strong Martin,
OF if my standard of right and wrong
should ever be so fully reversed as to
make your transgression your virtue, /
shall send for you promptly aud rebuko
myself in your presence for the unutter-
able detestation of your course which
now has full possession Of my perverted
senses.
"Yor spoke of being born pariah,
with TO class prejudices to conserve or
to defy. l loved Strong Martin tho
overseer's son, l abhor Strong Martin
the Federal officer
She was trembling. He could detect
tho passionate pain beneath the meas
ured GOODNESS of her tones, and he smil-
ed, quite sure that he would be on the
winning SIDE.
He stood aside and opened the door
FOR the little cavalcade in homespun.
| Seth lead the way, then Mamie, and
finally his mother. She turned wistful-
| ly upon the door sill.
"Strong, my boy Strong, l hate tc
leave you here all alone, but it's your
own doin. You oughtn't to have few
in the face of Providence SO brash. Ma
mics words sounded mighty severe,
and / could see by the culver OF YOU
mouth they was cuttin you like whip
lash. Strong-I-think-I kiss yor
jus once, my boy. But we don't wan
nothin of you"
Was he ON the winning side? Ill
questioned it that night, sitting alon
on the small roofess balcony that jut
ted from the window easement OF hi
headquarters and gave him the full ben
eft of starry night. He knew jus
how those same stars grouped them
selves about the tall trees that shelter
ed Sans Souci.
In that long ago past, icons it seem
ed, when he and Adrien Strong ha
been good boy friends, they had clint
ed to the rallied roof gallery counties
times for the pure JOY of ignorant sta
gazing
From out the cool, dark stiffness {
!, the starlit night there fioated to hi
, scraps of song and laughter. 1t can
, from the clustered tents that sheltert
the troops under his command He fe
!. them to be aliens tonight as never b
fore. In their songs and their laugbt'
he had no part.
The tethered beasts under the shat
> trees in the little courthouse squa
munched their evening rations with a
dible gusto. The unlimbered cannon
= which in its unchanged formidablene
:, had caused such panic to the rural BE
, sr-.:sport urchins, showed darkly whe
it had been rolled under the spreadil
. arms of sycamore. Sessumsport w
g an encampment, and its subjugated !
= habitants hid themselves behind barr
- windows and doors. Not even by {
, dull CLEAN of their homemade tallc
4 candles would they countenance
presence of these invaders
- No assurance from "Strong MART
"a the traitor could relieve their app
a tensions of impending doom. He wol
have to convince them by the logic
- events that he had not come to brl
- fire and the sword into their peace
precincts. =
And SO the garden dahlias and
70 starry eyed phloxes that nodded tn
~ friendly heads at him over the PIC
8 fences were the only things in all :
20 sumsport that had no dart to hlne
90 "Strong Martin, the traitor"
10 He fell to calculating, sitting ia
y. under the quiet skies, utterly al
"a with his mighty heart hunger.