The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-12-14

were you? Why DO fou always nave
thar book"
1T is not that book. il is another.
Father and Think schools are disagree
apls. so I stn:iy ly myself. earn all
over just wh%t wish to. and every FRI
day ercnin" father and VISA together
ard tell Kim what do not know. Yen
see when recp:e have not got much
but each other they ;hinlt a good deal
of each other. Folks say I have lost
my mother. but father sad that am
not real well acquainted with anybody
but OLD nurse. who looks Ike yoLf
Cathy. and father: we cannct stay here
much longer now: I thought would
tell Won. We ike corners: you always
find something nice around a corner;
the city is full of corners, so think
we viii go away scon.'' and blue eyes
met b,ue eyes. 4: that instant the thud
of hoofs was heard, and away dow the
drive and out into the read ran the
child. Mrs. Winters hastened into her
kitchen. That evening closed in early
full of darkness and storm. Heaven
and earth seemed to shake beneath the
mighty tread Of its aH?roach. Light
ming cut tie air, ;hunIer rolled; the
creek a quarter mile above the Nest
rose Geiantiy so that forcing We rl::.,e
impossible. and the br..,:gc night easily
be missed in such night. Girlie, who
had been studying up thunderstorms
of late, desired her father to neither
stand nor to run il ever caught by one,
'.,all. pointed objects being fine marks.
Several persons watched from windows
the increasing gloom and fury without
VIXEN dinner was called, but scarcely
were they seated at table when the
waitress appeared at her mistress ell
bow. The school-teachcr at the pro-
fessor's was very i'll; 10 doctor to be
found. Would DR.. Flint accompany the
messenger?
Girlie uttered an involuntary "Oh!"
Mrs. Winters not aword nor even raised
her eyes. Cyrus Flint rose and strobe
from the room. He reappeared be-
capped and becloaked and opened the
outer door. Boo.s was there with two
horses and a lantern, under whose red
glover glistened the coats of rider
and horse. \ fierce gust Of wind met
him, but he made his way out.
s.Father!" the doctor bent from his
saddle; "hold this high and sit low"
and the little figure stood on its tip
toes and reached up small sunshade-
that precious blue silk parasSI-sacri-
feed by warm little heart to cleo
tric greed, confident that surrounding
that beloved head it would be quite
"ta.r' enough and pointed" enough
to avert attack. Bless you, sweetheart:
Take her in,' he cried; but cathy's-
arms were already about her and she
was carried in while her father rode
away into the wild night.
The chime-lille stroke of the great
clock was telling II when a violent
knock came on the kitchen door and
Bcols' voice was heard. Cathy set the
door ajar when Eools pushed it open
and entered, followed by. neighboriDg
farmhanGs bearing rude litter upon
which was stretched. form whose gar
ments. as did those of the other men,
drippeG water which trickled right
and left over the polished floor. The
cook wrung her hands.
"Oh, my! Oh, my. Is he killed or
drowned that you fetch him on raft,
and his fatherIess babe above stairs.
Oh, my! Oh, my"
Hist! Where's the lady?" But Mrs.
Winters, her eyes wide and full of
alarm. already stood on a threshold
reckoning. Bring him this way into
the bedroom, and do you, Boo,s, watch
all the trains and catch the first doc
tor who comes" Then she and Catby
worked over the injured man until day
break, with which came Bools and Dr..
Hale.
Late in the afternoon Dr.. Flint wax
ened, conscious and observant. An anx-
ious face was bending over him, and
before its owner could withdraw the
doctor grasped two small hands.
"Reta! My Reta! see all now. Some
thing has shadowed me persistently
since the night I arrived. For two
years have dreamed Of you by night
and searched for you by day. Reta!
my wife!"
Mrs. Winters Flint sobbed as she hid
her face on his arm.
81 went directly TO Paris where
came to myself and solemnly abjured
my base vanity. 1 did indeed! Uncle
Cook returned with me in the fan and
we have been here ever since. I, wait
ing and watching for my husband, for
1 knew he would also return sooner or
later to find me. Oh, Cyrus, it was my
pride, not my heart. which went~astray
my false pride, but I renounced it
long ago.'
so round this corner in their streets of
life
They. on a sudden, clasped them with
smile"