Middletown transcript., 1898-06-04
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du0 IOuuQ Ju0 uOu0y put lyuS dlOuSSlu6
of him. But there; it's all over now. ]
wouldn't have let on word to you only
couldn't bear to take your thanks for
it, and I couldn't bear to have you
thinking me brute for lodging them. "
He stopped, walked to the fire, leaned
against the chimney under the shallow
pretext of kicking the dull embers into
blaze, which, however, had only the
effect of revealing his two glistening
eyes as he turned back again and came
toward her.
"Well." he said, with an Intellectual
laugh, "it's all over now, and it were
all in the days work, I reckon, and
now. miss, if you re ready and will just
fix yourself your own way SO as to ride
easy, I'll carry you down." And slight
ly bending his strong figure he dropped
on one knee beside her with extended
arms.
Now, it is one thing to be carried up
hill in temperate, unconscious blood
and practical business fashion bya tall,
powerful man with steadfast, glowering
eyes, but quite another thing to be car
ried down again by the same man who
has been crying and when you are con-
scious that you are going to cry, too,
and your tears may be apt to mingle.
So Miss Amy Forester said: "Oh, wait,
please. Sit down a moment. Oh, Mr..
Tenbrook, am SO very, very sorry"
And, clapping her hand to her eyes, she
burst into tears
"Oh, please, please don't, Miss For
ESTER" said Jack, sitting down on the
end of the bunk with frightened eyes,
"please don't do that. It ain It worth it.
I'm only brute to have said anything"
"No, no. You are SO noble, SO forgiv-
ing" sobbed Miss Forester, "and I
have made you go and kill the only
thing you cared for, that was all your
own"
"No, miss, not all my own either,
and that makes it SO rough, for it was
only left in trust with me by friend.
It was her only companion.
"Her only oompanion?" echoed Miss
Forester, lifting her bowed head.
Except, +" said Jack hurriedly, mis-
comprehending the emphasis with mas
culine faulty, "except the dying man
for whom she lived and sacrificed her
whole life. She gave me this ring to al
ways remind me Of my trust. / sup
pose," he added, ruefully looking down
upon it, "it's no use now. I'd better
take it off. -
Then Amy eyed the monstrous object
with angelic simplicity. "I certainly
should" she said, with infinite sweet
ness. "It would only remind you of
your loss. But" she added, with a
sudden, swift, imploring look of her
blue eyes, 'if you could part with it to
me it would be such reminder and to-
kan of-of your forgiveness.
Jack instantly handed it to her
sAnd now," he said, "let me carry you
down."
ST think" she said hesitatingly,
"that-I had better try to walk" And
she felt herself lifted in the air, smelled
the bark thatch within an inch Of her
nose, saw the freight vanish behind
her, and, subsiding into his curved arms
as in hammock, the two passed forth
into the night together.
ST can find your bracelet nowhere,
Amy" said her father when they
reached the wagon.
SIT was on the floor in the hut" said
Amy oarelessly. "That was what de-
tanned u.s."
My pen halts with some difidence be-
tween two conclusions to this veracious
chronicle. AS they agree in result,
though not in theory or intention, l
may venture to give them both. To one
coming from the lips of the charming
heroine herself naturally yield the
ooh, the bear storyl /
don't really remember whether that was
before 7 was engaged to John or after,