The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09

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reproachful cry, and turned again to fly.
But she had not gone far before she came
upon the hurrying figures and anxious
faces of the doctor and Hoskins. She
stopped, trembling and irresolute.
"Ah," SAID the doctor, in tone of frank
relief. Here you are! / was getting wor-
red bout you. Waya said you had been
looked at her attentlvely. is anything the
ncatter2'
His evident concern sent warm glow
over her chilly frame, and yet The strange
sensation remained. mo, no. she STAN
mered
DR.. Ruysdael turned to Hoskins GO
back and tell Waya I've found her"
Libby felt that the doctor only want
ed to get rid of mis- companion and be-
came awed again.
Has anybody been bothering your"
No"
Have the diggers frightened you?"
NO" with a gesture of contempt
"IIave you and Waya quarrefed?"
Nary" with faint, tremulous smile.
He still stared at her, and then dropped
his blue eyes musngly Are you lonely
here? Would YOU rather go 10 San JOSEF"
Like fash the figures of the Two smart
ly dressed woman started up before her
again, with every detail of their fresh and
wholesome hnery as cruelty distinct as
had been her own shapeless ugHness in the
mirror of the spring. mo! Mol" she broke
out, Vehemenuy and pasisonatefy, "NeV-
e.!'
He smiled gently. Look here! I'll send
you up some books. You read. don't you?'
She NODDED quickly, Some magazines and
papers Odd l never thought OF 1t before, 3"
he added, half musingly. Come along 10
the cabin. And he stopped again, and
said, decisively the next time you want
anything, don't wait for me to come, but
write"
A few days after he left she received a
package of books-an odd collection Of
novels. magazines and illustrated journals
of the period. She received them eagerly
as an evidence of his concern for her-but
it is to be feared that her youthful ma
ture found little satisfaction in the gratili-
cation of fancy. Many of the people she
read of were strange to her; many of the
incidents related seemed to her mere lies :;
some tales which treated of people in her
own sphere she found profoundly uninter-
esting In one of the cheaper magazine
she CHANGED upon fashion plate; she
glanced eagerly through all the others for
like revelation until she got
dozen together, when she
promptly relegated the remain
ing literature to a corner and oblivion.
The text accompanying the plates was in
iargon not always clear, but her in
stinct supplied the rest. She dispatched
by Hoskins a note to DR.. Ruysdael:
please send me some brite Kalikers and
things for sewing You told me to ask"
A few days later brought the response in
good-szed parcel
Yet this did not keep her from her care
of the stock nor her rambles in the forest;
she was quick 10 utilize her rediscovery of
the spring for watering the cattle; it was
not so far afleld as the half-dried creek
in the canon, and was a quiet sylvan spot
She ate her frugal midday meal there, and
drank of its waters and, secure in her Sc
custom bathed there and made her rude
toilet when the COWS were driven home
But she did not again look into its mir
rored surface when it was tranquil!
And so "a month passed. But when Dr.
Ruysdael was again due at the cabin
a letter was brought by Hoskns with the
news that he was called away on profess
sional business down the coast, and could
not come until two weeks later. In the
disappointment that overcame her she did
not at first notice that Hoskns was gaz-
ing at her with a singular expression
which was really one of undisguised ad-
miration. Never having seen this before
in the eyes of any man who looked at
her. she referred Il to some vague lark
ing or jocularity for which she was in
no mood
SAY Libby you're gettin' to be a right
smart lookin gal! Seems to agree with We
up here" said Hoskins, with an awkward
laugh. "Darned eff We amt lookln' awful
purify
"G'longr' said Liberty Jones, more than
ever convinced of his badinage.
Fact" said Hoskins, energetically.
"Why, Doc would tell we so, too. See eff
he don'tI'
At this Liberty Jones felt her face grow
hot you Jest getv' she said, turning
away i'm as much embarrassment as an
ger. Yet he lowered near her with awk-
ward attentions that pleased while it still
angered her. He offered to so with her
to look up the cows; she fatty declined
vet with a strange satisfaction in his evi-
dent embarrassment This may have lent
some animation to her face, for he drew
a long breath and said:
Don't go perteudin' We don't know yer
purity. Say, let you an me walk bit and
have a talk together" But Libby had an
other idea in her mind and curtly dismiss
ed him. Then she ran swiftly to the
spring, for the words. 1.-THE doc will tell
ye so. too" were ringing in her ears. The
doctor who came with the two beautifully
dressed women He-would tell her she
was pretty She had not dared to look
at herself in that crystal mirror since
that dreadful day two months ago. She
would now.
1t was a pretty place in the cool shade
of the giant trees, and the hoof marks
Of cattle drinking from the run beneath