The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-03

waving his hand to the row OF llshted
shops. "Slaving and sleeping as If
they knew what for! Where ere the
people that kept shop in old Rome"
"Dead. mcst likely"
Eyes, and what did they live for?"
| For the fun thsere was in it, I
guess
"Clever, you are" Baldwin was
choking with a speeches. contempt.
Wickens saw the quarrel to which
they were drifting. "Well." he said:
":you may finish this walk alone,'
and stopped before book shop win
dow to look over the array 81 vol
umes.
Baldwin stalked down the street,
nur sing his mood. W;ckens was q
fool at any rate-always had been.
All men were idiots, or they would
not go gambolling around in this
slaughter house as if the butcher were
not waiting for them with the inevita-
BILE knife. He, Charles McTaggart
Baldwin, was going to be sheep no
longer. He was going TOTO do
something or other, It did not mat
ter what.
He turned down a side street and
attempted short cut across the road:
way. He heard feeble shrek behind
him. Something struck him stitfy in
the side. An arm clutched about MS
neck and before he could put out his
hand the asphalt pavement reached
up and struck him sledge-hammer
blow on the forehead. There was an
explosion in his brain like the sudden
fame OF fashlight. Then oil the
instinct of the animal reused him to
self-preservation. Drawing his legs
up under-Ihim. be arched his back,
slipped the enemys hold over bis
head and crooked his arm up to ward
of a possible blow. The foe lay limp
on the road beside him. Hehad been
run down by a young lady on BIZ
cycle.
"Oh," be said, recovering himself
at once.
II beg your pardon" He had
sprung to his feet. Are you hurt:'
and vas trying to disentangle her from
the machine.
| She drew her feet up helplessly IN
to her skirts. He was plucking those,
with hurried clumsaness, from the
teeth Of the gearing. ''I didn't see
you coming" he apologized as he
raised her. II hope you're not hurt.
She pressed her hand, painting,
against her side. "No-o," she gasped:
"ou!y frightened
But when he released her she tot
tered as if to fall, and he was COM
PEELED to retain his hold upon her
arm, embarrassed and speeches..
cit was so stupid Of me-" shs fall
tered, linping to the curbstone. i
thought could get by you, Mr.. Bald
win
He peered down at her in the dark
ness. "Why," he smiled, IT didn't
know you"
She laughed somewhat Historically.
"I saw you coming through the light.
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She freed herself from his arm.
Baldwin returned to midroad for the
bicycle and his hat. When he came
back he found her sitting on the curb.
"You are hurt" he said anxiously.
"My ankle" she replied. 81 have
sprained it, 7 think. -
He hesitated moment. Take my
arm," he said, "and try if you can
walk"
By leaning heavily on him she sue.
ceeded in limping along. BE wheeled
the bicycle with his other hand, still
O. bit embarrassed. But she laughed
and chatted. 1t had been so stupid
of heri It was a wonder she hadn't
killed him. What had he thought it
was that struck him?
eighty per cent. OF some bands van
8 is6ed under the COD ditions Of shor
grass and deep SNOW. The cattle an
Sheep, on the other hand, are round
! Tt.--'-.,sa in the lower valleys during tn
leaped upon n1ssS:'->-sthe. winter.
be said, II took you for toor5ao---.'
The remembrance Of it stirred her
to nervous merriment. Her laugh
was not unpleasant. She choked
prettily at his whimsical description
of his preparations for defence, and
that description became so convul-
sively amusing for moment that
they stood together on corner shak-
ing with laughter. They went on more
soberly when the it had passed, but
the barriers were down between them
and conversation was as easy as that
of old friends.
The distance from the scene Of the
collision to her home was not great.
Baldwin rang the door bell and
assisted in allaying the anxiety Of the
family. They laughed at last, at a
Joint description Of the accident as
given by the heroine and the hero
of it.
When she had been assisted to her
room by a younger sister, Baldwin
remained to exchange small talk and
drink cool drinks below stairs. Be-
fore he left he had been brushed
clean of the roadway dust by
"brother Tom thanked by her
mother for his kindness to daughter
of the house and invited by the smiI-
ing family to call again.
Accordingly he did that, On the
evening following, to see how the
sprained ankle was progressing. The
young woman herself received him.
He found her very pale and pretty,
amiable and altogether interesting.
He had called, on an average, three