El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

For Miss Ellery, With all his fierce
Impotence to be off, that put differ
ent face upon it. Certainly, Mrs. Ell
lery. 1 shall be glad he said, turning
back to the barns He had but just fin
ished saddling when Miss Ellery, in her
riding dress, came hurrying across the
lawn.
"twanted to see you I have run away
from Mrs. Ellery," she breathlessly ex-
claimed as he met her at the gate.
"You have not mentioned that you
heard the noises last night?''
"No. felt a little cheap, to tell the
truth, to have been fairly upon the
ground and then have let them run off
my own horse from under my very
nose And besides,'' his eyes seeking
hers in deprecating inquiry II did not
know. l was afraid that perhaps Mrs.
Ellery might have heard you as you
went in. 1 could hardly afford to take
chances of that sort.
ooh, she didr' she said in a voice of
agony, her cheeks aflame- 81 stumbled
over chair. Was there ever such luck?
The noise was enough to wake the dead.
Nelsine came flying in, thinking had
a nightmare, perfectly dumfounded to
find me still dressed and out of bed. /
told her that had only fallen asleep in
the hammock 1t was horrible to have
to fib like that and to think that now it
may all come OUT
''But why should anything come out
Miss Ellery?'' he eagerly protested. 81
assure you
''You will not tell of it?'' she cried
in an anguish of entreaty. Promise me
that you will not whatever comes up. "
Elbow can you ask such thing? How
can you imagine such a possibility:
Don't you know that 1 would die
thousand deaths before I would let you
have a moments annoyance because OF
last night?" he protested, with a sort Of
furious tenderness. 1t seemed to him
that this sting of her doubt, added to
his physical pain, must well nigh drive
him mad ''How can you hurt me by
limiting such n thing, when you know
how can you help knowing?-thatl
am yours body and soul; that 1 could
not be unfaithful to you? Why will you
torture me sop
"Hush, you must not, :" she whispered
breathlessly, hurriedly turning toward
her horse, which had strayed the length
of the long bride rein and was now
quietly nipping grass. A mass of wild
gate, and in her sudden turn she had
stepped back among them. The ragged
petals of a flower brushed one hot cheek
with touch like an insect, and as she
put up her hand to the spot she sudden
ly paused as though turned to stone. 1t
seemed to Brown as If some thought
had struck her which she was impul-
sively considering, hesitating, yet per-
I, 70. ar11 no to1
With a wild, unexpressed hope f1uttering
at his heart, looking at her with dumb
questioning, until, still glued to the
spot, she raised her finger ard pointed.
my God!'' he hoarsely CALCULATED,
thrusting her aside with such rude force
that she almost fell to the ground, while
he furiously bent himself to trampling
down the softly glittering coil of mot
tied browns which now he saw for the
first time. It was such a combat as he
had met numberless times before in his
life upon the plains, but now, in the
sudden perception of the danger, with
the time lost in the instructive move
ment to save her, and with his stiffen-
ed, almost useless right foot, his cum
ming failed him by just % much as he
left the ugly, swaylng head free to
throw itself against his ankle just at
the point where he had cut loose the
boot but moment before. He had been
pale, but now he was CHASTITY, his sun
burned face like a carving in old ivory,
but ne calmly ground his heel upon the
quivering coil, nor stopped until its slow
surrender to death was well assured,
even reaching down then, from force OF
cowboy habit, to break off the rattles.
hcu for
he asked, with a wan smile, holding
out on his palm the dull husk of CORFU
gated horn.
"a rattlesnake, and my dress brushed
right across it'll" she gasped, pale as the
dead. And, oh, heaven, did it bite
you? Oh, it cannot have bitten your
wringing her hands wildly, the suffer
ing i'll her eyes entreating him to reas-
s-sre her.
Don't be worried about it little
girl, he murmured gently. eff there
is whisky enough about the place, ]
dare say l shall pull through all right,
and if don t.
But Edith was flying toward the
house, calling out incoherent explana-
ton as she ran to NeIsine, who was
pportunely coming around the corner
rom the kitchen. ''Where is the whis- {
y? Where?" she cried, seizing upon
he bewildered woman and shaking her
renziedly as though she would wrest
he Information from her by sheer force.
oh, L know, l saw some in your closet.
DON'T come with me. Go and do what
GU can for him!''
"I'II take care of him. exclaimed
Artaliss.s, who had heard through the
pen window, darting by them as she
poke AS Edith came out with the
Whisky tile girl met her ON the piazza,