Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-03-15

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led I'D to the loft the moonlight east n
kind of drcamy beauty and quite ethe-
realized the low brick wall that ran
before the house and which iucloscd a
bare match of sand and two struggling
suufowers ON the zinc roof Of the
great omen wagon house. on the roofs
az thp o-thuildlurs thar Iutfrd from
its side. tbc. moonlight; gl.uted with a
unite prcuIilr brightness iii II seemed
that everv rib in tho metal was OF
Furnished silver
SIeep ruled everywhere. ami the
homestead was not less Guirt than the
solitary plain
In the farmhuusy. r. ..,i wood
en- bedsteaa. Tari Boer
woman. rolled hcayG .-ep
She had gone 60 lt.. -.c always
did, in her clothes. aud '..' night was
warm and the room close. and she
dreamed bad dreams-not OF the ghosts
and devils that so haunted her waking
thoughts. not OF her second husband,
the consumptive Englishman. whose
grave lav away beyond the ostrich
camps. nor of her first, the young
Boer. but only Of the sleeps trotters
she had eaten for supper that night.
She dreamed that one stuck fast in her
throat. and she rolled her huge form
from side TO side and snorted horribly.
In the next room, where the maid
had forgotten to close the shutter the
white moonlight fell in In flood and
made it light as day. There were two
small beds against the wall In one
lay n yellow haired child, with a low
forehead and face of freckles, but
the loving moonlight hid defects here,
us elsewhere and showed only the in
nocent face of a child in It's first sweet
sleep.
The figure in the companion bed be-
longed of right to the moonlight for
1t was of quite ellinlke beauty. The
child had dropped her cover on the
floor, and the moonlight looked in at
the naked little limbs Presently she
opened her eyes and looked at the
moonlight that was bathing her
"EInr' she called to the sleeper in
the other bed, but received no answer.
linen Sle drew lne cover lIOuD lle
floor. turned her pillow and, pulling
the sheet over her head, went to sleep
again.
ONLY In one of the outbuildings that
tutted from the wagon house there was
sono ono who was not sIeep The room
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