Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-07-02

and pink; upper lip pink, but very thin
and curlcd There were four white
spots on the nail OF her right hand
f0rclinger. and her eyebrows were very
Gclicately curved. The gentleman look
( I'd thoughtful as trying 10 remember.
YES. and a rosebud tinge in tie
checks. hands Ike lilies and perfectly
/ seranhic smile"
THAT Is she. That is she" cried
! Gregory.
Who else could Il be? lie asked
where she had gone 70. The gentle
.aen most thcurhtfully strGied his
/ beard lie would try to remember.
I Were not her ears Here such vio-
I ,nnt III Of coughing seized him that
/ he ran away into the house. An i'll fed
/ clerk and q dirty barman standing in
/ the doorway laughed aloud. Gregory
| wondered II they could be laughing NJ
| the gentlcman's cough, and then he
| heard some one laughing In the room
| into which the gentleman had gone.
| He must follow him and try TO learn
more, but he soon found that there
was nothing more to be learned there.
! Poor Gregory.
One day, coming to a little town, his
| horses knocked up. he resolved TO rest
| them there. The little hotel of the
| town was a bright and sunny place,
| like the jovinl face Of the clean little
! woman who kept 1t and who trotted
about talking always; talking to the
| customers In the taproOm and to the
| maids In the kitchen and to the pass
| ersby when she could hail them from
| the windows; talking, as good natured
women with large mouths and small
| noses always do, IN season and out.
There was n little front parloT in the
| hotel. Kept for strangers who wanted
| to be alone Gregory sat there 10 eat
| his breakfast, anG the landlady busted
| the room and talked of the great finds
| at the diamond fields and the badness
| of maldservants and the shameful con-
| duct of the Dutch parson in that town
to the English Inhabitants. Gregory
| ate his breakfast and listened to moth
| ing. He had asked his one question,
| had had his answer Now she might
| talk on.
| Presently a door In the corner open
| ed, and a woman came out-a Mozam-
| biquer, with a red handkerchief twist
| ed round her head. She carried in her
hand tray with a slice of toast crum-
| blcd fine and half filed cup Of coffee
| and an egg broken open, but not eaten.
Her ebony face grinned complacenty
as she shut the door softly and said,
| Good morning"
The landlady began to talk to her.
you are not going to leave her real
| ly, Ayah, are you?" she said. The
maids say 50, but I'm sure you
wouldn't do such q thing"
The Mozambiquer grlnned.
| Husband says I must go home
! But she hasn't g0l any one else and
| won't have any one else. Come, now
| said the landladv. I've no time to
| be sitting always IN a sickroom not If
I was paid anything for It"
| The Mozambiquer only showed her
| white teeth good naturedly for an
| swer and went out and the landlady
followed her.
Gregory, glad to be alone, watched
| the sunshine as It came over the
| fuchsias IN the window and ran up and
down on the paneled door in the cor
ner. The Mozambiquer had closed it
| loosely behind her, and presently
something touched It inside. II mov-
ed Il little Then it was STILL then NOV
| cd again. Then through the gap
| small nose appeared and 4 yellow ear
| fnrt-A-~'.=o,sa- eye Then the whole
| head obtruded, placing 1usert-
on one side, wrinkled its nose disap-
provingly at Gregory and withdrew.
Through the half open door came a
| fair scent of vinegar, and the room
| was dark and still
| Presently the iandlady came back
Left the door open," she said, bus
Ting to shut 1t, "but a darky will be a
! darky and never carries q head on his
shoulders like other folks. Not III, l
hope sir?" she said, looking at Greg
ory when she had shut the bedroom
| door.
"Who," asked Gregory, ais in that
roomY
| Glad to have little innocent piece Of
| gossip to relate and some one willing
to hear it, the landlady made the most
of a little story as she cleared the ta-
BILE. Six months before a lady had
come alone to the hotel IN n wagon,
with only a colored leader and driv-
er. Eight days after little baby had
been born. If Gregory stood up and
looked out at the window, he would
see blue gum tree in the graveyard.
! Close by 1t was a little grave. The ba-
by was buried there, a tiny thing, only
lived two hours, and the mother her
self almost went with it. After awhile
she was better, but one day she got up
out Of bed, dressed herself without
saying a word to any one and went
out 1t was n drizzly day. little
time after some one saw her sitting on
the wet ground under the blue gum
tree, with the rain dripping from her
hat and shawl. They went to fetch
her, but she would not come until she
chose. When she did, she had gone to
bed and had not risen again from 1t;
never would, the doctor said.
She was very patient poor thing.
When you went in to ask her how she
was. she said always Better or
Nearly well' and lay still in the dark
| Gltu IOpul anu new u lAOdbASh ttAAJ Ni4N'
The Mozambiquer took care Of her,
and she would not allow any one else
to touch her; would not so much as al
low any one else to see her foot uncov-
cred She was strange in many ways,
but she paid well, poor thing! And
now the Mozambiquer was going, and
she would have to take up with some
one else.
Before dinner he had ridden out OF
the town to where on a rise number
of transport wagons were 'outspan'
ned" The Dutchman driver Of one
wondered at the strangers cagerness
to free himself Of his horses. Stolen
perhaps, but il was worth his while tt
buy them at so low a price, so the
horses changed masters, and Gregory
walked off with his Saddlebags sluna
across his arm. once out of sight OF
the wagons, he struck out of the ronC
and walked across the weld, the dry
Towering grasses waving everywhere
about him. Half way across the plaiI
he came to deep gully which the rail-
, torrents had washed out, but whicl
. was now dry. Gregory sprang dowI
!. into It's red bed. 1t was safe place
and quiet. When he had looked abOu
him. he sat down under the shade o.
an ovcrhauging bank and famed him
self with his hat, for the Afternoon
( ,,,,- I,,t onI lac Ip1 walked fast y