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COUNTRY
TAVERN
By JOHN R. MUSICK.

| I'VE never found the body, either. /
wonder whatever become o Mark Hen
derson?"
why, have no idea; but he must be
| dead. No one ever saw him after that
time Oh, it was a shame that he and
his best friend'd fall out and quarrel and
kill each other about that girl, Kate
Ayelsford."
1T wasn't Hates fault" declared Matt.
Kate never sot 'em to fghtin' each
other
Wall, now, there's whar 1 differ with
We, Matt" declared Sukey. ''She war one
O. the worst kind o flirts one ever did see.
Why, she jist TUX delight in breakin'
hearts an turnin' heads
"Oh, no, Sukey, she didn't. Kate was
so hurt when she found that Mark had
done ct, she went off an nobody knows
what became o her."
At this moment they were interrupted
| by loud rapping at the door. The roar
of the wind had prevented their hearing
| the sound of carriage wheels approaching
the house.
Matt, Matt, there's some un at the
door," said Aunt Sukey.
Old Matt got up with some difficulty
for the frosts of many Winters had stiff
fened his joints, as well as whitened his
| hair
Opening the door he found man close
| ly muffied, standing with a whip in his
hand, while by the rays of light issu-
ing from the open door he discovered a
| carriage and horses in the road. a cold
drizze of rain was falling, and the driver
was chilled to the bone.
Il beg pardon, sir" said the shivering
driver; 'but is this Selby Tavern
Yes"
"Well, I'm mighty glad of it, for there's
Teddy in the carriage who wants to come
TO Selby Tavern. 1t seems that no kind
o weather'l stop her, and l brought her"
'Why, bring her in," cried Aunt Sukey,
starting up from her chair in great hurry
to go to the door. ''She must be awfully
chilled in this weather. Bring her in;
bring her in
She was so well muffled that her features
could not be seen, even after she had
entered the house, where the light from
the lamps fell on her, until she had re-
moved her wraps.
Have ye been to supper?" asked Aunt
Sukey.
mo, but 1 am not hungry"
"Lai she haint had no dinner neither"
said the driver, who at this moment ap-
peared at the door to ask about quarters
for his horses.
''She must hev supper" declared the
hostess, and went directly to the kitchen
to start fire in the old stove. Here she
found the mute gazing with her great soul
full eyes upon her, her face pale from some
strange horror.
'Why, la sakes, whatever has got into
Jane? She looks as if she had seen
ghost"
The mute's keen eyes had seen what
her mother had failed to observe. Aunt
Sukey signifed by signs that Jane was to
make a fire in the stove and assist in the
preparation of supper for the fair travel
er.
But before going to her work the mute
by a quick sign arrested the attention of
her mother, who in the dumb language
asked her daughter what was the mat
ter.
Then the mute spelled off on her fin
gers:
"She has been here before. She is the
woman for whom the man was murdered
long ago"
WHAT" CALCULATED Aunt Sukey Kate
Aylesford? Why, I'd as soon hev rattle
snake in my house. But, no; she's suf-
ferin'. She's hungry, wet and cold" Then
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her. Who could help it. You were my
successful rival. | felt it, / knew it, al
most from the first. For the first time
in my life l began to feel the pangs of
jealousy.
Il reasoned that you were rich. You
had all the goods of this world and | none,
and now that | must lose this idol of my
heart was too much for me to endure. |
came 10 hate my best friend and benefac-
tor, and planned to deceive and betray him.
In order to do this l caused false stories
to be circulated, and when he met me on
that night at the mill pond l tantalized
him by falsely declaring that those rumors
were true. In fit Of passion you struck
me, and knocked me into the water. Sup
posing that | was drowned you fled, while
/, recovering, crept out of the pond, and
with heart full of malice determined to
make you believe you had murdered me
by disappearing. For 10 years | have
glutted my vengeance. / sent you into
exile with the brand of Cain upon your
brow. | tore you from the side of the
being whom you loved more than all the
world, and forced you to fly. This is my
crime, Mark; now, can you forgive me!"
There was momentary struggle in
Marks heart, then he gasped:
Yes, yes, as ! hope to be forgiven
True, | have lost the one / loved best
''NO-she is here. Mark, | have had
my eyes on you for all these years; and
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There was something peculiar about
the old Selby Tavern. 1t was quiet and
lonely, yet a cozy old house, with its quaint
gables and its gray chimneys cutting into
the sky. Then there were the distant
mountains, the dark, and seemingly un-
explored forest. Just below the house was
the old mill, silent and falling into decay.
The old doors and heavy wooden shutters
were either off or hanging by one hinge.
Moss had grown over the stone foundation,
and the tall chimneys had partially fallen
down. The mill dam had been broken, and
the pond was almost dry.
The mill was now the home of owls
and bats and other uncanny creatures
which had taken up their abode in the
deserted building. There was a strange
story about the old mill and Seiby Tavern,
running back to a decade and a half.
The chief characters in the story were
a young miller and his friend, young
man suddenly left with a large estate;
among other things the old tavern. A
pretty girl who had come to the mountains
to pass the Summer was one Of the chief
characters of the story. There was a
love affair, and a tragedy, in which the
dark mill pond concealed the great crime.
Only the older inhabitants could remem-
Der it, for decade and a half had wrought
o great change in everything save Selby
Tavern, which was just the same as it was
15 years ago.
The shades of night were falling when
old Matt Still, who kept the tavern, hav-
ing put the COW in the shed with fodder
enough until morning, and stabbed the
horse, entered the house, and seated him
self in one corner by the side of the great
fireplace, which was quite pleasant on this
bleak Autumn evening. The wind blew
chill from the mountains, and the old
-Heathercock seemed to scream as he
swung about on his rusty hinge at the
sport of it.
The only inmates of Selby Tavern were
old Matt, his wife. Aunt Sukey, and their
daughter Jane, who was both deaf and
dumb.
81 reckon no un'll come t'night, Sukey,"
The old man remarked, after brief 81
lence spent in gazing into the fire.
Come! why Matt no one ever comes to
tn tavern now."
"Oh, yes; we hev a stranger occasional
E."
Occasionally; why, we have one about
every three months"
II know it, Sukey. The old place is git
tin mighty lonesome an Improbable; an
was just thinkin' what we'd do f TIL
young master, Mark Henderson, d come
back after all these years, an demand tn
rent, when we've not got a cent t pay
him"
@Oh, guess he wouldn't burst to,
even if he's alive"
"Well, hope he's alive, but I'll never
forgit that awful night when l saw his
white face at my winder, and heered him
whisper t me that he had killed young
Tom Ashley and flung him in tn mill
pond"
"Oh, remember that awful night, and
the awful days when we dragged the
pond and creek for the body" put in old
Sukey in mournful tone, while a shud-
Ger convulsed her frame.
At this moment the mute daughter came
In, silent and expressionless as mutes
usually are, and seated herself near her
mother. She had some knitting in her
hands, for Jane was very industrious
body.
After another pause, during which old
Matt warmed his fingers, he said:
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this night n strange fate has brought us
all again under the same roof. l saw her
enter first from the carriage, then yourself,
and finally followed myself"
"Kate-Kate Aylesford hereT asked
Mark Henderson.
"Yes-she is in this house. At this mo-
ment she is in that room," pointing toward
the old diningroom.
At this moment the door opened and old
Uncle Matt entered the front room. His
eyes opened wide in astonish-
ment at seeing two strangers.
where he had only left one. His eyes
opened still wider as he heard the wonder
full story, and when it had all had time
to soak through his thick skull, he gave
vent to a shout of joy which brought his
wife into the sitting-roOm.
'Sukey, Sukey, Sukey, look here. Here
is Tom Ashley alive. and Mark Hender-
son, our young landlord. come back, an
not a murderer after ALL"
Kate gave a wild shrek of joy and
swooncd.
When she recovered she was reclining in
the arms of the man she had learned to
love in the long ago. His great. brown
eyes were fixed upon her face with the
tenderness of old, and she murmured half
inaudibly:
Has all this been frightful dream,
and am | carried back to those happy
days of old?"
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''Kate, let us look upon it as frightful
dream from which we have awakened into
glorious, happy reality"
An hour was spent in explanations, each
trying TO comprehend what the other
meant. Even the mute discovered that
something of great moment had happened,
and her mother had to spell out on her
fingers a full explanation.
There were three light hearts in the
old tavern that night. Tom Ashley was
happy because he had TiGhted a great
wrong, Mark Henderson was happy in the
discovery that after all he had committed
no great crime. and Kate AylesfOrd was
happy in the love of the man who was
dearer than life to her. The only person
who was not perfectly happy was Uncle
Matt. He led Mark aside and said:
Mark, boy, now we've come back,
don't know how I'm goin' to pay tn rent,
seein' as | hevn't got cent"
We'll, Uncle Matt, | am in forgiving
! mood tonight, and l will forgive that
debt"
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