Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-17

AMY vino Dlu6 eyes uaSneO JOY al
the unfolding OF this brilliant plan.
He had never thought of Peggy's
money as currency which might be
put to use. 1t was simply a valuable
possession. boarded for her.
Peggy was directly received into the
Rutledge family, where she had an
abundance of good food and AIMS
teaching and companionship for a
stipulated sum in shillings and fps
amounting to less than two dollars a
week. To her 1t was season Of Joy
and rapid development Viane Rut-
ledge. herself budding into girlhood.
watched the Spaniard with surprise and
reluctant approval. Peggy's angles
disappeared. She shot up taller. Her
lissome limbs were round, and her
hating step without crutch had an
appealing charm. Her little face
gathered a sweetness which provoked
kisses; 1t had the clean polish of a
flower petal. She was SO good and SO
happy, so busy learning how to man
age the affairs of daily living, and so
glad to draw her breath, that every
body said, 'She Is growing prettyi
Whoever imagined that little weakened
Spaniard would turn out like this?"
Antywine and Lincoln were away an
til early in June. They came driving an
ox-wagon from the west into New Salem
one evening at sunset, and drew up at
the vacant cabin which Antywine in
tended to make his own It stood
waiting for him in primitive security.
The ox-wagon carried a squat, low
chest of drawers, evidently bought
at secondhand, but bright and rosy
through its old mahogany surface, and
Antywine's first housekeeping invest
ment. Lincoln helped him unload II,
and they set it on the sward before
the cabin door.
II lift him into The house myself, -
said Antywine. So Lincoln drove the
borrowed cattle on, knowing he was
welcome to put them into anybody s
pasture until he and his chain bearer
returned them.
Antywine opened the door of the
playhouse he was intending to make
for Peggy. Though the sensitive part
Of him, which Peggy said was like a
woman, Quivered with delight, he had
a free, bold spirit. ready to dare any
thing. On long tramps and rides and
through days of mechanical labor with
q master mind he had been coming
to his own as a man
There's a mighty difference" Lin
coin once said to him, between study
Ing with the outside Of your eyeballs
and studying with your eyes open clear
g. A1,a -
Antywins saw that new oiled paper
would have to be put into the weather
beaten windows, over which Peggy
would hang short white curtains, per-
hsps like those that could be showed
apart on strings at the tavern. He
selected the corner for his chest of
drawers, and was silently calculating
how long it would take to turn out
chairs and tables at the cooper's shop,
when the smell OF cob pipe made
him shut the door to keep Sally from
looking into his house. Sally had come
up behind him and was examining tho
chest of drawers. IL earlier days, be-
fore beard grew upon her face. or
avarice and vindicHveness hewed It,
her piercing black eyes may have been
admired. She fixed them on Antywins.
He touched his cap with the courtesy
his father had taught him to show all
women, and said, Good day, Sally"
lie heard Lincoln's gee-hawing to the
oxen turn to "W'oa, Buck!" and saw
that Sticky Green and young Yates
had come down the road to meet the
surveyor.
Have you heard about Peggy's
oeath?" inquired Sally.
Her death?' Antywine repeated.
Yes. She was buried week ago"