Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-07-30

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In front of the closed schoolhouse.
Nobody would ever wait for him at
that rock again. He ran along the
ravine below the gardens and returned
to his house, barring the door and
drawing the latch-string in. Lying on
the floor in the darkest corner, he hid
his weeping. and made no answer to
the young men, who called his name
through the window.
Sally was asleep in her own cabin
long before Antywine crept out Of his
and took the road to Concord burying-
ground. II was a long walk under
blurred stars, for the wind changed
after midnight, belying the promise OF
a fair sunset
Antywine tried to bring Peggy's face
before him, with its many fitting ex-
pressions. Her eyes were hazel, or
black, or gray, by changeable turns,
swarming with points of light He
remembered drinking from the gourd
after her, on the very side where she
had drank, and the pleased trembling
of her lips when she noticed 1t. All the
ways and traits which went to the
making OF the companion he called
sweetheart were present to his mind,
when cropping among saplings in the
thinly peopled burying- ground he came
to Shickshack's sunken grave which
he had himself helped to make, and
found fresh clay hillock beside it.
The latter part of the night rain
poured upon the chest of drawers
which Antywine had left standing in
front of the cabin and streamed down
it's polished sides. Rain beat upon
Antywine through sapling boughs, sat
urating his linsey hunting-shirt and
darkening his worn buckskins.
Drenched grass and tangle of little
trees he scarcely felt or saw when
sodden and miserable daylight came.
BY the end of the afternoon some light
.crept out from sunset, and there was
a clearing UP in the west Lincoln
climbed the burying-ground fence, and
found Antywine lying asleep across the
new-made grave. He was so CHASTITY
that Lincoln at once shook him, feel
ing relieved when he opened his eyes.
The boy looked up at the mole like
warm pulsing heart ON his friends
cheek. But his friends eyes twinKled
What are you doing here on old
Daddy Cameron's grave, Artywfne"
Antywine sprang as from a rattle
snake. He was exhausted, SO that Lin
coin gave him both hands to help him
rise.
Daddy Cameron diea last week and
they buried him in the same row with
Shickshack. He was fine old man,
but II l were you l wouldn't lie out
all night and all day on his gravel"
sally have ten me this is where she
Is bury'!"
who? Peggy"
Eyes, Sieur Abe. Where is. shez7
AT the tavern"
"She is not de&d7''
Not Bit"
'But Sally have tell me-"
Haven't you summered and wintered
Sally long enough to know when she
is paying you grudge?"
But I run to the tavern myself
'.And scare Ann, and run away again
without asking any questions I've
had a long jaunt through the mud and
searched the better part of day for
y oU"
Antywine threw his arms around
Lincoln and sobbed and laughed like
a woman. He swayed, and could !
scarcely stand
You've made yourself sick being SO
when you ought to lave
kept your wits. That Borimer fellow
is back at the Grove again. and he's
making bold stand now. II he had
known carry that snakeskin
reckon he would have followed our
chain. But Dick Yates is here. We
tried TO find you last night, and
couldn't
81 tell Sally not believe hertz
shivered Antywine.
and then you leg & out here and
pass a sentimental night and watery
day on Daddy Cameron's grave! Tim
at you!"
The American way of joking over
what had been tragedy seemed
delicious to the Canadian boy as he
tramped back the long seven miles,
When he reached his house at the end
of the village Lincoln did not think 1t
advisable to take him any farther.
Antywine was so Ill that he lay down
upon the floor. resisting any suggestion
Of food.
Through delirious ayes he saw the
blaze, which Lincoln eontrived to start
La the chimney, interlace sticks piled
there months before In readiness for
q first house-warming.
Lincoln was ON his knees blowing
it when he heard Sticky Green pant
through the door:
Arc you here, Ahef You're wanted
at the tavern"
Whats the matter at the tavern?"
The Grove boys are coming to
throw everything out of doors II you
don't give that Lorimer man the Span
lard and her money"
How do you know"