The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-11

81 III anu NMN NNi" Nat Hs#s H# sa#.at'
as ne can make cut said the mea
aeugefa. briefly. Hurt somehow
internally Is what worries us most
/ And then there came the sound 81
HWeeHIuH skirts Zoo the vide hal
/ without aud thore entered dressed
Ia deep mourning tall. stately
/ gray haired woman whose uatiid
clear eat features under the Wid
aWa cap. Refe almost the counter.
part af those Of the injured man
The young VlrEIuian fairly started
/ Hemhiauee
It la Mime Premier the maiof'f
aunt. said she. extending a slender
white hand Pray be seated. SIR
aud tell me what this dreadful news
may mean where ala this happen :
We dld not know ho waa anywhere
near ne.
This morning quite early away
/ out near the GurlUnfllle road. ana
severed the visitor slowly finding a
seat atila horHe bottled with him
Into the timber aud De was thrown
of BY low branches They took him
/ O. Burton where be- revived enough
/ 20 dictate fhr note Mf Burton sent
/ b. me Dr. Fowler from ghaneel
laHfIfie met me HH I came past
uaHaatI'H. bot they thluk he ought
I % have uf sperry from town
And b be conscious now Ii he
IA much palnf
Conscious part ~ the time ia
pain all uf O.. was the concise an
aWer And now perhaps. madam.
you can tell mo whore 10 find Dr.
apeffy..
james shall go with You an
aWefed madame. HeIf=eauffailed
Nay I ask you 10 bld Dr. 8perfY
come this way ! desire 10 send
vine and comforts 90 him When
did you say be- could be moved
Not for weeks, II an any
judge vas the incorporating an
awef. II the majors own kindred
could be So unsympaihetiealiy cal
loua Al such a time he would be a.
bualaeaslIke.
burton had told him something u
the ma faFa aafroWful dilemma Viz
eluia born and bred. yet ffetted by
promise not 90 take up arms against
the Union BE. TOO. vas compelled
BY einanmafancea 10 stick To the
farm. The only auu If hia mother.
be YES Der .1le support and the re-
crulunK officer az frederlEkhbufg
had rejected him on plea IT defee-
tive eEsa lEht Possibly Burton had
thought II thia and counted % the
active sympathy uf bic selected mes
aenEeF Certainly the messenger be
gan O. understand Why Burton MAS
80 auFIaHa when. az the doorway
the Old darby bent bis head and
whispered aDnan let Mars Major
come home sub pey wAa 60 sol
oilers laakln faw him las night an
old MIaH she. she say be euw d
not e. light fob Dis oWu state
AID this &c seems uaa true Leav-
ing the nreuea 90 her ouu happy
HIfshnad bear Baton HoEue-a plan
tatlaa faand b. be swamued in mort
Earea Madame Premier had come
north aard az ChalmefH invitation.
and al the call of duty. 20 make her
home Milh him and % assume
charge Of her nephew children.
nos that their 'indulFeut Weak and
sentimental grandmother Naa gone
She faaed On her heart Al that
veak. silly. aouileza" woman. biz
mother. Hho had died leaving him
feftarrd and forever diuafaeed aud
oaifaefaedf by the promise she had
rNafted. and that he 20 weakly had
glvan.
There waa neither love nor for
airenaas with The basket she packed
aud sent b pr. sperFy. and no mes
age beyond the conventional hope
I for speedy recovery.
In the thick woods on a little
branch - SeCtta run. winding mid
way between the Burton aud the
I Inekett farms they buiit a cosy
shack. ia which Burton aud lnEra-
ham conveyed their invalid. aud
there. with ample supplies. the two
were left. visited occasionally by =
close mouthed dogtor and ~ Bur
ton.
With nurton's shotgun. Rex spent
/ long hours each day proving
through the timber and the wood
roads In search OF partridge and
rabbit. meeting with more success az
be gained more skill In this way
he found hls old health and strength
returning. and so wandered farther
every day. I'm three weeks time he
H.H HsHaHHN fH. ruaNa ana aa4HH
paths through The Wilderness aud
west ~ Charlottesville. and knew
| them better than many a native.
never dreaming OF what use that
I knowledge would ho 60 him In stir
I ring aud desperate days to come
Chalmers mcuded but slowly and
was consumed with feverish desire
I 90 see his children from whom there
rame an occasional line or message
but Nine Premier wrote only twice
She would observe hernCpheW.a wish
she said. and profess Co know moth
Z ing ~ hIa present whereabouts .uu-
I less questioned by competent
authority Then. he must not ex-
/ poet his fathers sister 10 lie.
The last week o. November was
DYING To "A close when Burton rode
out one afternoon with letter In his
hand. Ii was from Mime Premier.
the second with which she had hon
ored Chalmers n contained a few
I loving lines from hls daughter
. which ne read with trimming eyes
and slowed away with others In his