The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-14

one"
He strobe away, and Jane Greet
brushed the tears from her eyes. "Well,
she's with me-.hiS mother-anyway:
folks cant talk to any great length, -
she thought, with sigh. Then she
went back to the stubborn girl who
was her sons wife.
Margot was sitting where she had
left her, still sewing.
What are you going to doT" asked
Jane; Il harshnesS had crept into her
| tone.
IL have already told you. / shall
| find something to do and | am not
| going back" said the younger woman
IF you are not going back, you shall
find nothing to do. You must stay
here with me- said Jane Greet. Il
Gamma have the VIII lie of keston talkin'
about my sons wife"
And so things went on. Margot
worked for her mother-in-law only;
and her passiyity ate into her very
soul. But she would not go back to
the man to whom she ha,, not yet been
welded year.
There came a day when Jane Greet
met her with an odd look on her with
cred face.
She had not mentioned the name of
the girls husband since that dark
night, deeming it better so; but to-
day she spoke.
He Is going away--my son, and your
man. she said, iierceiy. "Mayhap the
cruise will take him far. and keep him
long; mayhap it will take so far and
keep him so long that he will never re.
turn. And tomorrow he goes" She
went away, trying to hide her tears;
but the lads wife spoke never word.
Jane never knew that that night
Margot went TO look at her old home.
For few short moments she stood in
the darkness, looking ut the windows
or the little house which had seen her
greatest happiness and her passionate
rebellion. There was no light In it,
and she thought David was out until
she heard him begin to sing. That was
an old trick of his--to sing in the dark;
and on the old harmonium he could
pick out just the few notes he needed.
How well she knew the song! He
sang it with little break in his voice;
and she knew who had put that break
there:
Love, ! am lonely, years are so long,
l want you only. you and your song;
Dark IS LIES shore, love, night is so deep;
Leave me no more, love, sing me to sleep.
For moment after the deep voice
had died away she stood there, one
hand pressed close upon her breast.
shaken with the conflict between pride
and passionate regret.
But pride won, and she moved at last
only to go back to his mothers house.
He was gone long. and Margot grew
pale and thin. but she uttered never a
word.
"Girl, you have no Lcart--you are as
cold as a stone,' old Jane burst ont
passlonatcly one day--that day when
news came that David Greet would
never return TO the. little fishing vii !
lagc, but lie instead in the lonely sea!
Still, David's wife would not speak: |
but mt night she stood by her window |
and looked up at the clear stars with |
a white face.
Il think | must have heart, for ! |
can feel 1t break" she said, when |
there was none TO hear her.
But the rumor was a lie and he
came back.
He has done well. and has come
back right, MargOt." said the old wo.
man. She looked at her daughter-in-
law with unc0mprehendlng eyes. "He
could give you tine clothes now and the
best looking house In Keston."
Then, for the first time, was Mar.
got's calm broken, and she was moved
10 speech. II will never go back to
him" she cried flercely. She threw
down her work and left the room.
How was Jane to know that In that |
moment her heart was stolen from her, |
and she felt in its place but lump of |
heavy gold that tore her breast. Wher-
ever she went she felt 1t there. and it |
hurt sOrely. When she passed David |
In the street her liugers shook; but |
hat weight in her bosom pressed, and |
she remembered his gold. and passed
III. Oh! it was III to be without a
leart and have only lump OF gold
hat must always stand between her.
self and the man she loved,
"He Is rich now" said Margot; and
she was careful that she did not meet
lim again. She spent much time In
that her ways might not
ouch his.
la the evenings she sewed still, and
she was sewing when Jane Greet came
10 her with the news which she
thought so III.
"Oh, you are "a wise woman, Mar.
sot.' she said, ito keep away from
such a fool. No one but fool would
lose all his money In going security
for such man as John stanton Is.
David is rich man no more; every
penny that he brought back with him
Is frittered away ana all else that he
iad besides. BE thankful, Margot
Greet, that you are not my sons wife
n anything but name"
She went away, red eyed and furl.
,us old woman; but Margot sat on, like
lne stunned.
Then she arose aud put away her
sewing. She did not set It ON the lit
lie table, as she always did. but rolled
II up and with curiously impatient
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