Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-12
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partikler."
/ The girl lying on the bed sprang up
on her hands at once, and glared toward
them both, shaking her long black hair
from her head as she did so. Her face
was flushed with sleep, but the palfor
rapidly stole over it as she recognized
Reuben Culwick standing by the FIRE
. place observing her.
T. What can you want?' she murmured;
what has made you come in search of
meY
| Ito help you," was the answer. ''for
| am afraid that you are in bad hands. and
I wish to take you from them."
There's no getting away" answered
Sarah; TASK her."
''Tom wouldn't like it." said Mrs. East
bell, thus appealed to. "Sally's handy"
"And Sally knows too much" added
the girl, scornfully. ''and if she moved ons
step away from home they would tell the
police where to find me-"
Il wouldn't. Sally" said the woman,
raising her head from the wall. and in
clining it forward in her self-defense.
| You know who would"
! "Ah! l cant answer for him." replied
Mrs. Eastbell. leaning her head back
again; when his backs up he don't mind
much what he does. certainly, and mis-
FORUM has soured him awful"
Il saw your grandmother yesterday"
said Reuben.
You did?'' exclaimed she-'at Wor-
cester? l hope she was well-that she
didn't know anything"
''No-she lay there just as j saw her
weeks ago, very patient, very gentle, and
very full of love for you. She was wait
| e. I, I
Couldn't she come to you? 1, don't
mean at once" he added. as Sarah re-
coiled at the suggestion. s'but after you
had left here and, got some situation,
which might enable you to hire room
| for her. A friend of mine has found you
situation already. and will be security
for your faithful service. until they learn
to trust you for yourself" -.
| Sarah broke down at last. The thin
| little hands went up quickly to the face,
and she sobbed forth:
"God bless you. ST; but don't-oh, don't
! say another word"
| But Reuben Culwick, carried away by
his theme, seized his advantage and
| went on. He had one object in life now
| to get Sarah Eastbell from that house.
"Why, you are my COUSIN" he said
| earnestly, land why shouldn't l help
| you for your own sake, as well as for the
| sake of that old woman grieving for you
down in Worcester"
Sally" said her sister-in-law, slowly
| and emphatically, "I've been a thinking
| it all over"
"Well?" said Sarah Eastbell.
| "And if you'd like to go. I'll not blab
| a single word against you, even if he kills
| me. and he's often said he would. He
! ~ h. hoSII
| think twice about doing you an ill turn.
| He's not so bad, you know. take him al
| together Go-run away-hook it," ex-
claimed Mrs. Eastbell, with increasing
| excitement evidencing itself along with
her slangy phraseology, while there's
| time!'
Sarah wavered, for she turned quickly
to her sister-in-law.
"You-you mean this? You will not
| tell Tom or Toms friends-you will let
| me pass from this place unwatched-you
will give me time to get away?"
''Of course + WILL"
81 came here of my own free will, sir,
| not knowing where to go in my despair
| and fright" she said, turning to Reuben;
| but. oh. if 1 could get away again. If
! you only knew that"
| Her hands fell helplessly to her side,
| and she went backward step by step to
| the bed again, where she sat down with
| a new horror on her countenance.
The door had opened and Tom East
| bell. with his long great-coat buttoned
round him, was standing in the doorway
regarding them. Over his shoulder loom
| ed the forbidding countenance of the man
| who had met Reuben at the entrance,
| which. by the jarring and Changing that
| echoed through the house. was evidently
being bolted and barred.
Ito be continued.)