New-York tribune., 1904-09-12

panse OF white apron to the world = bunch n,
dies. was secured between her person and the band
OF this garment the points or the quilts upper
Craving Jessie Mary over the threshold. she
'Dinna think A didna see ye. ye limmerr' she
exclaimed. taking the girl roughly by the shoulder
The little room overookinS the ysrd Which wa.
siotted 10 her was no smaller than the corner she
stialng effect and its paper which bore nsn smaiI
lilac flower on bun ground. dazzled her eyes and
seemed 10 press on her from all sides In tho
cracked lookine-eIass which hung on it she could
she combed and fattened her thick hair in accord
ance with Mrs 1Iuirhead's ideas. In leisure mo-
wear when noTnpIefed Mrs. Trbead SnS was an 10
moved - finding that she could hardly use a
needle she was far from being unkind woman.
but her understanding stopped ~ the limits OF her
oth oWn reqilTernents and bad never travelled into
limitations appeared to her the result Of natural
Wherever the ward was unoccupied by the planks
or The piFstay. II was set about with hencoops.
10 peTvade the parts of the wood in those
eternal perambuiatons which occupy fowls Just
strip OF sandy soil in which the hens would settle
themselves with much clucking and tail-shsking.
at their kind Through this the Dorklng cock
ladies' OF his family 10 scratch among the tree
roots; and tho wood for about twenty Yards from
The house wore that peculiar scraped and bs
festhered look which announces the proximity ~
hen roost Al night the lower branches were
which would esoape from them II was part Of
Jessle-Mary g duty 70 attend to the wants Of this
There were times when longing for fight took
the haif-civilzed girl though the feeling was
ways been kind Of inevitable accident thing in
whose ordering she had no part as a whole how
eyer much choice she might have had in its de-
Mrs. Murhead ordered her day. and she tolerated
II best she could. She hardly knew what TO do
with her small wage when she got 1t. for the hnery
dear TO the heart OF the modern servant was
thing of which she had no knowledge and there
dependent relative who might demand 1t OF
her.
whose occupation kept him, Of necessity. nj home.
and whose presence grew more hateful time
OF his leerinR smile 1t was only on one day or
the week that she free OF him: and on these
Sunday afternoons, as he went up the road TO
ioIn the lettering knot OF 'horsernen' from the
nearest farm she would watch him thankfully out
OF sight the shelter of the loaning. She hated
him with all her heart.
He would lurk about in the evenings trying 70
wayiay her among the trees she went 10 gather
IN the fowls and once. coming suddenly her
his arm about her neck She had felt his hot
breath on her ear, and in her fury, pushed him
from her with such violence that ne staggered
fell through cutting his elbow a piece OF broken
glass She had stood staring at him he lay
cursing half terrified at what she had done, but
rejoicing 20 see the blood trfckle down his sleeve
she would have liked to kill him. The dreadful
combination of his instincts and his shamblingness
not realize II; and his meanness had. more than
once got her into trouble with his mother. She
head as she we'll knew. To more complicated
nafIIre the position would have been uncomfortable.
bnt Iessie-Mary endured stuhhornly vndictively,
as an animal endures. She was in a cruel position,
and her ony safegtia rd lay In TIE fact that Peter
Muirhead was repulsivc 90 her, But neither moral
itv nor expediency nor The armed panopy Of all
tha ,Sirt,ies has vet succeeded IN nyentinE for a
woman a safeguard so strong her taste.
co be continusd)