The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-11

| no humoT for such playfulness, and
slapped her on the head. The sen
sitive horse ieaped to the other side of
! the stall and looked at him in aston
| ishment. She had never felt such a
! thing before.
You must come in and get some
supper before you go. It's all ready"
! said Mrs. Morgan.
I'm not hungry. and I haven't
| time" he said shortly.
He seldom spoke rudely to her and
she knew that he must be greatly wOr-
ried.
The horse was bridIed and saddIed
and ready to lead out, when George
thought of the old clothes he had on.
I must change my coat" he said TO
his mother, and ran to the house.
The horse began eating again with
the bit in her mouth. Mrs. Morgan
patted her neck and sides.
Jenny, my beauty" she said. 'he
| slapped you. but he did not mean it
no, he didn't"
She thought of her supper and hur-
ried to. the house. On the way she
met George coming back.
You won't be gone long, will you?'
| she asked.
L don't know" he said. Here. read
| this; 1 must hurry and he handed
| her the letter
The air was chilly. and she hurried
TO the house before she looked into it;
I then she read:
Dear George. the doctor says that
/ Jenny cannot live through the night.
Please come quick.-Lizzy."
/ For long time Mrs. Morgan sat
/ still. thinking of her unhappy son and
/ her poor neighbOTs. Tears of SYM
/ pathy ran down her cheeks. At last
| with a sigh she went into another
room and told her husband to come to
I supper. At the table she told him
/ where George had gone, and on what
/ occasion. After supper the evening
was passed i'm silence. Mr. Morgan
went to bed as early as usual, but his
/ wife sat up waiting for George to
come home, and to give him his sup
/ per. But he had not returned at 10
( O'Clock, and she went to bed with
| heavy heart. She was awakened often
4 in the night by horses galloping along
| the road. but none of them stopped at
! their gate. Next morning. when she
/ got up she went to Georges room to
4 see II he had come home in the night
but the bed had not been slept in and
there were no signs of his return. She
I got breakfast while her husband did
I Georges morning work She delayed
calling her husband to breakfast as
! long as possible, but at last she de-
| SPARED of Georges coming, and they
\ lent meal when they heard a click of
/ the latch of the barn-lOt gate. They
saw George leading his horse to the
| barn.
After he had fed her he came slowly
/ to the house. When ne came in, his
mother took his hand and looked into
/ his eyes without saying anything. He
returned the look in a daZed sort of
way for a short time. then burst into
tears and turned away. She chung to
| his hand as he dropped into a chair
I and hid his face in his other arm on
| the table She moved few dishes out
of the way and whispered her sym
pathy in his ear for she knew what
! had happened. With his face muff1ed
/ in his left arm he sobbed out his sOr-
row rather than talked.
"Oh. I'm miserable wretch She
thought I did not want to marry her
was ashamed to tell her that ] put
it of because pa objected. She thought
I didn't want to-
Mr. Morgan sat at the other end of
the table and played nervously with
his coffee cup.
And last night she said" he went
on: Z George, I'm going to postpone
il this time l told her then that pa
made me- She looked - happy. She
said Tell your pa that I'm sorry he
didn't like me. She said: Tell him
that I won't bother him any more.
She was easy at the last. and didn't
| suffer any She said she would be
J happy where she was going. for she
would have new body, and wouldn't
be sick there. and that when pa sees
her In heaven he will not object to our
marrying there"
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