The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-30
Nestner sneo thet neither had spoken.

cept your part Of it You shouldn't have
done it This evening was not arranged
in homer Of visiting ladies' But yor
mustn't think me a comedian. Truly,
didn't plan 1t. My friend from SiS
Crossroads must be given the credit o:
devising the scene, though you OWNED
it"
cit was "a little too picturesque,
think. I know about Six Crossroads
Please tell me what you mean to do
Nothing. What should Il"
''You mean that you Will keep on let.
ting them shoot at you until they-untii
YOU She struck the bench angrily
with her hand
There's no summer theater in SiS
Crossroads. Taere's not even church
Why shouldn't they?" he asked grave
". During the long and tedious even
inss it cheers the poor Crossroadel' 5
soul to drop over here and take shoi
at me. It whiles away dull care foi
him, and be has the additional exercise
of running all the way home"
.Ah!' she cried Indignantly. They
told me you always answered like this.
"Well, you see. the Crossroads effort,
have proved so thoroughly hygienic TO
me. AS a patriot I have sometimes fel-
extreme modification that such bae
craftsmanship should exist in the coun
ty, but console myself with th'
thought that their best shots are. un
happily. in the penitentiary."
There are many left. Can't you u
derstand that they will organize ag"
and come in body as they did befo>
YOU broke them up? And then. if th"
come on a night when they knew yc
are wandering out of town
"You have not had the advantage
an intimate study of the most exciusi'
people of the Crossroads. Miss S!l"
wood. There are about thirty gen.
men who remain in that neighoorho2.
while their relatives sojourn under di-
cipline. If you had the entree ors
there, you would understand that tlr
thirty could not gather themselves IL;
company and march the seven mi.e
without physical debate in the RANK
They are not precisely amiable peop.
even among themselves. They wou.'
quarrel and shoot one another to piec;'
CIV before they got here"
..-:,:tt :-:t they worked in compaa
1ncs'
"Ncx-::. for seven miles. Four mile
,--es +:o:r radius. Five would see tilei'
:, cd
.::ia s:ruck the bench again. 'Oh. yo
,:..; .. ne. ou make joke of VOC
"a i:fe and death and laugh at eyer!
.::,.s. Have FIVE years of Plattv!i
.2.ht you to do that
=, laugh only at taking the poe
,..,s,..oa dels TOO seriously. don't lau-
:; ,o~:r running into fire to help ie
o. i.lortai.
:, knew there wasn't am risk.
...ew he had to stop to load before h
SCOT n@ain.'
Ec Giu SEOOl dStilu. IL HeeA L -" =
o. before tonight, r His 'oa'
!,anSed. ard he spoke sravely. i ali
( yo;:r feet in worship of your div.i''
,,i!anthropy It's so niIch finer TO ris
soi;r life for stranger than Tor !
lend.
-ii.;;t is m;.a's point of view, lsn
II"
.Yqg rsked yours for man you had
never seen before.
.'0h. no. saw you ut the lecture.
heard You introduce the Hon. Nj Hat
ioway"
Then. I don't understand your wish
inc to save me-.
She smiled unwillinely and turned Ee'
gray eyes upon him with troubled SUI
niness. and under the sweetness OF hel
regard be set d watch upon bis lips
though he knew it would not avail hin
long. He had driveled along respect
ably so far, he thought, but he had the
sentimental longings of years, starved
of expression, eliminating in ais heart