The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-06-03

RD KEITH GORDON
.....COpurioht. 1905. BY Keith Gordoa.....
Ru KEITH GORDON
Copyright. 1905. bp Keith Gordca...

/ pVASs anu StOWSu thSui away as DeSl
be might In the covered buggy that he
had procured in the village the shad-
ows were already long and pensive.
| When he reached the village the hush
of early twilight lay on the broad, dec
orous streets which We're almost desert
ed. Their very emptiness, however,
was full of suggestive cheer. Pictures
of broad, low rooms with bountifully
| spread supper tables, on which feath-
| cry biscuit, cold chicken and preserves
made tempting array, rose before his
dreamy eyes; cheerful, natural faces
doomed in the thick, red light of old
fashioned lamps; the rag carpets, rock
ing chairs and secretaries the de-
tails of the rural household scene were
| wildly, pieasErably before him.
Behind him the long poles dipped
| with a rhythmical monotonous motion
as the horse logged evenly along. At
the crossing of two streets the slight.
| graceful figure of a girl paused for him
to pass. In the shadowy light she
| seemed like spirit-the spirit OF the
advancing night
| Thus sunk, lost, wrapped IN revery,
he drove on, the poles waving up and
down behind him like long, hungry ten
tacles, exploring the evening air for
something 10 catch and hold A jolt
and rumble and the buggy rolled
over the crossing with an energy that
sent the poles dipping lower than even
and then the tentacles hooked some
thing hooked ii tight and after brief
resistance on the part Of the hooked
thing, which manifested q strong in
| clination 10 remain where II was-lft-
ed II high IN triumph and maliciously
disappeared down the dusky street,
leaving a paralyzed, shadowy shape
staring after it with astounded eyes.
| For moment the girl stood speech
| less, bewildered. To have her hat sud
denly plucked from her head as If by
a hand thrust from the sky in "A sleepy
| little village of the new worid-well
| 1t was an experience that stopped her
| mental machinery with jerk
| Had IL been in Greece in the year
! something or other H. c. IL would have
| been explicable as the deed OF some
| goddess, jealous and angered at the
beauty of her love Of hat Jealous
| goddesses, she recalled. had done even
more extraordinary things than snatch
| ing a mOrtals hat.
Or had ii been later, In medieval
| times. she might have ascribed this
| hat lifting to black magic. But in the
I nd TOD e
| Of 1906 neither Of these explanations
| could hold, and that was the reason
| she stood as IL she had taken root
| while these thoughts shot rapidly
| through her mind
| Meanwhile her hat, dancing up aud
| down in tantallziHg, diabolieaI fash
| ION, as If to wave her a knocking fare
! well. was being borne, slowly but in
| eXorabiy, into the cleaning Before
/ she recovered the power Of speech aud
/ motion the buggy was halfway down
/ the block. She made step after il,
I then stopped She had q sharp, hu-
| morous vision Of herself hatless aud
disheveled pursuing that dancing,
m0ckiug. bobbiug will o .tLe-Wisp Of "a
| hat through the village streets. making
| frantic, Intellectual jumps at Il. as
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