Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-04-05

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came back.
"He has done we'll and has CON
back right, Margot," said the oil
woman. She looked at her daugl
ter-in-law with uncompromisin
eyes. "He could give you fine clotht
now and the best looking house i
Keston."
Then for the first time was MAJ
got'S calm broken, and she wa
moved to speech. 81 will never g
back to himp she cried fercely
She threw down her work and lief
the room.
How was Jane to know that il
that moment her heart was stolei
from her, and she felt in its plac
but lump of heavy gold that tor,
her -breasta Wherever she went yh,
felt it there, and it hurt sorely
When she passed David in the stree
her fingers shook, but that weight il
her bosom pressed, and she remem
bered his gold and passed on. Oh
it was i'll to be without a heart and
have only a lump of gold that must
always stand between herself and
the man she loved!
"He is rich now" said Margot,
and she was careful that she did not
meet him again. She spent much
time in planning that her ways
might not touch his.
In the evening she sewed still,
and she was sewing when Jane Greet
came to her with the news which
she thought so ill.
"Oh, you were wise woman, Mar
got" she said, "to keep away from
such fool. No one but a fool
would lose all his money in going Sc
curity for such a man as John Stan
ton is. David is a rich man no more.
Every penny that he brought back
with him is frittered away and all
else that he had besides. Be thank
full, Margot Greet, that you are not
my sons wife in anything but
She went away, a red eyed and
furious old woman, but Margot sat
on like one stunned.
Then she arose and put away her
sewing. She did not set it on the
little table, as she always did, but
rolled it up and, with a curiously
inpatient gesture, set it away in old
James drawer.
"That's finished with" said she. |
Yet the sewing was not nearly done. |
Afterward she put on her hat, and
he shawl which she usually put over
Ter head when she ran out she
rossed upon her arm. She cast one
ook around the little room and to-
Tard the staircase where Jane had
isappeared. Then she opened the
DOR and went into the street.
That was curiously quiet, and
here was fog. 1t was but one
hort year since Margot Greet had
uarreled with her husband and
one away.
She found her way through the
reefs and around the corners just
, surely as he had done, but she
as not unconscious of the way she
ound. The consciousness of that
look her through and through and
ould have shaken her still more
i'd she but had heart left with
hich to feel. J
David's pane made little disk of {
yht, which greeted her kindly, yet q
hurt, for it reminded her of the {
llow gold in her breast. 4
But he was singing, this time in /
e light, and she paused to hear: t
Sing me to sleep and let me rest; 6
In all the world loved you best. Z
Nothing Is faithful. nothing true.
In heaven or earth but God and you. 0
1t was not true, that song of Da- {
rs. She had not been true to him i
faithful, but she would be now.
'ars came into her eyes, and as =
ey ran down her cheeks something !.
oke in her breast and melted away. q
David's light smiled kindly at her 3
she opened the door and stepped P
% it, leaving the fog and gloom. I
David" she said simply, 81 have 0
ne. BLACK and White. o,