The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-03


my girl bright and cheerful Whatever
/ have done, Liz. did II for your sake.
Don't blame me, but help me. SHOW
yourself by my Side
Then LIZZIE promised to finish With
her litti= crisis. She would get up an.
be bright; but before resuming every
dag Lire. she w!saed TO 60 away from
Medford.
Take me somewhere right away.
father. where ! can forget all abuu;
IT.
But Mr.. Crunden said that afr this
upset" he felt he could not go holiday
making.
"Yoa.should have como when asked
you. Liz. then all this wouldn't have
happened. can't go now"
Yet he wished her to Lave the change
OF air and scene spoken OF by Dr.
Blake. Could they not find come one
to take Lizzie? He would not grudge
the expense Of a lady-companion.
Lizzie finally thought OF an elderly
Miss Fleming. who had been a COVER
ness at the Eastpourne School. This
lady, With whom Lizzie correspondent.
might act as cnaperon. And the lady
jumped at the chance. She would
take her well-remembered, highly vail
Isd Lizzie Crunden for u fortnight to
a most delightful farmhouse on the
north coast OF cornw all.
G!y SbOd. sHIu 5lGG
her come down here to stay the night,
and IL like the look of her. weil arr
range it,
MISS Fleming, by sobriety of DEF
meanor and by ladyl!kc conversation,
at once satisfi-d MIR. Crunden that she,
was proper person for the charge.
and with her Lizzie Went away.
Come back your old self. Liz" SAID
her father on the morning of departuro,
That's all l ask. Wen b3
wiser-both OF us-henceforth. An,t
perhaps I'll find some work for yous
You know what you said. If give
you real work-helping me-will YOU
do It with all your hearth
Yes. / promise"
"all rtGh,. my lass. Good-by. Como
back Your old self
But this Lizzie could not promiseA
AS the good swift train carried her
westward to the land of yellow gorsc!
black rocks, purple heather. she knew
that her old self was gone, never to
return. She had taken to her bed ~;
q foolish. overgroWn child; she had
risen from 1t Il responsible woman. No
more nonsense now: she would eat
plenty of Cornish cream. drink in thS
strong. clean wind, harden her iirnbs
with. arduous climbing and traniping.
get thoroughly strong and well. and
bring home to father a wise, staunch,
!unfinching daughter. This must I'd
her task; to live down and expiatc rho
follies of youth by blameless and
steady nitddle-age. Il.
CHAPTER MI.
The date of the sale had come and
gone.
!, Nothing had issued from all the ex-
element and all the meetings. Tao
Town would not interfere; tho Hill
was not readyswith any definite plan
~ n ~ 4 ,r,,1 ~, an s,,.,
ing the campaign with energy. the COM.
nlander-tn-chief and his generals, When
the day of battle came, had no ava liable
force to put into the field. One might
doubt L Il single man went up from
4 Nedford tossee what happened In the
Mart London at 3 p. NJ precisely. Med
ford read In the newspapers of the
Catastrophe. The property had been
offered in one lot, and knocked down
Ifor f37.000. Was this o. real bid. or
merely the auctioneersAbuy in for
the owners? No one In Mecford
seemed to know for certain. but
hs sl hena0n Local s aaaea tas
Sir Joln--still activc-haG heard
from Ntessrs. Firmin, who cons
frnled the newspaper reports This
lauctioneer's hammer had dealt a gem
l5uine knock-down blow; but the pl,r.
chase was not yet comp!ete0 Until
solicitors must withhold tho pur>
chaser's name.
one afternoon OF date August Mr..
Jack Vincent ana friend discussed
1.-The position OF affairs, and nothing
Icould better Illustrate the frivollty,E
apathy or cynical composure OF the
| younger generation than their words
and their manner in the presence ot
nearly consuinmated disaster,
Gro be Continued To-inorrow.>
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