The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-25
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Joined Daintree. whose blacker moods
inspired him with a perfect genius for
picking quarrels. Though you have
not honored me with your confidence
it may relieve you to hear that I have
not the least desire to tamper with
your loyalty to some lady unknown. !
ask you to choose a wife-not TO marry
her"
Il don't understand you. SIR said
Tom respectfully.
you will if You condescend to listen
The woman Fawcett says we shall re-
quire another servant here. I don't
believe a word Of 1.-THE ladies are
bringing their own maid with them
but this idle. impudent ungrateful
woman holds a pistol to my head aud
threatens to desert me at this juncture
if | don't get her a girl. I've had her
here bullying me for the last half hour.
aud this is the hole that I'm in-either
the Fawcetts leave this day month.
when / shall want them most, or
must apply for convict woman. and
God knows what kind they'll send me.
Now, if you applied for Il wife you'd
have your pick and choose a decent
one, and. as | say, there's no earthly
reason why you should ever marry her.
Surely it would be unfair not to-
objected Tom, who would have used
a stronger adjective to anybody else.
Unfair on the girl? Not at all.
You simply let her off blind bargain,
and she gains good wages and COM
Portable home. The girl comes out of
it deuced WELL the officials are none
the wiser and none the worse, while l
have the advantage of your selection
instead of theirs"
Il might make bad choice
"Oh, if you want to keep out of it,
cried Daintree, keep out of it and re-
fuse me the first favor I've ever asked
you to do me! 1 shall know better
than to ask another. Only in future
let me hear less of your gratitude till
you've some to show"
Tom consented without further words.
He disliked the plan as cordially as he
resented the outrageous tone adopted
by Daintree, but he would submit to
both sooner than deny the man to
whom he owed more than he could
even yet realize.
Meanwhile the necessary letters, in
which the convict applied for wife
and the master undertook to support
her, were written, the one with secret
adherence, the other with n sinister
gusto Next day Tom received his or
der to the matron Of the factory to
supply him with a wife and started in
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rand which his whole soul repudiated.
"You are to take her back with you,"
said the woman, having read her let
ter, land to be married from your mas
ter's house"
Tom found Peggy O'Brien and select
ed her. By noon she was a compare
lively free woman. Alas, she was an
unutterably happy one!
Her arm stole within Toms as he
drove. He had neither the courage
nor the heart to tell her the truth out
right. 1t was a cruel position for them
both. He glanced with horror at her
radiant face, and again he noticed her
hair.
where's it all gone to, Peggy" he
asked, pointing to the short strong
locks w nat nave YOU OOuS Will
They had reached the outskirts of
Parramatta. New buildings were
springing up in every direction, and
Peggy jerked her head toward some
scaffoldings.
rs it where me hairs gomez" she
said, with laugh. ''Mebbe there's
some of t there"
where. Peggy?'
in them new buildin's, like as not.
An didn't We hear they strengthen the
molthar wild the hair Of the women's
heads? Ills thrue. then, in Parramat-
ia. An it's mighty kind they think
to give us the razor instid
o. the cat. But where's their bricks an
if they bet us?'
They used that glorious hair for
bricks and MORTAR
His praise of it was dearer far than
her possession She colored with pride
and happiness as she told him it hap
pened long ago when first she came
there.
But why did it happen?" he asked
Indignantly. What could you have
done to deserve such treatment?"
She hesitated and squeezed his arm.
NAT Sullivan came
Nat Sullivan
IAN / was to swear whether or not
you were one of the bushrangers, SO
you may think what / swore, an he
said / was a liar, an / struck m in the
face wild me open hand, an they shay
ed me for THAR
Tom felt miserable. She had suf-
fered for him all along. How could
he tell her he was deceiving her now
and had no intention of marrying her
1t all? Not one word of that had pass
I'd her modest lips, yet the pressure of
her homely hand was eloquent with |
ove and joy. What could he do? !
What could he say? For miles he new
er opened his lips, they We're tight /
shut when she glanced at him and his |
face so wretched that at last she could |,
bear il no longer.
What is it, dear?" she asked him
rs it how We can make such /
Is me your welded wife? Because ye
needn't. Tom dear. if We think betther /
lot. 'Twouldn't take all that to make /
ne happy
Then in a burst he told her of his /
masters plan and how be had entered