The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-22
CHAPT Err XIX.
lines peveIonments.

Johnson slowly recovered: the days
passed. and the weeks. while he lin
gered weak and complaining Dolores
presence annoyed him, and drove him
to fits of temper, until DR.. Dunwiddie
advised her to remain away from him
as much as possible.
Dr. Dunwiddie regularly drove over
to see johnson once a week, and Mrs.
Allen remained in the low, implanted
house in the Mast of its desolate gar
den, filling the rooms with her pres
ence, but daily growing more hardened
toward the quiet girl who was winning
Doras affection away from her, she
told herself in excuse for her I'M
friendly feeling. but the girl herself,
buried in other thoughts believed it
was from the kindness of her heart
that she talked to her SO often during
the long evenings of the life outside
of the quiet settlement and of the man
ners she would there be expected to
copy, Ard she accepted in silence the
many words OF advice as to her lack
of pride in allowing young Green to
see 90 clearly her feeling toward him.
and the cautioning uttered with
kindly smile OF soft touch on her arm
against allowing herself to be so in
fluenced by almost an utter stranger
who was kind to her only out OF pity.
and who could never care for her
other than as the merest acquaintance,
she. the daughter of the blacksmith
who was waited for to prove the malice
in the tanning Of his mare.
The woman knew we'll the stories
adrift in the settlement that had
somehow come to her she scarcely
knew how herself ard of the girls
dread of what misn, elbow the prov
ing of the case waiting in the town
for her fathers presence. That the
girl had never done her harm to cause
this feeling of hatred She would not
believe. Had she not Won Dora's heart
in fashion she could never do? Could
she accept this unmurmnringly? Was
there nothing she could do to hurt the
girl IN Doras eyes? Aud il that we're
impossible-and she soon learned that
it was-was it impos Die for her to
wound the girl herself in every way
conceivable to "A narrow mind.
And as Dora kept 10 her word and
drove on rode over e cry day when
the weather was pleasant and together
they wandered under The pines In
many "A daring place, the color OF IN
creasing health slowly tinging the
cheeks of each. while Dora's cough
grew less and less frequent and vio-
md ,,t,lsif n -
showed in Dolores step. though there
was a growing sadness upon hcr lips
and hunted look in the wide dark
eyes that her friends could not under
stand, this woman 9loried and cXultcd
in her power to wound the girl Dora
loved with a deeper truer love than
she could ever give to her. and she
planned ont many subtle manner for
wounding and sending her shafts deep
or into the soul of the girl who was.
she told herself over and over, steal
ing away what rightfully belonged to
her.
Lcmuel johnson won't often TO see
his brother. who grew civil to him
after a while. though at first he was
surly. and resented his brothers long
silence and neglect. Together they
talked of the future, and laid many
plans to be carried out as soon as Joe
was little better.
DIR. Dunwiddie still positively ar
firmed that he would recover, but that
this must needfully he slow. and Joe
Johnson was never possessed with pa
thence enough to bear quietly much
waiting. And as the days passed Do
lores waited and waited the dread
fear shut in her heart they would
come for her father from the town.
The subject of the mare was never
mentioned among them; it had
dropped ont of the house as suddenly
and completely as though death had
touched it; that day Dora gave her
cousin a sketch of the feeling regard
ing it in the town, though not one of
them understood the girls horror of it
excepting it might be the one who
had seen the most of her emotion
Sometimes the girl was tempted to ash
about it, but the dread OF bringing
down something worse upon herssl