The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-10

. mansion, and wrote the news to his
brother. The next ten days Bud
passed in silent misery. BY some mys-
terious means the news OF his sale
had gone all over the country, al
though the roads were almost impass-
able. Were it not that his courage
had commanded respect, and his good
natured tolerance popularity, he
would have been estracized by the ten
white families in the little town.
"T amt no traitor he explained, for
the hundredth time, to the crowd at
the store. They offered me my price,
an I sold hit. There is one thing l
can say for them: They pay, and is
honest The school trades heah with
ye, Colonel. Can We deny that"
| And Col Finger was forced to pull
his tObacco-stained white mustache
and nervously assent that in money
matters the school was all right.
every WELL" said Bud with dignity;
when any of you gentlemen can find a
single fault with any of them, except
| ing they teach niggahs, then I'll call
myself beat. An I'll say right heah
tibet it's my opinion that little mob
! eddication won't harm the niggahs
round heah no-how."
With the last word reverberating
from hts lips, and in the silence Of I'M
convinced apathy, Bud passed over the
railroad track to set awhile" with
| Florence.
Fifty years ago the family of Finger
was noble; now it was plebeian. Born
! in the most desolate section OF the
j South, Florence had grown up like a
beautiful Cherokee rose on a bank OF
clay. Her complexion was as exquisite
at youth and health could make it
Her eyes were blue, and as soft as
the reflection of the sky in brow. Her
eyelashes were black, while her eye
brows waved and curled, making an
enticing and luxurious contrast to hel
/ violet eyes and peariy skin. Her nose
was straight, her nostrils large and
vibrant.
Her mouth, All. The South alone
gives such mouths as hers, passion
ate and proud, loving and loyal, i'm
perous and yielding, melting anc
faithful unto death. If one may be
rermitted to coin the word-it was 6
monophilandric mouth. bestowed on
~ on the single-minded and the pure
in heart. 1t was a mouth that coulf
only kiss one man, and he the choice
Of a lifetime.
Her whole nature, ignorant of every
thing else in the world, had been cast
as it were, into one projectile, to be
fired, when the time should come, a.
a heart-shaped target marked love.
Love was her dream, her ideal, her life
her ecstasy.
Florence was now Is, as much of {
miracle as the jasmine arisen from the
black mud Of the swamp.
I She was eight years younger thar
Bud. but within that negative periot
was packed an amount of fanatiea
alteration that the practical mind o
her lover could not imagine, nor hi:
dreamy nature apprehend. Little dis
he know that she was of the old,fash
4 toned race of womanhood that makes
I her lover her god; the words of his
mouth. her food; and his decision, her
/ law. Hers was the blind faith in he1
| choice that lifts man out of the com
mon herd, and makes him king. Such
/ was Bud Seagle's sweetheart. Would
the type were as plentiful as the VIC
1 lets Of the field. As the man ap
4 preached. she stopped her languie
/ rocking and greeted him with hel
hand. She did not lift her lips He
4 sat there for many minutes -withoul
Il talking. a..-..
h Womanike, without looking at him
Il she noted the pallor under his eyes
H and the detection that comes from
81 sleeplessness. Her eyes grew cold
\ and her lips tfghtened.
4 Has Pepper bee houndin' ye about
the seagle place" --..
Yes" YEARLY. ...- --..-
/ AN We did right in sellin' the schoo
the land s s5@-4E s-.-
4 Il know | Vaa." - s..~ a.-...ts