The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-26

and, equally as q rule, to win the case.
Tulltver lost no opportunity to cali
the lawyer ''scoundrel!'' and other
names wherever he could find LISTEN
ers In town. His son Tom and
| Wakem's son Philip happened to be
sent to the same private tutor.
Philip was humpbacked. as the re-
suit Of fall in childhood. His de-
| formity made him painfully sensitive,
| and though he tried HIS best to make
friends with Tom, that clumsy, non
sensitive, buoyAntly healthy young
desperate made him vince. Poor Tom
was forced in sheer self-defence to
| prowess, for the lawyers crippled son
stool head and shoulders above him in
the knowledge OF everything else.
There came a day when Tom hurt
himself in one of his adventures, and
Maggie was sent to visit him for q
few days. Philip saw the dark-eyed
little girl and felt drawn toward her
as he had not felt toward anybody in
all his lonely young life. Maggie
responded. This melancholy boys
face, with the soft, waving brown hair
framing 1t, seemed to her like the faces
of heroes in her beloved books.
When the time came for Maggie's de-
parture. Philip said to her:
'Tm very fond of you, Maggie.
shall never forget you. and when I'm
very unhappy ! shall always think OF
you and wish had a sister with dark
eyes, just like you're
Maggie had never heard her eyes
praised before "Why, / think you're
fonder Of me than Tom is" said she,
rather sorrowfully. Should you like
me to kiss you as / do TomT'
She put her arms around his neck
and kissed him quite earnestly.
So the last two years OF childhood
passed. till Tom was Ie. watching the
down on his lip with eager impatience.
and Maggie, though only 10, was as tall
as Tom. with her heavy hair coiled in
a beautiful mass on her proud young
head. And then they went forth to-
gether into a new life OF sorrow, never
more to see the sunshine undimrned BY
rememb ered cares. They entered the
thorny wilderness and the golden gates
of their childhood closed behind them
forever,
Mr. Tulliver had lost his greatest
lawsuit Wal<em had won 1t. Dorl-
cote Mill and the farm were Rwept
away. and the naughty. stubborn mil
Ter was ruined
Tulliver. riding homsward after his
world had thus crushed about his aars.
suddenly pitched from his horse In an
apopletic ut and was borne home In
sensible.
RATaIy1oO anu only HAlL conscious. he
lay for two months while his lands and
goods were sold to satisfy the credl.
tors at which sale sisters 0legg, Pull
let and Deane and their husbands as
sisted with moral reflections, impress
sive advice and stern reproof for Sis
ter TuIIlver's foolishnese In wanting
some of her most priced possessfons bid
In. The house was stripped quite bare
when Tulliver recovered his wits. 20
learn that Wakem was the OWNER ~
the mill and was willing to employ him
to manage 1t.
There followed days Of violent struE-
gle in the miller's mind There. were
times when he felt that It was quite
too hard for human nature to bend hje
neck to that hated yoke. But he was
weakened by his illness. and the love
for the old place. where TuIlivera HAD
lived for long generations. overcarne
him. The mill whore he had been born
was as much 3 part of him az his linaba
He could not leave i.