The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-15


llGy are carrying III! I'"iS'
away she sad, with starving olS,
'i'c'heSS' Don you near 'helll II
you would IlSten' you could near mem
DO listen IheE are getting lalhU
hoW-you can hardly near 'heln' i"eS
are 1anter-lalnter-lalhteE
she mad raised her head. lheIo
was an alert look on her race 0"o
leaned sIlShty toward the "lhuo"'
Good Goa. A man can S'"i'o
eVerEll'lhS' crleu Ldh5loIu' no"' 9e!'.
lie tore the hhoIteu haLuhel 'iliOA
from his throat. II was DIS II TIC wac
choking. Then he put MS COOL sVIo'7
mana TO her burning lorelIe'u anu
gently smoothed back the rough halr'
GraouaIlE' 'he lAeu lOoN Vi "n '',U0
scribe horror passed away from Her
face. The strained, hard eyes So!'eh-
ed. became de"y. Nhe looheu d. i'i'i''
clinging helplessness IN her eyes,
but sweet and sane. -
Don't you worry, child, ne sdiu
cOmfortingly. They can heip liilu,
ing him. Twenty men with the snetin
start on the trail. lhere II NC ~ NC
fore night lhey can help hh"ih7
him. I'm going TO stay IisnI ne'1
with you I'LL doc comes. II o'.0n
up with them before they We gone ial'
I'll send word TO the boys noU ~ ""it,
Must be somebody around the mousse
reckon, besides the ola lau!
He started cheerlly lor tne oooi'
Mr.. Langtord.
"Ies?'
please come back'
He came quickly TO her'
what is II!
MIR. Langford, Will you grant nle
favor?
Certainly, Miss Mary. Anything IN
this world that l can 40 lol YOU "t''
do. You know that, doht you
81 am all right now l uoh ,n'iN e
l shall get crazy again II you VIII ie'
me sit here by thls "lhuo" anu 'oo -,
out. If l can watch for MN, II VIII
give me something TO 40. you see,
could be watching all the tline ioi 'no
party to come back over 'na' l''ie
rise up the road. WANT you ~
promise me, she went Oh s'e"ui.'
that | may sit here and walt 1ol
you-to come back
God knows you may, httle gill; "hS
way till doc comes
You are wiser than doc, pursued
the girl. He is good 1eIio"' pu
foolish, you know, sometimes. ut
might not understand he might iiN'
to use authority over me because
am his patient-when he did not un
derstand. Promise that l may slt III
you come back"
Il do promise, little girl. Tell MIN
said so. Tell him
Il will tell MIN you die.'h0 o0'''
she said, with pitiful little attemp
at a Jest, and smiling wanly. He Wi
mind-the Doss'
Langford was in agony. Persplr'
tion was springing out on his for'
head though August was Wearln
awav peacefully in soft GOODNESS wit
drifting DEPTHS of white cloud as
lounging-robe-a blessed reprie'
It from the blazing sun of the Ion
e weeks which had gone before.
If And then l want you to promis
o me- " went on Mary, quietly, that yc
t. viii nc. think any more of staying b
a hind could not bear that. | tru
"a +. :. go. You WILL won't you?"
,e -, e. will go. I will do anythir
Il Won a, And l want you to belle
* that every thing will be all right. Thu
n would not dare to kill him now, kne
ID ing that we are after them. If we a
not back tonight, you will not worr
w. will YOU? They had SO much the sta
- of Ms"
4 81 will try not to ', orry."
&c well, goodbye. Be a good 81
~, won't you?"
-. ." will try" she answered, weari
:" With a last look into the bra'