Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-29

Imuttered; 'Dut am nara pressed, an
dare not do it. l must have something
better than her dead body to give then
when the time comes for me to bu.
their silence and my own safety"
She looked down on Patsy Gullens
for a moment, as he lay there, gaun
and white, his sightless eyes staring
at the sky. Then she turned away he
head.
He should have known better thar
to have dared do such thing" she
said, grimly, as she walked away ant
left the dead man behind her.
| Dead?
Yes, dead!
| Dead in a moment, without heart
beat between danger and oblivion
Cowardly, degraded, mean, wicked
and dead because there was somewhere
in his dark soul feeling OF pity fol
suffering innocence, and a spark OF
chivalry kindled in behalf Of wrongeC
womanhood. A tear and a prayer fol
Patsy Gullens! l have no desire to
Judge him. Have you?
Lurline BannOttie walked slowly
backed to the house. She did not give
second thought to the man she had
left down in the glen behind her; she
was thinking solely OF her future
Her face worked nervously, almost
spasmodically, responsive to the emo
ton in her soul, and
What was that, kind reader?
Oh, no indeed! 1t was not remorse;
not was not remorse!
She called in all her servants. She
paid them literally. She gave them
wages for months in advance. Then
she dismissed them all
Il shall need none of you any Ion
GER" she said. 81 am going away from
here, this very day. Leave dinner on
the table; leave the horses harnessed
| in the barn; put the saddle and bride
on my own horse, that l may mount
and ride away If l should choose to
go in that way. And now, pack UP
your personal effects: the cOachmal
will drive. and you will all ride to
Jahnway Station. The coach and
team are To be left there until called
for Now you all know my wishes; at
tend to them"
There was much wondering, and
some muttering, among the servants
Mrs. Brown. as they knew her, had
certainly acted strangely, but they
| had found Mrs. Browns actions
strange more than once before. So
they submitted in a better spirit than
might otherwise have been true. They
did exactly as she had said; they did
| it exactly when she said. Miss Ban
hottie had taught them to respect Mrs
Brown, whether they liked her or not
and to obey her.
And all the time taken for the pack
ing Of her servants belongings, all the
time it took to prepare dinner all the
time it took the coachman to make
ready the team and saddle-horse she
would never use, as we'll as the team
he was to drive to Jahnway Station
and leave-shall say for ever since
she will never call for it?-all this
time she walked up and down behind
the house. watching to see that none
Of them all went down the path to-
ward the glade near the stream. where
the sun shone hot upon the face of him
who had been her latest victim.
| Up and down: up and down; up and
down. To and fro across the garden
with a step which was as regular as
though it had been beating in time tc
music-a step which neither faltered
nor hurried.
She crushed the bright leaves be-
meath her feet, the gast-off garments
| OF the dying autumn time rustline
noisily as she stood over them.
Rich-colored flowers, hot from the
scarcely forgotten noOntimes of the
vanished summer, nodded and bowed
at her.
The trees, half bare, gave her nc
shade: the grass, crisp and brown
bent and broke under her dainty feet
The unclouded sky bent brightly
over her. And beyond that sky. Ht
ruled who had ordained that this day
should be. for her, the beginning of the
end.
She was thinking as she walked
walked and watched, the way leading
down to where murder had left it:
dead. Surely she needed to think.
Surely she needed to plan. But, il
beside all her plots and plans, came
one retrospective thought; not
thought Of remorse-not yet-but
lhalf-sad, wondering question as t
why her life had been what it had;
Thought which. centering on Aldrlch
as all the thoughts and purposes
her life had. went out beyond him ant
Included more: a wonder whether sh'
could have lived happy. died honored
Iand-and-and all the rest, if she hat
happened to have known Jahnwa!
first
The wheels ratified down the drive
Sne looked up. lie So''Ih' WIN 90
lher servants. was almost out of sight
Not one of them looked back; not on
waved a handkerchief or kissed han'
to her: they had no reason to lool
back, had they? And yet, Miss Ban
hottie sighed: this manner of thel
Igoing away had touched and hurt he
more than she usually allowed hersel
to be touched and hurt. She woul'
have given more to have had tn
memory of some kindly words of fare
well from them, than she would L
have given back life again to Pats,
lGullens, Or-hunted as she was, des
perate as she was--even to Constanc
Craig.
But they went away without wor
or a look of kindness for their EN-
ployer. and left her alone to do as Sh
could with her prisoner-and he
dead,
. Miss BannOttie went slowly in. Sh
, walked thoughtfully through the nal
She was about to ascend to MIS-
Senn'S room. But
Il l.. ain