The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-30

1t amused Mr.. Wrayburn to stir
this mans passion till he famed with
| white and red heats OF rage. He Wa.
| especially entertained one d wheu
Headstone, dashed beyond e%ndurante
, said with a choking voice: You think
| me Of 10 more value than the dir
under your feet:'
Il assure you, Schoolmaster." an
| swered Wrayburn. pleasantly, II don't
think about you at ALL"
Headstone, shaking from head T..
foot, wiped the starting perspiration
from his ace and gasped. with &
madness in his eyes that might have.
| appalled, a less careless man than tn.
man who was goading him: "Oh.
! what a misfortune is mine that | can
; not so control myself az to appear &:
; stronger creature than this, when &
man who has not felt in all his life
| what l have felt in 4 day. can so COM
mand himself:"
He was a reckless man indeed ana
q daring, who could see the working
Of that face, and hear the ~stranglinc
agony in that voice, and not ake
warning. Wrayburn was that man.
He laughed. and dismissed it from,
his thoughts.
He laughed again, and snapped his
fingers, When Lizzie Hexam said to
AAAA. ray, EIdy -UC CAREFUL. lake
care against any one you have seer
lately and made angry"
He had not opportunity to ask what
she meant. Perhaps he would not
have asked her had Opportunity of
fered. He knew that she must refer
to HeadstOne, and in his overbearins
spirit he probably would have laugh
ed. even had she beer able to tell hin.
that the schoOlmaster had asked her
to be his wife, and hat on her re-
fusal. he had struck a stone coping
before him with such force that his
hands streamed blood. and cried:
h ! hope that I may never kill
him.
But whether ne~would have been
Impressed Or not, he never learned
it; for when his stroll took him the
next night to Lizzie Hexam's door,
he found no Lizzie Hexam there. Be-
set by two lovers, OF whom she
did not o but feared, the other OF
whom she loved but dared not. Lizzie
fiexam had fed. She had fed. and
left no trace by which either Wray-
burn or Headstone could find her.
Wrayburn, the idle and undecided.
was decided and determined enough
now. He was determined to find
her.
Very soon. in his goings and com
SAAS !" DuSxllCSS, ne De-
came ware that he was being fol-
lowed me evening he old Mortimer
about it.
The srhcolmaster," said he. "does
me the honor Of attending me. He
tnlnks that ! know where she is.
!Aortlmer, l Soad the schoolmaster to
make the schoolmaster-so
1~1!cuiouS ana SO aware Of being
~diculou that l see him chafe and
fret at every pore. The amiable o.
cupa,lon mas been made the solace
o. my life. l tempt him on, ali over
Eohoon sometimes I walk. Some-
tlnes proceed in cabs, draining the
poEhet o. the schoolmaster. who then
aoaoWs IT cabs: l study and get up
ths Isl no thoroughfares during
me DAY. With Venetian mystery T
SEEK those no thoroughfares at night
lethpt the sc~hoolmaster to follow and
eaten him before he a retrea+ =
i*so nun tnen, as of his ex-
4s,elce n he undergoes
~ - 4lehts; mus I enjoy the pleasures
tho oltse. When l dc not en- ioy
in'hs know he watches 1T NV 49,
all night" DIT my door
soberly. S"io AlsntWood.
f.,,d MO are a little hipped. nv da,r
and re1oined Wrayburn. "coma
The sch me pleasures Of the chase
ready" WILL no doubt, be
haa n-ntwood was disturbed. III hoa
o oren disturbed and grieyed mo ~ hao
W., ~ and had spoken serio'a, .nan
aamir many times. e Bnt Ss 70
mirrr e;n ms friend, had been his $50 80
modelled sfnGe boyhood. had. indeed ed
ended aiw mnself by him that he
Yielding. 10 ne dld then, by
sa nravo: said wrayburn.
a clon ,o'cks: A southerly WI III snaii
When we take the field un'lns
wraybnrn 'aey got into the stroo
courteous natnroannnded with a show Of
ton Mortimn= a'ronage In which dire o.
be. What to W. Houid like the run to