Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1912-03-28

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lthS afpSe) iwpagaple canon and
Imduntain side which had brought her
Ito rrls deaf haven.
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IThlsH H%amh amhfhAad fhAad ,1ehSefhe{s withdrawn vi
from the world, buried himself in this
mountain, and had stayed there deaf
fhe ;had, had the ,coHFage. to do that ::
| Mas it strength Of pind she ,ad-
mfred? Enid Maitland was no mean
budge OF the mental powers Of her
|acquains4ueseM Mmf wh8M Msstasaull of
hifs sa4a spipit aHdGthe jey ca,them as
anY. young fWoman. should, pc, but t:she
had not been trained by and thrown
twtth the best for nothing. Noblesse
,lobhge! That his was a mind wen
srureu WIN Knuwledge Of the most,
varied sort she easily.,a9d III 99eS
perceived. OF course tt9 LpSp@H
books of the last five years had passed
him by, and of such he knew nothing,
but he could talk intelligently, inter-
hstingly, entertainingly upon the great
classics. Keats and Shakespeare were
hismest thumbed volumes: He had
graduatedJfsapns HEEsd TA 9IH!
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Itqgettis3A@epskin! Enid Matt
Affl h4sa4ElH a woman of broad
culture and wide reading and she de-
nberately set herself to fathom this
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her dismay, butgenerally to her sat
isfaction, she found that she had no
plhlnrhet aMa witch, ,teiGseuHd snhis
greater depths, ~ u
Dsdtheiseeknm hm that fae flow.
er Of good JbpraefsYa4 Jbresai1gg 'gentleness and
consideration? Where could she fndI
these qualities hetterdigplsysd? sbr
was absolutely alone .S'th. this ND
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the world and it's h tterence. .axsk
fectusily as if theyyhad both beea
abandoned IF an fee foe at the North
Ppiei or eastoa#a on: some 7oheIy is-.
land ip! the South Seas, ,yet abe felt
as safe as if she. had been in her own
house, Or her ihcle's, with every pro-
testfDh chat: human: power could give:
He hadlneyer Mesumsd! upon: the ;sft.;
uation. in the least degree, he never
once referred to the circumstances,
Of their meeting ln-the -reniutest way,
be never even discussed her rescue.
from the. food, he eReveratold-ber how
he had borne her through the rain to
the lonely shelter Of the hills, and in
no way did he say anything that the
most keenly scrutinizing mind would
torture into an ailusion to the pool
and the bear and the woman. The
fineness Of his breeding was never so
we'll exhibited as in this reticence.
More often ihan' r:ot it is' what he
does not. rather than what: he does
that indicates the man. =. ......
1t would be folly to deny that he
never thought of these things. Had.
he forgotten them there would be no
merit in his silence; but to remem-
Der them and to keep still-aye, that
showed the man! He would close his
eyes in: that little room on the other
side of the door and see again the
dark. poel, her white shoulders, her
graceful arms, the. lovely face with
its crown of sunny hair rising above
the rushing. water. lie had listened
to the roar of the, wind through the
long nights, when she thought. him
asleep If she thought Of him at all,
and heard again; the scream Of the
storm that had brought her to his
aIHaUko s1U&G@op that! SoiGhed
his cheek when -he-Was abroad but
reminded him .9f ,thaktRigft in the
cold rain when he had held her close
and carried MrGdns GHH Gould not sit
and mend her boot without remem-
befing 2that White foot before which
he would zfaid have: prostfafed him
sef=aRt upon which he would have
pressed passionate hisses--if. ne haR