The Washington herald., 1915-01-27
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I'm meet her somewhere-some day
and everything will be ready" said Dan
contentedly.
But the summer waned and autumn
came and went and snow lay on the
ground. People saw the light burning
in Dams cozy study on the hilltop and
they shrugged their shoulders and re-
marked what a beacon Archer's Folly
made at night.
There came a night when the wind
howled around the bungalow and the
snow beat against the walls until they
were covered with a thick white mantle.
Mrs. Archer. locking up the doors OF
the farmhouse below, looked up at the
bungalow and decided that Dan would
probably spend the night up there. At
that instant she saw his customary sig
nal in the window. so she answered It
with a fash Of her lamp and bolted the
last door.
There was a fireplace in Dams study
and a great pile of hickory logs as well
as a comfortable couch, so on certain
nights when he had been studying closely
Dan would decide to sleep there.
On this stormy night Dan turned away
from the window and replenished the
fire. Then he prepared for bed. leaving
lighted lantern in the window Of the
living room.
! IT'S a bad night outside" he muir
INJURED.
While the little village slept under the
drifting mantle of snow, a horse and
sleigh moved slowly through the road
that led from the next village. Occasion
ally the horse stopped and breathed
heavily, and once it almost fell in its
tracks.
Uncle Nathan, I'm afraid that Sorrel
IL
sweet voice.
Folly?" The old mans voice sounded
mufied from its thick wrappings of
wOolen comforter.
I'm afraid I don't know and this
| time the girls voice held a note of
| despair. I'VE are off the main road and
I can't see a thing-ah. there is a light!
Let us turn toward it-there must be a
house. II We can reach it, perhaps we
can send for a doctor from there
The wind tore her words into frag-
| ments. but the old man understood so he
crouched down among the fur robes while
Folly urged the horse to greater efforts
At last Sorrel toiled up a steep hill and
| finally dropped exhausted between the
shafts with the guiding light only few
feet distant
ITS a house on a hill.'' explained
Felicia. as she helped her uncle from the
sleigh
At that moment the front door opened
and a lantern was thrust forth, followed
by the much-tousled head OF a sleepy
young man.
It was a half hour later. from the doc
| tor from Dan had summoned by tele-
phone from his fathers house, that Dan
Archer heard the story OF Felicia Daintry
and her Uncle Nathan.
The Daintrys lived in the adjoining VIII
lage Of Upton Center and the only physI-
clan in the village had been called away
| on an urgent case. so that when Uncle
Nathan cut himself with an ak Felicia
could only bind up the wound as best she
might and then bundling the old man into
sleigh strive to reach Crystal Brook,
three miles away.
But the snowstorms had delayed their
progress and, bewildered by the flying
fakes, old Sorrel had wandered from the
road time and again until It was 10
O'Clock, when they discovered the beacon
light in Archer's Folly.
BY daylight Uncle Nathan had been
made very comfortable, and the doctor
having taken his departure, Mrs Archer
took the weary girl down to the farm
house and tucked her into bed, while Dan,
after stabling Sorrel, went back to keep
vigil by the injured man.
Dan came down to breakfast with
Felicia and his heart quickened as he
saw that she was quite as beautiful as
he had thought her the night before.
Brown eyes, curly headed. dfmpled and
charming-she was all these and more:
she was sweet and gentle and shy, so
that Dan fell more in love with her each
passing moment and blessed the beacon
light in the bungalow.
When Mrs. Archer learned that Uncle
Nathan called his niece Folly" she I'm
mediately confided the fact to Dan and
added the information that his neighbors
called Dams bungalow by the nickname
of "Archer's Folly"
"Archer's Foliy7" chuckied Dan with
dancing eyes. That sounds pretty good
to me. motheri" And his mother mar
veled at his meaning, while Dan added
to himself: 'I wonder II she would mind
being called 'Archer's FoIfy?'"
He asked her one DAY and her answer
was so satisfactory that they set about
planning how the bungalow should be
furnished.
II am 20 glad you saved IL tIll 1 came,
laughed Folly. while they planned.
Il knew you would come some day.
declared Dan contentedly.
How did you know7" she asked. wide
eyed
He looked deep into her brown eyes
until they wavered and fell before the
lovelight In his steady blue ones.
Now, do you know. sweetheart " he
whispered.
Yes" softly snSssred Arehsr's FellS.