Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-16

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take her and teach her things she
has the right to know?"
I'D love it," she cried. And then
she smiled, as she added: ''She will
be much easier to teach. She won't
be so stupid, and one Of the things
shall teach her"-she passed, and
ladded whimsically-"will be to make
you cut your hair again"
But, just before they drew up at the
house of old Spicer South, she added:
IT might as we'll make a clean
breast of it, Samson, and give my
vanity the punishment it deserves.
You had me in deep doubt"
About what?"
"About-well, about us. 1 wasn't
quite sure that I wanted Sally to have
you-that I didn't need you myself.
I've been a shameful little cat to Will
fred"
"But now" The Kentuckian
broke off.
| Now, I know that my friendship
for you and my love for him have both
had their acid test-and I am happier
than I've ever been before. I'm glad
we've been through 1t. There are no
doubts ahead. I've got you both"
About him." said Samson, thought
fully. May I tell you something
which, although it's thing in your
own heart, you have never quite
known?"
She nodded, and he went on.
THE thing which you call fascina-
ton in me, was really just proxy,
Drennie. You were liking qualities in
me that were really his qualities. Just
because you had known him only in
gentle guise, his finish blinded you
to his courage. Because he could turn
to woman the heart Of woman you
failed to see that under it was the
| iron and fire. You thought you saw
those qualities in me, because 1 wore
my bark as shaggy as that scaling
hickory over there. When he was get
ting anonymous threats Of death ev-
cry morning he didn't mention them
to you. He talked Of teas and dances.
I know his danger was real, because
they tried to have me kill him-and
If I'd been the man they took me for,
! I reckon I'd done it. I was mad to
my marrow that night-for minute.
I don't hold a brief for Wilfred. but
| 1 know that you liked me first for
qualities which he has as strongly as
land more strongly. He's a Drawer
man than /, because, though raised to
gentle things, when you ordered him
into the fight he was there. He never
turned back or flickered. I was raised
on raw meat and gunpowder, but he
went in without training"
The girls eyes grew grave and
thoughtful, and for the rest Of the
way she rode in silence.
There were transformations, too, in
the house of Spicer South. Windows
had been cut, and lamps adopted. 1t
was no longer so crudely a pioneer
abode. While they waited for dinner,
girl lightly crossed the stile, and
came up to the house. Adrienne met
her at the door, while Samson and
Horton stood back, waiting. Suddenly,
Miss Lescott halted and regarded the
newcomer in surprise. 1t was the
same girl she had seen, yet different
girl. Her hair no longer fell in tangled
masses Her feet were no longer bare.
Her dress though simple, was charm
ing, and, when she spoke, her English
had dropped its half-illiterate peculi-
arities, though the voice still held its
bird-like melody.
"Oh, Samson" cried Adrienne, you
two have been deceiving me! Sally,
you were making up, dressing the part
back there, and letting me patronize
you"
Sallys laughter broke from her
throat in a musical peal, but it still
held the note of shyness, and it was
Samson who spoke.
Il made the others ride on. and
got Sally to meet you just as she was
when I left her to go East" He spoke
with touch of the mountaineer's
over sensitive pride. II wanted you
first to see my people, not as they are
going to be, but as they were. / want
ed you to know how proud I am OF
them-just that way"
That evening. the four Of them
walked together over to the cabin OF
hn L.
rienne Lescott turned to the girl and
said:
81 suppose this place is pre-empted.
I'm going to take Wilfred down there
by the creek. and leave you two
alone
Sally protested with mountain hos
pitality. but even under the moon she
once more colored adorably.
Adrienne turned up the collar of her
sweater around her throat and, when
she and the man who had waited,
stood leaning on the rail of the foot
bridge, she laid a hand on his arm.
Has the water flowed by my mill,
Wilfred?" she asked.
What do you mean?" His voice
trembled.
viii you have anything to ask me
when Christmas comes?"
IF can wait that long, Drennie.
he told her.
Don't wait dear" she suddenly eX-
claimed. turning toward him, and
raising eyes that held his answer ASK
me now"
But the question which he asked
was one that his lips smothered as he
| pressed them against her own.
| Back where the poplar threw it's
sooty shadow on the road, two figures
sat close together on the top OF
stile. talking happily in whispers. A
girl raised her face, and the moon
shone in the deepness Of her eyes, as
her lips curved in trembling smile.
| you've come back, Samson" she
said in a low voice, but, If I'd known
| how lovely she was. I'd have given up