The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-23

margin. There was no hurry--eho ~ ~
night TO drown herself In. There VOco
some buns In her basket and she ~
them out and ate them esgevly. Gun
looking AZ the silent pool. the seethee
sensation which came over her frpM ~
satisfying ~ her hunger and that ttuo0,
dreamy attitude brought on droweiNeoo;
her head sank down upon her knees ANd
she slept
when she aNoke Il was deep night and
sh" felt very chill She was afraid Of
this darkness afraid Of the pool! Tho
bright hearth and the warmth and the
voice NJ home, the secure uprising and
the wing down. the familiar nelds and
people. tho simple Joys of dress and feast
Ing all tho sweets n her Young life
rushed before her and she stretched out
her arms 10 them across the great gulf
She r.t her teeth A. The thought of Ar
thur sine cursed him and wished that he.
too. might know the desolhton and cold
md % NE NJ shame that he did not dare
Co end IN death
She remembered n hovel she had passed
'n the iu"Nt fold hOvcl Of furse and
near % shcrpfold II she could fLsd that
aEaIn she might get warm She found II
ANA lay down in the close. ill-smeiing
place with a sense NJ escape. Tears
came and sohs of hysierichl JOY that she
WHr alive with the sheep near her.
Az last tho poor soul. driven to and fro
h"iw"'u two equal terrors, the terror or
lff ana the terror ~ death, obtained the
rr.rf uf nucous'iOuHnss In sleep
When she invoke II was morning ana .
'sre was looking down st her--an un-
familiar tncr belonging TO an elderly man
I'm q sNock frock What do ye here,
Young woman said he, grufny Il lost
my wa. slr, she said. arranging her
bonnet and grabbing her basket. WIN
SOU toll me how 10 get to the northi
Yes lil ten So how to get 10 the north
"a lt .y,ff a.. 10 ha hixkh
uu'rc ,hor" is finscrposts and people tn
ask the way or one would think W
"o,r % wild woman to look at ye."
Tho man pointed out tho wav to tia
r"Hr,sr Village and the road to the north
rHl turned away without another word.
10 evidently Considered her n vagabond
. Aul tramp Hnd this cauped Hetty
''"s 'pU Il'r money would soon he
gone and rhou she must become what he
Il had s1ld, wiid woman heggar. Life
HoU. D, tc morning light, with the Inn
i precision ot the mans hQd, wondering
LOOK, Look a. =, hs, was va. as dread Tread. 4: !:
/ which she felt chained. for she had found
that ghc mad not courage 10 XIII herself.
/ She took ont tho money from her purse
/ aud looked at IT She had twenty-five
/ shillngs 1t would serve her for many
/ days NOR" or It would help her to get on
. TO Sior5 ,hir" within reach Of Dinah. Th0
. IN0NEO' OF lIfhll hIb'1 U'T NTOHkIy uoVS
. n 10 had only been going to Dinah-if no.
body olGc would ever know. But. after
ward. other people must know-and shS
I Gould mo- more rush ON that shame than
. on death And vet such Ia the strange
action ~ our souls drawing us bv lurk-
INK dcsire toward the very ends Wa
dread when she left the nearest village
she asked the most direct way to Stony
shire md Dinah and kept II all day.
Poor. wandering Hr,ty-with rounded.
childish face and the hard unloying, des-
pairing soul looking out of It, with tho
narrow heart and the narrow thought.
| win no room in them for any sorrows
but her own. tolls along with weary feet
/ OF sits Rt times IN cart With her ewes
fixed vncantly on the road beside her,
clnRing To- lifo only ss the poor. wounded
brute clings To II. God preserve YOU and
me from being the beeinners of srch
miseps
ITO he continued tomorrow