Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1918-11-14
The Refugee
B. VICTORIA AixPLEroN


lcopyrisht 1919. western Newspaper talsn
Jabez Hull was never happy IN
less he was pryine into the business
Of other people. Gossip was balm X
his soul. giving advice a habit. boss
Ing things the height Of felicity. HI
had tried his arts on this half cousin
Mrs. Winsted. and her daughter. Dor
othy. but had been promptly sqneleh
ed. They cespised his mean, inferfer
Ing nature and he got 10 realize II ahf
rarely visited them.
Aseck Drury. also q cousin OF Mrs
Wlnsted, was just the reverse. he
was gentle hearted, full Of QuIxotis
ideas and deemed It a favor and :
blessing 70 be near Mrs. Winsted and
Dorothy. He was rheumatic, and IL
certain weather got about with din
Guilty. The widow had fired up . ne
tie two-room cottage at the rear Of
the lot for Aleck. and there be lived
One evening cold rain caused him
to hurry In crossing the D0o-fooI
space between the two houses. Sud
denly he stumbled over an obstacle 10
his path and went hendione,
"GraciousT exclaimed Aieck. rIt's
manl'' He knelt by the sidt os
the prostrnte hgure. to make ui
that the lnsensibie stranger was ~
rayed In the gAfb ofithe eonvicla al
the penitentiary. 20 miles away.
"Now what am I ever 10 del" hs so
lilOquiEed. Hes soaked through, his
face Is bleeding. He e either stunned
or sick suppose my duty IL 70 cal
the authorities and there's 9 standins
reward Of 500 Tor the return Of an
escaped convict Poor fellow HI
probably Inns no home. no friends
Wen. III be one TO him. for tonight
anyhow
Aieck carried the stranger bodily 4
the little old cottage, He began q
shiyer and talk diajointedly. AlecA
removed his wet clothing ana eet bifs
to bed. He was IN q raging fever and
deliFious BY daylight. aF
He must be eonvict.- ,reilectet
Aisck, for when he went ont into ths
garden . neighbor informed him that
man had escaped from the prisor
the night previeua
Aisck bundled up the convict Rnrh
and hid II away. He told krA WIN
sted Of a charge, n nnd frfendleas
Mrs. Winsted commissioned soms
homemade remedies and DOROTHY
brought some deliencies. shs wal
greatly drawn to the helpless. hand
some looking stranger, whose fayinsa
yngus ~ they we're. betoksned inte
ligcnce and good breeding +
For nine days the aick rnMn lag h
fever and stupor most q ths tirpe
Dorothy would relieve AIeek Wills h
attended 20 his gnrdsn choreay AID
would ST as the eonch fnsnins ~
patient or placing cold bandaess "a
his head.
Cousin Mary" spoke Aieck nns
morning. nesr a shsitafnG ksagA sTys
got 20 rsysal a eserss te Epmr end b
narrutsd the details Of BE Discover
o. The atrnngas.
"A oonviesf" ahuddersd Aim VIC
sssd aghast.
~Yea. cousin replied Aleek, -and
because OF that fact, and beeAuss
have observed that Dorothy n gpeaiaa
deeply INTERESTED n him. I wRna saf
to halp me Ia sorne Plan TO ~ Alsn
away from here
Let's think II over.- said MIRA Win
stUd, quite agilated There wAs . rus
lie on the oshsr side ~ the hedge. and
savesdropplng Jabex Hun started nj q
INST gait for ths town.
He returned In an hour. Dorothy
gently talking 20 the eunvAiaecens,
was surprised as Jabsr burst into he
room. followed BY 80 ofScuF.
THERE'S the convict. and zee thst
get my hundred dolThrais cried The
avaricious JabeE
"shame on youl" burst forth fFvn
Dorothy. Eat least b. human sneugh
10 spare a very sick man = shosh that
might kin him
@why. think understand"
spoke The Invalid. weakly. but with
eagarnesa II was just nbcut b 81.
plain 10 my kind nurse here how ]
came 10 be burdan TO heFself and
her friends The convict you ta3e
me for met roe some distance from
here. and at the point u a pistol
forced mo 70 change clothes with him.
{ zen into pit amid the storm. and
/ remember little since am Willis
Thorne, and the son Of Senator Thorne
u Rushviile.
swhy. he's the milIionairs manufAc-
turer's con !" exclaimed Jabez, sneak.
lnR from the house
swe win Inform your relatives that
you ore here, and safe" suggested
Aleck.
eyes. but don't think ! had better
he moved until l feel strong and wen
aRain---do your
Dorothy flushed pink at the sxpfes-
e,ou IN those questioning eyeE gTnte.
full and tender at the same sinae-
Aleek retired With 4 chuckle
" wasn't wrong be told himself
.,laes0msly, Il never was 10 lore IN
nv life. but those fwo--well, may they
be- happy eli their iiveair x,i
Iournmfgasic sSumor.