Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-12-24

tween her and me when she might
have loved me- I'm 6ofAb be soon for.
got, as you'verobbed me OF my happi-
ness wheel l thought YOU my best
friend. You're a coward and a scoun.
4drel, and / despise you"
The color rushed back to Arthur's
face. He dealt a lightning blow which
sent,.Adam Staggering back, but the
delicate-handed gentleman was no
match for the workman's great
strength. After a fierce struggle, Ar
'fnar Tfefl Vm6tionlsssy while Adam. in
sudden revulsion Of feeling, knelt over
him like an Image of despair gazing
on death. NDINjd
To his intense relief, grad
ually revived. Adam got him to his
feet, supported him to the little cabin,
and laid him on q couch Then ne
spoke out.
81 don't forget what's owing te-you
as a gentleman, but In; this thing we
are man to man. Either tell me she
can never be my wife-tell me you're
lying when you say you haven't
harmed her-or4-else write her-a-let-
ter. telling her the truth that you
won't see fer again,s@v4sA
Arthur struggled. suffered. prom
Used. and Adam half ,~comforted. left,
not knowing that there In the waste
basket, hastily stuffed UNDER the pa
pers, lay a woman's silk kerchief.
When Hetty read rArthur's letter,
she gave way to despair. Then, by
one of those convulsive motiveless ac-
tons by which the wretched leap from
temporary sorrow to- life.fong misery,
she determined to marry Adam. The
big carpenter vas in the seventh
heaven, Hetty fitful and depressed.
For family reasons, the marriage
could not be FASTENED and Is the
months passed, she determined at any
cost to seek out Arthur, whose regi-
ment was at Windsor. Telling her
uncle she was going to Snowfield to
see Dinah for a little change of scene
before her marriage, she started out,
ignorant of the country, panicstricken
and forlorn, eager to shun every IA
millar face, longing only to feel again
the protectionvofsher lovers arms.
On Arthur, meanwhile, life seemed
again to smile. After rejoining his
regiment, his sharpest regrets for
Hetty began to 'roses their sting. Soon
he was transferred to Ireland, and
there learned that by his grandfa-
theirs death he was lord of the manor.
Home he came, fast as chaise and
post boy could drive, home to dear
old Hayslope sleeping on the hill,
where he was to live his life, mar
ried to some lovely lady, respected and
appreciated by his tenants. A pile Of
letters awaited him. He opened the
first, and with q violent CONFUSION
shaking hts whole frame, read the
words Hetty Sorrel is In prison for
the crime Of child murder.
Clutching the letter, Arthur rushed
from the room like a hunted man, and
springing to the saddle of a waiting
horse, set off at a gaIlop.
Isl That very evening a young woman
knocked at the door of the village Jail.
There was about her a deep concen-
trated calmness which induced the
jailer to grant her request to visit
the condemned cell. AS the heavy
door closed behind her, she hesitated
before the pallet bed.
Z "Hetty, Dinah is come to you"
Slowly, very slowly, Hetty o s and
was Slasped in Dinah's ARMS
Fd won't leave me, Dinah3"
"No, Hetty," whispered Dinah. sri
stay with you to the~last. But Hetty,
there Is someone else in this ceii.n
"Who?" whispered Hetty, fright
Someone who has been with you
all your hours of sin and trouble. 1t
makes no difference. Hetty, whether
we live oradie. We are in the presence
of God. Confess the sin you have COM
mitted against your Heavenly Father.
Let us kneel together.- He is~here." .
There. in the silence and darkness,
Hetty, who through her trial had sat
like a stone image, poured forth her
pitifufS story. r-es~N eA
at was because / was so miserable,
Dinah. / didn't know where to go. /
tried to kill myself, and 1 couldn't. l
went to Windsor to find him. He was
gone, and 1 didn't know what to do.
1. daredn,t go home again Then the
baby was born. . Z did do it,
Dinah. q / buried 1t in the vood--the
little baby. 1t cried. . / heard
It all n%ight-and I went back. And
then / thought / would go. home, and
all of a sudden l saw a hole under q
nut tree, and 1t darted over me like
lightning I'd lay the baby there, and
cover 1t with grass and chips. n
couldn't cover it quite up, Dinah. I
thought somebody'd come and take
care of it. Dinah, do you think God
will take away that cry and the place
In the wood, now that Pve told every
n a--Qy ~