Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-29

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with her breakfast. 4 veil seemed q
dim the old woman's eyss-sAe looked
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Better! Much bsttsr! ! told you
should be better In the morning..
The old woman was silent for q mo-
ment and then said:
'"Thou were mot up and, downstairs
In the night, Beesie?"
Deed NO! Why should yeu thinl
:.Becaus. I shut the washhouse doc,
when went to bed and II was opsr
when / came down A Ethe morning"
Bessis's lips trenbled. but shs mad
A little later she heard her stsp.
father talking loudly. In the kitchen
He had seen the Speaker, having. walt
ed all day for him. There had been I
stormy scene. The big man had foamel
at the mouth, talked about blackmail
threatened to turn him out Of the farm
at Hollantide. and finally shouted 70,
Tom Kermods. his steward, to dinl
him into the road. eG ~
lS.'I iays II With you. dr." Dan ~
I 11an6wered. II You prefer The nev
Dempster, when he comes, to 80 justie,
done to the sirl, its sll,as one 70 me. :
Bessie could have laughed. Wicked
selfish, scheming-how shs was going 4
defeat it!
All morning she lay quiet, thinkin,
out her plans. Half a mile up the glsl
there was large stone Of irregula
shape, surrounded BY . Wild tansle Q
briar and gorse. The Manx called /
the Claghny Dooiney marroo-the dea,
mans stone, the body Of q murdere,
man having been found on It. BY rea
son Of this gruesome association Of th
bloody hand upon It, few approached tn
stone By day and the bravest MAJ
(unless be were in drink) would hesi
tate to 70 near It BY night.
Bessie decided to bury her child nm
der the Clakh my -Dooinsy. Il woul,
lie hidden forever there; nobody woul'
find It.
The day was long in passing, 10
Bessie was waiting for the night. Sh
heard the young lambs bleating In tb
fields and the cocks Growing In th
hagSard. A linnet psrched on the ledg
Of her skylight Cher mother had opens,
it) and looked in on her and sang.
] At'lsngth the SKY darkened and nigh
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