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BESS, H
msnmncwma;
Author of “ Jill I: o‘ the i.iglit," " A T
ll-l ." IIK.
.-mhh. ‘ "l’li:li-t
l LEANED rrooi the dairy.u-iiiilow. and now her
Atalldillg at the gnta.tho handaomeat cnsaturti
my-ev 5 ever beheld
ul block aiiirt and erimaon picket, tnmmeil with
In llt-ll‘, I nlterwartl heard, and, indee allowed
llnill Pllollgb in her olive skill. all l 85:83,
i) As I looked at hot I will think
one of those E]1lL'l'Hll(l cardinal-
lluwuns blowing in this l'I)B!LLl0Ws tl-lwn by Stan - '
islll's il :1.
“ r nle, Mirlullla. Emilia," crit,-ll I, “cunm
this '1"
There waa gypsy blood
. it
d b"
E
lu-ru, who in
Zvllmllrla, who had livod with John and mu
livur amca motllt-r din ,rimhcd into tho dairy
oul
!'v'lllIIt:nAtl.Ile‘v‘(-3:1, ovury uuc.
y tlm spool-ls.‘ V
Tho girl at tho gato glanced up iuat than and ;
vars. She smiled, ullnwlllg IN)!‘ beau- ‘ .
e
tlfuigwllitta tr-eth, than alipped the violin on‘ her‘
ucc , rawt o ow ncroaa ita atringa, and i
an wild and awcot an a hobolinira, 1
he an to sing. i
ilidn’t catch many llfllll: lmrrls; it was only .
moo, evu av air, but ulil iu-r '
went to in heart. I ran (own tho wn
Miranda rollowed, with tho apooua clin ’
or llprnll.
u what‘: your name 2" aaid 1 to the tramp.
“Bria " says a lo. I dived into my porlict.
and fuulld a ailvor pioca, which I put into th.-,
bi-own hand which aho held to me on-r tho,
(It
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aho said, and i
i
you, prctty lad
'0 ‘ and ‘i
over her nv=c- ay, in,
Mir‘
aorno cri-ctur 5" rriod ‘
nda, "That face in L-nullgll urn cyory
nialo head in the town. '
“And what a voicel" aaiil I. “I wiah John‘
could have hoard her.”
in waa my brother, and wo liv-od tog:-,tllrl'i
on till: old barren homo farm, where 1 In liopt
luunia or i ‘ co motllcr‘i4 dt>la.th. Good i
lund, i.nrd.woi-liing Jolllll
thinga tor ' ’
llllllllillulll does.
. .4
auhury.
,, T nip ; on will iuuiatoy
.. is-atantlln' in thin aun, and you want all y
riughad and ran upataira to my own cliam-J
u my toiiot lorthe atteruoou. It was I
3 nice. old-faisllinned room, with low mama run- ‘
llin acruasy Mill I pain all 1100 y-
riuc la and roach amothoringtlie arnall willdoml.
I cunld think of nothin Y llllt the dark lloauty of
that tramp, an I oo 9 It my own law in N10‘
i,'lna.47my own ac ‘ ' axlrn hair am
milky flash and clllnn-bin ' .
“(ivxalll Stnnilisll nleerl lmver again tell me
that I‘m the Irlzltivklt 'irl in the wllJ'ltl," shill I
to myurrlf. “ lly I can (lil'tf0r a. moment Ctinlw i
pan: with that (‘run ure."
put on my now a rigged muaiin, and thr-
hluo ribbon uoraid llliod, and wont down to thi-
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runt room tmw l h an July. is d
Gerald had fixed our marriage-da for “J45 lllii’
well]: in S ll 1‘ Miranda an were ll ay
on :1 at Cedar cheat tllat‘
ii
wnstrllotkyeit done. ]A;fllrhm3' gllisill (larer ‘
lit ‘n low mucl my a con o nipoor
iilarflihn, who waa nlwnya pinched for ready.
i 1 .
'”3'3l'"rlo neighbora aliall novor on ,Tunl iy, that
youdweotgo our rich huahand li otho aggnr.
iunl wt (9 ing," ‘ in. l
a salt aeyjvin with Minoan 1 could ace hinii
out in t e roim run 0 t o en.ncro o,
awingirig his ncytlluglustily, and the tears apraug
into my oyoaaa 00 e .
M Teniporiuica Miller," aaya llliranda, “you're l
nod and Wu ll] knowl
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ICE the wlnttir
ndel-ed, I Ell pose, that my
,.inb.and-vlvrllita prettiocaa should ring mo sue 1
good formula.
In the warm, scented twilight Gerald Stand-
isll rode up to our rato.
nil-he shone l e sultln, ecku of truth
M
ind“,
w like a prince in n ialry-tile,
swung llinloulf out of tho and-
and
1 thong t, no he
tlltt, an kissed nltl an the llplt.
"Waiting for mu, aebutl '.'" he lnllgherl,
nnltlv. He did not like tlla 0111- fasllln 4,-(l l
nnno of 'l‘ompcl-anco, and would never call me J
hy i “Nice girl. get your ahawl, and no
will walk down to the river; I want to tltlk with
0“ ,,
,
limit. ..
Thu hills 0! his roan HIXOWGLI liar round lxrlns to this lilluuldter. and
V arid so ullllttvralllv ll)VHlf"
.
rulu
linppioat woinau in tho with
it am at alrtladv,” I auaweri-<1, “o v
accnia, Gerald, an it
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“no fear of that.
Neither the liouae nor iniineau-r are or tho atoll
of ,.
at dreams are Ina I-‘
And list at that nmmunt we turned a lmlid in
on a great nra blaz-
ayai atroe.
hall never forget that scene. Around
0
o
m
c
tho day's ania.
dropped my hand irom na .
“Go can-iii” cried he. in a low voice,
“look at that girl.”
ianrod toward the two undor which the
, mg agniinit
1! hcrhoad mating on the rou llllark, and the
8
lint Cl"R.()klP Hn( sitwafirrure nail
I‘-id lira strl-nllllllg on her this w ace.
thu very cruriiuro I hltd neen that day at tliii
gat
to the others,
i h l .
llalfclnsl-,(l, aho aconicd liatonin
haying nothing llersi-ll", but am log n dreamv
nor ' ' nevor ill my dying day cis.nI
rorg--t iiuwiiaiulroiuoahoioo e .
i swnnil oi'tioinld'o voice the tramps atartrd
oi-or and set: them. Ilmint you to ho the
ni, 7it
moat walio directly and
6135
THE PE'OPLE’S HOME JOURNAL.
lh'l(I niilllts in his tilli) llousorand oll! Ivllat ii
i placc it waci rit fur a queml to in
atood looking round on all tho volvct'and
' y llim,-so u
crtrpota. and thou at
hauglltvr so litter
d an
grid.
l
lke in
own peoglle, I could not help crying out from
the dopt Q o '
1' mv tear :
in airaid it‘a too grand ror mc, aural.
no amilcd, coldly.
-- You will soon get uaod to it all.
any what thcywill, you nro making
gain, Rosalind. I tell on plainly,
lhuuaand timea too gout rar mo "
“ I0 0 I10 "
I t
i oiili
Let people
I had bar-
you arr: a.
p , a awcrcd, trying to laugh.
liough aometliiiig in hia tone made lnylltmrt
ilm lead.
roro tho time ayipoiotad ror my marringo,1 ran
t niv we
how lonetlome e. iilld
dding, and
tho iaiiuro
o tho crops, the. clogk otrucli ten before
dl'9B.In9lI how late it “X! .
There was no man in the llonsernoborly,-in
lact, to go houio with ma;
Puritan town.
tooli the cook-book, aaid goo
could, and aturted for the ram
relt no fear, I just aprang up.
' d nigllt aa quick an
It was 3. moonlit night. bright ‘an day. $llad-
owa or older-trees and barbcri
,tho road ' rivtlr ahuno
met a neon. Away‘ on the op
win wpourrw-lll waa alllgillgrl IaVO
llin evcr ainco thn
ica fringed
5) var. an .
could hear the ripp a or its curront in the ,
‘ pcaita bani a
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llatcd the
lug .
I pllgdded tllrullgll tllrl nlunllligllt, tllllllilng of
rla
F.
Ge .
, “Is no really the me?" 1 aaid to myaoir,
ri lo grnwill;1' d mnahamod o me,
' u-rhnia no, I’ can't believe that.I wo
ratlltir die than believe it,” and th
0 and saw at a. '
on lres standin w
ed and lllolitsd at tlleln.
light. The woman worn a
littio distance in the ro
man and a woman
MOE Tlli: wuyaiilc
trccn a arled me, but they were in bright mo
i-rirnaon jacket, am
aho had long hraida hanging down liar llacli.
and R. darkly bountiful face, full no
"I RAW UAIIHIEL IIARMDN in-r-l-lxn ms TVH‘ HIVNK ni‘
‘i . tall as TH
ol'll. llliu.vrlr.I
, muili
)H7lH‘I r‘l'li
um out Vllll.
1.
rltmilitzx
HS). Wllat [1031-ll3i<Hl‘(Illll]I I do nut know, llilt lit) ‘ llliitnr‘
at nation
(I at onto to opoaii u-it l t I“!!!
llftlllv tho hat ii-uiu lll.-lftlir hair. “Ha. '1‘
had good luck ton 1y?"
n no, a' wlllll:-ll onu inn old
lllu fatllv.-r or that
ioor, sir. llluyho you'll h
lvill you lioti-n to n on. '
lllH]1lt!Ol))t‘, "ll‘lrr“ mi
N.
don't object, if in a good one," said my 1 unroaaonahlo.
cyca
iooliiug atandily at him. and
- hc k. As
into her Ilrown c
heart grow cold witlno mu. I I
-t loan in our aong-bird. air," cried the old
' in abctllne a l( Do your
c ateppt-,d out from tho trod, andwitli a
courtesy and V3 aiuiia tooli up her violin, and
burat on
havc hoard
Ind I all pose tha
could not
.‘<ltnlldi:lll‘i4 owes. and line
hind, nnd glanced at him through
illiaavvs '0 awn
sin Hg“ onnlo llniee
t creaturll was
alle looitod ao uh, ,
withal that l wiahcd rrom my heart tha 4-art
would open and awallow lior as who atoiul.
when tho aong wan (
alun hand, and tlcraiil thing a Int
it, an. r ya hit, with it hold Lilllinvu
it voicc lilm youra, pr:-,t('
open in-,arta and pucliotu who ror ruu go.
uh, airmalie laiigliod, “all g.-nil.-iir-ii au-
not llliu you."
And then I apoiio up, aharply. and any-u I:
“Crlnlll,(‘rllrAll,it in growing into lutlm or
. o wotui-no.1 frnm tho rim, and walk:-il llnmn
iu uttvr ailouoo, mill, no 1 hr.-, ho win. lH'l'1‘l' ti...
1 oheved. I rather likad tho lordly tono ho
some "moo ' h mu. wo tunu.-ii into an . ruruoartortiiu mg it.
old croaa-road, and ho be an to apcnli or thol First or all, has cawic loan to tliri lion, and ho
and mansion or which wan to noon to ho waacnreloaaunrl ilippnu at onn una, tool will!
lltistrelatl, and the prttpantiollls his was milking and ml)!'0H5)8.'l aunt ii-r. I‘lVl’II-47()lIll lIl)HCV'1l ilm
tiiarotoracoivo mo. chaoga, though ho aaid nothing. lliuuuwlul.-,
"1 llavn daaigu.-,rl no uud or hr.-ity thinga for tho pr.-
yon,1lolsribud,"mlid ho. N 'I'u-llltlrrtlw you shall lmmu,
Rralllln-5 ror our wutliliugm-ut on thi-
lo tooii mo to woo tho I!II[)rlll'lliIi“Iilr-4. In
-l noun r:vl>nIn1,', lrlt-,llLlil."sl1id ha, inociiiiigly
i will
lllan, lI.lI(l
W )fv1'Ul"y'
u to holp uaatruio.
word fixed upon tlm girl. iiho was i wild. liml.
tlln color ruaiuid my wliolta ii..-art
watchoil her my
ml: lllll,
l:.t,x..
it I-want II Ill
ml; which lulllll) him ul-llilm all ulllc
‘xvltli my IUVP Gerald Stallllia l.
uud her, liar llnad
alltlultlar. She was sobbln , blttorlv
‘llta ltlrtat.-ll l’l“I‘ a a
l your oyca with c
a, you know
o
utilul
W of utter
, scmvmn ltwiw
(‘H luhfl it
‘rho lllallrrllow could i mintaliv Hm
, tho lair hnir, thu gr
hlou-iug rroui tho aiioulil.-.ro, tho air, the
r men? It
was on hit!
I will no‘-vet orsake ‘ml (nevi-ll
rynig. lly
i
uvc you wit
Nllo clung to him, weeping utill. 1 ll:-ld uiy
ir.-at latraniod in oara o iatuii.
“No. you n ovo Illa," alio protected.
“You id '
roiniaod, Gerald.
l cull I nut," lm answered, nootl
had nnotlit-,r i-ngagcnn-,nt "
not come to me lnat night, as you
uugiy. "1
it that pllll(<aIIIl-Whltu gui ovor at lliliore
pe0ple.talk of horn coquottoo, fnrnl," lihv‘ Ilaltllw
“ N lath-r wlmm it Wins.
ljliey woro moving toward
aupportiug her; and tho moouli -ht
their (am-to. A nloilwn
g. iiu'niiiug' rrthlnlililg or this thing
. ltvlflllllln nu-.
i litmr, will i V nu
l in
i l‘ll1'l'lu’ hlio auiioa. no tool: uiy iunul,
i it an
“ f‘ mil
‘ Hnltw-ll !" trrit-.il lltl. " vtllrlt
to-r, ltulav-lti'lIl'.‘ '
luu Inilk liiio a izlliist
'l‘hun Itulll him all i in-l -o
o rlvl-r lwlnl. .- gn-w ri-ii,
Ito i;lim'vtrI'(l nt IIIr' :nl '1”! y.
“ l'ou iuuat i.uow I rituuot inorry
ll nil
HIP"
1- lllltct, I rlv
. Slli-l ‘ o
elp but aim the Mlnlirntion in Ge-.l‘ald that tune with mrl, B03371 lllttrs iealillli-l woman.
till nnr
which had
V Wllnll llt- clunn Ill-ht Ililfr (l4'l‘F.llI Stllllilir-ll I
xvtlnt tl’IWll tn lIll‘l‘Il him with ll()llUW I i.
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hilt I llri-w
Gt tho mut-
All
in
i..‘
oli,(lul‘ll.lil,” J in I'al‘ill':1I. --it i in
mid Iitlltlllgll I thought the “'ul‘ll:1 would cllokt-,
nicslunti. you nvo ma aonia explllllatlilll oi
1t la mv right, in it not 7"
la heel, aulleuiy, into the carpet.
“Yua,’ ho anaworci. it ovortlieleaa, I can't
do it lieu niuat draw our own intcruncca.
have noted him a villain. 1 can any no more.”
row o l hia ring.
“Tlion good.byc, cicrald."
ll , touo of pool.
“I ougnt to have aalicd tor ni ru.
ease weeks ago. orgivo and rorget nle, dose-
u . an noon in; van call.”
And he walked out through the gatu, and was
vono, and when ii-an it came into tho room a
ow niomoiita arter she found me stmtclled on
tho lloor in a doa ain ,
well, that was the (-lid or all my proapecta, all
' liolping John.
linery into the od codar
at-aled it caroiully rroni tho light of
' in my on t:
“]l31rl<ll3.l draaa I ahaii never wear in thin
orl
-L.
P
d auro enough, though 1 had ouitoi-a altar-
ward, lnevoriiatena a in can mic.
Gerald stan ia won abroad, and fell into
rried a line lady, and led soon
alter, leltl ing her with a baby aon. I never aaw
again.
an for the girl Bess, ahc disa&l&learm] train the
heard nothing
, r beauty
brought her to a and pass, in ecdl lo apito
or tho iiiyury ii 10 had done me, my in-art ac red
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n.
lid I lived on together at the film]. I
at al iuy good lno gray a
wrnihlod lo g boior in time. when John
inarricd Squire l3avia'a war in
milla to work, for, aayo 1:
H etwixt the old debts and the new hnrdeiia,
4 ' ‘It Inc.”
d at my loonl in tho factory,
W came in vii i one of
e oyeraocra, trailing ller ahining aillia behind
or and loading her boy by t o inn
B waa a hair, a oilod darling, the image or
hia dead rather, and aa ungovornahle an a whirl-
wl .
“Jas sir, dear, don't do this," and “Jas 61',
out do tlllzt,” his lady-nlotller cal ed,
dear,
and he plud no more heed to let than tu the
buzz of the name). I watched the two bitterly
o ng
no .
“But tor it lnulrsinle tramp,” tlluugllt 1, “I
l ht havc been in your place today, my lady,
' hat atri -ai e."
one. chriatio we name or, and
the time or her mother’: death aha was .Iolln’s
idol and mine.
lioar a.ftv>r year aaaed. dolin plow.-ii and
doivod, and 1 bake and brewed, and Cllriritits
wtall and lovely. and an ion or wi fill tom.
ara an a tree or leavea. she waa pi-ctticr than
had over bucll, even in the daya when Cvrlrllld
Standish called um Ilnaelmtli Slll‘ lmtl bi
' "ii like atrawh. "en
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Pond. Jaapcr standiali, W)
or the ilacc. an inn rather had been
bcroro him, aaw hriatio under it anc-
ing in a w ii Hie dress and violet ribbons.
and fell in love with her at lirat sight.
That wan a ay to be r . wa
tagged to tioath with the heat, and the bugs got
inn my tea, on were were iniaiioa on t a
at of
, nd they capsized an want
over, Ill togotlull‘, into tlll-l Wlltul‘.
but no chria o ai
less an a new-llllrll a o.
ed and irayud aomobod
‘mn iali coulvlnt awiin, and
while ho atood, pain an aaiicalioidingmo, and
w’d give it tliuuaniul dollars to
iar, a man, iua no
. a no a a game.bag at
his aido, came runlung tin-ough the crowd. He
you. to a of u and,
a an ho could, plunged
out with might and
inaiu ror tho (lruw1lin v gir.
He lmll boon aiiooting in tho adjoining wood,
V‘ 5 our rriea that brought
a a ‘ma awimmor, and
lid lniow thorn waa no ti o to i chria lo
aa not an ho roachod her, but ho ilivad and
b1‘0Il%lltllel"I] by her long hair. lid m
‘l a crowd) bcgno to cmcr, and. w
looked it , llo waa atandin bcaiilo inn, dripping
rroin lmhd to root, and liolliin v hor aooacicaa on
1 y no dared an diatracted that 1
uoi-.-i- isiwl a word to him, or gava liiru a glance,
ovcn, and boiom I came to my aenaea he hlippnd
away and wan g no.
Via tooli chriatic to the ncnreat house. and
brought her to, and dried her ciothoa. While I
waa acolding liur for tho acaro aho in given
i-rnryhody, one or the picnic party came in, and
says US.
“'I‘llittfil]1owit4 o rum one. Cllrihtio. Jaapor
istnndiaii liuuili-d him a rhacli for tho rmvard lie
prolllilwtia ouaand dollara, you iinoweuo
what do you think he di '
lflluw can I tell?" aaya chriatlo, coloring
ugh.
oaaod it in Stan<lii<ll’a iacc, and aaya he,
'1 I nah for lt,’alld on he
lury mun, am no name in
iiorrioa, or llurmon, or aouiothing uithnt aort."
Aftvlrtlli1.t,Clll'iMill, or courao, waii tlm horoino
oi tlm day. .napl-r Htluldialll drovo no homo in
uud a pair of apuiiiaiiig gra
trim to, waant it, that t )I‘ aim uhouid
roliow tllv fatlli-r'li rootatopa to our ohi gate?
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I hlmtilllwl ti l ll wiltl (‘llsilutlia-Vlnil and
iiik.
puiu, tiuui iiuugii nrouud in-rlio-u . (viz
“la. '
u. yuunuiu "1 ‘:4 hi‘, hair in jvl.-t. ll:llf
‘UH. Y
-at-’t you in-u ug.
l ‘fut.’ '