Show THAT THA T GIRL sf of JOHNSONS by I FA rutlt of jt Us cp cirii alf el f petern otera all il g to 10 act aci of conar s IQ in tb be year almo liy by street stet A S smith th I 1 I 1 I 1 in clr h fj fance e of 0 the librarian ol of conget Con creva ret at D C CHAPTER II 11 continued that night his comrades at tile the lavirn had told him of this they taunt 1 ed I him with elih it they laughed at the girl they did not like her dot one of them narrow natures dislike and dist distrust rubt that which they cannot under stand young green also had bad aroused MB life fears cm groen green had an education he be had asked where the girl obtained lor her education therefore the she must have an education to lo 10 fc was assured of this ho he kicked the book contemptuously and muttered under his bis breath an oath against young green if over ever ho he camo came there again it would be a sorry day for him dolores said nothing A sudden frenzy him lie he stooped and snatched the hook book from the ground it was an old astronomy she had boon been leading the book tor for she preferred pret ened it to any or of her moab ers rs books and bhea young green saw it the day ho he was waa there he was touch much surprised and promised to take a volume on the subject the next time tc be went that way she thanked him and it was mas the first time lime she had thanked any one since betsy glenn died that m was as two i weeks ecks before lle forC and he be hail had not come again as lie he said he be would but bill the she watched matched tor for illin him feeling sure that tie be should keep ills his promise to her feeling strangely glad when she thought of him she had perfect faith in him her fathers fae face was mas amid as he snatched the book front from the ground round IHs his small ees close set wele full of brute clu oltY the veins of his forehead were acre swollen in his handy hands used to wielding the heavy hammer the book was a toy his birgers closed over it and nd in an ail Ineita instant nt it lay in shreds at lier her feet for a moment site she did not compie liend lend what had bad been doue done site she looked from the book to him and buck back again then the she era arose her face was white while and her eyes ees hashed flashed she looked at him anti he cowered coerced before her ber sho she was tall art ard stately lie he hall had veer roer belore before appreciated her dignity now lie appreciated it to the full fill the book was the deafest thing in the world to her he could have wounded mounded her ter in no other way nay mechanically lie he gatheral ga therel up ID the scattered fragments and as she held out her hand band for them he gave them to her without a word ord without even glancing dancing at her for the time she was more than his daughter her eyes were mere on his face and her spirit ruled his then they away to the mountain top veiled to la haze the fire died out of her ees her bar hands holding the torn leaves of her book fell listlessly at her side elde her shadow lay long lone and dark behind her there was a sense of w mystery about ler which her father could not under and stand he shrank from it and front from tier her and passed away up the dark bank heavy with the shadows of the pines allt swayed in the taint faint breeze and again silence tell fell around her bar CHAPTER IV the mare 1 I have come acain eald eaid young green laughing he stood in the doorway of the shop holding the black mare by the to ride bridle johnson had been sitting on a bench outside cr the shot shop smoking a lay clay pipe As the young youn man a spoke be arose and advanced toward the amare I 1 another shoo so soon he queried shortly yes tes ald id the young man lightly her right shoe this his time come dees bees come my girl there was A sudden sullen glow on johnsons John tons face as he be took the bellows and blew the fire into a fierce maze blaze lie he laid aid the iron on oil the and rals ed the hammer young green began to talk he of the dry weather and the hard roads be told the news of the town i I 1 y I 1 AK I 1 I 1 L 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 11 r 1 more listless than and of the th trial that diat a as a to rome ott off horse borse thief who ho had of 0 a notorious attempting to al bess bese been caught the blacksmith claten listened oil in sullen silence aln tins tile blahe ot of the tha iam mer by an and d by young I 1 green gred left him and ant up to tile the house for a drink johnson was aa not dot the 0 only aly silent one that day ills his daughter listened mutely to the hie youns young mans mank conversation if nelilie nt ant lilie birg the was aa even een more list bless than usual though a strange color tinted her cheeks na AS he talked book wath illi her ile he oft left the promised thed T it 11 he sald bald but he h it giai I 1 not forgotten take lake it before for had been unable to her face glowed with pleasure a in moment we nt and the silken lashes lifted swiftly but fell ere their eyes could meet thanked him in a few simple she bicet cat voice then teen words norda in berlow I 1 I 1 her gazo w wandered am away by to the iho hazy mountain top in the distance lie ha left in a few minutes deeply digap pointed in her slid and et at strangely interested te and had he mistaken her was she incapable of the thought he be believed she possessed had she not after all the ambition to be more than an untaught village girl did her thought end with the blue line or of the mountains and the hamlets scattered along alone their sides allies i dolores disappointed him he be thought her so much better than she had bad proved herself and set under it all there was vas a sting in tho the thought which he did not understand student of 0 character as he was she was stupid lie he sold said regretfully yet her face shows show a such possibilities lie he was Rs walking slowly down the narrow path to the shop his hands I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 r I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 Q 17 I 1 N ir I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 3 I 1 I 1 e kv A I 1 14 N 1 1 11 W w zw w erp al I 1 I 1 I 1 17 am 11 1 4 I 1 11 11 11 M A dolores watched him clasped behind him his fair air licad head bent slightly forward dolores was watching him but he be did not know it he never guessed of the wistful fill brown eyes following follow ing hill him down the stubbly path boss bess whinnied shrilly when he came in sight she was lest iest less and snappish but when he be mounted and rode out of the shop she grew gentle again As he rode away johnson called after him that site she must have gone some distance without her shoe for her foot was tender dolores watched him with her far seeing eyes as he rode up the mountain then her gae went ment down to the shop her father was standing in the doorway also watching the rider he had bad forgotten Us his pipe his face in the hayy sunlight was tull full ot of sullen hatred and he looked capable of committing almost any act ills his muttered threat of the previous evening returned to her bar clearly and distinctly her eyes widened with nameless fear sho she looked up the mountain moun talo again to where the black mare was bearing her rider proudly along the yellow thread of 0 road she was wa no longer listless her face was white her lips quivering with excitement I 1 CHAPTER V whose whole was the deeda dolores was wag waiting for something to happen hanpei A vague terror possessed her she could not have defined it had she tried she did not try young greens face seemed to haunt her she watched her ter father continually while be was in the house tor for a sort ol of fascination was upon her and she could not keep her ees from his bis face she could not explain the terror that possessed her but her bar whole listless nature was aroused she was different and her life was kea somehow different she knew not how bow the slow days passed it seemed to I 1 her to r with even more slowness than mas A as their wout wont every morning the red sun arose out ol of a veil ot of haze from the mountain beyond the lalley every evening he sank behind the gray peaks in tile the west nothing happened alter after all life was stagnant the be sun arose and set the haze hung move more dense and thick over the mountain peaks no rala rain fell nothing happened nothing happened until goe no day the rumor floated acikas the mountain that young gheens mare one ol of the choicest breed in it the country valued at what seemed to the simple villagers a fabulous sum had gone lame and this as discovered the lie morning after she was shod by johnson to most of the villagers this fact meant nothing that the one had bad anything to to do with the other never entered their headd they had bad n nj cause tor for suspicion but to dolores the rumor minor came like a blow it seemed to her in a strange faraway fashion that this was what see ne hart hall heen been expecting this aa hy by the kindly blue eyes were always looking into hers herg and the pleasant rate was forever in her thoughts ifer her es ebes were on her father when the news was told by one of the neighbors A ball was waa driven into the mares boot and she was dead lame the hostler had found it when he be examined her hoof which was van not until the morning fol following loing the any green 1 waat baat as at the settlement it was waft a hard blow to the young man the speaker said for or he had bad thought as much of her as though she were a woman conjecture was rife as to who had done the deed suspicion rested particularly in one direction and the suspicion was pretty sill 11 rounded founded but the young man would wait until there could be no do doubt and here the story ended dolores bad listened silently is as was her habit no one noticing her the memory of her rattlers fathers words word the other ly day returned to her with a force she could lot coi account for over anil and over ever mingled with the memory of 0 the black mure mare and her rider the words were driven in dully a 1 though by the strokes of a hammer even distinct deafening most I 1 terrible to the girl fir in the darkness ef over ever obet young teller kerns kems ayar agen ehll bo be a sorry day ter fer hem CHAPTER vt VL A neighborly gift et el lev been so dry I 1 dowed lowed ther gy guarding arding ayar dean mount ter much abeln as ie a air up so high so I 1 e tome some claten our warding dolores thank ou oil our garden amount to much dolores said bald gravely bravely she looked at her neighbor a sign 0 at interest in her faco face she spoke in tier her usual listless man ber but under the and apparent carelessness was t a con lausness lous ness like n R sharp chirp sward that I 1 lie gift was the forerunner of some thing to 0 o follow else than her pleasure she emptied the berries out or of the basket into ii a dish and stood regard ins ing them mrs airs smith said afterward she looked as ail though site elie were trying to dis bisconer discos coNer er it they might be el in reality tile lie girl did not even bee he hem she mas as wondering Non dering vaguely what tile the woman would voula say about the mare that sheo llad come for some purpose outside of brining bring ng the fruit was clear to her she waited math a slaking sinking heart and strained eats can for what the noman would say site she knew well that something must follow follow that li it was ivan in regard to the mare of young green she id ad not A doubt the suspicion in regard to the guilty party had bad become a fact perhaps this woman had come to tell her perhaps to be continued |