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Since childhood Jenny has deeply loved young Will Ferrln, older than she. and who regards her as atlli a Inchild. Wilt leaves to take employment nearby Augusta. His father's death brings Will back to the Valley, but he returns to Augusta, still unconscious of Jenny's womanhood, and love. Neighbors of the Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey, brother and sister. Bart, unmarried and l, la atomething of a tracted by Jenny. The girl repulses Blra definitely. Learning that Will la coming home, Jenny, exulting, aets Bis house "to rights," and has dinner ready for him. He comes bringing his wife, Huldy. The girl's world collapses. Huldy becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip In the Valley. Entering his home unlooked (or, Will finds seemingly damning vtdence of his wife's unfaithfulness as a man he knows is Seth Humph reys breaks from the house. Will overtakes him and chokes him to death, altnough Humphreys shatters his leg With a bullet. At Marm Pierce's house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break the news to Huldy and finds her with Bart Carey. Huldy makes a mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring he ha no ne for "half a man," and la leaving. Will Is legally exonerated, and with a home-mad- e artificial leg "carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months later Huldy comes back. Will accepts her presence as hef right-Tw- o years go by. Zeke and Bart Carey ngage In a fist fight, the trouble arts lng, as all know, over Huldy. ne'er-do-wel- long-emp- ty CHAPTER VI 10 la this fall of the year of Huldy'i return. It bad seemed for a while that (he tension In the Valley, centering as tt did about Will Ferrin's farm, must flame op into something like a conBut after that day when flagration. Zeke trounced Bart, as though this ex- plosion had eased the general pressure, nottilng happened for a while. An early snowfall blanketed the Valley a foot deep, and the folk who dwelt bereabouts withdrew each Into his own habitation' as into a harbor of refuge. Will and Zeke and Huldy were left alone at the farm on the slope above the brook. Bart and Amy had now not so many visitors ; and Marm Pierce and Jenny went sometimes for days on end without sight or sound of anyone. Only sometimes on a still day they could hear the axes or the saw where the steam mill was at work, two or three miles down the Valley. Amy did not come soon again to see Jenny and her grandmother. The deep now hindered; and when it presently thawed and was gone, mud lay ankle deep in the wet woods, and then snow (ell again, and so presently winter hut down across the land. Thereafter, till spring, neither Jenny nor her grandmother went far from the house. The girl had been used to wander sometimes In the winter woods; but this winter there were many tracks along the brook, where men had come CP from the steam mill to Bart's. Marm Fierce, and Jenny's own wit, warned her not to risk casual encoun- ters with these strangers. times, I wouldn't worry a Bite about them," the old woman ad"But a woman like Huldy, mitted. "Most she'll poison every man anywhere around her, till you can't tell what'U happen I" So for the most part Jenny stayed ht borne. Bart now and then stopped on the way to the Tillage, and this was almost their only contact with the world. Disaster might have come to them and none have known for days; but Jenny was not afraid. It was not easy to be afraid. In the presence of her grandmother. That dauntless old woman was as voluble, as brisk, as diligent and as crisp of spirit as of old ; and the two were congenial and con- tent And Will was always in Jenny's mind, like a bit of drift just nnder the surface which comes Into view with every swirl and tug of the current; and she held long hopes and dreams. And sometimes to ease the girl, Marm Pierce led her to talk of Will, and e sometimes they played a game of in which Huldy did not exist, and Will was free to come to Jenny. Bat the game was apt to end In a ndden choking longing which left Jenny white and breathless; till the old woman forbore. In the spring, Marm Pierce had some taint of rheumatism In her old bones, which resisted all her remedies; so he sent Jenny to gather herbs that might relieve it Also, one day she bade the girl bring a root of the water Illy, from one of the deep boggy pools In the brook near the cedar swamp, and concocted a fearful brew which he made Jenny drink day by day. The girl protested: "But Granny, I don't need a tonic. I feel fine." the old woman InHush, child sisted. "I know what I'm about" Tet aha did explain: "Spring's the time when the new sap runs in a tree, or In body too; and that may be all well enough U the tree's to go on to flow make-believ- ering and bearing. But if some hurt old woman insisted desperately. "We'll or harm come to It why the quick try some more." But either they came pulse of the sap Just makes It bleed to too late, or there was not left In Amy's death the quicker. This will slow poor body strength enough to fight for Litselt She died. your blood, child. Do as I bid." And Jenny drank, obediently; and Alone together, afterward, when all as the frost came out of the ground, that could be done had been done, and the hardwoods put on their veil Marm Pierce and Jenny bad some talk of new green, the deep flood of new of this tragedy between them. Jenny life flowed through her, too. Indoors cried In deep anger; all winter, she welcomed this release, "It's Huldy that's to blame! If sha and went more often abroad, anl hadn't got bold of Zeke, he'd have strength was In her like a flowing welL married Amy by now." Marm Pierce said evasively : "Blame Once, wandering toward the bridge, she met Amy by the brook. It was It on her If you want; but she wa'n't long since they bad seen one another, the only one to blame!" and Jenny thought Amy looked broken "Oh, Zeke's to blame," Jenny conand old and very tired. She said some fessed : and Marm Pierce looked at her word of solicitude, but Amy fled from as though Impatient with her blindher kindness as though In fright or In ness, and seemed about to speak; but despair. At home again, Jenny related then she said: this circumstance to her grandmother. "Oh, aye, he'll have to take his "She looks real poorly. Granny," she share." And she reflected, as thougli confessed. "Maybe If you'd give her arguing with herself: "No good in some of this tonic you give me. . . blame, anyway, after a thing's done. "Sulphur and molasses Is likely all Let a person catch their death of cold she needs," Marm Fierce guessed. and It don't matter how they caught "Amy knows that well as me, but If it It's too late to cure Amy now." she needs me, I 'low she'll let me "She might have kept her head up," know." Jenny urged. "It needn't have broken But in this conjecture Marm Pierce her down!" was tragically wrong. Amy needed The old woman said, with a harshmore than homely remedies; but she ness In her tone that she did not often did not come to consult the old woman, use toward Jenny : "Don't talk like a and though Jenny went once to the fool I Being brave Is all right; but no house to see the other, she saw only matter how brave you be, there's times Bart, and he showed an unaccustomed It won't help you I" 111 humor at her solicitude. The girl sensed something hidden In "He was fixing to spray his apple her tone. "Why, Granny? What do trees," Jenny explained, when she re- - you nieun?" she asked. "I dunno as 1 know," Marm Pierce confessed. And she cried suddenly, flaming with high wrath : "Child. If 1 knowed for certain, think I'd be a standing heie?" "But what could you do?" Jenny whispered, all bewildered. Marm Pierce told her stoutly. "I'd know enough to do." Yet more than this she would not say. l Jenny did not go to Amy's funeral Marm Pierce that day suffered an onset of lumbago, and lay prone while Jenny slowly ironed her back with a hot tlatlron over blankets, till the old woman vvithed from the heat yet de clared she felt better by and by. Jenny was as well pleased to stay at home. Will would have been at the burying; and Jenny might have seen him there; and she shrank from seeing him. To do so could only open afresh old and He must be, she weary wounds. thought somehow broken by these months that were gone; to see him, to see his grief and weariness might provoke in her a storm of anger which she could not govern and control. So Jenny willingly stayed at home, nurs"Amy's Drunk Some Apple Spray." ing In her heart the Image of Will as turned. "Working lu the barn. I guess be had been, covering him and shieldhim with her love, drawing It Amy was inside the house; but Bart ing around him like a buckle, against all said she was all right" She did not confess Bart's 111 hu- he must day by day endure. They bad during that summer word mor. It had seemed to her at the time futile and reasonless, yet not her now and then of Will, and of Zeke and Huldy, too. The word ran through the concern. But two or thret days later she Valley that nowadays Zeke never went would remember It and regret that she where Huldy did not go. Marm Pierce had not persisted In her intent to see and Jenny heard that be trailed Huldy Amy. For Bart came In haste through like a dog, like a Jealous dog, nipping the woods path, splashing through the at the heels of those who came near her. mud; and the man was pale and Once during the summer the Valley was filled with rumor of a fight he shaken. "Ma'am," he said. "You've got to had, with one of the men from the come quick. Amy's drunk some apple mill, till he was soundly whipped by this man half a head shorter than himspray 1" Marm Pierce cried: "Drunk It? How self. And in September there were come! Tou dumb fool, did you leave it vague, fragmentary reports that he bad struck Huldy, had tried to choke around. he con- her, in soine passion of anger at her "She done It fessed; and be protested: "I dunno for a cause unknown. There were whispers in the wind, why. Amy ain't been the same all winter; brooding and worrying about words, phrases, lies aud truths and nothing. You come quick, or she'll be dim conjectures ; and each was In itself done for." fragmentary and almost meaningless, "What was In it arsenic?" the old but out of them all, Jenny began to form a picture In her mind. Will, It woman demanded grimly. "Sure." appeared, made no effort to send Zeke And Marm Pierce nodded. "Fetch away; be treated Zeke with a slow the mustard, Jenny," ,she commanded. courtesy, and Huldy, too. He seemed "And plenty salt Oh, I know you've to preserve by his demeanor the fiction likely got them In your own kitchen. that Zeke was a loyal hand, a willing Bart; but It'd take time to find 'em hand about the farm ; that Huldy was all a wife should be. Old Win Haven, there. Jenny, come on." So ihey three went together througn according to rumor, taunted him one the belt of woodland to Bart's farm, day; and then shrunk In affright beMarm Pierce scurrying In the lead, fore Will's blazing eyes, and babbled and his apologies, withdrawing the offendBart at her heels repeating reiterating his bewlderment Jenny ing word. This had happened In Libbehind. erty village, by the store, with other sick and shaken, trudged She thought Amy must have loved men about; and it was said that Will Zeke and waited for him to come had looked like death, till the others back to her, this long winter through; hurried Win away and when he did not come. . . . And Jenny thought of Huldy moving They found Amy on the floor In the Insolently to and fro about the farm, kitchen. Bart explained: "I carried doing the housework with a casual her In here; but I never stopped to ease It was agreed that she was a good bousekeeer Idling alone on the put her In bed. . . ." "Never mind now." Marm Pierce told ledge above the brook, strolling In the him. "No time to move her. The mus- orchard or across the fields; and altard, Jenny. Bart you hold her mouth ways with Zeke like a jealous guardla.i on her heels. open. . . Zeke, someone said, was not so stalJenny watched what followed In a she when as be had used to be. He had could, wart silence, helping pitying asking no questions; but she felt a begun to cough, and to lose weight It deep kinship between herself and this was even predicted that he might not girt and at the same time a certain live the. winter through. Bart came to pitying scorn for Amy. Jenny could the door one day, on his way home love a man, and lose him beyond hope, from the village, and be said: "Huldy and Zeke was in Liberty toand still be strong and steadfast For least Driv' over in Will s sleigh." This at remained love there day. Amy's some hope; yet she bad thus cravenly was In February, with snow deep on the road. He chuckled. "If Zeke an l surrendered. me went at It again, I guess I could and ana table butter, salt Mustard, and Billk; all the simple remedies at handle him now. He's failed pitiful, hand Marm Pierce used, and without this last six months." "Von (.",. the pore thing be, Bart," result "Got to get It out of her." the , . ..." Marm Pierce warned him. "He's go: enough trouble on his hands." Bart nodded soberly. "It's a wonder to me how Will stands It," he confessed. "I see ber today. She's the same as ever with an eye for every man around, and that smiling way she has." Marm Pierce, putting away the parcels he had brought asked with a glance toward the dining room whither Jenny had withdrawn: "Will wa'n't along with them today?" "Didn't see him, no," Bart returned. "He stays to home, the most of the lime." And he chuckled, and said: "It was funny to see the men today, kind of circling, and watching, like they was waiting for something. Like a bunch of crows around a sick horse, waiting to see what was going to happen next" And he said: "Zeke, he won't last long r "Guess you won't go to his funeral when he dies," Marm Pierce commented. "Oh, I don't hold a thing against Zeke," Bart assured her. "I figure I've got all the better of our argument by now." "How would Amy feel about that?" the old woman demanded; and Bart said slowly: "Pore Amy I" But he rose as though uneasily. "Well." he decided, "I'll be going along." After he was gone, Marm Pierce was busy with supper for a while, Jenny helping her; but when they had finished the meal, as though after long reflection, the old woman said: "Child, there's things the less said about them the better ; but I can feel tt In my bones, something's going to happen around here. I dunno what it'll be; but I don't want you mixed up in it" Jenny looked at her gravely. "What can happen, Granny?" The old woman hesitated. "I dunno as I know," she confessed. "But Jenny, don't you let what hurts other folks hurt you." She added vigorously: "And don't let other folks hurt you, There's apt as not to be Jenny, trouble. Don't get in the way of it One of these days, somebody, some man's going to. . . ." She shook her head. "I don't "Child," she said. know what I'm scared of, but I'm scared." "Of what?" Jenny protested reassuringly. "If I knowed that, I'd know what to do," the old woman retorted; yet she said slowly: "Amy died of It Jenny. I don't want a thing to happen to you." Jenny could not understand ; yet she could share her grandmother's doubts and fears. This season from late February till the flood tide of summer must always be a weary one, when nerves are ragged and frayed; and especially In this northern land where the Inhospitable earth Is still unwilling to receive the stroke of plow, so that man can only wait his energies restrained and fuming for an outlet till the time for action comes. This year, the season of waiting was a long one; the frost was deep, the spring was slow. Rains came drenching the Valley in a smothering flood, drowning the springing vegetation. The brook was In a roar of freshet for days on end; and the roads were almost Impassable. But they heard that Zeke had outlived the winter after all ; and on the surface all things went on unchanged. Yet In the Valley a sinister expectation began more and more to dwell. (TO BE CONTINUED) General McCIellan in War After he surrendered command of the Army of the Potomac to Major General Burnslde, General McCIellan took no further part In the war, the President having relieved him of this command. In 1SC4 he was nominated for President by the Democratic party on a platform which denounced the war as a failure. McCIellan himself did not subscribe to that view and In his letter of acceptance urged a vigorous prosecution of the war. He received only 21 votes In the electoral college to Lincoln's 212. 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