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Show t love vs. discipline. 1 with a dill thud the ferule dropped to The foor, m l tie iri rl was clashed to his heart in u embrace. w i passionate w e when and how? Heart disease, tVy haunt ire till said. Heart disease! My darling! i got strong a train slowly a most iiothingearUily can trotude me linger. Tall, dark: dressed entirely in annoying thing for.au active man, black, with black hairaml eyes which and I could not believe ia my own even through her veil burned with a weakness. it laid not flashing sort of light. lerhaps my nerves were overbeen impossible to look at Aunora strung and my perceptions unreliMasters tor more than an instant, I able, one night, when I had in a should have been able to know cer- sort of bravado walked much of the i hnri h. I saw a woman AXNOIvA. j face haunts me !io-- xxdl It is an odd story and a terrible one, but absolute! v true. I knew Ill after years, w lien she was Anuora Masters: I have stood by 11 loved and honored w if oftlie states- her grave often m el thought how dis-t! man who trail his career as a t schoolteacher, Faith was wont little ire know of life or of each other. I have studied character a good to say that the keeping up of appeartlIU Hlll ITUtL ances that others might not know deal. I am a novelist, so it has tainly if there was really a dull, red farther then I xvas really able. What in as 1 fancied, like glow- am I saying? Overstrung nerves. ,ULrh what had occurred was the hardest hov w u)i ;i! h(,r IIVaU aIlll become like second nature to me to lighttires them, Nonsense! 1 saxv them. in her white face. ing sorely tried heemleavorej. bv gentle, lesson she had ever learned. It was has It I was passing an old ruin Saint ami of motives le-- r actions. She a analyze stood see docile to among become kindness, the to quantity winning bring pupil impossible to the great wrong she was doing her- which she now hinged to be without been so through a long life. The townspeople; but, alter 1 had looked Anile's chapel we called it. It was it seemed that no one else but gaunt and uneanny in they inter self and him. l!ut it was of no avail: exciting suspicion, and for eight habit has only si lengthened with at her,and t lie dark woman was moonlight, which slioiid with an unthe more he tried the more he might weeks she acted her ait in a man- added Lucy but iuAunora I studied j in tin? church. tall, years, he was watching l.u-- ! cart lily sort of radiance over everyacbrow and the -t nmneves finished shot ner worthy o! the dancing try, . could nothing-nothing: with and I thought, I thing. Suddenly I saw, clear and those exes, study torth angry sparks ns at last he tress: and to this day it is nn unsetcy A country town is a very good 'fancied, that even tiling bridal about bright, in front of the falling, ruined passed her most daring pranks by in tled question between them as to I window, two figures figures I felt I absolute silence. which compared True Flag. phee for gainhig and mhling to Lucy seemed lor lull moment ail knew. With a midden impulse I. ashen gray. However, the crisis came at last. km ledge of that sort. The inhabiThen Lm-- passed out of the door went back into the shadow and At the noon recess one ot the oldest An Extraordinary Bobbery. tants. to ail extern hardly realized into t he sin ox , w hii !i fell fast oil her watched. All at once I knew. The scholars, a youth of nineteen, had Norwi- h (Conn.) Ih-- p liV eop!e who ill) not know them. veil. 1 eaiue out, too. and followed tall, slender, black-robe- d woman was tried to steal her hamlken hietiniun. liven at that disin common: I mean, they have! at a distance, and as Annora Masters Annora Masters, horn live Some Connecticut people are it was a dainty atlair, made ot lace in at the tance 1 could see the light in those and muslin, a present from her cous- odd, while others have eccentricity all known each other and each went up the High street ami unteiiaiiced awful eyes. oftlie door long garden be-n in in the city. Faith had resolutely thrust upon them. Samuel Johnson other's tanks and , lings since thev house, 1 knew that 1 must have seen The other, a man whose attitude despised. declined all advances, but in the af- of uPreston, who dwells in a lonely were (hiMreii together; and the feel- the new tenant. somehow seemed to me to slioxv reThe farmer sat in his easy chair, ternoon she reached across the aisle Muv The townspeople railed on Annora luctance in every line, upright and in meditation, with his eyes and laid it upon t he open leaves oftha farmhouse among the hills far from ings formed then, ami the keen inje lie stood, was Lucys ill on is Masters, each other's athiirs, last livery olm said tin same firm though the fire, while the book where lie was studying. With a neighbor. not odd himself, but terest I cast on- - rave any huslgind. Lucy's husband! no ul l""; fastened upon with deft fingers, gracetul bow he acknowledged or rather, downe J by odd men ill an odd thing, the middle he rob! was the and age through ot to when eavesdropping 'busy housewife, thought every ot and. her, raised it his only ami whenlola to lips, opinion gift hill part ot 1: not xvas I not, after all, on ago. and winds many way years the needles, the said: knitting plied tiny dead mouse dropped from its Mr. Johnson went on a visit to a livery one knew Lucy Clier'v, pressed, the kings highway? and listened. She is strange, don't von think? glanced occasionally at the table tolds, and a universal giggle ran You Annora said. You will, in his abin the town liked her. one and town, lie ot calls was their livery none In books. It room. l the returned Annora neighboring with their through desperation busy I knew you before this this rido: I seen fellows was Most was of the voung but Lucy's; and at master tailed them to order, and sence the thieves came. They drove only 's'hort lilt. And shelaugh-e- d daughter and the district school the there was a sharp ring, as of pain, up to the house in the middle of the young then, and one of them did church, where she appeared with a diculously more than words can say, teacher. weirdly in the grave, stern tones which said, regularity which was part of her e broke ill more than like her. I Lucy xvas my wife, my love. I with a was an only child, and dray, day Faith sc it Grey me struck so hool Faith Grey can stop alter utterly tile lw, : st ill, he answered, in au When shecame into church oil Sun- strangeness, out of .place did she look there. 1 love her That was all, and, with- very leisurely, loaded all his housefrom the time when she first began voice. olioked says odd, ed to h, to talk had ruled her loving subjects out casting a look in the direction of hold goods on the big wagon ard day mornings, a look .of agonized cannot say why: no one could: but the cold, calm, You love me! girl, the business oftlie drove away. Within a few hqurs expectation would come over about the woman .w as uutul, in an utterly incisive voice nnsxvorcd. e coir-nin the little kingdom of home with the young and each went oil as usual, hut and f came back and took Mr. John- thirty faces in the congregation.; indefinable manner,I and peace And I saxv it. But when I think of folks;,, absolute sway. She was now 17 dayunderstood seemed a odds xxith everyall that trilling was at they goodness id tiov in all after all these years, the same and at Luev, sons it, 2,000 gazed eagerly They farming implements with laughing brown an end, and even Faiths rosy cheeks thing about her. Of her household shudder comes over me that I felt t k 1:01s years of age, the who drove as from shingles. her one People of past the knew no one and glance hope auburn hair, that paled a little as she glanced at the anyhousekeeping she looked at him. He Then an! eyes and waving then. were men while house the at work, ot she went up the very short part thing. Servants they had brought, took her into his arum the arms it quiets, rippled and shone with a touch of stern, quiet face. moving Mr. the aisle they were with tliem-twplain, middle-agethe to It had been a hard day for the thought pexv square leading ''ith lot, had held Lucy. were. in its soft meshes when she indeed Johnson, as they women. Her husband we saw beside that no was wonder an it 1 could master, a s 1 young the where bear no more. I never 'ill'll, m; faced the sun. Her complexion was When Mr. Johnson returned home, Cherrys sat. qi on went out u,r wqlpn Sundays. knexv how I if his patience wasexhausted. Inthe he found an topV homeshell his A ol mis-the got home. All the way were not then, only great gone blossom. morning one of his largest scholars, yll( pe WPnq p to London a jour- the n keys! fair and pure as an apple two He and left. stead thought followed, accompanied, deputy take it was, surely, that they ever ney of only twenty miles every day. me. What xvas this? Who the La- -i Her dress was a simple brown meri- a halt witted Frenchman, had en- sherffs drove about all the country haunted indefinhe He to was Supposed that who threw everything aside the trv no, with a plain white collar fastened tered late and immediately com- towns next day to try and find the did go. Sleep during the sermon is was this able individual, a business man. awful in this sat side at the throat by a blue ribbon, menced to laugh, and all the infor- thieves, and the place w here they had what most ot us secretly wish lor. At least, way, and went straight lie went to London every mation that could be elicited from stored the plunder. The officers were Under the new arrangement, though, ' w as an to her oxvn ends? Was it ft woman we shocked were all till while streamers of the same azure him was that he guessed the day the day fiend? iguksiith. sharp, and they got on a plain trail. who is bold enough to take it? and startled lv hearing that Mr. or a would get full by and by, hue confined the meshes of waving No one ever knexv more than this. almost and In the impenedeep Masters was dead. Lucy would sometimes look up How should they? b I do: hair. She was tall and slender, with and again his fat sides would shake trable Ledger Woods, in remote husYes dead suddenly. Lucys A room in the hack of the red ive coda a supple, w illowy grace perceptible with laughter. He was a great, over- North Stonington, they came on not often during those moments of ke an,!, in every movement of her graceful grow feliow of sixteen, who worked fragments of the pillaged houselier quick walk behind her brother. band went to see him. A London brick house, in which Annora often doctor came down, and for his board at a farm about a mile hold. In the behind k form. sat, was found one morning locked swamp they iound a On whichever side ol the aisle lier they carried out the post together mortem from emhis noon 2 3 and at from was school, Her the inside. The servants were apparently companion some carpets, and at at, t. chairs, lounge, fell were faces visible; examination, which was of course radiant glance himself at the r, alarmed. in a a ie. Doubly so, when they and years of age, with a broad white ployer presented ledges copse among on the other side a proportionate i,18!Kted on, and to which Annora which clustered schoolhouse, and in loud, angry their mistresss own found that e brow and dark hair, ami the forks, 2,000 despair showed itself. Had they not made not the least Stopped his forehead; tones ordered him never to darken shingles. hayMore booty objection. They room had never been entered that unearthhisperedt in little ringlets about sentithey where in a been r private place could find nothing, nothing whathis doors again. night. as, and;: his eyes were black and penetrating; oil the premises of William Slocum,, ments are rarely manifested the relaever, to cause death. All was right; It appeared that the spring where ed force to the sent for who not mu how : the grave, firm mouth betokened innotorious a help They thief, turkey tions between those gentlemen would there was no latent disease, no inthe cattle had been in the habit of i didn't - domitable will and strength of chardoor, and found, in an arm-chai- r long ago stole several score of instantly have become extremely a was formed his and jury. The man xve had seen alive close to the window, Lucys husband was by face lowering his drinking smooth, acter; whose toes had been marked turkeys, strained. nnd well on Sunday was dead on and all dead shot through the bend. A m. all fa- large, well madeform was arrayed in barrel into the -ground, by their owner. Still more of the It was not to be wondered at. Tuesday that was all. a suit of pilain black, lie was col- - around it was very- slippery with ice, stolen goods were tound in other Lucy iled ows, pistol lay on the floor. From its was very pretty. Brown hair-j- ust From unknown' causes, the ver- position it must have fallen ironi his educated, and while waiting and as the clown had driven them in North Stonlege made places becomes which a sort the most had he to drink, the dict at the inquest ran. own right hand, which hung over the : so lie for a situation had lenrned that ington ami Preston. The officers woman sc ft and a vy; blue dark in her kindness, went to see chair. could have the winter school in this slipped and fallen in head first, and also arrested John Butler and blue Luev, 1 downs and a tall figure, straight Annora Masters alter tliis, to comlie xvas alone; the window was poor being unable, to get out alone, the Charles Geer, farmers of North Stom and eyes, nart: an district to teach, and being remain is an arrow. It is neithfull upright to left had it Frenchman get than rather il who with Slocum, are under er here nor there to say that I never fort her, she said. But apparently shut but not fastened, and there was imehowl had accepted ington, one present- while lie went, to school. When found bonds, charged to appear lor trial saw a woman like Annora would have noconifort. For no sign or trace of Annora. idle until a more her, and had 1 ever ngiu. It; ed itself. lie was eligible was before the next term of the animal the the farmer whom I met a few dujs from A sina.ll crumpled noto lay on the by far despising Lucy, he wasc! superior married but how could I, when she schoolmasthe drowned. me seriously if I had floor. It xvasin fiis writing, and conasked Although small later, 1 wonir beginnings. court. to even a even never gave thought ter could not blame the farmer for ever seen Annora Masters close; if 1 tained very fexv lines. -- 9m mm and , lie well knew tliat the school bore his me? Still the act intensified my feecireustance the voice thought she was her for this indignation, yet I am it at enviable home, report by bo lowering reputation, writing I t hut evident mad. The Bulldogs Mistake. lings afterward, when was known tar and near. Only annoyed him exceedingly: and if one ran, to tell you I cannot come, but thro, it even the practice I have lmd is not ly the allowed be to hnrmless is The had a by scholars the before judge might the winter lazy, donkey what use is it? I know I shall come her She said,j Lucy had, grasped from t again chosen to able to hinder me telling this wrists of determination on his white, look in seat teacher a the ten oclock strikes. You ot and when the give stupidLucy bird, said, synonym looking in MutiUa story confusedly unless I take care. tried totightly,some of the w ords her assurelyas . will make me. But marry you! I a snowdrift, and then entering the stern face, Faith was likely to feel, and 1 ain growing old, and it wres say News, (Tex.) tle Dallas, 8aJ9 Well, ' school room had held high carnival the full torce of his authority, and would kill myself first. - terrible. I do not half like the task own sweet heart taught her: he even her stout heart quailed a little would never be suspected of possesshim as a.nd at Annora no one ever saw again; death Sometimes Death! jeering brings laughing di for it.V set myself. and in despair as the shadows lengthened' and the ing fighting qualities of those imper I have one what one wants! It is life that till, three years ago, one evening, sides One when both leh like r tried in vain to enter, came, Sunday Yet he had turned his back upon the day drew near its close. late in the winter moonlight, on his is wrong. fectly acquainted with him. plain brn school and the town. He well The last lesson had been recited, when his Irish is once aroused he is of the aisle showed only disconsolate we buried him by Lucy I, lAie broke of Then Luev looked neither countenances. in a suddenly, and, grave knew that it was no light task which the last class had stood up to spell; home, saw a womans figure coming Of t r lookher entrance to She Near terror. the side on one the other. nor begged a lands, Lucys dropping been holy the evening hymn had sung, I went up to it hastily, and but only he had undertaken, lying. see her come and to hide ed on a to the a again. very rs wool: tighter closing ot the firm lips was 'and at last school closed, the the Zoological Garden, at Cincinnati, ground The oddest tiling. Lucy went on, found what had been Annora. blush, and then fixedly on lier visible as he accepted the trust, and scholars filing out of the house in there is to be seen the stuffed hide of pretty broad shoulders, ns he, is that Harry is su re he has seen vowed to conquer or die. good order and with a strange a donkey which killed a lion which brother's .silently ha: walked in front, thinking Mrs. Masters before somewhere and Happened on the Wahasli. soul, iiiose and dispatch, wrapping escaped (rom its cage, and sprang good It was a school of fifty scholars, quietness remember where, lie hates Ins sister. less of than oman eanjt This of the Wabash river, I hoods and statue him. nothing Heard them shawls, their equestrian upon from four to tweuty years of about I dont She was engaged to be married her, Luev said, very low. stood:: ranging with the roses of the donkey is pointed out to all reckon? he queried as he combed his age. A mixed assembly, some good, comforters. Faith, quite like her. She The story we had all heard it in the week to playin' some bad, and some neither the one nil gone from her dimpled cheeks, visitors to the garden. with his lingers whiskers You longyelloxv lmd and who a my couldnt, Sraes' doctor, recently bought her desk, white .and now comes of a fight bet wren a burro at was the sitting nor but the to I other, join ready I vest. sometimes his lmd down adid, and pulled forgotten, practice in the town. lie had le knew T still. For a lew moments, which and a bulldog in Fresno, Cal. BurThe strongest party. Yes. dl. seemed like an eternity to her, the ro is California as well as Texas for many friends and few enemies, and that Lucy was not my darling. so 1 He to board was around, obliged ! was decidedly popular. Clever, he thought was often had to bear, with was desk head The burro his sat at browsing master donkey. Probably never heard of Jerry and as he was exceedingly and left her abruptly. ot thro:: and fastidious in all his particular bowed upon his hands. The short on cockle burs by the roadside, so was most certainly: strikingly hand- lifted niv hat Dewlap? personal Jerry lives on the banks of einonths to a close, the story runs, when the bulldog some, and so pleasant to talk with One warm springduy.tlu down my affairs, some encounters which he winters day was drawing ami hes pizen biled brick old red the the I was later him did Wabash, met who one passing that every red as trotted along, stopped and with a ear. sap 4 was obliged to make were laughable and one solitary' sunbeam, bouse, when one oftlie old naiil ser- down. About a month ago he come him. ond shank-bon- e talk to stop window don the the seized the shook streamed by key through growl ia the extreme. He chose the place blood, This is a man's praise of a man, vants rushed out hastily, nearly to town one day and saida boat had of the hind leg. The donkey tiled A furtherest from his school for his first and lav across the desk exactly in so it is not likely to be overdone, knocking me down. of her immediately brought its hindquartof her, and to the day Oli! she cried, come in. si", do, upsot in the bend nbove his house hoarding place, and as he took his front and it is hardly likely that I should invivid a and the and its will ers into Faith legs action, death ?s wereWi; carry 5 pjle supper table he glanced while I go for the doctor. Jxines and drowned two men. lie xvanted the of that little school- dog flew through the air in a most have any reason lor overpraising and mistress, she doei noth- us to go up and help drag lur the palled at the vieiv which the board ward picture I ever fainted, won who man the cononly which girl latterrefused it attractive way, for the rJ-- ' tented. The dishes were cracked room, for every article stand but looking ut Mrs. iknt, bodies. We was willing of course, cared for. ing was indelibly impressed upon to let go. The burro laid down on r.d grimy, and the No and doing nothing to brim; her supper was tained I wonder did at not No; Lucy. few hind moments. his his those in nnd Jerry proposed we try a plan he mind legs up back, brought composed of a dish of potatoes, her last the master raised his head to his seized the dog with one did. And they looked so well round. Do make her, sir, form' ys said had worked in thousands of and head, At counthe familiarly known among his teeth. Then both hung on. The together she so womanly, he so sake! and in low tones said: Mrs. Bent! I said, grasping frhe cases. Its an ole belief with some long Johns. find pl try people as the here. come manly and yet so gentle, Miss may Faith, you dog let go first. The burro arose thoroughly much-abuseL gantic in size, they lay black and . What is folks, you know, that if a loaf of arm like a vise. womans compound blood voice the togixrethe forth and of his back the rubbed and At the sound dog flanked me! the Tell it? heavy dirty word real force. plate, upon its which had bread is flung on the water itll float over a barb wire fence until it was ccitemen t p.y a rushed back to the cheek Shes fainted, sir, and I cant g,et to in mrcy to us yejjow disi1; two-third- s Lucy, and moment perhaps a dead so but been ago, pale whar, a dead body is lying and irly loves' full of pork fat, while slices of the her round, and mistress there iir, perhaps to him was content with her me revived. She arose courage then floated a fried let a to cinder, stop. We reckoned to try it, upon pork, go. iving only six weeks engagement, and firm step walked and with of YTar. with a the her Dogs of the rushed I A did let New man chipped in and we fixed garbread, for and go, was up top. their plate every p wedding stood before leaden strip at the bottom of each across the room and met den, and unceremoniously indoors took up about a hundred loaves. to of Years revest relate' training dogs Theexperiment day. she as their and eyes shoe, and a small piece of butter him, The weather that winter was un- and upstairs, into a large room His carry messages and to act as senti- Jerry bossed the job, continued of turned his gaze unflinchingly. ik alternate cold and dreary, and on the where I saw what I can see now stripes eorposed'of usually as in ie rough been has made a nels the though in was besecehinglook, man with the yellow whiskers, sad, the army white and yellow, completed the last day ol the old year there was a Lucy, white, ashen white, lying momted on' he would urge her to beg his forgix Anao-r- a j8 said with very terrible we got out two boats loaded the dark and on and tionless jt I all which Qermany lasted rug, snowstorm, offun and . n a pole the ninivtsl-piece- , with bread and kcerlully dropped the He crushed down the rising feeling ness Hers was a mixture Masters have The results. to in time ended Th by standing and dogs only day, just encouraging an-- er combined, but certainly they ght. Some of em with one arm resting on lit, loaves disgust and made no sign, even showed no signs of sorrow. As he now been in training for a year, and lei the clouds roll away from a fiery a claw-w Lea 10 of went humping along at the rate of a the red sunset. New jieople came to the gazing on the woman at her feet. son, a boy wonderful young made have towered form his progress, really nded by feet his to huge I don't know what I did seized six miles an hour, while others sort years of age, seized one of the pota- arose The kind found to be most suitable town in the middle otthesnowstorm, baekwooc her. and reaching think. Still o circled around and went off slowly. to sin his dirty, unwashed hands, like a nant above of Annoras arm, I one taken who had is work laA tiie recently for this people shepherds dog. over Ins desk he grasped his ferule. ,vay, I I said-wo- rds We used up the hundred loaves, and know what less do Marm the k houses exclaimed: few the i, The plan adopted is to accustom squeezing it, large he man-tHold out your hand! intense and of hate t :s ere tater aint done, and lay-- 1 house sol-hburning Jerry was taking up a collection to town possessed a really large e vour And more in sorrow- than in anger each dog to regard one of the I know but when she turned send to town alter more, when a felr it down cooly repeated the oper-- t in own anger, its of iarge, the his conduct as diers was standing master, , looked to see if his command old'pin' and, with a slow-- contemptu- ler come up stream in a canoe and on with the rest. his training being in this mans garden. But every one who slowly nd sweetobeved. her on at me, called out; T his was a looked ous smile meals town lips, all the was the knew of her and that sample The words were jerked forth as hands. on a leh he was over of the flashing red light in her eyes What ar you uns with was to so taken thinking are the animals When compelled up partake un the causedduty speaker ed up thou h thev me to silence. I had no more thar? turned bestowed f while he boardnefone first his that at As illuwith sentinels. wedding an the Lucys stayed actuated obeyed, althougt kept the dead, I answered. at what would words. Pa !;ite udsFaith place, but he was more fortunate - tne the covered the brown eyes stration of their intelligence, it is re- a thought at the timebren Oh. ye are! he continued. Well, F 0 test I, whose love, whose passion lay a great exarmhave wasat other at selection. It a isnext on one occasion over lated any that soldier, 1 teeth and the long eyelashes swept dead there, could say no more, could when I come around the bend ole JertenGrays, and Mrs, Gray was a noted cheeks as white as the snow outside. taking a dog from the sentinel, went citement the arrival of the new t pain- A husnot speak! her his and of Masters ants. one sewife. Annora was rys wife was out in a boat his Faith never received a blow m off.to reeonnoiter. Alter making I knelt down by Lucy and hid up them loaves, and reckon shed ?en tah- . lest Never do-- She had and she shivered as the observations, he wrote two reports, band. I use the words assuredly, for pupilstomanage. wonliL You uiis had Some- got up to ninety-five- ! her life, oth-- e my face in my hands. he in any mischief which he could trace slender fingers were giving one to a man mounted on a t lose two names could go no me know that better send down some pork and ta-teso male r it waisurely thing unaorder. some in to and the other her, yet by crasiied, and one short, sharp, last horse, ctly placing to keep company! ver ache"1 Not until next morning when I, Lucy was dead gone beyond power The ctable influence, he was sure that firmlv stinedim- - blow descended upon the a casket tied to a dogs neck. Well, sir, that ar was a putujv whohard- - of our help that I never tried to urt 1 of with friends, several indirect my induced act rest the to reached sentinel the first, mark crimson a dog 'Vedoi palm leaving the white marble face. job on us by ole Jerry to git a heap a'ance of his authority, and when whitecuriouslv When it is considered how much ly felt it their happiest day of life, touch or raise reminded her of the And then I do not remember any- o Lread without working fur it, and v day-Iin stood church, Lucys watching is cted her own face would be as de-r- e that a than red sunbeam as it lay across smaller an object a dog when we took him ashoreto adminispulled sweet face and her husbands hand- thing else. and innocent looking as that of blood desk The ferule was raised for man for an enemys fire, and how I was ill, very ill, for a long time ter a great moral lesson what did he the militant I ever think did ttensome, figure, he it can manly to the close their run, ground another blow when again ones eyes after that. Whan I got well I asked, do but turn to and out run the best to ie was a ready and apt scholar, the seems not unlikely that dogs may of the new people. New front the brown but bemet of course, before anything, about of us and get clear off! wonder-of I And then them, milithe with thought seemed really delighted and they were full yet become ot great service in was knexv but she I gone, Sun. anwr in was; Gone, crowd Lucy. the uteed tAthe ' body cause, among and tarv ortunities of learning wtiich the mute It was evening in the gloomy old fashioned kitchen cf Fanner Grey. The green paper curtains, covered ''"k; with pictures of impossible scenery ai0r'- and stronge grotesque figures, were lowered shutting out the white Uirti. ni roN, moonlight as it lay upon the snow the ... covered fields like glittering t tals. Great logs of oak and cedar filled r nn ii the wide fireplace, casting a ruddy, i In mu'! cheerful glow around the room; an nsou I Angora cat lay basking in the bright 1!ir ire. ieiight, while upon the opposite f tlie dearth, stretched at full Vtlp' Jength; lay a great Newfoundland was . dog; the yellow painted floor and make could hands as it, clean a L1 room the presented "altogether Giivi,. flcene 0f rural comfort not to be j I ! ri I " ct.-h- . ' i 1 - -' i j I two-hors- to-nig- M 'it d o I 1 , two-year-o- hay-cutte- j s r two-year-ol- d tvnr-go- - j j e thi-e- 1 , . . d ! vi.-nd- y 1 c--f . j j red-bric- i j : - ; , T - j t- - 3 i - 1 - bad : and nted young master placed within of tears pleadings, operations. rs |