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Show CHAPTER' XIX. TIme.'s Developments. Johnson slowly j-ecqVered; tho days passed, and "tfio weeks, whllo ho lingered lin-gered weak and complaining. Dolores presence annoyed him, and drovo him to fits of temper, until Dr, Dunwlddlo advised, her to remain "away rrom him as lnlich as poaslbloJ ; Dr. Dunwlddlo regularly drovo over to see Johnson once a week, and Mrs. Allen remained in tho low, unpalnted houso in the mlust of its desolato garden, gar-den, filling the rooms with her presence, pres-ence, but daily growing more hardened toward the quiet girl who was winning Dora's affection away from her, sho told hersolf, n excuse for hor unfriendly un-friendly feeling, but tho girl herself, burled In other thoughts, believed It was from the kindness of hor heart that Bho talked to her so often during tho long evenings of tho lifo outsldo of tho quiet settlcment-and of tho manners man-ners sho would thero bo expocted to copy, and sne accepted" in sllenco tho many words of advico as to her lack of pride in allowing young Green to seo so clearly her feelings toward him, and tho cautionjng .uttered with a kindly smilo or soft touch on her arm against allowing herself to bo so Influenced In-fluenced by almost' an 'titter stranger -who was kind to her only out of ""pity, and who could neverTcdre for her other than as tho merest acquaintance, she, tho daughter of tho. blacksmith who was waited for to prove tho mallco In the laming of his mare. Tho woman knew well tho Btorles adrift In the settlement that had somehow como to hor sho scarcely knew how herself, and of tho girl's dread of what might follow tho proving prov-ing of the case waiting n tho town for hor father's prosenco. That tho girl had never dono her harm to causo this feoling of hatred sho would not believe. Had she not won Dora's heart in a fashion she could never do? Could she accept this unmurmurlngly? Was thore nothing Bho could do to hurt tho girl In Dora's eyes? And if that were Impossible and sho soon learned that It was was it Impossible for her to wound tho girl herself in every way conceivable to a narrow mind. (To be continued.) |