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WILL N.
HARBEN
Author of
“XOejterfett”
Copyright, 1902, by
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CHAl’TEU XIII.
IN tho middle of the following
week some of the young peo-
|)lc* of Daidey gave a picnic
IS^V/'V,] },t Marlcy's spring, a beauti
ful and picturesque spot about a mile
below Bishop’s farm. Alan had re
ceived an urgent invitation to join the
party, and he rode down after dinner.
It was a hot afternoon, and the party
of a dozen couples had scattered in all
directions in search of cool, shady
nooks. Alan was by no means sure
that Miss Barclay would be there; but,
if the truth must be told, he went sole
ly with the hope of at least getting
another look at her. He was more than
agreeably surprised, for just as he had
hitched his horse to a hanging bow of
an oak near the spring Frank Hillhouse
came from tho tangle of wild vines
and underbrush on a little hillside and
approached him.
“You are just the fellow I’m looking
for.” said Frank. “Miss Dolly’s over
there in a hammock, and I want to
leave somebody with her. Old man
Morley promised me tho biggest water
melon in his patch if I’d come over for
it. 1 won't bo long.”
“Oh. I don’t care how long you are.”
smiled Alan. "You can stay all day if
you want to.”
“I thought you wouldn’t mind.”
grinned Frank. "I used to think you
were the one man I had to light, but I
reckon I was mistaken. A feller in
love imagines everybody in creation is
against him.”
Alan made no reply to this, but hur
ried away to where Dolly sat, a new
magazine in her hands and a box of
candies on the grass at her feet. "I
saw you riding down the hill,” she
said, with a pretty flush and no little
excitement. “To tell the truth, I sent
Frank after the melon when I recog-
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“I saw you riding down the hilV ,
nized you. He's been threatening to
go all the afternoon, but I insisted on
it. You may be surprised, but I have
a business message for you, and I
would have made Frank drive me past
your house on the way home if you
hadn’t come.”
“Business,” Alan laughed merrily.
He felt very happy in her presence un
der all her assurances of welcome.
“The idea of your having a business
message! That’s really funny.”
“Well, that’s what it is. Sit down.”
She made room for him in the ham
mock, and he sat beside her, his fool
ish brain in a whirl “Why, yes, it is
business, and it concerns you. I fancy
it is important. Anyway it may take
you to town tonight.”
“You don’t mean it,” he laughed.
She looked very pretty in her light or
gandie gown and big rustic hat, with
its wide, flowing ribbons.
“Yes, it is a message from Rayburn
Miller about that railroad idea of
yours.”
“Really? Then he told you about
that?”
“Yes. He was down to see me last
week. He didn’t seem to think much
of it then, but”—she hesitated and
smiled as if over the memory of some
thing amusing—“he's been thinking of
It since. As Frank and I drove
through the main street this morning—
Frank had gone in a store to get a
basket of fruit—he came to me ou his
way to the train for Atlanta. He
hadn’t time to say much, but he said
If you were out here today to tell you
to come in town tonight without fail,
so as to meet him at his office early in
the morning. He’ll be back on the
midnight train. I asked him if it was
about the railroad, and he said it was;
that he had discovered something that
looked encouraging.”
“I’m glad of that,” said Alan, a thrill
of excitement passing over him. “Ray
burn threw cold water on my ideas the
other day, and”—
“I know he did, and it was a shame,”
said Dolly warmly. “The idea of his
thinking he is the only man in Georgia
with originality! Anyway, I hope It
Will come to something.”
“I certainly do,” responded Alan. “It’s
the only thing T could think of to help
my people, and I am willing to stake
ull I have ou it—which is, after all.
nothing but time and energy.”
“Well, don't you let him or any one
else discourage you.” said the girl, her
eyes flashing. “A man who listens to
ether people and puts his own ideas
aside is unworthy of the brain God
I gave him. There is another thing”—
I her voice sank lower and her eyes
sought the ground—“Rayburn Miller is
’ a tine, ail round man, but he is not per
fect by any means. He talks freely to
j me, you know; he's known me since 1
was knee high. Well, he told me—he
told me of the talk he had with you at
the dance that night. Oh, that hurt
j me—hurt me!”
“He told you that!” exclaimed Alan
in surprise.
“Yes, and it actually disgusted me.
Does he think all men ought to act on
that sort of advice? He might, for he
has made an unnatural man of him
self, with all his fancies for new faces,
but you are not that kind, Alan, and
I'm sorry you and he are so intimate;
not that he can influence you much,
but ho has already In a way, and that
, has pained me deeply.”
“He has influenced me?” cried Alan
in surprise. “I think you are mis
taken.”
“You may not realize it, but he has,”
said Dolly, with gentle and yet un
yielding earnestness. “You see, you
are so very sensitive that it would not
be hard to make you believe that a
young man ought not to keep on caring
for a girl whose parents object to his
attentions.”
“Ah!” He had caught her drift.
There was a pause. At the foot of
the hill a little brook ran merrily over
I the water browned stones, and its
monotonous lapping could be heard dis
tinctly. Under the trees across the
open some of the couples had drawn
together and were singing:
“I see the boat go round the bend,
Goodby, my lover, goodby.”
Dolly had said exactly what he had
never hoped to hear her say, and the
fact of her broaching such a subject in
such a frank, determined way sent a
glow of happiness all over him.
“I \lon't think,” he began thought
fully, “that Rayburn or any man could
keep me from”—he looked into her full,
expectant eyes and then plunged mad
ly—“could keep me from caring for
you, from loving you with all my heart,
Dolly, but it really is a terrible thing
to know that you are robbing a girl of
not only the love of her parents, but
her rightful inheritance, when—when”
—he hurried ou. seeing that an impulse
to speak was urging her to protest—
“when you haven’t a cent to your
name and, moreover, have a black eye
from your father’s mistakes.”
“1 knew that’s what he’d said!” de
clared the girl, almost white with an
ger. “1 knew it! Oh, Alan, Rayburn
Miller might be able to draw back and
leave a girl at such a time, but no man
could that truly loves as—as I believe
you love me. I have known how you
have felt all this time, and it has near
ly broken my heart, but I could not
write to you when you had never even
told me what you have today. You
must not let anybody or anything in
fluence you, Alan. I’d rather be a
poor man’s wife and do my own work
than let a paltry thing like my father’s
money keep me from standing by the
^nan I love.”
Alan’s face was ablaze. He drew
himself up and gazed at her, all his
soul in his eyes. “Then I shall not
give you up,” he declared—“not for
anything in the world. And if there
is a chance in the railroad idea I shall
work at it ten times as hard now that
1 have talked with you.”
They sat together In blissful igno
rance of the passage of time till some
one shouted out that Frank Hillhouse
was coming with the watermelon.
Then all the couples in sight or hear
ing ran to the spring, where Hillhouse
could be seen plunging the big melon
into tho water. Hattie Alexander and
| Charlie Durant, who had been perched
on a jutting bowlder hirrh up on the
hill behind Dolly and Alan, came half
i running, half sliding, down, catching
! at tho trees to keep from falling.
“Better come gel your teeth in that
melon.” Hattie said, with a knowing
i smile at Dolly. They lived next door
to each other . ■•,! were quite intimate.
“Come on. .Hre ” Do!!v rose. “Frank
j will ne\ t o- o me if 1 don’t have
i see
queen bee in the “lead with that little
makeshift of a man.”
Alan dismounted to prevent his uncle
from putting up the bars, and they
walked homeward side by side.
“Yes, and I’ve had the time of my
life,” said the young man. “I talked
to her for a solid hour.”
“I could see that in yore face,” said
Abner quietly. “You couldn’t hide it,
an’ I’ll bet she didn’t lose time in let-
tin’ you know what she never could
hide from me.”
“We understand each other better
now,” admitted Alan.
“Well, I’ve certainly set my heart on
the match—on gittin’ her in our fam
ily,” affirmed Abner. “Durned ef—I
declare, sometimes I’m afeerd I’m gone
on ’or rayse’f. Yes, I want you an’ her
to make it. I want to set an’ smoke
an’ chaw on yore front porch an* hecr
her back in tho kitchen fryln’ ham an’
eggs, an’ ’’—the old man winked—“I
Hon’t know as I’d object to trottin’
some’n’ on my knee to sorter pass the
time betwixt meals.”
“Oh, come off, Uncle Ab!” said Alan,
with n flush. “That’s going too far.”
The old man whisked his bait gourd
round under his other arm. His eyes
twinkled and he chuckled. “’Tain’t
goin’ as fur as havin’ one on each
knee an’ both pine blank alike an’ ex
actly the same age. I’ve knowed that
to happen In my day an’ time, when
nobody wasn’t even lookin’ fer a in
crease.”-
This story will be continued in
next Friday’s issue.
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Properly supported, the editor and
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district is the best armed for that
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The Other Hide of Lynching,
[Ida A. L. Wright in The Binghamton, N. Y.
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We have heard enough pleas for
the poor negro; let us now hear some
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thinking no wrong, crowned with
virgin innocence and purity, flitting
about their homes like stray sun
beams from Heaven, when suddenly
this dark, nameless horror falls upon
them and the sunlight of love and
Heaven is lost in a fate it finitely
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the fathers and mothers who are
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Lynch law is irregular and unlawful,
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There is hut one way. Just so long
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"Then I won’t keep you,” Dolly
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Rayburn Miller. I’m going to hope
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