Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Chapman.) The (lay when Leila and Tommy came Into the life of Jim Peters was his reddest of red letter days. He al ways saw the scene just as lie had seen it then. The early snows had be gun to whiten the hills, and Peters had driven his stock down into the lower country for the winter pastui'es. lie was sitting in his hut, thinking over things. At thirty, he felt vaguely that he ought to be doing better for himself. Not that he wanted to leave the cattle country for the city. But life in a two-room shack. where he cooked his own meals and made his own bed, was becoming unbearable. Most of the settlers of his age were already married. The settlement was beginning to prosper. Neat little flow er beds appeared round the houses and the young wives were very gaily dressed upon occaaiionn. A church had been built; altogether it was a place for a young man with two thousand. dollars in the bank to rejoice in. But Jim had always lived a lonely life; he did not know how to change it. Too bashful to make advances to any of the town girls whom he saw on his rare visits, and with a vague feeling that he wanted a wife of a spe cial, hardly defined type, something above the common run, he was brood ing in his chair when there came a tap at the door. It was a timild tap, such as he had never heard. The men who tapped at Jim's door hammered with hairy fists until he opened to them. Jin opened now, and was amazed to see a woman and a boy outside. Both were thinly clad and shivering from the cold. Nevertheless the wom - 1 fitt Watched the Car Shoot Down the Hill. an did not attemptit to enter, but only asked where lodging could be ob She had come in on the evening train, she said. She offered no0 fur-ther explanation, bunt it was evidlent that :she was gently bred. The look (of weariness in her eyes haunted Jim for (hay3s. ie took her (Iowa the hill to a womn an of the valh'y. Thle hlospitality of the WVest pirevalledl over susilon. The straange'r andI her son were given shel teor. Next (lay L(*lla Drayton, as she called herself, went to work-l for one0 of the richer xtel(liers. Butt sooni she wats asked to fill a1 pressinag nieed. Th'le children wvere growling upi and1(, in spi1te of its adivantages, there was no school in thei valley. Sihe bleenme the school mist ress. Si ecenlatiion wvas rife about her. Sihe nover- miixedi with the valley peole, nlever talked about her past. Andiu t he WVest aiccepts wVomenC as5 well as5 mien for what they are, and asks no ques tions. Thle (lays grew into weeks, inito months. Jim lP eters oft en found ocea: elon to 50addl his horse andI ride dlown Into the valley, lie andI the boy be came fast friends, But Leila w~as ats iltdlferenit to himit as to the other men. Perhaips Jim w~ouzl never have found the opportu'iity he craved, of becoming her friend, but for an acci dent. The boy wn.s straying on the railroad embanknment in search of blrdls' eggs. Ils mother w~as w~ith him, but seatedi a little distance behind theo rise, Jim, watching them lnmpatiently from the other side0, knew that the af ternioont train wats due1. . Becoming unea'isy, lie hutrried across the valley, lie was just oin the 01ppo-1 site ridlge when he heard the train in the distance. The sound, which burst foathi suddenly as the traini caine out of the tunneli, startled the boy, perchied on a ledge, lie lost his fooling and1( fell twenty feet, to lie uncoseous across the metals. At the same~ time the mother rose, (discovered him an sadI screaimed., Jlimu piun gedl down the steep enmank maent, selized thle boy3, saithed himi from the metams iand COweredb with hhniit nailust thle cliff, while the tan w ~ent sweeping by, so nlear that the dIraft ramost h)iew .him from whore lie had planted 'iams(elf. Afterwar-d the boy u'p''ned ils eyes, The distracted mother kneeled bo fore Jim with her hands clasped. "How can I thank you?" she cried. "He is everything I have, he is everything In the world to me." "Be my friend," said Jim holding out his hand. That was Jim's chance. Friendship ripened. One day he asked her to be come his wife. Then the strange look of fear that' he knew so well came into her eyes. "No, you must not ask me that," she said. "I shall never marry again." And, seeing Jim's distress, she added: "I will tell you the truth. I am a runaway wife. I cannot speak ill of my husband now. I could have borne with his infidelities, with his abuse, but-I did not want my boy to grow up to be like him." It was weeks afterward that she told him all. Her husband was a wealthy mani in Omaha. When she found that she could endure life with him no longer she had run away, penniless, save for her railroad ticket. lie had one redeeming quality: he loved his son. On this account she knew that he would leave no stone unturned to find them. Jim went away. sorrowing. He knew now that she could never be his. For she shrank instinctively, he felt without asking, from the pub licity of divorce. Besides, to seek divorce would be to put her husband on her trail. She wanted to let the years roll between them, creating an ever widening barrier, until she felt I that the past could never stretch out its grisly hand upon her. So the months changed into years. It was nearly three years since Lella's coming when something happened which Jim had always known to be inevitable. It was morning, and he was on the high pastures with his cattle when he saw her running toward him, with the boy, scrambling up the steep hill side. She reached him; her face was white with fear. "He has found me 1" she gasped. "0, save me I Help me I" Up the road came the toot of an auto horn. Jim saw the car climb the grade like a heavy locomotive. The car stopped. A man leaped out, a man in the prime of life, ab surdly strong, absurdly healthy, with the bluster, and yet the sense of pow er, that sometimes accompanies the successful man. He leaped to the ground and ad vanced upon the woman, smiling. Jim barred his path. "My wife," he said. "I know," answered Jim. "See here, young man. You don't perhaps understand. I am here to claim *my own, my legal own, my wife and child. She has nothing to fear from me. I have never laid my hands upon her. Stand out of my path." "You may have a legal right," said Jim, "but you ain't going to take her." The man laughed, whipped off his coat, and displayed a pair of muscular arms. "Her lover?" he sneered. "God witness, there has never been love between us," answered Jim. The woman sprang between them. "Jim, he is right," she said. "Now he has found me, I must go with him." Jim, amazed at the change of atti tude, stood absolutely mute. The man nodded. "Good for you," he said. "Leila, the past is past. You'll never hear of it from me. It's only for the boy's sake I want you hack. And I guess --youi'll he happier than you were." Mechanically the girl enIteredl the auto. They lifted the hoy inside. The horn tootedl. They were gone. And .Jimi stared foolishly after them. Ilow strong tihe honds between huts hand andi wife ! She was gone out of his life, le had never dreamiedl of such a thing. But why had~ she gone with him, when he was ready to light for he(r? Jiim (did not undlerstand women, their changes, their se'nse of duty ((iinzg ini so odd(ly at cr1 tlca Ilimo mlent s. Like a muan in a dlreami lie wat(che(il the car shioot do(win the hill. It was going very' fast. The brake was unhnmaged b'y thle rough roadu, in faict, but .Jiim did not know that. All he0 thouighit was lihat it was going very fast towaird the (litting. And~ sud~ denly thei(re Caine the roiar of the t raila leavhing thle tunel. Thle auto shot forward. It was now evidently beyond control. Jiim began to runa. But lie was miuchi too far away to be of aiiy help. As lie ran he sawv the dlreadlful picture: the train raic lng alonig the narrow cutting, the auto caughit and. overturned ; the dlespe(rate efforts of the occupants to free themi selves.... Then lie saw the man stagger to his feet, lift the boy in his arms and toss him to the farther bunk. The train was almost upon him, a hissing snorting muonster with flaiiing breath. But hie caught up the woman in his arms an'd flung her clear of the metals; and the next instant the train was upon01 lim, bearing himn down, grinding out his life beneath its wheels, tearing the (decapitated body along the way and p~assinig onward. Jim wvas sick with horror when lie reachied the scene, to find that the Woman andl the boy still lived, I~e kneeled before Leila, trying to shieldi her from the knowledge of what hiad happenedl. Then, picking her lip, lie carriedl her to the top of the emibanik ment. And the look on her face told him that she knew. So mixed was life, so mixed the qualities for good andl evIl in all. Tfhis man she hiated had given his life for her. Some gate in Jim's brain went down at that moment, and he knew the~t life must bo faced very soberly thenceforward-even with her, Your I We handle on] PROUD to give. And we select c READILY buy. We are I You don't have have been chosen fo ing demands of th your needs for Watches, Ch Lockets, Bi We invite those wh us and have us make d many complaints that y our study of eye proble elation. Our Aim is Reli ab TO ATTEND WOODMAN RALLY. Large Number from this County t< Hear W. A.. Fraser, Sovereign Com iander, at Spartanburg. A large number of Woodmen fron this county are looking forward to th great Woodman rally, which is to b held at Spartanburg next Thursday Thee Makes He may mix a November w nace man mi quimo's idea o But the weath< and the furnace ings won't int .comfort if you Clean. Inexpensli to use. 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