The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 11, 1907, Image 6
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CONQUEST
By BOOTH 1
Author of "Cherry." "f
COPYRIGHT. 1903. BY
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CHAFTER XXVI.
HE woke to the chiming of bells,
and as his eyes slowly opened
the sorrowful people of a
dream, who seemed to be
lending over him, weeping, swam back
Into the darkness of the night whence
they had come and returned to the imperceptible.
leaving their shadows in
his heart. Slowly be rose, stumbled
Into the outer room and released the
fluttering shade, but the sunshine,
ppringing like a golden lover through
the open window, only dazzled him and
found no answering gladness to greet
Jt or Joy in the royal day It heralded.
It would l>e an hour at least before
time to start to church, when Ariel expected
him. He stared absently up the
Street, then down and, after that began
slowly to walk in the latter direction
with no very active consciousness
or care of where he went. He had
fallen into a profound reverie, so deep
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ted turned into a dusty road which
ran along tbe river bank be stopped
oacbanically beside tbe trunk of a fallen
sycamore and, lifting bis bead for
tbe first time since be bad set out,
fooled about him with a melancholy
perplexity, little surprised to tin^i
himself tuere. . .
For this was tbe spot where be bad
first seen tbe new Ariel, and on that
fallen sycamore they had sat together.
"Remember, across Main street bridge
at noon!" And Joe's cheeks burned
as he recalled why be had not understood
the clear voice that had haunted
him. But that shame had fallen from
felxn; she bad changed all that, as she
bad changed so mauy things. He sank
down in tbe long grass, with bis back
against the log. and stared out over tbe
fields of tali corn shaking in a steady
Wind all the way to the horizon.
"Changed so many thingsT be aaid,
? half aloud. "Everything!" Ah, yes.
She had changed the whole world for
Joseph Louden? at his first sight of
to: y^nd now it seemed to bim that
he was t3 jgge her, hut not in the
WIT be had thought.
r'Spoet from the very first be had
the feeling that nothing so beautiful
a that she should stay in Canaan
oould happen to him. He tyae gtj^e
that she was bat for the little while,
that her coming was like the flying
petals of Yfhlcbbe her.
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Tbe bars that had been between him
and half of his world were down, shattered,
never more to be replaced, and
the ban of Canaan was lifted. Conld
this hare been save for her? And upon
that thought be got to his feet, uttertag
an exclamation of bitter self reproach,
asking himself angrily what be
jrts doing. He knew bow much she
gave blm^ what full measure of her affection.
Was not that enough? Out
upon you, Looden! Are you to sulk In
your tent, dour In tbe gloom, or to play
g man's part, and If she be happy turn
cheery face upon her Joy?
And thus this pilgrim recrossed the
bridge, emerging to tbe street with his
bead up, smiling, and his shoulders
thrown back, so that none might see
the burden he carried.
Ariel was waiting on tbe porch for
him. 6be wore tbe same dress she bad
wort that Sunday of their tryst?that
exquisite dress, with the faint lavender
?vertint, like the tender colors of the
beautiful day be made his own. She
bad not worn it since, and he was far
distant when he caught tbe first flickering
glimpse of her through the lower
branches of the maples, but he remembered.
And again, as on that day, be
beard a faraway, ineffable music, the
elfiand horns, sounding the mysterious
reveille which had wakened his soul to
her coming.
She came to the gate to meet him and
gave him her hand in greeting without
a word ?or the need of one?from
either. Then together they set forth
over the sun flecked pavement, the
maples swisuiug auuve lucrn, uratm
branches crooning in the strong breeze,
under a sky like a Delia Robbia background.
And up against the glorious
blue of it some laughing, invisible god
was blowing small rounded clouds of
pure cotton, as children blow thistledown.
When he opened her parasol as they
came out into the broad sunshine beyond
upper Main street there was the
faintest mingling of wild roses and cinnamon
loosed on the air.
"Joe," she said, "I'm very happy 1"
"That's right," he returned heartily.
"I think you always will be."
"But, oh, I wish," she went on, "that
Mr. Arp could have lived to see you
come down the courthouse steps!"
"God bless him!" said Joe. "I can
bear the argument.'"
"Those dear old men have been so
loyal to you, Joe."
"No," be returned; "loyal to Eskew."
"To you both." she said. "I'm afraid
the old circle is broken up. They
haven't met on the National House corner
since he died. The colonel told me
lie couldn't bear to go there again."
"I don't believe any of them ever
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will,""lie returned. "Ana yet l never i
pass the place that I don't see Eskew j
in his old chair. I went there last ;
night to commune with hiin. I couldu't '
sleep, and I pot up and went over !
there. They'd left the chairs out, the I
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town was asleep, and it was beautiful
moonlight"?
| "To commune with him? What
about?"
. "You."
"Why?" she asked, plainly mystified.
"I stood in need of pood counsel." he j
answered cheerfully, "or a friendly
word, perhaps, and as 1 sat there after
awhile it came."
"What was it?"
"To forpet that I was sodden with
selfishness, to prefend not to be as full
of meanness as I really was. Doesn't
that seem to be Eskew's own voice?"
"Weren't you happy last night, Joe?"
"Oh, it was all right," he said quickly.
"Don't you worry."
And at this old speech of his she
I broke into a little langb, of wbicb be
( had no comprehension.
"Mamie came to see me early this
morning," she said after they bad
walked on in silence for a time. "Everything
is all right with her again?
that is, 1 think it will be. Eugene Is
coming home. Andj" she addefl thoughtI
w111 l>e "est ^or "lfu!
Ills old place on the Tocsin again. She
Showed me his letter, and I liked it 1
think he's been through the fire"?
Joe's distorted 6mile appeared. "And
has come out gold?" be asked.
"No," she laughed, "but nearer It.
And I think he'll try to be more worth
ber caring for. She has always thought
that his leaving the Tocsin In the way
be did was heroic. Thut was her word
for it. And it was the finest thing he
ever did."
"I can't figure Eugene out." Joe
shook his bead. "There's something
behind bis going away that I don't
nniioM*iui" This vm Altogether the
troth, nor was there ever to come a
time when either he or Mamie would
understand what things had deter,
mined the departure of Eugene Ban.
try, though Mamie never questioned,
as Joe did, the reasons for it or doubt*
ed those Eugene had given her, which
were the same he bad given ber father,
for she was content with his return.
Again the bells across the square
ran* out their chime. The path; were
decorously qjlijcned^ with family allcl
ralo*hnrh/vu1 er/">n?ri? TtfVind church
! ward, and the rumble of tbe organ,
! playing the people Into their pews,
shook on the air. And Joe knew that
be must speak quickly If he was to say
what he had planned to say before be
and Ariel went Into tbe church.
"Ariel!" He tried to compel his
voice to a casual cheerfulness, but it
would do nothing for him except betray
a desperate embairassment.
She looked at him quickly and as
quickly away. "Yes?"
"I wanted to say something to yon,
and I'd better do it now, I think?before
I go to church for the first time In
two years." He managed to laugh,
though with some ruefulness, and con
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j "Ah, I've seen how much he cares for
you!"
I tinued stammeringly, "I want to tell
! you how much I like him?how much I
admire him"?
"Admire whom?" she asked, a little
i coldly, for she knew.
"Mr. Ladew."
"So do I," she answered, looking
straight ahead. "That is one reason
why I wanted you to come with rne
today."
"It isn't only that I want to tell
you?to tell you"? He broke off for a
second. "You remember that night in
! my office before Fear came in?"
| "Yes, I remember."
"And that I?that something I said
! troubled you because it?it sounded as
I if I cared too much for you"?
i "No; not too much." She still looked
; straight ahead. They were walking
' very slowly. "You didn't understand.
I You'd been In my mind, you 6ee, all
fOoKC years, no much more man I in
yours. 1 hadn't forgotten you. But to
you I was really a stranger"?
"No. no!" he cried.
"Yes. 1 was." she said gently, but !
very quickly. "And I?I didn't want
you to fall in love with me at first
sight. And yet?perhaps I did! But 1
hadn't thought of things in that way.
I had just the same feeling for you
that i always bad?always! I had
never cared so much for any one else,
and it seemed to me the most neces- |
sary thing in my life to come back to
that old companionship. Ikiu't you remember?it
used to Rouble you so
when I would take yourhandV I think
1 loved your being a little rough with
me. And once when 1 saw how you
had been hurt that day you ran
away"?
"Ariel!" he gasped helplessly.
"Have you forgotten?"
He gathered himself together with
all biR will. "I want to prove to you,"
be said resolutely, "that the dear kindness
of you isn't thrown away on me.
I want you to Know wnui 1 ucgau i?
gay?that it's all right with me, and I
think Ladew"? He stopped again.
"Ah. I've seen how much he cares for
you!"
"Have you?"
"Ariel." he said, "that isn't fair to
me, if you trust me. You could not
have helped seeing"?
"But I have not seen it." she interrupted.
with great calmness. After
having said this, she finished truthfully:
"If he did. I would never let him
tell me. I like him too much."
"You mean you'fe not going to"?
Suddenly she turned to him. "No!"
she Raid, with a depth of anger he bad
not beard In her voice since that long
ago winter day when she struck Eugene
Bantry with her clinched fist.
She swept over him a blinding look of
reproach. "How could I?"
And there, upon the steps of the
church, in the sudden, dazzling vision
of her love, fell the burden of him
who had made his sorrowful pilgrimage
acrosf Main street bridge that
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The Tobacconist's Effigy.
One of the most peculiar things '
in the whole history of signs is the
fact that while all other shopkeepers
were patronizing the embryo
painters the tobacconist always call- ,
ed upon the woodcarver on the con
tinent as well as in England. As 1
long ago as Elizabeth's reign the
wooden image of the black boy was
the favorite 6ign of the tobacco
dealers. Later the customary sign
was the highlander or a figure of
Sir Walter Raleigh. In Holland,
for some 6trange reason, the tobac- j
coni6t adopted the dairymaid as
their sign, with the motto, "Conso-,
lation for sucklings." The Indian,
naturally enough, has always been
the predominant sign in this coun- )
try, although once in awhile a reversion
to type crops out with the
ancient black boy.
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Paris Has No Wash Day.
Paris sends all her washing out
in the country?that i6, the bonton
Parisian. The city laundries that do !
up the linen of the foreigners from
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J&ngJauu, AHlil ttuu niiicuta woou vjj ;
machine and dry by steam heat nn- '
der the pavement or near the sewer
arteries. It is against the law to
hang out wash, if a tenant put a ,
pocket handkerchief or a towel in j
the window to dry the concierge
would have a fit, and if he couldn't
persuade her to remove the nuisance J
the gendarme would. Large and i
small concerns 6end delivery wagons
about for work, which is expressed
to the country and returned in a
week or ten days. The work is ex?uisite
and prices are reasonable,
ut the strain on the garments is
treble the wear.
Space Filler*.
Two chance acquaintances on a
train between Washington and Phil- j
adelphia discovered that they had
come originally from the same j
neighborhood in Delaware and fell I
to conversing about old times.
"By the way," said the passenger
in the 6kullcap, "whatever became
of Ham* Mull ins ?"
"Oh, "he's a special writer on one I
of the New York papers," replied
the passenger wit^ the red tie. j
"Gets $10 a column. Good thing." ;
*'And his brother Dick ?"
"Dick's a fat man in a museum.
Weighs 410 pounds. Gets a good
salary."
"Well, well," mused the man in
the skullcap. "Both of 'em have j
achieved success as space fillers,1
eh?"?New York Times.
Fearless Divers.
The black boys of the Sandwich
or Indian islands think nothing of
diving fifty or sixty feet for the
sake of a few coppers or a silver
piece. At all the ports of these islands
tourists are met and sent on
their way by the diving boys. As
soon as a steamer is sighted outside
the harbor half a dozen or more j
lithe limbed, dark skinned blacks
leap into the water and swim out a
mile or more to be the first to "beg I
you a quattie, missus." They follow
the steamer in and climb up the
side when she slides up to the dock,
and they shove their woolly heads
over the railing to look for a generous
and curious tourist who will pay j
for the exhibition they are willing
to give at a moment's notice.
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< POISON IN FLOWERS.
Certain Daath Lurk* In Many of tfca
Beautiful Plants.
Beautiful as flowers appear to the
eye, there lurks behind their attractiveness
certain death. They may
be handled with impunity and their
odors enjoyed without any danger,
but let any one taste the juice of
some of the sweetest, and with every
drop he is taking deadly poison into
his system. Even the bulbs of such
dainty flowers as the snowdrop, narcissus,
hyacinth and the jonquil are
poisonous.
The oxalis also is not a safe thing
to put between the lips, and all the
lobelias will produce dizziness and
general disease. The monk's hood
and the lieautiful foxglove are noxious
affair.-., from which powerful
drugs are obtained, more than a
few drop? of their extracts being
usually a fatal dose.
Certain of the crocuses if eaten,
even if nothing is swallowed but the
juice, produce vomiting. The bulb
of the intr'ccfcly bountiful lady's
slipper po;sor;< externally as the
noxious ivy, dogwood and sumac.
The quaint old jack-in-the-pulpit,
although I.'"! a garden plant, is another
ene:..y to health and life, and
so also is the marvelous Queen
Anne's ]ane, whi n now and then
will creep in through the paling
and look? so enchanting when far |
and wide it embroiders field and |
roadside.
The laughing little buttercup,
that might be a drop of visible sunlight,
is by no means as innocent as
it looks. The cow in the pasture
knows enough to avoid it. That and
all its cousins, the rich, profuse
peonies, the dazzling blue larkspurs
pnd the rest, are full of toxic prop
cities.
The oleander tree that is pet outdoors
when spring comes and that
rlines the streets of various of our
southern cities is another hive of
deadly poison.
The 6uperb catalpa tree, towering
with its great leaves and its masses
of white and fragrant flowers, is a
charming thing in the garden, but 1
its bark is exceedingly injurious,
and the laburnum, that looks like <
a fountain of gold leaping into the ,
6un, is poison in leaf and flower and
seed, and even the grass beneath it
is best thrown away when cut instead
of being fed to cattle.
Would B? a Queen.
She was eight years old and had
been reading fairy tales until she
could think of nothing else. One .
day recently she astonished her
mother by quietly saying, "Mamma,
I'm going to run away from home
and go to England."
"What in the world do you want
to go to England for?"
"I want to go there to become a
kitchen girl in the king's kitchen."
"Gracious 1" exclaimed the moth- '
er. "What put that idea into your
head?"
"Well, perhaps if I became a
IritrhfiTi <rirl Rome orince will see
me and marry me and make me a
princess, and then when the king
dies I'll be a queen."
"I think," said the mother, "that
you had better lay your fairy books
aside and help me darn these stockingB."?Columbus
Dispatch.
Wh a Collector Himself.
Saint-Saens while walking along
one of the Paris boulevards one afternoon
encountered a very miserable
begear, to whom he gave 2 sous
and passed on. a weauny ransian
hastened up to the beggar and said,
"Here, mv man, I'll give you 5
francs for those 2 sous that gentleman
just dropped in your hat."
"What'6 that'for?" asked the astonished
beggar. "I want them for my
collection. The man who gave them
to you is Saint-Saens, the poet."
"What?him?" asked the beggar,
pointing toward the fast retreating
figure of the donor. "Yes. That's
Saint-Saens." "That being the
case," returned the beggar, "I think
I'll keep the coins. I'm a collector
myself."
Not the 8ame Growl.
A noted woman suffrage leader
was talking in Philadelphia about
divorce. "Ill temper is at the root
of divorce," she said. "Men and
women are not so vicious as some
people think. Impatience causes
Biore divorces than immorality.
When I was living in Pittsburg I
rmo dnr nn a rertain married
woman. At dinner time mf hostess
rang for the maid. She said:
" 'Mary, is that Mr. Brown downstairs
? I thought I heard him just
now/
" 'Xo'm/ Mary answered. 'That
wuz tlie dawg what wuz growlin'/ "
?Minneapolis Journal.
Webster'* Compliment.
Mr. Webster said one of the
heartiest compliments ever paid him
was by a Maine farmer for whom
when a young man he had gone
into Maine and tried a case. As
they left the courtroom?it is to be
presumed flushed with victory?the
client with flat hand struck him a
blow on the back that made the dust
fly, saying. "Dan, you're a hoss!"
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