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There was a big oak near him at the roadside, and he stepped ander its sheltering branches ' and leaned against the great trunk, wiping the perspiration and dust from j his face. A moment of stunned quiet had succeeded the peal x>f thunder. It was followed by several moments of in: . cessant' .lightning that played along the road, and the fields. From that in , tolerable brightness he turned his head and saw; standing against the fence, five feet away, a man, leaning over the j top raili?nd looking at him. i The same flash swept brilliantly be? fore Helen's eyes as she crouched against the- back, steps of the brick boase. It revealed a picture like a marine of big waves, the tossing tops : pf the orchard trees, for in that-" second : the full fury of the storm was loosed, wind and rain and hail. It drove her ? against -.tbe^Jstehen -*toor- with cruel | force. The l?tch lifted, the door blew open violently, and she struggled to close it in vain. The house seemed to rock. A candle flickered toward her from the inner doorway and was blown put ?fc.f'Helen! Helen!" came Minnie's voice anxiously. "Is that you? We were coming to look for you. Did you get wetr Mr. Wilietts threw Ms weight against the door and managed to close iL Then Minnie found her friend's hand and Jed her through the dark hall to the parlor. where the judge sat placidly reading by a student lamp. Lige chuckled as they left the kitch- | en. "I guess you didn't try too hard to shut that door, Harkless," he said, and then when they came into the lighted room, "Why. where is Hark? ness?" he asked. "Didn't he.come with us from the kitchen?" "Xo,,; answered Helen faintly. "He's gone." SIfe sank upon the sofa and put her hand over her eyes as if to shade them from too sudden light "Gone!" The judge dropped his book and sat staring across the table at the giri. -'Gone! When?" "Ten minutes-five-half an hour-I don't know. Before the storm com? menced." "Oh!" The old gentleman appeared to be reassured. "Probably he had work to do and wanted to get in before the rain." But Lige Wilietts was turning pale. "Which way did he go? He didn't come around the bouse. We were out there till the storm broke." "He went by the orchard gate. When he got to the read he turned that waj\" She pointed to th-:' west. "He must hav? bren crazy!" exclaim? ed the judge. "What possessed the fel? low?" "I couldn't stop him. I didn't know hew." Sh? looked at ber thro? co::; panions, slowly and with growing ter? ror, from ono face to another. Min? nie's eyes were wide, and she had un? consciously grasped Lige's arm. The young raan was staring straight before him. The Judge got up and walked nervously back and forth. Helen rose to her feet and went toward the old man, her bands pressed to ber bosom. "Str sTie t-ried out "I "had forgoTCen that! You don't think they-you don't think he" "I k::ow what I think." Lige brok" in. "I think I'd ought to be hanged for letting him out of my sight. Maybe it's all right Maybe he turned and started right back for town-and got there. Eut I had no business to leave him. and if I can I'll catch up with him yet." He went to the front door and. opening it. let in a tornado of wind and ?pod of water that beat him back. Shoots of rain blew in horizontally in ig L1 ? of the porch beyond. Briscoe followed him. "Don't be a foo!. Lige.'" he said. "You hardly ex? pect to go out in that" Lige shook his ?ead. It needed them both to get the door closed. The young man leaned his back against it and passed his ?l?ete across his wet brow. "I hadn't ought to have left him."" ' "Don't scare the girls," whisp the other; then in a louder tone: I'm afraid of is that he'll get blow pieces or catch bis death of cold Tl all there is to worry about. 1 wouldn't try it again so soon after night Fm not bothering about t not at all. That needn't worry i body." "But this morning" "Pshaw! He's likely home and by this time. All foolishness. E be an old woman." The two men re-entered the r and found Helen clinging to Mini hand on the sofa. She looked up them quickly. "Do you tnink-do you-what you" Her voice shook so that sne could go on. j The judge pinched her cheek and ? ted it "t think he's home and dry, I think he got wet first That's wh? think. Never you fear. He's a g hand at taking care of- himself. sLown* Lige. You can't go for awhi N'or could he. It was a long, long w ?efcre he could venture out The ste raged and roared without ab?teme It was Carlow's Worst since '51, old gentleman said. They heard great limbs crack and break outsi while the thunder pealed and boom and the wind ripped at the eaves it seemed as if the roof must go. Me while the judge, after some apology, his pipe and told long stories of : I storms of early days and of odd fre? ? of the wind. He talked on calmly. 1 picture of repose, and blew rings abc his head, but Helen saw that one his big slippers beat an unceasing lit tattoo on the. carpet She sat with ? edv eyes, in silence, holding Minni hand tightly,, and' her face was col< less, growing whiter as the slow hoi dragged by. Every moment Mr. Willetts beear more restless. He assured the ladi he had no anxiety regarding Mr. Har less. It was only his own dereliction duty that he regretted. The bo would have the laugh on him, he sai But he visibly chafed more and mo i under the judge's stories and constai ly rose to peer out of the window in j the wrack and turmoil, and once : twice he struck his hands together wi : muttered ejaculations. At last the I was a lull in the fury without and't j soon as it was perceptible he announce his intention of making his way in town. He "had ought to have wei before," be declared apprehensive!; and then, with immediate amendmeri of course he would find the editor ; work in the Herald office. Tbci wasn't the slightest doubt of that 1 agreed with the judge, but he betti see about it He would return early i the morning and bid Miss Sberwoo goodby. Hoped she'd come back son: day; hoped it wasn't her last visit t Plattviile. They gave him an umbrelk and, he plunged into the night and s they stood for ? moment at the dooi the old man calling after him cheer good nights and laughing messages t Harkless, they could see him fight wit his umbrella when he got out into th road. Helen's room was over the porch, th windows facing north, looking out cj on the pike and across the fields "Please don't light the lamp. Minnie, she said when they had gone upstairs "I don't need it." Miss Briscoe wa flitting about the room hunting fo matches. In the darkness she came t her friend and laid a kind, large bara on Helen's eyes, and the hand bocam wet. She drew Helen's head down o: her shoulder and sat beside her on th bed. "Sweetheart, you mustn't fret," si: .-.oothed in motherly fashion. "Den' von worry, dear. He's all right. I s?T*t y ur fault, dear. They wouldn' <: .-. on a night like this." Lv.: "liefen .drew .away and went li ':*' wiuTow. flattening her arm ?g?lns !:? <>. her forehead pressed agains . : She hud let him go: she bat! '. i-fm go alone. She bad forgotten th ..? : T that always beset him. Sh 1 ba*" . <o crazy: she had seen nothing ??:.-.. !:: of nothing. She had let hi! !::.-.! tfcst and into the storm alon" '.i. !:::. w b::ter than she how ern H w?rt\ She had seen the fire ie;i ron: the white blossom and heard th? ?::! whistle, the ball they had tupa ir . Lis heart-that good, great lear had run to him, the night befor. " *. had she let bim gc into th;1 un mown and the stony, tonight? Bui : ci nld she have stopped hiv./: How ....?I she have kept him after what !" said? He had '..ut it out of !$' : . . i . to speak the word "Stay!" Si Into the night through disto:' 'i he w had iron: - down a little, but only tittle, and the electrica! flash s all :-'.i:::d the horizon in mag :'; " ?>' display, sometimes far aw.?y sometimes dazingly. near, the darkness doubly deep between the intervals when the iorig swe >p of la ads lav in dazzling clearness, clean cut in the washed air TO the fin< si a* > il) of strick? en field and heaving woodland. A staggering flame clove earth and shy. and sheets of light echoed it. a ti frightful uproar shook the house an : rattled the casements, but over th . crash of thunder Minnie heard h-r friend's loud scream and saw her spring hack from the window witb both hands, palms outward, pressed, to her face. She leaped to her and threw her arms about her. "What is it?" "Look!" Helen dragged her to the window. "At the next Hash! The fence beyond the meadow." "What was it? What was it like?" The lightning flashed incessantly. Helen tried to point. Mer hand oniy jerked from side to side. "Look!" she cried. "I see nothing but the lightning." Minnie answered breathlessly. "Oh, the fence! The fence! And in the field!" "Helen! What was it like?' "Ah. ah!" she panted. "A long line of white looking things - horrible white" "What like?" Minnie turned from the window and caught the other's wrist in a strong clasp. "Minnie. Minnie! Like long white gowns and cowls crossing the fence."" Helen released her wrist from her companion's grasp and put both hands . on Minnie's cheeks, forcing her around to face the flickering pane. "You must look! You must look!" she cried. "They wouldn't do it! They wouldn't -it isn't!" Minnie shuddered. "They couldn't come in the storm. They wouldn't do it in the pouring rain." "Yes! Such things would mind the rain!" She burst into hysterical laugh? ter, and Minnie seized her round the waist almost as unnerved as Helen, yet trying to soothe her. "They would mind the rain." Helen whispered. "They would fear a.. storm. Yes, yes! And I let him go; I let'him go!" Pressing close together, clasping I each other's waist the two girls peer I ed out at the landscape. ! "Look!" ! Up from the distant fence that bor? dered the northern side of Jones' field ! a pale, pelted, flapping thing reared itself, poised and seemed, just as the blackness came again, to drop to the ground. ; "Did you see?" But Minnie had thrown herself into a deep chair with a laugh of wild re? lief. "My darling girl!" she cried. "Not a line of white things-just one Mr. Jones' scarecrow! And we saw it blown down!" "No, no, no! I saw the others. They were in the field beyond. I saw them. When I looked the first time they were nearly all on the fence. This time we saw the last man crossing. Ah, I let him go alone!" Minnie sprang up and infolded her. "No; yo'u dear, imagining child. you're upset and nervous, that's ali the mat? ter in the. world. Don't worry; don't, cliild; it's all right Mr. Harkless is home and safe in bed long ago. I know that old scarecrow on the fence like a book, and you're so unstrung you .fancied the rest He's all right Don't you bother, dear." The big, motherly girl took her com? panion in her arms and rocked her back and forth soothingly and petted und reassured her and then cried a lit? tle with her, as. a good hearted girl al? ways will with a friend. Then she left her for the night, with many a cheer? ing word and tender caress. "Get to 'sleep, my dear." she called through the door when sh?"hau closed lt T>ehmd her. "Y'ou must if you have to ga in the morning. It just breaks my heart. I don't know how we'll bear it without you. Father will miss you almost as much as I will. Good night Don't bother about that old white scarecrow; that's all it was. Good night, dear: good nigh:." "Good night, dear." answered a plain? tive little voice. Helen's cheek pressed the pillow and tossed from, side to side. By and by she turned the pillow over; it had grown wet. The wind blew about the eaves and blew; itself out. Sleep would not come. ? She got up and laved her burning eyes; then she sat by the window. The storm's strength was spent at last. The rain grew light? er and lighter until there was but the sound of running water and the drip, drip on the tin roof of the porch. Only the thunder rumbling in the distance marked the storm's course, the chariots of the gods rolling farther and farther away till they finally ceased to be hoard altogether. The clouds Darted "Look!" she cried. majestically, and then, between greai j curtains mist the day star was seen ! shining ii. : he east. ? The night was hushed, and the peace that falls before dawn was upon the ? wet. Hat lands. Somewhere in :!;.. sod den grass a swamped cricket chirped; ! from an outlying tiange of the village | ! a dog's howl rose mournfully; ir was j j answered by another far away and by i i another and another. The sonorous : ! chorus rose above the village, died ; j away, and quiet fall again. \ j Helen sal by the window, no comfort ! j touching her heart Tears coursed I;-: ' j ctheefcs no longer; but her eyes v.-?.:.... j wide and staring; and ber lips parted : j breathlessly, fur the hush was broken ! j by the far clamor ut' thc courthouse j bell ringing in thc night. Ii ran? and ' rang and rang and rang. She could XA breathe. She threw open the win? dow. The heh stopped. All was quiet sr.ee more. The east was gray. Suddenly out of the stillness there ..?.noe the sound of a horse galloping .!\:>r a wet road. Ile was coming like mad. Some one for a doctor; No: th hoof hems grew louder, coming cut .'ruin the town, coming faster and ras: a-, coming here. Tia re was a plashing and trampling in fran: of the .se and a sharp "Whoa!" In the dim light of first dawn sae made oui a man (?a a foam flecked horse. lie dr: w i}') at the gate. A window to the right cf hers wem ser; aching up. She hoard the ji.dg laar his throat before he spoke. "What is itV That's you. isn't it iV??ey? What is itv" He took a goat; .'..ai of time and coughed between the sentences. His voice was more than : rd ia a ri ly quiet, and it sounded husky .Waat is it. WileyV" ".Judge, what time did Mr. Harkless leave here last night, and which wro ;?L] he goV" There was a siler.ee. The judge turn \\ away from the window. Minni' was standing just outside his door ut must have been about half past h wasn't it father?" she called in : choked voice. "And-you knew-Helen .nought he went west." ?"Wiley!" The old man leaned from .he sill again. "Yes." answered the man cu horse hack. "Wiley, he left about half past 0 :us: before the storm. They think h< vveu: west." "Much obii.ued. Willetts is so upse: ":e isn't sure of anything.*' ''Wiley!" The old man's voice shook Minnie began to cry a.oud. The horse .nan wheeled about and turned his an; ami's head toward town. "Wiley!" "Yes." "Wiley, they haven't-you don't think they've got him V" Said the man on horseback, "Judge fm afraid they have." (To Be Continued.) PEACE INSURED. The Opinion of Washington Officials Respecting the Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Washington. September 27.-Peace, not only in the Far East, but in the whole world, for the next ten years is insured by the Anglo-Japanese treaty. This is the opinion of competent ob? servers here, who regard the docu? ment as the most momentous of mod? ern times. Coming contemporaneous? ly with the Anglo-French entente, lt is looked upon as an effective check to the ambitions of the German kaiser, and probably affording an explana? tion for the recent, but belated dis? play of warmth between Germany and R issia. In this connection significance is attached in official quarters here, to the fact disclosed -from London, that France and Russia were the only powers to whom the text of the new agreement was communicated before its publication. Germany was neither consulted about its preparation nor informed as to its contents by either of the contracting parties. Mrs. G. Cogburn, of Edgefield coun? ty, met with a peculiar and serious accident on Wednesday. She had filled a tin syrup can with boiling to? matoes, preparing to can same, when in pushing down the top, the con? tents exploded, going into her face and burning her to such an extent as to inflict, it is thought, total blind? ness. One eye has already been taken out. 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