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The Southerners. Continued From 3rd Page.] But his resentment at once gave piaii' to other feelings. Those before him were ids all. Might lie not persuade them. Justify himself? "I can understand how you must feel, father?all vf you." he said. "Miss Mary, you did persuade me last night. I Intended to resign then. 1 kissed you with as loving and as true n heart as ever beat in a man's breast. For that kiss 1 am deeply sorry, and I humbly beg your pardon. Anything you can say of me cannot be as deep ns the recollection of it. But it was not in false pretense. 1 was yours then and yours, father, and yours. uiuuu'r, ?IIMI >uur\ I'iiriuw. *>u\> j belong to u?y country." "Thank tlod." eried Mary Annan passionately, "1 didn't promise yo?i anything! It was gratitude ? gratitude. do you hear??rather than love. I thought possibly 1 might love you, but I did not. 1 hate you; I loathe you! If you were in my heart. I'd tear it out and trample upon it to put you out of tuy recollection." She stamped upon tue porch as she spoke. Then she shrank nearer to ' Darrow. laying her hand confidently upon his strong arm. as if she had found a protector. She felt outraged in the very center of her being, and the honest love and admiration of the young soldier were grateful to her. "Say the word. Miss Mary." said that young man instantly, "and I will kill him where he stands." "That would lie an easy solution," cried IVyton bitterly. " I would welcome it Indeed were you to kill me like n gentleman." "I would kill you like a dog!" hissed Darrow, stepping forward. r.ut two people intervened. One, strange to say, was Mary Annan, who caught Ids outstretched hand with a sudden tierce gesture, and the other was young Willis, who sprang before his brother. "Till otilv a how" he said enollv. "I don't agree with I'oyd here, hut I'm a ro.vt in. atul nobody shall speak so of him, much less lay hand upon him, in my i troscnco." "Thank you, Willis." said Peyton Slowly. "Hut don't got into any difficulty on niv account. I can take care of myself. Father"? "Call me not by that name, sir!" said the eld man sternly. "Mother!" he continued, stepping toward the woman who bore him, and he noticed with added pain that all the youthfulness and charm he had marveled at last night had gone from her face, leaving it gray and broken and old. As he stretched out his anus toward her she made a step forward, but the colonel caught her by the arm and sw< pt h: r to his breast, saying with cold deb i initiation, as !? a stranger: "This is my wife and is nothing to you." "Pink!" i ried F.oyd i:i desperation, turning to his sister a-, a last ivsort. 'Xtut P'.nk had gone to Mary Annan and tln? frirls wen) clasped in caeli other's arms. I'ink was crying bitterly, br.t Mary Annan stood with lier lend high by Bob Harrow, with a look scarcely less resolute ami infinitely n ore filler en her faee than that on 1'ey ton's. "Listen sir!"' said his father. "You have made your choice. You must fro. I wish neither to see you nor hear of ycu, and from henceforth you shall be as one. dead to us. Your name shall not he in ::!la:; d In this house. If any child of mine shall have the inclination, I forbid ii'in or her to hold any communication witli you. lb-re is no 1 :.gcr horn for yon. Your trunk shall be sent to the station tonifrht. The money I have held in trust for you fr-ui your grandfather's estate, amounting to some $.">,< RIO, will he paid t>\ r to you at the bank today at II o'clock. 1 shall expect you to be there to receive it. That is all. Now you lna.v g<>. Wo will endeavor to form t the disgrace you have put upon us, and 1 pray <Iod I may never see your face again." A low groan burst from l.oyd lVyt oil's lips. lie buried his faee in l.is It.".i.'.ls and shook like a v.a.i ::in. "A horse Is at your ser\ice," continn* 1 the colonel impassively, "to carry you into town. Leave him at the stable, as usual." "I will take m tiling, sir," answered lk. ton at last, nerving himself to face the inevitable "nothing but the unlb in and the sword 1 wear. I won't ask any of you to break father's command to speak to me," he continued, looking at the rest through misted eyi s. "I will just say jtoodby t<> you .. ' nil, and may Cod bless you! I dare ir I ask father t ? ldess me.- You uon't ki. \v bow terrible tliis lias been to i' \ but I sun a Peyton t<?>. 1 have my id s of honor, and I must abide by 1! n. .Miss Mary, I am as tartb bein. b your feet; but. believe me, I have truly loved you. and 1 shall love you to t.ie very end." There was a little silence. No one ai wered. and for a moment no one r.io.ed. Finally Itob liarrow slowly s\v n? on his heel and deliberately i n ed Ids lank on Ids former friend. T!i<> nlTeetion between tliein was jtono, tii" friendship forever broken. Mary ,\r"nn stared at him, ber lip still enrl1:Pink averted ber bead. That si1 ?i: e, that tfbnstly silence, was broken only by tbe sobs of Ids sister and by the tliiii. low moan of his mother. "Oh, Willis." she cried I > ber busla nd, "be i) my boy! Do not drive biiU ofTl" "For Cad's cake, sir." said tbe colai 1 furiously, "if you have a vestige of the instinct of a ;:eiilIonian left in you, i ?r Peyton turned away Instantly and slov.ly d< gecmlcd the slepn. ? :cli footfall upon the boards sounding like a dcatbkneU J^y those left behind. V - { , "By heaven," cried Willis Impetuously as liis brother stepped rigidly down the path, "I can't stand It, and I won't!" He sprang down the steps and In a moment reached his brother's side. "(loodby, Boyd, old fellow!" he cried. "I can't let you go without a word. We don't think as you do. but we know you will do your duty, and I will say Cod bless you for father and mother I I I >?** ? __ I lie Lent line over her haml, loused It fee* vcnlly and lift her alone. ami Pink and myself, flod bless you, | and some day It will conic out all right." There were tears in the boy's eyes. ' lie put his arm about his brother's neck and kissed him and then stopped j on the walk and watched him proudly go t n and on. "Willis," cried the colonel sharply, as Boyd disappeared, "I forgive you this j time, but try me no more. Help me to ! carry your mother indoors. I am afraid j she has fainted. Daughter, run for ' some restorative." c ? * * . "Miss Mary," said Harrow, as they ' were alone, "Is it true?" "Is what true?" "That he kissed you." "Yes. Do you hate mo for it?" "1 love you." lie said simply. "Would you?do you wish me"? "Do you love him?" "1 hate him!" she cried, stamping her foot again. "Did you love him last night?" "1 thought so. but now I know I never did. 1 never shall. It is all over with. I despise him. 1?you said yon loved mo. Do you want me now? Will you i take me?" iht kmc whs uusneu with passion, j Sin* was beside herself with rage ami : wounded pride. Jt was evident that ' she sea reel.v knew what she was say- I lug or doing, as she stretched out her arms to him. It was not love, but what was'it? Jealousy, resentment, revenge, or what? The temptation was great. If he took her at her word, he might bind her to him. A week before lie would have done it, he would have leaped at the chance; but now he was changed. It was different. Not thus would he win her. lie showed his magnanimity when he spoke, and tlio I gii!. reeognizing it. almost loved him. "I love you,"' he said. "<!od only knows how 1 love you. To eall you j mine, to win you for my wife, is the ! dearest wish of my heart. Hut I can't | take you t'.iis way. You don't know ' what you are saying. It would not be fair to you. 1 wondt r If you know what it costs me to say this? No, you can't know, but you will later. Meantime you must know, and by this, that I am yours, all of me is yours, and j that the day you can say to 1110 in your I sober senses what yon have just said | w 11 make me the happiest man on I earth. fJoodby; thank you, and God bless you." He bent low over her hand, kissed it fervently and left her alone. A soldier and a gentleman indeed, and never i nearer to bis iles'rn tlinn iii i lint lu'ovn ! renunciation. "Oh, my Hod. my Clod!" she cried as ! she turned toward the house. "Was ever woman so cruelly used as I? And, shame upon inc, 1 love him still! No. no; 1 hate him!" I'oor L'eyton, poor Darrow, poor Mary Annua! MlAl'TEIt XV11I. a wanoei:i:k ani> a vaoaiiond. I NVil^ lo ,oxvn people i I I passed Iloyd IVytoii in Atag- j ons or huggics and marveled i UWftftM at the unusual spectacle of a | young man in a naval uniform, carry- 1 in;; a sword, walking with drooping ( head on the public road, tine or two who recognized hint stopped and of- j fend him a scat, lie refused these ! kindly proffers, however, with a silent shake of ids head, so thev were forced to ] kiss by. When he ell It-fell t lie City, i he found that the Htory of llx; scene 1 i:i< 1 been repeated hy those who had participated in it, and he had hccoine a marked man. He roused himself liero, lifted his j head up. summoned his strength again [ and walked boldly forward. People j ran to the doors of stores as he came along 1 he street and stared after him, and tla-re were women who looked at him wiili pity. Those whom lie had known intimately in days gone hy avoided Ids gaze, turned aside as he approached or else resolutely gave him the cut direct hy looking bin full in the ^face und giving no alga of recognition. Ho was not entirely oblivious to tho surroundings either, and there was forced upon ldni the necessity for a decision about what ordinarily would have been a trivial matter. Sometimes trivial matters In great crises save us from going mad. The train for the north which he had resolved to tako did not leave until evening. It was not more than 2 o'clock now, and he did not know jvliere to go, where to styy, during the intervening hours, lie hail almost reached tlic limit of Ills strength. Unless he coukl get sonic resting place lie would collapso in the street. There was another duty to be done, lie must go to the bank. The little fortune 1:1s father had spoken of was rightfully his own. It had come to liim through his grandfather, and lie was resolved to take It. A messenger from hfs father's place had passed liim 011 the road, and the matter was undoubtedly arranged. To the bank on Royal street, therefore, he turned Ills steps. Old Mr. Pleasants, the cashier, whom he had known from his childhood, who had alwnys treated him with affectionate cordiality, met him at the door. The old man, without a word of greeting or recognition, sternly motioned him to n seat near the window and coldly indicated that ho could remain there until the necessary formalities were concluded. The money, which lie took In New York drafts, was fairly flung at him. He stepped out of the bank door and looked hopelessly up and down the street. There was the Battle House, the principal hotel of the place. Well, why not go there? lie resolved to do so. lie noticed that the men shrank from him as lie entered tlic rotunda and walked up to the desk. "I want a room until this evening and a meal sent to it," he said, picking up tlie pen preparatory to signing his name on tne resistor. "Very sorry, sir," answered the clerk curtly, not to say rudely, "but wo have no vacant rooms." Peyton understood and, too proud to nrprue, turned and walked out of the hotel. In that whole community he seemed to he absolutely alone. The veriest wandering dog, the poorest vagabond out of the streets, cotdd win more recognition and find more kindness than he. Mastering the trembling of his limbs by a violent effort, he struck out aimlessly across the square, intending vaguely to go out on the Shell road? anywhere away from the observation of the curious, which galled his sensitive nature beyond control, when he was accosted in kindly tones by Pr. Venosste. "Good gracious, Iloyd!" he said. "You are as white as death and trembling like an aspen! Where are you going?" "I--I don't know," answered Peyton. "Come with me." "I don't believe?you know?what I have done," said Peyton, resisting. "I know all about it. my boy," said Dr. Yeucsslo, with kindly insistence. "We don't think alike on some things, Jiut you have a right to your opinions. I believe you entertain them honestly. If your honor calls you to take the course you did today, I. at least, shall never blame you. Meanwhile, you must come with inc." lli' turned the young man ffbout, and they walked rapidly down Joachim street toward the doctor's house. "You must have something to eat and ; l a few hours' rest, if you don't, you \ I f.1 int here on the street." "1 i t not do that, doctor." "No. ' course not." said the doctor. "II. -re we are at last. Now conic in." "Iioc'.or. who told yon a bout ? about? cv< rythhi;:":" I'cyton asked as he sank exhausted i:i n:i easy chair in the library. "it i- all over town. Boyd." replied iho doctor frankly. "I heard it from a doyen sources." suppose everybody blames me an adfully V" "Yes." answer: d l>r. Vonousto, "most people d.?. And they Idnine you the more because last night they nought yo i had decided. They don't like vacillation." The doctor spoke kindly, but the truth of the accusation cut the young man lie had behaved shabbily. Ho .iiuu:d have decided it at once. "Th'.v are excited by the situation," continued his friend; "their passions i i r...... ...iii i 'I tu I.iwtinvu. I 11*? 11 li win t;i* .-VJiilc* I1I11U before thc.v will think of you differently. ItuI it makes po difference lo me; 1 want you to know that. I can respect the courage Hint it must have lequlred for you "o take such a stop. Your conscience : ::.i your reasons are your own. Your I: ...aiisliip is n ine." "Hut. I)r. Ycnusste," said Itoyd, "they will visit (Ids kindness lo me upon yon. You would better let me go." "No. no," said the doctor firmly; "I think my position is sufficiently secure to enable me tu do what 1 please. And, whether it be or no. I shall do it. Now, you must have something to eat," he said as Ids servant, who had been previously dircetod by liitn, entered the room with a tray containing a substantial luncheon. "No," urged the doe tor, pressing it upon him; "I will take no denial. Men must eat, no matter what crises they may ho passing through. They must cat to live." "Oil, doctor." said Peyton, "I don't iu 11vr. ii iiiii iui vc i 10 live ior f [To UK CoNTIXCKI). J MANAGER WANTED. Wo djsiro to ( mt'Iov a trns'w. rtln ladv <<r Ionian *> manner? our lu i iics3 in tliia county and adjoining to li tory. Uji house is well and favorab!) known. 320 (lO Straight dash Salary n-d all Kxppnscs paid oaeli \v<?>k by chock direct from licadipiai tors. kx|h?iih? inon^y ad ancprl; po vioics ex|km ioncc minora?- ary: position p? rinat ?mit.. Ac'd'-ons Tiio.ma..1. ( oona:. Manager, 1040 Caxto.. Building, Chicago, 111. 12-7t. Ancient Proofreading. 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