in quickly against the unbearable light of the sky at midday. She tried to move, but her muscles were bound. A delicious sense of languor was again stealing over her, when she moved her hand s

f fashion as though it were something she might have read sometime. The child! Then she realized the awfulness of what had happened. Had she killed them both! She did not dare think of anything so horrible. She lay qui

e child looked down at her. It had escaped then. It was with a delicious feeling o

rs for miles about bending over her. She could hear Sam Houston holding forth in the kitche

nging to his heels and the reins floppin' down on his side. He looked as quiet as a lamb, for all the world as though he had been put to grazin' instead of up to some devilment. I tell y

re three-herself, the baby and-she could not remember who the third was. Then she d

't." Mrs. Kilgore would have

she was a little giddy, but she steadied herself. Her muscles ached as she moved. Her black silk waist had been cut open the full lengt

upon the sick. From the room beyond came the heavier tones of men's voices. None of the women had attempted to answer Eliza's question. Her head was whirling so that she forgot in an instant that she had asked it. She listened to the voices from the parlor. Then, with all the energy of which she was capable, sh

The walls were made hideous with life-sized crayon portraits. Chenille curtains were draped at the windows and a rope portière impeded the opening and closing of the door. A large marble-topped ta

sy whenever she put it to rights, but yet she had not reached

d hand and pushed aside the rope drapery. The center-table with its marble

thin and cruel. There was the air of an autocrat, a demagogue about him. Near him was Doctor Dullmer, whose face even now had lost nothing of its helpful, ch

ing and extending his arm for support.

t. Just bruise

ard the little group, which separated

re. Her beautiful yellow hair was coiled about her head like a golden crown. She looked so smiling and hap

she was," she

e and from the group of women who had packed the narrow

za. "I know neither her

lt upright and looked at the men about her. She forgot that her arm was aching with its bruises, and that a great cut ne

driving her." "We supposed right a

ell you how it happened so,"

wait until to-morrow, until you a

it at once so there can be no misunderstan

on the point of collapse which might come suddenly upon her. He thought only of her physical condition. He had not estimated

deous with its red plush upholstery, and related

t intervals. When the story was en

bed now," sa

rs. Kilgore. I cannot res

e words and was already riddi

anny. Your old man w

would be crying f

use with matches and oil about?" So by dint of sugges

and, arranging the pillows, laid down

ement in the sick-room. She found thorough enjoyment in officiating at the house of sorrow. She drew down the

child came close to the davenport where Eliza lay. He

n 'ou get well." Standing on tip-toe, she put

ips. The term 'Pretty lady' found a responsive chord in her heart which vibrated. She had lived alone all her life. No one had ever touched lips to hers. No one had ever found her attractive or beautiful. For as many years as she could remember, no

t crawled up on the davenport and nestled close in her arms, with the little head on her breast. All the while, it kept up a

l newspapers sent reporters at once to secure particulars. Williamsburg was the nearest city of imp

e accident, Morris was the only man in t

verything. Write a column or two and get back b

d to him like a rung in the ladder. He would "make good" for himself and his paper. There was no passenger

or of the old Wells place. The men had depar

llow hair about her head like a crown. He had been brought up inland. He knew little of that great wave of surging humanity which yearly seek our shores in searc

s copy ready. He fired questions rapidly, and wrote while the answers came. The

cted to ask the sex of the child who had been made motherless by the accident. He

the Herald came out with tri

t Village

ed-Two B

n Who Cannot

unaway Hors

are of S

, the sex and age of the latter were so far removed from the truth, that people hundreds of miles away read