Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 15, 1921 Page: 2 of 8
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FREDERICKSBURG STANDARD, FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS
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LORNA DOONE
R D. Blackmore.
beyond a doubt it did me good.
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CHAPTER VIH.
Secrets Disclosed.
must kiss you for
ts
toasted
pipe in
can have no notion of.
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GRADUATE CHIROPRACTOR.
Office Penniger’s Residence
Opposite Court House
Phone 255 S. W.
me away
fairs, and into
me there; and
and a sense of having something
know who, and have no right to my darling; but only suspected
father ceased to reap, all round the heart, John, and
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thank the Lord for, without his you would have coaxed and kiss-
“Then, after all, you have
THE BEAUTIFUL COMEDY-DRAMA
for slighting poor
and twice the crop to the acre
Now this was so exactly what
md strong. except, at least,
love matters, wherein they al-
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Niehalna Snowe to give
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towards her; especially as I long-
ed to know what she had to tell
is not
should
everything, if you will look at j of pleasure, how the rings and
me kindly, and promise to forgive wreaths of smoke hovered and
from her own af-
mine concerning
wet with tears.
“Oh, John, I will tell you;
and
Up-
A in the
delicious
Burley
flavor
a skilful
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Tickets will be on sale at Klaerner's Confectionery and Hanisch Drug
Store on and after October Kith
no
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only thinking
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a wicked thing if somebody else
had been taken so with a pain
having so
Saturday, Oct. 22. at 8:00 KM. sharp
Admission 25c and 35c: reserved seats 50c
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Presently, I slipped away from j l had tried to do to Lorna, that
should be ashamed to wear it. But
you won’t strike poor Tom, will
you?”
“Not 1, my darling, for your
sweet sake.”
(To tie contir aed.)
Hotel Spahn
Centrally located.
The comfortable Resort of
Families and Traveling Men.
230 t. Gommerce
San Antonio, Texas,
1,
Annie was very grate-
and kissed me many
but as sticks coule smite d ' n,
poor stupid Mistress Kebby?
“That, indeed, I do, Annie.
no power of telling it, perhaps
—m
aim
me Rome tobacco, and to lend me
a spare pipe
Robert Blum’s Orchestra will furnish music between acts.
BIG DANCE APTER PLAY
"tell your friends about it and come”
no particular
me. Oh, I am so miserable!’’
Now this, though she was be-
hope. ’
“She is not half so pretty as
Sally Snowe; I will answer for
JT COMFORT OCT. It., IT STIELER&INGENHUETT’S
manner, as
Once you’ve
enjoyed the
toasted flavor
you will al-
ways want it
“A PRAIRIE ROSE”
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stay on the longest.
badly, moved me much nie was gone back again to our
father’s grave; and there she sat
easting her bright cyes down-Nrg va Beptley 1) C
wards; “love is simple as milk-1 k 1 "1 * *
ing—when people know how to
do it. But you must not let her'
Nicholas do;
a new kind
' What
Annie?’
John. Oh, John, I will tell you and marking, with
on this I brought her back again
to Tom Faggus and his doings.
“My poor Annie. have you
really promised to be his wife?”
ing, and seemed to
minds about it, or
futtered in the moonlight, like
a lark upon his carol. Poor An-
All your go- breath away with the suddenness
of her allusion, yet it was not
quarrel here, kind of me to leave her out at
me. Therefore I allowed her to
coax me, and to kiss me, and to
lead me away a little, as far as
the old yew-tree; for she would
not tell me where she was.
But, even in the shadow there,
she was very long before beginn-
gqgen
none of your own?
ing out at night—
“We will not
since my
It was
even rooted trees
For we ed her, and come a little nearer.
are you doing here,
I inquired, rather stern-
poor Annie,” I answered, with that time of night, all alone, and
some loftiness; “there are manyin such distress. Therefore I
things upon my mind, which girls went forth at once, bearing my
Lorna. But although it was cle-
ver enough for her, she was not
“Yes, I will stop,” said An-
suddenly
“Can your love do a coilop,
John?”
“No, I should hope nut,” I
. 0
ing how his plans had been over-
net between us. And then Annie
said to me very slyly, between a
smile and a blush
“Don’t you wish Lorna Doone
was here. John, in the parlor
along with mother; instead 01
those two fashionable milk-maids.
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rather, per- ful to me.
| march away and have nothing' This he did with a grateful looked me full in the face by the
more to say to her. But she manner, being now some five moonlight, and jerked out quite
With paint selling at
the present low price, it
will pay you to protect
your house with a coat for
this winter.
Remember all painting
done in the Autum will
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ly, being vexed with her for hav-
ing gone so very near to frighten
me.
“Nothing at all,” said our An-
nie, shortly. And, indeed, it
was truth enough for a woman.
“Why, how so?” said I. “Miss
Annie, what business have you
here, doing nothing at this time
of nig t? And leaving me with
all the trouble to entertain our
guests!”
“You seem not to me to be
doing it, John,” Annie answered,
softly ; “what business have you
here doing nothing, at thin time
of night?.’
I wwas taken so aback with this,
and the extreie ipertineuce ef
it, from a mere young girl like
Annie that I turned round to
entangling her, and, while I was gently thus, and found farmnerNi-
stooping to take it away, she chols Snowe asleep, little dream
with you, because you have your it hitherto, and making up, my
secrets? Every chit of a girl mind to have another trial to-
thinks now that she has a right morrow night, it began to occur
to her secrets.” to me that although dear Annie
“And you have none of your had behaved so very badly and
own, John; of course, you have rudely, and almost taken my
upon the turf, sobbing very gent-
ly, and not wishing to trouble
any one. So I raised her tender-
ly, and made much of her, and
consoled her, for I could not
scold her there; and perhaps,
after all, she was not to be blam-
ed so much as Tom Faggus him-
in one’s godfather—” Here Annie
"1- stopped quite suddenly, having so
have two self was.
even such as they had.
Then the golden harvest came,
a wealth of harvest such a.s never
gladdened all our country-side
as Uncle Ben will call them, and
reason, John,
son, I mean.
“Now will you stop?” I said lead
except for my love of everything nie, panting; “you are very hard
The love"oof all things was upon to me, John; but I know you deep enough for
me, and a softness to them all, mean it for the best. If some-J soon discovered that she knew
“ body else—I am sure you don’t nothing, not even the name of
thinking us hypocrites.
alone too long; that is my advice
to you. What a simpleton you
must have been not to tell me
long. I would have made Lorna
wild about you, long before this
time, Johnny. But now you go
into the parlor, dear while I do
your collop. Faith Snowe is not
to come, but Polly and Sally. Sal-
ly has made up her mind to con-
quer you this very blessed even-
ing, John. Only look what a
thing of a scarf she has on; I
put together like a woman.
seemed to me at last, harder 11 an I meant it.
And so there are upon mine, had seen
the noise and mirth of the harvest
feast, and crossing the courtyard
in the moonlight, I went, just to
cool myself, as far as my father’s
tombstone.
I had long outgrown unwhole-
some feeling as to my father’s
death, and so bad Annie; thongh
Lizzie still entertained some evil
will, and longing for a punish-
ment. Therefore I was surprised
to see our Annie sitting there as
motionless as the tombstone, and
with all her best fal-lals upon
her, after stowing away the dish-
My nerves, however, are good
Sally Snowe so?”
“Without even asking mother
or me! Oh, Annie, it was wrong
of you!”
“But, darling. you know that
mother wishes you so much to
marry Sally ; and I am sure you
could have her to-morrow. She
dotes on the very ground- ”
“I dare say he tells you that,
Annie, that he dotes on the very
ground you walk upon but did
you believe him, child?”
“You may believe me, I assure
you, John; and half the farm to
be settled upon her, after the
old man’s time; and though she
gives herself little airs, it is only
done to entice you; she has the
very best band in the dairy, John,
and the lightest at a turn-over
cake—”
“Now, Annie, don’t talk non-
sense so. I wish just to know
the truth about you and Tom
Faggus. Do you mean to marry
him?”
“I to marry before my brother,
and leave him with none to take
care of him! Who can do him a
red-deer collop, except Sally her-
self, as I can? Come home, dear
at once, and I will do you one;
for you never ate a morsel of
supper, with all the people you
had to attend upon.”
This was true enough; and see-
ing no chance of anything more
than cross-questions and crooked
purposes, nt which a girl was
sure to beat me, I even allowed
her to lead me home, with the
thoughts of the collop uppermost.
I But I never counted upon being
beaten 9 thoroughly as I was;
for knowing me now to he off
my guard, she stopped at the
farmyard gate, as if with a brier
of it. Dear me, it seems as if you
had known all about us for a
twelvemonth. ”
“She loves you with all her
heart, John. No doubt about -
that, of course.” And Annie
looked up at me, as much as to
say she would like to know who
could help it.
"That’t the very thing she
won’t do,” said I, knowing that
Annie would love me all the more
for it; “she is only beginning to
like me, Annie; and as for lov-
ing, she is so young that she only
loves her grandfather. But I
hope she will come to it by and
by.”
“Of course she must,” replied
my sister; “it will be impossible
for her to help it.”
“Ah, well! I don’t know,” for
I wanted more assurance of it.
“Maidens are such wondrous
things.” (
“Not a bit of it.” said Annie.
Revised and condensed by editor.
(Continued.)
answered harshly; “she
a mere cook-maid, 1
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know, no doubt, but she must lie from things she had seen,
ways fail me, and when I meet
with witches; and therefore I
went up to Annie, although she
looked so white and pure; for I
had seen her before with those
things on, and it struck me who
she was.
had more land in wheat, that and made opportunity to be very
year, than ever we had before, loving.”
betrayed herself.
“Alas, I feared it would come
to this.” I answered, very sadly;
“I know he has been here many
a time, without showing himself
to me. There is nothing meaner
than for a man to sneak, and
steal a young maid’s heart, with-
out her people knowing it.”
“You are not doing anything
of that sort yourself, then, dear
John, are you?”
“Only a common highway-
man!” I answered, without heed-
ing her; “a man without an acre
of his own, and liable to hang
upon any common, and no other
right of common over it—”
“John,” said my sister, “are
the Doones privileged not to be
hanged upon common land?”
At this I was so thunderstruck
that I leaped in the air like a
shot rabbit, and rushed as hard
as I could through the gate and
across the yard. and back into
the kitchen and there I asked
jumped up, and caught me by fourths gone; and so I smoked
the hand, and threw herself up- the very best pipe that ever had
on my bosom, with her face all entered my lips till then; and
haps, a dozen; and she laid her times, and begged my pardon
cheek against the tree, and sob- ever so often for her rudeness
bed till it was pitiful; and I to me. And then having gone
knew what mother would say to so far with it, and finding me
her for spoiling her best frockso complaisant. she must needs
so. try to go a little further, and to
and spread my heart at leisure.
Now by the time I had almost
finished smoking the pipe of to-
bacco, and wondering at my-
self for having so despised
Although I was under interdict
for two months from my darling
—“one for your sake, one for
mine,” she had whispered, with
her head withdrawn, yet not so
very far from me—lighter heart
was not on Exmoor than I bore
for half the time, and even for
three quarters. For she was safe;
I knew that daily by a mode of
signals, well contrived between
us now, on the strength
of our experience. “I have no-
thing now to fear. John,” she
had said to me as we parted;
“it is true that I am spied and
watched, but Gwenny is too keen
for them. While I have my
grandfather to prevent all vio-
lence, and little Gwenny to keep
watch on those who try to watch
me; and you above all others,
John, ready at a moment, if the
worst comes to the worst—this
neglected Lorna Doone was never
in such case before. Therefore
do not squeeze my hand, John;
I am safe without it, and you do
not know your strength.”
Ah, I knew my strength right
well. Hill and valley scarcely
seemed to be step and landing
for me; fiercest cattle I would
play with, making them go back-
ward, and afraid of hurting them,
like John Fry, with his terrier;
that, ” said Annie.
“She is ten thousand times as
pretty as ten thousand Sally
Snowes,” I replied with great in-
dignation.
“Oh, but look at Sally’s eyes!"
cried my sister, rapturously.
“Look at Lorna Doons, ” said
I, “you would never look again
at Sally’s.”
“Look at Lorna Doone,” said
Doone!” exclaimed our Annie,
half frightened, yet clapping her
hands with triumph, at having
found me out so: “Lorna Doone
is the lovely maiden who has stol-
en poor somebody’s hert so. Ah,
I shall remember it, because it is
s queer a name. But stop, I had
better write it down. Lend me
your hat, poor boy, to write on.”
“I have a great mind to lend
you a box on the car,” I answer-
ed her in my vexation; “and I
would, if you had not been cry-
ing so, you sly, good-for-nothing
baggage. As it is, I shall keep it
for Master Faggus, and add in-
terest for keeping.”
“Oh, no, John; oh, no, John,”
she begged me earnestly, being
sobered in a moment. “Your
hand is so terrible heavy, John;
and he never would forgive you;
although he is so good-hearted,
he cannot put up with an insult.
Promise me, dear John, that you
will not strike him; and I will
promise you faithfully to keep
your secret, even from mother,
and even from Cousin Tom him-
self.”
“And from Lizzie; most of all
from Lizzie,” I answered very
eagerly, knowing too well which
one of my family would be hard-
est on me.
“Of course from little Lizzie,”
Annie said with some contempt;
“a young thing like her cannot
be kept too long, in my opinion,
from the knowledge of such sub-
jects. Anil, besides, I should be
very sorry if Lizzie had the right
to know your secrets, as I have,
dearest John. Not a soul shall
be wiser for you having trusted
me, John; although I shall be
very wretched when you are late
away at night, among those
dreadful people.”
“Well,” I replied, “it is no
use crying over spilt milk, Annie.
You have my secret. and I have
yours; and I scarcely know which
of the two is likely to have the
worst time of it when it comes
to mother’s ears. I could put up
with perpetual scolding, but not
with mother’s sad silence.”
“That is exactly how I feel,
John;” and as Annie said it she
brightened up, and her soft eyes
shone upon me; “but now I shall
be much happier, dear because I
shall try to help you. No doubt
the young lady deserves it, John.
She is not after the farm I
hope?”
“SheI” I exclaimed; and that
was enough; there was so much
scorn in my voice and face.
“Then, I am sure, I am very
glad” Annie always made the
best of things — “for I do be-
lieve that Sally Snowe has taken
a fancy to our dairy place, and
the pattern of our cream-pans;
and she asked so much about the
meadows, and the color of the
milk—”
“Then, after all you were right,
dear Annie; it is the ground she
dotes upon!”
“And the things that walk
upon it,” she answered me with
another kiss; “Sally has taken a
wonderful fancy to our best cow.
Nipple Bins.’ But she never shall
have her now • what a consola- i
tion!”
We entered the house quite
noble harvest, fit to
will tell you. Only don’t be
angry, John.”
“Angry! no, indeed,” said I;
“what right have I to be angry
' my breath was almost taken
away at Annie’s so describing it.
For a while I could not say a
word, but wondered if she were
a witch.
“From your knowledge of
these things, Annie, you must
have had them doone to you. I
demand to know this very mo-
ment who has taken such liber-
ties.”
“Then, John, you shall never
know, if you ask in that manner.
Besides, it was no liberty in the
least of all. Cousins have a right
to do things—and when they are
mses
will Im* presented at
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