San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1889 Page: 7 of 8
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She Jaihj gight.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15 1889.
S. & A. P. Railroad.
DKPARTUKKS.
Train for Galveston leaves San
Antonio 8:30 a. m.
Train for Corpus Christi direct 2:20 p. m.
Train for Kerrvilledaily except Saturday and
Sunday 4:30 p.m.
Train far Kerrville every Ss* urday..s:3o p. m.
ARRIVALS.
From Galveston 7:45 p.m.
From Corpus Christi 1:40 p.m.
From Kerrville 11:45 a. tn.
Train Time Changes.
NTERNATIONAL AND CHEAT NORTHERN R. R.
Nortn bound train leaves 5:45 a.m
North bound train leaves 3:00 p.m
North bound train arrive 11:55 p.m
North bound train arrive 11:00 p.m
Laredo train leaves 12:05 p m
Laredo train arrive 2:5C p.m
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
East bound train leaves 8:20 a.m
East bound train leaves
West bound train arrive 11:00 a.m
Westbound train leaves am
West bound train arrives 5:50 p.m
DIRECTOBY
OF
Reliable Business Houses Worthy
of Your Liberal Patronage.
Hschuchard druggist
San Pedro and Acequia Streets
Drugs Chemicals Medicines. Toilet Articles
Soaps Chamois Skins Sponges Brushes Per
turnery etc. Physicians’ prescriptions care-
fully compounded. 488
WOLFSON L.
Dealer in Dity Goods Clothing
Furniture Notions etc. Cor. Acequia street
•md Main plaza San Antonio Texas.
■TBEITEL F. J.
UJ For everything needed in
LUMBER or BUILDING MATERIAL
Yaras at the International Railroad depot.
"kRTISTIC PRINTING
In all its Branches
At the Light Job office. No 4 E. Commerce st.
THE LAREDO
IMPROVEMENT CO
LAREDO TEXAS. XX
Has For Sale on Easy Terms
Fine BusinessResidence
AND
Suburban Property.
Maps and price list sent on application
NOTICE.
""GENTLEMEN:—Now is the time to
buy a suit if you want tine goods at
low prices.
FAST CULORS—lmported Goods
Suits Formerley $5O Now $45
“ “ 40 ‘‘ 35
“ “ 35 “ 30
Pants “ 14 " 12
7 PANTS—English French and Ger-
tuan goods—formerly $l2 now $lO.
PANTS—Domestic goods—formerly
$B.OO now $6.00.
All _Work guaranteed to Fit
First-Class.
VAL. LORRA
MERCHANT - TAILOR
No. 6 Commerce bi. near the bridge.
W. H. ELLIS
Dealer in. j
HIDES WOOL AND COTTON
249 Market and 14 Yturri Sts.
Manufacturers' Agt. for
Texas Wool and Cotton.
Tanners’ Agent (for
Texas Hides and Skins
Cash 'advanced
P.O BOX 478.
Eupepsy.
This is what you ought to have in fact you
must have it to fully enjoy life Thousands
are searching for it daily and mourning be-
cause they find it not. Thousands upon thou-
sands of dollars are spent annually by our
people in the hope that they may attain this
boon. And vet it may be had by ad. We
guarantee that Electric Bitters if used ac-
cording to directions and the use persisted in
will bring you Good Digestion and oust the
demon Dyspepsia anddn-tall instead Eupepsy.
We recommend Electric Bitters for Dyspepsia
and all diseases of Liver Stomach and Kid-
neys. So'd at 50c. and $1 00 per bottle by
Drelss Thompson & Co. Druggists.
"Wny wire i 1 never saw you in anything
bo positively hideous before. What could
have induced you to buy such a mean fabric
and such dull unbecoming colors'”
“Had I only known it” his wife replied re-
“1 might have gone to Warren’s
.Lad bought a beautiful silk and wool fabric
tor the same money I paid for this but 1 did
not see their advertisement and thought it
no use to go up to their store where things
are usually higher than anywhere else. I
was limited as to price and did the best 1
could. ”
In another part of the suburban city where
Mr Archibald Wise resided lived his cousin
Mr. Herbert Wise. The cousins had no great
fondness for each other and seldom met ex
cept occasionally at the house of Dr. Erastus
Wise on uncle.
Dr. Wise was a retired physician living in
the great citv where both his nephews were
engaged in business. He was widely known
and esteemed among the profession and had
a large acquaintance with whom he was ex-
ceedingly popular.
A man of rare principles ho felt that be
should regard his nephews equally favora-
bly but despite the fact of Herbert's being
much more assiduous in his attentions than
Archibald he yet feit drawn more nearly tc
the latter
As these nephews were the old doctor’s
nearest living relatives it was perhaps only
natural that both gentlemen had vague ex
poctations that it might transpire at some
future day that they had been generously re-
membered when the old physician should have
done with all earthly wants.
One morning as Archibald Wise was about
entering his oilice he suddenly encountered
his cousin Herbert who said smilingly:
“So you didn't think best to appear at our
good uncle's last night!”
“What do veu mean?”
“Why I menu you didn’t present yourself
to ask after him. ”
“Why what is the matter?”
“How ? You didn’t see the account in your
paper yesterday ?”
“Not a word of it! Did vou?”
“Why certainly. Uncle seemed to think
/our absence somewhat marked I fancied in
the miilst of such a large assemblage of
friends. ”
As soon as Herbert Wise’s back was turned
his cousin went hastily to the nearest news
stand and bought a paper of the day before.
It took him but a mcmeut to find that thi
old gentleman had been injured and narrowly
escaped death in a runaway accident and
that many citizens had called to congratulate
him on having attained his 80th birthday in
safety.
At the large gathering the previous night
when Mr. Herbert Wise was about taking
leave of his uncle the genial old gentleman
remarked:
“I am disappointed at not seeing Archil
here to-night. Have you heard that he wa.
away or indisposed?”
“Oh no” replied Herbert hesitatingly “hi
may uot have known of it. ”
“But I think he must” rejoined his uncle
“the oocasion was noticed twice in his pa
per.”
“Perhaps he takes no peper regularly” sug
gested the nephew who seemed to have de-
veloped a sudden aptitude for drawing con
elusions.
“And perhaps he dees” said the old gentle-
man serenely at the same time ho thought a
keen forbidding thought concerning the man
he felt had cast rather a slur toward hit
favorite nephew.
Reflecting on the subject later in the soli
tudo of his chamber Uncle Erastus solilo-
quized audibly:
“I looks to me as if Herbert might have
said that for the purpose of alienating me
from Archie. I can recall having heard him
speak slightingly of his cousin on former oc
casions. I wonder if he thinks”
But there the old man sank into profound
reverie. After a moment however be
aroused and added emphatically:
“No indeed! That would not bo Archie at
all! I’d be ashamed indeed of a relative ot
mine who would go without a daily paper foi
any cause except extreme poverty but 1 be
lievo there's no danger that a Wise would d
so foolish a thing!”
At noon Mr Archibald Wise was emerging
from the newspaper office when he met hi
unde just going in. Ln eager sincere terms
the nephew began explaining his absence thi
night before.
“1 entirely missed hearing of the accident”
he said simply.
“1 see you have your paper” said his uncle
glancing at the ample sheet ia his nephew’s
hands.
“Yes I’ve just been in to pay for my sub-
scription.”
“And I'm going in to renew mine wait a
bit Archie and we'll go to dinner together.’
True to the latent manliness of his nature
Mr. Archibald Wise toid the whole story t<
his wife that night and added what seemec
a redeeming confession. He said:
“Why is it a man seems possessed toper
sist in a resolve he knows is only damag
ing and hazardous simply because he has de-
termined to do so? I tell; 1 only know
I’m done with trying to economize in such a
costly way as 1 discover is involved in doing
without my valuable paper.”
A few years later when Uncle Erastus’ will
was opened it was found that Herbert Wise’s
prejudicial hints had not injured his cousin in
the least. For besides stubbornly appor
tioning a large sum to the city hospital ot
which he had long been the senior visiting
physician tho old doctor had further demon
strated the contrariness of human nature by
leaving to bis nephew Archibald Wise
twice as much money as ho left his more am-
bitious cousin Herbert who unconsciously
displeased* his good uncle by a base yet per
fcctly truthful insolation only its truthful
ness was fortunately concealed.—Harriet A
Cheever in Boston Transcript.
Tho victory of the British at Suakim and
the difficulties which apparently yet stand in
their way in puttingdown the rebellion in the
Soudan recalls the interesting fact that it was
a Chicagoan who was last in power for any
length of time in interior Africa. IL G. Prout
was a young engineer engaged at Riverside
in IS'L After the great tire he went to Egypt
became a great personal friend of Gordon
and rose rapidly in the khedive’s service. He
was with the army which conquered the
Soudan end was made finally governor gen
eral of tho provinces of tho interior. With
his capital at Izido far south of where the
fighting is now going on he yet managed to
hold liis own und his small force kept
tribes in pre«y He.resiznro
TELEPHONE 257 J
A Chicagoan in the Soudan.
us iota- nxr » jz»».Ti«xaing’tnro# up
his office and title and returned to this coun-
try with such sum as ho could collect from
tho old khedive for his meritorious services.
Ho is now the editorial head of the Railroad
Gazette in New York. He kept up in Africa
tho typical Chicago recoM.—Chicago Mail
THE HIGHEST GIVING.
ft is not when we give what men call love.
That we bestow the best; but rather when
We give some faltering soul through speech or
pen.
The needed upward impulse that shall move
To such a noble and enduring strife.
With low desires and dreams as sets It free
To walk In higher paths; ’Us then that we
Become a part of its immortal life.
0 friend most dear! when once I would have
tasked
Your heart beyond Its power you gave me nay
Now looking backward o’er the hard right way.
1 know you gave me better than I asked.
And now with clearer truer eyes I see
The everlasting truth all doubt dispelled.
That which you gave in that which you with
held.
Has made you mine for all eternity.
—Carlotta Perry in Youth's Companion.
GABRIEL’S MISTAKE.
“What a funny little place” exclaimed
Letty Walsb as she examined the two small
rooms comprising the deserted building in
which the rustic picnic party had taken
shelter from a sudden shower. “Tucked
away down in this hollow why it's like being
out of the world! Oh I'd like to keep house
here."
“Promise you’ll keep house for me too
won’t you Letty?” said Larry Underhill
laughing from where ho sat ou a dilapidated
table.
“And me!” chorused all the young fellows
except ono leaning apart who now turned a
dork and scowling face upon tho rest.
Letty blushed as she glanced toward him
and answered evasively “But there isn’t
room for all of you.”
“Mako your choice Letty” said Underhill
gravely. “Shut your eyes turu round three
times and stretch out your right hand.”
The girl laughingly obeyed and whether
by accident or design put her hand in that
of the dark young man standing alone. He
grasped it firmly with a sudden smile like
sunshine on his lowering face and forced her
to remain there with him facing them all.
“Bravo!” cried Underhill “You're in luck
Dalias. Now just stand still while I make a
sketch of you both. ”
But Gabriel Dallas’ face darkened again.
“No” he answered “some other time Mr.
Underhill.”
Steve Thatcher gave a coarse guffaw.
“You needn't mind if it’s about Ijetty Gabe
for he's got a whole cargo o’ pictures of her
hain’t you Mr. Underhill?”
Gabriel Dallas looked like an Italian pic-
ture and Steve Thatcher like a clown and
perhaps Underhill’s appreciation of this
rather than Steve’s evident desire to irritate
Gabriel made the young artist snub his lout-
ish questioner.
“1 don’t know precisely what you mean by
a cargo” ho said superciliously “but 1 gen-
erally jot down anything which strikes me.
In that way 1 hope to preserve the remem-
brance of your own picturesque figure Mr.
Thatcher. ”
There was a laugh at this for Steve was
long lank and ungainly. He colored angrily
now but not being able to answer Under-
hill's mockery in kind was silent Presently
it ceased raining and they all went out into
the open air again Ix?tty still with Gabriel
Dai las.
Letty had come to Stonybank the previous
spring with a family named Barton to whom
she was a kind of adopted daughter. They
them? Ives were shiftless ne'er do well peo-
ple not thought of much account in Stony-
bank. But Letty was not like them. And
theu she was so bright so winning and so
exceedingly pretty that before she had been
long in the village she was its acknowledged
belle. Gabriel was supposed to be the favored
lover but they bad been kept apart by his
moody jealousy which once aroused
amounted to a positive passion making him
suspicious unreasonable and obstinate.
Gabriel came naturally by these jealous in-
stincts. Old Lawyer Fernald down at Stony-
bank Corner who has a living record of all
the country history round about said that
tho young fellow was descended from a
French or Spanish sailor Manuel Daloz by
name who had wandered to Rockport the
nearest seaboard town and from there to
Stonybank where the local usage converted
Daloz into Dallas. Gabriel the latest de-
scendant possessed that peculiar family tem-
perament which had marked Mauucl Daloz
the wanderer from tho hills of southern
France.
Gabriel had a good farm he was sober and
industrious and when not in one of his dark
moods opeu and kindly. He was strikingly
handsome too with his black liquid eyes
his clustering tawny hah - and the warm
toned bronze of his complexion. He might
almost have his pick among the village girls
but no one had seemed to make any real im-
pression on him until he fell in love at first
sight with Letty Walsh with whom how-
ever his jealousy had prevented a definite
understanding till the day when the girl laid
her hand in his down there in the old house
in the hollow.
They were married after a very short en-
gagement. The Bartons like true rolling
stones were about to leave Stonybank for
some place in the far west so the wedding
took place before they went All Stony
bank was there besides a good part of “the
Corner” the families of which mostly repre-
sented a much higher social grade. Among
those who came was Lawyer Fernald with
whom Gabriel was a favorite and Lis grand-
daughter Cora a young lady who had been
“finished” iu a city boarding schooL Tho
other guests were not surprised to see how
much Larry paid to pretty Cora.
He was considered a mark above most of the
village belles—although Letty had sometimes
been rallied about him—so they did uot mind
hisdevoting himself to Miss Fernald whoalso
moved in a range beyond their own. Letty
herself was really the prettiest girl in tho
room and her deep blue eyes with their
shading of curling black hair and lashes her
bright complexion and soft sweet look con-
trasted effectively with Gabriel’s intenser
southern beauty. So thought Underhill as
his eyes lingered on them. The young artist
was an old acquaintance of Letty’s having
boarded with the Bartons the summer before
they yne totter„ .Careless easy go-
। r?.tJ In
pursuit of his art but being independent of
it he was not forced to continued exertion
so that his jiainting was like himself a thing
of beginnings and caprices.
The weeks went by the Bartons had long
been gone and still Larry Underhill stayed
on in Stonybank driving walking and
sketching with Cora Fernald. Ho did not
leave tho place until near November and
then it was reported that she had had a letter
from him.
“What’d I tell you that night at Gabe’s
■wedding?” sagely remarked Eben Wrentham.
“And since then I’ve seen him many’s the
time trampin’ tho woods after leaves and
things for her.”
Stevo Thatcher gave a coarse laugh. “Did
yo ever watch a ground sparrer try to get
you off the track of its nest? It’ll keep flut-
terin’ round a tree stump as if there warn't
anything on this earth it cared about but that
partic’lar spot.”
"You mean tho Fernald girl’s the tree
stumn?"
-flow bright you be Eb to find that out!”
answered Steve mockingly.
“But where’s tho nest Steve?’ asked Eben
looking puzzled.
Steve turned his head and a look of con-
sternation came over his heavy face as he
saw that Gabriel Dallas was listening. "I
must be goin' home” he said abruptly. “1
ain’t got no more time to fool round here”
and he started up the rotuL
Gabriel joined him. For a time they walked
on in silence Stevo seeming constrained and
uneasy. Finally Gabriel spoke.
“Steve” he said “what did you mean by
what you said to Eb—about Miss Fernald?”
“Oh I don’t know; just somo of mo an’
Eb’s foolin’ I guess” answered Steve evasive-
ly looking askance at the set face that belied
tho quiet words.
“Look here Steve” and Gabriel faced
round on his companion. “I know you meant
something. Now what was it?”
Stevo gave an awkward laugh. “I don’t
see what business ’tis of yours anyway
Gabe” ho said. “I ain’t answerable to you
I s’pose for”
Gabriel laid his hand on tho other’s arm
and his face looked strained and eager. “Will
you tell me ou your sacred word that it
isn’t any business of mine?” ho said.
Stevo shuffled and coughed; finally he
broke down altogether. “Gabe” ho stam-
mered “I—l can’t tell yo that. Don’t ask
mo no more. Well then” as Gabriel’s grasp
still tightened on his arm “if you will have
it don't blame me.”
Ho then described a scene between Under-
hill and Gabriel’s wife ho (Steve) had
witnessed in tho woods tho evening before
Underhill's departure from Stonybank. Ho
said that tho artist had held Letty in his arms
and given her repeated kisses which she had
returned. There had been allusions to former
evenings when she had lieen with him under
cover of going to meet her husband and not
until an incautious movement of Steve’s
startled them did they separate Underhill
going back to tho corner and Letty hurrying
home.
Gabriel did not say a word during this
story only his clinched hand shook Steve’s
arm whenever tho latter made a pause. At
tho close ho said hoarsely: “If you have lied
to me!” For a moment Steve saw his
face livid in the sunset glow and then he was
gone down the wood road.
Ho went striding along his homeward way
with a devil tearing his heart that old stub-
born devil of jealousy which once entered in
took utter possession. When ho entered the
door Letty sprang up but stopped at sight of
his changed face.
“Why Gabriel” she faltered “is anything
the matter? Are you”——
Ho cut her short seizing her hands and
dragging her to the window where tho light
fell full on her face. Then without any
preface:
“Did you meet Larry Underhill in the
woods last Friday afternoon ?” ho said.
Letty blushed crimson.
“Yes” she began pleadingly “but”
“And did ho kiss you?” interrupted Gabriel
between bis set teeth.
“Oh! Gabriel let mo tell you how”
“Yes or no; did ha kiss you?” repeated Ga-
t-riel with fierce eyes searching her face.
There was a long sickening pause then Letty
faltered again:
“Yes but”
Ho let go her hands so suddenly that she
fell back agains-t the wall Ho had walked
away to tho other window where ho stood
with averted face. There was another si-
lence then Letty said with trembling eager-
ness: “Gabriel dear let mo tell you how it
all was—may I?”
There was no answer. Sho crept up behind
him and laid her hand on his arm. lie flung
it off. “Don't touch me!” ho said in a voice
she would not have known for his.
“Oh! Gabriel darling only hear me!” and
again she caught at his sleeve. He turned
round then.
“Hear me” he said. “I don’t want any
explanations I don’t want you to touch me
only to go away where I never shall see your
face again—wait a minute” as Letty tried to
speak; “1 don't want to hurt you but if you
don't go in five minutes I swear I will shoot
mvself where I stand.”
He took a revolver and placed it with his
watch on the table beside him. Then he
turned his back to his wife again and waited.
The minutes ticked on monotonously. Letty
sat in stunned silence until she saw him make
a movement then she sprang forward and
threw herself upon him. “Gabriel 1” she cried
in a voice of agony “oh for tho sake of our
love”
“Not a word of that” he interrupted loos-
ing her hold. “It is time Will you go or”—
He put his hand on the revolver. She gave
him a look of passionate desperate appeal
then as ho made another movement with a
wild scream sho rushed out of tho house.
It was soon noised about Stonybank that
Letty Dallas had left her husband’s home
and disappeared from tho town. Old Law-
yer Fernald questioned Gabriel but found
him taciturn and obstinate. “Don’t ask me
any more Mr. Fernald” he said respectfully
but firmly. “You’ve always been very good
to me and I don’t want to offend you but 1
can't and shan’t talk about this.” The old
man shook his head and turned away for ho
saw that tho trouble was beyond liis mend-
tog-
After this no one mentioned Letty’s name
to Gabriel except that once Stove Thatcher
suggested that sho had gone to join U uder-
hilL But tho sullen fury with which Gabriel
turned on him restrained him from ever re-
peating this idea and presently the only re-
minder of Letty’s flight was the change it
nay Letty herself—-
though the mere shadow of her former self-
came back to Stonybank. She carried a
little sickly wailing infant tn her arms and
looked weary enough to have dropped by the
way yet she pressed on to the corner where
Lawyer Fernald lived. He owned the old
house iu the hollow and she wanted to get his
leave to occupy it. The old man tried to
induce her to remain for a time under his
own roof but hero ho came hi conflict with a
certain gentle pride and obstinacy which
were marked constituents of Letty’s charac-
ter. No arguments could make her open her
lips about Gabriel or consent to any favor
more than the use of the old house and Mr.
Fernald was reluctantly obliged to give way.
So. Letty set up her jxxir little home within
tho deserted walls where sho bail once laugh-
ingly declared sho would like to keep house
She supported herself and little Gabrielle—-
for so sho bad named the baby—by needle-
work and by such odd jobs as she could find
among tho village housewives. They were
glad to do what they could for her; and as
sho was thrifty and the means of living cost
but little in Stonybank her small earnings
answered well enough.
People wondered at first what Gabriel Dal-
las would do now that his wife had returned
to tho neighborhood. But Gabriel simply
ignored her. Onco only did ho show that ho
was aware of her presence. letty had gono
over to Stonybank Corners to do a piece of
work and the baby was with her one thin
arm clasped about her neck. At Lawyer
Fernald's gate they camo suddenly face to
face with Gabriel who was going out and
tho child moved by some impulse began to
crow and stretch out its little frail hands to
him almost falling from its mother's shoul-
der. Gabriel instinctively quit up his hands
to steady it and over the baby's head th*
Husband and wife for a moment looked into
each other's faces Gabriel's dark and sullen
as usual now Letty’s pale and wasted but
with tho same sweet look in tho drop blue
eyes. Theu Gabriel turned away without a
word and Letty passed on silently.
But ono October day tho baby died with-
ered up like a frail little flower in the autumn
frosts. Every one was sorry for whatever
tho rights of it between Gabriel and his wife
Letty und the baby had enlisted general sym-
pathy. So in their simple way they did
their t»est to comfort her and by her wish
tho tiny grave was made beneath the
branches of a hemlock tree beside tho win-
dow where she could see it at her work.
Again people wondered about Gabriel.
Would he be at the funeral? Ho was not
there but one who was and who saw him
tho same day thought sho could never for-
get tho scene. Cora Fernald had come over
with her grandfather to tho old house in the
hollow but when they were about to return
homo Mr. Fernald recollected a matter of
business some few miles further on so Cora
concluded to walk back through the woods.
After tho close little room down there it was
a relief to be in the ojx*n air and she went
along enjoying tho beautiful Indian summer
like day tho splendid colors of tho forest foli-
age and tho sweet smell of tho withering
brakes. A branch of brilliant scarlet maple
caught her eye and drew her in search of it
Entering a small clearing sho come suddenly
upon Gabriel Dallas at tho foot of the blood
red maple tree. He was sitting on a log hi
head in his band and great tears dropping
down his cheeks. The girl spoke with impul-
sive pity:
“Oh Gabriel” sho said “1 am so sorry the
poor little thing is dead—so sorry for you
and Letty!"
Gabriel had started up and dashed his hand
over his face. He stood looking straight at
her as shestopped confused.
“Thank you” he answered with grave cour-
tesy “but there aro some things it does no
good to talk r.bout.” He touched his hat and
turned away then as if moved by u sudden
thought camo back again.
“Miss Fernald” ho said abruptly “do you
hear from Mr Underhill now?'’
Tho young lady was taken aback by this
question so directly yet so res-protfully put.
But Gabriel stood waiting and under the
spell of his gloomy black eyes sho answered
hesitatingly:
“Why yes—sometimes”
“Don’t marry him" said Gabriel earnestly.
“Don’t have anything to do with him. He is
a bad man.” Ho paused and added simply
“Don’t be offended with me for speaking so toj
you but you and your grandfather have
been very good to me and 1 don't want you
to be unhappy. If ever 1 saw that man;
again 1 should kill him.” With that he
struck off into the woods.
Cora Fernald was completely bewildered
and told her grandfather that sho thought
Gabriel's troubles had turned his brain. But
the old man thought he saw a glimmer of
light upon the mystery. Quietly without a
word to Cora he wrote to Underhill. asking
him somo very direct questions. With this
ho was forced to be content Any further
appeal to Gabriel would be useless and with
Letty it had already been made in vain at the
time of tho baby’s death. Less than ever
would sho attempt any reconciliation with
her husband since that chance meeting when
she hail seen his sullen face and abrupt with-
drawal but not his subsequent emotion. Her
life was hard but if it had not mattered be-
fore her child’s death it surely did not matter
now. Tearfully but firmly she thanked Mr.
Fernald for his kindness and begged him to
urge her no more.
So Letty was left alone In tho old house in
tho hollow. Tho leaves lost their brilliant
colors and bitter winds swept them through
the woodlands tho days grew short and cold
and tho snow htA several times hidden out of
sight the little grave under tho hemlock.
Letty hail her way undisturbed for tho pres-
ent by Mr. Fernald. He was biding his time.
The event justified him. Some weeks later
came a letter from Underhill away across
the ocean containing an indignant denial of
any connection with the trouble in Gabriel’s
household. Tho writer added that ho should
coin© in person to Stonybank to investigate a
mystery with which his name was mixed up.
Mr. Fernald rubbed his hands gleefully over
tho young artist's manly and straightforward
letter armed with which ho felt that he
could approach Gabriel with a much better
chance of success than formerly. And apart
from an instinctive unwillingness to let any
mystery baffle his legal acumen he had the
young couple’s happiness very much at heart.
He would have liked to go at once to Gabriel
but tho first great snow storm was on its
way and the thick air and heavy roads
obliged him to defer his purpose till the mor-
row.
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