Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 10, 1913, Page 7

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MELOON. | “Yes," remarked Seldom Tarlton, ! as he laid his nor’'wester on his knees.' and ran a fishy hand through his snarled hair, “I ain’t sayin’ I never saw a homelier man than Eben Knights; I jest observates as how I didn't hev no recollections uv it!"} With which he moved a little nearer | to the sawdust box in the Potters- ville grocery. There was a large at- tendance of hangers-around, and they appeared to be drinking in old Sel- don’s words as if they were camels about to start on a ten days’ jour- ney. Not only ears. but also eyes and mouths, were employed. “P'raps,” suggested Bill Sherwin, the grocer, a man with sandy whis- kers and as dried up as a red her- ring, “that’s the reason he don't hiteh up with Emelina Rollins.” It was true that Eben Knights didn't ['happen to be the best looking man in Pottersville—not by a long shot. To Th:u‘l decided that the woman must be taken back to the cments some way at all hazuds The wit of ald Kirkby had effected a solution of the probiem, using a means certainly as old as Napoleon | and the passuge of his cannon over | the Great St | wrd—and perhaps as }old as Hannpibal! They had made a | rude sled from the trunk of a pine which they hellowed out and provided s with a back and runrers, no lack of fur rohes her comtort. Whereiver it was practicable the three men hitched themselves to the sled with ropes and dragged it and | Enid over the snow. Of course for There was and blankets for ble to use the sled. When the way was comparatively casy the woman, supported by the (wo men, Newbold and Maitland, made shift to get along afoot. When it became too difficult ! for her, .vewbold picked her up as he had done before and assisted by Mait- land, carvied her bodily to the next resting place. At these times Kirkby looked after the sled. They had managed to reach the tem- porary hut in the old camp the first | night and rested there. They gath- ered up their sleeping bags and tents and resumed their journey in the ! morning. They were strong men, and save for old Kirkby, young, [t was a desperate endeavor but they carried it through. When they hit the open trails the sledding was easy and they made | great progress. After a week of ter- | rific going. they struck the rallroad, . and the next day found them all safe in Maitland's house in Denver. To Mr. Stephen Maltland his daugh- ' ter was as one who had risen from | the dead. And indeed, when he first saw her, she looked like death itself. No one had known how terrible that journey had been to the woman. Her three faithful attendants had surmised something, but in spite of all even they did not realize that in these last days she had been sustained only by the most violent effort of her will. She had no sooner reached the house, greeted her father, her aunt and the children, then she collapsed utterly. The wonder was, said the physician, not that she did it then but that she | had not done it betore. For a short time it appeared as it her {llness might be serious, but youth, vigor, a strong body and a good constitution, a heart | now free from care and apprehension and a great desire to live and love | and be loved, worked wonders. Newlold had enjoyed no opportunity for private conversation with the wo- man he loved, which was perhaps just as well. He had the task of readjust- ing himself to changed conditions; not only to a different environment, but to strange and unusual departures from his long cherished view pointe | He could no longer doubt Arm- | strong's final testimony to the purity of his wife. although he had burned the letters unread, and by the same token he could no longer cherish the dream that she had loved him and him alone, ‘Those words that had pre- ceded that pistol shot had made it possible for Lim to take Enid Mait- land as his wife without doing violence | to his seusc of honor or his self-re- spect. Armstrong had made that much reparation. And Newbold could not doubt that the other had known what would be the result of his speech and had chosen his words deliberately; score that last action to his credit. He was a sensitive man, however; he realized the brutal and beast-like part | he and Armstrong Lad both played be- fore this woman they both loved, how i they had battled like savage animals i and how but for a lucky interposition | he would bave added murder to his | other disabilitiee. He was honest enough to say to him- gelf that he would have done the same thing over under the game circum- stances, but that did not absolve his conscience. He did not know how the woman looked at the transaction or looked at him, and he had not enjoyed one moment alone with her. In all that had transpired since that morn- and inevitably remalined inseparably ether. wgl hey bad buried Armstrong in the snow, Robert )Maitland saying over him a brief but tenent petition in which even Newbold jolped. Enid Maitland herself had repeated elo- quently to her icle and old Kirkby that night before the fire the story of her rescue from t ood by this man, how he had carried her in the storm to the hut and how he had treated her since; and M and had afterwards repeated her account to his brother in Denver. (To Be Continued.) f | miles down the canon it was impossi- | ing in the hut, the four had naturallyl describe him would invite a suit for libel, and a jury sitting on Eben's case could not fail to be pityingly sympathetic. But his not being up to the mark in looks didn't by any { means account for Emelina Rollins’ | failing to hitch up with him after a courtship stretching back into the | dim and hazy past to the extent of a dozen years. “It's nothin' short uv race suictde— this long courtship business,” volun- teered Squire Allen. Tarlton suggested that the following “sparking day” the villagers repair to { the Rollins residence with rallroad ralls, tins of all sorts, horns, mega- phones, cornets, devil's fiddles, drums and other instruments of torture—in short that Pottersville males resolve themselves into a serenading party. Then, when Eben Knights came to the door to find out what was the mat- ter, to troop in, congratulate him on his marriage, demand to see the bride, and await developments. The party, once assembled, did no dilly-dallying, but went straight to the Rollins farm near by. The shadow of night closely encircled the squat farmhouse with its blazing window beacons, and even removed from view the appended barns in the rear. In the company were Seldon Tarlton, Squire Allen, Bill Sherwin and all the lesser notables—even including Dea- con Willard of the Second Christian church, & man well past seventy. As the pandemonium began, one could not properly call the scene a plcture, since, in the deep and al- most velvety blackness, nothing could be seen. By intervals the noise would die out, and by intervals it would be re- sumed. At the end of two hours, the serenading party began to tire, yet lost none of its persistence. Sixty- year-old Squire Allen and laying plans to drop the dignity of vears and get on the roof to pack the chimney with hay and blankets purloinad from the barn, into which an entrance had been forced, when suddenly the door opened, and a blinding glare of light shot out on the astonished party, the foremost mem- . bers of which retreated a pace or two in tardy consternation. ‘ There in the door stood Eben Knights, with his arm protectingly encircling Emelina Rolling’ walst, | and behind were pa and ma, and still ' farther back ‘'was Rev. Sylvester Hooper Snowedin, of the Second Christian church, gazing in blank sur- prise at the shrinking form of Dea- con Willard. And the homellest man in Pottersville was Eben Knights, and the prettiest girl was Emelina— man and wife. Eben invited the party in to a spread of cookies and newly opened peach and strawberry preserves, ask- ed them how they hcard about the wedding so soon, and used them all as we'd like to use others after we've had a picasant day and three square | meals. The serenaders were still perplexed when they went away, and there are times when perplexity is positively painful! It was months afterward when Eben Knights lct Pottersville know | how, aroused to action by the sound | of the serenaders at the doors and windows, he had proposed to Eme— lina, who had accepted him on tho spot, and had summoned Rev. 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