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SIX “7 he Story of Waitstill Baxter” fS iC«|! I /v ~Lf 'Mm It* Jnpyrltfht. IBIS, by " HAIL DOUGLAS WIGAN ■Late Douglas WHaln S'* Author of “Rebecca ® Sunnybrook Farm** , PROLOGUE. • Strength and interest of qv livss in the New England < threw-quarters of a century a; provide the framework of “7! Story of Waitstill Baxter. " Th. im the skeleton. The flesh an blood of human beings, livin and loving and moving in a worL of their own that is a miniatur picture of the greater world ou aide, are also there. The star ie a cross seotion of life as see and described by a woman wh has been well called "America greatest living woman novelist Amid the hills of New Englarn are many men and women hi. Waitstill and Patience Baxtt and their father, Ivory Boyntui and hie afflicted mother am funny Cephas Cole, who woo hopefully, but with smalt chanc of success. They find their wa\ into books but seldom, for i takes a master hand to describi faithfully the doings of reu. people. And that is the reasor why "The Story of Waitsh! Baxter" has won highest praisi from critics who know a gooi book wbtr they .ice one. (Continued Prom Yesterday.) Climbing Siui< ..... v..in like cllmlilii the hill of her dreams; life anil Inn beckoned to her across the auuivi slopes. At rest about Patty's future, though troubled as to ber sorry plight at tin moment, she was conscious chiefly ot her newborn freedom. She reveled in the keen air that tingled against het choek and drew In fresh hope with ev «ry breath. As she trod the shining pathway she was full of expectancy, her eyes dancing, ber heart as buoyant as ber step. Not a vestige of confusion or uncertainty vexed her mind. She knew Ivory for her true mate, and If the way to him took her through dark places It was lighted by a steadfast beacon of love. At the top of the hill she turned the comer breathlessly and faced the length of road that led to the Boynton farm Mrs. Mason’s house was beyond, ami oh, bow she hoped \hat Ivory would bo at home and that she need not wail another day to tell him all and claim the gift she knew was hers before she aahed It! Hhe might not have the easne exaltation tomorrow, for non these were ae levels tn her heart aud aouL She had a seuse of mounting from height to height nnd lighting (Vos os every peak of her being. She took no heed of the road she was tru\ dttng She was coaaclous ooly of n wonderful Inward glow. The house was now In sight, and n tall figure was Issuing from the side floor, putting mi s fur cap as tt came out on ths steps and down the lane Ivory waa at home, then. and. best of •11, he was unconsciously coining to meet her. although tliclr hearts had been coming to meet each other, she thought, ever since they first begun to beat At she nenred the liars she called Ivory's name His hands were In the pockets of his great coat, and ins eyes were fixed on the ground. Somber he was. dlstiuctly somber. It, mien nnd gait Could she make hint smile am* flush and glow as she was smiling sod flushing and glowing? As he heard ber voice he raised his head Quick ly and uncomprebemltngly. "Don’t come any ucarer." sne said “until I hare told you something.” His mind btd been so full of lict that the sight of her lu the tlcdi standing twenty feet awny, bewildered him. Bbo took a few steps nearer the gate, near enough now for hltn to see her rosy face framed in a blue hood and to cstcli the brightness of ber eye> under their lovely lushes. Ordinarily they were cool and limpid and grave. WaitstlU's eyes. Now a aunlieam danced in each of them. And her lips almost always tightly closed, ss If slit ware bolding back ber nstursl speech —her lips were rod and parted, aud the aoul of her, free at last, shone through her face, making It luminous with a new beauty. "I have left home for good and all." she said "I'll tell you more of this later on. but 1 have left my fathers bouse with nothing to mg_ name but How Glonouo to Feel Ivory'* Arms About Har. the clothes I stand In. I am going to look for work lu the mills tomorrow, hut I stopped here to say that I'm ready to marry you whenever you want me-if you do want me.” Ivory was bewildered, indeed, but not so much so that he failed to ap prehend and Instantly, too, the renl significance of this speech. He took a couple of long strides, and before Waitstill hud any Idea of his Intentions he vaultisl over the bars and gathered her in his arms. "Never shall you go to the mills. Never shall you leave my sight for a single hour again, my one woman in all the world. Come to me to he loved and treasured all your life long I’ve worstiiped you ever since 1 was tt boy. I've kept tny heart swept and garntshfMl for you and no other, hoplug I might win you at last." How glorious to hear nil this dell clous poetry of love and to feel Ivory's arms about her. making the dream seem surer! "Oh, how like you to shorten the time of my waiting!" he went on. Ills words fairly chasing one another in their eagerness to lie spoken “How like yon to count on me. to guess inj hunger for your love, to realize the chains that held tne hack and break them yourself with your own dear, wo manly hands! How like you. oh, won derful Waitstill!” Ivory went on murmuring phrases that had boon lying in his heart unsaid for years, scarcely conscious of what he was saying, realizing only that the miracle of miracles had happened. Waitstill. for her part, was almost dumb wttli joy to be lying so close to his heart that she could hear It beat ing. to feel the passionate tenderness of his embrace and his kiss failing upou her hair. "1 did not know a girl could be so happy!" sire whispered. "I've dreamed of It, but it was nothing like this. 1 am all a-tremble with It." Ivory held her off at arm's length for a moment, reluctantly, grudgingly "You took me fnlrly off my feet, dear est." he said, "and I forgot everything but tile one supreme fact you were tell Ing me. Had I ls*en on guard I should have told you that 1 am no worthy husbaud for you. Waitstill. I haven't enough to offer such a girl as you.” "You're too late. Ivory! You showed me your heart first, aud now you arc searching your mind for bugbears to frighten me." "I am a ixior matt" * "No girl could be poorer than I am.” "After what you've endured you ought to have rest and comfort.** "I shall have lioth—ln you!" This with eyes, all wet. lifted to Ivory's. "My mother Is a great burden—a eery dear and precious but a grievous one." "She needs a daughter. It la In such things that I shall be your helpmate" "Will not the t>oy trouble you and add to your cares?" "Rod? I love hlui; he shall he my little brother," "What If my father were not really dead? I think of this sometimes In the night' What If he should wander back, broken lu spirit, feeble lu body, empty lu purse 7" “I do uot couie to you free of bur THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. (lens. ~i uj,. er is deselied by aT. I must see tli it lie is made comfort able. He never treated me like a daughter, but I acknowledge his claim.’’ "Mine is such a gloomy house!" "Will It be gloomy when I am In It?" and Waitstill, usually so grave, laugb id at last like a care free child. Ivory felt himself hidden in the beautiful shelter of the girl's love. It was dark now, or as dark as the night ever Is that has moonlight aud snow, lie look Waitstill in his arms again reverently aud laid his cheek against her hair. "1 worship Cod as well as I know how.” he whispered, “worship him as the maker of this big heaven and earth that surrounds us. But I worship you us the maker of my little heaven and earth, and my heart Is saying its prayers to you at this very moment!" "Hush, my dear! Hush! And don't value me too much or 1 shall lose my head—l that have never known a sweet word In all my life save those that my sister bus given me. I must tell you all about Patty now.” “I happen to know more than you dear. 1 met her at the bridge when I was corning home from the woods nnd I saw tier safely to Uncle Bart's door I don't know why we speak of it a. Uncle Bart's when it is really Aun Abby's! I next met Mart, who had fulrly flown from Bridgton on ti < wings of love, arriving hours ahead o' time. I managed to keep him fro: avenging the insults heaped upon hi bride, and he has driven to the Mill to confide lu bis father and mother By tills time Patty is probably the center of the family group, charming them nil, ns is her custom." “Oh, 1 am so glud Mark is at home! Now I can be at rest about I’atty And 1 must not linger another mo ment, for I am going to ask Mrs. Ma aon to keep me overnight!" cried Wail still, bethinking herself suddenly of time and place. "I will take you there myself nnd ex plain everything. And the moment I've lighted a lire in Mrs. Mason's best bedroom and settled you there, what do you think lam going to do? 1 shall drive to the town clerk's house, and If be is In bed. rout him out and have the notice of our Intended marriage post ed lu » public place, according to law. Perhaps 1 shall save a day out of the fourteen I've got to wait for my wife ‘Mills.' Indeed! 1 wonder at you. Wait atlll! As If Mrs. Mason's house was not far enough away, without your speaking of 'mills.'” “I only suggested mills In case you did not want to marry me,” said Wait still. “Walk up to the door with me,” beg ged Ivory. "The horae is all harness ed, and Hod will slip him Into th> sleigh tn n Jiffy.” “Oh, Ivory, do you realize what this menus''—and Waitstill clung to his arm as they went up the lane together —“that whatever sorrow, whatever hardship comes to us neither of us will ever huve to hear it alone again?” "I believe 1 do realize it as few tnea could, for never in my live nnd twenty years have I had a human creature t< whom 1 could pour myself out. It whom I could really confide, with whom I could take counsel. You can guess what it will he to have a corn prehendtng woman at my side. Shall wo tell my mother? Do say 'yes;' I believe she will understand. Rod. Rod conic ami see who's stepping in th door this very minute!" Rodranu was up In hts bedroom, at tiring himself elaborately for sentry duty. Hlh delight at seeing Waitstill was perhaps slightly tempered by the thought that flashed at once through his mind that if she was safe he would not be required to stand guard in the snow for hours as he had hoped. But this grief passed when he fully realized WaitstlU's presence Ht the farm at this unaccustomed hour really meant. After he had been told he hung about her like the child that he was—though lie had a bit of the hero In hlui. at bottom, too—embracing her walet fondly and brlstllug with won dering questions. “Is she really going to stay with us for always. Ivory?" he asked. “Every day and all the days, every night and all the nights. ‘Praise God from whom all blessings flow!'” said iTory, taking off his fur cap and open ing the door of the living room. "But we'Ve got to wait for her a whole fort night. Rod Isn't that a ridiculous snail of a law?” “Patty didn't wait a fortnight " “Patty never waited for nuythlng," Ivory responded, with a smile. “But she had a good reason, nnd. alas, we haven't, or they’ll say that we haven't And I am very grateful to the same dear little Patty, for when she got her self a husband she found me a wife!” Rodman did uot wholly understand this, but felt that there were many niysturloH attending the love affairs of grownup people that were too eouipll cated for him to grasp, and It did not seem to he just the right moment for questions. Waitstill nnd Ivory went Into Mrs. Boynton's room quietly, hand lu hand, and when she saw Waitstill she raised herself from her pillow and held out her arms with a soft cry of delight "1 haven't had yon for an long, so long!" she said, touching tin* girl's cheek with her frail hand. "Yon arc going to have nie every day now. deal " whispered Waitstill. with a eoti In lu r voice, for she saw -i change In the face, a new transparen cy. a still more ethereal look than had beep ' ' -•» (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) THE UN REBELSROUfEO Gov’t Troops Defeat 5,000 In surgents. Refuse to Recognize Prince William of Wied. Vienna, Austria.—-Albanian govern ment troops today completely routed a force of 5,000 insurgents in the vi cinity of Tirana, east of Durazzo, ac cording to a despatch from the Al banian capital. The insurgents, after a recent victory over the government trops, had threatened to advance on the capital. Although the insurgents declare themselves ready to submit to most of the demands of the interna tional commission in regard to the future of Albania, they .steadfastly re fuse to recognize Prince William of Wied as their ruler and demand the nomination of moslem prince. 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