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GERALD GRAY'S WIFE.
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Perfectly tool and deliberate, Ur. Gray in
spired hie little party with bom courage end
Carrying e lantern—which the wind imme
diately put out, and he then abandoced—hie
right arm (Irmly wrapped around Ruth's waist,
they left the house.
‘Keep aleee—no straggling- This way.'
IBs voice sounded dear, and strong, and cbe-r- I
ieg in the wild whirl
or desolation and com
parative denser. The
water wag more then
ankle-deep whefe they
started, for the huge
waves were breakup,
at has been Mown,
upon the very steps ot
the bouse to from, it
a one's feet; twW they
- bad to slop to p<afc up
Ruth’s me id who keel
ed over tioaa
fright, the wind talked
eo strong to her,'she
Mid. - ‘
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moat daogeroiut por
tion Os their jouruey,
the water widening up ‘
to them to done with
tie new ally from the
beck creek, (Jerald
spoke almost tenderly
to kis drooping com
panion. She dung to
bias with ever growing
Pete favored them—
or a it tad Providence
rather— by causing a
lull met then, to the
- sweep of the blast.
And yet, perhaps, the
day was coming when
Both would rather 1
that every elemeut
had conspired at that
moment to drag bar
into the mighty flood,
and carry her • deed
nod drifting corpse far
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AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 186a
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•Dean dear Miss Desjjgronghl' ate; «*-
claimed, aeiziDg both of Bath's bauds, ‘how
alarmed we bgve been Ibr you 1 Ctasy sad I
nearly cried because papa would not let ua go
round by your bouaA He said that he was
sure you were here already. . '•' S ,
1 Oh yea,' put to Cissy, ' such a time we had j
Fhyl and I wanted to bring all our things I.
have just had such a love of a dram made, with
a baby-waist, go becoming; not like moat baby,
waists, but a pointed band coming up like a
stomacher; it just suits my flgurb—you know
I am so full, ordinary beby-w-uaia don't Decora*
me—and thia is a choice silk of tbst deiieate,
peach color; but papa wouldn't bear, of it,
and, now, robbers may apt into the house
I and carry off every atom oFour clothes. Tb*t |
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, white shoulders. and soft found arms ■ I
l nentri/» X lurtrwvae and lilcei to —* I
joT f - I
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er is my relation, too. I have a great many poor
relations, who, strange to say, never .thrust
their attentions nor their society upon me, al
though thty would have a rigut to do so.’
Phyllis Clan colored; the stroke was tgo
palpable, and even Ruth deemed to regret her
unnecessary harshness, t ■ \*jKrk*JS3Fm%
, * But, as cousin Francis is so taken up with
Uie butcher's bodine confidences, f am more as
leisure to go with you, only -,’ here ato
paused, hesitating, / only —_ there is a gentle
man r—She'turned to look for Mr. Gray:
He wsa unpacking a basket just behind, her;
‘ Looking for me V beesked.. 1 Here am I;
] getting out some biscuits tor a little shaver
] who i* crying from hunger, not having, X pre
I aume, tasted one momnfpi uujee his supper
two hoot* »go—poor starved thing! Cpitsl
fttd taviy, Ut*. P<teel In spits'ol u#r wraio
she tea put up provenderenough in this cham
pagne hamper to last us a waste. How 1 do
ike a thoughtful- woman of the Mrs. John Gil
pin • stamp! Here, young man, stifle your
cries with that,' and tossing a bau<lfpl of vine
crackers to the child, and receiving:* smile and
word ot thanks from its grartifled mother. Mr.
Gray rapidly uttered all this, rbao t'ropi hw
knees, and presented his handsome fq.ce to tbs
astonished gaze of the Misses Clare..
, Gerald i’ . / ■ - :
‘Pnrlli.l' ... •
•Gerald!’
‘ Cissy f’
• Where bn earth do you come from Jf’ asked
troth ladies.
‘ Recently from the hospitable, but, at pre
sent, dangerous mansion of Mr. Price—Juat
before thgf&om Crane Island, where X went to
shoot a white crane to make a iau tor Cissy.’
1 Nouisense/ pouted Cissy.'
‘ Tell us the troth,' said Phyllis.
1 Truth to a woman, dear PnyU Little ladies
like you don’t wish men to tell, the troth to
them ; and even if they do hear it, they don't
(believe it, as, for exawpie, now.'
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auppose you deaired to laake her aoqualntaucej
W^Mia*° Desbotough can diue where »hJ
pleases; aud, as for making her acquaintance,
that’s partly aa I please, and I have uot madi
upmy mind about Itjheireeea are not to ray wke.j
‘ What P questioned Phyllis, with her ey« »
and her mouth rounded into surprise. while
Ceoilia exclaimed, ‘ meroyndel’
Rutb had wr soon recovered from her aur-,
priao. Sp Gerald Gray was some couuecitjd uif
intimate of the' Clare’s. Thia waa the t.och
probably, whoae abeenoe at dtnner, pmnpoi
itr Clare regretted. If hla name was men
itpaed. it had eacaped her memory or any
grazed her bearing. Rhe atood quteily by'
miring the drat erehanged sentence*, then'
IB ban Qaea tri <
belorhieo, ui.,l o.ssy mid, witu Just a shade ot
pettiahuiss. ‘.Vary ternmuo iuoeed.'
Thao the ouversetioa turned into other
channels, ana they ataeussed the storm, which
was still, ut course, a first object of interest
Ruth wee uot more communicative nor demon
strative than usual. The high wind could uot
blow away her reserve, nor the high tide
wash e more genial spirit into her manner. It
mfist take.more than an outward tempest to
shake her serenity. Nevertheless, she jomed
the aristocratic group at the Southwest corner
of the staunch old Fort, where some played
cards, some talked of reading prayers, and a
Tew, desperately vied to go to sleep sluing bdlt>
upright, while the lampe swung overhead from
their iron eftsina. i?
CHAPTHR HL I
There was a'good deal to ape; a good deal*
.amue. A pretty widow. !'▼«*? and lull of
ifirits, put her two little boy* oh a msitrssa
With seven others; obarged them to be quiet,
and the* establishing herself., in the pi.ana,
never ceased talking from is ft time til* »ue
went home the nut day. tbs flirted, sue
jested, she
g?2?gr! ( ‘“ '
[VOL I.—KPMBEH 38J
. When Gerald uttered
hie doubilul ir<narV4
about her, she i-rahrJ
taiuily,aiid imujeaia,«.
iy raid :
• / am Mi h Asa
boreußb.’ » e usd m
idea ol nibkxi, ■* uij a
tery ot her identity
or rather 01 it.oiiß m
Glaresauppoh: i-..r >
done eo.
Mt. Gray et.itedj
laughed louriji , ,
.©o*, Iff toffil’t'r 6 '
Iml Witlm +Yj tor, i
• lift • h>i
lor the tbiidihiic o {
thd a Ibouwou p. .1.
dou» for my apjierrot
iy HKUcy epetcti itini
Ruth briefly tol l
her etory. '• Mur
i’ oit y'onr tiouao, iti h »
* Jl«nt instead of jjo.ii, [
loma, i untied a so. .
, tifjr' wain wwjld oo
i Jiy head More pope
' man day other fepw..
i uer*r saw the atom
. oaiMg-walked tieai •
ly to the end ol ih ,
Iddud, and,
’■•ft Wet tow petth
oiao, who, jwithui'
k .o*ing me, moat
kindly brought me
oecK, To Hui X owe,
uioei proOkbly, J’
detrot Hi ad tjort-l
sion* of aentunent,
Ruth a topped, euu
‘locked her lipd’
Phyllis waa warmly