Bellefonte, Pa. August 21, 1914.
[Continued from page 6, Col. 3]
“I was too unhappy to think of fear,
and I was chiefly nervous about you,
all alone in the house with father.”
“I didn’t like it very much myself.
11 buttoned my bedroom door and sat.
! by the window all night, shivering and
“No, you must go back to the house |
at once, Patty, dear. Father mizht
wake and call you and that would
make matters worse.
drizzle or I should stay out in the air.
Oh, I wonder if father's mind is going
and if this is the beginning of the end:
If he is in his sober senses he could
not be so strange, so suspicious, so
unjust.”
“He could be anything, say anything,
do anything!” exclaimed Patty. “Per-
haps he is not responsible and perhaps ;
he is; it doesn’t make much difference
to us. Come along, blessed darling!
I'll tuck you in and then I'll creep back
to the house if you say I must. I'll go
down and make the kitchen fire in the
morning; you stay out here and sec
what happens. A good deal will hap-
pen, I'm thinking, if father speaks tv
me of you! I shouldn't be surprised
to see the fur flying in all directions.
I'll seize the first moment to bring
You out a cup of coffee and we'll con-
sult about what to do. [I may tell you
now I'm all for running away!”
Waitstill's first burst of wretched-
ness had subsided and she had recov-
ered her balance. “I'm afraid we
must wait a little longer, Patty,” she
advised. “Don’t mention my name to
father, but see how he acts in the
morning. He was so wild, so unlike
himself, that I almost hope he may
forget what he said and sleep it off.
Yes, we must just wait.”
“No doubt he'll be far calmer in the
morning if he remembers that, if he
turns you out, he faces the prospect of
three meals a day cooked by me,” said
Patty. “That's what he thinks he
would face; but, as a matter of fact,
I shall tell him that where you sleep
I sleep, and where you eat 1 eat, and
when you stop cooking I stop! He
won't part with two unpaid servants
in a hurry, not at the beginning of
haying.” And Patty, giving Waitstii!
a last hug and a dozen tearful kisses,
stole reluctantly back to the house by
the same route through which she had
left it.
Patty was right. She found the fire
lighted when she went down into the
kitchen next morning, and without a
word she hurried breakfast on to the
table as fast-as she could cook and
serve it. Waitstill was safe in the
barn chamber, she knew, and would
be there quietly while her father was
feeding the horse and milking the
cows, or perhaps she might go up in
the woods and wait until she saw him
. driving away.
The deacon ate his breakfast in si-
lence, looking and acting very much as
usual, for he was generally dumb at
meals. When he left the house, how-
ever, and climbed into the wagon. he
turned around and said in his ordinary
gruff manner: “Bring the lunch up to
the field yourself today, Patience. Tell
your sister I hope she’s come to her
senses in the course of the night
You've got to learn, both of you. the:
my ‘say SQ’ must be law in this house.
You can fuss and you can fume if it
amuses you any, but ’‘twon’'t do no
good. Don't encourage Waitstill in
any whinin’ or blubberin’. Jest tell her
to come in and go to work and T'll
overlook what she done this time. And
don’t you give me any more of your
eye snappin’ and lip poutin’ and head
in the air imperdence! You're under
age. and if you don’t look out you'll
get somethin’ that's good for what ails
you! You two girls jest aid an’ abet
one another—that’s what you do, aid
. and abet one another—an’ if you carry
it any further I'll find some way o
separatin’ you, do you hear?”
Patty spoke never a word nor flutter-
ed an eyelash. She had a proper spirit,
but now her heart was cold with a
new fear, and she felt, with Waitstill,
that her father must be obeyed and his
temper kept within bounds until God
provided them a way of escape.
She ran out to the barn chamber and.
not finding Waitstill, looked across the
field and saw her coming through the
path from the woods. Patty waved
her hand and ran to meet her sister.
joy at the mere fact of her existence.
of being able to see her again and of
hearing her dear voice almost choking
her in its intensity. When they reach-
ed the house she helped her upstairs
as if she were a child, brought her cool
water to wash away the dust of the
haymow, laid out some clean clothes
for her and finally put her on the
lounge in the darkened sitting room.
“Il won't let anybody come near the
house,” she said, “and you must have
a cup of tea and a good sleep before 1
tell you all that father said. Just com-
fort yourself with the thought that he
is going to overlook it this time. Aft-
er I carry up his luncheon I shall stop
at the store and ask Cephas to come
out on the river bank for a few min-
utes. Then I shall proceed to say
what I think of him for telling father
where you went yesterday afternoon.”
“Don’t blame Cephas!”’ Waitstill re-
monstrated. “Can’t you see just how
it happened? He and Uncle Bart were
sitting in front of the shop when I
drove by. When father came home
and feund the house empty and the
horse not in the stall, of course he ask-
ed where I was, and Cephas probably
said he had seen me drive up Saco hill.
He had no reason to think that there
was any harm in that.”
“If he had any sense he might know
that he shouldn’t tell anything to fa-
ther except what happens in the store,”
Patty insisted. “Were you frightened
out in the barn alone last night, poor
dear?”
It's beginning to |
. bristling at the least sound.
The Story of Waitstill Baxter
‘His lordship replied that the note was
Every-
body calls me a coward, but I'm not.
Courage isn’t not being frightened.
It’s pot screeching when you are!
frightened. Now. what happened at
the Boyntons?" i
“Patty, Ivory's mother is the most |
pathetic creature I ever saw.” And]
Waitstill sat up on the sofa, her long |
braids of hair hanging over her shoul- |
ders, her pale face showing the traces '
of her heavy weeping. *I never pitied
any one so much in my whole life.
To go up that long, long lane; to come !
upon that dredry house hidden away in |
the trees; to feel the loneliness and the |
silence and then to know that she is
living there like a hermit thrush in a!
forest without a woman to care for |
her it is heart breaking!”
“How
fal? !
“No. Everything is as neat as wax. |
She isn’t ‘crazy,’ Patty, as we under-
stand the word. Her mind is be-
clouded somehow, and it almost seems
as -if the cloud might lift at any mo-
ment. She goes about like somebody
in a dream, sewing or knitting or cook-
ing. It is only when she talks, and
you notice that her eyes really see
nothing, but are looking beyond you,
that you know there is anything
wrong.”
“If she appears so like other people,
why don’t the neighbors go to see her
once in awhile?”
“Callers make her unhappy, she
says, and Ivory told me that he dared
not encourage any company in the
house for fear of exciting her and
making her an object of gossip be-
sides. He knows her ways perfectly |
and that she is safe and content with |
her fancies when she is alone. which |
is seldom, after all.”
“What does she talk about?" asked
Patty.
“Her husband mostly. She is expect-
ing him to come back daily. We knew
that before, of course, but no one can
realize it till they see her setting the
table for him and putting a saucer of
wild strawberries by his plate, going
about the kitchen softly, like a gentle
ghost.”
“It gives me the shudders!”
said
Patty. ‘1 couldn't bear it. If she
never sees strangers, what in the
world did she make of you? How did
you begin?"
“I told her I had known Ivory ever
since we were school children, She
was rather strange and indifferent at
first and then she seemed to take a
fancy to me.”
“That's queer!” said Patty, smiling
fondly and giving Waitstill’s hair the
hasty brush of a kiss.
“She told me she had a girl baby.
born two or three years after Ivory,
and that she had always thought it
died when it was a few weeks old.
Then suddenly she came closer to me” —
“Oh, Waity, weren't you terrified?"
“No, not in the least. Neither would
you have been if you had been there.
She put her arms round me and all at
once I understood that the poor thing
mistook me just for a moment for her
own daughter come back to life. It
was a sudden fancy. and I don’t think
it lasted, but I didn’t know how to
deal with it or contradict it. so 1 siin-
ply tried to soothe her and let he:
ease her heart by talking to me, She
said when I left her: ‘Where is your
house? I hope it is near! Do come
again and sit with me. Strength flows
into my weakness when you hold my
hand!" 1 somehow feel. Patty, that she
heeds a woman friend even more than
a doctor. And now, what am I to do%
How can I forsake her. aud yet here is
this new difficulty with father?”
[Continued next week.]
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Benjamin Franklin said in 1783:
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By HERBERT KAUFMAN
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ERXES once led a million soldiers out of Persia in an effort
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