The Fourth Watch

arrin

is sleigh and handed the reins to a you

"Here I've been callin' fer the last five

" came the surly reply,

allow it. Put up the horse, an' do

way to the house, leaving the young m

he opened the door and entered. "We've b

," Farrington repli

did ye pay fer

--hanged! I'

git it, Si?" hi

it?

ha

aid

ho did

." "What! P

would be fool enough

ed Mrs. Farrington. "D

ed her husband, "till we git down to

t about it," and Mrs. Farringt

hing seemed wrong. An indefinable atmosphere pervaded the place which spoiled the effect of it all. It was not the corrupted English falling from the lips of these people which grated so harshly upon the senses. It was the spirit of pretence which overshadowed everything--the effort to be wh

ed outcome and did not try to conceal his anger. The inserted exclamations of the f

han this. Now, that Frenelle homestead is jist what we want, an' it seemed as if the Lord intended we should hev it, too. It is so included from all pryin' eyes, an' away from them country people who are so uncongenial. Their manners are so rough an' they know so little about proper equity. The pa

the spondulicks," bro

st a reproving glance at her son. "Ye must hev heerd it from Tom Jones; ye know

, ma. I don't care

seems to me that the parson has come to the end of his rope. We've borne with 'im fer years, an' it's about time he was makin' a move. He's too old fer the

remarked his wife, "an' the p

ow I give only four sense I've enlarged my bizness an' can't afford so much. Besides, the parson doesn't deal with me as much as he should. He git

not pay more to support the Church. It throws sich a burden upon us. Only think of Mrs. Jimmy Brown buyin' a new Bristles carpet, when the old one was quite good e

chimed in Eudora, "I know it didn't cost

To think of Vivien Nelson, a farmer's daughter, hevin' a fur-lined coat which cost almost as much as Eudora's! It is really d

rose from the table. "I'm done with the whole bizness, an' I'm mig

he store, his clerk, a young man new to the busine

"but we are entirely out of it just now. We can or

y upon his heel as these

she want?"

hite thread; but

We're never out! If you'd use yer eyes hal

where," and the clerk's eyes flashed da

Don't stand thar st

commanded. He searched and

and Farrington shoved his way past the

t! Why didn't ye tell me we were out before? Why did ye wait

"and how could I know you were out. No one has ca

across the room, and stood with his back to the stove, wondering how he could get even with his clerk. He would discharge him. "No, that wouldn't do. It was hard

my mail

turning, beheld a little

excuse to give vent to his anger. "What's ye

ail," persisted the boy

too d--n well. But who are you, and w

I'm Dan, old Jim's boy. Di

think that I should know ever

an straightened himself up. "Give me my m

out mail to all the riff-raff who come

s bu

wonderin' what to do with Billy Fletcher's gold. How much

e last words, but his heart was so full of a

these words, but he felt that his friend, the white-headed old man, was being insulted. With him to think

demanded, looking up i

n John is a rogue, an' that you are nuthin' but a young suck

a wild animal, Dan leaped full upon him, caught him by the hair wi

he was held as in a vice. Not satisfied with shaking the lad, Farrington reached over and, seizing a broken barrel stave from the wood-box, brought it down over the lad's shoulder and back with a resounding thud. A cry of pain, the first that he had uttered, fell from Dan's lips, and with a mighty effort he tried to escape. The st

ength Farrington remained sprawling upon

the defeated man. "

"There's to be no more bullying while I'm here, and I wo

you, or I'll kick ye o

. "No, you know you can't. Now, look here; just a word before we part. I've stood your insolent abu

like a wild-cat,"

to get a chap such as that in your claws and torture him. You've done it before, I understand. But it's not been such fu

As he did so Dan slipped out ahead of him, and started