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Updated: May 25, 2025
When Mary Potter left the kitchen to bring some fresh cream from the spring-house, Miss Lavender hastily approached Gilbert, laid her hand on his shoulder, and said, "Lad, be good this once't, and do what I tell you.
If you want the plain truth, Miss er Summers and I used to be friends and well, she's suing me for breach of promise. Now for heaven's sake, Minnie, don't make a fuss " But my knees wouldn't hold me. I dropped down in a snow-drift and covered my face. I dragged myself back to the spring-house and dropped in front of the fire.
Miss Cobb came to the spring-house early Friday morning, and from the way she came in and shut the door I knew she had something on her mind. She walked over to where I was polishing the brass railing around the spring it had been the habit of years, and not easy to break and stood looking at me and breathing hard. "Minnie," she exclaimed, "I have found the thief!" "Lord have mercy!"
A streak of shimmering light ran down toward the spring, and over it I slowly strode. I heard the water gurgling from under the moss-covered spring-house, and I saw the leaf-shadow patch-work moving to and fro over the smooth slabs of stone.
Grasping it eagerly the farmer leaps to his feet. His years have fallen from him. With a tiger-like bound he gains the door, rushes to the spring-house where John Blake is crouching, his eyes sunk and shining, gnawing his fingers in a craze of dismay. But though hate is swift, love is swifter, and the girl is there as soon as he.
It seems he started for here yesterday." But I'd had time to get myself in hand, and if I had a chill up my spine she never knew it. As she started after Mrs. Biggs I saw Mr. Sam hurrying down the path toward the spring-house, and I knew my joint hadn't throbbed for nothing. Mr. Sam came in and slammed the door behind him. "What's this about Mr. Dick not being here?" he shouted. "Well, he isn't.
He was pointing out to Shorty, as they munched, the likenesses and unlikenesses of this spring-house to that on the Wabash, when they were startled by the stern command: "Surrender, there, you infernal Yankees!" They looked up with startled eyes to stare into a dozen muskets leveled straight at their heads from the willow thickets.
It was well enough for me to say that it was only by chance that I wasn't strutting about with a crown on my head and a man blowing a trumpet to let folks know I was coming, and by the same token and the same chance Prince Oskar might have been a red-haired spring-house girl, breaking the steels in her figure stooping over to ladle mineral water out of a hole in the earth.
"I'm sorry, Minnie," he said, "I never dreamed it would do that." "Do what?" "Nothing. You're sure you won't forget?" "I never forget," I said. I had got up the steps by this time and was trying to figure why the spring-house door had two knobs. I hadn't any idea what he meant. "Remember," he said, very slowly, "Thoburn is going to have his party to-night instead of to-morrow. Tell Pierce that.
As the main portion of the column came up, the crowd around the spring-house became so dense that those once inside could not get out. The building was lifted and thrown away from the spring, but this only served to increase the confusion. Officers found it impossible to maintain discipline. When the men caught sight of the crowd at the spring, the lines were instantly broken.
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