American Agriculturist, May 3, 1924 
14 ■ The Broad Highway 
(Continued from 'page 444) 
And gradually my arms crept about 
I the pillow where her head had so often 
rested, wherefore I kissed it, and laid my 
head upon it and sighed, and so fell into 
| a troubled sleep. • 
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CHAPTER” XXXV 
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S’ ■ HOW BLACK GEORGE FOUND PRUDENCE 
IN THE DAWN 
T HE chill of dawn was in the air when 
I awoke, and it was some few moments 
before, with a rush, I remembered why 
I was kneeling there beside Charmian's 
bed. Shivering, I rose and walked up 
land down. 
The fire was out and I had no mind to 
I light it, for I was in no mood to break 
my fast, though the necessary things 
stood ready, as her orderly hands had set 
them, and the plates and cups and saucers 
twinkled at me from the little cupboard 
I had made to hold them; a cupboard 
whose construction she had overlooked 
with a critical eye. And I must needs 
remember how she had insisted on being 
permitted to drive in three nails with her 
own hand—I could put my finger on 
those very nails; how beautiful she had 
looked in her coarse apron, and with her 
sleeves rolled up over her round white 
arms—how womanly and sw r eet; yet I 
bad dared to think—had dared to call her 
—a Messalina! Oh, that my tongue had 
withered or ever I had coupled one so 
pure and noble with a creature so base! 
So thinking, I sighed and went out into 
the dawn; as I closed the door behind me 
its hollow slam struck me sharply, and I 
called to mind how she had called it a bad 
and ill-fitting door. And indeed so it was. 
With dejected step and hanging head I 
made my way towards Sissinghurst (for. 
WHAT HAS HAPPENED 
OLACK GEORGE is in trouble, and 
Peter, the Ancient, and Simon, keeper 
of the Inn and father of Prue, George’s 
sweetheart, set out to persuade the squire— 
for whom Peter has once done a good turn— 
to release him. Temporarily, this drives 
from Peter’s mind his love for Charmian, 
whom he has asked to marry him, and his 
bewilderment at her scornful refusal. In 
asking her, he has shown that he suspects 
she is still secretly meeting his cousin. Sir 
Maurice Vibrat, a villainous gallant from 
whom Peter has once rescued her. 
since I was up, I might as well work, and 
there was much to be done), and, as I 
went, I heard a distant clock chjme four. 
When I reached the village the sun was 
beginning to rise, and I beheld one stand¬ 
ing near “The Bull,” a-wild figure in the 
dawn, with matted hair and beard, and 
clad in tattered clothes; yet hair and 
beard gleamed a red gold where the light 
touched them, and there was but one man 
I knew so tall and so mighty as this. 
Wherefore, I hurried towards him, all 
unnoticed, for his eyes were raised to a 
certain latticed casement of the inn. 
And, being come up, I reached out and 
| touched this man upon the arm. 
“George!” said I, and held out my 
band. He turned swiftly but started 
back a pace, staring. 
“George!” said I again. But George 
only backed still farther, passing his hand 
once or twice across his eyes. 
“Peter?” said he at last, speaking 
Hardly above a whisper; “but you’m dead, 
Peter, dead—I killed ’ee.” 
“No,” I answered, “you didn’t kill me, 
George—indeed, I wish you had—you 
came pretty near it. And, George—I’m 
v ery desolate—won’t you shake hands? 
you can, believing that I have always 
been your friend, and a true and loyal 
°ne, then, give me your hand; if not— 
then, let us go into the field yonder, and if 
you can manage to knock me on the head 
tor good and all this time—why, so much 
the better. Come, what do you say?” 
(To be continued) 
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