A Daughter of Maryland — page 36: what you’re looking at

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TAREE es ee EOS RON Oa sisi asia ae a: nm He) : i SIS ore ze ee A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. a1 ‘*Then you do not know that Carroll Southard has returned ?’’ ‘‘No. But we must not delay longer. I hope you will reach Uncle Frost’s in season to escape a drenching. ’’ “‘Never mind me. But will you answer me one question before you go? Pardon me, but I would like to know if you have not been looking for his return.’’ ‘Looking for him? Why should I be? What nonsense has got into your head to-day ?’’ : ‘*But there was a time when you called him your lover. ,. . 5 paces ; or <2 Sa ‘*Childish fancy. Why it has been five years since he ) ; ; went away and I have not heard from him—do no even know whero he has been.’ Look out for the storm. ’’ The next moment she was riding up the road at a smart canter, while he watched her retreating form regardless of the quickening patter of the rain on the ground and the ominous roll of the thunder overhead. ‘*She is proud,’’ he murmured? ‘‘She thinks I am not ‘worthy of her hand. Why should it have been my fate to occupy a position so far below the station which is right- zt fully mine. I am a better scholar than that dullard of a Ts Robert, and yet he is fortunate enough to fall into a posi- ; tion above me. But Time evens all things, and it shall with me. The war is surely coming, and it will find me among the foremost of the defenders of old Maryland. I will win such honors as.a Lancier dare not spurn.’”’ As he finished this speech he hastened on in the course Aurian had taken. | Fortunately it was not over half a mile to the humble = home of the free negro called Uncle Frost, and by the time a Esten Berners had concluded his rather bitter tirade, she was reining up in front of the lonely abode, which stood upon a slight eminence of land in the heart of the primeyal forest. In the rear the tall, dark, jagged mountain thrust its craggy head far above the surrounding landscape, eer “comicbooks.com