Cooper Review. (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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There was a flutter
upon the pillared
veranda of the old
southern home which
In 1850 was housing
its third generation.
Isabelle gracefully
established herself In
an armchair placed
commandlngly at the
head of the steps,
Caroline tumbled out of a hammock
and Into It again with & better arrange-
ment of starched skirts and high-heel-
ed slfnpers. Rebecca darted into the
house, and Mrs. Danlell, mother of the
first two and aunt of the third, turned
languidly to observe the approach of a
figure ou horseback.
It was a military-looking figure,
erect, sharp-eyed, formal In bearing,
young or middle-aged in accordance
with one's personal perspective of 40.
To Mrs. Daniel the colonel was of
the younger generation. To Rebecca,
for instance, who was 10, he represent-
ed uninteresting respectable maturity.
Yet, greetings having been exchang-
ed, and the colonel supplied with re-
freshment after his dusty ride, his in-
quiry was: ‘‘Where Is Rebecca?”
“In the house,” Isabelle said prompt-
ly. “She ran when she saw you com-
ing. I think she is afraid of you.
Colonel Howard.” She laughed and he
smiled slightly in response.
“Perhaps,” he said, his eyes fixed ex-
pressively upon Mrs. Danlell, "she
finds me dull. I am sorry. I like Re-
becca."
To the two girls his words carried
little meaning. To Mrs. Danlell they
were a revelation. Smilingly sending
her daughters for their cousin, she
managed to be alone with their guest
first, because her presence was mani-
f-stly pleasing to her husband, she had
sat in the room at work upou some
light bit of sewing or a water-color.
Later, she discovered that she could
help by copying manuscript, sorting
notes or hunting references, and grad-
ually ahe became a factor In the mak-
ing of the history. Dutifully, she as-
sisted through long, weary hours. It
was evident that the colonel never sus-
pected that what might be of absorbing
interest to him might not be to bis
i wife.
The one who understood was Ander-
son Lee. He marveled at the devotion
I of a bride and did what he could to
j make her share of the work less tedi-
j ous. He and Rebecca found more to
laugh about in the course of a few
i weeks together than he and his uncle
had found in two years. They succeed-
ed even in amusing the colonel, so that
for a time the whole historical labor
progressed more lightly.
It was only for a time. The colonel
was not pleased with much levity.
Slightly to his annoyance he observed
an illumin ation of Rebecca’s face when
she talked with Anderson. He decidea
that he could dispense with his secre-
tary for half the day and give more
time to Rebecca. Accordingly, they
had some delightful times riding to-
gether across the country.
But the colonel must needs Improve
the mind of his wife, to the end of
making her a fitting Intellectual com-
panion to himself. They rode less and
read more. He gave her lessons In
Latin and geology. They never looked
at the stars but Rebecca must point
out the chief constellations and recite
astronomical facts and observations.
She learned quickly, but had the un-
fortunate faculty of forgetting quickly,
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for some little time, and the colonel
had opportunity to speak his mind.
He left soon after the trio had flut-
tered back upon tho veranda. As he
disappeared, galloping eveniy dowfi tho
road, Mrs. Daniell’s eyes followed him.
She drewr a long breath and looked to-
ward her little group.
“Girls,” she said, “tho Colonel
comes to see Rebecca.”
The three stared at her speechless.
“He has asked my consent to marry
Rebecca."
Isabelle and Caroline exclaimed
breathlessly: "Rebecca!”
“Me!” said Rebecca, and gazed from
one to the other in bewilderment.
After a moment of amazement Isa-
belle cried out: “It isn’t fair! I’m
the oldest! I’m 20! I ought to be mar-
ried first. It isn’t fair for Col. How-
ard to choose Rebecca!”
“He's too cld for Rebecca,” Caroline,
who was 18, remonstrated. "I suppose
he’s really too old for any of us,” she
reflected. ’ But think of his lovely
home, and of all the beautiful clothes
he would buy his wife, and the How-
ard jewels —and the parties one could
give! O, Rebecca, you must have
dances—!" She whirled in a waltz
with an Imaginary partner. "Isabelle
and I shall be. belles of your balls."
The girls looked with atfectionate
curiosity at the one who had been pre-
ferred. Isabelle kissed her to make
up for having been slow to accept the
Ltuatlon. And Rebecca burst into
tears.
A few months later, with beau!iful
ceremony and a degree of expense that
blotted out the small inheritance of the
orphaned bride, they married Rebecca
to the colonel. She went away with
him, shy and obedient, a little admir-
ing. a little afraid, and not unimpress-
ed by her new and estimable position.
To the Intense disappointment,
of Isabelle and Caroline, after two or
three brilliant affairs the newly-mai-
ried pair teased entertaining. Such
functions bored the colonel, when the
hoveIty~of seeing his glrl-witn in the
role of hostess had worn away. Re-
becca meekly followed a hint of his
wlahes. and before a year had passed,
the two were dwelling in uneventful
routine.
It was after breakfast, wnen he rode
about the plantation that she had her
hour of unrestraint. She frisked about
the old house, dancing through its
great balls. She made the music room
ring with gay strains from the piano,
while she snug, and the feet of the ne-
groes hopped and shuffled with unac-
customed blitheness in the kitchen.
Ou hla rturn the colonel was usually
accompanied by his nephew, Anderson
Lee, who rode over dally from the rem-
nant of an estate left him, to perform
the duties of secretary to the oolonel,
a faculty that frequently upset the
colonel’s delicately balanced temper.
Often an impatient reprimand escaped
him.
One sultry afternoon when every-
thing in Nature was taking refuge
from the heat in a siesta, husband and
wife sal in the shade, which was not
cool, anticipating a breeze which did
not come.
The colonel with dogged persistence
was reading the biographv of some
genius of literature. Rebecca, tasking
heroif afforts at attention, would have
given Tyitilng for permission to close
her he jLj- eyelids and succumb to the
general stagnation.
Time passed. The colonel, with se-
cret relief having read the last sent-
ence, closed his book, looked up—and
saw Rebecca asleep. Indignation at
having wasted so much effort on a hot
day was too much for him. He leaned
forward and slapped her sharply on
the cheek. The girl started to an up-
right position, fright driving the mist
of sleepiness from her eyes.
Her husband sat stockstill, the color
of shame surging upon every inch of
his skin that was visible. "Rebecca.”
he said, “1 did not know that I was
capable of such an act.” Ho stopped
abruptly, suddenly aware that his
nephew was approachig, staring at
them.
By her husband's face Rebecca knew
thai some one had surprised them. She
turned, smiling unsteadily. "Ah. you,
Anderson,” she said. "We were—we
were playing a game. It was invented
for children, but it amuses grownups.
It is called ‘Pass the Box.’ I am boxed.
I box you”—she slapped both sides of
his head lightly—"you box your uncle.
Then iny turn again.”
The young man laughed, puzzled and
disturbed, and impulsively struck hurd.
i The colonel winced, but took the blow,
meeting his nephew’s eyes strangely.
Rebecca looked more frightened than
before.
"I beg your pardon, uncle,” said An-
derson.
The colonel nodded, su>lug nothing.
Within a week the colonel was send-
ing Anderson on a mission to another
city for the investigation of historical
records. In a voice smooth with satis-
Lu,uOS ho iuifi to Rebecca, "Anderson
wiii be gone a long time. He is a
good boy. We shall miss him.”
Rebecca looked at him blankly.
"Dear me!” she exclaimed In a low
tone. “How we shall miss him!"
Her husband’s brow darkened. "Do
you expect to feel the absence so keen-
ly?"
Rebecca did not answer. She was not
thinking. She was only endeavoring
to grasp the prospect of life on the
plantation with only her husband and
(he negroes. If only Isabel or C&ro-
“Goodby,” was the curt response.
The young man made a movement in
the direction of Rebecca, but bis un-
cle’s hand come down heavily upon his
shoulder. “You can say goodby to my
wife from here.”
Anderson stared at him, dumbfound-
ed.
Rebecca rose to her feet, afire with
resentment. “Why should I not say
goodby to Anderson?” she demanded.
“You treat me as a child. I am a wom-
an!”
“I am glad,” said the colonel, “that
you do not attempt to palliate your
conduct on the plea that you are a
child.” To Anderson: “It la fortunate
for you, sir, that you are leaving these
parts."
"Uncle!” the young man gasped.
“I have watched your attentions to
my wife for some time.” The colonel
was quivering with fury.
"Uncle!” the young man exclaimed
again. “Uncle, I pledge you—”
“Pledge me no pledges.” said the
colonel. ”1 am not blind.”
Pale and erect, his nephew faced him.
Their eyes met like sparks from flint.
"Sir,” said the young man, "every
word of your implication is a false-
hood.”
It was before dueling had been thor-
oughly discountenanced In that part of
the country, and to pass the lie meant
to invite danger.
"Sir,” said the colonel, "I presume
your weapons have not yet been pack-
ed. and that you can defer your jour-
ney for 24 hours? I shall see you in
the morning.”
Rigid and dumb with terror, Rebecca
heard this colloquy. She ran forward,
placed one cold hand of entreaty upon
the arm of her husband, the other upon
the arm of Anderson Lee. Her husband
seized her hand as in a vise and led her
away.
That night a light burned In the
colonel's room after the rest of the
house was In darkness. Rebecca,
wrought to a torturing pitch of excite-
ment, heard his footsteps to and fro.
She knew for what he was preparing.
If she should go to him with itnplora-
tions would he listen? Would he
strike her? Would he accuse her?
Again and again she started, each time
cowering back utterly sick at heart in
the knowledge of her powerlcssness to
move him.
She heard him descend the stairs
and enter the library. She, too, crep*
down and stood outside the door,
where she could hear the scratching of
his pen. Suddenly the crack of a pis-
tol shot split the air and Rebecca
crumpled into a fainting heap. When
she regained her wits alarmed negroes
were hurrying from all directions
White-faced, she sped before them.
The colonel had fallen forward upon
his desk, where he had evidently been
writing, for the ink upon a large en-
velope addressed to his lawyer was not
yet dry. One of his own pistols had
been discharged and had dropped to
the floor. Before him was a small pile
of gold coin. Nothing was missing. If
there had been murder, the motive was
not robbery. If suicide—no one could
bplleve Hint of the colonel.
His body servant, on the verge of
collapse, offered the information that
his master had ordered the brace of
pistols brought to him, saying that he
would need them in the morning. Tho
colonel had cleaned and loaded them,
and there must have been an accident-
al discharge. Only Rebecca saw upon
the table a railroad ticket which sbr
knew had not been there a few hours)
before. Unobserved she concealed it in j
one cold trembling hand.
Anderson Lee went to a neighboring ]
city to study law in the office of an old j
friend of the family. He had called on i
Rebecca before leaving, but she had |
not seen him. A few letters he sent |
her, hut her replies were so brief that i
these becalm i'ai between. It was four _
years after that the two met. by chance |
in the village street, as Rebecca was j
oa her way to the school.
They had almost run into each other [
unawares. A light leaped into ais
eyes.
The lawyer who came from town
found that immediately before his
death the colonel had been devising a
new will, by which he disposed of his
entire property in charitable bequests.
He explained that the will might be
disputed bccauso not attested, and that
in auy event it could not interfere
with her right of dower.
"I came to Col. Howard with noth-
ing,” said Rebecca, “and he deprives
| me of nothing that is mine. Even
i what, might be my dower shall be given
j as he wished.”
Within a short time, In spite of the
| outraged protests of her aunt, who did j
l not relish seeing her niece a penniless |
I widow, Rebecca left the Howard man- ]
don and set about supporting herself i
by teach in a local school.
All her soul went out to him in the
first unguarded look, and then came
the veil of despairing courage through
which she had gazed for four long
years.
"Rebecca, are you—can’t you be
glad to see me?”
A cry escaped her. Hardly knowing |
what she did. she dragged from her
bodice a tattered railroad ticket and
rust it before him. "Anderson, for-
give me—tell me—how this came—”
lie looked from It to her In atupefac- i
tlon. "That?” Then he was thunder-j
struck. It was a moment before he |
could speak. Then he said quietly, "I i
came back early that evening and |
slipped Into the library whero I left
this and about $60 In gold. You remem-
ber uncle had advanced ray traveling I
expenses. I had no expectation of us- j
lng either, then. I went out, as I had
come, through the window. I knew j
nothing of what happened afterward ]
until word reached me next day. Re-
becca, have vou—can It be that
this ?"
“Oh, Anderson,” she said, tears
running dowu her cheeks. "Forgive
me. 7 know it could not be, and yet
1 longad for you to tell me. I could
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