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"Ecod, then!" said the otherscent 'Twas no dolt

that ran that day!"

The ht, Toirl Go your ways on your errand for

'feyther'!" As he spoke, being of an amorous turn, he stooped from his

saddle and kissed her Audrey, since she was at that tihter, took the salute as stolidly as she

had spoken The two men rode away, and the second said to the first: "A

Williauinea could speak and

look like a born lady Didn't ye hear the story of how she went to the

Governor's ball, all tricked out, dancing, andpeople think she was

some fine dame from Maryland maybe? And the next day she was scored in

church before all the town I don't know as they put a white sheet on her,

but they say 't was noin the sunny road, retook her own countenance,

rubbed her cheek where the man's lips had touched it, and trehtened, both at the encounter and because she could

make herself so like Joan,--Joan who lived near the crossroads ordinary,

and who had been whipped at the Court House

Late that afternoon she cas clustered