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REBECCA'S
? . WEAVING
A Story of little River
By C14RISSA MACKIE
In the weaving shed under the wal
not tree, Rebecca Oswald sat with Ml*
hand* before the biff loom. There was
a pungent ?tnell of green wa Inula and
the peculiar odor of rankly growing
hollyhocks that latticed the window
with fluted pink cups.
Keliecca'a ll|? were curved In a
bitter etnlle aa she dreamed In the
mallow gloom of the shed. Her alender
form, erect and motionless, wan sharply
outlined against the light.
Within the shed everything waa Im
maculately clean and freah with the
penetrating odor of cedar ahlnglea.
Tie big loom filled one end of the
room with lta massive framework, and
In the corncra were rolls of rag carpet
and several baskets filled with bright
hued ntg strip*.
Maria Oswald paused In the door
way, her round eyes peering sharply
at her sifter's tense profile. "Rebec
ca, what the land are you doing?" ahc
asked sharply.
Rebecca started and turned her head.
"I wasn't doing anything, Maria. I was
(eating awhile."
The older sister advanced and sat
down In a chair near the loom; her
keen eyes searched Rebecca's sen
sitive face and her own reddened with
indignation. "I saw Ida Renjamln's
boy coming out of the gate. What did
he want?" she demanded.
"He brought some rags; his mother
wants some mats made? for Edna,"
said Reb*cca quietly.
**Of course you won't make them,"
protested Maria.
"I must-lf I dont. Ida will say its
because of Kdna marrying Myron."
"If that ain't just like Ida Bcuja
mln-the spttefnlest critter that ever
drew breath! Why didn't she take the
rags down to IVterfclnT" Suddenly
Maria's disturbed countenance hpcame
an urbane mask. "Pon't yon dare cry.
Rebecca Oswald." she added fiercely;
"she's coming now!"
A shadow darkened the doorway,
and Ida Benjamin entered. She was
a tail, strongly built woman, with
colorless hair rolled stiffly away from
her sallow skinned face. Cold blue
eyea wore set unpleasantly close to a
prominent nose booked above a bitter
mouth. She carried herself with the
proud Insolence of one whose weapons
are always unsheathed. Ida Henja
mln'a keenest weapon of attack and
defense lay behind the eren rows of
her false teeth. Now she rustled for
ward with an amplitude of starched
aim _
"Busy ?!> a DM. neoecca. i necmre
you're always at It ain't you? I'll
take this chair, Maria. Tom newln't
ret up." She beamed amiably upon
the sisters
Rebecca removed her foot frotu the
treadle and turned to the newcomer.
"Hobble brought the rag*, Ida. What
color warp do you want?"
"White, I guess. I)o you think you
cm net them done b.v tlie 1st of Octo
ber? They are for Edna's new bouse
and"? She paused significantly.
"Why not take them down to Peter
kin? He's starving for work, and Re
becca's got all alto can do," Interpo
lated Maria acidly.
"I want nobody I Hit Rebecca sliould
touch them," oro tested Ida Benjamin.
"Being Kdnn's wedding outfit, they ai*
very special, and Reliecca makes such
pretty mat*."
"Very well. Ma; I can make them.
There's pltuty of time liefore the 1st
of Octolier Tell me how yon want
them made." said Rebecca quietly.
While the two women discussed the
making of the rwrs-or "mats," as they
are called In IJttle River? Maria arose
and silently* left the weaving shed.
Alone with Hebecca Oswald, Mra.
Benjamin dropped the hall of rags site
had been displaying to the weaver
and leaned hack In her chair "Well,
Hebecca. I hope yon don't hold any
hard feeling toward me and Edna,"
she said, with a malicious smile.
"We never have been Intimate
friends. Ida; you know that," said Re
becca proudly, "but why do you imag
ine that I shoukl feel any especial en
mity toward you now?*'
For an instant Ida RetiJ|min's sallow
face reddened: then, as If Rebecca's
question offered an opening for which
she had long waited, the color left her
cheeks sallow and strained, aud she
spoke coldly and dclll>oratel.v:
"Yon needn't i>nr*end yon dont mind
losing Myron While after keeping com
pany with Mm for Ave years. Of
conrse he's older than Edna, but the
very minute he set eyes ou her he lost
his heart. You can't blume him. Re
becca; Ed u a s so youug and fresh, and
yon? and me. too? are not as young as
we used to lie. There: you needn't red
den np awl look so proud. Hebecca.
Ton might aa well look the truth In the
face as to pretend yon don't care."
"Have you got shy (hi tig more to
say?" asked Rebecca Icily.
Id* Benjamin hesitated. An eager
queetion bad burned her tongue for
five yeara. fo ber coarse grained mind
there wag no Indelicacy In the asking
of such a question, but she dM shrink
from Rebecca* answer. She felt In
stinctively that Rebecca Oswald would
speak nothing but the truth. Her eager
ness now found vent In the question.
"Sarah Qulgley says that years ago.
before I married .lonah Benjamin, he
courted you and wanted *o marry yon.
I told her If wasn't ? and that Iw a?T
er appeared t<fc like you. but Jutt Mm
same it 'spoiled all my mourning for
him. 1 haven't Iwa to the <*it0#rj
since she told me that. Did be atk you
to marry him?" Id.i Renjamln'a role*
sank to a low tot?> of Mtter anguish,
and her harsh face tvns distorted with
an effort for control She leaned for
ward. her eyes fixed ou Rehecca'a ffcc*.
"That'a why you've been no hateful
to me the last tlu> yean? because
you're Jealous of thftT' asked Rebaeca
pityingly.
The other woman flared fiercely
"I'm not jealoim, not a mite, hut I can't
have It that way."
Now the power w.ia In Rebecca 'a
bands. She could flay Idt Renjamla'a
suffering heart with n detailed account
of bow the defunct Jomth hnd In hi*
youth wooed her. Hla doglike devotion,
hla obatlnate refusal to take "no" for
an answer, had Iwn a village Jest.
Tbeae facta were weapons In Rebecca'*
hamla. With them she might avenge
herself upon this woman who had de
prived her of the nan site loved and
deatroyed her bappineaa through aome
long cherished Jealoiiay.
Ida R<?Jamln waa waiting for Re
becca's answer, boptng It would be a
denial that she mlifht carry forth to
confound her felloe biisybodlea, with
whom she waged alternate war and
peace and In w hose midst repatatlona
were won and loat In an hour.
AH at once Reb*."ca seemed to sec
dow n Into Ida Benjamin's sordid little
soul, aud a revulsion of feeling swept
over her. A strange light cntoe Into
her eyoa ns she looked at the woman
standing there so curiously aubdued
nnd expectant, suffering torturea of
Jealousy, and she wiia filled with pity.
Theu U was that Rebecca Oawald
spoke to ber enemy and told her flrat
lie. "Jonah came to see n?e a few
times, Ida, but I gue*a he got tired of
me. I want you tn bear In mlod He
never asked me to marry him." rta
becca wna quite pule when she om
The other womun sighed relievedly.
Her bead went up with her accustomed
insolence. "I never lx?lleveJ a wort nt
It, Rebecca. I knew Sarah Qnlg'y wrs
lying. I suppose you're willing to re
peat that before her?"
"I think I hare said enough," re
plied Rel>ccca wearily. The aunshlne
had faded from the pond, and the
ahndows seemed reflected In her faca
"I'll h?ve to be going now." Mr*.
Benjamin stood In tike doorway looking
down at the weaver, a curious hesi
tancy iu her harsh voice and a Mrenge
expression mingled with the triumph
in her hard eyes. It waa almost aa if
abe felt sorry for Robeecn Oswaid.
When Rebecca wns lOnne she stared
through the. lattice of hollyhocks with
a strange sense of desolation. It had
been a hard day. The pressure of hu
miliation had been strong upon her,
and she had suffered All at once she
beat her lists upon the window sill
with a little fnry of despair. "It lan't
fair and Just." she sobbed. After
awhile she arose and closed the win
dow, Touching the loom with o?e
slender hand, she looked down at the
mace of purple warp blurring l>eftoe
her eye*.
"I suppose people's lives are like rag
carpets-some's plain, some's striped
and others are jast 'hit or miss,' with
lots of bright colors. Mine's been in
stripes, with lota of gray and black In
between for trouble, i guess it has
stopped now Just as I was beginning a
IteautifUl stripe, thinking all the real
of the carpet was going to be that rosy
color. Hilt I've got to keep on wear
ing. It'll be drab colored for awhile
until I get some sense into me." Rhe
dashed away the teara and straight
ened proudly "I've got to weave thoee
mats for Ida Benjamin. I've got to
make them ao aa to pay me back for
telling that lie."
The door flew open with startling
suddenness, and Myron White stood
there, handsome, black eyed and with
black troys meeting In a heavy frown.
His attitude was one of mingled ahame
and defiance.
inarm nm uw"? IV . ?
?tore, and she tok) mr that Ida Itenja
min bad brought rout* for 70a to utak*.
Where ?re they? here?" At lleb?cc*'?
nod of Rssent M.vron lx?nt down and
swept Mra. Renjainln's l>aga of rag
balls Into bin nrms ami deiMislted them
in a w!m?hUuiii;v he bad left outalda
the door. Then t? came back and
faced Rebecca In tlie gathering gloom
of the weaving shed.
"I'm a doggoned fool." he aald bitter
ly. "I've gone and cnt myaelf off from
the only woman I ever wanted to mar
ry Jnst becauso~oh, I've got to tell U
*o's to do right by you. Hebecca. Yon
know I wan getting: up murage to aak
you to marry s?hen Ida Henjamln
got after me. 1 jgat know what the
meant by It, hut tr.* w?'J Edna waa
dying for love of me. Well, what
could I do? When Maria told me yon
was going to we .iv* mats for *s I Just
made up my tnlml I'd be n man, so I've
been and told little Kdna all about It?
that If you won't hive me I don't care
whether anybody else does or not And
the was Just a* glad as I was? said she
was planning to elope with Trance Way
land anyway, anil she said sbe hated
me and my old rag mats. I can't traat
myself to talk to Ida Renjamln, bnt
I'm going to take her rags back. I
won't have yon nuiking mats for her.
I hope you'll forgive me for all the
trouble. 1 guess yon never want to ?e?
me again." He turwd ami walked dis
piritedly toward the door. "I don't
suppose 1 deserve you should forgive
me," he added.
Rebecca's eyes were heavy with wi
shed tears. She who bad patiently
taken up the weaving of her drab fu
ture suddenly found her weft was roM
and gold. All at once her restored
happiness found utterance In broken
words :
"Myron, I shall never? forgive you?
If you go awuy now."
LOCAL BRIEFS I
THE LAST CAJX.
Wake ?p of that Rip Van
Wklnkle slvep or 20 fnni, and do
not tot your chimney fall to plccea
Ilk* his gun Get raa-ly before Jack
front cornea around, and get steam
up and give hire a tree passage to
Seattle or the Houth Pole. He for
got to come around last year and
J hope he doea the aame thla yaar.
It will jtlre our ifwly planted tree*
a chance lo grow better It he don't
cotse around, but l? Is best to b*
ready for him
By the way the Fire Chief and
aids will be around looking at your
chimneys, stov?- pipe and stove, and
he like* to ami>ll hoi air and ace
that everj^hlng U (V K
I told y?ti o*ice before I haw
brick for tato hot yon won Id not
tumble If { house fell on you
Ttwimn* Ryan ??f It> an** tile,
177 -l-t l.jrnn Canal, Alaska
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Mia. H 24 above
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