The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 22 Page 14

‘low me an’ leetle Hoyle to bide on here whilst we live — ”

David was touched. “Do you realize I’ve found here the two greatest things in the world, love and health? All I want is for you to know and remember that if I can’t succeed in doing all I would like for the boy, at least I tried my very best. I may not succeed, you know, but this is the only thing to do now — the only thing.”

David parted from his young wife, leaving her standing in the door of their cabin, clad in her white homespun frock, smiling, yet tearful and pale. He was to walk down to the Fall Place, where Jerry Carew waited with the wagon in which he had arrived, and where his baggage had been brought the day before. When he came to the steepest part of the descent,