Page:My people stories of the peasantry of West Wales.djvu/97

 V THE GLORY THAT WAS SION’S was abhorred of Capel Sion. In all his acts he was evil. He was born out of sin, and he walked in the company of loose men. His features were fair, and he had a rakish eye, before which the heart of Madlen utterly melted. Now Madlen owned two pigs, a cow and a heifer, several heads of poultry, and Tybach, the stone-walled cottage that is beyond the School-house. In his fortieth year Twm coveted Madlen's possessions; and inasmuch as Madlen was on the borderline of her womanhood she received Twm's advances with joy. So Twm hired Old Shemmi’s horse-car