Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-22


| does make you like himW iuyy- Hi ,a3l
I 81 don't know" said little Rose Frazier,
sitting with her chin In her two ftpalms,
and gazing dreamily into the fire. l1rLi
"He's more disagreeable than any man /
ever knew. He is always saying such un-
comfortable things. i don't wonder that
everybody shuns him." @ lDri. r
81 don't shun him." y- .l....dinl J.,yg.
| "You !! No; you are just like a kitten,
pnrriDg around everybody. You liking him
/ Is proof that you can like anybody . .li4
"No 10 isn't, Josie,'' said Rose, suddenly
| looking upiinto her cousins face. II don't
| like everybody, but do like John Boone.
| He isn't bad or coarse or vulgar man.
There is somethingswrong about him; L
know He seems to like to say sharp things
that make people feel uncomfortable. am
always afraid of getting enthusiastic over
| anything, before him, for fear he'll make o
cut at me. He sneers at everything that's
bright and innocent and happy but, Josie,
l sometimes wonder how he feels In his
heart; he wasn't always such a forbidding,
taciturn man. Once he was q little boy,
| you know, and he must have liked to PUN
and play in the sunshine: like other chill
dren. / cannot help believing that some
with him and made him bitter and cynnic-
al--something that he cannot get over. l
| quite believe 1t, JOSIE" i.uuyl. -. ...i
| Rose sat near the door, of the parlor--
Some one going along the entry said,
| ''Thank you." u.l ..-...Iw ~. ..
Rose started and turned, but the hall door
clanged and the hall was empty in.rrH
| "Who was that, Josie? ?" =. t.au. ~. p.
| II don't know; didn't see" said Josie,
who hadn't heard, either. .' % .
| The latter, seated at the piano, went on
with her practicing, while Rose, little dis
turbed by the last words she had heard,
turned to the fire again. She was very
thoughtful; the glow burned one delicate
cheek to bright damask, but she did not
mind. She was wondering how it must
seem to live when person had an inclina-
ton to sneer down everything bright and
innOcently fair. why, there could not be
any joy for them anywhere! Whatif they
proved, that getting delighted with pretty
things or nice people was silly, where was
the satisfactioni I'M proving it! What was
i left but to get along ina stOlid, eheerless
q, way. and never feel happy? One couldn't
be happyif there wasn't any pretty things,
nice people or sunshine, could they?N
By and by it grew so dark that. Josie
couldn't See the notes of her music, so she
stopped playing and looked around. Rose
stillBat upon the ottoman, but she had
| proppeu HoI hoau uPon NCif0O ohoh SS"Vi
and fallen asleep. .g. .. ..Il ..
81 don't WONDER" sighed JOSIE thinking
of her three hours practice; IL wish could
60 to sleep when practicing time comes"
1t was an early April day. There was @
~ soft rain falling outside; inside, the room
seemed warm andclose to Josie. She open
ed the window little, and then left tht
room and shut the door. Il ,r'.t sgui
i Suddenly the red Goals cracked sharply
and spark flew out upon't the hearth rug
If Rose had been awake, she would instant
ly have put her foot upon 1t; but, as she
was not, the scent of burning wool arose In
the room, and soon smouldering fire raI
along the rich carpet. 1t swept around {
chair, and rushed up against the folding
doors, which were of light wood, and sOor
began to crackle and roar. The smoke puff.
ed and wreathed, and Roses sleep changed
to heavy stupor. She lay insensible ir
the burning room, saved from entire suffo
cation only by the sweep of rainy air from
the window. "'i H.-l ..f t..i o.
b 1t had grown quite dark Itwas strang
that people from the outside did not see th
fire, for the room was full of lurid light
The red flame and black smoke crept writh
I ing, up the fair walls to the rich pictures
o. and the light lace window drapery droppet
Z down in burning fragments! The seen
and smoke were sitting, and in the mids
of this scene lay the unconscious girl, a
! yet unframed, though the flames dartet
around her, now and then snatching at he
soft drapery and hanging curls. y =. 'f'
Suddenly there was shout of fire. ant
= simultaneously a crash. The folding door
z felliin, and through them came the inmat
: of the next room, John Boone. The flame
I and smoke met him like wall, but he spran
forward and snatched Rose up with a pas
/ lsionate exclamation. 'h D.
!, To his very arms the flames leaped upo
lher, crisping her curls, sweeping their blac
Hines across her unconscious face, and snatch
ling away her faint breath. He swore, wit
set teeth, his own flesh burning, both thei
clothing on fire, as he fought his way bac
The fire pursued him and cluug to him
In this emergency he refrained from open
ling the hall doors ; his presence of min
was not In the least impaired. Flinging
in 1t, extinguishing the fire, tore off hi
llown smoking coat, took up Rose again, an
. Invent out upon the piazza, shutting til
lwindow after him, though the alarm ha
lIspread, and engines, with accOmpanyin
; lcrowds, were fiocked about the building.
The outsiders saw and shouted athim. "A
ladder was put against the piazza, and h
came down, but just as fireman took Rose
Ia sudden diz2ihess and prostration over
lcame him, and he tainted. 2o iH.r sas
Itwas nearly two months before he say
Rose again. Both were considerably burn
ed outwardly, and injured by inhaling th
, hot, dense atmosphere. But, at the end I
( May, Boone one day rode out to Jamaic
Plain, where Rose was to spend the sun
mer. 1t was very strange thing for hiI
to doi;ghe was not given to calling upo
llyoung ladies', ",eVla 10 m,ii" aGiN0t,
Rose was in little garden, which wa
full of late lillies and early roses fresi
sunshiny place, ringing with the songs
birds.u She was training the rose vines, he
hat hanging from her neck by its string
her,head bare, showing the dark curls, Gu
L short since crisped by the fire. e o. b99l
She looked SO young that John Boone O
the road stopped suddenly as if doubtfI
Of his errand. But he went ON finally ,an
swung open the gate. .ui u9sd ,8a sToiiil
! Rose was very glad to see him, thong
he could see, by the startled lookyin lie
eyes, that he was associated in her min
with thoughts of fear and distress Ilawc
he stayed at the cottage several hours
Whenih he started away Rose went into th
: garden with him, asking him IL fhe woul
> take some flowersif she would cut them
| p"Y es, he saidiA ao I cS9 4 9hi 10 T9ilaq,
| 4 He watched her earnestly as she cut tn
pinks and roses and Ivernal grass, and th
hand with which he took them trembled,
I -5SYon were not sure that I liked flowers,
: he said.,aa .sLngla 6ae-s3ti. II eSt 80
s.Not quite, /" answered Rose, timidly,
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