Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-08-14
There's as good fish in the sea as ever

There's as good fish in the sea as ever
yet were caught" she sang. gayly.
well" said Ben, rising, and look
ing blue lightnings, ION the whole,
I'm glad that you won't marry me, for
you've got no more heart than an adj
der" And then he could have bitten
his tongue out for saying what wasn't
true, when his heart was almost break
ing for love of her; and if she had
showed that she was wounded. bv
word or look, he was ready TO abase
himself beneath her feet, aud take it
all back.
You're amazing polite, Mr. Thur
man, must say" she returned. I'm
sorry you asked for what you didn't
want, because it would have been awk-
ward If hadn't refused. didn't
know this was the way folks made love
calling names, when I've always
treated you we'll"
Treated me we'll with n vengeance :"
cried Ben, his face white as star, and
his eyes like thunder-bolts 'Do YOU
call it handsome treatment to let me
go on loving you year after year, while
it strengthened with my strength, with
out hint that you couldn't return
measure for measure! And then TO 20
back upon a fellow, and throw min
over because he doesn't live like a ma
bob, though he loved the ground you
walked on, and thought nothing too
hard TO do for you If that's what you
call treating me we'll, good BY don't
want. ever 10 see you again"
! Louisa had been looking at him with
! sparkling eyes. She rather liked 10
see him angry it was vastly bccom.
/ ing. And then he loved her SO des-
! perateiv. She felt strange delight
| ful thrill at her heart, As il il responded
secretly. She had half a mind 10 90
I 10 him and hold out her arms and 10
clasped to his beating heart, aud for.
get ambition and luxury and choose
rather heaven on earth and while
she had hesitated he had said, "Gool-
BY don't want ever 10 see Won again
I -good-by."
Il return the sentiment" said She.
instead. II believe can live without
/ you. "Good-by." And when he was
safely out of sight she took revenge
IN good cry.
4 But now that he was gone she began
4 10 hnd how much she hal depended
/ upon him, how much more has mere
! presence was 10 her than auy dream az
worldly prosperity however golden.
Perhaps but for this breach she might
never have known how dear he was t.
her, nor how little she valued the su-
/ perfiulties OF life in comparison. Well,
/ one OF the three was TO return before
the winter season Of logging began in
order 10 lay in provisions for the caup
As they hal only taken up enough
/ for week or ten days-and perhaps
! Zen would be the one 10 come 4: in
S, Which ~, ciss ss- .n,, he sonld hardly syoil
aud uncle. And then who would pre-
diet but he might think it worth his
while To rciterate his love in his clio
} quent style And then Louisa laughed
/ "lckedly at the prospect, and decided
that-f he was enough in love 70 10
beyond peradventurc to take her own
time about making up, 10 show 4 ~
preme indifference 10 his regard NJ
more heart than an adder indeed
W hat was 1t, then, that ached 50 dav
alter day, as the dull cold November
wind sighed about the house and touch.
ed the ncighboring pines into .EOllan
harps and swept up the dead leaves
only TO scatter them again? WHY was
she always straining her eyes down the
irostwhltened country road: And
what was 1t that trembled in her bosom
whenever a speck appeared agains, the
frosty sky: But Louisa had rcckoncd
without her host. Ben was not the
man who was fond of reiterating love
that had been received so coliy. He
didn't mean TO leave the woods till
March, If he could hold out 50 long.
Moreover, it was Mr. Bruce himself
who proposed 10 go back with the OK
team and bring the SUPPLIES and hire
the men.
IL don't feel quite right about the
head, said he, land | want Louisa 10
J cosset me. Then I'll go out to Shop
ton and see Scales and Weight about
the supplies, and be back before YOU
and 81 have eat up all this ere VIC
tuals.'
''All right. Sir said Ben, smother
ing twinge of disappointment which
he wouldn't own to himself "Well
get the hovel ready for the cattle while
you're OFF, and take Il tramp through
the woods and spot the best timber for
telling"
There's enough to do" said Uncle
Simon.
You'll be back in five days, say"
If I'm lucky. How's the stores,
Sl:'
Good for week, | should say,
such as they are. But the sooner you
get back the better. It'll be a sight
easier for you if you can manage to
get up before Il heavy snow comes.
You see we haven't had anything but
spits yet, though maybe we're going to
hev an open winter"
LAY, ay," answered Mr.. Bruce, as he
| ulONe ou luIouSu tuc "OOus Win Tue
OK team. ''Provisions for a week, eli
That'll tide We over, l reckon. There's
Il sight of work to be got through with
in weeks time. There's the supplies
to be got, and the hands to be hired
lemme see-five cutters, two team
sters, and cook ; that's about it. and
to hev EN- ready to start when do,
and l amt SO young as l was. Hey
day, it's rub and grind lumberman's
life isl!
Alas there was more to be gotten
through with in weeks time than Mr..
Bruce had an inkling Of; so much that
it ran over into the next week, as work
has trick of doing.
When Louisa saw that it was only
her old father trudgiug along with the