Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-05-20

Georges occasionally. He was
glad to meet George, and liked tc
see the others well enough, but
always appeared to be living in {
hurry and the place, with all it;
elegance, never seemed to have ;
cosy, family air, and so had littlC
attraction for him.
Joo returned these unfrequent
visits with compound interest, ant
spent a good deal Of time at the
Office; partly because he was neith,
e. ornamental nor useful at home
and there was comfortable feeling
o safety in having him with Uncle
Max, but chiefly because it was his
own sweet will, and he could talk
and ask questions there to his
hearts content, even though, as in
the present instance, not half of
them were heard Or answered. joe
certainly did not consider the room
either dreary or lonely, but then
the doctor had scarcely thought
about it until lately himself. He
had rot known, either, how much
he had been thinking Of the quiet,
earnest. young music-teacher, end
how thoughts of her had brighten-
ed every place for him, until her
growing reserve and distant polite
ness had awakened him to consci-
ousness. And she had fancied be
might annoy her with his persis-
tence, perhaps! No fear Of that.
He was not so vain rs to think him
self irresistible, nor so selfish rs to
press even his love upon her, if that
love could not make her happier,
he said to himself.
Burglars = remarked Joe.
"Eh! what e. demanded Uncle
Max.
To be sure, Joe had been talking
almost necessarily for the last ten
but he had heard nothing
of it until that rather starting word
attracted his attention.
"They've broke into good many
places about town and carried off
lots OF things" pursued Joe. 81
guess they must be pretty rich by
this time and they don't care about
folks bein' about either; they just
put 'cm to sleep. How do You sup
pose they do that, Uncle Max r.
"Oh, l don't know" responded
the doctor, carelessly. Relieved
that only burSlaries in general were
under discussion, and that neither
his brothers house nor the bank
had been robbed, he was far less
Interested in any maurader's bold
ness than in considering Edith
More's shyne~s and constraint when
she hal called with a message that
She would never have
come to him, he was sure. only that
the unsusnecting old lady who sent
her would swallow no other doctors
portions, and Edith was too tender
hearted to refuse so slight an act Of
neighborly kindness. How quick
she had been to assure him, when
he promised TO he in the office on
her return, that it was of no consc-
quence If only he could leave
the powders for her, that would
answer quite as wen. 1t was A.
most time for her to come. What
if he met her and spared her a part
of the long walk! 1t was out Of
her way, he knew-so well he had
learned the round of lesson-giving!
Joe was still deep in the subject
of Burglars. He had explained to
his own satisfaction how, "after
dark, they carry lanterns thatll
shine or not shine just as they want
'em to; and they wear stuffed shoes
that you can't hear no morn a cat
with mittens on. And anyhow, you
can't tell who they are, if you do
see 'em. cause their faces arc COW
cred with-with-oh what is that
they put on their faces, Uncle
Max p
"On their faces r. repeated Un-
rle Max, pondering another ques-
tion-should he go or not go
Would there be any danger of his
failing to meet her!
"Yes what they cover their faces
with, you know Z" said Joe.
"Cover their faces with Why,
wells generally" think
ing of certain brown one that
would be iluttering along the street
now. He decided to
go.
"Such as women wear! p queried
Joe.
"Why, yes, of course it's always
women that wear them"
ais ~ demanded Joe, quite ex-
cited by this new item Of informa-
ton. al didn't know that"
"I'm going out for q little while,"
said the doctor drawing on his over
coat and taking up his gloves. "lf
You'll stay here till / come back,
LII walk up home with YOU"
"Wcll," said Joe, contcntedly.
"And if any persons come, try to
keep them till i get back; it won't
be long"
"Isn't any danger of any ona
coming here, is there y asked Joe,
looking somewhat scared.
"Why not :" laughed Uncle Max,
only the words. "You are
not very complimentary, Joe. Do
YOU think I'm 80 poor a doctor that
il wouldn't be worth while for any