Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-09

She asked the question with Al ill-eOn.
cealed smile, that reused the young mans
temper beyond control.
elf | meet with soorn and contempt
there. 1" he said wraihfully. lit will be
easier TO bear coming from the hands Of
strangers thas from those whom | have
counted upon, all my life, as friends"
Say said nothing, but her face. as secs
BY tho ruddy freight, was cOldly uu-
moved. and the yOung man turned away
with proud light ia his eye that con-
trasted strangely with the grieved and
quivering lip.
well. squire. he said, with an effort
at careless case that did not escape the
old mans keen eye, "yOu don't need me
any longer. | supT OsO? so Ill just say
good night and be of for hsme." And
scarcely waiting to hear the others cor
dial thanks for his timely assistance, he
walked hastily away, aud in a moment
more was lost to sight in the shadOwy
forests beyond.
The old man watched his retreatine
figure. with face at onco grave and puz-
zled.
There amt finer lookin' young fel-
low IN town, he SAID to himself, and the
look Of pcrplcxity decpcncd on his hindly
face as he glanced across at his daughters
trim little figure, clearly defined against
the glowing fire that she was lciaurcl )
feeding from stock of chips and broken
branches on the ground beside her ''and
she always did think, till lately, thai he
was as good as the best. don't see, for
my life. what's come over her oil at once.
Here, jim" addressed his boyish assistant,
'.this kiit!cful has billed enough, an you
may dip it of into the pans, while | soc
to the rest"
And he walked brisk!y across to where
his daughter was still assidiously feeding
tho fire beneath the other kettle.
billed most enough ?" he asked, and
pouring MS he spoke ladlcful of the boil
ing liquid upon patch of clean uutrOd
den snow at his feet.
"Net quite" taking a piece of the
suddenly hardened mass in his practiccd
fingers. "It1I take half IN hours bilin
yeti" and comfortably disposing him
self upon one end of the messy log tina
served his daughter for scat, he added
in the most innocent tones imaginable
"Ben's gone hOmc.'
She answered never word.
Il never see scch fellow" resumed
the old man, mcditatively whiting away
upon a soft piuc chip which he was slow
ly fashioning into the form Of a probe
''why. he's as strong as an OK he's dom
one O. the biggest days works. ter day
that ever saw done in my life. ] DON
wonder, with his bones an muscles, tha
he cant bo contcnted ter sell salts an
scnna over city counter, all his liie."
Say nibblod unconcernedly at tho bi
of candied syrup in her hand, while he
father went on in moro con6dentia
tone !:
"IIc's saved enough out of his clerk
wages to pay his expenses out ter Gall
forny an there ho'll stay till he get
enough TO pay off the mortgage on tn
old place, stock it well, an put up nc,
buildin's, with, maybe, nest.cgg for
rainy day, and then he's comm back t
spend his life with them he loves, in tn
old home"
There was bit of unconscious romano
in the concluding words that Say shrcwd
ly mistrustod was but the echo Of another
words--an echo that grated harshly upo
her ssubbdornly unappreciativc ear, an
she said shcrtly;
GOOD plans are well enough, if the
are ouly carried out, but it's my opinio
that Ben Worth will get as sick of Cal
fornia as be has Of city life. lie ncve
knows his own mind ten minutes at
time"
!, , The squire looked gravcly reproachfu
bu. Say would not heed the look, and :
he spoke she held up, before her face
green, bristling pine bough that served Z
less as screen from her fathers kee
eyes than from the heat Of the blazing fir
Concluded next week.
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