Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-11-10

"lt YOU are really sullN you H"S' -
without your supper to night, as did thai
night. and then I'll make it all up with
you"
90! will you. truly, Dear Ted, how
good YOU are! am SO glad! l don't
mind going without my supper-ihai''
nothing. wished YOU had asked some
thing harder Of M. Bn. won't You kiss
ne, redJy--iusl oace:'
TO. morrow" | answered, turning
shortly away. "A0or its all over, I'll
kiss YOU if YOU want But not to night
Very well; to morrow, then !"
She took her lillle wls.lul, tcarslained
tlcc off to The other side OF The room,
aud sat peuuently down by the frc. She
sat there quietly while the bell Tuug, and
my grandfather aad took our places Al
The table. had pictured her, in my
mind, with a disgraced air going carly,
supperlcSs 10 bed, and was not prepared
/ Tor this. Grandfather missed her. She
always sat At his right hand, feeding out
OF his cup or plate, rs the wilIu' fancy
moved her, and he now percmpiorily
ordered her to her usual scat by his side
Not to night, please, dear dada y she
/ pleaded, without stirring; aud when he
ASKED her what was the matter, went hur
licjly on; II am not to have any tea to
night. don't really mind it, Is moth
/ ing-and Tcddy's going TO forgive nc
aud-he will Kiss me in The morning
and we are always going 10 be good
hiends after this alway9 forever"
Then her voice broke. and, with rush
OF lcms. she went away from the room,
up stairs, 10 hide them out OF sight.
80, SO Master Theodore, that's it. IS
.b?7 My Srand.ather's sharp, gray,
needle gun eyes, seemed to shoot me
through and through. Little Janet is
10 be punished because she was honest
enough to show gu up in your lai,hlcss
ness to me2
muIcrcd something ia reply moi quite
intelligiJlc
well. it wont hurt JAact, this disci
piiue, Ike to see The metal she's made
ol But. rs Tor you, sir, i, strikes me that
YOU have much more The air OF cu.Plit,
sitting there eating your supper than The
liule gir. who ia hiding her honest tears
up stairs in bed"
It WAS tough work. His looks ani
words were hard to bear; but sat il out;
nuncAing my bread with defiant air, aud
alterS Sards going on, Of The room with as
much brayado as ! could assume, lightly
humming, Love i q sickness" one OF
our grandlalher's old airs which Janet
and l expected to sing together.
kissed Janet the next morning. and
50 we made up our difference aud pretty
much IN this way we qdarrellcd and made
up again Ill. | "AS eighteen years OF age
aud sea, away 10 school By that time
il was pretty well understood that grand
father designed u 10 be married as soon
rs my education was finished, and to in.
heri, his property. don't know that
either OF Us though. much about il. Ja-
ne, vas my slave, and | accepted her de
yoii0n as nucied q man shou,I-gIand
~. Ny grandfather. watching his idol
Janet closely. WAS sali5tied. because he
saw that she was happy. Blu. sometimes
when my domineering temper oyertoppcd
even iis ordinary cxacling demands on
Janel's sweet humility, he would shake
bis head aud muller loreboding OF the
"wi.d ua;ure-the Burr blood. which l
had inherited from my ancestors.
IpAssed my first vacation abroad. One
excuse after another l made. until Two
years were gone before l came home
again The welcome then WAS warm.
My grandfather, whose haiI had whiIen.
ed wonderfully. leaned heavily on my
aln As he walked up and down the room
You see l am changed. Ted-changed
FOL The worse-in these two years. But
Jauct-you think Jauels changed Tor the
beuer; don't on. eh?' lie looked Nux
iously in my face.
Ny only reply was to bend and kiss tue
exquisite dimp!es that lay like crumpled
rose leaves in her rounded check aud chin.
Size flushed up splcndidiy, and drew
Slightly away. 1t was the first time | had
krown Janet was shy, and it added a
keeucr relish TO my appreciation. some
what superci.lious, OF her frank and gen
erous country beauty. Grandfather
SMILED proudly.
"TLele's no eiri like our Janet he
said TO me. "She was brought up 10y
men women don't train such girls-and
she's got a mans coulage, = mans will,
and a mans sense of honor, added to q
woman's tenderness. You are happy
man, Ted, to possess her"
acquicsced, with inward supercillious.
ness, thinking my grandfather was getting
childish in his old age. But | remom-
bered i, all alterward, and recognized his
wisdom
One day, late in the afternoon, l got
my horse out, and, promising Janet that
| would be gone but an hour rode briskly
away over the white, hard winter ground.
The cold air set my pulses bounding; the
blood mounted to my head, and, singing
luliously, rode on and on. In the out
skirts OF the town Ichanced TO meet some