Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

% the seat outside the door. 81 met your
country cousin on the road, and the pumpkin
was impudent. DO you know, my little
that II was wicked of you to Gil the
Door fellows NOODLE with the notion that you
cared for himP"
With tender aud dehcate movement MIR.
Faro put one OF his slender hands under
Ada's chin and tho other on her head, and,
tipping the latter article gently back, kissed
her lips
Harry never did this so nicely" thought
Ada.
"Great is the trick of loyo-making,"
thought the professional Mr.. Faro, as he
noticed the success of the movement. and
put his arm gently round her waist and drew
her close to his side.
"My poor littlo bird" no said, "must new
er be Gagged in such place rs this. She shall
not have her little wings clipped. She shall
fly away with her Theodore" Here Mr..
Theodore gave her squeeze, TO which she
with deep sigh.
"Will you always love me SOP" she muir
INJURED
"Will tho sun always shincP" asked Faro,
again kissing her. Women seldom get tired
of that, whatever they may pretend.
1t was too bad to see this little girl confd-
ing in such man rs Faro. Willml rs she
was, she would have shrunk from him. had
il been possible for her to soe him MS he
was. Laying her head upon his figured shirt
bosom she INDUCED in dreams. Not u
thought of his being false entered her head,
strange TO say. though she had been 50 faith
less to Harry. The time was not yet come
for the ghost of murdered leve to haunt her.
Her dreams were very pleasant. She felt u
little mortified, perhaps, that she had not
more accurately estimated the power of her
charms, but then the conquest of man with
Mr. Faros ftultless form and exquisite
whiskers was victory enough. TO say nothing
Of the humiliation of the other girls in Still
water, and tho envy excited in their bosoms.
She thought OF his wealth, which, to her,
seemed boundless. She thought of the style
that fate, she felt sure. had destined her to
put on. So that when the magnificent Faro,
pointing with his cane to the moon, asked
her il it would beam on them forever; If her
love would rise in her bosom rs regularly as
yon planets in the heavens If her eyes. like
those stars. would never get weary of twin
King on him, and several other standard
queries invented for the express purpose OF
working up the female bosom,-when he
asked her these questions in deep, rich,
poetical voice, made tremulous by the sim
pie trick of pressing mp the larynX, Ada
snuggled close up to him, and said that she
was sure she would be good deal more
constant than the sun, and would possess the
advantage over that luminary of never be-
ing totally eclipsed-perhaps not exactly in
these words was her declaration expressed,
but her words were to that effect; and Mr..
Faro thereupon kissed her again, and left
her for the night, rejecting, with a laugh. rs
lie crossed the fence, that he had "sure
thing there, while Ada, after receiving the
customary lecture from her mamma, went
to bed, thinking what fools old people get Ia
be, and how little they understand of modern
methods.
CHAPTER II.
Three months had passed into the ever
luSlluH VI Aht phols Ois W OAiltl NOiho
it was September instead of June, when tn,
next scene OF this little drama was showed
out by the individuals who attend to suci
matters.
Some changes had taken place in SILVIA
ter, the principal one in the appearance o
Harry Brown. Some Of the doctors said i
was consumption, but Harry shook his heaC
when they offered him cod-liver oil in Il
spoon, and pressed his hand upon his heart
and the doctors saw that no medicine o
theirs would do him any good; motherly fe
males advised him mot to give way" il
vain the pretty girls of Saltwater were sym
pathetic; still Harry fell away. Trcmend
Gus rs the TEMPTATION is to ridicule u maj
whose health suffers in consequence of un
requited love, it is nevertheless shame AM
piece of great cruelty, and we refrain
The agony with which Harry saw the regu
larly-recurring visits of prof" Faro wa
real enough to him. however absurd 1t nigh
have appeared to Betsey and half a doze
other girls in Saltwater, who thought the
could fill the place Ada occupied once
and give much greater satisfaction.
Mr. Faro had departed from Saltwater
Ills headquarters were now in n city som
twenty miles distant. Every week he cam
to Saltwater. when the gayest team in tow
was procured and Ada and he, both dresse
with all the style that money could procure
would drive around in and out of tn
place, seeming to take particular pleasure
passing and repassing tho grocery-stoI
which Harry Brown kept, and whence !
had conveyed, in happier times, those pre-
ents of candy and figs and calico dresses
which the heart of Ada had delighted. b.
now her family traded at the opposition gr'
Gerry store.
Whenever Mr.. Faro came to town, Ilarl
would be very much upset. lie made !
scrupe of denouncing Faro MS rascal an
gambler. but almost every one said that h
motives were so transparent in this that bI
little faith could be put in his statement
and rs Mr.. Faro assumed the title Of pr
fessor' and continued to have plenty of mo-
ey, people were inclined to believe in hir
and lIarry's business was rather injured
the reports with reference to the professor
which he circulated. Still, on several occ
sions, when business had taken Mr.. Brow
to Bankerville, the city where prof" Fa
had taken up his abode, he had made 1t
point to investigate the comings in and g
ings out of that gentleman, and spoke n
4 altogether from rumOr. Sometimes liar
| would linger round Ada's house when Fa
, was present, with n presentiment or no
| th,N .t,l f,lnaug min ha ugaTIl IN Ia
"a presentiment not destined to be veriie
, a hope never to DO fulfilled.
: One Sunday night, the first one in Septer
/ Der, Mr. Faro was at Ada's home. All sol
of rumors had been floating round with n
: erenee to her for some time. Some sa
4, that she was TO be married; Uthers-the G
a vious ones, perhaps-denounced her-aske
y with peculiar look, where she got all b
d good clothes from, while some of the old