The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-24

John with smile of great sweetness,
and ignored her other admirer.
Mr.. Waters, with a great deal of quick
ness, then commenced to shower down
politeness upon the head of his enemy,
and was pleasantly apologetic.
John continued to be savage, how
ever, and made himself so disagreeable
that Jennie finally turned her back upon
him completely, and she and Mr.. Wa
ters had the conversation entirely to
themselves.
John sat with the aspect of revenge
full robber for a few minutes, and then
sulkily left the room. He was about to
leave the house, when Mrs. Cobb called
to him to return.
" John,'' said she breathlessly, "pa
has gone to bed and want to have
talk with you. Don't you think Bob
heard that Jennie promised to go over
to Rockville to the dance Thursday
night with that puppy of Waters, and
/ want you to help me put stop to it,
Pa says, 'Oh, you let Jennie alone, and
it will come out all right;' and I've no
doubt but what it would eff 1 could hev
patience to set still and see child of
mine make fool of herself You see
how it is He's heard of her inheritin'
her Aunt Fields property, and she's a
pooty girl too, and looks we'll to go
round with: but, if she was as humble
as sin, he'd want to git her jest as bad,
so he could be supported in idleness, ,and
set in the store and wear his best clothes
every day. And she's taken.a fancy to
him jest because he's new, and knows
how to say soft things, and is so mighty
perlite and attentive, and has such
white hands, and all the other girls are
so in love with him. They say he's
the best dancer that ever took step in
this part of the country, and that goes
good ways with girls before they git
over their folly. But won't hev him
hangin' round here; and, if you'll help
me put stop to it, why, we'll do it
right straight off,"
Sc 1 don't know what 1 can do about
it," said John gloomily.
"Well, I'll tell you," said Mrs. Cobb.
"Did you know that the turnpike bridge
was broken ?''
why, yes" said John, looking
somewhat Mortified, as if he thought
the lady was contemplating murder.
And the only way that body can
git over from Rockville now is through
the old road, that is kind of pokerish,
and runs through that awful dark piece
of woods, where the peddler was muir
dered when grandpa was boy"
John looked more and more mys-
titled.
" always go that way when 1 have
an errand at Rockville" said he, lit is
so much shorter.,'
$50 does most everybody but not Mr..
Waters. Seth, our hired man, used to
live over to his uncle's and this Frank
was there, and he says he's the biggest
coward he ever seed in all his born days,
and, no matter how much of hurry
he's in, he goes way round the other
road when he comes over this way, for
fear of seein' the ghost. They say there
is ghost there, you know; old Daddy
Jenkins saw it once, and so did Mis-
Ethan Grindle when she was drivin
home from the store alone. Now, when
Thursday night comes, 1 want you to
dress up in sheet, I'll help you rig
and then drive over, lin hide in them
woods, and, when Waters comes along
on his way to get Jennie, you just APP
pear in the road, and he won't dare to go
past you any more n u if you held out
pistol, and said, 6 Your money or your
life. -
John laughed, but could not at first
be brought to see the wisdom of the
plan.
What if Jennie really likes him,
after all !" said he, a flush of pain
passing over his face. "And then she
will be disappointed about the dance
Everybody is going"
You can go with her, yourself, af-
terward. You can git home in plenty
of time. John, Pm determined that
you shall go, for my sake if not for your
own. / know whether she likes him
or not and know who she does like,
in the bottom of her heart
And John finally consented to as
sumo the character of ghost, and OBJ
struct the way Mr.. Frank Waters on the
road to his lady-love in the shades of
Thursday evening.