Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-05-03

puHlSuIuS oHe VI Inem. 1ou ueeU Hoo
be surprised to hear that have given
up teaching. The Plainville Academy
is proving too much for me and any day
| may drop in upon you"
The letter finished, he started for his
boardlng-place, but as he approached
the graveyard there fitted before him
white-robed ghost which disappeared
as he neared it with a mysterious facil-
ity. But nothing daunted, he pressed
rapidly onward to an immense hollow
tree and forced his way into It's depths.
There was smothered cry of alarm,
the removing of sheet, and Sue Sal
mon stood painting in the arms Of Paul
Cheney.
$50 [ have at last captured the ghost"
he said laughingly.
''Oh, please let me go! See, you have
frightened the girls. and they have all
run away. So please let me 60"
Il do not please just now, Miss Susie.
l have long account to settle with
this particular ghost"
Then settle it quickly and let me
CO." she said impatiently stamping her
little foot
"Well, let me see. How many nights
have | been haunted on my way home %
This is my first night" asserted
Sue. "All the girls took it by turns"
"Ah did they? And you are gen.
erous enough to again be their scape-
goat, and take punishment along with
your own.''
"And there were four of you, and
stopping down to her flushed face he
left four kisses burning there.
81 will never forgive you." she ez-
claimed, struggling from him, and,
standing little apart, began twisting
her long loosened hair, and coiling it at
the back of her pretty bead,
81 shall be sorry for that, very sorry,
Susie dear. AS told you to-day you
make my life miserable. yet | love you
with all my SOUL"
''And hate you," she replied pas
sionately.
"Are you going, SUSIE" questioned
be, "an1 without single word %
"Yes p she calculated, land give me
that sheet. I'm sure | don't know what
mother will say because it is SO torn"
"One little word" he continued, "be-
fore you go. We may not have another
opportunity to see each other alone, as
shall leave this place next week.
"Going away ?" she asked, with a
,:4tlA nuaver in her voice, and staying
her steps.
"Ihe term will soon 10 out, and
shall not teach loDsor.- IN 49,
who hate and refuse to be guided by
me-"
She drew nearer to his side, with
downeast eyes, and giving him her hand
said. softly: Forgive me, Mr.. Cheney,
have been very unkind and rebellious
To-day you bruised your own hand tc
save mine. saw how red and swollen
1t was, and that was the most severe
punishment you could have inflicted or
me-"
"a bruised hand is nothing to buris.
ed heart, he replied.
al did not know | was injuring sc
important an organ"
when you say you hate me, dar'
ling"
IL did not mean | hated you.
am very grateful, and-so sorry you
are going away"
Then if you love me" he whispered
twining an arm around her, "bid me
stay"
"Then-stay,-stay, only"
'Only what, Susie ?"
81 am done being scapegoat for any
mortal or ghost either
THAT is right, and henceforth receive
only rewards
What she might have said in response
he never knew as her lips were for the
moment effectually sealed.
A few months later Paul Cheney
city friend was not surprised at his re-
turn, though he was at his bringing
back a bride, The chief of his tormentors
THE POPULAR PUzzLE.-Mr. Richard
A. Proctor has been giving the English
public some account of the puzzle Of
Fifteen. which, he says, Is exercising
the minds, and apparently also trying
the temper and taxing the moral ener'
gies of the American people. Over the
solution of this puzzle, he adds, hun
dreds of thousands of Americans have
lost their characteristic GOODNESS. ano
some of those hundreds of thousands
have departed, in some, degree, from
the strict path of truth. At any rate
| have seen not few announcements ii
the journals that this difficulty has beer
solved, whereas it is mathematically
: demonstrable that it cannot be solved
When anyone says he has seen the thing
done, he does not necessarily tell an un
truth. for the hand is quicker than tht