The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-07-13

sort of mixture with that fraud.
feel that the counting out is just a
much a fraud now az at the time
was perpetrated."
PAULA's ANSWER
Paula. with a ruffied apron pinnet
over her head, was out on the bacl
porch gathering morning glory seed
The wind crept up through the with
cred leaves and dry stalks, and rustlet
them with q mournful sound tn,
sparrows in the ivy. which clambered
to the caves, chirped with a sorrowfu
cadence, as though lamenting the pas
sing of the summer. Even the old
house dog, Jack, lay with his head
betwixt his paws, as though he shifted
q dreary melancholy in the autumn
air. Slowly the black. beady seed.
ratified out from their dry husks and
dropped into the rosy palm, while the
pretty face above them was downcast,
and the brown eyes more threatening
of . storm than the leaden-gray au.
tumn sky.
"Pinin' like, for the city. and needs
livenin' up bit, reckon" said good
Aunt Debby, as che sent Paula out
into the crisp morning air. much as
she would send . child out to play.
Il must ask DR.. Stone about her |;
she's looked pimpin' these three
weeks"
As good fortune would have it, at
that identical moment DR.. Stone came
up the road, jogging ieisurely along
behind his gray horse, singing softly
to himself. Paula saw him from be.
hind her screen Of morning-glory vines
on the porch, and of a sudden the
world seemed to brighten. Jack
reused himself with a start. and
bounded of to meet the newcomer,
and, although Mollie McGiIlop was
singing across the way AS she secured
the pewter spoons in the wood shed.
even those nearly tones could not
oh. thaw, with beam. OF love divine.
This heart, this stubborn heart Of Inner-'
1t was very silly, of course, TO blush
when no one was looking, but Paula
did blush wildly, and then said to
herself: Hes a great goose. any
way!" though WHY she called him
goose was certainly remarkable, and
not in the least applicable to such a
man as DR.. John Stone.
Paula watched him as he stepped
from the buggy, stopped to pat Jacks
shaggy head, and say: GOOD fel-
low good old Jack ~ and then came
numbering up the door-walk. "Lum-
bering." Paula called it, because she
was always trying to find the most
disagreeable terms to apply to the
doctor, nowadays. And she remem-
bered how she had watched him the
6rst Sabbath she sat in the little
Hollylands church, when he rose with
the choir to sing, and she wondered If
his head would not 20 to the ceiling.
and If the little woman beside him
was not standing on a pile of singing
books in order to zee the music he held
for her.
There had been times when she
thought better of him, when she had
become well acquainted, and had
learned how fascinating he could be 10
conversation. How he knew about
svery country. and could picture
scenes, which had always seemed dull
20 her, in so life-like q manner that
hey were az beautiful paintings by a |
master hand. He had knowledge,
90, of books. of music, OF people, and |
Paula knew, better than many an
'ther, how imaginative, how tender
hearted and true to his manhood was
his apparently commonplace doctor. |
Many a long drive they had taken
ogether in the late summer, and
PAULA had told him of her city home,
Ter gay companions and the constant
ound of calls, parties. opera and
heatre-going that made her life one
onstant whirl of excitement. until she
anne to spend a few quiet months with
er aunt in the country, and rest for
mother winter Of dissipation. OF
udden he had bent his head until his
yes could search her own, and asked
D q voice that visibly trembled with
''Do you care for it all SO
,uch, Paula, or could you be happy {:
way from the citys gayety? Could
home and a heart of love ever take
he place Of admiration and excite !
tent ?"
Quite startled out of her ordinary {
.lfPossession, Paula had seen that q
lis man was terribly in earnest, that
hat she had regarded as merely a
lssing summer Irritation, had become h
matter of life and death to him. and, c
sxed with herself and her lover, she Y
ID given him to understand in the
ost pointed manner that she detested a
e country. 1t was all very we'll n
hen the sun was shining and the
rth green and beautiful, when ID
'wers were in bloom everywhere, and OF
ople were kind and agreeable. But
len these things faded, and dark b.
rs came, and dreary winds and VIII b,
:, when people one had learned to "a
e ne friends turned to lovers, and so W
de themselves disagreeable, then 10
vas all changed. and she should be ah
d to get away from everything and ~
,rybody associated with her life for
past few months and never see the b.
!ntry again. col
Very much shocked at this rude Oh
akening from his dream of happi- Sci
9, DR.. Stone had set her down at Pa
aunt's door that sunny afternoon. ca,