Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-21
her look

Pike with the horseman her look
changed TO a very serious one.
81 hope he does not remember you.
Philr', She exclaimed. al should not
think he did-shOuld your"
81 should not think so, returned fhii-
in, oracularly; ''only. that whatever
ought not to happen, and whatever you
don't want to happen, is exactly what
always does happen. Yet, / must own,
that he has never dropped q word
which could lead me to think he recol-
lects me: and but for something in his
eyes when / first met them-in the Of
fee. meant should feel pretty GER
tain that he had forgotten me. But
only think. Marian, / saw that very
tramp tonight, as | was coming here"
IL hope he will not get into any more
quarrels and involve YOU" said Marian.
..Why does he not 90 away somewhere
else? He ought to do so, YOU k2ow, il
he is tramp"
II think il is because he does not
know where else TO CO." replied Phil,
with laugh. II saw him at the cir
Gus. which has recently come to Sands
mouth. and which is likely To stay there
long time. | hear / did not know
him; merely saw there was shabby
man. who was leaning against the
woodwork by the side of the building
and smoking q pipe; but as / passed
the man nodded and said: / hope you
are well, sir?' OF course looked closer
ut him then, and recollected where i
had seen him. He told me that he had
got work at the circus. / was not par
ticularly glad TO hear this, for have a
kind of instinct which makes me wish
him quite out Of my way. To my sur
prise. he asked me how liked my new
governor showing that he knew who
Mr.. Pike was; and then | remembered
some odd words he had used on the
night of the quarrel, which paid no
attention TO ut the time, but which
now see had the same meaning. /
laughed. and advised him to keep out
of Mr.. Pixies way. He laughed, too,
but in n very unpleasant style, and said:
You bet | shall. l have been doing it
for n good while; aud 10 will be just as
well for him TO keep out of mine
"What could he mean by his strange
language about Mr. Pike?" said Marian,
going straight to the point which had
Impressed her most. do YOU think
he can be mad? Ought we not to tell
Mr.. Pike about him?"
"No; do not think he is mad in the
least" replied Hartleby; .'and. from
what little / have seen of Mr.. Pike, ]
doubt if that gentleman would approve
of my zeal in repeating such CONVEX
sation. But we will not talk of my
friend, the tramp, any longer. What
do you think heard to-day, Mariana"
To this query Miss barnett was
obliged to return a reply declaring that
she could not guess; and Phil then told
her that n rumor of Mr.. Scamler's
speedy retirement was rife in the office,
and, rs matter of course, speculatiOns
as to the changes consequent thereon
were rife also. As these speculations in
| cluded the promotion of Mr.. Philip
! Hartleby, and, rs a larger salary would
Justify his immediate marriage, it will
at once be seen that the fresh line OF
| conversation suggested was sufficiently
engrossing in its interest to Danish all
recollection of minor subjects, and to
supply an ample stock of materials fol-
castle-building, with visions of fairy-land
in general, for the remainder of the
walk. on which, according 10 custom,
they now started.