News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-08

might be for the making Of marin,
4 sketches.
/ Percie was in the roadin half n minut,
more, and she could but see that the
shadows were lengthening rapidly. She
reflected: ct Is lonely for little way
beyond DIR. Gorham's, but [ won't mind
it from that to the village. [ do hope !
shall not meet Heber Gorham. [ will
not speak to him if l do. L won't even
see him. He has not called since he
came back from Europe, and I hope he
never will again. I detest him"
She said it with needless energy, and
then she began to walk bnskly onward.
She tried hard, too, to persuade herself
that she was only wondering whether, III
her sketch, she had made the horns cf
the COW bear a proper proportion to the
upper branches of the tree on the island.
She was really almost thinking sincerely
about the COW, and the COW alone, when
she suddenly felt called upon to exclaim
ooh, that dog :"
To be sure, that dog. Tsar was on
the other side of the road. and he did
not seem to be taking any particular no.
tice of her, but thus Percie truly re
marked Of him:
He is perfectly enormous y
She forgot about the COW in an instant
but she did not speak her opinion direct
ly to the dog. Neither did she think OF
sketching him, although he was certain
ly worth it. She seemed hardly to care
to look at him.
Tsar, on his part, had taken a good
look at Percie Lee. He was not mis-
taken about her for one moment.
every nice girl Well dressed. Pretty,
too; but she's out late. Most likely her
family are friends of DIR. Gorham. I
must have an eye on that young lady.
1t IS getting dark. "
That eye was what startled Percie so
dreadfuliy a moment later; for she hap
pencd to look behind her, and there was
that vast creature soIemnly stalking after
her
'Ho is following me = she exclaimed.
Not a doubt of it. and the fact that he
or went on Just wheE she did
hardly seemed to help the matter. It
was getting darker and more shadowy
every moment, and Percie would have
been almost willing to run, if she had
not feared that if she did the dog would
every time she Glanced behind her m
til she was afraid to look again. and her
breathing grew a little hurried.
.Nobodv's any business TO have sucb
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spoken thought III the mind OF Percle
Lee, and 1t was followed by doubt as
to whether she should ever aG'ln ''''I'
to come down TO the cove
Il must sketch the lHIilho' Fhe Salu'
"but L Will come III the forenoon.
The three men were walking abreast
now, and they were plainly determined
not 10 turn to the right hand or the left
for Percie Lee. She had Just time to
grasp that terrible idea and to feel her
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