The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
"Ah. ha, and that's the reason YOU

bluntness. Now please understand,
Da'--she called him "Da'-"that
shall permit no such high-handed act
ing. Come here. cousin, and notice
how meeklv he shakes hands,"
BY this time both men were laugh
ing, and Agnes smiled complacently
and LETT the room. The second cousin
masculine shook hands and the elder
soon became interested in news from
his old home. When Miss Earle re-
entered the room. an hour later. she
saw that the cousins were on the best
oftermS with each .ther, and judiCious-
ly invited the young man to 60 out on
the porch with her and watch one of
their show sunsets. Judiciously"
means that the wise young woman did
not intend that the others should have
a chance to become bored with each
Other.
From being a mere looker-on in Vi
emma, Nand0r became enamored of
"our glorious climate" and resolved.
with the calm, far-seeing discretion of
twenty-siX, to invest the major portion
of his fortune in California securities.
Fortunately Richard Earle was wise
mentor. No one knew the ms and
outs of San Francisco trade better than
he: and Nandor managed to steer clear
of Pine street, and locked most of his
money into the walls Of Il big bonded
warehouse From being enamored of
our state and our climate, it was easy
enough to fall in love with one of our
loveliest girls; and before their knowl-
edge of each other had lasted Il year,
Agnes made herself believe that she
loved him well enough to become his
wife, and all this with the full consent
of gruif Richard Earle.
At Il point on the lowest shelf Of the
Berkely foothills, about midway be-
tween the South Hall of the Univer-
sity and the grounds of the State In
stitute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
is a covered cistern, in which is gath
cred the outflow of dozen mountain
springs. This point is the vantage
ground of a superb outlook. To the
south, the farthest visible horizon is
marked 10y the rounded shoulders of
Iona Prieta, ten miles southwest of
san Jose. TO the north, in the farthest
discernible distance, are the low hills
between Petaluma and Santa Rosa,
waving line of deepest indigo at the
base of the blue sky. There are three
evenings in October and three in April
when, looking from Berkely, the sun
sets directly behind the Farallones,
and against its exaggerated and dis
torted disk the curious clusters of black
rocks stand out like silhOuettes.
1t lacked less than an hour of sunset
when Agnes climbed to the little knoll
and stood beside the queer, cone-shaped
cistern roof. The fair scape of land
and sea and sky unrolled like a scroll
from her very feet, west and south and
north.
a little path meandered at an up
ward angle around southerly curve
in the broad hillside. Along this path
came young man, with a dog at his
heels and a gun under his arm. 1t was
John Nandor, trudging home from a
contraband sally after unlawful wing
shots. Agnes did not heed his APP
proach, and he leaned against the fence
scarcely a rod away, with the dog at
his feet and a cigar in his mouth.
1t is idle to try and attain the i'm
possible-to put into accurate thinking
and tangible words the lovliness of that
evening scene. Looking due south,
over the apparently perfectly level of
Oakland and Almeda, the southern arm
Of the bay, which CLEANS under the
morning sun like narrow silver rib
bon that a boy might jump across, was
river of indigo, with scarcely visible
ripple on all its surface a wall of
smoke arose above the houses of the
city; its base in gloom, its coping light
ed with yellow flame
81 like it, Agnes; do you p
Agnes turned at the sound of his
voice, and there was a truce of dissatis-
fled surprise in her tones of welcome.
The young man would have been
dull indeed if he had not noticed, and
spiritless if he had not been piqued.
"You surely don't wish to keep the pic
ture quite to yourself, do YOU"
mo, it was the immediate fore
ground only that l cared to monopo-
lie"
Cared is past tense, Agnes"
"Care, then"
"'Carc then isn't grammar"
She looked at him disdainfully for an
instant, and then looked another way.
"You will be sorry for this some
time" the young man said, quietly but
very gravely. IF have offended you,
let me know how; I'm always ready
enough to apologize, am not?'
"Too ready"
"Too ready"
eyes. | am as tired of this intermi-
nable scene-making as you can possibly
be this kiss and make up condition
of affairs. We are engaged; we have
exchanged VOWS and rings and sophis-
tries"
"Sophistries?"
"Yes; have we not declared over
and over again that we love each other
above all else? 1t is a-an error. Each
of us loves his own way better than