The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-01

"Where can she be going at this
hour| asked Grace, following with
her eyes the 1.-THE, graceful figure of
the girl
Probably to school," said Philip, in
tone of Indifference.
''School-oh, very likely. There is a
great big girls school near here, isn't
Yes, in Carlton Road. close by. Lots
of girls go-hundreds. Ones always
seeing them up and down."
knowP"
81 don't l saw two young ladies ar
rive in cab the other night. That's
all l know about them. They lodge
there, | suppose"
Very likely. Well-oh, here is YOUR
omnibus, isn't it? Good bye"
In another minute Philip had been
carried out of sight by the omnibus.
and Grace was left to find her way to
the scene of her studies, the Women S
| College, the classes of which she had
prevailed upon fond father and ten
der mother to allow her to attend.
Philip, from the top of the omnibus.
soon caught sight again of the figure
of the schoolgirl, as he supposed her to
be. Yes; she was lust turning down
the side street which led to the Girls
High School, and he had been right in
his conjecture
81 wonder who on earth they can
beP' he specialized. Then an acquaint-
ance sitting next to him began to speak
OF other things, and Philips specula-
lions ceased.
Some days passed. The month of
May gradually advanced, and the holt
day hours of Whitsuntide seemed for
gotten in the roar and hustle of renewed
work and business.
Grace assured her brother again and
again how very happy she was. and
Philip found her a pleasant companion
The Yorkshire girl was full of life and
spirit, and a bright example of the
boosted intelligence of her native coun-
try; having an ample fund of shrewd-
ness and common sense-a "long head
on her young shoulders, and warm,
generous heart to boot. Honesty was
her chief characteristics of
word, deed and purpose on her own
part, love of honesty in others, and q
quickness in, rs it were, seeming out
dishonesty in all its forms, and AN in
tense, uncompromising detestation OF
it,which, as Philip told her, was, on the
whole, rather troublesome than other.
wise. But he smiled as he said it, and
Grace, with n secret thrill of pleasure,
felt that he loved her for that honesty
and that the salient feature of his owl
character was the same thing: that
whatever he might say, in Jest or satire
he was loyal to the backbone" Jan
mock" to use the expressive vernaculal
of Lancashire or Yorkshire-that, hi:
word, once seriously pledged, be it b,
no more ample formula than ''yes" OF
"no.' 81 will" or 81 will not" i
would be kept at whatever cost, anC
kept, not in letter only, but in the very
spirit of his promise.
A few days sufficed to make Grac,
satisfied that Thekla and Emile Berg
haus were az fond, like her brothe
and herself 'jannock," and tn,
friendship progressed with the rap
id pace incidental to the friend
ships of honest boys and girls il
general. The Berghaus girls were un
spoiled at heart, though their training
and education, their incessant courses
{ of balls and visits, and their life in
t house whose doors were always open
/ and which was scarcely ever void o.
some kind of company had given then
confidence of manner and some
, what artificial behavior which had a
first rather puzzled and almost re
PEELED the country-bred girl. But tn,
commences which she soon found be
meath the surface quickly won he,
heart, while it was very pleasant, ever
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as the Women's College, occasionally
to cast aside her studies and partake o
the social amusements to be found a
Carlton Grove. Compliments were
not altogether despicable, even to on,
+ who protested to be interested in Mill
, System of Logic" and the attention
which Philips friends paid to hi
bright and handsome sister was by NJ
means disagreeable to her.
One morning, when it streamed will
rain, somewhat more than week afte
Grace's arrival, Philip, little late
! than usual, rose from the breakfast
table and prepared to take his way t.
,, town. Grace had been discoursn2
l again about their next door neighbors
and Philip had been more interested il
the discourse than he would have careC
to confess. Whether from that reason
i, or not, he was three minutes late, ant
when he opened the door and looked
out the omnibus was just vanishin!
round a corner, on its way to town
D Buttoning up his macintosh and rails
: ing his umbrella. he decided to walk a
far as Carlton Road, and there take an
other omnibus, OF, in default of that,
cab to the Office.