Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-27

rs here is baby French. I can do all the
lessons we have except the arithmetic. !"
.'1ou find the arithmetic pretty stiff?''
II find it impossible to bend it at all
so as to suit nv weak intellect. Those
dreadful sums about express trains
starting off at so many miles an hour,
and other ones having to 60 after them
and oyertake them in a given time
Dreadful ~
Philip laughed!
Those are simple enough. Perhaps
you are not fond of arithmetic"
81 am utterly without the capacity to
do it, said Mabelle. resignedly. "But
Angela SAYS l must study that more
than anything else if l want to get my
certificate. and | suppose must man
age that. whatever happens.
IS Angela" repeated Philip, pro-
louncing the name ingeringly, for the
sake of uttering it. Angela and Ma
belle Fairfax. 1t was no 1rkford name,
shy more than they Che was quite GER
tain) were lrkford people.
Ny sister, / mean. You are the
gentleman who lives next door to US.
And is that lady your sister-the one
with the dark eyes, who is so hand
some?"
IS Yes. that is my sister-Grace. :"
said Philip, secretly feeling extremely
gratified that he and Grace had been
objects of notice and speculation TO at
least one Miss Fairfax-possibly 70 the
other, too.
.' thought she was. Sometimes she
goes to college at the same time that I
go to school. Ohr' continued Mabelle,
as they caught sight of an omnibus,
which Philip made no attempt to take,
Z" how / should like to ride on the top
of an omnibus
Would you? You can not think it
is pleasant mode of conveyance.
:. I suppose not. But | have never
even been inside one.'' (This admis-
sion spoke volumes to Philip % An
gela thinks they are dreadful, but she
is obliged to 90 in them sometimes.
when her pupils live quite out of
town.
=" Pupils?" echoed Philip, interrog-
at:vely. -
Yes. She teaches music to a great
many girls at the High School, and
she has other pupils out of town. 1t is
when she goes to them that she has to
ride in the omnibus.
81 See said Philip. greatly desiring
to ask several questions, but feeling,
with instructive delicacy, that to do so
would be to take mean advantage
of her. She had betrayed the fact that
they were poor. He would have given
much to know if they had always been so.
lis it your sister whom have often
heard playing and singing?" he in
quired, venturing on that question as o
safe one.
''Yes. Does she not play we'll. and
sing. too? Only she says that giving
lessons is enough to take all the music
out of one. l don't know; think if
one has music IN one, nothing viii
drive it out
They had now got into Carlton Road,
and just as Philip was wondering how
many schoolgirls were in the habit of
having such thoughts. and so express
ing Them she turned to him. saying:
''Thank you for carrying my books.
but l will not trouble you any longer"
He put them into her hand. feeling
that though he was stalwart young
man of six-and-twenty. and she little
schoolgirl of some fifteen or sixteen
years, he had received his dismissal in
a most decided shape. Mabelle, with
a gracious smile and dicnified vet
cordial little bow, wished him good
morning and continued her way to
school.
He watched her until she had disap-
peared within its gates. and then he
hailed a hanson, and while he drove to
town he sat staring at his wet UNI
brella, wondering and coniecturing
nightly as to the past, present and
future of his neighbors.
angela Fairfax he repeated to
himself. ''And she gave music lessons,
and she has that little darling OF Sis
ter What a sweet, bright, digniied
little lady she is! Such lady, toon'
thought Philip, raising his eyebrows.
"By George! She must be contrast
to some of her schoolfellows."
Lost in reflections upon this subject,
he arrival at tho Office