Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-09

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uncomfortable method Of not calling
Philip anything hut "you."
He read his letter. while Grace began
20 lament the necessity for Mabelle's
early departure the following morning.
and was expressing the wish that she
had not SO long a journey to make
alone, when Philip, laying down his
letter and helping himself TO an egg.
observed Ia n well-feigned matter-Of-
course accent:
81 shall have to go 10 Irkwood myself
Immediately, so / may as well go to-
morrow as the day after, and then Ma
belle will have an escort"
Grace looked swiftly at him, while
Mabelle's face flushed. and the former
said:
Really II you could manage to go
together Il would DO very nice. What
calls YOU 10 lrkwood. Philip"
"a letter from Mr.. Starkie. I've
been expecting IL, to tell the truth. for
some days. They are establishing a
branch concern ut Bradford, and / had
hint that most kelly the management
would be offered TO me; so that the let
ter Is not exactly surprise; but know
Mabelle likes 10 have as little to do with
me as possible, so l thought i would
not make her unhappy with the idea of
NV travelling with her unless it was abb
solutcly necessary.
what do YOU meanP" began Ma
belle, but Grace interrupted:
why, Philip, you must be congrat
ulated, mustn't you9 Isn't 1t c very
good thiugP"
cit will be by no means n bad thing,
and it is very quick promotion.
'Ah, but then. you have gone through
the Uncomfortable hardshlps,' etc.
"And Bradford may be a very dull
place." he added.
"Oh. the idea of thinking of that!
Why don't you congratulate him, Ma
belle? Don't you see that he is waiting
for you To do it?''
"Is hep am sure l do congratulate
you very much. am very glad"
eff you are pleased, / am so glad,
though it seems TO require great effort
on your part to make the necessary
speech for the OCCASION said Philip,
unkindly. "But, considering the jour
ney tomorrow, 1 will say no more about
it,
Mabelle could not answer the teasing
remarks of Philip with her wonted
clever little thrusts i'm return. She felt
an uncomfortable sensation of cropping
in the dark. She wished that Grace
would not keep looking at her so ear
nestly; that Philip would not persist in
talking about the journey tomorrow.
Above all. she wished. and yet did not
wish that that dreadful journey was
safely over
Very soon after breakfast the pony
carriage came round, and DIR. johnson.
coming from the hall. where he had
been waiting, summoned them forth
and il did not do TO keep DIR. johnson
waiting. They all went cut, Mabelle
and Grace in their shady hats, and Phil
ip in what Grace called "the Australian
novelty" in white straw. They took
sun-shades, little shawls, and a goodly
basket of provisions, as TO which Philip
hazardcd the inquiry:
"Who is going TO eat them?'
''Neyer mind that, but put them in, "
said Grace, land when we come back.
| hope your bushes may not bctray
you when mother asks il we had enough
To eat. Now, | think, we are ready. -
"A parting wave of the hand; n
pheasant day, childrenl Supper at
nine, and dou't be late for IT,, from
Mrs. Massey, and they drove slowly
away.
They passed long and glorious day
amongst the woods and on the sands;
sands miles away from any house or
/ habitation whatsoever, under dark,
frowning cliffs, around and beneath
which the sea Numbered forever in sol
itary splendOr. Such yellow, hard,
ribbed sands; such rocks full of strange
fossils and pebbles; such crystal pools;
unruilled as n mirror, rejecting the
sky, and studded with exquisite
anemones, fringed with fairy seawced
OF every hue and every kind; in and out
of which darted tiny gray crabs, and
other minute marine treasures, more
difficult TO recognize and more alb
strusely named.
"It is like Heaven" said Mabelle,
who had wandered with Philip 10 the
waters edge. while Grace sat on the
shingle behind, and fed DIR. johnson.
| Philip and Mabelle stood at the very
brink of the crisp white surges, look
ing out to sea, with miles and miles of
sand around them. To the south, dim
and distant, might be seen the two
stone piers and lighthouses Of Foal-
haven, and the Abbey of st. Ethelhcda
towering more grimly than ever; to the
north more sands. shut in by wall of
frowning black clifs. The air was fresh
aud pure and life-giving; intoxicating
in its mingled soltncss and vigor. Not
n sign of humanity beyond themselves
was visible.
" Do these waves make all this thun-
dering when there is no one here 60
listen to them?" asked Mabellc, dream
lily.
&" That is n curious scientific question
which can't answer; and one might
make poetry about il, too. You should
read about the great explosions which
a.e always going on about the old
planet Saturn-explnsions such Is we
can not conceive of, and no ear to hear
them. remember being struck with
the weirdness of the idea when l first
read of it,"
Yes, indeedr' said Mabellc, turn
ing her head and seeing Grace beckon-
ing TO them
They went to her, and shl said it was
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