The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-20

" our cousin had much raJner ac-
cept the family apology from you"
said Vandor, laughing. However,
I'll go back and try and explain that
Pm not broke"
Agnes led the way, and marche
straight TO her fathers side. She ben
and kissed him lightly, and then stand
ing directly In front of him, she shook
at him one taper finger, saying, with
an inimitable drawl, "Arent you
ashamed of yourself 2"
"Why didn't he come here at once,
then," snarled the bronzed grizzly.
"Ah, ha! and that's the reason you
send our cousin away with your awful
bluntness. Now please understand,
Da'-she called him "Da"-"that
shall permit no such high-handed act
ing. Come here, cousin, and notice
how meekly he shakes hands"
BY this time both men were laugh
ing, and Agnes smiled complacently
and left 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
of terms with each .ther, and judicious-
ly invited the young man to go 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 mere looker-on in vi
emma, Vandor 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 a wise
mentor. No one knew the ins and
outs of San Francisco trade better than
he; and Vandor managed to steer clear
of Pine street, and locked most of his
money into the walls of 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 year,
Agnes made herself believe that she
loved him well enough to become his
wife, and all this with the full consent
of gruff Richard Earle. ~
At a 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 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 by 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, a
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 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 gun under his arm. 1t was
} John Vandor, trudging home from d
cOntraband sally after unlawful wing
} shots. Agnes did not heed his ap
proach, and he leaned against the fence
, scarcely rod away, with the dog al
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 loyliness of thai
| evening scene Looking due south
over the apparently perfectly level O
Oakland and Almeda, thesouthern arm
9 of the bay, which CLEANS under the
morning sun like narrow silver rib
; bon that boy might jump across, wa
q river Of indigo, with scarcely visible
ripple on all its surface. A wall o
smoke arose above the houses of tn
city; its base in gloom, its coping light
!, ed with yellow flame.
= 81 like it, Agnes; do you?"
Agnes turned at the sound of hi
y voice, and there was a truce of dissatis
fed surprise in her tones of welcome.
:, The young man would have beel
Q dull indeed if he had not noticed, AM
spiritless if ne had not been piqued
e you surely don't wish to keep the pic
: ture quite TO yourself, Oyou?"
a mo. it was the immediate fore
ground only that l cared to monopc
r lize."
"Cared is past tense, Agnes"
h Care, then"
"'Care then isn't grammar"
g She looked at him disdainfully for a