The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-10

! how commonplace ana incomplete. Did you ever notice that some girls carry sunshine in their voices? It Is a fact, whether or not you have noticed it. know that Lapette's voice was full of sum- shine, for everything was brighter when she spoke. Her heau:y, when she en- tered the room, bounded upon my vision like glad surprise.
 "Oh, yes, you must remain awhile with us," she remarked the next evening after my arrival, when Bob had renewed his in vitation. "It is very lonesome here at times. When father is not at work he walks around with his hands behind him. There's nothing that makes me more lonesome than to see a man walking around that way. It always seems to me that he is in trouble; and mother, she is so quiet ard easy-well mother reminds me of a piece of china, Bob, I'll declare she does," turning to her brother and growing brighter in the light of her new found comparison. No one would ever know that she is on the place, hardly" turning to me.
 "We can't say as much for you" re- piled Bob. Everybody in the neighbor- hood knows when you are at home"
 D." Am such romp, MT. Hablett2"
 &No,"N replied. "I-I never saw any one>aore lady-like."
 "There now, Mir. Smarty," shaking her head at Bob.
 Oh, he just says that because he can't get around it," said Bob.
 "No you don't, do you ?" appealing to me with an air so bewitching that actually felt like getting up and daucing the Essence of Old Virginia"
 "l mean it, Miss Lanette. You are lady-like"
 There now again, MT. Smart Jackety But Mir. Hablett, you haven't told me yet"
 Haven't told your"
 "No, haven't told me that you can re- main with us awhile"
 Well, l am on vacation and much prefer this to any other place." in the world, came in one of saying" prefer it to any other place have found."
 "Thank you," she said.
 As l sat there, contemplating her en- trancing beauty, wondered if she could really be a flirt. Then this crushing thought fell upon rather than arose within me. ]" Of course she is. A girl so frank, so easily delighted, could be carried off by any clod-hopper." Ihad never heard it intimated that was handsome, and my feet, with a pronounced affinity for No. o's, now seemed to be encased in twelves. Oh, yes, loved her-loved her until was actually sick. Alter supper, l went out alone and told myself that was fool. heard Lanette singing, and ad- dressing myself, l said:
 Hablett, you are the biggest fool l ever saw. Why don't you pick up few grains of sense as you go alonga Don't you know that girl is laughing at you ?"
 returned to the house, and going to my trunk-which had just been brought from the boarding house T took out Blackstone and decided to rub up my knowledge of common law, but incor- poral hereditaments, free-holds and the like, were powerless to divert my mind from the engul6ng channel into which it was determined to founder. put down the book, and as sat musing, ob rather agoniziHg, heard woman in the hall way ask:
 Miss Lanette, whar Wild Bob ketch up wid dat cuis lookin' white mani ?" CHAPTER ".
 Three weeks had elapsed and yet re- mained guest at the Gosman farm house, Bob and spent much of our time in fishing, but didn't want to fish Fish, the mischief Talk about fishing to man who is almost on the verge of dropping on the ground and kicking in the agonies of fatal love The girls att tentions had not abated, but, hang it, l could not see that they had increased. couldn't fool along this way. was de- termined to bring the case to trial.
 Late one afternoon while moping in the woods near the house, met Lanette, who, with handful of wild flowers, was returning home from a neighborhood visit. On my part, don't think that the meeting was altogether accidental.