The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-08-01
uy patiently, "why can't you speak SEN

ton Of vanity, Sue"
"Wlll you never cease your ioklng2 1
want the ponies and carriage to go after
Minnie on Saturday."
Impossible, the ponies VIII be In
use."
"Why, Guy, you wouldn't leave her to
get here from the station herself, would
youY'
"Why notp"
"What tease you are. I repeat It,
1 want the ponies"
'And 1 repeat it, you cannot havo
them"
why, Guy, don't believe there 10 q
single reason why should not have
them"
"But there is."
"What is lt2''
because I want them to 90 after
Minnie myself"
''I might have known it," said Susie.
laughing. "Don't you want to do the
housework, and let me farm 1t while
Susie Is here9"
eyes," replied Guy, with cornlcal
frankness. "That Is exactly what
would like"
81 thought so, but 1t wouldn't do you
any good; Minnie would never notice an
old farmer like yourself"
With this parting shot, Susie left her
provoking brother to himself.
But before Saturday there came an
other note which read as follows:
Ny DEAR SUSIE: have been disap-
pointed day or two in visiting you.
The friend who intended to accompany
me was Mrs. George Maynard, but a
| sudden summons to New York has pre-
vented our visiting you together. !
shall be with you on Tuesday.
MINNIE.
Susie Guthrie read the note through
the second time before she could COM
prehend its meaning.
Mrs. George Maynard. Then George
was really married, and his wife had
thought of visiting her.
Thrice blessed Providence which had
kept her away!
And she had fancled herself engaged
to George Maynard. All too plainly she
remembered George'e words:
Promise me not to make any matr,-
monial engagement for five years.
And the rest had been her own ilnagin-
ation
Thank heaven, the news had come to
her as it had, for now Minnie Little
should never know, for doubtless
Georges wife was mutual friend Of
theirs, and if Minnie knew, Georges s
wife might suspect her secret also.
She unclasped her chain from about
her neck and was about to cast 1t from
her.
81 cannotl Oh, cannotp she cried,
and hid the long cherished souvenir up
on her heart.
Guy was thunderstruck.
81 never imagined such thing" said
he; 81 haven't heard from him very
lately; but Sue, one thing, don't ques-
tion Minnie at all about him, or she
may suspect something"
The black ponies were at the depot
the next Tuesday evening, and came
home again hearing vision of lowell
ness in the person of Minnie Little.
She was delighted with the country,
going into ecstacies over Guthrie Cot
tage.
81 never saw but one place as hand
some as this, and that is George May
nard's in the suburbs. You ought to
see it, Sue"
No reply from pale-faced Susie, and
Minnie ratified away upon some newly
discovered beauty among the flowers.
After a time Minnie and Guybegan
to quarrel politely whenever they were
together. Susie looked Oh in astonish-
ment, and sometimes she bad to use her
best endeavors TO prevent an open rup-
ture.
Although Minnie dotted on the ccun-
try. she did not ike the people who IT.
habited it at all, she said.
Guy, who had forgotten his own old
en- TRADES about the country, was al
most angry.
"Think Of man spending his whole
life behind yoke Of oxen" she said.
"But don't drive oxen" ro.ortcd
Guy, making personal matter Of it. ~
drive the best Of thoroughbrsds."
! They arc not like Mr.. Nicholson's, "
sighed Minnie.
"Mr. Nicholson is simpleton," said
Guy, sotto voce.
"Mr. Nicholson has lovely turnout. !"
returned Minnie, severly. "And, OH
be is just splendid, always ready to take
one where she wishes to 60"
"But am ready to take you whero-
ever You wish to CO." said Guy, looking
AZ her reproachfully.
"Ohl suppose so, but then don't
care TO go anywhere" carelessly.
And then Guy would hitch up the
despised span and drive off the village
and spend the whole day.
"Sue,' Minnie would say after a time,
when do you suppose Guy will como
backP'
I'm sure do not know"
do you suppose he went of because
Re was vexed at me9''
II can't say. If you think Jon are to
blame for his absence, why do you tease
him so?'
"Oh! / don't know" Minnie would
reply, and then she would be so silent
when Guy did return that ne would be
angry with her for that.
You arc the strangest pair" ,Said
Susie one evening, when she had TIED
Z IN vain for an hour IN maize than tall