Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-26

should leave the school. but scarcely
anticipated his next move.
The door opened. and Mr.. Harling
gorgeous in a light snit of store
ciothes,'' set off by flaming red neck
tic. marched 10 my desk.
He did not so mucn rs remove his
hat, but. with a peculiar wave OF the
hand. said in n loud voice:
"How do, Miss leonard. Nice day
this, ant it? Guess you won't say
no TO a ride behind my animals. eh:
Most of the girls are only too anxious to
sit in my Iuggy and l suppose you're
no different to the rest of emp
Then, turning to the boys and girl:
vino. with one or two exceptions.
watched and more or less admired
him with wide-open eyes and mouths.
he jerked one thumb toward the door
and shouted: You kids. git now! Us
time to go home. anyway
/ WAS astonished, but retained
en- ough of my senses to countermand
this unauthorized order.
1.-THE scholars will keep their place:
until school is properly dismissed. :"
said; and, aside to Mr.. Harding: II
you wish to speak to me. kindly take
a seat for 4 few moments. When the
scholars are gone l shall be al
liberty"
With an cath. uttered under hi:
breath. the fellow sat down. and pro-
ceeded TO dismiss the school.
When thought all were gone ItooL
my hat and wraps and commenced to
move toward the door
We'll" came in rude and sulky
voice from Harding, "are you goin G
with me. or amt you?'
MIR. Harding" l replied with as
steady avoice rs could command, ''do
you think for moment lady could
accept such an invitation rs you have
accorded me? No. sir. Good after
noon"
We were then at the school house
door. and rs l stepped forward to pass
out Harding planted himself just out
side the doorway, and taking my arm
with strong grip shook me roughly.
BY this time he was in n terrible pas
sion. and it was in disjointed SEN
fences that he shouted:
'Oh, I'm not gentleman enough for
ycu-you. with your high city style
and notions; YOU would rather NJ OF see
me--dOn't want to speak TO me-but
you shall see me-you shall speak to
me- You shall" BIT us he bent for
ward. evidently intending, by sheer
fore, to kiss me. fist came between
my face and his. and half stunned by a
telling blow between the eyes Richard
Harding lay stretched on the ground.
Turning quickly 1 behcld-Jimpy!
And although during all the months !
had been at school had looked upon
him as a boy-as 4 country lad. un-
vcrsed in the ways of the world. and
\ cripple TO boot saw then ir an
instant. what no true woman could
have failcl in perceiving. that he was
anna with all the feelings instincts and
passions of man. l do not think
over>tcp the bounds of w0manly mod
esty when say that l then knew. just
as well rs if he had declared it in So
many words. that Jimpy was. not
merely prompted by IN ordinary sense
of chivalry. which would have led him
10 interfere in behalf of any woman
prosecuted by i brutal man. He was
influenced by a double passion; for.
as in one instant his eyes cleaned
with deep. fiery hatred toward Hard
ing. the next they were lighted with a
tenderness which ]. with woman's
ins'inct. fully comprchcnded to possess
only one meaning for him and me-
And in that instant l felt sorry.
But this truth came home to me in
all it's vividness and reality in y mo-
mcnt The next heard jimmy speak
ing: He i not seriously hurt. Miss
Leonard. You go home rs quickly rs
you can; and. though it is more than he
deserves. l will stay and see him safe
ly IN ms carriage.
Whas passed between those two /
never knew; only during the two or
three weeks in which / remained at
Snake Corners l was never again am
moved by SO mitch rs word from
Richard Harding.
Ii was two days after my n venture
At the schonl-lrOuse, and g Sunday
evening. when Jimpy came up to the
house where l boarded. II, was not
a fl, quent caller. but on few occa-
sions he had come to the house and l
aad played on the piano for his
H. always asked ME,
and 1 always complied much rs /
would for any of my scholars. But in
all our acquaintance it seems to me
l never failed to treat him as Il boy.
that Jimpy was very nearly
rs old as myself and that 1 had
passed my twentieth birthday. Per-
haps it was our relative position in the
school which blinded me; for I ought
to have known what was really the
fact. that Jimpy was older and more
than most lads of his age
An hour or two passed as usual. and
my visitor made no reference to what
must have been uprcrmost in the
though Of each of us mean Lis