Connecticut western news., 1889-07-24

themselves off before the end came.
 ''Well that he didi couldn't have answered for the consequences if he hadn't.
 "Well, it came with crash, and had the real pleasure of witnessing it. I was reading on the side porch one afternoon, just the day before I came home, and Fosdick put in sudden, hurried appearance.
 C Have you seen Miss Polly, Mrs. Gerrya' said he, I'm looking for her.
 {" Isn't that shea' said sweetly.
 s'Polly was coming round from the kitchen court. She had her hat on and Pierson was with her.
 "Fosdick turned little pale. Then presently the pent-up storm burst. l put my book over my lips and serenely lis- tened.
 "I have my trap waiting, Miss Pol ly, said Fosdick-actually he did, it seemed. I wish the pleasure of your company for drive. mentioned the matter yesterday, you remember "'I didn't say could go, MT. Eos dick,' said Polly.
 'I could sec the poor girl was fright ened. Her voice fairly trembled.
 I'm going home today, said she.
 elf Miss Polly does remember said Pierson, superciliously, she will not be able to accompany you. have engaged her company for the afternoon
 |" MT. Pierson,' said Polly, fain tly, I'm going home. I'm expecting some- body to get me-
 |" Not to-day, Miss Polly said Eos dick. Don't tell me that you are going today. You are going no further than the Peak to-day, with me- I beg your pardon, MT. Fosdick,' said Pierson, glaring..
 {" No more words, sir!' said Fosdick, savagely. '.Polly broke out crying from sheer fright, sidling up to me. I think Pol ly felt all through that affair that I was her friend. ....- "A big fellow in flannel shirt and a straw hat came around the porch just then, with whip in his hand, light heartedly snapping it. IA good-looking fellow, too, with light curls and sharp, dark eyes.
 ''He stared at Polly, standing there with her two adorers; but he recovered.
 Come on, Poll,' said he; 'hoss s a-waiting.'
 "'What do you meana' said Pier rson, turning on him.
 He began to look scared, and Fosdick was getting white about the gills.
 "I don't mean much,' said Polly's young man; it had dawned upon me in- stantly that it was Polly's young man. 'Only Pm going to take Polly home. Glad I got here when I did, said he, and he fingered his whip rather sug- positively. I guess she's ben here long enough. Guess I've got the right to take her. I'm going to marry her,
 ''Woe! the bomb had burst. Of course they looked ghastly. l won't dwell on the way they did look.
 "only if Colonel Marlow had been there at the moment, I think his life would have been endangered. Making abiect fools of two conceited and snob- bish fellows at time isn't safe, you see. | ''There was an awful stillness-which poor Polly didn't fully understand. She thought merely that they had rather liked her, and were put out. She dried her eyes, and even smiled at them apologetically.
 q think that attitude of Polly's as that moment-her timid commiserati on of them; hers, . pennl'ess country last was, after all, the bitterest drop in the bucket. They fairly writhed un der it!
 "Well, they went home-or some. where-on the evening train. They went together, but they didn't go as friends, and whether they have made it up don't know. It wasn't exactly a David and Jonathan friendship, any how, so it doesn't much matter.
 I gave Polly fifty dollars to buy her wedding-gowns with. I Thought had had enough enjoyment, on the whole, to warrant it; and you know I always pay as I go.
 'I should surely have attended the wedding if hadn't come away before it transpired; had the most pressing invitation possible. did last wicked act; made her promise to send invita- tions to Fosdick and Pierson; I told her it was incumbent. I couldn't resist it.
 "As for Miss Gardner, she's in Europe still, 80 the Lemoynes tell me. If evel I meet her, and I mean to, shall give her good laugh with my little story.
 "Aud old Colonel Marlow-rm jus, waiting to see him once!"-Saturdas Night. ~.
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