Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-13

afternoon, just the day before I came
home. and Fosdick put in a sudden,
hurried appearance.
{" Have you seen Miss Polly, Mrs.
GcTryT said he, Pm looking for her.
Isn't that shc2' said swcctly.
"Polly was coming round from the
kitchen court. She had her hat on and
Picrson was with her.
"Fosdick turned little pale. Then
presently the pcnt-up storm burst. l put
my book over my lips and scrcncly lis
tened.
"I have my trap waiting. Miss Pol
ly, said Fosdick--actually he did, il
seemed. Il wish the pleasure of your
company for n drive. mentioned the
matter yesterday, you remember
"'I didn't say could go, Mr.. Eos
dick, said Polly.
81 could sec the poor girl was fright
cncd.. Her voice fairly trcmblcd.
I'm going home today said she.
"Tf Miss Polly does remember, said
Picrson, supcrciliously, she will not be
able to accompany you. have engaged
her company for the afternoon
4" MIR. Person, 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 arc going
today. You are going no further than
the Peak to-day. with me-
"I beg your pardon, Mr.. Fosdick,'
said Picrson, glaring.
-" no more words, sirn said Fosdick,
savascly.
"polly broke out crying from sheer
fright, siding up TO me- l think Pol
ly felt all through that affair that WAS
her friend
GA big fellow in flannel shirt and
straw hat came around the porch just
then, with whip in his hand, light
hearicdly swapping it.
"a good-looking fellow. too, with
light curls and sharp, dark eyes.
'lIc stared at Polly, standing there
with her two adorcrs; but he recovered.
:" Come on, Poll said he; 'hoss $
awaiting
"'What do you mcan?' said Pic rson,
turning OF him.
lie began to look scared, an Fosdic1
was getting white about the gils.
"l doa't mean much. sail Polly's
Founs man; it had dawncd upon me in
siantly tina: it was Po!ly's young man.
Only I'm going TO take Polly home.
Glad got here when l did,, said he,
and he fingered his whip rather sug-
scstivcly. Il guess she's ben here long
enough. Guess I've got the right to
take her. I'm going to marry her.
"Woc! the bomb had burst. OF
course they looked CHASTITY. 1 won
dwell on the way they did look
"Only if Colonel NARROW had been
there ut the moment, think his life
would have been endangered. Making
abicct fools Of two conccitcd and snob-
Dish fellows at time isn't safe, you sec.
"Thcrc was IN awful still lncss-which
poor Polly didn't fully understand. She
thought merely tina. they had rather
><cd her, and We're put out She dried
her eyes, and even smiled at them
alphabetically.
81 think that attitude of rolly's as
that moment-her timid comniserati ON
OF them; hers, pcnni ess country last
was, after all, the bittercst drop in
The bucket. They fairly writhcd un.
der il!
"We'l, they went hone-or some
wherc-on the evening ,ran. They
went together. but they didn't 90 rs
friends, and whether they have made it
up don't know. 1t wasn't exactly Il
Dayi'l-and Jonathan friendship, any
how, so it doesn't much matter.
al gave Polly fifty dollars to buy her
wedding gowns with. l thought had
In enough enjoyment, on the whole,
to warrant it; and you know l always
pay as so.
81 should surely have attended the
wedding if | hadn't come away before
1t transpircd; had the most pressing
invitation possible. L did Il last wicked
act; made her promise to send invita-
tons to Fosdick and Pierson; L told her
it was incumbent. couldn't resist it.
GAS for Miss Gardner, she's in Europe
still, so the Lemoyncs tell me- If ever
meet her, and l mean to, shall
give her n good laugh with my | title
story.
"And old Colonel Marlow-Tm JUS,
waiting to see him onccm -Saturday
Might