Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-15


son-or leastways my husbands son. I
never had none o. my own, but i set q deal
o. store by Gilbert and John.''
Gilbert Bligh bowed rather awkwardly.
Miss Root rose up and dropped dainty
little courtesy, like aslim young hazel-bush
swayed by the wind.
81 hope you don't bear malice" said she,
half smiling, while Q soft pink Hush rose 20
her cheek. "You SEQ It was absolutely
necessary for me to enforce discipline, and
really you were sailing under pirsticai coll
ors-now, were you mott"
II was altogether wrong" said Gilbert
reddeninR also. 81 beg your pardon"
(which John has already done.n said
ting work. "John's not . bad fellow, after
al, when once you appeal to his reason and
common sense uWe shall geHslong capitally
after this"
HE hadn't no business to sass the school
na'am," said Mrs. Bigh, who was busting
around TO get out the best china for tea.
"She sarved him right when she shet him
up In the pantry where the states and the
pig dictionary was KEEP. And he won't do
Nagain; If he does, he'll get good latherin'
70 hum, that can tell himi"
John, who was roasting red apples In
the hot ashes. chuckled. He knew well,
SL60-mOE0.
er's bark was many degrees worse than her
bite.
me and the schoolma'am are good friends
pow," said he. 81 axed pardon afore all the
boys, and she promised to lend me Master
man Ready TO read arter I'm done my sums
at night. And, Gil, she knows geometry
and them things like book. And she saws
she'll show you without your goin' to school
and settin' among the boys that il ittler
than you be-"
Once more Gilbert colored, but Miss Root
knitted quietly on.
II shall be glad to be Of use," said she.
81 wonder where you learned all this"
remarked the young man, awkwardly.
~ am a graduate Of Tassel College, in
Rhode Island" said Miss Root. "They Law
special stress on mathematics there"
Gilbert sat down, staring moodily at the
hre- Here was he, a strong, muscular giant,
six feet high, and broad shouldered to cor
respond-there she sat, round, rosy and
dimpled, nero dot Of q woman, yet how
much more she knew than he didl
"She must despise me-" he thought, un-
easily tugging at his rich brown mustache.
'She can't help iti Such a dumb-head as
must seem to her. Yet how pretty and
soft-spoken she is"
Poor Gilbertl He was very wretched that
night, because Miss Root knew geometry
and he did not.
Yet what vague happiness 1t was to be
under the same roof with heri
1fGilbert had only known it, he was fall
ing in love with Emma Root.
The schoolma' am stayed two weeks at the
Bligh farm, because the Widow Dunn,s
lager" stubbornly held on. and toward the
end OF her sojourn there came out one of
those terrific rain-storms that sometimes
sweep the Western slopes
II am going to hitch up old Sorrel and 90
after Miss Root" said Gilbert, at noon.
"The red bridge foundations are pretty
nigh washed away, and I'll have to bring
her around by Piny Point"
Il low it's good idear," said Mrs.
Bligh, scratching her head with knitting
needle. 'Tm glad you thought ont it."
But either he had miscalculated old Sor-
rels rate of speed over the muddy roads, or
elsethe family clock was wrong; for when
he reached the red school-house IL was
closed and locked and Miss Root was gone.
ae drove at railroad rate to overtake her.
but just on the edge Of the river he saw
that he was too late.
The himsy timbers Of the bridge had given
way beneath her weight, and she was
struggling in the black watersl
"Gilbert-oh, Gllbert-save mei'
Through the rush Of the swollen stream.
the roaring Of the wind, her frenzied cry
reached his ears.
He flung of his heavy boots, his clinginR |
coat and jumped into the river And as ne |
did so an odd fancy eddied across his brain. |
Geometry was Of no use here. Mathe- |
matics could be Of no avail Il was Q mans |
strength, an experts skill, q hero's heart |
that counted now. Yes, he was her equal |
more than her equal-at lasti
.
SIS she deadl Emmai For Heavens
sake, speakP
"Dead" Rrumbled old Abraham Gaylor.
mo more'n you be. Look at the color |
comm back into her lips. But say,
though, 1t was q narrow squeeze Of u. one |
time That currents powerful strong, and |
the bridge timbers was sweeping down on |
80 like thousand o. brick. fps good |
thing ye knowed how to swim like an otter,
9A Bligh. Yes, you're safe 1t homei / |
orung ye both back wrapped in all the |
blankets my ole woman had. That's your
OWN hrelight you're starin At"
AFTER all, it was only Q drenchinR. q
fright and chill" /" said Gilbert, that dusk,
IS they sat by the IRE, when Mrs. BliRh had /
gone out to feed the late brood Of chickens.
and Johnny was in the shed trying to build
ship that should be like the one described
n Master man Ready's" fascinating pages.
Emma shuddered.
81 have been rescued from the veryverge
II the grave" said she, "and by you, Gil.
bert. Gilbertw looking wistfully up into
lls face
"Wel?n
"Wi1-will you teach me to swimf You
ire so strong, so noble, and am so weak
Ind ignorant Oh, Gilbert, after this you
will be my prince among menp'
"Emma, my love, my darlingi"
That was how it happened. There was no
ormal proposal nor acceptance-only these
yords-only lovers kiss, a shy girls Joy
ul nesting to the side Of him whom she had
egarded as her hearts master; and so they
we're engaged.
The people of Red Hollow expressed
themselves differently on the subject,
Gilbert BliPh hasn't no book-larnin',"
aid Squire Peters, land this young woman's
) eradicate of Tassel College. Don't see
low she came to fancy him.
THAT don't signify said Widow Dunn.
He's mortal smart, and owns a good patch
land right on the farmin' flats; but only u
ope they'll Ill i've happy together. If was a
nan, wouldn't dare to marry gal that
lad put me outer the school'us. She must
lev temper"
But neither Gilbert nor Emma had any
nisgiTings--snd, after all, they were the
hlef persons concerned.-SaturdRy Night
IN SHARP CONTRAST.
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