Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-11
LEiTHDRWOOD HUUSE.
A Romance of the Early Days
 iu Hoosierdom.
BY Fl. w. TAYLOR

fully, and always keeping in sight of, the two girls for secret purpose of, my own, heretofore mentioned.
 It was then with tho greatest imag-, inable surprise that heard late in the afternoon one of Fans retorts upon me for some light allusion to the ap-. pies and the ''sugarkiss verses" You can't fool me, MT. Jim Silket- You think don't know whut you're Q go-un aroun h-yur this away with me fur. But Ido. You're thess ado-un that away to make Polly Ann mad un jeal- ous. That's all. my good feller. Un thenk you've done ut too. She's thess about mad enough to bile right now. at this minute"
 It was my turn now to be dumfound- ed and embarrassed to the extent, per- haps, of wearing the "sickly-grin" aforementioned. looked sidewise at this uncouth, Sandtown maiden with flaxen hair, dashed with golden glitter caught fr~nt her native sands, perhaps. Her strong and self-reliant carriage; her bold, fearless gray eyes. that looked straight at anybody as if to say that, knowing herself, she had no reason to cast her eyes down before anybody's glances. All this, with .. hitherto unsuspected keenness of per- ception and the sudden recollection of her needless love-making to me, would have set me to studying her if it. had not been for the sudden inter- vention of the two worshippers of the Children of tho Abbey.
 Polly Ann calling to me imperiously and with a petulant glance at Fan that was balm to my wounded love, or self love, as it may be.
 Taking my arm with a bounce she clung to it ill a very satisfactory way to me, and looking with stern repr ,of in her eyes, asked me if l thought t,.at was treating her right. I endeavored to appear innocently ignorant of her meaning, and drew her out to say that she despised Fan Go-uns and always had. And what was much pleasanter for me to hear that she hated Martin, absolutely hated him, and never soould speak to him again if wouldn't go
 
 that she always had liked me, and mo- body else but mo. And she always ,Uould like me! And I must come along with her home now and let Liz go with that ole Fan Go-uns, if some body had to go with her! Though she kne,U that I liked Fan now instid uv her!
 Brave old schemes that have worked admirably and uncrringly in all the centuries of the human race, and in all climes and seasons in which lovers have fallen upon serious differences that seemed irremediable at first, and proved so very transitory afterward Ye brought mo a happy day because of its happy close. And all the. way homo along the outer fringe of the green-gray plume of gold-twig willows that lay without . hutter upon the crest of the westward bend of the river, we dawdled and dallied with Time in delightful saunter that had no fixed and inexorable law of termination, and which both strove to prolong to the latest.
 Again the moon was up md the river dancing with the gleams of yellow torches where jack-boats of green pat tern carried their crews of amateur fishermen along the rising and falling "runs" of numerous "trot-lines." Tke sound of oars jerked against the up right pegs of row-locks, tho fall of a paddle or "gig' upon the bottom of boat; the calls of the fishermen one to another; the whistle of wild ducks swift wings overhead; the black | silhouettes of horses and riders water ing" at the "ferry," the cries of un- known night=birds and beasts. all ex- aggerated by the resonant waters and woods; all made strange and weird by the dim shadows of broken woodlands and strips of prairie against which great trees burning from root to branch, veritable pillars of fire reach. ing up md beyond the black horizon into unmeasured heights of sky-these were sights and sounds that, empha. sized with tender clasping and twin ing of arms nbout each other and silent and prolonged pressure of warm lips together-made this an evening