Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-10

selfi" she cried. "What did you do that
forl Take off your hat and loosen your
collar, can't you2 You're PURPLE"
"I'm all right" Dick painted. It's
you. I thought should find you lying
dead somewhere. saw your hat back
there"
"That came off, of course said Miss
Faulkner.
She was half pouting.
"Didn't you think 1 had bit of nerve
to let myself be killed just by frightened
horsc1 The ideal l just SAT still and
held the lines with all my might, and let
him 60 till he got tired. knew he'd
stop some time. He's up there under
that big maple. See himl tied him
to the fence, and came back to meet you.
1 thought you'd be-worried," said Miss
Faulkner, demurely.
"But you're pluckyl" Dick cried, his
heart humping a little less furiouSly.
"Why, not so awfully," said Miss
Faulkner, turning her clear eyes upon
him rather impatiently. Anything else
would have been stupid, you know. And
why shouldn't know something about
horsesl We have one, and 1 drive all
over Harrington every day."
90 arringtonl" said D ok, blankly.
"Dont go back to monosyllables, Mr..
Corwin~ Miss Faulkner said, wickedly.
eyes, harrington. Why notl live
there; I've lived there nineteen years and
three months, Mr.. Corwin." "
'Tn Farringtonl" said poor Dick,
dazedly. "N1y sister said you were from
the city"
"Hardly. Harrington has only ten
thousand inhabitants, you know" said
Miss Faulkner. "Is that the reason you
were afraid Of me, Mr.. Corwin"
She lowered her mischieyous eyes.
"That and few other things" said
Dick. Talk 1t would be hard to stop
talking now. "She said, you see, that
somebody else had said that you were
awfully rich and high-and-mighty, and
had been to Europe twice, and Well,
if it had all been true, needn't have be-
haved like a numbskull. But I'm BASH
full naturally, Miss Faulkner, and was
about ratified out Of my wits. That's
the truth of it, Miss Faulkner"
She threw up both hands and her pretty
round chin.
81 almost believe somebody has been
making fun of me-" she vowed.
'Europc1 We went to the thousand
Islands once; but we had to cconomize
rather to do that. Father has hard
ware store, and not such very prosper
Gus one, either. There! Am I candid
enough for youl Are you afraid Of me
now?"
What was the matter with the hand
some, blithe girl1 She was smiling
brightly, but her dark eyes were almost
misty. Dick did not know then, but a
time came when he did. He had felt the
power of her delicate beauty, her bright
ness, her sweetness--and there was an
answering thrill in her own heart.
81 am not afraid of you" Dick said,
gently. ''And l know now where saw
you before. 1t was in Harrington, long
while ago, but l have never forgotten
you, Miss Faulkner"
And he looked down to her, and she
dropped her conscious eyes to her lap.
And it did not occur to them to drive
back till Jim Gardner and Carrie came in
sight down the road.
Dicks shyness was not wholly eradi-
Gated. 1t was five long months after
ward that he came home from Earring
ton and told his sister that he had left a
ring there, and on Maggy Faulkner's
hand.
"We liked each other from the very
first" he said, simply. "Only that story
of yours came near settling things; the
horse ran away in the nick of time"
at wasn't mine, Dick" said Carrie.
(She and jim had been married in Sep
tember.) "It was Sally Decker that
said it, you know, and she always mixes
things up. 1t was your own fault il you
believed it; I didn't. ."-Saturday Night.