Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
EN- we had seated ourselves on a con-

when we had seated ourselves on con-
venient log.
San offer of marriage'' repeated in
surprise, remembering her warm, low
ing salute and affectionate embraces of
few minutes previous.
Eyes, from your college friend, Willie
Steele
''And did you say 'yes?"
''No, 1 didn't, you goosey; you knew
I'll never, never, never say yes to any
man until you ask me, and there's no
need of your saying any thing Now,
think I'm an immodest country hoyden
if you like. But read this for the
present. l found it on the floor this
morning outside the door of your
sneaky friends room. When you have
read it you won't have to ask if re-
fused to marry him."
/ took the envelope and glanced at
the superscription.
why, this is addressed to Steele,
Cherryp'
"Never mind if it is; just you read
it. / wouldn't have looked at it only
for the clause in it about you. The
letter was out of the envelope and
/ saw your name when | was putting it
back to slip under his door,"
"Please read it for me, Cherry; I'm
dizzy and all of shiver."
kept my teeth from chattering and
listened to her reading until sentence
warmed me beyond reach of the most
frigid chills.
''WELD HALL, HARVARD, Nov. 22.
WILLIE STEALE ESQ, APPLEvILLE, VI.
Ny ders Sar: You fergot ter pay me fer gittin'
them paperz outer ther proTs room thet you
put inter true Blues desk. Eff I'd know d you
wuz goin ter play such a dirtee trick on yore
chumm, never'd done 1t fer you. I've bin
deescharg'd from my job and want the $50 you
promised fer helpin' you. wuz raised in ap
pleville and know every foot of squire peper
grass land and Thursday mornin' at nine
o'clock I'll be waitin' at the bend wher the
sQuirs driyin-way tarns tow'rd the roade. ei
you don't hand over ther money I'll sQueal and
tell the squire and yore folk all knows.
JED MICKLIN."
"Ol Cherry!' I calculated, ssyou are
my guardian angel. And to think that
I lay all last night by the roadside
praying | might die"
well, never mind about dying now,
you silly boy.
''Do you imagine I've been foolish
enough to keep this letter from pa until
l could see you? How could know |
would ever see you again? You left as
cool as a cucumber, just as though your
country cousin Cherry didn't have any
interest in your return. It would have
served you right if hadn't shown this
to pa; but did and if we look over the
bend es we go home you may see some
thing that VIII wiz surprise you"
Cherry's prophecy was true one for
as we, hand in hand, peered through the
barberry bushes to the bend in the road
below, the village constable stepped
from convenient hiding-place and
placed his hand on Jed Micklin's should
ef.
''Glad tew see We back, Jed; I've been
er wantin' Nv yeou," he said.
Steele started to escape up the path
straight into my Uncle Diah's arms
''Diah," dryly remarked Aunt Roxy,
them bonds ez yeou wuz er fggettin'
erbout is in one o yeour boot-legs, jist
where yeou put 'em yourself when
yeou started fer ther village an
didn't gao cuz ct wuz rainin'
an yeou wuz skeert oy ther
rnmatiz- Yeon axed me ter grease 'em,
ther bntes, mean, an. faound ther pa
pers inside on en-
as We sat down together on that
egentful Thanksgiving day, drank in
every word of the prayer offered by my
uncle, and felt in my heart I had
much more than the dinner to be thank
ful for.
returned to college and graduated
the nextyear, and the following Thanks
giving, when we gathered around the
sacrifcial turkey, Uncle Diah and Aunt
Roxy were the guests of Cherry, who
presided over the repast as the newly
made wife Of True Blue.
BuRx ARNOLD.