The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-20

for your own gsod I point OUT . viii
IN every way suitable TO you. Marry
to please me, and I viii not only start
you fairly in life now, but leave you
all have when I am gone. Marry to
suit some foolish fancy Of your own
and I'll--yes, I'll found an asylum for
idiots. you understand me"
And Briggs marched on, leaving his
son to his meditations.
III stay here" said Philip 10 him
self, father and Twill quarrel. Bet
ter give the dear old gentleman .
4ahanaaata8T slsas;, rurallzA q
little. y -, : --=-- =
That afternoon Philip packed port
manteau, and with ffshing-rod and
mineral hammer. started of to Mont
gomery County, where an old college
mate of his had married and settled,
one whom he had long promised to
visit. When he arrived there he
learned thatBoudinot and his wife had
gone to Long Branch for the season,
and their servants with them, the
house being in =eharge OF "a care=taker.=
Philip heard OF good fishing in a stream
four miles off, and concluded to try it.
He found lodgings at farmhouse
near the place, owned bya man named
Seth Cooper
His quarters were quite comfortable.
The house was an old stone building
OF antc-revolutionary erection. and
was roomy. He was assigned cham
Der upstairs, looking out on a trinity
kept garden, in which old-fashioned
flowers and pot herbs were grown side
by side, and which sent a pleasant
fragrance through the open window.
The room itself was adorned with
pictures and knick-knacks showing
feminine taste, and the bedstead was
furnished with a hair mattress, and
not the bag OF feathers OF the vicinage.
Decidedly said Philip to himself.
there is another female on the prem
Uses, than the substantial Dame
Cooper, and With some refined taste"
But neither that day nor that week
did he sec any woman other than Mrs.
Cooper or tho hired girl. However,
the cooking was good, the country air
and his walks round about gaze him
an appetite and he was content. He
fishcd the stream closely, he rambled
here and there, hammer in~hand and
bag at side, leaned on fences and
talked with farmers about "craps''
and the weather.
In weeks time the thing grew
monotonous. The fish were, not al
ways inclined to bite, good specimens
in-alarries- and as-~sttat- grew seareef
and his stock of talk on farming was
nearly exhausted. He began to think
OF going to the Branch and hunting up
Boudinot. As he sat upon the veranda
one afternoon debating the matter, a
wagon was driven up the lane and
stopped at the door. Lightly out
fstepped n young wBHfaa=fn-aneattr ay,
cling dress, and the driver followed
her with large trunk, under which
he staggered, burly as he was. Mrs.
Cooper came from the kitchen and ex-
claimed. why, it's Gwenny, ! de.
ctaret =
You dear old Aunty Ruth" sale
the newcomer, hugging and kissing
the farmers wife. Il came TO have Z
guod time for a month";
And SO yea shall, my dear, was
the hearty reply.
Philip took an ocular inventory O.
the locks dress=~ana manner II the
newcomer as he took off his hat. "a
sweet face and graceful figure and pre-
sentable anywhere" was his internal
comment. Here's luck. | shall moi
visit the Branch yet"
You have a boarder, aunty," sale
the girl, when up stairs with Mrs
Cooper.
"Yes. He's q Mr.. Bee." said the
other. at don't look as if he had any
call TO work for his living, judging BY
his white hands and his -fx-ups, anl
| he's plenty of money! ==-
"BeeP Then he isn't busy bee
But he's good looking; if he be agree
able he'll do for wall1ing-stiok.
Mrs. Cooper's mistake as to<PhiliI
was natural enough. Whom khe hat
asked his name on his comingShe hac
said, in his airy way, "Philip b., a
your SERVICE" and she had taken thu
sound of the ~initiaf for his surname
After she had called him Mr.. Bee sew
eral times Philip saw tho blunder
smiled at it, and, as the naval officer
say, made it so;& and when Gwennl
came to the table she was introduced
"Miss Gwenny, Mr.. Bee AS sh
was the niece, he concluded her nam,
10 be Cooper, but as the farmer ad
dressed her as Miss Gwenny, and tn
farmers wife as Gwenny, Philip chos,
the more respectful of the two.
4 AS Philip a gallant yeun;
gentleman, and as the young lady wa
charming in manner, he naturally pai
her much attentions When a iyeunt
man and a voting woman are throw
together upder, uch4 circumstances /
is not unusual Tor a Irritation to follow
1t is generally a foregone conclusion
! Philip seen=learaad that "Gwenny
was diminutive of Gwenlian, and no
Of the more stilted Gwendoline, whicl
interested him. Philips mother ha
been Powell, with Welsh blood in he
Isyeins, and bore the same name. Thi
later Gwenllian was atmystery to him
For the niece of rather coarse farme
for Cooper, though a worthy man
was the reverse OF refined-she dis
played unquestionably gentlemanners
Then she showed fair knowledge o
any subject touched upon in converse
ton.