Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-07-18

Dorothy dares not look up into the face
so eloquent with longing, so she droops
her head and answers, "No, no, that
time has gone forever-O Wayne, why
did you come to disturb my quiet COM
partnership with my books. can never
be your wife.
He points to ''Sartor Resartus." ssDo
you gain peace and happiness from
pessimistic Carly.el Is it he who
teaches you to live an ideal visionary life,
when real duties and a husbands devo-
ton awaits you? Do you not remember
his own love madness described here,
when he went up and down upon the
earth a desolate wanderer seeking illu-
sive peacc?"
Here 4 piping voice breaks in. ''I'm
about as hungry as they make 'em, and I
wish we'd go to luncheon together;
sides want TO talk to the girl some
more. I like her, and l am going to tell
Donald about her.
But Dorothy is gone.
That evening Wayne Palmerston looks
into the parlors where a hop is in pro-
gress.
He espies Dorothy in cream white,
with a great bunch of Jacqueminot roses
in her corsage, listening to the bug pro-
fessor's description of some Of his dis
coveries with her face alight with inter-
est At this instant a curious feeling
takes possession of the man looking
through the window; he is conscious of
a desire to adorn thebug professors neck
with one of his pet snakes and leave it to
do its duty.
Meantime, cousin Amy, a bewitching
spectacle in masses of white tulle, has
paused in her mad career, near the win
dow, and is watching him with laughing
eyes.
"Banquo at the FEAST" she cries gaily
at last, land quite gloomy enough to take
away Macbeth's appetite. Why, sir, in
ment of society is SO absurdly small, are
you not doing your duty2'
Wayne pulls himself together. "Be-
cause was sure l was too late to have
the honor of your charming self for a
partner, Miss Amy" he replies to that
young lady, whom he has known since
she emerged from pinafores.
And Dorothy is presently edited and
distracted from her lesson on bugs, by
the vision of Amy and Wayne Waiting
as they only can waltz. She receives a
wicked glance from radiant Amy, who is
happy as she complacently fancies the
other girls emerald envy at this spectacle
The whole thing suddenly pals upon
Dorothy, and with the briefcst word of
excuse, she leaves the professor, who
gazes regretfully after his appreciative
listener, and seeks her own room.
There she finds Ruskin, Carlyle and
Emerson regarding her from shelf with
mute sympathy, but she will have none
Of them it IS apparent, but passes them
by without g glance, kneels by the win
dow and cries yes, strong minded Doro-
thy cries in the weakest and most femi-
nine way possible.
How long she sits there she never
knows, but by and by her head DROPS
over on the window sill and she falls
asleep and dreams that she hears Donald's
sneering laugh at girls, of her champion
Roy's defense of her as the one exception
to girls, in general; finally of being
borne off through burning forests and
over fiery bridges by Roy's father, and
of continually stopping at peoples gates
and banging away on their doors to tell
them the world is on fire, as a piece of
gossip.
When she at last awakens the room is
full of smoke, and she hears a voice that
she can never forget, calling: dorothy,
come, the house is on fire."
She opens her door half bewilGered,
not at all certain she is not still dream
ing, and finds Wayne with Roy in his
arms, rolled in blankets and solemnly re-
garding her from them like small, new
ly-come- to- mummy.
"Come this way, Dodo," says Wayne,
taking her hand in his, and they run to
the stairway, but it is too late; the
stairs are blazing. The halls are filled
with panic-stricken men and women.
FIremember long ladder at back
window, Wayne" says Dorothy, and
they run in that direction. Yes, there is
the ladder, and he takes Roy down and
returns to the little woman bravely wait
ing without a cry. AS he guides her
carefully down she whispers:
81 loved you all the time, Wayne"
and he feels rush of gladness through
his heart as he answers: '"My darling"
When they are down the ladder Doro-
thy, for the first time in her life, faints
away, but not till she hears the fire COM
panies come Gathering down the road.
When her eyes open 2anguidly she
hardly knows the sooty, besInirched man
bending over her, but by and by she
finds out that she is in q cottage and she