The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-14


Dick-poor Dick. He WISHED that he
was somewhere any where else; that
ne knew enough TO say loo TO goose;
that he had never been born. What
must she think Of him? Thet he was
tongue tied. rural gawk.
He cast an affrikhted glance At her,
sitting demure and lovely. He was al
most In 1--we with her. he knew that.
In love with her. Well, his misery was
strangely complete. Half an hour ago
| he had been phlegmatically serene.
Now!
'sLooki' Carrie cried, miraculousIy
| rousing herself 'Wild roses. jim, 90
and get some this instant--Dick, too.
You want some, don't yon, Miss Faullr
! ner?-
oh, yes" Miss Faulkner cried, and
took the lines from Dick.
You shall have al! can get" he
murmured, anxieusl
Jim followed him, and Carrie fol.
lowed Jim.
Y know they'll overlook that pref
| test spray. Just for a minute, Miss
Faulkner" she said.
1T was far more than a minute The
horse gave sudden plunge; though
eighteen years old and soberness itself,
! he chung to the habits of youth. A
white paper was driven under his
sorrel nose by the wind, and the
frightened animal gave a snort and
gailoped down the road at high speed
There was turn not far away and
Dick had not recovered his breath be-.
| fore he saw the last flicker of Miss
'Faulkner's blue dress in cloud of
dust The old horse flew round the
corner.
1-sEs.sSi1e 'flbe= killed shr1eked Carrie,
! while Jim stood petrified.
But Dick swung into the road and
ran. lie had not been aware that such
powers of swiftness lay in him.
| OF course she would be killed--or
fearfully injured, at best. He should
| find her lying somewhere that he was
sure Of But when? He had turned
the corner, but hes-eould4 as yet see
nothing. How far he had run he didn't
| know. 1t was nearly mile. Small
wonder that when he did make out
something ahead of him at last things
| were swimming before his eyes and
his head was buzzing. The object was
| person, and not recumbent person,
either. 1t was Miss Faulkner hurrying
toward him.
| mfr Gorwin.n she painted "Oh, did
you think was killed? How absurd
it was! Nothing but newspaper.
But how you look You've run all
the way She dropped down on the
grass and pulled him down beside her.
I'm afraid you've almost killed your
SELF" she cried do take off your
hat and loosen-your collar. You're
purple"
Pm all right" Dick gasped. FITS
YOU | thought should find you lying
dead somewhere. ! saw your hat back
| there"
THAT came off, of course"
Il almost gave you up then"
| She half pouted.
Didn't you think ] had a bit of
nerve to let myself be killed just by a
| frightened horse? / Just sat still and
held the lines with all my might and
let him run till he got tired l was
sure he would stop sometime. He's up
there under that big maple. See him?
tied him to the post and ran back. l
thought you'd be worried. she fin
| ished, demurely.
But you're pluckyw cried Dick, his
heart humping trifle less furiously
"Why, not so awfully," said the girl,
glancing at him half-frowningly. ANY
other line of conduct would have been
stupid, you know. And why shouldn't
/ know something about horses? We
have one, and drive all over Earring
ton every day"
"Farrington?n
Don't go back. to monosyllables,
Mr.. -Corwin. Yes, Harrington. Why
and three months.
I'm Farrington?" said poor Dick,
dazedly. My sister said you were
from the city"
Hardly. Harrington has only ten
thousand inhabitants, you know. Is
that the reason you were afraid of
me?"
She lowered her mischievous eyes,
THAT and few other things"
What other things?"
my sister said she heard that you
were very rich, high and mighty, and
but if it had been true ought not to
have acted like a fool. I'm bashful
naturally, Miss Faulkner, and was
about ratified out of my wits. Oh, yes;
heard you had been to Europe twice. p"
She threw up both hands and her
pretty round chin.
Europe! We went to the Thousand
islands once, bat we had to economic
rather to do that Father has a hard
ware store, and not such very pros
porous one, either. There! Am ] can
did enough for you? Are you afraid of
me still, Mr.. Corwin?"
What was the matter with the blithe
girl? She was smiling, but her dark
ewes were misty. Dick did not know
then, but time came when he did
He had felt the power of her delicate
beauty, her brightness, and there was
an answering thrill in her own heart
II am not afraid of you" said Dick.
"And l know now where ! saw you
before: it was in Harrington, long
time ago, and have never forgotten
you"
AS he looked at her she blushed and
smiled, and it did uot occur to them to
drive back till Jim and Carrie came in
sight down the road
Dicks shyness was not wholly eradi-
Gated. 1t was five months afterward
that he came home from Harrington
and told his sister that he had left
ring on Maggie Faulkners hand.
1--WE liked each other from the very
first,''9 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, and she always mixes things
MP. 1t was your own fault If you be-.
lieved it; | didn't "-Waverfy Nigga