Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-05-19
A DAYS JOURNEY.

a bitter February day Not a pleasant
day 20 travel in by any means; but then
Letticc Mainwaring was one Of the sort
that makes the best of everything.
It's long distance over the hills, miss"
sad the wife of the landlord of the little
one story tavern that was pnrched on the
crest of the highway, land the SHOWS pow
erful deep
81 think winter landscape is the pref
test thing in the world" said Lctticc
chcerly, as She wound her fur boa around
and around her neck.
"And old Stokes stage is awful uncom.
Portable" added the landlady.
Il like stage riding" asserted Lefty.
you'll not get there till dark"
ooh, that is sooner than | expected"
And Lefty climbed up into the stage
coach. which stood crcaking and grooming
at the door. having just rumbled up from
The next village, Il mile or SO down the
hill.
One solitary passenger occupied the OF.
positc cornrr--a tall, dark man, with u
Spanish sort of complexion and clear, dark
eyes who wore an odd sort of olive green
cloak or mantle, heavily trimmed with sa-
BILE furs He nodded briefly in return to
Letty's smiling reco gnition Our little
heroine would have talked with polar
bear, hail polar bear CHANGED to be her
! travelling companion.
Iettice arranged her furs and her basket,
| and her bonnet strings, and wondered Sc
cretlv how far the tall man was going.
"Can be of any assistance to yons"
courtcously qucricd the gentleman, as Let
tv searched in the straw Mt her feet for n
| dronned rloye
"Tbnnks-no." said LEFTY. mig nm
again with rcd checks ana curls a little
! dishoveled are Won going nil the wov
throurhs"
"As far as the stage coes-vesn
ooh - snid Miss Nainwarino $50 am ~
Tho oe,tIomnn nodded intcrroootivelv
and wont back ia his noner
Gross thingr, tbourht Lefty involnn-
tarilv noutino her cherry lips. WHY can't
he TIN; and maize himself apreeables And
he knows very well that we are to be shut
hore together for eiobt long hours, /"
put tho Wild mountainous londsconc as
If NtteJ br. while cleaning with snow
and darl,lv friuged with the ,vovino Of
bemlock bonrhs and solemn crested mines
was flor lI pearlv rs good a study ne
tbo "bun1,, rocp divine - and Je,tv soon
forgot her Temporary ANNOYANCE and chm.
or;, in ,bc white skeletoulila v,ol1s of a
deserted old puper mill long since disuscd
and fallen to ruin.
~ wonder if it is hauntedy" said She
oloud
The stranger smiled, and laid down his
papcr.
30 Won believe in such thinrs?u he
asked
Lattice Nainworiro louobed and col.
or.d
"Of course nor. and vct-ore Won much
,corointed in this rco;Gn of thr countrv>1
81 have lived bereahout "A oood deal ;"
"Gb, oh, Thrn rrrhoDs vo,, know Fast
erhom HALL"
His face brirhtcned
"Ob. vr., You are poin., thcres"
.Yrs an, to he INVERNESS tn tho littio
children - .,iI Iottv' makiro hoste to on
li,Lt.,, hin, 90. ia Lor truo r,,sj,io, u, or,,or
tbat Lo ,Ln,,ld fnlIv commandment tb,t ehe
wa. ma .I.,,,,, ,o,ir,, l,,,r corrin,,tot Le
L,l to ,,,j-,.', ,.i.it L,,t - brr,IIo li,,Ic
wor}ina Lrr wbowns OBLIGED totoil stead.
fn,tly for tbe Lnilv broad She ate
uInlc.dr, I've s.id
And Ictiv ,,os ,exod Mt herself for no.
ticiu, th.. n,.lit. indiiTrronce into which
his tone sul.idod
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abe want -,
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free from, onv s,TornatrroI occnnonts
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Yen wand ike 70 share vour room
with = yLost nr ,wny,
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