Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11

keyhole, told him | should want the
kitchen in an hour.
He replied that if he had not washed
Ferdy in as hour he never should wash
him.
| strolled down into the orchard
where Catharine frequently sat during
our leisure time in the afternoon. told
her that now | knew that Miss Billings
was truly beloved, for Mr.. Marks was
in our kitchen, and in my apron, and
was washing Ferdinand.
She rose from her seat in considerable
excitement.
"Poor boy!" she exclaimed, "He will
get bitten: perhaps he will have hydro
phobia. How can she do it?"
"She is not doing it," | said. at is
Mr.. Marks who is doing it. What a
thing it must be to be truly loved!
Catharine, do you think if Il were as
old as Miss Flora X. Billings, and had a
pug, and boarded where his washing
was not thrown in-do you think any
one would love as much as
But my sister was moving rapidly
toward the house.
"Where are you going?" | asked,
hurrying after her.
! 81 want to be near in case he needs
help"
"But you can't get in," | replied.
The hour went by and still the kite b.
en- remained closed. The thought of
supper began to worry us. When a
| half-hour more had passed we knew we
must get in, for boarders must have
! their meals.
Suddenly we heard a voice close to
the door leading into the woodhouse,
where we were waiting.
81 IN going to unlock it,n said Mr..
Marks. "But do wait a minute before
you come in.'
We obeyed. When we entered we
stepped in pool of water, and we kept
on walking in water, which had been
very ineffectively sopped up with my
apron. This apron was lying in a wet
wad in the middle of the room.
There were fragments silk scattered
about. / recognized these fragments as
parts of the necktie Mr.. Marks had
worn when | had last left him.
On the kitchen table, near a bowl of
cream, which | had forgotten, in the
confusion of finding the young man in
the kitchen, was Ferdinand, very wet
and shiny, and showing his teeth and
growing. But he was washed
Cathathine Immediately went some
where and brought back Miss Billings
to take her dog away.
"Oh, you precious, preciousW cried
that lady, gathering Ferdy to her heart
and carrying him out of our sight.
Mr.. Marks did not come down to sup,
per- Late in the evening | ventured to
knock at his room.
He did not let me see him, but talked
to me from behind the door, as he held
it little open.
He said he had good many scratch,
es on his hands, and his under lip was
torn; otherwise he was perfectly well.
He thought, however, that he should
go back to Boston by the train thai
started at 5 O'Clock in the morning, anC
he would send for his trunk
He handed ont the money for hiE
board through the crack between tht
door and the WALL He thanked me fo
my kindness. He said i'll ever wanted
that cursed brute shot to send for him
Miss Billings left us before it was
time to wash Ferdy again. She eX
planned that she went because she was
SO sensitive that she required a frequen
, change. :
The lady who had the room afte
Miss Billings bought canary wh
never stopped singing from the time
, the sun rise until it set. But, as MI
Heaton remarked. there were time
, when the force of contrast made even {
J singing canary seem blessing.
Perhaps | ought to state that we ar'
going to have the l..
MARY LOUISE POOL.