Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-05-17
IN THE COUNTRY.
A YOUNG LAWYER s LOVE
AFF AIR.
Written for the Gratiot County Printing
Company by Young Lady OF I m
erson Township.

eTson Township.
'Nou must 20 10 the country for the
summer Bart six months more Of the
work here will be the death of you Go
and fall in love with some pretty country
girl. and bring her back 10 town with you
in he. fan /" said.old doctor Barlow. What
Is to become Of your business Isn't young
Roland capable of looking after that for a
couple of months OF soy He Is trhc reck
less perhaps but you had better lose a
| little money now than not To be able to
enjoy what you have got
The young man thus spoken to gave Ii
sigh, Il suppose | will have to take your
advice though how | can leave for so long
'lme don know, then Glancing at his
reflection in the glass opposite remarked;
Il 30 look rather >eedy. Wen. rather
says the doctor, dryly
\ week later. Bart Nolan has shifted
his business cares, which were half i'm.
agiuary, owing TO i'll health on the broad
shoulders of young Roland. whoeXpro
himself rs being quite willing to take the
responsibility for couple Of months or
more, If things do not get in too biz q
muddlc. he SAID with grimace.
Now his affairs are settled where shall
he 90: Why to aunt Marges, of course
Visions of the old farm house rush before
him Yes, he will 20; why had NE not
thought of it before? Mrs IGIesham, or
aunt Margie as he had always called her d,
was his mothers only sister. He had not
seen her since as boy of twelve he had
gone there with his mother. His mother
his eyes I'LL with tears even now. when he
thinks Of her. Then his thoughts 20 back
again 10 the gay times he had on the farm.
1t seems only yesterday, since he had
romped with his cousin Bee kissing that
httle fury into good humcr. when she had
one Of her tantrums, which was pretty of.
ten, and he smiles as he thinks of the time
he found her asleep in one Of the burrows
in field his uncle was blowing. How
pretty She looked lying there her golden
head pllowed on the damp ground How
happy he was when he picked her up and
felt her little arms, soft and warm, around
his neck. His eyes grow misty and tender
as he thinks of her, his little sweetheart he
used to call her. She must be "a young
lady now married perhaps. He hopes not
though he could not have told why
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their sudden summons home, Of the sick
ness and death of his father, six months
later his gentle mother, too, had left him.
Since then life had been rather hard with
him. His father had left only sufficient
means to support him, leaving nothing 10
finish his education.
But he had worked hard, studied nights
and at last was admitted to the bar Since
then he had been moderately successful,
and was now spoken of as a rising young
barrister And now. at the age of thirty,
we find him tired and worn beyond ms
years. and little cynical perhaps, as when
the world has not used us well we are all
apt to be.
lie has had no time to indulge in dissi
pations common TO young men, and, re
markable fact, has never.h had a love affair
not that he is a woman hater, no true man
is ever that
Hurrying back to his boarding house he
Grams not packs few necessary articles
into his valise, bids his landlady good bye
and arrives at the station just in time to
catch the west bound train. After settling
himself in the sleeper, be begins to think
about how surprised they will be to see
him, and before he knows it is fast asleep
About ten next morning the train comes
steaming and putting into Vernon, small
town in central Michigan Among the pas
sengers who alight is our hero, who after
looking around "a moment or two, picks
up his yalise and starts down the road
with the air Of a man who knows where
he is going and is anxious to get there
Three miles is not much Of walk when
a man is in perfect health, but to Bart ID
his present Weak state it seems "a long way.
He is obliged to sit down and rest several
times but at last the old farmhouse stands
before him, looking so cool in the shade
of the tall trees that surround 1t. he goes
through the gate and almost up to the
house before he observes a young girl sit
ting on the porch Smelling peas. That She
is in hurry is evident by the haste she is
making
She is not exactly pretty, but for all
that, she is very nice TO look at, comments
lac mentally. He can only see her profile
just a soft round cheek with the glow of
health upon it and "a great mass of brown
hair looking almost golden where the sun
shone on it, lie advanced step or two
and was about to speak when she looked
up and evidently taking him for an agent
says in her clear decided voice, eve do not
wish to buy any thing today. But =
he begins, when she cuts him short I've
no doubt, but It is a very good article, but
we do not want anything" then picks up
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