The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-24


"dear little Minnie" SO shamefully.
The night passed with very little
sleep for either of these unhappy
"grown-up" children.
Minnie spent IL in tears, while, in
his bachelor apartments, Ned pac ,d
the floor restlessly; but neither felt
like Offering tho necessary apology,
when the morning cam,, aud 10
another miserable i,y blg,n
1t is hard to tell how large mona.
tain might have grown out Of that ia.
significant little molc-hill, IL some
thing terrible had not rushed to their
assistance Mt that opportune time and
settled the matter for them.
In the midst of her self.roproaches,
Minnie became aware that there was
an onimous silence all about her, and
that tho people in the next house were
gazing nt tho sky in the west with
anxious glances.
She went to tho door, and tho sight
presented to her nearly deprived her
of her senses, IL was so terrible.
She now heard distant roar and
rumbling, and afar in the west saw
mass of black, angry clouds, high up
in the sky, rolling aud tossing about
in most Formidable manner, with
narrow point at the bis, which seemed
to be gathering up fuel for the black
browed monsters wrath to vent itself
upon.
"a cyclone !" she cried.
Her first thought was Of Ned aud
the safety which, she was sure, his
strong arms would afford her in this
dreadful time of danger.
His Office was two blocks away, aud
without n thought of her appearance,
or her probable fate should the storm
overtake her in tho street, she ran
down tho path, out of the gate, aud
had started with flying footsteps for
Ned's Office, when the cyclone struck
the village.
She was lifted from her feet and
carried forward with bewildering
| haste.
1t was only the outer edge of the
| cyclone which had caught her in its
grasp, and when it had whirled her
about dozen times or more, and had
thoroughly shaken her, it dropped
her us suddenly aq it had caught her.
dropped her Mt the very feet of the
young man she had started to find.
Their thoughts, in that first mo-
ment of peril, had been the same and
he was ON his way to Mnnie's home
when she fell at his feet in most un-
ceremonious fashion.
ooh, Ned!" she gasped.
"My darlingv'
He caught her in his arms, md
kissed her white frightened fac, in
most scandalous manner, considering
that they were in the street-on Main
street, in fact--and that everybody
was "out."
But it so happened that the "village
gossips" were too busy Just then to
make note of this item and it passed
unnoticed.
"Dear Ned," said Minnie, meekly,
as soon as she regained her breath,
"I-I don't mind if the house is
painted green"
"Tve acted fool, Minnie" he said
humply. 81 don't care a copper what
color the house is. I've wished a
hundred times since last night that
there wasn't any house at ALL"
$50 have l." said Minnie.
And later in the day they discovered
that the cyclone, which had brought
them together with such unbecom,
ing haste, had also removed the cause
|
of their quarrel.
The new house had been taken up
carried several rods, and set down, in
n pitiable condition, in Farmer Jones
blrn-yard.
81 was just a-goin' to build new
barn this summer on that very spot"
he said to Ned short time after the
the storm, ..'an' if yell sell it sort O.
cheap, I'll rig it up for barn."
And so the house was sold tc
Farmer Jones, and in time new one
took its place, entirely satisfactory
to both Ned and Minnie.
But when it was finished it did no,
wear a coat of green. Oh, no it was
drab, with slate.colored cornice =
Saturday Night.