Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-05-17

but L nave Dcen particularly SOTTy
for him since that Kitty Clone affair.
Kitty was by all odds the prettiest girl
In town, and HeZekiah. like most of the
other counting men in that vicinity, fell
In love with her. She was tawny
haired. with swapping black eyes and a
tongue that was as sharp as q two
edged razor. but she was us bright as
dollar in Il basket of chips, and she
had only to smile to have a retinue of
men at her beck.
/ stood closer to Hezekiah than any
man in town, and practically knew his
inmOst thoughts. In fact, | was the
only one he cOnfided in after the Kitty
Clone affair. Kitty, before that. being
little nearer to him, he thought, than
/ was.
He coniided the whole sad story to
me, and cannot refrain from telling it
now.
For some subtle purpose. not at the
time apparent, Kitty had indicated
very plainly her preference for HeZe-
kiah. and happier man no one ever
saw in our town. But preference, mere
ly, was not what Hezekiah sought, and
he let her sec that quite early.
1t began to happen one moonlight
night on her fathers porch. where the
honeysuckleS clambered over the roof
and the sweet wild rose vine entyined
the corner. Through the trellised vines,
the silver shafts of the moon shot that
soft night in June and fell in sifted
strands over Kitty and HeZekiah sitting
In the mellow shadows. If the night
ingale had been indigenous to that sec
ton, | am sure it would have added it's
liquid notes to the music in Hezekiahs
heart, but there was no nightingale, and
Hezekiah did not miss it. Kitty was
enough for him, and Kitty sat close
beside him. and every word she spoke
was a bird song to him.
did yOu know. Miss Kitty" he said.
tentatively, for HeZekiah was not q
brash lover, and he had not mentioned
the sacred subject of love to her, al
though he had thought up thousand
ways by which he might and had
thrown them all aside when the time
came, Did you know that have some
thing TO say to yOu!"
Well she twinkled. 81 should hope
you had, Mr.. HestOn. I'm sure | don't
want to do all the talking"
81 could listen to you if you did. am
sure" he replied. with q hating help
iessness of manner that men have some
times in the moonlight.
THAT sounds so much like sweet
hearts talk, she twittered, as she shook
the gold Of her pretty hair out into the
line OF the silver light with its scent Of
honeysuckles and roses.
perhaps it is he ventured. doubt
fully.
But l am sure you don't want to
talk such nonsense to me-" she pro.
tested
why mott" he answered so promptly
that he frightened himself
But not Kitty; oh, no.
Because" she answered, 1--WE have
known each other so long that it would
sound silly fer you to say such things
to me-
Must man select n stranger IL he
wants to cOnfide to q woman all that Is
In his hearth" he inquired with a gray
ity that made her laugh.
'Oh, L suppose not. Still it doesn't
seem quite natural for you to make
love to me-"
IF did, what would you say?"
IL really don't know, Mr.. Heston,"
she said. tucking her head down and
blushing, perhaps, though it was not
visible i'm the shadows of the porch
''You know" he Went on, with more
courage now that lie had made the
start that | have recently come into
little fortune of something like $1O,-
600, and"
IL thought it had come in to you," she
interrupted, with pleasant little bird
not of chuckle.
Hezekiah was just stupid and slow
enough to be delighted with such
flashes of feminine wit. and Kitty's
brightness in this respect was always
q charm to him. He liked It now, but