The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-07-18

ladies' boat club, and can make mile
+ in three minutes on her bicycle
Mrs. Dew ereaux looked at him in
dumb horror IL moment Then she re-
piled.
And you look on smiling at all
+ this-nay talk as IL you admired her
for it" she exclaimed at last. You
have brought her up like q great oyer
+ grown tomboy, instead of lady-like,
{ intelligent girl, fitted for some use in
the world. She ought to be going to
school instead Of jumping bitches with
horses and leaping fences with dogs
like a stable boy"
A quick dark flush mounted to Pills
broad high brow.
But she does go to school, he said
resentfully, 'sin the yillage-a very
good school; but there isn't any now;
it's the summer yaca tion."
Mrs. Devereaux shrugged her Shout
ders.
"a village school bad! She. should
be going away to some finished school,
where she could learn to behave her
self decently and earn her livelihood.
She has no fortune, l believe; her
mother simply left her a name. You
should certainly educate her to earn
her own living, to be independent of
your charity in her Womanhood at
least. She Is almost a WOman-seyen-
teen. Why, | was married at that,
age"!' ss
The amusement in his eyes had fed;
giving place to a thoughtful, troubled
look.
Was he wronging Ernestine Willard
|. by letting her receive an education
and be happy in her own way?
Would she blame him, wish to be in
dependent of him in her womanhood?
It shocked and panied him to think
that WOmanhOOd was so near at hand,
that many girls married at her pres
ent age
He had enjoyed the tomboyism and
daring and frank carelessness of the
merry little madcap quite as much as
she had; he had been her tutor in
many an athletic feat. q.
| And he had found her such a gay,
glad, apt pupil, such an ever-interest-
| ing companion. 4
| He had taught her many things that
| would have shocked his naughty sis
| ter. more even than her expert riding
and fence leaping, among them to
4 shoot on the wing with a pretty little
rifle he had given her. or revolver,
and to play s'poker" many an evening
just for fun-and skillfully enough
| to many time relieve him of pocket
money. ...> /:
Yes, he saw it now; this was wrong,
all wrong. -
Ernestine would soon be a woman,
and, though he never meant that she
should earn her own living, on any ac-
count, she would have to go out into
the world and mingle with other wom-
en-. 4
If she felt lost and out of place
among them; if she could not equal
them in refinement, knowledge. accom-
| plishments, would she not blame her
guardian, and justly?
The thought haunted him all day
and unpleasantly.4
When Ernestine asked him to join.
| her in ride to the trout stream, he
answered her shortly, so shortly that
She looked at him in amazement
Had she displeased him? How? Well,
she couldn't go riding now; and tears
Of pain and resentment blinded her
eyes while she hunted up fishing
tackle took the eager Newfoundland
into the secluded June woods, where
dwelt the timid trout under the shad-
ow Of tangled underground.
Mrs. Deyereaux had been at Darke-
wood but two days, when she became
so terribly bored with loneliness that
she spoke to Philip, about asking some
people down from Madison, some thir-
ty miles distant =
He carelessly assured her that she
was welcome to ask whoever she want
ed whenever she wanted them; but
there was no one for whose coming he
especially cared; he had been a her.
NIT, so long, etc.
so she asked a number of society
people-people supposed to be wealthy
cultured and all that was desirable;
! yet Philip Drake had never been so
bored in all his life. -
How languid and inane all the wom-
en- were, painted, fashionable dolls.
who We're shocked at the Modernism of
Erpestine because it required physical
daring. Their daring was all moral,
they firted scandalously, married and
single; and the men .
Bah! there was nothing manly about
them They We're mere followers of
the pretty butterflies of fashion; all,
except one.
Gerald Graham was not a character
to be despised by man Or woman;
there was something so frank so no.
BILE, and manly about him that he was
instead, one to be admired even by
his enemies-a handsome young fell
low of thirty, with lots of brains, lots
Of daring, physical and moral, and
plenty Of money. @
After a week at Philip brakes rural
home, during which Mrs. Devereaux
dressed and smiled ravishingly for his
benefit, while he attentively studied
her bette noire, the young madcap,
while Philip went moodily about his
farm, feeling lost and lonely, Gerald
Graham became Elnestines shadow.
A gay cavalier. in all her rides, COM
panion in her walks, he boated with
her, fished with her, talked with her
until he fell madly in love with the
unconsciously beautiful young tomboy,