The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-17

"wERR QUA LANE, soPHY," SAID CHRIS
TINA.
tue cottage, Rad found that Mistress
Blnnie had taken her knitting and gone
to chat with u crouY who lived higher
up tho cliIl.
"Wo'Ie our lane, Sophy," said Chris.
tina, "but women folk are often that. "
She smoke little sadly. tile sweet mel
auchoIy OF conscious but unaCkuoWl-
edged love bOing heavy in her heart ;
and she would not have been sorry, had
she been quite alone with her vaguely
happy dreams. Neither OF the glrla
was inclined TO talk. but Christina woHJ
derod at Sophy's silence, tor she had
been unusually merry while the young
men we're present,
Now sho sat quiet on the doorstep,
c!nsplug her left knee with hands that
had no sign oil labor on them but the
mark Of the needle on the left forehnHeI,
AZ her side Christina stood, her tall,
straight figure seeming nobly clad In
striped blue and white linsey pett!eoat,
and little posoy Of lilac print cut low
enough to show the white, trm throat
above it. HOr fine face Tadiatcd thought
aud feeling; sho was on the verge oil
that experience which Glorihes the sim
plest life. The exquisite cleaning, the
tender skV, the full neaVlnR sea were IN
swoetost sympathy they were sufficient
aud Sophy's thin, irelinl voice broke
tho chnrm and almost offended her.
at weary life, Christinal How
do you thole itP'
You're just talking. You were happy
enough hall an hour syne.
81 wasn't happy at all. -.
"You lot on ike you were. i should
think you would DO as feared to act a
lie as 10 tell one.
an be away from PittOncraigte TO-
morrow morn."
"WhatnR Tor y
~ ha0 INV reasons
mo doubt You hRo because o. your
own, but what will Andrew SayP He's
no expecting It,"
II dinna caro- what he says"
"Sophy Thraill."
~ dinnR; AndrOWl Binnio Is ma tho
whole o life 10 me-"
"Whateyer iS the matter with your"
"Naelhing."
Then there was pause. and Chris.
tina's thoughts tiew seward. In n few
minutes, however, SOphy began talking
agAin. "Do you come often as far a.
Largo, ChrlSiinA2' shn asked.
"Whiles take myself that far. You
may count We up for tho last year. |
sought you every time"
"Ay. DO you mind on the Law road
bonnie house, line and old, with a
Draw garden, aud psacocks In il, trail.
ing their long feathers DER the grass
gravel"
"You'il DO moaning Braciands2
Folks Gamma miss the house, II they
tried to-
~ was wondering II you ever noticed
young man about tho place. lie Is
aye dressed for the saddle, or else he Ia
In tho saddle, and so, maist sure TO hae
whip In his hand"
"What aro you talking for2'
"Ee Is brawly handsome. They call
him Archie BrRolands.
~ havo heard tell O. him, and by
what 1, said | shouldn't think no was
hu IlupIuN'Hk hioHu iVl hht gOuhh RhA
to have
This or that. no likuq mo- Ito likes
mo beyond everything"
"Do you know what you arc saying,
Sophy"
~ do, fine"
"ArO You liking himT
at wOuldna be- hard to do
"llhs he ever smoke 10 your"
"Wcel, ho no os blAtO as fisher lad.
! find him In my why when I'm no
thinking; and SEQ here, Chrlstinal l
got n letter from him this afternoon. A
real love letter Such bonnie words |
They nrc ike poetry. They arc bonnie
Ms singing"
"Dll you toll Andrew THAI"
"Why would | do ilat2"
"You hro false, lIttlO Guilty, sophy
Trail. would tell Andrew myself. but
I'm 10th to hurt his true heart Now,
you 10 to leave Archie BrnOlands alone,
or I'll ken thu reason Why"
"Gudo preserve us a What n blaz.
Ing passion for naOthingi Can't a
lnsiis rio q Bit o. laSSlO's chnt without