The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1896-04-16

Honestly, L uiun NJ nrSt, ne con- i
fessed, "but / began 10 suspect some |
such dreadful thing before you spoke. 1
Then u occurred 10 me that Pluto was |
unreasonably particular about such q
small thing. and thought IL might bo |
well 20 convince him OF the fact"
81 think you've succeeded; but I'm
afraid you have hurt his sense of the
proprictics beyond recovery. lie is al
most ns conventional as l used TO think
you WERE"
II hope you don't think IL any more,
after seeing my Interpolation OF boots
and saddles he protested. "And while
we're on the subject OF horseback rid
ing, let me make an open confession;
know less than nothing about Il, ex-
pcrImentally, and I shall be deeply in
debted 60 you II you'll teach me how to
behave in becoming manner"
She leaned over and dscngaacd her
skirt from its ENHANCEMENT in his stir
rup. "May n" she asked.
II shall be very grateful"
swell, then, IL believe IL Is custom
AIRY for gentleman TO ride on the other
side" she began.
Ringbrand had quito recovered his
self-possession by this time, and hc
pulled Pluto around 20 her right. "Of
course. should think that would sug-
gest itself naturally to anyone but n
book worm like myself; assure you
shouldn't have made my hero in a story
guilty of such nwkwardness. Now,
how about these stirrupsP they seem
10 me 10 be too short, or too long, OF
something"
She looked at them critically: 81
think they are little too short. Shall
hold Pluto while you dismount TO let
them DOWN."
mo, thank you; think I can manage
IL from the deck" he replied, slipping
his feet from the stirrup irons andud-
justing the straps TO a moro comforta-
bic length. There. how is that?"
"That looks better. Now. shall we
try little gallop7"
IF you please. I'll do anything you
tell me to-"
They swept along the level road at an
easy cantcr, and Ringbrand profitcd by
Testers suggestions as well as he could
In the short intervals which his furiiyc
admiration of her graceful carriage and
radiant beauty spared him from
consideration of his own shortccrl-
ings. The road led them finally
to the western brow a the noun
tain, and they pulled up at The
edge of the in TO enjoy the view
spread out before them.
"Your surroundings are n perpetual
inspiration. Miss Hester" said Ring
brand, fcasting his eyes with the keen
appreciation of an artist upon the mag
nifcent panorama of the mountains
and valleys and forests stretching away
to the westward.
II am glad you like Tennessee. re.
! piled the girl. with n touch of pnthos IN
her voice. 80 many people-cspecial-
| ly northerncrs-seem TO think IL an un-
profitable wilderness"
"Who could be SO unnppreciatiyc as 10
say that?"
Miss Dradfern, for one. She is from
Boston, and she visited friends In Dun
bar last summer. Shp was continualA
pinlng for New England in general and
Doston In particular. I'm sure can't
understand how she will be able to live
here"
us she coming here TO live?"
"Yes; MS the wife of our rector in
Tregnrthen. tell him he's setting
bad example by going SO far from
home.r
Then presume he Is southerncr7'
Vie Isl he's q Georgiani but believe
he was educated In the north"
"Am to understand that you think
one ought not to marry out of his sec
tion?" he asked, making the rector's
case . possible opportunity for ascer-
tanning his own standing,
"0h! ! wouldn't say anything so
radical as that" she replied, stEpkinF
her hcrse's name; "only, IL seems 60
me, there are many reasons against IT,
You don't understnnd-you can't ul-
derstnpd-how much sectional feeling
there Is In the south,h
u know there used 10 be, but
thought 1t was thing Of the pnst,
since the war"
ut Is, in some senses, i suppose, and
in others | think IL Is as strong as ever,
My father fought for The SOUTH and II
you could know how strongly my sym
pathies are enlisted upon the side of
some of the things which you think are
dead issues, there would he only one
word in your vocabulary that would III
mean ugly little word Of five letters. "
~ hope ! am broad enough not toap-
ply it, Miss Latimer. I think can put
myself in your place sufficiently TO UNI
derstnpd that there may be many and
honest differences of opinion"
Its right kind of you To say that ~
especially as your side has the better OF
the argument; though I'm not so sure
about that either, w. ono thing to
starye people into submission and quite
another 10 subjugate them"
81 believe can appreciate that, too. "
Neither of them spoke again for a
few moments, and then Hester called
his attention to jutting crag project
ing far out from the cliff-line at their
feet. "Do you see that point over yondcl
TO the right?" she asked.
Eyes; and was going TO ask you II
il has name"
1T hasI " Is called Toms Jump
It's not o very poetic name, and il could
hardly be cdited a Lovers Leap, all
though the story IL dreadful enough
"Tell me about t." ..''
tits short and quite prosaic, Their,
used to be moonshiner's still some
where in this neighborhood, and one OF
the men wasyoung Tom Cragin, The son
OF the mopntaineer who owned the 50 dl
One day the revenue men We're trying "a
arrest the party, and they chased young
Cragin out into this road. He ran
, dawn that WaV and two mara C1.pt,.