Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-06-18

,,,,,tlug nv thoughts. Even when a
pIimDse Of Hiram Jones going stolidly
about his business reminded me of the
uncertainty of my position, found
myself specializing more about what
she might think, if the worst came to
pass, than about the extent OF the mis-
fortune over Lamar's head, and posi-
blv over mine as well. On shipboard.
we had been very good friends, she and;
l. We were very good friends now,
but with difference. What dull
ride ! had If she declined TO accom-
panv me, how the evening dragged if
she kept out of sight! what u wretched
substitute for her presence was even
the best pipe In my growing collec-
ton! How was it that when we were
together, even If our talk languished,
the time never passed heavily? How
had it cone about that l no longer de-
hated the question Of her beauty, no
longer compared her with this girl or
that? Such questions | asked myself
now and then, pulling my BRAN with
cndcavors to answer them in any other
way than the one in which they could
h-s answered The simple truth Of the
matter was, of course, that | had fallen
In love; but for difficulty of compre-
henson commend me. above all things,
to a so-called simple truth. Anybody,
if he will take the trouble, can follow
out a long and logical deduction, but to
very few men is It given TO perceive at
once the meaning Of the thing which,
once understood, we call self-evident-
From the vantage-point of later years
[ have figured out to my own satisfac-
ton at least, that l passed from the
comparatively placid state of friend
ship about two weeks after Dorothy
Gray's arrival in Rodneytown. The
realization of the change came nearly
a fortnight later, not through any tri-
umph of reason, but through an acci-
dent in which my part was that of
mere spectator, and which required less
time in action than 1t does in telling.
Returning one morning from the house
on the knoll, l sought the young lady,
as 1 usually sought her at that hour.
DR.. Banks had asked me to look out
for two or three of his more distant
patlents-he had sprained his right
arm badly and was keeping as quiet as
possible-and that day had planned
long drive, which it was probable she
would enjoy. She was not in the house,
Mrs Clark said, and was gazing about
rather disconsolately, when l caught
sight of q parasol showing above the
walls of lane leading to an orchard,
in the shade of which Miss Gray some
times passed u morning. Setting out
in pursuit, gained upon her so rapidly
that when l turned into the lane she
was not more than a hundred yards
in the lead. To my surprise, she halted,
then turned with cry, and, picking up
her skirts, began TO scud toward me,
in full fight, rs 1 saw an instant later,
from an old and evil-tenpered boar,
usually safely penned behind Mrs.
Clark's barn, but evidently very much
at liberty at that particular moment.
The brute was close TO her. His tusks
loolss.l long -eS..d sharp os knives; as
he galloped on, they came nearer and
nearer to his prey. 1 gave a shout and
sprung forward, buthad she been forced
TO depend upon my aid her danger
would have been great indeed, for long
before I could have reached her the
boar would have overtaken her. He
was right at her heels, when, armed