The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-27
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There was a tang of wormwood il
his voice az he answered, Il think Adri
en- will not suffer much on my account. y
"Adrien Strong is very fond Of you.
she said decidedly
His own name, shouted in Adrien'i
voice, came clearly and shrilly through
the lacy screen of elder blossoms. The
girl put her hand out hurriedly for the
empty plate and cup
"There, go. Everything is waiting
on you You are beautiful looking
valedictorian. Wait! know it's dread.
fully bold, but l can't let you go back
looking like defeated prizefghter.
She stood on tiptoe close in front OF
him. Her slim brown fingers gave his
cravat savage little jerk, bringing the
bow around from under his left ear.
There, you look just one degree less
disreputable. Do smooth your hair down
a trifle
He was beaming on her in an ecstasy
of gratitude Ii was so pleasant to have
some one care whether he was hungry
or satiated, trim or disrsputable.
"Do go. If you stand there much Ion
ger looking so ridiculously grateful, /
shall forget that | am angry with you
i ann sorry, 40 ry-for-evsrything
But, Of course, | don't believe IT, "
"Don't believe what Strong asked,
vaguely interested in the words, vivid
ly in the speaker, whose soft, upturned
eyes had altogether forgotten to look
stern.
"Don I believe anything With sud
den passion she stamped her small foot
There, go. | have only made matters
worse by coming here. Adrisn is call
ing YOU. Adrien says it is ridiculous to
suppose you could have taken those
things "
He did, did hep The boys voice
was choked with the sudden up leaping
of passion.
'Yes, and of coarse it Go, go, gol"
She was stamping her foot at him.
Adrien was calling him from the top of
the bank. The bell kept up its monoto-
nous summons. The white winged
crane lifted its slender body awkward
ly and sailed away on frightened wings
He must go and face them all 1t was
forced hand.
With a fiutter of ribbons Mamie dis
appeared behind near pomegranate
bush. Adrien came crashing forward
over the pine needles that made the
sloping ground slippery. His voice, tart
and cross, reached Strong second in
advance of his hurrying feet
MAN alive, Strong Martin, you are
acting like an imbecile! A positive i'd
lot"
81 don't understand you. "
"You will, +" said Adrien, with pct
ulant laugh, "before the day is over. /
have been doing what could for you. "
Thanks. Am sorry you found it nee
essary to do anything for me. 4"
Side by side they entered the old
brick church. Through the crowd
Strong Martin passed with his head
erect, but with certain hard look on
his young face that had not been there
before Lawyer Seephar had stirred his
soul to its deepest depths
The tender radiance of June after
noon filled every Granny of the old
church, the slanting rays of the wester-
ing sun fell upon the wooden arch
through the open windows, touching the
bannerets of gray Spanish moss and the
cedar wisps in the ladder Of learning
with golden glow. The melancholy
band played "See, the Conquering Hero
Comes in spiritless after dinner fash
ion. He did not look all inch the con-
queror or the hero as he mounted the
steps to the rostum and turned his
pale, resolute face toward the crowd be-