The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-11-12

away.
he walked down to the paddock He
was disgnsted With her He wondered
why. Wa 1t because she had excited
conjecture In him and allowed it to
lead to nothingl
He found himself comparing her with
Jane and wondering if Jane had ever
oh, no; Jane had acquiesced to every
thing her father had proposed, as had her
fance also.
And here came Polly, marching along,
straight as an arrow, as proudly as
princess He did not speak, nor did she.
She caught the COW and led her to the
usual spot in the paddock. When the
pail was bubbling and frothing nearly
to the brim, she put it OH her arm and
took her way to the house.
All at once she wheeled around and
faced Marshall.
"You think I'm no sort Of woman,
don't your" she asked
II think you are one sort Of wom-
an, he answered.
She seemed to weigh his words and
then to comprehend them, for, shrug-
cling her thin shoulders and laughing,
she walked aside from him.
Next day she went about her work
almost CHEEKY.
women is queer" remarked her
grandfather. "They're happy and I'M
happy, and it's all a-one.i"
But Marshall had no eyes or ears for
grandfather or lover. He could not keep
faroff Jane out of his mind, though be-
fore this it had not been an insuperably
difficult matter. How easily had Jane
acquiesced with her fathers wishes and
the wishes of Marshall's father.
Polly frightened day by day. Day by
day Marshall came across her wherever
he CHANGED to be. He began to think it
strange that he should meet her so Of
ten, especially as he desired to be alone
and think out the maze Of doubts she
had awakened in him regarding James
state Of mind and affections.
All of July Polly was the cheerfulest
of women, Marshall slowly growing to
be the gloomiest Of men. On the first
day of August, a hot, sultry, enervating
day, Marshall came upon her in the
paddock. She was intently porting over
a newspaper. She started when she saw
him and slipped the paper under some
leaves. She MIXED the COW and went
away Marshall found the paper. She
had folded the sheet to small size at
q glowing account of the ravages of yell
low fever in Memphis.
''She read that because that lout Of a
miller spoke of the fever when he came
home in June. He is more to her than
she will acknowledge, even to herself
suppose women grow to love the men
they engaged themselves to after ALL
I'll write 10 Jane tomorrow" said he.
That night Marshall was robbed. He
was dinly conscious of whisking gar
ments in his rcoiu, Of q face held close
to his, and, halF awake, determined to
opon his eyes Al $" what il meant.
Instead he went 50, ndly to sleep.
III the morning he found his wallet
on the table, part Of its contents gone
As he s.sMl there recalling his hazy
night experience he heard a loud scream
i'll tho room lelow. Running thither he
found the old netmaker in u frenzy
tearing at sheet Of paper in his hand.
He caught hold Of Marshall.
"Read it to mer' he cried. "But l
know what it means-Polly's went
She's nowheres around, and she's left
this letter. Read it to me! Read it to
mel"
Marshall took the paper. 1t told her
grandfather that she had gone to Mem
pills to nurse. LII the midst of the storm
Of cxrletives raised by the note Mar.
shall escaped.
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