The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-03

70 dinner. 81 must go in minute, "
she said. .Mommer mas oceans OF work
laid out to do. just ran away from IT,
Come an give me some roses, koo' py
way Of reward. =,
"First You must eat some peaches,
Rob said. "And tell your mother the
White Heaths are nearly ripe. She must
send and get all she wants next week
"You have such lots. Why don't you
sell some?n Miss Winfield asked incau-
tiously. At once Mr.. McGregor sat very
upright.
1--WE have not more than enough Tor
ourselves and our neighbors, black ana
white" he said. "And, Miss Alice,
even if there were "a great surplus, 1
should hate TO think that the sale or 1t
had maybe cheapened the price or some
poor neighbours wares. "
Rob flushed deeply and gave Alice an
appealing glance. That young lady
opened her eyes very wide, but SAID
nothing. only rose and walked beside
Rob TO the garden.
at looks like witch work-the way
your flowers bloom, she said, glancing
along the borders. Everybody else s
are all dried up. But wait minute,
Rob. / didn't come out for just the
flowers IL want to ask you somethin
-somethin important-that l cant
mention to anybody else. ;"
''Why, Alice, I am the last person
for serious matters, and if it's secret
please don't tell me-" Rob said, with
half smile. "Not that l can't keep one,
but some one else might not, and then
the one who had trusted me might think
/ was the traitor ="
"But you are the only one can tell, "
Alice said, dropping her eyes. You
are my age an all that. II can't talk
about this with mommer. She wouldn' {
understand.
"I'm sure / shall not understand
either, {" Rob said, her smile broaden
ing. "You may tell me if you choose
But warn you it is no use. "
"Yes, it is some use" Miss Winfield
persisted. 1T is. Oh, shall never get
it out. It's about-Jack Talbot, you
know. He wants me TOTO be engaged
to him, an | don't know whether it
would be right while he has TO take
care of the family, you know. "
Rob was bending to clip an especial
ly choice rose. She shipped the stalk
with clean cut and got up steadily,
the flower in her hand, as she said,
with careless accent: by all means
be engaged to him. The family will be
delighted. And as to taking care of
them, the debts are almost paid now. !
reckon Jack will soon have place of
his own"
at is not that so much. know he'd
give me everything heart could wish.
had better tell you all of it, Miss Win
fold said, with bashful smile. "You
see, he came to see me, an mommer was
away, so we got to talkin about-well,
about ourselves An then he took my
hand an said he-he loved me; never
had loved any body else; would l be en-
gagged to him? Then he broke out
Maybe haven't got the right to ask
it, You don't know, Alice, how weak a
young fellow can be nor how he lets
himself get entangled. But you are my
salvation. Say you'll have me after
awhile. But-but don't tell anybody
have asked you, not for six months
yet Wasn't that strange way to
TALK"
Every, but hardly so strange as your
telling me about it, Rob said, waving
her rose idly to and fro SAT least, -
she went ON, cit seems to me had any
one spoken so to me l should think q
great many times before repeating what