The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-05


rot touch hszn- He stepped.
What are you crying about he asked.
Tim 50 miserable and unhap-happy."
she answered aetweea sobS.
WAT about"
''Oh, 6oa't ask ne. for I'd blush 10 tell
you. II yca wanted 10 kaow, you could
see"
II 3on't see anyhow
oh she cried. you are so hard heart
ed You make me SO miserable when YOU
could make me the hapriest girl OF earth"
II don't know what / have done TO make
you ra.Sera be ne SAID. or how i; IS in
fay power 10 make yea happy
"You do know. toe" che replied. ''o- al
least you w6ggd know II YOU ever loved
somebody who dttn't love YOU"
Turner walked little way IN silence.
Then re said grayely:
Mss Perkins. ! understand you now.
and / SIN sorry you have honored me with
your affections. l 90 not and never car
return them
Then you spurn my love-" she cried
through her tears.
Nc. bat cannot return Il"
oh, dear, And everybody thinks We
are going 10 marry, | ion't know how /
can ever look people IN the face after
iais.''
Il; s not my fault If people think We
are going 10 marry. ! have not given
them any reason for thinking so.''
But you have, though"
How?
by your attentions to me-"
Ny attentions 10 you, have not
sho~n you any attentions"
"oh, how can you say that after GO
school and after the way you treated me
tonignt?'
Turner left SaIlie at her fathers and
returned home, yowing that he would
never be caught by her again How we'll
ne would have kept that promise will
never be known.
The next day Saliie was not at school
Turner hoped she would never come
again and that he had seen the last OF
her.
Along about the middle of the forenoon.
however. old man Perkins entered the
school house. He was a great. broad.
portiy slx-foot man. with a pair OF cold
gray eyes hidden under massive black
orows. As he stalked into the school room
there was a heavy frown OF his face ard
a determined expression In his eyes that
portended evil for somebody. and that
somebody was no other than John Turner
Mr.. Turner" he said. "jes let up on
yer teaehin' for a minute an listen 10
me-"
"All right. Mr.. Perkins" Turner re-
Piled. What have you TO say?''
We got right smart 10 say, mehby.
put hrst l want TO AK We far and squar'
If ye intend to marry my gal?"
Il do not
Why hain't ye?"
Because il doesn't suit me-"
All, 1t don't suit We. er?''
NO, sir
But II suited ye well enough to make
love 10 her an win her affections. eh?"
4 never made love TO her"
te didn't walk home with her from
the spel!in' school. | reckon.
Il DID, but how could l avoid II under
the circumstances"
I'VE didn't set up TO her over AT the
dance last night like sick kitten to a
hot brick, eh?''
i did only what l was forced 10 do"
fe made loveAto her an won her heart.
an now If ye don'e~pGarry her she'll pine
away 10 a sladder. Young man, I love
my gal too well to let any spfndle-shanked
CHAP ruin her life an cause her 10 grfeve
herself :ato the grave. We must marry
her"
Il can't do it,
Yes, We kin. See here now. I'm wiIlin'
TO DO tnis thing up friendly like an IL
yen marry Sal without any fuss or rum
pus III make ii to yer intrust. I'll give
We COW an feather bed TO start to
housekeepin' on. What ye say 10 that"
Mr., Perkins. 1 cannot under any cir
cnmstances marry your daughter"
wen. III sorry ye see it in that light.
l hate TO have 10 deal rough with We. but
/ reckon | got to il do. Ne got TO marry
my gal. an II We can't be persuaded or
hired into 1t. I'll have to try force"
What are you going TO do?" Turner
questioned uneasily.
Coin to lick the very hide off of ye.'
Perkins replied. Look out fer me now.
fer I'm comm right az We. Who-o-pe-et'
lie made a sudden spring forward. grab
bed at Turner with one hand and struck
al him with the other. Turner lodged
made a rush at a window and went
through al bound. taking the sash with
him Perkins followed him. and then there
began a mad, wild chase through the
woods and over the hills that lasted until
night.
In the darkness Turner eluded his pur-
suer and stole away TO the railroad wher,
he boarded the first train for his home
Almost months salary was due him from
the Postum Ridge school district. but he
never made any attempt TO get IT, He was
willing TO let matters rest as they were