The age-herald., 1899-06-25
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KATHARINE HOPKINS CHAPMAN


 usually indicate their dawning aspirations for young ladyhood Her liking for MT. Howard was honest and open and she really thought he would make the incest kind of a brother-in-laW
 This brother-in-law idea certainly origi- mated in her own brain, for neither Annie Brandon nor Mir. Howard had given cause for any such speculation. They were very good friends and they were under the same roof frequently went together to the few entertainments offered by Arlington society.
 Annie's affections were set on the young dentist she had met on that never-to-be forgotten visit to the neighboring city, but she did not care to take Olga into her con- fidence until matters had assumed more definite shape.
 Mr. Towards affections-but man who is earning only forty dollars a month and has three to support at that has no right to affections" he told himself sternly. However such sternness avais little against an unconscious school girl, whose innocent grey eyes detect something wrong with this gentle, patient man, and who fingers to walk home with him, asking after his mother, and giving him sympa- thetic glances from under a white sun- bonnet which has aggravating little ruff fes which neither give him full view of those clear eyes. nor hide them altogether which would be the kinder course.
 The teacher could not tell whether he was glad sorry Olga spent so little time at her mothers home. Of course, he ought to have been glad she staid so much with her grandmother for his temptation, to which he was keenly alive, were so much lessened. But some men deliberately place themselves in the way of temptation, in or der to prove their strength, possibly.
 For instance MT Howard would rather wait all the afternoon on the Brandon porch on the small chance that Olga would run over than to join any of the gay fish ing parties that were formed as spring came on. Generally, he would only catch tantalizing glimpses of her Gs she fitted in and out among the somber cedars of her grandmother's yard driving the gor- geous. screaming peacOcks to a safer roost, or as she swung to and fro in the hammock with confidential schoolmate on either side. Sometimes, however, his patience would bear little fruit, for Olga would come over to see her mother and after spending awhile with that busy matron, would come out and find the teacher sitting alone in the gloaming. Touched by his loneliness, she would sit beside him on the rustic settee and talk with a girlish free dom and an absence of all self-conscious- ness that was altogether charming: or, when her magnetic presence loosened the eloquence of this man, so reserved to others, she would listen intently, all the time plating and unplaiting the fluffy end of her heavy brown braid.
 Once she listened thus until dark, and rising hastily, she flung back this wealth of wavy hair. It brushed MT. Towards face and snatching a hasty kiss, he rose and followed her, seeming drawn by each and every silken strand. All unconsciously Olga assured him she was not afraid to go that short distance alone. but for once he throw prudence to the winds and, drawing her hand within his arm, walked deliber- ately to her grandmother's door, Olga felt something strange in his manner that stopped her usual cha tier, and so in si- lence they passed the limit he had always set himself previously
 All that night, though, he sat by the window and listened to the voice of con- science and prudence rather than to the maddening memory of her soft hair, or the deceptive voice of the sweet night wind whispering to the rambling roses in the garden below. He knew that for the pres ent, marriage was impossible, and that af- ternoon had proven how fast he was losing all self-control. Therefore the sooner he left Arlington the better for himself and possibly for Olga; for what right did he have to disturb her girlish serenity. and to arouse hopes that could not be fulfilled for years?
 All these chivalrous resolves were nearly upset the next morning when he went to brush his coat for breakfast; on a button was little wisp of brown hair that had caught there when she flung back her braid so carelessly the night before. But with the same expression one lays away lock from the dear dead, he put this carefully in an envelope, for quiet people are usually the firmest
 At breakfast MT. Howard calmly told Major Brandon, as president of the school board, that they would have to select a new teacher for the ensuing year. Pleasant as had been his surroundings he would be compelled to seek larger and more lu- crative field the next session,
 Pursuing the resolve, MT Howard took advantage of a friends offer to drive LID to the nearest city, the next Friday. honine there to make some arrangements for the ensuing year He was not expected hack untll Saturday afternoon, so Mr Brandon thought this good opportunity to visit on ms room that process known as a ''gen- eral cleaning" Lize, the house girl swept dusted scrubbed all day and that afternoon came uoWn and announced: q bet Mister Howard sleeps widout rockin' tunight tween dat nice fraish room an dat long Joltln ride. sutinly is sorry he's gwine away kase he's so pleasant-spoken Now Miss Annie you go up dar an see eff dat room ain't jess right.
 So Annie Brandon picked up a few roses and some honeysuckle she had just gath cred and went up to please Lize who alyP Pays longed for praise. Olga came over inst in tune to see her disappearing up the stairs, and ran laughing after her.
 "Oh, yes, miss, as soon as you have driven him off by your indifference. von commence to make his room sweet with hoWers,' leased Olga, who persisted in her first longing for MT. Howard as a brother -scesS. sssssss : sssss...sss..-