Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-18

seized her bonnet and rads q movement
| to step up the path. but he called to her
| m q very respectful voice that she did not
need to be afraid of him and that II he
were disturbing her In the least he would
go away Immediately. Now Angelica had
never talked to q boy or young man, did
not know what to say. but just kept her
eyes on the ground and fumbled with her
bonnet She made such a pretty picture,
so simple and sweet standing there that he
hated to break the silence. but seeing that
this could not last forever he repeated his
last question and made move as though
he were going But then Angelica START
ed and said:
20, no. you are not disturbing me at all
and You can stay as long as you want to.
and having made this bold speech she
again sank into silence and bushes. So
he sat down on the extreme end of the
bench and she did the same, inwardly
quaking and fearing lest Aunt Priscilla
or the minister or Debby should wander
down and find her in that dreadful plight.
Finally she said: Please sir. don't know
Your name and should be very much OBJ
liged il you will tell It 10 me- will tell
You mine II you want to hear 1t" Hugh
laughed, delighted. happy laugh and
said: Little girl, my name IS Hugh
Sheppard and 1 should be more delighted II
you would tell me yours
Angelica started up with an ugly frown
and burst forth: II am not a little girl.
was eighteen years old last Saturday. ana
oh, / hear aunt Priscilla calling me and
must go. and my name is Angelica So
saying she sped up the path at a swift run.
leaving Hugh, sitting disconsolate on the
bench by the river.
Angelica lay awake a long time that
night thought over all the happenings Of
the day. 1t was so seldom she had anyth-
ing to think about that she took great de-
light in counting them over and over and
over again until after she was all done,
she said to herself, st was very, very
wicked in me to talk 10 him and l should
never have done II, and o. what would
aunt Priscilla say If she knew it,"
The next day at dinner aunt Priscilla
broke sharply into Angelica's thoughts
with these words: Angelica, did you
know there Is a new curate here and Mrs.
Brown told me to-day that half the girls
in town are very much excited over him
and 1 don't want to hear any nonsense
about you troubling your head with him.
do you hear?
Slowly but surely Angelica felt the hot
blood surging up her checks and try "a
hard as she would to hide II amt Pris-
elias keen eve she knew had caught Il
and all she could do was to keep her ewes
bent on her plate an answer demurely:
Yes, ma'am."
That night after supper as she started
of on her usual way to the river her aunt
called her sharply back and said: IT want
you to read to me tonight. you are around
that river too much anyway. and It doesn't
do You any good child This with a gem
tie pat on the head. as II that could make
up for the breaking heart beneath. SO An
gelica sat down and dutifully read until
O'Clock and then kissing her aunt good
night stole away TO sob herself TO sleep.
And so II was the next night and the
next until 1t got to be an understood fact
that Angelica was never to go TO tho river
again, and the next Sunday Miss I.atimer
had headache and couldn't go to church,
and when she did go, the Sunday after that
she kept such Il strict watch on Angelica
That the poor child could not raise her ewes
without her aunt following her gaze and
II by chance they rested on Hughs face
she looked so severe that neither dared
to look again. And SO It was that week
after week, month after month. and year
after year passed by and Hugh left Green
Hills for better situation ana aunt Prls.
elias longed for wish was realized as An
gelica grew up to be a gentle kindly old
sphster-and this was Angelica's TO-
nance.