El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-17

in love with you. [ put in mentally.
.'and her beauty is delightful.
Elmore's pleased surprise overtcpped
other feelings for the moment. He had
great faith in my opinion. Had L not
spent a winter in Nashville, besides
various unguessable experiences in that
dim. unpleasant, but impressive world.
''the north p
81 think she has a fine native intel
lect :" he said fnally-he always want
ed to talk to me about intellect. But
of course before 1 can marry her she
will have to be educated some way, and
then my mother would rather see me
dead.
.'No doubt, but that is reflection
that belonged to an earlier stage of the
game am afraid there are sad pos
sibilities of constancy in the small
Patsy, and that she will wait for you
indefinitely instead of throwing you
speedily over, as she should do
Gilmore stared.
s'Patsy is so clever that don't dou BIT
that if you began tutoring her little
yourself you could very soon help her
to the essential thing-an ability to
speak and write English as well as the
people You IL take her among-:'
81 think that is probably good sug-
gestion, cousin. I shall consider the
feasibility OF putting it in practice"
1t was now dark, but / could see my
kinsman's melancholy poets profile cut
against the western sky and to look at
it made me melancholy too. 1 was glad
to leave him and the falling dews and
the disconsolate whippoorwill and go in
to the firelighted house, toast my toes
and tell myself that it was not my
affair. I saw that Patsy's fate hung On
painfully slender chances, and 1 was
young enough to credit my impression
of the seriousness of the issue for her.
l resented the way I was disquieting
myself on her account.
That resentment was rather gratui-
tous, for heaven knows l ceased to con-
Germ myself about her soon enough
We came to New York for the winter
and my own life closed in around me
and in two weeks all the world I had
left behind was become like the crea
ton of dream.
The next summer we returned south
and went to a little embryonic noun
tain resort where half a dozen old
friends of my mother, with their sons
and daughters, formed the company
We had not seen any one from Strath-
boro, and Gilmore and Patsy were still
in dreamland to me, when one noon
day, as l came out of the dining room
upon the vine shaded gallery, one Of
the servants came to me and said:
"Merkys little Ellen say, Miss
Ad'line, dat dere young white gal down
to de kaleebit spring as is wantin to see
you. 1 tell Merky be mighty becomin
in dat young white gal to come up
hyah to you, but she say dat she rekest-
ed dat you be tole dat she desire yoh
'sistance. She done tole dat little Ellen
huh name, but law, dat chile. she amt
got no mo- hayd on huh
1 got my hat and started for the
chaly beate spring with a misgiving
heart. l know it was Patsy. Yes. there
she stood, in a copperas dyed cotton
riding skirt. her white, Sunday sun
bonnet fallen back, as she strained her
eyes up the wrong path.
"Patsyl''
''Oh, Miss Adelinel You're mighty
good to come to me. 1t were fearful
bold and presumin in me to send for you
and ask you to come hyer to me. 1 crave
your pardonl You're so good I've
come up from the valley to speak to you
/ didn't know where else on the airth
to go, and hyern from the preacher
that you uns were hyer...'
''Sit down, Patsy-no, come; we
will walk over toward the bluff; then
we will not be disturbed
1 took her hand as if che were 4
years old, and. comforted and reas-
sured, as if she were 4, she walked with
me. We sat down on a big log few
rods seemingly from the end of the |
earth, great sky breaking through the |
trees at our feet.
Now said, "tell me all about it
'It's schoolin,'' she answered solemn
~, laying her hand upon my knee and !
gazing in my face.
''Oh, it certainly might be worse. |
What is it, Patsy, dear-you want to
go to SCHOOL,
eve Worried pappy tell he is plum
wore out, and he now say he air willin
to put me to school to git shed of me-
Yes, Miss Adeline, he sartainly have
give his consent, but Miss-Miss AIDE
about it, whar to go. nor nothin, and eff
oappy have to worry about it he'll gin
up the whole project. Now he's made
up his mine he won't begrudge the
money, but I'm skeered of his bein
When foun' he was comm
1p the mounting, l put in to come
llong and ask you to holp me, for 1 new
r forgot how good you were to me, and
low. though bein kinsfolks to Elmore
you pardoned me.
Her face, with its trimming eyes
vas turned up to mine again in her
'wn irresistible flower fashion
Gilmore teached me some,' she said
PRESENTLY.