Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-11-09

the import or his WOrQS 0aWneO on
her, and then he saw her eyes go down,
and a fresh shaft of bitterness pierced
his heart He knew she was thinking
of the gulf which lay between them.
The look of pain which crossed her face
almost distorted it. Still it was only
to add new character to her beauty
81 want to tell you more than all, -
she shrugged her shoulders, as if to
shake off the unpleasant thought he
had just read, show very much good
your example has done me. You re-
member you told me how you had
learned French by studying it at night,
and by hiring a man to work for you
who spoke the language to you as you
worked in the field together, and that
you used to walk three miles after
supper to an old German, who spoke
his tongue to you and lent you the
German classics? Well, when 1 got
back to school and was tempted to
neglect my studies I recalled the eff
forts you were making to educate
yourself and 1 became ashamed of my
self and really I profited by your ex-
ample. I took two medals. I should
never have won them but for YOU"
Her companion laughed softly.
81 did not have such good fortune in
adding a teacher of Italian to my fac
ulty," he told her. HE was making
his way over the mountain with hand
organ and a monkey and told me he
was out of money. My answer to him
was that 1 needed a man to pick cot
ton and that I would pay him the
wages of an experienced hand if he
would stay with me through the sea-
son. He readily consented and every
thing might have worked out to the
glory of my perseverance, but he in
sisted on working with the monkey
on his shoulder, and the two together
proved such an attraction that all the
negroes in my field gathered around
him. ] gave them the first day off, but
when the next came and the pickers
came in holiday attire accompanied by
hosts of neighboring negroes 1 called
a halt. I paid the stroller for the
day he had not worked and dismissed
him. This Infatuated him, and L re-
ceived my first gratuitous lesson in
Italian-a beautiful string of oaths
which may never be worth what paid
for them
Evelyn laughed long and heartily.
''You are the. most original man I
ever met she declared. ''What funny
experiences you do have. And did your
Italian master forsake you?"
Ronald laughed drily.
"After. he had got his organ out of
| the barn, he began to play it in the main
road, and it wasn't twenty minutes
till every negro, young and old, for
mile around was dropping his money
| into the monkeys cap. The trouble is
the farmers in the neighborhood
blamed me with the commotion and
called me a greater crank than ever"
| There was sound of some one
coming through the woods, and David
| Fanshaw, barefooted and coatless,
emerged carrying a gun and a bag of
game. Seeing them together he stared
in astonishment, and shifting his gun
awkwardly from one hand to the other
he blurted out: 81 didn't know any
body was heer; was after a flynn
squirrel in that tree thar"
81 wouldn't shoot here" his brother
admonished. There is party fishing
little way down the stream"
Without saying more the great ILL
clothed fellow shouldered his gun and
plunged again into the wood; this time
headed for the main road.
ut is my brother David" explained
| Ronald to Evelyn.
| II thought he was,'' she said. look
ing down, ''but I don't think he is at
all like you," and then it seemed to
strike her that the comparison was too
great reflection on David to be quite
polite, for she Redeemed.
''No, we are decidedly unlike" he
came to her relief. 'sIn fact, people
are constantly remarking that am un-
like my whole family
IL think you are very unlike them
ALL" agreed Evelyn-"all that I have
happened to see."
There the conversation paused. A
merry laugh came from the fishing trio
and then there was low muttering
of voices, in which Evelyn's name was
spoken by her sister.
Il think they are wondering what
has become of me- said the girl. 'I'd
better join them"
He held the vines which hung over
the path out of her way, and when
she had gone he went back to his fish.
ing; but he found himself casting an
. undated hook into the water and hold.
ing his rod in tense, quivering hands
How much he had lived in those few
moments! He took a deep breath. ''My
God" he said, II don't know what has
come over me! Am 1 mad? Am J
fool enough to think--to HOPPE"
, He checked himself, and opened the
law book he had brought with him. But
though his eyes rested on the page fol
; twenty minutes, he read not word. TIL,
sun went down slowly; he saw it's ligh
, ! on the brown side of distant cliff
I creeping upward; he heard the dis