Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-05-29
ample. I took two medals. i should
never have won them but for YOU"
Her companion laughed softly.

ample. I took two medals. i should
never have won them but for you"
Her companion laughed softly.
II did not have such good fortune in
| adding q teacher of Italian to nv fac
ulty," he told her. HE was making
! his way over the mountain with hand
organ and 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 called
q halt. l 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 I paid
for Them
Evelyn laughed long and heartily.
You are the most original man
ever met" she declared. "What funny
experiences you do have. And did your
Italian ypaSfor forc, lie ,.a,,
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 a
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 greater crank than ever"
There was a sound of some one
coming through the woods, and David
Fanshaw, barefooted and coatless,
emerged carrying gun and bag of
game. Seeing them together he stared
in establishment, and shifting his gun
awkwardly from one hand to the other
he blurted out: 81 didn't know any
body was heer; I was after flynn
squirrel in that tree thar"
II wouldn't shoot here" his brother
admonished. "There is party fishing
little way down the stream"
Without saying more the great i'll
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 L don't think he is at
all like you," and then it seemed to
strike her that the comparison was too
great reelection on David to be quite
polite, for she redeemed.
NO, we are decidedly unlike" he
came to her relief. I'm fact, people
are constantly remarking that m I'M
like my whole family"
IL think you are very unlike them
ALL" agreed Evelyn-"all that L 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.
II think they are wondering what
has become of me-" said thegirl. 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, quivcring hands.
How much he had lived in those few
moments! lie took deep breath. my
God" he said. 81 don't know what has
come over me! Am mad? Am L
fool enough to think-to hope-?"
He checked himself, and opened the
law book he had brought with him. But
though his eyes rested on the page for
twenty minutes, beread rot word. The
sun went down slowly; he saw its light
on the brown side of a distant cliff
creeping upward; he heard the dis
tant crack of his brothers. gun. and,
picking up his things. he started home
ward.
ITO be continuedl