The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-03-15
. ONT say that, Mary! You know


enough that like you. You have been
my friend and playmate ever since 1
was little girl and l shall always like
you as friend. No. sirl l won't listen |
to any lovemaking. l won't marry
you, sir, and that's the end ont.
will marry no one bat a brave man and
don't love anybody, and"
"But, Mary, surely /"
''There you go again, sir. If you ever
mention love to me again l will never
speak to you as sure as my name is
Mary Hart"
"Oh, If you put 1t that way I'll really
have to retire, for l couldn't survive
the punishment. How do you know
I'm not the brave manT
And I've known you all these years
and-but l won't have 1t brought up
again and there's an end ont, sir"
! ''Well, well! If a woman will, she
will, and If she won't, she wont, and
there's the end ont" quoted Tom.
gaily. every dog has his day, Mary.
What do you say to sail down the
bay? Let's have that mother of yours
and take a run down to Elm Island for
dinner at Cobb's farm and a bath at
the short beach. It's n fine morning
for a sail and I'll be bound I'll learn
to swim this time"
tom Dalton, If there ever was-well,
l know there wasn't. And l really be-
gan to think you were serious, sir. But
mother would never venture out In that
crazy knockabout of yours. Wouldn't
1t be jolly? I'd love to 60"
''It's all right about the knockabout.
She is high and dry for a new coat Of
copper paint. Capt. Doyle has his new
schooner Willie and told me this morn
ing he should run down to Elm come
flood tide. What do you say, May?
And-you know l was in earnest and
-"
"Say! I'm off to mamma at once"
and before he could declare what he
was in earnest about, she was running
, swiftly up the pier, shouting back to
him: you naughty boy, I'll bet you a
r box of chocolates 1 am first at the
{ house, SIR
5 Mary Hart was the only daughter OF
e the widow of Col. Hart of the Indian
: service.
S The colonel had been both soldier
q and business man, and when he haC
been killed in jungle fight, soon after
: Mary's birth, he had left his widow
S a comfortable income.
1 She had come to America and settled
in one of the quiet New England sea
shore villages in a cosy cottage adjoin
ing the estate of Mrs. Dalton, who wa!
= an old school friend. The young folks
/, had grown up together and beer
n friends since childhood.
o Tom Dalton, a happy-go-lucky yOunl
e man, had Inherited an Independent for
tune from his father, and now, havin,
5 passed his finals at the law school
: was about to practice his profession
J. In Boston. He loved Mary Hart witt
Is all his heart; but, in spite of himself
e he could not be serious about his love
5 making, though bound to win her.
e And the little mink herself threw dit
l. ficultes enough in the way by bringin
him sharply to account whenever h
IS tried to breach the subject. She didn'
r propose to love or be loved. And
h she ever could be so foolish it must b
4 a brave man.
"a "None but the brave deserve the fail
id and you aren't brave, you know 20
IS are not, sir"
lie Flood tide found them skimmin
u down the bay in the natty little school
ie er Willie in a spanking breeze, jumI
Is ing at the sea like a mettlesome hOrs,
. while Capt. Doyle stood at the whe,
extolling her virtues to Mrs. Hart. TIL
young people were camped comfort;
bly, on the deck at the windward sid
m of the mainmast.
"Great, isn't it?' asked Tom. "Noy
Mt what would you say to lobster chowd'
H. for dinnerY
in tom, you villainI You have bee
IN plotting this spree with Cobb. Yo
H. know l dote ON lobster chowder."
"Down there last week. Told 'e
tx we'd be down. Tried to get mother
he come, but she wouldn't step her fo
ia in anything smaller than a liner"
h "And you never told? l can hard
W. believe it. 1 never know when to b
en- lieve you, sir"
"Fact! Sure enough this time, isl
It, Capt. Doyle?"
"Fact, sure" said the skipper. IN
10 an Mr.. Dalton had a bit of run dow
m to Elm last Tuesday. Tight bit
"a weather coming home, too"
ON "Thomas Dalton, do you mean tn
m. you were down here in last Tuesday