Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-05-02

Don't shy that. Mary You know |
/ love you. and
Vow, Tom Dalton, stop right where
you are I've told you often enough
that I like you. You have been NY
friend ana play mate ever since was
a little girl, ana shall always like
you as a friend No, sir: / won't listen
to any loyemakins. won't marry
You. sir and that's the end ont. |
Will marry no one but brave man.
and l don't love anybody. and
But Mary. surely r.
There you "a again. sir II you ever
mention love to me again. | will never
speak 20 you. a. sure as my name is
Mary Hart"
''0h, ii you put il that way I'll really
have to retire, for | couldn't survive
the punishment How do you know
I'm not the brave manf"
And I've known you all these years,
and but won't have it brought up
again, and there's an end ont, sir"
Well, WE'LL If woman VIII, she
Will aud If size won't She won't. and
there's tile end ont quoted Tom gay
IS. Every dog has his day. Mary
What do you say To a sail down the
bay Let's have that mother of yours
and take a run down TO Elm island for
dinner az Cohb's farm aud a bath ut
the short beach It's fine morning
for a sail and III be bound I'll learn
10 swim this time -
:
we'll know there wasn't And | really
began 10 think you were serious. sir
But mother never would venture out
in that crazy knockahout of yours.
Wouldn't it be jolly? I'd love to 90"
1t is all right about the kuockabout
She i high and dry for a new coat Of
copper paint Captain Doyle has his
new schooner Willie and told me this
morning he should run down to Elm
come flood tide What do you say.
Mary And you know / was in ear
nest and"
say I'm off 10 mamma at once"
And before he could declare what he
was in earnest about she was running
swiftly up the pier shouting back 70
him, You naughty boy I'll bet you
box Of chocolates 7 am first at the
house. sir"
Mary Hart was the only daughter of
the widow Of Colonel Hart of the In
dian service
The colonel had been both soldier ana
business man. aud when he had been
killed in jungle fight. soon after
Mary's birth, he bad left his widow a
comfortable income
She had come Is America and settled
In one of tho quiet New England sea
shore villages in n coy cottage adIoln
Ing the estate IF Mrs Dalton. who WAS
nm CID school friend Tie young peo-
ple hal grown up together and had
been friends since ehildhood
Tom Dalton. happy 80 lucky young
man had Inherited am independent in
come from bis father AMI now. having
passed his finals II tie law school. was
about 70 practice iii, profession in Eos-
ton. He loved Mary Hart with all his
heart but IN spite II himself lie could
not he serious about his lovemakuS
though bound % win her
And the little MINK herself threw diff
tieuities enough in the way by bringing
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