Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-12-26

pansies as tender as if they were ner
little fingers, though he was jamminx
his nice gloves like they was bullets.
She had on some pansies that he had
fetched fer her, an her dress was
colored purple like them; excepting
round the low neck an the arms.
where it was pink an floating like.
! They was pink spots on her checks.
an fire blazing now an then in her
eyes like | have seen in dogs eyes
often, but never but that one time in a
lady's eye. When the rest was gone
he come to her with the diamonds shin
ing in his white shirt when the wind
blew his dark cape back; an his nice
soft hat rolled tight in his hand; an
Miss Evie handed him shawl an he
pulled Miss Bradford outside, an 1
heard him say her name, Constance
in funny voice, like he couln' speak
clear, an yet slow, like he was ticisIed
to hear himself dare say it. There was
a gale come in sudden that night, an
the wind blew the door open in time
fer me to hear him say low, but SO it
sounded plain, the cathedral at IL.
Then he held her against the wind and
set her over the doorsill like she was
only little girl, no matter about her
long skirts, an she run across to her
own room, where Miss Evie was wait
ing on the bed, an neither one of them
came out to help me with the dishes
that night"
Next morning, when went outside,
| looked where the fleet always was,
an 1t was gone. Then / was scared,
fer Miss Bradford, fer l didn' think
that she nor Mr.. Kerr nor any of them
knew his ship was going to leave be-
fore ours; so | stepepd about soft get
ting breakfast so she an Miss Evie
might sleep till near dinner tine.
Twice the little fellar came aboard to
see Miss Bradford, but | wouldn' lei
him come in till the last time, when
she called out happy-like, Who's there,
Steward an the little fellar called
in to her pitiful like, L must see you
when ken, Miss Bradford
Pretty soon she stepped out In her
red wrapper with her hair kinder loose
like, but the little felar didn' take ne
notice of that, an when stepped near
the door he was finishing, so kind THAI
1T made me feel queer, An let me
help you, eff | ken, like was your
brother or hisn''
He didn' see me first an when he
did he give me two sovereigns, SOS 10
cook special delicate fer her on the
voyage | reckon-though | didn' need
no such inducement, nor / didn' forget
either the sovereigns she gave me once
when the boobies was looking fer me
in Port ADELAIDE. Pretty soon | heard
Miss Evie go in Miss Bradford's room.
an Miss Bradford toll her that The
feet was gone on sudden orders; a3'
when the captain came in fer dinner
they was all dressed an waiting an
everything was like 1t always was
only more heavy like. an that is the
way it was all the rest of the time
that we was there. Miss Bradford
was jess as kind to everyone, only
when some of the men tried to coma
round her more, | seen her look To-
ward the little fellar, an he always
was near to her quite, waiting fer her
look-though everyone wouldn' notice
that. He never said much to her,
but | could see IT pleased her to have
him stand by like that, an that is the
way II was until we left"
Here Stewards zeal In narration
dropped as quickly as 1t had run. One
sharp stroke OF the bell Indicated that
noon was close, and mechanically he
began gathering the tabJe-cloths In
his hands.
"And then you continued the
voyage?' suggested Miss Eliot, also
gathering her paper and pencil.
ION around the Horn. Such
voyage as | hope you neve. will see.
Miss. There WASH but few hours in
the day that the ladies could be up
Much of the time, an when they ives
lup, there was nothing they could do
but talk, an that was only about
what they couldn' dc anymore"
But Miss Bradford and Mr.. Kerr
Steward, what about them?'
Miss Eliot was feeling keenly the
anticlimax that youthful nature and
most fiction refuse to recognize in 'he
very face OF human life itself.
Il don know nothing at all about
them now, Miss"
A final slap folded the cloth.
why. don't you know whether or
not they ever saw or heard from each
other?"
mo more than about heap "a
Others. Miss"
"But-why-"
1T is the way with those you NEE,
going to sea. Miss. Their lives are
mostly unfinished like"