The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-18
ON HIGH BRIDGE
why, yes, John, have loved another

"why. yes, John, have loved another man."
 DO you leve him .et?"
 "Yes, John.''
 Jane Stewards eyds fell in a half shy, | half roughish way, and she sent little | glanccs up through ,he long dark lasnes, to the face of the mar who sat by ner ln l a luxurious drawing room car or the Queen and Crescent The train was just entering the Jes- l samine County approach to dlgh Brlose, that at lofty height above the stream | spans the Kentucky at the mouth or DlS l River.
 That's cheerful John Duncan said, | and while he smiled it was not with the joyful play of feature of which whole | some smile is supposed to be composed The bright light of happiness was not in ! it. It was a pale, gray smile. and 1t wAs a thing to be pitied. | The girl did pity 1t. and she said: l When I tell you all about 1t, dear you will not care. Indeed. think Sou will endorse that old and lasting love of | mine.''
 l Then she gave him some more dancing glances from those blue eyes. Oh, what eyes they were! Stars oceans. day. night. sunshine, storm-ali sorts of grand and beautiful things the! glintings: oceans in their wondrou: depths; day, in their sweet candor; night in the soft shades of quiet love: sun- | shine, in their happiness, ana storm 1h | their defiance.
 Well, that's encouraging" said John | "and it is good in you to say dear. as you did then. But when are you going to tell me all about it? l "O-o-o. as soon as l can-there are reasons-oh! isn't that lovely little farm down there?"
 .I know a story about that farm"
 You can tell that?' | "YeS indeed"
 In tNat region of the far-famed Blue | Grass country, where this couple hap River is silver streak at the bottom oi a mighty canyon The stream runs deep and rapid. between rrecipi-ous clin: of whitest limestone. sometimes tower ing, sheer five hundred feet.
 in many places. under the cliffs. Ii, narrow strips of rich, alluvial soil tha form small ferns of twenty to thirt! acres-farms that need for fences onl, short ones, from cliff to stream.
 The lovely farm of which Jane Stew art had directed John Duncan's atten tion was one of these. ,,
 "Once on time." Jane began. smil ingly,
 That's original. Go ahead"
 Well, to be more definite. about ffD years ago, a man lived there, in com fortable little log house. It was not SC modern as that one Is, but IL was ai
 This man managed to eke out toier able existence for himself and wife anc q girl and boy that had come to then In the cabin home.
 "The wife was a daughter of blue blood and had dared to marry the mar she loved. The pedigreed family frownet upon the aggregation. husband, cabin home, tow-heads, wife and all. But th' woman was content. and made happy even in his comparative poverty the strong handed, big hearted, honest man for love has magic wand. you know r,it hof level and hllild great deal, when both hearts are in It.
 "The oldest of the tow-heads was Tom the boy, though the girl was somewhat of a tom-boy herself
 vegetat"d among those exalted cliffs and he had caught their loftiness and the spirit of the strong stream.
 "Good' calculated MT. Duncan.
 Please do not interrupt. sir!" sh said with a frown of mock severity.
 Tom learned from his .ncther's io! of the exaltation that men often react by the ladder of books. and the few vol umes that stood on the shelf in the cab in bore evidences of the boys eagernes for knowledge. AS he grew older nor, books came and at IT the ht,,t youth Sil, hat hat grown a deep thirst for learning. it knew far more than the country schoo teachers, and they had told him he mus go to college to learn more. I College seemed impossible. The mono! necessary for such step would be mor' than his father had ever possessed a any one time in his life.
 But John. just think of beans in romantic story"
 "Aii right. open the bag and I'll know lem"
 rom learned" the girl continued that in New Orleans was just as good z market for beans as in Boston, and-th' river ran that way.
 He laid his plan before his father The farmer gave the boy the exclusive
 Saturday "TRIFLING WITH FA,