The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-08
! Miss Susan
!; Gsaltorl Brown. Q
How She Hunted ana tho Kind
OF Gamo She Basgod.
By W. r. ROSE.

IL Was utciy pretty PrOspect LneG
confronted Miss Susan Galton
Brown. The scattering white homes
among the trees in the valley, the
blue hills beyond with their fringes
of pind trees, the clear sky that was
such q novelty to the girl from the
great manufacturing town-it was
all bright and fresh and SO delight
fully clean. Miss Susan Galton
Brown looked back on the peaceful
prospect for lingering moment or
two and then pressed ahead up the
mountain~road.
She certainly was an unusual fig
ure for that quiet neighborhood.
Attired in a close fitting suit Of
gray, with n short walking skirt skirt and
wide brimmcd gray felt hat that
concealed her beautiful hair, she
might at a distance, save for the
skirt, have been taken for an ex-
trcmely handsome boy. Her gait
would have carried out the impress
sion - there was such an alncon-
strained swing to it-but her high
boots we're not boys boots, and her
hands were neatly gloved. Miss Su-
san Galton Brown carried somc-
thing under her arm. It was light
magazine rifle, the gift of an ador-
ing father; for she could shoot and
fish and swim and run and do il all
in way that met that adoring ia
theirs critical approval, and there
wasn't better authority on these
manly attributes in all tho country
round.
In short, Miss Susan Galton
Brown, so her father declared,
should have been born boy, but as
that couldn't be she certainly was,
as far as the shooting and fishing
went, an admirable substitute. Nat.
urally Susan was an only child. She
never would have benefited by all
these advantages if she had not
been. She had minor talents, of
course-an education rounded off
in a finishing school, a pleasing
smattering Of music, taste for art
that was only second to her taste
for nature. But all these were quite
dwarfed, in her daddy's opinion, by
those manlier attributes that he SO
assiduously cultivated. She was his
companion on long hunting and
fishing trips and an ideal companion
at that. 3By Jove," he would say,
"Sue couldn't be improved upon!
She never grumbles at her luck and
never growls at me for dragging her
to places where game never runs and
fish never bite. She is one girl in
ten thousa ad."
1t is needless to say that quiet
Elmwood looked upon this accom-
plished young woman with very
doubtful expression. She was lit
tie too advanced-that vas the term
they used-for Elmwood's old fash
ioDed ideas of maiden.y modesty.
The mothers of Elmwood held her
up as an example of the baneful
coming woman, and the girls Of
-Elmwood thought her drcadfully
bold and secretly cnvied her. AS
for the men-well, there were but
few Of tham in Elmwood whose
opinion was worth recording, and of
these mere handful dared to ex-
press an honest opinion in the face
of the universal feminine condem-
nation. OF these independent souls
it must be admitted that Mr.. John
Cartwright stood first and foremost.
If Miss Susan Gallon Brown knew
of the unfavorablc light in which
her short skirt and her Teddy hat
had placed her, and there is no
doubt she did, the matter failed to
worry her in the least. She had
come down to Elmwood to stay a
month with her maiden aunt-her
dead mothers only sicter-who liy-
Cd in the big white mansion on
Main street, just beyond the Bap-
tist meeting house. It was this fond
aunt who had invited Jack Cort-
wright to call, and, although this
was u particular youth, with high
ideals of womanhood, he called
again and again and again. What
was strange about is too, was that
Jack hailed from the east and from
Puritan surroundings at that. Yet
with oil this discreet bringing up he
certainly was fascinated with the
wild western holden.
They all said that Jack Cort-
wright was rising young man.
Boston capitalists had sent him,
fresh from college, to the western
town to look after their interests
In certain undcveloped coal mining
property that lay a few miles north
OF Elmwood, and Jack had taken off
his coat metaphorically and gone to
work to develop it. There was plen-. |
ty OF capital behind him, and he
had built d railway branch to the
mine and started a bank in Elm
WOOD, Of whicl: lie was temporary
cashier. and stirred thn littIo tou,n