The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-25

demeaned myself. She is no ordinary
servant girl. I'm not quite sure who
or what she is. l should never dare
question my high bred cousins about
their domestics. Butch, well, to make
the matter short, this demure little
Nancy, with her downcast eyes and
graceful figure, has got between me
and all my plans, making it forever
impossible for me to fall in love prop
erly. A word in self excuse.
That she is no ordinary housemaid
am sure, for 1 found her busting
cloth left accidentally between the
leaves of my Browning, and one day
1T table, when gave my young cub of
cousin, MI. Jack Henderson, a math-
ematical nut to crack, I am quite sure
she contrived to give him the solution
While offering him the waffies. ~.
| AL the same, must get away from
here. | can't court my cousins wait
ress, and l won't court my cousins. |
shall move over to my own place in
day or two and shall then claim Won
Tor my guest"
Marston would have been very sorry
to-have go astray, so he concluded to
walk into the village with his mail. He
stopped at the open door Of the family
sitting room to let Miss Inefficient know
his intention. She entered a polite pro-
test. eff you are not in a particular
hurry, cousin, l can send it in by the
| Ia OIL
about 3 o'clock
But Marston thought the walk would
do him good, and presently they heard
MIN swing past the library windows
with that long, easy stride which car
rled him over SO much ground with SO
little apparent effort.
| Miss N1ellicent looked at Miss Julia
anXiously. "He will come back with
the appetite of a wolf and nothing but
soup meat for dinnerr'
Jack went out with his-gur.''
| "Yes, and Jack will come back with
his gun. We. can't serve that I'D for
Teddy
'1n-but dear me, Mel, he is making
us positively fussy. l wish he would
go-not that he is any trouble at all.
He is dear, simple fellow. I'm really
fond Of him."
The dear, simple fellow was at that
moment swinging through a grove of
black Walnuts and pecans which inter-
vened between his own home and the
Hendersons' He would "take look
at the workmen on his way to the vii
lage and hurry them up
Now that he had actually confessed
his weakness to Holbrook he felt in
honor bound to get from under his cous-
ms roof as promptly as possible. Once
established under his own, with his
books and work around him, he might
perhaps forget that bewitching little
Nancy"
The thought Of his folly enraged
him. He struck out savagely with his
stout walking stick at sapling by the
roadside, then started and stopped,
with the hot blood of anger surging
through every vein.
In the olden times, when the Hender-
son and Marston families had been in
daily intercourse, small pavilion
lne hal1 way house, they called it
had adorned this grove 1t still stood
there, ruinous and deserted, and so
covered over with vines that one might
easily pass it by unnoticed, as Mar
ston would have done this time but for
an arresting sight and sound.
On one Of the rickety benches, with
their backs to the road, sat Jack, ''the
cub" and Nancy, the waitress" On
the floor of the pavilion lay the stark
bodies Of some birds and squirrels,
''the boys" hard earned contribution
to that days dinner
At the moment when, by slashing
away branch Of the sapling, Marston
discovered them Nancy was actually
kissing Jack and calling him by all
manner Of endearing names. How