The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-22

with my own nanny dead only FIVE months
If you'd wait a year, wouldn't say a word.
| an'-an' - even try to make friends with
| &aEaY pappy, won't You please wait on
! The man shook his head sullenly. Her face
! again grew hard
| Il spose hits Bess that's done told you
that she an me cant live in the same house.
Well, don't be skeered. Jest whenever she
tells you to send me off IL" She rose
hastily and went to a window, and the man,
with an uneasy glance in her direction, seized
his hat and slipped quietly from the room.
| Half hour later she again standing
ny the window, her few household duties COM
pleted. The doors and windows of the other
cabins along the street were already being
| filled for the customary evening gossip and
scclding, and at the shrll voices she suddenly
dropped the sash.
Presently she noticed a tall, broad-shoul-
dered figure coming along the street, stop.
ping now and then as though to make in
quiries. few moments later. a clear, -
perative rattat sounded through the house,
and she went to the door. wondering who it
could be. g.z
Merry, ] am glad to see you!"
30, Jake! You here?"' Then, with a warm
flush on her face, she re-entered the room,
and he followed. ".
There were no chairs, and she motioned him
to the largest Of the boxes Then she came
der.
NOW, tell me, Jake she commanded,
whatever brought you way off to these parts
an how's all the FOLDS an the farmin' an
eevrything."
But he only possessed himself Of one OF her
hands, laughing. >r-. ~
''You uns are in a regular hornets nest Of
place." he declared. II asst for you at ons
house an at another an another, an, though
nobody seemed to know you by name, they
all wanted to talk an say somethin about
somebody else. Hit was only when I. spoke
of you as bein' tall, fne-lookin' gal, with
square shoulders, that they seemed to know.
An then-wnew!'' He paused abruptly, and
at that moment flare through broad crack
in the stove crossed her face. 'Nervy''~ he
cried sharply, springing to his feet. what's
the matter? You've been sick. an'-an'. yes.
| you've been cryin'.''
"No, no, jake she expostulated, snnilins
| and flushing under his anxious gaze Hits
hits jest the lonesomeness of the place
You don't know
! yes I do know!' explosively Hits that
| shifty-eyed daddy. No; I don't mean that.
Nervy But l heered it all comm along
His face had grown dark, but now it suddenly
cleared. and he ended with laugh. ANY
how, hits goin' to help my plans
| He drew her down beside him.
| You member that day we parted On the
| mountain he said, with suppressed eager
| ness In his voice You want satisfied with
cur narrer way Of Twin, an you lowed you
| loved me, but couldn't marry me cause
want ready to climb UP along of you. An
| I'm free to say, Merry, didn't feel ! could
| leave the mountains then. I'd been brung
up among EN-, an loved em. I had nice
farm an was doin' we'll. So let you come
| eff alone.
But was mistook. Merry his voice be-
coming more earnest and tender. "Jest as
soon as you was gone didn't care any more
for the farm an the mountains Hit was you
| I wanted. So I've come here to climb up with
| you I've been to the factory. an there amt
| no job for NE jest now, ,'cept tsndin' fire IN
| the engine-room at 80 cents day. 'Tain't
much, but mebbe hit'll do for start ! did
low on waitin till could get little saved
| up, but now your daddy isis gon' to do
what he's goin to do hit seems to be the best
| thing is for US to git married right at .onct-
| You We knowed me since ! was a little Teller,
| an you know can be trusted Will you
marry me, Nervy?''
She rose swiftly and stood beside him, her
the longing in them. even in the dim light
You amt sold nor-nor rented the farm.
| have you, Jake?" she breathed. 90
| 'fTot yet Hits the wrong time Of year
| jest left hit in Brother Toms hands to look
! out for
I'm so glad, 0. Jake you can't ever know
| how glad!'' she half sobbed. Yes, I'll mar
ry you, but I'VE won't stay here. Well go
| back to uns' mountains an climb up to-
| gether there
And she raised her face to his. TRANSPORTED
| at the thought, and he, almost reverentiE,
bent down and kissed it.