The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-07-20

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DAILY Short Story
Brunswick News
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: Wken Dalton Went Cast.


pfcKeu M copy OF the Mount Glenn
ent Educator, devoted to the interests
of the summer school. The frontispiece
was the picture of tall, willowy girl,
dressed in a sweeping evening gown.
Under the picture were the lines, Miss
Elizabeth Hardin. the accomplished
Mount Clement audiences this sum-
mcr."
Dalton walked back to his room like
one in dream. And this glorious crea-
ture was Elizabeth Hardin, whom he
had pictured as gentle, clinging crea-
ture in need of protection against a
cold and unfeellng world, the sort of
woman who would fit snugly into his
four rooms above the store at Ladrone,
this girl who was dellghtlng fashion
able eastern folks and who could have
her picture cover the whole page of q
paper, Dalton did not know that Miss
Hardin had paid $50 for that fronts
piece nor that at this very moment she
was sitting In her room at cheap
boarding house figuring on the sum-
mcr's expenses, the cost of new frocks,
photographs and advertising. She
would not clear IS. and then what?
Another winter in New York school
room with fifty east side children.
Half an hour later he found her and
sent up his card, written by man who
had a stand on the corner.
Miss Hardin was startled. In q fash
she recalled the name, the Twigglns
school and the correspondence. Would
he have on leather "chaps," spurs and
belt fun of reyolvers2 She entered
the parlor with some trepidation A
tall square shouldered man, well
groomed and clad in dark blue serge,
rose to greet her She almost laughed
at her recent misgiyinga, ana the
thought brought pretty flush to her
checks, new light to her tired eyes.
He never knew just how he managed
it, but that night Dalton escorted her
home from the concert, She wore the
marvellous dress he had seen in the pic
ture, and she gathered it up daintily as
Ai4Ny NhlhNAi III Allc llOullliSilAs nc ltlI
as If some explanation of his presence
were due, and finally he plunged into
It,
"You see, Miss Hardin, thought
perhaps you'd change your mind about
the school If just could talk to you.
summer anyhow. I've always pictured
you so sort OF different. but now of
course / understand. You wouldn't like
it out there no matter how much we
might want you"
He was looking down at the chiffon
rnfllc on her gown, which bilowed like
white foam around her feet An odd
smile Troubled on her lips: something
very like a tear shone in her eye. She
had read his thought rs in an open
book
perhaps you are mistaken, Mr.
Dalton. | think | would like Colorado,
ana if the position is open next sum
mer | may come"
They were passing through a small
grove. Dalton stopped short and gazed
into her face
"If it's open Why, Miss Hardin, of
course it will always be open for you'll"
Then he added in a lower voice, "But
next summer is a long way OFF,
Elizabeth sighed softly, and a far
away look came into her eyes as if she
were seeming the keen mountain air
and the Colorado pines.
eyes, long. long wayr
Then Dalton forgot her picture in the
papcrf forgot the imposing frock He
! remembered only the little gray note
signed Faithfully yours, Elizabeth
Hardin and the sigh.
What happened next is not herein
set forth, but western men are noto
rious for acting promptly.
This summer another clocutionist de
lighted the visitors ut Mount Clement,
and her picture adorned the first page
of the Mount Clement Educator, but In
Frank Dalton's Colorado home a new
cushion has replaced the one of moth
eaten velvet in the Morris chair,
there's a drawnwork cover instead Of
dust on the center table, and stair
way has been built from the inside of
flIp store