Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-14
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 WHO DIR FAMED
By L.. E. HAYS.

yk.s...,-..,..-......s...s.,,..u,......, THE stood under the boughs of an
 5 apple tree in the. old orchard and there never was, perhaps never could be, another orchard just like lt, with it's green hills and valleys and old apple trees with their moss 1grown limbs. To-day they upheld profusion of pink and white bloom against the blue and gray of the sky; and she stood there while the bees ibummed over the clover at her feet. She was barely IT, and beautiful The sunlight discovered gold in the sbrown of her hair, and there were golden lights in the depths of her dark eyes, and she was fair-too fair, some said who wished to find fault with her because she was fair.
 She lifted one slender hand toward the apple boughs, and the sleeve fell 1back from an arm white and finely formed. Then she murmured softly: <sNature, I love thee, I love thee, and T shall devote my life to studying thy beauty, and nothing shall come be- tween this love and me-"
 The vow was scarcely spoken when a youth of about 19, accompanied by a large setter dog, came over the hills to where she stood.
 ssRuthi' he exclaimed on seeing her, and she said, "Henryl" then there was silence for a moment, and she said: ''I did not know you were at home. When did you come?" 'Yesterday. Grandfather has been lquite sick, but he is better to-day. Aunt Martha sent for me-"
 .'I did not know your grandfather swas sick.''
 s'No, it seems you don't care to r2know anything about us any more. .aAunt Martha says you rarely come ito the house now. It seems pretty |. hard when a fellows old playmate gives him and his relatives such a vstand-off."
 "WelI, Henry, we are no longer schi1dren, and mother does not ap- prove of our playing together any F1onger"-this with little smile; then, seriously: "She never did, amuch,A you know"
 ssNo, but you are making her an excuse for throwing me off, and you Ifknow, Ruth, that you are the only Zone in the world ever shall care for."
 s.It's silly for you to talk that way; Hou have never seen the world. What do you know of it?'
 s.If know it contains nothing half 80 lovely as Ruth Dartmore."
 Without commenting on this as sertion she continued: "Mother says our stations in life are different. You are heir to all things desirable, while I must work for all I hope to possess"
 .s He had pushed his cap back, and his fair hair lay in a wavy mass on his forehead; a most disconsolate look had crept into his blue eyes, while his handsome mouth quivered with mingled expression of scorn and amusement.
 ssHeir to Gehenna!" he exclaimed. tsHeir to a tumbled-down old house" waving his hand toward the old, red brick building beyond the or chard., .sHeir to | invalid grand father and a ma aunt; heir to an orchard whose " tree is mort gagedt Yes, ouI cations in life are different.s Your father owns his lit tie home and earns his living. I have no father, no mother, sister, or brother; but have hope of making my way in the world, and sustaining the honor of my name."
 ,; Ruth felt yearning tenderness to- ward him when he spoke of having no mother or sister; but she always enjoyed making him angry. She loved to see the attitude he assumed, the fine scorn that flashed from his eyes, the varying expression of his flexible mouth. So she stood still and watched him, and when he lifted his cap and walked away she still stood there and said nothing. @ After he had gone she gathered some apple blossoms and walked home-a little whitewashed box house at the other end of the orchard-and the old orchard with all it's bloom and beauty m sprlngtlme, with all It's golden har- vest in summer, and autumn repre- sented great grief fixed between the ryhitewashed box and the tumble-down red brick mansion, because day la borer lived in one, and a judge in the other
 Ruth said nothing to her mother about meeting Henry in the orchard. She arranged the apple blossoms, took out her color box and was very silent and busy all the morning; but that day at dinner Ruth's father remarked to her mother: "I saw Henry Carridine ) tn towu to-day; the judge is sick" Next