Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
CHAPTER TX.
IN THE ORCHARD.

IN THE ORCHARD. "This is vastly more entertaining than any ball ever attended, even ny first" said Miss Densmore, after they had sat several moments in si- ence, Rossiter dreamily looking and listening, and she in somewhat sim lar mood.
 'I suppose" Rossiter replied, "that his is as much like contra-dance as Enything we have in this country. t's pity that the men are so dread July unpicturesque."
 stA contra-dance2 Yes, should lay so. It is certainly quite as anus ng. You have visited other coun- ries, MT. Rossiter?'
 Before his previous remark such a hing as his having been 8 traveller Fou1d hardly have occurred to her. sYes, I crossed the ocean once. Fas thinking just now-this scene drought it back to me, expect-of a ssta witnessed one April day at ,urn-Severin. Were you ever there?" s'No, I never was"
 He then told her how he had, at one me, been ascending the Danube, had 8hanced upon holiday gathering at he Roumanian river town, and had 'topped off to witness it, He de- c7fDed the scene graphically, the easants dancing on the sward, the antastic music, the bright costumes If the, women, and their curious head resses, some of the maidens wear hg strings of tinkling coins--their owries-upon their plaited hair.
 Miss Densmore was deeply inter sted.
 'sIt must have been quite like some hing I once saw in suabia,' she said. 'sYes, very likely"
 What strange puzzle this man las, Miss Densmore could but think. lot only did he pique her curiosity, ut something more-she began to eel attracted towards him, For the rst time in her life 1t had been rought home to her that clothes do ot make the gentleman. Born and Bared in an old and conservative ociety, she had had small oppor- unity to see, through personal con- kct, aught but the silks and velvets existence. She had been often at be Merton farm, it is true, but never ef6re to know anything of the real xm life, and elsewhere she moved a1y among those favored like her She had been more or less intimate
 acquainted with many men; had ad many admirers, as a girl of her ttractiveness was likely to have. wo or three men she had at different mes fancied she loved, but the fancy ad somehow been dispelled before by irreGrieyable step was taken. hough she had passed her twenty fth year and had seen much social lei she still kept before her mental sSon some of those rainbow dreams youth that, with many, vanish ere Re age which she had attained is Aached.
 Rossiter was with her a decidedly aw experience. Before the Sunday ternoon in the woods she had re hrded him somewhat wonderingly
 8 man out of place. Once it had neurred to her that he might be asquerading, but she put this bought aside. Now, since she had ,me to know him better, she began
 see that he had a history, that was not simply one who had nanced to pick up this and that om books. and through his power
 adaptabilfty make cunning use
 what he had read. No, he was
 the manner born, a person of pod breeding and of education; but hy, with his pleasing address and s talents, was he occupying the po- lion of pole-puller in her uncle's ,p-yard d?-honest enough work, but t just what man of Rossiter's ates and requirements would seek
 choice.
 Her few moments conversation th him since coming into the open
 revealed him in still another light, d only caused her to greater mar He had shown her more of his
 l self, minus the radical weakness
 his character, than he had be-
 ged to anyone since he had quilted
 world of his birth. To the nat aI attraction aroused by the ele- snt of mystery encompassing him Is added the deep sesse of gratitude kich Miss Densmoxe felt towards n, despite the fact that he had 80 enuously repeIled any expression it on her part. Her dreadful ex-
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