Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-11-04

hOp-yard?-honeSt enough work, but
not just what a man of Rossiter's
tastes and requirements would seek
by choice.
Her few moments conversation
with him since ming into the open
air revealed him in still another light,
and only caused her to greater mar
vel. he had shown her more of his
real SELF. minus the radical weakness
of his character, than he had be-
trayeG to anyone since he had quilted
the world of his birth. To the nat
ural attraction aroused by the ele-
ment of mystery encompassing him
was lded the deep sense of gratitude
which Miss Densmore felt towards
him, despite the fact that he had so
strenuously repealed any expression
of it on her part. Her dreadful ex-
perience at the spring by the wood
was to her like an evil dream, through
which Rossiter passed in the guise of
knight subduing the ravening drag
on. Though he had only acted as
any man of ordinary feeling and
courage would have done under SINH
lar circumstances, she could not but
invest him with certain halo of hero
ism. This, however, was in no wise
patent in her demeanor towards him,
and her cousin had several times up
braided her because she did not show
in greater degree an appreciation of
Rosters services. Perhaps for
more than anything else she admired
and respected him for his attitude
towards herself and her cousin. Never
once, that she could recall, had he
presumed upon his position to adj
vance his acquaintance with them,
although it was perfectly evident that
he found pleasure in their society and
conversation. Herein, more than in
aught else, she told herself, he re-
vealed his innate gentlemanliness.
The talk between Miss Densmore
and ROssiter having touched upon
foreign lands, it naturally turned up
upon places that were in common
familiar. He spoke with freedom
and ease upon remote scenes and
customs, of the delights and discom-
forts of travel, but it was largely in
an impersonal way. Whenever she
tried to draw him out in regard to
himself, which occasionally she made
an effort to do she met with but lit
tie response.
'Ilow different" she said at length,
the Me of n traveller is, the eXpe-
riences one passes through. from the
life one takes up on returning home!
l was at first sorely disconnected af-
ter my first year of wandering and
study to come back to SO much that
is humdrum and trivial. And you,
Mr.. Rossiter; 1 can hardly connect
the happy pilgrim which you evident
w were with the She hesitated
for the word with which to complete
her sentence, for she did not wish to
give offense.
with the pole-puller!! he ex-
claimed.
yes, with the -puller, since you
put it So" she said.
why try to connect them?" he
asked. Il have felt all the time 1
have been talking with you as though
in comparing "reminiscences with you
mine were those of another person"
Il have heard it advanced as
theory that all people pass through
several existences i'll living one, but
have always regarded that notion as
q vagary of the visionary"
1T is a theory to which l can
heartily subscribe"
well, l am inclined to think my
hop-picking experience may convert
me to your view. l suppose one gar
ners something from these various
stages, each with it's new set of eX-
periences."
IF it were only the good that one
gathered, the agreeable that one re-
called!"
Isn't that matter of the will, at
least in part? I'm sure do not mean
to carry away from my hop-picking
existence aught but it's happy
phases"
Rossiter, though looking at her in
the Pickering and dying lantern-light,
for the boughs obscured the moon
beams, and catching the outline of
her delicate profile, the poise of her
head, and the witchery of that stray
ing lock of hair, told himself that
among his gleanings from the hop
fields there would certainly be one
golden memory.
The music ceased suddenly. evident
~ in the midst of measure There
seemed to be a commotion within.
Then Jack Parmelee appeared at the
door, followed by three or four men.
You go that way, some of you," he
said r1Oinfinn ho r,Dv>or nov.