The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-12


you-if you can keep a secret"
Minnie set her work-basket on the
/ steps. "Oh, l guess l can keep Sc
cret," she said. But it won't make
any difference"
You mean you've said it, and you'll
stick to it that it's gratitude till their
| wedding day"
She knows he gave her father some
I thing to do, and helped him in other
ways, when no one else did"
Il know all about that She re-
proaches herself Tor having neglected
| Fisbee while a stranger took care Of
| him, and saved him from starving
and worse She's unreasonable about
it,; she didn't know he was in want
till long after. That's just like F'is-
bee, 20 tell her, afterwards. He didn't
| tell her how low he got; but he hint
ed at it to her, and guess she I'M
| derstood; l gathered that much from
him. OF course she's grateful, but
| gratefulness don't account for every
! thing
Yes, it does"
"Well. I never expected to have the
last word with a woman"
J Well. you needn't" said Minnie.
81 don't. 1 never do" re retorted.
| She did not answer, but hummed a lit
! tie tune and looked up at the tree
tops.
Warren Smith appeared in the door
! way. Judge" he said, will you step
| inside? We need YOU
Briscoe nodded and rose at once. AS
he reached the door. Minnie said in
piercing whisper:
It's hard to be sure about her, but
I'm right it's gratitude"
There" he replied, chuckling. 1T
, thought l shouldn't have the last
, word" Minnie began to sing, and the
| judge, after standing in the doorway
till he was again summoned from with
in, slowly retired.
| Briscoe had persisted in his own ex-
| PLANTATION of Helen's gaiety; neverthe-
less he did not question his daughters
| assumption that the young lady was
enjoying her career in Carlow. She
was free as a bird to go and come,
and her duties and pleasures ran to-
| gether in happy excitement. Her
hands were full of work, but she
sought and increased new tasks, and
! performed them, also. She came to
Carlow as unusued to the soil as was
Harkless on his arrival, and her edu-
catonal equipment for the work was
Tar less than his; her experience, moth
ing. But both were native to the state;
and the genius of the American is
adaptability, and both were sprung
from pioneers whose means of life de-
pended on that quality
ticle are mere ana tneret eXcreScent
individuals who, through stock deca-
dence or their inability to comprehend
republican conditions, are not assitoi-
lated by the body of the country; but
many OF these are imports while some
are exports. Our foreign-born agita-
tors now and then find themselves re-
moved by the police to institutions Of
routine, While the romantic innocents
who set up crests in the face of an
unimpressionable democracy are apt to
be lured by their own curious arnbf-
tons, or those of their women-folk,
10 spend great part OF their time in
or about the villas of Albion, thus
paid for its perfidy; and, although the
anarchists and the bubble hunters
make noise, it is enormously out
OF proportion to their number, which
is relatively very SMALL and neither the
imported nor the exported article can
be taken as characteristic of our coun-
try. For the American is one who
soon f1ts any place, or into any shaped
hole in America, where you can set
him down. II may be that without
going so far as to suggest the halls
OF the great and good and rich, one
might mention number of houses of
entertainment for man and beast in
this country in which Mr.. Martin
of the Plattville Dry Goods Emporium
would find himself little at ease. But
| even IN the extreme case if Mr.. Mar
tin were given his choice of being
burned TO death or drowned, or OF
spending a month at the most stu
| pendously embellished tavern located In
our possessions, and supposing him to
have chosen the third alternate il is
probable that he would have grown
almost accustomed to his surroundings
before he died; and if he survived the
month. we may even fancy him ceally
enjoying moments of conversat ton with
! the night clerks.
AS Mr. Parker observed. Miss Sher.
wood did not do the Grand Duchess
| giving the Carlow tenants a treat She
felt no duchess symptoms within her.
self. and though, of course, she hae
, various manners tucked away to wear
as one suits garments to occasions
and it was a Rouen "party-gown'
i, wherewith she chose to abash poor
, John Harkless at their meeting-here
in Carlow, she was a woman of affairs
. lively, shrewd, engaging. capable: she
! was herself Cat least, she was that side
, of HERSELF. And 1t should be explained
that Harkless had based his calunny
regarding the tariff on para graph OIL
two that crept inadvertently into ar
f., otherwise statesmanlilSe article, an6
, that H. Fisbee" understood the tariff
as well as any woman who ever lived
: But the tariff inspired no more articles
from that pen.
I Rodney McCune had lifted his head
r and those who had followed his strick.
1 en- enemy felt that the cause was lost
: without a leader. The old ring that
the Herald" had crushed was a rtna
once more, and the heelers had rallied
: the boys were in line again." The
= work had been done quietly, and Hal.
) loway was already beaten, and beaten
= badly. John Harkless lay sick, and
? Rodney McCune would sit in Congress
for the nomination meant election. But
one day the Harkless forces, democrat
lied, broken, almost hopeless, woke VI
r to find that they had leader. Many
= of them We're content with the BELIEF
p that this was a young lawyer named
E Heating, who had risen up in Amo
but Mr.. Heating himself had diff.
- ferent impression.
q Helen was a little nervous. and very
i much excited, over the political con.