The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-03-31
4 The Girl of the
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skirt, but not the pretty hand that
welded the paint brush until, in rest
ing, she let it fall by her side.
Il wonder what's the matter with
that girl" said Lucy Ann. 1T doesn't
seem healthy to me to live like that, all
alone. Goodness! She won't be young
againi | should think she'd want to
get out where there are lots of people
and where she can have a good time.
I'd have a fit living the way she does.
I'd feel like the poor, lonesome calf
that's tethered up in our back pasture
SO that the boarders can think we raise
our own milk
Perhaps she sees enough people in
the winter I suggested.
i've got no patience with girls that
NOPE" said she, NOR with any kind of
people that get tired of the sight of
humanity. | don't see enough
That's why you're so tolerant"
replied. land so much interested. Yet.
between ourselves, think you're right.
1 came out here to be alone; wanted
to live in that house, as she does, and
yet I'm glad | didn't. I'm glad to have
met Trask and Scovel and Derringer
and you, of course, and your aunt, who
BORN
I'm glad to hear you talk so,''
answered Lucy Ann. Our boarders
as a rule are an unsociable lot. We
make a speciality of that sort, but |
wouldn't wish to catch their ways.
I've been afraid of it,"
Don't" said /. There is nothing
in it. Be frank, sincere, earnest, un-
won't NOPE"
That's good advice" answered Lucy
Ann, ''but | can't help remembering
that you are going to get roses for
another kind of girl"
Il will give you one" said l; more,
If you want them"
''That isn't fair" she rejoined. 81
shall accept no fee for being your pilot.
But how will you send the roses to her,
and what put the idea into your head?
No, no. OF course 1 ought not to ask
such a question, and it isn't necessary.
anyhow"
''Why isn't it necessary?
81 guess you know who she is" said
Lucy Ann.
do your"
''Of course l do"
| stopped rowing.
Nov, it's no use asking me ques-
tions," she cried. Il won't tell you
anything. Perhaps you don't know,
after all. Jimmy. says you don't"
Jimmy is fount of WISDOM said l,
"but not such a deep one as he would
have you believe. But as to the girl,
suppose 1 make guess?'
well, you must think I'm pretty
shallow said Lucy Ann. Guessing is |
a child's trick. and l warn you that l |
am too old to betray a secret. My aunt !
would tether me up in the pasture with /
the calf for the rest of the summer if 1 I
did such a thing"
81 will not risk subjecting you to such |
a fate" said 1. 1--WE will say no more |
about it."
For matter of three minutes we said /
no more about it; we preserved a COM
plete silence. Then Lucy Ann remark
ed as if it had been the result of turn +
ing over many things in her mind:
'She sings beautifully, doesn't sheT
"No doubt about that" 1 replied.
"She sang to me last evening"
Eyes, she did," said Miss Wither-
spoon, with that peculiar infection
which denotes the extreme of incredul-
ity.
Honest said 1, and then told the
story, though / did not think it neces-
sary to disclose that there was any
special meaning in the songs that the
girl and l had chosen.
"It was very romantic" said Lucy
Ann, and then there was another ST.
ce-I1
when she asked if l would sing to her
some day. 81 love music she added
somewhat hurriedly. 81 never hear
enough. Mr.. Trask sings a little, but
he doesn't seem to care much about it."
art, and Miss Jones' / began, but
broke off to look behind me at the shore
for good landing place.
Sometimes I'm in doubt how much
he cares for either" said she. eff /
were a man and loved a woman, I
would simply take her. / wouldn't let
anything stand in the way"
Not even the girl herself|
mighty few girls ever refuse that
kind of man. said Lucy Ann, with
such a quaint and pretty assumption of
wisdom that / laughed with sheer good
numor and shook both her hands as we
rose to get out of the boat
The roses grew in the midst of an ex-
tumble of rocks, and the
scent of them was exceedingly delicate,
yet pervasive. l scarcely noticed it at
irst. but after standing for half min
Ute upon the rocks near the shore l
seemed to be breathing a new and glorf-
led atmosphere appropriate to another
md better planet.
Il can get all you want in half min