Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-07-18

the IOreSJs ne Salu, apOlOgeucaIly.
you should be there now-yOu
should not have waited on the road!
Is your Cousin Stephens that his
name?-there?"
Il don't know he said, carelessly.
"Ah, you should be there" she said
Squire DaveRant would be friendly
with you again"
I'm afraid you haven't hit the right
nail On the head there" he said. q
rather think he wants to give me a
good rowing about a scrape I've got
into"
"Tell me about that"
"Oh, it's about money-the usual
thing. / got into a mess, and had TO
borrow some money of a Jew. and he
got me to sign a paper, promising to
pay after Squire Davenant's death; he
called it a post obit-I didn't know
what it was then, but do now; for
the squire got to hear Of it. but how.
hanged if l can make out; and hs
wrote to me and to the Jew. saying
that he shouldn't leave me a brass
farthing. OF course the Jew was
wild; but l gave him another sort of
bill, and it's all right"
Excepting that you will lose your
fortune" said Una, with a little sigh.
what will you do?"
That's a conundrum which I've
long ago given up. BY Jovei I'll come
and be a woodman in the foresti"
will your" she said. DO you
really mean it?-no, you were not in
earnesti"
"I-why shouldn't / be in earnest?'
he says, almost to himself. Would
you like me to? | mean shall I come
here to-what do you call it-War-
den?" and he threw himself down
again.
Eyes" she said; Il should like you
to. Yes, that would be very nice. We
could sit and talk when your work was
done, and | could show you all the
prettiest spots, and the places where
the starlings make their nests, and
the fairy rings in the glades, and you
could tell me all that you have seen
and done. Yes" wistfully, that would
be very nice. 1t is so lonely some
times!"
Lonely, is it?" he said. Lonely!
By George, / should think il must
be! can't realize it. Books, it reads
like a book. If 1 were to tell some OF
my friends that there was a young
lady shut up in a forest, outside OF
which she had never been, they
wouldn't believe me. BY the way
where did you go to school?"
School? I never went to school,"
Then how-how did you learn to
read? and-it's awfully rude of me.
you know, but you speak so nicely;
such grammar, and all that"
do I?'' she said, thoughtfuIly. 81
didn't know that l did. Ny father
taught me-"
Its hard to believe" he said, as
If he were giving up a cOnundrum. Il
beg your pardon. / mean that your
father would have made a jolly good
schoolmaster, and l must be an awful
Ounce. for I've been to Oxford, and I'll
wager don't know half what you do.
and as to talking am not in it."
Yes, my father is very clever" she
said; ''he is not like the other wood.
men and burners"
No, if he is, they must be learned
lot," assented Jack; yes, / think !
had better come and live here. and
get him TO teach me. I'm afraid he
wouldn't undertake the job
Father does not like strangers,
she said, blushing as she thought or
the inhOspitable scene of the preced.
ing night. HE says that the world is
a cruel, wicked place, and that every.
body is unhappy there. But I think
he must be wrong. You don't look
unhappy"
Il am not unhappy now" said JacA.
Il am so glad" she said; why are
you not?"
Because 1 am with YOU
Are you?" she said, gently. Then
it must be because I am with you that
feel so happy"
The Savage flushed and he looked
down, striving TO still the sudden
throb of pleasure with which his heart
heat.
"COnfound ii, he muttered, Il must
go. l can't be such a cad as to STOP
any longer: she oughtn't to say this
sort of thing, and yet II can't ten
her soi No, / must goi" and he rose
and took out his watch.
81 am afraid l must be on the
/ tramp"
Eyes" she assented: you have
stayed too long. / hope you will find
! that the Squire Davenant has forgiven
you. think he cannot help it. And
you will have your fortune and will go
/ back into the world, and will quite
forget that you lost your way in War
den Forest. But l shall not forget a. !,
I shall often think of it."
NO" he said, Il shan't forget f.
/ But in case I should, will you give me
something-nO, won't ask it.
4 ssWby not ?" She said wonderinoIv