Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-06

senca | was Young" he sighed to nm
self Then. pushing bis hat stu III W,
down over his eyes, 4 don't believe
ort to rightly look on at that
sighed again as he rose and Genu!
spoke the name OF his dead wife: MAJ
lie. | reckon you're mighty tired "al'-
in for me. It's ben lonesome some
times
DO you see that tall old man up
there?' said Helen, nodding her heau
| toward Martin. Il think | should llAe
to know him. I'm sure ] like hlm'
THAT is old Tom Martin"
81 know
az was sorry and ashamed about al
that conspicuousness and shouhhs: -
| must have been very unpleasant loA
| you. 1t must have been so for 81"
ger. Please try to forgive me Ior ie'
| ting you in for it
Put | liked it. 1t was all in the
family and it was so jolly ana goou
natured, and that dear old man was 80
bright. Do you know" she went ol III
a low voice, 81 don't believe III %
much a stranger-I think L love d.,
these people a great deal-in spite oi
having known them only two days
At that wild exhiIaration possesseo
him. He wanted to shake hands Win
every soul in the tent, to tell them an
that he loved them with his Wnole
heart: but. what was vastly more I'M
portant, she loved them great deal
in spite of having known them only
two days.
He made the horses prance on the
homeward drive and once, when she
told him that she had read good many
of his political columns in the Herald
J he ran them into a fence. After thls
it occurred to him that they were near
ing their destination and had come at
/ a perversely sharp gait, so he held the
| roans down to a snaiPs pace Qf II De
! true that a snails natural gait is not
. trot) for the rest of the way. and they
Y talked of Tom Meredith and books and
a music, and discovered that they diff
e fered widely about Ibsen.
e They found Mr.. Fisbee in the YARD,
y talking to Judge Briscoe. AS they
e drove up and before the horses had
2. quite stopped Helen leaped to the
G ground and ran to the old scholar with
d, both her hands outstretched to him.
IS He looked timidly at her and took the
d hands she gave him; then he produced
J. from his pocket yellow telegraph en-
T. velope, watching her anxiously as she
le received it. However, she seemed tc
1t attach no particular Importance to it
to and instead of opening it leaned to
ID ward him. still holding one Of hi:
er hands.
70 These awful old menu Harkles:
groaned inwardly as he handed the
lie horses over to the judge. II dare SAY
X he'll kiss her too" But when the ed
n itor and Mr.. Willetts had gone 1t wa
c. Helen who kissed Fisbee.
lie They're coming out to spend tn
e evening, aren't they" asked Briscoe
nodding to the young men as they sc
l off down the road.
I "Lige has to come whether he want
d to or not" Minnie laughed rather con
| seiously. "Its his turn tonight to loo
q after Mr.. Harkless."
4 81 guess he won't mind coming" sal
81 the Judge.
= "Well," returned his daughter, glant
4 ing at Helen, who stood apart readin
\ the telegram to Fisbee, Il know If b
follows Mr.. Harkless he'll get her
4 pretty soon after supper-as soon a
the moon comes up, anyway"
Il The editor Of the Herald was late
III his evening meal that night. It Wa
81 dusk when he reached the hotel, an
IN for the first time in history a gentl
VII man sat- down to meat In that hous
Of entertainment in evening ores
vi | There was no one in the dining roo
~ when he went in-the other boarde
VA had finished, and 1t was Cynthia
Fl evening OUTPUT the landlord, c
u lumbus Lands, came and attended
- his wants himself and chatted VIII
him while he ate.
. There's q picture of Henry Clay
7. remarked Lands in obvious relevan'
9. to his companions attire-"theres
d, picture Of Henry Clay somewher
about the house in a swallow tail. 60
in ernor Ray spoke here in one. Boden
his says; always wore one, except 1t WI
higher built up n yourn about the C
rod lar and had brass buttons, l thn
Ole man Windy was here again
night" the landlord continued, chan
ing the subject. HE waited around 1
hn+ We good while but last he had to
H." He's pen mlghty Wrought up
I'm trouble thls lnoIhlhs az "an'e0 - =
We bad. don't know if you seen 1t, o
EN-, tnat Ielier knocAeu 1ou, n"'
ere club got mighty near tore to piet
ora- in the crowd before he got ava
fer Seems some of the boys re-cog-nlz
for him as one of the Crossroads Skill
MIC and sicked the dogs on him, and
the had pretty mean time of it. Win
ort. says the Crossroads folks III be Wo
the N ever, and, says he, Tell him to st
uSb close to town says he. They'll
the anything to git him now says he, a
so resk anything told him you would
had take no stock in what any one sa
her and knowed well enough you'd lau
o,I- tba+ away But see here we do