Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-01

Il ISDee CHEEK WITH her sou DanQ anu |
laughed gayly into his mild vague old
eyes. ut won't be this scramble TO fill
up much longer. l have plans, gentle
men, and before long we will print
news; and we must buy plate matter
instead of patent insides; and l had q
talk with the Associated Press people
in Rouen, but that's for afterwhile.
And 1 went to the hospital this morn
ing before left They wouldn't let me |
see him again, but they told me all |
about him, and he's better, and l got |
Tom to go to the Jail, and he saw some |
of those beasts, and l can do a column
of description besides an editorial about
them, and | will be fierce enough to
suit Carlow, you may believe that. And
I've been talking to Senator Burns
that is, listening to Senator Burns,
which is much stupider-and 1 think l
can do an article on national politics.
I'm not very well up on local issues
yet, and r. She broke off suddenly.
There, l think we can get out tomor-
rows number without any trouble. By
the time you get back from the hotel,
father, I'll have half my-my stuff
written-'written up l mean. Take
your big umbrella and go, dear, and
! please ask at the express Office if a
typewriter has come for me-"
She laughed again. with sheer delight.
like a child, and ran to a corner and
got the cotton umbrella and placed it
in the old mans hand As he reached
the door she called after him, "Waitp'
and went to him and knelt before him
and, with the humblest, proudest grace
in the world, turned up his trousers to
keep them from the mud. Ross Scho-
field had never considered Mr. Fisbee a
particularly sacred sort of person, but
he did from that moment The old
man made Some timid protest at the
girls action, but she answered: "The
great ladies used to buckle the Cheva-
lier Bayards spurs for him, and you're
a great deal nicer than the Chev-
You haven't any rubbers! l don't be-
lieve any of you have any rubbers!'
And not until both Fisbee and Mr.
Schofield had promised to purchase
overshoes at once and in the meantime
not to step in any puddles would she
let the former depart upon his errand.
He crossed the square with the strang-
, est, jauntiest step ever seen in Platt-
vile. Solomon Tibbs had a warm ar
gument with Miss Selma as to his
identity, Miss Selma maintaining that
the figure under the big umbrella-only
! the legs and coat tails were visible to
: them-was that Of stranger, probably
L an Englishman.
In the Herald Office the editor turn
ed, smiling, to the papers remaining
n vassal. "Mr. Schofeld, heard some
|, talk in Rouen of an oil company thai
o had been formed to prospect for kero
r sene in Carlow county. Do you know
e anything about it,"
d Ross, surfeited with honor. terror, an(
= possessed by a sweet distress at mo
= ing himself tete-a-tete with the lady
l. looked at the wall and replied, "Oh
r SIS that Eph Watts foolishness.
e s"Do you know if they have begun t
p dig for it yet?'
n 'Ma'am?' said Ross.
"Have they begun the diggings yet!
D. mo, ma'am, l think not. Ihey V
g got contrapshun fixed up about thre
i'd mile south. 1 don't reckon they've bt
W gun yet, hardly. They're gittin' tn
IN machinery in place. l heard Eph sa
they'd begin to bore-dig, L meal
ar ma'am; I meant to say dig ID
r stopped utterly confused and unhal
Id DIV, and she understood his manly pu
?" pose and knew him for a gentlema
whom she liked.
~. You mustn't be too much surprised
Inf she said, but in spite Of my 1gnoran'
no about such things l mean to devote
good deal of space to the Oil compan
-o+ It NAV come to be of great important
to Carlow. We won't 60 into II III
no morrows paper beyond an Item or
90 but do you think you could posslo
- find Mr.. Watts and ask him Tor SOL
~ information as to their progress ana
'oi if would he too much trouble for him
W. call ,bnre tomorrow afternoon or t
le, dav after? l want him to give me
a '.I interview if he will. Tell him, pleas
All he will very greatly oblige u.s.
ooh, he'll come all right" answer
her companion quickly. "Pll take Tibl
tn =, buggy and go down there right o
aii Eph won't lose no time gittin here
'n0 And with this encouraging assuran
7lS' he was flying forth when he' like t
el1 others, was detained by her sol1c1to
uIn care She was a born mother. He p
tno tested that in the buggy he would
'no perfectly sheltered. Besides, the
{ wasn't another umbrella about
anG place He liked to get wet anywf
anu had always loved rain. The end OF
was that he went away in sort
ar tremor wearing her rain cloak over
hen shoulders, which garment, as it C
But cred its owner completely when s
sue wore it, hung almost to his knees.
pon darted around a corner, and the
lght breathing deeply, tenderly removed
ten then borrowing paper and cord al
de- neighboring store wrapped it nea
ana and stole back to the printing office,
he the ground floor of the Herald buildi
own ond loft +bo nackage in the hands