The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-05-12

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!. lodge the frst thing hs said was: Jim
in the name Of AL that's lovely. wh
IL your sunbonneted netghbor with
voice like = bubbling spring and ere
like those Of the girls In old Her
rick's poemsr
Jim Payson laughed You mus
have run across old Cheney's daughter
He has 400 or 800 rocky acres with I
little house on them Mary 10 his onlJ
daughter. and he put her through Vas
sar and made quite 4 lady OF her. She
is beauty and no mistake. Hit you
first time. eh. old manr'
Schuyler colored a little and said:
well. not exactly hit. jim l must
not be hit, you know. but the girl Il
attractive and no mistake
That evening Jim Payson asked his
guest II he wouldn't like to go over
and call on old Cheney. There was no
hesitancy In falling In with the pro-
posal They found old Cheney on the
porch smoking his pipe. He was q
white-halred old fellow of the farmer
type. and while he admitted 1t was
hard wringing crops from the stony
Catskill slope. yet he said he wouldn't
give up his mountainside with its air
and scenery for the best valley land on
the continent Then George Schuyler
met Mary Cheney. James Payson did
the introducing. Schuyler found his
mountain flower all that he had ex-
pected from the glimpse that he had
caught of Its beauty in the morning.
The girl was refinement itself. and as
Schuyler looked at the old fellow
sitting in the porch corner putting
contentedly at his corncob pipe he
wondered how this slip could have
come from such a parent stem
Well it's better to make 1t short,
George Schuyler stayed a week and
then fingered for two more. He wrote
to New York that he was enjoying the
fishing. So he was for about an hour
every morning. One day he brought
himself up with a round turn He
thought of his duty to Helen CAME
WORT
He knew IN his heart that he loved
this girl of the mountainside who had
a voice like one of the veeries that
sing every day at sunset.
That night he went TO Mary Cheney
and told her all He knew somehow
that the girl had grown to love him
as he had grown to love her. They
stood on the porch looking down onto
the far-of valley. 1t was twilight and
the veeries and the vesper sparrows
were singing everywhere He told
ner OF his childhood engagement to
Helen Ganzevoort II have not seen
her since she was II years old" he
said She cares nothing for me; she |
,annot- She doesn't even know me.
The whole thing was q bit Of parental
but nevertheless there Is
he question Of my duty. shall leave
or New York the day after tomorrow.
will see Helen, and upon what she
'ays and does depends all I may
AVE done wrong. Mary. In lingering
lere. but l loved you. and let that
act plead for me-" He left her stand
ng there. just as the last bird voices
( the day were hushed and the whip
'oorwiil took up his nightly chant.
Two days later George Schuyler
TODD In a Fifth avenue drawing-room
rafting for the coming Of Helen
ianzevoort The lights were bright
IN the wall hung a picture of Helen
5 he had last known her nine years :,
efore as a child The eyes seemed
} look at him reproachfully.
There WINS a light step behind him.
Il turned quickly. For a moment
. felt frozen. then the blood went =
trough him Ike a torrent In front :,
him In evening dress stood the girl
HON but 48 hours before he had left
i the mountainside- Mary" he said. =
Ike a smile came into the
rrs face. mot Mary. George" she
Id. but Helen" George SchuyIer's -
Ind was befogged- Il don't under az
and" he stammered.
It's easily understood. George" she ,r,
ughed You didn't suppose for a -
oment- OLD you, that | wished TO
airy a man 1 never had seen and
DO knew was to marry me from 80
eer force Of duty7 Your mother
d me you were going to stop at the
'ayerkill to fish. and Mr.. Payson. o.
10 Is an old family friend, and Giles. -.
10 Is an old family servant. and who.
the way, made good farmer. did 9,
, rest" u
Helen, what do you think Of me?-
I think, George that you fell in DIR,
70 with me for what 1 am, and .
iling-T think 1 shall have to take
q for what you are."-Chicago Rec
Herald