Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-30
he Gentleman
'On Indiana
By BOOTH HARRINGTON
fiShi. 1899. b. Dosblc6sy a Mcclure Go.
Copyright. 1902. BY Mcclure. PHILIPS q Go.


and there, along the sidewalksl
n father worked his way through
rong. a licorice bedaubed cherub
e arm, his coat Cborne with long
h) on the other, followed by
er. with the other children hang
her skirts and tagging exasper-
behind, holding red and blue
balloons and delectable candy
Of spiral striped peppermint in
y closed, sadly sticky fingers. A
and cries rent the air-the stroll
rOuntabanks and gypsying booth
hants, the peanut vendors, the |
with palm leaf fans for sale, the |
3 sellers, the popcorn peddlers, the |
an with the toy balloons that float |
a cluster of colored bubbles above |
heads of the crowd and the bal
that wall like a baby; the red
bnade man, shouting in the shrill
that reaches everywhere and en-
IS forever: "Lemo'! Lemo'! Five
ass! Ice cole lemo'! Five cents, a
el. a half a dime, the twentieth
bfadollah! Lemo'. Ice cole lemo'"
the vociferating harbingers of the
us crying their wares. Timid
tbs in shoes covered with dust
bugh which the morning polish but
" shone and unalterably hooked
the arm to blushing maidens bought
llessly of peanuts, of candy, of pop
n. of all known sweetmeats, per-
nee. and forced their way to the
honade stands, and there, all shyly,
ently slipped the crimson stained am
bsia. Everywhere the hawkers din
h. and everywhere was heard the
Rintive squawk of the toy balloon.
In the courthouse yard, and so sin
sng in the very eye of the law, two
Earthy, shifty looking gentlemen were
Herating with some greasy walnut
Tells and a pea what the fanciful or
lsophlsticated might have been pleas.
to call a game of chance, and the
ost intent spectator of the group
round them was Mr.. James Bardlock,
le town marshal. He was simply and
8noficially and earnestly interested.
\ hus the eye of the law may not be
j bid to have winled upon the nefari-
usness now under its vision. 1t gazed
Nth strong curiosity, an itch to dab
\ le and. it must be admitted, a grow
|ng hope of profit, the game was so oil
ect and the player so sure. Severa
lountrymen had won small sums, anC
'bne. a charmingly rustic stranger, Will
peculiar accent Che said that him ant
(. Ms goil should now have smoot oil
4 ime off his winninks, though the lady
WAS not manifested) had pocketed 81
with no trouble at all. The two oper
|ators seemed depressed, declaring thu
buck against them and the Plattvill
people too brilliant at the game.
1t was wonderful how the youn
couples worked their way arm in arr
through the thickest crowds, never sepa
rating. Even at the lemonade stand
they drank holding the glasses in the1
outer hands. Such are the sacrifice
demanded by etiquette. But obser'
ing the gracious outpOuring of fortur
upon the rare rustic just mentioned,
youth in Il green tie disengaged b
arm-for the first time in two hours
from that of girl who looked upC
him with fond, uncertain smiles an
conducting her to q corner OF the var
babe her remain there until he retur
ed. He had to speak to Hartley Bow
der, he explained.
~ .KfIen he plunged, red faced and
cited. into the circle. about the sh
nanipulators and offered to lay a v
ger.
"HoP on there, Hen Fentriss," thicl
objected a flushed young man bes
him. 'Iss my turn"
I'm first, Hartley" returned the
or. You can hold yer bosses, recko
"Pleuty fer each and all. gents
4errupted one of the shell men. "Pi
yer spondulics on de little ball. w
. is de mex lucky gent to win our II
aev? Gent bets four sixtysfive he seer
little ball go under de middle smell.
she comes! Dis time we wins. =
Vile can't win every time. VINO
mex lucky gent2'
Fentriss edged slowly ont OF lne
acle.~abashed and with rapidly WIZ
ing cheeks. He paused for a mon
outside. slowly realizing that al
money had gone in one wiid'
whirl-the money he had earne'
hard and saved so hard to make d
dsy for his sweetheart and himself
stole one glance around the bulldir
where a patient figure waited lor
Then he fed down a side alley anu
was out upon the country road III
ing soddenly homeward through
dust his chin sunk in his breast au
hands clinched tight at his sides
opd then he stopped and bitterly
cd stone at a piping bird on the
or gay bobwhite in the nelus. a.
the patient figure was sun VAIN
the corner OF the courthouse yard
" twisting a coral ring upon her L
But the flushed young man wh'
snoken thickly to her deserter ore
envied roll of bank bills from MS
Of and began to bet with tlpsy ca
while the circle about the gan
watched with fervid interest esPe
Mr.. Bardlock, town marshal