News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-03-30
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"She has brother named Jimmy
said |, land he is spending the summer
| here. That boy is the most remarkable
| natural caricature that ever existed
| He pretends to know everything. He
perverts all his sisters pretty ways into
tie most arrant and transparent trick.
cry. am not such a donkey as to sup
pose that there is the faintest similarity
between their Inner natures, but | am
not strong enough to bear the superb
| cial resemblance. 1t is idle TO suppose
that she could ever have cared for me,
but now | can never care for her.
That's the story in a nutshell"
My father developed a liking for pc
destrian exercise and walked several
times around my center table.
This is very remarkable" he said.
Il hardly know what to say about it. ="
'"!.Lere is really nothing that et1h be
said" | rejcined. 1T las happened. 1t
is III! in the past tense. Let us speak of
something Else"
"Nnat, for Instance" lie asked, re-
sum.ng his seat.
There is a young man named Trask
here" said |, and my father frowned
slightly. He seems to me to be very
good fellow. and | think that he and
Sibyl love each other"
why. what can you possibly know
about that" he demanded. The man
has net said so, has he?"
Never, but / have seen them to-
gether."
II don't see how that is possible"
said he. at is true that Sibyl has told
me almost nothing of what she has
done. She has begged me not to ask
her, And yet l UNDERSTOOD
THAT she had not come up to the
house" said | when he paused. LET
me ask you a question straight from
the shoulder Is there Miss Jones, a
real one?"
Certainly" he answered Miss
Jones is net Sibyl if that's what you
mean"
"And you say that Miss Jones is not
beautiful?"
mot to MY eve"
80 | had been essentially right with
out fully understanding. 1t was Sibyl
whom | had seen as Miss Jones, but
meanwhile the real one was dwelling
in the orchard. Blessed heaven, could
it be she that sang she whom Scovel
had seen?
1t must be remembered that in all
this doubts and confusion there was one
sure reality-the voice of the singer
Some one Possessed it. There was girl
upon earth and near ia me at that mo-
ment who could swa' my soul with
song as no one else had ever done. as
no other mortal creature ever would.
Suppose she were girl my father did
not like, a girl The sight of whom had
driven poor ScOvel back to work at the
beginning of hot weather. 1t was
horror 70 make a jest Of since in no
other way might it be borne.
You are not favOrably impressed
with Mr.. TraskY" said | to give my
mind the relief Of changed theme.
Il will speak frankly" he replied. 81
know little against him except that he
is selfish and tickle. He is handsome
ana extraordinarily attractive to wo-
men, and he has gone his way ruthless
ly, as l have been told, avoiding open
dishonor, but leaving many a sore
heart beside the path. do not like that
kind of man"
There is one sore heart here because
OF him." said l, "and l tell you earnest
ly that the case is pitiable. would
have spoken of the matter even if it'll
had not coms up in this way, because
L want your advice. The girl is a ]
niece of Mrs. Witherspoon without
means and something of drudge here,
I'm afraid, in a polite way Trask has
persuaded her to sit for him and Sibyl
while they were sketching and has
kept her good deal in his company,
Should judge. l have no suspicion