The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-02-17
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BEL AIR, Md, FEB. IT, 1905.

| of tenderness for the sex swept over
him. Still he was very positive that he
wouldn't have eaten the apple, and
something in the soft, babyish. yet de-
pendent way in which she looked at
| him caused him to explain at great
| length why.
Has talked fifteen minutes by the
clock" she was thinking in high glec.
! but outwardly she was all dcferenttal,
! honey sweet attention.
I'm sure he wouldn't have yielded
| if he'd been like you"' was her earnest
| comment when he finished speaking,
and at the words he was conscious Of
| 4 pleasant CXpansiveness, a caressing
sense of satisfaction as delightful as it
was unusual 1t was as if he We're
| growing taller, broader and more Sc
verely strong before her very eyes.
Go back TO your reading. I'm not
| going to bother you another minute
She jumped up and, laying her hand on
his arm. finished ENORMOUSLY: You
don't mind my bothering you, do you?
y girl gets SO tired of woman talk. y
| chat like this is like plunge in cold
stream" And she vanished into tho
house and scurried to her room, where
she threw kiss to her image i'll the
| mirror, with the remark, you're doing
we'll for beginner. my love"
Down on the broad piazza the man
had returned TO the closely printed col
umns before him, but after half hour
he gave up.
I'm stale"' he murmured, throwing
the paper on the table. wonder
where's she gone? NeTer before real
lied how interesting she is-for a girl.
Had l ever had ladies' day? Umph.
That was funny And he smiled at
the recollection of it.
FOR the next two or three days she
avoided him as much as possible.
Il must give him plenty of line" she
decided craftily, "and never let him
suspect that he's taken the bait
On the third day he proposed long
tramp to her.
You don't want Il silly thing like
me-" she protested, with modest self
bridges and buttresses and caissons
and all those interesting things that
you know about. | shall only bore
you"
What was it you said the other day
about the creature that tempted Adj
! ann" was his laughing reply. ''Per-
haps l want to take up new line Of
study"
Il just made him think 1 was the
most dependent thing that ever lived"
she contided shamelessly to her mir
ror that night MY timid little feet
could scarcely get over the ground
without help, and as for climbing
fences
She went off into n peal of laughter
had been about her getting over Il
fence that was in their way-and she
who could turn handspring as well
as either of her brothers.
"Of course | couldn't do it if really
liked him." she murmured. Then the
girl i'll the mirror averted her face
quickly. I'm just going to give him
much needed lesson, you know" she
went on This time the girl looked into
her eyes for moment. After that she
threw herself on the bed and buried Il
hot face in the pillows.
As the weeks went by the startling
conviction that there was one girl in
the world who never bored him, never
made him long to escape and get back
to his own kind, came to be certain
ty to the man. With the coming of
this knowledge the world seemed Il
brighter, livclier place.
The idea of marriage, which had
hitherto seemed as remote as that of
suicide, came and lodged within his
brain as if it were an old friend. He
thought, with some scorn, of his former
views.
They were standing under the big
apple tree in the back garden. From
the ground she picked up one Of the
round, smooth apples and began to
eat it. Something in the action brought
back to him the conversation they once