Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-06-12

VI "uicn was written, FOR the girl
who wanted to kiss her teacher"
She wrote polite note of thanks. 1t
was midwinter and two weeks after
her brother wrote that Frank had be-
gun studying law in his office when she
received a letter from that young man
that surprised her. He wrote:
| My Dear Miss Page-I trust you viii
| pardon me for intruding myself upon YOU
| but wish you to know that few point
co words spoken by you while / was en-
joying your hospitality have not been for
| gotten and have influenced me to make
/ an eHort 10 be something better than an
| fdler In the world. Your brother kindly
| consented to let me read law in his Office,
| and l am now hard at Ii. 1 do not imag
| Inc this will interest you but / felt that
| you mad scant respect for useless people
and as you could rightly so regard me
| wanted you to know that 1 am capable of
| rising above my aimless life
nave recalled so many times all the
little incidents of my visit to your home
ana lived over those evenings graced by
| your presence and lit by a cheerful fire
| time and again. Do not think me insin-
| cere when assure you that they were
the most delightful ones 1 ever passed.
| LII you IND time to write a line to one
who is now worker in the hive instead
of drone. 1t will be gratefully received
by me.
To girl with Alice Pages sympa-
thetlc nature and tender feelings words
like these made her feel she was what
she most enjoyed being-an inspiration
and help to others In this respect
Frank Mason had read her better than
she had read him, or else some fortu-
nate intuition had led him Alright. She
answered the letter at once, thanking
him for his 1attering words, but for
bidding him to use any more of them.
Il do not like fattery," she wrote,
because no one ever can feel quite
sure it is sincere. l will answer all
your letters if you will promise not to
tell Bert we are corresponding. Not
that am ashamed of it by any means,
but he is inclined to tease me, and
love him SO dearly 1 can't bear to have
him do so. The little girl you sent the
candy to was both astonished and CRATE
full. 1 did not tell her who sent it, for
the fact would have been all over town
in week II 1 had, and do not like to
be gossiped about. l merely told her a
good fairy had sent it, which was bet
ter"
Once a week thereafter Alice re-
ceived long letter from Frank and as
regularly answered it.
Crank is getting along nicely" AL
bert wrote Alice in the early spring.
II believe he has the making of a ca
pable lawyer in him. He grinds away
harder than 1 ever did when reading
law and has never yet complained of
how dry and dull it all is. He is big,
warm hearted fellow, too, and 1 am
growing more fond Of him every day.
He is more devoted to me than broth
er, and we have made a lot of plans
for months outing on the Gypsy this
coming summer. l like his family very
much, and Mrs. Mason and both her
daughters have invited me to bring
you down when your school closes to
make them a visit. | think l shall run
up in June and stay over Sunday and
bring Frank with me. / imagine he
| would like to come, for once in awhile
l overhear him humming Ben Bolt"
"a very nicely worded little plot but
don't you imagine, my dear Bert, 1 do
mot see through itv' was the mental
letter. ''The young gentleman ha
r, bravely set to work to become a ma
"a instead of a cipher. My brother like
him; he whistles Ben Bolt;' my broth
). er is to bring him up here again; l al
n expected to fall in love with Mr.. @
10 pher that was and help him spend hi
10 money, and | am to be barely tolel
q, ated by mamma and both sisters!
n. most charming plot surely, but it take
two to make bargain. L think
,e know Just the sort of people MANN
IT and sisters are. He told me she rea
as him a lecture every time he dance
IN twice with a poor girl, and now al
os expected to walk into the same ira
in and cringe to her ladyship for the 81
of being poor. 1 guess not! I'll teac
r. school till 1 die first, and he can thin
81 of me as having slab of granite S
o, gray to keep me in place"
But this diplomatic Sweet Alice
=. wrote to her brother: 81 am delighte
e. that you are coming up, for 1 am S
d. lonesome, and the weeks drag so hare
e Bring your friend up, by all mean
" W and I'll sing Ben Bolt till he hate
at the name of Sweet Alice. The countr
ur will be looking fine then, and he ca
go over to the cemetery and select til
is corner 1 am to occupy. Pardon th
joke. and don't tell him 1 uttered it."
To Frank she wrote: BE sure I
come up with Bert l will sing all til
On old songs and the new ones you hav
10 sent me as well. If you come up on
m Thursday you may visit my schoC
tie Friday afternoon, and then you ca
e. see the girl you sent the candy to- Sh
to wears a calico pinafore and comes I
n school barefooted"
Ie- Alice's tactful reply to her brother
be letter, coupled with his own SINGER
ed affection for her, brought her a r.
ed Spouse by return mail in the form Of
of check for 500, with explicit orders
ar spend every cent Of it before he came