Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-12-08
BILLY Boy.
MATCHMAKER
BY MARTHA M'CUilOCh.NllIAMS
Copyright, 1905, By 1. ID. Marshall

tONeTtiy 1T Ileleu Muii. che 10 WSh
named" he went ON. Cant you fancy
Eer's the
Face that launched thousand ships
And burned the topless towers OF 1llium?"
NO" Norris answered with a laugh
ing shake of the head. Remember,
I'm neither artist nor painter, nor even
Bohemian merely village landlord,
whose chief concern is to keep terms
with his tenants, and used to seeing
pretty girls, even very pretty girls,
every day in the week"
'If you call her pretty, repeat your
case is hopeless" Wheaton persisted.
This time he spoke very low, but not
so low as to escape Helen's ear. She
was coming toward them on her dap
pied pony, her hat hanging at the back
of her head and a sheaf of wild roses
in the hollow of her arm. The pink of
the roses was deepening in her cheeks,
and she would have ridden past with
the merest inclination Of the head but
that Billy Boy, spoiled beast, was Of
another mind. He whinnied joyously
to Norris, and when he got abreast Of
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there was no neip iof ~ serNeu nm .
rlsht ior spoiiiiis .he crea'ure eo' nu'
there were hii'isa'ihs CIRCUMSTANCES "
he spoinhg
The MARI paddock adJoined MS own
and while holding converse with Billy
Boy across the fence of 1t, giving him
bread, sugar or sweet apples, he need
ed no excuse for likewise holding con-
verse with Miss Helen. She was shy
of him when they met socially, for,
though Norris would have scrupled to
admit it, he was the catch of the viii
lage, much courted by the eager and
rather let alone by the self respecting.
Beyond their pride and their pedigree
the Marrs had little. Helen's chief dl-
version. indeed, was the rides she took
lanes which led from the village into
the deem country.
Wheaton was NOT n had sort but he
was n citv man and. Norris more than
suspected, trifer making love to
every yerv pretty or very piuuant face
he encountered. He was, moreover,
disgustingly good to look at. Thus
Norris contrasted mentally Wheaton's
supple elegance with his own burly
strength. Wheaton played at being an
artist, chiefly by way of diversion. He
had just enough money to keep himself
in luxurious idleness and no will what
ever to increase the sum of 1t or divide
the spending Norris knew all that;
therefore he ragged inly, mainly at him
self, while Wheaton talked to Helen,
the while coaxing Billy Boy to stand
obstinately still by giving him tufts of
tender roadside grass. 1t was play
fully done, so playfully Helen did not
in the least see through 1t.
She got over her shyness very quick
ly and talked brightly to Wheaton, CIV
ing him now and again dazzling smiles.
n. 1.n,, n n1.o IL 10, .t.te ,t
the end of fifteen minutes jerk Billy
Boys bride sharply and send him can
tering homeward with n sharp slap on
the rump.
As the pony cantered Helen won
dered what she had done to displease
Norris. He had looked gloomier and
older than she ever had seen him and
she had thrown to him over her shoul-
der.
Before the week end she had ceased
TO think of Norris. of Billy Boy, of
ANYTHING. indeed, save and except
Wheaton. They had ridden through
the long summer mornings together
and spent the silver moonlit evenings
ting beyond hail or the range of friend
ly household lights. Helen went bare
headed; Wheaton insisted upon it. He
insisted, too, that he must paint her
not In the heat of the summer. but
when he came back in the fall. He
was coming, of course. He had not
dreamed that his own country held
ohor+ hod diso,osoa possihly he would
aottIo darn t,,oro and moIa binselt
fomors hr nernotpoting tha charm ot
its nrassod rooches It's towering hills
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