Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-07
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quist Your gayety and company were too much for his poor nerves. S raH along and let me get tr doing things. l ve got to do them all iii | NAir,~ saa- tt's l0 now. SiH hours is | mi@.tE E. tla while b hatch c.4z piracy an turn il into I reaiity@
 Susan had certainly th4 eft of p4i5s.3. eey. Aunt Patr.ch appr ,.cI hl4.zs e5 her plan. Lear Lawrence, her 8 a..s 4. @se Es,gs SgEa e-oGgt6 nave zH lH at. b2y9f#f =i..v,4faH.es tt#e ....-=z at alliance With d G0a.Iy ta.st
 itself 10 manual laa9f | eae=a=+s dreamed things were going so II 4v.5li her brother-in-law and hei. nicrcs shp would have seen to it that the usefH.t garden scheme had been HiplH.i ifI .#... bud. Since il Wis established and n.s.,- ing, let it go 0H through the season. Next year there might bc changes. Lawrence would, she Was Sure=re- spoud nobly to all legitimate claIlas. And the property was all his She her self had only q life interest. Other wise her neces-- Susan had stopped her there with Il carcssins pat OH the fat hands overloaded with diamonds. saying she quite understood, but Aunt Patrick need not worry. Once Bcrnice WAS well settled. the house and garden and the little remnant of money would be more than enough for daddy and his garden girl.
 f,nrli.a f,,t tllr9,7,yl, H.. fairly. although shc was ffl a torment of trembling and impatient hope. Law renee seemed fascinated If only Aunt Patrick would go on to the mountains ;tdd insist upon taking hei lonely niece along everything would arrange itself beautifully But Aunt Patrick had no thought of such q thing She was much too comfortable where she was. Be sides, in the mountains there was a danger she had not hinted to Bernice- namely, the Granger girl, whom Aunt Patrick hated, but with whom dear Lawrence had been, last winter at least half ill love. Better much better. keep that desirable young man here in Crofton, where the Stanley establish ment put him and Berry very nearly in solitude of two. They rode or drove or walked together through the most part of the daylight and spent moon light and twilight hours either at the piano or on the piazza
 Susan could hear them singing-falnt- ly, to be sure-while she sat almost holding, and scrawlng the letters that were to help in keeping up the mas querade. At first she had mailed them, but by and by that seemed to her use less, also risky, so she took to slipping up to the piazza in the earliest dawn and sliding her missives between slats of the shutters
 But there fell morning when. after q long hard day, she overslept. Still, since it was not much after sunrise, she ran out with the letter in her hand. never stopping to put up her long braids or to shroud herself in her big sunbonnet. And thus 1t fell out that she came full upon dear Lawrence, whom mischievous fate had awakened early upon this morning of all in the year.
 
 renee had not slept all night, because he was uncertain as to his own heart With part of it he loved Bernice dearly, but there was another part, which was somehow hungry. no less afraid. Pos sibly it was this side of him that leaped through his eyes as they rested upon SuSans enchanting freshness, her sweet simplicity and innocent courage. In quick confusion she let fall the letter AS he stopped to pick it up so did she, and then somehow their hands touched and he found himself thrilling through and through. And then. involuntarily, he read the superscription and. recall ing Susan'S picture intuitively, under stood
 He took her hand between both his own. wishing madly that he dared kiss each callous on the pink palm of 1t, and said, smiling and shaking his head: ''The Ogre has got you. Princess Susan, eat you up bodily unless you promise to come straight hone.''
 "But-but what will Berry say-and Aunt Patrick" Susan faltered, letting her hand lie in his clasp. She also was thrilling with quite unreasonable hap piness.
 Lawrence smiled down at her conf- dently and took her other hand, saying: There's just one thing they can say properly-'Riese you, my children And I don't in the least doubt that they