The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25
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 make mistake. InsuIted you! North | ing was farther away from my inten- I tionw
 Bringing me a dress, Daring to- If the instincts of gentleman---
 Tt seems to me that the instincts or gentleman should prompt him to re- place that which he has destroyed.
 She looked so lovely with the taint | flush of her anger. standing among the | flowers she had just gathered In her little garden. that he would have been l insensate not to feel it.
 Anyone" said Mrs Temple, who know the usages of good society--- But I am man of business said he. Tn business we pay our debts. regard this as debt. If you don't | wish for the payment, you can pass 1t on. It is yours to do as you will. shall have discharged my obligation | The portrait of the great grandfather. which had always seemed to her like a I protector fin person, did not awe MT, l Thorndyke in the least. His manner, | as he turned to go. was quite as haugh- | ty as her own.
 Sooth to say, 1t disquieted her little. Gentle to the point of timidity, as she was, her nerves so excited just now that she tremb1ed. she felt disturbing fear of something in the unknown. I'm sure" she faltered breathlessly 'T am--oh, pray forgive me if have | hurt your feelings"
 You have" he said brusquely.
 'I didn't mean--I neysr thought think sometimes." And then he was gone. But the roll of silk in it's white ! paper lay on the table where he had left 1t.
 Mrs Temple sat down; she could not stand another minute. That was why he was at the head of such large con- cern as the Braeburn Mills must be. Really. there was something in that way of his. Perhaps it was quite as good as smoother, sfiIxier ways. She did like a man to act as though he amounted to something. How good looking he was--sle remembered she had thought him good-looking when she first glanced up at him on the street Well--if 1t was not-not quite we'll -bred to bring the silk, perhaps he had no mother or sister to acquaint him with the delicate points of be- havior. Certainly he meant no harm. And that voice of his-well. 1t was clear music. What pity he was one of those mill people! He-yes. he would be an ornament to Braeburn If he had come there as doctor or lawyer or minister. Some one said the house he had built a half mile. below the mills, where the river whdened and deepened and the banks rose clothed W ith evergreen forest, was the next thing to a palace, with wonderful library in 1t. He must read books, then. Why, she knew verE well that college-bred men sometimes went into misunderstanding. All of sudden 1t flashed over Mrs. Temple that she was simpietonI
 But there was the silk. It must go back to him at all events. She had no one to send. She must write his name on 1t, and take it herself, leaving 1t at the door--there must be an office-door there somewhere. She need not see Mr. Thorndylke.
 But the next day it rained; and the next day. too. It seemed to Mrs. Tenn pie that it would rain forever. And the next day was the Clubs sewing meet ing; and the ladies, especially the younger ladies, were asking one an- other if anyone had seen the person who owned the mills, who had lately come from Europe, Mir. Thornby- hornleigh-=something with thorn in it, anyway. Mrs. Temple may have felt a flush burning in her face. but she was very busy with her head bent ffattening a seam; and no one observed her.
 But on Friday afternoon she opened her door, prepared to sally forth and leave the roll as she had planned, whens carefully closing the gate behind him, Mir. Thorndyke came up the path. There was a smile on his face; she said to herself that it was like sunshine.
 '.He treads the gravel as if he owned the earth and all that therein is," she said to herself again. To save her soul she could not have. hindered the an- swering smile on her own face.
 "Ahl You are glad to see me!' he T,sr, . nxA t.a
 "Yes," she replied. Because now you can take your property instead of my having to carry it all the way to the Head of the River. .-..s. e a.
 Are you going that way? Shall we go together? Let me relieve you of your parcel" he said, quite. ignoring her meaning. :..
 saw them walking together, and Mary Featherstone ran over that evening to ask what it meant.
 Tt means" said Mrs. Temple; and then sho suddenly bent and kissed Mary. T don't know what it means.
 Well" said Mary. T rather think I dO."
 But there was the roll of silk. after all, on her table, for, of course, he had walked back with her, and he had left 1t there. It must be returned. never the less. And just as she was about to go out with it. Mir. Thorndyke came with book and there was another walk.
 Mrs. Temple asked herself some stern questions an hour or two later, but she felt her face burning so uncomfortably that she did not wait for her answers.
 "Of course, he's a gentleman she thought indignantly. Any one can see that. And I've been fool and I am one." As she sat over her cup of tea