The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-25

me drive you back to town | shall be
glad to do So"
'"rhank you,' said Kitty Benton,
shortly, but l think we can get along
all right"
Caroline turned her pony and drove
| quickly down the road.
Maybe 1t seemed mean," said one
of the girls. as they stood watching the
pony-cart.
Nothing Of the klndw declared Mar
ion. did you notice how she did it?
Why, she never so much as looked at
u.s. Just looked straight beyond us, as
If she were talking toto servants.
Marion end Doris Morton were ap-
pointed to go into town to get buggy
for Kitty. They had gone about half
mile when. making a sudden turn,
they came upon the pony-cart tied to a
tree. They saw that it was empty,
and just as they were about to pass
on they heard a strange sound. They
looked at each other queerly, and then
they heard the sound again, deep,
long sob that went straight down into
their hearts.
She's crying" whispered Doris,
crying dreadfully."
Marion looked uncertainty down the
road, and then took a few noiseless
steps in among the trees. Under a big
| tree her face buried in the moss. lay
Caroline Stuart, her pretty blue dress
much crumpled, her whole body shaken
with sobs.
Then the real girl in Marion Fore
man, the real, true girl that was there
in spite of all her foolish notions,
swept away all else Running quickly
to the sobbing girl, she sat down beside
her. and put her arms round the shak-
ing figure. rs there anything we can
do? Is there anything at all? We Just
can't bear TO see you cry like this!
Isn't there something we can do?"
Caroline's grief was too deep to admit
of surprise. I'm lonesome" she
sobbed out, $50 lonesomel l can't bear
it! l can't! 1 can't stand it to have
you all treat me like this l want
friends! Lob, l want to go to your
plcnicsw
"But-but we thought you were so
richr' stammered Marion. "Your house
is so big, and the pony-cart and the
automobile and-and we thought"
Caroline sat UP then amazement
checking the sobs. "Well, what has
that got to do with it?"
"Why-why, you see, we thought that
you were-O dear, l don't know.
Maybe we've been all wrong. I'm
sorry"
"Do you mean;' began Caroline. very
slowly, that there isn't anything in
particular the matter with me, that you
don't hate me, and that you actually
thought that l didn't want to have
anything to do with you?"
But Marion, covered with confusion
was crying herself now, which was
perhaps the best thing that could have
happened, for they put their arms
around ore another and cried together.
Any one who knows much about girl
nature can tell the rest of the story.
OF course Caroline went back for
Kitty, and then there were more ex-
plantations and more tears, and every
: body agreed that the whole thing had
been too silly for words. Each girl
, confessed that down in her heart she
. had wanted Caroline as a friend for a
long time, but hal not known just how
to say anything about it to the others
! VIII Stuart was disposed to think
his sister should refuse to have any.
thing to do with girls who were SO
silly as that, but his mother saw il
= differently. "Just see how happy she
Is, viii, just see how she's changed
t and don't say one word against those
| girls. l tell you, every time | near
: Cars laugh ring through the house
give thanks for JOY"
At the end of the first week Marion
t Foreman told the story to her father
, it was truly remarkable that she had
, kept it as long as that. He talked to
| her very seriously about how wrong
, she had been, and she received the lee
! ture with considerable humility.
t Caroline is the finest girl / ever
+ knew" she assured him. ut comes
; natural for her to do kind things for
people. | suppose" she added, after
5 a moment of reflection, "ths instance
goes to prove that rich people are not
always as black as they are painted"
? my dear daughter" said Judge
, Foreman, "you will find as you 60
t through life that it isn't money or the
{ lack of it that makes the man oil
woman, II is the lnart that Is with.