Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-09-28

Dovedale was a small and primitive
village, boasting Of no vehicle except
a wheelbarrow and a donkey cart. Con-
s~equently Dan Courtney, on taking
leave of his rival, set forth on foot In
the direction of Sweet Briar Farm.
Courtney encountered few fol on his
pleasant roa1 to the farm. A couple
of farmers-a rosy-cheeked child and
an old woman were chiefly those who
crossed his path. The old men babe
him good evening; the little girl smiled
at him, and the old woman as she
passed let fall with a clatter the
bundle of sticks she had been gather
ing in the wood. She was very bent,
very gay, and very wrinkled; her face
enci. cled In a big rusty black poke
bonnet. She was muttering a nd moan
ing strange things to herself as Dan
Courtney passed her by.
But as her mutterings grew more We
hement, he halted, threw Ter a coin
and 8, passed on again.
Had he glanced round at the old
withered poke-bonneted woman, he
would have seen that a tear had glis-
tened in her eye.
II am very tired" she mumbled,
"and the bundle is SO heavy"
Permit me to carry 1t for you" said
a voice, some minutes later in her ear.
Walden, for it was he, stopped and,
Notwithstanding her protestations,
raised the bundle to his shoulder.
"Where do you live?" ask ed Walden,
keeping pace with her feeble steps.
ssnrz.. 49, mood oamo tho HIGH
pitched, sing-song reply. Near the
wood"
"You are too old to work
Bread must be baked and fires must
be made"
DO you live alone?"
Granddaughter Mary lives with me
now"
} Granddaughter Mary ought to as
sist you to gather the fuel for YOU
fire."
Mays young and goes a-sweet-
heartin'."
when you were young did you go a.
sweetheartin'?"
She nodded assent and hobbled more
briskly forward.
SHOW me where your home Is" ne
1 said. II should like to inform your
| granddaughter Mary that 1t would be
more profitable to her If she cared less
1 for her sweetheart and more for her
! grandmother"
""Twould be little use" quoth the
\ grandmother. "She's young and It's but
n~at'ral."
Natural to be thoughtless? queried
49, 40, Ottawa vou avar hann mi
of Dovedale?"
She shook her head. 2
Then Dovedale is your world" He
drew a long, long breath, as though
the idea was sitting.
-Four walls and bread to eat, a hus
band. and children to rear" cried she
What more do a woman want?"
and you have been happy?"
Never so happy as npw!" exclaimed
a clear, ringing voice, and before Wal
don could recover from his astonish
ment the old dame, with a truly mar
Vicious agility, had vanished-whithe
he could not say.
= 'phrygia!" called Walden, fingini
- the sticks into a hedge and followin
the narrow side path Phrygia mus
have taken. At the md of the pat
., was a small wicker gate, and passin
through 1t Walden came unexpected
ly upon a low, matched, rose-eovere
cottage.
(! After waiting several minutes tn
door opened and some one came swift
=, ly towards him. No other, indeed, tina
" Phrygia-no longer wrinkled, old an
1~A. b,k IN har pnnHf oanfiVafinQ {
summer attire; the simplest of hat
upon Ter bronze-gold hair, and ii
daintiest of blue RIB around ht
slender waist
Miss Dean" exclaimed Waldol
e bowling low, when will you cease
be everything that La b~ewildering ar
enchanting?"
- MIR. Waldon," answered Phrygt
with a responding o~beisance, "whe
will you learn to be anything but chi
alrous and manly? What have "
done with my kindling wood?"
st threw 1t away to follow you"
ITO follow mel"
,or ITO the end of the world" he adde
nlv earnestly.
She coquetted a moment with n
ribbons and laces.
me- "Mr. Courtney must have arrived
the farm by now" she said. i no
-, r~aviuia will entertain him nicel
Shall we not go to Sweet Briar, too
Walden hesitated.
a ION one condition" he said.
(which is-?"
,,tv THAT Dan Courtney returns to toy
this evening with Harry n
hoe "Is that what Ha try intends to dc
bar demanded she. S
rs he not a wise man?
tied Very" she acquiesced. "Why
Won not return also ?n
,eb st lack his wisdom truly, but l ca