The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-25
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after lneN We tTedteu yOu ike ulrl all
summer! For downright meanness and
hatefulness give me lot of girls.
Why, a crowd of fellows would no
more act the way this crowd Of girls
has done than-than---" And he
stopped bopelessly as IL the thing was
beyond comparison.
well, of course, boys are different"
"Yes, they arel When a fellow who
seems TO be the right sort moves into
town, do the fellows of that town
let him alone-snub him for three
straight months? Don't you think 1t.
They give him n show-they're civil to
him. and if he turns out TO be OF their
kind, then he's one OF the crowd, and
that's all there is to It,"
"Well. that does seem to be the fair
way. And 1 don't knowI don't know
what it Is I've done. / haven't done
anything; you see. | haven't had a
chance. l uppose"-Carolines lips
were .quivering again-"that they just
don't like my looks"
Nonsense. Why shouldn't they like
your looks? It's just their meanness."
"Wll Willw There was note of
tragic excitement in his sisters voice.
"There they come now-turning the
corner They go past nearly every day
They have plcnics and-and things"
Will seated himself on the railing of
the veranda and looked hard at the
five laughing girls who were coming
toward the house in an oid-fashioned
carryall.
Don't seem too interested, Will
Don't-don't look at them like that"
why can't ! look at them?' he re-
torted. sayagely. Guess If l want to
.ook at them there's nothing to prevent
it. They're not so much to look at
anyway"
The crowd of girls drove by with
not glance toward the big house
IN the veranda of which Will and Caro-
line Stuart were sitting.
"They do have awfully good times"
said Caroline, wistfully, land they
seem awfully fond of one another"
81 guess I'll 90 up and write some let
ters." she said, a few minutes later.
~ like TO keep my letters written up,
because-well, you can see that it's
0een pleasant to get them since I've
been here"
Her brother looked after her darkly.
"Poor Cal! She never did mean
thing in her life. Why any one should
r want to snub her is too much for me.
30 mother" he called, as a pleasant
faced woman came round the house,
cast you come here minute? l
wait to talk to you"
She took the chair lie offered her. at
Toes seem good to have you home, VIII,
md I'm more glad for Carolines sake
.han for my own. She has had a
pretty hard summer of it,"
That's what want to get at. What
dnder the suns the matter? What do
those girls mean by lining up against
CALI"
His mother shook her head and
raised her hands hopelessly.
"Will, girls are queer" she said. 81
can't understand it. Why, if they'd let
Cal be one of them, they'd find her the
iolliest and best of the lot When she
first came here in the spring she saw
right away that they were the ones
she would like 20 know, and she was
so pleased to think that there would be
nice girls for her to have a good time
with. The first night we sat here on
the porch they went by laughing and
talking, and Cal looked after them for.
lornly, and | remember | said to her
Never mind, Cal. you'll be one of them
f,, i, .,I,.s Il
Of course they'd call-or do something
but they didn't, and that's all there is
to it. They simply act as if Cal wasn't
In town"
We'll, OF all the mean, contemplate
petty" And then words failed him
in addition to everything else" sai(
the boy. after few minutes of slen
fuming, "these five estimable youn;
ladies are acting pretty silly in snub
blng Caroline. Cal could give thost
girls all sorts OF good time, and sh'
would love to do It,"
"Of course she would When sh,
saw how big the house was, she sale
to me first thing, Isn't it lovely
mother? We can have people here al
'hN.~ UNIT anu OuI lhAHSl DuNSil
that automobile for no other reason il
the world except that he thought !
would be pleasant for Cal to take peo
pie ont in"
'Well. mother" said Will, quietly
ITS just clear case of snub, isn't it.?
Perhaps the whole thing would no
have Happened If just the week be
fore the Stuarts moved to Elmwoo,
Marion Foreman had not read n stor.
about some people who were "yulgarl,
rich" No one In Elmwood was "vul
carly rich,' and as Marion's imaglna
ton was such that she was bound I
fix the phrase on some one, 1t descend
ed upon the people who were expecte
In a few days to move into the b
house.
That nigh. she asked her father a
about the new family.
why, really, Marion" he said. afte
she had put half-dozen questions I
him In rapid succession, II can't n,
count for this sudden interest of yours
can't say that I know great dei
about tho Stuarts. The man. 10 al
told made great deaf OF money las
year in the oil country. lie is comm
here to live because he has some II
terests near here, and then | dare sa
lie thinks 1t Will be pleasant MAC
Tor his family think | heard som