Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28

CdAH l ER VI.
 X FEW days later Dr. Kinross
 A dressed in his overalls and
 lying on his back in the
 4 A woods behind a pile of logs
 found himself in the enforced position
 of an eavesdropper and felt it exceed.
 ingly awkward. A few feet away,
 beneath his own favorite shade tree,
 sat Miss Georgiana Ellery and Miss
 Daisy Parks. He had not counted
 upon their penetrating to this resort to
 which he came daily with his books.
 His telltale volume and compromising
 leisure, in the middle of the afternoon,
 from the farm work in which he was
 supposed to be engaged made it im-
 perative at the warning signal of their
 voices that he should scramble out of sight behind nearby pile of logs. He had barely had time to conceal him. self when they had come into view and presumptuously proceeded to set tie themselves for the afternoon in the comfortable spot which their con- ing forced him to abandon, thus mak- ing it impossible for him to move an inch without discovery and placing him in the descreditable position of being obliged to hear everything that was said.
 Have you noticed, Daisy" he heard Georgiana's attractive voice asking, al- most as soon as they were seated, anything about that farm hand, Pe- ter, which has impressed you as sin gular?"
 He isn't as woozy looking as pop and Abe" Daisy promptly answered.
 Daisy! How can you, in the very heart of the country, use that detest- able city slang?eMI@ u244u0H sta
 Well, Georgie," Daisy returned I'm sure I never wanted to go to college. You and uncle made mel!
 Did college do nothing for you but give you a vocabulary of slang?"
 But, Georgie, Pete isn't as woozy mean," she hastily corrected herself, he's rather good looking and as there's nothing else doing out here I'm thinking of flirting with Pete, if you won't kick-object, I should say"
 "Why Pete? Why not Abe? Georgi- ma inquired tolerantly.
 "Abe's too woozy-oh! I don't want to jar you, Georgiana-forgive me. Of course feel, too, how perfectly dear and sweet 1t is out here with so much nature around and-everything-but I just thought I'd mention, since there's doing, just to keep up my a little, you know, I'd encour- age Pete to fall in love with me. Do you know" she said thoughtfully, T shouldn't wonder if Pete would be quite good looking if he were sported np."
 He has impressed you," affirmed because there is something singular about him. I feel it, too the way the family treats him, with m air of uncertainty-I can't explain lust what it is-but they don't behave toward him as one would expect to see a hired farmland treated. And his face-have you noticed? It is usu- lily so remarkably heavy and unintel- igent, but now and then when I un- catch his eye I find him gazing at me with an expression so teen and penetrating that I am star led, and then the moment he finds ne looking at him he has a relapse 'alls back into that hopeless imbecility! t Is very extraordinary"
 Dear me!' said Daisy, surprised. T lad not supposed you would think lim worth while, Georgiana."
 Every one is worth while, Daisy, when you get at his real self. As for l Peter. he certainly does have intervals | when his mind seems to awaken. He sn't quite so crude as the rest of the l amily either. dropped a hatpin this 1 morning. and he fairly sprang aacross l he room to pick it up for me. I was 0 surprised"
 This" thought Kinross behind the Dgs. ''is profitable. Memorandum-no 1 nore gaIIantry."
 He wondered, with consternation, whether even his disguise were going l 9 fail him.
 While he does speak in the provin- ! ial dialect" continued Georgiana, Tith careful discrimination, "lis ac- ! ent and his voice are not So harsh as hose of the. other people here. And !! e doesn't have that queer Pennsyl- { ania Dutch infection. When the thers speak never can tell whether hey are asking something or telling But you can distinguish then Pete speaks.-
 "As a success mused Kfnross. "T'm
 failure. Next thing they'll sunrise rho I am-s
 By the way.--Georgiana changed le subject with a disregard for the aquence of ideas that Kinross would ave thought not possible to one 50 hilosophieaE--hov about your letter lis morning frOn Belle Dssherl re1t you going to read 1t to ueT !