The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-11-02

John, you are q good .icr;nothitis
kind of I'd fellow and 1t puzzles my
brain ID understand what MIlinda
White scans zoe I'M you, or you see IN
her You have nothing TO keep a
wife on. and II tell you$it takes some
thing I'd Keep d wife son nowadays.
Why you keep hanging around after
her IL what beats me- Y ou know well
enough. John that I9alWays did the
best Il could for yon. and II seer,s
that this rs the thanks i am to get for
Ii. You VIII have to quit going win
Miltnda, oil leave home, as i do not
intend that the credit Of the Wilkin-
sons shall be lowered 5by as small a
thing as the Whites. The mother
whose black hair was beginning to be
streaked with threads Of gray. hal
spoken with d decided emphasis.
Yes; John had understood well
enough, but his mind was busy with
gone other things than that Just then.
Yet tie Young man looked up quick,
lly. fas III he had been awakened from
aB deep sreyerle. SO yo,i say that |
viii have Ito leave home unless qui.
going with that girl. do your
Yes; that is Just It, and what Is
more of5 ~, YOU 5shall, or yoh can me-.
en- dark en- BY doors again"
3 John NNilkissoni had, in a quiet way.
loved sMillnda White for a long time
nj fact ever since their schooltlays,
hut he hadsnever been paying the ut
tention to her at previous times that
had been $50 recently.
ne was OF slender build, tall--al.
most slx feet auburn hair, blue eyes,
and fair complexion, and by occupa,
+ ton an art student. Il.
They lived in the village OF Edge.
! WOOD, not far from one Of the most
famous battlelelds Of the Civil War.
The village had a prosperous look
about it,sthe streets being broad and
we'll kept. md nice lawns were one
OF the predominating features Of the
town, they often being the recipient
many nice compliments from tho
& travelling public: F..
John was sstung to his bosom's core.
by& the harsh words his mother had
spoke about his sweetheart but was
cut deeper when the mother one day
y met him on the side walk by the
gate, when she again took up the sui.
iect. 4
aJohn, she is beneath your level.
You know, or ought to know that the
Wilkinsons are about ten notches high.
Ell than the Whites. That is why
Insist on$ your not going with some
one who sis not your equal. That is
why insist on your not going with
her: You shan't go with her any
i more. and you know that a Wilkinson
saSneyerS goes back on his word.''
Mrs Wilkinson had nothing in par.
ticular against the young lady. but
she had decided In her own mind that
she WINS not the girl that John should
MARI, and therefore she fought
against with all the words that she
could command. I
~
John was worried over the affair
but be made 2up his mind that he
y would Snot 4 be outdone so easily as
that, and would show some Of the
fIleopleS Who seemed to be interested
that everything would end well yet
Helmet her In the park few times
but lie. did not feel like himself, yet
~ he Striel5.toS be, and when she asked
him to iexplain himself. he told hei
that he was not feeling well, Or words
toS that effect and the subject was
sssdropped.
Il One evening when they were sitting
on one of the rustic seats In the park
Ella, his sister came along, and saw
IA him and his sweetheart talking very
earnestly and they not noticing those
Il who were near, she slipped away I'M
observed. She lost no time IN CON
municatingS with her mother, who in
formed the young man that all he1
energies We're worn threadbare, an.
1.-THE the only thing was for him to leave
home. and not come back until al
thoushts Of her were obltcrated from
his memory.
He packed him few belongings, and
soon was ready for the trip to go
p he did not know where-but sons
place. that much was sure. He hat
never been out in the world much
only on some pleasure trips, or some