Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-10

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nothing to tell of me more than what
you yourself have Been."
He looked at her with searching
eyes. Isn't there?"
NO" she answered with n frank
ness that ought to have carried con
viction.
could you do any other sort OF
work than what / have seen you do
sewing and homework"
II don't know. What other things
are done by women?'
"Well, there are shopglrls. stenogra-
piers. milliners, b~ookkeepers, teach
ers'- He turned and again looked at
her keenly. would you like to teach?"
he asked abruptly.
"But l haven't an education
"JNst how much schooling have you
had?"
II was taken out Of school when l
was twelve years old"
"And have had no instruction OF any
sort since then?'
mo"
"And never have been off the farm7'
"Never except the few times that l
have been In town to the market for
a half day"
Then, Eunice," he inquired with i'm
pressive earnestness, may l ask how
you happen to speak a language SO
unlike that Of the MorningstarsT"
He watched her closely as he put
the question. Her face. SO near to him.
cleaned like ivory in the starlight, and
he could plainly see her countenance.
His question brought a startled look
to her eyes. and again he saw her
bosom rise in a long, deep breath.
She did not attempt to answer him.
"Well?" He pressed his inquiry with
q tense interest.
I'll didn't realize that it was no
ticeable-my not speaking as the rest
speak," she faltered.
"And how does 1t come that you
don't speak as the rest speak?"
"I-never thought about 1t. Ii l have
come to speak like the-diherently
from the rest Of the family. It has
been unconsciously."
"Ah?" he commented thoughtfully.
Remarkable! Remarkable-that you
should make use Of a vocabulary that
you have never heard spoken. Have
you, possibly, come unconsciously to
a speaking acquaintance also with
French and German?"
II should think that must be an I'M
possibility-to come unconsciously to
a knowledge of a foreign tongue" she
answered seriously, evidently unused
at least to the language Of
mot more so than what you would
have me believe-that with no school
ing after your twelfth year and with
no environment or association except
that Of this farmers family you should
well, to go no further, be acquainted
with areas of the English language
which would be as foreign to the rest
Of this household as Italian or Spanish.
Now, then, how do you account for
it,"
The little quicker in her brow fndi-
Gated to him how his inquisitiveness
troubled her. She turned to him with
anxious appeal in her eyes. lis 1t
necessary to account for it-before you
can advise me?"
eyes, it is" he s%tubbornly persisted.
'The more I know about you the bet
ter l can help you"
once answer. But presently, with evil
dent great reluctance, she spoke. III
a talk in a more educated way than
the rest of the family it is only be-
cause I have read a few books that
came in my way"
l should think very few books indeed
would come in your way on this
farm" He put it questioningly. II
have never you SO much as look
at my books when they have been ~
ing about. What books ever come in
your way? Mrs. Morningstar says this
is the first summer she has taken
boarders since she gave up keeping a
hotel twenty-one years ago. And
when, in Gods name. do you get time
to read, when even a chance newspa-
per has to be read surreptitiously be-
tween trips to the spring house for
food? Look here; l heard you say last
night that old Morningstar wouldn't
let you read anything but the Bible on
Sunday and that that day vas the on
ly time you had to read at all, aud you
declined Miss Ellery.s offer Of books"
The troubled quicker in her brow
d%eepened, her chin quivered. and he
had the alarm of thinking she was go
ing to cry when to his establishment a
little ripple of laughter broke from
her. He had never seen her wen smile.
and he would as soon have looked for
a laugh from a Mater Doloroso. He
was sure that BALKAN was not more
dumfounded when his ass waxed con-
versational than he was to hear this
girl laugh. Somehow the bare idea
of laughter was eliminated from the
impression one gathered Of her from
day to day. But then no two things
about Io- . 80. s-.s-
(To BE CoNTINUED.)