Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-03-09

hearty contempt But ala not turn
back
u hope the reason you're leaving
ism - / hesitated
iii conduct oh. ycs; I'm terribly
wicked, Squire clanarm! They're
sending me Off
But ] suppose the sisters are awful
~ strict"
They're hldeons, perfectly hide
GUS"
Where is your homer" / demanded.
Chicago, louisville, indianapolis. Gin
cinnati perhaps?'
lfumph, you are dulll You ought
to know from my accent that I'm nor
from Chicago And / hope ! haven't
a kentucky girls air Of waiting to be
battered to death And no ludian8po-
his girl would talk to a strange man at
the edge OF a deep wood in the gray
Twilight Of a winter day that's from
book and the Cincinnati girl Is with
cat my elan esprit, whatever yoa
please to call it, She has more Tea
tonic repose, more Gretchen OF the
Rhine valley about her Don't You
adore French, Squire Glenarm2" she
concluded broathessly and with no
pause in her quick step
4 adore yoHrs Miss Armstrong,
q rted, yielding myself further to tho
joy Of idiocy and deiiehting IN the
mockegg and whimsical moods Of her
tall. I did not maze her out. indeed.
! preferred not to- [ was not then
ard ! am not now thank God! of an
analytical turn Of mind And as
grow older | prefer, even after many
blow. TO take my fellow human beings
as end them. And as for women, old
~ young | envy no man his gift Of re.
solving them iato clements AS wen
caey spray Of arbutus to The labor
atagg cit subject fine cnehantment of
maaalisht upon running water 10 tho
lame and blow-pHe as try to analyza
Tie 80 rt Of q girl. particularly a glrl
who paddles a canoe With a sure stroke
and puts up a good race with a rabbit
lamp shone ahead of us at the en-.
trance of one Of tho houses, and lights
appeared In all the buildings
"If Il knew your window / should GER
tainly sing under it, except th9t
you're going home You didn't tell me
why they were de9crting YOU
I'm really ashamed to- You would
oever--"
on, yes, would; I'm really an old
friend" ! insisted, feeling more like
aa IDIOT every I4.aatc.
Well don't tell! But they caught
me fiirting-with the grocery bog!
Now aren't you disgustedi"
Thoroughly! | can't believe i'll
Why. you'd lot better flirt with me"
| suggested boldly.
We'll, I'm to be sent away for good
at Christmas. | may come back then
If | can square myself. My. That's
slang,-isn't it adorable?"
"The Sisters don't like slang, l sup
pose?"
They loathe it! Miss Devereux,-
you know who she is!-she spies ON us
and tells"
You don't say so; but I'm not sur
prised at her I've heard about herr"
| declared bitterly.
We had reached the door, and ex-
pected her to fly; but she fingered.
"Oh, if you know her! Perhaps
you're a spy, too! It's Just as We'll we
should never meet again. Mr.. Glen
arm" she declared haughtily
THE memory of these few meetings
will always linger with me. Miss Arm
strong" | returned in an imitation of
her own tone.
81 shall scorn to rem ember you. -
and she folded her arms under the
cloak tragically.
Our meetings have been all to few,
Miss Armstrong. Two, exactly, | be-
ieve!"
Then you prefer to ignore the first
time | ever saw you" she said, her
baud on the door.
out there in your canoe? Never,
And you've forgiven me for overhear-
ing you and the chaplain on the wall
please"
She grasped the knob of the door
and paused an instant as though pom
dering
Il make it three times, without that
one and not counting once in the road
and other times when you didn't know,
Squire Glenarm! I'm a foolish little
girl to have remembered the first.
see now how blind | have been.
/ Good-by,'
She opened and closed the door soft
ly. and / heard her running up the
| steps within.
| ran back to the chapel, roundly
abusing myself for having neglected
my more serious affairs for bit of
silly talk with a school girl, fearful
lest the openings | had left at both
ends OF the passage should have been
/ discovered. Near the chspel | mar
rowly escaped running into Stoddard.
but | slipped past him, found my
| lantern, pulled the hidden door into
/ place, and, traversing the tunnel with
out incident. soon climbed through tho
| hatchway and slammed the false block