Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-12-12

CHAPTER XII.

glad that he was glad, too, and doubl.
glad that across the sea there was {
Lucy Atherstone. How he wished tina
she was there now as Mrs. Guy, and h,
must tell Guy so that very day. Seated
in Guys library, the opportunity soon oc
CURED, Guy approaching the subject him
self by saying:
Guess, Hal, what wild project l have
just embarked in"
Il know without guessing Maddy told
me-" and the doctors eyebrows were ele-
waited just little.
And so you don't approve?" was Guys
next remark, to which the doctor replied
why, yes; it's a grand thing for her,
providing you know enough to teach her
but, Guy, this is confounded gossiping
neighborhood, and folks will talk, I'm
afraid. She's too handsome, Guy. for
Madam Grundy to let alone. If Lucy
were only here. it would be different
Why. in the name of wonder, are you two
not married, if you are ever going to be|'
Jealous, as | live" and Guys hand
came down playfully on the doctors shoul-
der. Il did not suppose you had got as
far as that. You are afraid of the effect
it may have on me teaching sweet-faced
little girl how to conjugate amo; and to
cover up your own interest, you bring
Lucy forward as an argument HfOnestly,
DOCTOR l am doing it for you. | imagine
you fancy her. as well you may. She'll
make splendid woman, but she needs
educating, of course, and | am going to
do it. You ought to thank me, instead
of looking so like thundercloud, and
Guy laughed merrily.
The doctor was ashamed of his mood,
and could not tell what prompted him to
answer:
Il am obliged to you, Guy but as far
as l am concerned, you may spare your
self the trouble. If my wife needs edu-
eating, l can do it myself"
Gny was puzzled. Could it be that, af-
ter all, he was deceived, and the doctor
did not care for Maddy? 1t might be,
and he FASTENED to change the converse
ton to another topic than Maddy Clyde.
The doctor stayed to dinner, and as Guy
watched him closely, he made up his
mino that he did care for Maddy Clyde,
and ,his confirmed him in his plan of edu
ca ting her for him.
Magnanimous Guy. He felt himself
very good, very generous, very conde-
scending, and very forgiving, the early
portion of the afternoon but later in the
day he began to view Guy Remington in
the light of a martyr, said martyrdom
consisting in the scornful toss of the head
with which Agnes had listened to his
plan, and the open opposition of Mrs
Noah.
"Was he beside himself, or what?' this
worthy asked. "She liked Maddy Clyde,
to be sure, but it wasn't for him to de-
mean himself by turning her schoolmas-
ter. Folks would talk awfully, and she
couldn't blame em besides, what would
Lucy say to his bein' alone in a room
with a girl as pretty as Maddy? 1t was
a duty he owed her, at any rate, to tell
her about it, and if she said twas right,
why go it, q
This was the drift of Mrs. Noahs re-
marks, and as Guy depended much on
her judgment, he decided to write to Lucy
10 see if she had the slightest objections
to his teaching Maddy Clyde. Accord
ingly, he wrote that very night, telling
EeT frankly dIi he hueW COuttIHlHS Aldu-
dy Clyde, and narrating the circumstances
under which he first had met her, being
careful also to repeat what he knew would
have weight with an English girl like
Lucy, to wit, that though poor, Maddy's
father and grandfather Clyde had been
gentlemen, the one a clergyman, the other
a sea captain. Then he told Of her desire
for learning, and his plan to teach her
himself, of what the doctor and Mrs
Noah had said about it. and his final de-
to consult her. Then he de-
scribed Maddy herself, feeling a strange
thrill as he told how pure, how innocent,
how artless and beautiful she was, and
asked if Lucy feared aught from his asso-
citation with her.
"If you do" he wrote, you have but |
to say so, and though | am committed, | |
will extricate myself in some way, rather
than wound you in the slightest degree"
1t would be some time ere an answer
10 this letter could be received. and until |
such time Guy could not honOrably hear |
Maddy's lessons as he had agreed to do. |
But Maddy was not suspicious, and ac-
,epting his trivial excuse, waited patient
", While uc, lOO, Nu4LtA iOl IliC lFlhVl' |
wondering what it would contain.
At last the answer came, and it was
\Iaddy who brought it to Guy. She had |
been home that day, and on her return
lad ridden by the office as Guy had re-
luested her to do. She saw the letter
2ore a foreign postmark, also that it was
n the delicate handwriting of some fe-
male, but the sight did not affect her in
he least. Maddy's heart was far too
1eayy that day to care for a trifle, and so,
placing the letter carefully in her basket,
she kept on to Aikenside.
The letter was decidedly Lucy-ish in all
hat pertained to her dearest darling"
her precious Guy" but when she came
% Maddy Clyde, her true, womanly ma
.ure spoke; and Guy, while reading it,
,elt how good she was. OF course he
night teach Maddy Clyde all he wished
% teach her, and it made Lucy love him
,etter to know that he was willing to do
,uch things. She wished she was there
% help him they would open a school for
sIl the poor, but she did not know when
mamma would let her come. That pain
n her side was not any better, and her
,ough had come earlier that season than
asst. The physician had advised a win
er In Naples, and they were going before
ong. Then followed a few more lines
sacred to the lovers eye, lines which told
low pure was the love which sweet Lucy
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