Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-30

On, Pete, DalSy reaSSureu nlm
 ''you needn't mind me. Now, if il
 were Miss Ellery that asked you you
 might be scared white!"
 You see," Pete explained apologeti
 towards what yous are-no wonder
 if body felt funny, takin' one of yous
 buggy ridin'. Us we don't know noth,
 in but to sleep and feed our faces"
 ''If you will make yourself worthy
 of better things, Peter. they will come
 to you" said Georgiana earnestly
 "All the good things of the universe
 come to him who is ready for them"
 Good things? What, now, would
 you call good things?" he asked curi-
 ously.
 Love, for instance" said Georgiana,
 with uplifted countenance.
 "Umph"' he grunted. q never thought
 so much of this here love like some
 thinks. I always held that Adam
 would of been better off if he'd kep' his
 rib."
 'Why, Peter," cried Daisy, T never
 would have suspected you of having such viewsw
 They had reached the farm, and at this moment they encountered the girl Eunice carrying two heavy pails of milk from the barn toward the spring house. Abe, the farmers son, walked at her side, apparently pursuing her with some request which she refused him. for her face was troubled and she hurried step ahead of him. Almost before he knew what he was doing Kinross was at the girls side, re- lieving her of both her pails. She col ored with confusion before a gallantry to which she was unaccustomed, while Abe scowled resentfully and skulked off in another direction.
 Did you see that?" asked Georgiana as she and Daisy went into the kitchen. Tt would never occur to Abe to carry those heavy pails for that slender look ing girl. I believe there is a latent fineness in this Peter
 Its awfully latent. dear" said Daisy, with unaccustomed disagree ment Don't you think so?'
 T believe that he has fine, though undeveloped perceptions or intui- tions," affirmed Georgiana, "which, with a little encouragement, may re- veal him to himself"
 CHAPTER VII.
 ~ NCE again, just as fife dusk \ was gathering, Eunice lin \ gered by the fence near the
 spring house. The girls heart was on fire this evening" and she felt that she would stifle or shriek if she went into the house and shut her self within those dreary whitewashed' walls. Here in the open she might breathe deep. Today her pent up feel ings had reached the high water mark, and tonight they must have outlet or she must suffocate.
 What was the meaning. she was ask ing herself in bewilGerment, of this mingled ecstasy and woe which were now her daily portion when of old (so long ago it seemed, though in real ity it was only three weeks ago that he-the man from the city-had come among them) her soul had been cold, dormant, incapable of feeling aught | of pain or pleasure? And pow-to the 1 tips of her fingers was she tingling with life, with burning emotions which stifed and pained, yet gave her the first taste of joy she had ever known. For the first time in her mem- ory the heavy loneliness in which she ] had always lived seemed lifted. Some thing in her which had always been starved was fed. It had become worth | while to rise up in the morning and ! go through with her tasks. The days | palpitated now and throbbed. They | were no longer the dull. dead drag they had been. There was always the pos sibility of a word or act of kindness from him. Never before in her life had she known kindness. but he had been kind to her. He had tried to shield her from her foster fathers an- ger and had then hidden the newspaper 1 for her. He had helped her when he saw her hurdened with her heavy buck ats of milk. He had several times spoken to her with friendly interest.
 These episodes, entirely tr:fing iD themselves, appeared large and lumi- nous to this girl, accustomed only to lights. Her imagination. fired by his Itter difference from any one she had .ver before seen. made of him a crea- ure whose least word or act was weighted with significance. Her absorb ng and passionate interest in every hing about him-his voice. his accent so strange to her earsl. the movements If his white hands (never had she seen uch hands,, the way he sat or walked 1T stood or looked-all that he did or lttered was fascinating. intoxicating Ind today her feelings had suddenly cached a climax of Intensity which lad amazed herself. It had come upon er when she had seen him return rom his afternoon outing in company vith the two young ladies-young la ies of his kind of people. of education, eauty, worldly knowledge. money, reedOm from drudgery. everything rhich made a woman appear attrac- i've. everything which she lacked Apparently he had been spending the fternoon with them. Theirs was the rivilege of looking upon him for hours 1cether. of hearing the sound of his oice. of drinking in his thoughts about ainGs lhov hungry her own mind was } read all his thoughts and feelingsA, 1d-oh, bitterness!-they had all three Ome upon her when. weary and soiled nd overladen. she was avkwardIy