Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

EAHf$@NM You'll give a moment He
kX/zRAI4Iya broke off abruptly, attracted by a
t#&b%f0M peculiar culver in the oak copse at
M&SN7fSsNN his left, and Miss Shipey, deter
NS<Ssse-eszD mined to keep the conversation in
impersonal channels, hurried with her story.
These Hugheses used to be awfully danger
Gus family; but at last Agnes Hughes and her son
Kissinger the only ones left. You've seen
Kissnger. He taught me how to use rife-l
really shoot well as boy
You do anything WE'LL. said Van Buren,
tendery That is why -
rupted Miss Shipley hastily She called this k1s-
singer Hughes to her bedside and made him swear
that he would never kill anyone,-never let his knife
bullet from his rifle be stained by human blood.
That was the way she phrased it. =,
Very interesting" said Van Buren,, and then,
seeing her on the point of interrupting him again.
he broke through her guard, like fencer exas-
perated beyond endurance by his opponents feints
Miss Shipley-Alice, you are just putting me OFF,
very we'll Please don't! for l will tell you.
though you know beforehand just what I've been
trying to say for an hour! love you'll"
The girls sweet face flushed. She made an inn
patient gesture
"Oh. don't speak yeti" he implored Alice,
have loved you ever since found you doing settle
blessed my love for geology which sent me explor-
ing through these Blue Ridge tablelands, not be-
cause my discovery of rich coal lands will make
wealthy man. but because have found some
thing better than that have found perfect
woman
You don't know. My faults
patience with these crude mountaineers. your
efforts to teach whoever would come to you.-
grown or little children? But Alice darling
there are other phases of life for you to consider
And love you'll
Suppose you do. Is that any reason why L
should give up my work here?" There was touch
of resentment in her voice
Yes, it is reason" returned Van Buren,. draw
ing closer. his clean. resoute features agow. God
would not have made such thing as love if He
had intended it to be put aside. Alice. need you
far than they do. Be my wife, and l will
put half my wealth in your hands to build schools
for them
She flung up her shining head with pretty air
of haughtiness that dismayed him If you
going to give any money give it because it is right,
not because you are trying to bride me; for don't
love YOU.
/ don't love you! So bare, SO bald. statement,
few words. But Van Buren, found them
crushing than an orators utmost weight of elo-
quence. Was there, then, truth in shy, gentle
chances. in faint. sweet waves of color, in wecom-
ing tones? He pulled himself together with the
spirit which always had saved his ancestors in
mentS of emergency.
Looking in her eyes, he smiled lifting his
hat in a courteous but calm farewell You'll
pardon my stupid mistake" he said slowly. Il
had fanced from little things, for instance the rose
it's just we'll to know. in utmost frankness, how
stands Good by!
He was gone. The girl who had spoken in ut
most frankness looked after him, and then sat
down bench by the rude gate and wept. She
had to that point where makes state
ments rashy believing them true, and discovers
afterward-
THE1h but herself at the cabin this
aft1aoon. She boarded with Mrs. Bowling,
briefly described as wilder woman" by the
neighbors. AS Miss Shipley wept Mrs Dowlings
tresss heart, stroled up inquisitively. The most
courageous, Daisy Sylvester by name pecked at
the girls simple calico gown