The Yale expositor., 1908-05-01


Good morning, Prince"
What is your highness goin' to DO
tomorrow" he inquired.
To-day an tomorrow they're put
tin up rhubarb," she answered indif-
ferently.
Lets skip out to the orchard an
read" he suggested. AN I've got
somethin' to tell you, Princess"
At which she burst suddenly into
tears. Don't call me that any more"
she cried; Pm sick to death o this
pretendin.'
Then, the seat by the well-house
being sheltered in hollyhocks, he
came and sat beside her and touched
her hand. But there was in his touch
nothing of the lover, though he was
toward 20 and well-favored, and the
girl, of fewer years, was of dainty
prettiness.
Discouraged" he said.
"Nothin's any USE" she answered.
1--WE can't never do it,"
His brown face shone with his Gag
erness.
What if you was to hear" he said
that | come here to tell you l know
a way now?"
She looked at him, her face flush
ing to the pink of her cambria frock.
There's a double carriage comm
to Friendship with some folks to-mor-
row mornin'," he said, from the city.
It's goin' back to the city empty We
could walk into Friendship about day
light an get a ride in the carriage
those 20 miles"
"Oh," she said, ARE you sure"
"As good as sure" he answered,
IAN what risk there is is fun. Wen
be in the city soon after noon. You
go up to the school an tell 'em you've
come to stay-tell 'em you've got TO
stay. I'll go to the law office l told
you about They'll take me. III make
'em take me- What do you say?"
Her fears and alarms were easily
reasoned away. She had longed as pas
sionately as he for what the city could
give-such a little city 1t was, but II
meant TO them all magic. 1t was
there that the Female Seminary Home
posed in broad acres, Its white towers
like a beacon to the eyes OF the coun
try girl. And it was there that Hol
lister e. HOLSTER, firm with which
the boys father had had some deal
ing. carried on a prosperous law bust
ness, to which for years a chance
word of the junior member had beck
oned the boy. 1t was true that tn
work of a farmhouse called for tn
girl to have willing hands, and tina
! on the farm adjoining. the boys Ia
Their, already aged with work, strus
, gled with stony ground and needle
, broad young shoulders for the bul
, den. Nevertheless, the girl and tn
, boy had found out each other
! dreams for something better" ha
fed on each others ambitions an
, devoured each others books until tn
: countryside coupled their names. BIZ
q this they never guessed, for they weI
: living another romance. filled wit
> deeds past, dreaming of court an
I camp and, when no one was by, cal
ing each other prince and princess. IL
p the sake of many an old tale that the
loved.
II was rather like an old tale
their meeting next morning. 1t Wa
hardly light when the prince turne
It down the ragged honeysuckle wa
s. where the princess lived. The hone
J. suckle was all ablossom, sweet al
wet. and an early wind made free
)" it's fragrance. There was yet no ST
| at all at the farm. BY the well-hou
behind the hollyhocks the prince
r, had been waiting, and she came
meet him neatly clothed and carryiI
g. a small bundle of belongings.
'r See it," he said, as they gain'
the quiet highroad and faced the OPP
= east. did you ever think IL we hi
been a real prince and real prince
the sky couldn't possibly look any d
ferent to us?"
" why, no. she said wonderingl
but IL couldn't, could it?'
rs When they reached Friendship
Nv seven It would be an hour before I
m carriage was ready to leave. Mes
~, while the driver was making meri
A.. too merry, in the public room OF
he little hotel, where the host Of
r. place had joined him. The man ga
.o' a Jolly assent to taking two pass'
X, gers to the city, and he pocketed
- offered fee for the increase of hill
ity.
The driver, having sung songs ris
"A Justify in the hotel-yard as he hitch
q his horses with many a wrong bu
o ling of harness, took to the road SO
% after eight o'clock. The carriage v
. low and old and comfortable. Tt
II went rolling between green roads
trees that glistened in bright sun, a
Ill the world seemed very wonder
Iii with fortune and wisdom waiting o.
the rim of the way.
Toward noon they ate their lur
as they rode, pretending it to be Q
er than II was-of rich cheese, sw
bread and butter and ripe fruit, filcl
from both homes they were leay
al behind and At for any king.
When they reached the fringes