The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-01-23

recover from the evident shock OF
Ollie's communication.
The three boarders, realizing that
they were de trOp, also rose and went
away. Ollie and the young man were
left in solitary possession of the field
for the evenings campaign.
'How many dupes are there i'll this
friendshaft, wonderv' Kinross sal
to himself as he strolled out into the
garden. his pulse bounding with Il
Strange excitement. The young ladier;
thilk I'm country lOut Ollie thinks
the young man, Hen Mucklehennr.
comes to set up with her when evil
IDENTITY he is fatally smiiten with Ed
nice Qer lliLi lay low if Abe discovers
it. AS for tie. have |, too. been Il dnpe
about that girl. Eunicc? Is she Il IS
guised college professor o. whatever
as her conversation this evening might
suggest: Her diction is certainly not
the everyday tongue Of the Morning
stars How the dickens does il hap
pen:'
But too many circums ;;l.lces-the
Abe's infatuation, her slavish work
these and other things rebutted The
theory that she was anything else than
what she pretended to be. How. then.
account for that astonishing little rev.
elatiOn Of herself this evening! lie
turned it over in every conceivable
way, but colN arrive at no conclu i'l
concerning her. He decided that he
must certainly make an opportunity
for talking with her and investigate
her thoroughly.
Meantime Hen MuckleheDny's hcs i
tation in taking advantage of the g..
field left to him and his slOWneSs 10
seat himself in the rocker at Ciiic%
side were attributed by her to his well
known bashfulness. 1t was thus that
she had interpreted also his lack OF
ardOr on every Sunday night that he
had been with her. No amount Of Ell
enlargement on her part had awaited
to warm him up to the sort Of love
making considered in that locality ~
essential preface to matrimony.
"Hen," began Ollie, when at last they
were rocking monOtonOusly side by
side in their big wooden rockers Oh
the porch, you amt got no need TO
trouble to make so polite to our Eu-
nice, SEEM she amt my right sister
that way. 1t makes me no difference
If she likes you or if she don't, her
bein' only 'dopted and not our own
flesh and blood. 1t wouldn't unplease
me If you didn't make over her any"
But" began Hen uneasily, II didn't
make polite to her just fur to please
you, Ollie-not just to say fur that eX-
actly; r. He stopped helplessly, look
ing distraught.
Ollie was slow to grasp new idea.
All she saw just now was that her
bashful lover was more embarrassed
than usual. That's all right, Hen"
she treasured him-quite irrelevant
ly the uncomfortable fellow thought.
They rocked In silence for a while.
Pennsylvania Dutch courtships are
wont to be punctuated by long periods
of sepulchral silence. Hens counte
nance, instead of expressing the &C.
stacies of a lover in the fair presence
Of his lady, looked as if he were sit
ting in dentists chair under the or
deal of an exposed nerve.
Hen" said Ollie presently in tone
Of heavy import, II want to speak
somepin to you"
Hen fidgeted and waited to hear it.
eff you wasn't keepin' comp'ny with
me, Hen, do you know what I'd near
up and do"
"But that needn't hold you back,
Ollie, from nothin', fur l amt just to
say
Hen tloundered again and was silent.
I'D take and go to town and hire
out fur a girl. Pop he holds me so
close at home to the work and won't
leave me go nOne-and if was hired
1 could mebbe go more'n 1 kin so.
They anyhow kin have off in the even
ings still-hired girls in town kim
''YOu needn't mind me, Ollie" Hen
FASTENED to reassure her; ''you just go
If you want"
But Ollie shook her head. 81 thought
at it, but couldnS make my mind
up to leave you, Hen
Hen looked miserable.
"Or If l didn't hire out l thought at
going to factory. In factory you
kin set all the time-and If there's one
thing love to do it's settin'. And pop
he has cross if ever he sees me settin'.
To be sure. Sally Schnabel, she dis
heartened me fur hirin' out. She
hired there fur a while in town at
such a boardin' house where there
was twenty-five corners and goers and
she says she had to work wonderful
hard. She says at home on the farm
she had only six to cook and wash fur
and twenty-five towards six-that's
q difference, toO-ain'tY'
Eyes, anyhow" Hen duly acqui-
esced.
"And Sally she sayed them towners
they wanted hired girl to be fool
fur 'em-to run in room when they
rung bell like as If she was dog
and to hand 'em things round the table
instead of dom their own stretchin'.
Them ways / wouldn't take to SO
good"
81 guess" Hen agreed.
"And Sally she sayed the missus
wouldn't leave her have her ree'lar