The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

ested himself in local matters, siding al
ways with the majority; he became
member of the County Club, bought
horse and got admitted to the hunt and
with his good looks, manly bearing, adj
mirable Craftsmanship and skillful free
handedness, made himself generally pop
ular. One way and another l reckoned
he was living up to nearer eight hundred
than two hundred year.
"A pretty rod you're laying in pickle
for yourself, my boy" said l to myself,
and chuckled to think how he would have
draw in his horns when he found that
re was down in his uncle's will for a
Jr. fling legacy instead of the fifty thou
sand pounds he was calculating upon.
All this time he was paying assiduous
attentions to Miss Dalrymple. He saw,
though he said nothing about it to me,
that his uncle was thinking of Laures
future, and wished to provide for her per-
petual association with Gertrude, and he
knew the hold he had on old Flexmore
through this pretended attachment to her,
cunning rascal!
l let him go on, conscious that he
would not go too far. 1t was not likely
that, feeling now assured of that large
inheritance, he would pledge himself to
marry penniless girl. With his uncle's
fortune and the effect he was now pro-
ducing, he would be able to take the pick
of the county when he wished to marry
and there were, within twenty miles,
many girls more snowy than quiet, un-
pretentious, little Miss Dalrymble, girls
with money, and much more to the taste
OF such man as he. But though he
would not be rash enough to actually en-
gage himself, it was pretty certain that
he would insidiously lead my unsuspecting
little friend to believe that he intended
to marry her, and I feared that he might
obtain such hold upon her affection that
when he threw up the game, as he newt
ably would when he discovered that there
was nothing to win by it, the effect upon
her would be serious. She was not
f1irt; she had never cut up her heart into
morsels and scattered it about amongst a
crowd of admirers; her heart was whole
to be given to one man, and one only. She
was serious and earnest in all things, and
it seemed to be possible that she might
never care to give to a second man the
affection that had been despised by the
first. For this reason l resolved, if got
the opportunity, to shake her faith in Mr..
Lynn Yeames.
One day l met her alone in the road
that cuts through the Hazledown woods.
Here is a beautiful morning, Miss Dali
rymple," said I, holding her hand
"Oh, it is beautiful !" she exclaimed,
looking around her. "See how the rime
still stands on the brake, and look how
the drops glisten on the gossamer. And
what lovely tints there are on the beeches,
and the brambles down there"
"Yet you would prefer at this moment
to be in your London hospital. You feel
that you are wasting your time here
that's the fact, isn't IT'D"
Il should be sorry to think that" she
replied, with quiet gravity.
But you are. Here you are saving the
life of one child; there you might be saw
ing a Dozen"
"They will be saved without me-"
"And little Laure would be lost-that
is true"
Let US talk about the country" she
said, as we walked on.
"There is a man worth talking about"
said I, pointing down to the crossroads,
where spied DR.. Awdrey jogging along
in his gig on his beggarly round
"Oh, don't think there is a better
man than he in all the world !" she cried,
with enthusiasm.
IF he were only little more practi-
CAL" said I.
She nodded sadly, and presently said,
II sometimes think he would have died
hoI ho
Il don't see what there is in store for
him now. There he goes, to look after
lot of thankless vagabonds, who'll never
pay him for saving their lives"
She looked thoughtfully before her for
minute, then she said:
do you think he could ever be happy
lin the ordinary sense of the word?"
"Yes, if he married.
81 do not think he will ever marry"
she said, shaking her head gravely, after
| a pause.
why not?" l asked; ''he is a man
and fine man, too. The only difficulty
is in getting any one to have him. A
man without superficial attractions and
without money, what chance has hep
do you think all girls are either silly
or mercenary?" she asked
there's third section; but they don't
care for good men,"
l have mentioned the girls trick of
blushing; and looking sidelong in the ex-
pectation of seeing this home thrust bring
the color up to her temples, l was sur
prised to see that it produced rather
contrary effect.
Il don't mean an absolutely bad man,
but one who thinks he is reformed" said
I, land attributes, or leads it to be i'm
agined, that he owes his reformation to
the girls influence"
was morally certain that Lynn
Yeames had not ascribed his change to
the effects of country life in his con-
yersation with Gertrude, however he had
chosen to represent it to me.
1T fatters the girls vanity to think
she has redeemed the man." added.
rs it vanity and nothing else that
| makes one delight in doing good?'
Il can't say. my dear-not having had
| much experience in that way myself but
| this I know, that every good girl must
be doing good, ought to be- ding good,
or think she is doing good. 4 speak Of