The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-08

mad Just struck Il, and all the
workers, both male and female,
were trooping out of the mandatory,
Fastening home for their noontide din
ner.
Patty, in her little scrimpy black
frock, with a clean linen collar round
her we'll shaped throat, and q neat
black bonnet sitting lightly on her au-
burn hair, was among the last to come.
Joe was waiting for her by a little
gate through which he knew she must
pass.
He had not seen her since he thought
fit to smash M. Brumeau's hat over his
brows, now two evenings ago, ever
since which time her last sentence had
been ranking in his mind.
She wished him good morning very
gently when she saw him now, and
tried to pass on, but Joe seemed bent
on having some conversation
''Tain't well, Patty, as you should
cut your old friends. What have they
done as you shouldn't care to chum
with them no longer?"
Nothing, Joe. Who said as I wished
to cut them?" and Patty colored up
and looked very hot.
"All Arundale is ~a-saying as you is
I Sllt1h up anu III aiOii5 ~ AA41NCA
making much of you. 1t grieves my
heart to hear it, Patty. lass. The mas
ter is a good, honest man, and he's
sorry for the trouble as you've had o
late, but his kindness amt no kindness
at all IL it's going to bewilder your
pretty head and take we away from
your own folk"
My own folk, indeed! l don't know
what you mean. Joe. | haven't a re-
lation left in Arundale."
Friends is sometimes more nor re-
%lations, Patty. and o amt friend
less as I know on; and not being friend
less l thought l might just say a word
or two"
II suppose you place yourself as first
friend, Mr.. Joseph Marks?" and there
was a tone of irony in her voice which
Jared on the mans ear.
"Tain't a friend as I'd be to We, Patty,
but a lover and u husband il ye'd let
me-
There's time enow for me to think
Of marriage, Joe. 1t amt in my
thoughts at present if"
mo, Patty, don't 1 know well that it
amt in yer thoughts. It's full of phil
andering as yer heart is filled for noun
seers and such like; but they'll bring
We to ruin, my lass. take my word for
it, and I'll always be truer to yer than
any of they would-be gentry folk
"What nonsense you are talking, Joe.
What are you driving at with our for
eign mounseers? I'd never spoken to
[Mounseer Paul till the words you our
self heard. nor since till this very morn
ing, when-but why should l explain
to you? You amt nothing to me as
I knows Of
Haven't we been sweetheartin' these
eighteen months, lass?"
Not s~weetheartin' as 1 knows on,
only playmatin', joe"
"Well, playmatin'. if you like the
word better. Then can't you tell your
old playmate where you'd been that
there night as l met We and the moun-
seer at the cottage door?'
That's my secret, Joe, and l can't
tell you nor any Their. All l Will tell
you is that | hadn't been with the
mounseer. That I'll give yer my hand
on if that'll content ye."
u s'pose it must" said Joe. looking,
however, scarcely satisfied, While Patty
went on:
And since you're talking of advice,
just let me give We one word. I'd make
a bit OF apology to Paui IL 1
was you, Joe. He don look upon .
in the most favorable way, and YOU
was wrong to do what you did,
"Apologize-say as TIM sorry? No,
that I'm ID if l do"
And Joe, in his anger, used language
which, coming of a rough stock though
he did, he was too gentle by nature 10
have used before Patty without prove-
cation.
"Well, it's for your own good as I'm
speaking, Joe. Mounseer Paul has a
good bit in his power in the factory
and shouldn't wonder if he was to
harm you if you make an enemy q
him, which l shrewdly suspect you will
if you don't take care"
There's other factories in the eonn-
try besides Arundale. / amt tied 10
this DANCED place, be II"
"Oh, if 0 mean to go away, Joe
well, there's no occasion for me TO say
nothing, but wherever be We meaning
to SOP"
y CTo BE Continued TomOrrOw1