The Prescott daily news., 1908-05-13

Some of Orville's irritation vanished upon hearing the letter. There was a note of appeal in it, reflection of his own mood, that touched him.
 ''She evidently craves solitude os much as do and so she will avoid me-" he thought
 We might try 1t. Mrs. Glidden." he proposed, and Ii, | find her presence interrupts my work In any way We can ask Mrs. Allen to take her in. They have other boarders, and I imagine she wouldn't get the quiet there that she so evidently wants. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll move my writing table and books and things down to the little cabin on the river bank and do my work there"
 He proceeded to carry out this plan and remained in his new quarters the rest of the day. It was dusk when he came to the farmhouse for something to eat.
 She's upstairs volunteered Mrs. Glidden. She's awfuly young and pretty told her had a gentleman boarder who came here to be alone, and she said she wouldn't disturb you in the least"
 But Orville wasn't interested fin hear ing Of the newcomer. His mind was intent on complicated situation fin his book. and he paid no heed to what his landlady was saying Three days and nights intervened without an encounter of the two would be hermits. Once Orville came upon an easel down in the orchard. He paused before 1t for some time. lost In admi- ration of the talent displayed. Then he walked on to the river. That night he was unable to write. Memories he was striving to stiie were awakened by the bit of landscape he had viewed,
 The next morning as he was seated at his writing table in the cabin mak- ing heroic efforts to concentrate bis thoughts on his work. he heard the sound as of some one running, He went to the door and saw a young girl carrying a tin pail filed with artists materials running toward the cabin in great alarm.
 "Oh." she gasped. with half sob. save me. He'll follow me in here!''
 Tn an instant Orville's strong right arm was about her shivering form.
 "Kathie! Would let any one or anything harm you"
 She lifted white face
 "Oh, Dick. You? Why-you are not Mrs Glidden's boarder-the one I've been hiding from?'
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 "The bull. He chased me down here through the meadows
 Orvile placed her in a chair and stepped outside Tn a moment. he re turned with the pail of paints and brushes.
 "1t's all right. Kathfe." he said ress suringly; "the pail. supposed to con tain nourishment, was the attraction The gentle creature I found sniffing suspiciousy and disapprovingly ut your paints was q young. horness thing commonly known as a mulley cow
 | Ndtllt tstS NtIt uONHSdSl- ut silence that. ensued was profound and | eloquent. Then she looked up and met his steady gaze with a half smile.
 Dick" she said faintly, did Tom Murray by any chance know you were here?"
 Tom Murray! Why, he found me | this place. I wrote him to look me up farmhouse where I could be quite alone and write Why?"
 "I saw him the other day and told him I wanted farmhouse where l could be quite alone and paint Dick" Dear. Tom was far wiser than we. Shall we profit by his vision and let his plan work out as he intended? Can't we forgive and forget KathieT Later, when Mrs. Glldden saw her two boarders coming slowly up from the fields she sagely remarked to her spouse:
 "Well, pa, that's man and q won an the world over"' Her Exalted Position. If Il II.