Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20

proud and happy DAY Tor Ill OF us
for you, for Eve, and for me. I have
been revolving in my mind how to
mark it and what memorial of it to
give to you as pledge of peace es-
tablished, misunderstanding done
away. I have been turning over my
desk as well as my mind, and have
found what is suitable. My uncle won
this at shooting match. He was a
frst-rate shot
And the prize said Casper, .Aas
Sllen into hands that make very
BAD Shots
What do you mean? OH Barbara
laughed and colored. You led me in
to that mistake about yourself
This is the bad shot mean said
here to me, and neither does Eve want
me, nor l her.
Barbara opened her eyes very wide.
Have you quarrelled! she inquired,
turning to see the faces of Jasper and
her sister. Both were smiling a malic-
ious humor.
Not at all. We are excellent
friends
You do not love Eve?
I like Eve, I love somebody else
The color rushed into Barbara's
face, and then as suddenly deserted
it. What did he mean? A sensa-
tion of vast happiness overspread her,
and then ebbed away. Perhaps he
loved someone at Buckfast1eigh She,
plain, downright Barbara-what was
she for such man as Jasper had ap-
proved himself? She quickly re-
covered herself and said. we were
talking about the pipe
Quite So answered Jasper. Let us
return to the pipe. You give it to me
your uncle's prize piper
Yes, heartily. have kept it in my
desk unused, as it has been pre-
served since my uncle's death; but
you must use it; and hope the to-
bacco will taste nice through it.
Miss Jordan said Jasper, you have
shown me such high honor, that
feel bound to honor the gift in a
special manner I can only worthily
do so by promising to smoke out of
no other pipe so long as this remains
entire, and should an accident befall
it, to smoke out of no other not re-
placed by your kind self
Eve clapped her hands.
"A rash PROMISE said Barbara. 'Yvu
are at liberty to recall it. If were to
die, and the pipe were broken, you
would be bound to abjure smoking
If you were to die, dear Miss Jor-
dan, 1 would bury the pipe in your
grave, and something far more pre-
cious than that
,What?'
Can you ask? He looked her in the
eyes, and again her color come, deep
as the carnations that had strewed
her head.
There, there! he said, we will not
talk of graves, and broken pipes, and
buried hearts; we will get the pipe
to work at once, if the ladies do not
object
1 will run for the Undertook said
Eve eagerly.
I have my amadou and steel with
me, and tobacco Jasper observed;
and mind, Miss Barbara is to conse-
crate the pipe for ever by drawing
out of it the first Whit of smoke
Barbara laughed She would do
that. Her heart was wonderfully
light, and clear of clouds as that
sweet, still evening sky.
The pipe was loaded; Eve ran off to
the kitchen to fetch stick out of the
fire with glowing end, because, she
said, she did not like the smell of the
burning amadou.'
Jasper handed the pipe to Barbara,
who, with an effort to be demure, took
it.
Are you ready? asked Jasper, who
was whirling the stick, making a
fiery ring in the air.
Barbara had put the pipe between
her lips, precisely the middle of her
mouth
No, that will not do, said the
young man; put the pipe in the side
of your mouth. Where it is now can
not light it. without burning the tip of
your nose
Barbara put her little finger into
the bowl to assure herself that it was
full Eve was on her knees at her
sisters feet, her elbows on her lap
looking up amused and delighted
Barbara kept her neck and back
erect, and her chin high in the air. A
smile was on her face, but no tremu
in her lip. Eve burst into a fit of
laughter. oh, Bab you look so I'M
speakably droll! But Barbara did not
laugh and let go the pipe. Her hands
were down on the bench, one on each
side of her. She might have been sit
ting in a dentists chair to have a
tooth drawn. She was a little afraid
of the consequences nevertheless.
she had undertaken to smoke and
smoke she would-one Whit, no more.
Ready asked Jasper.