The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-08-28


appointment In lovef"
II vowed to nurry her or not at
all. and she
Just al that moment the spring roller
blind OF house that faced directly
on the sidewalk flew up with a sud-
den "bt-r-r~ and snap. Both the men
looked around. aud both were just In
time a. catrh sight. of remarkably
pretty girls face with pout OF vexa-
tI0n 0B II.
who 1. that lsirly' Guthrie asked.
I'm afraid ! don't know her, old
fell"w ~ari i'ean.
ranu rn.'p't amy Idea who lives In
Is ili iru - have your
~. i3,ent. oh. by the way, I
ia : g. Lnuw Unless I'm mis-
: "a. ir"s nid Cnlthorpe's place.
Ir'sa '.,I " cnmmuter OF mine. and
. ~ ais ui tar fuil extent OF our ac-
.niiar-" 'ut she isn't the young
l.. IS 81, ,,':' .'"'rrt. is she?"
"g"si nsl H." said Jeff. with
puzslr .Slpr.>i u. she can't be, and
yer o. he moment looked
liz no.; Was her name Cal
t.Jrln!
NO. n".ae was Sargent"
"EoM lVns Ago was ~" .scer-
age ,.sgs.' ..sss.xzsrsS
~'jt i$n'f ~ story" Guthrie pres
&C. dnG.a "She taught school
thcrn i, faraway little village
anon 40 h'ls and the mines. was
interested IN her from the first and
tried ~ w'D my way into some sort
OF ucc'. uare with her But she
seemed a. inclined 20 anything like so
ciety"
"Yru CIT stay there more than a
year nliorriher. did your Bean asked.
Much less than year. i never ex-
changed more than six words with her
in all The time we were both in that
village"
lis ihis girl very much like Miss
SARGENT"
80 much like that 1t wouldn't be re-
markable even IL they were twin sis
ters."
Guthrie's visits TO the home OF his
married friend were all much alike in
one very pleasant feature-he always
romned with two out of three chill
dren. while the youngest. the baby.
looked on and crowed and jerked it-
self nbout enviously.
Now. what Is it9' Mrs. Bean asked,
turning 10 her husband when Allie and
little JEFF had both been finally silenced
under the bedclothes.
"Oh. II isn't my affair."" said the
husband.
"We-I-wanted to ask II you knew
n Miss Calthorpe here. living 10 that
Inew red brick house ut the end OF the
common" said Guthrie.
Mrs. Bean shook her head. mo Miss
'Caithorpo lives there" she said. Mr..
'Caithorpe lives there"
"Oh," said Bean, twas that old
woman Caithorpe's sister,"
'She isn't really old. dear. She's
younger than Mr. Calthorpe. There's
one daughter. believe"
But that night Mrs. Bean said to her
husband: Leave me alone for two
days. and will know all about your
window blind young lady. Then make
Jeff Guthrie come here and stay over
night" ---.-~---
Tho next visit OF JEFF Guthrie was
planned for q Saturday evening. with
arrangements for stay over Sunday. !.
After church this subtle woman In
sisted on lingering about the porch
until n gray haired lady came out and
with her her daughter. the girl who
had pouted at the window blind.
"Ms. Perry. let me introduce our
particular friend. Mr.. Guthrie, and
this Is Miss Perry. >--~~~~--~
Nothing could have been more prop
erly conventional than this introduc-
ton, and that was why Guthrie was 30
angry with himself for turning red and
becoming confused, Mrs Bean hads
unknown TO Guthrie, expressly invited
these two ladies' TO dinner beforehand.
TEL me. have you any relatlve-had
you, should say-of the name OF Sar,
gentT -----.- ----'- ~------
The girls face changed in moment.
She was pale and bit her LIP. lft
''oh. Mr. Guthrie" she said. you
must ask mother that don't know
about II. l was only little girl OF ten
when poor Margaret left us and mar
ried that
She checked herself, then after an
embarrassing pause went on, lowering
her voice TO whisper and giancing
round at her mother, did you know
her-hlm y, = -.--~-s-------.--s-~sr.s@ss~
II once knew a Miss Sargent very
slightly" g..
,-..swhereY' .-~s''ss ss''s< f'i~s-----
I'm PenhsyIvania, at Brinkvllle."
"Oh, yesl He treated her so badly,
after all. she had to 60 somewhere
and be a teacher Mother would have
forgiven everything, but Margaret was
too proud TO come back 20 Us. She
went and called herself miss, sup
pose. We only heard that she had died
In Pennsylvania-nothin more i was
sent 70 school In Germany soon after
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