The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-03-10
Observation-Disclosures:
A Case of Pique
BY LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY
Copyright 1909 by Associated Literary IrcssJ

and so she threw It over the fence at
the calf
See anything of the doctor when
you were out?" asked the aunt five
minutes later.
y saw n thing in n gig or something,
drawn by an old horse or somebody.
! think 1t stopped at Johnsou's or
somowhcre!" was the reply.
Aunt Hilda looked a. her niece in a
puzzled way but made no reply. She
saw that the girl was out of sorts but
laid II to some other reason than the
true one Ten minutes later Miss Mol
ly began to feel sort Of recklossness
como over her. She felt like going out
and standing In the middle OF the road
aud forcing the doctor TO stop or run
over her when he headed for town.
She wandered back down to the gate,
picking up stones as she went and
trying to plan something, and she
reached It to find the very thing at
hand
/. DR. Flint had h!tchcd his morse.
the halter had In somc way become
united, ana the animal was grazing
along the highway instead Of taking
TO It's heels Without stopping an in.
slant to think the girl gathered up
the trailing lines and climbed up into
the gig Just what she was going to
do she didn't know. but the horse set.
tied thai question By heading for the
village on gallop. There were mali
n dozen yclls and screams. and Aunt
Hilda got out 10 the gate in time to
see only a cloud Of dust down the
road. She was looking and wondering
when the doctor came along aud
asked.
iioyo you seen my horse anywhere
along here?"
And my niece has gone, too" al
most shouted the woman.
Would she take the horse and gig"
"Oh, don't know, but she never
drove horse and may be dead by this
time! Hurry up, doctor-run every
step of the way' II you find her all
smashed up into kindllng wood"
No Miss Molly never had driven
n horse. and when she found her.
self being run away with she had the
sense TO drop the lines and hang on
to IN" gig and let the horse settle
the matter He ran for mile, and he
would have kept on to his stable had
not a country constable, standing ut
his gate and wondering how he could
make a fee. stepped out and stopped
him. Then he SAID to the covering
young woman in the gig:
Horse thief. Ell? As It happens.
know this rig, and you can consider
yourself under arrest Climb down and
stand right herr. The doctor will
probably be along soon. and II you
attempt TO escape shall feel justified
in shOOtinE."
Or. Flint found his rig in good con.
dition, also, girl in tears; also a
constable who declared that It was
the most brazcn crime Of the century,
and that he had II photograph Of him.
self in the house in case any news.
paper wanted It in its write-up Miss
Molly was invited TO get In and be
conveyed back home. When the won.
dcring horse had been turned around
tie doctor asked her.
How did You come to do it,"
Because you-you-"
Because wouldn't notice you, eh?"
Yes, guess So"
Il didn't notice you because | saw
from afar of that you were stuck on
yourself"
I'm no such thing!"
ut is true"
Let me out this instant"
But the horse was kept on the trot
until he had delivered her into Aunt
iiilda's arms, and then he said to the
angry girl
81 say it's true. and I'm going to
call and argue 1t out with you. Good
day"
And two weeks la,er, as Aunt linda
was washing mp the dinner dishes, she
paused to say 10 herself:
IT'S dreadful early to predict yet,
but Josiah and me met In n quarrel,
Just as they have. and he has since
told mo that he was in love with mo
IL lessn three days Good lands.
there is the doctor again!"