The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-10-19

I and there was no use fishing In the
ripples.
IF / can't fish, then he shan't!"
was the determination arrived at, and
presently log came drifting down
TO spin around in an eddy. Then
came board, beam and slab. He
knew the girl was throwing them in
from the other end of the mill, but
he didn't look her way. He simply
suspended his fishing and sat looking
over the river. Nothing could be done
with man like that, and after an
hour Miss Kitty went home. When
she had told her story, which she did
almost with tears in her eyes, Uncle
Elijah drawled:
We'll, thar's folks as is nigh-sight-
ed and thar's folks as Is deaf Mebbe
he didn't see nor hear you"
Didn't see nor hear a girl!"
And a girl like her!" added Aunt
Mary.
"I'll make him see and hear tomor
row II | have to hit him with club!
If he's in my place again I'll throw
all the old mill into the water to both
er him!"
The morrow came and the stranger
was there. The girl had come half
an hour earlier, but so had he. He
was pulling out the suckers the same
old way. No wooden Indian could
have been more needless Of her pres.
ence. She walked to the far end of
the mill, gathered all the drift wood In
sight and heaved 1t into the water.
The deep hole soon became unfish'
able. She was rejoicing when there
came flash of lightning and rum
BILE Of thunder. A sudden spring
storm was at hand Almost before she
could seek the shelter of the mill II
grew dark and the rain began to fall
heavily. A thunder storm was the
one thing Miss Kitty Havens was
afraid Of. She sat down on a beam
and covered. 1t seemed as II night
had set in for good The lightning
was fierce and the thunder awesome
In two minutes the stranger was for
gotten.
Il shall surely be struck dead!'
moaned the girl and l know
shouldn't have been so mean to that
man. He didn't know that he had my
place. He ought to have seen girl
when she stood so near him, but per
haps he's almost blind"
A tree on the other side of the river
was struck by a thunderbolt, and the
old mill shook and trembled.
The girl screamed out, and the next
moment she felt hand on hers. II
must be the strangers.
, Say, it was mean Of mel" she said
as the thunder died away.
No answer, but he held the hand
with firmer pressure.
You had my fishing place, you
know, and was mad about it. Girls
do get mad sometimes, you know.
That is, l do. / stood and stood and
stood, and you wouldn't notice me.
Hadn't | a right to be mad?"
No answer.
But I'm going to be killed, and
don't want anybody to be glad of 1t,
threw all that stuff into the river
to spite you. l just hated you. If
you we're girl would you do like
that?"
HIN! H'm!" was the reply
What? Can't you talk?"
81 guess so, If l try"
"And can you see and hear?'
Both"
"Will-will the lightning hit the
mill?"
Il don't think SO. The worst seems
Then, SIR" said Miss Kitty, as she
pulled her hand away and reached her
feet, ''if l am not to be struck and
killed want to know why you didn't
speak to me?"
"Oh, l saw at once that you we're
snippy and conceited and needed TAX.
ing down a peg. l am Mr.. Charles
Earle. of Boston, and believe you
are Miss Kitty Havens."
mo, sir, am Miss Snippy Havens,
and you please to remember 1t! You
can return to your fishing!"
But, Miss Havens-"
And /, sir, am going home!"
'But during the storm"
But the storm has passed and
am snippy! Fish, sir-fish!"
And two years later, when they
finally became engaged. the snippy
girl said to the artist:
IF you hadn't tried to take me down
a peg we might have been married
whole year ago. That is, we might
If there had been thunder storm and
a preacher together!"