The Ordway new era., 1911-04-07
CHAPTER VI.
A Pin and a Proposal.

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Don't you know every womnn's heart
Is soft towards counting whether she's In
It or not?
-Miss Selma I.ue.
Good morning, Miss Seliny Lue!
Jest run in to git some nutmeg. a
pound OF sugar and a quart OF kero-
sene to make up some apple-pies for
Mr. Kenney's supper: he do love EN-
So"
There never was such n hand rs
you fer pies. Mis- Kinney. honey. I
recommended you about 1t to Miss
Cynthie not week ago. I told her 7
would git you to show her how when
well. we was a.talking that over
last night. me and Mary Ellen Dobbs."
interrupted Mrs. Kinney. 'and We
think 1t Is fine fer Miss Cynthie ter
marry him. even II he Is painter:
cause when pictures is dull he can
Kit signs and sich to do to keep 60
ing, When will II be. Miss Seliny
Lue?' And she gathered the bundles
in one arm and balanced the oil.can
in the other hand. ready to hurry on
as soon as she had extracted the NOR.
sci of news she had run upon.
"Why. Mis- Kinney. never heard"
Miss Selma Lue's eyes were wide with
astonishment.
"Well. think It was. to say the
least. disrespectful in him and her not
to have told you. him a-living In your
own barn and she so appearing to be
loving Of you all the time. ! hate to
think sfi> s deceitful girl. but ! must
say did mistrust that howergarden
hat when | seen 1t the other day go
by with Ethel Maud and Bennie
Dobbs."
81 don't know what you mean. Mis-
Kinney. by speaking SO about Miss
Cynthie. They don't nothing In this
world hurt me like hearing one OF my
friends make light of another" And
Miss Selma Lue's Irish eyes snapped.
Law. Miss Seliny Lue. I didn't
mean no harm! IL jest"
II know you didn't. Mis- Kinney.
honey. but sometimes little criticiz.
ings fly the track and run into some.
body that's easy hurt" said Miss Sc
lima Lue.
"Well. Jest seen them setting here
in the door yesterday when you was
up the river with the Dobbses and
they was as thick as two peas In a
pod. her a.laughing and him a-talking
fer all he were worth. You may not
know counting when you see 1t. Miss
Seliny Lue. not having ever been"
mis- Kinney. child. don't you know
every woman's heart Is soft towards
counting. whether she's in it or not
and every mans, too. for that matter.
though they tries hard to hide 1t? 1t
amt only on count of my pitiful his.
tory with Adoniram Millsaps or your'n
with Mr.. Kinney that we likes to
watch the doings of young folks and
talk 'em over-it's borned in women
to hatch out and hover lovers match.
ings and the clucking over 'em Is part
OF the good times Of life. I was Jest
a.saying to"
Miss Seliny Lue!" screamed Ben.
ME from the Dobbs' front stoop.
"Come quick. come quick; Ethel
Maud's caught her hair in the grape
vine and's hanging by it. She was
eating 'em! Mas sick!"
Miss Selma Lue hurried with all the
speed possible to the relief Of the
young Absalom. and Mrs. Kinney call.
ed after her. BE sure and rub CAM
phire on the roots" whether Of the
vine or Ethel Maud's hair she did not
say.
When she returned to the grocery
half an hour later Miss Selma Lue
found Miss Cynthia smiling at her
from the back door. Miss Cynthia's s
approach had been guarded. and in
stead Of coming down the public
street. she had slipped through the
garden and the chicken yard. Miss
Iynthia risked no encounters with