The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-09-15
A BASHFUL MANS
Love STORY
How He Came to Win the
Girl Of His Choice.

er was Kate Harker, who was talking
with her cousin. Marion browne.
But he knows things" replied Mar
ion.
what matters it If he does. He is
too bashful ard reserved to tell what
he knows. There isn't a girl in the
place who doesn't dread to be left
alone with him."
"Don't you think some Of them
might overcome their aversion If he
should suddenly become wealthy"
II don't think l could stand him II
he were worth
/ was lying in q hammock in the
back yard reading. l got up and went
into the house. but as this scrap Of
conversation occupied but a few mo
ments l could not very well avoid
hearing it. To do myself justice, l did
not wish to hear myself discussed.
Kate Harker's remarks were intensely
painful to me, so painful that re-
solved to leave the place of my birth
and go forth into the great world. hop
ing to forget them.
i did not forget them. but l had the
S~ensitiveness knocked out of me very
quickly. I made money. made it out
of nothing, and to do this l vas oblig-
ed to master my feelings. ITO those
who have shall be given" and by the
death of an aunt l inherited a for
tune. I owned the little tumbledown
house with the acre Of ground about
1t in which I had lived with my moth
er, and since she was no longer living
l resolved to 60 back and dispose Of
it The day after my arrival l rugged
a hammock In the back yard and lay
down in It with a cigar and a book.
Pretty soon l heard voices over the
wall.
"Have you seen. him?'
"Yes; was peeping through the
blinds when he came"
1 recognized the first voice as that of
Marion, the second as that Of Kate.
This was all I heard. for the two girls
passed out Of hearing.
In the evening l called on my neigh
Dor. Kate Harker received me as II I
were her oldest and best friend. maxi
ing no attempt to conceal the favor I
had found In her eyes since she had
pronounced me a gawk. Marion was
very reserved. Indeed. had I been as
unsophisticated as when I had heard
her say "But he knows things" I
should have concluded that she had
turned against me. But a man can't
make. money without gaining a knowl-
edge Of human nature. I suspected
that Marion now held aloof from q
feeling that since I had become a de.
sirable catch" 1t was not her place to
court me.
you. young ladies must be more
careful as to your words" I said. BE
fore l went away l overheard a scrap
Of conversation with regard, to me that
gave me great pain"
Both looked at me uneasily.
You two were talking in the gar
den. One said, He's a gawk! the 9TH
er, 'But0he knows things!'"
The two girls looked at each other
inquiringly.
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