Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1912-09-20
CHAPTER NJ.

I~lfE colonel told Miss Ellen what
the girls had said about Jim.
at which she laughed heartily.
~ but grew very red aud showed
some annoyance when be related what
they had said about choosing farm
in the country and especially when
reference was made to Squire Haw
kins shall never forget how my
plate looked after II had gone around
the table. II had left my table empty
aud had come back piled to the brim
with every sort OF vegetable on the
table Miss Ellen laughed when con
fessed that | did not know how to eat
rice, nor would she rest content until
she had taken my plate and arranged
II according TO the manner of eating
rice In that section She covered II
with butter and sprinklcd a little salt
on II and. handing 1t back to me. babe
me eat It. telling me that II was n part
of my education. She laughed again
when ! wanted to put pepper on It.
but she would let her father put lit
tie dish gravy over 1t II II were not
falatable. ate Il. not because | liked
Il then. for would have eaten so
much sawdust had she told me IL was
good and asked me to do so.
Every now and then. after had
swallowed some rice. would look up
TO find her eyes fixed rogulshly on me.
and then we would both laugh. She
seemed to relish the idea that ! did
not like the rice and that ! was eating
It because she had liked II and told me
to do so made this fact very plain
to her by the faces | would make In
swallowing II She confessed after
ward to a little malice IN forcing me
To ent II. and lairr. when ftrpailv no.
gan 30 like u. she would often say.
"Will You have your rice with cream
and sugar OF II or a little pepper Mr..
Palmer?"
After dinner we went on the porch
where BUD brought us pipes II hone
you like the pipe" he said NJ he hand.
ed me an did brier riot I'VE. have
given up cigars lately OH account o.
the tariff" he added with big. good
natured laugh. said did: that Il
was my chiefest luxury IN my univer
sity days and | still preferred IL to
cigars Colonel Turpin said that II
did not object to music Ellen would
play us something; that she always
did when he took his after dinner
smoke, ! said that could not Imagine
greater luxury. and leaned back pre-.
pared to undergo any n4Munt OF tor.
ture and Outrage TO my artistic nature.
FOR ! knew something OF music. as ms
father had been n splendid performer
on the piano and had given me the ben
eilt of his knowledge. Instead of hymns
and waltzes. however. there noalitl
through the window to us the sweetest
notes | Seemed ever TO have heard. |
sat dreamily thinking of this lovely
girl and her odd surroundings when
she appeared AT the window and asked
II there was anything that | liked espe
cially
IL do not know II you care for
Chopin" she said Father does not
know Il Is Chopin. but It il the music
he likes. and so always play some Of
the nocturneS for him"
The truth Is. Miss Turpin.' I said. ,
81 did not think OF what you were play
ing, bur was merely feeling the effect
of the music lonr playing srempd to
me TO be a part OF the scene out here.
as II II were an accompaniment 10 the
moon in It's wanderings or TO the stars
I'm the silent watches"
My speech sounded like Battery and I
| hlushed "a tile thought came Ia me.
II hope you will forgive my praise lf
IT seemed eXuHvagant" said. "but
only said what was in my heart with.
out rejecting that you might take II
for battery had been nrcIistomei
TO pay compliments az will ana some
times, fear. WIS given to tiattery. lmt
] would Not have had Tins young gi:l
think me guuty Of such ia breeding
Tor anything ~ The world
IF that il the way you feel" she an
swered swcetly, II will piay something
Tor you and trust 10 pleasing father.
and, going back 20 the piano. she play
ed soniething-l do not know what
Bud said he had never heard her play
II before. and. though asked her often
after that 10 play II for me again. I
never beard u. yet the strains even
now 60 through my head When ait Ia
the moonlight or lie awake at nights
think NJ of Ellen