New-York tribune., 1912-07-14

oron decency he could not go on with it if he was
u % made the subject OF discussion he rose, wipng
his brushes, O"' 60 " p-'''-
fed TO if he does any of those things shant
:, brn with James Lees wife"
trsI l ar7azement made him pause. Even Anna was
aroused -.,, g che Pensv?n
"MhC yoy remember Browning's poem1 ALWAYS
'Don Do,+sS Iohn Lawrence to paint her, and Maggie
I've ls',sr wan and lane Eyre, and the Grammarian-"
Iindley Murray ,
sNn Browning again; the one VINO had funeral
,o;t know his name.
don h don, even know his name and there is no
~ yG;~ oortrait Of him, don't see how Mr. Lawrence
aunH Get good Likeness
aYon re quite night Dear as you always are, Pensy
hugne, mans work for the morning was brought TO a
As As1s,; there was leisure to 60 into ones library.
iovrr certain volume, and hunt up two poems
,rpFIY on Sunday afternoon one might expect to be
81 case under his own vine and hg tree, and free
".e;gbbors with propensity TO garden Lawrence
non when ne heard snatch OF song Perhaps the
glOa deceive himself; but even the intelligent collie
glOa saf the dawn of interest and expectancy in
musttrs mus face. But this time Penelope did not talk:
DIS n bpua3 low snatches Of song in the preoccu-
Sls Slla o2 T3v that showed she was working.
Pie5r Piea5r"o3ness W. ...sy what are you doing? Sowing
y M Srns Anna was properly scandalzed and
ST-rence chu . with amusement:
IN INV I1;GrE i. listen to the sermon, Anna" Pencil
- -snroyed a minister said we were all too apt to
qPfoind du-. with whatever was dSagreeablc max
eNlA m Gfa need uncomfortable TO ourselves and to
ns nssrs, fha, the harmonious mind instincts and
4uoises We N as guides. Now, my natural, hu-
I ;rorsa . put these seeds in my nicely pulver-
MAJ i rf,rf . those clouds develop into rain"
~ I'm sure Anna Solcmnly, that he would be
I'd At y.... depreciation Of his words"
IN eC,,. re- retorted Penelope, that instead
=; writing IT,. a habit that has darkcned Sunday
inoorS rs that good man would approve that
IIoJ i o,- .- mOtherng these blessed little seeds"
'Wb9teve- Minister might have thought OF Pencil
.oa's con5u acc ISum outraged. When he
o5pr,e Op hack * Monday morning he pointed an ac-
Using fngtr .e panSy bed.
0s,ff 0slffss p, yer put desc in de groun' yistiddy.
nsrT nebb me up. De Ian shall be as brass an
1o6. Yassu ..,s what hit says in Dc Good Book, as
O'sI Vel d. 5es, with it while I'm away, Isum
T. will be ta Ks before I'm here again.
- 81 shall r- YOU so. Pensy," lamened her sister.
sVberever ~, a nearby college mate rises up TO
claim y,s,..
cLENCE g. he neighboring garden lor fortnight,
O-no ha,. halter, no rppes OF laughter no trllS
ofsong, T- admirable time in which man might
work, ins.e- falling into long dreaming spells and
letting his G 60 ou,.
He was S., ing IN his garden one evening when ne
hoard ste. r.. Shuttle on the other side OF the wall
swinging hin up into tree, he had a view Of the
intruder hin Z unperccived.
Il was Isu- md he was deliberately raking over the
soil where h. .arsy seeds had been planted. He was
700 Jealous o. LIS reputation prophet to permit any
saad 10 ger,I- e. IN the aCCursed bed.
sThe old I'm gaIe.' Lawrence muttered. A happy
thought came To- him. The girl was absolutely ignorant
Of the rutimar.s o, gardening. He might transplant
whole bed Ct panses TO her garden and she would
,bnk they ka1 come up in her absence. After lsum
had taken his t.oarure Lawrence climbed by the roots
Of ivv over the wall bringing basket of pansy plants,
well set in buds
He was repaid when Penelope came back for she ran
INTO the garden before she had taken of her hat and
- .-:..-,ornh h.r tnansi.s Mhnr