Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-11

OF her commences sufficiently ID
make her manageable to Mr.. James
OF curse nobody was to meet her,
but Their the Staceys hadn't any friends
anyway-they weren't that kind. Al
few acq~uatntances, and ono In a
while one of them to dinner. But v g
then they wouldn't meet Miss Polly,
and If they did they wouldn't know,
because she came to US as a compan-
ion to Mrs. Stacey.
Think of that, sir, to make your
sons future wife a companion. And
she vas to study and have a tutor and
learn deportment-but 1t was all dona
in such a sly, malicious manner !
don't see how n girl could have
stood for it.
But Miss Polly was q brick She
knew that Mr.. James loved her and
h was willing to undergo a good deal
for him. l know that he went down
on his knees to her when she refused
at first and begged her to overlook his
mothers oddities. when we are mar
ried 1t will be different, dear" he
said.
And II Mr.. James had been the right
sort 1t mightn't have mattered much.
because, after all, we can make pretty
nearly what we wish of ourselves. But
between them they gradually crushed
ell the spirit and brightness out of the
girl.
They used to tell her little things at
the table. Don't hold your fork so
low down, Miss Ryland." Soup should
be drunk from the side, not from the
point of the spoon do not cut your
bread-break it. And remember eve
to ask for butter at dinner" And ten
minutes later Mr.. James would be
begging her pardon and pleading with
her to stay.
She used to confide in me a little,
and sometimes she'd stop in when l
was polishing the silver and speak to
me. And she knew that l knew.
1t was after a couple of months of
this that l heard Mrs. Stacey say to
her son that Miss Polly would never
do for a wife for him. she would
make a capital helpmeet for William"
she said, "but not for you, my dear.
Come, now, be a man and conquer
your infatuation. VIII your"
Half an hour later Mr.. James came
out, looking very white and shaky, and
asked Miss Polly. l knew then that
he had been won over and the pair OF
them were going to turn her out into
the street. Because of course she
had y accepted a penny from
them and never would, and she had
no place to go to. But 1 wasn't going
to let her leave that night.
{ Miss Ryland has a headache, Mr.,
James" | said. 81 heard her telling
Mrs. Simmons that she was going to
bed"
"A1l right, tomorrow win do, ]
guess" he said, and went away with
, a sort of relieved air about him.
t But what l had said was a lie, be.
| cause at that moment Miss Ryland was
sitting in my pantry, where I'd been
telling her about my home, and how /
was near to hers, and I'd made hel
g laugh with my stories and the colol
had come back into her pretty cheeks
and she flashed her eyes In the wa!
she had and laughed more merrill!
Ludu i u 0NGI hAOWA AOA " oAASS SA
came into the Stacey home.
70 When l came back from speaking Il
t. Mr.. James outside the pantry Mis-
Is Polly was standing up, rather whit
again. What made you tell Nj
James that awful falsehood% sh
of asked.
lp He's awful peculiar. Mr.. James rs,
fa --~m GCEorha hn UOAHIAn
an think it fitting that you should be
Ve here talking to me-"
er "And pray why not?" she asked.
he because" l answered, I'm a Sc
want and you are a lady. Leastways,
hope you'll never be the sort OF lac
Mrs. Stacey is" l continued.
VI She was going to fash out at me,
thought, but instead she sudden
Iss burst into tears and put her han'
INT out on the table and her head In h
n.y. hands and / think she cried then I
all the days of misery that those tv
his had made her 90 through.
to "You are my only friend, William
l she said to me. you don't know he
ISIS unhappy l am here. l love James al
he loves me, but we were never ma
aid to live the same sort of life. I cal
US understand all those things they t
me and they make my head &C
/ and"
lar. It'll be worse after you're marie
l my dear" I says. You see, l felt NJ
ing that we were equals in spite of Q
If stations, and l thought a good deal
lie. Miss Polly--as a friend, l mean.
hes It'll be worse after you're marrie'
81 1 says. What they do to you n,
:" won't be a particle to what they'll
4. to you then"
rom You understand. sir, it was up to
drs. now to get Miss Polly to break 1t
say off, 80 that she should never be
low inflated.
rse, Pm not going to get married" M
mot Polly sobbed. 81 hate men anyw
nine I'm never going to marry any man.
ot q And +bon dOn1t knou mbaf mi