Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-29

put the idea into your head quietly said the lover. What will you do Ill the city?''
 T shall be stenographer at s15 per week. M ss Basset pays me xs, ana what is life here?'
 Your father and mother-are they wiling?''
 TT haven't talked it over with them yet. It is none of your business lo question me the way you have l am not going to marry any one in this poky old village
 Very we'll Good -nightI"
 MT. Dayton could have argued and recriminated and advised and threat ened suicide and violence, but he walk ed calmly out of the house. He could have gone to the girls father and mother and had his say, but he didn't approach them. He could have gone to Miss Basset and begged her to ao- wise the girl, but he did not go near her.
 Minnie had expected row over the parting. There had always been row in every love story she had ever read and in her pique and dtsappointment at the quiet ending, she said to her self:
 Roscoe always was poke, and this proves it!"
 The gossips had predicted falling out. and were waiting for the news, but there was no news. Roscoe was
  quiet Instead of the tilted lover hang ing himself to a sour apple tree, he dropped into the inn and had iook at and talk with young Barrie. He was a poke of a man, Roscoe was, but lnotwithstanding that drawback he managed to size up his rival as closely as if he had been a lawyer from the city.
 Miss Basset wouldn't know that Minnie Long contemplated going away. ! N H. It would be an elopement. The couple would not take a night train from the village for fear of being seen. Young Barrie would get livery rig and drive across the country a distance of ten | miles to another railroad. Minnie could not get trunk out of | the house, but would take what cloth ] ing she could in a suit case. Young | Barrie would have to settle his bill at the inn befe<e he left, and there was only the one livery stable in the village | to get rig at. Therefore, taking it all around, it was not difficult case to handle, though the tilted lover had a | constable beside him in the buggy when he finally took up the trail of the elopers- They were permitted to get l two miles away from the village when l they were overIaken. The first act of young Barrie was to away.
 The first act of young Barrie was to jump from the vehicle and take to his | heels.
 and he then discovered that a warrant and @ pair of handcuffs awaited him. The girl recovered from her faint to hear him laugh and say: 1 "Oh, I'm caught right enoughI She 1 was fool enough to elope with me, but I suppose they will call it abduction D
 And it probably isn't the first case said the constable.
 Not by five or sixi There are more fools among the girls than in idiot asylums?"
 You were going to get her place in the city as a stenographer at SIS per week?
 She didn't have any more sense than to believe so! You see, she wanted to get out the pol1y village of Htnkly and see the world. She'd have seen it, too, if you hadn't overtaker usl"
 The girl heard every word, and she sobbed in her throat. The man she had tilted climbed into the buggy be- side her and drove slowly back to the village.
 You must get into your house and your room without awakening you1 parents" he said. You must get ur at the usual hour and go to your place You must say no word of this to any one. You have been foolish, but it was not to late"
 It was long weeks after this wher she saw Roscoe again. Then it was ! In response to a note in which she I asked:
 Can a poke of a man find it in his heart 10 forgive a fool of a girl!'' | "Of course he can-thats what 2 poke or man Is for!" was the prompt answer.
 And the gossips of Hinkly neve, nearo word of the incfdent!-St Louis Globe Democrat.