Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-03-26

uOuuCGu, duu he COuIu uOC make ne
hear by knocking. He must find thu
| landlady.
He knew Mrs. Deo's room. He haI
had more than one occasion to visi
it during the last two days. With ;
word Of explanation to Hazen, h
passed down the hall and tapped OF
the last door at the extreme left. NJ
one answered, but the door standing
| ajar, he pushed it quietly open, beinI
| anxious to make sure that Mrs. De-
was not there.
The next moment he was beckon
ing to Hazen.
Look" said he, holding the dool
open with one hand and pointing with
the other to yourg girl sitting on {
| low stool by the window, mending, OF
trying to mend, rent in her skirt.
"Why, that's Georgian!" exclaimed
| HaZen, and hastily entering he ap
| preached the anxious figure laboriusly
pushing her needle in and out of the
torn goods, and pr king herself more
than once in the attempt.
1SO1 S1du. nC CI1Su again dnu yOl
more emphatically, as he stepped up
IN front of her.
The young girl failed to notice.
Awkwardly drawing her thread out to
it's extreme length, she prepared to
insert her needle again, when her eye
caught sight of his figure bending over
her, and she looked up quietly and
with an air of displeasure, which
pleased RansOm,-he could hardly tell
why. This was before her eyes reach
ed his face when they had, it was
touching to see how she tried to hide
the shock caused by it's deformity, as
she SAID with a slight gesture Of dis
missal:
''Tm quite deaf [ cannot hear
what you say. If it is the landlady
you want, she has gone downstairs
for minute; perhaps, to the kitchen"
Hazen did not retreat; if anything
he approached nearer, and Ransom
was surprised to observe the force
AID persuasive power of his express
sion as he repeated:
mo nonsense, Georgian" opening
and shutting his hands as he spoke,
in curious gesticulatiOns which her
eye mechanically followed but which
seemed to convey no meaning to her,
though he evidently expected them to
and looked surprised (Ransom almost
thought baffed) when she shook her
head and in a sWe3t, impassive way
reiterated:
81 cannot hear and I do not under
stand the deaf and dumb alphabet. I'm
sorry, but you'll have to go to some
one else. I'm very unfortunate. l
have to mend this dress and I don't
know how"
Hazen, who could hardly tear his
eyes from her face, fell slowly back as
she painfully and conscientiously re-
turned to her task. Good Cod" he
murmured, as his eye sought Ran
SONS. What likeness!" Then he
uttered two or three quick sentences
which Ransom could not catch.
His persistence, or the near ap-
proach of his face to hers, angered
her. Rising quickly to her feet, she
vehemently cried out:
eco away from here! 1t is not right
to keep on talking to deaf girl after
she has told you she cannot hear you."
Then catching sight of Ransom, who
had advanced a step in his sympathy
for her, she gave little sigh of relief
and added querulously:
make this man go away. This is
the landlady's room. l don't like to
have strangers talk to me. Besides
here her voice fell, but not SO low
as to be inaudible to the subject of
her remark, "hes not pretty. I've seen
enough men and women who are"
At this point Ransom drew Hazen
out into the hall.
what do you think now?" he de-
manded.
Hazen did not reply. The room they
had just left seemed to possess a
ange fascination for him. He con-
led to look back at it as he pre-
ed Ransom down the hall. Ran
did not press his questions, but
IN they were on the point of sepa-
ing at the head of the stairs, he
j Hazen back with the words:
Let us come to some understand
Neither Of us can desire to
tie strength in wrong conclusions.